Attachments — San Jose City Council, January 14, 2025 (part 2 of 2)

Last Updated 12/06/24 135

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
AB 3126 Bauer-Kahan,
D

Department of
Transportation:
state highway
property:
information
requests.
03/21/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
TRANS. on
3/21/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights on property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law authorizes the department to acquire any real property that it considers necessary for state highway purposes. This bill would require the department to provide information regarding the acquisition of, and funding sources used to acquire, real property held by the department for state highway purposes within 30 days of receiving a request for that information. (Based on 03/21/2024 text)
Monitor
AB 3160 Gabriel, D

Insurance,
income, and
corporation
taxes: credits:
low-income
housing.
09/27/2024
-
Vetoed
HT
ML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Vetoed by
Governor.
09/27/2024 -
Assembly VE
TOED
Current law establishes a low-income housing tax credit program pursuant to which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee provides procedures and requirements for the allocation, in modified conformity with federal law, of state insurance, personal income, and corporation tax credit amounts to qualified low-income housing projects that have been allocated, or qualify for, a federal low-income housing tax credit, and farmworker housing. Current law limits the total annual amount of the state low-income housing credit for which a federal low-income housing credit is required to the sum of $70,000,000, as increased by any percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year, any unused credit for the preceding calendar years, and the amount of housing credit ceiling returned in the calendar year. Current law provides for an additional allocation of $500,000,000 in low-income housing tax credits for the 2020 calendar year and up to $500,000,000 for the 2021 calendar year and thereafter. Existing law provides that the additional amount for the 2021 calendar year and thereafter is available only if the Budget Act or related legislation specifies an amount available for allocation. This bill would instead require that this additional allocation of low-income housing tax credits be $500,000,000 for the 2020 calendar year through the 2030 calendar year, and up to $500,000,000 for the 2031 calendar year and every year thereafter. (Based on 09/04/2024 text)
Monitor
AB 3171 Soria, D

Controlled
substances:
fentanyl.
04/23/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/1/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Current law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Current law makes possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of sale of the substance punishable by im
prisonment in a county jail for a period of 2, 3, or 4 years.

Current law makes transportation and sales of a controlled substances punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 4, or 5 years and transportation to a noncontiguous county within the state punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 6, or 9 years.

This bill would increase the above-described penalties, as specified, if the controlled substance involved was more than more than 28.35 grams of fentanyl, more than 28.35 grams of an analog of fentanyl, a substance containing more than 28.35 grams of fentanyl, or a substance containing more than 28.35 grams of an analog of fentanyl and the individual knew that the specific controlled substance was fentanyl. (Based on 04/23/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
AB 3181 Pellerin, D

Electricity:
outages.
02/16/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
U. & E. on
3/11/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would require, if one or more customers served by an electrical distribution circuit experiences 4 or more discrete electrical outages, as defined, during a single calendar year, the electrical corporation that owns and operates that circuit to perform a review of that circuit to determine the cause of the outages and implement system improvements to reduce the anticipated risk of future outages on that circuit below the threshold level of 4 outages per calendar year. The bill would require the electrical corporation to make the findings of the circuit review, the scope of work expected to be performed to reduce the anticipated risk of future outages on that circuit, and the expected reduction in the risk of future outages resulting from that work available to the impacted customers and the city, county, or city and county in which the circuit is located. (Based on 02/16/2024 text)
Monitor
AB 3201 Carrillo, Juan,
D

Planning and
Zoning Law:
housing
elements.
02/16/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
05/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(6).
(Last
location was
PRINT on
2/16/2024)
05/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element of a city’s or county’s general plan consist of an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs and a stat
ement of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing. The law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. (Based on 02/16/2024 text)
Monitor
AB 3219 Sanchez, R

Advanced
Clean Fleets
Regulation:
local
governments.
03/11/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
05/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(6).
(Last
location was
TRANS. on
3/11/2024)
05/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions from those sources. Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities subject to the regulation to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. This bill would provide that the requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation do not apply to the purchase by a local government of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 8,500 pounds if the price of the zero-emission version of a vehicle is more than an unspecified percentage of the price of a comparable internal combustion engine version of that vehicle. (Based on 03/11/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 137

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
AB 3238 Garcia, D

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
electrical
infrastructure
projects.
07/08/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/12/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. The CEQA exempts certain projects from its requirements, including actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency.

Current law prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or extensions of those facilities without first having to obtain from the Public Utilities Commission a certificate that the present or future convenience and necessity require or will require the construction. Current law specifies that the certificate is not required for the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of existing electrical transmission facilities. This bill would, for electrical infrastructure projects, as defined, designate the commission as the lead agency for purposes of the CEQA, would require the commission to prescribe procedures for the preparation of the appropriate environmental review document for those projects, and would specify the manner in which the environmental review for those projects is to be conducted. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2035. (Based on 07/08/2024 text) Monitor
AB 3246 Garcia, D

Electricity:
permit to
construct:
advanced
reconductoring:
exemption.
06/06/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The commission, through a general order, prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning construction in this state of any electrical line facilities or substations meeting certain requirements without the commission having first authorized the construction of those facilities by issuing a permit to construct. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2026, to update the above-
described general order to provide an exemption that
would instead authorize an electrical corporation to seek the commission’s approval of advanced reconductoring, as defined, of its existing electrical transmission facilities through the commission’s informal advice letter process, as specified. (Based on 06/06/2024 text) AB
3246_SJCE_LO
S.pdf
Support
ABX1 2 Fong, Vince,
R

Motor Vehicle
Fuel Tax Law:
suspension of
tax.
12/05/2022
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
PRINT on
12/5/2022)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would suspend the imposition of the tax on motor vehicle fuels for one year. The bill would require that all savings realized based on the suspension of the motor vehicle fuels tax by a person other than an end consumer, as defined, be passed on to the end consumer, and would make the violation of this requirement an unfair business practice, in violation of unfair competition laws, as provided. The bill would require a seller of motor vehicle fuels to provide a receipt to a purchaser that indicates the amount of tax that would have otherwise applied to the transaction. (Based on 12/05/2022 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 138

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
ACA 1 Aguiar-Curry,
D

Local
government
financing:
affordable
housing and
public
infrastructure:
voter approval.
09/20/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/20/2023 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Res.

Chapter
173,
Statutes of
2023.
09/20/2023 -
Assembly CH

APTERED
The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city, county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded indebted ness incurred to fund the construction,
reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, including downpayment assistance, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, city and county, or special district, as applicable, and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements. The measure would prohibit a city, county, city and county, or special district from placing a proposition on the ballot pursuant to these provisions if the voters have previously approved a proposition pursuant to these provisions or the below special tax provisions until all funds from the previous proposition are committed to programs and projects listed in the specific local program or ordinance, as described. The measure, subject to certain vote thresholds, would authorize the Legislature to enact laws establishing additional accountability measures and laws for the downpayment assistance programs authorized by the measure, as specified. (Based on 09/20/2023 text)
ACA 1

SUPPORT
30June23
ACA 1

SUPPORT
30Aug23
ACA 1 - CASQA
Amendment
Support

09.05.23.pdf
Support
ACA 2 Alanis, R

Water
Resiliency Act
of 2024.
03/06/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
W.,P. & W.
on
4/20/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The California Constitution declares that the general welfare requires that the water resources of the state be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable, and that the right to the use of water does not extend to the waste or unreasonable use, method of use, or method of diversion of water. This measure would require the Treasurer to annually transfer an amount equal to 1.5% of all state revenues from the General Fund to the California Water Resiliency Trust Fund, which the measure would create. The measure would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the California Water Commission for its actual costs of implementing these provisions and for specified water infrastructure projects. (Based on 03/06/2024 text) Monitor
ACA 3 Lee, D

Wealth tax:
appropriation
limits.
01/19/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
REV. & TAX
on
3/30/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would authorize the Legislature to impose a tax upon all forms of personal property or wealth, whether tangible or intangible, and would require any tax so imposed to be administered and collected by the Franchise Tax Board and the Department of Justice, as determined by the Legislature in statute. The measure would authorize the Legislature to classify any form of personal property or wealth for differential taxation or for exemption by a majority vote. (Based on 01/19/2023 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
ACA 7 Jackson, D

Government
preferences:
programs:
exceptions.
07/03/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
locatio
n was
JUD. on
6/19/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Constitution, pursuant to provisions enacted by the initiative Proposition 209 in 1996, prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. The California Constitution defines the state for these purposes to include the state, any city, county, public university system, community college district, school district, special district, or any other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of, or within, the state. This measure would instead prohibit the state from harmfully discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment or public education, except as provided. The measure would provide that, except as specified, a state agency or a local agency may use state moneys to fund research-based or research-informed and culturally specific programs in any industry if certain conditions are satisfied, including that those programs are established or otherwise implemented by the state for purposes of eliminating legal barriers to the creation of equality and equitable outcomes for all residents of the state in a specified manner. (Based on 07/03/2024 text)
Monitor
ACA 10 Aguiar-Curry,
D

Local
government
financing:
affordable
housing and
public
infrastructure:
voter approval.
06/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
06/27/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
134,
Statutes of
2024
06/27/2024 -
Assembly CH

APTERED
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 1 of the 2023–24 Regular Session (ACA 1) would, if adopted by the people, amend Section 4 of Article XIIIA, Section 2 of Article XIIIC, and Section 3 of Article XIIID of, and would add Section 2.5 of Article XIIIC to, the California Constitution, relative to local finance. Under these provisions, ACA 1 would condition the imposition, extension, or increase of a sales and use tax or transactions and use tax imposed in accordance with specified law or a parcel tax by a local government for the purposes of funding the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, including downpayment assistance, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, on the proposition proposing that tax being approved by a majority vote of the membership of the governing board of the local government and by 55% of its voters voting on the proposition and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements. ACA 1 would also make conforming changes. This measure would remove the above-described provisions of ACA 1 relating to special taxes and make conforming changes in other provisions of ACA 1. (Based on 06/27/2024 text)
Monitor
ACA 12 Dixon, R

Controlled
substances.
06/05/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
PRINT on
6/5/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, import, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This measure would require a criminal court to advise a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above-described crimes, as specified, of the danger of selling or administering illicit drugs and counterfeit pills and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the defendant can be charged with homicide. The measure would require the court to read the advisory statement in a case in which the defendant exchanged a controlled substance containing fentanyl or its analogs for anything else of value, as specified. The measure would require the advisory statement to be included in a plea form, if used, and specified on the record. The measure would require that the fact the advisory was given be recorded in the abstract of conviction and would prohibit the advisement from being used as evidence in the prosecution of a minor in juvenile court. (Based on 06/05/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 140

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
ACA 13 Ward, D

Voting
thresholds.
11/02/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
11/02/2023 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State-
Chapter
176,
Statutes of
2023
11/02/2023 -
Assembly CH

APTERED
The California Constitution provides that a proposed constitutional amendment and a statewide initiative measure each take effect only if approved by a majority of the votes cast on the amendment or measure. This measure would further provide that an initiative measure that includes one or more provisions that would amend the Constitution to increase the voter approval requirement to adopt any state or local measure would be approved by the voters only if the proportion of votes cast in favor of the initiative measure is equal to or greater than the highest voter approval requirement that the initiative measure would impose. The measure would specify that this voter approval requirement would apply to statewide initiative measures that appear on the ballot on or after January 1, 2024. (Based on 11/02/2023 text) ACA 13 Support
BCM 30Aug23
Monitor
ACA 18 Wallis, R

Road usage
charges: vote
and voter
approval
requirements.
02/16/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
PRINT on
2/16/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The California Constitution requires any change in state statute that increases the tax liability of any taxpayer to be imposed by an act passed by 2/3 of the membership of each house of the Legislature, and prohibits specified taxes on real property from being so imposed. For these purposes, the California Constitution defines a “tax” as any state levy, charge, or exaction, except as described in certain exceptions. The California Constitution describes one of those exceptions as a charge imposed for entrance to or use of state property, or the purchase, rental, or lease of state property, except charges governed by a specified provision of the California Constitution.

This measure, on or after its effective date, would provide that the exception described above does not include a road usage charge, as described, thereby requiring the imposition of this type of charge to be subject to the 2/3 vote requirement. (Based on 02/16/2024 text) Monitor
ACR 16 Fong, Mike, D

Needs of
opportunity
youth.
08/22/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
08/22/2023 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Res.

Chapter
130,
Statutes of
2023.
08/22/2023 -
Assembly CH

APTERED
Would declare that the Legislature recognizes the importance of creating pathways to success for California’s opportunity youth and the need to develop a statewide comprehensive plan that will reduce persistent economic inequities endured by California’s opportunity youth. (Based on 08/22/2023 text)
ACR 16 Support
3April23
Support
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 2 Portantino, D

Firearms. 09/26/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/26/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
249,
Statutes of
2023.
09/26/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm or carrying a loaded firearm in public. Current law authorizes a licensing authority, as specified, if good cause exists for the issuance, and subject to certain other criteria including, among other things, the applicant is of good moral character and has completed a specified course of training, to issue a license to carry a concealed handgun or to carry a loaded and exposed handgun, as specified. Under current law, the required course of training for an applicant is no more than 16 hours and covers firearm safety and laws regarding the permissible use of a firearm. This bill would require the licensing authority to issue or renew a license if the applicant is not a disqualified person for the license and the applicant is at least 21 years of age. The bill would remove the good character and good cause requirements from the issuance criteria. Under the bill, the applicant would be a disqualified person if they, among other things, are reasonably likely to be a danger to self, others, or the community at large, as specified. This bill would add the requirement that the applicant be the recorded owner, with the Department of Justice, of the pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person. This bill would change the training requirement to be no less than 16 hours in length and would add additional subjects to the course including, among other things, the safe storage and legal transportation of firearms. The bill would require an issuing authority, prior to that issuance, renewal, or amendment to a license, if it has direct access to the designated department system to determine if the applicant is the recorded owner of the pistol, revolver, or other firearm. (Based on 09/26/2023 text) Monitor
SB 4 Wiener, D

Planning and
zoning: housing
development:
higher
education
institutions and
religious
institutions.
10/11/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/11/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
771,
Statutes of
2023.
10/11/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, establishes the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee within the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires the committee to allocate state low-income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law that establishes a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, and 5% of the units may be for staff of the independent institution of higher education or the religious institution that owns the land, provided that the units affordable to lower income households are offered at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified. (Based on 10/11/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 5 Nguyen, R

Motor Vehicle
Fuel Tax Law:
limitation on
adjustment.
12/05/2022
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 02/01/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, administered by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, imposes a tax upon each gallon of motor vehicle fuel removed from a refinery or terminal rack in this state, entered into this state, or sold in this state, at a specified rate per gallon.

Current law requires the department to annually adjust the tax imposed by increasing the rates based on the California Consumer Price Index, as specified. This bill would limit the above- described annual adjustment to a maximum of 2% for rate adjustments made on or after July 1, 2023. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 12/05/2022 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 142

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 7 Blakespear, D

Regional
housing need:
determination.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
283,
Statutes of
2024.
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Planning and Zoning Law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. That law requires the department, in consultation with the council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need of housing for each region in a specified manner. That law requires the department’s determination to be based upon population projections produced by the Department of Finance, as specified. That law also requires the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodologies to be used to determine each region’s housing need and requires the council of governments to provide data assumptions from the council of governments’ projections, as specified. That law authorizes the department to accept or reject the information provided by the council of governments and, after consultation with each council of governments, to make determinations on the council of governments’ data assumptions and the methodology the department will use to determine each region’s housing need. That law requires the department to provide its determinations to each council of governments, as specified. That law, upon making that determination, authorizes the council of governments to object to the determination. This bill, for regions in which the department is required to distribute the regional housing need, would prohibit a city or county from filing an objection to the regional housing need determination. (Based on 09/19/2024 text) Monitor
SB 8 Blakespear, D

Firearms
liability
insurance.
03/23/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would, commencing on January 1, 2025, require a person who owns a firearm to obtain and continuously maintain in full force and effect a homeowner’s, renter’s, or gun liability insurance policy specifically covering losses or damages resulting from any negligent or accidental use of that firearm, including, but not limited to, death, injury, or property damage. This bill would require a person to keep written evidence of coverage in the place where a firearm is stored. (Based on 03/23/2023 text)
SB 8
SUPPORT_17Ap
ril23
Sponsor
SB 10 Cortese, D

Pupil health:
opioid
overdose
prevention and
treatment:

Melanie’s Law.
10/13/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/13/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
856,
Statutes of
2023.
10/13/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law authorizes a public or private elementary or secondary school to determine whether or not to make emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist and trained personnel available at its school, and to designate one or more volunteers to receive related training to address an opioid overdose, as specified. This bill would state the Legislature's encouragement of county offices of education to establish a County Working Group on Fentanyl Education in Schools, as provided, for the purposes of outreach, building awareness, and collaborating with local health agencies regarding fentanyl overdoses. The bill would require the State Department of Education to curate and maintain on its internet website, among other things, informational materials containing awareness and safety advice, for school staff, pupils, and parents or guardians of pupils, on how to prevent an opioid overdose. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/13/2023 text) Support Support
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 12 Stern, D

California
Global
Warming
Solutions Act of
2006:
emissions limit.
12/05/2022
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the State Air Resources Board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030. Under the act, a violation of a rule, regulation, order, emission limitation, emission reduction measure, or other measure adopted by the state board under the act is a crime. This bill instead would require the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 55% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030. (Based on 12/05/2022 text)
Monitor
SB 13 Ochoa Bogh,
R

Controlled
substances.
12/05/2022
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes to receive a written advisory of the danger of manufacturing or distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the manufacturer or distributor can be charged with volunta ry manslaughter or murder. The
bill would require that the fact the advisory was given be on the record and recorded on the abstract of conviction. (Based on 12/05/2022 text)
Monitor
SB 14 Grove, R

Serious
felonies:
human
trafficking.
09/25/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/25/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
230,
Statutes of
2023.
09/25/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law defines the term "serious felony" for various purposes, including, among others, enhancing the punishment for felonies pursuant to existing sentencing provisions commonly known as the Three Strikes Law. This bill would include human trafficking of a minor within the definition of a serious felony for all purposes, including for purposes of the Three Strikes Law, except as specified. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, this bill would impose a state- mandated local program. (Based on 09/25/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 17 Caballero, D

Senior housing:
tax credits.
10/07/2023
-
Vetoed
HT
ML PDF
01/25/2024 -
Stricken
from file.

Veto
sustained.
10/07/2023 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law, enacted to implement a specified low-income housing tax credit established by federal law, requires the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to annually determine and allocate the state ceiling in accordance with those provisions and in conformity with federal law.

Current law authorizes the committee to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the allocation of housing credits. Current law requires that specified amounts of the low-income housing tax credits be set aside for allocation to rural areas, small developments, and farmworker housing, as specified. This bill would require the committee to revise its regulations to increase the housing type goal for senior developments to 20 percent. (Based on 09/15/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 19 Seyarto, R

Fentanyl
Misuse and
Overdose
Prevention
Task Force.
10/13/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/13/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
857,
Statutes of
2023.
10/13/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the Fentanyl Misuse and Overdose Prevention Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl misuse including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl misuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl misuse. The bill would require the task force to be co-chaired by the Attorney General and the State Public Health Officer or their designees, and would specify the membership of the task force. The bill would require the first meeting of the task force to take place no later than June 1, 2024, and would require the task fo rce
to meet at least once every 2 months. The bill would require the task force to submit an interim report on its findings and recommendations to the Attorney General, the Governor, and the Legislature by July 1, 2025, and submit a final report by December 1, 2025. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026. (Based on 10/13/2023 text) Monitor
SB 20 Rubio, D

Joint powers
agreements:
regional
housing trusts.
09/01/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/01/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
147,
Statutes of
2023.
08/22/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Joint Exercise of Powers Act specifically authorizes the creation of the Orange County Housing Finance Trust and the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust, both joint powers authorities, for the purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their respective regions, as specified.

This bill would authorize 2 or more local agencies, as defined, to create a regional housing trust for the purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their jurisdictions by entering into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act. The bill would also authorize a federally recognized tribal government to enter into the joint powers agreement. The bill would require a regional housing trust created pursuant to these provisions to be governed by a board of directors consisting of a minimum of 5 directors, as specified. The bill would authorize a regional housing trust to fund the planning, construction, and acquisition of housing, receive public and private financing and funds, and authorize and issue bonds, as specified. The bill would require the joint powers agreement establishing the regional housing trust to incorporate specified annual financial reporting and auditing requirements. (Based on 09/01/2023 text) Monitor
SB 30 Umberg, D

Transportation:
zero-emission
vehicle
signage.
06/19/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/23/2023)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would require the Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to develop and design light-duty zero-emission vehicle charging and fueling station signage to be placed along state highways based on charger or fueling type and vehicle compatibility, in order to increase consumer confidence in locating electric vehicle chargers and hydrogen fueling stations. The bill would authorize the department to adopt rules and regulations for these purposes. (Based on 06/19/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 31 Jones, R

Encampments:
sensitive areas:
penalties.
03/22/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within 1000 feet of a sensitive area, as defined. The bill would specify that a violation of this prohibition is a public nuisance that can be abated and prevented, as provided. The bill would also provide that a violation of the prohibition may be charged as a misdemeanor or an infraction, at the discretion of the prosecutor. The bill would prohibit a person from being found in violation of the bill’s provisions unless provided notice, at least 72 hours before commencement of any enforcement action, as provided. By imposing criminal penalties for a violation of these provisions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 03/22/2023 text) Monitor
SB 32 Jones, R

Motor vehicle
fuel tax:
greenhouse
gas reduction
programs:
suspension.
12/05/2022
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 02/01/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the State Air Resources Board has adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Current law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This bill would suspend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations for one year. The bill would also exempt suppliers of transportation fuels from regulations for the use of market-based compliance mechanisms for one year. (Based on 12/05/2022 text) Monitor
SB 37 Caballero, D

Older Adults
and Adults with
Disabilities
Housing
Stability Act.
09/25/2024
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
09/25/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/25/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law establishes various programs to address homelessness, including requiring the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness and establishing the Homeless Emergency Aid program for the purpose of providing localities with one-time grant funds to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Current law commits to the Department of Housing and Community Development the administration of various housing assistance programs, including provisions relating to residential hotel rehabilitation and tasks the department, in consultation with each council of governments, with the determination of each region’s existing and projected housing need. This bill would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature for this express purpose, require the Department of Housing and Community Development, commencing January 1, 2025, to begin developing the Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Housing Stability Pilot Program. (Based on 08/28/2024 text) SB 37
SUPPORT_20M
arch23
Support
SB 43 Eggman, D

Behavioral
health.
10/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
637,
Statutes of
2023.
10/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of a person who is a danger to themselves or others or who is gravely disabled. Current law, for purposes of involuntary commitment, defines “gravely disabled” as either a condition in which a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is unable to provide for their basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter or has been found mentally incompetent, as specified. This bill expands the definition of “gravely disabled” to also include a condition in which a person, as a result of a severe substance use disorder, or a co-occurring mental health disorder and a severe substance use disorder, is, in addition to the basic personal needs described above, unable to provide for their personal safety or necessary medical care, as defined. (Based on 10/10/2023 text)
BCM Support SB
43_ 28Feb23
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 146

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 44 Umberg, D

Controlled
substances.
04/13/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
01/12/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(1).
(Last
location was
PUB. S. on
04/13/2023)
01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, import, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This bill, Alexandra’s Law, would require the court to advise a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes, as specified, of the danger of selling or administering illicit drugs and counterfeit pills and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the defendant can be charged with homicide. The bill would require the court to read the advisory statement in a case in which the defendant exchanged a controlled substance containing fentanyl or its analogs for anything else of value, as specified. The bill would require the advisory statement to be included in a plea form, if used, and specified on the record. (Based on 04/13/2023 text)
SB
44_SUPPORT
BCM 22March23
Support
SB 48 Becker, D

Building Energy
Savings Act.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
378,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires each utility to maintain records of the energy usage data of all buildings to which they provide service for at least the most recent 12 complete calendar months, and to deliver or otherwise provide that aggregated energy usage data for each covered building, as defined, to the owner, as specified. Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to adopt regulations providing for t
he delivery to the Energy Commission and public disclosure of benchmarking of energy use for covered buildings, and specifies that this requirement does not require the owner of a building with 16 or fewer residential utility accounts to collect or deliver energy usage information to the Energy Commission. This bill would additionally specify that the requirement does not require the owner of a building with less than 50,000 square feet of gross floor space to collect or deliver energy usage information to the Energy Commission. (Based on 10/07/2023 text) Monitor
SB 49 Becker, D

Renewable
energy:

Department of
Transportation:
evaluation.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
379,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to lease, for up to 99 years, areas above or below state highways to public or private entities, as specified. Current law also authorizes the department to issue certain permits for a state highway’s right-of-way necessary for telegraph, telephone, or electrical lines or of any ditches, pipes, drains, sewers, or underground structures, unless otherwise specifically provided in the instrument conveying title. This bill would require the department, in coordination with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Public Utilities Commission, to evaluate the issues and policies impeding the development of land within department-owned rights-of-way for renewable energy generation facilities, energy storage facilities, and electrical transmission and distribution facilities, as specified. The bill would require the evaluation to, among other things, consider the department owning the facilities, or leasing, granting easements, or entering into joint-use agreements with public utilities or other entities for this purpose. (Based on 10/07/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 147

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 50 Bradford, D

Vehicles:
enforcement.
09/07/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was

INACTIVE
FILE on
9/14/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current case law deems a temporary detention of a person during an automobile stop by the police, even if only for a brief period and for a limited purpose, a seizure, under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and as such, requires the actions to be reasonable. Under current case law, the decision to stop an automobile is reasonable if the police have probable cause to believe that a traffic violation has occurred. Current case law holds that constitutional reasonableness of traffic stops does not depend on the actual motivations of the individual officers involved and that ulterior motives do not invalidate police conduct that is justifiable on the basis of probable cause to believe that a violation of law has occurred. This bill would prohibit a peace officer from stopping or detaining the operator of a motor vehicle or bicycle for a low-level infraction, as defined, unless a separate, independent basis for a stop exists or more than one low-level infraction is observed. The bill would state that a violation of these provisions is not grounds for a defendant to move for return of property or to suppress evidence.

The bill would authorize a peace officer who does not have grounds to stop a vehicle or bicycle, but can determine the identity of the owner, to send a citation or warning letter to the owner. (Based on 09/07/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 54 Skinner, D

Venture capital
companies:
reporting.
10/09/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
594,
Statutes of
2023.
10/08/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would, commencing on March 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, require a covered entity, defined as a venture capital company that meets specified criteria, to report to the Civil Rights Department specified information about their funding determinations, including, at an aggregate level, specified demographic information for the founding teams of all of the businesses in which the covered entity made a venture capital investment in the prior calendar year to the extent the information was provided pursuant to a survey the bill would require a covered entity to provide to each founding team member of a business that has received funding from a venture capital company to which the covered entity has acted as an investment adviser, as specified. The bill would require this information to be collected and reported in a manner that does not associate the survey response data with an individual founding team member. The bill would require the department to charge and collect fees to administer these provisions, as specified. The bill would require the department to notify the covered entity that the covered entity must submit the report within 60 days of the notification. If the covered entity has not submitted the report after those 60 days have elapsed, the bill would authorize the department to commence prescribed proceedings seeking specified relief, including a penalty, as specified. The bill would require moneys collected pursuant to these provisions to b
e deposited in the fund, and would express the intent of the Legislature that these moneys be appropriated in the Budget Act to the department for administration of these provisions. (Based on 10/08/2023 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 148

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 56 Skinner, D

University of
California:
transfer of real
property.
09/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
764,
Statutes of
2024.
09/27/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current provisions of the California Constitution provide that the University of California constitutes a public trust and requires the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes, including such competitive bidding procedures as may be applicable to the university by statute for the letting of construction contracts, sales of real property, and purchasing of materials, goods, and services. Current law requires the regents to give prescribed public notice to bidders of the sale of university real property situated in California that is estimated at more than $1,000,000 in net value to the university. Current law requires the regents to accept in public a bid for the sale that offers the best combination of price, terms, and bidder’s qualifications to the university, or reject all bids or proposals. Existing law exempts certain transactions from these publication and award procedures. This bill would additionally exempt from the publication and award procedures the transfer of specified real property in the City of Berkeley from the regents to the Berkeley Student Cooperative for the purpose of maintaining affordable housing. (Based on 09/27/2024 text) Monitor
SB 58 Wiener, D

Controlled
substances:
decriminalizatio
n of certain
hallucinogenic
substances.
10/07/2023
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
01/25/2024 -
Stricken
from file.

Veto
sustained.
10/07/2023 -
Senate VETO
ED
Would, on and after January 1, 2025, make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and mescaline, for personal use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substances on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age. (Based on 09/11/2023 text) Monitor
SB 62 Nguyen, R

Controlled
substances:
fentanyl.
01/04/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale, specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and provides for imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years for a violation of this provision. Current law also imposes an additional term, and authorizes a trial court to impose a specified fine, upon a person who is convicted of a violation of, or of a conspiracy to violate, specified provisions of law with respect to a substance containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. This bill would impose that additional term upon, and authorize a fine against, a defendant who violates those laws with respect to a substance containing fentanyl. By increasing the penalty for a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 01/04/2023 text) Monitor
SB 63 Ochoa Bogh,
R

Homeless and
Mental Health
Court and
Transitioning
Home Grant
Programs.
01/04/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Under current law, the Board of State and Community Corrections administers several grant programs, including a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant program, a medication-assisted treatment grant program, and a violence intervention and prevention grant program. This bill would establish two new grant programs until January 1, 2028: the Homeless and Mental Health Court Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the Judicial Council and provide grants to counties for the purpose of establishing or expanding homeless courts and mental health courts, as specified; and the Transitioning Home Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the board and provide grants to county sheriffs and jail administrators to fund programs aimed at reducing homelessness among inmates released from custody, as specified. (Based on 01/04/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 149

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 69 Cortese, D

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
local agencies:
filing of notices
of
determination
or exemption.
10/13/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/13/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
860,
Statutes of
2023.
10/13/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would require a local agency to file a notice of determination with the State Clearinghouse in the Office of Planning and Research in addition to the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located. The bill would authorize a local agency to file a notice of exemption with the State Clearinghouse in the Office of Planning and Research in addition to the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located. The bill would require the notice, including any subsequent or amended notice, to be posted both in the office and on the internet website of the county clerk and by the Office of Planning and Research on the State Clearinghouse internet website within 24 hours of receipt. The bill would specify that the posting of the notice by the Office of Planning and Research would not affect the applicable time periods to challenge an act or decision of a local agency, as described above. By imposing duties on local agencies, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. (Based on 10/13/2023 text) Monitor
SB 76 Wiener, D

Alcoholic
beverages:
music venue
license:
entertainment
zones:
consumption.
10/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
700,
Statutes of
2023.
10/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. This bill would authorize a licensee under a music venue license to apply to the department for a duplicate license or licenses, as prescribed. The bill would also authorize a music venue licensee to sell, serve, and permit consumption of alcoholic beverages during private events or private functions not open to the general public within any hours of operation permitted by its license, regardless of whether any live performance occurs.

The bill would exempt the licensee from having to meet certain requirements generally imposed on a music entertainment facility in connection with and during a private event or private function if specified conditions are met. The bill would require the licensee to keep records demonstrating compliance with these provisions for the preceding 3 calendar years and to provide these records to the department upon request. The bill would make a licensee’s failure to keep the required records or provide them to the department grounds for disciplinary action punishable as a misdemeanor and would, therefore, expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state- mandated local program. (Based on 10/10/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 83 Wiener, D

Public utilities:
electrical
distribution
grid:
energization.
05/03/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish an expedited distribution grid interconnection dispute resolution process with the goal of resolving disputes over interconnection applications within the jurisdiction of the commission in no more than 60 days from the time the dispute is formally brought to the commission. This bill would require the commission, on or before September 30, 2024, to establish maximum energization time periods by when an electrical corporation would be required to energize a development project, including the maximum time period for the energization ready phase of a project. The bill would require a n electrical corporation
to energize a development project with the electrical corporation’s electrical distribution grid within the maximum energization time period established by the commission, after receiving a notification from a development project applicant that the development project is energization ready, as defined. The bill would specify that the maximum energization time period established by the commission does not apply if an issue specific to the development project or the project site arise s
that would prevent the electrical corporation from safely completing the energization within that time period and would require the electrical corporation to work with the development project applicant to establish an alternative time period. (Based on 05/03/2023 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 84 Gonzalez, D

Air quality
programs:
funding.
05/18/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Died on file
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 02/01/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law creates the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program to provide compensation for the retirement and replacement of passenger vehicles and light-duty and medium-duty trucks that are high polluters. Existing law requires the Bureau of Automotive Repair to administer the program and the State Air Resources Board to adopt the guidelines for the program. Current law requires the guidelines to ensure vehicle replacement or a mobility option be an option for all motor vehicle owners and may be in addition to compensation for vehicles retired. Current law creates the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount in the High Polluter Repair or Removal Account and makes available, upon appropriation, all moneys in the account to establish, implement, and administer the program. This bill would require the guidelines to ensure each replacement vehicle in the program be either a plug-in hybrid or zero-emission vehicle unless the state board makes a specified determination in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, as specified. (Based on 05/18/2023 text) Monitor
SB 91 Umberg, D

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
supportive and
transitional
housing: motel
conversion:
environmental
leadership
transit projects.
10/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
732,
Statutes of
2023.
10/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.

Recall and
resentencing:
special
circumstances.
09/07/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
THIRD

READING
on
8/13/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law provides for various specified special circumstances, including murder committed for financial gain or committed during the commission or attempted commission of certain felonies, which, if found true as specified, require a defendant found guilty of murder in the f irst degree to be
sentenced to death or imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole. Current law, added by Proposition 115 of the June 5, 1990, statewide primary election, prohibits a judge from striking or dismissing any special circumstance that is admitted by plea or found true by a jury or court, as specified. Current law generally authorizes a court to dismiss an action or to strike or dismiss an enhancement in the furtherance of justice, except if dismissal of that enhancement is prohibite d by
any initiative statute. This bill would authorize an individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a conviction in which one or more special circumstances were found to be true to petition for recall and resentencing if the offense occurred before June 5, 1990, and the individual has served at least 25 years in custody. The bill would exempt individuals from relief under these provisions under certain circumstances, including if the individual was convicted of first degree murder of a peace officer, as specified. The bill would authorize the court to modify the petitioner’s sentence to impose a lesser sentence and apply any changes in law that reduce sentences or provide for judicial discretion, or to vacate the petitioner’s conviction and impose judgment on a lesser included offense, as specified. (Based on 09/07/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 106 Wiener, D

Budget Acts of
2022 and 2023.
04/08/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
BUDGET on
4/15/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill. (Based on 04/08/2024 text) Monitor
SB 145 Newman, D

Environmental
mitigation:

Department of
Transportation.
07/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter 57,
Statutes of
2023.
07/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Endangered Species Act (CESA) requires the Fish and Game Commission to establish a list of endangered species and a list of threatened species and to add or remove species from either list if it finds, upon the receipt of sufficient scientific information, as specified, that the action is warranted. CESA prohibits the taking of an endangered, th reatened, or candidate
species, except as specified. Under the act, the Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species if the take is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity, the impacts are minimized and fully mitigated, and the applicant ensures adequate funding for implementing the mitigation measures and for monitoring compliance with, and the effectiveness of, those measures. This bill would specify that any transportation funding identified in the State Highway System Management Plan for purposes of these provisions is presumed to provide adequate funding for the long-term maintenance of a habitat connectivity or wildlife corridor structure on the state highway system, but not for the habitat on or around the structure, and would require an applicant to provide an endowment. (Based on 07/10/2023 text) Monitor
SB 146 Gonzalez, D

Public
resources:
infrastructure:
contracting.
07/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter 58,
Statutes of
2023.
07/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to assume the responsibilities of the United States Secretary of Transportation under the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and other federal environmental laws for any railroad, public transportation, or multimodal project undertaken by state agencies, as specified. Existing law provides that the State of California consents to the jurisdiction of the federal courts with regard to the compliance, discharge, or enforcement of these responsibilities. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2025. This bill would extend the above authorization to December 31, 2033. The bill would additionally authorize the Secretary of Transportation, consistent with, and subject to the requirements of, any memorandum of understanding between the state and federal government and upon the request of a local or regional agency with the authority to implement transportation projects, to assume responsibilities under the NEPA and other federal environmental laws for any railroad, local public transportation, or multimodal project implemented by the requesting local or regional agency. The bill would impose terms and conditions similar to those with respect to the above-described authority to assume those responsibilities for projects undertaken by state agencies, including providing consent for the jurisdiction of the federal courts, as provided. The bill would require the secretary to report to the transportation policy committees of the Legislature regarding the assumption of responsibilities under the NEPA requested by a local or regional agency by December 31, 2033. (Based on 07/10/2023 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 147 Ashby, D

Fully protected
species:

California
Endangered
Species Act:
authorized
take.
07/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter 59,
Statutes of
2023.
07/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Endangered Species Act (CESA) requires the Fish and Game Commission to establish a list of endangered species and a list of threatened species and to add or remove species from either list if it finds, upon the receipt of sufficient scientific information, as specified, that the action is warranted. The act prohibits the taking of an endangered or threatened species, except in certain situations, including, if specified conditions are met, through the issuance of a permit commonly known as an incidental take permit. This bill would, until December 31, 2033, authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife to issue a permit under CESA that would authorize the take of a fully protected species resulting from impacts attributable to the implementation of specified projects if certain conditions are satisfied, including, among others, the conditions required for the issuance of an incidental take permit. The bill would require the department to develop a plan on or before July 1, 2024, to assess the population status of each fully protected species. (Based on 07/10/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 149 Caballero, D

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
administrative
and judicial
procedures:
record of
proceedings:
judicial
streamlining.
07/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter 60,
Statutes of
2023.
07/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.

CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA provides that, in certain specified actions or proceedings, the plaintiff or petitioner may elect to prepare the record of proceedings, subject to certification of its accuracy by the public agency. CEQA requires that a copy of the certified record of proceedings be lodged with the court. This bill would authorize the public agency to deny the request of the plaintiff or petitioner to prepare the record of proceedings, as provided, in which case the bill would require the public agency or the real party in interest to bear the costs of preparation and certification of the record of proceedings and would prohibit the recovery of those costs from the plaintiff or petitioner. The bill would require the court to schedule a case management conference within 30 days of the filing of an action to review the scope, timing, and cost of the record of proceedings. (Based on 07/10/2023 text) Monitor
SB 150 Durazo, D

Construction:
workforce
development:
public
contracts.
07/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter 61,
Statutes of
2023.
07/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation in the Transportation Agency. Existing law establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Under existing law, the California Workforce Development Board assists the Governor in the administration, promotion, and expansion of high road construction careers. This bill would require the Department of Transportation to work in partnership with the California Workforce Development Board to support California's high road construction careers program. The bill would require the department to reserve a minimum aggregate total of $50,000,000 of federal funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to be allocated over 4 years to support the program. (Based on 07/10/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 222 Nguyen, R

Outdoor
advertising:
applications.
03/21/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The Outdoor Advertising Act, provides for the regulation by the Department of Transportation of an advertising display, as defined, within view of public highways. Current law requires the director to prescribe the form of all applications, licenses, permits, and other appurtenant written matter. This bill would require the department to consider the approval or denial of a pending outdoor advertising application before construction on an applicable highway project is completed. (Based
on 03/21/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 225 Caballero, D

Community
Anti-
Displacement
and
Preservation
Program:
statewide
contract.
06/22/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was

INACTIVE
FILE on
8/20/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law, upon appropriation, authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make either or both loans and grants to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department-funded housing projects that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk for conversion, as provided. This bill would establish the Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program for purposes of funding the acquisition and rehabilitation of unrestricted housing units, as defined, and attaching long-term affordability restrictions on the housing units, while safeguarding against the displacement of current residents. The bill would require the department to issue a request for qualification to select a private sector entity or consortium to manage the program for a period of 5 years. The bill would require the program manag
er to make loans to eligible borrowers, as defined,
based on underwriting guidelines approved by the department. The bill would authorize the department to issue grants or loans from program funds to local public entities upon request for purposes of allowing the local public entity to use the moneys to issue loans to eligible borrowers within its jurisdiction in accordance with the bill’s provisions and department regulations. (Based on 06/22/2023 text)
SB 225
SUPPORT_4Apri
l23
Support
SB 226 Alvarado-Gil,
R

Controlled
substances:
armed
possession:
fentanyl.
07/03/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law classifies certain substances, including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, as controlled substances and generally prohibits the possession, sale, transportation, and use of these substances. Current law additionally prohibits the possession of certain of these controlled substances including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine while armed with a loaded and operable firearm. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a felony punishable by incarceration in the state prison. This bill would additionally prohibit the possession of fentanyl, as specified, while armed with a loaded and operable firearm if the person has knowledge that the specific controlled substance is fentanyl. (Based on 07/03/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 233 Skinner, D

Practice of
medicine:

Arizona
physicians:
abortions and
abortion-related
care for
Arizona
patients.
05/23/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
05/23/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter 11,
Statutes of
2024
05/23/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to license and regulate the practice of medicine, and establishes examination, training, and other requirements for licensure as a physician and surgeon. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. This bill, through November 30, 2024, would authorize a physician licensed to practice medicine in Arizona who meets certain requirements to practice medicine in California for the purpose of providing abortions and abortion-related care to patients who are
Arizona residents traveling from Arizona, upon application for registration with the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable. The bill would prohibit the physician from providing care or consultation for other purposes or to other patients, except under specified circumstances. The bill would require an Arizona physician, before practicing in California, to submit specified information to the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable, including, among other information, written verification from the Arizona Medical Board or the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery, or documentation printed from an online licensing system, that the physician's Arizona license to practice medicine is in good standing and confers on the physician the authority to practice abortions and abortion-related care. The bill would require the applicant to provide an affidavit attesting that, among other things, the applicant meets all of the requirements for registration, as specified, and would make it a misdemeanor for a person to provide false information. The bill would limit the information the California boards are required to disclose about a registrant. The bill would deem a physician registered pursuant to the bill's provisions a licensee of the applicable board, would authorize the applicable board to take enforcement against a person registered pursuant to the bill's provisions, and would prohibit the applicable boards from collecting any fees for registration. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program. The bill would repeal the bill's provisions on January 1, 2025. (Based on 05/23/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 236 Jones, R

Human
trafficking:
vertical
prosecution
program.
04/11/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
7/12/2023)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law establishes the Office of Emergency Services, which is required to, among other things, allocate and award funds to communities developing and providing ongoing citizen involvement and crime resistance programs. This bill would require the office, to the extent funds are available for this purpose and until January 1, 2029, to allocate and award funds to up to 11 district attorney offices that employ a vertical prosecution methodology for the prosecution of human trafficking crimes and that meet other specified criteria, including minimum staffing levels for the program. (Based on 04/11/2023 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 155

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 237 Grove, R

Controlled
substances:
fentanyl.
01/24/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years. `Current slaw also prohibits transporting, importing into this state, selling, furnishing, administering, or giving away specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a county jail for 3, 4, or 5 years. Current law also prohibits the trafficking of specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a county jail for 3, 6, or 9 years. The bill would punish the possession, sale, or purchase for sale of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail for 4, 5, or 6 years, the transportation, importation, sale, furnishing, administering, or giving away of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail for 7, 8, or 9 years, and the trafficking of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail for 7, 10, or 13 years. (Based on 01/24/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 239 Dahle, R

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
housing
development
projects:
judicial
proceedings.
01/24/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a court, in an action or proceeding brought challenging any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA and a finding by the court of such noncompliance, to enter an order that includes one or more of specified mandates, one of which may be a mandate to suspend any or all specific project activity or activities, as provided. CEQA provides that, except as otherwise specified, it is not intended to limit the equitable powers of the courts. This bill would limit the standing to file and maintain the above action or proceeding to the Attorney General. The bill would authorize the court, upon its own motion or of a party, to conduct a hearing to determine if the Attorney General is bringing and maintaining an action or proceeding for nonenvironmental purposes, as defined. If the court determines that the action is brought or maintained for nonenvironmental purposes, the bill would authorize the court to take necessary actions, including the dismissal of the action or proceeding, award of attorneys’ fees, or both dismissal and award. (Based on 01/24/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 241 Min, D

Firearms:
dealer
requirements.
09/26/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/26/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
250,
Statutes of
2023.
09/26/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law prescribes certain requirements and prohibitions for licensed firearms dealers. A violation of any of these requirements or prohibitions is grounds for forfeiture of a firearms dealer’s license. Commencing on July 1, 2026, this bill would require a licensee and any employees that handle firearms to annually complete specified training. The bill would require the Department of Justice, on or before February 1, 2026, to develop and implement a training course, as specified, including a testing certification component. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of the bill. (Based on 09/26/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 250 Umberg, D

Controlled
substances:
punishment.
07/21/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/21/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
106,
Statutes of
2023.
07/21/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law provides that it is not a crime for a person who experiences a drug-related overdose and who, in good faith, seeks medical assistance, or any other person who, in good faith, seeks medical assistance for the person experiencing a drug-related overdose, to be under the influence of, or to possess for personal use, a controlled substance, controlled substance analog, or drug paraphernalia, under certain circumstances related to a drug-related overdose that prompted seeking medical assistance if that person does not obstruct medical or law enforcement personnel.

This bill would define “seeking medical assistance” for the purposes of the above-described exemption. The bill would also provide that it is not a crime for a person to possess for personal use a controlled substance, controlled substance analog, or drug paraphernalia, if the person delivers the controlled substance or controlled substance analog to the local public health department or law enforcement and notifies them of the likelihood that other batches of the controlled substance may have been adulterated with other substances, if known. (Based on 07/21/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 253 Wiener, D

Climate
Corporate Data
Accountability
Act.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
382,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would require the State Air Resources Board, on or before January 1, 2025, to develop and adopt regulations requiring specified partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities with total annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000 and that do business in California, defined as “reporting entities,” to publicly disclose to the emissions reporting organization, as defined, and obtain an assurance engagement on, starting in 2026 on a date to be determined by the state board, and annually thereafter, their scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions, as defined, and, starting in 2027 and annually thereafter, their scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, as defined, from the reporting entity’s prior fiscal year, as provided. The bill would require the state board to review during 2029, and update as necessary on or before January 1, 2030, these deadlines to evaluate trends in scope 3 emissions reporting and to consider changes to the deadlines, as provided. The bill would require a reporting entity to obtain an assurance engagement, performed by an independent third-party assurance provider, of the entity’s public disclosure as provided. The bill would require the state board, in developing these regulations, to consult with the Attorney General, other government stakeholders, investors, stakeholders representing consumer and environmental justice interests, and reporting entities that have demonstrated leadership in full-
scope greenhouse gas emissions accounting and public disclosure and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The bill would also require the state board to ensure that the assurance process minimizes the need for reporting entities to engage multiple assurance providers and ensures sufficient assurance provider capacity, as well as timely reporting implementation, as required. The bill would further require the state board to contract with an emissions reporting organization to develop a reporting program to receive and make publicly available the required disclosures. The bill would authorize the state board, starting in 2033 and every 5 years thereafter, to assess the global greenhouse gas accounting and reporting standards and to adopt an alternative standard if it determines that using the alternative standard would more effectively further the goals of the bill. (Based on 10/07/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 266 Newman, D

Public safety
collaborative.
03/08/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would create the Public Safety Collaborative Fund in the State Treasury. The bill would require the board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to administer public safety collaborative grants from the fund to regional public safety collaboratives established for violence prevention, intervention, and suppression activities. The bill would require a collaborative applying for a grant to establish a coordinating and advisory board with membership, including city officials, local law enforcement, and local stakeholders, to prioritize the use of the funds. The bill would authorize grant funds to be utilized for a range of programs, services, and activities designed to reduce violence, including programs to address youth violence prevention and intervention in K–12 schools and homeless outreach and intervention efforts. The bill would require a public safety collaborative to distribute at least 60% of the funds to one or more community-based organizations to assist with violence prevention, intervention, and suppression activities. The bill would require a public safety collaborative to report to the board annually by June 30 on the use of the funds and the effectiveness of the collaborative and the board to report annually to the Governor and Legislature by December 31. (Based on 03/08/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 267 Eggman, D

Credit history of
persons
receiving
government
rent subsidies.
10/11/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/11/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
776,
Statutes of
2023.
10/11/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits, in instances in which there is a government rent subsidy, the use of a financial or income standard in assessing eligibility for the rental of housing that is not based on the portion of the rent to be paid by the tenant. FEHA requires the Civil Rights Department to enforce specific provisions of the act, including the provision described above. This bill would additionally prohibit the use of a person’s credit history as part of the application process for a rental housing accommodation without offering the applicant the option of providing lawful, verifiable alternative evidence of the applicant’s reasonable ability to pay the portion of the rent to be paid by the tenant, including, but not limited to, government benefit payments, pay records, and bank statements, in instances in which there is a government rent subsidy. (Based on 10/11/2023 text) Monitor
SB 268 Alvarado-Gil,
R

Crimes: serious
and violent
felonies.
09/28/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/28/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
855,
Statutes of
2024.
09/28/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law classifies certain criminal offenses as a “violent felony” for the purposes of various provisions of the Penal Code, including sentencing enhancements for prior convictions, as well as numerous other provisions. This bill would also include the rape of an intoxicated person wherein the defendant drugged the victim, as specified, in the list of violent felonies. (Based on 09/28/2024 text)
SB 268
Support_11April2
3 Support
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 270 Wiener, D

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
university
housing
development
projects:
exemption.
04/18/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would revise the exemption for a university housing development project to require each building within the project to be certified as LEED gold with a point total of 79 or better. Because the bill would result in additional university housing development projects being exempt from CEQA, thereby increasing the duties of the county clerk, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 04/18/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 272 Laird, D

Sea level rise:
planning and
adaptation.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
384,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would require a local government, as defined, lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone, as defined, or within the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as defined, to develop a sea level rise plan as part of either a local coastal program, as defined, that is subject to approval by the California Coastal Commission, or a subregional San Francisco Bay shoreline resiliency plan that is subject to approval by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as applicable, on or before January 1, 2034, as provided. By imposing additional requirements on local governments, the bill would impose a state-
mandated local program. The bill would require local governments that receive approval for a sea level rise plan to be prioritized for funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the implementation of sea level rise adaptation strategies and recommended projects in the local government’s approved sea level rise plan. The bill would require, on or before December 31, 2024, the California Coastal Commission, in close coordination with the Ocean Protection Council and the California Sea Level Rise State and Regional Support Collaborative, to establish guidelines for the preparation of the sea level rise plan. The bill would also require, on or before December 31, 2024, the San F
rancisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, in close coordination with the California Coastal Commission, the Ocean Protection Council, and the California Sea Level Rise State and Regional Support Collaborative, to establish guidelines for the preparation of the sea level rise plan. The bill would make the operation of its provisions contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/07/2023 text)
SB 272 LOCAL

GOV SUPPORT
LETTER (1).pdf
Support
SB 280 Laird, D

Review of
conservatorshi
ps: care plans.
10/10/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/10/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
705,
Statutes of
2023.
10/10/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law generally provides for the establishment, review, and termination of conservatorships.

Current law specifies the persons who may be appointed as a conservator and requires the court to review a conservatorship 6 months after the initial appointment of the conservator, one year after the appointment of the conservator, and annually thereafter. Current law sets forth the powers and duties of a conservator for the care, custody, and control of a conservatee. This bill, commencing January 1, 2025, would require a conservator, within 120 calendar days of appointment and not later than 10 days before a hearing to determine the continuation or termination of an existing conservatorship, and to file a care plan regarding the care, custody, and control of the conservatee. The bill would require delivery of the care plan to specified persons, including the conservatee and their attorney, but would otherwise make the care plan confidential, except as specified, thereby limiting public access to the records. The bill would require the Judicial Council to develop a mandatory form for the care plan, which would be required to include specified information, including descriptions of the conservatee’s living arrangement and level of care and any plans to modify those within the next 12 months. (Based on 10/10/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 285 Allen, D

Criminal
procedure:
sentencing.
09/29/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/29/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
979,
Statutes of
2024.
09/29/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Prior law, in effect until January 1, 2020, required a sentencing court to impose an additional one- year term for each prior separate prison term or county jail felony term served by the defendant for a nonviolent felony, as specified. Prior law, in effect until January 1, 2018, also required a sentencing court to impose on a defendant convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, an additional 3-year term for each prior conviction of specified controlled substances crimes. Current law limits the imposition of these sentencing enhancements to certain specified circumstances. Current law invalidates any enhancement imposed pursuant to one of these prior provisions and requires the sentencing court, upon receipt of notice and verification of specified information, to recall the sentence and resentence the person to remove any invalid sentence enhancements. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2025, make an individual sentenced to death or a term of life without the possibility of parole, who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense, and who, as of January 1, 2025, has not had their judgment reviewed and verified by the sentencing court, as specified, ineligible for recall and resentencing under these provisions. (Based on 09/29/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 294 Wiener, D

Health care
coverage:
independent
medical review.
05/24/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
loc
ation was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
7/2/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Current law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Current law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or disability insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days. This bill, commencing January 1, 2026, would require a health care service plan or a disability insurer that upholds its decision to modify, delay, or deny a health care service in response to a grievance or has a grievance that is otherwise pending or unresolved upon expiration of the relevant timeframe to automatically submit within 24 hours a decision regarding a disputed health care service to the Independent Medical Review System, as well as the information that informed its decision, if the decision is to deny, modify, or delay specified services relating to mental health or substance use disorder conditions for an enrollee or insured up to 26 years of age. The bill would require a health care service plan or disability insurer, within 24 hours after submitting its decision to the Independent Medical Review System to provide notice to the appropriate department, the enrollee or insured or their representative, if any, and the enrollee’s or insured’s provider. (Based on 05/24/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 301 Portantino, D

Vehicular air
pollution: Zero-
Emission
Aftermarket
Conversion
Project.
06/17/2024
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
06/14/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
06/14/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Would require the State Air Resources Board to establish the Zero-Emission Aftermarket Conversion Project (ZCAP), upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or other statute or, at the discretion of the state board, using moneys available from another clean transportation program, to provide an applicant who is a California resident with a rebate for an eligible vehicle that has been converted into a zero-emission vehicle. The rebate issued pursuant to the ZACP would be limited to one per vehicle and a value of up to $4,000. The bill would require the state board to establish guidelines for the ZACP that, among other things, define qualifying conversion-types for used vehicles and establish minimum eligibility criteria for an applicant to be eligible for the rebate. The bill would also require the state board’s guidelines to require that an eligible zero-emission vehicle have a range of at least 100 miles and have completed an inspection of safety systems and components by a licensee of the Bureau of Automotive Repair, as provided. (Based on 05/29/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 308 Becker, D

Net zero
greenhouse
gas emissions
goal: carbon
dioxide
removal:
regulations.
07/08/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the state board to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act authorizes the state board to adopt a regulation that establishes a system of market-based declining annual aggregate emissions limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases, applicable from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2030, inclusive, as specified. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. Current law requires the state board, as part of its scoping plan, to establish specified carbon dioxide removal targets for 2030 and beyond. The act also declares the policy of the state both to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and achieve and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter, and to ensure that by 2045, statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 85% below the 1990 levels. This bill would require the state board to develop and adopt regulations, or utilize existing programs and regulations, to ensure the state achieves carbon dioxide removals equivalent to at least 100% of statewide greenhouse gas emissions in calendar year 2045, and all subsequent years, in order to achieve the net zero and net negative greenhouse gas emissions goals. As part of those efforts, the bill would require the state board to establish separate interim targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and carbon dioxide removals, to be applicable beginning no later than calendar year 2030, and to report on progress toward achieving those targets. (Based on 07/08/2024 text) Monitor
SB 318 Ochoa Bogh,
R

“2-1-1”
information and
referral
network.
02/06/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
loc
ation was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/16/2023)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Pursuant to authority delegated by the Federal Communications Commission to state regulatory bodies and its existing statutory authority, the Public Utilities Commission has established procedures for implementing 2-1-1 dialing in California. Current law, until January 1, 2023, authorized the commission, if it determined that doing so was an appropriate use of funds collected from ratepayers, to expend up to $1,500,000 from the California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund to help close 2-1-1 service gaps in counties lacking access to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery information and referral services, where technically feasible, through available 2-1-1 service. Current law establishes various public social services programs, administered by the State Department of Social services. This bill would, upon appropriation, require the department to establish, develop, implement, and administer the 2-1-1 Support Services Grant Program. The bill would require the department to allocate 85% of funds for grants to fund core activities of 2-1-1 agencies, including, among others, contact handling, as specified, and improving the statewide ability to manage resource and user needs data to support data sharing and delivery to health systems, government agencies and other key partners, and shared capacity for analytics and systems. (Based on 02/06/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 321 Ashby, D

Literacy:
libraries: Local
Public Library
Partnership
Program.
10/09/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
598,
Statutes of
2023.
10/09/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law authorizes the State Librarian to give advisory, consultive, and technical assistance with respect to public libraries to librarians and library authorities, and assist all other authorities, state and local, in assuming their full responsibility for library services. This bill would establish the Local Public Library Partnership Program, under the administration of the State Librarian, for purposes of ensuring that all pupils have access to a local public library by 3rd grade. (Based on 10/08/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 322 Becker, D

Zero-Emission
Vehicle Battery
Manufacturing
Block Grants
Program.
06/13/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/23/2023)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Under current law, a project, as defined, that develops in-state production of raw materials and the manufacturing supply chain for zero-emission vehicle components is eligible to receive funding under the Clean Transportation Program. As part of that program, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission has awarded grant moneys through a zero-emission vehicle battery manufacturing block grant to promote in-state battery manufacturing for zero- emission vehicles and related infrastructure. This bill would require the commission, or an entity it contracts with, to administer its Zero-Emission Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Block Grant Program, and would impose eligibility, application scoring, workforce, and reporting requirements on the program. The bill would authorize the commission, or an entity it contracts with, to adopt procedures and criteria to supplement these requirements. (Based on 06/13/2023 text) Monitor
SB 326 Eggman, D

The Behavioral
Health Services
Act.
10/12/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/12/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
790,
Statutes of
2023.
10/12/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would, If approved by the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide primary election, recast the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) by, among other things, renaming it the Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA), expanding it to include treatment of substance use disorders, changing the county planning process, and expanding services for which counties and the state can use funds.

The bill would revise the distribution of MHSA moneys, including allocating up to $36,000,000 to the department for behavioral health workforce funding. The bill would authorize the department to require a county to implement specific evidence-based practices. This bill would require a county, for behavioral health services eligible for reimbursement pursuant to the federal Social Security Act, to submit the claims for reimbursement to the State Department of Health Care Services (the department) under specific circumstances. The bill would require counties to pursue reimbursement through various channels and would authorize the counties to report issues with managed care plans and insurers to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance. (Based on 10/12/2023 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 333 Cortese, D

Homeless
pupils:

California
Success,
Opportunity,
and Academic
Resilience
(SOAR)
Guaranteed
Income
Program.
05/13/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
7/2/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, require the State Department of Social Services to establish the California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program. The program would award public school pupils who are in grade 12 and are homeless children or youths, as defined, a guaranteed income of $1,000 each month for 4 months from May 1, 2025, to August 1, 2025, inclusive, as provided. The bill would establish the California SOAR Guaranteed Income Fund as the initial depository of all moneys appropriated, donated, or otherwise received for the program, and upon appropriation by the Legislature, would provide moneys in the fund to counties that opt in to the program for distribution to eligible participants. (Based on 05/13/2024 text) Monitor
SB 335 Cortese, D

Transactions
and use taxes:

County of
Santa Clara.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
391,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law authorizes cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the Transactions and Use Tax Law, including a requirement that the combined rate of all taxes that may be imposed in accordance with that law in the county not exceed 2%. This bill would authorize the County of Santa Clara to impose a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes at a rate of no more than 0.625% that, in combination with other transactions and use taxes, would exceed the above-described combined rate limit of 2%, if the county adopts an ordinance proposing the tax and the ordinance proposing the tax is approved by the voters, subject to applicable voter approval requirements, as specified.

The bill would specify that a transactions and use tax established pursuant to its provisions would not be considered for purposes of the 2% combined rate limitation. (Based on 10/07/2023 text) Monitor
SB 341 Becker, D

Housing
development.
10/11/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/11/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
777,
Statutes of
2023.
10/11/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law establishes the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, which requires the department, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and administer a grant program to allocate those funds to eligible applicants, as defined, to fund capital improvement projects that are an integral part of, or necessary to facilitate the development of, a qualifying infill project, qualifying infill area, or catalytic qualifying infill area pursuant to specified requirements.

Current law requires the department, in its review and ranking of applications for the award of capital improvement project grants, to rank affected qualifying infill areas based on specified priorities. This bill, with respect to
the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, would specify that only the qualifying infill area portion of that program must be awarded additional points or preference. This bill would add the qualifying infill area and catalytic qualifying infill area portions of the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019 as one of the specified state programs for which additional points or preference is awarded. This bill would also make technical changes to the provisions of the programs. (Based on 10/11/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 345 Skinner, D

Health care
services:
legally
protected
health care
activities.
09/27/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
260,
Statutes of
2023.
09/27/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would prohibit a healing arts board, as defined, from denying an application for a license or imposing discipline upon a licensee or health care practitioner on the basis of a civil judgment, criminal conviction, or disciplinary action in another state if that judgment, conviction, or disciplinary action is based solely on the application of another state's law that interferes with a person's right to receive sensitive services, as defined, that would be lawful if provided in this state, regardless of the patient's location. The bill would further provide that the performance, recommendation, or provision of a legally protected health care activity by a licensee or health care practitioner acting within their scope of practice for a patient who resides in a state in which the performance, recommendation, or provision of that legally protected health care activity is illegal, does not, by itself, constitute professional misconduct, upon which discipline or other penalty may be taken. In this connection, the bill would define a "legally protected health care activity" to mean specified acts, including, among others, the exercise and enjoyment, or attempted exercise and enjoyment, by a person of rights related to reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services secured by the Constitution or laws of this state or the provision of by a health care service plan contract or a policy, or a certificate of health insurance, that provides for those services. (Based on 09/27/2023 text) Monitor
SB 346 Ochoa Bogh,
R

Gambling
Control Act.
02/07/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location was
G.O. on
5/18/2023)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The Gambling Control Act establishes the California Gambling Control Commission, which is responsible for licensing and regulating various gambling activities and establishments. Current law requires the commission to maintain a public record of every vote at its princ ipal office. This bill
would additionally require the commission to post a public record of every vote on the commission’s internet website no later than the close of business on the 2nd business day after the meeting at which the vote was taken. (Based on 02/07/2023 text) Monitor
SB 352 Padilla, D

California
Workforce
Development
Board:
minimum wage
and housing.
03/29/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would require the California Workforce Development Board, in conjunction with the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development and the Director of Housing and Community Development, to examine housing costs by county, regionally, and in the state and create a formula to ascertain how much a household with at least one full-time minimum wage worker must earn to reasonably afford a decent standard of living, including appropriate housing and basic expenses, including nonhousing necessities, in that county, regionally, and in the state. The bill, commencing in 2024, would also require the California Workforce Development Board to recommend to the Legislature by December 15 of each year the minimum wage for a household with at least one full-time minimum wage earner to afford a decent standard of living, including appropriate housing and basic expenses, including nonhousing necessities, in each county, regionally, and in the state and recommend a method to annually adjust figures to account for housing cost inflation and inflation broadly. (Based on 03/29/2023 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 363 Eggman, D

Facilities for
inpatient and
residential
mental health
and substance
use disorder:
database.
05/18/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/23/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would require, by January 1, 2026, the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Social Services, and by conferring with specified stakeholders, to develop a real-time, internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in specified types of facilities, such as chemical dependency recovery hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and mental health rehabilitation centers, among others, to identify the availability of inpatient and residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment. The bill would require the database to include a minimum of specific information, including the contact information for a facility’s designated employee, the types of diagnoses or treatments for which the bed is appropriate, and the target populations served at the facility, and have the capacity to, among other things, enable searches to identify beds that are appropriate for individuals in need of inpatient or residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment. (Based on 05/18/2023 text) BCM Support SB
363_28Feb23
Monitor
SB 368 Portantino, D

Firearms:
requirements
for licensed
dealers.
09/26/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/26/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
251,
Statutes of
2023.
09/26/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would require a licensed firearms dealer, as specified, to accept for storage a firearm transferred by an individual to prevent it from being accessed or used during periods of crisis or heightened risk to the owner of the firearm or members of their household. The bill would also authorize a licensed firearms dealer to accept for storage
a firearm for a lawful purpose not otherwise stated in
the law. The bill would make these provisions subject to certain conditions and would establish a procedure for the return of a firearm to the original transferor, including situations when a dealer cannot legally return a firearm. A violation of various provisions involving the transfer of firearms is a crime. By changing the scope of these offenses, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize a firearms dealer to charge a reasonable fee, as specified, for the storage of a firearm pursuant to these provisions. The bill would also state that it has no affect on the liability under existing law, if any, of a firearms dealer who returns a stored firearm to its owner, as specified. (Based on 09/26/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 377 Skinner, D

Firearms. 05/18/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/1/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law prohibits a firearms dealer from delivering a firearm within 10 days after the application to purchase or after notice by the Department of Justice that the applicant is not ineligible to possess a firearm, as specified, whichever is later. Existing law exempts from this prohibition the delivery of a firearm to a full-time paid peace officer, as defined, with written authorization from the head of the officer’s employing agency. Current law also exempts from this prohibition the delivery of a firearm to another dealer, the delivery of a firearm to a person possessing a special weapons permit issued by the Department of Justice, or the delivery of a firearm that is a curio or relic, as defined. This bill would remove the 10-day waiting period exemption for a peace officer and instead exempt the delivery of a firearm purchased by a law enforcement agency, as defined, to an authorized law enforcement representative of that law enforcement agency for exclusive use by that agency if written authorization, as defined, from the head of the agency authorizing the delivery is presented to the person making the delivery. (Based on 05/18/2023 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 389 Allen, D

State Water
Resources
Control Board:
investigation of
water right.
10/08/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
486,
Statutes of
2023.
10/08/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law provides generally for the appropriation of water. Existing law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to investigate bodies of water, to take testimony in regard to the rights to water or the use of water, and to ascertain whether or not water is appropriated lawfully, as provided. Under current law, the diversion or use of water other than as authorized by specified provisions of law is a trespass, subject to specified civil liability. This bill would instead authorize the board to investigate and ascertain whether or not a water right is valid. The bill would authorize the board to issue an information order in furtherance of an investigation, as executed by the executive director of the board, as specified. The bill would authorize a diversion or use of water ascertained to be unauthorized to be enforced as a trespass, as specified. (Based on 10/08/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 393 Glazer, D

Civil actions:
housing
development
projects.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
285,
Statutes of
2024.
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law provides that in a civil action brought by a plaintiff to challenge a housing development project that meets or exceeds the requirements for low- or moderate-income housing, a defendant may seek an order requiring the plaintiff to furnish an undertaking as security for costs and damages that may be incurred by the defendant if the bringing of the action or seeking by the plaintiff of particular relief, including injunctive relief, would result in a delay in carrying out the development project. Current law requires this motion to be made on the grounds that (1) the action was brought in bad faith, vexatiously, to delay or thwart the low- or moderate- income nature
of the housing development project and (2) the plaintiff will not suffer undue economic hardship by filing the undertaking. If the court determines, after hearing, that the grounds for the motion have been established, existing law requires the court to order the plaintiff to file an undertaking that may not exceed $500,000 as security for the defendant’s costs and damages. This bill would require the motion described above to be made on the grounds that the action is without merit and that the action was brought in bad faith, vexatiously, for the purpose of delay, or to thwart the low- or moderate-income nature of the housing development project. The bill would permit the plaintiff, in responding to the motion, to seek to limit the amount of the undertaking by presenting evidence that filing the undertaking will cause the plaintiff to suffer undue economic hardship. (Based on 09/19/2024 text)
SB 393
SUPPORT_11Ap
ril23
Support
SB 395 Wahab, D

Leases: notice
of termination
or rent
increase:
statewide
database.
04/10/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law specifies various terms and conditions that apply to all persons who hire dwelling units located within this state, including tenants, lessees, boarders, lodgers, and others. Current law regulates evictions and provides that a tenant who remains in possession of a property after the term of the tenant’s lease expires, or who fails to pay rent, is guilty of unlawful detainer. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2025, require a landlord to file with the office of the Secretary of State a copy of any notice of termination or notice of rent increase within 10 days of serving the notice on the tenant, subject to specified requirements. The bill would make failure to file the notice an affirmative defense to a cause of action for unlawful detainer. (Based on 04/10/2023 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 396 Wahab, D

Local
government:
excavations:
notice.
02/09/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law imposes various duties on local agencies relating to construction and property within its jurisdiction, including by requiring local agencies with jurisdiction to approve excavations to allow microtrenching, as defined, for the installation of underground fiber if the installation in the microtrench is limited to fiber, except as provided. Current law requires, during the project planning phase of certain department-led construction projects, the Department of Transportation to notify companies and organizations working on broadband deployment of the project on its internet website to encourage collaborative broadband installations. This bill would require, prior to commencing any local agency-led excavation projects, as defined, a city, county, or city and county to notify interested parties of the project on its internet website to encourage collaborative installations of important utilities and infrastructure, including, but not limited to, fiber optic cable, undergrounding utilities, or other important services. (Based on 02/09/2023 text) Monitor
SB 397 Wahab, D

San Francisco
Bay area:
public
transportation.
01/03/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a local area planning agency for the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Current law establishes the Transportation Agency, consisting of various state agencies under the supervision of an executive officer known as the Secretary of Transportation, who is required to develop and report to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, and coordinated planning and policy formulation in the matters of public interest related to the agency. This bill would require
the Transportation Agency to develop a plan to consolidate all transit agencies, as defined, that are located within the geographic jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. (Based on 01/03/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 399 Wahab, D

Employer
communication
s: intimidation.
09/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
670,
Statutes of
2024.
09/27/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 provides that it is the policy of the state to encourage and protect the right of agricultural employees to full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing to negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment, and to be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives, self-organization, or other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Other existing law relating to employment prohibits employers from making, adopting, or enforcing rules, regulations, or policies that forbid or prevent employees from engaging or participating in politics or from becoming candidates for public office, and from controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct, the political activities or affiliations of employees. This bill, except as specified, would prohibit an employer from subjecting, or threatening to subject, an employee to discharge, discrimination, retaliation, or any other adverse action because the employee declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or affirmatively declines to participate in, receive, or listen to any communications with the employer or its agents or representatives, the purpose of which is to communicate the employer’s opinion about religious or political matters and would require an employee who refuses to attend a meeting as described to continue to be paid, as specified. The bill would impose a civil penalty of $500 on an employer who violates these provisions. (Based on 09/27/2024 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 400 Wahab, D

Peace officers:
confidentiality
of records.
02/29/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
02/29/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter 3,
Statutes of
2024
02/29/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Public Records Act generally requires public records to be open for inspection by the public. Current law provides numerous exceptions to this requirement. Under current law, the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers are confidential and not subject to public inspection. Current law provides certain exemptions to this confidentiality, including the reports, investigations, and findings of certain incidents involving the use of force by a peace officer. This bill would clarify that this confidentiality does not prohibit an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or custodial officer from disclosing the termination for cause of that officer, as specified. (Based on 02/29/2024 text)
Sponsor
SB 402 Wahab, D

Involuntary
commitment.
07/03/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to self or others, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by specified individuals, including, among others, by peace officers and designated members of a mobile crisis team, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. This bill would additionally authorize, until January 1, 2030, a person to be taken into custody, pursuant to those provisions, by a licensed mental health professional, as defined. The bill would require a licensed mental health professional who is not direct staff of, or contracted by, a county to complete a specified training prior to exercising that authority and would prohibit those licensed mental health professionals from transporting a person taken into custody pursuant to the above-described provisions unless specifically authorized by the county to do so. (Based on 07/03/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 405 Cortese, D

Planning and
zoning: housing
element:
inventory of
sites: regional
housing need.
04/26/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long- term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes specified mandatory elements, including a housing element. Current law also establishes a planning agency in each city and each county with the powers necessary to carry out the Planning and Zoning Law. Current law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. For a housing element or amendment adopted on or after January 1, 2021, existing law requires the planning agency to submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development an electronic copy of its inventory, as specified. Existing law requires a county or city to submit each revision or amendment of its housin
g element to the department promptly following adoption of the revision or amendment and requires the department, within 90 days, to review the adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the planning agency. This bill would expand the requirement to submit an electronic copy of the above-described inventory to the department to additionally require the planning agency to submit a housing element or amendment prepared on or after January 1, 2021. (Based on 04/26/2023 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 406 Cortese, D

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption:
financial
assistance:
residential
housing.
09/01/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/01/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
150,
Statutes of
2023.
08/22/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts for its requirements actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development or the California Housing Finance Agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing, as provided. This bill would extend the above
exemption to actions taken by a local agency not acting as the lead agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing, as provided. (Based on 09/01/2023 text)
SB
406_SUPPORT2
6May23
Support
SB 410 Becker, D

Powering Up
Californians
Act.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
394,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), in collaboration with the State Air Resources Board, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), and other relevant stakeholders, to annually gather from state agencies, as provided, specified entities’ fleet data for on-road and off-road vehicles in the medium- and heavy- duty sectors and share that data with electrical corporations to help inform electrical grid planning efforts, as specified. Current law requires electrical corporations, as part of their distribution planning processes, to consider that produced fleet data, and other available data, to facilitate the readiness of their distribution systems to support the state’s anticipated level of electric vehicle charging, as specified. This bill, the Powering Up Californians Act, would require the PUC to establish, on or before September 30, 2024, reasonable average and maximum target energ
ization time periods, as defined, and a procedure for customers to report energization delays to the PUC, as provided. The bill would require the PUC to require the electrical corporation to take remedial actions necessary to achieve the PUC’s targets and would require all reports to be publicly available, among other reporting requirements. (Based on 10/07/2023 text) SB 410 -
Support_04.07.2

3.pdf
SB 410 -
Support_06.21.2

3.pdf
Support
SB 411 Portantino, D

Open
meetings:
teleconference
s:
neighborhood
councils.
10/09/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
605,
Statutes of
2023.
10/09/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would, until January 1, 2026, authorize an eligible legislative body to use alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed, if the city council has adopted an authorizing resolution and 2/3 of an eligible legislative body votes to use the alternate teleconferencing provisions. The bill would define “eligible legislative body” for this purp
ose to mean a neighborhood council that is an advisory body with the purpose to promote more citizen participation in government and make government more responsive to local needs that is established pursuant to the charter of a city with a population of more than 3,000,000 people that is subject to the act. The bill would require an eligible legislative body authorized under the bill to provide publicly accessible physical locations for public participation, as prescribed. The bill would also require that at least a quorum of the members of the neighborhood council participate from locations within the boundaries of the city in which the neighborhood council is established. The bill would require that, at least once per year, at least a quorum of the members of the eligible legislative body participate in person from a singular physical location that is open to the public and within the boundaries of the eligible legislative body. (Based on 10/08/2023 text) SB 411
Support_30Marc
h23
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 420 Becker, D

Electricity:
electrical
transmission
facility projects.
10/07/2023
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
01/25/2024 -
Stricken
from file.

Veto
sustained.
10/07/2023 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law, implemented by the PUC through a general order, generally prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require its construction, as specified. However, current law exempts the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing electrical transmission facility, including transmission lines and substations, from that certification requirement. This bill would addit ionally exempt the rebuilding of
an existing electrical transmission facility from that requirement, and would provide that the construction of a new electrical transmission facility, or the extension, expansion, upgrade, rebuilding, or other modification of an electrical transmission facility, including lines and substations, by an electrical corporation serving 10,000 or more retail customers does not require that certification, a permit to construct, or any other discretionary permit from the commission, if the new or modified electrical transmission facility meets certain requirements. (Based on 09/18/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 422 Portantino, D

Unemployment
compensation:
motion picture
industry: loan-
out companies.
09/30/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/30/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
1011,
Statutes of
2024.
09/30/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law establishes the Employment Development Department, administered by the Director of Employment Development who is vested with certain duties relating to unemployment compensation. Current unemployment insurance law requires any employing unit that is a motion picture payroll services company, as defined, to be treated as an employer of a motion picture production worker, as defined, and to file a statement of intent with the Employment Development Department. Current law makes specified violations of unemployment insurance law a misdemeanor. This bill would specify that a loan-out company is the employer of its employee- owners or members who are engaged to provide services to a motion picture production company or to an allied motion picture services company for purposes of remitting employment taxes and related obligations, as specified. The bill would prohibit a loan- out company or an individual whose
services are provided by a loan-out company from being considered an employee of a motion picture payroll services company. The bill would require a motion picture payroll services company to file a quarterly report with the Director of Employment Development relating to payments made to a loan-out company, as specified. The bill would define “loan-out company” for these purposes. (Based on 09/30/2024 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 423 Wiener, D

Land use:
streamlined
housing
approvals:
multifamily
housing
developments.
10/11/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/11/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
778,
Statutes of
2023.
10/11/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development in compliance with the specified-described requirements on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would extend the operation of the streamlined, ministerial approval process to January 1, 2036. The bill would provide that the streamlined, ministerial approval process does not apply to applications for developments proposed on qualified sites, defined as a site that is located within an equine or equestrian district and meets certain other requirements, that are submitted on or after January 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2025. This bill would modify the specified-described objective planning standards, including by revising the standard that prohibits a multifamily housing development from being subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development is located in a coastal zone to apply only if the development located in the coastal zone meets any one of specified conditions. The bill would require that a development located in
a coastal zone that satisfies the specified conditions obtain a coastal development permit. The bill would require a local government to approve a coastal development permit if it determines that the development is consistent with all objective standards of the local government’s certified local coastal program, as specified. The bill would provide that the changes made by this act would apply in a coastal zone on or after January 1, 2025 This bill would modify the objective planning standard that prohibits a development subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process from being located in a high fire severity zone by deleting the prohibition for a development to be located within a high or very high fire hazard severity zone as indicated on maps adopted by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and would instead prohibit a development from being located with the state responsibility area, as defined, unless the site has adopted specified standards. The bill would also remove an exception for sites excluded from specified hazard zones by a local agency, as specified. (Based on 10/11/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 428 Blakespear, D

Temporary
restraining
orders and
protective
orders:
employee
harassment.
09/30/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/30/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
286,
Statutes of
2023.
09/30/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law authorizes any employer, whose employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any individual that can reasonably be construed to be carried out or to have been carried out at the workplace, to seek a temporary restraining order and an injunction on behalf of the employee and other employees of the employer. Current law requires an employer seeking a temporary restraining order to show reasonable proof that an employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence and that a great or irreparable harm would result to an employee if the order is not issued. Current law prohibits issuing such an order to the extent that the order would prohibit constitutionally protected speech, specified activities related to dispute resolution between employers and employee organizations, or other law. This bill would additionally authorize any employer whose employee has suffered harassment, as defined, to seek a temporary restraining order and an injunction on behalf of the employee and other employees upon a showing of clear and convincing evidence that an employee has suffered harassment, that great or irreparable harm would result to an employee, and that the respondent’s course of conduct served no legitimate purpose. (Based on 09/30/2023 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 439 Skinner, D

Special
motions to
strike: priority
housing
development
projects.
10/11/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/11/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
779,
Statutes of
2023.
10/11/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law permits any party to file a notice of motion and motion to strike the whole or any part of a pleading. Under current law, a party may file with the trial court a special motion to strike a cause of action against a person arising from any act of that person in furtherance of the person’s right of petition or free speech under the United States Constitution or the California Constitution in connection with a public issue. This bill would permit a party to file with the trial court a special motion to strike the whole or any part of a pleading in all civil actions brought by any plaintiff to challenge the approval or permitting of a priority housing development project, as defined. The bill would require the trial court to deny the motion to strike if it determines that the plaintiff has established that there is a probability that the plaintiff will prevail on the claim. The bill would entitle a prevailing defendant on a special motion to strike to recover their attorney’s fees and costs, except as specified. Except as specified, the bill would require the filing of a special motion to strike within 60 days of the service of the complaint, or in the court’s discretion, at any later time the court deems proper. The bill would provide that if the court determines the administrative record is required for its decision, the moving party may, notwithstanding the filing deadlines above, file the special motion to strike within 60 days of the service of the administrative record or, in the court’s discretion, at any later time the court deems proper. (Based on 10/11/2023 text) SB439_SUPPOR
T26May23
Support
SB 440 Skinner, D

Regional
Housing
Finance
Authorities.
09/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
767,
Statutes of
2024.
09/27/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production. The Los Angeles County Regional Housing Finance Act similarly establishes the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency to increase the supply of affordable housing in Los Angeles County, as specified. This bill, the Regional Housing Finance Act, would authorize 2 or more local governments, as defined, to establish a regional ho
using finance authority to raise, administer, and
allocate funding for affordable housing in the jurisdiction of the authority, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for affordable housing development, including new construction and the preservation of existing housing to serve a range of incomes and housing types. The bill would require an authority to be governed by a board composed of at least 3 directors who are elected officials representing the local governments that are members of the authority. (Based on 09/27/2024 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 450 Atkins, D

Housing
development:
approvals.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
286,
Statutes of
2024.
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Planning and Zoning law requires a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements, including that the proposed housing development does not allow for the demolition of more than 25% of the existing exterior structural walls, except as provided. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards, as defined, except as specified, on the proposed housing development. Current law authorizes a local agency to deny a proposed housing development if specified conditions are met, including that the building official makes a written finding that the proposed housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon public health and safety or the physical environment, as provided. This bill would remove the requirement that a proposed housing development does not allow for the demolition of more than 25% of the existing exterior structural walls to be considered ministerially. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards that do not apply uniformly to development within the underlying zone, but would specify that these provisions do not prohibit a local agency from adopting or imposing objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards on the development if the standards are more permissive than applicable standards within the underlying zone. The bill would remove the authorization for a local agency to deny a proposed housing development if the building official makes a written finding that the proposed housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon the physical environment. The bill would require the local agency to consider and approve or deny the proposed housing development application within 60 days from the date the local agency receives the completed application, and would deem the application approved after that time. (Based on 09/19/2024 text) Monitor
SB 461 Wahab, D

Days and hours
of work:
religious or
cultural
observance.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
398,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law authorizes a state department head or designee to require a state employee to provide 5 working days’ advance notice before a personal holiday is taken, to deny use subject to operational needs, and to provide by rule for the granting of the personal holiday for employees.

Current law authorizes a state employee to elect to receive 8 hours of holiday credit for certain holidays in lieu of receiving 8 hours of personal holiday credit, as specified. This bill would authorize an employee to elect to receive 8 hours of holiday credit for observance of a holiday or ceremony of the state employee’s religion, culture, or heritage in lieu of receiving 8 hours of personal holiday credit. (Based on 10/07/2023 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 466 Wahab, D

Costa-Hawkins
Rental Housing
Act: rental
rates.
05/15/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Died on file
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 02/01/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act prescribes statewide limits on the application of local rent control with regard to certain properties. The act generally authorizes an owner of residential real property to establish the initial rental rate for a dwelling or unit, except in specified circumstances, including, (1) when the residential real property has a certificate of occupancy issued after February 1, 1995, (2) when the residential real property has already been exempt from the residential rent control ordinance of a public entity on or before February 1, 1995, pursuant to a local exemption for newly constructed units, and (3) when the residential real property is alienable and separate from title to any other dwelling units, except as specified. This bill would instead authorize an owner of residential real property to establish the initial rental rate for a dwelling or unit when the residential real property has been issued a certificate of occupancy within the 28 years preceding the date on which the owner seeks to establish a rental rate under these provisions, except as specified for dwellings or units exempt from the residential rent control ordinance of a public entity on or before February 1, 1995, pursuant to a local exemption for newly constructed units. (Based on 05/15/2023 text)
SB 466

SUPPORT
11April23
Support
SB 469 Allen, D

Housing:
publicly funded
low-rent
housing
projects.
09/08/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
179,
Statutes of
2023.
09/08/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition in any manner of a low-rent housing project by any state public body, as defined, until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which it is proposed to develop, construct, or acquire the same, voting upon that issue, approve the project by voting in favor at an election. The California Constitution, for purposes of this prohibition, defines “low-rent housing project” to mean any development composed of urban or rural dwellings, apartments, or other living accommodations for persons of low income, financed in whole or in part by the federal government or a state public body, or to which the federal government or a state public body extends assistance by supplying all or part of the labor, by guaranteeing the payment of liens, or otherwise. Current law establishes exclusions from this definition of “low-rent housing project,” including a development that consists of the acquisition, rehabilitation, reconstruction, alterations work, or any combination thereof, of lodging facilities or dwelling units using moneys appropriated and disbursed pursuant to specified provisions of the Zenovich-Moscone-
Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act relating to affordable housing preservation, rental housing development awarded funds from certain multifamily housing direct loan programs, and housing for individuals and families who are experiencing ho melessness
or who are at risk of homelessness and who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases. This bill would expand that exclusion to include a development that consists of the acquisition, rehabilitation, reconstruction, alterations work, or any combination thereof, of lodging facilities or dwelling units using an allocation of federal or state low-income housing tax credits from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee or moneys appropriated and disbursed pursuant to the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, and the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, thereby excluding the developments that receive money from the specified funds and programs from the scope of the above-described constitutional provision. (Based on 09/08/2023 text) SB
469_SUPPORT1
1April23
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 497 Smallwood-
Cuevas, D

Protected
employee
conduct.
10/09/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
612,
Statutes of
2023.
10/09/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law prohibits a person from discharging an employee or in any manner discriminating, retaliating, or taking any adverse action against any employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant engaged in protected conduct, as specified. Under current law, an employee who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted, suspended, retaliated against, subjected to adverse action, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of their employment because among other things, the employee engaged in protected conduct, as specified, the employee shall be entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits caused by those acts of the employer. This bill would create a rebuttable presumption in favor the employee’s claim if an employer engages in any action prohibited by this provision within 90 days of the protected activity specified in this provision. (Based on 10/08/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 511 Blakespear, D

Greenhouse
gas emissions
inventories.
04/24/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/23/2023)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost- effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. This bill would require the state board, before January 1, 2028, to develop, and publish on its internet website, a report on greenhouse gas emissions inventories for the calendar year 2025 for each city, county, or city and county that requests inclusion in the report, as provided. The bill would require the state board, consistent with the preparation of the updates to the scoping plan and before January 1, 2033, and every 5 years thereafter, to update the inventories, for each city, county, or city and county that requests inclusion in the respective update, for the calendar year 2030 and every 5th year thereafter. The bill would authorize the state board to solicit bids and enter into contracts for the development of the inventories. The bill would require the state board, before January 1, 2026, to establish a local government advisory committee to inform its development of the greenhouse gas emissions inventories. (Based on 04/24/2023 text)
SB511 -
Support_03.22.2

3.pdf
Support
SB 512 Bradford, D

Cannabis:
taxation: gross
receipts.
05/03/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
7/10/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would, beginning January 1, 2024, exclude from the terms “gross receipts” and “sales price” under the Sales and Use Tax Law the amount of the cannabis excise tax imposed under the Cannabis Tax Law and the amount of any tax imposed by a city or county on the privilege of engaging in commercial cannabis activity, as specified. The bill would also prohibit a city or county from including in the definition of gross receipts, for purposes of any local tax or fee on a licensed cannabis retailer the amount of any cannabis excise tax imposed under the Cannabis Tax Law or any sales and use taxes. By imposing new requirements on local governments with respect to their taxes and fees, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/03/2023 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 527 Min, D

Neighborhood
Decarbonizatio
n Program.
05/03/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to establish the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program, which includes establishing the direct install program to fund certain projects and remediation and safety measures to facilitate the installation of new technologies, and a statewide incentive program for low-carbon building technologies, as specified. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, require the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with gas corporations, to develop and supervise the administration of the Neighborhood Decarbonization Program to facilitate the cost-effective decarbonization of targeted natural gas zones with the intent to provide benefits that include, but are not limited to, reduced emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollution, the maintenance of reliable, safe, and resilient energy service, and the maintenance of rate affordability for California gas customers, and with the intent to decommission gas assets in zones with the highest community burdens and those that would result in the highest projected ratepayer cost savings. The bill would require the commission, in consultation with each gas corporation, to adopt guidelines and regulations for the program, as specified. (Based on 05/03/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 529 Gonzalez, D

Electric vehicle
sharing
services:
affordable
housing
facilities.
04/18/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would require the Energy Commission to create a program to award grants to facilitate electric vehicle sharing services, as defined, operated at affordable housing facilities, as defined. The bill would specify the eligible entities that may be awarded grants pursuant to the program, and would require those eligible entities to submit an application to the Energy Commission, as specified. The bill would require the Energy Commission to consider specified criteria in awarding grants and would require a grant recipient to only use grant funds for specified purposes to facilitate an electric vehicle sharing service operated at an affordable housing facility. The bill would require that a grant recipient, at a minimum, purchases, or commits to purchase, 2 electric vehicles and 2 electric vehicle charging stations with Level 2 electric vehicle service equipment. The bill would provide that a grant recipient may be eligible to purchase up to 2 direct current fast chargers if the grant recipient meets specified requirements. The bill would require, as a condition of receiving a grant, a grant recipient to annually submit a report to the Energy Commission that includes specified information. The bill would require implementation of the program to be subject to an appropriation of funds by the Legislature for purposes of developing and implementing the program. (Based on 04/18/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 532 Wiener, D

Parking
payment
zones.
09/28/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/28/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
858,
Statutes of
2024.
09/28/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law allows a local authority to establish parking meter zones and fix the rate of fees for those zones by ordinance. Current law prohibits a local authority from requiring payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device, as specified. This bill would instead authorize, until January 1, 2033, in the City and County of San Francisco, City of Long Beach, and City of Santa Monica, a local authority to require payment of parking fees by a mobile device, if it meets certain requirements, such as adopting an accessible and equitable parking cash payment plan that does not utilize parking meters or payment centers in parking payment zones to provide reasonably accessible alternative means for payment of parking fees using cash. The bill would also authorize the local authority in the City and County of San Francisco, City of Long Beach, and City of Santa Monica to operate the above-described parking zones for 5 years following the date of creation, in each of the respective entities, of the first mobile device parking payment zone, or until January 1, 2033, whichever is sooner. (Based on 09/28/2024 text)

04.06.23 Letter
of Support_SB
532_.pdf
SB 532 - SJ
Support

06.25.24.pdf
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 537 Becker, D

City or County
of Los Angeles:
memorial to
forcibly
deported
Mexican
Americans and
Mexican
immigrants.
09/28/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/28/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
859,
Statutes of
2024.
09/28/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law provides for various memorials and monuments on the grounds of the State Capitol.

Current law requires the Department of General Services to maintain state buildings and grounds.

Existing law, the Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program, makes findings and declarations regarding the unconstitutional removal and coerced emigration of United States citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent, between the years 1929 and 1944, to Mexico from the United States during the 1930s “Mexican Repatriation” Program. Current law expresses the apology of the State of California to those individuals who were illegally deported and coerced into emigrating to Mexico and requires that a plaque to commemorate those individuals be installed and maintained by the Department
of Parks and Recreation in an appropriate public place
in the City or County of Los Angeles. This bill would authorize a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants to enter into negotiations to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial to Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants who were forcibly deported from the United States during the Great Depression, as provided. The bill would require the memorial to be located at an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to enter into negotiations with the Department of General Services and the state agency with jurisdiction over the state property where the memorial is proposed, where applicable, if the nonprofit organization proposes to locate the memorial on state property. (Based on 09/28/2024 text) Monitor
SB 538 Portantino, D

Department of
Transportation:

Chief Advisor
on Bicycling
and Active
Transportation.
10/09/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
617,
Statutes of
2023.
10/09/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law establishes the Department of Transportation and provides that the Director of Transportation shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by law in the department, except as otherwise provided by law. This bill would require the director to appoint a Chief Advisor on Bicycling and Active Transportation, to serve as the department’s primary advisor on all issues related to bicycle transportation, safety, and infrastructure, as specified. (Based on 10/08/2023 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 549 Newman, D

Gaming: Tribal
Nations Access
to Justice Act.
09/28/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/28/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
860,
Statutes of
2024.
09/28/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The current federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from authorizing casinos of the type operating in Nevada and New Jersey and authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude tribal-state gaming compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. The Gambling Control Act provides for the regulation, oversight, and licensure of gambling establishments by the California Gambling Control Commission. Existing law prohibits a list of specified gambling games or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks, credit, or any representative of value, and provides that any person who offers for play or participates in these games is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable as specified. Current law authorizes gambling establishments to operate controlled games utilizing a player-dealer position, as defined, and to contract with a third party for the provision of proposition player services subject to specified conditions and regulatory requirements. Current law generally specifies the persons or entities that may bring a civil action as prescribed for relief. Current law authorizes a court to grant a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order at any time prior to judgment, if the verified complaint or affidavits provide sufficient grounds to do so and the opposing party has been given notice. This bill would authorize a California Indian tribe, under certain conditions, to bring an action solely against licensed California card clubs and third-party proposition player services providers to seek a declaration as to whether a controlled game operated by a licensed California card club and banked by a third-party proposition player services provider constitutes a banking card game that violates state law, including tribal gaming rights under the constitutional provisions described above, and to request injunctive relief. The bill would require that any review of such a challenge be conducted de novo. The bill would prohibit a claim for money damages, penalties, or attorney’s fees and would require that actions be filed no later than April 1, 2025, as specified. (Based on 09/28/2024 text)
SB 549 OPPOSE
7Jul23.pdf
SB 549_Oppose

01.24.24 (1).pdf
SB 549 OPPOSE

05.10.24.pdf
SB 549 - SJ
Oppose

08.05.24.pdf
Governor Veto
Request
Oppose
SB 553 Cortese, D

Occupational
safety:
workplace
violence:
restraining
orders and
workplace
violence
prevention
plan.
09/30/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/30/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
289,
Statutes of
2023.
09/30/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would, commencing January 1, 2025, authorize a collective bargaining representative of an employee, as described, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order after hearing on behalf of the employee and other employees at the workplace, as described. The bill would require an employer or collective bargaining representative of an employee, before filing such a petition, to provide the employee who has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any individual an opportunity to decline to be named in the temporary restraining order. Under the bill, an employee’s request to not be named in the temporary restraining order would not prohibit an employer or collective bargaining representative from seeking a temporary restraining order on behalf of other employees at the workplace, and, if appropriate, other employees at other workplaces of the employer. The bill would make various conforming changes. (Based on 09/30/2023 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 178

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 555 Wahab, D

Stable
Affordable
Housing Act of
2023.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
402,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law establishes various programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, homeownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time homebuyers. Current law requires the department to, on or before December 31 of each year, submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department, as prescribed. This bill, the Stable Affordable Housing Act of 2023, would require the department, no later than December 31, 2026, to complete a California Social Housing Study consisting of a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities, resources, obstacles, and recommendations for the creation of housing that is
affordable, as defined, and social housing, as defined, at scale, to assist in meeting the need identified in the statewide projections for below market rate housing affordable to households with extremely low, very low, low, and moderate incomes in the 6th Regional Housing Needs Assessment cycle. (Based on 10/07/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 560 Laird, D

Solid waste:
gas cylinders:
stewardship
program.
03/22/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. The act establishes stewardship programs for various products, including, among others, carpet, mattresses, and pharmaceutical and sharps waste. This bill would establish a stewardship program for gas cylinder products, as defined, and would authorize producers of those products to establish one more producer stewardship organizations for that purpose. The bill would require each producer or producer stewardship organization to submit a gas cylinder stewardship plan to the department that details, among other things, convenient and accessible opportunities for the recovery of gas cylinders used by consumers. The bill would prohibit gas cylinder producers that are not participating in a department-approved stewardship plan from supplying, selling, or offering for sale gas cylinders in the state. (Based on 03/22/2023 text) Monitor
SB 567 Durazo, D

Termination of
tenancy: no-
fault just
causes: gross
rental rate
increases.
09/30/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/30/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
290,
Statutes of
2023.
09/30/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law, after a tenant has continuously and lawfully occupied a residential real property for 12 months, prohibits the owner of the residential real property from terminating the tenancy without just cause and requires that just cause to be stated in the written notice to terminate tenancy.

Current law distinguishes between at-fault just cause and no-fault just cause and defines no-fault just cause to mean intent to occupy the residential real property by the owner or the owner's spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents, withdrawal of the residential real property from the rental market, the owner complying with specified government orders that necessitate vacating the real property, and intent to demolish or to substantially remodel the residential real property. This bill would, with respect to the no-fault just cause related to an eviction based on an intent to occupy the residential real property, require, among other things, that the owner, as defined, or the owner's spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents occupy the residential real property for a minimum of 12 continuous months as the person's primary residence, as provided. (Based on 09/30/2023 text) Sb 567 Support
13June23
SB 567 GOVRFS
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 569 Glazer, D

Political Reform
Act of 1974:
audits.
08/28/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
APPR. on
8/28/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would transfer the responsibility for conducting audits and field investigations of lobbying reports to the Fair Political Practices Commission. The bill would also exclude lobbying firms and lobbyist employers with less than one dollar in payments or contributions from being selected for audit.

Additionally, this bill would require the Fair Political Practices Commission to adopt regulations or policies that would ensure the operational independence of the comm ission’s audit personnel from
the Fair Political Practices Commission’s enforcement operations. Audits conducted by the commission would be required to be posted on the commission’s internet website for 10 years following the conclusion of the audit and the commission would be required to annually report to the Legislature on the number and types of audits completed by the commission. This bill would delay the operation of these provisions until the January 1 of the next odd numbered year following an appropriation made to support the commission’s exercise of these responsibilities. (Based on 08/28/2023 text)
SB569_SUPPOR
T5April23
Support
SB 580 Bradford, D

Schoolbuses:
stop signal arm
enforcement
system.
02/15/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires the driver of any vehicle, upon meeting or overtaking any schoolbus equipped with required signs that is stopped for the purpose of loading or unloading any schoolchildren and displaying a flashing red light signal and stop signal arm, if equipped with a stop signal arm, to bring the vehicle to a stop immediately before passing the schoolbus and to not proceed past the schoolbus until the flashing red light signal and stop signal arm cease operation. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Under current law, a driver is not required to stop if they are on the other roadway of a divided or multiple-lane highway, as defined.This bill would require a driver to stop on a divided highway, unless there is an elevated barrier or the median is unpaved, and would instead punish a violation of the prohibition with a civil penalty. (Based on 02/15/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 584 Limón, D

Laborforce
housing: Short-
Term Rental
Tax Law.
05/18/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
H. & C.D. on
6/15/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would enact the Laborforce Housing Financing Act of 2023, and define “laborforce housing” as housing that, among other things, is owned and managed by specified entities solely for the benefit of residents and households unable to afford market rent, and whose residents enjoy certain protections. The bill would establish the Laborforce Housing Fund in the State Treasury, and would make moneys in the fund available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the creation of laborforce housing and other specified housing projects by public entities, local housing authorities, and mission-driven nonprofit housing providers, as provided. (Based on 05/18/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 585 Niello, R

Disability
access:
construction-
related
accessibility
claims:
statutory
damages:
attorney’s fees
and costs.
05/18/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location was
JUD. on
6/8/2023)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would prohibit a construction-related accessibility claim for statutory damages from being initiated in a legal proceeding against a defendant who employs 50 or fewer individuals, as specified, until the defendant has been served with a letter specifying each alleged violation of a construction- related accessibility standard and given 120 days to correct the alleged violation. The bill would provide that a defendant is not liable for statutory damages, plaintiff’s attorney’s fees, or costs for an alleged violation that is corrected within 120 days of service of a letter alleging the violation.

The bill would also prohibit a plaintiff from avoiding the notice and opportunity to correct provisions and the liability limitations by claiming they are seeking general discrimination damages based on a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 if the underlying claim is based on a defendant’s failure to comply with physical accessibility standards under California law. (Based on 05/18/2023 text)
Monitor
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Last Updated 12/06/24 180

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 594 Durazo, D

Beneficial
owners.
04/27/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires a person who is directly or indirectly the beneficial owner of more than 10% of any class of stock of a domestic insurer to file in the office of the Insurance Commissioner within 10 days after that person becomes a beneficial owner a statement, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, of the amount of all stock of that insurer of which the person is the beneficial owner, as specified. The General Corporation Law (GCL) requires a domestic corporation and a foreign corporation to file annually, as prescribed, with the Secretary of State, a statement containing certain information, including the names and complete business or residence addre sses of its chief
executive officer, secretary, and chief financial officer. The GCL requires a domestic corporation to certify that the information it provides in that statement is true and correct. This bill would additionally require those corporations to include in the statement described above the names and complete business or residence addresses of any beneficial owner, as defined. (Based on 04/27/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 615 Allen, D

Vehicle traction
batteries.
09/29/2024
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
09/29/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/29/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to convene the Lithium-Ion Car Battery Recycling Advisory Group to review, and advise the Legislature on, policies pertaining to the recovery and recycling of lithium-ion vehicle batteries sold with motor vehicles in the state.

Current law also requires the advisory group to submit policy recommendations to the Legislature aimed at ensuring that as close to 100% as possible of lithium-ion vehicle b atteries in the state are
reused or recycled at end-of-life in a safe and cost-effective manner. This bill would require vehicle traction batteries, as defined, in the state to be recovered, and when possible, reused, repaired, repurposed, or remanufactured and eventually recycled at the end of their useful life, as provided.

The bill would also require a battery supplier, as defined, to be responsible for, among other duties, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management of a vehicle traction battery if it is removed from a vehicle that is still in service, as provided, or if the battery is offered or returned to its battery supplier, and reporting information regarding the sale, transfer, or receipt of a vehicle traction battery or module to the department, as provided. The bill would impose related duties on a secondary user, as defined, and a secondary handler, as defined, including, among other duties, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management for a battery or returning a vehicle traction battery to the battery supplier, and reporting information regarding the sale, transfer, or receipt of a vehicle traction battery or module to the department as provided. (Based on 09/05/2024 text) Monitor
SB 616 Gonzalez, D

Sick days: paid
sick days
accrual and
use.
10/04/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/04/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
309,
Statutes of
2023.
10/04/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (act), establishes requirements relating to paid sick days and paid sick leave, as described. The act excludes specified employees from its provisions, including an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement, as described (CBA employees).This bill would exclude railroad carrier employers and their employees from the act’s provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/04/2023 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 623 Laird, D

Workers’
compensation:
post-traumatic
stress disorder.
10/09/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
621,
Statutes of
2023.
10/09/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Current law provides, until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes post- traumatic stress that develops or manifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit and creates a disputable presumption that the injury arises out of and comes in the course of employment. Current law requires the compensation awarded pursuant to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability indemnity, and death benefits. This bill would instead repeal that provision on January 1, 2029, and would require the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation to submit re ports to the
Legislature analyzing the effectiveness of the presumption and a review of claims filed by specified types of employees, not included in the presumption, such as public safety dispatchers, as defined. (Based on 10/08/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 634 Becker, D

Low Barrier
Navigation
Center:
opportunity
housing: use by
right: building
standards.
05/09/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law provides that the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) does not apply to an action taken by a public agency to lease, convey, or encumber land owned by a public entity or to facilitate the lease, conveyance, or encumbrance of land owned by a public agency, or to provide financial assistance to, or otherwise approve, a Low Barrier Navigation Center constructed or allowed by existing law. CEQA does not apply to the ministerial approval of projects. Current law prescribes requirements for notifying a developer that its application for a Low Barrier Navigation Center development is complete and for the local jurisdiction to complete its review of the application. Current law declares that Low Barrier Navigation Center developments are essential tools for alleviating the homelessness crisis in this state and are a matter of statewide concern and thus applicable to charter cities. Current law repeals these provisions as of January 1, 2027. This bill would additionally require an opportunity housing project, as defined, to be a use by right if the project has a housing transition plan for a situation when the parcel on which the project is located is no longer suitable for opportunity housing projects, as specified. The bill would also expand use by right to include sites used pursuant to Executive Order No. N-23-20 and areas zoned for medical use or faith-based use. The bill would provide that these provisions do not apply to an opportunity housing project located on a site in a nonresidential zone unless the site is located near amenities and services that serve people experiencing homelessness, as specified. The bill, by authorizing additional developments to be a use by right under certain circumstances, would expand the exemption for the ministerial approval of projects under CEQA. (Based on 05/09/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 638 Eggman, D

Climate
Resiliency and
Flood
Protection
Bond Act of
2024.
06/28/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
W.,P. & W.
on
6/15/2023)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would enact the Climate Resiliency and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $6,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, for flood protection and climate resiliency projects. (Based on 06/28/2023 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 641 Roth, D

Public health:
alcohol and
drug programs:
naloxone.
10/08/2023
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
01/25/2024 -
Stricken
from file.

Veto
sustained.
10/08/2023 -
Senate VETO
ED
The Naloxone Distribution Project (NDP) is administratively created by the State Department of Health Care Services to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services within the California Health and Human Services Agency, as part of the NDP, to make all United States Food and Drug Administration-approved formulations and dosage strengths of naloxone or any other opioid antagonist that are indicated for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose available through the NDP, as specified. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations. (Based on 09/19/2023 text) Monitor
SB 665 Allen, D

Plastic waste:
single-use
plastics
alternatives:
working group.
10/08/2023
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
01/25/2024 -
Stricken
from file.

Veto
sustained.
10/08/2023 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law establishes the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which covers certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware, as provided. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the act requires the producers, as defined, of these covered materials to source reduce plastic covered material, to ensure that covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, is recyclable or eligible to be labeled “compostable,” and to ensure that plastic covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state meets specified recycling rates. Current law vests the California Environmental Protection Agency with authority over various environmental matters and various state agencies, including the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Current law establishes the Ocean Protection Council to, among other things, coordinate activities of state agencies that are related to the protection and conservation of coastal waters and ocean ecosystems. Current law requires CalRecycle to consult with the council regarding its adoption of regulations to establish a process, and develop criteria, for determining the types of food service packaging that are reusable, recyclable, or compostable. Current law establishes the Department of Food and Agriculture to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state. This bill would require the California Environmental Protection Agency, by January 1, 2025, to establish a working group of the above-referenced state entities that would establish a framework, by July 1, 2026, for evaluating novel plastic and plastic-alternative material types used to produce single-use products as they are developed, in order to inform state policy decisions designed to create a more sustainable and circular economy, as provided. (Based on 09/19/2023 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 670 Allen, D

State Air
Resources
Board: vehicle
miles traveled:
maps.
04/27/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/18/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution and the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Current law imposes various requirements related to transportation planning, including a requirement that certain transportation planning agencies prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Current law requires each regional transportation plan to include, among other things, a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization, as specified, which is designed to achieve certain targets for 2020 and 2035 established by the state board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with the Office of Planning and Research and the Department of Transportation, to develop a methodology for assessing and spatially representing light-duty vehicle miles traveled and to develop maps accordingly to display average light-duty vehicle miles traveled per capita in the state at the local, regional, and statewide level, as provided. The bill would require the state board to adopt the methodology no later than January 1, 2025, and to publish the maps no later than 6 months after the methodology is adopted. The bill would require the state board to update the methodology and maps at least once every 4 years. (Based on 04/27/2023 text) Monitor
SB 684 Caballero, D

Land use:
streamlined
approval
processes:
development
projects of 10
or fewer
residential units
on urban lots
under 5 acres.
10/11/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/11/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
783,
Statutes of
2023.
10/11/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. The Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process depending on the type of housing development, as specified. Current law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, requires a city or county to approve an application for a small home lot housing development project, as defined, on a proposed site to be subdivided unless the city or county makes a finding related to the development’s compliance with certain requirements or the development’s specific, adverse public health or safety impact. This bill would require a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets specified requirements. In this regard, the bill would require the proposed subdivision to result in 10 or fewer parcels and the housing development project to, among other things, consist of 10 or fewer residential units, meet certain minimum parcel size and density requirements, and be located on a lot zoned for multifamily residential development that is no larger than 5 acres and is substantially surrounded by qualified urban uses. The bill would exempt the housing development project from certain requirements relating to minimum parcel size and dimensions and the formation of a homeowners’ association, except as specified. (Based on 10/11/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 184

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 700 Bradford, D

Employment
discrimination:
cannabis use.
10/07/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/07/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
408,
Statutes of
2023.
10/07/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would make it unlawful for an employer to request information from an applicant for employment relating to the applicant’s prior use of cannabis, as specified. Under the bill, information about a person’s prior cannabis use obtained from the person’s criminal history would be exempt from the above-described existing law and bill provisions relating to prior cannabis use if the employer is permitted to consider or inquire about that information under a specified provision of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act or other state or federal law. (Based on 10/07/2023 text) Monitor
SB 706 Caballero, D

Public
contracts:
progressive
design-build:
local agencies.
10/08/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
10/08/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
500,
Statutes of
2023.
10/08/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law, until January 1, 2029, authorizes local agencies, defined as any city, county, city and county, or special district authorized by law to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of any water from any source, to use the progressive design-build process for up to 15 public works projects in excess of $5,000,000 for each project, similar to the progressive design-build process authorized for use by the Director of General Services. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, provide additional authority for cities, counties, cities and counties, or special districts to use the progressive design-build process for up to 10 public works in excess of $5,000,000, not limited to water-related projects, excluding projects on state-owned or state- operated facilities. The bill would require information to be provided under penalty of perjury and would require similar reports due no later than December 31, 2028. (Based on 10/08/2023 text) Monitor
SB 707 Newman, D

Responsible
Textile
Recovery Act
of 2024.
09/28/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/28/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
864,
Statutes of
2024.
09/28/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would enact a stewardship program known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, which would require a producer of apparel, as defined, or textile articles, as defined, to form and join a producer responsibility organization or PRO. The bill would require the PRO to be approved by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery pursuant to the requirements of the bill, as provided. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement the program no earlier than July 1, 2028. The bill would require the PRO to submit to the department, for approval or disapproval, a complete plan for the collection, transportation, repair, sorting, and recycling, and the safe and proper management, of apparel, as defined, and textile articles, as defined, in the state. Upon approval of a plan, or commencing July 1, 2030, whichever is earlier, the bill would make a producer subject to specified civil penalties, unless the producer is a participant of a PRO, and all apparel and textiles are accounted for in the plan. The bill would require the PRO to review the plan at least every 5 years after approval. The bill would also require a PRO to submit an annual report to the department, as provided. The bill would require all reports and records provided to the department to be provided under penalty of perjury. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would restrict public access to certain information collected for the purpose of administering the program. (Based on 09/28/2024 text) CPSC Coalition
letter of support
SB 707 Newman
Textiles EPR

23.3.22.pdf
Support
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 185

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 719 Becker, D

Law
enforcement
agencies: radio
communication
s.
01/23/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
01/30/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(3).
(Last
location was
THIRD

READING
on
1/23/2024)
01/31/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law authorizes the Attorney General to adopt policies, procedures, and practices related to the use of the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS). These rules require a participating agency to restrict access to CLETS and define “access” as the ability to see or hear any information obtained from CLETS. This bill would require a law enforcement agency, including the Department of the California Highway Patrol, municipal police departments, county sheriff’s departments, and specified local law enforcement agencies, to, by no later than January 1, 2025, ensure public access, in real time, to the radio communications of that agency, as specified. The bill would exempt university and college police departments from the public access requirement. By imposing new duties on local law enforcement, this bill would create a state- mandated local program. (Based on 01/23/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 720 Durazo, D

Gas
corporations:
applications
and
proceedings:
employee
organization
participation.
08/19/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was

INACTIVE
FILE on
8/22/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law requires each gas corporation to develop a plan for the safe and reliable operation of its Public Utilities Commission-regulated gas pipeline facility. Current law requires the commission and gas corporation to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.

This bill would require a gas corporation, whenever it files a formal application with the commission, to serve the application on all employee organizations representing the gas corporation’s employees’ labor interests. The bill would require a gas corporation, whenever the commission, on its own motion, opens a formal proceeding to which the gas corporation is a party, to notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporation’s employees’ labor interests within 3 days of the gas corporation’s receipt of service for the proceeding. (Based on 08/19/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 721 Becker, D

General plan:
annual report:
suite-style
student
housing
quarters.
07/01/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development of the city or county that includes, among other elements, a housing element. That law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs. That law requires the city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the number of units of housing demolished and new units of housing that have been issued a completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy. This bill would, for the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, require the city or county to additionally include in the annual report the number of suite-style student housing quarters, subject to specified requirements, within the number of housing units demolished and new units. (Based on 07/01/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 186

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 731 Ashby, D

Employment
discrimination:
unlawful
practices: work
from home:
disability.
10/09/2023
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
01/25/2024 -
Stricken
from file.

Veto
sustained.
10/08/2023 -
Senate VETO
ED
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) makes it an unlawful practice for an employer or other entity to fail to make reasonable accommodation for the known physical or mental disability of an applicant or employee. FEHA further makes it an unlawful practice for an employer or other entity to fail to engage in a timely, good faith, interactive process with the employee or applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, in response to a request for reasonable accommodation by an employee or applicant with a known physical or mental disability or known medical condition. This bill would make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail to provide to an employee who is working from home at least 30 calendar days’ advance notice before requiring the employee to return to work in person. The bill would prohibit an employee from being required to return to work in person until the employer p
rovides notice in accordance with the bill. The bill would require that notice be written and sent by mail or email and include, at a minimum, prescribed text with information about the rights of an employee to reasonable accommodation for a disability. (Based on 09/11/2023 text) Monitor
SB 735 Cortese, D

San Francisco
Bay Area
Regional
Housing
Finance Act:
expenditure of
funds: public
works.
06/27/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production. The act vests the authority with various powers, including authorizing it to place a measure on the ballot to raise revenue and allocate funds throughout the San Francisco Bay area, apply for and receive grants or loans from public and private entities, incur and issue bonds and other indebtedness, and otherwise incur liabilities or obligations, as specified. The act authorizes the authority to allocate and deploy financing to cities, counties, other public agencies within the San Francisco Bay area, and private affordable housing developers to finance affordable housing development, as specified. The act requires revenue generated pursuant to the act be used for the construction of new affordable housing, affordable housing preservation, tenant protection programs, planning and technical assistance related to affordable housing, and for infrastructure to support housing and other purposes, as specified. Under this bill, a construction or rehabilitation project receiving funding or financing from revenue under the act, as specified, would constitute a public work for which prevailing wages are required to be paid pursuant to current law. The bill would require that certain projects with 40 units or more be eligible to receive funding or financing from revenue generated under the act only if all construction and rehabilitation will be subject to a project labor agreement, as defined, with the same terms as the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Major Projects Project Stabilization Agreement, as specified and defined, except that if a regional or countywide project labor agreement, as defined, that meets certain requirements is negotiated, then the bill would provide that those projects are eligible for funding or financing from the agency only if all construction and rehabilitation is subject to that project labor agreement. (Based on 06/27/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 187

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 751 Padilla, D

Franchise
agreements:
solid waste
handling
services: labor
dispute.
10/08/2023
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
01/25/2024 -
Stricken
from file.

Veto
sustained.
10/08/2023 -
Senate VETO
ED
Would prohibit any franchise contracts, licenses, or permits for solid waste handling services, as defined, entered into or substantially amended, as defined, by a local agency on or after January 1, 2024, from containing a force majeure provision that excuses the service provider from complying with the franchise contracts, licenses, or permits in the event of a work stoppage associated with a labor dispute, as defined. The bill would require specified provisions to be included in any exclusive franchise contract, license, or permit for solid waste handling services entered into or substantially amended by a local agency after January 1, 2024, and would require these provisions to apply in the event of service being disrupted by a work stoppage associated with a labor dispute. (Based on 09/19/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 755 Becker, D

Energy
efficiency and
building
decarbonizatio
n programs.
07/12/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/23/2023)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law requires certain state agencies, including the Energy Commission, to develop and implement various energy efficiency programs. This bill, the California’s Layered Energy Applications for Residents (CLEAR) Act of 2023, would require the Energy Commission to develop and make publicly available an internet website for energy efficiency and building decarbonization programs administered by the Energy Commission, federal or local governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations that are available in the state for residential buildings and residential electricity customers, as specified. The bill would require the Energy Commission to enable customer
application for the included programs through the internet website. The bill would prohibit including energy efficiency and building decarbonization programs established or administered by the Public Utilities Commission on the internet website, but would authorize the Energy Commission to provide a link to programs that cannot be included. (Based on 07/12/2023 text) Monitor
SB 768 Caballero, D

California
Environmental
Quality Act:

Department of
Housing and
Community
Development:
vehicle miles
traveled: study.
09/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
773,
Statutes of
2024.
09/27/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare, develop, and transmit to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for certification and adoption proposed revisions to guidelines establishing criteria, for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), for determining the significance of transportation impacts of projects within transit priority areas to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the development of multimodal transportation networks, and a diversity of land uses. Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state. This bill would require the department, in consultation with local governments and other interested parties, as specified, by January 1, 2028, and subject to an appropriation by the Legislature fo r this
purpose, to conduct and post on its internet website a study on how vehicle miles traveled is used as a metric for measuring transportation impacts of housing projects pursuant to CEQA. The bill would require the study to include, among other things, an analysis of the differences in the availability and feasibility of mitigation measures to housing projects for vehicle miles traveled in rural, suburban, urban, and low vehicle miles traveled areas. The bill would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2029. (Based on 09/27/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 188

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 783 Archuleta, D

Veterans:
suicide.
05/18/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location was
M. & V.A. on
6/8/2023)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would authorize the Counties of Los Angeles and Nevada to create a veteran suicide prevention training pilot program to offer individuals in each county specialized training and certification in suicide prevention with military-connected populations. The bill would require the program to train individuals to identify indicators of elevated suicide risk and provide emergency crisis intervention and referrals for veterans, as specified. (Based on 05/18/2023 text) Monitor
SB 790 Padilla, D

Public records:
contracts for
goods and
services.
07/13/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/13/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter 77,
Statutes of
2023.
07/13/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Public Records Act requires public records to be open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency that retains those records, and provides that every person has a right to inspect any public record, except as provided. The act requires state and local agencies to make public records available upon receipt of a request for a copy that reasonably describes an identifiable record not otherwise exempt from disclosure, and upon payment of fees to cover costs. This bill would provide that any executed contract for the purchase of goods or services by a state or local agency, including the price and terms of payment, is a public record subject to disclosure under the act. (Based on 07/13/2023 text) Monitor
SB 794 Niello, R

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
judicial
challenge:
identification of
contributors:
housing
projects.
03/20/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA authorizes specified entities to file and maintain with a court an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul an act of a public agency on grounds of noncompliance with the requirements of the act. This bill would require an action or proceeding brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annual acts or decision of a public agency for a commercial, housing, or public works project that helps to address longstanding critical needs in the project area and that results in an investment of at least $25,000,000 in the state on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 365 days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court. (Based on 03/20/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 796 Alvarado-Gil,
R

Threats:
schools and
places of
worship.
04/27/2023
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
7/2/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to any person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 04/27/2023 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 189

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 799 Portantino, D

Unemployment
insurance:
trade disputes:
eligibility for
benefits.
09/30/2023
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
01/25/2024 -
Stricken
from file.

Veto
sustained.
09/30/2023 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits and extended benefits to eligible individuals who meet specified requirements. Under current law, unemployment benefits are paid from the Unemployment Fund, which is continuously appropriated for these purposes. Current law makes an employee ineligible for benefits if the employee left work because of a trade dispute and specifies that the employee remains ineligible for the duration of the trade dispute. Current case law holds that employees who left work due to a lockout by the employer, even if it was in anticipation of a trade dispute, are eligible for benefits. This bill would restore eligibility after the first 2 weeks for an employee who left work because of a trade dispute. The bill would codify specified case law that holds that employees who left work due to a lockout by the employer, even if it was in anticipation of a trade dispute, are eligible for benefits. The bill would specify that the bill’s provisions do not diminish eligibility for benefits of individuals deprived of work due to an employer lockout or similar action, as specified. (Based on 09/19/2023 text) Monitor
SB 834 Portantino, D

Vehicles:
preferential
parking:
residential,
commercial, or
other
development
project.
02/22/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
RLS. on
2/29/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking, and permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities. Current law prohibits a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project, as defined, that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. Current law, notwithstanding the above- described prohibition, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a housing development project if specified conditions are m et.

Current law authorizes a local authority to authorize preferential parking for designated groups to park on specified streets if the local authority determines that use of the permits will not adversely affect parking conditions for residents and merchants in the area. This bill would prohibit a local authority from issuing any permit conferring preferential parking privileges to any residents or vendors of any developments within 1/2 mile of public transit and exempt from parking minimums.

The bill would require the local authority to revise the boundaries of any such preferential parking district to exclude those developments from its boundaries. The bill would make related findings and declarations, and state that it is the intent of the Legislature to discourage car use by incentivizing development near public transit. (Based on 02/22/2024 text) Monitor
SB 855 Archuleta, D

Fair
Employment
and Housing
Act: veterans.
02/17/2023
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
02/01/2024 -
Returned to
Secretary of
Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule

56. 01/12/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee on account of certain characteristics, including a person’s veteran or military status. The act prescribes various unlawful employment practices and requires the Civil Rights Department to, among other things, receive, in vestigate, and prosecute complaints
alleging violations of those unlawful practices.This bill would make it an unlawful employment practice to require an employee who is a veteran, as defined, to work on November 11, known as Veterans Day, if specified conditions are met. (Based on 02/17/2023 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 190

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 867 Allen, D

Safe Drinking
Water, Wildfire
Prevention,
Drought
Preparedness,
and Clean Air
Bond Act of
2024.
07/03/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/03/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter 83,
Statutes of
2024
07/03/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart, sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor access, and clean air programs. (Based on 07/03/2024 text)
SB 867 and AB
1567 - Support if
Amended Letter

04.22.24 (1).pdf
Support if
Amended
SB 868 Wilk, R

Pupil safety:
trauma kits.
07/12/2023
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/16/2023)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would, commencing with the 2024–25 school year and contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes, require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to (1) equip each classroom at each of its schoolsites with a trauma kit, as defined, (2) inspect and replace or replenish each trauma kit, as necessary, upon each use and at least once every three years, and (3) notify, at least once each school year, its employees of the location of the trauma kits and provide them with contact information for training in the use of the trauma kit, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would exempt from civil liability a person who renders emergency care or treatment by the use of a trauma kit at the scene of an emergency, as specified. (Based on 07/12/2023 text)
Monitor
SB 892 Padilla, D

Public
contracts:
automated
decision
systems:
procurement
standards.
09/22/2024
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
09/20/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/20/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law requires all contracts for the acquisition of information technology goods and services related to information technology projects, as defined, to be made by or under the supervision of the Department of Technology. Current law requires all other contracts for the acquisition of information technology goods or services to be made by or under the supervision of the Department of General Services. Under current law, both the Department of Technology and the Department of General Services are authorized to delegate their authority to another agency, as specified. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA. The CCPA, as amended, establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to implement and enforce the CCPA. This bill would require the Department of Technology to develop and adopt regulations to create an automated decision system (ADS) procurement standard. To develop those regulations, the bill would require the department to consider principles and industry standards addressed in specified publications regarding AI risk management. (Based on 09/05/2024 text)
SB 892 - SJ
Support

06.25.24.pdf
Governor
Signature
Request
Support
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 191

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 893 Padilla, D

California
Artificial
Intelligence
Research Hub.
07/03/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would require the Government Operations Agency, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, the California Privacy Protection Agency, and the Department of Technology to collaborate to establish the California Artificial Intelligence Research Hub (hub) in the Government Operations Agency, as prescribed. The bill would require the hub to serve as a centralized entity to facilitate collaboration between government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector partners to advance artificial intelligence research and development that seeks to harness the technology’s full potential for public benefit while safeguarding privacy, advancing security, and addressing risks and potential harms to society, as prescribed. (Based on 07/03/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 896 Dodd, D

Generative
Artificial
Intelligence
Accountability
Act.
09/29/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/29/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
928,
Statutes of
2024.
09/29/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, current law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. This bill, the Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act, would, among other things, require the Department of Technology, under the guidance of the Government Operations Agency, the Office of Data and Innovation, and the Department of Human Resources, to update the report to the Governor, as required by Executive Order No. N-12-23, as prescribed. (Based on 09/29/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 899 Skinner, D

Protective
orders:
firearms.
09/24/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/24/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
544,
Statutes of
2024.
09/24/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law prohibits a person subject to specified protective orders from owning a firearm or ammunition. Current law requires a person subject to those orders to relinquish any firearms or ammunition they own. Commencing January 1, 2026, this bill would require the court, when issuing those orders, to provide the person subject to the order with information on how any firearms or ammunition still in their possession are to be relinquished, as specified. The bill would require the court to review the file to determine whether the receipt has been filed and inquire as to whether the person has complied with the requirement. The bill would require violations of the firearms or ammunition prohibition to be reported to the prosecuting attorney in the jurisdiction where the order has been issued within 2 business days of the court hearing unless the restrained party provides a receipt showing compliance at a subsequent hearing or by direct filing with the clerk of the court. (Based on 09/24/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 192

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 902 Roth, D

Firearms:
public safety.
09/24/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/24/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
545,
Statutes of
2024.
09/24/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who has been convicted of certain misdemeanors may not, within 10 years of the conviction, own, purchase, receive, possess or have under their custody or control, any firearm and makes a violation of that prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Current law, with certain exceptions, makes it a crime to maliciously and intentionally maim, mutilate, torture, wound, or kill a living animal. This bill would provide that any person convicted of a misdemeanor violation of the above-described crimes, on or after January 1, 2025, may not, within 10 years of the conviction, access a firearm as described above, and would make a violation of that prohibition a misdemeanor. (Based on 09/24/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 903 Skinner, D

Environmental
health: product
safety:
perfluoroalkyl
and
polyfluoroalkyl
substances.
04/11/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/29/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would, beginning January 1, 2032, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as defined, unless the Department of Toxic Substances Control has made a determination that the use of PFAS in the product is a currently unavoidable use, the prohibition is preempted by federal law, or the product is previously used. The bill would specify the criteria and procedures for determining whether the use of PFAS in a product is a currently unavoidable use, for renewing that determination, and for revoking that determination. The bill would require the department to maintain on its internet website a list of each determination of currently unavoidable use, when each determination expires, and the products and uses that are exempt from the prohibition. The bill would impose an administrative penalty for a violation of the prohibition, as specified. The bill would establish the PFAS Penalty Account and require all administrative penalties received to be deposited into that account and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used for the administration and enforcement of these provisions, as specified. (Based on 04/11/2024 text) Monitor
SB 905 Wiener, D

Crimes: theft
from a vehicle.
08/16/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
08/16/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
170,
Statutes of
2024
08/16/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Current law makes the burglary of a vehicle punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would make forcibly entering a vehicle, as defined, with the intent to commit a theft or a felony therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. (Based on 08/16/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 193

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 915 Cortese, D

Local
government:
autonomous
vehicle service.
05/16/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location was
TRANS. on
6/3/2024)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law authorizes an autonomous vehicle, as defined, to be operated on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle being operated if certain requirements are met, including that the vehicle is being operated solely by employees, contractors, or other persons designated by the manufacturer. Current law prohibits an autonomous vehicle from being operated on public roads until the manufacturer submits an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles containing certain certifications regarding safety and other technological requirements and the department approves that application pursuant to adopted regulations. Current law, commencing January 1, 2030, and to the extent authorized by federal law, prohibits the operation of certain new autonomous vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles, as defined. This bill would authorize a city with a population of 250,000 or greater that an autonomous vehicle service, as defined, has received authorization by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Public Utilities Commission, or any other applicable state agency to operate, to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by enacting an ordinance in regard to autonomous vehicle servic
es within that jurisdiction. The bill would require each city that enacts an ordinance to include certain provisions within that ordinance. These would include a policy for entry into the business of providing autonomous vehicle services including a permitting program that includes, among other things, the establishment of reasonable vehicle caps and hours of service restrictions. The bill would authorize a city with a population of less than 250,000 that shares a border or is contiguous to a city that has enacted an autonomous vehicle services ordinance to enact an ordinance substantially consistent with that autonomous vehicle services ordinance. (Based on 05/16/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 923 Archuleta, D

Theft. 03/18/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
PUB. S. on
2/14/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, defines and prohibits an act of shoplifting and prohibits prosecution for an act of shoplifting under any other law. Existing law defines shoplifting as entering a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny while the establishment is open during regular business hours.This bill would revise the definition of shoplifting to require an intent to steal retail property or merchandise. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 03/18/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 194

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 925 Wiener, D

City and
County of San
Francisco:
merchandising
sales.
06/26/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Under current law, knowingly buying or receiving stolen property or property that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, as specified, is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony if the value of the property exceeds $950. Current law authorizes a local authority to, by ordinance or resolution, adopt requirements regulating the time, place, and manner of sidewalk vending if the requirements are directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns. Current law prohibits a local authority from regulating sidewalk vendors, except in accordance with certain provisions. This bill, until January 1, 2030, would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the sale of specified merchandise on public property without a permit, if the ordinance includes specified written findings, including, among other things, that there has been a significant pattern of merchandise being the subject of retail theft and then appearing for sale on public property within the City and County of San Francisco. The bill would require an ordinance adopted by the City and County of San Francisco to, among other things, identify a local permitting agency that is responsible for administering a permit system. The bill would authorize the ordinance to provide that selling merchandise without a permit is punishable as an infraction, and that subsequent violations after 2 prior convictions is an infraction or a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/26/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 926 Wahab, D

Crimes:
distribution of
intimate
images.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
289,
Statutes of
2024.
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would make it a crime for a person who is 18 years of age or older to intentionally create and distribute or cause to be distributed any photo realistic image, digital image, electronic image, computer image, computer-generated image, or other pictorial representation of an intimate body part or parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person depicted engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, or an image of masturbation by the person depicted or in which the person depicted participates that was created in a manner that would cause a reasonable person to believe the image is an authentic image of the person depicted, under circumstances in which the person distributing the image knows or should know that distribution of the image will cause serious emotional distress, and the person depicted suffers that distress. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 647 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 1874, AB 1962, and SB 1414, to be operative only if this bill and some or all of those other bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (Based on 09/19/2024 text) SB 926 - SJ
Support

06.14.24.pdf
Support
SB 928 Niello, R

Crimes:
organized theft.
01/12/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
PUB. S. on
2/14/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or
finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely. (Based on 01/12/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 195

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 933 Wahab, D

Crimes: child
pornography.
07/03/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law makes it a crime to, among other things, possess any matter, representation of information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide, photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc, data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film or filmstrip, the production of which involves the use of a person under 18 years of age, knowing that the matter depicts a person under 18 years of age personally engaging in or simulating sexual conduct. This bill would, for the purposes of those provisions, include an image generated through the use of artificial intelligence, as defined, as a computer-generated image. (Based on 07/03/2024 text) SB 933 - SJ
Support

06.14.24.pdf
Support
SB 937 Wiener, D

Development
projects: fees
and charges.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
290,
Statutes of
2024.
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Mitigation Fee Act regulates fees for development projects, fees for specific purposes, including water and sewer connection fees, and fees for solar energy systems, among others. The act, among other things, requires local agencies to comply with various conditions when imposing fees, extractions, or charges as a condition of approval of a proposed development or development project. The act prohibits a local agency that imposes fees or charges on a residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date of the final inspection or the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except for utility service fees, which the local agency is authorized to collect at the time an application for utility service is received. The act exempts specified units in a residential development proposed by a nonprofit housing developer if the housing development meets certain conditions. This bill would limit the utility service fees exception described above to utility service fees related to connections, and cap those fees at the costs incurred by the utility provider resulting from the connection activities. (Based on 09/19/2024 text)
Support Letter Support
SB 938 Min, D

Electrical and
gas
corporations:
rate recovery:
political
activities and
advertising.
03/21/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
E. U., & C.
on
2/14/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would prohibit, except as provided, an electrical or gas corporation from recording various expenses associated with political influence activities, as defined, or with advertising, as defined, to accounts that contain expenses that the electrical or gas corporation recovers from ratepayers.

The bill also would require an electrical or gas corporation, for each business unit of the corporation that performs work associated with political influence activities or advertising, to annually file with the commission a report containing specified information. The bill would require the commission to make the report publicly available. (Based on 03/21/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 196

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 942 Becker, D

California AI
Transparency
Act.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
291,
Statutes of
2024.
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, existing law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. This bill, the California AI Transparency Act, would, among other things, require a covered provider, as defined, to make available an artificial intelligence (AI) detection tool at no cost to the user that meets certain criteria, including that the AI detection tool is publicly accessible. The bill would require a covered provider to offer the user an option to include a manifest disclosure in image, video, or audio content, or content that is any combination thereof, created or altered by the covered provider’s generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) system that, among other things, identifies content as AI-generated content and is clear, conspicuous, appropriate for the medium of the content, and understandable to a reasonable person. The bill would require a covered provider to include a latent disclosure in AI- generated image, video, audio
content, or content that is any combination thereof, created by the covered provider’s GenAI system that, among other things, to the extent that it is technically feasible and reasonable conveys certain information, either directly or through a link to a permanent internet website, regarding the provenance of the content. (Based on 09/19/2024 text) Monitor
SB 955 Seyarto, R

Office of
Planning and
Research:

Infrastructure
Gap-Fund
Program.
04/04/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/15/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would require the Office of Planning and Research, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program to provide grants to local agencies to develop and construct infrastructure projects, as defined. The bill would authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s total cost, subject to specified requirements, including, among other things, that the office is prohibited from awarding a grant to a local agency unless the local agency provides funding that has been raised through local taxes for at least 10% of the infrastructure project’s total cost. The bill would require the office to develop guidelines to implement the program that establish the criteria by which grant applications will be evaluated and funded. The bill would make these provisions operative January 1, 2027. (Based on 04/04/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 197

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 960 Wiener, D

Transportation:
planning:
complete
streets
facilities: transit
priority
facilities.
09/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
630,
Statutes of
2024.
09/27/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires the Department of Transportation to improve and maintain the state’s highways, and establishes various programs to fund the development, construction, and repair of local roads, bridges, and other critical transportation infrastructure in the state, including the state highway operation and protection program (SHOPP). Current law requires the department, in consultation with the California Transportation Commission, to prepare a robust asset management plan to guide selection of projects for the SHOPP. Current law requires the commission, in connection with the plan, to adopt targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives. Existing law requires the department to develop, in consultation with the commission, a plain language performance report to increase transparency and accountability of the SHOPP. This bill would require the targets and performance measures adopted by the commission to include targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives for complete streets assets that reflect the existence and conditions of bicycle, pedestrian, and transit priority facilities on the state highway system. The bill would require the department’s plain language performance report to include a description of complete streets facilities, including pedestrian, bicycle, and transit priority facilities on each project, as specified. (Based on 09/27/2024 text)
SB 960 Support
Letter

04.17.24.pdf
Governor
Signature
Request
Support
SB 961 Wiener, D

Vehicles: safety
equipment.
09/28/2024
-
Vetoed
HT
ML PDF
09/28/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/28/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Would require, commencing with the 2030 model year, every passenger vehicle, motortruck, and bus manufactured, sold as new, or leased as new in the state to be equipped with a passive intelligent speed assistance system, as specified, that would utilize a brief, one-time, visual and audio signal to alert the driver each time the speed of the vehicle is more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. The bill would exempt emergency vehicles, certain motortrucks, motorcycles, motorized bicycles, mopeds, and certain passenger vehicles from this requirement. The bill would require the system to be capable of being fully disabled, by the manufacturer or a franchisee, for emergency vehicles. The bill would require the system, if the system receives conflicting speed limits for the same area, to apply the higher speed limit. (Based on 09/05/2024 text) Monitor
SB 968 Seyarto, R

Planning and
zoning:
regional
housing needs
allocation.
01/24/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was

HOUSING
on
2/14/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires each council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to develop a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to cities, counties, and cities and counties within the region or within the subregion, as provided. Current law requires the consideration of several specified factors in developing the methodology. Current law prohibits certain criteria from being a justification for a determination or reduction in a jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, including prior underproduction of housing in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation, as specified. This bill would permit the council of governments or delegate subregion, in developing the methodology, to consider prior overproduction of housing units in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation in a particular income category and to count it as credit toward the future regional housing need allocation of that same income category in the next cycle. The bill would provide that the amount eligible to count as credit toward the next cycle is determined by each jurisdiction’s most recent annual progress report, as specified. (Based on 01/24/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 198

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 969 Wiener, D

Alcoholic
beverages:
entertainment
zones:
consumption.
09/28/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/28/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
869,
Statutes of
2024.
09/28/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Current law defines “entertainment zone” for purposes of the act as a zone created by ordinance on or after January 1, 2024, in the City and County of San Francisco, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way adjacent to and during a special event permitted or licensed by the department. Current law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to establish an entertainment zone, subject to certain requirements, including providing specified information relating to the entertainment zone to the department and establishing a process or procedure by which persons in possession of alcoholic beverages in the entertainment zone may be readily identifiable as being 21 years of age or older. This bill would, instead, define “entertainment zone” as a zone created by a city, county, or city and county ordinance on or after January 1, 2025, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way. The bill would additionally authorize any city, county, or city and county to establish an entertainment zone, subject to the above-described requirements. Before enacting an ordinance to establish or modify an entertainment zone, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to notify local law enforcement and request feedback about specific information, including, among others, the entertainment zone’s proposed boundaries and days and hours of operation. (Based on 09/28/2024 text) SB 969_Sponsor

02.02.24.pdf
Governor
Signature
Request
Sponsor
SB 970 Ashby, D

Artificial
intelligence
technology.
04/11/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/6/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law prohibits the false impersonation of another person in either their personal or official capacity with the intent to steal or defraud, as specified. This bill would define various terms related to artificial intelligence and synthetic content, and would clarify that use of such synthetic content, as specified, is deemed to be a false personation for purposes of these and other criminal provisions. (Based on 04/11/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 972 Min, D

Methane
emissions:
organic waste:
landfills.
09/22/2024
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
09/20/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/20/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the state and to achieve a reduction in specified emissions, including methane, as provided. Current law requires the methane reduction goals to include a 75% reduction target from the 2014 level by 2025.

Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations, as provided, that achieve the targets for reducing organic waste in landfills. This bill would require the department to provide procedures for local jurisdictions to request technical assistance regarding organic waste and methane reduction requirements from the department, to post those procedures on its internet website, and to provide that technical assistance, as specified. (Based on 08/30/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 199

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 981 Wahab, D

Sexually
explicit digital
images.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
292,
Statutes of
2024
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would require a social media platform to provide a mechanism that is reasonably accessible to a reporting user who is a California resident who has an account with the social media platform to report digital identify theft to the social media platform. The bill would define “sexually explicit digital identity theft” to mean the posting of covered material on a social media platform and would define “covered material” to mean material that meets certain criteria, including that the material is an image or video created or altered through digitization that would appear to a reasonable person to be an image or video of an intimate body part of an identifiable person or an identifiable person engaged in certain sexual acts, and that the reporting person is the person depicted in the material and did not consent to the use of the reporting person’s likeness in the material. The bill would also require a social media platform to immediately remove a reported instance of sexually explicit digital identity theft from being publicly viewable on the social media platform if the social media platform determines there is a reasonable basis to believe the reported sexually explicit digital identity theft is sexually explicit digital identity theft, as prescribed. (Based on 09/19/2024 text) SB 981 - SJ
Support

06.14.24.pdf
Support
SB 982 Wahab, D

Crimes:
organized theft.
08/16/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
08/16/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
171,
Statutes of
2024
08/16/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Existing law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant's premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant's premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely. By extending the operation of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/16/2024 text)
SB 982 - Support

05.14.24.pdf
Support
SB 983 Wahab, D

Energy:
gasoline
stations and
alternative fuel
infrastructure.
09/23/2024
-
Vetoed
HT
ML PDF
09/22/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/22/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with jurisdiction over various energy-related matters. This bill would require the commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to form the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Taskforce to conduct a study on retail gasoline fueling stations and alternative fuels infrastructure, as provided. The bill would require the taskforce, on or before January 1, 2027, to submit to the Legislature a report on the study with information and recommendations. (Based on 09/03/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1011 Jones, R

Encampments:
penalties.
02/05/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
PUB. S. on
2/14/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Under current law, a nuisance is anything that is injurious to health or indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Current law also provides that a nuisance is anything that obstructs the free passage or use of any public park, square, street, or highway, among other things. Under current law, a public nuisance is a nuisance that affects the entire community, neighborhood, or a considerable number of persons. Current law provides various remedies against a public nuisance, including abatement by any public body or officer authorized by law. This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon a street or sidewalk if a h
omeless shelter, as defined, is available to the person. The bill would also prohibit sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property within 500 feet of a public or private school, open space, or major transit stop, as specified. The bill would specify that a violation of this prohibition is a public nuisance that can be abated and prevented, as specified. The bill would also provide that a violation of the prohibition may be charged as a misdemeanor or an infraction, at the discretion of the prosecutor. The bill would prohibit a person from being found in violation of the bill’s provisions unless provided notice, at least 72 hours before commencement of any enforcement action, as specified. (Based on 02/05/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1018 Becker, D

Electricity. 07/03/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The Public Utilities Act defines “electrical corporation” to include every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant for compensation within this state, excep
t as specified. The act authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. This bill would revise the definition of “electrical corporation” to exclude a corporation or person employing certain solar or wind generating technology if electricity is transmitted exclusively and directly through private electrical lines to a single facility owned by a different corporation or person that uses the electricity only for new load, not for departing load, and for an electrolytic hydrogen production facility, as defined, or a facility using the electricity to provide industrial process heat, or both. (Based on 07/03/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1031 Wiener, D

San Francisco
Bay area: local
revenue
measure:
transportation
improvements.
05/20/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
DESK on
5/24/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a local area planning agency for the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Current law creates various transit districts located in the San Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services.

This bill would authorize the commission to raise and allocate new revenue and incur and issue bonds and other indebtedness, as specified. In this regard, the bill would authorize the commission, until January 1, 2041, to impose a retail transactions and use tax, a regional payroll tax, a par
cel tax, and a regional vehicle registration surcharge in all or a subset of the 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay area, except as specified, in accordance with applicable constitutional requirements. The bill would prohibit a tax or surcharge described above from being imposed for a period of time of more than 30 years. The bill would require the parcel tax to be collected by counties and the other 3 taxes to be collected by specified state agencies, and would require the net revenues from those taxes to be remitted to the commission, as prescribed. (Based on 05/20/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1037 Wiener, D

Planning and
zoning: housing
element:
enforcement.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
293,
Statutes of
2024.
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The Planning and Zoning Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. The Planning and Zoning Law requires HCD to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes HCD to notify the office of the Attorney General, that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the local government has taken action in violation of specified provisions of law. The Planning and Zoning Law also requires, among other things, that an application for a housing development be subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to bring its general plan into substantial compliance with provisions regulating general plans and specifies timelines under which the city or county is required to bring its zoning ordinance into consistency if the court finds in favor of a plaintiff in an action challenging the validity of a general plan, or any mandatory element thereof, as specified.

This bill, in any action brought by the Attorney General or HCD to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions, as specified, or to enforce any state law that requires a city, county, or local agency to ministerially approve any planning or permitting application related to a housing development project, as specified, would subject the city, county, or local agency to specified remedies, including a civil penalty of, at minimum, $10,000 per month, and not exceeding $50,000 per month, for each violation, as specified. The bill would require that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when the local agency’s acts or omissions, as described, are arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair. The bill would require a court to modify certain of its prior orders, including an order directing a city or county to substantially comply with provisions regulating general plans and to bring its zoning ordinance into consistency, to impose, among other things, the maximum penalty specified in these provisions, as provided. (Based on 09/19/2024 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1047 Wiener, D

Safe and
Secure
Innovation for
Frontier
Artificial
Intelligence
Models Act.
09/29/2024
-
Vetoed HT
ML PDF
09/29/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/29/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, current law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. This bill would enact the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act to, among other things, require that a developer, before beginning to initially train a covered model, as defined, comply with various requirements, including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown, as defined, and implement a written and separate safety and security protocol, as specified. The bill would require a developer to retain an unredacted copy of the safety and security protocol for as long as the covered model is made available for commercial, public, or foreseeably public use plus 5 years, including records and dates of any updates or revisions and would require a developer to grant to the Attorney General access to the unredacted safety and security protocol. The bill would prohibit a developer from using a covered model or covered model derivative for a purpose not exclusively related to the training or reasonable evaluation of the covered model or compliance with state or federal law or making a covered model or a covered model derivative available for commercial or public, or foreseeably public, use, if there is an unreasonable risk that the covered model or covered model derivative will cause or materially enable a critical harm, as defined. The bill would require a developer, beginning January 1, 2026, to annually retain a third-party auditor to perform an independent audit of compliance with those provisions, as prescribed. (Based on 09/03/2024 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1053 Blakespear, D

Solid waste:
recycled paper
bags:
standards:
carryout bag
prohibition.
09/22/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/22/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
453,
Statutes of
2024.
09/22/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law prohibits a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer at the point of sale, with specified exceptions, including an exemption for bags used to contain unwrapped food. Current law defines a “single-use carryout bag” as a bag made of plastic, paper, or other material that is provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale and that is not a recycled paper bag or a reusable grocery bag that meets specified requirements, including that the bag be made by a certified reusable grocery bag producer and meets specified requirements with regard to the bag’s durability, material, labeling, heavy metal content, and, with regard to reusable grocery bags made from plastic film, recycled material content. Current law prohibits a producer of reusable grocery bags made from plastic film from selling or distributing those bags unless the producer is certified by a third-party certification entity, and provides proof of that certification and a certification fee to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, as specified. Current law also prohibits a store from selling or distributing a recycled paper bag at the point of sale unless the store makes that bag available for purchase for not less than $0.10. C urrent law defines
“recycled paper bag,” in part, as a paper carryout bag that contains a minimum of 40% postconsumer recycled materials, except as provided, and meets other requirements. Current law allows a retail establishment to voluntarily comply with these requirements, if the retail establishment provides the department with irrevocable notice. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, recast the definition of a “single-use carryout bag” to a “carryout bag,” and would revise the definition to mean a bag made of plastic, paper, or other material that is provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale for the purpose of carrying purchased goods and that is not a recycled paper bag. The bill would create a carryout bag exception to include a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item, as specified. The bill would revise the definition of “recycled paper bag” to require it be made from a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and after January 1, 2028, without exception. (Based on 09/22/2024 text)
SB 1053 Support

05.23.24.pdf
Support
SB 1095 Becker, D

Cozy Homes
Cleanup Act:
building
standards: gas-
fuel-burning
appliances.
04/08/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/15/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 (the “act”), requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to enforce various laws pertaining to the structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and installations or equipment of a manufactured home, mobilehome, commercial coach, or special purpose commercial coach. The act defines “manufactured home” and “mobilehome” to mean a structure that meets specified requirements, including that the structure is transportable in one or more sections and is 8 body feet or more in width, or 40 body feet or more in length, in the traveling mode, or, when erected onsite, is 320 or more square feet, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained within the structure. The act specifies that it does not prohibit the replacement of water heaters or appliances for comfort heating in manufactured homes or mobilehomes with fuel-gas- burning water heaters or fuel-gas appliances for comfort heating that are not specifically listed for use in a manufactured home or mobilehome, as specified. This bill would extend those provisions to also apply to electric water heaters and electric appliances for comfort heating that are not specifically listed for use in a manufactured home or mobilehome. (Based on 04/08/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1103 Menjivar, D

Tenancy of
commercial
real properties:
agreements:
building
operating
costs.
09/30/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/30/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
1015,
Statutes of
2024.
09/30/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires a landlord of a residential dwelling to give notice to the tenant a certain number of days before the effective date of a rent increase depending on the amount of the increase, as specified. This bill would apply this requirement to leases of commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, as defined. The bill would specify, in all leases for commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, that a rent increase would not be effective until the notice period required by these provisions has expired. The bill would also specify that a violation of these provisions would not entitle a qualified commercial tenant to civil penalties. The bill would require a landlord of a commercial real property to include information on these provisions in the notice. (Based on 09/30/2024 text)
Support Letter Support
SB 1116 Portantino, D

Unemployment
insurance:
trade disputes:
eligibility for
benefits.
02/13/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location was
INS. on
6/3/2024)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits and extended benefits to eligible individuals who meet specified requirements. Under current law, unemployment benefits are paid from the Unemployment Fund, which is continuously appropriated for these purposes. Current law makes an employee ineligible for benefits if the employee left work because of a trade dispute and specifies that the employee remains ineligible for the duration of the trade dispute. Existing case law holds that employees who left work due to a lockout by the employer, even if it was in anticipation of a trade dispute, are eligible for benefits. This bill would restore eligibility after the first 2 weeks for an employee who left work because of a trade dispute. (Based on 02/13/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1130 Bradford, D

Electricity:

Family Electric
Rate
Assistance
program.
09/22/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/22/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
457,
Statutes of
2024.
09/22/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to continue a program of assistance to residential customers of the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations consisting of households of 3 or more persons with total household annual gross income levels between 200% and 250% of the federal poverty guideline level, which is referred to as the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program. This bill would expand eligibility for the FERA program by eliminating the requirement that a household consist of 3 or more persons. The bill would require the commission, by March 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, to require the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations to report on their efforts to enroll customers in the FERA program. The bill would require the commission, by June 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, to review each electrical corporation’s report to ensure it has made reasonable efforts to enroll eligible households in the FERA program commensurate with the proportion of households the commission determines to be eligible within the electrical corporation’s service territory. (Based on 09/22/2024 text) SJCE LOS_SB
1130
(Bradford).pdf
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1142 Menjivar, D

Electrical and
gas
corporations:
restoration and
termination of
services.
09/25/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/25/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
600,
Statutes of
2024.
09/25/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law prohibits an electrical or gas corporation from terminating residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the corporation first gives notice of the delinquency and impending termination, as provided. Existing law requires the notice to include information on procedures by which the affected residential customer may initiate a complaint, request an investigation concerning the service or charges, and request amortization of the unpaid charges.

Current law requires that a residential customer who initiated a complaint, requested an investigation, or requested an extension of the payment period be given an opportunity for review of the complaint, investigation, or request by a review manager of the corporation. Current law requires the review to include a consideration of whether the customer is to be permitted to amortize the unpaid balance of the delinquent account over a reasonable time period, not to exceed 12 months.This bill would require an electrical or gas corporation to restore service to a residential customer whose service was previously terminated for nonpayment of delinquent amounts upon the customer entering into an amortization agreement or any other arrearage payment plan determined by the commission. The bill would require the restoration of service to occur by specified deadlines. (Based on 09/25/2024 text) SB 1142 Support
Letter

04.17.24.pdf
SB 1142 - SJ
Support

06.11.24.pdf
Governor
Signature
Request
Support
SB 1143 Allen, D

Paint products:
stewardship
program.
09/29/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/29/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
989,
Statutes of
2024.
09/29/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law establishes the architectural paint recovery program, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) and requires a manufacturer or designated stewardship organization to develop and implement a stewardship plan. Current law requires the stewardship plan to include a recovery program to reduce the generation of, promote the reuse of, and manage the end-of-life of, postconsumer architectural paint, as provided. Current law prohibits a manufacturer or retailer from selling or offering for sale architectural paint in the state unless the manufacturer is in compliance with the program. Current law requires the stewardship organization to pay to CalRecycle quarterly administrative fees to cover CalRecycle’s full administrative and enforcement costs of the program, as provided. Existing law authorizes CalRecycle to impose a civil penalty on any person in violation of the program, as specified.

Current law requires CalRecycle to adopt regulations to implement the program. Current law establishes the Architectural Paint Stewardship Account and the Architectural Paint Stewardship Penalty Subaccount in the Integrated Waste Management Fund for the deposit of fees and civil penalties, respectively, imposed pursuant to the program and makes moneys in the account and subaccount available upon appropriation by the Legislature for purposes of the program. This bill would revise and recast the architectural paint recovery program as the paint product recovery program. The bill would expand the scope of the stewardship program from architectural paint to paint products, and thereby subject paint products to the requirements of the program. The bill would def
ine “paint product” to mean architectural coatings, aerosol coating products, nonindustrial coatings, and coating-related products, as provided. The bill would exempt aerosol coating products, coating-related products, and nonindustrial coatings added to the stewardship program by the bill from the requirements of the program until January 1, 2028, or the approved stewardship plan’s implementation date for those products, whichever occurs sooner, as specified.

Among other changes, the bill would require a manufacturer, individually or through a stewardship organization, to review its plan at least every 5 years after approval by CalRecycle and determine whether amendments to the plan are necessary. (Based on 09/29/2024 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1144 Skinner, D

Marketplaces:
online
marketplaces.
08/16/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
08/16/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
172,
Statutes of
2024
08/16/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Existing law generally requires an online marketplace to require a high-volume third-party seller on the online marketplace to make certain disclosures. Existing law requires an online marketplace to suspend future sales activity of a high-volume third-
party seller that is not in compliance with those
information sharing requirements, as specified. Existing law imposes certain information retention and security requirements on an online marketplace and prohibits specified uses of that information. This bill would revise the types of transactions that qualify a third-party seller as a "high-volume third-party seller," for those purposes. Specifically, the bill would remove the conditions that the transactions be made through an online marketplace and that the online marketplace process the payment and, instead, would add the condition that the transactions were made utilizing an online marketplace. The bill would also revise the definition of "online marketplace" by removing the conditions that the above-described features be used by third-party sellers, and that the platform have the above-described contractual relationship with consumers.

This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/16/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1160 Portantino, D

Firearms. 04/24/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/6/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law, subject to exceptions, makes it a misdemeanor to openly carry an exposed and unloaded handgun in a public place. Current law generally makes that crime punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for up to 6 months, or by a fine not to exceed $1,000. Current law, if the exposed and unloaded handgun is being carried in a public place or public street in an incorporated city, makes that crime punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or by a fine not to exceed $1,000 if the handgun and unexpended ammunition capable of being discharged from that handgun are in the immediate possession of that person and the person is not in lawful possession of the handgun. This bill would extend that increased punishment to also apply if the person with immediate possession of the handgun and unexpended ammunition capable of being discharged from that handgun is not listed with the Department of Justice as the owner of that firearm, as specified. (Based on 04/24/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1164 Newman, D

Property
taxation: new
construction
exclusion:
accessory
dwelling units.
05/16/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
REV. & TAX
on 6/3/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. For purposes of this limitation, “full cash value” is defined as the assessor’s valuation of real property as shown on the 1975–76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred. This bill would exclude from classification as “newly constructed” and “new construction” the construction of an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, if construction on the unit is completed on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, until one of specified events occurs. The bill would require the property owner to, among other things, notify the assessor that the property owner intends to claim the exclusion for an accessory dwelling unit and submit an affidavit stating that the owner shall make a good faith effort to ensure the unit will be used as residential housing for the duration the owner receives the exclusion. (Based on 05/16/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1167 Blakespear, D

Solid waste:
single-use
drinking
vessels.
04/04/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
E.Q. on
2/21/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law prohibits a full-service restaurant, as specified, from providing single-use plastic straws, as defined, to consumers unless requested by the consumer. Current law requires a city, county, or city and county, to authorize an enforcement agency to enforce these provisions.

Current law specifies that the first and 2nd violations of these provisions would result in a notice of violation and any subsequent violation would be an infraction punishable by a fine of $25 for each day the full-service restaurant is in violation, but not to exceed an annual total of $300. This bill would require a chain restaurant, before serving a beverage, to ask a customer if the customer intends to consume the beverage on the premises or off the premises. The bill would prohibit a chain restaurant from serving a beverage in a single-use vessel if a customer indicates intent to consume the beverage on the premises, as specified, and would subject a violator to the enforcement provisions described above. (Based on 04/04/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1190 Laird, D

Mobilehomes:
solar energy
systems.
07/18/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
07/18/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
162,
Statutes of
2024
07/18/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
This bill would make any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any rental agreement or other instrument affecting the tenancy of a homeowner or resident in a mobilehome park, in a subdivision, cooperative, or condominium for mobilehomes, or in a resident-owned mobilehome park that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a solar energy system, as defined, on the mobilehome or the site, lot, or space on which the mobilehome is located void and unenforceable. The bill would make it unlawful for the management or the ownership to prohibit or restrict a homeowner or resident from installing or using a solar energy system on the home or the site, lot, or space on which the mobilehome is located or to take other specified actions in connection with the inst
allation or use of a solar energy system, except as specified. The bill would exempt imposition of reasonable restrictions on solar energy systems, as defined. The bill would require a solar energy system to meet applicable health and safety standards and requirements imposed by state and local permitting authorities. The bill would make any entity that willfully violates these provisions in a subdivision, cooperative, or condominium for mobilehomes, or a resident-owned mobilehome park liable to the homeowner, resident, or other party for actual damages occasioned thereby, and for a civil penalty paid to the homeowner, resident, or other party in an amount not to exceed $2,000. (Based on 07/18/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1193 Menjivar, D

Airports: leaded
aviation
gasoline.
09/22/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/22/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
460,
Statutes of
2024.
09/22/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would prohibit an airport operator or aviation retail establishment, as defined, from selling, distributing, or otherwise making available leaded aviation gasoline to consumers on or after January 1, 2031, as provided. Because these provisions would be part of the State Aeronautics Act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 09/22/2024 text) SB 1193
Support.pdf
SB 1193 Support

05.09.24.pdf
SB 1193 - SJ
Support

06.10.24.pdf
SB 1193 - SJ
Support

08.05.24.pdf
Governor
Signature
Request
Support
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 208

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1205 Laird, D

Workers’
compensation:
medical
treatment.
08/19/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
locatio
n was

INACTIVE
FILE on
8/26/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee, as defined, for injuries that arise out of, and in the course of, employment. Current law requires employers to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, licensed clinical social worker, and hospital treatment reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury.

Current law makes it a misdemeanor for an employer to discharge, threaten to discharge, or discriminate against, or for an insurer to advise, direct, or threaten an insured to discharge, an employee because they have filed or made known their intention to file a claim for compensation, or an application for adjudication, or because the employee has received a rating, award, or settlement, as specified. This bill would require an employee, when possible, to make a reasonable ef
fort to schedule treatment outside of work hours. The bill would require the employee to provide notice if treatment occurs during work hours, as specified, and require the employer to provide this leave during work hours unless business necessity requires the treatment to occur at a different time or on a different day. The bill would require that the leave taken by an employee pursuant to these provisions run concurrently with leave taken pursuant to the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and the California Family Rights Act if the employee would have been eligible for that leave. (Based on 08/19/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1210 Skinner, D

New housing
construction:
electrical, gas,
sewer, and
water service:
service
connection
information.
09/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
787,
Statutes of
2024.
09/27/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, gas corporations, sewer system corporations, and water corporations, while local publicly owned utilities, including municipal utility districts, public utility districts, and irrigation districts, are under the direction of their governing boards. This bill would, for new housing construction, require the above-described utilities, on or before January 1, 2026, to publicly post on their internet websites (1) the schedule of estimated fees for typical service connections for each housing development type, including, but not limited to, accessory dwelling unit, mixed-use, multifamily, and single-family developments, except as specified, and (2) the estimated timeframes for completing typical service connections needed for each housing development type, as specified. The bill would exempt from its provisions a utility with fewer than 4,000 service connections that does not establish or maintain an internet website due to a hardship and would authorize the utility to establish that a hardship exists by annually adopting a resolution that includes detailed findings, as provided. (Based on 09/27/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1211 Skinner, D

Land use:
accessory
dwelling units:
ministerial
approval.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
296,
Statutes of
2024.
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. That law prohibits, if a local agency adopts an ordinance to create ADUs in those zones, the local agency from requiring the replacement of offstreet parking spaces if a garage, carport, or covered parking structure is demolished in conjunction with the construction of, or is converted to, an ADU. This bill
would also prohibit the local agency from requiring the replacement of offstreet parking spaces if an uncovered parking space is demolished in conjunction with the construction of, or is converted to, an ADU. (Based on 09/19/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 209

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1212 Skinner, D

Real estate
investment
trusts:
purchase,
acquisition, and
sale of housing.
04/22/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
05/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(6).
(Last
location was
JUD. on
2/29/2024)
05/02/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The bill would reset that 60-day timeline if the seller changes the asking price for the housing. The bill would prohibit a real estate investment trust that purchases or acquires any housing in compliance with these provisions from paying a final sales price that less than 95% of the publicly listed asking price. The bill would impose civil damages upon a real estate investment trust that violates these provisions in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000. The bill would absolve a seller of housing from liability under these provisions if the seller obtains a written release signed by the buyer stating that the buyer is not a real estate investment trust. (Based on 04/22/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1216 Blakespear, D

Transportation
projects: Class
III bikeways:
prohibition.
09/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
788,
Statutes of
2024.
09/27/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law establishes 4 classifications of bikeways and defines a “Class III bikeway” as a bikeway that provides a right-of-way on-street or off-street, designated by signs or permanent markings and shared with pedestrians and motorists. This bill would define “sharrow” as the pavement marking used to inform road users that bicyclists might occupy the travel lane. The bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, an agency responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing a new sharrow on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour, except as specified. (Based on 09/27/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1219 Seyarto, R

Crimes:
prostitution.
02/15/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
PUB. S. on
2/29/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would make it a misdemeanor to loiter in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, and would make other conforming changes. The bill would make a person guilty of disorderly conduct if they operate a motor vehicle in any public place and repeatedly beckon to, contact, or attempt to contact or stop pedestrians or other motorists, or impede traffic, with the intent to solicit prostitution. The bill would authorize a court to suspend, for not more than 30 days, the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle for a first conviction of these offenses. The bill would, for a
2nd or subsequent conviction, require the vehicle used in the commission of the crime to be impounded for 30 days, as specified. (Based on 02/15/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1239 Grove, R

State vehicle
fleet: zero-
emission
vehicles: raw
materials: child
labor.
04/24/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/13/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires the Department of General Services, beginning no later than the 2024–25 fiscal year, to ensure that at least 50% of the light-duty vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet each fiscal year are zero-emission vehicles, except as provided. This bill would require the department to require a supplier of zero-emission vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to certify that any raw materials used in the manufacturing of the zero-emission vehicles, including, but not limited to, cobalt and lithium, come from mining operations that are free of child labor. (Based on 04/24/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 210

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1243 Dodd, D

Campaign
contributions:
agency officers.
09/30/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/30/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
1017,
Statutes of
2024.
09/30/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits certain contributions of more than $250 to an officer of an agency by any party, participant, or party or participant’s agent in a proceeding while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding, as specified.

The act requires disclosure on the record of the proceeding, as specified, of certain contributions of more than $250 within the preceding 12 months to an officer from a party or participant, or party’s agent. The act disqualifies an officer from participating in a decision in a proceeding if the officer has will
fully or knowingly received a contribution of more than $250 from a party or a party’s agent, or a participant or a participant’s agent, as specified. The act allows an officer to cure certain violations of these provisions by returning a contribution, or the portion of the contribution of in excess of $250, within 14 days of accepting, soliciting, or receiving the contribution, whichever comes latest. This bill would raise the threshold for contributions regulated by these provisions to $500, as specified. The bill would extend the period during which an officer may cure a violation to within 30 days of accepting, soliciting, or directing the contribution, whichever is latest. The bill would specify that a person is not a “participant” for the purposes of these provisions if their financial interest in a decision results solely from an increase or decrease in membership dues. (Based on 09/30/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1255 Durazo, D

Public water
systems: needs
analysis: water
rate assistance
program.
06/19/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law establishes the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water in both the near and long terms. Current law requires the state board to annually adopt a fund expenditure plan, as provided, and requires expenditures from the fund to be consistent with the fund expenditure plan.

Current law requires the state board to base the fund expenditure plan on data and analysis drawn from a specified drinking water needs assessment. This bill would require the state board to update a needs analysis of the state’s public water systems to include an assessment, as specified, of the funds necessary to provide a 20% bill credit for low-income households served by community water systems with fewer than 3,300 service connections and for community water systems with fewer than 3,300 service connections to meet a specified affordability threshold on or before July 1, 2026, and on or before July 1 of every 3 years thereafter. (Based on 06/19/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1280 Laird, D

Waste
management:
propane
cylinders:
reusable or
refillable.
09/22/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/22/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
466,
Statutes of
2024.
09/22/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, establishes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and requires the department to adopt rules and regulations, as necessary, to carry out the act.This bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit the sale or offer for sale of propane cylinders other than those propane cylinders that are reusable or refillable, as defined. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of this bill with an effective date of January 1, 2028. (Based on 09/22/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 211

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1297 Allen, D

The City of
Malibu’s speed
safety system
pilot program.
09/27/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
631,
Statutes of
2024.
09/27/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a speed safety system pilot program if the system meets specified requirements. Existing law requires a participating city or city and county to adopt a Speed Safety System Use Policy and a Speed Safety System Impact Report before implementing the program, and requires the participating city or city and county to engage in a public information campaign at least 30 days before implementation of the program, including information relating to when the systems would begin detecting violations and where the systems would be utilized. Current law requires a participating city or city and county to issue warning notices rather than notices of violations for violations detected within the first 60 calendar days of the program. This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2032, the City of Malibu to establish a similar program for speed enforcement that utilizes up to 5 speed safety systems on the Pacific Coast Highway. (Based on 09/27/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1298 Cortese, D

Certification of
thermal
powerplants:
data centers.
08/19/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
RLS. on
8/27/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with the exclusive power to certify all locations on which an electrical transmission line or thermal powerplant is constructed, or is proposed to be constructed, and related electrical transmission lines or thermal powerplants. Current law authorizes the commission to exempt from certification a thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of up to 100 megawatts, and modifications to existing generating facilities that do not add capacity in excess of 100 megawatts, if the commission finds that no substantial adverse impact on the environment or energy resources will result from the construction or operation of the proposed facility or from the modifications.This bill would additionally authorize the commission to exempt from certification a thermal powe rplant with
a generating capacity of up to 150 megawatts if specified requirements are met, including that it is used solely as a backup generation facility for a data center, it is located on the customer side of the meter and is not interconnected to the distribution system, a skilled and trained workforce is used to perform all construction work on the facility, as specified, the commission finds that no substantial adverse impact on the environment or energy resources will result from the construction and operation of the facility, and the commission obtains a determination from the applicable air pollution control district or air quality management district that the facility’s backup generation technology meets the best available control technology requirements. The bill would require the owner or operator of a facility granted an exemption under the bill to fully mitigate the facility’s impacts on air quality, as provided. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2027. (Based on 08/19/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 212

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1300 Cortese, D

Health facility
closure: public
notice: inpatient
psychiatric and
perinatal
services.
09/28/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/28/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
894,
Statutes of
2024.
09/28/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Under current law, a general acute care hospital is required to provide certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Current law authorizes a general acute care hospital to provide various special or supplemental services if certain conditions are met. Current regulations define a supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient service that is not required to be provided by law or regulation. Current law requires a health facility to provide 90 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of a supplemental service, and 120 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of an acute psychiatric hospital. This bill would change the notice period required before proposed closure or elimination of the supplemental service of inpatient psychiatric unit or a perinatal unit from 90 days to 120 days. By changing the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the health facility to provide public notice of the proposed elimination of the supplemental service of either inpatient psychiatric unit or perinatal unit, as specified. The bill would require the health facility to conduct at least one noticed public hearing within 60 days of providing public notice of the proposed elimination of the inpatient psychiatric unit or perinatal unit and would require the health facility to accept public comment. The bill would require the health facility to post the public hearing notice and the agenda along with the public notice. (Based on 09/28/2024 text) SB 1300 Support

05.17.24.pdf
Updated Support
Letter
Support
SB 1340 Smallwood-
Cuevas, D

Discrimination. 09/26/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/26/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
626,
Statutes of
2024.
09/26/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The Unruh Civil Rights Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on specified bases. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (act) prohibits discrimination in housing and employment on specified bases. Current law establishes the Civil Rights Department (department) and prescribes its functions, duties, and powers, including to receive, investigate, conciliate, mediate, and prosecute complaints alleging employment discrimination pursuant to specified laws, including the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the act. Current law specifies that while it is the intention of the Legislature that the act occupy the field of regulation of discrimination in employment and housing, the act does not limit or restrict the application of the Unruh Civil Rights Act. This bill would also specify that nothing in the act limits or restricts efforts by any city, city and county, county, or other political subdivision of the state to enforce local law prohibiting discrimination in employment against classes of persons covered by the act if certain requirements are met, including a requirement that local enforcement is pursuant to a local law that is at least as protective as the act. (Based on 09/26/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1346 Durazo, D

Workers’
compensation:
aggregate
disability
payments.
02/16/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/22/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of their employment. Current law requires every employer to establish a utilization review process, as described, and establishes an independent medical review process to resolve disputes over a utilization review decision, as specified. Current law requires that aggregate disability payments for a single injury occurring on or after certain dates be limited to no more than 104 or 240 compensable weeks, as provided. This bill would authorize, on or after January 1, 2025, the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board to award temporary disability benefits, as specified, if a denial of treatment requested by a treating physician is subsequently overturned by independent medical review. (Based on 02/16/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 213

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1361 Blakespear, D

California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption:
local agencies:
contract for
providing
services for
people
experiencing
homelessness.
08/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
08/19/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
188,
Statutes of
2024
08/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts for its requirements, among other things, actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, or a local agency not acting as the lead agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, as provided. This bill would additionally exempt from CEQA’s requirements actions taken by a local agency to approve a contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness, as provided. (Based on 08/19/2024 text) Support Letter Support
SB 1372 Newman, D

Airports: third-
party vendors:
security lanes.
06/18/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location was
TRANS. on
6/3/2024)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Would prohibit a public airport that provides commercial services from entering into an agreement that authorizes a private third-party vendor that provides expedited security screening to use the standard security lane or the Transportation Security Administration PreCheck security lane. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not apply if there was an agreement between the public airport and the private third-party vendor that was entered into before January 1, 2025. The bill would also provide that the prohibition does not apply to an agreement between a public airport and a private third-party vendor if the private third-party vendor has obtained dedicated Transportation Security Administration security lanes solely for use by the private third-party vendor at that public airport. (Based on 06/18/2024 text) SB 1372 -
Oppose

05.14.24.pdf
Oppose
SB 1374 Becker, D

Net energy
metering.
09/27/2024
-
Vetoed
HT
ML PDF
09/27/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Gover
nor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/27/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Current law requires the commission to develop a standard contract or tariff, which may include net energy metering, for eligible customer-generators, as defined, with a renewable electrical generation facility, as defined, that is a customer of a large electrical corporation. Current law requires, in developing the standard contract or tariff for large electrical corporations, the commission to take specified actions. This bill would require, no later than July 1, 2025, the commission to ensure that any contract or tariff established by the commission pursuant to the above-described provisions for renewable electrical generation facilities configured to serve multiple customers with meters at one or more apartment buildings on a single property, or configured to serve multiple meters of a single customer on a public school property, or a set of contiguous public school properties owned, leased, or rented by the public school customer, meets certain requirements, as specified. The bill would require the commission, no later than July 1, 2026, to ensure that any contract or tariff established by the commission pursuant to a specified commission decision meets specified requirements, as provided. (Based on 09/04/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1381 Wahab, D

Crimes: child
pornography.
09/29/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/29/2024 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter
929,
Statutes of
2024.
09/29/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law prohibits the production, development, duplication, distribution, or possession, as specified, of matter, in specified formats, that depicts a person under 18 years of age engaging in or simulating sexual conduct, as defined. Current law separately prohibits this conduct where it is done for consideration or where such matter is shared with a minor. Current law also prohibits the employment or use of a minor, or the permitting by a parent or guardian of the employment or use of a minor for the production of such matter. Current law authorizes the forfeiture and destruction of such matter regardless of whether a conviction is sought or obtained. This bill would expand the scope of certain of these provisions to include matter that is digitally altered or generated by the use of artificial intelligence, as such matter is defined. (Based on 09/29/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1387 Newman, D

California
Hybrid and
Zero-Emission
Truck and Bus
Voucher
Incentive
Project: vehicle
eligibility:
schoolbus
grant
requirements.
06/10/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was
TRANS. on
6/3/2024)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The state board, in this capacity, administers the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project under which the agency issues a limited number of vouchers to incentivize the purchase and use of zero-emission commercial vehicles. This bill would require the state board to authorize a voucher issued under the program to be used for the acquisition of any zero-emission vehicle that meets specified requirements, including that the vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating that exceeds 8,500 pounds and the vehicle is purchased for fleet operations by a public or private fleet or for personal and commercial use by an individual. (Based on 06/10/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1395 Becker, D

Shelter crisis:

Low Barrier
Navigation
Center: use by
right: building
standards.
09/19/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/19/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
297,
Statutes of
2024
09/19/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law authorizes a governing body of a political subdivision, as those terms are defined, to declare a shelter crisis if the governing body makes a specified finding. Upon declaration of a shelter crisis, existing law, among other things, suspends certain state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances to the extent that strict compliance would prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis and allows a city, county, or city and county, in lieu of compliance, to adopt by ordinance reasonable local standards and procedures for the design, site development, and operation of homeless shelters and the structures and facilities therein. Current law, among other things, exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act specified actions by a state agency or a city, county, or city and county to lease, convey, or encumber land owned by a city, county, or city and county, or to facilitate the lease, conveyance, or encumbrance of land owned by the local government for, or to provide financial assistance to, a homeless shelter constructed or allowed by these provisions. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.This bill would expand the exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act described above to include action taken by a state agency or a city, county, or city and county, to approve a contract to provide services for people experiencing homelessness to a homeless shelter constructed pursuant to, or authorized by, these provisions, as specified. (Based on 09/19/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 215

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1416 Newman, D

Sentencing
enhancements:
sale, exchange,
or return of
stolen property.
08/16/2024
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
08/16/2024 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State -
Chapter
174,
Statutes of
2024
08/16/2024 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Existing law defines types of theft, including petty theft, grand theft, and shoplifting. Existing law also defines the crime of burglary, which consists of entering specified buildings, places, or vehicles with the intent to commit grand or petty theft or a felony. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, create sentencing enhancements for selling, exchanging, or returning for value, or attempting to sell, exchange, or return for value, any property acquired through one or more acts of shoplifting, theft, or burglary from a retail business, if the property value exceeds specified amounts. The bill would additionally make these enhancements apply to any person acting in concert with another person to violate these provisions. By adding new sentencing enhancements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/16/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1419 Rubio, D

Food Desert
Elimination
Grant Program.
09/23/2024
-
Vetoed
HT
ML PDF
09/22/2024 -
Vetoed by
the
Governor. In
Senate.

Consideratio
n of
Governor's
veto
pending.
09/22/2024 -
Senate VETO
ED
Existing law creates the Office of Farm to Fork within the Department of Food and Agriculture, and requires the office, to the extent that resources are available, to work with various entities, as prescribed, to increase the amount of agricultural products available to underserved communities and schools in the state. Existing law requ
ires the office, among other things, to identify distribution barriers that affect limited food access and work to overcome those barriers through various actions and to coordinate with school districts and representatives to increase the nutritional profile of foods provided in schools. This bill would create the Food Desert Elimination Grant Program under the administration of the department for the purpose of expanding access to healthy foods in food deserts, as defined, in the state, and areas at risk of becoming food deserts, by providing grants to grocery store operators, as specified. The bill would create the Food Desert Elimination Fund in the General Fund and would authorize the fund to be expended by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the program. The bill would authorize the department to collect nonstate, federal, and private funds, require those funds to be deposited into the California Equitable Food Access Account within the Food Desert Elimination Fund, and continuously appropriate moneys in the account to the department for purposes of the program, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would authorize the department to award grants to grocery store operators seeking to locate grocery stores in food deserts and to award grants, totaling no more than 20% of the total program funding, to grocery store operators for equipment upgrades for grocery stores located in food deserts to expand or provide healthy foods for sale.

The bill would authorize the departme
nt to adopt guidelines to implement these provisions. The bill would make the implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would repeal these provisions on December 31, 2030. (Based on 09/05/2024 text)
Support Letter Support
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1426 Blakespear, D

Waste
reduction:
undiverted
materials.
04/10/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
05/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(6).
(Last
location was
E.Q. on
4/3/2024)
05/02/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste, as defined. Existing law authorizes each county, city, district, or other local governmental agency to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and whether the services are to be provided by means of nonexclusive franchise, contract, license, permit, or otherwise. The act requires a city, county, or city and county, or regional agency formed under the act, to develop a source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste management plan containing specified components. The act requires those jurisdictions to divert 50% of the solid waste subject to the element, except as specified, through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities. This bill would prohibit an exclusive franchise, contract, license, or permit to provide services for diversion from exceeding the services required to be performed and actually performed under the exclusive authorization. The bill would require a person who provides services for diversion by means other than a franchise, contract, license, or permit, to comply with applicable law, as specified. (Based on 04/10/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1431 Cortese, D

San José State
University: fire
building
protection
standards.
04/11/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
G.O. on
4/10/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law, except as provided, requires the State Fire Marshal to prepare and adopt building standards relating to fire protection in the design and construction of the means of egress and the adequacy of exit from, and the installation and maintenance of fire alarm and fire extinguishment equipment or systems in, any state institution or other state-owned building or in any specified state-occupied building. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to prepare and adopt regulations other than building standards for the installation and maintenance of equipment and furnishings that present unusual fire hazards in any state institution or other state-owned building or in any specified state-
occupied building. Current law requires, except as provided, the State Fire Marshal to enforce those regulations in all state-owned buildings, specified state-occupied buildings, and state institutions throughout the state. Current law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The California State University comprises 23 institutions of higher education, including San José State University. This bill would prohibit the State Fire Marshal from having authority over the development of a project known as Spartan Village on the Paseo for use by San José State University, including related improvements associated with that project, for the purpose of fire or life safety activities, other safety-related activities, plan checks, inspections, building permits, or certificates of occupancy, conditional or otherwise. (Based on 04/11/2024 text) SB 1431 Support

05.17.24.pdf
Support
SB 1439 Ashby, D

Surplus Land
Act: exempt
surplus land:
health facilities:

City of
Sacramento.
06/10/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location was
H. & C.D. on
6/19/2024)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Current law defines “surplus land” for these purposes to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a regular public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Current law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for the disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land,” except as provided. Current law defines “exempt surplus land” to include certain types of land, including surplus land that the local agency is exchanging for another property necessary for the agency’s use. This bill would define “exempt surplus land” to include land that: (1) is being or will be developed for a health facility, as defined and specified; (2) is located at one of certain sites within the City of Sacramento; (3) is not identified in the sites inventory in the applicable housing element for lower income households; and (4) will be subject to a recorded deed restriction for a period of 55 years, as specified. (Based on 06/10/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 217

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1461 Allen, D

State of
emergency and
local
emergency:
landslide.
05/16/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location
was

INACTIVE
FILE on
8/31/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law defines the term “state of emergency” and “local emergency” to mean a duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by, among other things, fire, storm, riot, or cyberterrorism. This bill would additionally include a landslide among those causes of the conditions constituting a state of emergency or local emergency. (Based on 05/16/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1462 Glazer, D

Subdivisions:
disbursements
of deposits.
04/25/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
05/16/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/13/2024)
05/16/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law regulates the sale of subdivided lands and prescribes definitions for this purpose.

Current law defines a subdivision to include, among other things, condominium projects and planned developments, as specified, and other common interest developments. Current law requires a person who intends to offer subdivided lands for sale or lease to file with the Department of Real Estate an application for a public report, as specified. Current law prescribes various restrictions on the sale or lease of lots in a subdivision. In certain instances, current law permits lots to be sold or leased only if the money paid or advanced by a purchaser or lessee is placed into an escrow account or a bond furnished for the purpose of protecting purchasers or lessees. This bill would permit a purchaser’s deposit that is held in escrow pursuant to a binding sales contract for a lot or parcel within a subdivision that is not yet constructed or developed to be disbursed before closing to pay for project construction costs, as specified. The bill would permit the disbursement of a purchaser’s deposit before closing and the conveyance or leasing of any unit before completion of construction if specified conditions are met, including, among other things, that the developer has submitted to the Department of Real Estate a project budget showing all costs required to be paid in order to complete the project, the department has reviewed and approved the proposed disbursement, and the purchaser provides express informed consent to the disbursement, as specified. If a purchaser’s funds are to be disbursed before the completion of construction of the project, the bill would require the developer to submit specified information to the Department of Real Estate, including, among other things, a copy of the purchaser’s express informed consent to the disbursement. (Based on 04/25/2024 text) SB 1462 Letter of
Support

04.03.24.pdf
Support
SB 1470 Glazer, D

Construction
defect cases.
02/16/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
04/25/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location was
JUD. on
2/29/2024)
04/25/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law sets forth standards for determining liability in an action seeking the recovery of damages arising out of, or related to, deficiencies in residential construction, design, and related issues, and specifies the characteristics of those deficiencies. This bill would require a deficiency in the specific standards described above to materially affect the habitability or usefulness of the residential dwelling unit and to be a result of a failure to meet the standard of care in order for the builder to be liable, as specified. The bill would define “standard of care” as the level of care standard in an industry for similar work performed in the state. (Based on 02/16/2024 text) Support
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

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Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1487 Glazer, D

Vehicles:
parking
violations.
07/03/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/15/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location was
APPR.

SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2024)
08/15/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
Current law requires the schedule of parking penalties for parking violations and late payment penalties to be established by the governing body of the jurisdiction where the notice of violation is issued, as specified. This bill would specify that, when paid by mail, payment of a parking penalty or late payment penalty is deemed received on the date payment is postmarked. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, prohibit a late payment penalty for a parking violation from exceeding 30% of the established parking penalty. (Based on 07/03/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1494 Glazer, D

Local agencies:

Sales and Use
Tax: retailers.
05/20/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
05/24/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(11).
(Last
location was

INACTIVE
FILE on
5/24/2024)
05/24/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose a local sales and use tax in accordance with that law for tangible personal property sold at retail in the city or county, or purchased for storage, use, or other consumption in the city or county. That law requires the city or county to contract with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for the administration of the taxes and requires the department to transmit those taxes to the city or county. That law provides that for the purpose of a local sales tax adopted pursuant to that law, all retail sales are consummated at the place of business of the retailer unless otherwise specified. Current law prohibits a local agency, defined to mean all cities and counties, from entering into any form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to any person, as defined, for any purpose, if the agreement results in a reduction in the amount of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues that, in the absence of the agreement, would be received by another local agency and the retailer continues to maintain a physical presence within the territorial jurisdiction of that other local agency, with specified exceptions. This bill would additionally prohibit, on or after January 1, 2024, a local agency from entering into, renewing, or extending any form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley- Burns local tax revenues to any retailer, as defined, in exchange for the retailer locating or continuing to maintain a place of business that serves as the place of sale, as defined, within the territorial jurisdiction of the local agency if that place of business would generate revenue, from the sale of tangible property delivered to and received by the purchaser in the territorial jurisdiction of another local agency, for the local agency under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law. (Based on 05/20/2024 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 219

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1497 Menjivar, D

Polluters Pay
Climate Cost
Recovery Act
of 2024.
04/25/2024
-
Amended H

TML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was

INACTIVE
FILE on
5/22/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Would enact the Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act of 2024 and would establish the Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Program to be administered by the California Environmental Protection Agency to require fossil fuel polluters to pay their fair share of the damage caused by the sale of their products during the covered period, which the bill would define as the time period between the 2000 and 2020 calendar years, inclusive, to relieve a portion of the burden from climate harms that is borne by California taxpayers. The bill would require the agency, within 90 days of the effective date of the act, to determine and publish a list of responsible parties, which the bill would define as an entity with a majority ownership interest in a business engaged in extracting or refining fossil fuel that, during the covered period, did business in the state or otherwise had sufficient contact with the state and is determined by the agency to be responsible for more than 1,000,000,000 metric to
ns of covered fossil fuel emissions, as defined, in aggregate, globally during the covered period. (Based on 04/25/2024 text) Monitor
SB 1502 Ashby, D

Controlled
substances:
xylazine.
06/06/2024
-
Amended
H

TML PDF
07/02/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location was
PUB. S. on
6/3/2024)
07/02/2024 -
Assembly DE
AD
The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act categorizes controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions on those substances contained in Schedule I.

Under current law, the substances in Schedule I are deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use while substances in Schedules II through V are substances that have an accepted medical use, but have the potential for abuse. Current law restricts the prescription, furnishing, possession, sale, and use of controlled substances, and makes a violation of those laws a crime, except as specified. Current law defines drug paraphernalia and prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, and possession, as specified, of drug paraphernalia.

Current law excludes from these prohibitions any testing equipment that is designed, marketed, used, or intended to be used to analyze a substance for the presence of fentanyl, ketamine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or any analog of fentanyl. This bill would add xylazine to the list of Schedule III substances, as specified. If an animal drug containing xylazine that has been approved under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is not available for sale in California, the bill would create an exception for a substance that is intended to be used to compound an animal drug, as specified. (Based on 06/06/2024 text)
SB 1502 Letter of
Support

04.03.24.pdf
Support
SB 1505 Stern, D

Aircraft
registration.
02/16/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location
was
TRANS. on
2/29/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway any motor vehicle, as defined, unless it has been registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles. Current law generally requires specified information to be submitted to the department and specified vehicle registration fees to be paid to the department at the time of a vehicle’s registration or a renewal of a vehicle’s registration. Under current law, it is an infraction for a person to violate, or fail to comply with, a provision of the Vehicle Code, unless otherwise specified. This bill would require the owner of an aircraft based in this state to register the aircraft with the department, as specified. The bill would require the original or renewal registration of an aircraft to include specified information. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/16/2024 text) Monitor
Attachment B: Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 220

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SB 1506 Stern, D

Housing Crisis
Act of 2019.
02/16/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
RLS. on
2/16/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The Housing Crisis Act of 2019, among other things, prohibits an affected city or affected county from approving any development project that will require the demolition of occupied or vacant protected units, or that is located on a site where protected units were demolished in the previous 5 years, unless specified requirements are satisfied. Current law defines various terms for the purpose of carrying out these provisions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition provisions. (Based on 02/16/2024 text)
Monitor
SB 1510 Stern, D

Permitting:
electric vehicle
charging.
02/16/2024
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
RLS. on
2/16/2024)
08/31/2024 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires every city, county, and city and county to administratively approve an application to install electric vehicle charging stations through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit and requires the review of an application to install an electric vehicle charging station to be limited to the building official’s review of whether it meets all health and safety requirements of local, state, and federal law. Current law requires an electric vehicle charging station to comply with, among other things, all applicable rules of the Public Utilities Commission regarding safety and reliability, as specified. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would reduce state and local permitting barriers for electric vehicle charging. (Based on 02/16/2024 text) Monitor
SBX1 1 Jones, R

Motor vehicle
fuel tax:
greenhouse
gas reduction
programs:
suspension.
12/05/2022
-
Introduced

HTML PDF
08/31/2024 -
Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location was
RLS. on
12/5/2022)
08/31/2024 -
Senate DEAD
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Current law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This bill would suspend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations for one year.

The bill would also exempt suppliers of transportation fuels from regulations for the use of market- based compliance mechanisms for one year. (Based on 12/05/2022 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2023-2024 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log

Last Updated 12/06/24 221

Measure Author Topic Current
Text
Status Location Brief Summary Attachments Position
SBX1 2 Skinner, D

Energy:
transportation
fuels: supply
and pricing:
maximum
gross gasoline
refining margin.
03/28/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
03/28/2023 -
Approved by
the
Governor.

Chaptered
by Secretary
of State.

Chapter 1,
Statutes of
2023-24
First
Extraordinar
y Session.
03/27/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Current law requires operators of refineries in the state that produce gasoline meeting California specifications, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, to submit a report to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission containing certain information regarding its refining activities related to the production of gasoline in that month. Current law requires the commission to notify a refiner that has failed to timely provide the required information and imposes a civil penalty on the refiner that fails to submit the required information within 5 days of being notified of the failure. This bill would authorize the commission to establish a maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would require the commission, if the commission establishes the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, to establish a penalty for exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would authorize the commission to petition the court to enjoin a refiner from exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin. The bill would also authorize the commission to impose an administrative civil penalty on a refiner for exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would require the commission to consider a refiner’s request for an exemption from the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would require a refiner seeking an exemption to file a statement under the penalty of perjury setting forth the basis of the request for exemption. (Based on 03/28/2023 text)
Monitor
SJR 7 Wahab, D

Federal
constitutional
convention:
firearms.
09/21/2023
-
Chaptered

HTML PDF
09/21/2023 -
Chaptered
by Secretary
of State-
Chapter175,
Statutes of
2023
09/21/2023 -
Senate CHAP
TERED
Would apply to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment relating to firearms, as specified. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based on 09/21/2023 text)
Monitor
Total Measures: 627
Total Tracking Forms: 627

Attachment C: Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Reduce Unsheltered Homelessness, Support Unhoused Residents, and Increase Affordable Housing Supply

1 The Intergovernmental Relations team closely monitored several state bills related to homelessness and affordable housing within the Legislative Program.

Signed Bills

• SB 7 (Blakespear): This bill adds new requirements for homelessness outcome reporting.

• SB 450 (Atkins): This bill streamlines housing project approvals.

• SB 937 (Wiener): This bill defers impact (mitigation) fees till a project’s completion.

• SB 1211 (Skinner): This bill increases the allowable number of detached accessory dwelling units eligible for ministerial permitting on lots with an existing multifamily development.

• SB 1395 (Becker): This bill supports emergency shelter by right land use.

• AB 1886 (Alvarez): This bill allows builder’s remedy to take effect when a jurisdiction's Housing Element is found to be out of compliance by either the California Department of Housing and Community Development or a court.

• AB 1893 (Wicks): This bill ensures that developers using builder’s remedy still have to comply with objective standards.

• AB 2347 (Kalra): This bill expands the time that a tenant of residential real property has to file an answer to an unlawful detainer from five days to 10 days, requires that a landlord must file proof of service at least three days before they may request a default, and specifies timelines and procedures for a defendant to file a demurrer or motion to strike.

• AB 3035 (Pellerin): This expands the existing streamlined, ministerial approval process for farmworker housing to Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties.

Dead Bills

• SB 225 (Caballero): This bill would have supported anti-displacement efforts through funding and acquiring unrestricted housing units.

• SB 270 (Weiner): This bill would have provided CEQA exemptions for housing projects.

Attachment C: Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Reduce Unsheltered Homelessness, Support Unhoused Residents, and Increase Affordable Housing Supply

2 • SB 363 (Eggman): This bill would have created a dashboard on the availability of beds in inpatient facilities.

• SB 405 (Cortese): This bill would have required outreach to property owners as part of the housing element process.

• SB 466 (Wahab): This bill would have amended the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act to allow expansion of rent stabilization in cities with pre-1995 rent stabilization ordinance.

• SB 634 (Becker): This bill would have supported emergency shelter by right land use.

• SB 1462 (Glazer): This bill would have allowed developers, under certain circumstances, to use a buyer’s deposit for new condominium buildings towards construction costs.

• SB 1470 (Glazer): This bill would have amended construction defect liability law to limit developer responsibility.

• AB 59 (Gallagher): This bill would have raised the qualifying income threshold and increase the tax credit received for renter's tax credits.

• AB 430 (Bennett): This bill would have updated the statutory definition of a Community Land Trust to enable utilization of the welfare tax exemption for the various property types that Community Land Trusts manage.

• AB 919 (Kalra): This bill would have created a right of first offer requirement for the sale of residential property.

• AB 1000 (Reyes): This bill would have limited warehouse developments.

• AB 1532 (Haney): This bill would have made office conversion projects by right regardless of zoning.

• AB 1657 (Wicks): This bill would have authorized bonds to fund affordable rental housing and homeownership programs.

• AB 2584 (Lee): This bill would have prohibited a business entity, as defined, that has an interest in more than 1,000 single-family residential properties from purchasing, acquiring, or otherwise obtaining an ownership interest in another single-family residential property and subsequently leasing the property.

Attachment C: Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Reduce Unsheltered Homelessness, Support Unhoused Residents, and Increase Affordable Housing Supply

3 • AB 2881 (Lee): This bill would have enacted the Social Housing Act and establish the California Housing Authority for the purposes of development mixed-income social housing.

Attachment D: Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Enhance Community Safety and Promote Vision Zero Initiatives

1 The Intergovernmental Relations team closely monitored several state bills related to safety and Vision Zero issues aligned with the Legislative Program.

Signed Bills

• SB 268 (Alvarado-Gil): This bill classifies all rape violations as violent felonies.

• SB 400 (Wahab): This bill clarifies that law enforcement agencies have the discretion to proactively share disclosable incidents of misconduct without a public records request.

• SB 982 (Wahab): This bill extends the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely.

• AB 2943 (Zbur): This bill creates a new crime of retail theft with intent to sell.

Dead Bills

• SB 8 (Blakespear): This bill would have mandated a statewide gun liability insurance requirement modeled after San José’s 2022 ordinance.

• SB 13 (Ochoa Bogh): This bill would have required a written notice to someone that pleads guilty or no contest to certain drug crimes to advise that future offenses could lead to manslaughter or murder charges. This was the Senate companion bill to AB 18.

• SB 44 (Umberg): This bill would have required written advisory of increased penalties for a person convicted of selling or manufacturing controlled substances if a person dies as a result of future repeated action.

• SB 226 (Alvarado Gil): This bill would have prohibited the possession of fentanyl when armed with a loaded and operable firearm.

• SB 237 (Grove): This bill would have increased penalties for possession, production, and trafficking of fentanyl.

• SB 377 (Skinner): This bill would have removed the 10-day firearm waiting period exemption for peace officers and allow this exemption to apply only to law enforcement agencies.

• SB 915 (Cortese): This bill would have required autonomous vehicle service be authorized by local jurisdiction.

Attachment D: Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Enhance Community Safety and Promote Vision Zero Initiatives

2 • AB 18 (Patterson): This bill would have required a written notice to someone that pleads guilty or no contest to certain drug crimes to advise that future offenses could lead to manslaughter or murder charges. This was the Assembly companion bill to SB 13.

• AB 21 (Gipson): This bill would have required peace officer training on interactions with people Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.

• AB 29 (Gabriel): This bill would have allowed a California resident the ability to list themselves on a firearm “do not sell” list.

• AB 73 (Boerner): This bill would have required people 18 years and over who are riding a bicycle on a two-lane highway and approach a stop sign at an intersection to yield the right-of-way to any vehicles or pedestrians that are already at the intersection.

• AB 328 (Essayli): This bill would have prohibited a court from dismissing some firearms-related sentencing enhancements.

• AB 367 (Maienschein): This bill would have added sentence enhancements for providing controlled substance to someone who sustains significant harm from using it.

• AB 667 (Maienschein): This bill would have increased gun violence restraining orders from a maximum of five years to 10 years.

• AB 742 (Jackson): This bill would have prohibited the use of police canines in certain circumstances.

• AB 1990: This bill would have authorized a peace officer to make a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor shoplifting offense.

• AB 2583 (Berman): This bill would have lowered school speed limits to 20 mph.

• AB 3067 (Gipson): This bill would have required information on firearm storage on insurance questionnaires. This bill was gut-and-amended and was no longer tracked.

Attachment E – Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Advocate for Educational and Employment Opportunities that Foster Equitable Outcomes for San José Families

1 The Intergovernmental Relations team closely monitored several state bills related to advancing educational and employment opportunities aligned with the Legislative Program.

Signed Bills

• SB 1142 (Menjivar): This bill requires an electrical or gas corporation to restore service to a residential customer whose service was previously terminated for nonpayment upon entering into an amortization agreement.

• AB 51 (Bonta): This bill expands access to early childhood education.

• AB 1831 (Berman): This bill expands the scope of child sex crimes to include digitally altered or generated materials by the use of artificial intelligence.

Vetoed Bills

• SB 892 (Padilla): This bill would have required the state to develop and adopt an automated decision tool procurement standard.

• SB 1047 (Wiener): This bill would have enacted safety standards for develops of artificial intelligence.

Dead Bills

• SB 933 (Wahab): This bill would have expanded the crime of child sex materials to include images generated by the use of artificial intelligence.

• SB 1502 (Ashby): This bill would have restricted use and availability of xylazine.

• AB 24 (Haney): This bill would have required overdose kits to be available in certain public spaces, including libraries.

• AB 437 (Jackson): This bill would have defined equity for state agencies.

• AB 441 (Haney): This bill would have enabled advance monthly payments of California Earned Income Tax Credit, Young Child Tax Credit, and Foster Youth Credit, if the combined value of credits is at least $1,000.

• AB 605 (Arambula): This bill would have expanded CalFresh benefits for California-grown fruits and vegetables.

Attachment E – Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Advocate for Educational and Employment Opportunities that Foster Equitable Outcomes for San José Families

2 • AB 662 (Boerner): This bill would have required the state to use processes consistent with federal regulations when administering federal Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program funds.

• AB 679 (Wicks): This bill would have increased the reimbursement rate for meals served in family childcare homes.

• AB 1321 (Bonta): This bill would have established a grant program to support California families.

• AB 1565 (Jones-Sawyer): This bill would have funded equity grants for cannabis businesses.

• AB 1588 (Wilson): This bill would have expanded access to affordable internet to participants of certain public assistance programs.

• AB 1644 (Bonta): This bill would have created a nutrition support program through Medi-Cal.

Attachment F – Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Catalyze Downtown Revitalization and Cultivate Equitable Investment in our Neighborhoods

1 The Intergovernmental Relations team closely monitored several state bills related to downtown and equitable community investment issues aligned with the Legislative Program.

Signed Bills

• SB 969 (Wiener): This bill allows local jurisdictions to establish entertainment zones.

• SB 1103 (Menjivar): This bill requires commercial landlords to provide contract and notice translations for month-to-month rent increases or lease terminations, and places transparency and proportionality requirements on the fees a landlord may impose to recover building operating costs from qualified tenants.

• AB 1775 (Haney): This bill empowers local governments to authorize cannabis cafes, allowing cannabis retails to sell coffee, food, and offer live entertaining on- site.

• AB 2922 (Garcia): This bill reestablishes the authorization for capital investment incentive programs until January 1, 2035.

Dead Bills

• SB 1462 (Glazer): This bill would have allowed a condominium deposit to be used towards construction costs.

• SB 1470 (Glazer): This bill would have amended construction defect lability law on developers.

• AB 930 (Friedman): This bill would have permitted two or more local governments to jointly form a Reinvestment in Infrastructure for Sustainable and Equitable California district to unlock tax increment financing for infrastructure and equitable development.

• AB 1669 (Quirk-Silva): This bill would have established the California Historically Significant District Program for the purpose of revitalizing and maintaining historically and culturally significant commercial corridors.

Attachment G – Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Pursue Funding for Equitable, Sustainable, and Resilient Infrastructure and Advance San José's Climate Smart Goals

1 The Intergovernmental Relations team closely monitored several state bills related to infrastructure and environmental issues that are aligned with the Legislative Program.

Signed Bills

• SB 707 (Newman): This bill requires producers to create a stewardship program for collecting and recycling items like clothes and other textile products that are not suitable for reuse.

• SB 867 (Allen): This bill authorizes the issuance of $15.5 million in bonds to finance projects for drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature- based climate solutions, park creation and outdoor access, and clean energy programs.

• SB 960 (Wiener): This bill requires the California Department of Transportation to incorporate complete streets facilities into state transportation planning.

• AB 440 (Pellerin): This bill moves Assembly Constitutional Amendment 13 from the November 2024 ballot to the November 2026 ballot.

• AB 1505 (Rodriguez): This bill provides an exception to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act for the California Earthquake Authority (CEA).

• AB 2813 (Aguiar-Curry): This bill modifies the definition of affordable housing and public infrastructure for the purposes of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1.

Vetoed Bills

• SB 301 (Portantino): This bill would have required the State Air Resources Board to create the Zero-Emission Aftermarket Conversion Project to provide a rebate of up to $4000 to any California resident who converts their vehicle into zero emission.

Dead Bills

• SB 83 (Wiener): This bill would have required public utility companies to provide comments on post-entitlement phase permit applications and connect new construction to the electrical grid within specific timeframes.

Attachment G – Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Pursue Funding for Equitable, Sustainable, and Resilient Infrastructure and Advance San José's Climate Smart Goals

2 • SB 396 (Wahab): This bill would have required a city or county to provide notification through its website prior to any local agency-led excavation projects to encourage collaborative installation of utilities and infrastructure.

• SB 511 (Blakespear): This bill would have required the California Air Resource Board to produce an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions every five years for every opt-in city or county along with a plan to achieve the maximum feasible reductions in emissions.

• SB 638 (Eggman): This bill would have authorized the issuance of $6 million in bonds pursuant for flood protection and climate resiliency projects.

• SB 1031 (Wiener): This bill would have authorized the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to place a regional transportation measure on the ballot in all nine Bay Area counties.

AB 6 (Friedman): This bill would have required the state board to establish additional greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2035 and 2045 respectively and require a metropolitan planning organization to submit the technical methodology.

• AB 7 (Friedman): This bill would have required government agencies related to transportation, such as the Department of Transportation and California Transportation Commission, to incorporate certain principles into their processes for transportation projects by 2025.

• AB 9 (Muratsuchi) and SB 12 (Stern): These bills would have required the State Air Resources Board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030.

• AB 62 (Mathis): This bill would have established a statewide goal to increase above- and below-ground water storage capacity by a total of 3,700,000 acre- feet by the year 2030 and a total of 4,000,000 acre-feet by the year 2040.

• AB 305 (Villapudua): This bill would have authorized the issuance of $4.5 million in bonds to finance a program to improve California’s droughts, water parks, climate, coastal protection, and outdoor access for all.

• AB 422 (Alanis): This bill would have required the California National Resources Agency to post on its website information tracking the progress to increase statewide water storage.

Attachment G – Legislation Related to Legislative Priority: Pursue Funding for Equitable, Sustainable, and Resilient Infrastructure and Advance San José's Climate Smart Goals

3 • AB 538 (Holden): This bill would have transitioned the California Independent System Operator into a regional transmission organization and is intended to enable more sharing of power across state lines.

• AB 990 (Grayson): This bill would have required the regional water board that covers the San Francisco Bay area to make modifications to its waste discharge requirements by July 2024.

• AB 1082 (Kalra): This bill would have limited the ability to remove or immobilize a vehicle due to unpaid parking tickets, limit lien sales to cover towing and storage expenses, and prohibited Department of Motor Vehicle registration holds on a vehicle with less than three unpaid parking citations.

• AB 1538 (Muratsachi): This bill would have established the Clean Energy Reliability Program, which would give incentives to load-serving entities that purchase eligible resources with extra target procurement.

• AB 1567 (Garcia): This bill would have authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15.9 million to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean energy, and workforce development programs.

• AB 2583 (Berman): This bill would have established a speed limit of 25 miles per hour in school zones.

Attachment H: FY 2025 Federal Community Project Funding (Earmark) Member Request

1 U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo
• $250,000 for Happy Hollow Park Microgrid: Funding will provide for the construction of a microgrid system to service Happy Hollow Park. Happy Hollow Park, adjoining the Kelley Park-Leininger Center campus, serves disadvantaged communities as a planned emergency refuge for heating, cooling, power, and lodging. Happy Hollow Park also houses multiple endangered species and includes a sanitary sewer pump station that requires continuous electrical power to prevent wastewater from entering Coyote Creek. This project equips this sheltering campus with solar and battery storage to replace diesel generators for emergency power and mitigates hazards to critical infrastructure and wildlife habitats. Additionally, the development of green microgrid technology can reduce the impacts of persistent threats to human life, such as urban heat island effect or climate change, and helps the city, state, and federal governments meet decarbonization goals.

U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna and Zoe Lofgren
• $2,000,000 for Alum Rock Business Corridor Revitalization Project: Funding will aim to retain businesses, unlock investment, and drive entrepreneurship and wealth creation along the Alum Rock Business Corridor. Residents in the area have the lowest household income in Silicon Valley, and they could have the opportunity, through targeted investment, to benefit from the nearby planned BART Phase II transit infrastructure. The strategy is to target investment in critical sites and create new opportunities for existing and new businesses to strengthen the local economy and benefit from long-term change. Specifically, this project will: (1) Revitalize a mostly vacant 28,475 square foot commercial building (1747- 1785 Alum Rock Avenue) in the historic Mayfair neighborhood; (2) Increase the capacity of technical assistance providers and local small businesses to support in the creation of new companies and jobs; (3) Invest in restaurant and food sector-based businesses, and; (4) Set aside funding for streetscape investments and other rehabilitation projects along the corridor.

U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta
• $2,000,000 for Cahalan Park Recreation Upgrades: Funding will support design, construction, and project management fees for four to eight new pickleball courts in District 10 at Cahalan Park located at 770 Pearlwood Way. Pickleball is a growing sport with a growing demand for outdoor pickleball facilities. The City seeks to install new pickleball courts in existing parks to provide greater access and a more equitable distribution. The project will also include the installation of accessible pathways to connect park users to the new courts, restrooms, and parking areas. Additionally, stormwater mitigation will be included in the project scope.

Attachment H: FY 2025 Federal Community Project Funding (Earmark) Member Request

2 • $1,000,000 for Yerba Buena Bridge Reconstruction: Funds will support the development of construction plans with City staff and contracted consultants and will support project management, permitting, inspection services, environmental monitoring, demolition, construction, and improvements to the existing hillside.

Funding provides labor costs for City staff, local consulting firms, regulatory agencies, and construction crews. The Yerba Buena Bridge was originally constructed in the early twentieth century and has been a staple of the community, linking neighbors to recreational access and educational centers.

The bridge has fallen into disrepair and requires removal and replacement. The bridge serves as a crossing over Yerba Buena Creek and connects neighborhoods to high-use areas, including parks, Evergreen Community College, transit stops, bike lanes, workforce opportunities, and abundant open space. Without this vital connection, employment, education, and physical health opportunities are reduced.

• $250,000 for Sideshow and Street Racing Deterrence in Evergreen and East San José: Funding will enable the Department of Transportation to implement quick- build installation and hardscape enhancements to deter illegal and dangerous speeding exhibitions, known as sideshows, and street racing, which will improve traffic and pedestrian safety. Illegal sideshows and street racing are an ongoing major public safety issue in San José, as well as statewide. Sideshows are unauthorized events that draw large crowds of spectators, with drivers performing dangerous stunts in the public right of way. This often results in property damage, blocked roadways impacting emergency services, and risk of severe injuries and death, both to spectators and to the surrounding community.

San Jose City CouncilJanuary 14, 2025

San Jose City Council
January 14, 2025