of their guaranteed rights. This bill would also prohibit a local public agency employer, a state employer, a public school employer, a higher education employer, or the district from questioning any employee or employee representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 2425 (Essayli R) Bowie’s Law: animals: adoption, shelter overcrowding, and breeding.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. B.&P.
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4/16/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS, BERMAN, MARC, Chair
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(1)Existing law declares that it is the policy of the state that no adoptable animal should be euthanized if it can be adopted into a suitable home. Existing law also declares that it is the policy of the state that no treatable animal should be euthanized.This bill, Bowie’s Law, would require an animal shelter, as defined, to provide public notice in a conspicuous location on its internet website or a third-party internet website that contains a list of all animals that are available for adoption or that are being held pursuant to specified laws, except as provided. The bill would also require the Department of Food and Agriculture to conduct a study on certain topics, including, among other topics, the overcrowding of California’s animal shelters, and, on or before January 1, 2027, to submit a report on that study to the Legislature, as provided. The bill would repeal these study and reporting requirements on January 1, 2031.
Position: Watch
AB 2426 (Irwin D) Consumer protection: false advertising: digital goods.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/2/2024-A. APPR.
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Current law makes it unlawful for any person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising claim. Current law makes a person who violates specified false advertising provisions liable for a civil penalty, as specified, and provides that a person who violates those false advertising provisions is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would additionally prohibit a person from advertising or offering for sale a digital good, as defined, with the terms “buy,” “purchase,” or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good, or alongside an option for a time-limited rental, unless the digital good may be downloaded to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet or the seller receives at the time of each transaction an affirmative acknowledgment from the purchaser, as specified.
Position: Watch
AB 2427 (McCarty D) Electric vehicle charging stations: permitting: curbside charging.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/2/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
Current law creates the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, known as “GO-Biz,” and requires GO-Biz to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Current law continues into existence the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) division within GO-Biz as the Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development Office. Current law references GO-Biz’s Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook, which recommends best practices for electric vehicle supply equipment permitting. This bill would require the office to develop a model permitting checklist, model zoning ordinances, and best practices for permit costs and permit review timelines to help local governments permit curbside charging stations as part of the office’s development of the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook or any subsequent updates.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2430 (Alvarez D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: monitoring fees.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 2/26/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/26/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city, county, or city and county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus, waivers or reductions of development standards, parking ratios, and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing, including a housing development in which 100% of the units are for lower income households, except that up to 20% of the units in the development may be for moderate-income households, as specified. This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from charging a monitoring fee, as defined, on those types of housing developments if certain conditions are met. The bill would provide that, beginning on January 1, 2025, any housing development that is currently placed in service, is subject to monitoring fees, and meets those conditions shall no longer be subject to those fees.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2433 (Quirk-Silva D) California Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act: fees: building permits.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes the governing body of a county or city to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law, and fees to defray the cost of enforcement required by the law to be carried out by local enforcement agencies. This bill, the California Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act, would require a building department of the county or city to prepare a schedule of the above-described fees and post the schedule on the county or city’s internet website if the city or county prescribes the fees.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2438 (Petrie-Norris D) Property crimes: enhancements.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 2/26/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/26/2024-A. PUB. S.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, MCCARTY, KEVIN, Chair Summary:
Current law makes a person guilty of organized retail theft if, among other things, the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplace with the intent to sell, exchange, or return the merchandise for value. Under current law, these crimes are punishable as either misdemeanors or felonies, as specified. Current law requires that a court dismiss an enhancement if it is in the furtherance of justice to do so, as specified. This bill would, notwithstanding the limitations on imposing an enhancement, make any person who acts in concert with 2 or more persons to take, attempt to take, damage, or destroy any property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony punishable by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment of one, 2, or 3 years.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2439 (Quirk-Silva D) Public works: prevailing wages: access to records.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Location: 4/4/2024-A. L. & E.
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Existing law defines “public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts, as, among other things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Existing 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. Existing 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.This bill would require an owner, a developer, or the agent of an owner or developer, that, among other things, receives public funds from a public agency to perform specified public works projects, to make available upon written request from a joint labor-management committee, a multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust fund, or a specified tax-exempt organization specified public works records in their possession, including requests for bids and submitted bid documents, inspection and work logs, and funding documentation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 2455 (Gabriel D) Whistleblower protection: state and local government procedures.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. JUD.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY, KALRA, ASH, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes a city, county, or city and county auditor or controller to maintain a whistleblower hotline to receive calls from persons who have information regarding fraud, waste, or abuse by local government employees, as specified. Current law authorizes the county auditor to refer calls received on the whistleblower hotline to the appropriate government authority for review and possible investigation. During the initial review of a call, current law requires the auditor, controller, or other appropriate governmental agency to hold in confidence information disclosed through the
whistleblower hotline, as specified. Upon receiving specific information that an employee or local government has engaged in an improper activity, as defined, existing law authorizes a city or county auditor to conduct an investigative audit of the matter, as specified. This bill would expand the above- described duties and authorizations to the auditor’s or controller’s designee, as specified.
Position: Watch
AB 2460 (Ta R) Common interest developments: association governance: member election.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
Current law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments, including member elections. Existing law prescribes that a quorum is required only if stated in the governing documents or by law. In the absence of a quorum, existing law authorizes an association to adjourn the proceeding to a date at least 20 days after the adjourned proceeding, at which time the quorum required for purposes of a membership meeting is 20% of the voting members present in person, by proxy, or by secret written ballot received. Existing law requires an association to provide general notice of the membership meeting, as specified, no less than 15 days prior to the election of directors.This bill would instead require an association whose governing documents require a quorum for election of directors to provide general notice of a statement that the association shall call a reconvened meeting at least 20 days after a scheduled election if the quorum is not reached, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2466 (Carrillo, Wendy D) Medi-Cal managed care: network adequacy standards.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. HEALTH
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, BONTA, MIA, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes the Director of Health Care Services to terminate a contract or impose sanctions if the director finds that a Medi-Cal managed care plan fails to comply with contract requirements, state or federal law or regulations, or the state plan or approved waivers, or for other good cause. Current law establishes, until January 1, 2026, certain time and distance and appointment time standards for specified Medi-Cal managed care covered services, consistent with federal regulations relating to network adequacy standards, to ensure that those services are available and accessible to enrollees of Medi-Cal managed care plans in a timely manner, as specified. Under this bill, a Medi-Cal managed care plan would be deemed to be not in compliance with the appointment time standards if either (1) fewer than 85% of the network providers had an appointment available within the standards or (2) the department receives information establishing that the plan was unable to deliver timely, available, or accessible health care services to enrollees, as specified. Under the bill, failure to comply with the appointment time standard may result in contract termination or the issuance of sanctions as described above.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 2470 (Patterson, Joe R) Violent felonies: domestic violence.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 2/26/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Current law defines the term “violent felony” for various purposes, including, among others, enhancing the punishment for felonies pursuant to existing sentencing provisions commonly known as the three strikes law. The Legislature may directly amend the three strikes law by a statute passed in each house by a 2/3 vote, or by a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the voters. This bill 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 felony domestic violence, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2479 (Haney D) Housing First: core components.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Current law requires agencies and departments administering state programs related to homelessness to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First, as defined. Under current law, Housing First includes time-limited rental or services assistance, so long as the housing and service provider assists the recipient, among other things, in accessing permanent housing.
Current law defines “state programs” for this purpose as any program a California state agency or department funds, implements, or administers for the purpose of providing housing or housing-based services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, except as provided. Under existing law, the core components of Housing First include, among others, services that are informed by a harm-reduction philosophy that recognizes drug and alcohol use and addiction as a part of tenants’ lives, where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding drug and alcohol use, and where tenants are offered education regarding how to avoid risky behaviors and engage in safer practices, as well as connected to evidence-based treatment if the tenant so chooses. This bill would clarify, pursuant to that core component, that state departments and agencies may allow programs to fund recovery housing, as defined, if the state program uses at least 75% of funds for housing or housing-based services using a harm-reduction model and the recovery housing complies with specified requirements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2485 (Carrillo, Juan D) Regional housing need: determination.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
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, which includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. That law requires the department, in consultation with the council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need of housing for each region in a specified manner. That law requires the department’s determination to be based upon population projections produced by the Department of Finance, as specified. That law also requires the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodologies to be used to determine each region’s housing need and requires the council of governments to provide data assumptions from the council of governments’
projections, as specified. That law authorizes the department to accept or reject the information provided by the council of governments and, after consultation with each council of governments, to make determinations on the council of governments’ data assumptions and the methodology the department will use to determine each region’s housing need. That law requires the department to provide its determinations to each council of governments, as specified. This bill would require the department to publish on its internet website the data sources, analyses, and methodology, as specified, prior to finalization of the regional determination.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2487 (Fong, Mike D) Deputy Secretary for Climate.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3).
Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
Location: 4/4/2024-A. U. & E.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY UTILITIES AND ENERGY, PETRIE-NORRIS, COTTIE, Chair
Summary:
Current law, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establishes the position of Deputy Secretary for Climate within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to be appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate, for the purpose of assisting in the oversight of California’s workforce transition to a sustainable and equitable carbon-neutral economy. Current law requires the deputy secretary to perform specified duties, including creating or coordinating programs with other state agencies to retrain and upskill workers for, among other jobs, clean energy jobs, as specified. On or before January 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, current law requires the deputy secretary to submit a report to the Legislature on key findings and recommendations regarding the development and implementation of the workforce transition to a sustainable and equitable clean energy economy. This bill would also require the deputy secretary to create and maintain a green jobs website that serves as the central hub for employment opportunities related to the transition to carbon-neutral jobs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 2488 (Ting D) Downtown revitalization and economic recovery financing districts.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, including the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for persons of very low, low, and moderate income. Current law requires the legislative body to establish a public financing authority, defined as the governing board of the enhanced infrastructure financing district, at the same time the resolution to form an enhanced infrastructure district is adopted. Current law requires the public financing authority to adopt an infrastructure financing plan that includes specified information, including a finding that the development and financial assistance are of communitywide significance and provide significant benefits to an area larger than the area of the district. This bill would authorize a local government to designate one or more downtown revitalization and economic recovery financing districts for the purpose of financing office-to-residential conversion projects with incremental tax revenues generated by office-to-residential conversion projects within the district.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
AB 2489 (Ward D) Local agencies: contracts for special services and temporary help.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. P.E. & R.
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Current law relating to the government of counties authorizes a county board of supervisors to contract for certain types of special services on behalf of the county, any county officer or department, or any district or court in the county. Current law requires those special services contracts to be with persons who are specially trained, experienced, expert, and competent to perform those services. This bill would require the board or a representative, at least 10 months before beginning a procurement process to contract with persons for special services that are currently, or were in the previous 10 years, performed by employees of the county represented by an employee organization, to notify, in writing, the exclusive employee representative of the workforce affected by the contract of its determination to begin that process. The bill would require persons with whom the board of supervisors enter into a contract for special services to perform functions that are currently, or were in the previous 10 years, performed by employees of the county, any county officer or department, or any district or court in the county represented by an employee organization to use employees who meet or exceed the minimum qualifications and standards required of bargaining unit civil service employees who perform or performed the same job functions, as specified.
Position: Watch
AB 2498 (Zbur D) Housing: the California Housing Security Act.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 2/26/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/26/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, establish the California Housing Security Program to provide a housing subsidy to eligible persons, as specified, to reduce housing insecurity and help Californians meet their basic housing needs. To create the program, the bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a 2-year pilot program in up to 4 counties, as specified. The bill would require the department to issue guidelines to establish the program that include, among other things, the amount of the subsidy that shall be the amount necessary to cover the portion of a person’s rent to prevent homelessness, but shall not exceed $2,000 per month. Under the bill, the subsidy would not be considered income for purposes of determining eligibility or benefits for any other public assistance program, nor would participation in other benefits exclude a person from eligibility for the subsidy. Under the bill, an undocumented person, as specified, who otherwise qualifies for the subsidy would be eligible for the subsidy. The bill would require the department to submit a report on the program to the Legislature, as described.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2501 (Alvarez D) Water quality control plans: donations and grants.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/19/2024-A. APPR.
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4/10/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, WICKS, BUFFY, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board on behalf of itself or a regional board, to accept donations of moneys from a permittee for the purpose of updating a water quality control plan. This bill would authorize the state board, on behalf of itself or a regional board, to accept moneys from donations, grants, or contributions, or through contractual agreements, from public agencies, foundations, or other not-for-profit entities for the purpose of planning, permitting, or providing
technical support for projects of public benefit, as defined, within the state board’s or regional board’s jurisdiction. The bill would require all funds received to be deposited, and separately accounted for, in the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account, for expenditure in accordance with the terms of the donation, grant, contribution, or contractual agreement. The bill would require the state board to provide notice, as specified, before accepting those moneys. Because the funds deposited would be a new source of funds in the continuously appropriated State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account within the continuously appropriated State Water Quality Control Fund, the bill would make an appropriation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 2502 (Rivas, Luz D) Public contracts: emergencies.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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For purposes of the Public Contract Code, current law defines an emergency as a sudden unexpected occurrence that poses a clear and imminent danger, requiring immediate action to prevent or mitigate the loss or impairment of life, health, property, or essential public services. This bill would additionally define an emergency as an immediate action to prevent or mitigate the loss or impairment of life, health, property, or essential public services caused by the impacts of homelessness.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Homelessness
AB 2503 (Lee D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: rail projects.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY NATURAL RESOURCES, BRYAN, ISAAC, Chair Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
This bill would expand that exemption from CEQA to include a public project for the institution or increase of any rail service, which will be exclusively used by low-emission or zero-emission vehicles, on existing public rights-of-way or existing highway rights-of-way. Because a lead agency would be required to determine the applicability of this exemption, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2514 (Aguiar-Curry D) Solid waste: organic waste.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY NATURAL RESOURCES, BRYAN, ISAAC, Chair
Summary:
(1)The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 generally regulates solid waste disposal, management, and recycling. The act requires each city, county, and regional agency to develop a source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste management plan. The act requires that element to include a 50% solid waste diversion requirement, as specified, and provides that up to 10% may be achieved through biomass conversion under certain conditions, with biomass conversion defined as the production of heat, fuels, or electricity by certain means from specified materials. One of the conditions for using biomass conversion to satisfy a portion of the solid waste diversion requirement is that pyrolysis not be included in the source reduction and recycling element. Pyrolysis is not defined for that purpose or for other purposes in the act.This bill would define pyrolysis, for purposes of the act and for the Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act, as the thermal decomposition of organic material at elevated temperatures in the absence of gases such as air or oxygen.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 2517 (Fong, Vince R) Water: water districts: irrigation districts: long-term maintenance agreements.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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The law authorizes an irrigation district to control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture, and salvage any water, as specified. Current law requires the Department of Water Resources to give information so far as it may be practicable to persons contemplating the formation of districts. This bill would require the department to respond to long-term maintenance agreement requests from irrigation districts within 120 days and to prioritize responding to long-term maintenance agreements for waterways that already have existing short-term maintenance agreements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 2520 (Ramos D) Housing: youth-specific processes and coordinated entry systems.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Location: 3/20/2024-A. HUM. S.
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Summary:
Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program, administered by the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Current law requires the council, upon appropriation, to distribute certain amounts, as specified, for purposes of the program.
Current law requires an applicant to submit an application containing specified information in order to apply for a program allocation. Current law requires an applicant to prioritize finds received to specific programs, including to create youth-specific coordinated entry systems and improve assessment tools.
This bill would require a continuum of care, upon appropriation and beginning with the 2026–27 fiscal year, to create or maintain a youth-specific process with their respective coordinated entry system, as specified, implement a youth-specific assessment tool, create a body or identify an existing body composed of youth with lived experience of homelessness that the continuum of care and other Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program grantees must consult with regularly, and create an array of youth-specific housing inventory. The bill would require the continuum of care to document in their application how the housing assessment is youth-specific and their prioritization policy if the continuum of care states they already maintain a youth-specific coordinated entry system.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2523 (Patterson, Joe R) Needle and syringe exchange services.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. HEALTH
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Current law also authorizes the State Department of Public Health to authorize certain entities to apply to the department to provide hypodermic needle and syringe exchange services in any location where the department determines that the conditions exist for the rapid spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), viral hepatitis, or any other potentially deadly or disabling infections that are spread through the sharing of used hypodermic needles and syringes. Current law requires the department to authorize the entity after consultation with the local health officer and local law enforcement leadership, and authorizes the department to reauthorize the program in consultation with the local health officer and local law enforcement leadership. This bill would instead authorize a clean needle and syringe exchange project in any city, county, or city and county that chooses to participate. The bill would instead require the department to authorize the entities to apply to the department after the approval from the participating city, county, or city and county, and would instead authorize the department to reauthorize the program with the approval of the participating city, county, or city and county. The bill would prohibit the department from authorizing a clean needle and syringe exchange project without the approval of the city, county, or city and county.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 2531 (Bryan D) Deaths while in law enforcement custody: reporting.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. PUB. S.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, MCCARTY, KEVIN, Chair Summary:
Under current law, when a person who is in custody dies, the agency with jurisdiction over the state or local correctional facility with custodial responsibility for the person at the time of their death is required to post specified information, including the date on which the death occurred and the decedent’s age, race, and gender, on its internet website within 10 days of the death. Current law requires the agency to update the posting within 30 days if any information regarding the death changes. The bill would require the agency to post this specified information on its internet website when a juvenile who is in custody dies. The bill would require the agency to post the name, if the decedent is an adult, and the date of death according to a medical examiner or similar entity. The bill would define in-custody death for these purposes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2533 (Carrillo, Juan D) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units: unpermitted developments.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Existing law prohibits a local agency from denying a permit for an unpermitted accessory dwelling unit that was constructed before January 1, 2018, because the accessory dwelling unit is in violation of building standards or state or local standards applicable to accessory dwelling units, unless the local agency
makes a finding that correcting the violation is necessary to protect the health and safety of the public or the occupants of the structure. Existing law makes those provisions inapplicable to a substandard building, as specified. This bill would instead prohibit a local agency from denying a permit for an unpermitted accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit that was constructed before January 1, 2020, for those violations, unless the local agency makes a finding that correcting the violation is necessary to comply with conditions that would otherwise deem a building substandard.
The bill would require a local agency to inform the public about the provisions prohibiting denial of a permit for an unpermitted accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit. The bill would require this information to include a checklist of the conditions that deem a building substandard and to inform homeowners that, before submitting a permit application, the homeowner may obtain a confidential third-party code inspection from a licensed contractor. The bill would prohibit a local agency from requiring a homeowner to pay impact fees or connection or capacity charges to obtain a permit if they provide evidence that they meet specified criteria for low- or moderate-income households. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch Closely
Subjects: Housing
AB 2536 (Hoover R) Vehicles: local registration fees.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. TRANS.
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION, WILSON, LORI, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes a county, upon the adoption of a resolution by its board of supervisors, to impose a specified fee, in addition to other fees imposed for the registration of a vehicle, to be expended in part to fund programs to deter, investigate, and prosecute vehicle theft crimes. This bill would, for purposes of this requirement, define vehicle theft crimes to include the theft of vehicle parts or components.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2539 (Connolly D) Mobilehome parks: sale: notice: right of first refusal.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
The Mobilehome Residency Law requires the owner of a mobilehome park who enters into a written listing agreement with a licensed real estate broker for the sale of the mobilehome park or who offers to sell the mobilehome park to any party to provide written notice of the owner’s intention to sell to specified members of a resident organization formed by homeowners for purposes of converting the mobilehome park to condominium or stock cooperative ownership interests and for purchasing the mobilehome park. Current law requires the owner to provide this notice not less than 30 days nor more than one year before entering into the listing agreement or offering to sell the mobilehome park.
Current law prohibits an offer to sell a park from being construed as an offer unless it is initiated by the park owner or their agent. Current law provides various exceptions to this notice requirement, including that no notice is required unless the resident organization has first furnished the park owner or park manager with a written notice of the name and address of the president, secretary, and treasurer of the resident organization, as specified. This bill would require the owner to provide the above-described notice if they accept an offer from any buyer. The bill would also require the owner to provide the above-described notice to all residents of the mobilehome park and the Department of Housing and Community Development not less than 120 days nor more than one year before entering into the listing agreement or offering to sell the mobilehome park.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2540 (Chen R) Cannabis: license transfers.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/2/2024-A. APPR.
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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. MAUCRSA grants to the department the sole authority to create, issue, deny, renew, discipline, condition, suspend, or revoke licenses for commercial cannabis activity. This bill would also grant to the department the sole authority to transfer, assign, or reassign those licenses. The bill would declare that its provisions further the purpose and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA).
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 2541 (Bains D) Peace officer training: wandering.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/19/2024-A. APPR.
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4/10/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, WICKS, BUFFY, Chair Summary:
Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), in consultation with specified subject matter experts and on or before January 1, 2026, to develop guidelines addressing wandering associated with Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and dementia, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2542 (Lackey R) Voting: vote by mail systems.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. ELECTIONS
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Summary:
Current law requires the Secretary of State to make publicly available various testing, examination, and certification reports pertaining to a remote accessible vote by mail system, both before and after the decision to certify or conditionally approve the system, as applicable. Among these requirements, current law requires the Secretary of State to make publicly available, within 10 days after issuing and filing a certification decision and associated testing reports, a full and complete copy of the certification report and all associated documentation, except as specified. This bill would specify that the Secretary of State’s duty to make publicly available a full and complete copy of the certification report and associated documentation within 10 days after issuing and filing the certification decision and associated testing reports includes the duty to post these items on the Secretary of State’s internet website.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2544 (Low D) Background checks.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. HUM. S.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HUMAN SERVICES, LEE, ALEX, Chair Summary:
Would authorize a licensee of a community care facility to approve an individual to care for children before the completion of another state’s child abuse and neglect registry check if certain specified conditions are met, including that the community care facility has submitted a request for the out-of- state abuse and neglect registry check to the department. The bill would require a licensee to remove an applicant from the community care facility immediately upon receipt of information that would disqualify the applicant from approval and notify the State Department of Social Services of the removal within 3 business days. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2546 (Rendon D) Law enforcement and state agencies: military equipment: funding, acquisition, and use.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 6.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 4/1/2024-S. RLS.
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Current federal law authorizes the United States Department of Defense to transfer surplus personal property, including arms and ammunition, to federal or state agencies for use in law enforcement activities, subject to specified conditions, at no cost to the acquiring agency. Current law requires a law enforcement agency to adopt a military equipment use policy, as specified, before obtaining military equipment. Current law also requires a law enforcement agency to obtain approval from their governing body before obtaining military equipment, as specified. Current law defines military equipment for purposes of these provisions. This bill would replace certain devices referred to in this definition by a specific trade name with a general description of those devices.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2547 (Ta R) Criminal procedure: competence to stand trial.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law prohibits a person from being tried or adjudged to punishment while that person is mentally incompetent. Current law establishes a process by which a defendant’s mental competency is evaluated and if the defendant is found incompetent to stand trial, the proceedings are suspended while the defendant receives treatment, with the goal of restoring the defendant to competency.
Current law, in the case of a misdemeanor charge in which the defendant is found incompetent, requires the court to either dismiss the case or hold a hearing to determine if the defendant is eligible for diversion. Under existing law, if the defendant not eligible for diversion, the court may hold another hearing to decide if the defendant should be referred for outpatient treatment, conservatorship, or the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) program, or if the defendant’s treatment plan should be modified. This bill would remove the option for the court to dismiss the case and would instead require the court to hold a hearing to determine if the defendant is eligible for diversion. If the defendant is not eligible for diversion, the bill would require the court to hold a hearing to determine whether the defendant will be referred to outpatient treatment, conservatorship, or the CARE program, or if the defendant’s treatment plan will be modified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2550 (Gabriel D) Business establishments: building standards: retail food safety.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. HEALTH
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, BONTA, MIA, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the California Building Standards Commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Current law requires the commission to publish the code every 3 years, and, in intervening periods, supplements, as necessary. This bill would require the commission, as part of the next triennial update of the California Building Standards Code that occurs on or after January 1, 2025, to adopt specified building standards for business establishments, including, among other things, standards authorizing (A) a business establishment with less than 150 square feet of seating area or that is takeout only to operate without providing customer restrooms; (B) a business establishment with a maximum occupancy of 100 occupants to operate without drinking fountains; and (C) a business establishment to operate cooking equipment, for the purpose of baking, that does not produce cooking odors, smoke, grease, or vapor without installing a Type 1 hood, as described in specified regulations, over the cooking equipment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2553 (Friedman D) Housing development: major transit stops: vehicular traffic impact fees.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts from its requirements residential projects on infill sites and transit priority projects that meet certain requirements, including a requirement that the projects are located within 1/2 mile of a major transit stop. CEQA defines “major transit stop” to include, among other locations, the intersection of 2 or more major bus routes with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods. This bill would revise the definition of “major transit stop” to increase the frequency of service interval to 20 minutes. The bill would additionally define “major transit stop” to include a site in an urbanized area that is being served by an on-demand transit service at least 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Because the bill would require a lead agency to make an additional determination as to whether a location is a major transit stop for purposes of determining whether residential or mixed-use residential projects are exempt from CEQA, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2554 (Calderon D) Aviation: vertiports.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. TRANS.
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Summary:
The State Aeronautics Act governs aeronautics in the state for the purpose of furthering and protecting the public interest in aviation and aeronautical progress through identified means, and authorizes the Department of Transportation to adopt, administer, and enforce rules and regulations for the administration of the act. Under current law, a violation of the State Aeronautics Act is a crime. This bill would prohibit the governing body of a local government from granting the exclusive right to one
operator to develop vertiports or control vertiport operations within the local government’s jurisdiction.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2555 (Quirk-Silva D) Sales and use tax: exemption: medicinal cannabis: donations.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file.
Location: 4/1/2024-A. REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE
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Summary:
Current law exempts from the use tax the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products that are donated, for no consideration, under specified circumstances. Current law requires the exemption to apply only if the cannabis retailer certifies in writing, as specified, that the medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product will be used as specified. Current law makes a licensee that uses the donated medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product in some other manner, or for some other purpose, liable for the payment of use tax and subject to having their license suspended. Current law repeals these provisions 5 years after the specified operative date. This bill would extend these provisions indefinitely. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
AB 2556 (Jackson D) Behavioral health and wellness screenings: notice.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Read second time and amended.
Location: 4/2/2024-A. APPR.
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The Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Current law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. This bill would require a health care service plan or insurer to provide to each legal guardian of a patient, enrollee, or insured, 10 to 18 years of age, a written or electronic notice regarding the benefits of a behavioral health and wellness screening, as defined. The bill would require a health care service plan or insurer to provide the notice on an annual basis.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 2557 (Ortega D) Local agencies: contracts for special services and temporary help: performance reports.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. P.E. & R.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
(1)Existing law relating to the government of counties authorizes a county board of supervisors to contract for certain types of special services on behalf of the county, any county officer or department, or any district or court in the county. Existing law requires those special services contracts to be with persons who are specially trained, experienced, expert, and competent to perform those services.This bill would require each contract for special services to include specific performance standards and requirements. The bill would require the board or a representative, at least 10 months before beginning a procurement process to contract with persons for special services that are currently, or were in the prior 10 years, performed by employees of the county represented by an employee organization, to notify, in writing, the exclusive employee representative of the workforce affected by
the contract of its determination to begin that process. The bill would require each person who enters into such a contract with the board of supervisors to submit quarterly performance reports, as prescribed, every 90 days, to the board of supervisors and the exclusive representative of the employee organization. The bill would require the board or its representative to monitor quarterly performance reports to evaluate the quality of services and withhold payments to the contractor under prescribed circumstances, which circumstances the bill would deem to be a breach of contract. The bill would require contract terms exceeding 2 years to undergo a performance audit, as prescribed, by an independent auditor approved by the board to determine whether the performance standards are being met.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Position: Watch Closely
AB 2559 (Petrie-Norris D) Local planning: electric vehicle service equipment: permitting delays.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
This bill would require the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to create and maintain a publicly accessible internet website that contains a landing page with functionality to collect information and report delays and denials in the permitting of electric vehicle service equipment, as specified. The bill would require GO-Biz to establish a working group to evaluate the data it receives from the internet website and direct the working group to determine recommended solutions to address permitting delays. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2026, GO-Biz to submit to the Legislature and publish on its internet website a comprehensive report regarding the challenges identified throughout the data collection process, as specified. The bill would also require GO-Biz to establish a permit streamlining specialist to assist authorities having jurisdiction with permit delays and denials related to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2560 (Alvarez D) Density Bonus Law: California Coastal Act of 1976.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and NAT. RES.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
The California Coastal Act of 1976 (act regulates development, as defined, in the coastal zone, as defined, and requires a new development to comply with specified requirements. The Density Bonus Law provides that its provisions do not supersede or in any way alter or lessen the effect or application of the act, and requires that any density bonus, concessions, incentives, waivers or reductions of development standards, and parking ratios to which an applicant is entitled under the Density Bonus Law be permitted in a manner consistent with the act. This bill would provide that any density bonus, concessions, incentives, waivers or reductions of development standards, and parking ratios to which an applicant is entitled under the Density Bonus Law be permitted notwithstanding the act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2568 (Pacheco D) Employee personal information: electronic monitoring.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. P. & C.P.
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Existing law, the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to require the business to delete personal information about the consumer, as specified. The CPRA permits its provisions to be approved by a statute passed by a majority of each house of the Legislature and signed by the Governor, if those amendments are consistent with and further the purpose and intent of the act.Existing law authorizes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the head of which is the Labor Commissioner, to enforce the Labor Code and all labor laws of the state, the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in any other officer, board, or commission.This bill would require an employer with 250 or more employees in California that controls the collection of employee personal information to notify an employee if employee personal information will be collected through electronic monitoring, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 2570 (Patterson, Joe R) Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
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 Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Homelessness
AB 2572 (Muratsuchi D) Ocean carbon dioxide removal projects.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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Summary:
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to establish a Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program to capture, remove, and store carbon dioxide, as provided. Existing law requires the program, among other things, to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and viability of specified technologies and to facilitate the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from these technologies, where appropriate.This bill would require the state board, among other things, to develop criteria to determine whether an ocean carbon dioxide removal project is environmentally safe and sustainable, and to qualify environmentally safe and sustainable projects for inclusion in carbon credit programs, including, but not limited to, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations and the market-based compliance mechanism, as provided. The bill would require the state board and any agency with a relevant financial incentive program, as specified, to consider an ocean carbon dioxide removal program to the extent the program achieves similar or better climate and environmental policy goals.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2574 (Valencia D) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. HEALTH
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Summary:
Current law requires an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility that serves 6 or fewer persons to be considered a residential use of property for the purposes of local regulations, regardless of whether or not unrelated persons are living together. This bill would exempt an unlicensed home for persons recovering from alcoholism or drug abuse in a neighborhood zoned for residential use from being considered a residential use of property when specified evidence demonstrates that the facility is an integral part of a licensed drug treatment facility located elsewhere.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Public Safety
AB 2575 (Boerner D) Office of Broadband and Digital Equity.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Re-referred to Com. on C. & C.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. C. & C.
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Would create the Office of Broadband and Digital Equity, to be administered by the Broadband and Digital Equity Board with membership appointed by the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the Senate Committee on Rules, as specified, to be the centralized state office for broadband and digital activities within the state.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 2584 (Lee D) Single-family residential real property: corporate entity: ownership.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. JUD.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY, KALRA, ASH, Chair Summary:
Current law generally regulates the obligations of owners with respect to real property. This bill would prohibit a business entity that has an interest in more than 1,000 single-family residential properties from purchasing, acquiring, or otherwise obtaining an interest in another single-family residential property and subsequently leasing the property. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action for a violation of these provisions, and would require a court in a civil action in which the Attorney General prevails to order specified relief, including that the business entity pay a civil penalty of $100,000 for each violation and that the business entity sell the property to an independent third party within one year of the date that the court enters judgment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2585 (Bonta D) Employee Housing Act: permanent single-family housing.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 2/15/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/14/2024-A. PRINT
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The Employee Housing Act requires a person operating employee housing to obtain a permit to operate that employee housing from the enforcement agency, as defined, unless otherwise exempted by the
act. The act authorizes a permit to operate employee housing consisting only of permanent single- family housing to, if approved by the enforcement agency, be issued for a longer period of time not to exceed 5 years. This bill would instead authorize that permit to be issued for a period of time not to exceed 6 years.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2590 (Reyes D) San Bernardino County Transportation Authority: contracting.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Existing law creates the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority with various powers and duties relative to transportation planning and funding in the County of San Bernardino. Existing law requires the authority’s contracts for the purchase of supplies, equipment, and materials, and the construction of all facilities and works, to be let to the lowest responsible bidder when the expenditure required exceeds $25,000. Existing law also requires the authority to obtain a minimum of 3 quotations, either written or oral, that permit prices and terms to be compared whenever the expected expenditure required exceeds $1,000 but not $25,000.This bill would authorize a contract for the purchase of supplies, equipment, or materials with a required expenditure that exceeds $150,000 to be let to the lowest responsible bidder, or, in the authority’s discretion, to the responsible bidder who submitted a proposal that provides the best value to the authority on the basis of the factors identified in the solicitation. The bill would also require, to the extent practicable, the authority to obtain a minimum of 3 quotations, either written or oral, that permit prices and terms to be compared whenever the expected expenditure required for the purchase of supplies, equipment, or materials exceeds $5,000 but does not exceed $150,000.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2591 (Quirk-Silva D) Local government: youth commissions.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining one or more high schools to include within its membership one or more pupil members if pupils submit a petition for pupil representation to the governing board, as provided. Current law requires the pupil member to be chosen by the pupils enrolled in the high school or high schools of the school district in accordance with procedures prescribed by the governing board of the school district. Current law requires the pupil member to have preferential voting rights. Current law prohibits a pupil member from being included in determining the vote required to carry any measure before the governing board. This bill would require a city or county, as described, to establish a youth commission in response to petitions from high school pupils enrolled in their jurisdiction, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: K-12 Education
AB 2592 (Grayson D) Local planning: housing elements: water and sewer services.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element adopted by the legislative body of the city, county, or city and county and any amendments made to that element be delivered to all public agencies or private entities that provide water or sewer services, as described, within the territory of the legislative body. Current law requires each public agency or private entity providing water or sewer services to grant a priority for the provision of these services to proposed developments that include housing units affordable to lower income households. Existing law also requires a public agency or private entity providing water or sewer services to adopt written policies and procedures not later than July 1, 2006, and at least once every 5 years thereafter, with specific objective standards for provision of services, as described. This bill would instead require each public agency or private entity providing water or sewer services to grant a priority for the provision of these services to proposed housing developments, which the bill would define for these purposes to include both housing developments that include units sold or rented to lower income households, as provided in existing law as described above, and housing developments constructed pursuant to specified laws providing for ministerial approval of certain housing developments or subdivision maps. The bill would also update the compliance date to adopt written policies and procedures to July 1, 2025, and continue to require the adoption of those written policies and procedures at least once every 5 years thereafter.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2597 (Ward D) Planning and zoning: revision of housing element: Southern California Association of Governments.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
Existing law requires certain local governments to revise their housing elements 18 months after the adoption of every 2nd regional transportation plan update, but no later than 8 years after the deadline for the previous update of the housing element, as specified.This bill would extend the above- described deadline for certain local governments that are within the regional jurisdiction of the Southern California Association of Governments and that have a compliant housing element as of the adoption of the second regional transportation plan update, as specified, except the County of Los Angeles and local governments within the County of Los Angeles, to revise their housing elements 30 months after adoption of every 2nd regional transportation plan update for the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2602 (Kalra D) Contracts against public policy: personal or professional services: digital replicas.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 3).
Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Location: 4/4/2024-A. P. & C.P.
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This bill would provide that a provision in an agreement between an individual and any other person for the performance of personal or professional services is contrary to public policy and deemed unconscionable if the provision meets specified conditions relating to the use of a digital replica of the voice or likeness of an individual in lieu of the work of the individual. The bill would provide that it shall
apply retroactively. The bill would require any person who is currently under, or has entered into, an agreement with an individual performing personal or professional services containing such a provision, by February 1, 2025, to notify that individual in writing that the provision is unenforceable.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 2609 (Ta R) Crimes: false reporting.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Coauthors revised.
Location: 2/14/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Current law makes it a misdemeanor to report an emergency to specified government entities knowing that report to be false. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to initiate communication with the 911 emergency system with the intent to annoy or harass another person. This bill would additionally make those offenses punishable as felonies.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2611 (Wallis R) Political Reform Act of 1974: conflicts of interest.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 2/15/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/14/2024-A. PRINT
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Current provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibit a public official from making, participating in making, or attempting to use their official position to influence a governmental decision in which they know or have reason to know that they have a financial interest, as defined. However, current law permits a public official to make or participate in the making of a governmental decision, even if the public official knows or has reason to know that the official has a financial interest, if the official’s participation is legally required for the action or decision to be made. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the provision containing that exception.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2614 (Ramos D) Water policy: California tribal communities.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. E.S. & T.M.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS, GARCIA, EDUARDO, Chair
Summary:
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act establishes a statewide program for the control of the quality of all the waters in the state and makes certain legislative findings and declarations. Current law defines the term “beneficial uses” for the purposes of water quality as certain waters of the state that may be protected against quality degradation, to include, among others, domestic, municipal, agricultural, and industrial supplies. This bill would add findings and declarations related to California tribal communities and the importance of protecting tribal water use, as those terms are defined. The bill would add tribal water uses as waters of the state that may be protected against quality degradation for purposes of the defined term “beneficial uses.” Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 2617 (Carrillo, Juan D) Local government registration of bonds.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 2/15/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/14/2024-A. PRINT
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Current law requires the treasurer of a local agency having the duty of paying the interest on an issue of ad valorem special assessment district improvement bonds, upon the direction of the legislative body, to keep a register. Current law requires that upon presentation of an interest coupon of the bond that the treasurer enter in the register the name and address of the owner or holder of the interest coupon and the number and amount of the bond. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
AB 2618 (Chen R) Surplus funds: investment.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. Re-referred to Coms. on B. & F. and L. GOV.
Location: 4/1/2024-A. B. & F.
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4/15/2024 3:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY BANKING AND FINANCE, GRAYSON, TIM, Chair
Summary:
Current law authorizes a local agency that has the authority under law to invest funds, at its discretion, to invest a portion of its surplus funds in deposits at a commercial bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union that uses a private sector entity that assists in the placement of deposits, subject to certain conditions. Current law, until January 1, 2026, prohibits deposits placed pursuant to that provision from exceeding 50% of the agency’s funds that may be so invested and, on and after January 1, 2026, reduces that deposit limit to 30% of the agency’s funds that may be so invested. This bill would repeal the reduction to a 30% deposit limit.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
AB 2619 (Connolly D) Net energy metering.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on U. & E.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. U. & E.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY UTILITIES AND ENERGY, PETRIE-NORRIS, COTTIE, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires every electric utility, defined to include electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and electrical cooperatives, to develop a standard contract or tariff for net energy metering, as defined, for generation by a renewable electrical generation facility, as defined, and to make this contract or tariff available to eligible customer-generators, as defined, upon request on a first-come-first-served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity used by eligible customer generators exceeds 5% of the electric utility’s aggregate customer peak demand. Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to have developed a 2nd standard contract or tariff for each large electrical corporation, as defined, to provide net energy metering to additional eligible customer- generators in the electrical corporation’s service territory and imposes no limitation on the number of new eligible customer-generators entitled to receive service pursuant to this 2nd standard contract or tariff. Current law requires the commission, in developing the 2nd standard contract or tariff, to ensure that customer-sited renewable distributed generation continues to grow sustainably and to include specific alternatives designed for growth among residential customers in disadvantaged communities.
Current law authorizes the commission to revise the 2nd standard contract or tariff as appropriate.
Pursuant to that authorization, the commission has instituted rulemakings and issued decisions
relating to the 2nd standard contract or tariff. This bill would require all eligible customer-generators of large electrical corporations receiving service under the 2nd standard contract or tariff to be subject to a specified version of the tariff developed by the commission in a specified rulemaking. The bill would require the commission to develop a new standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering for eligible customer-generators of large electrical corporations, and would require every other electric utility to revise its standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2626 (Dixon R) Advanced Clean Fleets regulations: local governments.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and NAT. RES.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. TRANS.
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Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution that the state board has found necessary, cost effective, and technologically feasible. Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy- duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities subject to the regulation to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. This bill would extend the compliance dates for local government set forth in the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation by 10 years. The bill would prohibit the state board from taking enforcement action against a local government for violating the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation if the alleged violation occurs before January 1, 2025.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2631 (Fong, Mike D) Local agencies: ethics training.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/20/2024-A. APPR.
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4/10/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, WICKS, BUFFY, Chair Summary:
Current law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided.
Current law requires all local agency officials who are members of specified public bodies to receive the above-described training, whether or not the member receives any type of compensation, salary, or stipend or reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation for these purposes, require the Fair Political Practices Commission, in consultation with the Attorney General, to create, maintain, and make available to local agency officials an ethics training course, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2632 (Wilson D) Planning and zoning: thrift retail stores.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Would prohibit a city, including a charter city, a county, or a city and county, from treating a thrift retail store, as defined, differently from a nonthrift retail store for purposes of zoning, development
standards, or permitting. The bill would allow a city, county, or city and county to require that thrift retail stores meet certain aesthetic or design standards, as prescribed. The bill would prohibit a city, including a charter city, a county, or a city and county, from prohibiting a thrift retail store from receiving used and donated items for sale in the store or other thrift retail stores, or reuse or recycling, or both reuse and recycling, through other means. By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development
AB 2638 (Ward D) Housing programs: financing.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
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 and to provide housing assistance and home loans. 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. Current law, unless an extension of a department loan, the reinstatement of a qualifying unpaid matured loan, the subordination of a department loan to new debt, or an investment of tax credit equity would result in a rent increase for tenants of a development, authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to approve an extension, reinstatement, subordination, payoff, extraction, or investment pursuant to specified rental housing finance programs, as specified, or if the department determines that a project has, or will have after rehabilitation or repairs, a potential remaining useful life equal to or greater than the term of the restructured loan. Current law authorizes the department to charge a monitoring fee to cover the aggregate monitoring costs in years the loan is extended and a transaction fee to cover its costs for processing restructuring transactions, and requires developer fee limitations to be consistent with specified laws and regulations, including regulations by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee.
This bill would revise and recast these provisions, including additionally authorizing the department to approve the payoff of a department loan in whole or part before the end of its term and the extraction of equity from a development for purposes approved by the department. The bill would specify eligible uses of loan and equity sources, if the department determines that a project has, or will have after rehabilitation or repairs, a potential remaining useful life equal to or greater than the term of the department’s regulatory agreement for purposes of approving an extension, reinstatement, subordination, payoff, extraction, or investment, as described above.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2639 (Patterson, Joe R) Forestry: timber operations: maintenance of timberlands for fuels reduction.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY NATURAL RESOURCES, BRYAN, ISAAC, Chair Summary:
The Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to, and approved by, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Current law defines “timber operations” for purposes of the act. The act provides that any person who willfully violates any provision of the act or rule or regulation of the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection is guilty of a misdemeanor. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a
project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would expand the definition of “timber operations” to include the maintenance of timberlands for fuels reduction, paid in part or in whole with public funds.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2643 (Wood D) Cannabis cultivation: environmental remediation.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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Current law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish the watershed enforcement program to facilitate the investigation, enforcement, and prosecution of offenses relating to unlawful water diversions and other violations of the Fish and Game Code associated with cannabis cultivation.
Current law also requires the department, in coordination with specified state agencies, to establish a permanent multiagency task force to address the environmental impacts of cannabis cultivation. This bill would require the department to conduct a study to create a framework for cannabis site restoration with the goal of providing guidance for the cleanup, remediation, and restoration of environmental damage caused by cannabis cultivation, and to complete the study by January 1, 2027, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to enter into an agreement with a nongovernmental organization or educational institution for that entity to conduct the study.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2645 (Lackey R) Electronic toll collection systems: information sharing: law enforcement.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. PUB. S.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, MCCARTY, KEVIN, Chair Summary:
Current law prohibits a transportation agency, as defined, from selling or otherwise providing to any other person or entity, with certain exceptions, personally identifiable information of a person who subscribes to an electronic toll collection system or who uses a toll bridge, toll lane, or toll highway that employs an electronic toll collection system. Under current law, a transportation agency is authorized to make personally identifiable information of a person available to a law enforcement agency only pursuant to a search warrant, except under certain circumstances. Current law defines “personally identifiable information” for these purposes and provides that it includes, among other things, a license plate number. Current law authorizes a law enforcement agency to request the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to activate the Emergency Alert System within the appropriate area if that agency determines that a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and there is information available that, if disseminated to the general public, could assist in the safe recovery of that person. Current law also authorizes the CHP, upon the request of a law enforcement agency, to activate various other alerts for missing individuals meeting certain criteria and alerts following an attack upon a law enforcement officer or a hit-and-run fatality. This bill, if the CHP activates one of the above-mentioned alerts and that alert contains a license plate number of a vehicle involved in the incident, would require a transportation agency that employs an electronic toll collection system to notify the CHP and the law enforcement agency that requested the alert upon identifying that vehicle with that license plate number using a camera-based vehicle identification system or other electronic medium employed in connection with the electronic toll collection system.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2646 (Ta R) Crimes: loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Would make it a misdemeanor to loiter in a public place within 1,000 feet of a school, park, playground, amusement park, or state highway with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, and make other conforming changes. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2652 (Muratsuchi D) State Department of Education: artificial intelligence working group.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3).
Location: 4/4/2024-A. P. & C.P.
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4/8/2024 #23 ASSEMBLY SECOND READING FILE -- ASSEMBLY BILLS Summary:
Would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the State Board of Education, to, on or before January 1, 2025, convene a working group for the purpose of exploring how artificial intelligence and other forms of similarly advanced technology are currently being used in education, identifying how they may be used in the future, and developing best practices to ensure that those technologies advance, rather than harm, educational quality, pupil critical thinking and writing skills, and the essential work of certificated and classified employees.
Position: Watch
Subjects: K-12 Education
AB 2655 (Berman D) Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. ELECTIONS
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS, PELLERIN, GAIL, Chair Summary:
This bill would establish the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024 for the purpose of preventing the online dissemination of manipulated media and disinformation meant to deceive voters and to prevent them from voting. The bill would require a large online platform, as defined, to block the posting or sending of materially deceptive and digitally modified or created content related to elections, during specified periods before and after an election. The bill would require a large online platform to label certain additional content inauthentic, fake, or false during specified periods before and after an election. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2658 (Bains D) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste: reduction regulations: exemption.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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Summary:
Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to implement a comprehensive short-lived climate
pollutant strategy to achieve a reduction in statewide emissions of methane by 40% by 2030. Current law requires the methane emissions reduction goals to include a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic waste reduction goals that include, among other things, requirements intended to meet the goal that not less than 20% of edible food that is currently disposed of be recovered for human consumption by 2025 and that may include penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance, as provided. This bill would exempt from the above-referenced organic waste reduction goal requirements and regulations, food processing establishments, as defined, that do not divert organic waste to landfills.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 2661 (Soria D) Electricity: transmission facility planning: water districts.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. U. & E.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY UTILITIES AND ENERGY, PETRIE-NORRIS, COTTIE, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide, not later than March 31, 2024, transmission-focused guidance to the ISO about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources. Current law requires the guidance to include the allocation of those resources by region based on technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region. This bill would require the PUC to evaluate the potential for 10,000 to 30,000 megawatts of solar electrical generation located in the Central Valley beyond the amount of solar electrical generation described in the most recently adopted preferred system plan as of January 1, 2025. If the PUC determines that solar electrical generation to be cost effective, the bill would require the PUC to provide, no later than the March 31 immediately following that determination, transmission-focused guidance to the ISO that includes the solar electrical generation in the resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 2663 (Grayson D) Affordable housing fees: reports.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
The Mitigation Fee Act, among other things, imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project, including requiring the local agency to identify the use to which the fee is to be put, as specified. The act requires a local agency, upon receipt of a fee subject to these provisions, to deposit, invest, account for, and expend the fees as specified. For the 5th fiscal year following the first deposit into the account of fund, and every 5 years thereafter, the act requires the local agency to make prescribed findings with respect to that portion of the account or fund remaining unexpended, whether committed or uncommitted, including demonstrating a reasonable relationship between the fee and the purpose for which it is charged. This bill, commencing on January 1, 2026, would require a local agency that collects inclusionary housing zoning in-lieu fees to annually post on its internet website the amount of those fees collected in the previous year and whether those fees are intended to be used for a project, if any. The bill, commencing on January 1, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter,
would require a local agency that collects inclusionary housing zoning in-lieu fees to post on its internet website the amount of those fees collected in the past 5 years and the project those fees were spent on.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2665 (Lee D) Housing finance: Mixed Income Revolving Loan Program.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
Would establish, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Mixed Income Revolving Loan Program within the California Housing Finance Agency to zero-interest construction loans to qualifying residential, infill housing developers for the purpose of constructing deed-restricted affordable housing.
The bill would require the agency to formulate a program for the development of multifamily housing projects where a portion of the housing units are set aside to ensure affordability, as specified. The bill would require the agency to be the administrator of the program and to promulgate rules and regulations deemed necessary for the administration and implementation of its provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2667 (Santiago D) Affirmatively furthering fair housing: housing element: reporting.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken with regards to the local agency affirmatively further fair housing that enables the reporting of the assessment components described- above, as specified. The bill would require local governments to utilize the standardized reporting format for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2674 (Schiavo D) The California Affordable and Foster Youth Housing Finance Innovation Act.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HUM. S.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
Would establish the California Affordable and Foster Youth Housing Finance Innovation Program and would require the agency to issue credit instruments, as defined, to qualified housing sponsors, as defined, for the construction, acquisition, and renovation of qualified projects, as defined. For all dwelling units in a qualified project that are reserved for specified tenants, the bill would require the
qualified housing sponsor to, upon request of the agency, verify each tenant that satisfies specified provisions is either a current or former foster youth or a low-income household and would prohibit the qualified housing sponsor from charging such tenants a rent that exceeds the fair market rent, as specified. The bill would set forth the requirements for the agency to administer the program including, among other requirements, to provide to an applicant a written notice informing the applicant whether the agency has approved or disapproved the application, and if disapproved, the reason for the disapproval, as specified. The bill would require the agency, upon appropriation, to issue loan guarantees for qualified loans made by financial institutions to qualified housing sponsors for the construction, acquisition, and renovation of qualified projects. The bill would also require the agency to, upon appropriation, enter into agreements to make lines of credit available, as specified, to obligors in the form of direct loans to be made by the agency for a qualified project.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2676 (Gabriel D) Housing elements.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 2/15/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Location: 2/14/2024-A. PRINT
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Current law requires a city, county, or city and county to submit a draft housing element or draft amendment to its housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development for a determination as to whether the draft complies with state law governing housing elements. Current law imposes certain requirements on an action brought by an interested party to review the conformity of a housing element with applicable state law. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision imposing certain requirements on those actions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2681 (Weber D) Weapons: robotic devices and unmanned aircrafts.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/18/2024-Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and P. & C.P.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. PUB. S.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, MCCARTY, KEVIN, Chair Summary:
Would prohibit a person from knowingly manufacturing, modifying, selling, transferring, or operating a robotic device or unmanned aircraft that is equipped or mounted with a weapon, as specified. The bill would make a violation punishable by a fine of at least $5,000 but not more than $25,000. The bill would exclude certain entities from these provisions including, among other entities, a defense industrial company that obtains a waiver from the Department of Justice, as specified. By creating a new infraction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2684 (Bryan D) Safety element: extreme heat.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E.M.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a safety element for the protection of the community from unreasonable risks associated with the effects
of various geologic and seismic hazards, flooding, and wildland and urban fires. Current law requires the planning agency to review and, if necessary, revise the safety element upon each revision of its housing element or local hazard mitigation plan, but not less than once every 8 years, to identify new information relating to flood and fire hazards and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies applicable to the city or county that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element. This bill would require a city or county, upon the next revision of its local hazard mitigation plan on or after January 1, 2024, to review and update its safety element as necessary to address the hazard of extreme heat, as specified. The bill, after the initial revision of the safety element pursuant to these provisions, would require the planning agency to review and revise the safety element upon each revision of the housing element or local hazard mitigation plan to identify new information relating to extreme heat hazards and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2686 (Grayson D) Hazardous waste: generation and handling fees.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. E.S. & T.M.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS, GARCIA, EDUARDO, Chair
Summary:
This bill would, until January 1, 2026, similarly impose a discounted fee rate of $5.72 for each ton or fraction of a ton of that certain hazardous waste generated from residential projects, including mixed- use projects, that were deemed complete on or before December 31, 2021, student housing projects for public universities that were issued permits on or before December 31, 2021, and certain other mixed-use, commercial, or nonprofit projects that were issued permits on or before December 31, 2021, as specified. The bill would, among other requirements, require this fee, which is collected and administered by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to be due and payable in one installment, and would require the generator of hazardous waste to both file an annual return in the form prescribed by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration and pay the proper amount of fee due, and to amend the annual return filed in fiscal years 2021–22 and 2022–23 to reflect this discounted fee rate, as provided. The bill would require a generator of hazardous waste that is subject to this discounted fee rate to report to the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration certain information about the hazardous waste generated, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026. Because a violation of these requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2687 (Flora R) Automated traffic enforcement systems.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. TRANS.
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This bill would, until January 1, 2030, authorize a city or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system for a period of 5 years if, among other things, the system meets the criteria specified above. The bill would require a violation of any traffic law that is recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be subject only to a civil penalty, and would prohibit the Department of Motor Vehicles from suspending or revoking the privilege of a violator to drive a motor vehicle. The bill would require a notice of violation to be in writing and issued to the registered owner of the vehicle within 15 calendar days of the date of the violation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2694 (Ward D) Density Bonus Law: residential care facilities for the elderly.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, a senior citizen housing development, as defined. The Density Bonus Law defines a “development” for these purposes to include a shared housing development. This bill would expand the definition of a development for the above-described purposes to include a residential care facility for the elderly, as defined. By expanding a city or county’s duty to administer the Density Bonus Law, this bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2697 (Irwin D) Transportation electrification: electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. TRANS.
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4/15/2024 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION, WILSON, LORI, Chair Summary:
Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to develop network roaming requirements for electric vehicle chargers and charging station networks by January 1, 2026, that would apply to the charging network of owners or operators of electric vehicle charging stations that received an incentive from a state agency or through a charge on ratepayers, as specified. The bill would repeal this requirement on January 1, 2035.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2700 (Gabriel D) Emergency medical services: alternate destinations.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. HEALTH
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, BONTA, MIA, Chair Summary:
Existing law authorizes a county to develop an emergency medical services (EMS) program, and requires a county developing that program to designate a local EMS agency. Existing law authorizes a local EMS agency to develop a community paramedicine or triage to alternate destination program that, among other things, selects providers to triage individuals to mental health facilities and sobering centers as alternates to emergency departments. Existing law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop and, after approval by the Commission on Emergency Medical Services, adopt regulations and establish minimum standards for the development of those programs.This bill would require the state to survey and analyze the facilities in each county that can serve as an alternate destination facility. The bill would require a local emergency medical services agency to develop an alternate destination facility plan with protocols for transporting an individual to an alternate destination facility instead of an emergency department.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2707 (Fong, Mike D) Community colleges: student housing: study.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. HIGHER ED.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HIGHER EDUCATION, FONG, MIKE, Chair Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of postsecondary education in this state. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to conduct a study evaluating the demographics and unique issues and barriers that housing-insecure community college students 25 years of age and older and students with dependents, as defined, face in securing housing. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to submit a report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2026, with the results of the study, including, among other things, policy recommendations, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2708 (Patterson, Jim R) Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy: reports.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on C. & C.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. C. & C.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE, BOERNER, TASHA, Chair
Summary:
Current requires the Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy to oversee the acquisition and management of contracts for the development and construction of, and for the maintenance and operation of, a statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network, as defined. Current law requires the office, in consultation with the Department of Finance, to submit annually a report to the budget committees of the Legislature on the broadband network in compliance with specified law. This bill would require additional information to be included in the annual report, including, the total cost to complete the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network, the total available funding for the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network, and the projected completion date for the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 2710 (Lackey R) Peace officers: active shooter incidents.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/4/2024
Status: 3/6/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Current law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop and disseminate guidelines and standardized training recommendations for Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, as specified, that would be available for use by law enforcement agencies that conduct SWAT operations. This bill would require each law enforcement agency at an active shooter incident to identify the incident commander, as defined, and prohibit the indiscriminate parking of police vehicles.
The bill would require the commission to develop guidelines for law enforcement agencies to prevent unnecessary radio transmissions and inappropriate self-deployment of law enforcement officers during
an active shooter incident.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2712 (Friedman D) Preferential parking privileges: transit-oriented development.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
This bill, for a residential, commercial, or other development project that is exempt from minimum automobile parking requirements and located within a preferential parking area, would require the development project to be excluded from the boundaries of the preferential parking area and would prohibit the local authority, as defined, from issuing any permit to the residents, vendors, or visitors of the development project that grants preferential parking privileges. The bill would also authorize a local authority to issue permits to residents, vendors, and visitors of the development project that is within the boundaries of a preferential parking area if the local authority makes written findings that including the development project would not have a substantially negative impact on the preferential parking area, as specified.The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2715 (Boerner D) Ralph M. Brown Act: closed sessions.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
The Ralph M. Brown Act generally requires that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Current law authorizes a legislative body to hold a closed session on, among other things, matters posing a threat to the security of essential public services, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize a closed session to consider or evaluate matters related to cybersecurity, as specified, provided that any action taken on those matters is done in open session.
Position: Watch
AB 2717 (Alvarez D) Planning and zoning: housing element: annual progress report.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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This bill would require each planning agency, in their above-described annual report, to include the number of rental housing units and for-sale units that have been completed, as evidenced by the project’s certificate of occupancy, pursuant to the above-described assessment and inventory.
Position: Watch Closely
Subjects: Housing
AB 2728 (Gabriel D) Planning and zoning: housing development: independent institutions of higher education and religious institutions.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
The Affordable Housing on Faith and Higher Education Lands Act of 2023 (the act) requires a housing development project on certain lands owned by an independent institution of higher education or a religious institution to be a use by right if the development project satisfies specified criteria, including that a specified percentage of the development project’s total units are for lower income households.
This bill would require the program in the housing element to develop a plan that incentivizes and promotes the production of very low, low-, and moderate-income housing on land owned by religious institutions and independent institutions of higher education. The bill would require a local government to include in the annual report specified information relating to housing development projects under the act, including the number of applications submitted and the total number of building permits issued under the act. The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a list of existing state grants and financial incentives in connection with the planning, construction, and operation of very low, low-, and moderate-income housing on land owned by religious institutions and independent institutions of higher education, and to develop a set of model partnership agreements that can be used by those institutions when they partner with an affordable housing builder.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2729 (Patterson, Joe R) Residential fees and charges.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
Current law prohibits a local agency that imposes fees or charges on a residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date of the final inspection or the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except that the payment may be required sooner if the local agency determines that the fees or charges will be collected for public improvements or facilities for which an account has been established and funds appropriated and for which the local agency has adopted a proposed construction schedule or plan prior to final inspection or issuance of the certificate of occupancy, or if the fees or charges are to reimburse the local agency for expenditures previously made. This bill would delete the above- described authorization for a local agency to require payment of fees or charges prior to the date of final inspection or issuance of the certificate of occupancy, whichever occurs first.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2735 (Rubio, Blanca D) Joint powers agreements: water corporations.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on INS.
Location: 4/1/2024-A. INS.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY INSURANCE, CALDERON, LISA, Chair Summary:
Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or more public agencies, if authorized by their governing bodies, by agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties.
Existing law authorizes a mutual water company, as defined, to enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency for these purposes. Existing law authorizes 2 or more local public entities, or a mutual water company and a public agency, to provide insurance, as specified, by a joint powers agreement. Existing law authorizes local public entities or a mutual water company and a public agency to enter into a joint powers agreement for the purposes of risk-pooling, as specified.This bill would authorize a water corporation, as defined, to enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency for the purpose of jointly exercising any power common to the contracting parties. The bill would also authorize a water corporation and one or more public agencies to provide insurance, as specified, by a joint powers agreement. The bill would also authorize a water corporation and one or more public agencies to enter into a joint powers agreement for the purposes of risk-pooling, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 2744 (McCarty D) Vehicles: pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicle safety.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. TRANS.
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Current law authorizes a legislative body of a city, whenever this legislative body determines that it is necessary for the more efficient maintenance, construction, or repair of streets and roads within the city, to contract with the board of supervisors of any county for the rental of the county’s equipment, as specified. This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2025, prohibit the addition of a right-turn or travel lane within 20 feet of a marked or unmarked crosswalk where there is not already a dedicated and marked right-turn or travel lane, and would prohibit vehicles from using this 20-foot area for right turns unless the area is already marked as a dedicated right-turn lane before January 1, 2025.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2746 (Villapudua D) Employee Housing Act: agricultural housing.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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The Employee Housing Act, generally regulates employee housing, as defined. Current law authorizes the owner of any employee housing who has qualified or intends to qualify for a permit to operate pursuant to the act to invoke specified provisions of law, including, among other things, deeming employee housing consisting of no more than 36 beds in a group quarters or 12 units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household an agricultural land use, providing that this employee housing is not subject to certain taxes and fees, and considering this employee housing an agricultural use of property, as specified. This bill would recast those provisions to apply to employee housing consisting of no more than 50 units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2751 (Haney D) Employer communications during nonworking hours.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. L. & E.
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Summary:
This bill would require a public or private employer to establish a workplace policy that provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from the employer during nonworking hours, except as specified. The bill would define the “right to disconnect” to mean that, except for an
emergency or for scheduling, as defined, an employee has the right to ignore communications from the employer during nonworking hours. The bill would require nonworking hours to be established by written agreement between an employer and employee. The bill would authorize an employee to file a complaint of a pattern of violation of the bill’s provisions with the Labor Commissioner, punishable by a specified civil penalty.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 2766 (Low D) Public records: parole calculations and inmate release credits.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Read second time. Ordered to third reading. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5.
Location: 4/4/2024-A. APPR.
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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 current 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, with specified exceptions. The bill would require the department, by March 1, 2026, and by March 1 of each year thereafter, to compile an annual report for each department facility that awards sentence credits, as specified, and post that report on its internet website.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2770 (Committee on Public Employment and Retirement) Public employees’ retirement.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/3/2024-A. APPR.
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Summary:
The Teachers’ Retirement Law establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS), and sets forth the provisions for its administration and the delivery of benefits to its members. Current law authorizes a member to request to purchase additional service credit and to redeposit accumulated retirement contributions returned to the member, as provided. Current law specifies the basis for the contribution amount, depending on whether the member is or is not employed to perform creditable service subject to coverage by the Defined Benefit Program on the date of the request to purchase additional service credit. Current law requires additional regular interest to be added to the contributions, as specified, if the member is not employed to perform creditable service subject to coverage by the Defined Benefit Program on the date of the request to purchase additional service credit. This bill would revise that interest calculation. The bill would require the member to sign and return the completed statement of contributions and interest required from STRS to purchase service credit at a specific cost no later than 35 calendar days from the date of the offer.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 2772 (Quirk-Silva D) California Rent Relief Program.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
Would establish the California Rent Relief Program, which would be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to make block grant allocations to grantees to provide rental assistance to eligible households. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2776 (Rodriguez D) Recovery from major federal disasters: funding priority.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E.M.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONSENT CALENDAR, RODRIGUEZ, FREDDIE, Chair
Summary:
This bill would authorize the Office of Emergency Services (OES), the Office of Planning and Research (OPR), and the council to prioritize infrastructure and housing recovery projects in communities that suffered a loss in population and businesses due to a major federal disaster and have unmet recovery needs as a result of a major federal disaster under specified programs, including, among others, the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program and the federal Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. The bill would also authorize the OES, the OPR, and the council to prioritize funding to communities recovering from major federal disasters under those same specified programs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
AB 2778 (Muratsuchi D) Mobilehome Affordability Act: mobilehome parks: rent caps.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
Would enact the Mobilehome Affordability Act. The bill 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, or 5%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for a tenancy at any time during the 12 months prior to the effective date of the increase, 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. Notwithstanding these provisions, the bill would authorize management to increase the rental rate by 5% after a transfer of a mobilehome park, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2782 (Patterson, Jim R) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law 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, fentanyl, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. The bill would lower the weight requirements of that crime with regard to fentanyl.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2790 (Pacheco D) Crimes: organized retail theft.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. PUB. S.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, MCCARTY, KEVIN, Chair Summary:
Existing law, until January 1, 2026, prohibits organized retail theft, described as acting in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acting in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acting as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruiting, coordinating, organizing, supervising, directing, managing, or financing another to undertake acts of theft. Under existing law, a violation of organized retail theft is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony.This bill would additionally define organized retail theft to include acting in concert with one or more persons to steal specified types of merchandise, including infant formula, baby food, over-the-counter medications, and blood glucose testing strips, with the intent to sell those items. The bill would make a violation of this provision punishable as a felony. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2791 (Wilson D) Sidewalk vendors.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Summary:
Current law authorizes a local authority, among other restrictions, to prohibit sidewalk vendors in areas located within the immediate vicinity of a permitted certified farmers’ market or a permitted swap meet.
This bill would additionally authorize a local authority to prohibit sidewalk vendors in areas located within the immediate vicinity of an annual fair operated by a district agricultural association, county fair, or citrus fruit fair, as described.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 2793 (Gabriel D) Housing elements: prohousing incentives.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/16/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/15/2024-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 the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with those provisions. Current law requires the department to
designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by the department, as prescribed. Current law awards jurisdictions that are prohousing and that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2794 (Bryan D) Community development: Antidisplacement Commercial Property Acquisition Program.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
Would establish the Antidisplacement Commercial Property Acquisition Program, to be administered by GO-Biz to provide low-interest loans to eligible community-based acquisition partners to acquire commercial property in communities that are vulnerable to gentrification and displacement. The bill would specify the goals of the program, including ensuring local businesses remain in high-risk communities vulnerable to gentrification and displacement. The bill would establish the Antidisplacement Commercial Property Acquisition Revolving Loan Fund, and would authorize GO-Biz, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the fund for purposes of the program, to provide low-interest loans for purposes of the program. The bill would require GO-Biz to adopt regulations to administer the program, including qualifications that prioritize the preservation of Black-, indigenous-, people of color-, and women-owned businesses and the acquisition of commercial property in culturally significant commercial corridors. The bill would require GO-Biz to report to the Legislature on the progress of the program by January 1, 2030, or 5 years after the disbursement of the first loan by GO-Biz, whichever is later. The bill would make the program contingent upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2796 (Alvarez D) Equitable Access to Zero-Emissions Vehicles Fund.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and NAT. RES.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. TRANS.
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Summary:
Would establish the Equitable Access to Zero-Emission Vehicles Fund and would make moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for a new vehicle rebate program and for other specified purposes. The bill would require the State Air Resources Board, by July 1, 2025, to establish a program to offer rebates for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles and other specified vehicles from moneys made available from the fund. The bill would require the state board to submit a biennial report to the Legislature that includes certain information relating to the expenditures from the fund.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2799 (Fong, Vince R) Sustainable groundwater management: small farms: fees.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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4/16/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE, PAPAN, DIANE, Chair
Summary:
Current law authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin and imposes specified duties upon that agency or combination of agencies, as provided. Current law authorizes a groundwater sustainability agency that adopts a groundwater sustainability plan to impose fees on the extraction of groundwater from the basin to fund costs of groundwater management, as specified. This bill would require a groundwater sustainability agency to consider the efforts of small farms, as defined, that recharge groundwater into the basin upon which their property is located when imposing or increasing fees.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2802 (Maienschein D) Transitional housing placement providers.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/2/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. HUM. S.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HUMAN SERVICES, LEE, ALEX, Chair Summary:
The California Community Care Facilities Act requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate transitional housing placement providers pursuant to the act. Under current law, a transitional housing placement provider is an organization licensed by the department to provide transitional housing to foster children at least 16 years of age and not more than 18 years of age and to nonminor dependents to promote their transition to adulthood. Current law requires a transitional housing unit to include, among other things, a host family certified by a transitional housing placement provider or other designated entity, as prescribed. Current law requires the department to adopt regulations governing transitional housing placement living arrangements requirements for minors and nonminor dependents, as prescribed. This bill would require those regulations to include allowing a minor or nonminor dependent participant to share a bedroom or unit in a transitional housing placement with a nonparticipant roommate, sibling, or coparent, as specified. The bill would also require the regulations to allow a minor or nonminor dependent with children to share their living arrangement with a coparent or participant sibling. The bill would require the regulations to require counties and program contracts to allow individual program participants and individuals sharing their living arrangements to share bedrooms, bathrooms, and units together, regardless of gender identity and would require county program contracts to allow providers and participants to make best matches to allow for gender flexibility.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2806 (Santiago D) Mental health.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/16/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/15/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Bronzan-McCorquodale Act governs the organization and financing of community mental health services for persons with mental health disorders in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 2807 (Villapudua D) Vehicles: sideshows and street takeovers.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. TRANS.
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4/15/2024 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION, WILSON, LORI, Chair Summary:
Current law, commencing July 1, 2025, authorizes the court to order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to 6 months and restrict the person’s operation of a motor vehicle for the purposes of their employment if the violation occurred as part of a sideshow, as defined. Current law requires the court to consider a person’s hardships, as specified, when deciding to either suspend or restrict a driver’s license. This bill would clarify that a “sideshow” is also known as a “street takeover.”
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety, Transportation
AB 2809 (Haney D) Vehicles: automated speed enforcement.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/18/2024-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and P. & C.P.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. TRANS.
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4/15/2024 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION, WILSON, LORI, Chair Summary:
Would require the Secretary of Transportation to develop guidelines for the implementation of a state highway work zone speed safety program using automated speed enforcement systems, as specified.
The bill would authorize the Department of Transportation to establish a state highway work zone speed safety program in accordance with those guidelines. The bill would require the department, if a program is established, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2811 (Lowenthal D) Attorneys: court filings: artificial intelligence.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on JUD. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. JUD.
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Summary:
The State Bar Act regulates the conduct of attorneys. Current law provides that it is the duty of an attorney to, among other things, support the Constitution and laws of the United States and this state, and to maintain inviolate the confidence, and at every peril to the attorney to preserve the secrets, of the attorney’s client. This bill would additionally require an attorney to execute and maintain, for a period of 7 years, an affidavit certifying whether generative artificial intelligence, as defined, was used in the drafting of each document that the attorney files, or intends to file, in a state or federal court within this state. The bill would require an attorney to, upon request or demand by a state or federal court within this state, file the affidavit with the court, provided that the 7-year retention period has not yet expired.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 2815 (Petrie-Norris D) Clean Transportation Program: electric vehicle charging stations.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. TRANS.
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4/15/2024 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION, WILSON, LORI, Chair Summary:
Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, on or before January 1, 2026, to provide funding through a new or existing program under the Clean Transportation Program for repair or replacement of nonoperational electric vehicle charging stations that are at least 5 years old, that were installed before January 1, 2024, and that are located in a publicly available parking space, as provided. The bill would require the commission to allocate at least 50% of that funding to low-income communities and disadvantaged communities. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2036.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2825 (Boerner D) Accessory dwelling units: inspections: housing purposes.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Current law requires ministerial approval of ADUs, as specified, if the local agency does not adopt an ordinance governing ADUs. Under current law, a local agency is also required to ministerially approve an application for a building permit within a residential or mixed-use zone to create any of specified variations of ADUs.
Current law also authorizes a local agency to provide for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units (JADUs) in single-family residential zones, as specified. This bill would authorize a local agency to adopt an ordinance that allows the local agency to inspect an ADU or JADU to ensure that the unit is used for dwelling purposes consistent with specified requirements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2829 (Papan D) Digital Advertising Services Tax Law.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 4/1/2024-A. REV. & TAX
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Summary:
This bill would, beginning January 1, 2025, require a person with at least $100,000,000 in annual gross revenues, as defined, to pay a tax on annual gross revenues that are derived from digital advertising services in the state at a specified rate. The bill would prohibit a taxpayer from directly passing on the cost of the tax to a customer. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the net proceeds from the tax would be used to fund youth mental health services. The bill would require the department to administer and collect the tax pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law. By expanding the application of the crimes associated with the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.This bill would 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.This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Position: Watch
AB 2832 (Ward D) Economic development: international trade and investment.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. J., E.D. & E.
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4/16/2024 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND THE ECONOMY, VILLAPUDUA, CARLOS, Chair
Summary:
Current law creates the California Agricultural Export Promotion Account, a special account, in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, and continuously appropriates moneys in the account to the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to support export promotional and public relations activities conducted generally and pursuant to specified provisions relating to foreign marketing. Current law requires the account to consist exclusively of funds received for that purpose from private industry sources, marketing order advisory boards, and agricultural councils and agricultural commissions.
Current law requires funds expended from the account to be used exclusively for activities that directly benefit the industry sources from which the moneys are derived. This bill would authorize the secretary to enter into goods and services contracts using funds from the account for the above-described activities and using federal funds authorized for international activities, as necessary, and would exempt those contracts from contracting requirements applicable only to state contracts. The bill would authorize funds expended from the account to be used for representational allowance expenditures for the purpose of providing proper representation of California to foreign government officials and federal officials of the United States, including business-related meals that include the participation of foreign government officials or federal officials of the United States and the California agricultural industry, as prescribed, and representational gifts, not to exceed $100 dollars.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 2835 (Gabriel D) Motels and hotels: publicly funded shelter programs.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
Current law provides that the continued occupancy of a shelter program participant in a motel or hotel does not constitute a new tenancy and is not considered a “person who hires” for purposes of an unlawful detainer action if the shelter program meets specified requirements. Current law prohibits specified provisions of the California Building Standards Code from causing a motel or hotel to be designated as nontransient solely as a result of a shelter program participant’s occupancy in the motel or hotel beyond a 30-day period, or from being interpreted to restrict the duration of occupancy for shelter program participants. Current law prohibits a hotel or motel from adopting specified policies or imposing charges or fees specifically for shelter program participants, and prohibits requiring those participants to check out and reregister or move out of or between rooms while actively enrolled in a shelter program for purposes of preventing occupants from establishing rights of tenancy. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2025. This bill would delete the January 1, 2025, repeal date, thereby extending operation of the above-described provisions indefinitely.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2839 (Pellerin D) Elections: deceptive media in advertisements.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and JUD.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. ELECTIONS
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS, PELLERIN, GAIL, Chair Summary:
Would prohibit a person, committee, or other entity from knowingly distributing an advertisement or other election communication, as defined, that contains certain materially deceptive and digitally
altered or digitally created images or audio or video files, as defined, with the intent to influence an election or solicit funds for a candidate or campaign, subject to specified exemptions. The bill would apply this prohibition within 120 days of an election and, in specified cases, 60 days after an election.
The bill would authorize a recipient of a materially deceptive and digitally altered or digitally created image or audio or video file distributed in violation of this section, or a candidate or committee participating in the election, to file a civil action to enjoin the distribution of the media and to seek damages against the person, committee, or other entity that distributed it. The bill would require a court to place such proceedings on the calendar in the order of their date of filing and give the proceedings precedence.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2844 (Calderon D) Solid waste: recycled concrete materials.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/16/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/15/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes the use of recycled concrete materials if a user has been fully informed, as defined, that the concrete may contain recycled concrete materials. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 2846 (Lackey R) Controlled substances: synthetic cannabinoid compounds and derivatives.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law makes it a crime to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer, or give, or offer to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer, or give, or possess for sale, any synthetic cannabinoid compound or any synthetic cannabinoid derivative. Current law provides that a first offense of using or possessing these substances is punishable as an infraction, a 2nd offense is punishable as an infraction or a misdemeanor, and a 3rd or subsequent offense is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would expand the definition of a synthetic cannabinoid compound to include certain substances, a metabolite of specified substances, and any synthetic substances that, when ingested, are intended to act as a cannabinoid receptor agonist.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2850 (Rodriguez D) Cannabis.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. PUB. S.
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This bill would amend theAdult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) to make it a felony, punishable by 16 months or 2 or 3 years in county jail, for a person over 18 years of age, but under 21 years of age to plant, cultivate, harvest, dry, or process any quantity of living cannabis plants. The bill would additionally make it a felony, punishable by 16 months or 2 or 3 years in county jail, for a person over 21 years of age to plant, cultivate, harvest, dry, or process more than 6 living cannabis plants. By increasing the penalty for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 2854 (Irwin D) Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. REV. & TAX
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY REVENUE AND TAXATION, IRWIN, JACQUI, Chair
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The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law (Bradley-Burns) authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law. Current law, on or after January 1, 2016, prohibits a local agency from entering into any form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to any person, as defined, for any purpose, if the agreement results in a reduction in the amount of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues that, in the absence of the agreement, would be received by another local agency and the retailer continues to maintain a physical presence within the territorial jurisdiction of that other local agency, with specified exceptions. This bill would require a local agency, as defined, to annually provide specified information relating to each agreement resulting in the direct or indirect payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.
Position: Watch Closely
Subjects: Finance
AB 2861 (Wallis R) Personal income tax: credit: gun safe.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. REV. & TAX
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY REVENUE AND TAXATION, IRWIN, JACQUI, Chair
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The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, in an amount equal to the amount paid or incurred, not to exceed $300, during the taxable year for the purchase of one gun safe, as defined, for use in a residential unit located in the state.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 2869 (Friedman D) Department of Transportation: trail access: infrastructure projects.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/2/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. TRANS.
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION, WILSON, LORI, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation 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 mitigate the impact of infrastructure projects that interfere with or eliminate trail access to parks and recreational areas by maintaining safe access for users of existing trails or providing alternative safe access to those parks and recreational areas.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 2874 (Soria D) Planning and zoning: residential development.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/16/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/15/2024-A. PRINT
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Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would eliminate barriers to new residential development.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2878 (Gabriel D) Statute of limitations: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Current law prescribes the time after the commission of a crime in which a criminal action is required to be commenced, referred to as a statute of limitations. Current law provides that prosecution for unauthorized use of personal identifying information shall be commenced within 3 years after the commission of the offense. Current law provides that prosecution for offenses, including grand theft and insurance fraud, shall be commenced within 4 years after discovery of the offense, or within 4 years after completion of the offense, whichever is later. For offenses involving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud through the Employment Development Department, this bill would extend the statute of limitations for each of the above-described prosecutions to 12 years.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2881 (Lee D) The Social Housing Act.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and preserving affordable housing. The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority. This bill would prescribe the composition of the California Housing Authority Board, which would govern the authority, and which would be composed of appointed members and members who would be elected by residents of social housing developments, as specified. The bill would set forth the powers and duties of the authority and the board. The bill would require the authority to seek to achieve revenue neutrality, as defined, and would require the authority to seek to recuperate the cost of development and operations over the life of its properties through mechanisms that maximize the number of Californians who can be housed without experiencing rent burden.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2885 (Bauer-Kahan D) Artificial intelligence.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. P. & C.P.
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PRIVACY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION, BAUER-KAHAN, REBECCA, Chair
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Existing law establishes the Government Operations Agency, which is governed by the Secretary of Government Operations. Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, evaluate the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state.This bill would define the term ”artificial intelligence” for the purposes of the above-described provisions to mean an engineered or machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 2888 (Chen R) Cannabis: invoices: payment.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/2/2024-A. APPR.
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The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.
MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act, and requires the department to be under the supervision and control of a director. Existing law requires every sale or transport of cannabis or cannabis products from one licensee to another licensee to be recorded on a sales invoice or receipt and prescribes the information included on those receipts, including the cost to the purchaser. Current law provides grounds for disciplinary action under MAUCRSA, including failure to comply with the provisions of MAUCRSA or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to MAUCRSA. This bill would, except as specified, require a licensee to pay for goods and services sold or transferred by another licensee no later than 15 days following the final date set forth in the invoice. The bill would require a licensee who sold or transferred goods to another licensee and who has not received payment in full 15 days after the final date set forth in the invoice to report the unpaid invoice to the department, as specified. The bill would require the department to notify a licensee of this report, and would require the department to commence a issue a notice of warning, or, in its discretion, issue a citation or take disciplinary action against the licensee if the licensee fails to pay the outstanding invoice in full by 30 days after this notification, as specified. The bill would prohibit the licensee from purchasing goods and services from another licensee on credit until the licensee pays the outstanding invoice in full.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 2890 (Lowenthal D) Alcoholic beverages.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/16/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/15/2024-A. PRINT
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Under existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law requires the Director of Alcoholic Beverage Control, upon request from the Legislature, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature on the department’s activities and to
post the report on its internet website. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those reporting requirements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 2893 (Ward D) The Shared Recovery Housing Residency Program.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
This bill would authorize state programs to fund recovery housing, as defined, under these provisions as long as the state program uses at least 75% of its funds for housing or housing-based services using a harm-reduction model and the recovery housing meets certain requirements, including that core outcomes of the recovery housing emphasize long-term housing stability and minimize returns to homelessness. The bill would also prohibit eviction on the basis of relapse, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate facilities that provide residential nonmedical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services. Existing law also requires the department to certify alcohol and other drug treatment recovery services, as specified.This bill would require the department to oversee certification of recovery houses that serve individuals experiencing, or who are at risk of experiencing, homelessness or mental health issues, with a housing first model, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2894 (Gallagher R) Urban water use targets: indoor residential water use.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/16/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/15/2024-A. PRINT
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Existing law requires the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use in California.
Existing law requires each urban retail water supplier to develop urban water use targets and an interim urban water use target, as specified, and states the intent of the Legislature that the urban water use targets cumulatively result in a 20% reduction from the baseline daily per capita water use.
Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to develop technical methodologies and criteria, as provided, for purposes of these provisions. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision requiring the department to develop technical methodologies and criteria.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 2897 (Connolly D) Property tax: welfare exemption: community land trusts.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
(1)Existing property tax law, pursuant to constitutional authorization, 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.
Existing law, for the 2022–23 fiscal year through the 2027–28 fiscal year, in the case of an owner of property that is a community land trust, as defined, requires that a unit continue to be treated as occupied by a lower income household for purposes of the welfare exemption 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. Existing law requires that a lease between a community land trust and a lower income household satisfy specified requirements in order for these provisions to apply, including being a renewable 99-year ground lease.This bill would eliminate specified requirements of a lease agreement between a lower income household and a community land trust in order for the unit to continue to be treated as occupied by a lower income household, as described above. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
AB 2902 (Wood D) Organic waste: reduction regulations: exemptions.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/4/2024-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY NATURAL RESOURCES, BRYAN, ISAAC, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to complete, approve, and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the state to reduce the statewide methane emissions by 40% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law requires methane emissions reduction goals to include specified targets to reduce the landfill disposal of organics.
Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations that achieve those targets for reducing organic waste in landfills, as provided. The department’s organic waste regulations provide different organic waste procurement targets for local jurisdictions based on population and provide waivers and exemptions from collection and procurement requirements for rural, low-population, and high-elevation jurisdictions. Current law provides that the exemption for rural jurisdictions is valid until December 31, 2026, as specified. This bill would extend the rural jurisdiction exemption indefinitely, except as provided, and would require, commencing January 1, 2027, those jurisdictions to take specific actions to help reduce, divert, or recycle organic waste. The bill would require the department to exclude residents included in department-issued low population or elevation waivers from the population in determining a local jurisdiction’s organic waste procurement target. The bill would require a jurisdiction that no longer qualifies for a rural exemption due to an increase in population to have 3 years from the date of that population increase to comply with the organic waste collection services and procurement requirements, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 2903 (Hoover R) Homelessness.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Current law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California by creating partnerships between federal, state, local, and nonprofit entities. Current law sets forth the composition of the council, which includes, among others, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who serve as cochairs of the council. This bill would add a representative from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to the council described above.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Homelessness
AB 2904 (Quirk-Silva D) Zoning ordinances: notice.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the planning commission to hold a public hearing on any zoning ordinance or an amendment to a zoning ordinance that changes any property from one zone to another. Current law, if the proposed ordinance or amendment to a zoning ordinance affects the permitted uses of real property, requires notice of the hearing to be, among other things, mailed or delivered at least 10 days prior to the hearing to the owner of the subject real property, as specified. This bill would instead require notice of the planning commission’s hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance or amendment to a zoning ordinance, if the proposed ordinance or amendment to a zoning ordinance affects the permitted uses of real property, to be mailed or delivered at least 60 days before the hearing to the owner of each property subject to the proposed zoning ordinance or amendment to a zoning ordinance, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2905 (Low D) Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: artificial voices.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on C. & C.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. C. & C.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE, BOERNER, TASHA, Chair
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Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the connection of an automatic dialing-announcing device to a telephone line. Current law defines “automatic dialing- announcing device” as any automatic equipment that incorporates a storage capability of telephone numbers to be called, or a random or sequential number generator capable of producing numbers to be called, and the capability, working alone or in conjunction with other equipment, to disseminate a prerecorded message to the telephone number called. Current law imposes various requirements on the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device. This bill would expand that definition of “automatic dialing-announcing device” to include calls made using an artificial voice, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 2910 (Santiago D) State Housing Law: local regulations: conversion of commercial or industrial buildings.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
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The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code, which is
required to be published once every 3 years. The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. That law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce within its jurisdiction the provisions of the California Building Standards Code, the provisions of the State Housing Law, and specified other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to that law. That law authorizes a city or county to adopt alternative building regulations for the conversion of commercial or industrial buildings to joint living and work quarters, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize a city or county to adopt alternative building regulations for the conversion of commercial or industrial buildings to residential uses, as specified. The bill would require a city or county to have a housing element compliant with law and to be designated prohousing, before the city or county is authorized to adopt alternative building regulations pursuant to this bill. This bill, before the city or county is authorized to adopt alternative building regulations, would require the city or county to submit proposed alternative building regulations to the commission.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2915 (Low D) Voter notifications.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. ELECTIONS
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Current law requires a county elections official to send a voter notification by nonforwardable, first- class mail to a voter (1) who recently completed an affidavit of registration, (2) whose registration changed because of an official notice they have moved, or (3) who changed their political party preference. Current law also requires a county elections official to notify a voter by first-class mail, including a postage-paid and preaddressed return form, between 15 and 30 days before canceling a person’s voter registration for specified reasons. This bill would, in addition to voter notification mandates under existing law, require a county elections official to notify a voter by nonforwardable, first-class mail, including a postage-paid and preaddressed return form, if the registration of the voter is changed, updated, or canceled for any reason.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2921 (Gabriel D) Planning and zoning.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/16/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/15/2024-A. PRINT
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The Planning and Zoning Law makes various legislative findings and declarations, including that the state has a positive interest in the preparation and maintenance of a long-term, general plan for the physical development of each of the state’s urban areas and that the planning activities of counties and cities can be strengthened and more effectively performed when conducted in relation to studies and planning of an urban regional character. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2922 (Garcia D) Economic development: capital investment incentive programs.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair
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Prior law, until January 1, 2024, authorized a county, city and county, or city to establish a capital investment incentive program, pursuant to which the county, city and county, or city was authorized to pay, upon request, a capital investment incentive amount that does not exceed the amount of property tax derived from that portion of the assessed value of a qualified manufacturing facility, as defined, that exceeds $150,000,000 to a proponent of a qualified manufacturing facility for up to 15 years. This bill would reestablish the authorization for capital investment incentive programs until January 1, 2035.
The bill would make conforming changes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 2923 (Jones-Sawyer D) Peace officers: public complaints.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
Location: 3/4/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Current law requires each department or agency that employs peace officer to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against the personnel of the department or agency.
This bill would require a form used during the complaint process to include a provision inquiring whether the complaint includes an allegation of racial or identify profiling and a space to describe the allegation. The bill would define “complaint” for these purposes to mean a report, given either in writing or verbally, that brings to the attention of a department or agency an incident during which the complainant perceives that a department or agency employee engaged in misconduct, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2926 (Kalra D) Planning and zoning: assisted housing developments: notice of expiration of affordability restrictions.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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(1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires an owner of an assisted housing development proposing the termination of a subsidy contract or prepayment of governmental assistance or of an assisted housing development in which there will be the expiration of rental restrictions to provide a notice of the proposed change to each affected tenant household residing in the assisted housing development, as specified. The Planning and Zoning Law defines “assisted housing development” for these purposes to mean a multifamily rental housing development of 5 or more units that receives governmental assistance under any of specified programs, including assistance provided by counties or cities under specified law in exchange for restrictions on the maximum rents, as specified, and on the maximum tenant income, as specified. The Planning and Zoning law defines a “termination” for these purposes to mean an owner’s decision to extend or renew its participation in a federal, state, or local government subsidy program or private, nongovernmental subsidy program for an assisted housing development, as specified. The Planning and Zoning Law defines the “expiration of rental restrictions” for these purposes to mean the expiration of rental restrictions for an assisted housing development, as specified, unless the development has other recorded agreements restricting the rent to the same or lesser levels for at least 50% of the units. This bill would instead impose the above-described notice requirement on an owner prior to the anticipated date of termination of a subsidy contract or expiration of rental restrictions or prepayment on an assisted housing development, as specified. The bill would expand the definition of “assisted housing development” to include a development that receives assistance from counties or cities in exchange for affordability restrictions, as described above, pursuant to the Middle Class Housing Act of 2022; streamlining assistance pursuant to the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022; specified law providing a streamlined, ministerial approval process for certain housing developments; or the Affordable Housing on Faith and Higher Education Lands Act of 2023. The bill would revise the definition of “termination” for these purposes to instead mean the failure of an owner to extend or renew its participation in the above-described programs, as specified. The bill would also revise the definition of “expiration of rental restrictions” to instead exclude an expiration in a development that has other recorded agreements restricting the rent to the same or
lesser levels for the same number of units. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2930 (Bauer-Kahan D) Automated decision tools.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. P. & C.P.
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PRIVACY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION, BAUER-KAHAN, REBECCA, Chair
Summary:
The Unruh Civil Rights Act provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal and, regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status, are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and requires the department to, among other things, bring civil actions to enforce the act. This bill would, among other things, require a deployer, as defined, and a developer of an automated decision tool, as defined, to, on or before January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, perform an impact assessment for any automated decision tool the deployer uses that includes, among other things, a statement of the purpose of the automated decision tool and its intended benefits, uses, and deployment contexts. The bill would require a deployer or developer to provide the impact assessment to the Civil Rights Department within 7 days of a request by the department and would punish a violation of that provision with an administrative fine of not more than $10,000 to be recovered in an administrative enforcement action brought by the Civil Rights Department. The bill would, in complying with a request for public records, require the Civil Rights Department, or an entity with which an impact assessment was shared, to redact any trade secret from the impact assessment. This bill would require a deployer to, at or before the time an automated decision tool is used to make a consequential decision, as defined, notify any natural person that is the subject of the consequential decision that an automated decision tool is being used to make, or be a controlling factor in making, the consequential decision and to provide that person with, among other things, a statement of the purpose of the automated decision tool. The bill would, if a consequential decision is made solely based on the output of an automated decision tool, require a deployer to, if technically feasible, accommodate a natural person’s request to not be subject to the automated decision tool and to be subject to an alternative selection process or accommodation, as prescribed.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 2933 (Low D) Multiunit residential structures and mixed-use residential and commercial structures: water conservation.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
Would enact the California Multiunit Residential Structure and Mixed-Use Residential and Commercial Structure Water Conservation Act. The bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to wasted water due to plumbing leaks. The bill would require the commission to research, develop, and propose building standards, including voluntary standards of the California Green Building Standards Code, to reduce water waste in existing and new multiunit residential structures and mixed- use residential and commercial structures, including requiring installation of point-of-use systems, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2934 (Ward D) Residential developments: building standards: review.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including approval and adoption of building standards and codification of those standards into the California Building Standards Code (code). Current law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety once every 3 years. Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and requires the department 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. This bill would require the department to no later than December 31, 2025, perform a review of construction cost pressures for certain residential construction as a result of new or existing building standards requirements in the code and provide a one-time report of its findings to the Legislature in the annual report described above. The bill, commencing with the next triennial edition of the code, and every 3 years thereafter, would require the department to perform additional reviews of construction cost pressures for single-family and multifamily residential construction, as described, and propose revisions or updates to the code, as needed, with a goal of maintaining or reducing by 30 percent the cost of construction for new residential development. This bill would require the department to convene a working group no later than December 31, 2025, to research and consider identifying and recommending amendments to state building standards allowing residential developments to be built, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2937 (Wicks D) California Environmental Quality Act: streamlined environmental reviews.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/16/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Location: 2/15/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
CEQA establishes certain processes, such as the preparation of a master EIR or a focused EIR, to streamline the environmental review of projects. CEQA states the intentions of the Legislature in enacting those streamlined environmental review processes. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those statements of intent.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2939 (Rendon D) Parks: counties and cities: interpretive services.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Summary:
Existing law authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation, as a means of furthering its mission to
expand access to state parks and outdoor recreation to all, and contingent upon the availability of its resources, to enter into community access agreements, as defined, with eligible entities, as defined, to provide interpretive services and visitor services, as defined, at units of the state parks system to underserved park users, as defined. This bill would require that use of local parks, as defined, by eligible entities, as defined, to provide interpretative services, as defined, to 30 or fewer participating park visitors at a time be considered an allowable public use of the local park, and would require cities, counties, and cities and counties to treat this use of the local park in the same manner as general public use of the local park, that no benefit is conferred by cities, counties, or cities and counties on eligible entities that is not conferred on the general public. To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on cities, counties, and cities and counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 2940 (Muratsuchi D) California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects:
transmission projects.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/18/2024-Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. The Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021 (the act) authorizes the Governor, until January 1, 2032, to certify environmental leadership development projects that meet specified requirements for certain streamlining benefits related to CEQA. The act requires the lead agency for an environmental leadership development project certified by the Governor to prepare the record of proceedings under CEQA concurrently with the administrative process. This bill would make transmission projects that bring new renewable energy generation onto the grid to be environmental leadership development projects for purposes of the act. Because the lead agency for those transmission projects would be required to prepare concurrently the record of proceedings, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2943 (Zbur D) Crimes: shoplifting.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. PUB. S.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, MCCARTY, KEVIN, Chair Summary:
Current law punishes petty theft as a misdemeanor while grand theft is punished as either a misdemeanor or a felony. Existing law lists specific types of theft which are grand theft and all other cases of theft as petty theft. Current law authorizes a person to be charged with grand theft if the property taken exceeds $950 over the course of distinct but related acts. This bill would clarify that those related acts include acts committed against multiple victims or in counties other than the county of the current offense. The bill would also clarify that, in determining whether acts are motivated by one intention, one general impulse, and one plan, the court may consider, but is not limited to, evidence that the acts involve the same defendant or defendants, are substantially similar in nature, or occur within a 60-day period.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 2945 (Alvarez D) Reconnecting Communities Redevelopment Act.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
The California Constitution, with respect to any taxes levied on taxable property in a redevelopment project established under the Community Redevelopment Law, as it then read or may be amended, authorizes the Legislature to provide for the division of those taxes under a redevelopment plan between the taxing agencies and the redevelopment agency, as provided.Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and designates successor agencies to act as successor entities to the dissolved redevelopment agencies.This bill, the Reconnecting Communities Redevelopment Act, would authorize a city or county, or two or more cities acting jointly, to propose the formation of a reconnecting communities investment agency by adoption of a resolution of intention that meets specified requirements, including that the resolution of intention include a passthrough provision and an override passthrough provision, as defined. The bill would require the city or county to submit that resolution to each affected taxing entity and would authorize an entity that receives that resolution to elect to not receive a passthrough payment, as provided.
Position: Watch Closely
Subjects: Housing
AB 2947 (Lackey R) Water: turfgrass conversion.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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4/23/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE, PAPAN, DIANE, Chair
Summary:
The Water Conservation in Landscaping Act provides for a model water efficient landscape ordinance that is adopted and updated at least every 3 years by the Department of Water Resources, unless the department makes a specified finding. This bill would prohibit the department, when it allocates funding for turf replacement programs, from excluding urban water suppliers’ turfgrass conversion rebate programs if the rebate program requires the recipient of a rebate to achieve a net water savings and to use the most efficient turfgrass irrigation equipment, as provided. The bill would require an urban water supplier that offers a turfgrass conversion rebate program to report annually to the department on the number of turfgrass conversions that are funded through the program and the estimated water savings from the program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 2951 (Cervantes D) Elections: request for recount: notice.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. ELECTIONS
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS, PELLERIN, GAIL, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes any voter, after the completion of the official canvass for a statewide election, to file with the Secretary of State a written request for a vote recount, as specified. Current law requires the Secretary of State to send a copy of the written request by registered mail to each affected county elections official, as specified. This bill would instead require the Secretary of State to send a copy of the written request to the elections official by electronic delivery. The bill would require the elections official to provide written confirmation of delivery to the Secretary of State.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2952 (Addis D) Public employees: retraining and rehabilitation.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Current law requires every public agency, its insurance carrier, and the Department of Rehabilitation to jointly formulate procedures for the selection and referral of injured full-time public employees who may be benefited by rehabilitation services and retrained for other positions in public service. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 2955 (Quirk-Silva D) Affordable housing.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, until January 1, 2033, establishes a streamlined development process for affordable housing developments that meet specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 2962 (Papan D) Wholesale Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE, PAPAN, DIANE, Chair
Summary:
The Wholesale Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act, requires the City and County of San Francisco to adopt a specified program of capital improvement projects designed to restore and improve the bay area regional water system, as defined. Current law makes the act inoperative and repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026. This bill would extend the repeal date of the act to January 1, 2036. By extending the period of time during which certain requirements would apply to regional wholesale water suppliers and the City and County of San Francisco, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 2966 (Alvarez D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: solar energy systems.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative
declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements projects for the installation of a solar energy system on the roof of an existing building or at an existing parking lot, as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above exemption provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 2973 (Hart D) Emergency services.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/2/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E.M.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, RODRIGUEZ, FREDDIE, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires a county to enter into a written agreement with a city or fire district that contracted for or provided prehospital EMS as of June 1, 1980. Current law requires, until that written agreement is reached, prehospital EMS to be continued at not less than the existing level and the administration of prehospital EMS by cities and fire districts contracting for or providing those services as of June 1, 1980, to be retained by those cities and fire districts, as specified. This bill would authorize a county board of supervisors to provide or support the provision of EMS to persons located within the county, as specified. The bill would require the county board of supervisors to review and approve a single-county local EMS agency’s plans for the EMS system prior to the submission of the plans to the authority, and would require a multicounty local EMS agency’s plans to be approved as provided for in the contract between the counties and the agency, as provided for in the joint powers agreement that created the agency, or by the board of supervisors in each of the counties served by the agency prior to the submission of the plans to the Emergency Medical Services Authority.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 2990 (Low D) Political Reform Act of 1974: Investigation and Complaint Resolutions.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. ELECTIONS
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Current law requires the Fair Political Practices Commission to bring an administrative action alleging violations of the Political Reform Act of 1974 within five years after the date on which the violation occurred. This bill would instead require the Fair Political Practices Commission to bring such an administrative action within the lesser of five years after the date on which the violation occurred or two years after specified events triggering an investigation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 2997 (Patterson, Joe R) Subdivisions: manufactured homes.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 defines “manufactured home” for these purposes to mean a structure that meets specified requirements, including that the structure is transportable in one or
more sections and is 8 body feet or more in width, or 40 body feet or more in length, in the traveling mode, or, when erected onsite, is 320 or more square feet, and includes the plumbing, heating, air- conditioning, and electrical systems contained within the structure. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would exempt the review and approval, conditional approval, or denial of a subdivision for a manufactured home development project from CEQA if the project satisfies specified conditions. In this regard, among other things, the bill would require the manufactured home development project to (1) be located on a site that is zoned for residential use and that is no larger than 10 acres, (2) consist of no more than 100 manufactured homes, and (3) include a childcare facility. The bill would require all of the housing units of the project be manufactured homes and subject to specified state building standards. The bill would require a project proponent subject to these provisions to certify to the local government that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3004 (Fong, Mike D) Proposition 65: certificates of merit: Attorney General communications.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. E.S. & T.M.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS, GARCIA, EDUARDO, Chair
Summary:
(1)The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 65 at the November 4, 1986, statewide general election, prohibits a person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing such a chemical into water, or into or onto land and passing into any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act imposes civil penalties upon persons who violate those prohibitions, and provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions by the Attorney General, a district attorney, or specified city attorneys or prosecutors. The act also provides for enforcement by an action brought by any person in the public interest, if that private action is commenced more than 60 days after the person has given notice of the violation that is the subject of the action to the Attorney General and the district attorney, the city attorney, or the prosecutor in whose jurisdiction the violation is alleged to have occurred, and to the alleged violator.This bill would require a report from a laboratory that is submitted with a certificate of merit to indicate the brand name, if any, of the product tested and the laboratory testing to have occurred within one year of the submittal of the certificate of merit.
Position: Watch
AB 3005 (Wallis R) Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law: adjustment suspension.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. TRANS.
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Article XIX of the California Constitution restricts the expenditure of revenues from the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, Diesel Fuel Tax Law, and other taxes imposed by the state on fuels used in motor vehicles upon public streets and highways to street and highway and certain mass transit purposes.
This bill would authorize the Governor to suspend an adjustment to the motor vehicle fuel tax, as described above, scheduled on or after July 1, 2025, upon making a determination that increasing the rate would impose an undue burden on low-income and middle-class families. The bill would require the Governor to notify the Legislature of an intent to suspend the rate adjustment on or before January 10 of that year, and would require the Department of Finance to submit to the Legislature a proposal by January 10 that would maintain the same level of funding for transportation purposes as would have
been generated had the scheduled adjustment not been suspended.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Transportation
AB 3007 (Hoover R) California Environmental Quality Act: record of environmental documents: format.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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4/16/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE, PAPAN, DIANE, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires project applicants and public agencies subject to the California Environmental Quality Act to pay a filing fee to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for each proposed project for the purpose of defraying the costs of managing and protecting fish and wildlife trust resources, as specified. Current law specifies the required filing fees and provides that a filing fee is not required to be paid if specified conditions exist. Current law also authorizes a county clerk to charge a documentary handling fee of $50 per filing in addition to the filing fee, and requires the county clerk of each county and the Office of Planning and Research to maintain a record, both electronic and in paper, of all environmental documents received, as specified. This bill would instead require the county clerk of each county and the Office of Planning and Research to maintain the record either electronically or on paper, or both.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 3011 (Bains D) Electricity: rates: unreasonable hardship.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on U. & E.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. U. & E.
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Would require the Public Utilities Commission to ensure that each electrical rate schedule does not cause an unreasonable hardship on senior citizens, renters, families with minor children, medically vulnerable customers, or economically vulnerable residential customers in hot climate zones, as specified. The bill would provide that any electrical rate schedule that imposes rates on those identified customers above baseline rates during any hour where the temperature is above 90 degrees Fahrenheit for the duration of the hour is considered an unreasonable hardship.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3012 (Grayson D) Development fees: fee schedule template: fee estimate tool.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair Summary:
The Permit Streamlining Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. This bill would require a city or county that has an internet website to make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions, as specified, for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website. The bill authorizes the city or county to choose the format of the fee estimate tool. The bill would require a city or county with a population of greater than 500,000 to meet these requirements
on or before July 1, 2031. The bill would require a city or county with a population of 500,000 or less to meet these requirements on or before July 1, 2032. By requiring a city or county to include a fee estimate tool on its internet website, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3024 (Ward D) Civil rights.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 4/4/2024-A. THIRD READING
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4/8/2024 #46 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - ASSEMBLY BILLS Summary:
The Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976 affords all persons within the jurisdiction of this state the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, committed against their persons or property because of political affiliation, any specified personal characteristic, or position in a labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics.
Current law specifies that whoever denies this right, or aids, incites, or conspires in that denial, is liable for each and every offense for the actual damages suffered by any person denied that right and, in addition, exemplary damages, a civil penalty of $25,000, and attorney’s fees. Current law authorizes a person claiming to be aggrieved by an alleged unlawful practice in violation of this right to also file a verified complaint with the Civil Rights Department. Current law defines the phrase “intimidation by threat of violence” for purposes of this provision. This bill would expand the definition of “intimidation by threat of violence” for purposes of these provisions to also include distribution of hateful materials on the private property of another without authorization for the purpose of terrorizing, as defined, the owner or occupant of that private property.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3029 (Bains D) Controlled substances.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-VOTE: Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar (PASS) Location: 4/2/2024-A. B.&P.
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Would require a coroner or medical examiner to conduct a toxicology analysis or drug screening if those tests are required to confirm the cause and manner of a death, as specified, and would require this analysis in any death where the death is suspected to be due to a drug overdose to test for the presence of specified substances including xylazine, fentanyl, and ketamine. The bill would require that a toxicology analysis or drug screening conducted pursuant to these provisions be reported to the department. By imposing additional duties upon local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3044 (Alanis R) Urban retail water suppliers: urban water use objectives: report.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Water Resources, on or before January 1, 2028, and in coordination with the State Water Resources Control Board, to submit a report to the Legislature on
the progress of urban retail water suppliers towards achieving their urban water use objective. This bill would instead require the report to be submitted to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2029.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3046 (Soria D) Affordable Housing: rural areas.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to increase the amount of available affordable housing in rural areas.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3050 (Low D) Artificial intelligence.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. P. & C.P.
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PRIVACY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION, BAUER-KAHAN, REBECCA, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, current law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, as defined. This bill would require the Department of Technology to issue regulations to establish standards for watermarks to be included in covered AI-generated material, as defined. The bill would require the department’s standard to, at minimum, require an AI-generating entity to include digital content provenance in the watermarks. The bill would prohibit an AI-generating entity from creating covered AI-generated material unless the material includes a watermark that meets the standards established by the department.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 3054 (Berman D) Cannabis: appointees: prohibited activities.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. B.&P.
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4/23/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS, BERMAN, MARC, Chair
Summary:
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, prohibits the director of the Department of Cannabis Control (department) and any member of the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel from engaging in certain activities, including from receiving any commission or profit whatsoever, directly or indirectly, from any person applying for or receiving any license or permit, as described. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. This bill would also prohibit individuals appointed by the Governor to specified positions in the department from engaging in those activities.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3055 (Carrillo, Juan D) Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: veterans.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. TRANS.
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Would authorize the Department of Transportation and local authorities to permit exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) lanes to be used by a vehicle driven by a disabled veteran of the United States Armed Forces, as defined, regardless of the number of passengers in the vehicle or the type of vehicle, provided that the vehicle is registered to or owned, and is driven, by the veteran and the vehicle displays a decal approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles. The bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue the decal to an applicant, upon proof of eligibility that the applicant is a disabled veteran.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 3057 (Wilson D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: junior accessory dwelling units ordinances.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to issue a zoning variance, special use permit, or conditional use permit for a dwelling unit to be constructed, or which is attached to or detached from, a primary residence on a parcel zoned for a single-family residence, as provided, or to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned to allow single-family or multifamily dwelling residential use.
This bill would expand the above CEQA exemption to include the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to provide for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 3058 (Low D) California Unconditional Benefit Program: employment replaced by automation or artificial intelligence: pilot program.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. P. & C.P.
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PRIVACY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION, BAUER-KAHAN, REBECCA, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires the Employment Development Department to implement and administer the unemployment insurance program in this state, and provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Under current law, unemployment compensation benefit award computations are based on wages paid in the base period. Current law provides that an individual who is unemployed in any week and is eligible for unemployment compensation benefits shall be paid an unemployment compensation benefit with respect to that week in an amount equal to their weekly benefit amount, as provided. Current law provides the maximum amount of unemployment compensation benefits payable to an individual during any one benefit year shall not exceed the lower of 26 times their weekly benefit amount or 1/2 the
total wages paid to the individual during their base period. This bill would establish, until January 1, 2029, the California Unconditional Benefit Income (CalUBI) Pilot Program, to be administered by the Employment Development Department upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of providing assistance to individuals who are unemployed because of automation or artificial intelligence.
The bill would authorize an eligible individual, as defined, to submit an application to the department to receive $1,000 each month for a period of 12 months, starting as late as January 1, 2027, and until January 1, 2028, upon a determination that the individual is unemployed because of automation or artificial intelligence and has received the maximum amount of unemployment compensation benefits described in the paragraph above before the first $1,000 is distributed. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement the CalUBI Pilot Program, on or before January 1, 2026, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Economic Development AB 3060 (Lackey R) Pupil transportation: transportation network companies: Public Utilities Commission: safety standards: exemptions.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Coms. on ED. and C. & C.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. ED.
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY EDUCATION, MURATSUCHI, AL, Chair Summary:
The Passenger Charter-party Carriers’ Act provides for regulation of charter-party carriers of passengers by the Public Utilities Commission, subject to specific exclusions, including the transportation of school pupils conducted by or under contract with the governing board of any school district, as provided. Under current law, a violation of the act is a crime. Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to regulate transportation network companies, as provided. This bill would explicitly state that the Passenger Charter-party Carriers’ Act applies to transportation network companies that serve unaccompanied minors due to or based on a contract with a local educational agency, and would authorize the Public Utilities Commission to regulate transportation network companies that serve unaccompanied minors due to or based on a contract with a local educational agency.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 3061 (Haney D) Vehicles: autonomous vehicle incident reporting.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/18/2024-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and C. & C.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. TRANS.
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4/15/2024 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION, WILSON, LORI, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle operated if specified requirements are satisfied. Existing law prohibits the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads until the manufacturer, as defined, submits an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), as specified, and that application is approved. Current law requires the department to adopt various specified regulations relating to autonomous vehicles, including, among others, testing, equipment, and performance standards that the department concludes are necessary to ensure the safe operation of autonomous vehicle on public roads. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 3068 (Haney D) Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
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. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units. This bill would deem an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process if the project meets specified requirements. In this regard, an adaptive reuse project, in order to qualify for the streamlined, ministerial review process, would be required to be proposed for an existing building that is less than 50 years old or meets certain requirements regarding the preservation of historic resources, including the signing of an affidavit declaring that the project will comply with the United States Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation or receive federal or state historic rehabilitation tax credits, as specified. The bill would require an adaptive reuse project to comply with any broadly applicable housing affordability requirement, as defined, adopted by the local government and would require at least one-half of the square footage of the adaptive reuse project to be dedicated to residential uses, unless the project is an office conversion project, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3069 (Fong, Vince R) Local distance and speed signage.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
Location: 4/1/2024-A. CONSENT CALENDAR
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4/8/2024 #64 ASSEMBLY CONSENT CALENDAR 2ND DAY-ASSEMBLY BILLS Summary:
Current law authorizes local authorities to place and maintain signs that indicate speeds and distances both in common standards of measures and in measures of the metric system authorized by Congress.
This bill would repeal, beginning January 1, 2025, the authorization for local authorities to place signs that indicate speed in measures of the metric system. The bill would also make technical changes to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 3071 (Patterson, Joe R) Controlled substances: fentanyl sales.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Current law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedule 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. 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. This bill would increase penalties for an individual who is convicted of one of the above-described offenses that occurred within 10 years of a conviction of possession for sale or transportation for sale related to fentanyl or its analogs, as defined. The bill would also require an individual who is convicted of possession for sale or transportation for sale related to fentanyl and who is granted probation to serve a minimum of 90 days in county jail. The bill
would impose a minimum county jail term of 180 days for an individual who is convicted of possession for sale or transportation for sale that occurred within 10 years of a specified conviction related to fentanyl, and impose a minimum county jail term of one year for an individual that has two specified convictions related to fentanyl.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3073 (Haney D) Wastewater testing: illicit substances.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. E.S. & T.M.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS, GARCIA, EDUARDO, Chair
Summary:
Would require the State Department of Public Health, in consultation with participating wastewater treatment facilities, local public health agencies, and other subject matter experts, to create a pilot program to test for high-risk substances and related treatment medications in wastewater. Under the bill, the goal of the program would be to determine how wastewater data can be used by state and local public health programs to address substance abuse in California. The bill would require the department to develop a list of target substances to be analyzed during the program that may include cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine, xylazine, methadone, buprenorphine, and naloxone. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2025, to solicit voluntary participation from local public health agencies and wastewater treatment facilities, as specified. The bill would require the department to work with the participating agencies and facilities to collect samples and to arrange for those samples to be tested by qualified laboratories. The bill would require the department, in consultation with public health agencies and subject matter experts, to analyze test results to determine possible public health interventions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3075 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Local government: grant programs: technical assistance.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law establishes various grant programs that are available to, or implemented by, local governments, including a building code enforcement incentive program, the Natural Disaster Emergency Shelter Program, and the Homeless Emergency Aid program. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide additional technical assistance to local government accessing state grant programs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 3078 (Carrillo, Wendy D) City streets: maintenance, construction, and repair.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law grants the legislative body of a city certain powers with respect to city streets and roads.
Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city, if it makes a specified determination, to contract with the board of supervisors of any county for the rental of the county’s equipment for the maintenance, construction, or repair of streets and roads within the city, or for the maintenance,
construction, or repair of streets and roads within the city by the county. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3084 (Soria D) Groundwater basin management.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act states the intent of the Legislature to provide for the sustainable management of groundwater basins and to provide local groundwater agencies with the authority and the technical and financial assistance necessary to sustainably manage groundwater, among other purposes of the act. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to improve groundwater basin management.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3085 (Gipson D) Vehicles: street takeovers, sideshows, and racing.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB. S.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. TRANS.
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4/15/2024 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION, WILSON, LORI, Chair 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. Current law makes it a crime to drive a vehicle upon a highway in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property. Current law imposes 2 violation points against a driver’s record for purposes of the suspension or revocation of the privilege to drive if a driver is convicted of reckless driving or engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed. 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 increase the penalties for these offenses when the violations occur as part of a vehicle sideshow, as defined. The bill would make a violation of these offenses punishable as a misdemeanor or felony. The bill would, upon conviction, require the court to order the defendant to attend and complete a victim impact program, as specified. The bill would authorize the court to have the vehicle impounded for up to 30 days, unless there is an undue hardship or other good cause, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3086 (Santiago D) General plan: annual report: housing units.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development of the city or county that includes, among other elements, a housing element. That law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs. That law requires the city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the number of units of housing demolished and new units of housing that have been issued a completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy. This bill would additionally require the city or county to include in the annual report the number of units in the city or county with long-term affordable covenants or restrictions that expired in
the prior year and the number of units in the city or county subject to a local rent control or any form of rent or price control that were withdrawn from rent or lease.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3090 (Maienschein D) Drinking water standards: noncompliance: notification.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. E.S. & T.M.
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4/23/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS, GARCIA, EDUARDO, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires a person operating a public water system to notify the State Water Resources Control Board and users of the public water system, in the manner prescribed by the board, when any primary drinking water standard specified in the board’s regulations is not complied with, when a monitoring requirement specified in the board’s regulations is not performed, or when a water purveyor fails to comply with the conditions of any variance or exemption. Current law authorizes and encourages the public water system to provide notice through foreign language media in addition to nonwritten notification provided for in the public water system’s emergency notification plan. This bill would further authorize and encourage public water systems to provide notification through public safety communications technology, including the federal Wireless Emergency Alert system, that communicates with groups in the affected geographic area.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3092 (Ortega D) Attorney General: law enforcement agencies: reporting requirements: deaths.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 4/3/2024-A. JUD.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY, KALRA, ASH, Chair Summary:
Current law requires a law enforcement agency or agency in charge of a correctional facility, if a person dies while in the custody of that law enforcement agency or agency in charge of the correctional facility, to report in writing to the Attorney General, within 10 days after the death, all the facts in the agency’s possession concerning the death. Current law provides that these writings are public records and open to public inspection, except with respect to confidential medical information, as specified. This bill would require the law enforcement agency or agency in charge of the correctional facility, if any of the information changes or new information becomes available regarding the death, to update its written report to the Attorney General within 10 days of the date of the change or the date the new information becomes available.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3095 (Waldron R) Artificial intelligence.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Current law establishes within the Government Operations Agency the Department of Technology, which is supervised by the Director of Technology. Current law authorizes the director and the department to exercise various powers in creating and managing the information technology policy of
the state. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to artificial intelligence.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 3109 (Muratsuchi D) Theft.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. PUB. S.
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The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of money, labor, or property petty theft punishable as a misdemeanor whenever the value of the property taken does not exceed $950 and grand theft when the value exceeds $950. Proposition 47 requires shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny if the value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor. The bill would, if a person has one conviction for a specified theft offense, make a second or subsequent conviction punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or 16 months, or 2 or 3 years.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3116 (Garcia D) Housing development: density bonuses: student housing developments.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, 20% of the total units for lower income students in a student housing development that meets certain requirements. Current law requires that all units in the student housing development be used exclusively for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled full time at an institution of higher learning, as specified. To be eligible under this provision, current law requires a developer, as a condition of receiving a certificate of occupancy, provide evidence to the city, county, or city and county that the developer has entered into an operating agreement or master lease with one or more institutions of higher education, as specified. Current law also requires the development to provide priority for the applicable affordable units for lower income students experiencing homelessness, as specified. Current law requires units described in these provisions to be subject to a recorded affordability restriction of 55 years. This bill would revise these provisions to instead require that a city or county provide a density bonus to a developer who agrees to provide 20% of bedspaces for lower income students, faculty members, or staff in a student housing development, as defined, that meets certain requirements. The bill would revise the above-described exclusive use requirement to instead require, except as provided, all units in the student housing development to be used exclusively for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled currently or in the past 2 years in at least 6 units at an institution of higher learning, as specified. The bill would additionally authorize eligibility under this provision if the developer, as a condition of receiving a certificate of occupancy, established a system for confirming its renters’ status as students, faculty, or staff to ensure all units of the student housing development are occupied with students, faculty, or staff from an institute of higher education, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3121 (Hart D) Urban retail water suppliers: written notice: conservation order: dates.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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4/23/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE, PAPAN, DIANE, Chair
Summary:
Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board, on and after January 1, 2025, to issue a written notice to an urban retail water supplier that does not meet its urban water use objective. Current law authorizes the board, on and after January 1, 2026, to issue a conservation order to an urban retail water supplier that does not meet its urban water use objective. This bill would instead provide that the date the board is authorized to issue a written notice to January 1, 2026 and a conservation order to January 1, 2027.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3122 (Kalra D) Streamlined housing approvals: objective planning standards.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units required remain available at affordable housing costs or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate income, as specified. Current law authorizes a development proponent to request a modification to a development that has been approved under the streamlined, ministerial approval process if that request is submitted to the local government before the issuance of the final building permit. Current law authorizes a local government to apply objective planning standards adopted after the development application was first submitted to the requested modification if the development is revised such that (1) the total number of residential units or total square footage of construction changes by 15% or more or (2) the development is revised such that the total number of residential units or total square footage of construction changes by 5% or more and it is necessary to impose an objective standard beyond those in effect when the development application was submitted in order to mitigate or avoid a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety. This bill would instead authorize a local government to apply objective planning standards adopted after the development application was first submitted to the requested modification if the development is revised such that (1) the total square footage of construction increases by 15% or more or the total number of residential units decreases by 15% or more or (2) the total square footage of construction increases by 5% or more or the total number of residential units decreases by 5% or more and it is necessary to impose an objective standard beyond those in effect when the development application was submitted in order to mitigate or avoid a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3124 (Low D) Internet websites: personal information.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. P. & C.P.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PRIVACY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION, BAUER-KAHAN, REBECCA, Chair
Summary:
Would prohibit a business from making covered personal information publicly available on its internet website. The bill would also require a business that sells personal information through an internet website to retain identifying information of the customer that purchases that personal information and to make that identifying information available upon request to the subject of the personal information purchased by the customer. The bill would define “covered personal information” to mean certain information that identifies a natural person, including the natural person’s personal address. The bill would punish a violation of the prohibition against a business making covered personal information publicly available on its internet website by a civil penalty of $200 per day, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 3125 (Garcia D) Mutual water companies: board members: training.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. E.S. & T.M.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires each board member of a mutual water company that operates a public water system, within 6 months of taking office and every 6 years thereafter, to complete a course offered by a qualified trainer regarding the duties of board members of mutual water companies, as provided. This bill would require a board member of a mutual water company to provide proof of completion of that training to the State Water Resources Control Board no later than 30 days after completing the training.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3126 (Bauer-Kahan D) Department of Transportation: state highway property: information requests.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights on property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law authorizes the department to acquire any real property that it considers necessary for state highway purposes. This bill would require the department to provide information regarding the acquisition of, and funding sources used to acquire, real property held by the department for state highway purposes within 30 days of receiving a request for that information.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3130 (Quirk-Silva D) County board of supervisors: disclosure.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Location: 4/4/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Summary:
Existing law prohibits certain public officials, including, but not limited to, state, county, or district 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, except as provided. A willful violation of these provisions is a crime.Existing law excepts from the above conflict-of-interest provisions certain remote interests, as described, including those of officers or employees of a nonprofit entity exempt from taxation or a nonprofit corporation, except as prescribed. Existing law requires a remote interest to be disclosed to the body or board of which the officer is a member and noted in its official records, and thereafter the body or board to authorize, approve, or ratify the contract in good faith by a vote of
its membership sufficient for the purpose without counting the vote or votes of the officer or member with the remote interest.This bill would require a member of the board of supervisors to disclose a known family relationship with an officer or employee of a nonprofit entity before the board of supervisors appropriates money to that nonprofit entity.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
AB 3134 (Chen R) Property taxation: refunds.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. REV. & TAX
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Summary:
Current law requires property taxes to be refunded to the taxpayer or last recorded owner under specified circumstances, as provided, and requires that a refund only be made pursuant to a claim for refund, except as provided. This bill would require the county auditor, if the cancellation of taxes will result in a refund, to either process the refund to the payor of the tax or notify the payor in writing of the requirements for obtaining a refund, as specified. The bill would require that a claim for a refund under this provision be deemed timely filed if it is filed within 60 days of the notice, as specified. This bill would also authorize an order for refund of taxes or assessments to be paid to the assessee of a property, as specified, without a claim for refund filed, if certain conditions are met, including, among other requirements, that the amount of the refund is less than $10,000.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
AB 3135 (Chen R) Cities and counties.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law prescribes the powers and duties that are common to cities and counties, including the powers and duties of legislative bodies. Under Current law, if a statute requires a local agency to take legislative action by resolution, and the local agency’s charter requires it to take legislative action by ordinance, action by ordinance is compliance with the statute for all purposes. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
AB 3141 (Gipson D) Property taxation: possessory interests: seaport environmental improvements.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. REV. & TAX
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Calendar:
4/15/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY REVENUE AND TAXATION, IRWIN, JACQUI, Chair
Summary:
Current property tax law requires that all property subject to tax be assessed at its full cash value, and includes certain possessory interests among those property interests that are subject to tax. Current property tax law defines a taxable possessory interest to be a use that is independent, durable, and exclusive. Current property tax law specifies, for purposes of the definition of a taxable possessory interest, various types of possession or use that are not considered independent possession or use of land, including when that possession or use is a tenancy in a residential unit of a publicly owned housing project by a low-income household, as specified. This bill would provide, for the 2025–26 fiscal year to the 2029–30 fiscal year, inclusive, that there is no independent or exclusive possession or use of land or improvements if that possession or use is of any infrastructure at a public seaport, as
defined, that is newly constructed on or after January 1, 2025, as described, as part of a nonrevenue- generating environmental improvement, as defined. The bill would, among other things, deem the construction or installation made or used for the operation of any fully automated cargo handling equipment, as defined, to be independent, durable, and exclusive, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
AB 3144 (Addis D) Utility relocation agreements.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes a relocation agreement between certain utilities, cable television corporations, or cable operators and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, entered into in connection with a transit or transportation capital improvement project. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition of “utility” applicable to the above described utility relocation agreement provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3152 (Jones-Sawyer D) Excise tax: loan guaranties: education and training.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to, among other housing-related duties, insure certain housing loans to qualified buyers that meet certain requirements, including that the loan is secured by mortgages or deeds of trust, or the loan is wholly or partially insured or guaranteed by an agency or instrumentality of the United States, except as specified. This bill would authorize an eligible person to apply to an administrator for the guaranty of up to 50% of one or more qualified loans, as defined, in an aggregate amount that does not exceed an unspecified amount. The bill would define “eligible person” to mean an African American with a special consideration for an African American who is a descendant of persons enslaved in the United States. The bill would prohibit the administrator from guaranteeing a qualified loan if there are not sufficient moneys in the Reparations Fund, described below, to cover the cost of the guaranty.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development
AB 3160 (Gabriel D) Insurance, income, and corporation taxes: credits: low-income housing.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. Re-referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and REV. & TAX.
Location: 4/1/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Calendar:
4/17/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WARD, CHRISTOPHER, Chair
Summary:
Current law establishes a low-income housing tax credit program pursuant to which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee provides procedures and requirements for the allocation, in modified conformity with federal law, of state insurance, personal income, and corporation tax credit amounts to qualified low-income housing projects that have been allocated, or qualify for, a federal low-income housing tax credit, and farmworker housing. Current law limits the total annual amount of the state low-income housing credit for which a federal low-income housing credit is required to the sum of $70,000,000, as increased by any percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the preceding
calendar year, any unused credit for the preceding calendar years, and the amount of housing credit ceiling returned in the calendar year. Existing law provides for an additional allocation of $500,000,000 in low-income housing tax credits for the 2020 calendar year and up to $500,000,000 for the 2021 calendar year and thereafter. Existing law provides that the additional amount for the 2021 calendar year and thereafter is available only if the Budget Act or related legislation specifies an amount available for allocation. This bill would instead require that this additional allocation of low-income housing tax credits be $500,000,000.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 3164 (Jones-Sawyer D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, states that the Legislature finds and declares that the subject of housing is of vital statewide importance to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the state for specified reasons. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3165 (Chen R) Cannabis.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, including delivery of cannabis. Current law gives the Department of Cannabis Control the power, duty, purpose, responsibility, and jurisdiction to regulate commercial cannabis activity in the state. Current law does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction, as described. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 3168 (Gipson D) Department of Motor Vehicles: confidential records.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prohibits the disclosure of the home addresses of certain public employees and officials that appear in records of the Department of Motor Vehicles, except to a court, a law enforcement agency, an attorney in a civil or criminal action under certain circumstances, and certain other official entities. Current law requires that following termination of office or employment, a confidential home address be withheld from public inspection for 3 years, unless the termination is the result of conviction of a criminal offense. Current law provides that if a termination or separation from office or employment is the result of the filing of a criminal complaint, the confidential home address shall be withheld from public inspection during the time in which the terminated individual may file an appeal from termination, while an appeal from termination is ongoing, and until the appeal process is exhausted. If the termination or separation is upheld, existing law grants employing agencies with discretion to maintain the confidentiality of the terminated individual’s home address. This bill would authorize an employing agency to request that the department remove the confidentiality protections described above
following the termination of employment if no appeal to the termination is filed or if the termination or separation is upheld. If the terminated individual files an appeal from termination, this bill would require that the individual’s home address be withheld from public inspection while the appeal from termination is ongoing and until the appeal process is exhausted.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
AB 3171 (Soria D) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Existing 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: Public Safety
AB 3174 (Gabriel D) Multifamily Housing Program: definitions.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 defines various terms for purposes of that program, including “supportive housing.” This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions relating to the Multifamily Housing Program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3180 (Hart D) Affordable housing.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Location: 2/16/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law finds and declares that the Legislature has provided specified reforms and incentives to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3181 (Pellerin D) Electricity: outages.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on U. & E.