AGENDA
May 26, 2022
SPECIAL MEETING
CITY COUNCIL
LAW & REGULATION COMMITTEE
9:00 A.M.
Council Chambers
311 Vernon Street
Roseville, California
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1. CALL TO ORDER
2. SILENT ROLL CALL
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
4. PUBLIC COMMENTS
5. MINUTES
6. REPORTS/COMMENTS/COMMITTEE/STAFF
6.1. State & Federal Priority Legislation - May 2022
Memo from Government Relations Administrator Mark Wolinski and Deputy City Manager Megan Scheid with a report focusing on the list of priority legislation being tracked with a particular focus on public safety, and land-use and housing.
The report also includes an overview of several federal issues including the president’s proposed budget, cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, and the Build Back Better Act. Finally, the report provides an overview of the initiatives that were previously submitted by former Assemblymember Mike Gatto.
CC #:
2088
File #:
0103-32-02
CONTACT:
Mark Wolinski 916-774-5179 [email protected]
6.2. Electric Department Priority Legislation – May 2022 Memo from Government Relations Analyst Chris Romero and Electric Utility Director Daniel Beans with an overview of energy-related legislation and other activities that staff has been monitoring.
CC #:
2089
File #:
0103-32-02
CONTACT:
Chris Romero 916-746-1660 [email protected]
6.3. Environmental Utilities Department Priority Legislation - May 2022 Memo from Utility Government Relations Administrator Noelle Mattock and Environmental Utilities Director Richard Plecker with an informational report on state and federal activities that staff have been engaged in and legislation that staff has identified as potentially having a significant impact on City utility customers and the Environmental Utilities Department.
CC #:
2090
File #:
0103-32-02
CONTACT:
Noelle Mattock 916-774-5504 [email protected]
7. ADJOURNMENT
CITY COUNCIL
Law & Regulation Committee
CC #:
2088
File #:
0103-32-02
Title:
State & Federal Priority Legislation - May 2022
Contact:
Mark Wolinski 916-774-5179 [email protected]
Meeting Date: 5/26/2022
Item #: 6.1.
RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL
Staff requests the committee’s input on any of the bills and/or issues that are of particular importance to the committee.
BACKGROUND
Public safety continues to be a policy area of particular concern to the Legislature. In addition, the clash between state control and local control continues to intensify regarding local zoning and land- use decisions. The Legislature continues its efforts to reduce and/or eliminate what municipalities may do regarding zoning and land-use as they contend that local governments are, in part, a reason for the state’s housing crisis. Unfortunately, the Legislature remains reluctant to acknowledge the role the state plays in the crisis.
The following is a review of public safety bills and some of the land-use/zoning/housing bills that are of particular interest.
Public Safety
The City’s Government Relations Team has identified over 300 pieces of legislation which could potentially impact the Roseville Police Department. In an effort to focus our resources on the most critical legislation, we have identified the top 35 bills to watch for the 2022 legislative cycle.
We have further broken the proposed legislation into seven categories. Although we will continue to track the entire list of legislation, the following 35 will serve as the priority for which we track with greater focus.
Compared to the 2021 legislative cycle, we’ve seen a shift in the overall themes related to the bills presented. In this cycle, we are noticing more focus on legislation related to homelessness, substance abuse, and criminal sentencing. We have seen a shift away from police reform and law enforcement operational mandates.
Specific to our current seven tracking categories, we have highlighted one bill from each category that represents the overall theme(s) presented:
Homeless Response
• SB 1006 (Jones) - Law Enforcement: Homeless Outreach Teams (Watch) - This bill would
require the Department of Justice, to the extent funding is provided for these purposes, to administer a competitive grant program to enable local law enforcement agencies to establish and operate homeless outreach teams. Requires a homeless outreach team funded with a grant to be composed of specified individuals.
Staff comments: The department has currently taken a
watch position on this bill to better understand the potential impacts of implementation.
The department currently utilizes partnerships with several internal and external stakeholders, including Placer County Health and Human Services to work in coordination with our Social Services team to coordinate on homeless related issues.
Additional funding in this space may provide the opportunity to increase services in this area.
Mental Health Crisis Response
• AB 662 (Rodriguez) - Mental Health: Dispatch and Response Protocols (Watch) -This bill
would require the Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group to examine the existing dispatch and response protocols when providing emergency medical services to an individual who may require evaluation and treatment for a mental health disorder. Requires the working group to develop recommendations for improvements to those protocols and recommend amendments to the provisions governing involuntarily taking an individual into temporary custody for a mental health evaluation and treatment.
Staff comments: The department has currently
taken a watch position on this bill to better understand the potential impacts of implementation. The job of a police and fire dispatcher is very dynamic and complex role. It’s an integral pieces to the overall response cycle when the community is in need of public safety services. Whenever new regulations are imposed upon public safety communicators, we want to ensure there are no potential risk for adverse changes to operations.
Substance Abuse/Fentanyl Overdoses
• AB 2365 (Patterson) - Fentanyl Program Grants (Watch) - This bill would require the
California Health and Human Services Agency to establish a grant program to reduce fentanyl overdoses and use throughout the state by giving out 6 one-time grants to increase local efforts in education, testing, recovery, and support services, as specified.
Staff comments: The
department has currently taken a watch position on this bill to better understand the potential impacts of implementation. The department recognizes there’s serious consequences when fentanyl is introduced to a community. We have seen an increase in fentanyl related deaths. Programs designed to reduce fentanyl in the community could have positive impacts.
Organized Retail Crime
• AB 1700 (Maienschein) - Theft: Online marketplaces: Reporting (Watch) - This bill would
require the Attorney General to establish a reporting location on its internet website for individuals to report items found on online marketplaces that they suspect are stolen goods, and requires the Attorney General to provide that information to the applicable local law enforcement agency and regional property crimes task force. Requires online marketplaces to display on their electronically based or accessed platform a link to the Attorney General's online stolen goods reporting location.
Staff comments: The department has currently taken a watch position on this bill to better understand the potential impacts of implementation. Online marketplaces have provided an easy mechanism to sell stolen property. Currently, there is no system in place to officially report stolen property for sale online. If this legislation is passed, there is potential for an increased workload surrounding the investigative efforts needed to follow up on this reporting.
Firearms / Ghost Guns
• AB 2156 (Wicks) - Firearms: Manufacturers (Watch)
- This bill would prohibit any person,
regardless of federal licensure, from manufacturing firearms in the state without being licensed by the state. Decreases the manufacturing threshold requiring state licensure from 50 or more firearms in a calendar year to 4 or more firearms in a calendar year. Prohibits any person, unless licensed as a firearm manufacturer, from manufacturing any firearm or precursor part by means of a 3D printer, as defined.
Staff comments: The department has currently taken a watch position on this bill to better understand the potential impacts of implementation. Un- serialized or ghost guns have become an increasing problem in our region. Criminals have found a way to access untraceable firearms. This bill could provide restrictions to make it more difficult to gain firearms through this market.
Law Enforcement Hiring and Reform
• SB 1038 (Bradford) - Law Enforcement: Facial Recognition and Other Biometric (Watch) This bill relates to law enforcement, facial recognition and other biometric surveillance. Extends provisions relative to those surveillance methods indefinitely.
Staff comments: The department
has currently taken a watch position on this bill to better understand the potential impacts of implementation. We have seen significant benefits from video technology through our body worn camera program and our license plate reader program. This bill codifies restrictions that may have future potential impacts on how we utilize technology in policing.
Hate Crimes/Criminal Sentencing
• AB 1670 (Bryan) - Criminal Justice: Alternatives to Incarceration (Watch) - This bill would
create the Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to study alternatives to incarceration, alternative crisis response models, and the effects of family separation in the jail and state prison systems.
Staff comments: The
department has currently taken a watch position on this bill to better understand the potential impacts of implementation. Although we do not know the outcome of the alternative suggestions to incarceration, we feel it’s important to recognize the intent behind this proposed commission. If created, recommendations will move forward to likely ultimately reduce the number of convicted criminals from serving incarcerated time.
Other
• AB 2071 (Patterson) - Vehicles: Distracted Driving Awareness Grant (Watch) - This bill
would require the Office of Traffic Safety to administer a grant program to combat distracted driving. The bill would require that grants be awarded to qualifying law enforcement agencies, such as the Department of the California Highway Patrol. Requires that grant funds be used to increase public awareness of the dangers of distracted driving.
Staff comments: The department has
currently taken a watch position on this bill to better understand the potential impacts of implementation. Distracted driving kills. We currently have a grant request in with the California Office of Traffic Safety to, among many things, promote safe driving in the community. If additional grants became available in this space, the department would assess the possible funding options.
In the next phase of the legislative review process, we’ll coordinate with our industry and association partners at Cal Chief’s, California Police Officers Association (CPOA), and Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) to further refine the bills with the greatest potential impact. This will further help us refine our advocacy tactics.
Other Active Priority Bills – Housing and Land-Use
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AB 1952 (Gallagher) - Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019 (Support) – This bill
would exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) a project financed pursuant to the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, and would make all legal actions, proceedings, and decisions undertaken or made pursuant to the program exempt from CEQA.
Staff Comments: The City has taken a support position on this bill for the CEQA exemptions it would provide for projects financed through the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019. While it is uncertain if any projects will be constructed in Roseville using this program, this bill could provide benefit to other cities and counties throughout the state to address the housing crisis.
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AB 2053 (Lee) - The Social Housing Act (Watch)
– This bill would enact the Social Housing
Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets, as specified. Prescribes a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities.
Staff Comments: The City has taken a
watch position on this bill as it would provide, among other things, that the authority prioritize the development of specified property, including vacant parcels and parcels near transit, and would prescribe a process for the annual determination of required social housing units. Under the bill, social housing would accommodate a mix of household income ranges and would provide specified protections for residents, who would participate in the operation and management of the units in which they reside. •
AB 2097 (Friedman) - Residential and commercial development: remodeling, renovations, and additions: parking requirements (Oppose) This bill would prohibit a public
agency from imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement, or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement, on residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within one-half mile of public transit, as defined. When a project provides parking voluntarily, the bill would authorize a public agency to impose specified requirements on the voluntary parking.
Staff Comments: The City has taken an oppose
position on this bill for the removal of a local government’s ability to require parking for defined projects regardless of the standards that have been established by the local government.
AB 2097 limits the ability of local governments to take into account the unique needs of their communities by constraining when they can impose parking requirements.
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SB 1067 (Portantino) - Housing development projects: automobile parking requirements (Oppose)
This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on a housing development project that is located within a specified mile of public transit. Includes findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities and counties, including charter cities and counties.
Staff Comments: The City has taken
an oppose position on this bill as it would stipulate that local governments should not require parking near transit for certain housing projects. Furthermore, it is currently unclear how a local government would review or rebut a demonstration by a developer that a project would not have any of the negative impacts that otherwise disqualify a project from receiving the parking reduction.
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SB 897 (Wieckowski) - Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units (Oppose)
This bill would require that the standards imposed on accessory dwelling units be objective. Requires a local agency to review and issue a demolition permit for a detached garage that is to be replaced by an accessory dwelling unit at the same time as it reviews and issues the permit for the accessory dwelling unit. Prohibits an applicant from being required to provide written notice or post a placard for the demolition of a detached garage that is to be replaced by an accessory dwelling unit.
Staff Comments: The City has taken an oppose position on this bill for the loss of local control that would occur if this bill is signed into law. A primary area that is concerning is the lack of transparency that would be created in a neighborhood for other property owners who would be impacted, if an applicant did not have to provide written notice or post a placard that provides notice of the intended change to the lot.
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SB 932 (Portantino) - General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans (Oppose)
This bill would require a local government during the next substantive revision of the circulation element to develop or update the plan for a balanced, multimodal transportation network and to ensure that the plan includes bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans for any urbanized area within the scope of the county or city general plan.
Staff Comments: The City has taken an oppose position on SB 932 as it would require every city and county in the state to adopt bicycle and pedestrian plans, including a prescriptive list of infrastructure that must be constructed, without regard for local conditions that may influence whether a given area is likely to have significant bike or foot traffic. The bill would also require local governments to spend significant funds on bike, pedestrian, and traffic calming infrastructure, when municipalities are already facing significant shortfalls for the costs to maintain existing transportation infrastructure.
Federal
The House and Senate recently returned from recess and began work on many important items needing their attention. Included in these items are two of the most significant, which are the markup of the 2023 spending bills and new negotiations on the Build Back Better Act.
Federal Budget
On March 28, 2022, President Biden released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23).
The President’s Budget communicates the Administration’s spending priorities to Congress, which is the first step in the federal budget and appropriations process. This budget is not the final budget, but it is a roadmap for funding the federal government. Congress will develop and negotiate spending caps for the 12 federal appropriations bills for FY23 and determine final funding levels before the start of the new fiscal year that begins on October 1, 2022.
The House Appropriations Committee is tentatively planning to take up its fiscal 2023 spending bills in June, with potential floor votes being held in July. Subcommittees would mark up their twelve annual bills from June 13 to June 22. The full committee would hold its markups from June 22 through June 30. Congressional staff that are familiar with the plans said the dates are tentative and will not be confirmed until an official notice is released. The top four appropriators in the House and Senate, known as the “four corners,” are expected to meet shortly after the April two- week recess to begin discussions aimed at reaching a bipartisan agreement on overall discretionary spending levels for the upcoming fiscal year.
Build Back Better Act
A chief cornerstone of the Biden Administration’s legislative agenda is the Build Back Better (BBB) Act. The bill’s prospects of passage ended last December when Senator Manchin stated he would not support the legislation. However, senators will take up a modified version of the bill in what many believe to be the last possible chance at passing the package in the coming months.
The modified plan will most likely have a much smaller overall cost, which would meet Senator Manchin’s concerns. Senators will still need to work through other remaining challenges and differences on the bill if it has a chance to gain Congressional approval.
Cybersecurity - Critical Infrastructure
Congress is working at increasing the government's ability to safeguard critical infrastructure from overwhelming cyberattacks on critical infrastructure sectors such as water, electric utilities and pipeline operators. These efforts align with a new law Congress passed as part of the fiscal 2022 omnibus spending bill that requires operators of critical infrastructure to report any cyberattacks they suffer to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The new law was based on one of the primary recommendations of the Solarium Commission a bipartisan, bicameral panel of lawmakers and experts that proposed several cybersecurity measures in its March 2020 report. It is expected that the next important step is for Congress to identify the key sectors where a cyberattack would have the greatest national security implications.
I
nitiatives - California Compassionate Intervention Act
In 2019, former Assemblymember Mike Gatto co-authored 2 initiatives to address issues related to homelessness. The first ballot initiative called the California Compassionate Intervention Act would have put unsheltered people with mental challenges under further scrutiny from law enforcement and the court system.
Under the plan, police would have be further empowered to arrest homeless people under existing state codes, including those for illegal lodging and drug-related offenses, and would have diverted them to a special behavioral court in their county.
The court would have then directed unhoused residents into housing, counseling and medical and mental health treatment in the state’s more populous counties, including San Francisco.
But it would have also allowed a maximum sentence of just under one year in facilities that operated similar programs.
The second initiative introduced by the former assembly member was the California Intervention Predicate Crimes and Treatment Court. The initiative would have created a special superior court named the Specialized Benefits, Treatment, and Therapy Court, in counties with populations above 100,000. The special courts would have handled crimes defined as intervention predicates.
The special courts would have determined whether a defendant's economic need, drug use or addiction, or mental health issues caused, in whole or in part, the defendant to commit the crime.
The special courts would have been required to provide information and assistance to defendants and sentence them to counseling and treatment programs. The proposed initiative was designed to change how the state addresses crimes related to homelessness.
Both initiatives failed to qualify for the ballot, but the California's Compassionate Intervention Act organization continues to have a website where people can join their effort. 2022 Ballot Initiatives - Update
Currently, 3 initiatives have qualified for the ballot this November. Those initiatives are as follows:
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ADJUSTS LIMITATIONS IN MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CASES. INITIATIVE STATUTE. 1885. (19-0018A1)
In medical negligence cases, adjusts for inflation: (1) $250,000 limit established in 1975 on quality-of-life and survivor damages (which include pain and suffering); and (2) contingent attorney’s fees limits established in 1987. In cases involving death or permanent injury, allows judge or jury to exceed these limits and requires judge to award attorney’s fees. Requires attorneys filing medical negligence cases to certify reasonable basis for claims or good-faith attempt to obtain medical opinion; attorneys who file meritless lawsuits must pay defendant’s expenses. Extends deadlines for filing medical negligence lawsuits. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local governments:
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REQUIRES STATE REGULATIONS TO REDUCE PLASTIC WASTE, TAX
PRODUCERS OF SINGLE-USE PLASTICS, AND FUND RECYCLING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. 1886. (19-0028A1) Requires CalRecycle to adopt regulations reducing plastic waste, including to: (1) require that single-use plastic packaging, containers, and utensils be reusable, recyclable, or compostable, and to reduce such waste by 25%, by 2030; (2) prohibit polystyrene container use by food vendors; and (3) tax producers of single-use plastic packaging, containers, or utensils by January 1, 2022, and allocate revenues for recycling and environmental programs, including local water supply protection. Prohibits Legislature from reducing funding to specified state environmental agencies below 2019 levels.
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AUTHORIZES NEW TYPES OF GAMBLING. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY AMENDMENT. (19-0029A1)
Allows federally recognized Native American tribes to operate roulette, dice games, and sports wagering on tribal lands, subject to compacts negotiated by the Governor and ratified by the Legislature. Beginning in 2022, allows on-site sports wagering at only privately operated horse- racing tracks in four specified counties for persons 21 years or older. Imposes 10% tax on sports- wagering profits at horse-racing tracks; directs portion of revenues to enforcement and problem- gambling programs. Prohibits marketing of sports wagering to persons under 21. Authorizes private lawsuits to enforce other gambling laws.
Conclusion
The complexities related to public safety, land-use, and housing continue to be significant policy areas for the Legislature. Government relations staff continues to work closely with our state and federal lobbyist, trade associations, and others to track and advocate on the list of priority bills and to ensure the City’s interests and policy objectives are supported effectively.
FISCAL IMPACT
The costs of these activities are contained within the City’s current budget.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / JOBS CREATED
The activities detained in this report will not result in job development or creation.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) does not apply to activities that will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, or is otherwise not considered a project as defined by CEQA Statute §21065 and CEQA State Guidelines §15060(c)(3) and §15378.
The action of reviewing legislation meets the above criteria and is not subject to CEQA.
No additional environmental review is required.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mark Wolinski, Government Relations Administrator
Megan Scheid, Deputy City Manager
ATTACHMENTS:
Description
Priority Legislation-May 2022-Attachment A
Attachment A
Priority Legislation – May 2022
1.CA AB 1615 ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 FOSTER YOUTH: HOUSING ............................................................................................................................................... 7
2.CA AB 1670 ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION .......................................................................................................... 8
3.CA AB 1695 ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 AFFORDABLE HOUSING LOAN AND GRANT PROGRAMS .......................................................................................................... 9
4.CA AB 1700 ....................................................................................................................................................... 10 THEFT: ONLINE MARKETPLACES: REPORTING ..................................................................................................................... 10
5.CA AB 1711 ....................................................................................................................................................... 11 PRIVACY: BREACH ........................................................................................................................................................ 11
6.CA AB 1717 ....................................................................................................................................................... 12 PUBLIC WORKS: DEFINITION .......................................................................................................................................... 12
7.CA AB 1737 ....................................................................................................................................................... 13 CHILDREN'S CAMPS: LOCAL REGISTRATION AND INSPECTIONS ............................................................................................... 13
8.CA AB 1748 ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 EXEMPT SURPLUS LAND: REGIONAL HOUSING NEED ........................................................................................................... 15
9.CA AB 1771 ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 THE CALIFORNIA HOUSING SPECULATION ACT ................................................................................................................... 16
10.CA AB 1789 ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 CALIFORNIA RECREATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM PLAN .............................................................................................................. 17
11.CA AB 1830 ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 PLANNING AND ZONING: HOUSING ELEMENT: REZONING OF SITES ........................................................................................ 18
12.CA AB 1857 ..................................................................................................................................................... 19 SOLID WASTE .............................................................................................................................................................. 19
13.CA AB 1883 ..................................................................................................................................................... 20 PUBLIC RESTROOMS ..................................................................................................................................................... 20
14.CA AB 1910 ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 PUBLICLY OWNED GOLF COURSES: CONVERSION: HOUSING ................................................................................................. 21
15.CA AB 1917 ..................................................................................................................................................... 22 PERSONAL INFORMATION: CONTACT TRACING ................................................................................................................... 22
16.CA AB 1931 ..................................................................................................................................................... 23
COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEMS: LEAD PIPES ...................................................................................................................... 23
17.CA AB 1944 ..................................................................................................................................................... 24 LOCAL GOVERNMENT: OPEN AND PUBLIC MEETINGS .......................................................................................................... 25
18.CA AB 1952 ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 INFILL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM OF 2019 .......................................................................................................... 26
19.CA AB 1976 ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 PLANNING AND ZONING: HOUSING ELEMENT COMPLIANCE .................................................................................................. 26
20.CA AB 1980 ..................................................................................................................................................... 28 STATUTE OF LIMITATION: RANSOMWARE .......................................................................................................................... 28
21.CA AB 1993 ..................................................................................................................................................... 29 EMPLOYMENT: COVID-19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................... 29
22.CA AB 2006 ..................................................................................................................................................... 30 REGULATORY AGREEMENTS: COMPLIANCE MONITORING. .................................................................................................... 30
23.CA AB 2013 ..................................................................................................................................................... 31 CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE HOUSING PLAN ........................................................................................................................... 31
24.CA AB 2053 ..................................................................................................................................................... 31 THE SOCIAL HOUSING ACT ............................................................................................................................................. 32
25.CA AB 2061 ..................................................................................................................................................... 33 TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION: ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGE ........................................................................................... 33
26.CA AB 2063 ..................................................................................................................................................... 34 DENSITY BONUSES: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IMPACT FEES..................................................................................................... 34
27.CA AB 2071 ..................................................................................................................................................... 35 VEHICLES: DISTRACTED DRIVING AWARENESS GRANT ......................................................................................................... 35
28.CA AB 2095 ..................................................................................................................................................... 36 EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION: WORKER METRICS .............................................................................................................. 36
29.CA AB 2097 ..................................................................................................................................................... 37 RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REMODELING ............................................................................................. 37
30.CA AB 2142 ..................................................................................................................................................... 38 INCOME TAXES: EXCLUSION: TURF REPLACEMENT PROGRAM ............................................................................................... 38
31.CA AB 2156 ..................................................................................................................................................... 39 FIREARMS: MANUFACTURERS ......................................................................................................................................... 39
32.CA AB 2157 ..................................................................................................................................................... 40 URBAN WATER USE OBJECTIVES: INDOOR RESIDENTIAL USE ................................................................................................ 40
33.CA AB 2166 ..................................................................................................................................................... 41
FEDERAL FUNDING: PROMOTING HOMEOWNERSHIP ........................................................................................................... 41
34.CA AB 2179 ..................................................................................................................................................... 42 COVID 19 RELIEF: TENANCY ......................................................................................................................................... 42
35.CA AB 2186 ..................................................................................................................................................... 43 HOUSING COST REDUCTION INCENTIVE PROGRAM ............................................................................................................. 43
36.CA AB 2201 ..................................................................................................................................................... 44 GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY: GROUNDWATER EXTRACT ..................................................................................... 44
37.CA AB 2211 ..................................................................................................................................................... 46 SHELTER CRISIS: HOMELESS SHELTERS .............................................................................................................................. 46
38.CA AB 2218 ..................................................................................................................................................... 47 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT ...................................................................................................................... 47
39.CA AB 2220 ..................................................................................................................................................... 48 HOMELESS COURTS PILOT PROGRAM ............................................................................................................................... 48
40.CA AB 2243 ..................................................................................................................................................... 49 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS: HEAT ILLNESS .......................................................................................... 49
41.CA AB 2247 ..................................................................................................................................................... 50 PERFLUOROALKYL AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) ........................................................................................... 50
42.CA AB 2252 ..................................................................................................................................................... 51 BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE: DISASTERS: REPORTS ......................................................................................................... 51
43.CA AB 2305 ..................................................................................................................................................... 52 HOUSING FINANCE: COORDINATED HOUSING FINANCE COMMITTEE ...................................................................................... 52
44.CA AB 2310 ..................................................................................................................................................... 53 REGIONAL HOUSING NEED ALLOCATION ........................................................................................................................... 53
45.CA AB 2325 ..................................................................................................................................................... 54 COORDINATED HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE ........................................................................................................................ 54
46.CA AB 2334 ..................................................................................................................................................... 56 DENSITY BONUS LAW: AFFORDABILITY: INCENTIVES ............................................................................................................ 56
47.CA AB 2339 ..................................................................................................................................................... 57 HOUSING ELEMENT: EMERGENCY SHELTERS: REGIONAL HOUSING ......................................................................................... 57
48.CA AB 2346 ..................................................................................................................................................... 58 OUTDOOR RECREATION: OUTDOORS FOR ALL PROGRAM ..................................................................................................... 59
49.CA AB 2356 ..................................................................................................................................................... 60 THEFT: AGGREGATION .................................................................................................................................................. 60
50.CA AB 2365 ..................................................................................................................................................... 60
FENTANYL PROGRAM GRANTS ........................................................................................................................................ 61
51.CA AB 2428 ..................................................................................................................................................... 61 MITIGATION FEE ACT: FEES FOR IMPROVEMENTS: TIMELINE................................................................................................. 61
52.CA AB 2430 ..................................................................................................................................................... 62 TINY HOMES ............................................................................................................................................................... 62
53.CA AB 2434 ..................................................................................................................................................... 63 HOMELESSNESS ACTION AUTHORITY: COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES............................................................................................ 63
54.CA AB 2440 ..................................................................................................................................................... 64 RESPONSIBLE BATTERY RECYCLING ACT OF 2022 ............................................................................................................... 64
55.CA AB 2445 ..................................................................................................................................................... 66 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT ...................................................................................................................... 67
56.CA AB 2481 ..................................................................................................................................................... 67 HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE: FACILITIES: TRANSPORTATION .......................................................................................... 67
57.CA AB 2483 ..................................................................................................................................................... 68 HOUSING FOR INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS .................................................................................................. 69
58.CA AB 2485 ..................................................................................................................................................... 70 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT: EXEMPTION .................................................................................................... 70
59.CA AB 2536 ..................................................................................................................................................... 70 DEVELOPMENT FEES: IMPACT FEE NEXUS STUDIES ............................................................................................................. 70
60.CA AB 2569 ..................................................................................................................................................... 71 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION, OUTREACH ................................................................................................. 71
61.CA AB 2623 ..................................................................................................................................................... 72 HOUSING FIRST: SOBER HOUSING ................................................................................................................................... 72
62.CA AB 2631 ..................................................................................................................................................... 73 GOVERNMENT CLAIMS ACT ............................................................................................................................................ 73
63.CA AB 2633 ..................................................................................................................................................... 74 PARKLANDS: REMOVAL OF UNPERMITTED CAMPERS AND CAMPSITES .................................................................................... 74
64.CA AB 2653 ..................................................................................................................................................... 75 PLANNING AND ZONING LAW: HOUSING ELEMENTS ............................................................................................................ 75
65.CA AB 2656 ..................................................................................................................................................... 76 HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT: DISAPPROVALS ................................................................................................................ 76
66.CA AB 2663 ..................................................................................................................................................... 77 YOUTH ACCEPTANCE PROJECT ........................................................................................................................................ 77
67.CA AB 2668 ..................................................................................................................................................... 78
GOVERNMENT CODE AND HOUSING ................................................................................................................................ 78
68.CA AB 2696 ..................................................................................................................................................... 79 ELECTRICITY: RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ZERO-CARBON RESOURCES ....................................................................................... 79
69.CA AB 2701 ..................................................................................................................................................... 80 PUBLIC UTILITY FACILITIES .............................................................................................................................................. 80
70.CA AB 2703 ..................................................................................................................................................... 81 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 81
71.CA AB 2742 ..................................................................................................................................................... 82 WATER METERS: URBAN WATER SUPPLIERS ..................................................................................................................... 82
72.CA AB 2755 ..................................................................................................................................................... 82 HOMELESSNESS DATA REPORTING ................................................................................................................................... 83
73.CA AB 2762 ..................................................................................................................................................... 84 HOUSING: PARKING LOTS .............................................................................................................................................. 84
74.CA AB 2768 ..................................................................................................................................................... 84 MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS: DATABASE ............................................................................................ 84
75.CA AB 2811 ..................................................................................................................................................... 85 BUILDING STANDARDS COMMISSION: RECYCLED WATER ..................................................................................................... 85
76.CA AB 2817 ..................................................................................................................................................... 86 HOUSE CALIFORNIA CHALLENGE PROGRAM ....................................................................................................................... 86
77.CA AB 2818 ..................................................................................................................................................... 88 SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT WORKFORCE EXPANSION ........................................................................................ 88
78.CA AB 2830 ..................................................................................................................................................... 89 COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE, RECOVERY, AND EMPOWERMENT COURT ..................................................................................... 89
79.CA AB 2886 ..................................................................................................................................................... 90 RECYCLING: ELECTRIC VEHICLE LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES ...................................................................................................... 90
80.CA AB 2893 ..................................................................................................................................................... 92 ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT .................................................................................................................................. 92
81.CA AB 2919 ..................................................................................................................................................... 93 RELEASE OF WATER: FISH POPULATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 93
82.CA SB 892 ........................................................................................................................................................ 94 CYBERSECURITY PREPAREDNESS: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SECTOR ....................................................................................... 94
83.CA SB 897 ........................................................................................................................................................ 95 ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS: JUNIOR UNITS .................................................................................................................... 95
84.CA SB 932 ........................................................................................................................................................ 97
GENERAL PLANS: CIRCULATION ELEMENT ......................................................................................................................... 97
85.CA SB 970 ........................................................................................................................................................ 98 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT ...................................................................................................................................... 98
86.CA SB 1000 .................................................................................................................................................... 100 LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES: RADIO COMMUNICATIONS ................................................................................................ 100
87.CA SB 1006 .................................................................................................................................................... 101 LAW ENFORCEMENT: HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAMS ......................................................................................................... 101
88.CA SB 1032 .................................................................................................................................................... 102 PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION: ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION .............................................................................................. 102
89.CA SB 1038 .................................................................................................................................................... 102 LAW ENFORCEMENT: FACIAL RECOGNITION AND OTHER BIOMETRIC .................................................................................... 102
90.CA SB 1067 .................................................................................................................................................... 103 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: AUTOMOBILE PARKING .............................................................................................. 103
91.CA SB 1075 .................................................................................................................................................... 104 HYDROGEN: GREEN HYDROGEN: EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES .................................................................................. 104
92.CA SB 1112 .................................................................................................................................................... 106 ENERGY: BUILDING DECARBONIZATION: NOTICE .............................................................................................................. 106
93.CA SB 1130 .................................................................................................................................................... 108 MILITARY BASE REUSE AUTHORITY: BOARD OF DIRECTORS ................................................................................................ 108
94.CA SB 1150 .................................................................................................................................................... 109 PURE AND SAFE DRINKING WATER ................................................................................................................................ 109
95.CA SB 1156 .................................................................................................................................................... 109 MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL TAX: DIESEL FUEL TAX: ADJUSTMENT .............................................................................................. 109
96.CA SB 1157 .................................................................................................................................................... 110 URBAN WATER USE OBJECTIVES: INDOOR RESIDENTIAL USE .............................................................................................. 110
97.CA SB 1158 .................................................................................................................................................... 111 RETAIL ELECTRICITY SUPPLIERS: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ........................................................................................... 111
98.CA SB 1173 .................................................................................................................................................... 112 PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS: FOSSIL FUELS: DIVESTMENT ............................................................................................... 112
99.CA SB 1195 .................................................................................................................................................... 113 VETERANS HOMES ...................................................................................................................................................... 113 100.CA SB 1213 .................................................................................................................................................. 114 PUBLIC OUTREACH: COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ................................................................................................. 114 101.CA SB 1219 .................................................................................................................................................. 115
21ST CENTURY WATER LAWS AND AGENCIES: COMMITTEE ................................................................................................ 115 102.CA SB 1283 .................................................................................................................................................. 116 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT .................................................................................................................................... 116 103.CA SB 1284 .................................................................................................................................................. 116 HOMELESSNESS: INTERIM MOTEL HOUSING PROJECTS ...................................................................................................... 116 104.CA SB 1338 .................................................................................................................................................. 118 CARE COURT PROGRAM ............................................................................................................................................. 118 105.CA SB 1353 .................................................................................................................................................. 119 HOMELESS POPULATION INFORMATION: COLLECTION, REPORTING ...................................................................................... 119 106.CA SB 1369 .................................................................................................................................................. 120 ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECTS: BY RIGHT: FUNDING ............................................................................................................. 120 107.CA SB 1376 .................................................................................................................................................. 122 STATE ENERGY RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................................... 122 108.CA SB 1393 .................................................................................................................................................. 123 ENERGY: APPLIANCES: LOCAL REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................. 123 109.CA SB 1463 .................................................................................................................................................. 124 HYDROGEN FUELING HUB: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA........................................................................................................... 124 110.CA SB 1466 .................................................................................................................................................. 125 AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................................. 125 111.CA SCA 9 ..................................................................................................................................................... 127 PERSONAL RIGHTS: RIGHT TO HOUSING.......................................................................................................................... 127
1.CA AB 1615
Author: Ting (D)
Coauthor Stone (D), Bryan (D)
Title: Foster Youth: Housing
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 50807 and 50811 of, and to amend the heading of Chapter 11.8 (commencing with Section 50811) of Part 2 of Division 31 of, the
Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 11403.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care.
Summary: Renames to housing navigator program as the Housing Navigation and Maintenance Program. Extends the age of eligibility for transitional housing in all counties to any former foster youth who is 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, and would extend the maximum time they may receive services pursuant to these provisions to 36 months.
Digest: This bill would rename to housing navigator program as the Housing Navigation and Maintenance Program, and would extend eligibility and priority for the program to help young adults who are 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, with priority given to young adults formerly or currently in the foster care system. The bill would, for a child welfare agency that accepts any distribution of money for both the Transitional Housing Program and the Housing Navigation and Maintenance Program, require the department shall accept one county board resolution and one allocation acceptance form, and execute one standard agreement, for both programs.
This bill would extend the age of eligibility for transitional housing in all counties to any former foster youth who is 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, and would extend the maximum time they may receive services pursuant to these provisions to 36 months. To the extent that this bill would expand county duties with regard to the administration of the Transitional Housing Program- Plus program, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 01/05/2022
Last
Amend: 04/19/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: Housing
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
2.CA AB 1670
Author: Bryan (D)
Coauthor Mayes (R)
Title: Criminal Justice: Alternatives to Incarceration
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 8.3 (commencing with Section 6150) to Title 7 of Part 3 of the Penal Code, relating to the Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration.
Summary: Creates the Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to study alternatives to incarceration, alternative crisis response models, and the effects of family separation in the jail and state prison systems.
Digest: This bill would create the Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to study alternatives to incarceration, alternative crisis response models, and the effects of family separation in the jail and state prison systems.
The bill would require the commission to report its findings and make recommendations to the Legislature no later than February 1, 2024, as specified.
Introduced: 01/19/2022
Last
Amend: 03/31/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
3.CA AB 1695
Author: Santiago (D)
Title: Affordable Housing Loan and Grant Programs
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 50467 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Provides that any notice of funding availability issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development for an affordable multifamily housing loan and grant program shall state that adaptive reuse of a property for affordable housing purposes is an eligible activity. Defines adaptive reuse for these purposes to mean the retrofitting and repurposing of an existing building to create new residential units.
Digest: This bill would provide that any notice of funding availability issued by the department for an affordablemultifamily housing loan and grant program shall state that adaptive reuse of a property for affordable housing purposes is an eligible activity. The bill would define "adaptive reuse"for these purposes to mean theretrofitting and repurposing of an existing building to create new residential units.
Introduced: 01/25/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Do pass to Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS. (7-1)
Department: Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
4.CA AB 1700
Author: Maienschein (D)
Title: Theft: Online marketplaces: Reporting
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 35 (commencing with Section 7599.110) to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, relating to theft.
Summary: Requires the Attorney General to establish a reporting location on its internet website for individuals to report items found on online marketplaces that they suspect are stolen goods, and requires the Attorney General to provide that information to the applicable local law enforcement agency and regional property crimes task force. Requires online marketplaces to display on their
electronically based or accessed platform a link to the Attorney General's online stolen goods reporting location.
Digest: This bill would require the Attorney General to establish a reporting location on its internet website for individuals to report items found on online marketplaces, as defined, that they suspect are stolen goods, and would require the Attorney General to provide that information to the applicable local law enforcement agency and regional property crimes task force. The bill would additionally require online marketplaces to display on their electronically based or accessed platform a link to the Attorney General's online marketplace suspected stolen goods reporting location.
Introduced: 01/25/2022
Status: 03/30/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
5.CA AB 1711
Author: Seyarto (R)
Title: Privacy: Breach
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
File: 124
Location: Assembly Third Reading File
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 1798.29 of the Civil Code, relating to privacy.
Summary: Requires an agency to post a notice on the agency's internet website when a person or business operating a system on behalf of the agency is required to issue a security breach notification for that system.
Digest: This bill would require an agency to post a notice on the agency's internet website when a person or business operating a system on behalf of the agency is required to issue a security breach notification for that system pursuant to the above-described provisions, as specified.
Introduced: 01/26/2022
Last
Amend: 04/21/2022
Status: 05/12/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Department: CityAttorney, IT
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
6.CA AB 1717
Author: Aguiar-Curry (D)
Title: Public Works: Definition
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 1720 of the Labor Code, relating to public works.
Summary: Expands the definition of public works, for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages, to include fuel reduction work paid for in whole or in part out of public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project.
Digest: This bill would expand the definition of "public works" to include fuel reduction work paid for in whole or in part out of public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project, as specified. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 01/27/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, DevelopmentSvcs, Electric, Parks DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: OpposeUnlessAmended
Priority: StatePriority
7.CA AB 1737
Author: Holden (D)
Title: Children's Camps: Local Registration and Inspections Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 18897 and 18897.2 of, to add Division 40 (commencing with Section 60000) to, and to repeal Section 18897.6 of, the Health and Safety Code, to amend Section 1182.4 of the Labor Code, and to amend Section 11165.7 of the Penal Code, relating to children's camps.
Summary: Requires a camp operator, camp director, staff member, counselor, or regular volunteer of a children's camp to complete training in child abuse and neglect identification and training in child abuse and neglect reporting, as specified, and to undergo a background check pursuant to a specified provision.
Digest: This bill would include "children's camps" within the definition of organized camps and would define "children's camp" as a camp that offers daytime or overnight experiences administered by adults who provide social, cultural, educational, recreational, or artistic programming to more than 5 children between 3 and 17 years of age for 5 days or longer during at least one season, except as specified. The bill would also delete the requirement for the Director of Public Health to consider the Camp Standards of the American Camping Association when adopting rules and regulations.
This bill would require the operator of a children's camp to annually register with the local agency of the jurisdiction where the children's camp is located at least 90 days before commencing operations. The bill would require each local agency to develop a registration form for a children's camp to file with the local agency that includes specified information, including the name and location of the camp and the name and contact information of the camp operator and camp director. The bill would authorize each local agency to charge a registration fee that does not exceed the reasonable costs incurred by the local agency to register and inspect the children's camps in its jurisdiction.
This bill would require each local agency to make at least one unannounced inspection and one scheduled inspection of each children's camp within its jurisdiction during the calendar year and to make additional inspections in specified circumstances. If the local agency identifies any violation of these provisions during an inspection, the bill would require the local agency to issue a notice to correct the violation to the camp operator and the camp director. The bill would require the children's camp to post the cited violation on the premises of the camp until mitigation of the violation has been confirmed by the local agency. The bill would require the local agency to conduct a followup inspection to confirm the mitigation of a cited violation. The
bill would require the local agency to maintain all records of children's camp inspections and make the records available for public inspection. By creating new duties for a local agency in the administration of children's camps, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would require each children's camp to develop and maintain an operating plan that includes specified information, including, but not limited to, the camp's admission policy, proposed operating hours, proposed fee schedule, health and safety policies, and discipline policies. The bill would require each children's camp to develop and maintain an emergency action plan that contains procedures to address emergency situations, including, but not limited to, natural disasters, lost campers, fires, severe illnesses and injuries, and active shooters. The bill would require all camp staff to be trained in implementation of the operating plan and emergency action plan.
This bill would require each children's camp to ensure that a full-time adult health supervisor, as defined, is available on the premises of the children's camp whenever campers are present. The bill would require a camp operator, camp director, staff member, counselor, or regular volunteer of a children's camp to complete training in child abuse and neglect identification and training in child abuse and neglect reporting, as specified, and to undergo a background check pursuant to a specified provision.
This bill would require each local agency that registers a children's camp pursuant to these provisions to submit an annual report to the State Department of Public Health that contains specified information, including the names of the children's camps in its jurisdiction, the number of attending campers, and any violations cited by the local agency. The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop and maintain a public database on its internet website that contains all the information submitted by local agencies and an annual summary, as specified.
This bill would instead make an administrator or a full-time employee of a children's camp a mandated reporter. By expanding the scope of individuals classified as mandated reporters, the bill would expand the scope of a crime and 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 would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 01/31/2022
Last
Amend: 04/20/2022
Status: 04/26/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-0)
Department: Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: OpposeUnlessAmended
Priority: StatePriority
8.CA AB 1748
Author: Seyarto (R)
Title: Exempt Surplus Land: Regional Housing Need
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 54221 of the Government Code, relating to surplus land.
Summary: Adds to the definition of exempt surplus land, surplus land that is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential units, if residential properties within a radius of 500 feet of the site are zoned to have an allowable density of fewer than 30 dwelling units per acre and the most recent annual progress report, as described.
Digest: This bill would add to the definition of "exempt surplus land," surplus land that is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential units, if residential properties within a radius of 500 feet of the site are zoned to have an allowable density of fewer than 30 dwelling units per acre and the most recent annual progress report, as described, submitted by the city or county that owns the surplus land shows that the total number of low-income and very low income housing units built within the city or county meets or exceeds proportionate annual progress toward the number of those housing units needed to meet the city's or county's share of regional housing need for the 6th cycle of its housing element, as described.
Introduced: 02/01/2022
Last
Amend: 04/06/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Failed passage.
Department: CityAttorney, DevelopmentSvcs, Housing, Planning DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
9.CA AB 1771
Author: Ward (D)
Coauthor Mullin (D)
Title: The California Housing Speculation Act
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 19602 and 19604 of, to add Article 1 (commencing with Section 18200) to Chapter 14 of Part 10 of Division 2 of, to add Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 19609) to Chapter 8 of Part 10.2 of Division 2 of, and to add Article 6 (commencing with Section 25000) to Chapter 15 of Part 11 of Division 2 of, the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.
Summary: Relates to the Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law, which imposes taxes upon income, including income generated from any gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset. Imposes an additional tax of a specified percentage on that portion of a qualified taxpayer's net capital gain from the sale or exchange of a qualified asset, as defined. Reduces those taxes depending on how many years has passed since the qualified taxpayer's initial purchase of the qualified asset.
Digest: This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, impose an additional 25% tax on that portion of a qualified taxpayer's net capital gain from the sale or exchange of a qualified asset, as defined. The bill would reduce those taxes depending on how many years has passed since the qualified taxpayer's initial purchase of the qualified asset. The bill would create the Speculation Recapture Community Reinvestment Fund and would deposit the revenues received as a result of this increase in tax in the fund.
The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to allocate moneys in the fund, as described.
This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 2/3 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Introduced: 02/02/2022
Last
Amend: 03/22/2022
Status: 04/25/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION:
Heard, remains in Committee.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
10.CA AB 1789
Author: Bennett (D)
Title: California Recreational Trails System Plan
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 5019.53 Sections 5019.53, 5070.7, and 5073 of, and to add Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 575) to, and to add Chapter 1.8 (commencing with Section 590) to, Division 1 of, and to add Chapter 4.7 (commencing with Section 14417) to Division 12 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to outdoor recreation, and making an appropriation therefor.
Summary: Creates the California Trails Commission, to consist of 12 specified members, within the Natural Resources Agency to among other things, promote policies and investment opportunities that maximize the health, fitness, and social benefits of nonmotorized natural surface trails, trail networks, and greenway corridors. Creates the Trails Corps Program within the Conservation Corps to provide training, education, and skills implementation in the advancements of sustainable trails and trail landscaping.
Digest: This bill would require the director, on or before January 1, 2024, to prepare and provide to the Legislature a full update of the plan. The bill would instead require the director to submit a report every 3 years to the Legislature describing the progress in carrying out the plan, as provided.
This bill would create the California Trails Commission, to consist of 12 specified members, within the agency to, among other things, promote policies and investment opportunities that maximize the health, fitness, and social benefits of nonmotorized natural surface trails, trail networks, and greenway corridors. The bill would require the agency to assign a California Trails Coordinator to staff the commission and report to the secretary of the agency.
This bill would create the Trails Corps Program within the corps to provide training, education,certifications, placement services for jobs and careers in nonmotorized infrastructure development and related fields, and skills implementation in the advancements of sustainable trails, trail landscaping, and the designing, and best management practices for the operations and maintenance, of nonmotorized natural surface trails.
This bill would appropriate $75,000,000 from the General Fund to the agency for deposit into the Trails and Greenways Fund, which the bill would
establish in the State Treasury, for purposes of providing nonmotorized infrastructure development and enhancements that, among other things, promote new or alternate access to parks, waterways, outdoor recreational pursuits, and forested or other natural environments, as provided. On and after June 30, 2024, the bill would continuously appropriate $15,000,000 each year from the General Fund to the agency fordeposit into the fund for the purposes described above. The bill would require the agency to ensure that at least 40% of those grant moneys directly benefit underresourced communities, as defined.
This bill would also include biking in that list of recreational activities.
Introduced: 02/03/2022
Last
Amend: 04/06/2022
Status: 05/04/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
11.CA AB 1830
Author: Seyarto (R)
Coauthor Chen (R)
Title: Planning and Zoning: Housing Element: Rezoning of Sites Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 50408 of the Health and Safety 65583 of the Government Code, relating to housing.
Summary: extend the above-described one-year deadline to complete this rezoning of sites, for a local government that has failed to adopt a housing element found to be in substantial compliance, to one year and 6 months for the first instance that the requirement applies.
Digest: This bill would extend the above-described one-year deadline to complete this rezoning of sites, for a local government that has failed to adopt a housing element found to be in substantial compliance, to one year and 6 months for the first instance that the requirement applies.
Introduced: 02/07/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 04/18/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT with author's amendments.
04/18/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Department: Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
12.CA AB 1857
Author: Garcia (D)
Title: Solid Waste
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 26011.8, 40051, 40192, 41780, 41780.05, 41783.1, and 42510 of, to add Section 42999.5 to, and to repeal Sections 41783, 41784, and 41786 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.
Summary: Relates to existing law which requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and local agencies to maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid waste that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal.
Requires the department to certify that a local agency is in compliance with that requirement before approving a permit for a new transformation, EMSW, or land disposal facility serving the local agency.
Digest: This bill would require the department to certify that a local agency is in compliance with that requirement before approving a permit for a new transformation, EMSW, or land disposal facility serving the local agency.
This bill would delete those exceptions to the act's general definition of those terms and instead define those terms for purposes of the entire act to mean the final deposition of solid wastes onto land, into the atmosphere, or into the waters of the state, including, but not limited to, through landfill disposal, transformation, or EMSW conversion, at a permitted solid waste facility.
This bill would repeal the provision authorizing the inclusion of not more than 10% of the diversion through transformation. Because the bill would require local agencies to revise the source reduction and recycling elements of their integrated waste management plans, this bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
This bill would repeal that authorization.
This bill would enact the Zero Waste Transition Act of 2022. The bill would require the department, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, to support communities in transitioning from a reliance on transformation facilities to building infrastructure to meet the state's recycling goals and the state's 2025 organic waste reduction target. The bill would also require the department to develop, on or before January 1, 2024, a 5-year investment strategy to drive local zero waste strategies for communities seeking to reduce their reliance on transformation.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Introduced: 02/08/2022
Status: 05/04/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
13.CA AB 1883
Author: Quirk-Silva (D)
Title: Public Restrooms
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 118502 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to local government.
Summary: Requires each local government, as defined, to complete an inventory of public restrooms owned and maintained by the local government, either directly or by contract, that are available to the general population in its jurisdiction. Requires local governments to report their findings to the State Department of Public Health, which would be required to compile the
information and to make the inventory available in a searchable database on its internet website. Requires the database to be updated quarterly.
Digest: This bill would require each local government, as defined, to complete an inventory of public restrooms owned and maintained by the local government, either directly or by contract, that are available to the general population in its jurisdiction. The bill would require local governments to report their findings to the State Department of Public Health, which would be required to compile the information and to make the inventory available in a searchable database on its internet website, as specified.The bill would require the database to be updated quarterly. The bill would require the department to conduct educational outreach to the general public and homelessness service providers that the database is available on its internet website.
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 would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Introduced: 02/08/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (7-0)
Department: Building, Facilities, HR
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
14.CA AB 1910
Author: Garcia (D)
Title: Publicly Owned Golf Courses: Conversion: Housing Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 14.7 (commencing with Section 50871) to Part 2 of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer a program to provide incentives in the form of grants to local agencies that enter into a development agreement to convert a golf course owned by the local agency into housing and publicly accessible open space, as specified. Requires the department to award funding in accordance with the number of affordable units a local agency proposes to construct.
Digest: This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the department to administer a program to provide incentives in the form of grants to local agencies that enter into a development agreement to convert a golf course owned by the local agency into housing and publicly accessible open space, as specified. This bill would require the department to award funding in accordance with the number of affordable units a local agency proposes to construct.
Introduced: 02/09/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, DevelopmentSvcs, Housing, Planning DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
15.CA AB 1917
Author: Levine (D)
Title: Personal Information: Contact Tracing
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 14000.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal. An act to add Title 1.81.9 (commencing with Section 1798.600) to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, relating to personal information.
Summary: Prohibits, with certain exceptions, a correctional officer or an officer, deputy, employee, or agent of a law enforcement agency, as defined, from conducting contact tracing, as defined. Authorizes a person to bring a civil action to obtain injunctive relief for a violation of these provisions.
Digest: This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit a correctional officer or an officer, deputy, employee, or agent of a law enforcement agency, as defined, from conducting contact tracing, as defined. The bill would authorize a person to bring a civil action to obtain injunctive relief for a violation of these provisions.
Introduced: 02/09/2022
Last
Amend: 03/10/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, IT, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
16.CA AB 1931
Author: Rivas (D)
Title: Community Water Systems: Lead Pipes
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 116891 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.
Summary: Requires a community water system to replace or remove all lead service lines, as defined, that the community water system owns, in its service area, in their entirety. Requires the state board to review a newly created inventory, timeline, and lead exposure prevention plan, and would authorize the state board to approve it if the state board determines that it meets the requirements of the bill.
Digest: This bill would require a community water system to replace or remove all lead service lines, as defined, that the community water system owns, in its service area, in their entirety. The bill would require the community water system to undertake specified mitigation best practices, including providing written notice to the owner and residents of all buildings and units served by the line, as specified, before commencing the replacement, removal, or disturbance, as defined. The bill would require the community water system to replace or remove the entire service line, when replacing or removing a lead service line, within 30 days of the start of construction, unless the community
water system does not own the entire service line, as specified. The bill would prohibit a person or community water system from performing a partial lead service line replacement. The bill would also require the community water system to conduct tap water tests before and after the replacement, removal, or disturbance. The bill would require the community water system to create an inventory of known and unknown lead service lines in use in its distribution system. The bill would also require the community water system to provide an inventory, timeline, and lead exposure prevention plan to the State Water ResourcesControl Board (state board) on or before June 1, 2023. The bill would require the community water system to update the plan, as specified.
The bill would also require the state board to review a newly created inventory, timeline, and lead exposure prevention plan, and would authorize the state board to approve it if the state board determines that it meets the requirements of the bill. The bill would require that each approved inventory, timeline, and lead exposure prevention plan be made available to the public and placed on the state board's internet website on or before August 1, 2023.
This bill would specifically authorize the state board to apply and enforce these provisions relating to the removal, replacement, or disturbance of a lead service line or a lead status unknown service line against community water systems under the California Safe Drinking Water Act and would make a violation of those provisions a violation for purposes of the act. Because knowingly making a false statement or representation in the notice required pursuant to the above-described provisions or in the inventory, timeline, and lead exposure prevention plan, submitted, maintained, or used for purposes of compliance with the act would be a crime, and a violation of an order issued by the state board pursuant to the act that has a substantial probability of presenting an imminent danger to the health of persons would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the scope of a crime.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/10/2022
Last
Amend: 04/21/2022
Status: 04/26/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS: Do pass to Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS. (6-3)
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
17.CA AB 1944
Author: Lee (D)
Coauthor Stern (D), Becker (D), Cortese (D), Garcia (D)
Title: Local Government: Open and Public Meetings
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
File: 119
Location: Assembly Third Reading File
Code
Section:
An act to amend amend, repeal, and add Section 54953 of the Government Code, relating to public meetings.
Summary: Requires an updated agenda reflecting all of the members participating in the meeting remotely to be posted, if a member of the legislative body elects to participate in the meeting remotely after the agenda is posted. Authorizes a member to be exempt from identifying the address of the member's teleconference location in the notice and agenda or having the location be accessible to the public.
Digest: This bill would require the agenda to identify any member of the legislative body that will participate in the meeting remotely. The bill would also require an updated agenda reflecting all of the members participating in the meeting remotely to be posted, if a member of the legislative body elects to participate in the meeting remotely after the agenda is posted.
This bill would authorize, under specified circumstances and upon a determination by a majority vote of the legislative body, a member to be exempt from identifying the address of the member's teleconference location in the notice and agenda or having the location be accessible to the public, if the member elects to teleconference from a location that is not a public place.
This bill would require all open and public meetings of a legislative body that elects to use teleconferencing to provide a video stream accessible to members of the public and an option for members of the public to address the body remotely during the public comment period through an audio-visual or call-in option.
This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Introduced: 02/10/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 05/05/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Department: CityAttorney, Clerk
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
18.CA AB 1952
Author: Gallagher (R)
Coauthor Nielsen (R), Jones (R), Lackey (R), Mathis (R), Chen (R), Seyarto (R), Smith T (R)
Title: Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Code
Section:
An act to amend and renumber Section 53599.2 of, and to add Section 53559.4 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Exempts from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) a project financed pursuant to the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, and would make all legal actions, proceedings, and decisions undertaken or made pursuant to the program exempt from CEQA.
Digest: This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a project financed pursuant to the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, and would make all legal actions, proceedings, and decisions undertaken or made pursuant to the program exempt from CEQA. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to the program by renumbering a code section and updating erroneous cross-references.
Introduced: 02/10/2022
Status: 02/18/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT and NATURAL RESOURCES.
Department: DevelopmentSvcs, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
19.CA AB 1976
Author: Santiago (D)
Title: Planning and Zoning: Housing Element Compliance
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 65585 of, and to add Section 65583.5 to, the Government Code, relating to land use.
Summary: Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development, after notifying the city or county of the violation of the housing element provision and before notifying the Attorney General, either to complete the rezoning to accommodate 100% of the allocated need for housing for very low and lower income households on behalf of a local government within specified counties.
Digest: This bill would authorize the department, after notifying the city or county of the violation of the housing element provision and before notifying the Attorney General, either to complete the rezoning to accommodate 100% of the allocated need for housing for very low and lower income households on behalf of a local government within the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura that failed to complete that rezoning by the required deadline, or to impose administrative civil penalties upon the local government of up to $10,000 per day until the local government is no longer in violation of state law or the department decides to refer the violation to the Attorney General. The bill would require the department to either rezone or impose those administrative penalties if the local government's failure to rezone persists across more than one cycle of the regional housing needs assessment. The bill would require the department, if it rezones on behalf of the local government, to consider rezoning input from the local government. The bill would require a local government for which the department completes a rezoning under the bill's provisions to amend its housing element and zoning ordinances as necessary to accommodate that rezoning.
This bill would authorize the court to order the appointment of an agent of the court to bring the jurisdiction's housing element into substantial compliance, as provided, if the jurisdiction has not brought its housing element into substantial compliance after 3 months following the imposition of the initial fine.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura.
This bill would include findings that changes proposed by the bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/10/2022
Last
Amend: 03/17/2022
Status: 03/17/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT and LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
03/17/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT with author's amendments.
03/17/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
20.CA AB 1980
Author: Irwin (D)
Title: Statute of Limitation: Ransomware
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Public Safety Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 803 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal procedure.
Summary: Relates to the statute of limitation and ransomware. Requires prosecution for that offense to commence within 3 years after the person is initially identified by law enforcement as a suspect in the commission of that offense, as specified.
Digest: This bill would require prosecution for that offense to commence within 3 years after the person is initially identified by law enforcement as a suspect in the commission of that offense, as specified.
Introduced: 02/10/2022
Status: 03/15/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Not heard.
Department: CityAttorney, IT, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
21.CA AB 1993
Author: Wicks (D)
Coauthor Quirk (D), Stone (D), Dodd (D), Pan (D), Low (D), Newman (D), Wiener (D) Title: Employment: COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Labor and Employment Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 12940.4 to the Government Code, relating to employment.
Summary: Requires an employer to require each person who is an employee or independent contractor, and who is eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, to show proof to the employer, or an authorized agent thereof, that the person has been vaccinated against COVID-19. Establishes an exception from this vaccination requirement for a person who is ineligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine due to a medical condition or disability or because of a sincerely held religious belief, as specified.
Digest: This bill would require an employer to require each person who is an employee or independent contractor, and who is eligible to receive the COVID- 19 vaccine, to show proof to the employer, or an authorized agent thereof, that the person has been vaccinated against COVID-19. This bill would establish an exception from this vaccination requirement for a person who is ineligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine due to a medical condition or disability or because of a sincerely held religious belief, as specified, and would require compliance with various other state and federal laws. The bill would require proof-of-vaccination status to be obtained in a manner that complies with federal and state privacy laws and not be retained by the employer, unless the person authorizes the employer to retain proof.
This bill would require, on January 1, 2023, each employer to affirm, in a form and manner provided by the department, that each employee or independent contractor complied with these provisions, and would require the employer to affirm that each new employee or independent contractor is in compliance at the time of hiring or contracting with that person. The bill would require the department to impose a penalty of an unspecified amount on an employer for any violation of these provisions.
This bill would repeal these provisions when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices determines that COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer necessary for the health and safety of individuals.
This 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 would declare that its provisions are severable.
Introduced: 02/10/2022
Status: 04/18/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Coauthors revised.
Department: CityAttorney, HR, Transit
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
22.CA AB 2006
Author: Berman (D)
Title: Regulatory Agreements: Compliance Monitoring.
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 50260) to Part 1 of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, and the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to enter into a memorandum of understanding to streamline the compliance monitoring of affordable housing developments that are subject to a regulatory agreement with more than one of these entities.
Digest: This bill, on or before January 1, 2024, would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, and the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to enter into a memorandum of understanding to streamline the compliance monitoring of affordable housing developments that are subject to a regulatory agreement with more than one of these entities. The bill would require the memorandum of understanding to ensure that only one entity conducts physical inspections for a particular project, eliminate the submission of duplicate information, and to provide for a single process to obtain specified approvals.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: Housing
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
23.CA AB 2013
Author: Quirk-Silva (D)
Title: California Statewide Housing Plan
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 50206) to Part 1 of Division 31 amend Section 50426 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Relates to the California Statewide Housing Plan. Requires the plan to additionally include a goal to increase home ownership among people of color in the State, as specified.
Digest: The bill would additionally require the plan to include a goal to increase home ownership among people of color in the state of California, as specified.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Last
Amend: 03/09/2022
Status: 03/09/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT with author's amendments.
03/09/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Department: EconDevelop, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
24.CA AB 2053
Author: Lee (D)
Coauthor Garcia (D), Santiago (D), Allen (D), Wiener (D), Gonzalez (D), Bennett (D), Ward (D), Bonta M (D), Kalra (D), Carrillo (D)
Title: The Social Housing Act
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Title 6.9 (commencing with Section 64660) to the Government Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Enacts the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets, as specified. Prescribes a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities.
Digest: This bill would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets, as specified. The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed by the authority would be owned by the authority.
The bill would prescribe the composition of the California Housing Authority Board, which would govern the authority, and would be composed of appointed members and members who are elected by residents of social housing developments, as specified. The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of the authority and the board. The bill would provide that the authority is bound to revenue neutrality, as defined, and would require the authority to recover the cost of development and operations over the life of its properties through the mechanism of rent cross-subsidization, as defined. The bill would require the authority to prioritize the development of specified property, including vacant parcels and parcels near transit, and would prescribe a process for the annual determination of required social housing units. Under the bill, social housing would accommodate a mix of household income ranges and would provide specified protections for residents, who would participate in the operation and management of the units in which they reside.
This bill would require the California Housing Authority to employ 2 leasing models in social housing developments, to be referred to as the rental model and the ownership model, and would prescribe the characteristics of both models. Under the ownership model, the authority would extend a 99- year lease, in the form of a limited equity arrangement, as defined, to individuals who commit to a minimum 5-year term of residence, and would authorize the authority to act as a lender to residents who lease under the ownership model, for the purpose of creating leasehold mortgages. The bill
would prescribe how the amounts of rents and payments on leasehold mortgages are to be set in relation to household income, and with reference to property subject to the ownership model, how they may be sold and transferred. The bill would establish eligibility requirements for social housing residents and provide for the selection of residents by lottery,as specified, providing that people who may have been displaced from a property as part of its development would be granted a preference for occupancy.
This bill, among other things, would require the authority to accept a local jurisdiction's preference for a project parcel if specified conditions are met. The bill would prescribe requirements for the participation of labor in the production, rehabilitation, and maintenance of housing, including requiring the authority to enter into community workforce agreements, to obtain an enforceable commitment from an entity undertaking work for the authority, as specified, that the entity, and its contractors and subcontractors employ a skilled and trained workforce, and to comply with specified requirements for the payment of prevailing wages. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide financing for the activities of the authority through the issuance of general obligations bonds. The bill would authorize the authority to issue revenue bonds, as specified. The bill would require the board to provide for regular audits of the authority's accounts and records, as specified.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Last
Amend: 04/06/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
25.CA AB 2061
Author: Ting (D)
Coauthor Reyes (D)
Title: Transportation Electrification: Electric Vehicle Charge Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 25231.5 to the Public Resources Code, relating to transportation electrification.
Summary: Requires an entity that receives an incentive funded by a state agency or through a charge on ratepayers to install, own, or operate a charging station, in whole or in part, to report charging station uptime, as defined, to the Energy Commission. Requires the Energy Commission, as part of the assessment of the investment plan for the Clean Transportation Program, to assess the uptime of public- and ratepayer-funded charging station infrastructure.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: Building, DevelopmentSvcs, Electric, PW
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
26.CA AB 2063
Author: Berman (D)
Title: Density Bonuses: Affordable Housing Impact Fees
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 65915 of the Government Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Prohibits affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees and in-lieu fees, from being imposed on a housing development' s density bonus units, unless the city, county, or city and county has adopted a local density bonus ordinance or established a local housing program on or before specified date, that allows for a density bonus of at least 50% for any for-sale or rental housing development containing restricted affordable units.
Digest: This bill would prohibit affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees and in-lieu fees, from being imposed on a housing development's density bonus units, unless the city, county, or city and county has adopted a local density bonus ordinance or established a local housing program on or before January 1, 2022, that allows for a density bonus of at
least 50% for any for-sale or rental housing development containing restricted affordable units that dedicates a specified percentage of units for extremely low, very low, low-, or moderate-income households. By imposing new restrictions on the ability of a local government to impose affordable housing impact fees, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would also delete duplicative provisions relating to for-sale units subject to those provisions.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Last
Amend: 04/21/2022
Status: 04/21/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, Finance, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
27.CA AB 2071
Author: Patterson (R)
Title: Vehicles: Distracted Driving Awareness Grant
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section: An act to add Section 2912 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.
Summary: Requires the Office of Traffic Safety to administer a grant program to combat distracted driving. The bill would require that grants be awarded to qualifying law enforcement agencies, such as the Department of the California Highway Patrol. Requires that grant funds be used to increase public awareness of the dangers of distracted driving.
Digest: This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the Office of Traffic Safety to administer a grant program to combat distracted driving. The bill would require that grants be awarded to qualifying law enforcement agencies, such as the Department of the California Highway
Patrol. The bill would require that grant funds be used to increase public awareness of the dangers of distracted driving.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Status: 04/06/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: PD, PW
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
28.CA AB 2095
Author: Kalra (D)
Title: Employment Information: Worker Metrics
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1415) to Part 4 of Division 2 of the Labor Code, and to amend Section 1095 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to private employment.
Summary: Requires the agency to develop in a prescribed manner criteria and a scoring methodology to rank employers that would qualify as an employer eligible to be certified as a high-road employer. Authorizes the director to provide the agency with the names and relevant tax information, deemed appropriate by the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, of each private company that employs 1,000 or more employees in California for the purpose of complying with the agency-administered program.
Digest: This bill would establish a program in, and administered by, the agency and would require employers with more than 1,000 employees in California, as provided, to submit various statistics regarding those employees to the agency. The bill would require the agency to develop in a prescribed manner criteria and a scoring methodology to rank employers that would qualify as an employer eligible to be certified as a high-road employer. The bill would further require the agency to collect the worker-related statistics annually and, after collection, to assign each employer to an appropriate industry or subindustry.
The bill would require the Employment Development Department to provide the agency with specified employer information to promote compliance with the program. The bill would require the agency, commencing June 30, 2024, and annually thereafter, to publish on its internet website specified worker-
related statistics submitted by all employers. The bill would require that employer executive officers provide certain information under penalty of perjury. Because this would expand the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill, to the extent permitted by state and federal law, would authorize the director to provide the agency with the names and relevant tax information, deemed appropriate by the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, of each private company that employs 1,000 or more employees in California for the purpose of complying with the agency- administered program described above.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Last
Amend: 03/21/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, HR
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
29.CA AB 2097
Author: Friedman (D)
Coauthor Skinner (D), Wiener (D), Lee (D), Ward (D)
Title: Residential and Commercial Development: Remodeling Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
File: 17
Location: Assembly Second Reading File
Code
Section: An act to add Section 65863.2 to the Government Code, relating to land use.
Summary: Prohibits a public agency from imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement, or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement, on residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within one-half mile of public transit, as defined. When a project
provides parking voluntarily, the bill would authorize a public agency to impose specified requirements on the voluntary parking.
Digest: This bill would prohibit a public agency from imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement, or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement, on residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within one-half mile of public transit, as defined. When a project provides parking voluntarily, the bill would authorize a public agency to impose specified requirements on the voluntary parking. The bill would prohibit these provisions from reducing, eliminating, or precluding the enforcement of any requirement imposed on a new multifamily or nonresidential development to provide electric vehicle supply equipment installed parking spaces or parking spaces that are accessible to persons with disabilities. The bill would exempt certain commercial parking requirements from these provisions if the requirements of the bill conflict with an existing contractual agreement of the public agency that was executed before January 1, 2023.
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 would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Status: 05/12/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
30.CA AB 2142
Author: Gabriel (D)
Title: Income Taxes: Exclusion: Turf Replacement Program Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add and repeal Sections 17138.2 and 24308.9 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.
Summary: Includes additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure, and would require the Department of Finance to include an analysis of these expenditures in its annual tax expenditure report provided to the Legislature.
Digest: This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, under both of these laws, provide an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive issued by a public water system, as defined, local government, or state agency for participation in a turf replacement water conservation program.
This bill wouldinclude additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure, and would require the Department of Finance to include an analysis of these expenditures in its annual tax expenditure report provided to the Legislature.
This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 04/06/2022
Status: 05/05/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION:
Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (11-0)
Department: EU, Finance
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
31.CA AB 2156
Author: Wicks (D)
Title: Firearms: Manufacturers
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 29010 of the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
Summary: Prohibits any person, regardless of federal licensure, from manufacturing firearms in the state without being licensed by the state. decreases the manufacturing threshold requiring state licensure from 50 or more firearms in a calendar year to 4 or more firearms in a calendar year. Prohibits any person,
unless licensed as a firearm manufacturer, from manufacturing any firearm or precursor part by means of a 3d printer, as defined.
Digest: This bill would expand this prohibition to prohibit any person, regardless of federal licensure, from manufacturing firearms in the state without being licensed by the state. The bill would also decrease the manufacturing threshold requiring state licensure from 50 or more firearms in a calendar year to 4 or more firearms in a calendar year.
The bill would also prohibit any person, unless licensed as a firearm manufacturer, from manufacturing any firearm or precursor part by means of a 3D printer, as defined.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 03/23/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
32.CA AB 2157
Author: Rubio (D)
Title: Urban Water Use Objectives: Indoor Residential Use Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: ASSEMBLY
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 10609.4 of the Water Code, relating to water.
Summary: Makes a nonsubstantive change to the provision requiring the Department of Water Resources and the Water Resources Control Board to collaborate with, and seek input from, stakeholders with regard to the studies, investigations, and report pertaining to a standard for indoor residential water use.
Digest: This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision requiring the department and the board to collaborate with, and seek input from, stakeholders with regard to the studies, investigations, and report.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Status: 02/15/2022 INTRODUCED.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
33.CA AB 2166
Author: Mayes (R)
Coauthor Gray (D), Quirk-Silva (D), Waldron (R), Lackey (R), Cunningham (R), Flora (R), Grayson (D), Newman (D), Petrie-Norris (D), Hurtado (D), Villapudua (D), Valladares (R)
Title: Federal Funding: Promoting Homeownership
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 50896.3 of, and to add Section 50828.5 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to prioritize 30% of the federal funding provided under the Community Development Block Grant Program for purposes of promoting homeownership for persons and families of low or moderate income. Requires the department to prioritize at least 10% of program funds for down payment assistance for persons and families of low or moderate income assistance.
Digest: This bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to prioritize 10% of program funds for down payment assistance.
The bill would provide that these requirements be implemented only to the extent that they are consistent with federal requirements.
This bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to prioritize 30% of the federal funding provided under the HOME Investment Partnership Act for purposes of promoting homeownership.
The bill would provide that this requirement be implemented only to the extent that it is consistent with federal requirements.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 04/20/2022
Status: 04/20/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT with author's amendments.
04/20/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Department: Housing
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
34.CA AB 2179
Author: Grayson (D)
Coauthor Wicks (D)
Title: COVID 19 Relief: Tenancy
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: yes
Disposition: Enacted
Location: Chaptered
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 1179.03, 1179.05, 1179.10, and 1179.11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to tenancy, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. [Approved by Governor March 31, 2022.
Filed with Secretary of State March 31, 2022.]
Summary: Provides that any extension, expansion, renewal, reenactment, or new adoption of a measure by the specified local authorities. Extends the date for which the requirements and limitations described above relating to coronavirus rental debt repayment periods are determined to a specified date. Prohibits any provision by the specified local authorities permitting a tenant to repay coronavirus rental debt beyond a specified date.
Digest: This bill would require notices described above that are served on or after April 1, 2022, and before July 1, 2022, to include certain text.
This bill would instead provide that any extension, expansion, renewal, reenactment, or new adoption of a measure by the specified local authorities, that occurs between August 19, 2020, and June 30, 2022, has no effect before July 1, 2022, and would make a conforming change. The bill would extend the date for which the requirements and limitations described above relating to COVID-19 rental debt repayment periods are determined to August 1, 2022.
The bill would prohibit any provision by the specified local authorities permitting a tenant to repay COVID-19 rental debt beyond August 31, 2023.
This bill would require the modifications to a notice that is described above to be made only for notices served before April 1 2022, and would specify new modifications for notices served on or after April 1, 2022, and before July 1, 2022.
This bill would extend the application of these provisions to June 30, 2022. The bill would require, prior to the court issuing a summons under these provisions, a plaintiff to file a statement, under penalty of perjury, that a determination is not pending on an application, filed prior to April 1, 2022, for government rental assistance to cover any part of the rental debt demanded from the defendants in the case. The bill would allow, in an action filed on or after April 1, 2022, and before July 1, 2022, a judgment or default judgment to be issued in favor of the plaintiff if the court finds that a determination is not pending on an application, filed prior to April 1, 2022, for government rental assistance to cover any part of the rental debt demanded from the defendants in the case.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 03/28/2022
Status: 03/31/2022 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2022-013
Department: CityAttorney, EU, Electric, Finance, Gut&Amend, Housing DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
35.CA AB 2186
Author: Grayson (D)
Coauthor Gabriel (D), Quirk-Silva (D), Wicks (D)
Title: Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 16.5 (commencing with Section 50896.5) to Part 2 of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Establishes the Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program, to be administered by the department, for the purpose of reimbursing cities, counties, and cities and counties for development impact fee reductions provided to qualified housing developments. Requires a public entity that receives grant funds under the program to use those funds solely for those purposes for which the development impact fee that was reduced or deferred would have been used.
Digest: This bill would establish the Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program, to be administered by the department, for the purpose of reimbursing cities, counties, and cities and counties for development impact fee reductions provided to qualified housing developments, as defined, and for the reasonable interest costs associated with impact fee deferrals. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the department to provide grants to applicants in an amount equal to 50% of the amount of development impact fee reduced for a qualified housing development and grants to applicants in an amount equal to the accrued interest on a deferred development impact fee, as provided. This bill would require the department to administer these grants by issuing a Notice of Funding Availability before December 31 of the year that the program receives funding, as specified, and accepting grant applications after the subsequent year. The bill would require a public entity that receives grant funds under the program to use those funds solely for those purposes for which the development impact fee that was reduced or deferred would have been used. The bill would require the department to adopt guidelines to implement the program and exempt those guidelines from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 05/02/2022
Status: 05/02/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, DevelopmentSvcs, Electric, Finance, Fire, Housing, Parks, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
36.CA AB 2201
Author: Bennett (D)
Coauthor Kalra (D), Bauer-Kahan (D)
Title: Groundwater Sustainability Agency: Groundwater Extract
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 10728 of, and to add Section 10725.7 to, to the Water Code, relating to groundwater.
Summary: Prohibits a local agency, as defined, from approving a permit for a new groundwater well or for an alteration to an existing well in a basin subject to the act and classified as medium- or high-priority until it obtains a written verification, from the groundwater sustainability agency that manages the basin or area of the basin where the well is proposed to be located, determining that certain factors are present.
Digest: This bill would prohibit a local agency, as defined, from approving a permit for a new groundwater well or for an alteration to an existing well in a basin subject to the act and classified as medium- or high-priority until it obtains a written verification, from the groundwater sustainability agency that manages the basin or area of the basin where the well is proposed to be located, determining that certain factors are present. The bill would prohibit a groundwater sustainability agency from providing the above-described written verification unless it determines that certain factors are present, including, but not limited to, that the extraction by the proposed well is consistent with any sustainable groundwater management program established in any applicable groundwater sustainability plan adopted by that groundwater sustainability agency.
The bill would authorize a groundwater sustainability agency to impose a fee upon a local agency that does not exceed the reasonable cost of making the determinations required for a written verification, issuing the written verification, or both. The bill would also require a groundwater sustainability agency to post a notification of the well permit application on its internet website to allow the public to comment on the well permit application for at least 30 days before issuing the above-described determinations. By imposing additional requirements on groundwater sustainability agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would exempt any well that provides less than 2 acre-feet of water annually for domestic use or any well used by a public water supply system from these provisions.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 04/27/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: OpposeUnlessAmended
Priority: StatePriority
37.CA AB 2211
Author: Ting (D)
Title: Shelter Crisis: Homeless Shelters
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 8698.2 and 8698.4 of, and to add Section 8698.5 to, of the Government Code, relating to homelessness.
Summary: Extends the repeal date of these provisions to specified date. Expands the definition of homeless shelter to include any facility that is leased by the city, county, or city and county for the purpose of providing temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness and any low-barrier private shelter, as defined, that is not owned or leased by the city, county, or city and county that provides temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness.
Digest: This bill would extend the repeal date of these provisions to January 1, 2030. The bill would provide that a city, county, or city and county is in a shelter crisis if the number of unsheltered homeless persons that comprises the total homeless population within the jurisdiction of the city, county, or city and county is greater, as a percentage, than the combined average of the 49 states in the United States not including California, as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as specified. This bill would apply the provisions applicable to a city, county, or city and county that has declared a shelter crisis to those jurisdictions in the above circumstance.
This bill would require the department to publish a list of jurisdictions that are in a shelter crisis pursuant to this provision on its internet website.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 05/02/2022
Status: 05/02/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PD, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
38.CA AB 2218
Author: Quirk-Silva (D)
Title: California Environmental Quality Act
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Rules Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 1789.11, 1789.12, 1789.13, 1789.14, 1789.15, 1789.16, 1789.19, 1789.21, and 1789.25 of, and to add Sections 1789.134 and 1789.135 to, the Civil Code, relating to consumer credit. add Section 21177.1 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
Summary: Provides that a person does not have standing to bring an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul acts or decisions of a public agency undertaken to implement a project involving the development of housing at an infill site, unless the person resides within 20 miles of the project.
Digest: This bill would provide that a person does not have standing to bring an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul acts or decisions of a public agency undertaken to implement a project involving the development of housing at an infill site, unless the person resides within 20 miles of the project.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 03/09/2022
Status: 03/17/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Suspend Assembly Rule 96. 03/17/2022 Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on RULES.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support, SupportIfAmended
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
39.CA AB 2220
Author: Muratsuchi (D)
Title: Homeless Courts Pilot Program
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add and repeal Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 5475) to of Part 1 of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to courts, and making an appropriation therefor.
Summary: Creates the Homeless Courts Pilot Program, which would remain in effect until a specified date, to be administered by the Judicial Council for the purpose of providing comprehensive community based services to achieve stabilization for, and address the specific legal needs of, chronically homeless individuals who are involved with the criminal justice system. Requires programs seeking grant funds to provide a number of specified services or program components.
Digest: This bill would create the Homeless Courts Pilot Program, which would remain in effect until January 1, 2027, to be administered by the Judicial Council for the purpose of providing comprehensive community-based services to achieve stabilization for, and address the specific legal needs of, chronically homeless individuals who are involved with the criminal justice system. The bill would require programs seeking grant funds to provide a number of specified services or program components, including, but not limited to, a diversion program enabling participating defendants to have infractions, misdemeanor, or felony charges dismissed upon completion of a program,provision of supportive housing, as defined, during the duration of the program, and a dedicated county representative to assist defendants with housing needs. The bill would require an applicant for grant funding under the program to submit a plan for a new homeless court program or expansion of an existing homeless court program, and would require any funding awarded to an applicant to be used in accordance with that plan. The bill would also require the Judicial Council, on or before July 1, 2026, to submit a report to the Legislature evaluating the programs funded and the successand challenges of those programs, along with recommendations for improving the programs. The bill would require the Judicial Council to establish performance-based outcome measures for each participating homeless court, including, among other things, information relating to the demographics of program participants, housing placements for all participants, and successful substance use disorder
treatment rates. The bill would appropriate an unspecified amount from the General Fund for the purpose of administering this program.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
40.CA AB 2243
Author: Garcia E (D)
Coauthor Bloom (D), Stern (D), Rivas R (D), Rivas (D)
Title: Occupational Safety and Health Standards: Heat Illness Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 6721 of the Labor Code, relating to occupational safety and health.
Summary: Requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to submit to the standards board a rulemaking proposal to revise the heat illness standard to include an ultrahigh heat standard for employees in outdoor places of employment for heat in excess of 105 degrees Fahrenheit, as prescribed, and require employers to distribute copies of the Heat Illness Prevention Plan, as provided.
Digest: This bill would require the division, before January 1, 2024, to submit to the standards board a rulemaking proposal to revise the heat illness standard to include an ultrahigh heat standard for employees in outdoor places of employment for heat in excess of 105 degrees Fahrenheit, as prescribed, and require employers to distribute copies of the Heat Illness Prevention Plan, as provided. The bill would similarly require a rulemaking proposal to revise the wildfire smoke standard to reduce the existing air quality index threshold for PM2.5 particulate matter at which control by respiratory protective equipment becomes mandatory, and remove the requirement that an employer
reasonably anticipate employees may be exposed to wildfire smoke. The bill would require the standards board to review the proposed changes and adopt revised standards before July 1, 2024.The bill would further require the division to consider regulations relating to protections related to acclimatization to higher temperatures, training programs for outdoor employees in administering first aid, and additional protections for piece-rate workers, as provided.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 03/21/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: EU, HR
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
41.CA AB 2247
Author: Bloom (D)
Coauthor Ting (D), Allen (D)
Title: Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Article 15 (commencing with Section 25258) to Chapter 6.5 of Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to environmental health.
Summary: Requires, as part of the hazardous waste control laws, the Department of Toxic Substances Control to work with the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse to establish, on or before specified date, a publicly accessible reporting platform to collect information about perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and products or product components containing regulated PFAS, as defined, being sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state.
Digest: This bill would require, as part of the hazardous waste control laws, the department to work with the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse to establish,
on or before January 1, 2024, a publicly accessible reporting platform to collect information about perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and products or product components containing regulated PFAS, as defined, being sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, a manufacturer, as defined, of PFAS or a product or a product component containing regulated PFAS that is sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state to register the PFAS or the product or product component containing regulated PFAS, and specified other information, on the publicly accessible reporting platform. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 04/20/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
42.CA AB 2252
Author: Aguiar-Curry (D)
Title: Broadband Infrastructure: Disasters: Reports
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 914.8 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to communications.
Summary: Requires, following a state or local disaster for which the Governor has issued a declaration of emergency, the Public Utilities Commission, within 12 months of the declaration of the emergency, to collect specified information from broadband service providers relating to the providers efforts to restore, repair, or replace broadband infrastructure that was damaged as a result of the
disaster. Authorizes the commission to make that information public, consistent with the commissions procedures.
Digest: This bill would, following a state or local disaster for which the Governor has issued a declaration of emergency, require the commission, within 12 months of the declaration of the emergency, to collect specified information from broadband service providers relating to the provider's efforts to restore, repair, or replace broadband infrastructure that was damaged as a result of the disaster, as specified. The bill would require that the information collected from broadband service providers by the commission be broken down by each disaster, submitted annually in a report by the commission to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, and posted in a conspicuous area on the commission's internet website. The bill would authorize the commission to make that information public, consistent with the commission's procedures.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 03/03/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, EU, Electric, Fire, IT, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
43.CA AB 2305
Author: Grayson (D)
Coauthor Gabriel (D), Wicks (D), Villapudua (D), Seyarto (R), Bloom (D), Daly (D), Quirk-Silva (D), Rivas R (D)
Title: Housing Finance: Coordinated Housing Finance Committee Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 8.1 (commencing with Section 50300) to Part 1 of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Establishes the Coordinated Affordable Housing Finance Committee and would require that the committee be comprised of representatives from HCD, CalHFA, CTCAC, the Treasurer, and the Controller. Requires the committee to allocate state-controlled resources for the finance of affordable rental housing, as defined, through a single process and competition.
Digest: This bill would establish the Coordinated Affordable Housing Finance Committee and would require that the committee be comprised of representatives from HCD, CalHFA, CTCAC, the Treasurer, and the Controller. This bill would require the committee to allocate state-controlled resources for the finance of affordable rental housing, as defined, through a single process and competition. This bill would require the committee to develop an application, threshold requirements, a rating and ranking system, as specified, for applicants seeking these resources. This bill would authorize the committee to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the allocation of state-controlled resources for the finance of affordable rental housing that take effect immediately upon adoption. This bill would provide that the adoption, amendment, or repeal of these rules and regulations is not subject to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act but would require the committee to follow specified procedures pursuant to the adoption of the rules and regulations. This bill would also authorize the committee to adopt, amend, or repeal emergency rules and regulations to implement this chapter that are exempt from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act, as specified.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: Housing, PAC
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
44.CA AB 2310
Author: Carrillo (D)
Title: Regional Housing Need Allocation
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: ASSEMBLY
Code
Section: An act relating to housing.
Summary: States the intent of the Legislature in subsequent amendments to amend existing law regarding midcycle adjustment for the regional housing need allocation.
Digest: This bill would state the intent of the Legislature in subsequent amendments to amend existing law regarding midcycle adjustment for the regional housing need allocation.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Status: 02/16/2022 INTRODUCED.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
45.CA AB 2325
Author: Rivas (D)
Coauthor Hertzberg (D), Quirk-Silva (D), Grayson (D), Fong M (D), Ramos (D) Title: Coordinated Homelessness Response
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 12095) to Part 2 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and to amend Section 8257 of, and to add Section 8257.5 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.
Summary: Places the Interagency Council on Homelessness under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Interagency Council on Homelessness, which the bill would establish within the Governor's office, under the control of a director, on or before a specified date. Requires the Governor to appoint a director of the office to perform specified duties and responsibilities in connection with overseeing the work of the office. Includes coordinating homelessness programs, services, data, and policies.
Digest: This bill would place the California Interagency Council on Homelessness under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Interagency Council
on Homelessness, which the bill would establish within the Governor's office, under the control of a director, on or before September 30, 2023. The bill would require the Governor to appoint a director of the office to perform specified duties and responsibilities in connection with overseeing the work of the office. The bill would specify the primary purposes of the office, which would include coordinating homelessness programs, services, data, and policies. The bill would require state agencies and departments with representatives on the council, or workgroups established by the council, to report to and coordinate with the director of the office and would require the director to coordinate with the chairs of the council.
The bill would require the office to serve the Governor as the lead entity for ending homelessness in California. The bill would require the office to fulfill various duties including convening a funding workgroup, comprised of council staff and staff working for agencies or departments represented on the council to accomplish specified goals, including, among others, aligning requests for proposals, all-county letters, and notices of funding proposals with standards following evidence-based housing and housing-based service models. The bill would require the documents and meetings of the funding workgroup to be confidential, as provided. The bill would also require the workgroup to coordinate with relevant state agencies and departments to reduce the risk of long-term homelessness by developing specific protocols and procedures to accomplish various goals, including connecting older adults to programs and services that assist independent living. The bill would also require the council, as part of its goals, to develop and implement a statewide strategic plan on homelessness that establishes measurable objective and strategies to enhance state-level accountability, coordination, and best practices.
The bill would provide for the transfer of employees who are engaged in the performance of functions for the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, as well as the transfer of debts and liabilities of the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency with respect to overseeing and supporting the council to the Office of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. The bill would require the Deputy Secretary on Homelessness within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to be the director of the office, subject to appointment by the Governor and Senate confirmation. The bill would require all unexpended balances of appropriations and other funds available for use in connection with the council to be transferred to the office, as specified, upon appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose. The bill would make other related, conforming changes to these provisions.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 04/25/2022
Status: 04/25/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: PAC
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
46.CA AB 2334
Author: Wicks (D)
Title: Density Bonus Law: Affordability: Incentives
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 65915 of the Government Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Requires the rent for the remaining units in the development be set at an amount consistent with the maximum rent levels for lower income households, as those rents and incomes are determined by California Tax Credit Allocation Committee. Regards to the enforcement of equity sharing agreements for for sale units, would also permit the local government to defer to the recapture provisions of the public funding source. Makes a technical change to the Density Bonus Law by deleting duplicative provisions.
Digest: This bill, with respect to the affordability requirements applicable to 100% lower income developments, would instead require the rent for the remaining units in the development be set at an amount consistent with the maximum rent levels for lower income households, as those rents and incomes are determined by CTCAC. The bill, with regard to the enforcement of equity sharing agreements for for-sale units, would also permit the local government to defer to the recapture provisions of the public funding source.
The bill would also make a technical change to the Density Bonus Law by deleting duplicative provisions relating to for-sale units subject to the above- described provisions.
This bill would also award the above-described height increase if the project is located within a very low vehicle travel area, as defined, and would prohibit the above-described maximum controls on density if the project is located within a very low vehicle travel area.
This bill would expand the definition of "development standard" to include a minimum lot area per unit requirement. The bill would also modify the definition of "maximum allowable residential density" to account for floor area ratio, as defined, and density allowed in the specific plan, to provide that where the density allowed in the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with that allowed in the land use element of the general plan or specific plan, the greater prevails, and to set forth how density is determined.
This bill would instead prohibit the imposition of any vehicular parking standards if a development is for a project where 100% of all units are for lower income households, except as provided, and meets any of the specified criteria. The bill would also modify that criteria.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 05/02/2022
Status: 05/02/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
47.CA AB 2339
Author: Bloom (D)
Title: Housing Element: Emergency Shelters: Regional Housing Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 65583 and 65863 of the Government Code, relating to land use.
Summary: Revises the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with zoning designations that allow residential use, including mixed use, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. Deletes language regarding emergency shelter standards structured in relation to residential and commercial developments and instead require that emergency shelters only be subject to specified written, objective standards.
Digest: This bill would revise the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with zoning designations that allow residential use, including mixed use, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. The bill would delete language regarding emergency shelter standards structured in
relation to residential and commercial developments and instead require that emergency shelters only be subject to specified written, objective standards.
The bill would specify that emergency shelters for purposes of these provisions include other interim intervention, including, but not limited to, navigation centers, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative care.
The bill would require that identified zoning designations where emergency shelters are allowed to include sites that meet at least one of certain prescribed standards. In this regard, the bill would require those sites to be either (1) vacant and zoned for residential use; (2) vacant and zoned for nonresidential use if the local government can demonstrate how the sites are connected to amenities and services that serve people experiencing homelessness; or (3) nonvacant if the site is adequate and available for use as a shelter in the current planning period, as specified. The bill would require the identified zoning designations to include sufficient sites to accommodate the need for shelters, as specified. The bill would also require that the number of people experiencing homelessness that can be accommodated on each identified site under these provisions be demonstrated by calculating a minimum of 200 square feet per person.
This bill would require each city, county, or city and county to ensure that its housing element inventory or its housing element program can accommodate its remaining unmet share of the regional housing need and any remaining unaccommodated share of the regional housing need from the prior planning period, at all times throughout the planning period.
The bill would instead prohibit a city, county, or city and county from reducing, requiring, or permitting the reduction of the residential density to a lower residential density for any parcel identified to meet its current share of the regional housing need or any unaccommodated share of the regional housing need from the prior planning period, unless the city, county, or city and county makes specified written findings supported by substantial evidence.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 05/02/2022
Status: 05/02/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
48.CA AB 2346
Author: Gabriel (D)
Coauthor Garcia E (D)
Title: Outdoor Recreation: Outdoors for All Program
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 1.26.5 (commencing with Section 5090.90) to Division 5 of the Public Resources Code, relating to outdoor recreation.
Summary: Establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Outdoors for All Program to support access to natural or cultural resources for at-risk youth, outdoor environmental educational experiences for underserved and at-risk populations, and equitable access to parks and outdoor spaces for all Californians.
Digest: This bill would establish in the Natural Resources Agency the Outdoors for All Program to support access to natural or cultural resources for at-risk youth, outdoor environmental educational experiences for underserved and at- risk populations, and equitable access to parks and outdoor spaces for all Californians. This program would encompass the existing Outdoor Equity Grants Program and Youth Community Access Program, as well as the Californians Outside Program, established by this bill, to provide grants to an eligible entity, as defined, for projects that provide transportation to outdoor spaces, outdoor-related recreation, outdoor physical activity programming, outdoor education, natural resources workforce development, and communications related to water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and other outdoor pursuits.
The bill would establish the Outdoor Access for All Fund in the State Treasury, to be administered by the agency. The bill would require moneys in the fund to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes of implementing the Outdoors for All Program, including administrative costs, to support the Californians Outside Program and, after the exhaustion of any moneys appropriated by the Legislature, the Outdoor Equity Grants Program.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 04/19/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
49.CA AB 2356
Author: Rodriguez (D)
Coauthor Cervantes (D), Fong (R)
Title: Theft: Aggregation
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 487 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.
Summary: Specifies that if the value of the money, labor, real property, or personal property taken exceeds $950 over the course of distinct but related acts, whether committed against one or more victims, the value of the money, labor, real property, or personal property taken may properly be aggregated to charge a count of grand theft, if the acts are motivated by one intention, one general impulse, and one plan.
Digest: This bill would specify that if the value of the money, labor, real property, or personal property taken exceeds $950 over the course of distinct but related acts, whether committed against one or more victims, the value of the money, labor, real property, or personal property taken may properly be aggregated to charge a count of grand theft, if the acts are motivated by one intention, one general impulse, and one plan. The bill would state that these changes are declaratory of existing law.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 04/07/2022
Status: 05/05/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE. (62-0)
Department: CityAttorney, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
50.CA AB 2365
Author: Patterson (R)
Coauthor Wilk (R), Lackey (R), Seyarto (R)
Title: Fentanyl Program Grants
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add and repeal Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 3200) of Division 3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to narcotics programs.
Summary: Requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to establish a grant program to reduce fentanyl overdoses and use throughout the state by giving out 6 one-time grants to increase local efforts in education, testing, recovery, and support services, as specified.
Digest: This bill, contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, would require the agency to establish a grant program to reduce fentanyl overdoses and use throughout the state by giving out 6 one-time grants to increase local efforts in education, testing, recovery, and support services, as specified. The bill would require the participating entities to provide the agency with specified information on the results of the program and would require the agency to report those results to the Legislature and Governor's office on or before January 1, 2026.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, Fire, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
51.CA AB 2428
Author: Ramos (D)
Title: Mitigation Fee Act: Fees for Improvements: Timeline Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Local Government Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 66008.1 to the Government Code, relating to development fees.
Summary: Requires a local agency that requires a qualified applicant to deposit fees for improvements, as described, into an escrow account as a condition for receiving a conditional use permit or equivalent development permit to expend the fees within 5 years of the deposit. The bill would require any fees not expended within this period to be returned to the qualified applicant.
Digest: This bill would require a local agency that requires a qualified applicant, as described, to deposit fees for improvements, as described, into an escrow account as a condition for receiving a conditional use permit or equivalent development permit to expend the fees within 5 years of the deposit. The bill would require any fees not expended within this period to be returned to the qualified applicant. By imposing new duties on local officials, the 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 would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Status: 03/03/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on LOCAL GOVERNMENT and HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Department: CityAttorney, DevelopmentSvcs, EconDevelop, Housing, PW, Parks, Planning DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
52.CA AB 2430
Author: Grayson (D)
Title: Tiny Homes
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 65852.2 of the Government Code, relating to tiny homes.
Summary: Expands the above-described provisions to additionally provide for the creation of a movable tiny home, in the same manner as an accessory dwelling unit.
Digest: This bill would expand the above-described provisions to additionally provide for the creation of amovable tiny home, in the same manner as an accessory dwelling unit. The bill would define the term "movable tiny home" to mean a separate, independent dwelling unit that meets certain criteria, including that it is no larger than 400 square feet and provides, among other things, living facilities for a household, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. The bill would also require that amovable tiny home under these provisions possess certification of compliance with specified standards of the American National Standards Institute. By expanding the duties of local planning officials with respect tomovable tiny homes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 04/06/2022
Status: 04/20/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Not heard.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness, Housing
53.CA AB 2434
Author: Santiago (D)
Title: Homelessness Action Authority: County of Los Angeles Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Local Government Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 6530 to the Government Code, relating to homelessness.
Summary: Authorizes the Homelessness Action Authority to, among other things, exercise land use authority over the property it owns, oversee the
administration of social service programs administered by the County of Los Angeles, issue bonds, acquire land through eminent domain, and fund the planning and construction of housing for the homeless population.
Digest: This bill would similarly authorize the creation of the Homelessness Action Authority, a joint powers authority, by the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and any other city within the jurisdiction of the County of Los Angeles, with the stated purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within the County of Los Angeles.
This bill would authorize the Homelessness Action Authority to, among other things, exercise land use authority over the property it owns, oversee the administration of social service programs administered by the County of Los Angeles, issue bonds, acquire land through eminent domain, and fund the planning and construction of housing for the homeless population. Upon creation of the authority, the bill would require the authority to be a recipient of new state and federal funding designated for combating homelessness in the County of Los Angeles and to be a conduit in the County of Los Angeles that will review and approve homelessness projects and program proposals from public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private entities, as specified.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 03/24/2022
Status: 03/24/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on LOCAL GOVERNMENT and HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
03/24/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT with author's amendments.
03/24/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC, PD, Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
54.CA AB 2440
Author: Irwin (D)
Coauthor Wieckowski (D), Eggman (D), Mullin (D), Stone (D), Ting (D), Wiener (D), Petrie-Norris (D), Wicks (D), Archuleta (D), Lee (D), Becker (D), Newman (D)
Title: Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Article 5 (commencing with Section 42457) to Chapter 8.4 of, Article 7 (commencing with Section 42499.5) to Chapter 8.6 of, and Chapter
7.5 (commencing with Section 42420) to, and to repeal Chapter 8.4 (commencing with Section 42451) and Chapter 8.6 (commencing with Section 42490) of, Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling.
Summary: Enacts the Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022, which would require producers, as defined, either individually or through the creation of one or more stewardship organizations, to establish a stewardship program for the collection and recycling of covered batteries and covered battery embedded products, as defined. Requires the department and in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to adopt regulations to implement the act.
Digest: This bill would make the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act of 2006 and the Cell Phone Recycling Act of 2004 inoperative as of September 30, 2026, and would repeal those acts as of January 1, 2027.
This bill would enact the Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022, which would require producers, as defined, either individually or through the creation of one or more stewardship organizations, to establish a stewardship program for the collection and recycling of covered batteries and covered battery-embedded products, as defined. The bill would require a producer or stewardship organization to develop, andto submit for review and approval as specified, a stewardship plan and would prescribe the standards and elements required to be contained in a stewardship plan for covered batteries and in a stewardship plan for covered battery-embedded products. The bill would require a stewardship organization or producer to have a complete stewardship plan approved by the department on or before December 31, 2025, in order to be in compliance with the act.The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2025, and in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to adopt regulations to implement the act.
This bill would require a stewardship organization or producer to be audited annually, and submit a report and budget to the department, as prescribed, and would require a stewardship organization, producer, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, importer, recycler, or collection site to, among other things, provide the department with relevant records necessary to determine compliance with the act. The bill would require reports and records provided to the department to be provided under penalty of perjury, thereby creating a state-mandated local program by expanding the crime of perjury. The bill would restrict public access to certain information collected for the purpose of administering a stewardship program.
This bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2027, and each year thereafter, to post on its internet website a list of producers that are in compliance with the act, including the reported brands and names of covered batteries and covered battery-embedded products of each producer.
The bill would prohibit, on and after the date that a stewardship plan is approved by the department, a retailer or distributor from selling, distributing, offering for sale, or importing a covered battery or covered battery-embedded product in or into the state unless the producer of the covered battery or covered battery-embedded product is listed on that list as in compliance on the act, except as specified.
This bill would require a stewardship organization or producer to reimburse the department and the Department of Toxic Substances Control for their respective actual and reasonable regulatory costs that are directly related to implementing and enforcing the act in relation to the stewardship organization's or producer's activities. The bill would require the department and the Department of Toxic Substances Control to deposit those moneys into the Covered Battery and Covered Battery-Embedded Product Recycling Fund, which the bill would establish, and would authorize the department and any other relevant state agency to expend those moneys, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement and enforce the act.
This bill would provide for enforcement of the act, including authorizing the department to impose an administrative civil penalty on a stewardship organization, producer, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, importer, recycler, or collection site in violation of the act not to exceed $10,000 per day, unless the violation is intentional, knowing, or reckless, then in that case not to exceed $50,000 per day. The bill would require the department to deposit those moneys into the Covered Battery and Covered Battery-Embedded Product Recycling Penalty Account, which the bill would establish in the fund, and would require the department to expend those moneys, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement and enforce the act.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 04/27/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
55.CA AB 2445
Author: Gallagher (R)
Coauthor Grayson (D)
Title: California Environmental Quality Act
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Judiciary Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 21167.10 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
Summary: Authorizes the court, upon motion or on its own motion, to require a person seeking judicial review of the decision of a lead agency made pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act to carry out or approve an affordable housing project to post a bond to cover the costs and damages to the affordable housing project incurred by the respondent or real party in interest.
Digest: This bill wouldauthorize the court, upon motion or on its own motion, to require a person seeking judicial review of the decision of a lead agency made pursuant to CEQA to carry out or approve an affordable housing project to post a bond to cover the costs and damages to the affordable housing project incurred by the respondent or real party in interest.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 04/05/2022
Status: 05/03/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Not heard.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
56.CA AB 2481
Author: Smith T (R)
Title: Household Hazardous Waste: Facilities: Transportation Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 25163, 25217.2, 25217.2.1, 25218.3, 25218.5, and 25218.8 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to hazardous waste.
Summary: Revises and recasts various requirements and conditions related to the transportation of hazardous waste and the operation of household hazardous waste collection facilities. Allows the transporting of waste to a household hazardous waste facility from another household hazardous waste facility, as specified, with a shipping paper instead of a manifest.
Digest: This bill would revise and recast various requirements and conditions related to the transportation of hazardous waste and the operation of household hazardous waste collection facilities. The bill, among other things, would allow the transporting of waste to a household hazardous waste facility from another household hazardous waste facility, as specified, with a shipping paper instead of a manifest. The bill would allow household hazardous waste to be transported in a leased vehicle and by an individual who is not a household resident that generated the waste, as prescribed. The bill would allow a household hazardous waste collection facility authorized to accept hazardous waste from a very small quantity generator (VSQG) to take several actions, including, but not limited to, accepting hazardous waste from a VSQG in the same area and at the same time as residential household hazardous waste and allowing the facility to accept more than 100 kilograms of hazardous waste from a VSQG at a single time as long as it accepts no more 1,200 kilograms from that VSQG in a calendar year. The bill would require a facility to advise persons not to exit their vehicles in waste acceptance areas but not require the facility to prevent it. The bill would specify that volume limitations placed on a facility in accepting hazardous waste from a VSQG do not apply to latex and oil-based paints, as provided. The bill would also make clarifying and conforming changes.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 03/16/2022
Status: 05/05/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE. (61-0)
Department: EU, Fire
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
57.CA AB 2483
Author: Maienschein (D)
Coauthor Wicks (D)
Title: Housing for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 1504.5 of, and to add Section 50675.15 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, by a specified date, to award incentives, as specified, to Multifamily Housing Program project applicants that agree to set aside at least 25% of the project's units for individuals that are either experiencing homelessness or eligible to receive specified services, including, among others, those received under the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Digest: This bill would require the department, by December 31, 2023, to award incentives, as specified, to Multifamily Housing Program project applicants that agree to set aside at least 25% of the project' s units for individuals that are either experiencing homelessness or eligible to receive specified services, including, among others, those received under the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. The bill would also require the department to partner with the State Department of Health Care Services to determine the most effective way to align qualifying services in housing projects funded by the Multifamily Housing Program. The bill would require the department to assess tenant outcomes and engage with an evaluator to identify specified information with respect to projects receiving incentives under these provisions, including the number and demographics, including age, race, or ethnicity, and presubsidy housing status, of people being served.
This bill would authorize the state to contract with agencies or individuals to assist persons with disabilities in securing their own homes and to provide persons with disabilities with the supports needed to live in their own homes, including supportive housing. This bill would additionally include assistance with independent activities of daily living or personal care, when needed, in the definition of " community living support services."
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 03/29/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
58.CA AB 2485
Author: Choi (R)
Coauthor Nielsen (R), Jones (R), Wilk (R), Lackey (R), Mathis (R), Chen (R), Smith T (R), Ochoa Bogh (R), Valladares (R)
Title: California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Natural Resources Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 21080.54 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
Summary: Exempts from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) emergency shelters and supportive housing.
Digest: This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA emergency shelters and supportive housing, as defined.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Status: 03/10/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on NATURAL RESOURCES and HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
59.CA AB 2536
Author: Grayson (D)
Title: Development Fees: Impact Fee Nexus Studies
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
File: 121
Location: Assembly Third Reading File
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 66016.5 of, and to add Section 66016.6 to to, the Government Code, relating to land use.
Summary: Requires a local agency, prior to levying a new fee or capacity charge or approving an increase in an existing fee or capacity charge, to evaluate the amount of the fee or capacity charge. Requires the evaluation to include evidence to support that the fee or capacity charge does not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing service, as specified. Requires all information constituting the evaluation to be made publicly available at least 14 days prior to a specified meeting.
Digest: This bill would require a local agency, prior to levying a new fee or capacity charge or approving an increase in an existing fee or capacity charge, to evaluate the amount of the fee or capacity charge. The bill would require the evaluation to include evidence to support that the fee or capacity charge does not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing service, as specified.
The bill would require all information constituting the evaluation to be made publicly available at least 14 days prior to a specified meeting.
This bill would recast these provisions to apply to a city, county, or special district that conducts an impact fee nexus study.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 04/26/2022
Status: 05/05/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Department: CityAttorney, DevelopmentSvcs, EU, Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
60.CA AB 2569
Author: Nguyen J (R)
Coauthor Nielsen (R), Wilk (R), Mathis (R), Chen (R), Voepel (R), Seyarto (R), Ochoa Bogh (R), Valladares (R)
Title: Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add and repeal Division 27 (commencing with Section 26000) of the Welfare and Institution Code, relating to homelessness.
Summary: Requires the State Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group that includes representatives from all departments and agencies that currently receive funding relating to services for homeless individuals.
Requires the working group to determine the best approach to creating a Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach, and Support and to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than a certain date.
Digest: This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group that includes representatives from all departments and agencies that currently receive funding relating to services for homeless individuals. The bill would require the working group to determine the best approach to creating a Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach, and Support and to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2024.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: PAC
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
61.CA AB 2623
Author: Villapudua (D)
Coauthor Grayson (D)
Title: Housing First: Sober Housing
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 4080 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health. 8255 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.
Summary: Provides an exception to a specified Housing First prohibition to allow a housing provider to adopt a written policy prohibiting the use of alcohol or drugs and authorizing a tenant's eviction based upon more than one violation of the policy when children are housed in the same location, and a court order prohibits use of alcohol or drugs by the tenant to promote substance abuse recovery as a condition for reunification of tenant with their child.
Digest: This bill would provide an exception to that prohibition, to allow a housing provider to adopt a written policy prohibiting the use of alcohol or drugs and authorizing a tenant's eviction based upon more than one violation of the policy when children are housed in the same location, and a court order prohibits use of alcohol or drugs by the tenant to promote substance abuse recovery as a condition for reunification of tenant with their child.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 03/10/2022
Status: 03/28/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Coauthors revised.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness, Housing
62.CA AB 2631
Author: O'Donnell (D)
Title: Government Claims Act
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Local Government Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 815.7 to the Government Code, relating to governmental liability.
Summary: Provides that a public entity is liable for injury relating to the effects of that public entity's homelessness policies on another public entity.
Digest: This bill would provide that a public entity is liable for injury relating to the effects of that public entity's homelessness policies on another public entity.
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.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Status: 03/10/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on LOCAL GOVERNMENT and JUDICIARY.
Department: CityAttorney, EU, PAC
Position: OpposeUnlessAmended
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
63.CA AB 2633
Author: Cooley (D)
Coauthor Cooper (D), McCarty (D)
Title: Parklands: Removal Of Unpermitted Campers and Campsites Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 5385) to Chapter 2 of Division 5 of the Public Resources Code, relating to parklands.
Summary: Authorizes the board of supervisors of a county and the governing body of a parkland or open space to order the removal of unpermitted campers or clearing of unpermitted campsites from its special parklands, as defined, to protect and preserve sensitive natural habitat, critical wildlife, flood infrastructure, recreational activities, public facilities, public safety, or the adjacent community from significant environmental or other degradation.
Digest: This bill would authorize the board of supervisors of a county and the governing body of a parkland or open space to order the removal of unpermitted campers or clearing of unpermitted campsites from its special parklands, as defined, to protect and preserve sensitive natural habitat, critical wildlife, flood infrastructure, recreational activities, public facilities, public safety, or the adjacent community from significant environmental or other degradation. The bill would require the board or governing body, at least 72 hours before removing an unpermitted camper or clearing an unpermitted campsite, to provide written notice to the camper or campsite occupant of its intent to take that action, except when there is an imminent danger to human health or safety or an emergency.The bill would require the board or governing body to ensure that, during the removal of an unpermitted camper, the camper
receives access to onsite support services, as specified. The bill would require the board or governing body, consistent with applicable law and any applicable agreements, to preserve, store, and make easily accessible to the owner, as close to the special parkland as possible, any personal property that is removed or cleared if the owner of the personal property, or the owner's designee, is present when the personal property is removed or cleared. To the extent this bill would mandate that a local government provide a new program or higher level of service, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/27/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, PD, Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
64.CA AB 2653
Author: Santiago (D)
Coauthor Wicks (D)
Title: Planning and Zoning Law: Housing Elements
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 65400 of the Government Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to reject the housing element portion of an annual report if the report is not in substantial compliance with these requirements. Provides that if the department rejects the housing element portion of an annual report, the bill
would require the department to provide the reasons for the rejection in writing, as specified.
Digest: This bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to reject the housing element portion of an annual report if the report is not in substantial compliance with these requirements. If the department rejects the housing element portion of an annual report, the bill would require the department to provide the reasons for the rejection in writing, as specified.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/25/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-3)
Department: CityAttorney, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
65.CA AB 2656
Author: Ting (D)
Title: Housing Accountability Act: Disapprovals
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 65589.5 of the Government Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Defines disapprove the housing development project as also including any instance in which a local agency denies a project an exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as described, or requires further environmental study to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project or to certify an environmental impact report for the project when there is a legally sufficient basis in the record before the local agency to adopt a negative declaration or addendum or to certify an environmental impact.
Digest: This bill would define "disapprove the housing development project" as also including any instance in which a local agency denies a project an
exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as described, or requires further environmental study to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project or to certify an environmental impact report for the project when there is a legally sufficient basis in the record before the local agency to adopt a negative declaration or addendum or to certify an environmental impact report without further study. By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
66.CA AB 2663
Author: Ramos (D)
Title: Youth Acceptance Project
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add and repeal Chapter 4.7 (commencing with Section 18287) of Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to youth.
Summary: Requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a specified year pilot program, the Youth Acceptance Project, in order to increase permanency outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or plus and gender expansive youth, as defined, in up to specified counties, to be selected to participate on a voluntary basis in the pilot program, as specified.
Digest: This bill would, on or before July 1, 2023, require the State Department of Social Services to establish a 5-year pilot program, the Youth Acceptance Project (YAP), in order to increase permanency outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or plus (LGBTQ+) and gender-expansive youth,
as defined, in up to 5 counties, to be selected to participate on a voluntary basis in the pilot program, as specified. The bill would set forth qualifying conditions for YAP services, including the youth's receipt of child welfare services or being at risk of entering foster care, or being homeless or at risk of homelessness.
The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require the department to partner with the nonprofit organization Family Builders by Adoption and other relevant stakeholders to assist participating counties in providing LGBTQ+ and gender-expansive youth, and their families who are struggling with accepting the youth's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, with advocacy, therapeutic-style support, and intervention services. The bill would require participating counties to provide services that meet certain requirements relating to professional providers, principles, and methods.
The bill would require the department to submit a report to the Legislature with an evaluation of the pilot program.
This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2029, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2030.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/19/2022
Status: 04/26/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HUMAN SERVICES: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (6-0)
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
67.CA AB 2668
Author: Grayson (D)
Title: Government Code and Housing
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
File: 123
Location: Assembly Third Reading File
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 65913.4 of the Government Code, relating to housing.
Summary: Prohibits a local government from determining that a development, including an application for a modification, is in conflict with the objective planning standards on the basis that application materials are not included, if the application contains substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the development is consistent with the objective planning standards.
Digest: This bill would prohibit a local government from determining that a development, including an application for a modification, is in conflict with the objective planning standards on the basis that application materials are not included, if the application contains substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the development is consistent with the objective planning standards.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 03/31/2022
Status: 05/05/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Department: CityAttorney, DevelopmentSvcs, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
68.CA AB 2696
Author: Garcia E (D)
Title: Electricity: Renewable Energy and Zero-carbon Resources Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add and repeal Section 25234 25236 of the Public Resources Code, and to amend Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
Summary: Requires the Energy Commission, in consultation with the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development, the Independent System Operator, and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to conduct a study to review potential lower cost ownership and alternative financing mechanisms for new transmission facilities needed to meet the state's clean energy and climate targets, as specified.
Digest: This bill would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, the Independent System Operator, and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to conduct a study to review potential lower cost ownership and alternative financing mechanisms for new transmission facilities needed to meet the state's clean energy and climate targets, as specified, and to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before September 30, 2023, with findings and recommendations related to the study.
This bill would require, where an electrical corporation has applied for a certificate authorizing the construction of new transmission facilities, the PUC to find that the present or future public convenience and necessity require construction if the new facility will facilitate achievement of the policy of the state that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers and 100% of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2045.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: Electric
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
69.CA AB 2701
Author: Nazarian (D)
Title: Public Utility Facilities
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: ASSEMBLY
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 39790 of the Government Code, relating to local government.
Summary: Makes a nonsubstantive change to existing law authorizing a city to construct, equip, use, maintain, and operate any facility, within or without the city or the county where the city is located, for the preparation, manufacture, handling, or transporting of any materials or supplies required in the construction or completion by the city of any public work, improvement, or utility.
Digest: The bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that definition.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Status: 02/18/2022 INTRODUCED.
Department: CityAttorney, EU, Electric, Facilities, IT, PW, Parks DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
70.CA AB 2703
Author: Muratsuchi (D)
Coauthor Bloom (D), Rivas (D), Bennett (D)
Title: Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 43872 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 25234 to the Public Resources Code, relating to transportation.
Summary: Requires a person who receives state funding or other incentives to deploy a publicly available electric vehicle charging station to agree, as a condition of receiving the incentive, to operate the station in compliance with reliability standards that would be developed by the Energy Commission, as specified.
Digest: This bill would require a person who receives state funding or other incentives to deploy a publicly available electric vehicle charging station to agree, as a condition of receiving the incentive, to operate the station in compliance with reliability standards that would be developed by the Energy Commission, as specified. The bill would require the commission to publish data on compliance with the reliability standards as part of the above- described assessment and to protect the confidential information of an entity subject to the reliability standards by anonymizing and aggregating the compliance data in the assessment. The bill would also require the Energy Commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to develop a program to
provide financial assistance to low-income and disadvantaged community members to use electric vehicle charging stations, as specified.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 05/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: DevelopmentSvcs, Electric
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
71.CA AB 2742
Author: Friedman (D)
Title: Water Meters: Urban Water Suppliers
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: ASSEMBLY
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 527 of the Water Code, relating to water.
Summary: Delays a specified requirement for an urban water supplier to install the water meters to on or before January 1, 2030.
Digest: This bill would delay that requirement for an urban water supplier to install the water meters to on or before January 1, 2030.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Status: 02/18/2022 INTRODUCED.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
72.CA AB 2755
Author: Muratsuchi (D)
Title: Homelessness Data Reporting
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 65582.5 to the Government Code, relating to housing. Sections 8257.4 and 8257.5 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.
Summary: Requires the council, on or before a specified date, to make data in the Homeless Data Integration System that is not exempt from public inspection or disclosure under state or federal law publicly available through specified means. Requires a city, county, or city and county to post a hyperlink on its internet website to each of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Annual Homelessness Assessment Reports.
Digest: This bill would require the council, on or before July 1, 2023, to make data in the Homeless Data Integration System that is not exempt from public inspection or disclosure under state or federal law publicly available through specified means.
This bill would require a city, county, or city and county to post a hyperlink on its internet website to each of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Annual Homelessness Assessment Reports. By imposing an additional duty on local entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 05/02/2022
Status: 05/02/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
73.CA AB 2762
Author: Bloom (D)
Title: Housing: Parking Lots
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: ASSEMBLY
Code
Section: An act relating to land use.
Summary: States that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would allow local agencies to build affordable housing on parking lots that serve public parks and recreational facilities.
Digest: This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would allow local agencies to build affordable housing on parking lots that serve public parks and recreational facilities, as provided.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Status: 02/18/2022 INTRODUCED.
Department: Building, CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
74.CA AB 2768
Author: Waldron (R)
Title: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Database Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 5760 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.
Summary: Provides mental health and substance use disorder services in the state.
Regulates the facilities that provide these services, including acute psychiatric hospitals, residential substance abuse treatment facilities, and outpatient programs. Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to create an ad hoc committee to study how to develop, in real time, an internet based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient in inpatient psychiatric facilities.
Digest: This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, either on its own or through the Behavioral Health Task Force established by the Governor, to create an ad hoc committee to study how to develop, in real time, an internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential alcoholism or substance abuse treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental health or substance use disorder crisis.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 03/24/2022
Status: 04/26/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (14-0)
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC, PD, Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
75.CA AB 2811
Author: Bennett (D)
Title: Building Standards Commission: Recycled Water
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee Code
Section:
An act to add Sections 18940.7 and 18940.8 to the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 13558 and 13558.1 of the Water Code, relating to building standards.
Summary: Requires commencing a specified date, all newly constructed nonresidential buildings be constructed with dual plumbing to allow the use of recycled water for all applicable nonpotable water demands, as defined, if that building is located within an existing or planned recycled water service area, as specified.
Requires the establishment of a program for onsite treated nonpotable water systems.
Digest: This bill would require, commencing January 1, 2024, all newly constructed nonresidential buildings be constructed with dual plumbing to allow the use of recycled water for all applicable nonpotable water demands, as defined, if that building is located within an existing or planned recycled water service area, as specified.
This bill would require, commencing January 1, 2024, all newly constructed nonresidential buildings with a total gross floor area of 100,000 square feet or more be constructed with dual plumbing to allow the use of nonpotable water sources for all applicable nonpotable water demands and provide for the collection, onsite treatment, and reuse of available onsite rainwater, graywater, and foundation drainage. The bill would establish exemptions to these requirements, including waiver by the board on a project- by-project basis if the board finds that strict compliance would have a significant adverse impact on public health, downstream water rights, water quality, operation of a sewer collection or treatment system, or plant life, fish, or wildlife.
This bill would require the commission to adopt, if necessary, regulations related to, and consistent with the intent of, these requirements.
This bill would delete that prohibition. The bill would require the board, on or before January 1, 2025, to establish a program for large onsite treated nonpotable water systems, as defined, for local jurisdictions that do not have a local program for onsite treated nonpotable water systems. The bill would authorize the board to establish a reasonable schedule of fees for reimbursement of its costs of establishing and operating the program.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Status: 03/17/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS.
Department: Building, DevelopmentSvcs, EU, Housing
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
76.CA AB 2817
Author: Reyes (D)
Coauthor Stone (D), Friedman (D), Grayson (D), Rivas (D) Title: House California Challenge Program
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act relating to homelessness. An act to add Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 8270) to Division 8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.
Summary: Requires a recipient that receives grant funds under the program to submit an annual report to the agency that includes specified information, including ongoing tracking of the specific uses and expenditures of grant funds, the number of homeless individuals and households served by the grant funds, and outcome data for households served through program funds.
Digest: This bill would establish the House California Challenge Program, to be administered by the California Health and Human Services Agency, for the purpose of providing direct rental assistance to help persons who are experiencing homelessness obtain housing. The bill would require the agency, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to allocate $1,000,000,000 for purposes of the program each fiscal year for 5 years, beginning with the 2022-23 fiscal year. The bill would require 10% of the funds to be awarded as grants to recipients, as defined, for the purpose of helping participants locate and obtain permanent housing, 80% of the funds to be used by the agency to provide specified eligible uses directly to participants or to landlords providing housing to participants, and 10% of the funds to be used for administrative costs.
This bill would require a recipient that receives grant funds under the program to submit an annual report to the agency that includes specified information, including ongoing tracking of the specific uses and expenditures of grant funds, the number of homeless individuals and households served by the grant funds, and outcome data for households served through program funds. The bill would require the agency, on or before January 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, as specified, to submit a report to specified Senate and Assembly committees that contains similar information, and includes, among other things, an evaluation of the outcomes and status of the program.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 03/29/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Do pass to Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS. (6-1)
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC, PD, Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
77.CA AB 2818
Author: Waldron (R)
Title: Substance Use Disorder Treatment Workforce Expansion Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to repeal and add Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 11998) of Division 10.6 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to substance use disorder.
Summary: States the Legislature's long range goals through the creation of certain year plans to expand the substance use disorder treatment workforce in the State to aid in the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse. Sets out a specified year goals for school districts, the State University system, the University of California, the community college system, and the department. Provides grants to licensed professionals who enroll in addiction related coursework.
Digest: This bill would state the Legislature's long-range goals through the creation of one-year and 5-year plans to expand the substance use disorder treatment workforce in California to aid in the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse. The bill would set out one-year goals for school districts, the California State University system, the University of California, the community college system, and the department. The bill would also set out 5-year plans to be created by the department, in collaboration with other state agencies, including coordination with the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) to administer grants, stipends, and loan repayment programs for counselors, peers, and licensed professionals who enroll in addiction-related coursework, with special emphasis on applicants who are able to fill identified cultural, linguistic, and geographic shortage areas.
This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2027, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2028.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/28/2022
Status: 04/28/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, PAC, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
78.CA AB 2830
Author: Bloom (D)
Title: Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment Court Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Judiciary Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Article 10 (commencing with Section 5349.300) to Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Section 1374.723 to the Health and Safety Code, to amend Section 1370.01 of the Penal Code, and to add Part 8 (commencing with Section 5970) to Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.
Summary: Enacts the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment Act, which would authorize specified people to petition a civil court to create a CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, stabilization medication, and housing support to adults who are suffering from schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorders and who lack medical decision making capacity.
Digest: This bill would enact the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which would authorize specified people to petition a civil court to create a CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, stabilization medication, and housing support to adults who are suffering from schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorders and who lack medical decisionmaking capacity. The bill would specify the process by which the petition is filed and reviewed, including requiring the petition to be signed under penalty of perjury, and to contain specified information, including the acts that support the petitioner's belief that the respondent meets the CARE criterion. The bill would also specify the schedule of review hearings required if the respondent is ordered to comply with a one-year CARE plan by the court.
The bill would authorize the CARE plan to be extended for up to one year and prescribes the requirement for the graduation plan that is required upon leaving the CARE program. By expanding the crime of perjury and imposing additional duties on the county behavioral health agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would include in the CARE program the respondent's right to have a supporter and counsel at all proceedings. The bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, subject to appropriation, to administer the CARE Supporter program, which would make available a trained supporter to each respondent.
This bill would authorize the court, at any time during the proceedings if it finds the county not complying with court orders, to fine the county up to $1,000 per day and, if the court finds persistent noncompliance, to appoint a receiver to secure court-ordered care for the respondent at the county's cost.
This bill would require health care service plans to cover the cost of developing an evaluation for CARE services and the provision of all health care services for an enrollee when required or recommended for the enrollee pursuant to a CARE plan, as specified, without cost sharing. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill, for misdemeanor defendants who have been determined to be incompetent to stand trial, would authorize the court to refer the defendant to the CARE program.
This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/07/2022
Status: 04/18/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
Department: CityAttorney, PAC, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
79.CA AB 2886
Author: Lee (D)
Title: Recycling: Electric Vehicle Lithium-ion Batteries Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 30001 of the Public Resources Code, relating to public resources. An act to add Chapter 7.9 (commencing with Section 42430) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling.
Summary: Requires producers of electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries to establish a stewardship program for electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries, either individually or through the creation of one or more stewardship organizations.
Digest: This bill would require producers, as defined, of electric vehicle lithium- ion batteries to establish a stewardship program for electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries, either individually or through the creation of one or more stewardship organizations. The bill would require a stewardship organization or producer, on or before June 30, 2026, to submit to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery a stewardship plan for the collection, transportation, and recycling, and the safe and proper management, of electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries that are out of warranty in the state. The bill would require the plan to include specified elements, including consultation with an advisory body, which the bill would require the department to create, a collection system for electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries that are out of warranty with a specified minimum distribution of collection sites, and a funding mechanism to provide sufficient funding for implementation of the plan. The bill would provide for review and approval of the stewardship plan by the department and any other state agency with relevant jurisdiction and would require the stewardship organization or producer to fully implement its stewardship program on or before June 30, 2027.
The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2027, and each year thereafter, to post on its internet website a list of producers, brands, and electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries that are in compliance with the bill.
The bill would prohibit a retailer or distributor from selling, distributing, offering for sale, or importing an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery in or into the state unless the producer of the electric vehicle lithium-ion battery is listed as in compliance on that list for that brand and electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries, except as specified.
The bill would require a stewardship organization or producer to quarterly reimburse the department and any other relevant state agency for their respective reasonable regulatory costs that are directly related to implementing and enforcing the bill in relation to the stewardship organization's or producer's activities. The bill would require the department and each state agency to deposit those moneys into the Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Fund, which the bill would establish, and would authorize the department and any other relevant state agency to expend those moneys, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to administer and enforce the stewardship program.
The bill would provide for enforcement of its provisions, including authorizing the department to impose an administrative civil penalty on a stewardship organization, producer, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, importer, recycler, or collection site in violation of the bill not to exceed $10,000 per day, unless the violation is intentional, knowing, or reckless, then in that case not to exceed $50,000 per day. The bill would require the department to deposit those moneys into the Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Penalty Account, which the bill would establish in the fund, and would require the department to expend those moneys, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to administer and enforce the stewardship program. The bill would require the department, by January 1, 2025, and in
consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to adopt regulations to implement the bill.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 03/24/2022
Status: 03/24/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS and NATURAL RESOURCES.
03/24/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS with author's amendments.
03/24/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC
MATERIALS.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
80.CA AB 2893
Author: Daly (D)
Title: Administrative Procedure Act
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section Sections 11346.3 and 11346.5 of the Government Code, relating to administrative hearings.
Summary: Relates to the Administrative Procedure Act, which prohibits a state agency from issuing, utilizing, enforcing, or attempting to enforce any guideline, standard of general application, or other rule, among other things, that is a regulation, as defined, unless it has been adopted as a regulation and filed with the Secretary of State. Requires the state agency to update its analysis to reflect any comments received from the Department of Finance.
Digest: This bill would, instead, require the state agency to update its analysis to reflect any comments received from the department, as described above.The bill would also require, if the proposed major regulation is updated following the department's comments, the state agency to take public
comment for 30 additional days each time the regulation is updated and the state agency to update its analysis and submit the analysis to the department for comment, as described.
This bill would require the department to adopt, by November 1, 2024, and in consultation with the office and other state agencies, regulations for communicating the results of the standardized regulatory impact analysis in a standardized format, as described.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 04/21/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 From ASSEMBLY Committee on ACCOUNTABILITY AND ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW: Do pass to Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS. (7-0)
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
81.CA AB 2919
Author: Fong (R)
Title: Release Of Water: Fish Populations
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 5937 of add Section 5937.5 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to dams.
Summary: Provides that, notwithstanding any other law, the release of water from a dam shall only be regulated based on actual fish populations and not based on approximate fish populations.
Digest: This bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other law, the release of water from a dam shall only be regulated based on actual fish populations and not based on approximate fish populations.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 03/24/2022
Status: 04/26/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE:
Not heard.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
82.CA SB 892
Author: Hurtado (D)
Title: Cybersecurity Preparedness: Food and Agriculture Sector Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 8592.50 to the Government Code, relating to emergency services.
Summary: Requires the Office of Emergency Services to develop, propose, and adopt optional reporting guidelines applicable to companies and cooperatives in the food and agriculture industry and entities in the water and wastewater systems industry if they identify a significant and verified cyber threat or active cyberattack. Requires CalOES to direct the California Cybersecurity Integration Center to prepare, and CalOES to submit to the Legislature a strategic, multiyear outreach plan.
Digest: This bill would require CalOES to develop, propose, and adoptoptional reporting guidelines applicable to companies and cooperatives in the food and agriculture industry and entities in the water and wastewater systems industry if they identify a significant and verified cyber threat or active cyberattack. The bill would require CalOES to direct Cal-CSIC to prepare, and CalOES to submit to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2024, a strategic, multiyear outreach plan to assist the food and agriculture sector and the water and wastewater sector in their efforts to improve cybersecurity and an evaluation of options for providing grants or alternative forms of funding to, and potential voluntary actions that do not require funding and that assist, those sectors in their efforts to improve cybersecurity preparedness. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
Introduced: 01/31/2022
Last
Amend: 03/22/2022
Status: 04/18/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: EU, Fire, IT
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
83.CA SB 897
Author: Wieckowski (D)
Title: Accessory Dwelling Units: Junior Units
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 65852.22 of, to add Section 65852.23 to, and to repeal and amend Section 65852.2 of, the Government Code, and to amend Section 17980.12 of, and to add Chapter 6.9 (commencing with Section 50678) to Part 2 of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to land use.
Summary: Changes the height limitation applicable to an accessory dwelling unit subject to ministerial approval to 25 feet if the accessory dwelling unit is within 1/2 mile walking distance of a major transit stop or a high-quality transit corridor, as those terms are defined, or if the accessory dwelling unit is attached to a primary dwelling, as specified.
Digest: This bill would require that the standards imposed on accessory dwelling units be objective. For purposes of this requirement, the bill would define "objective standard" as a standard that involves no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified.
This bill would require a local agency to review and issue a demolition permit for a detached garage that is to be replaced by an accessory dwelling unit at the same time as it reviews and issues the permit for the accessory dwelling unit. The bill would prohibit an applicant from being required to provide written notice or post a placard for the demolition of a detached garage that is to be replaced by an accessory dwelling unit, as specified.
This bill would increase the maximum height limitation that may be imposed by a local agency on an accessory dwelling unit to 25 feet if the accessory dwelling unit is within 1/2 mile walking distance of a major transit stop or a high-quality transit corridor, as those terms are defined, or if the accessory dwelling unit is attached to a primary dwelling, as specified.
This bill would provide that the construction of an accessory dwelling unit does not constitute a Group R occupancy change under the local building code, as specified. The bill would also prohibit the construction of an accessory dwelling unit from triggering a requirement that fire sprinklers be installed in the proposed or existing primary dwelling.
This bill would change the height limitation applicable to an accessory dwelling unit subject to ministerial approval to 25 feet if the accessory dwelling unit is within 1/2 mile walking distance of a major transit stop or a high-quality transit corridor, as those terms are defined, or if the accessory dwelling unit is attached to a primary dwelling, as specified. The bill, if the existing multifamily dwelling exceeds applicable height requirements or has a rear or side setback of less than 4 feet, would prohibit a local agency from requiring any modification to the existing multifamily dwelling to satisfy these requirements.
The bill would prohibit a local agency from rejecting an application for an accessory dwelling unit because the existing multifamily dwelling exceeds applicable height requirements or has a rear or side setback of less than 4 feet.
This bill would delete the expiration date of this provision.
This bill would require a local agency, when a permit application for an accessory dwelling unit is submitted with a permit application to create new multifamily dwelling units, to reduce the number of required parking spaces for the multifamily dwelling by 2 parking spaces for each accessory dwelling unit located on the lot.
This bill would specify that enclosed uses within the proposed or existing single-family residence, such as attached garages, are considered a part of the proposed or existing single-family residence. The bill would require a junior accessory dwelling unit that does not include separate sanitation facilities to include a separate entrance from the main entrance to the structure, with an interior entry to the main living area. The bill would delete the requirement that the ordinance include an owner-occupancy requirement in the single-family residence.
This bill would extend that delay in enforcement to the building standards applicable to the primary dwelling of the accessory dwelling unit, provided that correcting the violation is not necessary to protect health and safety.
This bill would prohibit a local agency from denying a permit for an unpermitted accessory dwelling unitthat was constructed before January 1, 2018, because, among other things, the unit is in violation of building standards or state or local standards applicable to accessory dwelling units, unless the local agency makes a finding that correcting the violation is necessary to protect the health and safety of the public or occupants of the structure. This bill would specify that this prohibition does not apply to a building that is deemed substandard under specified provisions of law.
This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the department to establish and administer a grant program for the purpose of funding the construction and maintenance of accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units. The bill would create the California Accessory Dwelling Unit Fund and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the department to distribute moneys in the fund to eligible recipients.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/01/2022
Last
Amend: 04/18/2022
Status: 04/25/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
84.CA SB 932
Author: Portantino (D)
Title: General Plans: Circulation Element
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee
Hearing: 05/16/2022 10:00 am, 1021 O Street, Room 2200
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 65300.5 and 65302 of the Government Code, relating to land use.
Summary: Requires the legislative body, upon the next substantive revision of the circulation element, on or before a specified date, to develop or update the plan for a balanced, multimodal transportation network, as specified, and to ensure that the plan includes bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans for any urbanized area, as defined, within the scope of the county or city general plan. Allows a person injured within the right-of-way in a collision with a motor vehicle to have a cause of action.
Digest: This bill would emphasize the intent of the Legislature to fight climate change with these provisions.
This bill would require the legislative body, upon the next substantive revision of the circulation element, on or before June 30, 2024, to develop or update the plan for a balanced, multimodal transportation network, as specified, and to ensure that the plan includes bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans for any urbanized area, as defined, within the scope of the county or city general plan. By adding to the duties of county and city
officials in the administration of their land use planning duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would require a county or city to begin implementation of the plan within 2 years of the date of adoption of the plan. The bill would allow a county or city to have 20 years to implement the plan. This bill would increase the 20-year implementation period based on whether the measures introduced by a county or city work to reduce its percentage of traffic violence within a specified period of time. The bill would allow a county or city that fails to comply with the implementation provisions due to unforeseen circumstances to be exempt from the provisions upon a written finding, as specified.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to create an annual grant program, relating to the above provisions, to award funding to any county or city upon a showing of its implementation of timely and effective short-term efforts to mitigate bicycle, pedestrian, and other human-powered transportation injuries and fatalities, as provided.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/07/2022
Last
Amend: 05/04/2022
Status: 05/04/2022 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, PW, Parks, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: OpposeUnlessAmended
Priority: StatePriority
85.CA SB 970
Author: Eggman (D)
Coauthor Glazer (D), Quirk-Silva (D), Friedman (D), Stern (D), Carrillo (D) Title: Mental Health Services Act
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee
Hearing: 05/16/2022 10:00 am, 1021 O Street, Room 2200
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 5651, 5847, 5848, 5891, and 5891.5, of, and to add Section 5846.5 to, to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.
Summary: Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to request the University of California to enter into a contract with the state to provide specified services, including preparing an analysis of how data pertaining to the provision of mental health services and client outcomes collected by the counties and provided to the state may be used to demonstrate the impact of services funded by the Mental Health Services Fund on life outcomes.
Digest: This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, by July 1, 2025, to establish the California MHSA Outcomes and Accountability Review (MHSA-OAR), consisting of performance indicators, county self-assessments, and county MHSA improvement plans, to facilitate a local accountability system that fosters continuous quality improvement in county programs funded by the MHSA and in the collection and dissemination by the agency of best practices in service delivery. The bill would require the agency to convene a workgroup, as specified, to establish a workplan by which the MHSA-OAR shall be conducted, including a process for qualitative peer reviews of counties' MHSA services and uniform elements for the county MHSA system improvement plans. The bill would require the agency to establish specific process measures and uniform elements for the county MHSA improvement plans and updates. The bill would require the counties to execute and fulfill components of its MHSA system improvement plan that can be accomplished with existing resources. The bill would require the agency to report to the Legislature, on an annual basis, a report that summarizes county performance on the established process and outcome measures during the reporting period, analyzes county performance trends over time, and makes findings and recommendations for common MHSA services improvements identified in the county MHSA self-assessments and county MHSA system improvement plans. By imposing new requirements on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would require the agency to request the University of California to enter into a contract with the state to provide specified services, including preparing an analysis of how data pertaining to the provision of mental health services and client outcomes collected by the counties and provided to the state may be used to demonstrate the impact of services funded by the MHSF on life outcomes. The bill would require the analysis to be delivered to the agency, the Legislature, and the workgroup on or before July 1, 2024.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Introduced: 02/10/2022
Last
Amend: 05/02/2022
Status: 05/02/2022 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: Housing, PAC, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
86.CA SB 1000
Author: Becker (D)
Title: Law Enforcement Agencies: Radio Communications
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 11006 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal investigation. An act to add Section 13675 to the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement agencies.
Summary: Requires a law enforcement agency, including the State Highway Patrol, municipal police departments, county sheriff's departments, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police departments, to ensure public access to the radio communications of that agency, as specified. Require those law enforcement agencies to ensure that any criminal justice information or personally identifiable information obtained through State Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.
Digest: This bill would require a law enforcement agency, including the California Highway Patrol, municipal police departments, county sheriff's departments, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police departments, to ensure public access to the radio communications of that agency, as specified.
This bill would also require those law enforcement agencies to ensure that any criminal justice information or personally identifiable information obtained through CLETS is not broadcast in a manner that is accessible to the public, as specified.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Last
Amend: 03/16/2022
Status: 05/09/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, IT, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
87.CA SB 1006
Author: Jones (R)
Coauthor Chen (R), Ochoa Bogh (R)
Title: Law Enforcement: Homeless Outreach Teams
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Chapter 8.2 (commencing with Section 13874) to Title 6 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement.
Summary: Requires the Department of Justice, to the extent funding is provided for these purposes, to administer a competitive grant program to enable local law enforcement agencies to establish and operate homeless outreach teams.
Requires a homeless outreach team funded with a grant to be composed of specified individuals.
Digest: This bill would require the Department of Justice, to the extent funding is provided for these purposes, to administer a competitive grant program to enable local law enforcement agencies to establish and operate homeless outreach teams. The bill would require a homeless outreach team funded with a grant to be composed of specified individuals.
Introduced: 02/14/2022
Last
Amend: 03/22/2022
Status: 04/04/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC, PD, Parks
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Support
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
88.CA SB 1032
Author: Becker (D)
Title: Public Utilities Commission: Electrical Transmission Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee
Hearing: 05/16/2022 10:00 am, 1021 O Street, Room 2200
Code
Section:
An act to add Division 1.8 (commencing with Section 3600) to and repeal Section 913.2 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
Summary: Requires the Public Utilities Commission, on or before specified date, to submit to the Governor and the Legislature a study identifying proposals to accelerate the development of, and reduce the cost to ratepayers of expanding, the state's electrical transmission grid as necessary to achieve the state's goals, and meet the state's requirements, to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, as specified.
Digest: This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2024, to submit to the Governor and the Legislature a study identifying proposals to accelerate the development of, and reduce the cost to ratepayers of expanding, the state's electrical transmission grid as necessary to achieve the state's goals, and meet the state's requirements, to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, as specified.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 04/28/2022
Status: 05/02/2022 Withdrawn from SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE.
05/02/2022 Re-referred to SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: Electric
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
89.CA SB 1038
Author: Bradford (D)
Title: Law Enforcement: Facial Recognition and Other Biometric
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
File: 10
Location: Senate Third Reading File
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 832.19 of the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement.
Summary: Relates to law enforcement, facial recognition and other biometric surveillance. Extends provisions relative to those surveillance methods indefinitely.
Digest: This bill would extend these provisions indefinitely.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Status: 03/16/2022 In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Department: CityAttorney, IT, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
90.CA SB 1067
Author: Portantino (D)
Title: Housing Development Projects: Automobile Parking Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee
Hearing: 05/16/2022 10:00 am, 1021 O Street, Room 2200
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 65585 of, and to add Section 65863.14 to to, the Government Code, relating to land use.
Summary: Authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a housing development project if the local government demonstrates to the developer that the development would have a negative impact, supported by a preponderance of the evidence, on the city's, county's, or city and county's ability to meet its share of specified
housing needs or existing residential or commercial parking within 1/2 mile of the housing development.
Digest: This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on a housing development project that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. The bill, notwithstanding the above-described prohibition, would authorize a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a housing development project if the local government demonstrates to the developer, within 30 days of the receipt of a completed application, that the development would have a negative impact, supported by a preponderance of the evidence, on the city's, county's, or city and county's ability to meet its share of specified housing needs or existing residential or commercial parking within 1/2 mile of the housing development. The bill would create an exception from the above-described provision if the development either dedicates a minimum of 20% of the total number of housing units to very low, low-, or moderate-income households, students, the elderly, or persons with disabilities or contains fewer than 20 housing units. By changing the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would add a violation of the minimum automobile parking requirements of housing development projects, as described above, to the list of laws that, when violated, require the department to notify the jurisdiction and authorize the Attorney General to bring an action to enforce state law.
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 would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 04/28/2022
Status: 04/28/2022 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: CityAttorney, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
91.CA SB 1075
Author: Skinner (D)
Coauthor Hertzberg (D), Hueso (D), Eggman (D), Newman (D), Archuleta (D), Min (D) Title: Hydrogen: Green Hydrogen: Emissions Of Greenhouse Gases
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee
Hearing: 05/16/2022 10:00 am, 1021 O Street, Room 2200
Code
Section:
An act to add Article 6.8 (commencing with Section 63048.300) to Chapter 2 of Division 1 of Title 6.7 of the Government Code, to add Sections 38561.8 and 39619.9 to, and to add and repeal Section 38561.7 of, to the Health and Safety Code, to add Section 25742 to, and to add and repeal Section 25307 of of, the Public Resources Code, and to amend Sections 399.12 and 400.3 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.
Summary: Creates the California Clean Hydrogen Hub Fund within the State Treasury, and makes the moneys in the fund available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature. Requires the I-Bank to administer the fund and would authorize the I-Bank to provide grants to public, private, and nonprofit businesses and entities for the support of projects in California that demonstrate and scale the production, processing, delivery, storage, and end use of clean hydrogen, as specified.
Digest: This bill would create the California Clean Hydrogen Hub Fund within the State Treasury, and make the moneys in the fund available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require the I-Bank to administer the fund and would authorize the I-Bank to provide grants to public, private, and nonprofit businesses and entities for the support of projects in California that demonstrate and scale the production, processing, delivery, storage, and end use of clean hydrogen, as specified. The bill would require the I-Bank to prepare, and the I-Bank board to approve, criteria, priorities, and guidelines for the provision of grants under the fund in line with specified priorities and requirements of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act as well as specified state goals.
This bill would require the Governor to appoint, by April 1, 2023, a Clean Hydrogen Hub Director to coordinate efforts related to clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and end use in California. The bill would require the I-Bank, in administering the California Clean Hydrogen Hub Fund, to coordinate with the director and relevant state agencies.
This bill would require the state board, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to prepare an evaluation posted to the state board's internet website by June 1, 2024, that includes specified information relative to the deployment, development, and use of hydrogen. The bill would require the state board, in making this evaluation, to consult with the California Workforce Development Board and labor and workforce organizations.
This bill would require the Energy Commission, as part of the 2023 and 2025 editions of the integrated energy policy report, to study and model
potential growth for hydrogen and its role in decarbonizing, as defined, the electrical and transportation sectors of the economy, and helping to achieve specified goals.
This bill would require the PUC, state board, and Energy Commission to consider other potential uses of green electrolytic hydrogen specifically in all of their decarbonization strategies, as defined.
This bill would require the Energy Commission to consult with the Public Utilities Commission and the state board to develop a definition of renewable hydrogen that, when used in an electrical generating facility, would enable the facility to meet the definition of a "renewable electrical generation facility."
This bill would require the state board, by June 1, 2024, in conjunction with the Energy Commission and the PUC, to jointly develop recommendations to the Legislature on definitions for different categories of hydrogen, and potential end uses for those categories of hydrogen and would authorize the use of the recommendations to the Legislature to inform the oversight and administration of their respective hydrogen programs and eligibility rules.
This bill would also require the state board, by June 1, 2024, in conjunction with the Energy Commission and the PUC, to (A) provide guidance to the Legislature on which categories of hydrogen may be used to meet eligibility requirements for the programs under each state entity's jurisdiction, (B) jointly develop prohibitions against double counting of environmental attributes associated with production, distribution, and use of hydrogen, and (C) calculate life-cycle carbon dioxide intensity values for hydrogen pathways that reflect the fuels, feedstocks, and production processes used for their production.
Introduced: 02/15/2022
Last
Amend: 05/04/2022
Status: 05/04/2022 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: DevelopmentSvcs, Electric
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
92.CA SB 1112
Author: Becker (D)
Title: Energy: Building Decarbonization: Notice
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add and repeal Section 25235 of the Public Resources Code, and to add Chapter 4.6 (commencing with Section 8375) to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
Summary: Requires the Energy Commission to identify state and federal financing or investment solutions, as defined, that will enable electrical corporations, community choice aggregators, or other eligible entities to provide zero- emission, clean energy, or decarbonizing building upgrades. Requires the Energy Commission to apply for federal financing or investment solutions, where applicable, and provide technical assistance to certain entities to apply for state and federal financing or investment solutions.
Digest: This bill would require the Energy Commission to identify state and federal financing or investment solutions, as defined, that will enable electrical corporations, community choice aggregators, or other eligible entities to provide zero-emission, clean energy, or decarbonizing building upgrades. The bill would also require the Energy Commission to apply for federal financing or investment solutions, where applicable, and provide technical assistance to certain entities to apply for state and federal financing or investment solutions.
The bill would require the Energy Commission, on or before July 1, 2023, to prepare and submit a report to the relevant committees of the Legislature that describes any statutory changes necessary to improve access to federal funding for financing or investment solutions. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.
This bill would require the commission, or the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility or electrical cooperative, to require an energy supplier, defined as an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, electric service provider, community choice aggregator, or electrical cooperative, administering a decarbonization upgrade program or initiative, to record, no later than 10 days after funding a decarbonization upgrade, a notice of decarbonization charge, as defined, with the county recorder of the county where the property subject to the decarbonization charge is located. The bill would require an energy supplier, within 10 days of full cost recovery of the outstanding charges related to the recorded notice of decarbonization charge, to record a notice of the full cost recovery and removal of the decarbonization charge with the county recorder of the county where the property subject to the decarbonization charge is located. The bill also would require an energy supplier, within 10 days of a decision by the energy supplier to cease collection of the charge, to record a notice of removal of the decarbonization charge with the county recorder of the county where the property subject to the decarbonization charge is located. If the subscriber's property is not owner-occupied, the bill would require the energy supplier to incorporate in a written agreement between the energy supplier and the property owner related to installation of a decarbonization upgrade, a requirement that the property owner shall cause the obligation to pay the decarbonization charge to appear in the terms through which the property owner leases or licenses the property for occupancy.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 03/31/2022
Status: 05/09/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CPCA, CityAttorney, EU, Electric
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
93.CA SB 1130
Author: McGuire (D)
Title: Military Base Reuse Authority: Board Of Directors Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
File: 92
Location: Senate Consent Calendar - Second Legislative Day Code
Section:
An act relating to local government. to amend Section 67821 of the Government Code, relating to military base reuse.
Summary: Relates to Military Base Reuse Authority Act. Authorizes a city or county in which a military base is located to establish an authority with specified powers and duties, upon the adoption of appropriate resolutions, to plan for, finance, and manage the transition of, the military base from military to civilian use.
Specifies that the board is authorized to appoint or remove ex officio nonvoting members at its pleasure, including, but not limited to, representatives from state agencies or campuses.
Digest: This bill would specify that the board is authorized to appoint or remove ex officio nonvoting members at its pleasure, including, but not limited to, representatives from state agencies or campuses of the University of California or the California State University in the territory of the base.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Last
Amend: 03/16/2022
Status: 05/12/2022 In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Department: CityAttorney, PAC
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
94.CA SB 1150
Author: Gonzalez (D)
Title: Pure and Safe Drinking Water
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Rules Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 116270 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.
Summary: Makes nonsubstantive changes to legislative findings and declarations in the act relating to pure and safe drinking water.
Digest: This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to legislative findings and declarations in the act relating to pure and safe drinking water.
Introduced: 02/16/2022
Status: 02/23/2022 To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Department: DevelopmentSvcs, EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
95.CA SB 1156
Author: Grove (R)
Title: Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax: Diesel Fuel Tax: Adjustment Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Governance and Finance Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 7360 and 60050 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.
Summary: Relates to the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax and Diesel Fuel Tax. Removes the requirement for future inflation adjustments of those taxes.
Digest: This bill would remove the requirement for future inflation adjustments of those taxes.
This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Status: 05/04/2022 In SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE:
Failed passage.
05/04/2022 In SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE:
Reconsideration granted.
Department: PW
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
96.CA SB 1157
Author: Hertzberg (D)
Title: Urban Water Use Objectives: Indoor Residential Use Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee
Code
Section: An act to amend Section 10609.4 of the Water Code, relating to water.
Summary: Relates to Urban water use objectives and indoor residential water use.
Eliminates the option of using the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily and the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily, as applicable, or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use.
Digest: This bill would eliminate the option of using the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily and the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily, as applicable, or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. The bill would instead require that from January
1, 2025, to January 1, 2030, the standard for indoor residential water use be 47 gallons per capita daily and beginning January 1, 2030, the standard be 42 gallons per capita daily.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Status: 05/05/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committee on WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE.
Department: EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: OpposeUnlessAmended
Priority: StatePriority
97.CA SB 1158
Author: Becker (D)
Title: Retail Electricity Suppliers: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee
Hearing: 05/16/2022 10:00 am, 1021 O Street, Room 2200
Code
Section:
An act to amend Sections 380, 398.2, 398.4, 454.52, and 9621 and 398.4 of, and to add Section 398.6 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
Summary: Requires the PUC, for all load-serving entities, and the governing board, for each local publicly owned electric utility, to review the total greenhouse gas emissions and the annual average greenhouse gas emissions intensity reported for each retail supplier and assess whether those greenhouse gas emissions, combined with the retail supplier's procurement plans for subsequent years, demonstrate adequate progress towards achieving the retail supplier's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
Digest: This bill would specify that "purchases of electricity from specified sources" means delivered electricity transactions, as defined. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2026, every retail supplier to annually report specified information to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), including an analysis of the retail supplier's sources of electricity and the greenhouse gas emissions associated with those sources of electricity, as specified. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2024, the Energy Commission to adopt rules, through an open process, subject to public comment, and adopted by a vote of the Energy Commission, to implement these reporting requirements. The bill would require the Energy Commission to annually publish on its internet website an aggregated summary of the data reported by each retail supplier.
The bill would require generation facilities, energy storage facilities, and buyers of centrally procured electricity from specified sources to provide each retail supplier with the retail supplier's hourly share of electricity and the greenhouse gas emissions associated with that electricity, as specified.The bill would require the PUC, for all load-serving entities, and the governing board, for each local publicly owned electric utility, to review the total greenhouse gas emissions and the annual average greenhouse gas emissions intensity reported for each retail supplier and assess whether those greenhouse gas emissions, combined with the retail supplier's procurement plans for subsequent years, demonstrate adequate progress towards achieving the retail supplier's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
This bill would require the PUC to calculate and publish on its internet website an annual report showing the percentage of each load-serving entity's local and system resource adequacy requirements from the previous calendar year that was met with capacity from eligible renewable energy resources or other zero-carbon resources, as specified.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 05/04/2022
Status: 05/04/2022 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Department: Electric
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
98.CA SB 1173
Author: Gonzalez (D)
Coauthor Wiener (D)
Title: Public Retirement Systems: Fossil Fuels: Divestment Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 16642 of, and to add Section 7513.76 to, the Government Code, relating to public retirement systems.
Summary: Prohibits the boards of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds in a fossil fuel company. Suspends the above described liquidation provision upon a good faith determination by the board that certain conditions materially impact normal market mechanisms for pricing assets.
Digest: This bill would prohibit the boards of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds in a fossil fuel company, as defined. The bill would require the boards to liquidate investments in a fossil fuel company on or before July 1, 2030. The bill would temporarily suspend the above-described liquidation provision upon a good faith determination by the board that certain conditions materially impact normal market mechanisms for pricing assets, as specified, and would make this suspension provision inoperative on January 1, 2035. The bill would provide that it does not require a board to take any action unless the board determines in good faith that the action is consistent with the board's fiduciary responsibilities established in the California Constitution.
This bill would require the boards, commencing February 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, to file a report with the Legislature and the Governor, containing specified information, including a list of fossil fuel companies of which the board has liquidated their investments. The bill would provide that board members and other officers and employees shall be held harmless and be eligible for indemnification in connection with actions taken pursuant to the bill's requirements, as specified.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 04/21/2022
Status: 05/02/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: Finance, PW
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Oppose
Priority: StatePriority
99.CA SB 1195
Author: Grove (R)
Title: Veterans Homes
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
File: 101
Location: Senate Consent Calendar - Second Legislative Day Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 1076 add Section 1075 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to veterans.
Summary: Establishes veterans homes in the State of California, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Requires the department to review the use of each home no later than 5 years before the expiration of the use restriction imposed on the home by federal law to determine the best continued use of the home.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 04/19/2022
Status: 05/10/2022 In SENATE. Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
Department: Housing, PAC
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
100.CA SB 1213
Author: Hueso (D)
Title: Public Outreach: Community-based Organizations
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: ASSEMBLY
Code
Section:
An act relating to housing. An act to add Section 242 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities.
Summary: Requires the Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission to collaborate to develop and maintain a list of community-based organizations to help ensure adequate public outreach regarding available programs and incentives, as specified.
Digest: This bill would require the PUC and Energy Commission to collaborate to develop and maintain a list of community-based organizations to help ensure adequate public outreach regarding available programs and incentives,
as specified. The bill also would require the PUC and Energy Commission to work with existing committees, boards, and community-based organizations in developing the list.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 03/16/2022
Status: 05/09/2022 In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY. (33-0)
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Housing
101.CA SB 1219
Author: Hurtado (D)
Coauthor Cortese (D)
Title: 21st Century Water Laws and Agencies: Committee
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Code
Section:
An act to add Section 12805.4 to the Government Code, and to amend and repeal Section 175 of, and to add Section 175.1 to, the Water Code, relating to water.
Summary: Requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency and the Secretary for Environmental Protection to convene a committee to develop and submit, on or before a specified date, to the Governor and to the Legislature a strategic vision, proposed statutes, and recommendations for a modern 21st century set of water laws and regulations and state and local water agencies for the state.
Introduced: 02/17/2022
Last
Amend: 04/06/2022
Status: 05/09/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Department: CityAttorney, EU
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
102.CA SB 1283
Author: Bates (R)
Title: Mental Health Services Act
Fiscal
Committee: no
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Health Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 5892 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.
Summary: Authorizes counties to establish a prudent reserve for their Local Mental Health Services Fund, not to exceed 33% of the average community services and support revenue received for the preceding 5 years.
Digest: This bill, instead, would limit the counties' prudent reserve to 30% of the average community services and support revenue received for the preceding 5 years.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 03/16/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Not heard.
Department: CityAttorney, Housing, PAC, PD
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness
103.CA SB 1284
Author: Bates (R)
Coauthor Mathis (R)
Title: Homelessness: Interim Motel Housing Projects
Fiscal
Committee: yes
Urgency
Clause: no
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Housing Committee
Code
Section:
An act to amend Section 21080.50 of the Public Resources Code, and to amend Sections 8256 and 8257 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.
Summary: Relates to California Environmental Quality Act. Relates to the conversion of a structure with a certificate of occupancy as a motel, hotel, residential hotel, or hostel to supportive or transitional housing, as defined, that meet certain conditions. Deletes the above described requirements for state agencies to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First. Provides funding in accordance with the state program to housing that does not comply with Housing First.
Digest: This bill would delete the above-described January 1, 2025, repeal date, thereby extending operation of that exemption indefinitely. Because the lead agency must determine the applicability of this exemption, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would delete the above-described requirements for state agencies to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First. The bill, notwithstanding any guidelines or regulations adopted pursuant to that requirement as it read on January 1, 2022, would authorize an agency or department that administers a state program that has incorporated core components of Housing First to provide funding in accordance with the state program to housing that does not comply with Housing First. The bill would also make a conforming change.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Introduced: 02/18/2022
Last
Amend: 03/16/2022
Status: 04/27/2022 In SENATE Committee on HOUSING: Failed passage. 04/27/2022 In SENATE Committee on HOUSING: Reconsideration granted.
Department: Housing, Planning
DeptContact: 2022LS
Position: Watch
Priority: StatePriority
Subject: Homelessness