SB 1360 (Alvarado-Gil D) Water quality: state board certification.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 3/18/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/16/2024-S. RLS.
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The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to certify or provide a statement to a federal agency, as required pursuant to federal law, that there is reasonable assurance that an activity of any person subject to the jurisdiction of the state board will not reduce water quality below applicable standards. The federal act provides that if a state fails or refuses to act on a request for this certification within a reasonable period of time, which shall not exceed one year after receipt of the request, then the state certification requirements are waived with respect to the federal application. Current law authorizes the state board to issue the certificate or statement before completion of the required environmental review if the state board determines that waiting until completion of that environmental review to issue the certificate or statement poses a substantial risk of waiver of the state board’s certification authority under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or any other federal water quality control law, as provided. This bill would require the state board to issue the certificate or statement before completion of the required environmental review if the state board and Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, in consultation with an applicant, jointly determine that the applicant’s project will help the state meet its clean energy goals and increase electric reliability and waiting until completion of that environmental review to issue the certificate or statement poses a risk to the applicant of not being eligible for federal tax credits or incentives, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1361 (Blakespear D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: local agencies: contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7.
Noes 0.) (April 3).
Location: 4/3/2024-S. HOUSING
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4/8/2024 #12 SENATE SENATE BILLS - SECOND READING FILE Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts for its requirements, among other things, actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, or a local agency not acting as the lead agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, as provided. This bill would additionally exempt from CEQA’s requirements actions taken by a local agency to approve a contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness.
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Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 1373 (Cortese D) Water data dashboard.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
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
Summary:
The Open and Transparent Water Data Act requires the Department of Water Resources, in consultation with the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to create, operate, and maintain a statewide integrated water data platform that, among other things, integrates existing water and ecological data information from multiple databases and provides data on completed water transfers and exchanges.
This bill would require the department, with input from with the California Water Data Consortium, as defined, to create a water data dashboard that is accessible through its internet website, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 1374 (Becker D) Net energy metering.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 22.
Location: 2/29/2024-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
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Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop a standard contract or tariff, which may include net energy metering, for eligible customer-generators, as defined, with a renewable electrical generation facility, as defined, that is a customer of a large electrical corporation. Current law requires, in developing the standard contract or tariff for large electrical corporations, the commission to take specified actions. This bill would require, no later than July 1, 2025, the commission to ensure that any contract or tariff established by the commission pursuant to the above described provisions for renewable electrical generation facilities configured to serve either multiple customers with meters on a single property, or multiple meters of a single customer on a property or a set of contiguous properties owned, leased, or rented by the customer, meets certain requirements, including that eligible customer- generators are authorized to elect to aggregate the electrical load, as specified.
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Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 1376 (Gonzalez D) Public contracts: Local Agency Public Construction Act: reporting.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
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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4/17/2024 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DURAZO, MARIA ELENA, Chair
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The Local Agency Public Construction Act sets forth the requirements for competitive bidding on various types of contracts awarded by local agencies. The State Contract Act requires the Department of General Services to make available a report on state contracting activity containing specified information. This bill would require a participating local public entity, as defined, commencing January 1, 2026, and monthly thereafter, to compile and submit to the Office of Planning and Research prescribed information on the entity’s contracting activity similar to the information required for the State Contract Act report. The bill would require the Office of Planning and Research, commencing July 1, 2026, to develop and maintain a public online database and accompanying data dictionary compiling the submitted data on its internet website. Commencing January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, the bill would require the Office of Planning and Research, in collaboration with the California State Auditor, as specified, to review the databases established pursuant to the bill and, together with the participating local public entities, make recommendations to the Legislature on further transparency and reporting improvements for requiring local public entities to submit similar data.
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Subjects: Housing
SB 1381 (McGuire D) Property crimes: regional property crimes task force.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 3/28/2024-Set for hearing April 9.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. PUB. S.
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4/9/2024 8:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, WAHAB, AISHA, Chair Summary:
Current law, until January 1, 2026, requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to coordinate with the Department of Justice to convene a regional property crimes task force to identify geographic areas experiencing increased levels of property crimes, including, among other property crimes, organized retail theft and vehicle burglary, and assist local law enforcement with resources, such as personnel and equipment. This bill would include the sale of stolen goods as a property crime to be considered in the identification of geographic areas experiencing increased levels of property crimes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1383 (Bradford D) California Advanced Services Fund: Broadband Public Housing Account.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: 4/2/2024-S. APPR.
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Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish the Broadband Public Housing Account in the California Advanced Services Fund and makes the moneys in the account available to the commission to award grants to low-income communities to finance projects to connect broadband networks that offer free broadband service that meets or exceeds state standards for residents of low- income communities. This bill would make moneys in the account available for grants and loans to finance projects to connect broadband networks that offer broadband service for residents of low- income communities and would revise the requirement that the broadband service be free to require certain grantees to provide residential subscribers with low-income communities with a free or low-cost broadband internet access service plan, as provided. The bill would authorize the commission to make grants to support the deployment of network devices to address barriers to consistent deployment of broadband services in a low-income community.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Public Works
SB 1389 (Archuleta D) Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/16/2024-S. RLS.
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Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and charges it with, among other duties, establishing minimum standards relating to physical, mental, and moral fitness that govern the recruitment of peace officers. Current law provides that members of the commission receive no compensation, and that attendance at meetings of the commission is deemed performance by a member of the duties of the member’s local governmental employment. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
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Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1390 (Caballero D) Groundwater recharge: floodflows: diversion.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
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
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Current law declares that all water within the state is the property of the people of the state, but the right to the use of the water may be acquired by appropriation in the manner provided by law. Current law requires the appropriation to be for some useful or beneficial purpose. Current law provides, however, that the diversion of flood flows for groundwater recharge does not require an appropriative water right if certain conditions are met, including that a local or regional agency has adopted a local plan of flood control or has considered flood risks part of its most recently adopted general plan.
Current law also requires the person or entity making the diversion to file with the State Water Resources Control Board a final report after the diversions cease, as provided. These requirements apply to diversions commenced before January 1, 2029. This bill would extend the operation of these requirements to diversions commenced before January 1, 2034. The bill would revise, recast, and expand the conditions that are required to be met to include a requirement that a local or regional agency make a declaration that its proposed diversion is in accordance with one of certain enumerated plans relating to flood control or flood risk, as specified, or a county emergency operations plan.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 1397 (Eggman D) Behavioral health services coverage.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 3/20/2024-Set for hearing April 10. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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:
Current law provides for the regulation of health and disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Current law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after July 1, 2025, that covers medically necessary mental health and substance use disorder services to comply with rate and timely reimbursement requirements for services delivered by a county behavioral health agency, as specified. Unless an enrollee or insured is referred or authorized by the plan or insurer, the bill would require a county behavioral health agency to contact a plan or insurer before initiating services. The bill would authorize a plan or insurer to conduct a postclaim review to determine appropriate payment of a claim, and would authorize the use of prior authorization as permitted by the regulating department. The bill would require the Department of Managed Health Care and Department of Insurance to issue guidance to plans and insurers regarding compliance with these provisions no later than April 1, 2025.
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Subjects: Health Department
SB 1404 (Glazer D) Political Reform Act of 1974: audits.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
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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4/15/2024 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair
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The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires the Franchise Tax Board to conduct audits and field investigations regarding the reports filed by lobbyists. Current law requires 25% of lobbyist employers and lobbying firms to be subject to a random audit and investigation every 2 years. This bill would transfer the responsibility for conducting audits and field investigations of lobbying reports to the Fair Political Practices Commission. The bill would require the Secretary of State to impose an additional fee, to be established by the commission, not to exceed $500 per year, to lobbying firms and lobbyist employers subject to audit to offset costs associated with conducting audits and field investigations.
This fee would be deposited in a new fund that the bill would establish, the Field Audits and Investigations Fund, which would be continuously appropriated to the commission for these purposes.
The bill would exclude lobbying firms and lobbyist employers with less than one dollar in payments or contributions and placement agents, lobbyist employers of placement agents, and lobbying firms with placement agents, as specified, from being selected for audit.
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Subjects: City Administration
SB 1408 (Roth D) Mobilehome parks: vehicle removal.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
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 #68 SENATE CONSENT CALENDAR FIRST LEGISLATIVE DAY Summary:
The Mobilehome Residency Law authorizes management, upon the expiration of 7 days, to remove a vehicle from a driveway or designated parking space, when the vehicle remains in violation of a park rule, as specified. Current law provides an exception from these provisions for vehicles that pose a significant danger, as specified. This bill would prohibit management from removing a vehicle used or required by the homeowner for work or employment, or which advertises any trade or services on the vehicle, from a homeowner’s or resident’s driveway or designated parking space, or a space provided by management for parking vehicles, unless any part of that vehicle extends into the park roadway or otherwise poses a significant danger, as specified.
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Subjects: Transportation
SB 1416 (Newman D) Sentencing enhancements: sale, exchange, or return of stolen property.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/16/2024-S. PUB. S.
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4/9/2024 8:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, WAHAB, AISHA, Chair Summary:
Would create sentencing enhancements for selling, exchanging, or returning for value, or attempting to sell, exchange, or return for value, any property acquired through one or more acts of shoplifting, theft, or burglary from a retail business, if the property value exceeds specified amounts. The bill would additionally make these enhancements apply to any person acting in concert with another person to violate these provisions. By adding new sentencing enhancements, this bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
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Subjects: Public Safety
SB 1422 (Allen D) Disclosures: Travel DISCLOSE Act.
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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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, a nonprofit organization that regularly organizes and hosts travel for elected officials and spends more than $10,000 in a calendar year, or more than $5,000 in a calendar year for a single person, for travel by an elected state officer or local elected officeholder, must disclose to the Fair Political Practices Commission the names of donors who, in the preceding year, donated more than $1,000 to the nonprofit organization and accompanied an elected state officer or local elected officeholder for any portion of the travel, as specified. Under current law, this requirement applies only if the sum of the organization’s expenses relating to travel, study tours, or conferences, conventions, and meetings, was greater than one-third of the organization’s total expenses, as specified. This bill would instead require any person that regularly organizes and hosts travel for elected officials and spends more than $10,000 in a calendar year, or more than $5,000 in a calendar year for a single person, for travel by an elected state officer or local elected officeholder, to file certain disclosures with the commission.
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SB 1438 (Niello R) Housing First: sober housing.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-April 2 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 5.) Reconsideration granted.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. HOUSING
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Current law specifies the core components of Housing First, including, among others, services that are informed by a harm reduction philosophy that recognizes drug and alcohol use and addiction as a part of tenants’ lives, where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding drug and alcohol use, and where tenants are offered education regarding how to avoid risky behaviors and engage in safer practices, as specified, and prohibiting the use of alcohol or drugs, in and of itself, without other lease violations, from constituting a reason for eviction. This bill would provide an exception to the eviction prohibition described above to authorize a tenant’s eviction based upon the use of drugs or alcohol, without other lease violations, when children are housed in the same location.
The bill would also authorize a state department or agency to authorize programs to fund recovery housing or housing models that, in conjunction with nonclinical substance use-specific services, peer support, and physical design features that support individuals and families on a path to recovery from addiction, emphasize abstinence from substance use, if the program uses at least 75% of its funding in each county on housing or housing-based services that use a harm reduction model and meets other specified requirements. The bill would require the authorizing state department or agency to conduct periodic monitoring of the abstinence-focused recovery housing to ensure compliance with these requirements.
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Subjects: Housing
SB 1439 (Ashby D) Surplus Land Act: exempt surplus land: health facilities.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. L. GOV.
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Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law defines “surplus land” for these purposes. Current law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for the disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land,” except as provided.
Current law defines “exempt surplus land” to include certain types of land, including surplus land that the local agency is exchanging for another property necessary for the agency’s use. This bill would define “exempt surplus land” to include land that is being or will be developed for a health facility, as
defined and specified.
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Subjects: Housing
SB 1440 (Laird D) Water quality: stormwater: reporting.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/3/2024-Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Location: 4/3/2024-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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The State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Current law requires the regional boards to undertake reasonable efforts to identify dischargers of stormwater that have not obtained an appropriate permit. Current law requires the state board, on or before December 31, to annually prepare a report that includes, among other things, a list of persons notified of their duty to comply with applicable stormwater permits and a description of the responses received to those notifications. This bill would require the annual report to additionally include a description of reasonable efforts undertaken by regional boards to identify dischargers of stormwater that have not obtained coverage under an appropriate stormwater permit.
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Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1450 (Allen D) Elections: taskforce.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 2/29/2024-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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Prior law, the California Voter’s Choice Act, required the Secretary of State to establish a taskforce that included certain individuals to review all-mailed ballot or vote center elections and to provide comments and recommendations to the Legislature within 6 months of each all-mailed ballot election or vote center election. The act was repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2022. This bill would reestablish this taskforce.
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Subjects: City Administration
SB 1460 (Durazo D) Broadband Labor Standards Act: public contracts: broadband labor standards.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
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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Would enact the Broadband Labor Standards Act. Under that act, the bill would require any state agency that constructs a broadband project, as defined, with federal funds received by the state on or after July 1, 2025, as specified, and prescribed state entities, including the Department of Technology,
to collaboratively develop and establish specified contract terms and requirements, including contract provisions on training and certifications under penalty of perjury regarding compliance with certain labor laws, to be included in their public contracts or subcontracts and procurement processes relating to the construction of those projects. The bill would require these state agencies to consult with relevant stakeholders in developing and establishing contract requirements, as specified, and by March 1, 2025, to submit a report to the Legislature on stakeholder involvement. By March 30, 2025, the bill would require these state agencies to develop and establish the contract requirements and post that information on specified internet websites. For any contract related to the construction of a broadband project that is federally funded, as specified, the bill would require a state agency to incorporate these contract terms and requirements into the state agency’s procurement processes and contracts entered into, amended, or renewed beginning on July 1, 2025, as specified.
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Subjects: Human Resources
SB 1474 (Allen D) Public utilities: intervenor compensation.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 22.
Location: 4/3/2024-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
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Current law provides compensation for reasonable advocate’s fees, reasonable expert witness fees, and other reasonable costs to public utility customers for preparation for and participation in a hearing or proceeding of the Public Utilities Commission. Current law defines “customer” for these purposes to include, among other individuals, a participant representing consumers, customers, or subscribers of any electrical, gas, telephone, telegraph, or water corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the commission. Current law requires the commission to award a customer compensation if certain requirements are satisfied, including that the customer’s presentation makes a substantial contribution to the adoption of the commission’s order or decision. Current law defines “substantial contribution” for these purposes to mean that, in the judgment of the commission, the customer’s presentation has substantially assisted the commission in the making of its order or decision because the order or decision has adopted in whole or in part one or more contentions or recommendations presented by the customer. Current law requires a customer who intends to seek compensation to timely file and serve on all parties to the proceeding a notice of intent to claim compensation, as specified. Current law requires the commission to issue a decision on the request for compensation within 75 days after the filing of the request or within 50 days after the filing of a report on an audit of the customer by the commission, whichever occurs later. This bill would add a participant representing patrons or employees of any electrical, gas, telephone, telegraph, or water corporation to the definition of “customer” for these purposes. The bill would expand the definition of “substantial contribution” to include situations in which the commission’s order or decision is informed by reasoned decisionmaking made possible by the customer’s presentation even if the customer’s contentions or recommendations are not adopted by the commission.
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Subjects: Natural Resources
SB 1476 (Blakespear D) Political Reform Act of 1974: State Bar of California.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 4/2/2024-S. JUD.
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Would expressly require the State Bar of California to maintain conflict of interest codes in compliance with the Political Reform Act of 1974, and it would subject members of the board of trustees of, and designated employees of, the State Bar of California to enforcement of violations of the Political Reform Act of 1974 related to conflicts of interest.
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Subjects: City Administration
SB 1487 (Glazer D) Vehicles: parking violations.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
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 TRANS.
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 requires the schedule of parking penalties for parking violations and late payment penalties to be established by the governing body of the jurisdiction where the notice of violation is issued, as specified. This bill would specify that, when paid by mail, payment of a parking penalty or late payment penalty is deemed received on the date payment is postmarked. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, prohibit a late payment penalty for a parking violation from exceeding 30% of the established parking penalty.
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Subjects: Transportation
SB 1493 (Blakespear D) Elections.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
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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Current law requires the Secretary of State to furnish copies of the state voter information guide and the full text of all measures to various persons and places, as specified. This bill would limit the initial number of copies distributed to one copy of the state voter information guide and one copy of the full text of all measures to each person or place, as specified.
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Subjects: City Administration
SB 1494 (Glazer D) Local agencies: Sales and Use Tax: retailers.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/2/2024-April 3 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/29/2024-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
Summary:
The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose a local sales and use tax in accordance with that law for tangible personal property sold at retail in the city or county, or purchased for storage, use, or other consumption in the city or county. This bill would prohibit, on or after January 1, 2024, a local agency from entering into, renewing, or extending any form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to any retailer, as defined, in exchange for the retailer locating or continuing to maintain a place of business that serves as the place of sale, as defined, within the territorial jurisdiction of the local agency if that place of business would generate revenue, from the sale of tangible property delivered to and received by the purchaser in the territorial jurisdiction of another local agency, for the local agency under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law. The bill would make those forms of agreements existing before January 1, 2024, void and
unenforceable on January 1, 2030. The bill would require a local agency to post those forms of agreements existing before January 1, 2024, on the local agency’s internet website until the form of agreement expires or is made void and unenforceable by these provisions. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
Position: Watch Closely
Subjects: Economic Development
SB 1498 (Ashby D) Cannabis: advertising: private right of action.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/20/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. B., P. & E.D.
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4/8/2024 11 a.m. and upon adjournment of Session, if necessary - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ASHBY, ANGELIQUE, Chair Summary:
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities and requires the Department of Cannabis Control to administer its provisions. Under MAUCRSA, the Department of Cannabis Control has sole authority to license and regulate commercial cannabis activity, which MAUCRSA defines to include, among other activities, the sale of cannabis and cannabis products. Current law places various advertising and marketing restrictions on licensees, including prohibiting a licensee from publishing or disseminating advertising or marketing that is attractive to children, and from advertising or marketing cannabis or cannabis products in a manner intended to encourage underage consumption or on an advertising sign within 1,000 feet of a daycare center, school, or youth center. Current law also prohibits a licensee from advertising or marketing on a billboard or similar advertising device located on an interstate highway or on a state highway that crosses the California border. This bill would authorize a parent or guardian of a minor child to bring and maintain an action to redress a violation of the above-described advertising and marketing restrictions. The bill would require a plaintiff who prevails in an action to be awarded injunctive relief and would authorize a prevailing plaintiff to be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and civil penalties of not more than $5,000 per violation, as specified. The bill would require civil penalties awarded in an action to be distributed 50% to the plaintiff and 50% to the Treasurer for deposit into the General Fund.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 1503 (Archuleta D) Cannabis: workers and license requirements.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E. D. and L., P.E. & R.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. B., P. & E.D.
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Summary:
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) imposes various requirements on an applicant for a license, including, among other things, requiring an applicant to submit a notarized statement that the applicant will enter into, or demonstrate that it has already entered into, and will abide by the terms of a labor peace agreement, as specified. Current law imposes the notarized-statement requirement on an applicant with 20 or more employees and, commencing July 1, 2024, on an applicant with 10 or more employees and prohibits the department from renewing a license, on or after July 1, 2024, unless the licensee submits a notarized statement that the licensee has entered into and will abide by the terms of a labor peace agreement. This bill, for purposes of these provisions, would determine the number of employees of an applicant or licensee by reference to the applicant or licensee’s federal employer identification number, individual tax identification number, or social security number, as specified. The bill would require an applicant to provide that information.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 1506 (Stern D) Housing Crisis Act of 2019.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/16/2024-S. RLS.
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The Housing Crisis Act of 2019, among other things, prohibits an affected city or affected county from approving any development project that will require the demolition of occupied or vacant protected units, or that is located on a site where protected units were demolished in the previous 5 years, unless specified requirements are satisfied. Current law defines various terms for the purpose of carrying out these provisions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 1508 (Stern D) Electricity: energy storage systems.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amended: 3/18/2024
Status: 4/4/2024-Set for hearing April 22.
Location: 4/3/2024-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 Public Utilities Commission (PUC) , on or before March 1, 2025, to adopt appropriate targets for each load-serving entity to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems, including long-duration energy storage systems, as defined, multiday energy storage systems, as defined, and emerging energy storage technologies, to be achieved by specified dates, and would require the PUC to determine the amount of new energy storage systems, as defined, that each load- serving entity would be required to deploy in order to facilitate a reliable, zero-carbon electricity grid, and achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, as provided. The bill would require the governing board of each local publicly owned electric utility, on or before March 1, 2025, to initiate a process to determine appropriate targets, if any, for the utility to procure viable and cost- effective energy storage systems, to be achieved by specified dates, and to report those targets to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, as provided. The bill would require that each electrical corporation’s renewable energy procurement plan achieve additional specified purposes, including reducing the demand for electricity during net peak periods, achieving permanent load shifting, achieving the objectives of a reliable, zero-carbon electricity grid and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, and achieving an optimized overall portfolio of resources that use renewable energy generation and energy storage systems. The bill would update the specified dates by which each load-serving entity is required to submit reports to the PUC demonstrating that it has complied with the energy storage system procurement targets and policies adopted by the PUC.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Natural Resources
SB 1510 (Stern D) Permitting: electric vehicle charging.
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/16/2024-S. RLS.
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Current law requires every city, county, and city and county to administratively approve an application to install electric vehicle charging stations through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit and requires the review of an application to install an electric vehicle charging station to be limited to the building official’s review of whether it meets all health and safety requirements of local, state, and federal law. Current law requires an electric vehicle charging station to comply with, among other things, all applicable rules of the Public Utilities Commission regarding safety and reliability, as specified. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
subsequent legislation that would reduce state and local permitting barriers for electric vehicle charging.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SBX1 1 (Jones R) Motor vehicle fuel tax: greenhouse gas reduction programs: suspension.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 3/28/2023-From committee without further action.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the use of market- based compliance mechanisms. Current law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This bill would suspend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations for one year. The bill would also exempt suppliers of transportation fuels from regulations for the use of market-based compliance mechanisms for one year.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Natural Resources, Transportation SCA 2 (Stern D) Elections: voter qualifications.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amended: 4/25/2023
Status: 9/5/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 9/5/2023-S. THIRD READING
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4/8/2024 #35 SENATE SENATE BILLS -THIRD READING FILE
Summary:
The California Constitution allows a United States citizen who is at least 18 years of age and a resident of California to vote. This measure would reduce the minimum voting age to 17.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SCA 3 (Niello R) Elections: initiatives and referenda.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amended: 3/20/2023
Status: 9/1/2023-September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 8/28/2023-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Summary:
Would transfer from the Attorney General to the Legislative Analyst the duty of preparing the title and summary for a proposed initiative or referendum. The measure would also require, for each measure that appears on a statewide ballot, the Legislative Analyst to prepare the ballot label and the ballot title and summary for the state voter information guide.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SCA 4 (Seyarto R) Property taxation: principal residence and family home transfers.
Introduced: 3/6/2023
Last Amended: 4/19/2023
Status: 5/10/2023-May 10 set for second hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 3. Noes 4.) Reconsideration granted.
Location: 3/15/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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The California Constitution limits the amount of ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property, defined as the county assessor’s valuation of real property as shown on the 1975–76 tax bill and, thereafter, the appraised value of the real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership occurs after the 1975 assessment, subject to an annual inflation adjustment not to exceed 2%.This measure would end the operation of the above-described provisions of Proposition 19 on January 1, 2025. The measure would reinstate, on January 1, 2025, the prior rule excluding from classification as a “purchase” or “change in ownership” the purchase or transfer of a principal residence, and the first $1,000,000 of other real property, in the case of a purchase or transfer between parents and their children, or between grandparents and their grandchildren if all the parents of those grandchildren are deceased.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
SR 6 (Grove R) Relative to National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Introduced: 12/13/2022
Status: 1/13/2023-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.)
Location: 1/13/2023-S. ADOPTED
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Summary:
Would resolve that the Senate recognizes the month of January 2023 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
Total Measures: 641
Total Tracking Forms: 641