Location: 3/11/2024-A. U. & E.
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Would require, if one or more customers served by an electrical distribution circuit experiences 4 or more discrete electrical outages, as defined, during a single calendar year, the electrical corporation that owns and operates that circuit to perform a review of that circuit to determine the cause of the outages and implement system improvements to reduce the anticipated risk of future outages on that circuit below the threshold level of 4 outages per calendar year. The bill would require the electrical corporation to make the findings of the circuit review, the scope of work expected to be performed to reduce the anticipated risk of future outages on that circuit, and the expected reduction in the risk of future outages resulting from that work available to the impacted customers and the city, county, or city and county in which the circuit is located.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3186 (Petrie-Norris D) Public works: prevailing wages: access to records.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on L. & E.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. L. & E.
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Summary:
Current law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages. Current law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work. Current law requires any copy of records made available for inspection as copies and furnished upon request to the public or any public agency to be marked or obliterated to prevent disclosure of an individual’s name, address, and social security number but specifies that any copy of records made available to a Taft-Hartley trust fund for the purposes of allocating contributions to participants be marked or obliterated only to prevent disclosure of an individual’s full social security number, as specified. This bill would require each contractor and subcontractor performing work on any public works project and any covered entity, as defined for these purposes as a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, or other legal entity, that develops or undertakes such project, to make specified records available upon request to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, to multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust funds, and to joint labor- management committees, as specified. The bill would also apply this requirement to contractors, subcontractors, and covered entities that are developing, undertaking, or performing work on a development project for which contractors are required to maintain and verify payroll records, as specified. The bill would subject a contractor, subcontractor, or covered entity, for failing to comply with the provisions of this act, to a penalty by the commissioner, as specified, and would deposit the penalties into a specified fund.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3187 (Carrillo, Juan D) Safe Drinking Water Plan.
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 Safe Drinking Water Act requires the State Water Resources Control Board to maintain a drinking water program and carry out various duties, responsibilities, and functions relating to drinking water, including submission to the Legislature, every 5 years, of a comprehensive Safe Drinking Water Plan for California. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision requiring submission of a Safe Drinking Water Plan.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 3188 (Chen R) Public utility franchises.
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 local government to grant franchises and other privileges to certain public utilities, and requires that those franchises or privileges be granted consistent with specified conditions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that requirement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3190 (Haney D) Public works.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
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:
Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Current law defines the term “public works” for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages. Current law defines “paid for in whole or in part out of public funds” to include, among others, projects that involved transfer by the state or political subdivision of an asset of value for less than fair market price or projects where the money loaned by the state or political subdivision will be repaid on a contingent basis. Current law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages in public works a misdemeanor. This bill would expand the definition of paid for in whole or in part out of public funds to include projects paid using credits that the state or political subdivision agrees to apply against tax liabilities to the state or political subdivision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3195 (Haney D) Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. G.O.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, RUBIO, BLANCA, Chair
Summary:
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application for, and the issuance and suspension of, alcoholic beverage licenses.
Current law requires moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for any on- or off- sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, to sell, give, or deliver to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and for any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours. This bill, beginning January 1, 2025, would allow an on-sale licensee, or their agent or employee, to sell or give alcoholic beverages until 4 a.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, and certain holidays if the licensee holds an additional serving hours license that the bill would create, as specified. The bill, beginning January 1, 2025, would authorize the department to issue an additional serving hours license if the local governing body of the city in which the licensed premises is located adopts an ordinance that meets certain requirements, as specified. Among those requirements are that the ordinance identify the additional serving hours area in which an on-sale licensed premises would be eligible for an additional serving hours license, include assessments of the impact of an additional hours service area, and show that the local law enforcement budget will be
increased by at least 5% to mitigate public safety and transportation impacts.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 3197 (Lackey R) Elections.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-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:
Existing law requires the gathering of a specified number of signatures by petition to nominate a candidate or qualify a measure or recall for the ballot, among other purposes. Existing law requires elections officials to verify the signatures on a petition in accordance with specified procedures.This bill would authorize a county elections official to require the use of a standardized form for the circulation of petitions within the county, except as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 3198 (Garcia D) Joint powers agreements: revenue bonds.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Summary:
The Joint Exercise of Powers Act, under a provision that has become inoperative, authorized an entity created by a joint powers agreement between an irrigation district and a city and having the power to acquire, construct, maintain, or operate facilities and property for supplying water for specified purposes to issue revenue bonds to pay the costs of acquiring, constructing, improving, or financing these facilities. This bill would repeal this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
AB 3200 (Hoover R) Master-metered mobilehome parks and manufactured housing communities: transfer of water systems.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/21/2024-A. U. & E.
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Summary:
Would require the Public Utilities Commission to authorize and establish a pilot program for specified water corporations to accept the transfer of ownership and operational responsibility of water systems in master-metered mobilehome parks or manufactured housing communities, and provide that the exemption described above does not apply to the maintenance or provision of water service by a water corporation pursuant to that pilot program, as specified. The bill would authorize the owner of a master-metered mobilehome park or manufactured housing community that provides water service to residents to transfer ownership and operational responsibility to the water corporation providing service in the area in which the park or community is located, or as the park or community owner and the serving water corporation mutually agree. The bill would impose specified duties on a water corporation and on the owner of the mobilehome park or manufactured housing community in connection with the transfer. The bill would require the commission to establish procedures for initiating and completing the transfer, as provided, including by requiring the owner of the mobilehome park or manufactured housing community to provide written notice of the intent to transfer ownership and operational responsibility of a water system in a mobilehome park or manufactured housing community to the water corporation. The bill would require the commission to authorize the water corporation to
recover in its revenue requirement and rates all costs to acquire, improve, upgrade, operate, and maintain transferred mobilehome park or manufactured housing community water systems. The bill would also require the commission to adopt a standard form contract for these transfers that would be the basis for an expedited approval of the transfer. The bill would prohibit costs related to the transfer of ownership process from being passed through to the park or community residents, but would provide that those costs would be recoverable in rates. The bill would authorize the mobilehome park or manufactured housing community owner, by written notice, to stop the transfer process at any time.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3201 (Carrillo, Juan D) Planning and Zoning Law: housing elements.
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 Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element of a city’s or county’s general plan consist of an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs and a statement of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing. The law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3209 (Berman D) Crimes: theft: retail theft restraining orders.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Location: 4/1/2024-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 prohibits the theft of merchandise from a retail establishment. Existing law authorizes a court, upon sentencing a person for specified offenses, including stalking and elder abuse, to issue a criminal protective order prohibiting the person from contacting any victim of their offense.This bill would authorize a court, when sentencing a person for an offense involving theft from a retail establishment, vandalism of a retail establishment, or battery of an employee of a retail establishment, to issue a criminal protective order prohibiting a person from entering the retail establishment, including any parking lots and including other franchise or chain locations of the retail establishment, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3210 (Bonta D) Affordable Housing on K–12 Lands Act of 2024.
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 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 deems a housing
development project an allowable use on any real property owned by a local educational agency if the housing development satisfies specified conditions, including, among others, consisting of at least 10 housing units, 100% of the units are rented by local educational agency employees, local public employees, and general members of the public pursuant to a specified priority, and a majority of the units are deed restricted for lower income or moderate-income households, as specified. This bill, the Affordable Housing on K–12 Lands Act of 2024, would deem a housing development project a use by right, as defined, if certain criteria are satisfied, including that the development is located on land owned by a local educational agency and the height of the development does not exceed the height limit allowed on the parcel by the city or county or 35 feet, whichever is higher. The bill would require that the units of the housing development be made available to employees of the local educational agency, employees of directly adjacent local educational agencies, local public employees, unhoused students, and members of the general public according to the housing needs of the local educational agency. The bill would require that at least 30% of the units of the development project’s total units, exclusive of a manager’s unit or units, be for lower income households and 20% for persons and families of low and moderate income, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Public Safety
AB 3219 (Sanchez R) Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: local governments.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. TRANS.
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Summary:
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions from those sources. 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 provide that the requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation do not apply to the purchase by a local government of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 8,500 pounds if the price of the zero-emission version of a vehicle is more than an unspecified percentage of the price of a comparable internal combustion engine version of that vehicle.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 3227 (Alvarez D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: stormwater facilities: mitigation.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 4/1/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
Existing law exempts from the requirements of CEQA specific actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency.This bill would specify that this exemption includes routine maintenance of stormwater facilities that are fully concrete or that have a conveyance capacity of less than a 100-year storm event.
Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 3228 (Gabriel D) Peace officers: personnel records.
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 generally provides that peace officer and custodial officer personnel records are confidential, with certain exceptions. Current law defines “personnel records” for those purposes. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3231 (Villapudua D) Violent felonies: hate crimes.
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 certain felonies as violent felonies for purposes of various provisions of the Penal Code. Current law imposes an additional one-year term for a sexually violent felony and a 3-year term for a violent felony for each prior separate prison term served for a violent felony. This bill would additionally define felony hate crimes as a violent felony, as specified. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3233 (Addis D) Oil and gas: operations: restrictions: local authority.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
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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4/8/2024 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY NATURAL RESOURCES, BRYAN, ISAAC, Chair Summary:
The Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation regulates the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Current law specifies that the purposes of the provisions relating to oil and gas include protecting public health and safety and environmental quality, including reduction and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the development of hydrocarbon and geothermal resources in a manner that meets the energy needs of the state. This bill would instead specify that the purposes of the provisions relating to oil and gas include protecting public health and safety and environmental quality, preserving California’s air, water, environment, and natural resources, and advancing the state’s climate goals in a manner that meets the energy needs of the state, and that these provisions create a mandate to minimize harm from oil and gas operation activities.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 3234 (Ortega D) Employers: social compliance audit.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-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: 4/4/2024-A. APPR.
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This bill would require an employer to post a clear and conspicuous link to a report detailing the findings of its most recent social compliance audit on the internet website for their business, if the employer has voluntarily subjected that business to a social compliance audit. The bill would define the term “social compliance audit” to mean an inspection of any production house, factory, farm, or packaging facility of a business to verify whether it complies with social and ethical responsibilities, health and safety regulations, and labor laws, including those regarding child labor. The bill would require that report to include, among other things, whether the business does or does not engage in, or support the use of, child labor and a copy of any written policies and procedures the business has regarding child employees.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 3237 (Boerner D) California Bicycle Routes of National, State, or Regional Significance Act.
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 Bicycle Routes of National, State, or Regional Significance Act authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish a process for identifying and promoting bicycle routes of national, state, or regional significance, as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision naming the act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 3241 (Pacheco D) Law enforcement: police canines.
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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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, MCCARTY, KEVIN, Chair Summary:
Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to adopt uniform, minimum guidelines regarding the use of canines by law enforcement, including legal standards established by the bill, and to certify courses of training for all law enforcement canine handlers and those law enforcement supervisors directly overseeing canine programs, as specified. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2025, each law enforcement agency to maintain a policy for the use of canines by the agency that, at a minimum, complies with the guidelines adopted by POST, and would require law enforcement agencies to establish a training regimen that includes a course certified by the commission. Because the bill would impose additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 3247 (Irwin D) Public Advocate’s Office: appointment of the director.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/3/2024-A. APPR.
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Summary:
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities. Current law establishes within the commission the independent Public Advocate’s Office of the Public Utilities Commission to represent and advocate on behalf of the interests of public utility customers and subscribers within the commission’s jurisdiction. Current law requires the director of the Public Advocate’s Office to be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. This bill would instead require the director of the Public Advocate’s Office to be appointed for an initial 4-year term by the Speaker of the Assembly and for a consecutive 4-year term by the President pro Tempore of the Senate. Upon the expiration of those terms, the bill would require the authority to appoint the director to rotate every 4 years between the Speaker of the Assembly and the President pro Tempore of the Senate.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3248 (Essayli R) Cannabis excise tax: rate reduction.
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 B. & P. and REV. & TAX.
Location: 4/1/2024-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 (AUMA), an initiative measure, among other things, imposed a weight-based cultivation tax on harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market and a separate excise tax on purchasers of cannabis or cannabis products sold in this state at the rate of 15% of the gross receipts of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer, as specified. Current law that amended AUMA, beginning on January 1, 2023, discontinued the cultivation tax, and, for the 2025– 26 fiscal year and every 2 years thereafter, requires, on or before May 1 of the fiscal year immediately preceding the applicable fiscal year, the cannabis excise tax rate to be adjusted by a percentage that will generate an amount of revenue that would have been collected pursuant to the cultivation tax imposed prior to its discontinuation, as specified. Under this bill, the portion of the rate of the excise tax that is not subject to the above-described cultivation tax adjustment would be reduced from 15% to 5%.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 3256 (Irwin D) Memorandum and balancing accounts: reports to the Legislature.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/18/2024-A. U. & E.
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Summary:
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, gas corporations, heat corporations, telegraph corporations, telephone corporations, and water corporations. Current law directs the commission to require a public utility to establish and maintain a balancing account whenever the commission authorizes a change in rates reflecting and passing through to customers specific changes in costs to reflect the balance between the related costs and revenues. Current law requires the commission to develop a risk-based approach for reviewing those balancing accounts periodically to ensure that the transactions recorded in the balancing accounts are for allowable purposes and are supported by appropriate documentation.
Current law requires the commission to maintain an inventory of the balancing accounts and requires public utilities to record all related costs and revenues in their balancing accounts. Current law requires the commission to adopt balancing account review procedures that are consistent with a risk-based approach. Current law requires the commission to annually provide the Legislature with an update on the status of its review of balancing accounts as part of an annual report or by posting it on its internet website, as provided. Current law provides that all charges demanded or received by any public utility, or by any 2 or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or any service rendered or to be rendered shall be just and reasonable and that every unjust or
unreasonable charge demanded or received for such product or commodity or service is unlawful. This bill would require the commission to include, as part of its annual update to the Legislature on the status of its review of balancing accounts, the amount of funds in, and the expenditures from, the memorandum accounts and balancing accounts of each public utility. The bill would require the commission to annually determine if each memorandum account and each balancing account has achieved its intended purpose in the previous year.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
AB 3257 (Boerner D) Vehicles: driving on the right side.
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 sets forth the rules of the road, and regulates driving, overtaking, and passing. Existing law requires a vehicle to be driven on the right half of the roadway of a highway, except as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 3265 (Bryan D) California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership media campus projects:
judicial streamlining.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD.
Location: 3/11/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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4/15/2024 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 (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 administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the lead agency’s decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals. This bill would establish specified procedures for the administrative and judicial review of the environmental review and approvals granted for an environmental leadership media campus project, as defined, and would require a city within the County of Los Angeles where an environmental leadership media campus project is to be constructed to certify the project for streamlined judicial review, as specified, if the project meets certain conditions. The bill would require the project applicant of the environmental leadership media campus project to take certain actions in order for those specified procedures to apply to the project. The bill would require the Judicial Council, on or before July 1, 2025, to adopt rules of court establishing procedures requiring actions or proceedings seeking judicial review of the certification of an environmental impact report for an environmental leadership media campus project or the granting of any project approval, including any appeals to the court of appeal or the Supreme Court, to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 365 calendar days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court to an action or proceeding seeking judicial review of the lead agency’s action related to an environmental leadership media campus project. The bill would require the environmental leadership media campus project to meet certain labor requirements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 3267 (Wilson D) Land use: development near military installations.
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 each public agency, after accepting an application for a development project as complete, and the project applicant has identified that the proposed project is located within 1,000 feet of a military installation, within special use airspace, or beneath a low-level flight path, to provide notice of the complete application to each branch of the United States Armed Forces that has provided the Office of Planning and Research with points of contact to receive the notice. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 3269 (Essayli R) Net energy metering.
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 each electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, electrical cooperative, or other entity that offers electrical service, except as specified, to develop a standard contract or tariff that provides for net energy metering, which, among other things, compensates each eligible customer-generator, as defined, for the electricity it generated during a preceding 12-month period that exceeds the electricity supplied by the entity through the electrical grid to the eligible customer-generator during that same period, as provided. Current law requires each entity to make the contract or tariff available to eligible customer-generators, upon request, on a first-come-first- served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity used by those eligible customer- generators exceeds 5% of the entity’s aggregate customer peak demand, except as specified. Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop an additional standard contract or tariff, which may include net energy metering, for eligible customer-generators that are customers of large electrical corporations, as defined, requires each large electrical corporation to offer this standard contract or tariff to its eligible customer-generators beginning July 1, 2017, or before that date if ordered to do so by the commission because it has reached that 5% net energy metering program limit, and prohibits limiting the amount of generating capacity or the number of new eligible customer-generators entitled to receive service pursuant to this standard contract or tariff, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to net energy metering.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 3276 (Ramos D) Mitigation Fee Act: reports.
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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The Mitigation Fee Act imposes certain requirements on a local agency that imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project that is imposed to provide for an improvement to be constructed to serve the development project, or a fee for public improvements, as specified. In this regard, the Mitigation Fee Act requires the local agency to deposit the fee in a separate capital facilities account or fund, and to make certain information about the account or fund for the fiscal year available to the public within 180 days after the last day of each fiscal year. The Mitigation Fee Act requires that information to include, among other things, a brief description of the type of fee in the account or fund, the identification of each public improvement on which fees were expended, and the amount of fee refunds, as specified. This bill, on or before the last day of the 2029–30 fiscal year and on or before the last day of every 5th fiscal year thereafter, would additionally require a local agency to post this information with respect to each separate account or fund, established as described above, for the preceding 5 years on the local agency’s internet website.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
ACA 2 (Alanis R) Water Resiliency Act of 2024.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 3/6/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 4/20/2023-A. W.,P. & W.
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The California Constitution declares that the general welfare requires that the water resources of the state be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable, and that the right to the use of water does not extend to the waste or unreasonable use, method of use, or method of diversion of water. This measure would require the Treasurer to annually transfer an amount equal to
1.5% of all state revenues from the General Fund to the California Water Resiliency Trust Fund, which the measure would create. The measure would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the California Water Commission for its actual costs of implementing these provisions and for specified water infrastructure projects.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Wildfires
ACA 3 (Lee D) Wealth tax: appropriation limits.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 3/30/2023-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 3/30/2023-A. REV. & TAX
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Summary:
Would authorize the Legislature to impose a tax upon all forms of personal property or wealth, whether tangible or intangible, and would require any tax so imposed to be administered and collected by the Franchise Tax Board and the Department of Justice, as determined by the Legislature in statute.
The measure would authorize the Legislature to classify any form of personal property or wealth for differential taxation or for exemption by a majority vote.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance
ACA 4 (Bryan D) Elections: eligibility to vote.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 9/14/2023-Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Bryan.
Location: 9/14/2023-A. INACTIVE FILE
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The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for the disqualification of electors while serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony. This measure would repeal that requirement regarding the disqualification of electors incarcerated for felony convictions, thereby authorizing an otherwise qualified elector serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony to vote.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Public Safety
ACA 10 (Haney D) Fundamental human right to housing.
Introduced: 3/6/2023
Status: 6/7/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re- referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/7/2023-A. APPR.
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The California Constitution enumerates various personal rights, including the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy. This measure would declare that the state recognizes the fundamental human right to adequate housing for everyone in California. The measure would make it the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill this right, by all appropriate means, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing ACA 16 (Bryan D) Environmental rights.
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 3/11/2024-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/11/2024-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 Constitution declares various inalienable rights of the people, including the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, acquire, possess, and protect property, and pursue and obtain safety, happiness, and privacy. This measure would amend the California Constitution to declare that the people have a right to clean air and water and a healthy environment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Natural Resources
ACA 18 (Wallis R) Road usage charges: vote and voter approval requirements.
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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The California Constitution requires any change in state statute that increases the tax liability of any taxpayer to be imposed by an act passed by 2/3 of the membership of each house of the Legislature, and prohibits specified taxes on real property from being so imposed. For these purposes, the California Constitution defines a “tax” as any state levy, charge, or exaction, except as described in certain exceptions. The California Constitution describes one of those exceptions as a charge imposed for entrance to or use of state property, or the purchase, rental, or lease of state property, except charges governed by a specified provision of the California Constitution. This measure, on or after its effective date, would provide that the exception described above does not include a road usage charge, as described, thereby requiring the imposition of this type of charge to be subject to the 2/3 vote requirement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Transportation
SB 7 (Blakespear D) Planning and zoning: annual report: housing for extremely low income households.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
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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. That law requires the planning agency of a 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. The law requires that the annual report include, among other specified information, the number of net new units of housing, including both rental housing and for-sale housing, that have been issued a completed entitlement, building permit, or certificate of occupancy, and the income category, by area median income, that each
unit of housing satisfies, as specified. This bill would revise and recast these provisions to specify that the income category includes extremely low income households, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 22 (Umberg D) Crimes.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 6/1/2023-A. JUD.
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Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, or sell, various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes as they relate to hard drugs, as defined, to receive a written advisory of the danger of distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the distributor can be charged with homicide or murder.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 26 (Umberg D) Mental health professions: CARE Scholarship Program.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/25/2024-A. DESK
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Current law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to perform various duties with respect to implementing health professions scholarship and loan programs. This bill would, upon appropriation, establish the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Scholarship Program. The bill would require the department to administer the annual scholarship for purposes of increasing the number of culturally competent licensed marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, professional clinical counselors, and psychologists, as specified. The bill would require scholarship recipients to agree to work for county behavioral health agencies in meeting its needs and obligations to implement the CARE Act for a minimum of 3 years upon being licensed to practice in this state. The bill would require the department to post information related to the scholarship on its internet website.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 37 (Caballero D) Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Housing Stability Act.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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Current law establishes various programs to address homelessness, including requiring the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness and establishing the Homeless Emergency Aid program for the purpose of providing localities with one-time grant funds to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Current law commits to the Department of Housing and Community Development the administration of various housing assistance programs, including provisions relating to residential hotel rehabilitation and tasks the department, in consultation with each council of governments, with the determination of each region’s existing and projected housing
need. This bill would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature for this express purpose, require the Department of Housing and Community Development, commencing January 1, 2025, to begin developing the Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Housing Stability Pilot Program.
Position: Watch
SB 53 (Portantino D) Firearms: storage.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
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Would, beginning on July 1, 2025, prohibit a person from keeping or storing a firearm in a residence owned or controlled by that person unless the firearm is stored in a locked box or safe that is listed on the Department of Justice’s list of approved firearms safety devices and is properly engaged so as to render it inaccessible by any person other than the owner, as specified. The bill would make a first violation of this offense punishable as an infraction, and a second or subsequent violation punishable as a misdemeanor. The bill would exempt firearms that are permanently inoperable from these provisions. The bill would require the Department of Justice to promptly engage in a public awareness and education campaign to inform residents about these standards for storage of firearms. The bill would additionally prohibit a person convicted under these provisions from owning, purchasing, receiving, or possessing a firearm within one year of the conviction, as specified. The bill would make a violation of this provision punishable as a misdemeanor or felony.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 85 (Wiener D) Immigration: case management and social services.
Introduced: 1/13/2023
Last Amended: 4/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/25/2024-A. DESK
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The federal Reception and Placement Program (RPP) under the United States Department of State is established to serve refugees during their first 3 months after arrival in the United States, through contracts with local resettlement agencies to provide various services using federal funds. Current state law requires the State Department of Social Services, after setting aside the necessary state administrative funds, to allocate federal funds appropriated for refugee social services programs to each eligible county or qualified nonprofit organization (QNO), as defined, based on the number of refugees receiving aid, or who reside, in the eligible county. If an eligible county or QNO that receives funds declines all or part of those funds, or returns unexpended funds, current law authorizes the department to exercise its discretion to reallocate the declined or returned funds among eligible counties and QNOs. Current law conditions the applicability of the requirements under these provisions on the availability of federal funds. This bill would make those requirements also applicable if state funds are available subject to an appropriation. Under the bill, if a refugee recipient of refugee social services under RPP completes 90 days of those services and exhausts the federal funds allocated for that recipient, the recipient would be eligible for a 90-day extension of those services using state funds within the first 12 months of arrival in the United States.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 251 (Newman D) Candidates’ statements: false statements.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Last Amended: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/16/2024-A. DESK
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Current law permits a candidate for nonpartisan elective office, and an officer whose recall is being sought, to file with the elections official a candidate’s statement that includes a brief description of the candidate’s education and qualifications. Current law requires an elections official to include in the county voter information guide a candidate’s statement from a candidate for nonpartisan elective office and from an officer whose recall is being sought. Current law prohibits a candidate for nonpartisan elective office, or an incumbent in a recall election, to knowingly make a false statement of material fact in the candidate’s statement with the intent to mislead the voters in connection with the candidate’s campaign for nomination or election to an office. Violation of this prohibition is punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the maximum fine amount to $5,000.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 312 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: university housing development projects: exemption.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Last Amended: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 1.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/25/2024-A. DESK
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Current law, until January 1, 2030, exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) a university housing development project carried out by a public university on real property owned by the public university if the project meets certain requirements, including that each building within the project is certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum or better by the United States Green Building Council. Current law requires the lead agency, if the university housing development project is exempt from CEQA under the above provision, to file the LEED certificate for buildings within the project and a notice determining that the construction impacts of the project have been fully mitigated with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located. Current law requires a public university or a relevant public agency with which the project is located. Current law requires a public university or a relevant public agency with authority to issue a certificate of occupancy for a building within the project to not issue the certificate of occupancy for the building unless the lead agency receives certification of LEED Platinum or better from the United States Green Building Council for the building and the lead agency determines that the construction impacts of the project have been fully mitigated. This bill would instead require a public university to obtain LEED Platinum certification for each building within a university housing development project no later than 12 months from the issuance of the building’s certificate of occupancy or its usage. The bill would prohibit a public university that has exempted a university housing development project from being eligible to exempt a subsequent university housing development project until the public university has obtained LEED Platinum certification for each building within the prior exempted university housing development project.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Works
SB 328 (Dodd D) Political Reform Act of 1974: contribution limits.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Last Amended: 6/28/2023
Status: 9/1/2023-September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 8/23/2023-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits a person, other than a small contributor committee or political party committee, from making to a candidate for elective state, county, or city office, and prohibits those candidates from accepting from a person, a contribution totaling more than $3,000 per election, as that amount is adjusted by the Fair Political Practices Commission in January of every odd-numbered year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. This bill would apply those contribution limits to candidates for school district, community college district, and other special district elections. The bill would make certain other provisions of the act relating to contribution limits applicable to candidates for district office. However, the bill would authorize school districts, community college districts, and
other special districts to impose contribution limits on candidates for district office that differ from the limits imposed by the act, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 363 (Eggman D) Facilities for inpatient and residential mental health and substance use disorder: database.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Last Amended: 5/18/2023
Status: 9/1/2023-September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 8/23/2023-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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Would require, by January 1, 2026, the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Social Services, and by conferring with specified stakeholders, to develop a real-time, internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in specified types of facilities, such as chemical dependency recovery hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and mental health rehabilitation centers, among others, to identify the availability of inpatient and residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment.
The bill would require the database to include a minimum of specific information, including the contact information for a facility’s designated employee, the types of diagnoses or treatments for which the bed is appropriate, and the target populations served at the facility, and have the capacity to, among other things, enable searches to identify beds that are appropriate for individuals in need of inpatient or residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 382 (Becker D) Single-family residential property: disclosures.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Last Amended: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/18/2024-A. DESK
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Current law requires that specified disclosures be made upon any transfer by sale, exchange, real property sales contract, lease with an option to purchase, any other option to purchase, or ground lease coupled with improvements, of any single-family residential property. This bill would, on or after January 1, 2026, require a seller of a single-family residential property to deliver a specified disclosure statement to the prospective buyer regarding the electrical systems of the property.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 402 (Wahab D) Involuntary commitment.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Last Amended: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 1.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
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The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to self or others, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by specified individuals, including, among others, by peace officers and designated members of a mobile crisis team, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. This bill would additionally authorize a person to be taken into custody, pursuant to those provisions, by a licensed
mental health professional, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 409 (Newman D) Elections: candidate’s statement.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Last Amended: 8/28/2023
Status: 9/1/2023-September 1 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 8/28/2023-A. APPR.
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Would require the Secretary of State to establish, on or before January 1, 2026, a pilot program that would allow a candidate to include a QR code link, as defined, to a video statement in the state voter information guide, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of State to seek to collaborate with at least 1 but not more than 4 county elections offices from geographically diverse counties to establish a similar program for county voter information guides. The bill would require a participating county to report to the Secretary of State about the effectiveness of the program and for the Secretary of State to provide a report to the Legislature, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 512 (Bradford D) Cannabis: taxation: gross receipts.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Last Amended: 5/3/2023
Status: 7/10/2023-July 10 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. July 10 hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 7/10/2023-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Would, beginning January 1, 2024, exclude from the terms “gross receipts” and “sales price” under the Sales and Use Tax Law the amount of the cannabis excise tax imposed under the Cannabis Tax Law and the amount of any tax imposed by a city or county on the privilege of engaging in commercial cannabis activity, as specified. The bill would also prohibit a city or county from including in the definition of gross receipts, for purposes of any local tax or fee on a licensed cannabis retailer the amount of any cannabis excise tax imposed under the Cannabis Tax Law or any sales and use taxes. By imposing new requirements on local governments with respect to their taxes and fees, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
SB 537 (Becker D) Open meetings: multijurisdictional, cross-county agencies: teleconferences.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Last Amended: 9/5/2023
Status: 9/14/2023-Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.
Location: 9/14/2023-A. INACTIVE FILE
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Summary:
Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency or in other situations related to public health that exempt a legislative body from the general requirements (emergency provisions) and impose different requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The emergency provisions specify that they do not require a legislative body to provide a physical location from which the public may attend or comment. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met, including restrictions on remote participation by a member of the legislative body. These circumstances
include if a member shows “just cause,” including for a childcare or caregiving need of a relative that requires the member to participate remotely. This bill would expand the circumstances of “just cause” to apply to the situation in which an immunocompromised child, parent, grandparent, or other specified relative requires the member to participate remotely. The bill would authorize the legislative body of a multijurisdictional, cross-county agency, as specified, to use alternate teleconferencing provisions if the eligible legislative body has adopted an authorizing resolution, as specified. The bill would also require the legislative body to provide a record of attendance of the members of the legislative body, the number of community members in attendance in the teleconference meeting, and the number of public comments on its internet website within 10 days after a teleconference meeting, as specified. The bill would require at least a quorum of members of the legislative body to participate from one or more physical locations that are open to the public and within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction.
Position: Watch Closely
Subjects: City Administration
SB 552 (Newman D) Public safety: pools and spas.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amended: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/22/2024-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Under the Swimming Pool Safety Act, upon the issuance of a building permit for the construction of a new swimming pool or spa, or the remodeling of an existing pool or spa, at a private, single-family home, the pool or spa is required to be equipped with at least 2 of 7 specified drowning prevention safety features. Under current law, these features include, among others, an approved safety pool cover, as defined; an alarm that, when placed in a swimming pool or spa, will sound upon detection of accidental or unauthorized entrance into the water; or other means of protection that afford an equal or greater degree of protection than those features specified in the act and that has been independently verified as meeting standards for those features established by ASTM International or the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The act requires the local building code official to inspect and approve the drowning prevention safety devices before the issuance of a final approval for the completion of permitted construction or remodeling work. This bill would require that an approved safety pool cover be accompanied by a label verifying that the cover meets certain specifications, is in good repair, and can be opened and closed by automated mechanics. The bill would require that an alarm, as described above, be in good repair and operable as designed.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 554 (Cortese D) Restraining orders.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amended: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 6.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes the court to issue an order to restrain a person to prevent acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse, and to provide for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to permit these persons to seek resolution. Current law authorizes a person who has suffered harassment, as defined, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order prohibiting harassment. Current law prohibits denial of the right to petition when the petitioner has vacated the household to avoid abuse, and, under certain conditions, in the case of a marital relationship. This bill would specify the jurisdictions in which the petitioner may file for a restraining order, including, among other jurisdictions, the superior court in the county where the defendant resides, where the offense occurred, or where the petitioner resides or is temporarily located. The bill would expressly state that an individual need not be a resident of the state to file a petition for a restraining order under these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 571 (Allen D) Fire safety regulations: development projects: ingress and egress route standards.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amended: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt regulations implementing minimum fire safety standards, as provided. This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2027, to create, and provide to the Legislature, a report relating to standards for ingress and egress routes in new development, as provided. The bill would require the state board to do certain things when creating the report, including provide opportunities for input from the public, as specified. The bill would prohibit the state board from adopting any regulations incorporating the standards described in the report until at least 6 months after completing that report.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Safety, Wildfires SB 584 (Limón D) Laborforce housing: Short-Term Rental Tax Law.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amended: 5/18/2023
Status: 6/29/2023-June 28 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 6/15/2023-A. H. & C.D.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would enact the Laborforce Housing Financing Act of 2023, and define “laborforce housing” as housing that, among other things, is owned and managed by specified entities solely for the benefit of residents and households unable to afford market rent, and whose residents enjoy certain protections.
The bill would establish the Laborforce Housing Fund in the State Treasury, and would make moneys in the fund available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the creation of laborforce housing and other specified housing projects by public entities, local housing authorities, and mission-driven nonprofit housing providers, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing SB 588 (Allen D) Property taxation: welfare exemption: lower income households: cap.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amended: 6/30/2023
Status: 7/10/2023-July 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 6/8/2023-A. REV. & TAX
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to exempt from taxation, in whole or in part, property that is used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes, and is owned or held in trust by a nonprofit entity. Pursuant to this constitutional authority, existing law partially exempts, as described, from property taxation property that is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities and that is owned and operated by specified entities if any of specified criteria are met. Under existing law, one of those criteria requires, except in the case of a limited partnership in which the managing general partner is a nonprofit corporation eligible for the exemption, that 90% or more of the occupants of the property be lower income households whose rents do not exceed the rent limits prescribed by a specified law. Existing law limits the total exemption amount allowed to a taxpayer under that criteria, with respect to a single property or multiple properties for any fiscal year on the sole basis of the application of that criterion, to $20,000,000 of assessed value. This bill would remove, for the 2024–25 fiscal year through the 2028–29 fiscal year, the above-described limit on the total exemption amount for any property for which a claim is filed and granted if, in addition to the above- described requirement, at least 90% of the property’s units are made continuously available to, as
defined, or are occupied by lower income households, as defined, at a rent that does not exceed the rent for lower income households, as prescribed by specified law, the property is owned and operated by an eligible nonprofit corporation, and the claimant provides an affidavit, signed under penalty of perjury, that any additional moneys that would have been used to pay any ad valorem property taxes on the property if not for the removal of the exemption cap will be used for the construction or rehabilitation of single or multifamily residential units on specified properties.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
SB 607 (Portantino D) Controlled substances.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amended: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/22/2024-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires a prescriber, with certain exceptions, before directly dispensing or issuing for a minor the first prescription for a controlled substance containing an opioid in a single course of treatment, to discuss specified information with the minor, the minor’s parent or guardian, or another adult authorized to consent to the minor’s medical treatment. This bill would extend that requirement for the prescriber by applying it to any patient, not only a minor, under those circumstances.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 632 (Caballero D) Candidate statements.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amended: 7/11/2023
Status: 9/11/2023-Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Blanca Rubio.
Location: 9/11/2023-A. INACTIVE FILE
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law allows certain candidates for state or federal elective office, as specified, to purchase space to place a statement in the voter information portion of the sample ballot that does not exceed 250 words. This bill would allow the statement to include the party affiliation of the candidate and the candidate’s membership or activity in partisan political organizations. The bill would require the Secretary of State or the office of the elections official to notify a candidate for statewide elective office, State Senate, or Assembly who files a statement with the Secretary of State or the elections official whether the statement was approved or rejected, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 638 (Eggman D) Climate Resiliency and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amended: 6/28/2023
Status: 7/6/2023-July 11 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 6/15/2023-A. W.,P. & W.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would enact the Climate Resiliency and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $6,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, for flood protection and climate resiliency projects.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Finance SB 689 (Blakespear D) Local coastal program: bicycle lane: amendment.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amended: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would provide that an application by a local government to convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane shall not require a traffic study for the processing of either a coastal development permit or an amendment to a local coastal program. The bill would require, if a proposal to create a dedicated bicycle lane within the developed portion of an existing right-of-way requires an amendment to a local coastal program, the amendment be processed according to specified law, if the executive director of the commission makes specified determinations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 726 (Archuleta D) Property taxation: exemption: disabled veteran homeowners.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amended: 4/13/2023
Status: 7/10/2023-July 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 6/21/2023-A. REV. & TAX
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution provides that all property is taxable, and requires that it be assessed at the same percentage of fair market value, unless otherwise provided by the California Constitution or federal law. The California Constitution and current property tax law provide various exemptions from taxation, including, among others, a disabled veterans’ exemption and a veterans’ organization exemption. This bill would exempt from taxation, on that part of the full value of the residence that does not exceed $863,790, as provided, property owned by, and that constitutes the principal place of residence of, a veteran, the veteran’s spouse, or the veteran and the veteran’s spouse jointly, if the veteran is 100% disabled. The bill would provide an unmarried surviving spouse a property exemption in the same amount that they would have been entitled to if the veteran was alive and if certain conditions are met.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 764 (Padilla D) Minors: online platforms.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amended: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require a vlogger, as defined, to compensate a minor under 18 years of age if the minor is engaged in the work of vlogging, as specified. The bill would require the vlogger to set aside gross earnings on the content in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the minor, as specified.
The bill would also require the vlogger to prepare a written statement, under penalty of perjury, that includes specified information relating to the trust account. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 768 (Caballero D) California Environmental Quality Act: State Air Resources Board: vehicle miles traveled:
study.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amended: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 4.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. Current law requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare, develop, and transmit to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for certification and adoption proposed revisions to guidelines establishing criteria for determining the significance of transportation impacts of projects within transit priority areas to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the development of multimodal transportation networks, and a diversity of land uses. Current law creates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with coordinating efforts to attain and maintain ambient air quality standards, to conduct research into the causes of and solution to air pollution, and to systematically attack the serious problem caused by motor vehicles, which is the major source of air pollution in many areas of the state. Existing law authorizes the state board to do those acts as may be necessary for the proper execution of the powers and duties granted to, and imposed upon, the state board. This bill would require the state board, by January 1, 2026, to conduct and submit to the Legislature a study on how vehicle miles traveled is used as a metric for measuring transportation impacts pursuant to CEQA, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Transportation SB 820 (Alvarado-Gil D) Cannabis: enforcement: seizure of property.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amended: 5/1/2023
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would, subject to specified exceptions, authorize the Department of Cannabis Control or a local jurisdiction, after obtaining an inspection warrant, to seize specified property in the place or building, or within any yard or enclosure, where commercial cannabis activity is conducted without a license required by the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA). The bill would also authorize the department or a local jurisdiction to seize a vehicle used to conceal, convey, carry, deliver, or transport cannabis or cannabis products by or for a person engaging in commercial cannabis activity without that license, except as specified. The bill would impose requirements for notice of seizure, forfeiture proceedings, and the sale and distribution of proceeds upon a judgment in favor of the forfeiture.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 834 (Portantino D) Vehicles: preferential parking: residential, commercial, or other development project.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amended: 2/22/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Location: 2/29/2024-A. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking, and permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities. Current law prohibits a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project, as defined, that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. Current law, notwithstanding the above-described prohibition, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a
housing development project if specified conditions are met. Current law authorizes a local authority to authorize preferential parking for designated groups to park on specified streets if the local authority determines that use of the permits will not adversely affect parking conditions for residents and merchants in the area. This bill would prohibit a local authority from issuing any permit conferring preferential parking privileges to any residents or vendors of any developments within 1/2 mile of public transit and exempt from parking minimums. The bill would require the local authority to revise the boundaries of any such preferential parking district to exclude those developments from its boundaries.
The bill would make related findings and declarations, and state that it is the intent of the Legislature to discourage car use by incentivizing development near public transit.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Housing
SB 863 (Allen D) Measures proposed by the Legislature.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amended: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 7.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/30/2024-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would allow the Legislature to specify that a constitutional amendment, bond measure, or other legislative measure submitted to the people will appear on the ballot at an election other the one described above if the election specified in the proposal would occur at least 131 days after adoption of the proposal by the Legislature.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 867 (Allen D) Drought, Flood, and Water Resilience, Wildfire and Forest Resilience, Coastal Resilience, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Biodiversity and Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Park Creation and Outdoor Access, and Clean Energy Bond Act of 2024.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amended: 6/22/2023
Status: 7/6/2023-July 10 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 6/20/2023-A. NAT. RES.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would enact the Drought, Flood, and Water Resilience, Wildfire and Forest Resilience, Coastal Resilience, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Biodiversity and Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Park Creation and Outdoor Access, and Clean Energy Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15,500,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate smart agriculture, park creation and outdoor access, and clean energy programs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Economic Development, Environmental Quality, Finance, Natural Resources
SB 871 (Archuleta D) Property taxation: homeowners’, veterans’, and disabled veterans’ exemptions.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amended: 9/1/2023
Status: 9/12/2023-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2693.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 9/12/2023-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution declares that all property is taxable and establishes or authorizes various
exemptions from tax for real property, including a homeowners’ exemption in the amount of $7,000 of the full value of a dwelling that may be applied unless the dwelling receives another real property exemption. The California Constitution and existing property tax law establish a veterans’ exemption in the amount of $4,000, as specified, for a veteran who meets certain military service requirements, and generally exempts from property taxation the same value of property of a deceased veteran’s unmarried spouse and parents. The California Constitution and existing property tax law establish a disabled veterans’ exemption in the amount of $100,000 or $150,000 for the principal place of residence of a veteran or a veteran’s spouse, as specified. This bill would provide that if Senate Constitutional Amendment 6 is approved by the voters at the statewide general election scheduled for November 5, 2024, then commencing January 1, 2025, notwithstanding that prohibition, the homeowners’ exemption also applies to property on which an owner receives the veterans’ exemption or the disabled veterans’ exemption.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance, Housing
SB 892 (Padilla D) Public contracts: automated decision systems: AI risk management standards.
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. G.O.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, DODD, BILL, Chair
Summary:
This bill would require the Department of Technology to develop and adopt regulations to create an artificial intelligence (AI) risk management standard, consistent with specified publications regarding AI risk management, and in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would require the AI risk management standard to include, among other things, a detailed risk assessment procedure for procuring automated decision systems (ADS), as defined, that analyzes specified characteristics of the ADS, methods for appropriate risk controls, as provided, and adverse incident monitoring procedures. The bill would require the department to collaborate with specified organizations to develop the AI risk management standard.This bill would, commencing on the date on which the regulations described in the paragraph above are approved and final, prohibit a state agency from entering into a contract for an ADS, or any service that utilizes an ADS, unless the contract includes a clause that, among other things, provides a completed risk assessment of the relevant ADS, requires adherence to appropriate risk controls, and provides procedures for adverse incident monitoring.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 893 (Padilla D) California Artificial Intelligence Research Hub.
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. G.O.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, DODD, BILL, Chair
Summary:
Would require the Government Operations Agency, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and the Department of Technology to collaborate to establish the California Artificial Intelligence Research Hub (hub) in the Government Operations Agency, as prescribed. The bill would require the hub to serve as a centralized entity to facilitate collaboration between government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector partners to advance artificial intelligence research and development that seeks to harness the technology’s full potential for public benefit while safeguarding privacy, advancing security, and addressing risks and potential harms to society, as
prescribed.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 896 (Dodd D) Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act.
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 3/14/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. G.O.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, DODD, BILL, 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, 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, the Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act, would, among other things, require the Government Operations Agency, the Department of Technology, and the Office of Data and Innovation to produce a State of California Benefits and Risk of Generative Artificial Intelligence Report that includes certain items, including an examination of the most significant, potentially beneficial uses for deployment of generative artificial intelligence tools by the state, and would require those entities to update the report, as prescribed.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 899 (Skinner D) Protective orders: firearms.
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 3/12/2024-S. JUD.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Current law prohibits a person subject to specified protective orders from owning a firearm or ammunition. Current law requires a person subject to those orders to relinquish any firearms or ammunition they own. This bill would require the court, when issuing those orders, to provide the person subject to the order with information on how any firearms or ammunition still in their possession are to be relinquished, as specified. The bill would require the court to review the file to determine whether the receipt has been filed and inquire as to whether the person has complied with the requirement. The bill would require violations of the firearms or ammunition prohibition to be reported to the prosecuting attorney in the jurisdiction where the order has been issued within 2 business days of the court hearing unless the restrained party provides a receipt showing compliance at a subsequent hearing or by direct filing with the clerk of the court.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 902 (Roth D) Firearms: public safety.
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/2/2024-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who has been convicted of certain misdemeanors may not, within 10 years of the conviction, own, purchase, receive, possess or have under their custody or control, any firearm and makes a violation of that prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Current law, with certain exceptions, makes it a crime to maliciously and intentionally maim, mutilate, torture, wound, or kill a living animal. This bill would provide that any person convicted of a misdemeanor violation of the above-described crimes, on or after January 1, 2025, may not, within 10 years of the conviction, access a firearm as described above, and would make a violation of that prohibition a misdemeanor.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 905 (Wiener D) Crimes: theft from a vehicle.
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/2/2024-S. APPR.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would make forcibly entering a vehicle, as defined, with the intent to commit a theft or a felony therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 908 (Cortese D) Fentanyl: child deaths.
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
4/24/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE HEALTH, ROTH, RICHARD, Chair Summary:
Current law establishes the State Department of Public Health to implement and administer various programs relating to public health. The department administers the California Overdose Surveillance Dashboard that provides data on state- and local-level drug-related overdose outcomes for California, including, among other data, the number of deaths related to fentanyl overdoses. Current law requires the department to update the dashboard to reflect additional information, as specified. This bill would require the department to utilize its data to monitor and identify current trends of fentanyl-related deaths of children 0 to 5 years of age, inclusive. The bill would require the department to develop guidance and spread awareness of the trends to protect and prevent children from fentanyl exposure.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 912 (Wiener D) Colorimetric field drug tests.
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Last Amended: 2/29/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 3/12/2024-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
4/8/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Current law prohibits the possession of certain controlled substances. The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-in-Evidence, which requires a 2/3 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified. This bill would require law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial entities to adopt policies for the arrest and prosecution of drug possession charges to ensure reliable and accurate identifications of controlled substances and to maintain the integrity of convictions, as specified. Unless a test from a crime laboratory confirms the presence of a controlled substance in the sample, the bill would prohibit the use of a colorimetric field drug test, as defined, by law enforcement for a determination of probable cause for an arrest, by a prosecutor when deciding whether to charge a person, by a prosecutor as evidence against a defendant in an arraignment or preliminary hearing, or by a court for a conviction or sentencing, as specified. By excluding relevant evidence from a criminal proceeding, this bill would require a 2/3 vote of the Legislature.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 915 (Cortese D) Local government: autonomous vehicles.
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-April 3 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
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Existing law authorizes an autonomous vehicle, as defined, to be operated on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle being operated if certain requirements are met, including that the vehicle is being operated solely by employees, contractors, or other persons designated by the manufacturer. Existing law prohibits an autonomous vehicle from being operated on public roads until the manufacturer submits an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles containing certain certifications regarding safety and other technological requirements and the department approves that application pursuant to adopted regulations. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2030, and to the extent authorized by federal law, prohibits the operation of certain new autonomous vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles, as defined. This bill would prohibit an autonomous vehicle service, that has received approval to conduct commercial passenger service or engage in commercial activity using driverless vehicles by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Public Utilities Commission, or another state agency, from commencing operation within a local jurisdiction until authorized by a local ordinance enacted pursuant to the bill’s provisions. The bill would authorize each city, county, or city and county in which an autonomous vehicle has received authorization to operate, to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by enacting an ordinance in regard to autonomous vehicle services within that jurisdiction. The bill would require each city, county, or city and county that enacts an ordinance to include certain provisions within that ordinance. These would include a policy for entry into the business of providing autonomous vehicle services including a permitting program that includes, among other things, the establishment of reasonable vehicle caps and hours of service restrictions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 917 (Skinner D) Budget Act of 2024.
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/10/2024-Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. To print.
Location: 1/10/2024-S. BUDGET & F.R.
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Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 918 (Umberg D) Law enforcement liaisons: search warrants.
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. JUD.
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Would require a social media platform to, at all times, make available by telephone to a law enforcement agency a law enforcement liaison for the purpose of receiving, and responding to, requests for information. The bill would also require a social media platform to immediately comply with a search warrant provided to the social media platform by a law enforcement agency if the subject of the search warrant is an account on the social media platform owned by a user of the social media platform.This bill would not apply to a social media platform with fewer than 1,000,000 discrete monthly users.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 919 (Umberg D) Franchise Investment Law: third-party franchise sellers.
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Last Amended: 3/14/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. B. & F. I.
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4/17/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE BANKING AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, LIMÓN, MONIQUE, Chair
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The Franchise Investment Law generally provides for the regulation of the offer and sale of franchises and requires the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation to maintain a risk-based process of reviewing franchise applications with emphasis on risks associated with the franchisor’s financial condition, the franchisor’s compliance record, and significant deficiencies with the franchisor’s application. The law requires specific written disclosures, and authorizes the sale of a franchise to be exempt from specified requirements if the franchisor meets certain disclosure and notice requirements.
Current law makes it unlawful for a person to offer or sell any franchise unless the franchise has been registered or exempted pursuant to these provisions. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2025, require a third-party franchise seller, as defined, to register with the commissioner, as specified, including signing and verifying a prescribed form, and authorize a registered third-party franchise seller to renew its registration annually, as specified. The bill would make it unlawful for a third-party franchise seller to offer or sell a franchise in this state unless the third-party franchise seller is registered pursuant to these provisions, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 922 (Roth D) Animal cruelty.
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-April 2 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. PUB. S.
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Current law makes it a crime to leave or confine an animal in an unattended motor vehicle under conditions that endanger the health or well-being of an animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, lack of food or water, or other circumstances that could reasonably be expected to cause suffering, disability, or death to the animal. Current law makes a first conviction for the crime punishable by a fine not exceeding $100, or if the animal suffers great bodily injury, by a fine not exceeding $500, imprisonment in a county jail, or both. Current law makes a subsequent conviction punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 dollars, imprisonment in a county jail, or both. This bill would increase those fines to $500 for a first offense and $2,000 for a subsequent offense or if the animal suffers great bodily injury.
Position: Watch
SB 923 (Archuleta D) Theft.
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/26/2024-Set for hearing April 16.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. PUB. S.
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4/16/2024 8:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, WAHAB, AISHA, Chair Summary:
The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, defines and prohibits an act of shoplifting and prohibits prosecution for an act of shoplifting under any other law. Existing law defines shoplifting as entering a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny while the establishment is open during regular business hours.This bill would revise the definition of shoplifting to require an intent to steal retail property or merchandise. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 928 (Niello R) Crimes: organized theft.
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 2/14/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. PUB. S.
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Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts 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, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts 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 recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 937 (Wiener D) Development projects: permits and other entitlements: fees and charges.
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6.
Noes 0.) (April 3).
Location: 4/3/2024-S. HOUSING
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4/8/2024 #19 SENATE SENATE BILLS - SECOND READING FILE Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Existing law, the Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Existing law extended by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before, and was in effect on, March 4, 2020, and that would expire before December 31, 2021, except as specified. Existing law provides that if the state or a local agency extended the otherwise applicable time for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement for not less than 18 months, as specified, that housing entitlement would not be extended an additional 18 months pursuant to these provisions. This bill would extend by 24 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was
issued before January 1, 2024, and that will expire before December 31, 2025, except as specified. The bill would toll this 24-month extension during any time that the housing entitlement is the subject of a legal challenge. By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to housing entitlements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 942 (Becker D) California AI Transparency Act.
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and G.O.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. JUD.
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, 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, existing law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, 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, the California AI Transparency Act, would, among other things, require a covered provider, as defined, to create an AI detection tool by which a person can query the covered provider as to the extent to which text, image, video, audio, or multimedia content was created, in whole or in part, by a generative AI system, as defined, provided by the covered provider that meets certain criteria, including that the AI detection tool is publicly accessible and available via a uniform resource locator (URL) on the covered provider’s internet website and through its mobile application, as applicable.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 945 (Alvarado-Gil D) The Wildfire Smoke and Health Outcomes Data Act.
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Location: 3/21/2024-S. E.Q.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary:
Current law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties pertaining to, among other things, protecting, preserving, and advancing public health. Current law requires the department, in consultation with specified stakeholders, to develop a plan, addressing specified issues, with recommendations and guidelines for counties to use in the case of a significant air quality event caused by wildfires or other sources. This bill, the Wildfire Smoke and Health Outcomes Data Act, would require the State Department of Public Health, in consultation with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, and the State Air Resources Board to create, operate, and maintain a statewide integrated wildfire smoke and health data platform no later than July 1, 2026, that, among other things, would integrate wildfire smoke and health data from multiple databases.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 946 (McGuire D) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: exclusions: wildfire mitigation payments.
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Last Amended: 3/14/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. REV. & TAX
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The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines gross income as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, provide an exclusion from gross income for amounts received as a California qualified wildfire loss mitigation payment, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 947 (Seyarto R) Department of Transportation: state highway projects: agreements with public entities:
project design changes.
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 2/14/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. TRANS.
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Would require the Department of Transportation, in an agreement with a city, county, or other public entity for the contribution of funds for the acquisition, construction, or improvement of any portion of state highway, to include a provision that makes the department responsible for any additional costs associated with a new project design adopted by the department after the project is included in the state transportation improvement program or the state highway operation and protection program, as specified. The bill would also make this provision applicable to agreements in effect as of January 1, 2025.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 951 (Wiener D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal zone: coastal development.
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 and 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 112, if necessary SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
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Current law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Current law requires the housing element to identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, among other things. Current law requires the housing element to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of these needs. Current law requires rezoning, including adoption of minimum density and development standards, as specified, when an inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of specified household income levels. This bill would additionally apply specified rezoning standards for any necessary local coastal program updates for jurisdictions located within the coastal zone.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 955 (Seyarto R) Office of Planning and Research: Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program.
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. APPR.
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Would require the Office of Planning and Research, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program to provide grants to local agencies to develop and construct infrastructure projects, as defined. The bill would authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s total cost, subject to specified requirements, including, among other things, that the office is prohibited from awarding a grant to a local agency unless the local agency provides funding that has been raised through local taxes for at least 10% of the infrastructure project’s total cost. The bill would require the office to develop guidelines to implement the program that establish the criteria by which grant applications will be evaluated and funded. The bill would make these provisions operative January 1, 2027.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance
SB 960 (Wiener D) Transportation: planning: transit priority projects: multimodal.
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Set for hearing April 23.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. TRANS.
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4/23/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE TRANSPORTATION, CORTESE, DAVE, Chair Summary:
Would require all transportation projects funded or overseen by the Department of Transportation to provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets facilities unless an exemption is documented and approved, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 961 (Wiener D) Vehicles: safety equipment.
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 23.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. TRANS.
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4/23/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE TRANSPORTATION, CORTESE, DAVE, Chair Summary:
The Department of the California Highway Patrol regulates the safe operation of specified vehicles, including motortrucks of 3 or more axles that are more than 10,000 pounds, truck tractors, trailers, semitrailers, and buses. Current federal law regulates required safety equipment on vehicles, including rear impact guards on certain large trucks to prevent rear underrides in collisions with passenger vehicles. This bill would require certain trucks and trailers to also be equipped with side guards, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety, Transportation
SB 968 (Seyarto R) Planning and zoning: regional housing needs allocation.
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-March 19 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 4.) Reconsideration granted.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. HOUSING
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Current law requires each council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to develop a
proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to cities, counties, and cities and counties within the region or within the subregion, as provided. Current law requires the consideration of several specified factors in developing the methodology. Current law prohibits certain criteria from being a justification for a determination or reduction in a jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, including prior underproduction of housing in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation, as specified. This bill would permit the council of governments or delegate subregion, in developing the methodology, to consider prior overproduction of housing units in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation in a particular income category and to count it as credit toward the future regional housing need allocation of that same income category in the next cycle. The bill would provide that the amount eligible to count as credit toward the next cycle is determined by each jurisdiction’s most recent annual progress report, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 969 (Wiener D) Alcoholic beverages: entertainment zones: consumption.
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 3/12/2024-S. APPR.
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4/8/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Current law defines “entertainment zone” for purposes of the act as a zone created by ordinance on or after January 1, 2024, in the City and County of San Francisco, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way adjacent to and during a special event permitted or licensed by the department. Current law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to establish an entertainment zone, subject to certain requirements, including providing specified information relating to the entertainment zone to the department and establishing a process or procedure by which persons in possession of alcoholic beverages in the entertainment zone may be readily identifiable as being 21 years of age or older. This bill would, instead, define “entertainment zone” as a zone created by a city, county, or city and county ordinance on or after January 1, 2025, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way. The bill would additionally authorize any city, county, or city and county to establish an entertainment zone, subject to the above-described requirements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 970 (Ashby D) Artificial intelligence technology.
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. JUD.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Current law prohibits the false impersonation of another person in either their personal or official capacity with the intent to steal or defraud, as specified. This bill would define various terms related to artificial intelligence and synthetic voice, video, and image recordings produced by artificial intelligence, and would clarify that use of such synthetic recordings, as specified, is deemed to be a false personation for purposes of these and other criminal provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 975 (Ashby D) Emergency medical services: community paramedicine.
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 2/14/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/29/2024-S. RLS.
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Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the payment and reimbursement for mobile integrated health and community paramedicine programs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 979 (Grove R) Oil and gas: operations: notices of intention: written response for denied notice.
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 2/14/2024-Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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Current law requires the operator of an oil and gas well to file a written notice of intention to commence drilling with, and prohibits any drilling until approval is given by, the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or district deputy. Current law also requires an operator of a well to file a notice of intention with, and to receive approval from, the supervisor or a district deputy for the deepening or redrilling of wells, the plugging of wells, or the permanent altering of the casing of wells. Under current law, if the supervisor or district deputy fails to give the operator written response to the notice within 10 working days from the date of receipt, that failure is considered an approval of the notice, as provided. This bill would require the supervisor or district deputy to provide a written response to the operator within 10 working days from the date of receipt of the notice of intention that describes the legal basis for any decision not to approve the notice of intention.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 981 (Wahab D) Sexually explicit digital images.
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. JUD.
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4/30/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Would require a social media platform to provide a mechanism that is reasonably accessible to users for a user who is a California resident to report covered material to the social media platform. The bill would define “covered material” to mean material that a user of a social media platform reasonably believes meets certain criteria, including that the material is an image or video created, or altered through, digitization that would appear to a reasonable person to be an image or video of an intimate body part of an identifiable person, an identifiable person engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration, or an identifiable person engaged in masturbation. The bill would also require a social media platform to permanently block a reported instance of covered material from being viewable on the social media platform and to make reasonable efforts to remove and block unreported instances of reported covered material from being viewable on the social media platform.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 982 (Wahab D) Crimes: organized theft.
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Last Amended: 3/5/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 3/12/2024-S. APPR.
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4/8/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts 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, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts 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 recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 984 (Wahab D) Public agencies: project labor agreements.
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Last Amended: 2/29/2024
Status: 3/26/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. G.O.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, DODD, BILL, Chair
Summary:
Current law establishes procedures for state agencies to enter into contracts for goods and services, including generally requiring that certain contracts by a state agency, including, but not limited to, contracts for the construction, alteration, improvement, repair, or maintenance of property, be approved by the Department of General Services. Current law authorizes a public entity to use, enter into, or require contractors to enter into, a project labor agreement, as defined, for a construction project, if the agreement includes specified taxpayer protection provisions. This bill would authorize a state agency to undertake a major state construction project only if that project is governed by a project labor agreement and if that project labor agreement includes community benefit goals, as specified, and would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would authorize the Governor to waive this requirement if the state agency has attempted to comply with this requirement and the Governor makes a written determination that the application of this requirement would be impracticable.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 986 (Seyarto R) Ballot label: bond measure fiscal impact.
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-March 19 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 0.) Reconsideration granted.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. E. & C.A.
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Current law prescribes the form and content of the ballot label for candidates and measures on the ballot, and requires the ballot label for statewide measures to include a condensed version of the title and summary, including the fiscal impact summary. Current law requires local governments, when submitting a measure for voter approval for the issuance of bonds that will be secured by an ad valorem tax, to provide voters a statement that includes estimates of the total debt service and tax rates required to fund the bonds, as specified. This bill would require, for state bond measures and for local measures to approve the issuance of bonds that will be secured by an ad valorem tax, the ballot label to include a summary of the measure’s fiscal impact in a specified form.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 988 (Wiener D) Freelance Worker Protection Act.
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Set for hearing April 16 in JUD. pending receipt.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. L., P.E. & R.
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4/10/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT, SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair
4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Existing law generally regulates employment and, with certain exceptions, requires a 3-part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test, to determine if workers are employees or independent contractors for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission. 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 impose minimum requirements, commencing January 1, 2025, relating to contracts between a hiring party and a freelance worker, defined as a person, as specified, that is hired or retained as an independent contractor by a hiring party to provide professional services in exchange for an amount equal to or greater than $250, as specified. Specifically, the bill would require a hiring entity to pay a freelance worker the compensation specified by a contract for professional services on or before the date specified by the contract or, if the contract does not specify a date, no later than 30 days after completion of the freelance worker’s services. The bill would require a contract between a hiring party and a freelance worker to be in writing and would require a hiring party to retain a copy of the contract for no less than 4 years. The bill would prohibit a hiring party from discriminating or taking adverse action against a freelance worker for taking specified actions relating to the enforcement of these provisions. The bill would authorize an aggrieved freelance worker, the Labor Commissioner, or a public prosecutor to bring a civil action to enforce these provisions, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 1000 (Ashby D) Connected devices: access: abusers.
Introduced: 2/1/2024
Last Amended: 3/13/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 3/20/2024-S. JUD.
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Current law authorizes a court to issue a restraining order to a person to prevent abuse, as specified, based on reasonable proof of a past act or acts of abuse. Current law authorizes the order to be issued solely on the affidavit or testimony of the person requesting the restraining order. Current law requires a manufacturer of a connected device to equip the device with a reasonable security feature or features that are appropriate to the nature and function of the device, appropriate to the information it may collect, contain, or transmit, and designed to protect the device and information contained in the device from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, require an account manager, as defined, to deny an abuser, as defined, access to a connected device commencing no later than 2 days after a device protection request is submitted to the account manager by a victim of that abuser, and would set forth the requirements for a victim to submit a device protection request and the requirements that an account manager make the request available. By providing that a victim may include a copy of a signed affidavit to submit a device protection request, and thus expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
SB 1002 (Blakespear D) Firearms: prohibited persons.
Introduced: 2/1/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/19/2024-S. APPR.
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Current law prohibits a person who has been taken into custody, assessed, and admitted to a designated facility, or who has been certified for intensive treatment after having been admitted to a designated facility, because the person is a danger to themselves or others as a result of a mental health disorder, from owning a firearm for a period of 5 years after the person is released from the facility or for the remainder of their life if the person has previously been taken into custody, assessed, and admitted one or more times within a period of one year preceding the most recent admittance.
Current law requires the facility to submit a report to the Department of Justice containing information that includes, but is not limited to, the identity of the person and the legal grounds upon which the person was admitted to the facility. Current law allows a person who is prohibited from owning a firearm pursuant to these provisions to request the court for a hearing to reinstate the person’s right to own a firearm, and requires the facility to provide a person subject to the prohibition with the “Patient Notification of Firearm Prohibition and Right to Hearing Form” informing the person of the firearm prohibition and their right to request a hearing. This bill would, among other things, instead require the 5-year prohibition to commence on the date that the facility makes the above-described report to the Department of Justice and would require the Department of Justice to, within 7 days of receipt of the report from the facility, notify a person subject to the above-described provisions of the prohibition and their right to request a hearing to reinstate their right to own a firearm, other deadly weapon, ammunition, or firearm magazine.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1003 (Dodd D) Electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation plans.
Introduced: 2/1/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-April 8 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/19/2024-S. APPR.
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4/15/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires electrical corporations to construct, maintain, and operate their electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by those electrical lines and equipment.This bill would require those operations to take into account both the need to minimize those risks as soon as possible and the amount of risk addressed for the cost of the proposed mitigation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Wildfires
SB 1006 (Padilla D) Electricity: transmission capacity: reconductoring and grid-enhancing technologies.
Introduced: 2/1/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 16.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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4/16/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, BRADFORD, STEVEN, Chair
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Would require transmission utilities, as defined, on or before January 1, 2026, to jointly prepare a grid- enhancing technologies strategic plan that is designed to cost-effectively increase transmission capacity and increase capacity to connect new renewable energy and zero-carbon resources, among other things. The bill would require each transmission utility, on or before January 1, 2026, and at least every 4 years thereafter, to complete an evaluation of which of its transmission and distribution lines can be reconductored with advanced conductors in a cost-effective manner to, among other things, increase transmission or distribution capacity and increase capacity to connect new renewable energy
and zero-carbon resources. The bill would, upon completion of the plan and the evaluation, require the transmission utilities to submit the plan and evaluation to the commission and to make the plan and evaluation publicly available. The bill would authorize the Public Utilities Commission to redact portions of the plan and evaluation if the redaction is necessary to protect system security. The bill would require the plan and evaluation to include a timeline for implementation, as specified. The bill would require each transmission utility to report the progress in implementing the plan in its integrated resource plan.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1007 (Bradford D) Housing: homeowner assistance: Homeowner’s Assistance for Descendants of Enslaved Persons Program.
Introduced: 2/1/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 2).
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. APPR.
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4/15/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Housing Finance Agency in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for the purpose of meeting the housing needs of persons and families of low or moderate income. This bill would establish the Homeowner’s Assistance for Descendants of Enslaved Persons Program for purposes of making, upon appropriation by the Legislature, financial aid and assistance for the purpose of purchasing, owning, or maintaining a home available to descendants, defined to include African American descendants of chattel enslaved persons. The bill would require the agency to develop and administer the program and provide financial aid and assistance to qualified applicants it selects. The bill would set forth eligibility requirements for applicants and procedures for administering the program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1011 (Jones R) Encampments: penalties.
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Status: 2/23/2024-Set for hearing April 16.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. PUB. S.
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4/16/2024 8:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, WAHAB, AISHA, Chair Summary:
Under current law, a nuisance is anything that is injurious to health or indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Current law also provides that a nuisance is anything that obstructs the free passage or use of any public park, square, street, or highway, among other things. Under current law, a public nuisance is a nuisance that affects the entire community, neighborhood, or a considerable number of persons. Current law provides various remedies against a public nuisance, including abatement by any public body or officer authorized by law. This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon a street or sidewalk if a homeless shelter, as defined, is available to the person. The bill would also prohibit sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property within 500 feet of a public or private school, open space, or major transit stop, as specified. The bill would specify that a violation of this prohibition is a public nuisance that can be abated and prevented, as specified. The bill would also provide that a violation of the prohibition may be charged as a misdemeanor or an infraction, at the discretion of the prosecutor. The bill would prohibit a person from being found in violation of the bill’s provisions unless provided notice, at least 72 hours before commencement of any enforcement action, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Homelessness
SB 1012 (Wiener D) The Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act and the Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Act.
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. B., P. & E.D.
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Current law provides for the regulation of various professions and vocations by boards established under the jurisdiction of the Department of Consumer Affairs in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules, and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Current law classifies dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), ibogaine, psilocybin, and psilocyn as Schedule I substances, and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their sale, possession, transportation, manufacture, or cultivation. This bill would enact the Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act, which would establish the Board of Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators in the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate psychedelic facilitators, as defined. The bill would require the board to be appointed, as specified, by April 1, 2025. The bill would require the board to establish educational, training, and other qualifications and requirements for obtaining a license as a regulated psychedelic facilitator and would establish conditions of licensure. The bill would require the board to establish fees for the reasonable regulatory costs to the board to administer the act. The bill would require the board to begin accepting license applications by April 1, 2026. The bill would make a license subject to renewal every 2 years. The bill would create the Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Fund in the State Treasury, would require all funds received pursuant to the act to be credited to the fund, and would make moneys in the fund available to the board for the act’s purposes upon appropriation by the Legislature.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 1013 (Bradford D) Taxation: Property Tax Assistance for Descendants of Enslaved Persons.
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. REV. & TAX
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The Gonsalves-Deukmejian-Petris Senior Citizens Property Tax Assistance Law authorizes individuals who meet specified criteria, including that they either be 62 years of age or older or blind or disabled, as defined, to file with the Franchise Tax Board a claim for assistance. That law authorizes assistance in an amount equal to a percentage, determined as provided, of either the property taxes accrued and paid by the claimant on their residential dwelling or, with respect to a claimant renting their residence, the applicable statutory property tax equivalent. This bill would establish the Property Tax Assistance for Descendants of Enslaved Persons Program for purposes of making, upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys available to persons who meet specified criteria, including that the person currently live in a formerly redlined neighborhood in the state and is a descendant of a person enslaved in the United States, for purposes of providing financial assistance equal to a percentage of property taxes on a residential dwelling, as defined. The bill would, for purposes of determining a person’s eligibility for moneys under the program, require the person to provide an affidavit, under penalty of perjury, containing specified information, if the residential dwelling is owned by the person on property owned by a nonprofit incorporated association.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1014 (Dodd D) Wildfire safety: The California Wildfire Mitigation Strategic Planning Act.
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Set for hearing April 15.
Location: 3/12/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/15/2024 3 p.m. or upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
Summary:
Would require the Deputy Director of Community Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation, on or before January 1, 2026, and every 3 years thereafter, to prepare a Wildfire Risk Mitigation Planning Framework sufficient to quantitatively evaluate wildfire risk mitigation actions, as provided. The bill would require the framework to allow for geospatial evaluation and comparison of wildfire risk mitigation actions, as defined, sufficient to direct coordinated mitigation efforts and long-term collaborative mitigation planning. The bill would require the deputy director to, each year the framework is completed, submit a copy of the framework to the Legislature, the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, and the Public Utilities Commission for review and consideration. This bill would require the deputy director, on or before April 1, 2026, and every 3 years thereafter, to prepare a Wildfire Risk Baseline and Forecast for the state delineated on a statewide level and by county, as provided. The bill would require the forecast to include geographic specificity as determined by the deputy director to be sufficient to evaluate targeted wildfire risk mitigation actions, and to accomplish specific things, including establishing key risk metrics for wildfire risk for the state as a whole, by county, and by geographic location. The bill would require the deputy director to, each year the forecast is completed, submit a copy of the forecast to the Legislature, the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, and the Public Utilities Commission for review and consideration.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Wildfires
SB 1020 (Bradford D) Law enforcement agency regulations: shooting range targets.
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. PUB. S.
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4/16/2024 8:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, WAHAB, AISHA, Chair Summary:
Current law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain specified policies, including policies regulating the use of force and the use of certain defensive weapons. Current law requires each peace officer to complete all pre-service and in-service training mandated by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. This bill would require each law enforcement agency and basic course presenter to prohibit the use, as specified, of ethnic shooting targets, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1021 (Archuleta D) Emergency vehicles: blue warning lights.
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Status: 3/1/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/14/2024-S. TRANS.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE TRANSPORTATION, CORTESE, DAVE, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes specified peace officers, including, among others, police officers, probation officers, and members of the California National Guard, in the performance of the officers’ duties, to display a steady or flashing blue warning light visible from the front, sides, or rear of their emergency vehicles. This bill would additionally authorize parole officers to display the blue warning light from their emergency vehicles if they complete a 4-hour classroom training course regarding the operation of emergency vehicles that is certified by the Standards and Training for Corrections Division of the Board of State and Community Corrections.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1028 (Alvarado-Gil D) Alcoholic beverage licensees: on-sale general licenses for bona fide eating places.
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amended: 4/2/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/12/2024-S. APPR.
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4/8/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Would authorize the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue up to 10 additional new original on-sale general licenses for bona fide public eating places in the first calendar year following any year in which the county reaches the limit on on-sale general licenses, subject to specified provisions. The bill would authorize the county board of supervisors, by resolution submitted to the department on or before July 1, to limit the maximum number of additional licenses issued in the county pursuant to the bill’s provisions in that year, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to designate licenses issued pursuant to the bill’s provisions as on-sale general for special use.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 1032 (Padilla D) Housing finance: portfolio restructuring: loan forgiveness.
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 3/20/2024-S. APPR.
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4/8/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Existing law establishes various rental housing finance programs administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law authorizes the department to monitor and fund various multifamily housing loans. With respect to these programs and loans, existing law authorizes the department to approve 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 pursuant to specified rental housing finance programs and multifamily housing loans administered, monitored, or funded by the department, subject to specified requirements.This bill would additionally authorize the department to forgive the above-described loans, including the full amounts of the principal, interests, fees, and any other outstanding balances of specified department loans, if the borrower shows that the loan is impeding their ability to maintain and operate the project, as specified. The bill would require that projects receiving loan forgiveness meet specified requirements, including that the projects maintain the same number of affordable units at the same affordable housing cost as provided in the project’s regulatory agreement. The bill would authorize borrowers to appeal a loan forgiveness decision to the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing for reconsideration. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1034 (Seyarto R) California Public Records Act: state of emergency.
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. APPR.
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The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, except as specified. Current law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in
possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Current law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, and defines “unusual circumstances” to include certain circumstances. This bill would revise the unusual circumstances under which the time limit may be extended to include the need to search for, collect, appropriately examine, and copy records during a state of emergency, as defined, proclaimed by the Governor when the state of emergency has affected the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests due to decreased staffing or closure of the agency’s facilities, except as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 1037 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement.
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. HOUSING
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE HOUSING, SKINNER, NANCY, Chair 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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. The Planning and Zoning Law requires HCD to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes HCD to notify the office of the Attorney General, that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the local government has taken action in violation of specified provisions of law. The Planning and Zoning Law also requires, among other things, that an application for a housing development be subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. This bill, in any action brought by the Attorney General, on behalf of HCD or in an independent capacity, to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions, as specified, or to enforce any state law that requires a city, county, or local agency to ministerially approve any land use decision or permitting application for a housing development project, as specified, would subject the city, county, or local agency to specified remedies, including a civil penalty of, at minimum, $10,000 per month, and not exceeding $50,000 per month, for each violation, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1045 (Blakespear D) Composting facilities: zoning: air and water permits.
Introduced: 2/7/2024
Last Amended: 3/11/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E.Q.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
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The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 establishes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to administer an integrated waste management program. Current law establishes a goal that statewide landfill disposal of organic waste be reduced from the 2014 level by 75% by 2025. This bill, on or before June 1, 2026, would require the Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to develop a model zoning ordinance that facilitates the siting of composting facilities by cities or counties to meet the organic waste reduction goals.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1046 (Laird D) Organic waste reduction: program environmental impact report: green material composting
operations.
Introduced: 2/7/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-April 8 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/20/2024-S. APPR.
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4/15/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to prepare and certify, by January 1, 2027, a program environmental impact report that streamlines the process with which jurisdictions can develop and site green material composting operations, as defined, for processing organic waste, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 1047 (Wiener D) Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Act.
Introduced: 2/7/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 2).
Location: 4/2/2024-S. G.O.
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4/8/2024 #15 SENATE SENATE BILLS - SECOND READING FILE 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, 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. Current law creates the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency and requires the department to, among other things, identify, assess, and prioritize high-risk, critical information technology services and systems across state government for modernization, stabilization, or remediation. This bill would enact the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Models Act to, among other things, require a developer of a covered model, as defined, to determine whether it can make a positive safety determination with respect to a covered model before initiating training of that covered model, as specified. The bill would define “positive safety determination” to mean a determination with respect to a covered model, that is not a derivative model, that a developer can reasonably exclude the possibility that the covered model has a hazardous capability, as defined, or may come close to possessing a hazardous capability when accounting for a reasonable margin for safety and the possibility of post training modifications.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 1048 (Jones R) Planning and zoning: local planning: site plans.
Introduced: 2/7/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Withdrawn from committee. Ordered to second reading.
Location: 4/4/2024-S. SECOND READING
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4/8/2024 #21 SENATE SENATE BILLS - SECOND READING FILE Summary:
Existing law authorizes a local planning agency to provide a copy of or post, among other things, a site plan on the internet and to allow the site plan, among other things, to be copied. Existing law defines a
“site plan” for these purposes to mean a document for a project that is drawn to scale and displays specified information, including, among other things, topographic lines, drainage, lighting, distance between buildings, and ground sign location.This bill would revise the definition of “site plan” for these purposes to remove the requirement that the document displays topographic lines, drainage, lighting, distance between buildings, and ground sign location.
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SB 1050 (Bradford D) California American Freedmen Affairs Agency: racially motivated eminent domain.
Introduced: 2/7/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 3/13/2024-S. JUD.
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Would require the Office of Legal Affairs, which would be established within the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency as provided by SB 1403 of the 2023–24 Regular Session, to, upon appropriation by the Legislature, review, investigate, and make certain determinations regarding applications for compensation from persons who claim they are the rightful owner, as defined, of property taken as a result of racially motivated eminent domain. The bill would define “racially motivated eminent domain” to mean when the state, county, city, city and county, district, or other political subdivision of the state acquires private property for public use and does not distribute just compensation to the owner at the time of the taking, and the taking, or the failure to provide just compensation, was due, in whole or in part, to the owner’s ethnicity or race. Upon a determination that just compensation is warranted, as provided, the bill would require the Office of Legal Affairs to certify that the rightful owner is entitled to specified compensation from the Fund for Reparations and Restorative Justice, which would be established as provided by SB 1331 of the 2023–24 Regular Session. Upon a determination that an applicant is not a rightful owner or just compensation is not warranted, the bill would require the Office of Legal Affairs to notify the applicant of its finding and provide an appeal process, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 1052 (Seyarto R) Mobilehomes.
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-March 19 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 4.) Reconsideration granted.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. HOUSING
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The Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act, until January 1, 2027, establishes the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development to assist in taking and resolving complaints from homeowners relating to the Mobilehome Residency Law.
Current law requires the department, in administering the program, to contract with one or more qualified and experienced nonprofit legal services providers and refer complaints selected for evaluation, and which are not resolved, to these nonprofit legal service providers for possible enforcement action, as specified. This bill would require a nonprofit legal services provider contracted with the department to provide the department, in its role as the contract manager overseeing the performance of nonprofit legal services contracts, with full access to information regarding the status of each case and the services provided to complainants. The bill would prohibit laws relating to the attorney-client privilege or attorney work product doctrine that protect the confidentiality of communications or records from preventing disclosure, as provided. To the extent any information disclosed to the department includes confidential information subject to the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the bill would prohibit any described disclosure from constituting a waiver of that privilege or protection.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Transportation
SB 1054 (Rubio D) Climate Pollution Reduction in Homes Initiative: natural gas: customer credit.
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 22.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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4/22/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, BRADFORD, STEVEN, Chair
Summary:
Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the Department of Community Services and Development, to develop and supervise the Climate Pollution Reduction in Homes Initiative to require gas corporations to jointly award grants for local service providers, as defined, nonprofit organizations, and regional collections of local governments to provide financial assistance to low-income households for the purchase of zero-carbon-emitting appliances. The bill would require the Energy Commission, as part of developing and administering the initiative, to develop guidelines, as specified, and authorize local service providers, nonprofit organizations, and regional collections of local governments to use those grant moneys for outreach and technical assistance, rebates, loans, installation, educational information, and other support services to assist low-income households.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Housing
SB 1055 (Min D) Accessory dwelling units: regional housing need.
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Status: 3/13/2024-March 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. HOUSING
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Current law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to its legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information, the city’s or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs, as described. Existing law, 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. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. Current law prohibits a local agency from establishing height limitations for accessory dwelling units, including height limitations that would prohibit attached accessory dwelling units from attaining a height of 25 feet, as specified. This bill would prohibit a qualifying local agency from imposing height limitations that would prohibit an attached accessory dwelling unit from attaining a height of 16 feet, as specified. The bill would define “qualifying local agency” as a local agency that the Department of Housing and Community Development has determined that the number of housing units that have been entitled by the local agency, as shown on its most recent annual progress report, is greater than the local agency’s share of the regional housing need, for the low- and very low income categories, prorated for that annual reporting period.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1058 (Ashby D) Peace officers: injury or illness: leaves of absence.
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Status: 2/21/2024-Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. L., P.E. & R.
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4/17/2024 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113 SENATE LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT, SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair
Summary:
Current law entitles, among others, peace officers employed on a regular full-time basis by a county of the first class, to a leave of absence without loss of salary while disabled by injury or illness arising out of and in the course of their duties. Current law defines a county of the first class as a county with a population of 4,000,000 and more. Current law provides that a leave of absence under those provisions is in lieu of temporary disability payments or maintenance allowance payments otherwise payable under the workers’ compensation system. This bill would expand these provisions to instead entitle a peace officer employed on a regular full-time basis by any county to this leave of absence.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1059 (Bradford D) Cannabis: local taxation: gross receipts.
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 10.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. REV. & TAX
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4/10/2024 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 112 SENATE REVENUE AND TAXATION, GLAZER, STEVE, Chair
Summary:
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.Existing law, the Cannabis Tax Law, imposes an excise tax upon purchasers of cannabis or cannabis products sold in this state at the rate of 15% of the gross receipts of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer, and prior to July 1, 2022, a cultivation tax on all harvested cannabis that entered the commercial market, as specified. Existing law provides that taxes imposed under the Cannabis Tax Law are in addition to any other tax imposed by a city or county. Existing law defines “gross receipts” for purposes of the Cannabis Tax Law as it is defined under the Sales and Use Tax Law.This bill would prohibit a city or county from including in the definition of gross receipts, for purposes of any local tax or fee on a licensed cannabis retailer, the amount of any cannabis excise tax imposed under the Cannabis Tax Law or any sales and use taxes. By imposing new requirements on local governments with respect to their taxes and fees, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 1064 (Laird D) Cannabis: operator and separate premises license types: excessive concentration of licenses.
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. B., P. & E.D.
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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 establishes the Department of Cannabis Control to administer and enforce its provisions. MAUCRSA requires an applicant or licensee to apply for a separate license for each location where it engages in commercial cannabis activity. MAUCRSA sets forth a codified list of license types for different commercial cannabis activities, including, among others, retail sale, distribution, 2 types of manufacturing, laboratory testing, and various kinds and sizes of cultivation activities. This bill would revise the MAUCRSA licensing scheme for commercial cannabis activities other than cultivation and laboratory testing. Specifically, the bill would consolidate the licensing of those activities under one license type called an operator license, and would require an operator licensee to acquire an additional premises license specific to the activity to be conducted on the premises. The bill would make various conforming changes including by revising and recasting the codified list of license types. In this regard, the bill would list the cultivation and laboratory testing types under the unified license classification, would list the other commercial cannabis activity types under the premises license classification, and would
establish the operator license classification as a single license type.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
SB 1072 (Padilla D) Local government: Proposition 218: remedies.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Status: 2/21/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. L. GOV.
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The California Constitution sets forth various requirements for the imposition of local taxes. The California Constitution excludes from classification as a tax assessments and property-related fees imposed in accordance with provisions of the California Constitution that establish requirements for those assessments and property-related fees. Under these requirements, an assessment is prohibited from being imposed on any parcel if it exceeds the reasonable cost of the proportional special benefit conferred on that parcel, and a fee or charge imposed on any parcel or person as an incident of property ownership is prohibited from exceeding the proportional cost of the service attributable to the parcel. This bill would require, if a property-related fee or charge creates revenues in excess of the local government’s reasonable cost of providing the specific benefit or specific government service, that the excess revenues be used only to reduce the subsequently adopted and following property-related fee or charge. The bill would declare that this provision is declaratory of existing law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 1077 (Blakespear D) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: accessory and junior accessory dwelling units.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 and 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 112, if necessary SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
Summary:
Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, among other things, requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission or a local government, as provided. The act provides that a coastal development permit is not required for specified types of development in specified areas, as provided, including improvements to existing single-family residences, provided that the commission shall specify, by regulation, those classes of development that involve a risk of adverse environmental effect and shall require that a coastal development permit be obtained pursuant to the act. This bill would specify, for the purposes of a coastal development permit not being required for improvements to existing single-family residences, that the exception includes the addition of an accessory dwelling unit or a junior accessory dwelling unit that is attached to an existing residential structure, as defined, and the conversion of an existing structure into an accessory dwelling unit or a junior accessory dwelling unit. To the extent the bill would create additional duties for a local government, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1079 (Menjivar D) Youth Housing Bond Act of 2024.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amended: 4/2/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/20/2024-S. APPR.
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4/8/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Would enact the Youth Housing Bond Act of 2024 (bond act), which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $____ pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance the Youth Housing Program, established as part of the bond act. The bill, as a part of the program, would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to make awards to local agencies, nonprofit organization, and joint ventures for the purpose of acquiring, renovating, constructing, and purchasing equipment for youth centers or youth housing, as those terms are defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1082 (Eggman D) Augmented residential care facilities.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amended: 3/14/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 10.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. HEALTH
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE HEALTH, ROTH, RICHARD, Chair 4/15/2024 3 p.m. or upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE HUMAN SERVICES, ALVARADO-GIL, MARIE, Chair
Summary:
Would require the State Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), jointly with the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, to implement a certification program to provide augmented services to adults with serious mental illness in homelike community settings, and would require those settings to be licensed by the State Department of Social Services (DSS) as a type of enhanced behavioral supports home known as an augmented residential care facility (ARCF). The bill would require an ACRF to have a maximum capacity of 6 residents, and to conform with the requirements of a specified federal regulation relating to community-based settings and specified provisions of the California Community Care Facilities Act. The bill would require the DHCS to issue a certification of program approval to an ARCF before DSS issues a license. The bill would require the DHCS to establish by regulation a rate methodology for ARCFs that includes a fixed-facility component for residential services and an individualized services and support component based on each consumer’s needs, as specified. The bill would prohibit a local mental or behavioral health agency from paying a rate to an ARCF for a consumer that exceeds the rate in the DHCS-approved ARCF placement plan for the facility unless certain conditions are met. The bill would authorize a local mental or behavioral health agency to recommend an applicant for certification to the DHCS as part of an approved community placement plan if the applicant meets specified requirements. The bill would authorize DHCS to decertify an ARCF that does not comply with program requirements, and to make recommendations to DSS regarding the facility’s license. The bill also would authorize DHCS to initiate proceedings for temporary suspension of the license, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 1086 (Seyarto R) Sales and Use Tax Law: motor vehicle fuel tax: sales price: gross receipts.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Set for hearing April 10.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. REV. & TAX
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4/10/2024 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 112 SENATE REVENUE AND TAXATION, GLAZER, STEVE, Chair
Summary:
The Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, administered by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, imposes a tax upon each gallon of motor vehicle fuel removed from a refinery or
terminal rack in this state, entered into this state, or sold in this state, at a specified rate per gallon.
Current sales and use tax laws provide a partial exemption from the taxes imposed by those laws for motor vehicle fuel that is subject to the taxes imposed by the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law. This bill, beginning January 1, 2025, would exclude from the terms “gross receipts” and “sales price” under the Sales and Use Tax Law the amount of any motor vehicle fuel tax imposed pursuant to the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 1088 (Alvarado-Gil D) Office of Emergency Services: state matching funds: water system infrastructure improvements.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. G.O.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, DODD, BILL, Chair
Summary:
Would, contingent on funding being appropriated pursuant to a bond act, as specified, establish the Rural and Small Community Fire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching funds to communities within the Wildland Urban Interface to improve water system infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the office determines to be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 1092 (Blakespear D) Coastal resources: multifamily housing development: coastal development permits:
appeals: report.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amended: 4/3/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and HOUSING. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Location: 2/12/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 and 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 112, if necessary SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
Summary:
The California Coastal Act of 1976 authorizes an appeal to the California Coastal Commission for any action taken by a local government on coastal development permit applications, as provided. The act requires the commission to hear the appeal and establishes specified appeal procedures, as provided.
This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2028, to provide a report to the Legislature that provides information regarding appeals relating to multifamily housing developments, as defined, including, among other things, the percentage of coastal development permits for multifamily housing developments that are appealed, approved, and denied.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 1094 (Limón D) Pupil instruction: course of study: social sciences: civic engagement.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 10.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. ED.
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4/10/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE EDUCATION, NEWMAN, JOSH, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among others, social sciences. Current law requires instruction in social sciences to provide a foundation for understanding, among other things, the history, resources, development, and government of California and the United States of America. This bill, with respect to both of the above-referenced adopted courses of study, would explicitly require instruction in social sciences to also include principles of democracy and the State and Federal Constitutions. The bill would also require pupils, at least once while in either grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, and at least once while in either grade 7 or 8, to complete one civic engagement or experience with a governmental institution at the local, state, or national level, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: K-12 Education
SB 1095 (Becker D) Cozy Homes Cleanup Act: building standards: gas-fuel-burning appliances.
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes
0.) (April 2).
Location: 4/2/2024-S. APPR.
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4/8/2024 #14 SENATE SENATE BILLS - SECOND READING FILE Summary:
(1)Existing law, the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 (the “act”), requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to enforce various laws pertaining to the structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and installations or equipment of a manufactured home, mobilehome, commercial coach, or special purpose commercial coach. The act defines “manufactured home” and “mobilehome” 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.This bill would extend those provisions to also apply to electric water heaters and electric appliances for comfort heating that are not specifically listed for use in a manufactured home or mobilehome.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1096 (Seyarto R) Mailed solicitations: disclosure statement.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. CONSENT CALENDAR
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4/8/2024 #66 SENATE CONSENT CALENDAR FIRST LEGISLATIVE DAY Summary:
The Consumers Legal Remedies Act makes unlawful certain unfair methods of competition and certain unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by a person in a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to a consumer, including failing to include in a solicitation by a covered person, as defined, or an entity acting on behalf of a covered person, to a consumer for a consumer financial product or service a certain disclosure statement. This bill would additionally require that disclosure statement to appear in at least 16-point bold type on the front of an envelope that contains a solicitation described above.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1100 (Portantino D) Discrimination: driver’s license and car ownership.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. JUD.
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits various forms of employment and housing discrimination, including various types of discrimination because of national origin, defined to include discrimination on the basis of possessing a driver’s license granted pursuant to current law that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue an original driver’s license to a person who is unable to submit satisfactory proof that the applicant’s presence in the United States is authorized under federal law, as specified. Current law empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices. This bill would make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to include a statement in various employment materials that an applicant must have a driver’s license unless the employer reasonably expects the duties of the position to require driving and the employer reasonably believes that satisfying that job function using an alternative form of transportation would not be comparable in travel time or cost to the employer, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1101 (Limón D) Fire prevention: prescribed fire: state contracts: maps.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 and 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 112, if necessary SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
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Existing law requires all contracts entered into by a state agency for the acquisition of goods or services, as specified, to be void unless and until approved by the Department of General Services.
Existing law requires a state agency to secure at least 3 competitive bids or proposals for each contract. Existing law establishes exceptions to these requirements for specified contracts. This bill would include in the list of exceptions a contract entered into by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for the purpose of providing logistical support for large-scale prescribed fire operations, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Wildfires
SB 1103 (Menjivar D) Tenancy of commercial real properties: agreements: securities.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 2/21/2024-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. JUD.
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Current law regulates the terms and conditions of tenancies, including the charging of certain fees for commercial leases. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to increase transparency and equity in the application of common area maintenance and other fees charged to qualifying commercial tenants for leases executed on or after January 1, 2025.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1108 (Ochoa Bogh R) Mobilehome parks: notice of violations.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 3/20/2024-S. JUD.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Existing law, the Mobilehome Parks Act, establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, and design of mobilehome parks. Existing law generally requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to enforce the act, except that a city, county, or city and county may assume the responsibility for the enforcement of the act upon the approval of the department, as provided. Existing law makes a violation of the act a crime.This bill would revise and recast the above- described requirements to extend their operation indefinitely and would additionally require an enforcement agency, after conducting an inspection and determining that a violation exists, to issue the notice to correct the violation to the responsible person. With respect to notice of violations, the bill would impose various duties on an enforcement agency, including requiring that agency to be responsible for exhausting all administrative and legal recourse against a resident who fails to correct violations, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1109 (Bradford D) Cannabis: demographic information of persons with financial interests in license applicants.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on B., P. & E. D. and JUD.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. B., P. & E.D.
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4/15/2024 10 a.m. and upon adjournment of Session, if necessary - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ASHBY, ANGELIQUE, Chair Summary:
Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure approved by the voters, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, and requires the Department of Cannabis Control to administer its provisions, except as specified. Existing law requires the department to provide on its internet website information regarding the status of every license issued by the department, as described. Existing law requires an applicant for a state license to conduct commercial cannabis activity, as specified, to provide a complete list of every person with a financial interest in the applicant, as described.This bill would require the department to collect and consolidate the demographic information, as defined, about every person with a financial interest in a license applicant, as described. The bill would require the department to make the data collected and consolidated available to the public in accordance with state and federal law, including by posting the data on the internet website of the department, except for personal identifying information, which the bill would deem confidential and prohibit its disclosure.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
SB 1110 (Ashby D) Urban retail water suppliers: informational order: conservation order.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Set for hearing April 23.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/23/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
Summary:
Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board, on and after January 1, 2024, to
Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board, on and after January 1, 2024, to issue informational orders pertaining to water production, water use, and water conservation to an urban retail water supplier that does not meet its urban water use objective. Current law requires the board to consider certain information in determining whether to issue an informational order. This bill would require the board to additionally consider lower cost actions the water supplier has implemented or will implement in order to help the water supplier achieve overall water supply resiliency in determining whether to issue an informational order.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1111 (Min D) Public officers: contracts: financial interest.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E. & C.A.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
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Current law prohibits Members of the Legislature, and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in a contract, as specified, made by them in their official capacity or by any body or board of which they are members, subject to specified exceptions.
Current law identifies certain remote interests that are not subject to this prohibition if, among other things, the member or officer discloses the fact of that interest to the body or board, including, among others, that of a parent in the earnings of the parent’s minor child for personal services. Current law imposes a criminal penalty on every officer or person who willfully violates these provisions. This bill, on and after January 1, 2026, would include within the definition of remote interest that of a public officer in the financial interest of that public officer’s child, parent, or sibling, or the spouse of the child, parent, or sibling if the interest is actually known to the public officer.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1118 (Eggman D) Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing Program.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 16.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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4/16/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, BRADFORD, STEVEN, Chair
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Current law establishes the Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program, also known as the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing Program. Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission, as part of the program, to award monetary incentives for qualifying solar energy systems, as defined, that are installed on multifamily residential properties of at least 5 rental housing units that are operated to provide deed-restricted low-income residential housing, as defined, and that meet one or more specified requirements, including, among other things, that the property is owned by a tribe, through December 31, 2032. This bill would provide that property that is owned by a tribe is not required to be deed restricted to be eligible for the program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1121 (Grove R) Recycled water: onsite treated nonpotable water systems: local jurisdiction permitting.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-April 17 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. Set for hearing April
17. Location: 2/21/2024-S. E.Q.
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Current law requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development, to adopt regulations for risk-based water quality standards for the onsite treatment and reuse of nonpotable water, and requires a local jurisdiction that elects to establish a program for onsite treated nonpotable water systems to establish design criteria, permitting, cross-connection control, and enforcement procedures, as provided. This bill would require those local jurisdictions to ensure their permitting procedures require the approval of a permit for an onsite treated nonpotable water system within 60 days from the date the permit application is submitted if the application demonstrates that the project meets or exceeds the state board’s water quality standards for the onsite treatment and reuse of nonpotable water for nonpotable uses in multifamily residential, commercial, and mixed-use buildings.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1122 (Seyarto R) Peace officers: educational requirements.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
Location: 4/2/2024-S. CONSENT CALENDAR
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4/8/2024 #74 SENATE CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY Summary:
Current law requires the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop a modern policing degree program, with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and other stakeholders to serve as advisors, as specified, and to submit a report on recommendations to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program on or before June 1, 2023. Current law requires the report to include, among other things, recommendations to include both the modern policing degree program and a bachelor’s degree in the discipline of their choosing as minimum education requirements for employment as a peace officer. Current law requires the commission to adopt the recommended criteria within 2 years of when the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges submits its report to the Legislature. This bill would specify that a bachelor’s degree or an associate’s degree required for employment as a peace officer under these provisions may be obtained after completion of the Peace Officer Standards and Training program and within 36 months of employment as a peace officer.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1123 (Caballero D) Planning and zoning: subdivisions: ministerial review.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2).
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
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Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, among other things, requires a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets certain requirements, including that the housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units, and is zoned for multifamily residential development. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing on the housing development an objective zoning standard, objective subdivision standard, or objective design standard that, among other things, physically precludes the development of a project built to specified densities. This bill would prohibit, if a local agency chooses to permit accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units, those units from counting as residential
units for purposes of the above-described requirement that a housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units. The bill would remove the requirement that the lot is zoned for multifamily residential development and would instead require that the lot be either zoned for multifamily residential dwelling use or vacant and zoned for single- family residential development. The bill would, notwithstanding the prohibition related to physical preclusion of a development described above, authorize a local agency to impose a specified height limit on a lot that is vacant and zoned for single-family residential development. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1129 (Ochoa Bogh R) Local control and accountability plans: workgroup: template alternatives.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 2/21/2024-Referred to Com. on ED.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. ED.
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4/24/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE EDUCATION, NEWMAN, JOSH, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a template for a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) and an annual update to the LCAP for use by school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools. Current law requires the template adopted by the state board to require the inclusion of certain information, including, among other information, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for certain state priorities, as specified, a description of the specific actions that the local educational agency will take during each year of the LCAP to achieve these goals, and an assessment of the effectiveness of the specific actions described in the existing LCAP toward achieving the goals, as provided. This bill would require the state board, on or before June 30, 2025, to establish a workgroup, composed of members of the K–12 education community, for purposes of developing recommendations for, and models of, alternative local control accountability plan templates for different types of local educational agencies, including, but not limited to, one for county offices of education, one for small school districts, as defined, and one for single-school districts.
The bill would require the workgroup to report its recommendations and proposed models to the state board, the State Department of Education, and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2027, for consideration for adoption and potential implementation, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2029.
Position: Watch
Subjects: K-12 Education
SB 1130 (Bradford D) Electricity: Family Electric Rate Assistance: reports.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 3/19/2024-S. APPR.
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4/8/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Would require the Public Utilities Commission, by June 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, to review each electrical corporation’s report to ensure it has sufficiently enrolled eligible households in the FERA program commensurate with the proportion of households the commission determines to be eligible within the electrical corporation’s service territory. If the commission, in its review of a report, determines an electrical corporation has not sufficiently enrolled eligible households in the FERA program, the bill would require the commission to require the electrical corporation to develop a strategy and plan to sufficiently enroll eligible households within 3 years of the adoption of the strategy and plan.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1134 (Caballero D) Surplus land.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. L. GOV.
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Existing law provides for the disposal of land owned by a local agency that is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. The local agency is required to declare the land either “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” as prescribed. Existing law sets forth procedures for the disposal of surplus land and provides that these procedures do not apply to exempt surplus land. Existing law, for prescribed surplus land parcels developed with residential units, requires minimum percentages of residential units developed on the parcel to be sold or rented at affordable housing cost or affordable rent.This bill, with regard to surplus land, would require each parcel of land to be considered a distinct unit of surplus land, with the exception of contiguous parcels that are disposed of simultaneously to the same receiving entity or any entity working in concert with another receiving entity, which parcels the bill would require to be treated as a single unit of land.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development
SB 1135 (Limón D) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: income taxes: credit.
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 3/1/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 and 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 112, if necessary SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
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Current law, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Current law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Current law continuously appropriates the annual proceeds of the fund to the various purposes.This bill, in the 2025–26 fiscal year through the 2035–36 fiscal year, would transfer 1% of the annual proceeds of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, not to exceed $120,000,000 per fiscal year, to the California Compost Tax Credit Fund, which the bill would establish. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 1140 (Caballero D) Enhanced infrastructure financing district.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 24.
Location: 3/20/2024-S. E.Q.
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4/24/2024 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
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Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to designate a proposed enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects, with a governing body referred to as the public financing authority, by adopting a resolution of intention to establish the proposed district. Existing law requires the legislative body to direct the city official or county official, as applicable, selected by the legislative body, to mail a copy of the resolution to each affected taxing entity.This bill would revise and recast those provisions by, among other things, requiring the public financing authority to hold a meeting and 2 public hearings, as specified. The bill would remove the requirement that annual report notices be mailed by first-class mail. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1148 (Blakespear D) Electrical service: master meters.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 16. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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4/16/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, BRADFORD, STEVEN, Chair
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Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to require every residential unit in an apartment house or similar multiunit residential structure, condominium, or mobilehome park issued a building permit on or after July 1, 1982, with certain exceptions, to be individually metered for electrical and gas service. This bill would add an exception from the requirement that every residential unit be individually metered for electrical service for a multifamily site, as defined, that includes deployment of an electrical generation and energy storage facility and that meets specified requirements, including, among other things, that deployment of the electrical generation and energy storage facility is capable of providing backup electricity to the multifamily site using renewable energy resources, that the owner of the multifamily site does not increase rent in association with the costs of the deployment’s components or lease agreement, that each tenant’s electricity costs are less than what the effective fully bundled rate would have been if billed by the relevant load-serving entity, and that the owner bills the nonresidential meters and residential tenants for electricity usage directly, as measured by private submeters installed by the owner for each individual unit at the site, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1155 (Hurtado D) Political Reform Act of 1974: postgovernment employment restrictions.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-April 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. E. & C.A.
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4/16/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, BLAKESPEAR, CATHERINE, Chair
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Under current law, Members of the Legislature, elected state officers, and designated employees of state administrative agencies are subject to various restrictions on their activities following their departure from state service. This bill would, for a period of one year after leaving office, prohibit the head of a state administrative agency from engaging in any activity to influence legislative or administrative action by the Legislature or a state administrative agency that would require the individual to register as a lobbyist.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1156 (Hurtado D) Groundwater sustainability agencies: financial disclosures.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/1/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 and 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 112, if necessary SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
4/16/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, BLAKESPEAR, CATHERINE, Chair
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The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans, except as specified. Existing law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to be developed and implemented for each medium- or high- priority basin by a groundwater sustainability agency. 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, as provided. 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. Current law makes a knowing or willful violation of the act a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. This bill would require members of the executive team, board of directors, and other groundwater management decision makers of groundwater sustainability agencies to annually disclose any economic or financial interests pursuant to the Political Reform Act of 1974 that may reasonably be considered to affect their decision-making related to groundwater management, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Finance
SB 1159 (Dodd D) California Environmental Quality Act: roadside wildfire risk reduction projects.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/23/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare and develop, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to certify and adopt, guidelines for the implementation of CEQA. CEQA requires the guidelines to include a list of classes of projects that have been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment and are exempt from the requirements of CEQA, commonly known as categorical exemptions. This bill, on or before January 1, 2026, would require the office to evaluate, and the secretary to consider, the inclusion of roadside projects no more than 5 road miles from a municipality or census designated place that are undertaken solely for the purpose of wildfire risk reduction in the classes of projects subject to a categorical exemption. The bill would require the office to consider appropriate eligibility criteria for these projects, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 1162 (Cortese D) Public contracts: employment compliance reports and payroll records: workers’ dates of birth.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/1/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. L., P.E. & R.
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4/17/2024 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113 SENATE LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT, SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair
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Existing law establishes requirements that apply when a public entity is required by statute or regulation to obtain an enforceable commitment that a bidder, contractor, or other entity will use a skilled and trained workforce to complete a contract or project. Existing law requires the enforceable commitment to provide that the contractor, bidder, or other entity will provide to the public entity or other awarding body a report on a monthly basis demonstrating its compliance with these requirements. This bill would additionally require the enforceable commitment to provide that the above-described report will include the date of birth of each worker. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 1164 (Newman D) Property taxation: new construction exclusion: accessory dwelling units.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 3/19/2024-Set for hearing April 10.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. REV. & TAX
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4/10/2024 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 112 SENATE REVENUE AND TAXATION, GLAZER, STEVE, Chair
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The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. For purposes of this limitation, “full cash value” is defined as the assessor’s valuation of real property as shown on the 1975–76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred. This bill would exclude from classification as “newly constructed” and “new construction” the construction of an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, until 15 years have passed since construction on the accessory dwelling unit was completed or there is a subsequent change in ownership of the accessory dwelling unit. The bill would require the property owner to, prior to or within 30 days of completion of the project, notify the assessor that the property owner intends to claim the exclusion for an accessory dwelling unit and submit an affidavit stating that the owner shall make a good faith effort to ensure the unit will be used as residential housing for the duration the owner receives the exclusion. The bill would require the State Board of Equalization to prescribe the manner and form for claiming the exclusion and would require all additional documents necessary to support the exclusion to be filed by the property owner with the assessor not later than 6 months after the completion of the project. Because this bill would require an affidavit by a property owner and a higher level of service from county assessors, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1170 (Menjivar D) Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 2/21/2024-Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 2/21/2024-S. E. & C.A.
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Under existing law, campaign funds may not be used for to pay health-related expenses for a candidate, elected officer, or any individual or individuals with authority to approve the expenditure of campaign funds held by a committee, or members of their households.This bill would apply that rule to physical health-related expenses only. This bill would also expressly permit campaign funds to be used to pay or reimburse a non-incumbent candidate for reasonable and necessary mental healthcare expenses if the candidate does not have health insurance or has been denied coverage for mental healthcare expenses by their health insurance, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1174 (Min D) Elections: voter identification.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 2).
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 4/2/2024-S. L. GOV.
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Current law permits the governing body of a city or district to request that the county render specified services to the city or district regarding the conduct of an election. This bill would prohibit a local government from enacting or enforcing any charter provision, ordinance, or regulation requiring a person to present identification for the purpose of voting or submitting a ballot at any polling place, vote center, or other location where ballots are cast or submitted, 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: City Administration
SB 1175 (Ochoa Bogh R) Organic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions: waivers.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes
0.) (April 3).
Location: 4/3/2024-S. APPR.
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4/8/2024 #6 SENATE SENATE BILLS - SECOND READING FILE Summary:
Would require the State Air Resources Board to consider alternatives to census tracts, as provided, when deciding the boundaries of a low-population or elevation waiver and would require low- population waivers to be valid for a period of 10 years. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1177 (Bradford D) Public utilities: women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 4/2/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/19/2024-S. APPR.
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4/15/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to require every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross California revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as specified.
Current law requires the above-described entities with annual gross California revenues exceeding $25,000,000 to furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of programs related to procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as specified. Current law requires the commission to require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding $15,000,000, but not more than $25,000,000, to annually submit data in a simplified form to the commission on its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as specified. Current law requires the commission, by rule or order to, adopt criteria for verifying and determining the eligibility of women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises for procurement contracts. Pursuant to this requirement, the commission adopted General Order 156 providing for the verification and certification of those business enterprises, as specified. This bill would require the above-described entities with annual gross California revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and would require the above- described entities with annual gross California revenues exceeding $15,000,000, but not more than $25,000,000, to include certain information as part of each annual report or data submission described
above, including, among other information, data regarding the diversity of contractor or subcontractor workforces, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1181 (Glazer D) Primary elections: election date.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. E. & C.A.
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Would change the date of the statewide primary election to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in each even-numbered year. The bill would change the date of the presidential primary election so that it is consolidated with the statewide primary election occurring in June in a year that is evenly divisible by 4.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1184 (Eggman D) Mental health: involuntary treatment: antipsychotic medication.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 3/20/2024-S. JUD.
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This bill would additionally require the determination of a person’s incapacity to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication to remain in effect for the duration of the additional 14-day period or the additional 30-day period after the 14-day intensive treatment period, or the additional period of up to 30 days if certain conditions are met during the first 30-day period.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 1185 (Niello R) Water conservation: water use objectives.
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 23.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/23/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
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Existing law requires all water suppliers to increase the efficient use of water. Existing law establishes various water use objectives and restrictions, including urban water use objectives. Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, to adopt long-term standards for the efficient use of water, including standards for, among other things, a volume for water loss, and requires the board, when adopting the standards, to consider policies relating to urban water use objectives and proposed efficiency standards’ effects on local wastewater management, developed and natural parklands, and urban tree health.This bill would delete the requirement that the board adopt standards, for purposes of urban water use objectives, for water loss and would instead require the board to consider the policies relating to urban water use objectives and proposed efficiency standards’ effects on water loss. The bill would also set forth standards, policies, and procedures relating to water use objectives, generally, including, among other things, a prohibition against any water use objective established by the board that causes a reduction of more than 20% when compared to a water supplier’s actual water use in 2023 or that exceeds a water use standard recommended by the department.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1199 (Roth D) Automated traffic enforcement systems.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. TRANS.
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Existing law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements. This bill would delete obsolete provisions of those requirements and would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1204 (Archuleta D) Planning and Zoning Law: electric vehicle charging stations.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/15/2024-S. RLS.
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Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, with regard to zoning regulations, requires every city, county, and city and county to administratively approve an application to install electric vehicle charging stations and, until January 1, 2030, hydrogen-fueling stations that meet certain requirements, through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit, as prescribed. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 1208 (Padilla D) Waste discharge permits: landfills.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/12/2024-Set for hearing April 17.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. E.Q.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
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The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 prohibits a regional water board from issuing a waste discharge permit for a new landfill, or a lateral expansion of an existing landfill, that is used for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste if the land has been primarily used at any time for the mining or excavation of gravel or sand, as specified. The act defines “landfill used for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste” as a disposal site regulated by a regional water board as a Class III landfill, as provided. This bill would additionally prohibit a regional water board from issuing a waste discharge permit for a new landfill that is used for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste if the land is located within the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve or within an area that is tributary to the Tijuana River. The bill would also expand the definition of “landfill used for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste” to also include a disposal site regulated by a regional water board as a Class II landfill, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1210 (Skinner D) New housing construction: electrical, gas, sewer, and water service connections: charges.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Local Government] (PASS)
Location: 4/2/2024-S. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
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The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission, with jurisdiction over all public utilities. Current law defines the term “public utility” for certain purposes to include, among other corporations, every gas corporation, electrical corporation, water corporation, and sewer system corporation, where the service is performed for, or the commodity is delivered to, the public or any portion thereof. This bill would, for new housing construction, prohibit a connection, capacity, or other point of connection charge from a public utility, as defined, or a special district, including a municipal utility district, for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service from exceeding 1% of the reported building permit value of that housing unit. The bill would require a public utility or special district to issue an above-described charge over a period of at least 10 years commencing on the date when the housing unit is first occupied, as specified. The bill would require a public utility or special district to publicly report on its internet website the amount of any charge issued each year pursuant the above- described provision by the housing unit’s address.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1211 (Skinner D) Land use: accessory dwelling units: ministerial approval.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 3/21/2024-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/20/2024-S. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
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This bill, in connection with the ministerial approval of a building permit for an accessory dwelling unit under one of the above-described variations, would additionally prohibit a local agency from requiring the replacement of parking spaces when a carport, covered parking structure, or uncovered parking space is demolished in conjunction with the construction of or conversion to an accessory dwelling unit.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1212 (Skinner D) Investment entities: purchasing and acquisition interests in housing.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 30.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. JUD.
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4/30/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Would, on and after January 1, 2025, prohibit an investment entity, as defined, from purchasing or acquiring an interest, as defined, in a single-family dwelling or other dwelling that consists of one or 2 residential units within this state. The bill would provide that a purchase or acquisition of an interest in housing in violation of this prohibition is void. The bill would define “investment entity” as a real estate investment trust or an entity that manages funds pooled from investors and owes a fiduciary duty to those investors. The bill would exempt nonprofit organizations, entities primarily engaged in the construction of housing, and governmental entities from the definition of “investment entity.” The bill would absolve a seller of housing from liability under these provisions if the seller obtains a written release signed by the buyer stating that the buyer is not an investment entity.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1216 (Blakespear D) Transportation projects: Class III bikeways: prohibition.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Set for hearing April 23.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. TRANS.
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4/23/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE TRANSPORTATION, CORTESE, DAVE, Chair Summary:
Would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, an agency responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing a Class III bikeway or restriping a Class III bikeway on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 1218 (Newman D) Water: emergency water supplies.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Set for hearing April 23.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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4/23/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
Summary:
Would declare that it is the established policy of the state to encourage and incentivize, but not mandate, the development of emergency water supplies, and to support their use during times of water shortage.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1232 (Grove R) Organic waste: collection requirements: exemption.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E.Q.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. L. GOV.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
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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, among other things, low-population jurisdictions. Articles XIIIC and XIIID of the California Constitution generally require that assessments, fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with Articles XIIIC and XIIID of the California Constitution. Current statutory law provides notice, protest, and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees or charges by local government agencies pursuant to Article XIIID of the California Constitution. This bill would exempt a portion of a county from the prescribed organic waste collection requirements if the county proposed a fee for the collection of organic waste in that portion of that county and the county did not impose the fee in that portion of that county because, when submitted to property owners for approval, it was rejected.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1238 (Eggman D) Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: designated facilities.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Set for hearing April 16 in JUD. pending receipt.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. HEALTH
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE HEALTH, ROTH, RICHARD, Chair 4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Under existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (act), when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others or to themselves, or gravely disabled, as defined, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody for a period of up to 72 hours for assessment, evaluation, and crisis intervention, or placement for evaluation and treatment in a facility designated by the county for evaluation and treatment and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services. This bill would expand the definition of a “facility designated by the county for evaluation and treatment” or “designated facility” by specifying that it may also include a facility that both (1) has appropriate services, personnel, and security to safely treat individuals being held involuntarily and (2) is licensed or certified as a skilled nursing facility, mental health rehabilitation center, social rehabilitation facility, or as a facility capable of providing treatment at American Society of Addiction Medicine levels of care 3.7 to 4.0, inclusive. The bill would authorize a county to designate a facility for the purpose of providing one or more specified treatments required by the act. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 1239 (Grove R) State vehicle fleet: zero-emission vehicles: raw materials: child labor.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. G.O.
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Would require the Department of General Services to require a supplier of zero-emission vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to certify that the raw materials used in the manufacturing of the zero-emission vehicles, including, but not limited to, cobalt and lithium, come from mining operations that are free of child labor. The bill would require a supplier of zero-emission vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to provide to the department the locations where the raw materials used in the production of the zero-emission vehicles were mined and the average hourly wage of the workers that mined the raw materials, and would require the department to post on its internet website that information provided by the supplier and a list of the zero-emission vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet that are certified to be made with raw materials that come from mining operations that are free of child labor.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 1255 (Durazo D) Public water systems: needs analysis.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Set for hearing April 17.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. E.Q.
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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN,
Chair
Summary:
The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. Existing law establishes the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water in both the near and long terms. Existing law requires the state board to annually adopt a fund expenditure plan, as provided, and requires expenditures from the fund to be consistent with the fund expenditure plan. Existing law requires the state board to base the fund expenditure plan on data and analysis drawn from a specified drinking water needs assessment. This bill would require the state board to update a needs analysis of the state’s public water systems to include an assessment, as specified, of the funds necessary to provide a 20% discount for low-income households served by community water systems with fewer than 3,000 service connections and for community water systems with fewer than 3,000 service connections to meet a specified affordability threshold on or before July 1, 2026, and on or before July 1 of every 3 years thereafter.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1264 (Grove R) Employment discrimination: cannabis use.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and L., P.E. & R.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. JUD.
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Current law prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or a term or condition of employment, or otherwise penalizing a person because of the person’s use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace or an employer-required drug screening test that has found the person to have nonpsychoactive cannabis metabolites in their hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids. Current law exempts certain applicants and employees from those provisions, including applicants and employees hired for positions that require a federal government background investigation or security clearance, as specified. This bill would also exempt from those provisions specified other applicants and employees in sworn or nonsworn positions within law enforcement agencies, including applicants and employees who have functions related to civil enforcement matters, animal control, or coroner functions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 1271 (Min D) Electric bicycles, powered mobility devices, and storage batteries.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 3/26/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. TRANS.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE TRANSPORTATION, CORTESE, DAVE, Chair Summary:
Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions.
Current law requires manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to apply a label that is permanently affixed to each electric bicycle that contains, among other things, the classification number and motor wattage of the electric bicycle, as specified. This bill would clarify that an electric bicycle is a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor with continuous rated mechanical power of not more than 750 watts. The bill would, if an electric bicycle is capable of operating in multiple modes, require a manufacturer and distributor to include on the label the classification number of the highest classes of which it is capable of operating.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 1280 (Laird D) Waste management: propane cylinders: reusable or refillable.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 3). Re- referred to Com. on JUD. Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/4/2024-S. APPR.
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4/15/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Summary:
Would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit the sale or offer for sale of propane cylinders other than those propane cylinders that are reusable or refillable, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1293 (Ochoa Bogh R) Recall elections: notice of intention.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2).
Location: 4/2/2024-S. JUD.
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4/8/2024 #18 SENATE SENATE BILLS - SECOND READING FILE Summary:
Current law governs the recall of elective officers of the state and of all counties, cities, other specified local public entities, and judges of courts of appeal and trial courts. Current law requires proponents of the recall to serve, file and publish a copy of the notice of intention, as specified. Current law requires the notice of intention to contain, among other things, the printed name, signature, and residence address, including street and number, city, and ZIP Code, of each of the proponents of the recall.This bill would require the published copy of the notice of intention to omit, among other things, the proponents’ signatures and residence addresses, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1294 (Ochoa Bogh R) Elections: recall of local officers.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. E. & C.A.
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4/16/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, BLAKESPEAR, CATHERINE, Chair
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Would authorize the proponents of a recall of a local officer to file with the elections official a notice withdrawing their petition at any time before the elections official submits the certificate of sufficiency to the governing body at its next regular meeting. The bill would require the elections official, upon receipt of the notice of withdrawal, to take no further action on the petition. The bill would provide that the withdrawal of a recall petition against a local officer does not bar the later filing of a new petition against that officer. The bill would define “proponents,” for its purposes, to mean the 10 recall proponents listed on the copy of the notice of intention that appears on the recall petition, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1297 (Allen D) Speed safety system pilot program.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 3/26/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. TRANS.
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4/9/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE TRANSPORTATION, CORTESE, DAVE, Chair Summary:
Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, specified cities and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a local speed safety system pilot program, operated in certain types of streets and school zones, to detect speed violations by using an electronic speed safety system, as defined. Pursuant to the pilot program, a designated jurisdiction participating within the pilot program with a population of less than 300,000, as determined by the United States Census Bureau in the 2020 Census, is authorized to operate no more than 9 speed safety systems.This bill would instead authorize a designated jurisdiction participating within the pilot program with a population of less than 300,000, as determined, to operate no more than 12 speed safety systems.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 1303 (Caballero D) Public works.
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amended: 4/4/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. L., P.E. & R.
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4/17/2024 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113 SENATE LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT, SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Current law defines the term “public works” for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Current law requires an awarding body, as part of a labor compliance program, to withhold contract payments when, among other things, payroll records are delinquent or inadequate. Current law requires an awarding body, as specified, to provide notice of withholding of contract payments to the contractor or subcontractor.
Current law requires the notice to be in writing, and describe the nature of the violation and the amount of wages, penalties, and forfeitures withheld. This bill would require an awarding body or its agent, prior to withholding funds for an alleged violation, to, among other things, notify the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and confer with the negotiating parties to review relevant public works law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1312 (Nguyen R) Electricity: fixed charges.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to adopt new, or expand existing, fixed charges, as defined, for the purpose of collecting a reasonable portion of the fixed costs of providing electrical service to residential customers. Under current law, the commission may authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to a residential customer account. Current law requires the commission, no later than July 1, 2024, to authorize a fixed charge for default residential rates on an income- graduated basis, as provided. Current law requires increases to electrical rates and charges in rate design proceedings to be reasonable and subject to a reasonable phase-in schedule relative to the rates and charges in effect before January 1, 2014. This bill would repeal those provisions relating to fixed charges and rate increases.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1314 (Nguyen R) Electricity: fixed charges.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to adopt new, or expand existing, fixed charges, as defined, for the purpose of collecting a reasonable portion of the fixed costs of providing electrical service to residential customers. Under current law, the commission may authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to a residential customer account. Current law requires the commission, no later than July 1, 2024, to authorize a fixed charge for default residential rates on an income- graduated basis, as provided. Current law requires increases to electrical rates and charges in rate design proceedings to be reasonable and subject to a reasonable phase-in schedule relative to the rates and charges in effect before January 1, 2014. This bill would repeal those provisions relating to fixed charges and rate increases.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1319 (Wahab D) Skilled nursing facilities: approval to provide therapeutic behavioral health programs.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/21/2024
Status: 3/26/2024-Set for hearing April 10.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. HEALTH
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE HEALTH, ROTH, RICHARD, Chair Summary:
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law authorizes DHCS to adopt regulations to certify providers enrolled in the Medi- Cal program, and applicants for enrollment as providers, including providers and applicants licensed as health care facilities.This bill would require a licensed skilled nursing facility that proposes to provide therapeutic behavioral health programs in an identifiable and physically separate locked unit of a skilled nursing facility, and that is required to submit an application and receive approvals from multiple departments, as specified above, to apply simultaneously to those departments for review and approval of application materials. The bill, when an applicant for approval from one of the specified departments is unable to complete the approval process because the applicant has not obtained required approvals and documentation from one or both of the other departments, would authorize the applicant to submit all available forms and supporting documentation, along with a letter estimating when the remaining materials will be submitted. The bill would require the receiving department to initiate review of the application, and would require final approval of the application to be granted only when all required documentation has been submitted by the applicant to each department from which approval is required. The bill would require the departments to work jointly to develop processes to allow applications to be reviewed simultaneously and in a coordinated manner, as specified.
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Subjects: Health Department
SB 1320 (Wahab D) Mental health and substance use disorder treatment.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/26/2024-Set for hearing April 10.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. HEALTH
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4/10/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE HEALTH, ROTH, RICHARD, Chair
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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 disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Current law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, as defined, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions. This bill would require a plan or insurer subject to the above-described coverage requirement, and its delegates, to establish a process to reimburse providers for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services that are integrated with primary care services and provided under a contract or policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2025.
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Subjects: Health Department
SB 1321 (Wahab D) Employment Training Panel: employment training program: projects and proposals.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. L., P.E. & R.
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4/17/2024 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113 SENATE LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT, SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair
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Current law establishes the Employment Training Panel within the Employment Development Department and sets forth its powers and duties with respect to certain employment training programs. Current law declares the intent of the Legislature that the purpose of provisions relating to the panel is to establish an employment training program to promote a healthy labor market in a growing, competitive economy and to fund only projects that meet specified criteria, including promoting the retention and expansion of the state’s manufacturing workforce. Current law requires the panel, in funding projects that meet the above-described criteria, to give funding priority to projects that meet specified goals, including promoting the retention and expansion of the state’s manufacturing workforce. This bill would also include in the above-described project criteria, among other things, assisting existing apprentice, certification, or other training programs in updating training to reflect new technologies or methods, or to address gaps in existing training. The bill would also include in the above-described goals, among other things, meeting the standards established by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards for high-quality training programs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
SB 1325 (Durazo D) Public contracts: best value procurement: equipment.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 3/14/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. G.O.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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4/9/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, DODD, BILL, Chair
4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
Summary:
Would authorize a state or local agency, as defined, to award contracts through a best value procurement method, as describe, for the purchase of equipment with a base value of $250,000 or more. The bill would require the agency to adopt and publish procedures and guidelines for evaluating the qualifications of the bidders to ensure the best value selections are conducted in a fair and impartial manner, as described. The bill would authorize the procedures and guidelines to include the adoption of a high road jobs plan policy that evaluates bidders’ high road jobs plan commitments as part of the overall score for the public contract, as specified. This bill would require the solicitation
document to include certain information and would direct the agency to use a scoring method based on price and the factors described in the solicitation document, as specified. The bill would require the agency to let any contract for these projects to the selected bidder that represents the best value or reject all bids.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 1326 (Jones R) Electricity: fixed charges.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 22.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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4/22/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, BRADFORD, STEVEN, Chair
Summary:
Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to adopt new, or expand existing, fixed charges, as defined, for the purpose of collecting a reasonable portion of the fixed costs of providing electrical service to residential customers. Under current law, the commission may authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to a residential customer account, and is required, no later than July 1, 2024, to authorize a fixed charge for default residential rates. Current law requires these fixed charges to be established on an income-graduated basis, with no fewer than 3 income thresholds, so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline territory would realize a lower average monthly bill without making any changes in usage. Current law requires the PUC to continue the California Alternative Rates for Energy (CARE) program to provide assistance to low-income electric and gas customers with annual household incomes that are no greater than 200% of the federal poverty guideline levels, as specified. This bill would require the PUC to require each electrical corporation to offer default rates to residential customers with at least 2 usage tiers, as provided. The bill would eliminate the requirement that the fixed charges be established on an income-graduated basis as described above, repeal related findings and declarations of the Legislature, and authorize the commission to instead authorize fixed charges that, as of January 1, 2015, do not exceed $10 per residential customer account per month for customers not enrolled in the CARE program and $5 per residential customer account per month for customers enrolled in the CARE program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1327 (Glazer D) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: credits: local news media.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. REV. & TAX
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, allow a credit against the taxes imposed by the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law for portions of the costs for qualified services paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer. The bill would define “qualified taxpayer” for this purpose to mean an eligible local news organization or a qualified broadcast station, as those terms are defined. The bill would require a taxpayer to request a tentative credit reservation from the Franchise Tax Board in the form and manner prescribed by the Franchise Tax Board, and would limit the amount of credit allocated by the Franchise Tax Board per calendar year.
Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
SB 1328 (Bradford D) Elections.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2).
Re-referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 4/2/2024-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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4/16/2024 8:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, WAHAB, AISHA, Chair Summary:
Current law generally requires electronic poll books, ballot manufacturers and finishers, ballot on demand systems, voting systems, and remote accessible vote by mail systems to be approved by the Secretary of State before their use in an election. This bill would authorize the Secretary of State to impose additional conditions of approval for these purposes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1330 (Archuleta D) Urban retail water supplier: water use.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/19/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-Set for hearing April 23.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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4/23/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, MIN, DAVE, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Water Resources, in coordination with the State Water Resources Control Board, to conduct necessary studies and investigations, and recommend for adoption by the board appropriate variances for unique uses that can have a material effect on an urban retail water supplier’s urban water use objective. Current law requires the department, in recommending variances, to also recommend a threshold of significance for each recommended variance. Current law requires an urban retail water supplier to request and receive approval by the board for inclusion of a variance in calculating their water use objective. Current law requires the board to post specified information on its internet website relating to variances, including a list of all urban retail water suppliers with approved variances. This bill would require the board to adopt variances recommended by the department for unique uses that can have a material effect on an urban retail water supplier’s urban water use objective. The bill would provide that variances adopted by the board shall not be subject to a threshold of significance. The bill would require an urban retail water supplier to self-certify the amount of water included in its urban water use objective that is attributable to a variance.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1334 (Newman D) Substance use disorder treatment: licensing.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Set for hearing April 24.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. HEALTH
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4/24/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE HEALTH, ROTH, RICHARD, Chair Summary:
Current 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. Current law requires a licensed facility to disclose specified information to the department, including ownership or control of, or financial interest in, a recovery residence, defined as a residential dwelling that provides primary housing for individuals who seek a cooperative living arrangement that supports personal recovery from a substance use disorder and that does not require licensure by the department or does not provide licensable services, and requires the State Department of Health Care Services to conduct a site visit of a disclosed recovery residence if it is alleged to be providing recovery, treatment, or detoxification services. This bill would
define a recovery residence, for purposes of licensing alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, as a residential dwelling that provides primary housing for individuals who seek a cooperative living arrangement that supports personal recovery from a substance use disorder, does not require licensure by the department, and does not provide licensable services, and would clarify that an unlicensed recovery residence may provide services to its residents, including, but not limited to, dining, housekeeping, security, transportation, and recreation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1336 (Archuleta D) Department of General Services: state property: Metropolitan State Hospital.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. G.O.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the Department of General Services, which is under the control of the Director of General Services, within the Government Operations Agency and requires it to perform various functions and duties with respect to property within the state, including entering into lease agreements. Current law authorizes the director, with the consent of the state agency concerned, to, among other things, let for a period not to exceed 5 years, any real or personal property that belongs to the state, the letting of which is not expressly prohibited by law, as specified. Current law establishes various exceptions to that provision, including that the director, with the consent of the State Department of State Hospitals, may lease to a nonprofit corporation, for the purpose of conducting an educational and work program for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and for a period not to exceed 50 years, real property not exceeding 10 acres located within the grounds of the Napa State Hospital. This bill would, as an exception to the above-described provision, also authorize the director, with the consent of the State Department of State Hospitals, to lease to a nonprofit corporation or local government, for a period not to exceed 55 years, 7 buildings located at Metropolitan State Hospital in the City of Norwalk.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1337 (Gonzalez D) Elections: form of petitions.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. E. & C.A.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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4/16/2024 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, BLAKESPEAR, CATHERINE, Chair
Summary:
Current law requires a committee, as defined, that pays for the circulation of a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition to create an Official Top Funders sheet, as specified. Current law requires such a committee to create a page on an internet website that includes a link to the Official Top Funders sheet and a link to the full text of the initiative or referendum. Current law also requires this committee to submit the Official Top Funders sheet to the Secretary of State. Current law requires a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition that requires voter signatures and that a committee pays to circulate either to include a disclosure statement on the petition, as specified, or for the circulator for the petition to present as a separate document the Official Top Funders sheet to a prospective signer of the petition. This bill would remove the requirement that a committee that pays for the circulation of a state referendum create an Official Top Funders sheet, create a page on an internet website that includes a link to the Official Top Funders Sheet and a link to the full text of the initiative or referendum, and submit the Official Top Funders Sheet to the Secretary of State.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 1340 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Discrimination.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and L., P.E. & R.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
Current law establishes the Civil Rights Department (department) and prescribes its functions, duties, and powers, including to receive, investigate, conciliate, mediate and prosecute complaints alleging employment discrimination pursuant to specified laws. The Unruh Civil Rights Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on specified bases. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (act) prohibits discrimination in housing and employment on specified bases. Current law establishes the Civil Rights Department (department) and prescribes its functions, duties, and powers, including to receive, investigate, conciliate, mediate and prosecute complaints alleging employment discrimination pursuant to specified laws, including the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the act. The act prescribes procedures and remedies available in the case of failure to eliminate an unlawful practice under its provisions through specified means, including authorizing a court to assess a civil penalty against a defendant, as specified. This bill would specify that the department’s duties include receiving, investigating, conciliating, mediating, and prosecuting complaints arising from unlawful practices by a contractor or subcontractor in connection with an agreement with a state agency for an infrastructure project.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1344 (Grove R) Veterans: assistance.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/16/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires a state and local public agency to provide assistance to veterans on the same basis as it provides to any other eligible person. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
SB 1345 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Employment discrimination: criminal history information.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and L., P.E. & R.
Location: 4/3/2024-S. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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4/16/2024 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Summary:
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits various forms of employment discrimination and empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices. Current law makes it unlawful for an employer with five or more employees to, among other things, include on any application for employment, before the employer makes a conditional offer of employment to the applicant, any question that seeks the disclosure of an applicant’s conviction history, except as provided. This bill would make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to take an adverse action against an applicant based solely or in part on criminal history information, unless the employer can demonstrate that the applicant’s criminal history has a direct and adverse relationship with one or more specific duties of the job and the employer’s business necessity requires the adverse action.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources