City of Rialto
Legislative Matrix
AB 6 (Friedman D) Transportation planning.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system.
Current law requires each regional transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region for 2020 and 2035, respectively. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would require regional transportation agencies to prioritize and fund transportation projects, including those funded by a local sales tax measure, that significantly contribute towards the goals outlined in a region’s sustainable communities strategy and the state’s climate goals.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Transportation AB 7 (Friedman D) Transportation: funding: capacity projects.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Current law requires the Department of Transportation to improve and maintain the state’s highways, and establishes various programs to fund the development, construction, and repair of local roads, bridges, and other critical transportation infrastructure in the state. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would eliminate single occupancy vehicle freeway capacity projects, and allow capacity projects only for bus rapid transit, rail, active transportation purposes, projects that significantly add safety, and projects that significantly reduce congestion, without interfering with existing maintenance and rehabilitation needs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Transportation AB 9 (Muratsuchi D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions limit.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. NAT. RES.
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The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Under the act, the state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030. Under the act, a violation of a rule, regulation, order, emission limitation, emission reduction measure, or other measure adopted by the state board under the act is a crime.
This bill instead would require the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 55% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 13 (Essayli R) Elections: Election Day holiday: voting by mail.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/30/2023-Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Summary:
Current law requires the statewide general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. Current law designates specific days as holidays in this state. This bill would add the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of any even- numbered year to the list of state holidays.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 15 (Dixon R) Public records: parole calculations and inmate release credits.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/14/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
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3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law exempts from disclosure any investigatory or security file compiled by any other state or local police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes. Under current law, criminal offenders sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison are sentenced for either a determinate term or an indeterminate life sentence, and a person sentenced to an indeterminate life sentence is held until release by the Board of Parole Hearings. Under existing law, a person sentenced to a determinate sentence is released after serving the term of their sentence, minus any credits earned, and is required to serve a period of time after release under parole supervision. Current constitutional provisions, enacted by Proposition 57 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, make an inmate sentenced to state prison for a conviction of a nonviolent felony offense eligible for early parole consideration after completing the full term for their primary offense, as defined. This bill would provide that Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records pertaining to an inmate’s release date and their early release credits are public records and are subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act. The bill would state that the provisions relative to the California Public Records Act are declaratory of existing law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 18 (Patterson, Joe R) Controlled substances.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/14/2023-Coauthors revised. In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes to receive a written advisory of the danger of manufacturing or distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the manufacturer or distributor can be charged with voluntary manslaughter or murder.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 21 (Gipson D) Peace officers: training.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/14/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. APPR.
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Current law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). Current law requires POST to require field training officers who are instructors for the field training program to have at least 8 hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training to better train new peace officers on how to effectively interact with persons with mental illness or intellectual disability. This bill would require the commission to revise that training to include instruction on how to effectively interact with persons with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 23 (Muratsuchi D) Theft: shoplifting: amount.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/8/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Calendar:
2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Would amend Proposition 47 by reducing the threshold amount for petty theft and shoplifting from $950 to $400. The bill would provide that it shall become effective only when submitted to, and approved by, the voters of California.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 24 (Haney D) Emergency response: opioid antagonist kits.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. HEALTH
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3/14/2023 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, WOOD, JIM, Chair Summary:
would require a person or entity that owns, manages, or is responsible for a bar, gas station, public library, or single-room occupancy hotel in a county that is experiencing an opioid overdose crisis, as defined, to acquire and post an opioid antagonist kit, which includes an instructional poster and opioid antagonist nasal spray, in areas that are readily accessible only by employees, including, but not limited to, a break room, and to restock the opioid antagonist kit after each use. The bill would apply the provisions governing civil liability as specified to a person or entity that acquires and posts the opioid antagonist kit. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the bill would require the department to provide opioid antagonist kits free of charge, to create the opioid antagonist poster with easy-to- understand instructions and graphics on the administration of the attached opioid antagonist nasal spray, and to make the determination on how best to allocate and distribute its limited supply of opioid antagonist among its various programs in the event of an opioid antagonist supply shortage. The bill would make a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, by imprisonment in jail for 6 months, or both.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 27 (Ta R) Sentencing: firearms enhancements.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/14/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law generally authorizes a court to dismiss an action or to strike or dismiss an enhancement in the furtherance of justice. Current law requires a court to dismiss an enhancement if it is in the furtherance of justice to do so, except if dismissal of that enhancement is prohibited by any initiative statute. This bill would also prohibit a court from dismissing a firearms-related enhancement, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 28 (Gabriel D) Firearms: gun violence protection tax.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Current law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would enact a tax to fund measures to protect against gun violence on firearms and ammunition.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 29 (Gabriel D) Firearms: California Do Not Sell List.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. HEALTH
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Summary:
Current law additionally makes it a crime to sell or give possession of a firearm to these classes of persons prohibited from owning a firearm. Current law requires the Department of Justice, upon submission of firearm purchaser information by a licensed firearm dealer, to examine its records to determine whether a potential firearm purchaser is prohibited by state of federal law from possessing, receiving, owning, or purchasing a firearm. Current law requires the department to participate in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. This bill would require the Department of Justice to develop and launch a secure Internet-based platform to allow a person who resides in California to voluntarily add their own name to the California Do Not Sell List. The bill would require the department to ensure that information on the list is uploaded and reflected in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The bill would make it a crime, punishable as a misdemeanor, to transfer a firearm to a person who is validly registered on the California Do Not Sell List.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 30 (Ward D) Atmospheric Rivers: Research, Mitigation, and Climate Forecasting Program.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. W.,P. & W.
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Current law establishes the Atmospheric Rivers: Research, Mitigation, and Climate Forecasting Program in the Department of Water Resources. Current law requires the department, upon an appropriation for
purposes of the program, to research climate forecasting and the causes and impacts that climate change has on atmospheric rivers, to operate reservoirs in a manner that improves flood protection, and to reoperate flood control and water storage facilities to capture water generated by atmospheric rivers. This bill would rename that program the Atmospheric Rivers Research and Forecast Improvement Program: Enabling Climate Adaptation Through Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations and Hazard Resiliency (AR/FIRO) Program. The bill would require the department to research, develop, and implement new observations, prediction models, novel forecasting methods, and tailored decision support systems to improve predictions of atmospheric rivers and their impacts on water supply, flooding, post-wildfire debris flows, and environmental conditions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 32 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Violent felonies: hate crimes.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/17/2023-In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Current law classifies certain felonies as violent felonies for purposes of various provisions of the Penal Code. Current law imposes an additional one-year term for a sexually violent felony and a 3-year term for a violent felony for each prior separate prison term served for a violent felony. This bill would additionally define felony hate crimes as a violent felony, as specified. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 33 (Bains D) Fentanyl task force.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to a fentanyl task force, in order to identify and address the fentanyl crisis as part of the opioid epidemic in this state. The bill would further state the intent of the Legislature that any future appropriation made for the purpose of implementing the fentanyl task force not exceed an unspecified dollar amount.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 36 (Gabriel D) Domestic violence protective orders: possession of a firearm.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Current law prohibits a person subject to a protective order, as defined, from owning, possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm while that protective order is in effect and makes a willful and knowing violation of a protective order a crime. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to extend that prohibition for an additional 3 years after the expiration of a protective order, unless the court finds the person to not be a threat to public safety.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 41 (Holden D) Telecommunications: The Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2023.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on C. & C.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. C. & C.
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Summary:
Would revise and recast the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 to, among other things: (1) rename the act as the Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2023; (2) expand the definition of video service to include video programming provided as part of, and via, a service that enables users to access content, information, email, or other services offered over the public internet; (3) provide that the act does not authorize the commission to regulate the rates of video services; (4) authorize the commission to exercise all authority, jurisdiction, and powers authorized to be exercised by a franchise authority pursuant to certain federal law; (5) require a franchise applicant to submit a description of the households that are known to be unserved in the video service area footprint that is proposed by the applicant; (6) revise the revenues excluded from the definition of “gross revenue” for purposes of calculating the franchise fee for a local jurisdiction; (7) establish a policy of the state that subscribers and potential subscribers of a state video franchiseholder should benefit from equal access, as defined, to service within the service area, as specified; (8) expand the prohibition on certain cable operators or video service providers from discriminating against, or denying access to service to, any group of potential residential subscribers to include discrimination or denial of equal access because of any rationale, rather than only because of the income of the residents in the local area in which the group resides; (9) repeal the maximum amount of a fine that could be assessed for a violation of the equal access requirement; and (10) authorize the commission to enforce customer standards and conditions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 43 (Holden D) Greenhouse gas emissions: building materials: credit trading platform and compliance system.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Current law, effective January 1, 2023, requires the State Air Resources Board, by July 1, 2025, to develop, in consultation with specified stakeholders, a framework for measuring and then reducing the average carbon intensity of the materials used in the construction of new buildings, including those for residential uses. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation establishing a Low Carbon Product Standard (LCPS) to facilitate a credit trading platform for building materials. The bill would express the further intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to require that the LCPS establish a compliance system for purposes of the provisions described above.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality AB 44 (Ramos D) Peace officers: tribal police.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Current federal law authorizes tribal governments to employ tribal police for the enforcement of tribal law on tribal lands. Current federal law requires the State of California to exercise criminal jurisdiction on Indian lands. Current state law deems a tribal police officer who has been deputized or appointed by a county sheriff as a reserve or auxiliary deputy to be a peace officer in the State of California. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to facilitate greater self-governance in the area of law enforcement by tribal governments and tribal police by granting more consistent authority to tribal police to enforce state laws and by granting tribal police access to the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. The bill also makes related findings and declarations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 49 (Soria D) Affordable housing.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing and reduce homelessness.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 51 (Bonta D) Universal early care.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/9/2022-Introduced measure version corrected.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program. Current law also establishes the California Universal Preschool Planning Grant Program with the goal of expanding access universally to preschool programs for 3- and 4- year-old children across the state through a mixed-delivery system, as defined. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to create a universal early care and education system, utilizing the existing mixed-delivery system, that promotes equity and access for all families. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 56 (Lackey R) Victim’s compensation: emotional injuries.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8.
Noes 0.) (February 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. APPR.
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Summary:
Current law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes, including emotional injuries where the crime was a violation of specified provisions. This bill would expand eligibility for compensation to include emotional injuries from felony violations of, among other things, attempted murder, rape and sexual assault, mayhem, and stalking.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 60 (Bryan D) Restorative justice program.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Location: 12/6/2022-A. PRINT
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Current law prescribes punishments, including incarceration, for various criminal offenses. Current law authorizes a county to establish a pretrial diversion program for a defendant who has been charged with a misdemeanor offense, with certain exceptions. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish a right for a victim to be informed of and participate in county-approved restorative justice programs, as provided.
Position: Watch
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 61 (Bryan D) Criminal procedure: arraignments.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Location: 12/6/2022-A. PRINT
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Would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure all arrested people have their first appearance in court no more than 48 hours after arrest, without exception, and to codify the requirement of a prompt judicial review of probable cause for warrantless arrests of adults and juveniles, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 63 (Cervantes D) Elections: candidate’s residence.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Location: 12/6/2022-A. PRINT
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Under the California Constitution, a person is ineligible to serve as a State Assembly Member or State Senator if they have not been a resident of the their legislative district for one year. Current statutory law also requires a Member of the State Board of Equalization to be and remain an inhabitant of the district in which they are elected to serve, or else a vacancy occurs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that imposes certain consequences, including the ineligibility to serve in office, upon a candidate for any of the above offices if the candidate files an affidavit of voter registration that changes their residency, after being certified as a candidate but before the certification of election results.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 67 (Muratsuchi D) Homeless Courts Pilot Program.
Introduced: 12/7/2022
Last Amended: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 14). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. JUD.
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Current law governs the jurisdiction of various criminal actions and criminal proceedings. Existing law also provides various diversion programs, including programs for defendants with cognitive disabilities and programs for defendants who were, or currently are, members of the United States military. This bill, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, would create the Homeless Courts Pilot Program, which would remain in effect until January 1, 2029, to be administered by the Judicial Council for the purpose of providing comprehensive community-based services to achieve stabilization for, and address the specific legal needs of, chronically homeless individuals who are involved with the criminal justice system. The bill would require programs seeking grant funds to provide a number of specified services or program components, including, but not limited to, a diversion program enabling participating defendants to have infraction or misdemeanor charges dismissed upon completion of a program, provision of supportive housing, as defined, during the duration of the program, and a dedicated county representative to assist defendants with housing needs. The bill would require an applicant for grant funding under the program to submit a plan for a new homeless court program or expansion of an existing homeless court program, and would require any funding awarded to an applicant to be used in accordance with that plan.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 68 (Ward D) Housing.
Introduced: 12/8/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Location: 12/8/2022-A. PRINT
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The Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Current law defines several terms for the purposes of these provisions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 69 (Waldron R) Transportation: traffic signal synchronization: roadway improvement projects.
Introduced: 12/9/2022
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. TRANS.
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The State Air Resources Board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing 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 and to be available upon appropriation. Current law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Current law authorizes moneys in the fund to be allocated, as specified, for an investment in a traffic signal synchronization component that is part of a sustainable infrastructure project if the component is designed and implemented to achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific emissions reduction targets and metrics to evaluate the project’s effect. This bill would additionally authorize moneys in the fund to be allocated for an investment in a traffic signal synchronization component that is part of a roadway improvement project requiring multiple signals, including, but not limited to, multimodal redevelopment projects, rail trail projects, urban renewal projects, or a project near transit facilities, if the component is designed and implemented to achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific emissions reduction targets and metrics to evaluate the project’s effect.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Transportation AB 70 (Rodriguez D) Emergency response: trauma kits.
Introduced: 12/12/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. HEALTH
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3/14/2023 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, WOOD, JIM, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the person or entity responsible for managing the building, facility, and tenants of certain occupied structures, including those that are owned or operated by a local government entity, and that are constructed on or after January 1, 2023, to comply with certain requirements, including acquiring and placing at least 6 trauma kits on the premises, as specified. This bill would apply the trauma kit requirement to certain structures that are constructed prior to January 1, 2023, and subject to subsequent modifications, renovations, or tenant improvements, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 73 (Boerner Horvath D) Vehicles.
Introduced: 12/13/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Location: 12/13/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to a stop-as-yield pilot program seeking to improve the flow of traffic by allowing both drivers and bicyclists to move safely at an intersection where there is a stop sign.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 74 (Muratsuchi D) Vehicles: street takeovers, sideshows, and racing.
Introduced: 12/13/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Location: 12/13/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or an exhibition of speed on a highway, or to aid or abet therein. Commencing July 1, 2025, a court may suspend a person’s driver’s license for 90 days to 6 months for an exhibition of speed, or aiding and abetting an exhibition of speed, if the violation occurred as part of a sideshow. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to street takeovers, sideshows, and racing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 75 (Hoover R) Shoplifting: increased penalties for prior crimes.
Introduced: 12/14/2022
Status: 2/8/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Calendar:
2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law, as amended by Proposition 47, provides that a registered sex offender or a person with a prior conviction for certain serious or violent felonies, such as a sexually violent offense, who commits petty theft is subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. This bill would reinstate a provision of law that was repealed by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 18 months or 2 or 3 years. The bill would also make this provision and the provision relating to a person with serious, violent, or sexual prior offenses applicable to a person whose prior or current conviction is for shoplifting.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 76 (Davies R) Money laundering: blockchain technology.
Introduced: 12/14/2022
Last Amended: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would expand money laundering to include conducting a transaction involving a monetary instrument of specified value using blockchain technology, as defined. The bill would expand the definition of a “monetary instrument” to include virtual assets that use blockchain technology, including, but not limited to, nonfungible tokens and cryptocurrencies. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 79 (Weber D) Law enforcement agency policies: remotely operated force options.
Introduced: 12/15/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Location: 12/15/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to regulate, limit, and require the reporting of the use of deadly force by a law enforcement agency by means of remotely operated equipment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 84 (Ward D) Property tax: welfare exemption: affordable housing.
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 2/2/2023-Re-referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and REV. & TAX. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current property tax law, in accordance with the California Constitution, provides for a “welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met.
Under current property tax law, property that meets these requirements that is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities is entitled to a partial exemption, equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units, in any year that any of certain criteria apply, including that the property be subject to a legal restriction that provides that units designated for use by lower income households are continuously available to or occupied by lower income households, at rents not exceeding specified limits. For the 2018–19 fiscal year through the 2027–28 fiscal year, in the case of an eligible owner of property receiving a low-income housing tax credit under specified federal law, existing property tax law requires that a unit continue to be treated as occupied by a lower income household for these purposes if the occupants were lower income households on the lien date in the fiscal year in which their occupancy of the unit commenced and the unit continues to be rent restricted, notwithstanding an increase in the income of the occupants of the unit to 140% of area median income, adjusted for family size. This bill, beginning with the 2024—25 fiscal year, would remove the requirement that an eligible owner of property receive a low-income housing tax credit and would instead require that a unit continue to be treated as occupied by a lower income household, as described above, if the property is subject to a legal restriction that provides that units designated for use by lower income households are continuously available to or occupied by lower income households, at rents not exceeding specified limits.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing
AB 86 (Jones-Sawyer D) Homelessness: lead entity.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/5/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
Location: 1/4/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Council on Homelessness 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 establish a single entity to serve as the lead for ending homelessness, who would perform specified duties.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Homelessness
AB 88 (Sanchez R) Criminal procedure: victims’ rights.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8.
Noes 0.) (February 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a court, under specified circumstances, to resentence a defendant convicted of a felony offense. Under existing law, resentencing can be granted without a hearing upon stipulation of the parties. This bill would require a victim of the crime who wishes to be heard regarding the resentencing to notify the prosecution of their request for a hearing within 15 days of being notified that resentencing is being sought, and would require the court to provide an opportunity for the victim to be heard.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 89 (Sanchez R) Parole hearings: attorney notice.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Last Amended: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Board of Parole Hearings, among other responsibilities, to conduct parole suitability hearings and determine whether an inmate is suitable for parole. Current law authorizes the victim, the victim’s next of kin, the victim’s family members, or 2 representatives designated by the victim or next of kin, to appear, personally or by counsel, at parole suitability hearings and to express their views concerning the inmate and the case. This bill would require the district attorney’s office or the Attorney General’s office that prosecuted the case to provide reasonable no less than 45 days’ notice to the board and to the crime victim, victim’s next of kin, or members of the victim’s family if they will not be sending a representative to a parole hearing, thereby creating a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 92 (Connolly D) Body armor: prohibition.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 1/30/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
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2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law makes it a felony for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to purchase, own, or possess body armor. Current law authorizes a person subject to that prohibition, whose employment, livelihood, or safety is dependent on the ability to legally possess and use body armor, to
file a petition for an exception to the prohibition with the chief of police or county sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the person seeks to possess and use the body armor, as provided. This bill would repeal those provisions and instead make it a felony for a person to commit any violent felony while possessing a firearm and in the course of and in furtherance of that crime they wear body armor. The bill would make it a misdemeanor for any person to purchase or take possession of body armor, unless they are employed in specified professions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 93 (Bryan D) Criminal procedure: consensual searches.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 1/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
Location: 1/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to prohibit officers from requesting consent to conduct a search if the officer does not suspect criminal activity.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 96 (Kalra D) Public employment: local public transit agencies: autonomous transit vehicle technology.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 1/30/2023-Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Location: 1/30/2023-A. P.E. & R.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require a public transit employer to provide written notice to the exclusive employee representative of the workforce affected by autonomous transit vehicle technology of its determination to begin, or its substantive progress toward initiating, any procurement process or a plan to acquire or deploy any autonomous transit vehicle technology for public transit services that would eliminate job functions or jobs of the workforce to which the autonomous transit vehicle technology applies not less than 12 months before commencing the process, plan, or deployment. The bill would require a public transit employer, upon a written request of the exclusive employee representative, to provide specified information to the exclusive employee representative, including the potential gaps in skills that may result from the new service. The bill would require the public transit employer, following the written request for information by the exclusive employee representative, and within 30 days of receiving the specified information, to commence collective bargaining on specified subjects, including creating plans to train and prepare the affected workforce to fill new positions created by the autonomous transit vehicle technology.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 97 (Rodriguez D) Firearms: unserialized firearms.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law prohibits the transfer or possession of a firearm with a serial number that has been altered, removed, or obliterated. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a misdemeanor. Current law requires a person, other than a licensed manufacturer, who assembles or manufactures a firearm, or any person who possesses an unserialized firearm, to obtain a unique serial number from the Department of Justice and to inscribe that serial number on the firearm, as specified. A violation of this requirement is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would make the possession of an unserialized firearm or possession of a firearm with an altered, removed, or obliterated serial number punishable as
a felony. By increasing the punishment for these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 229 (Patterson, Joe R) Violent felonies.
Introduced: 1/11/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Would expand the crimes that are within the definition of a violent felony for all purposes, including for purposes of the Three Strikes Law, to include additional forms of sexual crimes, as defined, human trafficking, as defined, and felony domestic violence, as defined. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 233 (Wilson D) Local government: animal waste disposal: horses.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would authorize a local agency to require the rider of, or person otherwise responsible for, a horse to collect and dispose of any animal waste deposited by that horse on a street, sidewalk, or other public property.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 241 (Reyes D) Clean Transportation Program.
Introduced: 1/13/2023
Status: 1/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 13.
Location: 1/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007 creates the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide funding to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation related to the Clean Transportation Program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Transportation AB 243 (Alanis R) Child abduction survivors: address confidentiality program.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and
elder or dependent adult abuse to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant’s changed name or location, subject to specified conditions. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to make a false statement in an application. This bill would make victims of child abduction, as defined, and members of their households eligible for the protections of this address confidentiality program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 257 (Hoover R) Encampments: penalties.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property in any street, sidewalk, or other public property within 500 feet of a school, daycare center, park, or library. The bill would make a violation of the prohibition an infraction or a misdemeanor. The bill would also make willfully resisting, delaying, or obstructing a peace officer, public officer, or public employee in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty to enforce the prohibition a misdemeanor.
By imposing criminal penalties for a violation of these provisions, this bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 258 (Reyes D) Economic development: small businesses.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 1/20/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
Location: 1/19/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to advocate the causes of small business and to provide small businesses with the information they need to survive in the marketplace. This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to create and promote a portal where small businesses can easily search for grant, procurement, and other financial opportunities to grow their businesses.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Economic Development AB 259 (Lee D) Wealth Tax: False Claims Act.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 1/20/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
Location: 1/19/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2026, impose an annual tax at a rate of 1.5% of a resident of this state’s worldwide net worth in excess of $1,000,000,000, or in excess of $500,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately. The bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, impose an annual tax at a rate of 1% of a resident’s worldwide net worth in excess of $50,000,000, or in excess of $25,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately. The bill would also impose, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, an additional tax at a rate of 0.5% of a resident’s worldwide net worth in excess of $1,000,000,000, or in excess of $500,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately. The bill would describe worldwide net worth with reference to specific federal provisions and would provide that worldwide net worth does not include specific assets, including personal
property situated out of state, directly held real property, or liabilities related to directly held real property. The bill would also authorize the Franchise Tax Board to adopt regulations to carry out these provisions, including regulations regarding the valuation of certain assets that are not publicly traded.
The bill would require new certifications by taxpayers, made under penalty of perjury.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance
AB 269 (Berman D) Public health: COVID-19 testing and dispensing sites.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Last Amended: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would authorize a person to perform an analysis of samples to test for SARS-CoV-2 in a clinical laboratory or a city, county, or city and county public health laboratory if they meet the requirements under CLIA for high complexity testing. The bill would, until January 1, 2024, authorize an entity contracted with and approved by the State Department of Public Health to operate a designated COVID-19 testing and dispensing site to acquire, dispense, and store COVID-19 oral therapeutics, as defined, at or from a designated site.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 270 (Lee D) Public campaign financing.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 1/24/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Location: 1/23/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide for public financing for election campaigns in this state.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 271 (Quirk-Silva D) Homeless death review committees.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Last Amended: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Would authorize counties to establish a homeless death review committee for the purposes of gathering information to identify the root causes of death of homeless individuals and to determine strategies to improve coordination of services for the homeless population. The bill would establish procedures for the sharing or disclosure of information by a homeless death review committee.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Homelessness
AB 272 (Chen R) Criminal procedure: search warrants.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Would allow a search warrant for stolen or embezzled property to include an order for such property to be returned to a lawful owner identified in the warrant pursuant to specified procedures including a hearing, if requested, to determine that the property was stolen or embezzled, before it is returned to its owner.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 276 (Dixon R) Vehicles: electronic wireless communication devices.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would make it an infraction for a person under 21 years of age to drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone or an electronic wireless communications device, even if equipped with a hands-free device. The bill would create an exception to that prohibition for a person 18 to 20 years of age, inclusive, who is using a wireless telephone or an electronic wireless communications device, as defined, while driving, when the telephone or device is used exclusively as required by, and in the course and scope of, the person’s work activities. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 277 (Rodriguez D) Extreme Weather Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on E.M. and W., P., & W.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the Office of Emergency Services and the Department of Water Resources to jointly establish and lead the Extreme Weather Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center for the purpose of collecting, assessing, and analyzing extreme weather data and atmospheric conditions, as specified. The bill would require that the center be composed of representatives from specified organizations and would authorize the office and the department to invite other organizations to designate additional representatives, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Wildfires
AB 280 (Holden D) Segregated confinement.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/13/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Would require every jail, prison, public or privately operated detention facility, and a facility in which individuals are subject to confinement or involuntary detention to develop and follow written procedures governing the management of segregated confinement, as specified. The bill would require those facilities to document the use of segregated confinement by, among other things, providing written orders of that confinement to the individual confined, as specified. The bill would prohibit those facilities from involuntarily placing an individual in segregated confinement if the individual belongs to a designated population, including, among others, that the individual has a mental or physical disability
or that the individual is under 26 years of age or over 59 years of age. The bill would require the facility to periodically check on the individual and have a medical or mental health professional periodically assess the individual. This bill would require a facility to offer out-of-cell programming to individuals in segregated confinement for at least 4 hours per day, not including time spent on housekeeping or in paid employment. The bill would require a facility to maximize the amount of time that an incarcerated person held in segregated confinement spends outside of their cell by providing outdoor and indoor recreation, education, clinically appropriate treatment therapies, and skill-building activities, as specified, and would require facilities to develop and provide appropriate programming to individuals that pose a significant safety risk to themselves or others, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 281 (Grayson D) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Summary:
Current law, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, to post an example of a complete, approved application and an example of a complete set of postentitlement phase permits for at least 5 types of housing development projects in the jurisdiction, as specified, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. 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, and makes any failure to meet these time limits a violation of specified law. Current law defines various terms for these purposes, including “local agency” to mean a city, county, or city and county, and “postentitlement phase permit,” among other things, to exclude a permit required and issued by a special district. This bill would include a special district in the definition of “local agency” and would remove special districts from the exclusion in the definition of “postentitlement phase permit.” Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 284 (Patterson, Joe R) Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Under current law, grants under the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program are allocated in 4 rounds of funding, administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, as provided. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department. Current law requires that the report include, among other things, the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income level. This bill would additionally require that this report include an evaluation of the HHAP program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing, Homelessness AB 286 (Wood D) Broadband infrastructure: mapping.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on C. & C.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. C. & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in collaboration with relevant state agencies and stakeholders, to maintain and update a statewide, publicly accessible, and interactive map showing the accessibility of broadband service in the state. Current law authorizes the commission to collect information from providers of broadband services at the address level and prohibits the commission from disclosing certain protected residential subscriber information. This bill would require that the map identify, for each address in the state, each provider of broadband services that offers service at the address and the maximum speed of broadband services offered by each provider of broadband services at the address.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
AB 287 (Garcia D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund:
competitive grant programs: funding objectives.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be used to facilitate the achievement of reductions of greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and, where applicable and to the extent feasible, to maximize economic, environmental, and public health benefits to the state, among other goals. This bill, beginning July 1, 2025, would require state agencies administering competitive grant programs that allocate moneys from the fund to give specified communities preferential points during grant application scoring for programs intended to improve air quality, to provide for a specified application timeline, and to allow applicants from the Counties of Imperial and San Diego to include daytime population numbers in grant applications.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Finance
AB 292 (Pellerin D) Primary elections: ballots.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Last Amended: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require, for any nonpartisan ballot provided to a voter who has declined to disclose a political party preference for use in a presidential primary election, that a space be provided on or enclosed with the ballot for the voter to write in the name of a candidate who has been nominated by a party that authorizes such voters to vote in its primary election.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 296 (Rodriguez D) Office of Emergency Services: 9-1-1 Public Education Campaign.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on E.M. and C. & C.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would establish the 911 Public Education Campaign, to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services, for the purpose of educating the public on when it is appropriate to call 911 for assistance.
The bill would include in the goals of the campaign, among others, reducing the number of unnecessary calls to 911 call centers and reducing delays in the 911 system caused by nonemergency calls being placed. The bill would authorize the office to use federal preparedness grant funds or funds appropriated by the Legislature for these purposes to implement these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 297 (Fong, Vince R) Wildfires: local assistance grant program: advance payments.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. NAT. RES.
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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. Under existing law, the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection may, until January 1, 2024, authorize advance payments from a grant program award, not to exceed 25% of the total grant award, except as specified. This bill would extend the director’s authority to authorize advance payments from a grant program award to January 1, 2034.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Public Safety, Wildfires AB 301 (Bauer-Kahan D) Body armor: prohibition.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law makes it a felony for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to purchase, own, or possess body armor. Current law authorizes a person subject to that prohibition, whose employment, livelihood, or safety is dependent on the ability to legally possess and use body armor, to file a petition for an exception to the prohibition with the chief of police or county sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the person seeks to possess and use the body armor, as provided. This bill would repeal those provisions and instead make it a misdemeanor for any person to purchase or take possession of body armor, and a felony for any person who has been convicted of a violent felony to do so, unless they are employed in specified professions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 303 (Davies R) Firearms: prohibited persons.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain an online database known as the Prohibited Armed Persons File, sometimes referred to as the Armed Prohibited Persons System, to cross-reference persons who have ownership or possession of a firearm, and who, subsequent to the date of ownership or possession of that firearm, fall within a class of persons who are prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm. Current law requires the Attorney General to provide investigative assistance to local law enforcement agencies to better ensure the investigation of individuals who are armed and prohibited from possessing a firearm. This bill would require that investigative assistance to include all investigative notes, reports, and related materials on individuals listed in the Prohibited Armed Persons File.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 304 (Holden D) Domestic violence: probation.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/13/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law specifies that the terms of probation granted to a person who has been convicted of domestic violence are required to include, among other things, successful completion of a batterer’s program, as defined, or, if such a program is not available, another appropriate counseling program designated by the court, for a period of not less than one year, and a protective order protecting the victim from further acts of violence, threats, stalking, sexual abuse, and harassment. Current law requires the court to order the defendant to comply with all probation requirements, including the payment of program fees based upon the ability to pay. If the court finds that a defendant does not have the ability to pay the program fee, existing law authorizes the court to reduce or waive the program fee. Current law requires a batterer’s program to develop and utilize a sliding fee schedule based on a defendant’s ability to pay. The bill would require program providers, as defined, to publicly post, including on an internet website, a comprehensive description of their sliding fee scales.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 305 (Villapudua D) California Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Under current law, various general obligation bond acts have been approved by the voters to provide funds for water projects, facilities, and programs. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation for a flood protection general obligation bond act, in an unspecified amount, that would be known as the California Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024, and would be submitted to the voters at the next general election.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
AB 309 (Lee D) Social housing.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Housing Finance Agency and sets forth various programs administered by those entities intended to, among other things, provide a comprehensive and balanced approach to the solution of housing problems of the people of this state. The act sets forth various definitions that govern its construction. This bill would define “social housing” for purposes of the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing
AB 312 (Reyes D) State Partnership for Affordable Housing Registries in California Grant Program.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would establish, subject to appropriation by the Legislature, the State Partnership for Affordable Housing Registries in California Grant Program to provide technical assistance to eligible entities, as defined, for the purpose of creating a state-managed online platform of affordable housing listings, information, and applications. The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer the program and to adopt guidelines for this purpose. The bill would require the department to develop a housing preapplication to standardize applications for affordable housing and to solicit participation of eligible entities no later than January 1, 2026, and to launch the platform no later than July 1, 2027. The bill would require the department to provide technical assistance to participating entities and to ensure equitable access to database users, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to coordinate with the Office of Data and Innovation to carry out the requirements of the program and to contract with vendors pursuant to existing provisions of state contract law, as specified. The bill would establish minimum requirements for the platform and would require a vendor selected to create and maintain the platform to demonstrate specified capabilities and implement those requirements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing AB 313 (Fong, Vince R) Corrections: notifications.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to supply a form to designated agencies in order to enable persons to request and receive notification from the department of the release, escape, scheduled execution, or death of the violent offender. Current law requires the agency to give the form to the victim, witness, or next of kin of the victim for completion, explain to that person or persons the right to be notified, and forward the completed form to the department. This bill would require the designated agencies to also give the form to the immediate or extended family members of the victim, and to inform them of their right to request and receive a notification from the department.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 316 (Aguiar-Curry D) Vehicles: autonomous vehicles.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and C. & C.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would prohibit the operation of an autonomous vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 10,000 pounds or more on public roads for testing purposes, transporting goods, or transporting passengers without a human safety operator physically present in the autonomous vehicle at the time of operation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 318 (Addis D) Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act establishes the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development to resolve complaints from homeowners relating to the Mobilehome Residency Law. Under current law, the act is repealed on
January 1, 2024. This bill would remove the January 1, 2024, repeal date and make the act operative indefinitely.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing
AB 319 (Connolly D) Mobilehome Parks Act: inspectors: conflict of interest.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Last Amended: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Mobilehome Parks Act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to enforce the act. Current law requires the department or a city, county, or city and county that assumes responsibility for the enforcement of the act to enter and inspect mobilehome parks, as prescribed.
Current law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, requires state agencies to adopt and promulgate a conflict of interest code with certain provisions, as specified. This bill would provide that an inspector, as defined, is a designated employee for purposes of the conflict of interest code adopted by the department and would require an inspector to disclose all interests in real property. The bill would require the department, no later than January 1, 2025, to review the statement of economic interests, as defined, by all inspectors with reportable financial interests and identify potential conflicts of interest.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 323 (Holden D) Planning and land use: parcels: changes in use.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would revise the Planning and Zoning Law to prohibit a developer from submitting a petition for public hearing to a city, county, or city and county, for a change in use of a parcel intended for owner occupancy pursuant to a local inclusionary zoning ordinance or density bonus project, as defined, unless the developer can prove that none of the applicants for owner occupancy can qualify for the unit as an owner occupant pursuant to the income limitation recorded on the deed or other instrument defining the terms of conveyance eligibility.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 327 (Jones-Sawyer D) Criminal justice: crime statistics.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law required the Department of Justice to report to the Legislature on the progress on reporting of crime statistics data to the federal government in compliance with the federal National Incident-Based Reporting System. This bill would require the Department of Justice to complete the transition of all reporting of crime data to the National Incident-Based Reporting System and would require local law enforcement agencies to provide the necessary data to complete this transition.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 329 (Ta R) Crime: penalties for shoplifting and petty theft.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors in the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of property that does not exceed $950 in value petty theft and makes that crime punishable as a misdemeanor, with certain exceptions. This bill would amend the initiative to make petty theft or shoplifting by a person who is not a resident of this state, did not reside in this state in the six months prior to entering this state, and entered this state within 30 days prior to committing the offense, an offense punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. The bill would define resident as a person that has occupied a dwelling in this state, or has been domiciled in this state, for at least 6 months.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 331 (Bauer-Kahan D) Artificial intelligence.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Location: 1/30/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, reproductive health decision making, or veteran or military status. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the use of artificial intelligence in accordance with prescribed principles relating to safety and effectiveness, algorithmic discrimination, notice and explanation of use, and human alternatives, consideration, or fallback.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 332 (Lee D) Rabies control data.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. B.&P.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law governs the seizure, rescue, adopting out, and euthanasia of abandoned and surrendered animals by animal control officers, law enforcement officers, animal shelters, and rescue organizations.
Current law requires the governing body of each city, city and county, or county to maintain or provide for the maintenance of an animal shelter system and a rabies control program. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to collect certain rabies control program data from each city, city and county, or county, as outlined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 333 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Vehicles: abatement of abandoned vehicles.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. TRANS.
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Summary:
Current law authorizes a county satisfying specified conditions to establish a service authority for the abatement of abandoned vehicles and to impose a $1 vehicle registration fee. Current law authorizes a service authority to adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement, removal, and disposal, as a public nuisance, of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicle or part of the vehicle from private or public property and for the recovery of costs associated with the enforcement of the ordinance. This bill would allow the ordinance to provide for the issuance of permits or licenses, consistent with local nuisance codes and in cooperation with local code enforcement authorities, regarding the temporary parking allowance of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles and to authorize any necessary investigations and inspections related to the determination of a public nuisance.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Safety
AB 334 (Rubio, Blanca D) Public contracts: conflicts of interest.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Summary:
Current law prohibits members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Current law authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission to commence an administrative or civil action against persons who violate this prohibition, as prescribed, and includes provisions for the collection of penalties after the time for judicial review of a commission order or decision has lapsed, or if all means of judicial review of the order or decision have been exhausted. Current law identifies certain remote interests in contracts that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract. This bill would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified requirements, is not an officer for purposes of being subject to the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 338 (Aguiar-Curry D) Public works: definition.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on L. & E.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. L. & E.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law defines the term “public works” for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Current law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a misdemeanor.
This bill would, commencing January 1, 2025, expand the definition of “public works” to include fuel reduction work done under contract and paid for in whole or in part out of public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project, as specified. The bill would limit those provisions to work that falls within an apprenticable occupation in the building and construction trades for which an apprenticeship program has been approved and to contracts in excess of $100,000. The bill would delay the application of those provisions until January 1, 2026, for nonprofits.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources, Public Works
AB 340 (Fong, Vince R) California Environmental Quality Act: grounds for noncompliance.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) prohibits an action or proceeding from being brought in a court to challenge the approval of a project by a public agency unless the alleged grounds for noncompliance are presented to the public agency orally or in writing by a person during the public comment period provided by CEQA or before the close of the public hearing on the project before the issuance of the notice of determination. This bill would require the alleged grounds for noncompliance with CEQA presented to the public agency in writing be presented at least 10 days before the public hearing on the project before the issuance of the notice of determination. The bill would prohibit the inclusion of written comments presented to the public agency after that time period in the record of proceedings and would prohibit those documents from serving as basis on which an action or proceeding may be brought.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Developmental Services
AB 345 (Wilson D) Habitat restoration: flood control: advance payments.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. W.,P. & W.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would authorize the Department of Water Resources to provide advance payments, as defined, to local agencies for projects that restore habitat for threatened and endangered species under state or federal law or improve flood protection, as provided. The bill would prohibit the amount of funds advanced by the department to the local agency at any one time from exceeding 25% of the entire amount authorized to be provided under the funding agreement between the department and the local agency.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality AB 346 (Quirk-Silva D) Income tax credits: low-income housing: California Debt Limit Allocation Committee rulemaking.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and H. & C.D.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. REV. & TAX
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law creates the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC) for the purpose of administering the volume limit for the state on private activity bonds through an allocation system.
Current law authorizes CDLAC to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations as emergency regulations in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. This bill, instead, would authorize CDLAC to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations without complying with the procedural requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act, except as specified. The bill would make rules and regulations adopted, amended, or repealed by CDLAC effective immediately upon adoption.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Finance, Housing
AB 347 (Ting D) Pollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act:
enforcement.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. E.S. & T.M.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Pollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act requires a generator of hazardous waste every 4 years to complete and conduct a source evaluation review and plan that specifies source reduction measures that the generator will implement and to prepare a hazardous waste management performance report concerning the hazardous waste management approaches implemented by the generator. A generator is required to provide its review and plan or report to the Department of Toxic Substances Control or the unified program agency within 30 days of a request. The act requires the department or the unified program agency to provide the generator with a notice of noncompliance if it determines that the review and plan or report is incomplete. The act requires the generator to correct the deficiencies within 60 days from its receipt of that notice, except that, in response to a written request from the generator for an extension of that 60-day deadline for cause, the act authorizes the department or unified program agency to grant an extension of no more than an additional 60 days. This bill would instead limit that extension authorization to no more than an additional 30 days.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Public Works AB 351 (Chen R) Cannabis: license transfers.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Location: 1/31/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would authorize the Department of Cannabis Control to transfer licenses for commercial cannabis activity from a licensee to another person, subject to the requirements of the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA).
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Safety
AB 355 (Alanis R) Firearms: assault weapons: exception for peace officer training.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Current law prohibits the sale, transfer, or possession of a large-capacity magazine, as defined.
Existing law exempts from this prohibition the sale or transfer to, or the possession by, a peace officer or retired peace officer, as specified, or to or by a person enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, for purposes of participation in the course, as specified. Existing law prohibits the sale, transfer, or possession of an assault weapon, as specified. Current law exempts from this prohibition the sale or transfer of an assault weapon to, or the possession of an assault weapon by, a peace officer, as specified. This bill would also exempt from this prohibition the loaning of an assault weapon to, or the possession of an assault weapon by, a person enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, while engaged in firearms training.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 356 (Mathis R) California Environmental Quality Act: aesthetic impacts.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. Current law, until January 1, 2024, specifies that, except as provided, a lead agency is not required to evaluate the aesthetic effects of a project and aesthetic effects are not considered significant effects on the environment if the project involves the refurbishment, conversion, repurposing, or replacement of an existing building that meets certain requirements. This bill would extend the operation of the above provision indefinitely.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality AB 358 (Addis D) Community college districts: student housing.
Introduced: 2/1/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. HIGHER ED.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Field Act requires the Department of General Services to supervise the design and construction of any school building, including both school district and community college district buildings, or, if the estimated cost exceeds $100,000, the reconstruction or alteration of or addition to any school building, to ensure that plans and specifications comply with the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to the act and with relevant building standards, and to ensure that the work of construction has been performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications. Current law requires the Department of General Services, for purposes relating to access and use by persons with disabilities, to issue a written approval of the plans and specifications of certain buildings and facilities, as provided.
Current law defines “school building” for these purposes. This bill would additionally exclude from these requirements any building used as a residence for students attending a campus of a community college district, except upon a request by the community college district, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
AB 361 (Ward D) Vehicles: parking fines.
Introduced: 2/1/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
Location: 2/1/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law regulates vehicle parking and charges a fine for, among other violations, parking in a bike lane, parking in a fire lane, or blocking a driveway, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to parking fines.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 364 (Bryan D) Street furniture data: statewide integrated data platform.
Introduced: 2/1/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and P. & C.P.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. TRANS.
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Summary:
Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop, in cooperation with local and regional transportation entities, the full potential of all resources and opportunities that are now, and may become, available to the state and to regional and local agencies for meeting California’s transportation needs. Current law authorizes the department to do any act necessary, convenient, or proper for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or use of all highways that are under its jurisdiction, possession, or control. This bill would require the department to develop guidelines for data sharing, documentation, public access, quality control, and promotion of open-source and
accessible platforms and decision support tools related to street furniture data. The bill would define “street furniture” as objects and pieces of equipment installed along a street or road to provide amenities for pedestrians, including, but not limited to, bus shelters, trash receptacles, benches, or public toilets. The bill would require the department to develop the guidelines, in collaboration with specified state and local agencies, and submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2025, and every 3 years thereafter, describing those guidelines. To the extent this imposes duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Transportation AB 374 (Haney D) Cannabis: local control: cannabis consumption.
Introduced: 2/1/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and G.O.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. B.&P.
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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.
MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control (department) within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act, and requires the department to be under the supervision and control of a director. Current law provides that a local jurisdiction may allow for the smoking, vaporizing, and ingesting of cannabis or cannabis products on the premises of a retailer or microbusiness licensed under this division if certain conditions are met. This bill would specify that a local jurisdiction exercising the authority described above may allow the retailer or microbusiness to conduct business activities on the premises other than the smoking, vaporizing, and ingesting of cannabis or cannabis products, including, but not limited to, selling non-cannabis-infused food, selling nonalcoholic beverages, and allowing, and selling tickets for, live musical or other performances.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Safety
AB 390 (Haney D) Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training: assessment of training requirements.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Calendar:
3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to perform specified duties, including, among other things, partnering with academic researchers to conduct an assessment of existing officer training requirements and determining how well the current officer training requirements are working for officers in the field. The bill would require the commission to report its findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2026.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 394 (Hoover R) Housing Resources Augmentation Program.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/3/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Building Homes and Jobs Act, imposes a fee, except as provided, of $75 to be paid at the time of the recording of every real estate instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded, per each single transaction per single parcel of real property, not to exceed $225. Current law requires that a county recorder send revenues from this fee, as provided, to the State Controller for deposit in the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund. Current law, for moneys collected on and after
January 1, 2019, requires 20% of all moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended for affordable owner-occupied workforce housing. This bill would reduce the expenditure of moneys in the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund for affordable owner-occupied workforce housing from 20% to 10%, and would, instead, require 10% of all moneys in the fund to be transferred to the Housing Resources Augmentation Fund, established by the bill.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Housing
AB 398 (Pellerin D) Voting: replacement ballots.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires an elections official to provide a 2nd vote by mail voter ballot to any voter upon receipt of a statement under penalty of perjury that the voter has failed to receive, lost, or destroyed their original ballot. This bill would remove the requirement that the voter provide a statement under penalty of perjury, and instead require the elections official to provide a replacement ballot upon request.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 399 (Ting D) Vehicles: police pursuit data reporting.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
3/7/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary:
Existing law requires every state and local law enforcement agency to report all vehicle pursuit data, as specified, to the Department of the California Highway Patrol no later than 30 days after a pursuit. This bill would instead require every state and local law enforcement agency to report vehicle pursuit data to the department no later than 45 days after a pursuit.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 400 (Rubio, Blanca D) Local agency design-build projects: authorization.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Summary:
Current law authorizes local agencies, as defined, to use the design-build procurement process for specified types of projects, as prescribed. Current law, among other requirements for the design-build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing the use of the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2025.This bill would remove the January 1, 2025, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
AB 410 (Jones-Sawyer D) Shared mobility devices.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/3/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law defines shared mobility device to mean an electrically motorized board, motorized scooter, electric bicycle, bicycle, or other similar personal transportation device, except as provided. Current law requires a shared mobility service provider to affix to each shared mobility device a tactile sign containing raised characters and accompanying Braille, as specified, to identify the device for the purpose of reporting illegal or negligent activity. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Public Safety
AB 411 (Bennett D) Transportation: trails.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and W., P., & W.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law states the intent of the Legislature to annually allocate $7,000,000 to the Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program Fund to provide grants to local, state, and federal agencies and nonprofit entities to undertake certain environmental enhancement and mitigation projects, including, but not limited to, urban forestry projects, acquisition or enhancement of resource lands, and projects to mitigate the impact of proposed transportation facilities or to enhance the environment. This bill would revise that statement of legislative intent to instead allocate $10,000,000 annually for that purpose.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality AB 412 (Soria D) Public officers: minors.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/3/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law requires a public officer who is a minor to have the rights and liabilities of an adult, both civil and criminal, with regard to that public officer’s official duties, and a candidate for nomination or election to public office who is a minor to have the rights and liabilities of an adult, both civil and criminal, with regard to that candidate’s activities as a candidate. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 413 (Lee D) Vehicles: stopping, standing, and parking.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. TRANS.
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Summary:
Current law prohibits the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle in certain places and under certain conditions, including within an intersection, on a sidewalk or crosswalk, or in front of a fire station, Current law additionally authorizes local jurisdictions to, by ordinance, restrict parking in certain areas, at certain times, and for certain reasons, and to establish metered parking. This bill would prohibit the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle within 20 feet of any unmarked or marked crosswalk.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 415 (Rodriguez D) Emergency Fairgrounds Communications Grant Act.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on E.M. and C. & C.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
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Summary:
Would enact the Emergency Fairgrounds Communications Grant Act and would require, on or before January 1, 2025, the Office of Emergency Services to establish a grant program to provide fairgrounds with grant funding for the purpose of building and upgrading communication and internet infrastructure on fairgrounds. The bill would require the office to establish standards to determine the awarding of grant funding that award funding based on a fairground’s need for internet capabilities in order to service an emergency response operation. The bill would require those standards to require, at a minimum, that a fairground receiving grant funds be located in an area with sufficient open-access middle-mile broadband infrastructure within a reasonable distance to support the fairground’s expanded broadband capabilities and be capable of providing public access to the fairground’s broadband network throughout the year. The bill would also require the office to consult with the Department of Technology and the Department of Food and Agriculture to coordinate the statewide building and upgrading of communication and internet infrastructure on fairgrounds. The bill would provide that the program is operative only upon an appropriation by the Legislature for its purposes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
AB 420 (Aguiar-Curry D) Cannabis: industrial hemp.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. B.&P.
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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 and requires the Department of Cannabis Control to administer its provisions. Current law governs the cultivation of industrial hemp in this state and establishes a registration program administered by county agricultural commissioners and the Department of Food and Agriculture for growers of industrial hemp, hemp breeders, and established agricultural research institutions, as defined. Current law exempts industrial hemp, as defined, from the definition of cannabis and from MAUCRSA, but requires the Department of Cannabis Control to prepare a report, on or before July 1, 2022, to the Governor and the Legislature outlining the steps necessary to allow for the incorporation of hemp cannabinoids into the cannabis supply chain. This bill would state that MAUCRSA does not prohibit a licensee from manufacturing, distributing, or selling products that contain industrial hemp or cannabinoids, extracts, or derivatives from industrial hemp, if the product complies with all applicable state laws and regulations. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Economic Development AB 426 (Jackson D) Department of Housing and Community Development: housing plan: reporting.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for the state to keep pace with building infrastructure and housing units during an economic downturn on or before January 1, 2025, as specified. The bill would require the department to submit the plan to the Senate Housing Committee and the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development on or before December 1, 2026.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing
AB 430 (Bennett D) Affordable housing.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/7/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and requires that the plan include a land use element that addresses housing. Current law states legislative findings and declarations regarding the need for affordable housing and the need to encourage development of new housing.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in those legislative findings and declarations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 434 (Grayson D) Housing element: notice of violation.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law, for housing development projects that submit a preliminary application prior to January 1, 2030, prohibits a city or county from conducting more than 5 hearings, as defined, held pursuant to these provisions, or any other law, ordinance, or regulation requiring a public hearing, if the proposed housing development project complies with the applicable, objective general plan and zoning standards in effect at the time an application is deemed complete, as defined. Current law zoning standards in effect at the time an application is deemed complete, as defined. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General, that a city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the department finds that the housing element or an amendment to that element, or any specified action or failure to act, does not substantially comply with the law as it pertains to housing elements or that any local government has taken an action in violation of certain housing laws. This bill would additionally authorize the department to notify a city, county, city and county, or the Attorney General when the planning agency of a city, county, or city and county fails to comply with the above-described provision that prohibits holding more than 5 hearings for specified variances.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Community Development, Housing AB 436 (Alvarez D) Vehicles.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prohibits a local authority from enacting or enforcing an ordinance on matters covered by the Vehicle Code unless expressly authorized by the Vehicle Code. Current law authorizes local authorities to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding specified matters, including, among others, crossing guards, the operation of bicycles, the removal of illegally parked vehicles, and cruising, as defined. This bill would remove the authorization for a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or regulation regarding cruising.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety, Transportation
AB 440 (Wicks D) Density bonuses and other incentives.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/7/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The 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. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 443 (Jackson D) Peace officers: determination of bias.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law requires each law enforcement agency to be responsible for completing investigations of allegations of serious misconduct of a peace officer. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to establish a definition of “biased conduct,” as specified, and would require law enforcement agencies to use that definition in any investigation into a bias-related complaint or an incident that involves possible indications of officer bias, and to determine if any racial profiling occurred, as defined. The bill would also require POST to develop guidance for local law enforcement departments on performing effective Internet and social media screenings of officer applicants.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 444 (Addis D) California Defense Community Infrastructure Program.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/7/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would establish the California Defense Community Infrastructure Program, which would require the Office of Planning and Research, to grant funds to local agencies to assist with matching fund requirements in applications for funds from the federal Defense Community Infrastructure Program. The bill would require the Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with the Governor’s Military Council, to develop guidelines for the program that, where possible, align with the guidelines of the federal program. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Safety
AB 449 (Ting D) Hate crimes: law enforcement policies.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would make adoption of a hate crimes policy by a local law enforcement agency mandatory. The bill would require those policies to include the supplemental hate crime report in the model policy framework developed by the commission and a schedule of hate crime or related trainings the agency conducts. By imposing requirements on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 453 (Cervantes D) District-based elections.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and L. GOV.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires a political subdivision that changes from an at-large method of election to a district-based election, or that establishes district-based elections, to perform various actions before a public hearing at which it votes upon an ordinance establishing district-based elections. Among these actions, the political subdivision must hold at least 2 public hearings before drawing a draft map of the proposed boundaries and at least 2 public hearings after all maps are drawn, and invite the public’s input at these hearings. This bill would require a public hearing concerning district-based elections, as described above, that is consolidated with a meeting of the governing body of the political subdivision that includes other substantive agenda items, to begin at a fixed time regardless of its order on the agenda. The bill would require the governing body to provide notice of the hearing to the public.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 457 (Patterson, Joe R) General plans: housing element.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/7/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires a city or 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 adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, among other things. Current law requires the housing element to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of these needs. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 458 (Jones-Sawyer D) Peace officers.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/7/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature by no later than June 1, 2023, outlining a plan to implement the program. This bill would extend the due date of the report to June 30, 2023.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 462 (Ramos D) Overdose response teams.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Would authorize the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, until January 1, 2029, to establish and implement overdose response teams with the sheriff’s departments of those counties.
The bill would require the teams to only respond to and investigate overdose deaths and nonfatal overdoses involving juveniles and multiple victims, with a focus on overdose deaths related to fentanyl.
The bill would require counties participating in these programs to send annual reports to the Assembly Select Committee on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction, and Overdose Prevention, including the number of arrests of drug dealers in each county, the amount of fentanyl and opioids seized in each county, and the number of units of opioid antagonists found at each overdose scene.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Public Safety
AB 463 (Hart D) Electricity: prioritization of service: public transit vehicles.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on U. & E.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. U. & E.
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Summary:
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish priorities among the types or categories of customers of every electrical corporation and every gas corporation, and among the uses of electricity or gas by those customers, to determine which of those customers and uses provide the most important public benefits and serve the greatest public need, and to categorize all other customers and uses in order of descending priority based on these standards. Current law requires the commission, in establishing those priorities, to consider, among other things, the economic, social, and other effects of a temporary discontinuance in electrical or gas service to certain customers or for certain uses, as specified. If an electrical or gas corporation experiences a shortage of capacity or capability and is unable to meet all demands by its customers, existing law requires the commission to order that service be temporarily reduced by an amount that reflects the established priorities for the duration of the shortage. This bill would require the commission, in establishing those priorities, to also consider the economic, social equity, and mobility impacts of a temporary discontinuance in electrical service to the customers that rely on electrical service to operate public transit vehicles.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 466 (Gipson D) Vehicles: violations.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. TRANS.
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Summary:
Current law authorizes a court to permit or order a person who has been convicted of, or plead to, a traffic violation, as specified, to attend traffic violator school. Under existing law, such a person who completes traffic violator school shall have their conviction remain confidential and shall not be assessed traffic violation points, as specified. Under existing law, the willful failure to attend traffic violator school if so ordered by the court is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would remove provisions making the failure to attend traffic violator school a misdemeanor and would clarify that the failure to attend traffic violator school is not punishable as a new offense.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 469 (Fong, Vince R) California Public Records Act Ombudsperson.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on A. & A.R. and JUD.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. A. & A.R.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would establish, within the California State Auditor’s Office, the California Public Records Act Ombudsperson. The bill would require the California State Auditor to appoint the ombudsperson subject to certain requirements. The bill would require the ombudsperson to receive and investigate requests for review, as defined, determine whether the denials of original requests, as defined, complied with the California Public Records Act, and issue written opinions of its determination, as provided. The bill would require the ombudsperson to create a process to that effect, and would authorize a member of the public to submit a request for review to the ombudsperson consistent with
that process. The bill would require the ombudsperson, within 30 days from receipt of a request for review, to make a determination, as provided, and would require the state agency to provide the public record if the ombudsperson determines that it was improperly denied. The bill would, if requested by the ombudsperson, require any state agency determined to have improperly denied a request to reimburse the ombudsperson for its costs to investigate the request for review. The bill would require the ombudsperson to create a process through which a person whose information is contained in a record being reviewed may intervene to assert their privacy and confidentiality rights, and would otherwise require the ombudsperson to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of records, as provided. The bill would require the ombudsperson to report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, on, among other things, the number of requests for review the ombudsperson has received in the prior year.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 471 (Kalra D) Cannabis catering.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and G.O.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. B.&P.
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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.
Under MAUCRSA, the Department of Cannabis Control has sole authority to license and regulate commercial cannabis activity, which MAUCRSA defines to include, among other activities, the delivery and sale of cannabis and cannabis products as provided for therein, and acting as a cannabis event organizer for temporary cannabis events. This bill would add acting as a cannabis caterer for a private event to the definition of commercial cannabis activity.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Safety
AB 476 (Villapudua D) Outdoor advertising: public property.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. G.O.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Outdoor Advertising Act provides for the Department of Transportation to regulate advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways. The act authorizes displays on property zoned commercial or industrial, as specified. This bill would authorize displays on public property for noncommercial public messages and announcements, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 480 (Ting D) Surplus land.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Summary:
Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, as defined, and requires, except as provided, a local agency disposing of surplus land to comply with certain notice requirements before disposing of the land or participating in negotiations to dispose of the land with a prospective transferee, particularly that the local agency send a notice of availability to specified entities that have notified the Department of Housing and Community Development of their interest in surplus land, as specified. If the local agency receives a notice of interest, the local agency is required to engage in good faith negotiations with the entity desiring to purchase or lease the surplus land.
Current law defines terms for purposes of these provisions, including the term “exempt surplus land,”
which includes, among other things, surplus land that is put out to open, competitive bid by a local agency, as specified, for purposes of a mixed-use development that is more than one acre in area, that includes not less than 300 housing units, and that restricts at least 25% of the residential units to lower income households with an affordable sales price or an affordable rent for a minimum of 55 years for rental housing and 45 years for ownership housing. This bill would modify these provisions to require that the mixed-use development include not less than 300 residential units.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 489 (Calderon D) Workers’ compensation: disability payments.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on INS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. INS.
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Summary:
Under the workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation current law governs temporary and permanent disability indemnity payments.
Current law, until January 1, 2024, allows an employer to commence a program under which disability indemnity payments are deposited in a prepaid card account for employees. This bill would extend the authorization to deposit indemnity payments in a prepaid card account until January 1, 2025.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 510 (Jackson D) Local land trusts.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/8/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
Location: 2/7/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law requires that the housing element include an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If the inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, as provided, existing law requires that the local government rezone sites within specified time periods. Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land, as defined, by a local agency. Current law requires land to be declared surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency takes any action to dispose of it consistent with the agency’s policies or procedures. This bill would require each city and county to establish a local land trust, as defined, for the purposes of holding and developing real property within the jurisdiction. The bill would require the local land trust to be governed by the city council or board of supervisors of the local government.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 516 (Ramos D) Mitigation Fee Act: fees for improvements: timeline for expenditure.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Summary:
The Mitigation Fee Act, requires a local agency that establishes, increases, or imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project to, among other things, determine a reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed.
The Mitigation Fee Act also imposes additional requirements for fees imposed to provide for an improvement to be constructed to serve a development project, or which is a fee for public improvements, as specified, including that the fees be deposited in a separate capital facilities account or fund. This bill would require a local agency that requires a qualified applicant, as described, to deposit fees for improvements, as described, into an escrow account as a condition for receiving a
conditional use permit or equivalent development permit to expend the fees within a reasonable time of the deposit. The bill would require any fees not expended within this period to be returned to the qualified applicant that originally deposited the fees.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance
AB 518 (Wicks D) Paid family leave.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on INS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. INS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes, within the above state disability insurance program, a family temporary disability insurance program, also known as the paid family leave program, for the provision of wage replacement benefits for up to 8 weeks to workers who take time off work for prescribed purposes, including to care for a seriously ill family member. Current law defines terms for its purposes, including “family care leave” and “family member.” This bill would expand eligibility for benefits under the paid family leave program to include individuals who take time off work to care for a seriously ill individual related by blood or whose association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship. The bill would make conforming changes to the definitions of the terms “family care leave” and “family member.”
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
AB 519 (Schiavo D) Affordable housing: consolidated funding application process.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, by July 1, 2024, to establish a workgroup to develop a consolidated application for the purposes of obtaining grants, loans, tax credits, credit enhancement, and other types of financing for building affordable housing, and developing a coordinated review process for the application. The bill would require the workgroup to include representatives of the department, the California Housing Finance Agency, the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, and the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee. The bill would require the workgroup to identify a lead agency by October 1, 2024 to receive the application and to work directly with applicants and specify the responsibilities of the lead agency. The bill would require the application to follow certain procedures.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing AB 521 (Bauer-Kahan D) Occupational safety and health standards: restrooms.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on L. & E.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. L. & E.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the Department of Industrial Relations, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. Current law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 (OSHA), requires employers to comply with certain safety and health standards, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Current law requires the division, before December 1, 2025, to submit to the standards board a rulemaking proposal to consider revising the heat illness standard and wildfire smoke standard. Current law also requires the standards board to review the proposed changes and consider adopting revised standards on or before December 31, 2025. This bill would also require the division, before December 1, 2025, to submit to the standards board a rulemaking proposal
to consider revising a regulation on jobsite restrooms to require at least one women’s designated restroom for jobsites with 2 or more required water closets.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 524 (Wicks D) Discrimination: family caregiver status.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. L. & E.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, among other things, to refuse to hire or employ a person because of various personal characteristics, conditions, or traits. This bill would prohibit employment discrimination on account of family caregiver status, as defined, and would recognize the opportunity to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination because of family caregiver status as a civil right, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
AB 529 (Gabriel D) Adaptive reuse projects.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. That law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. Existing law, for award cycles commenced after July 1, 2021, awards a city, county, or city and county, that has adopted a housing element determined by the department to be in substantial compliance with specified provisions of the Planning and Zoning Law and that has been designated by the department as prohousing based upon their adoption of prohousing local policies, as specified, additional points in the scoring of program applications for housing and infrastructure programs pursuant to guidelines adopted by the department, as provided. This bill would add the expansion of adaptive reuse projects to the list of specified prohousing local policies.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 534 (McCarty D) Local agencies: airports: customer facility charges.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. P. & C.P.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Existing law authorizes airports to require rental companies to collect a customer facility charge or an alternative customer facility charge under specified circumstances for purposes that include financing, designing, and constructing or operating airport vehicle rental facilities and common-use transportation systems. Current law, beginning January 1, 2024, provides that the authorization for an airport to impose a customer facility charge becomes inoperative when the bonds used for financing are paid, except as specified. This bill would delete the provision ending the authorization described above.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 538 (Holden D) Multistate regional transmission system organization: membership.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on U. & E.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. U. & E.
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Summary:
Would prohibit a California electrical transmission facility owner, a retail seller of electricity, or a local publicly owned electric utility from joining a multistate regional transmission system organization, as defined, unless the bylaws or other organizational documents that govern the organization, and the organization’s operations, meet Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements and other specified requirements. The bill would require a California transmission owner, retail seller, or local publicly owned electric utility, before joining a multistate regional transmission system organization, to submit the bylaws and other organizational documents that govern the multistate regional transmission system organization to the Energy Commission for review. The bill would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with the PUC and the state board, to review those materials for compliance with the bill’s requirements. The bill would prohibit a California transmission owner, retail seller, or local publicly owned electric utility from joining the multistate regional transmission system organization unless the Energy Commission has determined that the organization’s bylaws and organizational documents meet those requirements. If a California transmission owner, retail seller, or local publicly owned electric utility has joined an independent system operator that becomes a multistate regional transmission system organization and the Energy Commission determines that the organization’s bylaws and organizational documents do not meet those requirements, the bill would require that the California transmission owner, retail seller, or local publicly owned electric utility not remain in the organization. The bill would authorize the ISO to develop and submit to the Energy Commission a governance proposal that complies with those requirements and to provide notice and a copy of this submission to the Legislature and the Governor at the same time as it is submitted to the Energy Commission.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
AB 541 (Wood D) California Safe Drinking Water Act: wildfire aftermath: benzene testing.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. E.S. & T.M.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would direct the State Water Resources Control Board, on or after January 1, 2024, to require a public water system, water corporation, or water district that has experienced a major wildfire event within their service territory to test their water source for the presence of benzene immediately following that major wildfire event.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Public Works, Wildfires AB 544 (Bryan D) Elections: Secretary of State.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Secretary of State to make reasonable efforts to promote voter registration, as further specified, and specifically requires the Secretary of State to promote civic learning and engagement to prepare students and new citizens to register to vote and to vote. This bill would refine that specific provision, instead requiring the Secretary of State to make reasonable efforts to promote civic learning and engagement to prepare newly eligible voters, including students and new citizens, to register to vote and to vote.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 545 (Pellerin D) Elections: access for voters with disabilities.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires elections officials to furnish each polling place with specified supplies for an election. This bill would expand the list of required supplies to include specified items to assist voters with disabilities.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 548 (Boerner Horvath D) State Housing Law: inspection.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The State Housing Law, a violation of which is a crime, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. This bill would require local enforcement agencies to develop policies and procedures for inspecting a building with multiple units if an inspector or code enforcement officer has determined that a unit is substandard or is in violation of the State Housing Law, and the inspector or code enforcement officer determines that the defects or violations have the potential to affect other units of the building, as specified. By imposing new duties on local government officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 550 (Schiavo D) Homelessness: public hearings.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
Location: 2/8/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Under current law, various agencies administer programs for the support of homeless persons.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that requires all cities and counties in the State of California to hold public hearings to develop plans to reduce homelessness.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Homelessness
AB 557 (Hart D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with specified teleconferencing requirements in specified circumstances when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health, as specified. If there is a continuing state of emergency, or if state or local officials have imposed or recommended measures to promote social distancing, existing law requires a legislative body to make specified findings not later than 30 days after the first teleconferenced meeting, and to make those findings every 30 days thereafter, in order to continue to meet under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures. Current law requires a legislative body that holds a teleconferenced meeting under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures to give notice of the meeting and post agendas, as described, to allow members of the public to access the meeting and address the legislative body, to give notice of the means by which members of the public may access the meeting and offer public comment, including an
opportunity for all persons to attend via a call-in option or an internet-based service option. Current law prohibits a legislative body that holds a teleconferenced meeting under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures from requiring public comments to be submitted in advance of the meeting and would specify that the legislative body must provide an opportunity for the public to address the legislative body and offer comment in real time. This bill would extend the above-described abbreviated teleconferencing provisions when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health, as specified, indefinitely.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 567 (Ting D) Criminal records: relief.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law, subject to an appropriation, requires the Department of Justice, on a monthly basis, to review the records in the statewide criminal justice databases and identify persons who are eligible for automatic conviction record relief. Under current law, a person is eligible for automatic conviction record relief if, on or after January 1, 1973, they were sentenced to probation, and completed it without revocation, or if they were convicted of an infraction or a misdemeanor, and other criteria are met, as specified. Current law, commencing July 1, 2023, and subject to an appropriation, generally makes this arrest record relief available to a person who has been arrested for a felony, including a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, as specified. This bill would remove the limitation that these provisions be effective upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 570 (Gallagher R) Fire protection: Special District Fire Response Fund: county service areas.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on E.M.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law creates within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services. Existing law also tasks the Office of Emergency Services with establishing and administering the FIRESCOPE Program (FIrefighting RESources of California Organized for Potential Emergencies), to maintain and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of managing multiagency firefighting resources in responding to an incident. Current law requires the Office of Emergency Services to administer the Special District Fire Response Fund and, in cooperation with the board of directors of the FIRESCOPE Program, to develop a standard grant application form, establish an annual timeline to apply for grants, employ strategies to ensure that underfunded special districts that provide fire protection services are aware of the availability of the Special District Fire Response Fund, establish reporting requirements for grant recipients, and develop metrics for consideration of grant applications, as specified. This bill would define, for purposes of receiving grants under the FIRESCOPE Program that are funded by the Special District Fire Response Fund, a “special district that provides fire protection services” to include a county service area, as described, formed exclusively for fire protection services.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Public Safety, Wildfires
AB 572 (Haney D) Common interest developments: imposition of assessments.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act defines and regulates common interest developments, including the establishment and imposition of assessments. Current law limits increases
in regular assessments and the aggregate of special assessments that the board may impose in any fiscal year without the approval of a majority of a quorum of members, as specified. This bill would prohibit the increase of a regular assessment on the owner of a deed-restricted affordable housing unit that is more than 5% greater than the preceding regular assessment for the association’s preceding fiscal year.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
AB 573 (Garcia D) Solid waste: organic waste disposal reduction targets.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
Location: 2/8/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the State Air Resources Board, no later than January 1, 2018, to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to reduce statewide emissions of, among other pollutants, methane by 40% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law makes legislative findings and declarations relating to those organic waste disposal reduction targets, including, among others, that achieving organic waste disposal reduction targets requires significant investment to develop organics recycling capacity. This bill would amend that legislative finding to instead state that achieving organic waste disposal reduction targets requires significant investment to develop the necessary organics recycling capacity.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Public Works AB 574 (Jones-Sawyer D) Firearms: concealed carry licenses.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
Location: 2/8/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes the sheriff of a county or the chief or other head of a municipal police department of any city or city and county to issue a license to carry a concealed firearm to an applicant for that license if the applicant is of good moral character, good cause exists for issuance of the license, the applicant meets specified residency requirements, and the applicant has completed a specified course of training, acceptable to the licensing authority. Current law requires the course of training to include instruction on firearm handling and shooting technique and to also include a demonstration by the applicant of shooting proficiency and safe handling of each firearm the applicant will be licensed to carry and to include live-fire exercises conducted on a firing range. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 575 (Papan D) Paid family leave.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
Location: 2/8/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The family temporary disability insurance program provides up to 8 weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, domestic partner, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or parent-in-law, or to bond with a minor child within one year of the birth or placement of the child in connection with foster care or adoption. Current law defines certain terms for these purposes. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those definition provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
AB 578 (Berman D) Multifamily Housing Program: No Place Like Home Program.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing, including the Multifamily Housing Program, pursuant to which the department provides financial assistance in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of development for specified activities. Current law requires the principal and accumulated interest of a loan issued under the Multifamily Housing Program is due and payable upon the term of the loan. In this regard, current law prohibits the amount of the required loan payments from exceeding 0.42% per annum for the first 30 years of the loan term.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing AB 587 (Rivas, Robert D) Public works: payroll records.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on L. & E.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. L. & E.
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Summary:
Current law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages. Current law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work. Current law requires any copy of records made available for inspection as copies and furnished upon request to the public or any public agency to be marked or obliterated to prevent disclosure of an individual’s name, address, and social security number but specifies that any copy of records made available to a Taft-Hartley trust fund for the purposes of allocating contributions to participants be marked or obliterated only to prevent disclosure of an individual’s full social security number, as specified. Current law makes any contractor, subcontractor, agent, or representative who neglects to comply with the requirements to keep accurate payroll records guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would require any copy of records made available for inspection by, or furnished to, a multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust fund or joint labor-management committee be provided on forms provided by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement or contain the same information as those forms.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources, Public Works
AB 589 (Boerner Horvath D) Homeless youth: transitional housing.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Under current law, the State Department of Social Services licenses and regulates youth homelessness prevention centers as group homes, and transitional housing placement providers for purposes of operating transitional housing placement programs for minor foster children or nonminor dependents, as defined. Under current law, transitional housing units include a host family, a staffed site, or a remote site for independent living, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a transitional housing program for homeless youth.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Homelessness
AB 591 (Gabriel D) Electric vehicle service equipment: universal connectors and public accessibility.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require an electric vehicle charging station that requires payment of a fee to allow a person desiring to use the station to pay via credit card. The bill would require that any electric vehicle service equipment installed or substantially retrofitted, as defined, except for private use at a single-family residence, include universal connectors that enable any electric vehicle to charge using the electric vehicle service equipment and be publicly accessible, including by enabling a person desiring to use the electric vehicle charging station to pay via credit card.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 593 (Haney D) Zero-emission buildings.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, by January 1, 2021, to assess the potential for the state to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the state’s residential and commercial building stock by at least 40% below 1990 levels by January 1, 2030. Current law requires the commission to include in the 2021 edition of the integrated energy policy report and all subsequent integrated energy policy reports a report on the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with the supply of energy to residential and commercial buildings. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the latter provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Housing AB 595 (Essayli R) Animal shelters: 72-hour public notice: euthanasia: study.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. B.&P.
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Summary:
Would require all animal shelters, as defined, to provide public notice on their internet website at least 72 hours before euthanizing an adoptable dog or cat, as defined, and include the date that an adoptable dog or cat is scheduled to be euthanized, as provided. By creating new requirements regarding this public notice, the violation of which would be a crime, the bill would constitute a state- mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 597 (Rodriguez D) Workers’ compensation: first responders: post-traumatic stress.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on INS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. INS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. 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, for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2024, make that provision applicable to firefighting members of the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Department of Developmental Services, the Military Department, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and to additional peace officers, including security officers of the Department of Justice when performing assigned duties as security officers, and the officers of a state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Developmental Services, among other officers.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources, Public Safety AB 604 (Lee D) Mobilehome parks: water utility charges.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
Under current law, a person or corporation that maintains a mobilehome park and provides water service to users through a submeter service system is not a public utility and is not subject to the jurisdiction, control, or regulation of the commission if each user of the submeter service system is charged at the rate which would be applicable if the user were receiving the water directly from the water corporation. Under current law, a mobilehome park that provides water service only to its tenants from water supplies and facilities that it owns, not otherwise dedicated to public service, is not a water corporation, but that mobilehome park is subject to the jurisdiction of the commission to the extent that, if a complaint is filed with the commission by tenants of the mobilehome park that represent 10% or more of the park’s water service connections during any 12-month period, claiming that the water rates charged by the park are not just and reasonable or that the service is inadequate, the commission has jurisdiction to determine the merits of the complaint and determine whether the rates charged are just and reasonable and whether the water service provided is adequate. Current law prohibits the commission from making an order for the payment of reimbursement upon the ground of unjustness or unreasonableness if the rate in question has been previously declared by formal finding of the commission to be reasonable. This bill would prohibit the commission from making an order for the payment of reimbursement upon the ground of unjustness or unreasonableness if the rate in question complies with limitations on charges and fees in connection with water utility service under the Mobilehome Residency Law. The bill would provide that a person or other entity that maintains a mobilehome park or a multiple unit residential complex, and provides water service through a submeter service system, is exempt from regulation as a public utility if management of the mobilehome park complies with those limitations on charges and fees.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing, Public Works AB 622 (Lackey R) Residency: displacement by natural disaster.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Summary:
Current law describes the domicile of a person for voting purposes as that place in which their habitation is fixed, wherein the person has the intention of remaining, and to which, whenever they are absent, the person has the intention of returning. Current law provides that a person who leaves their home to go into another state or precinct in this state for temporary purposes, with the intention of returning, does not lose their domicile. Current law also provides that a person does not gain a domicile in any precinct they go into for temporary purposes if the person does not intend to make that precinct their home. This bill would additionally provide that a person who leaves their home for temporary purposes because of a natural disaster, and who intends to return to the home or to another address within the same jurisdiction, does not lose the person’s domicile at that home.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Housing
AB 623 (Chen R) Cannabis: lawful acts.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) provides that the actions of a licensee, its employees, and its agents are not unlawful under state law and shall not be an offense subject to arrest, prosecution, or other sanction under state law, or be subject to a civil fine or be a basis for seizure or forfeiture of assets when those actions are permitted pursuant to a state license, permitted pursuant to a local authorization, license, or permit issued by a local jurisdiction, if any, and conducted in accordance with the requirements of the MAUCRSA and regulations adopted pursuant to that act. Current law also provides that the actions of a person who allows their property to be used by a licensee, its employees, and its agents, as specified, are not unlawful under state law and shall not be an offense subject to arrest, prosecution, or other sanction under state law, or be subject to a civil fine or be a basis for seizure or forfeiture of assets. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 626 (Pellerin D) Voting: returning vote by mail ballots in person.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. ELECTIONS
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Summary:
Would authorize a voter to vote their vote by mail ballot without the identification envelope if the voter returns the ballot in person at a vote center and provides their name, address, and signature to the vote center election board, as specified. The bill would require a ballot cast in this manner to be processed and counted like a nonprovisional ballot cast in person at the vote center. By imposing additional duties on county elections officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 637 (Low D) Density Bonus Law.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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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 specified percentages of units for lower income, very low income, or senior citizen housing, among other things, and meets other requirements. Current law requires a city or county to grant a proposal for an incentive or concession requested by a developer unless it would not result in identifiable and actual cost reductions, as specified, would have a specific, adverse impact on public health or safety or on specified real property and for which there is no method to avoid or mitigate that impact, as specified, or would be contrary to state or federal law. This bill would additionally except from the requirement that a city or county to grant a proposal an incentive or concession would have an adverse impact on a policy that affirmatively furthers fair housing, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 641 (Fong, Vince R) Automobile dismantlers: catalytic converters.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. TRANS.
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Current law defines an “automobile dismantler” as a person who is engaged in the business of buying, selling, or dealing in vehicles that are required to be registered under the Vehicle Code, for the purpose of dismantling the vehicles, buys or sells the integral parts and component materials of those vehicles, or deals in used motor vehicle parts, as specified. The definition of “automobile dismantler” also includes a person who keeps or maintains on property owned by the person, or under their possession or control, 2 or more unregistered motor vehicles no longer intended for, or in condition for, legal use on the highways, as specified. Current law makes it a crime for a person to act as an automobile dismantler without having an established place of business, meeting specified requirements, and having a current, valid license or temporary permit issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles. This bill would revise the definition of an automobile dismantler to include a person who keeps or maintains on property owned by the person, or under their possession or control, for any of the above-described purposes 2 or more used catalytic converters that have been cut from a motor vehicle using a sharp implement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 642 (Ting D) Law enforcement agencies: facial recognition technology.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 645 (Friedman D) Vehicles: speed safety system pilot program.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law establishes a basic speed law that prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent given the weather, visibility, traffic, and highway conditions and in no event at a speed that endangers the safety of persons or property. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish a speed safety system pilot program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 654 (Cervantes D) Public libraries.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law declares that it is in the interest of the people and of the state that there be a general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence through the establishment and operation of public libraries. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 658 (Fong, Mike D) Public Employees’ Medical and Hospital Care Act.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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The Public Employees’ Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA), which is administered by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, authorizes the board to contract for health benefit plans for employees and annuitants, as defined, which may include employees and annuitants of contracting agencies. The act prescribes requirements for the contributions of contracting agencies and their employees and annuitants. Current law entitles a contracting agency annuitant to a single employer contribution. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the restrictions on the employer contribution for a contracting agency annuitant.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
AB 661 (Patterson, Joe R) Emergency information: automatic notification.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would authorize residents in a mobilehome parks to voluntarily agree to receive emails, text messages, or automated calls from park management or the owner or operator of the park with information regarding unforeseen events relevant to the park from local, state, or federal authorities.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 662 (Boerner Horvath D) Communications: broadband.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) program to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Current law requires the commission to establish specified accounts within the CASF, including, among other accounts, the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account and the Broadband Adoption Account. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation related to broadband communications.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
AB 663 (Haney D) Pharmacy: mobile units.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. B.&P.
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Current law authorizes a county, city and county, or special hospital authority, as defined, to operate a mobile unit as an extension of a pharmacy license held by the county, city and county, or special hospital authority to provide prescription medication within its jurisdiction to specified individuals, including those individuals without fixed addresses. Current law authorizes a mobile unit to dispense
prescription medication pursuant to a valid prescription if the county, city and county, or special hospital authority meets prescribed requirements for licensure, staffing, and operations, including a prohibition on carrying or dispensing controlled substances. This bill would exempt from that prohibition controlled substances approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of opioid use disorder. The bill would require any controlled substance for the treatment of opioid use disorder carried or dispensed in accordance with that exemption to be carried in reasonable quantities based on prescription volume and stored securely in the mobile pharmacy unit.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 667 (Maienschein D) Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes a court to issue a gun violence restraining order to prohibit a person from purchasing or possessing a firearm or ammunition for a period of one to 5 years, subject to renewal for additional one- to 5-year periods, if the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of self-harm or harm to another in the near future by having a firearm and the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to the subject of the petition or another. Current law makes it a crime to own or possess a firearm in violation of a gun violence restraining order. This bill would increase the renewal period to a maximum of 10 years, instead of 5, if the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of self-harm or harm to another in the near future by having a firearm and the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to the subject of the petition or another. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 668 (Quirk-Silva D) Political campaigns: signs.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law sets forth requirements regarding political signs and advertisements in support of, or against, candidates for public office or measures, such as the requirement that a landlord may not prohibit tenants from displaying political signs, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to the posting of political signs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 670 (Wilson D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to take specified actions related to housing that include, among other things, investigating housing and community development in the state, calling conferences to discuss housing and community development problems, studying the operation and enforcement of housing, building, zoning, and subdivision laws, as related to housing and community development, and promoting the formation of organizations intended to increase the supply of adequate housing and the proper living environment for people. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 671 (Ward D) CalHome Program: accessory dwelling units.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law establishes the CalHome Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to support existing homeownership programs aimed at lower and very low income households, among other purposes. Under the program, funds may 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 that area median income. This bill would require the department to allow a local agency or community land trust, as defined, that is a recipient of program funds to purchase residential real property in fee simple, construct accessory dwelling units or junior accessory dwelling units on the property, and separately lease or convey each dwelling unit on the property to separate households.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing AB 673 (Bennett D) Hydrogen-fueling stations: preference.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law specifies that the moneys in the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, are to be used by the State Energy Resources Conservation Development Commission to implement the program. Current law, until January 1, 2024, requires the commission to annually allocate $20,000,000, not to exceed 20% of the moneys appropriated by the Legislature from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, to fund the deployment of publicly available hydrogen-fueling stations, as provided. This bill would, except for the Clean Transportation Program and moneys allocated from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, require the commission to give a preference to projects for the construction and operation of publicly available hydrogen-fueling stations that provide fuel for all types of vehicles, including light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles, in programs it administers providing financial assistance to those projects.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 686 (Alanis R) Peace officer training: testing.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/13/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to adopt standards regarding the training of peace officers and to allow required training to be obtained at approved institutions. Current law requires the commission, for those instances where individuals have acquired prior comparable peace officer training, to adopt regulations providing for alternative means for satisfying the training required by a specified provision of law. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 687 (Hart D) Incorporated cities: business licenses.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law permits the legislative body of an incorporated city, in the exercise of its police power, to license any kind of business not prohibited by law that is transacted and carried on within its jurisdiction and to fix the rates of the license fee, as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 692 (Patterson, Jim R) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: egress route projects: fire safety.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would, until January 1, 2030, exempt from the the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) egress route projects undertaken by a public agency to improve emergency access to and evacuation from a subdivision without a secondary egress route if the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has recommended the creation of a secondary access to the subdivision and certain conditions are met.
The bill would require the lead agency to hold a noticed public meeting to hear and respond to public comments before determining that a project is exempt. The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA and approves or carries out that project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and with the clerk of the county in which the project will be located.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Safety
AB 693 (Waldron R) California Emergency Services Act: State Emergency Plan: frequency of update.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law establishes the Office of Emergency Services, which is responsible for the state’s emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or human-induced disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters on people and property. Current law requires the Office of Emergency Services to update the State Emergency Plan on or before January 1, 2019, and every 5 years thereafter. This bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to update the State Emergency Plan on or before January 1, 2024, and every 3 years thereafter.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 701 (Villapudua D) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Current law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Existing law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and provides for imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years for a violation of this provision. Current law also imposes an additional term, and
authorizes a trial court to impose a specified fine, upon a person who is convicted of a violation of, or of a conspiracy to violate, specified provisions of law with respect to a substance containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. This bill would impose that additional term upon, and authorize a fine against, a defendant who violates those laws with respect to a substance containing fentanyl.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 702 (Jackson D) Local government financing: juvenile justice.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
In each county treasury there is established a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA) to receive all amounts allocated to a county for specified purposes. In any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for implementation, current law requires the county auditor to allocate the moneys in the county’s SLESA within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund. Current law requires the moneys to be allocated in specified amounts, including, but not limited to, 50% to a county or city and county to implement a comprehensive multiagency juvenile justice plan, as specified. Current law requires the juvenile justice plan to be developed by the local juvenile justice coordinating council in each county and city and county. Current law requires the plan to be annually reviewed and updated by the council and submitted to the Board of State and Community Corrections.
Current law requires the multiagency juvenile justice plan to include certain components, including, but not limited to, a local juvenile justice action strategy that provides for a continuum of responses to juvenile crime and delinquency. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Public Safety
AB 704 (Patterson, Jim R) Energy: building standards: photovoltaic requirements.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, lighting, insulation, climate control system, and other building design and construction standards that increase efficiency in the use of energy and water for new residential and new nonresidential buildings, and energy and water conservation design standards for new residential and new nonresidential buildings. Pursuant to this authority, the commission has established regulations requiring solar-ready buildings and for the installation of photovoltaic systems meeting certain requirements for low-rise residential buildings built on or after January 1, 2020. This bill, until January 1, 2027, would require residential construction intended to repair, restore, or replace a residential building damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster in an area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor to comply only with requirements regarding photovoltaic systems pursuant to the regulations, if any, that were in effect at the time the damaged or destroyed residential building was originally constructed and would not require that construction to comply with any additional or conflicting photovoltaic system requirements in effect at the time of repair, restoration, or replacement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 706 (Rivas, Luz D) Leasing of public lands: minerals other than oil and gas.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law authorizes the State Lands Commission to issue prospecting permits and leases for the extraction and removal of minerals, other than oil and gas or other hydrocarbon substances, from specified lands. Current law prohibits the commission from issuing a permit or lease until it has been submitted to, and approved by, the Attorney General, as specified. This bill would delete the provision relating to Attorney General approval and would authorize the commission to grant nonexclusive geological or geophysical exploration permits for minerals upon those terms and conditions as the commission may prescribe, without giving the permittee any preferential treatment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources AB 713 (Alanis R) General plan: housing elements.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
For a housing element or amendment adopted on or after January 1, 2021, current law requires the planning agency to submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development an electronic copy of its inventory of land suitable for residential development, as developed pursuant to specified law. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in the above-described provisions relating to the submission of electronic copies of an inventory of land suitable for residential development.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing
AB 725 (Lowenthal D) Firearms: reporting of lost and stolen firearms.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law requires a person to report any lost or stolen firearm to a law enforcement agency, as specified. A violation of this provision is punishable as an infraction or misdemeanor. Current law also requires the sheriff or chief of the law enforcement agency receiving such a report to enter a description of the lost or stolen firearm into the Department of Justice Automated Firearms System.
Current law defines a firearm for purposes of these provisions. This bill would amend how a firearm is defined for purposes of these provisions to include the frame or receiver of the weapon, including both a completed frame or receiver, or a firearm precursor part.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 730 (Lowenthal D) Government of cities.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes a legislative body of a city to purchase, lease, exchange, or receive personal property and real estate situated inside or outside the city limits as is necessary or proper for municipal purposes and authorizes the legislative body to control, dispose of, and convey that property for the benefit of the city. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Community Development, Housing AB 735 (Berman D) Workforce development: utility careers.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would establish the High Road Utility Careers (HRUC) program, to be administered by the California Workforce Development Board, to connect existing resources with individuals interested in careers in the utility sector and ensure a continued reliable workforce for California utilities. The bill would require the board to administer the HRUC program through partnerships with statewide water, wastewater, and energy utility associations and to coordinate the program with existing and future programs and initiatives administered by the board, including high road training partnerships, in order to align interested individuals with available resources. The bill would require the HRUC program, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to dedicate funding and resources toward accomplishing specified goals, including connecting workers to high-quality jobs or entry-level work with defined routes to advancement and increasing skills and opportunities while expanding pipelines for low-income populations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources, Public Works
AB 737 (Lackey R) Remote accessible vote by mail systems: testing and examination: report.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Secretary of State to test and examine remote accessible vote by mail systems that are proposed for use or sale in the state in order to determine their accuracy and efficiency and grant them certification or conditional approval. Current law requires the Secretary of State to make a report stating whether a system has been certified, conditionally approved, or denied certification publicly available within 60 days after the completion of an examination. This bill would additionally require the Secretary of State to publish that report on the Secretary of State’s internet website.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 738 (Lackey R) California Actuarial Advisory Panel: reports.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the California Actuarial Advisory Panel to provide impartial and independent information on pensions, other postemployment benefits, and best practices to public agencies, among other things. Under current law, the panel is required to report to the Legislature on or before February 1 of each year. This bill would change the deadline for that report to January 31 of each year.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 739 (Lackey R) Public retirement systems: defined benefit plans: funding.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act. PEPRA prohibits a public employer’s contribution to a defined benefit plan, in combination with employee contributions to the plan, from being less than the normal cost rate, as defined, for the plan in a fiscal year. Current law
authorizes a public retirement system to suspend contributions if certain conditions are satisfied, one of which is that the plan be funded by more than 120%, based on a computation by the retirement system actuary in accordance with specified standards, that is included in the annual valuation. This bill would revise the conditions for suspending contributions to a public retirement system defined benefit plan to increase the threshold percentage amount of plan funding to more than 130%.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Human Resources
AB 741 (Jones-Sawyer D) The California FAIR Plan Association: cannabis.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would prohibit the California FAIR Plan Association from refusing to issue, canceling, or refusing to renew coverage because the applicant or policyholder possesses or has previously possessed a legal amount of cannabis, concentrated cannabis, or living cannabis plants, or the applicant or policyholder is or has been a commercial cannabis licensee.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Safety
AB 742 (Jackson D) Law enforcement: police canines.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person, and any use of a police canine for crowd control. The bill would prohibit law enforcement agencies from authorizing any use or training of a police canine that is inconsistent with this bill.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 745 (Bryan D) Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Upon appropriation by the Legislature for this express purpose, this bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to create the Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program, and would require the department to take specified actions to provide grants to applicants, as defined, for innovative or evidence-based housing, housing-based services, and employment interventions to allow people with recent histories of incarceration to exit homelessness and remain stably housed. The bill would require the department to establish a process, in collaboration with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and with counties in which recipients are operating, for referral of participants, in accordance with certain guidelines and procedures.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing, Public Safety AB 750 (Rodriguez D) Menace to public health: closure by law enforcement.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes specified law enforcement and public safety officers and professionals to close an area where a menace to the public health or safety is created by a calamity, including flood, storm, fire, earthquake, explosion, accident, or other disaster, and makes it a misdemeanor for a person to enter an area closed by law enforcement for this purpose. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 756 (Papan D) Grade separation projects.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law provides for the Department of Transportation to include $15,000,000 in its annual proposed budget for highway-railroad grade separation projects. Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish an annual priority list for expenditure of these funds, which may be allocated by the California Transportation Commission for various kinds of projects, including alteration of existing grade separations, construction of new grade separations for existing or proposed grade crossings, and removal or relocation of highways or railroad tracks to eliminate existing grade crossings. Current law defines “highway” for these purposes. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that definition.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works, Transportation AB 761 (Friedman D) Transit Transformation Task Force.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Under current law, the Transportation Agency is under the supervision of an executive officer known as the Secretary of Transportation, who is required to develop and report to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, and coordinated planning and policy formulation in the matters of public interest related to the agency. Current law provides for the funding of public transit, including under the Transportation Development Act. This bill would require the secretary, on or before July 1, 2024, to establish and convene the Transit Transformation Task Force to include representatives from the department, the Controller’s office, various local agencies, academic institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders.
The bill would require the task force to develop a structured, coordinated process for early engagement of all parties to develop policies to grow transit ridership and improve the transit experience for all users of those services. The bill would require the secretary, in consultation with the task force, to prepare and submit a report of findings based on the task force’s efforts to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before January 1, 2025. The bill would require the report to include a detailed analysis of specified issues and recommendations on specified topics.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 764 (Bryan D) Elections: city and county redistricting.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, the Fair And Inclusive Redistricting for Municipalities And Political Subdivisions (FAIR MAPS) Act, establishes criteria and procedures by which cities and counties adjust or adopt council and supervisorial district area boundaries, as applicable, for the purpose of electing members of the
governing body of each of those local jurisdictions.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to amend the FAIR MAPS Act to ensure the integrity, fairness, transparency, and accessibility of the local redistricting process, and to promote fair and effective representation for all people, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 766 (Ting D) Cannabis.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of cannabis for nonmedical purposes by people 21 years of age and older. The existing Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the sale of cannabis, including establishing maximum terms by which cannabis licensees may sell goods on credit.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 770 (Kalra D) Employee Housing Act.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Employee Housing Act requires a person operating employee housing to obtain a permit to operate that housing. The act requires that buildings used for human habitation within employee housing comply with the building standards of the State Building Standards Code relating to employee housing and with other regulations adopted in accordance with the act, except as specified.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the building standards compliance requirement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 772 (Jackson D) Electric vehicle chargers.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the Energy Commission to require, by regulation, that each single-family residence constructed on and after January 1, 2025, include a rapid compact electric vehicle charger and that each multifamily residence constructed on and after January 1, 2025, include sufficient rapid compact electric vehicle chargers to serve at least 10% of its residential capacity at any given time. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 773 (Pellerin D) Elections: filings.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires elections officials to select arguments from those submitted for publication in the voter information guide. This bill would establish a lead county, as defined, for the purposes of district or school district elections when the boundaries of the district or school district encompass more than one county. The bill would require authors of arguments for or against district or school district measures, and related rebuttal arguments, to submit the arguments to the elections official of the lead county. The bill would require the elections official of the lead county to set deadlines for receipt of the arguments, no later than 81 days before election day for arguments for or against and no later than 74 days before election day for rebuttal arguments. The bill would require the elections official of the lead county to select the arguments for publication in the county voter information guide, and to transmit copies of the selected arguments to elections officials in the other counties within the district or school district, as specified. The bill would require an elections official who receives arguments selected by the lead county to include the arguments in their county voter information guide. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 777 (Cervantes D) Hazardous waste: discarded appliances.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law, as part of the hazardous waste control laws, requires a person wishing to operate as a certified appliance recycler to apply to obtain or renew certification from the Department of Toxic Substances Control. Existing law requires the department to review the application and, if the application is complete and meets specified requirements, to issue a numbered certificate to the applicant. Existing law requires the department, upon issuance of a certificate, to transmit the application and certification to the certified unified program agency in whose jurisdiction the person is located. Existing law requires the certified unified program agency to inspect, as soon as is practicable, the certified appliance recycling facility, as specified.This bill would delete the requirement that the inspection be conducted as soon as is practicable and would require a certified unified program agency, following an inspection of a certified appliance recycling facility, to transmit the results of the inspection to the department. By imposing a new duty on certified unified program agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the department to take any authorized enforcement action based on the results of the inspection and any other pertinent information.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 781 (Maienschein D) Accessibility to emergency information and services: emergency shelters: persons with pets.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, the California Emergency Services Act, provides that political subdivisions, as defined, have full power during a local emergency to provide mutual aid to any affected area in accordance with local ordinances, resolutions, emergency plans, or agreements. Existing law defines “emergency plan” for these purposes to mean official and approved documents that describe the principles and methods to be applied in carrying out emergency operations or rendering mutual aid during emergencies.
Current law requires that a county send a copy of its emergency plan to the Office of Emergency Services upon an update to the plan.This bill would require a county, on or before July 1, 2024, to update its emergency plan to designate emergency shelters able to accommodate persons with pets.
The bill would require a city that has previously adopted an emergency plan designating emergency shelters to update its emergency plan to designate emergency shelters able to accommodate persons with pets on or before July 1, 2024. The bill would require an emergency shelter designated as able to accommodate persons with pets to be in compliance with safety procedures regarding the sheltering of
pets established in the component of the state and local emergency plan and applicable disaster assistance policies and procedures of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This bill would require that whenever a city or county designates an emergency shelter, cooling center, or warming center that it also designate an emergency shelter, cooling center, or warming center, as applicable, that can accommodate persons with pets.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 783 (Ting D) Business licenses: single-user restrooms.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would require a city that licenses businesses within its jurisdiction to provide written notice to each applicant for a new or renewed business license of the requirement that all single-user toilet facilities in any business establishment, place of public accommodation, or government agency be identified as all- gender toilet facilities. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 794 (Flora R) Cannabis: advertising and marketing restrictions.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.
MAUCRSA requires all cannabis advertisements and marketing to accurately and legibly identify the licensee responsible for that content by adding the licensee’s license number, and prohibits a technology platform or an outdoor advertising company from displaying an advertisement unless the advertisement displays that licensee’s license number. This bill would require all cannabis advertisements and marketing include the licensee’s name in addition to the licensee number, and would prohibit a technology platform or an outdoor advertising company from displaying an advertisement unless the advertisement displays that licensee’s name and license number.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Safety
AB 797 (Weber D) Local government: police review boards.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation requiring the governing body of each city and county to create and maintain independent, community-based boards to conduct independent investigations of citizen complaints against peace officers.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 799 (Rivas, Luz D) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: Homelessness Accountability Act.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by a best- practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing. Current law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, and counties in 4 rounds, the first of which is administered by the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and the others are administered by the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council.
This bill, the Homelessness Accountability Act, would instead specify that the purpose of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is to provide ongoing grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by best-practices and to solve homelessness using evidence-based or, where no evidence exists, a data-informed and promising framework, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing, Homelessness AB 805 (Arambula D) Drinking water: consolidation.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The California Safe Drinking Water Act authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to order consolidation with, or extension of service from, a receiving water system in either of the following circumstances: (1) a public water system or state small water system, serving a disadvantaged community, consistently fails to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water, or is an at-risk water system, or 2) a disadvantaged community, in whole or in part, is substantially reliant on domestic wells that consistently fail to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water, or are at-risk domestic wells. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to authorize the board to order consolidation of wastewater.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 807 (McCarty D) Police use of force.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law requires the state prosecutor to investigate incidents involving a shooting by a peace officer resulting in the death of an unarmed civilian. Current law authorizes the state prosecutor to criminally prosecute any officer that, pursuant to such an investigation, is found to have violated state law. Current law provides that the Attorney General is the state prosecutor unless otherwise specified or named. This bill would require the state prosecutor to investigate incidents in which the use of force by a peace officer results in the death of a civilian without regard to whether the civilian was unarmed.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 817 (Pacheco D) Local government: open meetings.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide notice of the time and place for its regular meetings and an agenda containing a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted. The act also requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public, and that all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to a provision of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 819 (Bryan D) Crimes: public transportation: fare evasion.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law makes it a crime, punishable as an infraction and subsequently as a misdemeanor, for an adult to evade payment of a fare of a public transportation system, the misuse of a transfer, pass, ticket, or token with the intent to evade the payment of a fare, or the unauthorized use of a discount ticket, as specified. Under existing law, a 3rd or subsequent violation of fare evasion or other listed associated violations is a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of up to $400 or by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than 90 days, or both. This bill would no longer categorize as a misdemeanor a 3rd or subsequent violation, by an adult, of evading the payment of a fare of a public transportation system, the misuse of a transfer, pass, ticket, or token with the intent to evade the payment of a fare, or the unauthorized use of a discount ticket, and would make a 3rd or subsequent violation punishable only by a fine of up to $400.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety, Transportation
AB 821 (Grayson D) Planning and zoning: development project application.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries. Current law requires that county or city zoning ordinances be consistent with the general plan of the county or city by January 1, 1974. Current law requires a zoning ordinance to be amended within a reasonable time so that it is consistent with the general plan in the event that the ordinance becomes inconsistent with the plan by reason of amendment to the plan. This bill, among other things, would provide that, in the event that a city or county fails to amend an inconsistent zoning ordinance within 90 days after receiving written notice of the inconsistency, a proposed development project shall not be deemed inconsistent with that zoning ordinance and related zoning standard or criteria and shall not be required to be rezoned, if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the proposed development project is consistent with objective general plan standards and criteria but the zoning for the project site is inconsistent with the general plan.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 822 (Alanis R) Vehicles: removal and impoundment.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law authorizes a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if presented with a peace officer’s affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace
officer’s presence in violation of an offense for evading a pursuing police officer's motor vehicle or bicycle. Current law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or a motor vehicle exhibition of speed, as specified. This bill would include this crime in the list of offenses for which a peace officer may impound a vehicle pursuant to a warrant or order issued by a magistrate.
The bill would additionally allow a peace officer to submit an affidavit establishing reasonable cause that the violation occurred if they viewed or captured the violation using video surveillance that is under the sole control of a law enforcement agency.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 825 (Bryan D) Vehicles: bicycles on sidewalks.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Would prohibit a local authority from prohibiting the operation of a bicycle on a sidewalk adjacent to a highway or corridor that does not include a Class I, Class II, or Class IV bikeway, as defined. The bill would require a person riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and to adhere to a 10-miles-per-hour speed limit. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety, Transportation
AB 831 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Housing discrimination.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding housing discrimination, including increasing enforcement pathways to address source of income discrimination against recipients of federal housing assistance vouchers.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 837 (Alvarez D) Surplus land: exempt surplus land: SPA plans.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Current law defines terms for these purposes, including, among others, “surplus land”. Current law defines “exempt surplus land” to mean, among other things, surplus land that a local agency is exchanging for another property necessary for the agency’s use and surplus land that a local agency is transferring to another local, state, or federal agency for the agency’s use. Current law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land,” except as provided.
This bill would add to the definition of “exempt surplus land” land acquired by a local agency for the development of a university and innovation district in accordance with a sectional plan area (SPA) plan adopted by the local agency prior to January 1, 2019, provided that the land is developed in a manner substantially consistent with the SPA plan.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
AB 846 (Bonta D) Low-income housing credit.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law establishes a low-income housing tax credit program, through which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, chaired by the Treasurer, allocates low-income housing tax credits aimed at providing affordable low-income housing within and throughout the state. Current law sets forth procedures and criteria under the program for housing credit applicants, who are owners, sponsors, or developers of qualifying low-income buildings or projects, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to a provision that lists definitions of terms relating to the program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing AB 850 (Ting D) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: round 4 funds.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law provides for the allocation of funding under the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 4 rounds, which are to be administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness. Current law requires $1,000,000,000 be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in the 2022–23 fiscal year for implementing round 4 of the program, and requires all round 4 program funds be expended by June 30, 2027, or revert to, and be paid and deposited in, the General Fund. This bill would instead require all round 4 program funds be expended by July 1, 2027, and would make conforming changes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing, Homelessness AB 856 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Peace officers.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires a peace officer, as defined, to complete an introductory training course prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and to pass an examination developed and approved by the commission. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 884 (Low D) Elections: language accessibility.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would, by January 1, 2025, and by January 1 of every subsequent year following a presidential election, require the Secretary of State to create and make publically available on the Secretary of State’s internet website a list of all languages, other than English, spoken or used by at least 5,000 voting-age individuals in the state and all languages, other than English, spoken by or used by at least 100 voting-age individuals in each county, as specified. The bill would require, for each statewide election, the Secretary of State to provide, in identified languages, registration forms, voting notices, instructions, assistance, other materials, and information relating to the electoral process that the
Secretary of State prepares in English, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of State to provide a toll-free voter assistance hotline from 29 days before the day of the election until 5 p.m. on the day after the election that provides assistance in identified languages, as specified. The bill would require a county elections official in a county where a language is identified by the Secretary of State to provide, in identified languages, ballots, registration forms, voting notices, instructions, assistance, and other materials and information relating to the electoral process that the county elections official prepares in English, as specified. The bill would require a county elections official to establish a language accessibility advisory committee that is comprised of representatives of language minority communities, as specified. The bill would require a county elections official to conduct outreach with community-based organizations to educate voters who have indicated a language preference and to make reasonable efforts to recruit elections officials who are fluent in an identified language. The bill would require the content of state and county elections internet websites to be translated into identified languages, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of State to ensure that a county complies with these provisions and to provide funding for a county language access coordinator if more than three languages are identified in a county.
Priority: HOT
Subjects: City Administration
AB 885 (Rivas, Luz D) Public contracts: nonprofit organizations.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would establish the California Nonprofit Fairness in Contracting Act and would define, among other terms, “covered contract” to mean a contract for goods or services by a state or local agency using state funds, including a grant made by a state or local agency using state funds. The bill would require a state or local agency to, among other things, establish a preference for covered contracts that last longer than one year when awarding a covered contract to a nonprofit, and would require those contracts to include a provision allowing for automatic cost of doing business increases. The bill would require a covered contract to provide the full cost of delivering services and projects, including paying at least state minimum wage and allowing for compensation and employee benefit packages that support competitive salaries and annual cost of living increases, as specified. By imposing new contracting requirements on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 888 (Cervantes D) Libraries: public libraries and museums.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes an unincorporated town or village to establish, equip, and maintain a public library for the dissemination of knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature, as well as a public museum, in accordance with specified laws. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 894 (Friedman D) Parking requirements: shared parking.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries,
that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law also authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking. This bill would require a public agency, as defined, to allow existing land uses with underutilized parking, as defined, to share the underutilized parking with the public, a private entity, a public agency, or other users. The bill would require a public agency to allow shared parking to be counted toward meeting automobile parking requirements for a new or existing development or use, including underutilized parking spaces, when the parking spaces meet specified conditions regarding the distance of the spaces from the applicable site. The bill would require a public agency to accept a parking analysis using peer-reviewed methodologies developed by a professional planning association, as specified, when determining the number of shared parking spaces that can be reasonably shared between different uses.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 911 (Schiavo D) Unlawfully restrictive covenants: affordable housing.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law permits a person who holds an ownership interest of record in property that the person believes is the subject of an unlawfully restrictive covenant based on, among other things, the number of persons or families who may reside on the property, to record a restrictive covenant modification.
Current law entitles the owner of an affordable housing development to establish that an existing restrictive covenant is unenforceable by submitting a restrictive covenant modification document that modifies or removes any existing restrictive covenant language. Before recording the modification document, current law requires the owner to submit to the county recorder a copy of the original restrictive covenant and any documents the owner believes necessary to establish that the property qualifies as an affordable housing development for purposes of these provisions. This bill would require an owner of an affordable housing development to mail copies of the restrictive covenant modification document and other materials described above by certified mail to anyone who the owner knows has an interest in the property. The bill would provide that failure to provide this notice does not invalidate a recorded restrictive covenant modification document, but the county recorder may require reasonable documentation to ensure compliance with this noticing requirement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 925 (Ta R) Vehicle removal: expired registration.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a peace officer or a regularly employed and salaried employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations to remove a vehicle that, among other things, is parked or left standing upon a highway for 72 or more consecutive hours in violation of a local ordinance authorizing removal or is found or operated upon a highway, public land, or an offstreet parking facility with a registration expiration date in excess of six months before the date it is found or operated. This bill would require a peace officer or a regularly employed and salaried employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations to verify, using available Department of Motor Vehicles records, that no current registration exists for a vehicle before removing the vehicle. The bill would prohibit a vehicle from being removed if it has a current registration on file with the department or if the officer or employee does not have immediate access to the department’s records. By requiring a higher level of service from law enforcement officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 930 (Friedman D) Local government: Reinvestment in Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Equitable
California (RISE) districts.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would authorize the legislative bodies of 2 or more local governments, defined to include a city, county, special district, or transit agency, to jointly form a Reinvestment in Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Equitable California district (RISE district) in accordance with specified procedures. The bill would require the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to develop standards for the formation of RISE districts no later than November 30, 2025. The bill would provide for the establishment of a governing board of a RISE district with representatives of each participating local government.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Transportation AB 932 (Ting D) Planning and zoning: junior accessory dwelling units: application approval time period.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires a permitting agency to either approve or deny an application for a permit pursuant to these provisions within 60 days from the date the local agency receives a completed application if there is an existing single-family dwelling on the lot. If the applicant requests a delay, existing law requires this time period to be tolled for the period of the delay. This bill would change that time period to 45 days.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 933 (Aguiar-Curry D) Privileged communications: complaint of sexual assault, harassment, or discrimination.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law provides that libel is a false and unprivileged written publication that injures the reputation and that slander is a false and unprivileged publication, orally uttered, that injures the reputation, as specified. Current law makes certain publications and communications privileged and therefore protected from civil action, including complaints of sexual harassment by an employee, without malice, to an employer based on credible evidence and communications between the employer and interested persons regarding a complaint of sexual harassment. This bill would include among those privileged communications a communication made by a complainant, without malice, regarding a complaint of sexual assault, harassment, or discrimination, as defined, and would specify the attorney’s fees and damages available to a prevailing defendant in any defamation action brought against that defendant for making that communication.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Human Resources
AB 944 (Irwin D) Fire stations: alternative power generation.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law designates areas over which the state has primary responsibility for preventing and suppressing fires. Current law also authorizes the formation of fire protection districts for the purpose of providing local fire protection and other services relating to the protection of lives and property.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would require fire stations to have an alternative method of power generation during power outages.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Safety, Wildfires AB 946 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Emergency services: endangered missing advisory.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would authorize a law enforcement agency to request the Department of the California Highway Patrol to activate an Endangered Missing Advisory, as defined, if the agency receives a report of a missing person and the agency determines that all of specified conditions are met regarding the investigation of the missing person, including, among others, that the person is developmentally disabled, cognitively impaired, has been abducted, or is unable to otherwise care for themselves, placing their physical safety at risk. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 971 (Lee D) Vehicles: local ordinances
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a local authority to permit a portion of any highway within its jurisdiction to be used exclusively for a public mass transit guideway.This bill would additionally authorize a local authority that has designated any such public mass transit guideway, to permit specified vehicles other than public mass transit vehicles, as authorized, to use the portion of the highway so designated.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 976 (Ting D) Accessory dwelling units: owner-occupancy requirements.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires a local ordinance to require an accessory dwelling unit to be either attached to, or located within, the proposed or existing primary dwelling, as specified, or detached from the proposed or existing primary dwelling and located on the same lot as the proposed or existing primary dwelling.This bill would instead prohibit a local agency from imposing an owner-occupancy requirement on any accessory dwelling unit.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing
AB 978 (Patterson, Joe R) California Environmental Quality Act: housing projects: judicial review: bonds.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would require a person seeking judicial review of the decision of a lead agency made pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to carry out or approve a housing project to post a bond of $500,000 to cover the costs and damages to the housing project incurred by the respondent or real party in interest. The bill would authorize the court to waive or adjust this bond requirement upon a finding of good cause to believe that the requirement does not further the interest of justice.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Housing
AB 986 (Berman D) General plans.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and of any land outside its boundaries that relates to its planning, and provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations by counties and cities. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
AB 989 (Flora R) Local government: ordinances.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes any local agency to enact any ordinance that adopts a code by reference if the referenced code is specified in the title of the ordinance. Current law requires that after the first reading of the title of the adopting ordinance, and of the title of the code to be adopted thereby, and of the title of the secondary codes therein adopted by reference, the legislative body shall make copies of the primary code and also copies of the secondary codes, if any, being considered for adoption, open to public inspection with the clerk of the legislative body. Current law prohibits, however, the adoption by reference of any penalty clauses that may appear in any code that is adopted by reference; a penalty clause may be enacted only if set forth in full, and published, in the adopting ordinance. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision prohibiting adoption by reference of any penalty clause.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 990 (Grayson D) Water quality: low impact development: infill housing projects.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act requires the State Water Resources Control Board and the regional boards to, among other things, coordinate their respective activities to achieve a unified and effective water quality control program in the state. Under current law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with federal law and the act. This bill would require local agencies to grant all applicable Low Impact Development Treatment Reduction Credits for qualifying infill housing projects in the San Francisco Bay area that have a density of over 40 homes per acre and meet other specified
criteria. Because it would require local agencies to provide a higher level of service, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing, Public Works AB 993 (Rubio, Blanca D) Cannabis Task Force.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes local jurisdictions to enforce the provisions of MAUCRSA and to regulate cannabis businesses, as specified. Current law, until January 1, 2025, establishes a task force on state and local regulation of commercial cannabis activity to promote communication between state and local entities engaged in the regulation of commercial cannabis activity and facilitate cooperation to enforce applicable state and local laws, consisting of specified members from state agencies and all local jurisdictions regulating commercial cannabis activity that opt to participate. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status. Current law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California and improve their working conditions, among other functions. This bill would expand the task force on regulation of commercial cannabis activity to include representatives from the Civil Rights Department and the Department of Industrial Relations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Human Resources
AB 994 (Jackson D) Law enforcement: social media.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would prohibit a police department or sheriff’s office from sharing, on social media, booking photos of an individual arrested on suspicion of committing any crime unless specified circumstances exist. This bill would also require a police department or sheriff’s office, upon posting a booking photo on social media, to use the name and pronouns given by the individual arrested.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1000 (Reyes D) Land use: housing.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law declares the importance of, and general responsibility for, making housing available and affordable for all Californians. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 1001 (Haney D) Health facilities: behavioral health emergency services.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would require a general acute care hospital to adopt policies to respond to a patient requiring behavioral health emergency services, as defined. The bill would require that these protocols meet standards established by the department and consist of various parameters such as minimum staffing requirements for behavioral health emergency services, procedures for response by behavioral health emergency services personnel in a timely manner, and annual training, as specified. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations on standards for general acute care hospitals related to behavioral health emergency services. The bill would require all hospitals to maintain records related to certain data on behavioral health emergency services provided for a period of 3 years and to report that data to the department on a quarterly basis. The bill would require the department to post quarterly reports on that data on its internet website.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 1004 (Ta R) Recall petitions: signatures: voter notification.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would establish a process for a voter whose signature on a recall petition is rejected by an elections official to submit a statement to verify the voter’s signature. If the elections official determines that the signature on the petition possesses multiple, significant, and obvious differing characteristics when compared to all signatures in the voter’s registration record, the bill would require the elections official to mail a notice to the voter, on or before the next business day or as soon as practicable, of the opportunity to verify the voter’s signature. The bill would require the notice and signature verification statement to contain specified text, and would require the voter to return the statement no later than 30 days from the date of the notice. The bill would require the elections official to include the recall petition signature verification statement, instructions, and additional specified information on the elections official’s internet website.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1011 (Weber D) Local public contracts: second lowest bidder.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Local Agency Public Construction Act sets forth the requirements for competitive bidding on various types of contracts awarded by local agencies. The act authorizes the 2nd lowest bidder to bring an action in superior court if the 2nd lowest bidder suffers damages as a result of the successful bidder’s violation of specified laws, but prohibits the action if the 2nd lowest bidder has been convicted of a violation of specified labor laws or unemployment insurance laws within one year prior to fulfilling the bid for public work and has failed to take affirmative steps to correct the violation. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
AB 1033 (Ting D) Density Bonus Law.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the jurisdictional boundaries of that city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or senior citizen housing, among other things, and meets other requirements. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the Density Bonus Law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1034 (Wilson D) Biometric information: law enforcement: surveillance.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation protecting the rights of Californians against the use of biometric surveillance by law enforcement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1035 (Muratsuchi D) Mobilehome parks: rent caps.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would prohibit the management of a mobilehome park from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy for a mobilehome space more than 3% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, as defined, over the course of any 12-month period, as specified. The bill would prohibit management from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy in more than 2 increments over a 12-month period, after the tenant maintains the tenancy over a 12-month period. The bill would prohibit management from imposing an increase in rent on a prospective purchaser or homeowner that purchases a mobilehome if the purchase qualifies as an in-place transfer, as specified. The bill would exempt specified mobilehome spaces from these provisions. The bill would specify that these provisions apply to rent increases for mobilehome spaces occurring on or after January 1, 2023. The bill would provide that in the event that management increased the rent by more than the amount specified above between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2024, then the applicable rent on January 1, 2024, is the rent as of January 1, 2023, plus the maximum permissible increase, and that management is not liable to the homeowner for any corresponding rent overpayment. The bill would void any waiver of the rights provided under these provisions. The bill would authorize a local government to adopt or maintain an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure that establishes a maximum amount that may be charged for rent, or other regulations for a tenancy. The bill would not apply to a mobilehome park when a local government has adopted an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure prior to the effective date of the bill that establishes a maximum amount that may be charged by management for rent or otherwise regulates the rental rate for a mobilehome tenancy.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 1037 (Berman D) Vote by mail ballots: signature verification.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law requires a county elections official, upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, to compare the signature on the identification envelope with the voter’s signature appearing on specified voter registration records. If the elections official determines that the signatures do not match, or if the identification envelope does not contain a signature, current law requires the elections official to permit
the voter to submit a signature verification statement or unsigned identification envelopment statement, respectively, that contains the voter’s signature. Current law requires instructions to be sent to the voter specifying that they may submit these statements by email, by facsimile transmission, or in person at a polling place within the county or a ballot dropoff box. This bill would additionally require the instructions sent to voters to state that they may submit a signature verification statement or unsigned identification envelope statement by other electronic means made available by the local elections official.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1053 (Gabriel D) Housing programs: multifamily housing programs: expenditure of loan proceeds.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing, including the Multifamily Housing Program, pursuant to which the department provides financial assistance in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of development of specified types of housing projects. Current law sets forth various general powers of the department in implementing these programs, including authorizing the department to enter into long-term contracts or agreements of up to 30 years for the purpose of servicing loans or grants or enforcing regulatory agreements or other security documents. This bill would authorize a borrower to use any funds approved, reserved, or allocated by the department for purposes of providing a loan under any multifamily housing program under these provisions for construction financing, permanent financing, or a combination of construction financing and permanent financing, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing AB 1058 (Patterson, Jim R) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Existing law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Current law makes possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of sale of the substance punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 2, 3, or 4 years. Current law makes transportation and sales of a controlled substances punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 4, or 5 years and transportation to a noncontiguous county within the state punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 6, or 9 years. This bill would increase the above-described penalties, as specified, if the controlled substance involved was more than more than
28.35 grams of fentanyl, more than 28.35 grams of an analog of fentanyl, a substance containing more than 28.35 grams of fentanyl, or a substance containing more than 28.35 grams of an analog of fentanyl.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 1080 (Ta R) Criminal justice realignment.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The 2011 Realignment Legislation addressing public safety and related statutes, requires that certain
specified felonies be punished by a term of imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, and provides for postrelease community supervision by county officials for persons convicted of certain specified felonies upon release from prison or county jail. As part of the realignment of public safety services to local agencies, current law establishes the Local Revenue Fund 2011 into which specified tax revenues are deposited and are continuously appropriated for the provision of public safety services, as defined. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to prepare a report, to be submitted to the Legislature on January 1, 2026, evaluating the results of Assembly Bill 109 of the 2011–12 Regular Session over the previous 10 years.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1082 (Kalra D) Authority to remove vehicles.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a peace officer and specified public employees, as an alternative to removal of a vehicle, to immobilize the vehicle with a device designed and manufactured for that purpose, if, among other circumstances, the vehicle is found upon a highway or public lands by the peace officer or employee and it is known to have been issued 5 or more notices of parking violations that are delinquent because the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded to the appropriate agency within a designated time period. This bill would delete the authority of a peace officer or public employee, as appropriate, to remove or immobilize a vehicle under those circumstances. The bill would modify the authority to remove a vehicle with a registration expiration date in excess of 6 months found or operated on the highway, public lands, or an offstreet parking facility, by extending that period to one year. The bill would repeal the related authority to conduct a lien sale to cover towing and storage expenses.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1100 (Low D) Employment: workweek.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law generally establishes that 8 hours of labor constitutes a day’s work and further establishes a 40-hour workweek. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish a 4-day workweek.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 1102 (Patterson, Jim R) Telecommunications: privacy protections: 988 calls.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Under current law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law prohibits a telephone corporation, when selling or licensing lists of residential subscribers, from including the telephone number of any subscriber assigned an unpublished or unlisted access number without the subscriber’s written waiver of this protection.
Current law prohibits a provider of mobile telephony services, as defined, or any affiliate or agent of the provider, when providing the name and dialing number of a subscriber for inclusion in a directory or directory database, from including the dialing number of any subscriber without first obtaining the express consent of that subscriber. However, current law authorizes providing those telephone numbers without regard to consent to a law enforcement agency, fire protection agency, public health
agency, public environmental health agency, city or county emergency services planning agency, or private for-profit agency operating under contract with, and at the direction of, one or more of these agencies, for the sole purpose of responding to a 911 call, communicating an imminent threat to life or property, or testing the systems that respond to 911 calls or communicate threats to life or property.This bill would additionally authorize providing those telephone numbers to those parties without consent for the purpose of responding to a 988 call or testing the systems that respond to 988 calls.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety, Public Works
AB 1114 (Haney D) Planning and zoning: housing development projects: postentitlement phase permits.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law defines “postentitlement phase permit” to include all nondiscretionary permits and reviews filed after the entitlement process has been completed that are required or issued by the local agency to begin construction of a development that is intended to be at least 2/3 residential, excluding discretionary and ministerial planning permits, entitlements, and certain other permits and reviews.
These permits include, but are not limited to, building permits and all interdepartmental review required for the issuance of a building permit, permits for minor or standard off-site improvements, permits for demolition, and permits for minor or standard excavation and grading. Current law defines other terms for its purposes. 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, and makes any failure to meet these time limits a disapproval of the housing development project and a violation of the Housing Accountability Act. Current law requires a local agency, beginning on specified dates determined by population size, to provide an option for postentitlement phase permits to be applied for, completed, and retrieved by the applicant on its internet website, and accept applications for postentitlement phase permits and any related documentation by electronic mail until that process has been established. This bill would modify the definition of “postentitlement phase permits” to eliminate the nondiscretionary aspect of permits not otherwise excluded, thereby applying the definition to those permits without regard to whether they are nondiscretionary.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1115 (Papan D) Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trust Fund Act of 1989: brownfields remediation and redevelopment.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
(1)Existing law, the Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trust Fund Act of 1989 (act), requires an owner of an underground storage tank, as defined, for which a permit is required by law to pay storage fees for each gallon of petroleum placed in the tank. The act establishes the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund (fund), and requires the storage fees, among other moneys, to be deposited into the fund. The act authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to expend the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to pay for corrective action in response to an unauthorized release from an underground storage tank and for the cleanup and oversight of unauthorized releases at abandoned tank sites, among other specified purposes. The act requires that certain information be submitted to the state board, and other specified agencies, under penalty of perjury. The act provides for the repeal of certain of its provisions on January 1, 2026, but also provides that certain associated rights, obligations, and authorities that apply before the January 1, 2026, repeal date do not terminate upon repeal of the other provisions of the act.This bill would postpone the repeal of those provisions to January 1, 2036. By extending the operation of those portions of the act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by continuing the operation of certain crimes regarding the furnishing of information under penalty of perjury. The bill would also include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of
Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 2/3 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality AB 1125 (Hart D) Vehicle Code: infractions.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law makes it unlawful and punishable as an infraction for a person to violate, or fail to comply with, any provision of the Vehicle Code, or any local ordinance adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code, except as otherwise specified.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1126 (Lackey R) Cannabis: citation and fine.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Cannabis Control. Under current law, the Department of Cannabis Control is authorized to issue a citation to a licensee or unlicensed person for any act or omission that violates or has violated any provision of specified statutes or regulations. Current law authorizes the department to assess an administrative fine not to exceed $5,000 per violation by a licensee and $30,000 per violation by a unlicensed person. This bill would specify that a citation may be for a claim or representation of a product as licensed cannabis without a license, including the unlicensed use of the cannabis universal symbol.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 1132 (Friedman D) Solar energy systems: permit fees.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, for purposes of governing property rights, defines a “solar energy system” as specified to include any solar collector or other solar energy device whose primary purpose is to provide for the collection, storage, and distribution of solar energy for space heating, space cooling, electric generation, or water heating. Current law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2025.This bill would extend that repeal date to January 1, 2034. By extending the operation of the requirements imposed on a city or county in connection with those solar energy systems, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 1145 (Maienschein D) Workers’ compensation.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT