San Luis Obispo City Council
February 25, 2025

City Council

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 5:30 p.m.

Council Chambers, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo

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1. CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Erica A. Stewart will call the Special Meeting of the San Luis Obispo City Council to order.

2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Council Member Mike Boswell will lead the Council in the Pledge of Allegiance.

3. PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEMS ON THE AGENDA ONLY
Public Comment will only be accepted for items listed on the agenda.

4. CONSENT AGENDA
Not to exceed 15 minutes. Matters appearing on the Consent Calendar are expected to be non-controversial and will be acted upon at one time. A member of the public may request the Council to pull an item for discussion. Pulled items shall be heard at the close of the Consent Agenda unless a majority of the Council chooses another time. The public may comment on any and all items on the Consent Agenda within the three-minute time limit.

Recommendation:

To approve Consent Calendar Item 4a.

4.a APPROVE THE DESCRIPTIONS FOR THE 2025-27 MAJOR CITY GOALS
5 Recommendation:

Approve the descriptions of the 2025-27 Major City Goals.

5. BUSINESS ITEM

5.a 2024 STATE LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING (Estimated Time: 45 Minutes) 57 Recommendation:

Receive and file a report on the 2024 State Legislative Briefing which summarizes the adopted laws from the 2023-24 regular session of the California State Legislature (December 2023 through October 2024); and

1. Appoint an ad-hoc committee of the City Council to review the current legislative platform and suggest changes for the 2025- 26 legislative session.

2. 6. STUDY SESSION ITEM

6.a STUDY SESSION: REVIEW THE ADMINISTRATIVE DRAFT OF SLO TRANSIT'S SHORT-RANGE TRANSIT PLAN (Estimated Time: 90
Minutes)
235
Recommendation:

Receive and provide feedback on the administrative draft of SLO Transit’s Short-Range Transit Plan; and

1. Direct staff to make any necessary changes to the Short-Range Transit Plan and return on April 15, 2025, with a final draft of the plan for adoption.

2. 7. ADJOURNMENT
The next Regular Meeting of the City Council will be held on March 4, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo.

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City of San Lu is Obispo, Council Memorandu m
City of San Luis Obispo
Council Agenda Correspondence
DATE: February 25, 2025
TO: Mayor and Council
FROM: Whitney McDonald, City Manager
Prepared By: Natalie Harnett, Policy and Programs Manager SUBJECT: ITEM 4A – APPROVE THE DESCRIPTIONS FOR THE 2025-27 MAJOR

CITY GOALS
In response to individual Council Members’ feedback on the draft Major City Goal Descriptions published on February 19, 2025, please find the attached proposed revised version that incorporates the feedback received. The revisions incorporate minor wording adjustments to better align with Council’s vision and enhance clarity. Underlined text indicates additions, and text with a strikethrough indicates deletions.

ATTACHMENT
A – Draft Major City Goals - Revised

2025-27 Financial Plan
Major City Goals
ITEM 4A: STAFF AGENDA CORRESPONDENCE,

ATTACHMENT A - REVISED MAJOR CITY GOAL DESCRIPTIONS
Cultural Vitality, Economic Resilience, and Fiscal Sustainability • Improve the local business environment, support Downtown vitality, and help entrepreneurs and businesses thrive
• Support Downtown vitality and the cultural arts, centering on including the Cultural Arts District
• Support initiatives to assist the local workforce to develop the skills needed to secure quality jobs and local businesses and employers to attract and retain talent • Promote the City as an appealing community destination for people to live, work, visit, and invest
• Balance operational needs and infrastructure investments with consideration of the long-term fiscal sustainability of the City organization Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Support increased access and belonging for all community members • Facilitate programs and initiatives to support diverse community engagement and representation
• Operationalize inclusive practices in City processes and policies • Foster an inclusive organizational culture with equitable practices in recruiting, hiring, and retention
Homelessness Response
• Collaborate with partners to prevent and reduce homelessness • Leverage external funding to expand crisis response and continuum of shelter and housing programs with regional partners
• Implement the Homelessness Response Strategic Plan (HRSP) • Refine approaches to reduce the impacts of homelessness to balance safety, health, and community well-being
Housing and Neighborhood Livability – Healthy, Safe, and Affordable • Facilitate sustainable growth that aligns with climate, economic, and housing goals • Promote the expansion and diversification of housing opportunities for all • Ensure housing is safe, healthy, and affordable, while facilitating stronger strengthening protections for renters
• Foster diverse, connected, and safe neighborhoods that are livable for all

City of San Luis Obispo, Title, Subtitle
Infrastructure and Sustainable Transportation
• Advance street safety improvements and support Vision Zero goals for all road users
• Continue implementation of the Active Transportation Plan, including expansion of multimodal transportation networks to improve connectivity, advocating for regional financial support as necessary.
• Ensure public spaces, roads, and utilities are well maintained and sufficient to support planned future growth and development
• Build out park infrastructure to support community recreation and accessibility Open Space, Climate Action, and Resilience
• Advance Continue implementation of the Climate Action Plan and Lead by Example Plan Work Programs
• Implement disaster mitigation efforts to reduce risks from floods and fires • Strengthen community resilience through emergency preparedness, community networks, and planning efforts
• Protect, sustain and enhance advance open space and natural and historic resources
• Expand trail connectivity and accessibility to support biking, hiking, and outdoor enjoyment for all community members

Item 4a
Department: Administration
Cost Center: 1001
For Agenda of: 2/25/2025
Placement: Consent
Estimated Time: N/A
FROM: Whitney McDonald, City Manager
Prepared By: Natalie Harnett, Policy and Project Manager SUBJECT: 2025-27 MAJOR CITY GOALS

RECOMMENDATION
Approve the descriptions of the 2025-27 Major City Goals.

POLICY CONTEXT
The City of San Luis Obispo follows a two-year financial planning process to develop its budget. On February 8, 2025, the City Council held its Goal-Setting Workshop, establishing six Major City Goals for the 2025-27 Financial Plan. Council directed staff to develop clear, action-oriented descriptions for each goal. While the full Major City Goal work plans will be included in the draft Financial Plan (April 2025), staff are presenting these descriptors now to ensure alignment with Council’s vision.

DISCUSSION
Background
On Saturday, February 8, 2025, the City Council held a Special Meeting to establish the Major City Goals for the 2025-27 Financial Plan. This workshop followed extensive community input gathered through a citywide survey, Community Forum, Advisory Bodies, and various public meetings. The goals set by the Council will guide the City’s work over the next two years.

The updated goals for the 2025-27 Financial Plan are listed below in alphabetical order:
 Cultural Vitality, Economic Resilience, and Fiscal Sustainability  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
 Homelessness Response
 Housing and Neighborhood Livability – Healthy, Safe, and Affordable  Infrastructure and Sustainable Transportation
 Open Space, Climate Action, and Resilience

Item 4a
During the Goal-Setting Meeting, the facilitator encouraged Council to focus on high-level priorities—considering the broader meaning and intended outcomes of each goal—rather than refining specific wording. This approach allowed for a more strategic discussion rather than wordsmithing goal definitions. Staff committing to developing specific Major City Goal descriptors—including clear, action-oriented phrases—would be developed under each goal. Attachment A includes the Major City Goals along with these descriptions, based on feedback from the goal-setting workshop and facilitator notes outlining the key focus areas for each goal.

Following Council approval of these Major City Goal descriptions staff will develop a comprehensive Major City Goal work plan outlining specific tasks, timelines, and expectations. This work plan will be incorporated into the draft budget, which is scheduled for Council review on April 15, 2025.

The final presentation from Saturday’s workshop, along with facilitator notes, is included as Attachment B. A recording of the meeting is available on the City’s YouTube channel.

Public Engagement
Public comment on this item can be provided to the City Council through written correspondence before the February 25th Special City Council meeting and through public testimony at the meeting.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) does not apply to the recommended action in this report, because the action does not constitute a “Project” under CEQA Guidelines Sec. 15378.

FISCAL IMPACT
Budgeted: Yes Budget Year: 2024-25
Funding Identified: Yes
Fiscal Analysis:

Funding
Sources
Total Budget
Available
Current
Funding
Request
Remaining
Balance
Annual
Ongoing
Cost
General Fund N/A N/A N/A N/A
State
Federal
Fees
Other:

Total N/A N/A N/A N/A
There is no fiscal impact to this recommendation.

Item 4a

ALTERNATIVES

1. Council could decide not to approve the Major City Goal descriptions. Council may choose not to approve the Major City Goals and associated action items and direct staff to return at a future meeting to discuss further.

2. Council could choose to modify the Major City Goal descriptions. Council may recommend changes to the Major City Goals. If any modifications are proposed, they should be specific.

ATTACHMENTS
A - Draft Major City Goals
B - February 8, 2025, Goal Setting Presentation

2025-27 Financial Plan
Major City Goals
Cultural Vitality, Economic Resilience, and Fiscal Sustainability  Improve the local business environment and help entrepreneurs and businesses thrive  Support Downtown vitality and the cultural arts, centering on the Cultural Arts District  Support initiatives to develop the skills needed to secure quality jobs and attract and retain talent
 Promote the City as an appealing destination for people to live, work, visit, and invest  Balance operational needs and infrastructure investments with consideration of the longterm fiscal sustainability of the organization Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
 Increase access and belonging for all community members  Facilitate programs and initiatives to support diverse community engagement and representation
 Operationalize inclusive practices in City processes and policies  Foster an inclusive organizational culture with equitable practices in recruiting, hiring, and retention
Homelessness Response
 Collaborate with partners to prevent and reduce homelessness  Leverage external funding to expand crisis response and continuum of shelter programs with regional partners
 Implement the Homelessness Response Strategic Plan (HRSP)  Refine approaches to reduce the impacts of homelessness to balance safety, health, and community well-being
Housing and Neighborhood Livability – Healthy, Safe, and Affordable  Facilitate sustainable growth that aligns with climate, economic, and housing goals  Promote the expansion and diversification of housing opportunities for all  Ensure housing is safe, healthy, and affordable, while strengthening protections for renters  Foster diverse, connected, and safe neighborhoods that are livable for all Infrastructure and Sustainable Transportation
 Advance street safety improvements and support Vision Zero goals for all road users  Implement Active Transportation Plan, including expansion of multimodal transportation networks to improve connectivity
 Ensure public spaces, roads, and utilities support future growth and development  Build out park infrastructure to support community recreation and accessibility Open Space, Climate Action, and Resilience
 Advance the Climate Action Plan and Lead by Example Plan 2025-27 Work Programs  Implement disaster mitigation efforts to reduce risks from floods and fires  Strengthen community resilience through emergency preparedness, community networks, and planning efforts
 Protect, sustain and enhance open space and natural and historic resources  Expand trail connectivity and accessibility to support biking, hiking, and outdoor enjoyment for all community members

1 Council Goal-Setting Workshop
February 8, 2025

2 Today’s Agenda
9:00 a.m. Welcome, Mayor
9:05 a.m. Introduction and Budget Context, City Manager 9:15 a.m. Review of Community Input and Forum Results, Staff 9:35 a.m. Process and Guidelines, Facilitator
9:40 a.m. Discuss Goals for FY 2025-27 and Review Prioritization, Council 12:00 p.m. Break
12:30 p.m. Discuss Goals for FY 2025-27 and Review Prioritization, Council 2:00 p.m. Public Comment, City Clerk
2:30 p.m. Discuss Next Steps, Council/Staff

Budget Process & Community Engagement Timeline

4 City Services & Goal Setting Relationship
Special
Projects
Major City
Goals
Emergent
needs
Core Programs & Services
General Government
Infrastructure Maintenance
Development Services
Street and Parks
Public Safety
Recreation Services
MANY more
• The City of San Luis Obispo is a full-service city.
• The City’s first obligation is to provide core
services.
• New initiatives and one-time strategic goals overlap
core services and require tradeoffs.
• Historically, many Major City Goal (MCG) initiatives
have morphed into core services (Housing, Climate
Action, DEI). These programs do not go away
even if not selected as MCGs.
• MCGs should reflect the most important, strategic focus areas for the upcoming financial plan years.

5 Budget Process and Community Input
Major City
Goals City Council
Community Forum
Emails & letters
from community
groups and
interested parties
Community
Priorities Survey
Advisory Body
Recommendations

6 Economic Outlook
General consensus is that a recession is not expected, despite numerous recessionary indicators since 2020
Staff is waiting for information to update the long-term forecast, but is closely tracking a number of items:
a. Major revenue streams, analyzed by City’s consultants b. Upcoming labor negotiations
c. Costs to support a growing community (ex. Fire Station 5) d. 2023 Storms expenditure reimbursement
e. Los Angeles fires
f. Potential actions by incoming Federal administration

7 Risks & Opportunities to factor into forecast
FY 2025-26 Upside Case Downside Case
Risk
Sales Tax ($1.0M) ($3.0M)
Development Fees (2.0M) (2.5M)
Labor (1.0M) (1.5M)
Opportunity
Fire Station 5 timing +1.1M +1.1M
Property Tax +1.5M +1.0M
Base budget savings +1.0M +0.5M
TOT +0.6M +0.4M
Net Change to Last
Forecast +$0.2M ($4.0M)

8 Community Survey and Forum Results

Survey Results
7 7
8 9
9 10
16 19
22 26
38 47
264
272
295
311
382
415
524
543
672
740
743
812
1008
0 500 1000 1500
Additonal Bikelanes
Permitting Process Improvements
Laguna Lake Dredging
Services/Accessibility for Seniors & Disabled
Righetti Park
Second Hand Smoke
Broad Street Corridor
Adobes/Historic Preservation
Reduced bikelanes
Healthcare Access and Medical System
Parking Rates and Policies
More Parks & Rec Facilities
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Cultural Vitality
Childcare
Safe Housing and Neighborhood Wellness
Public Safety
Sustainable and Multi-Modal Transportation
Climate Action Plan
Fiscal Sustainability and Responsibility
Open Space
Downtown Vitality
Housing Supply and Affordability
Infrastructure Maintenance
Homelessness Response
Top themes from “Other”

10 What does the community love most about SLO?

11 Station Ranking Poll Free Response
Poll Combined
Infrastructure 325 103 428
Downtown Vitality and Economic Development 175 244 419
Climate Action and Open Space 266 80 346
Housing Safety, Affordability, and Neighborhood Livability 234 60 294 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 161 43 204
Public Safety 137 34 171
Homelessness 133 36 169
Use of the Local Revenue Measure (no free-response) 128 - 128 Fiscal Sustainability 104 21 125
New Ideas (no ranking poll) - 74 74
Participation Summary(# of participants)

Priority Projects/Programs (shortened description) Count Implement Below Market Rate Housing best practices 143
Improve unsafe/unsanitary/illegal housing conditions, barriers to accessibility, or unsafe neighborhoods 139 Leverage grant funding and collaborate with partners to develop additional below-market-rate units. 133 Update the Margarita Area Specific Plan and the completion of the Prado Road extension to Broad Street. 127 Work with Cal Poly to secure the designation of on-campus fraternity/sorority living groups. 121 Update the Upper Monterey Area Plan 116
Update to the 7th Cycle Housing Element to comply with state mandates 110 Continue the City’s Neighborhood Services/Code Enforcement programs 109 Support “good neighbor programs” with Cal Poly, Cuesta College, the City and local residents. 106 Continue State housing law tracking and implement changes to comply with new housing laws. 105 Tenant Protections and Safe Housing (e.g. rental registry)* 14 Zoning Changes for Higher Density* 9
Accelerate the LUCE Update* 5
Housing Safety, Affordability and Neighborhood Livability

Priority Program/Project (shortened description) Count
Acquire and protect new open spaces in the San Luis Obispo Greenbelt and manage open spaces 206 Continue to build and maintain a contemporary and sustainable trail system. 195 Provide affordable and accessible sustainable transportation options (e.g., public transit, bike/pedestrian infrastructure, electric vehicle chargers, electric car and bike share programs, etc.). 159 Support the City goal to plant and maintain 10,000 new trees by 2035 (the "10 Tall" initiative). 149 Invest in resilient infrastructure to improve community safety and reduce natural disaster risks 145 Provide access to resources and direct support for residents that make it easy and affordable to have a green and healthy home 136
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from City operations 129 Laguna Lake Dredging* 18
Additional bike trails and infrastructure (e.g. Mountain Bike Park at Laguna Lake)* 11 More trail connections* 6
Climate Action and Open Space

Priority Program/Project (shortened description) Count
Support partners in securing funding for and implementing transitional and permanent supportive housing 101 Leverage funding from partner agencies for the MCU and CAT programs 94 Work collaboratively with County and key stakeholders to coordinate regional outreach, including an expanded hotel voucher program to ensure a bridge for temporary emergency shelter 93 Rotating Safe Parking Program Implementation 79
Continue to increase homelessness response communications, resource sharing, and education, including increased public use of Ask SLO app 77
Continue to develop the City's Safe Housing Outreach and Education Program 76 Continue to expand implementation of digital encampment management tool internally and for potential countywide use or explore using other countywide systems 63 Rent Control and Tenant Protections* 9
Mental Health and Drug Rehabilitation Programs* 4
Multi-use Homeless Site* 3
Homelessness

Priority Program/Project (shortened description) Count
Grant programs that support arts, culture, and the work of non-profit organizations in the community 121 Efforts to attract and support minority-owned businesses and resources for success in SLO. 110 Continue efforts to improve access and affordability of high-speed internet in the community 106 Implement strategies for enhancing disaster preparedness programs for underrepresented communities. 97 Implement climate justice projects that support vulnerable populations. 94 Improve participation in public meetings through updated public engagement practices 93 Continue efforts toward community-based policing to address the needs of vulnerable communities. 91 Create and sustain inclusive recruitment practices to encourage a diverse workforce. 89 Continue to host equity and inclusivity focused education and events (e.g. Community Belonging Series). 87 Tenant Protections and Housing Solutions as a Strategy for Advancing DEI* 11 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Priority Program/Project (shortened description) Count
Continuation/expansion of Cultural Vitality programs (e.g. Cultural Arts District, arts and culture)* 210 Continue programs to support small businesses like Buy Local Bonus and SLO Restaurant Month 128 Support activations in Mission Plaza and other Downtown events 122 Work with regional partners to support the business community 113 Support of Downtown's Clean and Safe ambassador programs. 92 Promote and empower business neighborhoods including and beyond Downtown. 92 Expand outreach efforts to businesses through a business retention and expansion program. 91 Continue to support childcare business startups and expansions through grants and incentives 89 Continue to bolster the entrepreneurial ecosystem. 81
Implement disaster preparedness measures and training for business preparedness 73 Continue telling the SLO story via targeted marketing and activities of an authentic and inviting California community for residents and visitors. 73
Downtown Vitality and Economic Development

Priority Program/Project (shortened description) Count
Identify and secure grants and partnerships that reduce reliance on the General Fund. 78 Implement cost-saving measures and explore revenue-generating opportunities to strengthen long-term fiscal sustainability. 78
Continue to implement and enhance the City’s sound financial management practices 73 Continue to implement strategies to expedite the paydown of the City's CalPERS pension liabilities. 59 Complete a Development Impact Fee study and implement updated Council-adopted fees. 46 Fiscal Sustainability
Other responses:
• Re-prioritizing infrastructure projects and expediting their completion to mitigate inflationary costs. • Reducing departmental budgets and headcount.
• Expanding the business license program to include a rental registry and implementing a per-property fee for landlords.
• Suggestions for investment strategies.

18 Use of the Local Revenue Measure
Funding Priority Count
Street Maintenance and Transportation 92
Address Homelessness 85
Open Space/Natural Areas Preservation and Maintenance 83 Safe and Clean Public Spaces 81
Community Safety and Emergency Preparedness 75
Youth/Senior Services & Recreation Facilities 74
Economic Development and Business Retention 69
Creek and Flood Protection 68
Protection of Financial Stability 54
Other Services and Projects 48

Infrastructure and Sustainable/Multi-modal Transportation Priority Program/Project (shortened description)* Count Implement Parks & Recreation projects for new and improved parks and park amenities. 249 Implement the Active Transportation Plan Tier 1 (Bike/Pedestrian) Network 133 Continue work towards building the Prado Road Interchange and Creek Bridge Replacement. 112 Continue work on flood control infrastructure improvements 110 Complete infrastructure improvements for individuals with mobility issues (e.g. curb ramps) 98 Continue to implement Street Reconstruction and Resurfacing projects. 98 Maintenance of traffic control devices (refreshing roadway striping, traffic signal timings, etc.) 87 Improve public transit as described in the Short-Range Transit Plan and Transit Innovation Study 87 Continue projects that replace and improve water and wastewater infrastructure. 86 Install additional street lighting. 84
Implement traffic safety improvements identified in the Vision Zero Action Plan 84 Begin construction of the California/Taft Roundabout. 74 Righetti Ranch Park* 49
Expansion of Bike Paths and Bike Infrastructure (e.g. Mountain Bike Park)* 19 Page 33 of 435 20 Public Safety
Priority Program/Project (shortened description) Count
Utilize proven strategies to increase road safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists. 91 Enhance City hazard mitigation and risk reduction capabilities (fire, flood, earthquake). 85 Provide diversified outreach and enforcement to keep downtown clean, safe, and secure. 79 Utilizing grant opportunities to expand police and fire programs and support public safety initiatives. 77 Continue to diversify outreach and support for our unhoused community members and enforce city ordinances preserving overall quality of life for all community members. 74 Increase and expand community policing initiatives 67
Increase public safety staffing to enhance service delivery to the community 67 Enhance the City Emergency Operations Center and Management capabilities. 64 Continue to leverage technology to support a safer community and streamlined efforts of public safety personnel. 62

21 New Ideas and Email Responses Combined
Top 10 Themes
Program/Project Count
Cultural Arts 29
Safe Housing, Tenant Protections 18
La Loma Adobe 13
More Parks & Rec Facilities/Services 10
Righetti Ranch Park 9
Trails Systems and Open Space 7
Bike Trails/Park 6
Broad Street Corridor, Vision Zero 5
Clean Air - Smoking Ordinance for Multifamily homes 5
Childcare/Kids Programs 3

22 Sommer Kehrli, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer
The Centre for Organization Effectiveness
Workshop Facilitator

23 Purpose of Goal-Setting
Define the most important, highest priority goals for the City to accomplish over the next two years, and as such,
resources to accomplish them should be provided and
included in the 2025-27 Financial Plan.

25 Bike Rack

26 Overall Pre-Work Notes
• Overall, the current Major City Goals are still relevant • Refine some of the titles and goal definition
• Refine actions for the next two years
• Potentially add performance measures to MCGs and/or action items • Three additional goals submitted
• Openness to reorganizing the language and revisiting the label of Major City Goal (MCG) to maybe Major City Budget Goals, Pillars, Priority Areas, or Strategic Budget Priorities
• Potentially making the MCGs more inclusive of all of the work of the city (more of a strategic plan with a longer-term view and then having specific strategic budget priorities for the 2-year financial plan cycle)

27 FY 23-25
Major City Goals (MCGs)
 Climate Action, Open Space & Sustainable
Transportation
 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
 Economic Resiliency, Cultural Vitality and Fiscal
Sustainability
 Housing and Homelessness

Additional Three Goals
Strengthening Community Sense of Well Being
• Complete and improve parks (shade retreats, splash pads, bike courses), including Righetti park
• Continue DEI policies in city administration and reach out to new residents, permanent and student
• Support youth, senior and mental health services, partnering with the county and nonprofits
• Expand local volunteer opportunities
• Make the city a “Family Friendly workplace” (improve childcare options for employees)
• Continue to facilitate high speed internet access for all residents Improving Public Safety
• Increase CAT, MCU and Community Service Officers, expand evening and weekend coverage
• Hire more needed police officers
• Determine a location for Fire House #5 and expedite construction • Hire an Emergency Operations Officer
• Educate cell phone users that they need to sign up for reverse 911 service
• Reinstate CERT and community emergency preparedness
• Improve notification of evacuation routes, including that of senior and disabled residents
Infrastructure and Transportation
• Protect water security & improve
ground water augmentation
• Extend purple pipe to older
neighborhoods to save potable water
• Upgrade maintenance of streets for
automobile, bicycle, and mass
transportation
• Conduct actual usage, traffic counts
and “origin/destination” studies for
need, before building future permanent
bike lanes or eliminating traffic lanes
• Prioritize improvement of dangerous
streets and intersections, as well as
evacuation routes
• Improve the safety of the Broad Street
corridor

29 Public
Engagement
(e.g., Community
Forum, Survey)
Pulse MCG Update
Loads of Input

30 Reflection Questions
• What needs focus over the next 2 years?
What do you want to see take a higher
priority?
• If needed, are you willing to cut services or
capital to make this happen?

31 Climate Action, Open Space &
Sustainable Transportation
Proactively address the climate crisis and increase resiliency through the implementation of the Climate Action Plan. Use resources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reach carbon neutrality by 2035, with a focus on the preservation and enhancement of convenient and equitable alternative and sustainable transportation, the preservation of open space, and equitable access to parks and open space.

Title Change Suggestions:
• Protection of Open Space and Natural Resources, Climate Action and Resilience • Climate Action and Sustainability
• Climate Action >>>> Climate Resilience
• Sustainable Transportation >>>> Safe Transportation or Vision Zero

32 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Further our commitment to making San Luis Obispo a
welcoming and inclusive city for all by continuing to
incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion into all programs and policies and advancing the recommendations of the DEI Task Force DEI Strategic Plan.

Title Change Suggestion:
• Diverse, Inclusive and Culturally Vibrant

33 Economic Resiliency, Cultural Vitality
and Fiscal Sustainability
In collaboration with local partners, implement initiatives that reinforce a thriving and sustainable local economy, support a diverse, inclusive, and culturally vibrant community, preserve arts and culture, and ensure fiscally responsible and sustainable city operations along with fiscally responsible city operations.

Title Change Suggestions:
• Cultural and Economic Vitality
• Economic and Cultural Vitality
• Fiscal Responsibility and Sustainability
• Responsible Government and Economic Vitality

Housing and Homelessness
Support the creation expansion of housing options for all, and continue to facilitate the production of housing, including the necessary supporting infrastructure, with an emphasis on affordable and workforce housing as well as accessibly connected development. Collaborate with local non-profit partners, non-governmental agencies, the county, the state, and federal governments to advocate for increased funding and implementation of comprehensive and effective strategies to prevent and reduce homelessness.

Title Change Suggestions:
• Housing, Homelessness, and Tenant Protection
• Healthy, Safe, Livable
• Housing for Social, Economic and Neighborhood Balance Separate into two goals:

Increase Housing Quantity, Safety, and Overall Livability Support the expansion of housing options for all, and continue to facilitate the production of maintenance of safe and healthy housing, including the necessary supporting infrastructure, with an emphasis on low-income, as well as accessible and attainable-workforce housing
Reduce and Prevent Homelessness
Collaborate with local non-profit partners, non-governmental agencies, all level of governments to advocate for increased funding and implementation of comprehensive and effective strategies to prevent and reduce homelessness. Page 48 of 435 Additional Three Goals
Strengthening Community Sense of Well Being
• Complete and improve parks (shade retreats, splash pads, bike courses), including Righetti park
• Continue DEI policies in city administration and reach out to new residents, permanent and student
• Support youth, senior and mental health services, partnering with the county and nonprofits
• Expand local volunteer opportunities
• Make the city a “Family Friendly workplace” (improve childcare options for employees)
• Continue to facilitate high speed internet access for all residents Improving Public Safety
• Increase CAT, MCU and Community Service Officers, expand evening and weekend coverage
• Hire more needed police officers
• Determine a location for Fire House #5 and expedite construction • Hire an Emergency Operations Officer
• Educate cell phone users that they need to sign up for reverse 911 service
• Reinstate CERT and community emergency preparedness
• Improve notification of evacuation routes, including that of senior and disabled residents
Infrastructure and Transportation
• Protect water security & improve
ground water augmentation
• Extend purple pipe to older
neighborhoods to save potable water
• Upgrade maintenance of streets for
automobile, bicycle, and mass
transportation
• Conduct actual usage, traffic counts
and “origin/destination” studies for
need, before building future permanent
bike lanes or eliminating traffic lanes
• Prioritize improvement of dangerous
streets and intersections, as well as
evacuation routes
• Improve the safety of the Broad Street
corridor

36 Reflection Questions
• What needs focus over the next 2 years?
What do you want to see take a higher
priority?
• If needed, are you willing to cut services or
capital to make this happen?

37 Future Focus
How might
you want to
revisit the
label/
structure of
Major City
Goals?

• Overall considerations:
• Continue doing the things we are already committed to (Active Transportation Plan, Climate Action, DEI Strategic Plan, specific plans) • Wiggle room as new items coming forward in the next two years that we aren’t anticipating • Internal city staff:
• Pacing and workload for staff – we’re asking a lot, keep goals but may need to slow down some • Family friendly workplace – set the example
• Housing – Short-term rental housing ordinance
• Tenant protections – awareness of rights they already have, rental registry, multi-family smoking bans, health elements • Neighborhood challenges – balance needs of longer-term residents and students • Approach towards code enforcement
• Evaluate approach to unhoused neighbors – Are we doing the right work? • Increase CAT and MCU resources – greater access
• Emergency preparedness and response (wildfire, flood, drought) – resiliency and evacuation plans, build awareness of reverse 911, evacuation routes
• Childcare – make progress on this goal
• Facilities for family use – splash pads, enough parks (Righetti park), hours for pool • Continued protection of open space
• Trails and bike infrastructure
• Active transportation and infrastructure (specifically Higuera, Foothill and Broad) • Water security
• Downtown:
• Continue support of local downtown economy and cultural arts district • Entice different types of businesses (e.g., access to groceries) • Public outreach, engagement, and communication:
• Engaging more to be involved in government (e.g., volunteers) and build awareness towards voter rights • Reaching out to new residents to create cohesive community • Updating community on work being done
• Update of General Plan (+Land Use and Circulation Element) – not to have updated in this financial plan, but take steps in this direction (Housing Element required and due to be updated in 2028) • Public safety – traffic enforcement, traffic safety
Focused
Action Items

39 Potential Major City Goals for FY 25-27
(with specific action items to be identified under each one) • Open Space and Climate Resilience
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Economic Resilience and Cultural Vitality
• Housing and Neighborhood Wellness – healthy, safe, livable, and affordable • Homelessness
• Infrastructure and Sustainable Transportation
• Responsive City Government and Fiscal Sustainability

40 FINAL Major City Goals for FY 25-27
(with specific VERB action items to be identified under each one) • Open Space, Climate Action and Resilience
• Infrastructure and Sustainable Transportation
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Cultural Vitality, Economic Resilience and Fiscal Sustainability • Housing and Neighborhood Livability – healthy, safe, and affordable • Homelessness Response

41 Thank you!

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Department: Administration
Cost Center: 1001
For Agenda of: 2/25/2025
Placement: Business
Estimated Time: 45 minutes
FROM: Greg Hermann, Deputy City Manager
Prepared By: Natalie Harnett, Policy and Project Manager SUBJECT: 2024 STATE LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING

RECOMMENDATION

1. Receive and file a report on the 2024 State Legislative Briefing which summarizes the adopted laws from the 2023-24 regular session of the California State Legislature (December 2023 through October 2024); and

2. Appoint an ad-hoc committee of the City Council to review the current legislative platform and suggest changes for the 2025-26 legislative session.

POLICY CONTEXT
According to Section 3.9 of the Council Policies and Procedures Manual, the City implements a proactive legislative program aimed at strengthening local governance, advancing City objectives, and opposing state and federal legislative actions that could undermine local authority or reduce traditional revenue sources. At the conclusion of each legislative cycle, staff compile a legislative briefing designed to enhance understanding of new State laws affecting the City and to inform the community and Council about significant legislative trends. This briefing also supports updates to the Legislative Platform for the upcoming Legislative Calendar Year. The City Council adopted the current Legislative Platform on April 2, 2024.

REPORT-IN-BRIEF
The 2024 State Legislative Briefing provides an in-depth overview of significant legislative changes affecting the City of San Luis Obispo, highlighting new laws passed during the 2023-24 California legislative session. Key bills covered in the briefing include measures that impact housing, environmental quality, homelessness, and local governance. Among these, AB 3012 mandates local agencies to provide a fee estimate tool on their websites by 2032, allowing the public to estimate fees for proposed housing developments.

Additionally, AB 3093 requires cities to incorporate the housing needs of individuals experiencing homelessness into their next housing element cycle, necessitating updates to San Luis Obispo's housing plans.

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The briefing also addresses new requirements related to local land use and zoning, such as SB 1123, which mandates ministerial approval of subdivisions for up to 10 housing units without discretionary review, and SB 1211, which requires local agencies to approve up to eight Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) on multi-family lots. Furthermore, environmental laws like AB 98 require cities to update circulation elements by 2028 to accommodate increased truck traffic, potentially impacting local transportation planning.

The report also covers the expansion of housing and homelessness programs, such as SB 1361, which exempts homelessness services from CEQA, easing the process of implementing these critical services.

In addition to summarizing these legislative changes, the briefing recommends the appointment of an ad-hoc committee to review and recommend updates the City's Legislative Platform for the 2025-26 Legislative cycle. This review would ensure the City remains proactive in adapting to legislative shifts and continues to effectively address challenges presented in our community. The Council can choose to appoint a committee to guide this process or direct staff to make changes and ask staff to return in April with a draft updated platform. The entire Council will ultimately review and approve the draft legislative report in April 2025.

DISCUSSION
Background
During the 2023-24 session of the California State Legislature, lawmakers proposed over 2,200 bills and resolutions to establish new laws, repeal existing ones, or amend current statutes. Of the approximately 1,200 bills that reached Governor Newsom’s desk, 189 were vetoed. While most of the enacted bills took effect on January 1, 2025, certain urgency measures became effective immediately upon being signed into law.

Each year, thousands of bills are introduced that could impact local governments. To stay informed, City staff utilizes legislative tools provided by the League of California Cities (Cal Cities). This year, Cal Cities published the 2024 Legislative Report, which offers a comprehensive overview of bills signed into law by the Governor and their potential implications for cities across California. City staff has reviewed the report and prepared this item to highlight key legislative changes for the City Council, focusing on the newly adopted laws that will affect the City of San Luis Obispo.

This report includes a summary of state laws that will impact the City, linking them to the City’s initiatives, departmental operations, and Council priorities. It also references the Cal Cities 2024 Legislative Report (Attachment A) for further details on the highlighted legislation. Each section of this report includes a table that references page numbers in Attachment A for additional information. While this report is not intended to cover every introduced or signed bill, the attached Cal Cities report provides comprehensive information on all legislative actions from the session.

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Budget and Trailer Bills
The Budget Act of 2024 tackled California's $47 billion deficit, a result of revenue volatility and missed forecasts, underscoring the state's reliance on personal income taxes and susceptibility to stock market fluctuations. The final budget agreement in June allocated $293 billion in total spending, addressing the deficit through program cuts, new revenue sources, and tapping into state reserves. It adopted important budget reforms aimed at mitigating future fiscal volatility including expanding the Rainy Day Fund from 10% to 20% of the state budget and creating a "Projected Surplus Temporary Holding Account" to manage surplus revenues until confirmed. These measures sought to strengthen the state's financial resilience while addressing immediate challenges.

Despite some sacrifices, the budget safeguarded key education, healthcare, public safety, and social services investments. For example, environmental programs experienced $2.3 billion in cuts and shifts but retained a $29 billion commitment over seven years. State operations returned $762.5 million to the General Fund by eliminating many vacant positions. The State transportation program faced $771 million in cuts, affecting mainly the Active Transportation Program and port projects. Housing and homelessness programs saw a $1.4 billion reduction in unspent funds but received $1 billion for Homeless Housing Assistance and $500 million for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. Public safety reductions totaled $359 million, impacting prison capacity, trial court operations, and emergency services. Healthcare reforms included a revised Managed Care Organization (MCO) tax package projected to generate $2.8 billion in 2024-25. Despite budget cuts, some programs saw additional allocations including $199 million for fire response improvements and $94 million for flood prevention.

Community Services, Behavioral Health, and Homelessness Children, Childcare, and Youth Programs
AB 262 establishes a stakeholder workgroup, led by the Department of Social Services, to develop recommendations for improving safety and regulations for children’s camps.

While these recommendations could eventually impact the City’s program standards, the workgroup will include representatives from local governments to ensure their interests are considered.

Behavioral Health and Community Wellness
The most notable development was Proposition 1, passed in March 2024, which aims to modernize the Mental Health Services Act and allocate $6.38 billion in bonds for behavioral health treatment beds and supportive housing units. The Behavioral Health Services Act is intended to prioritize equitable access to services for individuals with significant mental health needs. The BHSA also aims to increase transparency and accountability at the local level, which will impact both the County and the City. The Behavioral Health Bond includes a $1.5 billion funding allocation for counties and cities.

However, it also reallocates some funding from existing County mental health, drug, and alcohol treatment funds to the state. This shift is intended to enhance housing and personalized support services but has raised concerns about potential reductions in county-level mental health services.

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Supporting measures were also enacted to enhance integrity and transparency in alcohol and drug recovery services. AB 2574 expands the State Department of Health Care Services' (DHCS) oversight and reporting requirements for sober living homes, while AB 2081 requires licensed recovery homes to inform individuals seeking care that they can verify a facility's compliance with state licensing laws online.

Homelessness
AB 2081 requires licensed substance abuse recovery or treatment facilities to include a disclosure on their website and on intake paperwork that agency certification information is available on the DHCS website, including probationary status, temporary suspensions, and any law violation notices that have been issued. This legislation creates additional transparency and accountability measures for local agencies.

AB 2574 mandates that organizations operating certified alcohol or drug abuse recovery programs or licensed treatment facilities disclose to the DHCS any ownership or financial interests in unlicensed recovery residences, commonly known as sober living homes.

This requirement applies regardless of the zoning designation of where the unlicensed facility is located. There have been cases where a licensed facility provides services to the residents of a sober living home but does not include the sober living home in the facility’s licensure. The law aims to enhance transparency to ensure that if a recovery residence is operated as a business with a licensed treatment facility, it is regulated like a business, not a residential home.

SB 1361 exempts local agencies’ efforts to provide homelessness services from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), aiming to accelerate program implementation by reducing administrative burdens for cities addressing homelessness.

Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB 262 (Holden) Children’s Camps: Safety and Regulation 12 AB 2081 (Davies) Substance Abuse: Recovery and Treatment Programs 10,118 AB 2574 (Valencia) Alcoholism or Drug Abuse Recovery or Treatment Programs and Facilities: Disclosures
11,119
SB 1361
(Blakespear)
California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Local
Agencies: Contract for Providing Services for People
Experiencing Homelessness.
16,23
Environmental Quality
AB 98, listed under "Environmental Quality," relates to both land use and air quality.

Introduced late in the legislative session following months of closed-door negotiations, the bill was signed by the Governor despite opposition from nearly 700 local leaders, business groups, and environmental organizations. In summary, the bill requires cities to update their circulation elements by 2028 to accommodate increased truck traffic, particularly in areas near logistics centers or major truck routes. Cities must ensure truck routes avoid residential neighborhoods and sensitive environments. Noncompliance could result in fines of $50,000 every six months imposed by the Attorney General.

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Additional details on AB 98 and its implications for cities can be found in the attached report, Appendix Section (page 121). While the full impact on the City remains unclear, compliance will necessitate updates to the Land Use and Circulation Element.

Additionally, the City will need to install more truck route signage, which will involve both financial and staff resources.

California legislators proposed a swathe of amendments to the state’s SB 1383 organics recycling law this legislative session. AB 2346 expands the kinds of facilities that count toward jurisdictions’ organic materials procurement targets by allowing compost from community composting and on-site composting operations to count toward a jurisdiction’s procurement target. To further advance the development of composting infrastructure, SB 1046 would require CalRecycle to develop a program environmental impact report by January 2027 that streamlines the process for local jurisdictions to develop and site small and medium compost facilities. Neither of these bills will affect the City of San Luis Obispo since the City is meeting its SB 1383 procurement target through the San Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Management Authority's Compost Rebate Program from compost generated from the Kompogas anaerobic digestion facility, but it will help other local jurisdictions meet their targets.

AB 1053 strengthens the state’s existing restrictions on retailers offering single-use carryout bags at the point of sale by refining some definitions that allowed loopholes.

Grocery stores, retail outlets, convenience shops, and most other retailers will need to stop offering both single-use plastic bags and thicker reusable plastic bags at the point of sale, not including plastic bags offered for produce and bulk purchase. Consumers who do not bring their own carryout bags may purchase one for no less than 10 cents, which will be required to be made from at least 50 percent postconsumer recycled materials.

SB 1280 will require one pound propane cylinders, often used for lanterns and cooking stoves, to be refillable or reusable starting January 1, 2028. These bills will impact residents’ behaviors but there will be no fiscal impact to the City.

SB 867 enacted the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, which was approved by the voters in the November 2024 statewide general election. The passage of Prop 4 authorizes the state to issue approximately $10 billion in bonds to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean energy, and workforce development programs.

AB 1889, also known as the Room to Roam Act, introduces new requirements for conservation planning in general plans. Starting January 1, 2028, cities will need to update the conservation elements of their general plans during the next scheduled update to address wildlife movement and habitat connectivity. The City will need to evaluate how development projects and other barriers may disrupt wildlife and work towards developing programs to mitigate negative impact on wildlife connectivity. This will be a significant planning work effort for the City that will require additional resources. The City’s existing Conservation and Open Space Element (2006) includes mapping and policies to address wildlife migration corridors; nevertheless, the City will assess and follow the updated general plan element guidance that is issued for this update.

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Proposition 4, also known as the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 is a legislatively referred bond act (SB 867) that allows California to issue $10 billion in bonds to fund climate-related projects, including safe drinking water ($3.8 billion), wildfire prevention and extreme heat mitigation ($1.95 billion), preservation of natural lands and parks ($1.9 billion), coastal protection ($1.2 billion), green energy infrastructure ($850 million), and sustainable agriculture ($300 million). Initial program resources are expected to be available as early as July 2026.

Energy and climate change remain key focal points for the legislature and California’s regulatory agencies. The 2025 legislative and rulemaking session is expected to address crucial issues, including electricity affordability, renewable energy, and climate adaptation and resilience. The City actively engages in these discussions through its membership in the Local Government Sustainable Energy Coalition, which participates in proceedings before the Public Utilities Commission, and Green Cities California, which directly advocates in regulatory matters before entities such as the Air Resources Board, California Energy Commission, and State Building Standards Commission.

Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB 98 (J Carillo
and Reyes) Planning and Zoning: Logistics Use: Truck Routes 50,120 AB 2346 (Lee) Organic Waste Reduction Regulations: Procurement of Recovered Organic Waste Products. 30
AB 1053
(Blakespear)
Solid Waste: Recycled Paper Bags: Standards: Carryout Bag Prohibition. 32
SB 1046 (Laird)
Organic Waste Reduction: Program Environmental Impact
Report: Small and Medium Compostable Material Handling
Facilities or Operations.
32 SB 1280 Waste Management: Propane Cylinders: Reusable or Refillable. 32
SB 867 (Allen) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024. 24
AB 1889
(Friedman) Conservation Element: Wildlife and Habitat Connectivity. 51 Housing Community and Economic Development
Housing and Housing Elements
Each year brings a wave of legislation intended to drive housing construction, yet often bring consequences of restricting local land use authority and enacting punitive measures for non-compliance. In 2024, there was heightened attention on cities' housing plans and the controversial "builder's remedy” – a state housing element law that allows developers to bypass certain local zoning and planning restrictions when a city or jurisdiction is out of compliance with state housing requirements.

AB 3093 mandates that local governments incorporate the housing needs of individuals experiencing homelessness into their housing elements. As part of the next Housing Element Update (7th Cycle) the City of San Luis Obispo will need to address the newly

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established income categories. Guidance from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), expected by December 31, 2026, will provide tools and sample programs to support compliance. However, the City will need to plan for the resources to thoroughly evaluate and implement these recommendations as part of the Housing Element update process.

In addition to AB 3093, the Governor has signed nine significant bills that collectively reduce local control over the approval of new housing projects:
 AB 1886 gives the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) the authority to determine whether a housing element complies with state requirements, eliminating the ability of local governments to self-certify their housing elements.
 AB 1893 prohibits local agencies from denying housing development projects that qualify as builder’s remedy, mixed-income, or low-income, if the city lacks a certified housing element. Additionally, it expands the list of actions that would constitute a “denial” of a housing project and therefore trigger a State Law violation.  SB 1037 imposes fines of up to $50,000 per month on cities that fail to maintain a certified housing element or fail to timely approve eligible housing projects through ministerial processes.
 AB 2023 sets a higher legal standard for local agencies to contest the HCD's determination that a local government lacks a certified housing element. As a result, the City will need to ensure its housing element meets these elevated standards and deadlines.
 SB 450 removes the ability of local governments to deny a housing project under SB 9 (2021) based on objective standards applied to the specific project. The City will need to continue to apply its streamlined approval process for housing projects under SB 9, as this legislation limits the City's ability to deny projects based on detailed objective standards. The City will also need to ensure it can meet the 60-day review timeline for such applications.
 AB 2243 expands the by-right zoning provisions from AB 2011 (2022) to include specific sites, such as regional malls up to 100 acres, areas near freeways (with airfiltration requirements), and certain high-rise districts. This bill aims to simplify housing development by easing the approval process and limiting local review of housing proposals. The City will need to ensure that its zoning and approval processes align with these ministerial requirements.

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 SB 1123 updates SB 684 (2023) to require local agencies to approve the subdivision of vacant single-family parcels for up to 10 housing units ministerially, without discretionary review. It also mandates ministerial approval of housing units on vacant, single-family zoned properties beginning July 1, 2025. The City will need to ensure that its zoning and approval processes align with these ministerial requirements  SB 1211 requires local agencies to ministerially approve up to eight detached Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) on an existing multifamily dwelling lot, provided that the number of ADUs does not exceed the number of existing dwelling units on the lot.

Additionally, it prohibits local agencies from requiring the replacement of uncovered parking spaces that are demolished to construct an ADU. Staff is currently working on processing zoning ordinance amendments to address the requirements in both SB 1123 and SB 1211.

Other Zoning/Land Use
AB 2085 requires the City to ministerially approve community clinics offering reproductive health services if the site is in a zone where office, retail, parking, or healthcare uses are permitted.

AB 2904 amends the notification requirements for zoning ordinance changes. Under this new law, cities must now provide at least 20 days' advance notice to affected property owners before holding public hearings on proposed zoning amendments, an increase from the previous 10-day requirement. From the City's perspective, this change necessitates adjustments to Planning Commission workflows, including earlier preparation and distribution of hearing notices. While this extended timeline allows property owners more time to prepare and engage, it also requires cities to allocate additional resources and planning to ensure compliance with the new deadlines.

Permit Fees
AB 1820 requires local agencies to provide a preliminary estimate of fees and exactions within 30 business days to any development proponent requesting an estimate during the preliminary application process, although the estimate is non-binding and for informational purposes. It also requires agencies to post current fee schedules and relevant fee studies on their websites, which the City already does.

SB 937 requires local agencies to defer the payment of mitigation fees for certain affordable housing projects until the certificate of occupancy or final inspection is granted.

It also sets conditions for when a developer can qualify for fee deferral, including breaking ground on the affordable housing project within five years. The City will need to track and implement these deferral processes in compliance with the bill’s timelines and take them into consideration during financial planning.

AB 3012 mandates local agencies to provide a fee estimate tool on their websites, enabling the public to estimate fees for proposed housing developments. The City is not required to comply with this until 2032. However, implementing this change will necessitate early planning to address logistics, technical needs, and integration onto the City’s website.

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Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB3093 (Ward) Land Use: Housing Element. 16, 25,
AB 1886 (Alvarez) Housing Element Law: Substantial Compliance:

Housing Accountability Act. 51
AB 1893 (Wicks) Housing Accountability Act: Housing Disapprovals:

Required Local Findings. 51
AB 2023 (Quick-Silva) Housing Element: Inventory of Land: Substantial Compliance: Rebuttable Presumptions. 52
SB 1037 (Wiener) Planning and Zoning: Housing Element Enforcement 57 AB 2085 (Bauer- Kahan) Planning and Zoning: Permitted Use: Community Clinic 52
AB 2904 (Quirk-Silva) Zoning Ordinances: Notice 55
AB 2243 (Wicks) Housing Development Projects: Objective Standards:

Affordability and Site Criteria. 52
SB 450 (Atkins) Housing Development: Approvals 56
SB 1123 (Caballero) Planning and Zoning: Subdivisions: Ministerial Review 57 SB 1211 (Skinner) Accessory Dwelling Units: Ministerial Approval 59 AB 1820 (Schiavo) Housing Development Projects: Applications Fees and Exactions 63
SB 937 (Wiener) Development Projects: Fees and Charges 64 AB 3012 (Garyson) Development Fees: Fee Schedule Template: Fee Estimation Tool 64
Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations
Employee Relations
AB 2561 is a highlighted bill requiring local public agencies to report on the status of job vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts at least once per fiscal year during a public hearing. If job vacancies within a single bargaining unit reach or exceed 20% of the total authorized full-time positions, the public agency must provide additional specified information during the hearing. The City will comply with this requirement and has scheduled a public hearing on the Council agenda for March 4, 2025. The current vacancy rate is less than 20%, so it will not be subject to some of the additional reporting requirements outlined in the bill.

Government Operations
AB 2631 focuses on enhancing ethics training for local agency officials, something that the City already requires its local officials to do. While it this bill will not change City operations, it will formally codify the Fair Political Practices Commission’s ethics training program in statute, thus making it a permanent program and ensuring local officials continue to have free and convenient access to this resource.

Political Reform Act
SB 1181 and 1243 both amend the Political Reform Act of 1974, specifically the “Levine Act” which governs campaign contributions to agency officers involved in proceedings related to licenses, permits, or other entitlements for use. The most notable change is that it increases the contribution limit from $250 to $500. It also makes changes to increase the amount of time allowed to fix contribution mistakes and provides clearer guidelines on how contributions are counted.

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AB 2041 expands the permitted uses of campaign funds toward personal and family security expenses, up to $10,000.

Public Meetings and Public Records
Several important bills have been enacted to enhance public meeting practices and public records laws to address current challenges more effectively. AB 2715 clarifies that local agencies can hold closed-session meetings to discuss cybersecurity issues. AB 2302 updates the rules for how many meetings a member of a legislative body can attend remotely during emergencies without having to disclose or publicize their teleconference location. Instead of a fixed 20% limit for all legislative bodies, the limit is now based on the typical number of regular meetings the body holds each month. Lastly, SB 1034 grants local agencies an extended response time of up to 14 days for public records requests received during governor-declared states of emergency. This extension allows cities to focus on urgent priorities during periods of limited resources.

AB 2715 amends the Brown Act to permit a legislative body of a local agency to hold closed sessions with law enforcement and security personnel regarding cybersecurity matters relating to critical infrastructure controls and information. This includes discussion of matters posing a threat to the security of public buildings, a threat to the security of essential public services, including water, drinking water, wastewater treatment, natural gas service, and electric service, a threat to the public’s right of access to public services or public facilities, or a threat to critical infrastructure controls or critical infrastructure information relating to cybersecurity.

Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB 2561 (McKinnor) Local Public Employees: Vacant Positions 41 AB 2041 (Bonta, Mia) Political Reform Act of 1974: Campaign Funds:

Security Expenses 44
SB 1181 (Glazer) Campaign Contributions: Agency Officers 45 SB 1243 (Dodd) Campaign Contributions: Agency Officers 46 AB 2302 (Addis) Open Meetings: Local Agencies: Teleconferences 48 AB 2715 (Boerner) Ralph M. Brown Act: Closed Sessions. 48 AB 2631 (Fong, Mike) Local Agencies: Ethics Training 43 SB 1034 (Seyarto) California Public Records Act: State of Emergency 48 AB 2715 (Boerner) Ralph M. Brown Act: Closed Sessions 48 Public Safety
Cannabis
Several bills were passed as part of California's efforts to support the Cannabis industry's growth while ensuring public safety and compliance. SB 1064 creates a new license type allowing cannabis businesses to conduct multiple activities—such as cultivation, distribution, and retail—under one license at the same location. Although cannabis businesses would be able to hold a “combined activities” state license authorizing two or more commercial cannabis activities at the same premises under one combined license, there is no impact to the City. Cannabis operators are required to obtain both a Commercial Cannabis Operator Permit with the City, as well as Use Permit as required by the City’s Zoning Regulations.

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AB 1775 permits local jurisdictions to authorize licensed cannabis retailers or microbusinesses to prepare or sell non-cannabis food and beverages in areas designated for cannabis consumption (“consumption lounge”). It also allows these businesses to sell tickets for live musical performances in such spaces. While the City of San Luis Obispo currently does not permit consumption lounges, this bill would need to be considered in any future discussions on the topic.

Civil Rights
AB 3024 was passed to address increasing concerns about harassment and intimidation of private property occupants, particularly due to a rise in the distribution of hateful flyers, posters, or symbols targeting protected communities. The bill expands the definition of “intimidation by threat of violence” under the Ralph Civil Rights Act to include unauthorized material distribution on private property with the intent to terrorize its owner or occupant. By incorporating these provisions into the Ralph Civil Rights Act, individuals affected by hate littering on their property would have the ability to seek damages from the responsible party; however, it would still not be classified as a criminal offense.

Retail Theft
In 2024, the Legislature and the Governor made addressing retail theft a priority after the unintended consequences of Prop 47 became clear in 2023 when the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) reported that commercial burglary hit its highest rate since 2008. Attachment A includes an Appendix Section (page 111) dedicated to the retail theft package, but a high-level summary of the measures that were passed by the Legislator include:
 AB 1779 (Irwin): Theft: Jurisdiction: Allows district attorneys to consolidate theftrelated charges across counties if all jurisdictions agree.  AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer): Organized Retail Theft: Permanently removes the sunset date for the organized retail theft statute and the Regional Property Crimes Task Force.
 AB 1960 (Rivas, Robert): Sentencing Enhancements for Property Loss:

Introduces sentencing enhancements for felonies involving property damage or loss exceeding specified amounts.
 AB 1972 (Alanis): Regional Property Crimes Task Force: Includes cargo theft as a property crime for consideration by the Regional Property Crimes Task Force.  AB 2943 (Zbur and Rivas): Retail Theft: Creates a new retail theft crime category, allows arrests without witnessing the crime, prohibits nuisance actions against retailers for reporting crime, and provides diversion programs and extends probation periods for offenders.
 AB 3209 (Berman): Retail Theft Restraining Orders: Authorizes courts to issue restraining orders for retail theft and related crimes and permits legal representatives of retail establishments to petition for such orders.  SB 905 (Wiener): Theft from Vehicles: Makes forcibly entering a vehicle with intent to steal punishable by up to three years in county jail.  SB 982 (Wahab): Organized Retail Theft: Removes the sunset date for the organized retail theft statute.

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 SB 1144 (Skinner): Online Marketplaces: Expands requirements for online marketplaces to verify third-party sellers and mandates policies to prevent and report the sale of stolen goods, effective July 1, 2025.  SB 1242 (Min): Fires in Retail Theft: Adds sentencing aggravation for setting fires within retail premises during organized theft.
 SB 1416 (Newman): Sentencing for Stolen Property Sales: Creates a sentencing enhancement of 1–4 years for selling or exchanging stolen goods if the value exceeds certain amounts.

Bill # and Author Title Page #
SB 1064 (Laird) Cannabis: Operator and Separate Premises License Types: Excessive Concentration of Licenses 75
AB 1775 (Haney) Cannabis: Retail Preparation, Sale, and Consumption of Noncannabis Food and Beverage Products 74
AB 1779 (Irwin) Theft: Jurisdiction 89,115
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer) Crimes: Organized Theft 89,115
AB 1960 (Rivas, Robert)* Sentencing Enhancements: Property Loss 89,115 AB 1972 (Alanis) Regional Property Crimes Task Force 89,116 AB 2943 (Zbur) Crimes: Shoplifting 89,116
AB 3209 (Berman) Crimes: Theft: Retail Theft Restraining Orders 89,116 SB 905 (Wiener) Crimes: Theft from a Vehicle 89,116
SB 982 (Wahab) Crimes: Organized Theft 90,116
SB 1144 (Skinner) Marketplaces: Online Marketplaces 90,116 SB 1242 (Min) Crimes: Fire 90,116
SB 1416 (Newman) Sentencing Enhancements: Sale, Exchange, or Return of Stolen Property 90,117
AB 3024 (Ward) Civil rights 91
Revenue and Taxation
Few major revenue and taxation bills were passed in 2024. The most notable development was the failure of the California Business Roundtable's (CBRT) initiative to make it to the ballot. Cal Cities worked alongside the Legislature and Governor to successfully block the Taxpayer Deception Act, a proposed ballot measure that would have significantly restricted the City's ability to levy taxes, fees, and other charges needed to fund services. The California Supreme Court ruled that the initiative constituted a constitutional revision and therefore could not appear on the November ballot.

Several measures were enacted to address property taxation, refunds, and delinquencies, but their impact on the City is minimal. AB 2854, a Bradley-Burns sales tax law, requires local jurisdictions to publicly post any agreements they have with private retailers resulting in the direct or indirect payment, transfer, diversion or rebate of BradleyBurns local tax revenues to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA). While the City currently has no such agreements, it will need to comply with this requirement if any are established in the future. SB 1059, a cannabis tax measure, standardizes tax calculations by prohibiting local jurisdictions from including state cannabis taxes in the definition of “gross receipts” when calculating local cannabis business taxes or fees. The City’s process for assessing gross receipts already excludes state taxes, so this bill will have no impact on the City’s procedures or revenue collection.

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Lastly, AB 2257 is a bill that changes the administrative process for objections to propertyrelated water or sewer fee charges (Prop 218). In summary, it requires individuals or entities to submit written objections to local agencies before pursuing legal action and the local agencies must then respond in writing. Court challenges are limited to the administrative record, promoting dispute resolution at the local level with the goal of enhancing transparency, and streamlining legal proceedings.

Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB 2854 (Irwin) Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law 95 SB 1059 (Bradford) Cannabis: Local Taxation: Gross Receipts 95 AB 2257 (Wilson) Local Government: Property-related Water and Sewer Fees and Assessments: Remedies 95
Transportation, Communications, and Public Works
AB 1777 would, commencing July 1, 2026, require manufacturers of autonomous vehicles that operate without a human operator physically present in the vehicle to comply with certain requirements, including, among other things, to maintain a dedicated emergency response telephone line that is available for emergency response officials, as defined, and to equip each autonomous vehicle with a two-way voice communication device that enables emergency response officials that are near the vehicle to communicate effectively with a remote human operator.

To support the state’s efforts to expand EV charging infrastructure and eliminate barriers to EV adoption, AB 2427 requires the State’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development Office to create a model permitting checklist, zoning ordinances, and best practices for local governments to streamline the permitting process for curbside EV charging stations.

Smaller cities, such as San Luis Obispo, must implement these provisions by January 2029.

Another bill supporting the state's zero-emission vehicle adoption goals is SB 1418, which requires cities to adopt an ordinance establishing an expedited, streamlined permitting process for hydrogen-fueling stations. While the ordinance must align with the state’s guidebooks, it can be tailored to San Luis Obispo’s unique climate, geology, and local conditions in consultation with the City’s fire department. The City of San Luis Obispo must comply with the provisions of this measure by September 2028.

SB 1216 would prohibit any agencies from installing shared bicycle lane markings (“sharrows”) on any roadway where bicycle travel is permitted that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 mph. The City generally does not propose Class III bikeways (shared auto/bike lanes) or shared lane markings on high-speed roadways. Currently, there are no known instances of shared lane markings on streets with speed limits exceeding 30 mph, except in cases where they are used to facilitate transitions between a curbside bike lane and a channelized bike lane positioned to the left of a dedicated right-turn lane, in accordance with current design standards. If SB 1216 is approved and the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices is updated accordingly, the City will discontinue the use of shared lane markings in these environments as part of future roadway restriping projects.

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AB 3177 imposes various requirements with respect to imposition of impact fees and land dedication requirements for housing developments. For example, this bill prohibits local agencies from requiring land dedications for housing developments for the purposes of roadway widening to mitigate traffic, with exceptions for cases where road widening is required to address safety impacts, for sidewalk and utility improvements, or where the development is both (a) located outside of a transit priority area and (b) includes a linear street frontage of 500 feet or more. No current locations in San Luis Obispo meet the formal designation of a “transit priority area”, but this could change in the future if bus transit frequencies are increased significantly. This bill also requires agencies that impose transportation impact fees to adjust fee rates (or at least the portion of fees directly related to mitigating vehicle traffic impacts) for housing developments that satisfy all of the following criteria: (a) located within a transit priority area, (b) located within one-half mile of convenience retail uses, and (c) provides the minimum number of parking spaces required by the local ordinance, or no more than one space for 0-2 bedroom units or two spaces for 3+ bedroom units, whichever is less.

Artificial Intelligence
Although not covered in the Cal Cities Legislative Briefing, five newly passed bills are set to shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) by promoting transparency, accountability, and ethical standards in its development and use.
 SB 896 enhances public awareness by requiring notifications and human contact options when generative AI is utilized.
 AB 1008 extends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to cover AI-stored personal and neural data, ensuring privacy protections keep pace with advancing technology.
 SB 942 mandates provenance disclosures and identification tools for AI-generated content in systems with over 1 million users, addressing concerns about misinformation and authenticity.
 AB 2885 refines legal definitions of AI to mitigate risks associated with digital content forgery and deepfakes.
 AB 2013 strengthens transparency by requiring developers to disclose high-level summaries of datasets used to train AI models, fostering trust and accountability.

Collectively, these bills play a crucial role in AI governance, balancing innovation with public interest. As AI evolves, additional legislation is likely to emerge. These laws provide a framework that City can adopt to develop its own AI policies.

Bill # and Author Title Page #
SB 1418 (Archuletta) Hydrogen-fueling Stations: Administrative Approval 104 AB 2427 (McCarty) Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Permitting: Curbside Charging 100
AB 1777 (Ting) Autonomous Vehicles 99
SB 1216
(Blakespear) Transportation Projects: Class III Bikeways: Prohibition 103 AB 3177(W. Carrillo) Mitigation Fee Act: Land Dedications: Mitigating Vehicular Traffic Impacts. 64

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Looking Forward to 2025
Next year will bring a new two-year legislative session, over 30 new lawmakers, and two special elections. At the federal level, significant policy shifts under the current administration could lead to major changes in funding structures and potential budget cuts, which may impact service delivery at the local level.

While it is clear that the Governor and legislative leaders will respond to these changes in Washington, the impact on state politics remains uncertain. Regardless, California will face numerous challenges in the coming year, including a projected $2 billion budget shortfall for FY 2025-26, a structural deficit of over $20 billion in the coming years, insufficient electric vehicle infrastructure, ongoing property insurance issues, and the persistent challenges of high building costs, climate change, disaster preparedness, and homelessness.

Cal Cities recently adopted their 2025 Advocacy Priorities (Attachment B) which will help guide the City’s legislative platform. Unsurprisingly, the four top priorities align well with the City’s Major City Goals:

1. Protect local revenues and expand economic development tools.

2. Strengthen climate change resilience and disaster preparedness.

3. Strengthen and modernize critical infrastructure.

4. Secure investments to prevent and reduce homelessness and increase the supply of affordable housing.

Legislative Platform
The City’s Legislative Platform states the City’s position on the issues it faces at the County, State, and Federal levels. The Legislative Platform conveys to legislators, policymakers, and the public where the Council stands on important policy positions. A legislative platform also provides a mechanism for staff and council to “be on the same page” and better coordinate execution of Council’s policies.

The Legislative Platform allows the City to respond quickly in support of or opposition to issues included in the platform that could impact the City and to reach out to legislators or regulators to share the City’s stance on an issue. The City’s Legislative platform is reviewed and amended every year in conjunction with the opening of a new legislative year. This enables the platform to evolve and adapt to the changing needs of the City.

Ad-Hoc Committee Process
In recent years, Council has appointed an ad-hoc committee to review and make changes to the Legislative Platform in addition to recommendations from staff. The Committee is made up of no more than two Council Members to ensure compliance with the Brown Act.

The Committee addresses a specific issue or task. In this case, the Committee would be established to review the Legislative Platform and make recommendations to the full Council. Once the task is completed, the committee disbands. The draft updated 2025- 26 Legislative Platform is scheduled to go to Council on April 1, 2025 for adoption.

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This meeting is the opportunity for Council to appoint the ad-hoc committee. If Council does not wish to form an ad hoc committee at this time, staff would propose updates and bring a draft legislative platform back to Council for review and direction.

Previous Council or Advisory Body Action
The last Legislative Briefing before City Council occurred on January 9, 2024. The City Council annually reviews its Legislative Platform, which was last reviewed and approved at the April 2, 2024 City Council meeting.

Public Engagement
This is an educational item for the benefit of City Council, so no outside public engagement was completed. Public comment can be provided to the City Council through written correspondence prior to the meeting and through public testimony at the meeting.

CONCURRENCE
In preparing the 2024 Legislative Briefing to City Council, input was solicited from all City Departments. This report includes an overview of critical bills and the impacts they have on departments and Major City Goal work efforts.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) does not apply to the recommended action in this report because the action does not constitute a “Project” under CEQA Guidelines Sec. 15378.

FISCAL IMPACT
Budgeted: N/A Budget Year: 2024-25
Funding Identified: No
Fiscal Analysis:

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The action before Council does not have a fiscal impact. As noted in the report, there are several areas where State legislation may impact City work efforts or service delivery.

These changes could impact the City’s budget and, if so, those impacts will be identified at the point at which new processes are implemented and incorporated into the appropriated budget and paid for through the department budget that leads the effort.

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ALTERNATIVES

1. Council could decide not to create an ad-hoc committee and instead direct staff to make recommended updates. In this alternative, staff would incorporate recommendations from Cal Cities and other relevant sources to update the legislative platform. The draft 2025-26 Legislative Platform would then be presented to the Council for approval in April 2025.

2. Council could decide not to create an ad-hoc committee and continue with the current legislative platform. This is not recommended as there may be changes in policy landscape that are not addressed in the current platform.

3. Council could decide not to adopt a legislative platform. This is not recommended as the legislative platform allows for the City to move quickly to address legislative issues as they arrive. Without the platform the City would not be able to write letters or reach out to legislators on key issues without requesting review and approval of the letters by Council each time. This would limit the impact that the City might have on pending legislation due to the time constraints on fast-moving bills and issues.

Adopting a legislative platform is considered a best practice.

ATTACHMENTS
A – 2024 Legislative Report Published by The League of California Cities B – League of California Cities 2025 Advocacy Priorities

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Legislative Report
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Please note: Legislation marked with an asterisk (*) has been identified as significant by Cal Cities staff.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Glossary of Terms........................................................................................................ iii 2024 Legislative Year in Review .................................................................................. 1 I. Budget and Trailer Bills ......................................................................................... 4 A. 2024 Budget Act................................................................................................... 4 B. Budget Trailer Bills ............................................................................................... 4 II. Community Services .............................................................................................. 9 A. Aging and Seniors ................................................................................................ 9 B. Animal Services.................................................................................................... 9 C.Behavioral Health and Community Wellness...................................................... 10 D.Children, Childcare, and Youth Programs .......................................................... 12 E. Homelessness.................................................................................................... 15 F. Overdose Prevention.......................................................................................... 17 G.Parks and Recreation......................................................................................... 18 H.Tobacco.............................................................................................................. 19 III. Environmental Quality.......................................................................................... 20 A. Air Quality........................................................................................................... 20 B. California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA...................................................... 21 C.Climate Change.................................................................................................. 23 D.Coastal ............................................................................................................... 24 E. Energy and Utilities............................................................................................. 25 F. Forestry and Fire ................................................................................................ 27 G.Hazardous Materials........................................................................................... 28 H.Oil and Gas......................................................................................................... 30 I. Solid Waste and Recycling................................................................................. 30 J. Water.................................................................................................................. 33 IV. Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations ............................................. 37 A. Elections and Redistricting ................................................................................. 37 B. Employee Relations............................................................................................ 40 C.Government Operations ..................................................................................... 42 D.Political Reform Act of 1974 ............................................................................... 44 E. Public Employee Retirement System ................................................................. 47 F. Public Meetings and Public Records .................................................................. 47 V. Housing, Community, and Economic Development.......................................... 50 A. Land Use/Planning............................................................................................. 50 B. Accessory Dwelling Units ................................................................................... 58 C.Mobile Homes..................................................................................................... 59 D.Housing and Housing Finance............................................................................ 60 E. Development Fees ............................................................................................. 63 F. Housing Regulations .......................................................................................... 65 G.Common Interest Developments ........................................................................ 66 H.Landlord-Tenant ................................................................................................. 67 I. Community and Economic Development............................................................ 68 J. Regional ............................................................................................................. 69 K. Miscellaneous..................................................................................................... 71

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VI. Public Safety ......................................................................................................... 72 A. Alcoholic Beverages ........................................................................................... 72 B. Cannabis ............................................................................................................ 74 C.Crime and Sentencing........................................................................................ 75 D.Emergency Services and Preparedness ............................................................ 82 E. Firearms ............................................................................................................. 84 F. Fire Services....................................................................................................... 87 G.Law Enforcement................................................................................................ 88 H.Retail Theft ......................................................................................................... 89 I. Victim’s Rights.................................................................................................... 90 J. Miscellaneous..................................................................................................... 91 VII. Revenue and Taxation.......................................................................................... 93 A. Property Tax....................................................................................................... 93 B. Sales and Use Tax............................................................................................. 94 C.Miscellaneous..................................................................................................... 95 VIII.Transportation, Communications, and Public Works ....................................... 97 A. Contracting and Public Works ............................................................................ 97 B. Infrastructure ...................................................................................................... 97 C.Telecommunication and Broadband................................................................... 98 D.Transportation .................................................................................................... 99 Appendix A - Additional Resources
The Budget Act of 2024 ........................................................................................ 107 Homelessness Budget Advocacy ......................................................................... 110 Retail Theft Legislative Package........................................................................... 112 Recovery Housing Legislative Advocacy .............................................................. 118 The Warehouse Bill – AB 98 (J. Carrillo and Reyes) ............................................ 120 Appendix B - Additional Resources
Legislative Staff .................................................................................................... 128 Regional Public Affairs Managers......................................................................... 129 10 Tips for Cities Lobbying the California Legislature........................................... 130 Effective Letter-Writing Techniques...................................................................... 131 Index of Chaptered Bills ....................................................................................... 133

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Glossary of Terms
ABC Alcoholic Beverage Control
ADU Accessory Dwelling Units
AED Automated External Defibrillator
BCDC San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission CAL FIRE California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection CalHFA California Housing Finance Agency
CalPERS California Public Employees Retirements System
CalRecycle California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery CalSTRS California State Teachers Retirement System
CARB California Air Resources Board
CARE Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment
CCAP College and Career Access Pathways
CCC California Coastal Commission
CDCR California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation CDE California Department of Education
CDFW California Department of Fish and Wildlife
CDSS California Department of Social Services
CEC California Energy Commission
CEQA California Environmental Quality Act
CESA California Endangered Species Act
CHP California Highway Patrol
CNC Computer Numerical Control
CSM Commission on State Mandates
DCC Department of Cannabis Control
DHCS Department of Health Care Services
DMV Department of Motor Vehicles
DOJ Department of Justice
DOT Department of Transportation
DPH Department of Public Health
DPR Department of Pesticide Regulation
DTSC California Department of Toxic Substances Control
DWR California Department of Water Resources
EMS Emergency Medical Services
EMSA Emergency Medical Services Authority
FAIR Fair Access to Insurance Requirements
GO-Biz Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development GSA Groundwater Sustainability Agency
HCD Department of Housing and Community Development
HHAP Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention
MAUCRSA Medicinal and Adult Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act MCO Managed Care Organization
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
OPR Office of Planning and Research
PERB Public Employment Relations Board

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POST Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training PRA Political Reform Act
PREP Political Reform Education Program
Privacy Agency California Privacy Protection Agency
PTSI Post-Traumatic Stress Injury
PUC Public Utilities Commission
SDWA California Safe Drinking Water Act
SOS Secretary of State
SUD Substance Use Disorder
SWRCB State Water Resources Control Board
VBM Voice by Mail

LEGISLATIVE YEAR IN REVIEW

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2024 Legislative Year in Review
Lawmakers kicked off the second half of a two-year session in January just like they have done in prior years by trying to push through hundreds of stalled bills. But with just 28 days to complete the job, most bills never received a committee hearing and failed to advance. Undeterred by the demise of so many measures, lawmakers introduced nearly 2,200 new bills by the end of February.

Cal Cities pursued a proactive legislative agenda, teaming up with legislators to introduce 13 bills focused on wildfire mitigation, sober living facilities, the Brown Act, public safety, and Advanced Clean Fleets. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed four of those sponsored measures, along with many other bills supported by Cal Cities. Of the roughly 1,200 bills that landed on his desk, he vetoed 189 — a slightly higher veto rate than last year.

What made the 2024 legislative session stand out more than most is that many lawmakers and the Governor drastically miscalculated voter sentiment on the need to crack down on retail theft, move individuals out of illegal encampments, and the sluggish economy highlighted by continued inflation, high gas and home prices, and a persistent state budget deficit. Simply put, voters were fed up and demanded action.

Big budget wins amid a state budget deficit
Crafting a balanced budget was especially difficult in 2024, given the $38 billion shortfall and resistance to cutting core programs. Lawmakers and the Governor relied on borrowing, delays, deferrals, shifts, reserve spending, and reductions to close the gap.

Thanks to the strong advocacy of Cal Cities and local leaders, the final budget restored hundreds of millions of dollars for essential housing programs, including the Multifamily Housing Program, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, and the Regional Early Action Program.

Additionally, Cal Cities helped secure $1 billion for the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program, marking the sixth consecutive year of funding for this critical program. The budget also included $250 million for the Encampment Resolution Grant Program.

Three-pronged advocacy efforts protect local revenues
Cal Cities is the only local government organization in California that advocates in the courts, at the ballot box, and in the Legislature. Protecting local revenues is an essential part of this three-pronged approach.

Cal Cities joined forces with the Legislature and the Governor to block the Taxpayer Deception Act, a ballot measure backed by the state’s wealthiest corporations. The California Supreme Court ruled that the initiative amounted to a revision of the state

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constitution and should not appear on the November ballot. This was a significant win for cities, as it could have decimated essential services and created expensive, frivolous litigation at the expense of Californians.

In the Legislature, Cal Cities defeated several bills that would have harmed local revenues, such as measure that would have prohibited cities from entering into sales tax rebate agreements with retailers and eventually voided all existing agreements. Cal Cities also stopped a bill that would have exempted new accessory dwelling units from property tax assessments for up to two years, resulting in a significant loss of property tax.

In another major victory, Cal Cities defeated AB 2489 (Ward) and AB 2557 (Ortega).

Both measures would have slowed down local governments' core functions by limiting how they contract out services and adding new onerous reporting requirements.

Moving the needle on public safety
With an uptick in retail theft, smash-and-grab robberies, and continued fentanyl use, lawmakers were forced to put aside their ideological beliefs and address widespread concerns. Legislative leaders reluctantly pushed a 10-bill package supported by Cal Cities that will crack down on retail theft, fencing operations, cargo theft, and related tactics, such as breaking into a vehicle to commit theft.

Some stakeholders, including retailers and district attorneys, felt the package didn’t go far enough. They put forth Proposition 36 to further deter repeat retail theft and redirect some offenders towards drug treatment rather than incarceration. Cal Cities supported the ballot measure, which voters approved overwhelmingly in November.

An unabated onslaught of new housing bills
No year is complete without dozens of bills seeking to limit local land use authority out of the mistaken belief and facts to the contrary that sticks alone rather than proven incentives can spur housing construction. This year, there was a greater focus on cities' housing plans and the so-called "builder's remedy."
The Governor signed three significant bills: AB 1886 (Alvarez) allows the California Department of Housing and Community Development to determine housing element compliance unless a court says otherwise. AB 1893 (Wicks) attempts to place guardrails on builder's remedy projects but prohibits objective standards in some cases.

The draconian SB 1037 (Wiener) subjects cities that do not have a certified housing element or do not ministerially approve affordable housing to $50,000 monthly fines.

Cal Cities did defeat several misguided bills, including one that would have forced cities to approve all office-to-residential conversions and exempted them from specific fees.

This could have led to a proliferation of housing in areas never planned for residential development.

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A jam job for the ages
After months of closed-door negotiations, Asm. Juan Carrillo and Asm. Eloise Reyes introduced AB 98 in the final days of the legislative session. The Governor signed the measure, despite receiving nearly 700 opposition letters from local leaders, business groups, and environmental organizations.

AB 98 will place stringent requirements on warehouses and logistic use centers and force cities to update their circulation elements. The Attorney General can fine cities $50,000 every six months if their circulation elements are not updated to address these new requirements.

Looking ahead
While cities did not get everything we wanted this session, 2024 was still a strong year of advocacy filled with major legal and legislative victories. Through strong participation and engagement from local officials, Cal Cities will be equally prepared to tackle the many challenges ahead.

Next year will usher in a new two-year session, over 30 new lawmakers, and two legislative special elections. Cal Cities has developed a game plan to engage new legislators and their staff. But next year also marks big changes at the federal level as well.

It’s clear that the Governor and legislative leaders will react to the seismic changes coming to D.C., but how that will impact state politics is less clear. Regardless, California faces numerous challenges in the new year, including a projected $2 billion budget shortfall in FY 2025-26, with an operating structural deficit of over $20 billion over the next few years, insufficient electric vehicle infrastructure, and continued property insurance woes, along with the now sadly typical challenge of high building costs, climate change, disaster preparedness, and homelessness.

BUDGET AND TRAILER BILLS

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I. Budget and Trailer Bills
A. 2024 Budget Act
AB 106 (Gabriel) Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.

Chapter 9, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

AB 107 (Gabriel) Budget Act of 2024.

Chapter 22, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

AB 157 (Gabriel) Budget Act of 2024.

Chapter 994, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

AB 158 (Gabriel) Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.

Chapter 996, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

AB 180 (Gabriel) Budget Act of 2024.

Chapter 995, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

SB 108 (Wiener) Budget Act of 2024.

Chapter 35, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

SB 109 (Wiener) Budget Act of 2023.

Chapter 36, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

B. Budget Trailer Bills
AB 160 (Cmte. on Budget) Medi-Cal Managed Care Organization Provider Tax.

Chapter 39, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure expands the Managed Care Organization tax per Medi-Cal enrollees in

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health plans that have between 1.25 million and 4 million total enrollees, effective 2024- 2026.

AB 161 (Cmte. on Budget) Human Services.

Chapter 46, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Human Services trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 162 (Cmte. on Budget) Developmental Services.

Chapter 47, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Developmental Services trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 166 (Cmte. on Budget) Housing.

Chapter 48, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

AB 168 (Cmte. on Budget) Public Safety.

Chapter 49, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Public Safety trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 169 (Cmte. on Budget) Public Safety Juvenile Justice Trailer Bill.

Chapter 50, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Public Safety Juvenile Justice trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 170 (Cmte. on Budget) Courts.

Chapter 51, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Courts trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 171 (Cmte. on Budget) Employment.

Chapter 52, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Employment trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 173 (Cmte. on Budget) Transportation Budget Trailer Bill.

Chapter 53, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure requires the Department of Transportation to report to the Legislature annually on or before Oct. 1, beginning in 2025 and ceasing in 2036, regarding the zero-emission vehicles that the department purchases, owns, or leases. The Governor’s budget includes $279,050,000 from the State Highway Account for two years to continue replacing its aging fleet and installing zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure. Of this amount, $250,000,000 is to replace the equipment, $22,500,000 is

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for contractors to install ZEV infrastructure, and $6,550,000 is for 50 positions to support these efforts.

AB 176 (Cmte. on Budget) Education Finance: Education Omnibus Trailer Bill.

Chapter 998, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Education omnibus trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to preschool, TK-12, and higher education related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 177 (Cmte. on Budget) Health.

Chapter 999, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure, among other things, authorizes the Department of Public Health and the Department of Health Care Services to create a bed data reporting system and mandate certain providers to report their bed capacity and utilization to the system.

AB 178 (Cmte. on Budget) Public Resources Trailer Bill.

Chapter 1000, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Public Resources trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 179 (Cmte. on Budget) State Government.

Chapter 997, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 State Government trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

AB 181 (Cmte. on Budget) State Employment: State Bargaining Units:

Agreements: Compensation and Benefits.

Chapter 1001, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes statutory changes to ratify and implement memoranda of understanding between Bargaining Units 5, 8, and 10 and the state, as well as General Salary Increase adjustments for judges and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen.

AB 218 (Cmte. on Budget) Oil And Gas: Trailer Bill.

Chapter 1002, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure provides funding to implement SB 1137 (Gonzalez) Chapter 365, Statutes of 2022 and delays various implementation deadlines.

SB 136 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Medi-Cal: Managed Care Organization Provider Tax. (Urgency)
Chapter 6, Statutes of 2024
This measure modifies the tiered tax amounts for the Managed Care Organization Provider Tax.

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SB 153 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Education Finance: Education Omnibus Budget Trailer Bill. (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Education omnibus trailer bill, which makes necessary changes to enact the TK-12 related statutory provisions of the Budget Act of 2024.

SB 154 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Education Finance: Proposition 98:

Suspension.

Chapter 27, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure suspends the Proposition 98 minimum funding guarantee for school districts and community colleges in 2023-2024 fiscal year. The minimum funding guarantee would have equaled $98,484,249,000.

SB 155 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Higher Education Budget Trailer Bill.

Chapter 71, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Higher Education trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

SB 156 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Public Resources: Omnibus Budget Trailer Bill.

Chapter 72, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Public Resources omnibus trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

SB 159 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Health.

Chapter 40, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Health omnibus trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

SB 163 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Early Learning and Childcare.

Chapter 73, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is a trailer bill that makes numerous statutory changes to early care and education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2024.

SB 164 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) State Government.

Chapter 41, Statute of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is a general government trailer bill that makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.

SB 167 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Taxation.

Chapter 34, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure, the Taxation trailer bill, makes numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024, including capping the business tax credit, suspending and eliminating various tax exemptions and deductions, and making the Administrative Procedure Act inapplicable pursuant to a legal ruling of counsel issued by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

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SB 174 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Public Resources: California Environmental Quality Act: Exemptions: Native Fish And Wildlife: Capitol Annex.

Chapter 74, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure exempts the work performed under the State Capitol Building Annex Act (Act) from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), appropriates $700 million to fund projects under the Act, and extends the sunset for the CEQA exemption for climate and biodiversity projects to 2030.

SB 175 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Taxation.

Chapter 42, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes changes to when the Net Operating Loss deduction can be claimed, as well as technical changes to the fee program of the California Tire Recycling Act.

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II. Community Services
A. Aging and Seniors
*AB 2207 (Reyes) State Boards and Commissions: Representatives of Older Adults.

Chapter 332, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires older adults to be represented on different California state councils, boards, and advisory committees. This includes the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Advisory Committee, the California Workforce Development Board, and the California Behavioral Health Planning Council.

AB 2620 (Bains) California Commission on Aging.

Chapter 334, Statutes of 2024
This measure reduces the number of members on the California Commission on Aging from 25 to 18, clarifies the commission is an advisory commission, and reduces the annual meetings from six to four.

SB 1249 (Roth) Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act.

Chapter 337, Statutes of 2024
This measure updates the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act to reform functions relating to area agencies on aging (AAA). This includes requiring the California Department of Aging (CDA) to work with all AAAs to develop objectives, key results, and performance measurement methodology for core programs and services. This measure also requires the CDA to submit a plan to the Legislature that includes updates to AAA designations and corresponding changes to the statewide planning and service maps.

SB 1406 (Allen) Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly: Resident Services.

Chapter 340, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds to the list of rights for residents of a residential care facility for the elderly the right to request, refuse, or discontinue a service. This measure also requires a facility to provide written notice to residents regarding an increase in the rate of fees 90 days in advance and requires the notice to include the reasons for the rate increase.

B. Animal Services
AB 1988 (Muratsuchi) Stray Animals: Availability for Adoption or Release.

Chapter 96, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes puppies or kittens relinquished by their owners to a public or private animal shelter to be immediately available to a nonprofit, animal rescue, or animal adoption organization.

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AB 2232 (Maienschein) Accessibility to Emergency Information and Services:

Emergency Shelters: Persons with Pets.

Chapter 14, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires that whenever a city or county designates any number of emergency warming centers during the next update to its emergency plan, it must also, to the extent practicable, designate at least one warming center that can accommodate people with pets.

ACR 86 (Kalra) Animals: Overpopulation: Spay and Neutering Services.

Chapter 51, Statutes of 2024
This measure encourages state and local municipalities to develop and fund highvolume spay and neuter clinics across the state to provide sterilization services. This measure also encourages other actions relating to pets, including actions to control animal breeding and encourage spaying and neutering.

C. Behavioral Health and Community Wellness
AB 1147 (Addis) Disability Equity, Transparency, and Accountability Act of 2024.

Chapter 902, Statutes of 2024
This measure enacts the Disability Equity, Transparency, and Accountability Act of 2024 to provide increased oversight of the regional centers the State Department of Developmental Services contracts with to deliver services and care to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Specifically, this measure prohibits regional center employees from accepting gifts over $15 per year from certain entities, prohibits regional center senior staff from hiring relatives, and makes regional centers subject to the California Public Records Act.

AB 1282 (Lowenthal) Mental Health: Impacts of Social Media.

Chapter 807, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Department of Public Health, in consultation with the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, to report to relevant policy committees of the Legislature by Dec. 31, 2026, on a statewide strategy to understand, communicate, and mitigate mental health risks associated with the use of social media by children and youth.
*AB 2081 (Davies) Substance Abuse: Recovery and Treatment Programs.

Chapter 376, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the operator of a licensed recovery home to disclose to those seeking care that they can check the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) website to confirm a facility’s compliance with state licensing laws. (Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.) AB 2154 (Berman) Mental Health: Involuntary Treatment.

Chapter 635, Statutes of 2024
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involuntarily detained for assessment, evaluation, or treatment under the LantermanPetris-Short Act with a copy of the DHCS’s patients' rights handbook. If the handbook has been provided to a family member, the facility must also offer the patient a copy.

AB 2556 (Jackson) Behavioral Health and Wellness Screenings: Notice.

Chapter 200, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a health plan or insurer, except as specified, to provide annual notices to enrollees or insureds regarding the benefits of behavioral health and wellness screenings for children and adolescents 8 to 18 years of age. *AB 2574 (Valencia) Alcoholism or Drug Abuse Recovery or Treatment Programs and Facilities: Disclosures.

Chapter 410, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands reporting requirements for licensed recovery home operators to enhance the DHCS’s oversight of sober living homes that are operating as an integral part of a licensed drug treatment facility located elsewhere in the community. (Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.)
AB 3229 (Lee) California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project: Report.

Chapter 916, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to submit a report to the Legislature by July 1, 2025, regarding the transition of the California Fruit and Vegetable Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Pilot Project to a supplemental benefits program that is fully state managed, without grantee intermediaries, and including the results of an evaluation of the pilot projects.

SB 1184 (Eggman) Mental Health: Involuntary Treatment: Antipsychotic Medication.

Chapter 643, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the administration of antipsychotic medication to a person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation and treatment for the total duration of their treatment.

SB 1238 (Eggman) Health Facilities.

Chapter 644, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the types of facilities counties can designate to perform evaluations and treat individuals on involuntary holds. This includes authorizing psychiatric health facilities and mental health rehabilitation centers to admit people diagnosed only with severe substance use disorders upon approval by DHCS.

SB 1320 (Wahab) Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment.

Chapter 135, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a health plan or insurer to establish a process to reimburse providers for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services that are integrated with primary care services and provided under a contract or policy issued,

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amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2025. This measure allows the reimbursement process to be based on federal rules or guidance issued for the Medicare program.

D. Children, Childcare, and Youth Programs
AB 51 (Bonta) Early Childcare and Education: California State Preschool Program.

Chapter 618, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to provide prospective state preschool program contractors an opportunity to establish a trained workforce and administrative systems, assemble early learning resources, develop guidance related to serving both private pay and subsidized students, and advance a plan for outreach, capacity building, training, and technical assistance. *AB 262 (Holden) Children’s Camps: Safety and Regulation.

Chapter 341, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Department of Social Services (DSS) to establish and lead a stakeholder workgroup to gather information and provide recommendations to the Legislature regarding the development of subsequent legislation for children’s camps. The workgroup must include representatives from local city, county, and special district parks departments.

AB 1113 (McCarty) California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System:

Expanded Learning Opportunity Programs.

Chapter 1003, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the CDE, beginning in the 2025-26 school year, to collect data on students enrolled in expanded learning programs and ensure the collection of this data is integrated with existing local educational agency (LEA) reporting requirements for the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. This measure also requires the CDE to identify and reduce data reporting redundancies and provide guidance and recommendations to LEAs in collecting student data, including student participation in expanded learning programs.

AB 1808 (S. Nguyen) Childcare and Development Services: Eligibility.

Chapter 356, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes a 24-month eligibility period for all income-eligible families within the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, aligning it with other subsidized childcare programs.

AB 1907 (Pellerin) California Child and Family Service Review System: Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment.

Chapter 944, Statutes of 2024
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authorizes it to include other behavioral health data that is readily available to the DSS and determined by the department to be relevant.

AB 1939 (Maienschein) Pupil Attendance: County and Local School Attendance Review Boards: Pupil Consultation.

Chapter 13, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires each county and local school attendance review board to consult with a diverse group of students from the schools they serve at least once a year to help the board better understand and propose interventions for any attendance or behavioral issues that students may be facing.

AB 2317 (Nguyen, Stephanie) Child Day Care Facilities: Anaphylactic Policy.

Chapter 563, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the DSS, in consultation with the CDE and the Emergency Medical Services Authority, to establish an anaphylactic policy that sets forth guidelines and procedures recommended for child day care personnel on or before July 1, 2027.

This measure also authorizes a child day care facility to implement the anaphylactic policy on and after Jan. 1, 2028, and would require a child day care facility that adopts the anaphylactic policy to notify parents and guardians of the policy upon their child’s enrollment.

AB 2343 (Schiavo) CalWORKs: Childcare Programs.

Chapter 958, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that nothing prohibits an administrator of an alternative payment program or agency administering CalWORKs Stage One or Stage Two programs from utilizing funds for administrative and support services to provide families at risk of homelessness or escaping domestic abuse a referral pathway to secure stable childcare placement.

AB 2423 (Mathis) Developmental Services: Rates.

Chapter 904, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires State Department of Developmental Services (DDS) to review and update the rate models included in the rate study for developmental services providers annually starting in July 2025. This measure also requires DDS to post the updated rate models on its website by Jan. 1 of the following year.

AB 2477 (Zbur) Foster Care: Independent Living.

Chapter 237, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies current laws that cap savings while a youth is in extended foster care. Specifically, this measure allows a nonminor dependent who re-enters foster care and is ineligible for federal financial participation to receive aid in the form of state Aid to Families with Dependent Children — Foster Care.

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AB 2664 (Bryan) Foster Youth.

Chapter 412, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies the dates a child will be deemed to have entered foster care to establish timelines for reunification services.

AB 2723 (Irwin) The California Cradle-to-Career Data System Act.

Chapter 736, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes various technical and clarifying changes to the statutes pertaining to the Cradle-to-Career Data System. It includes, among other changes, dissolving the California Cradle-to-Career Data System Workgroup, which is responsible for assessing and recommending system improvements.

AB 2830 (Rivas, Robert) Foster Care: Relative Placement: Approval Process.

Chapter 417, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires DSS to adopt a simplified approval process for relatives to become foster care providers in alignment with federal regulations by Jan. 1, 2027. It also requires DSS to track and report data on the implementation of the new process no later than 18 months after implementation. This measure sunsets these reporting and tracking provisions on June 30, 2030, and would repeal them as of Jan. 1, 2031.

AB 2866 (Pellerin) Pool Safety: State Department of Social Services Regulated Facilities.

Chapter 745, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a licensed childcare facility with a swimming pool on the premises to have at least two safety features as identified in the Swimming Pool Safety Act. This measure also requires DSS to adopt regulations to implement drowning prevention safety standards for other bodies of water located at day care facilities regulated by the department by Jan. 1, 2027.

AB 3223 (Wilson) Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program.

Chapter 850, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds to the definition of “pupil in foster care,” used in determining eligibility for the Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program, a child who is the subject of a juvenile court petition and has been identified by a county child welfare agency, a probation department, or an Indian tribe as being at imminent risk of removal and placement into foster care.

SB 242 (Skinner) California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program.

Chapter 1010, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits funds deposited and accrued in a California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children trust fund account from being considered as income or assets when determining eligibility and benefit amount for any means-tested program until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers the funds from the HOPE trust fund account.

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SB 691 (Portantino) Pupil Attendance: Truancy Notifications.

Chapter 863, Statutes of 2024
This measure, starting July 1, 2025, would require an LEA to notify a pupil’s parent or guardian if that pupil is classified as truant. The notification also needs to include additional information, such as mental health and supportive services, available to the pupil and the family and the fact that school personnel are available to meet with the pupil and family to develop strategies to support the pupil’s attendance at school.

SB 1112 (Menjivar) Childcare: Alternative Payment Programs.

Chapter 1016, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the administrative costs reimbursement rate for alternative payment programs include costs associated with disseminating information on developmental screenings.

E. Homelessness
AB 535 (Schiavo) Veterans’ Aid and Welfare: Housing.

Chapter 918, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure ensures that veterans’ disability benefits are not counted as income when determining eligibility for supportive, affordable, and transitional housing under the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act (Proposition 41, 2014). This measure also modifies the definition of “secondary tenant” to conform to this change.

AB 653 (Reyes) Public Housing Authorities: Reports.

Chapter 672, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires public housing authorities to report their monthly housing voucher leasing success rates, current payment standards, average inspection wait times for initial lease-up, and voucher search times to the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) starting on July 1, 2025. This measure also requires the HCD to convene a group to discuss the factors that impact success rates and recommendations for state and local intervention, with a report to be published by July 1, 2026.

AB 799 (Rivas, Luz) Interagency Council on Homelessness: Funding: State Programs.

Chapter 263, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) to develop a strategic funding guide and a calendar of new or existing funding opportunities. This measure also requires Cal ICH to collect fiscal and outcome data from grantees or entities operating state programs that are required to enter data elements on individuals and families it serves for state homelessness programs by Feb. 1, 2027, and annually thereafter. This data must be aggregated and made publicly available on or before June 1, 2027, and annually thereafter.

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AB 2137 (Quirk-Silva) Homeless and Foster Youth.

Chapter 382, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a foster youth services coordinating program to provide tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services if the foster youth services coordinator cannot secure those services through the school district and if those services are established as needed by the foster youth educational services coordinator.

AB 2802 (Maienschein) Transitional Housing Placement Providers.

Chapter 245, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires counties, when operating the Transitional Housing Placement program, to allow providers and participants to make matches to allow for gender flexibility. This measure also updates the minimum requirements for regulations governing transitional housing placement providers to allow participants to share units and bedrooms with siblings and co-parents regardless of gender identity. *AB 3093 (Ward) Land Use: Housing Element.

Chapter 282, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to account for the housing needs of people experiencing homelessness in their housing elements by adding two new income categories to the Regional Housing Needs Assessment framework for the seventh cycle: acutely low income and extremely low income. This measure also requires HCD to prepare guidance by Dec. 31, 2026, that provides sample analyses and programs for local governments to use in meeting the obligations of this measure.

This measure also requires when HCD reviews housing elements for compliance and requires a rezoning of the inventory of sites, the local jurisdiction should complete any necessary local coastal program amendments during the housing element planning period if the rezone sites are located within the coastal zone. The amendment could include an updated zoning ordinance or zoning district map with the California Coastal Commission’s de minimis review process.

AJR 9 (McKinnor) Housing and Homelessness.

Chapter 178, Statutes of 2024
This measure requests that Congress pass, and the president sign, the Housing Crisis Response Act of 2023 (H.R. 4233), the Ending Homelessness Act of 2023 (H.R. 4232), and the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023 (H.R. 4231). *SB 1361 (Blakespear) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Local Agencies: Contract for Providing Services for People Experiencing Homelessness.

Chapter 188, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that local agencies’ actions to provide services for people experiencing homelessness are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.

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F. Overdose Prevention
AB 1841 (Weber) Student Safety: Opioid Overdose Reversal Medication: Student Housing Facilities.

Chapter 942, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires health centers on the campuses of the California Community Colleges and California State Universities to provide two doses of opioid overdose reversal medication to each housing facility and sorority and fraternity housing on campus and establishes opioid overdose reversal medication training and notification requirements for students, residential advisors, and house managers on these campuses.
*AB 1976 (Haney) Occupational Safety and Health Standards: First Aid Materials:

Opioid Antagonists.

Chapter 689, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, within the Department of Industrial Relations, to submit a draft rulemaking proposal to require first aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration by Dec. 1, 2027. This measure also requires the division, in drafting the rulemaking proposal, to consider and provide guidance to employers on proper storage of the opioid antagonist in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board must consider adopting these regulations by Dec. 1, 2028.

AB 1996 (Alanis) Opioid Antagonists: Stadiums, Concert Venues, and Amusement Parks: Overdose Training.

Chapter 199, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires every stadium, concert venue, and amusement park to ensure that naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonists on-site are easily accessible and that emergency responders on the premises know its location.

AB 2136 (Jones-Sawyer) Controlled Substances: Analyzing and Testing.

Chapter 701, Statutes of 2024
This measure excludes from the definition of drug paraphernalia equipment any equipment used for testing a substance for the presence of contaminants, toxic substances, hazardous compounds, or other adulterants. This measure allows specified entities to provide controlled substance checking services and prohibits arrest and criminal prosecution of person providing those services.

AB 2871 (Maienschein) Overdose Fatality Review Teams.

Chapter 639, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes counties to establish overdose fatality review teams to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing overdose fatalities, facilitate communication among the people and agencies involved in overdose fatalities, and integrate local overdose prevention efforts through strategic planning, data dissemination, and community collaboration. This measure also requires information gathered by an

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overdose fatality review team to be used by the county to develop education, prevention, and intervention strategies to improve coordination of treatment services and prevent future overdose deaths.

AB 2995 (Jackson) Public Health: Alcohol and Drug Programs.

Chapter 847, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises various terms, including alcohol and other drug abuse programs, alcohol abusers, drug abusers, and inebriates, in existing law to instead use person-first terminology to remove stigmatization.

AB 2998 (McKinnor) Opioid Overdose Reversal Medications: Pupil Administration.

Chapter 974, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local educational agency (LEA) from barring a pupil 12 years of age or older, while on a school site or participating in school activities, from carrying or administering a naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray or any other opioid overdose reversal medication. This measure also exempts students, LEAs, or employees who administer opioid overdose reversal medication from liability in a civil action or criminal prosecution for their acts or omissions, unless the acts or omissions constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct.

SB 1385 (Roth) Medi-Cal: Community Health Workers: Supervising Providers.

Chapter 164, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires Medi-Cal managed care plans, by July 1, 2025, to adopt policies and procedures to effectuate a billing pathway for supervising providers to claim for the provision of community health worker services to enrollees during emergency department visits. This creates a sustainable source of funding to support navigator positions in California’s emergency rooms, pairing patients suffering from substance use issues with a navigator who guides them to recourses and care, even after their hospital stay.

G. Parks and Recreation
*AB 1825 (Muratsuchi) California Freedom to Read Act.

Chapter 941, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires public library jurisdictions that receive state funding to adopt a written and publicly available collection development policy by Jan. 1, 2026. The policy must be sent to the State Librarian, who can also provide technical assistance in its development. This measure also prohibits the governing board or body of a public library from proscribing or prohibiting the circulation of any materials because of the topic addressed by the materials or because of the views, ideas, or opinions contained in those materials.

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AB 2440 (Reyes) 30x30 Goal: Partnering State Agencies: Department of Parks and Recreation.

Chapter 716, Statutes of 2024
This measure incorporates the Department of Parks and Recreation, among other state agencies managing state-owned lands, into the state’s goal to conserve 30% of lands and coastal waters by 2030 and requires an update on progress toward expanding access to nature for all Californians.

AB 2939 (Rendon) Parks: Counties and Cities: Interpretive Services.

Chapter 423, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the use of local parks by a nonprofit or Native American tribe to provide interpretative services to 30 or fewer park visitors at a time to be considered an allowable public use of the local park. This measure requires cities and counties to treat this use of the local park in the same manner as the general public’s use of the local park.

H. Tobacco
AB 3218 (Wood) Unflavored Tobacco List.

Chapter 849, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires every manufacturer or importer of tobacco products to submit to the Attorney General a list of all brand styles of tobacco products they manufacture or import for sale or distribution in California. This measure also requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain on the Attorney General’s website a list of tobacco product brand styles that lack a characterizing flavor, called the Unflavored Tobacco List, by no later than Dec. 31, 2025. Retail sale of any tobacco product not on the Unflavored Tobacco List is prohibited. The Attorney General can seek injunctive relief and a civil penalty of up to $50,000 against any manufacturer or importer who falsely certifies that a brand style determined to have a characteristic flavor lacks a characteristic flavor.

SB 1230 (Rubio) Strengthen Tobacco Oversight Programs (STOP) and Seize Illegal Tobacco Products Act.

Chapter 462, Statutes of 2024
This measure enacts the Strengthen Tobacco Oversight Programs and Seize Illegal Tobacco Products Act, authorizing employees of the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to seize and destroy flavored tobacco products discovered during inspections of locations where tobacco products are sold or stored. This measure also increases the civil penalties for retailers who sell illegal tobacco products and tobacco products to people under 21 years old.

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III. Environmental Quality
A. Air Quality
*AB 98 (J. Carrillo and Reyes) Planning and Zoning: Logistics Use: Truck Routes.

Chapter 931, Statutes of 2024
This measure, beginning Jan. 1, 2026, prescribes statewide 21st-century warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments within 900 feet of a sensitive receptor, including standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. It also requires any new logistics use development shall be sited on roadways that meet specific conditions. This measure exempts from those design and build standards certain existing logistics use developments, proposed expansions of a logistics use development, and property currently in a local entitlement process to become a logistics use. It requires a facility operator, prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, to establish and submit for approval by a city, county, or city and county a truck routing plan to and from the state highway system based on the latest truck route map of the city, county, or city and county. It also requires a facility operator to enforce the plan.

This measure requires all cities, counties, or a city and county to update their circulation elements by Jan. 1, 2028, to identify and establish specific travel routes for the transport of goods, materials, or freight for storage, transfer, or redistribution to safely accommodate additional truck traffic and avoid residential areas and sensitive receptors and maximize the use of interstate or state divided highways as preferred routes for truck routes. This measure requires a city or county to make truck routes publicly available in geographic information system (GIS) format and share GIS maps of the truck routes with warehouse operators, fleet operators, and truck drivers. This measure requires the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino and the Cities of Chino, Colton, Fontana, Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley, Ontario, Perris, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Rialto, Riverside, and San Bernardino to complete the required circulation element update by Jan. 1, 2026. This measure authorizes the Attorney General to impose a fine against a jurisdiction that is in violation of up to $50,000 every six months if the required circulation element update has not been made. This measure includes additional replacement housing standards and air-quality monitoring requirements. Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

AB 1465 (Wicks) Nonvehicular Air Pollution: Civil Penalties.

Chapter 300, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows civil penalties brought against a person discharging nonvehicular sources air contaminants to be multiplied by a factor of not more than three if the violation results from an emission from a stationary source required by federal law to be included in an operating permit program established pursuant to specified provisions of the federal Clean Air Act, and the emission contains or includes one or more air contaminants. This measure requires, in assessing penalties, that health impacts,

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community disruptions, the timeliness and accuracy of the notifications from the violator, and other circumstances related to the violation be considered.

AB 2522 (Carrillo, Wendy) Air Districts: Governing Boards: Compensation.

Chapter 406, Statutes of 2024
This measure raises the limits of the compensation for each member of the board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District to receive up to $200 for each day, or portion thereof, but not to exceed $2,000 per month.

AB 2900 (Soria) Small Agricultural Truck Fleet Assistance Program.

Chapter 746, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Air Resources Board (CARB), in order to minimize the impact of the energy transition on the supply chains in the critical agricultural sector and ensure that disadvantaged communities equitably share in the benefits of and investments in emission reductions, to establish the Small Agricultural Truck Fleet Assistance Program or to use an existing program to provide dedicated technical assistance to owner-operators or owners of small fleets to support the transition to cleaner emission-compliant trucks.

SB 1158 (Archuleta) Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program.

Chapter 459, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the deadline for the period of liquidation under the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program to local air districts to June 30 of the sixth calendar year following the date of disbursement.

B. California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
AB 2091 (Grayson) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Public Access: Nonmotorized Recreation.

Chapter 377, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to post notice of and hold a public meeting to consider and solicit public input on the change in use under consideration before making a determination to approve or carry out the change in use to allow public access by a park district or the Great Redwood Trail Agency. It also requires the lead agency, if the lead agency determines that a change in use is not subject to CEQA and determines to approve or carry out the activity, to file a notice with the State Clearinghouse in the Office of Planning and Research and with the county clerk of the county in which the land is located. By imposing duties on public agencies related to the exemption, this measure creates a state-mandated local program. This measure repeals these provisions on Jan. 1, 2030, and makes additional legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Great Redwood Trail Agency.

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AB 2199 (Berman) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Residential or Mixed-use Housing Projects.

Chapter 271, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the operation of a CEQA exemption until Jan. 1, 2032, for residential or mixed-use housing projects located in unincorporated areas of a county that meet certain requirements.

AB 2503 (Lee) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Passenger Rail Projects.

Chapter 718, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands a CEQA exemption to include a public project or increase of passenger rail service that will be exclusively used by zero-emission trains located entirely within existing rail rights-of-way or existing highway rights-of-way. Because this measure increases the duties of the county clerk, it imposes a state-mandated local program.

AB 3007 (Hoover) California Environmental Quality Act: Record Of Environmental Documents: Format.

Chapter 583, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the county clerk of each county and the Office of Planning and Research to maintain a record electronically and authorizes the county clerk of each county and the office to maintain the record on paper for all environmental documents for project applicants and public agencies subject to CEQA that need to provide a filing fee to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

AB 3265 (Bryan) California Environmental Quality Act: Environmental Leadership Media Campus Projects: Judicial Streamlining.

Chapter 255, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes streamlined procedures for the administrative and judicial review of the environmental review and approvals granted for an environmental leadership media campus project, defined as a construction or renovation project on a film and television media campus in the County of Los Angeles. This measure requires a city within the County of Los Angeles that is the lead agency for an environmental leadership media campus project that meets the conditions to certify the project for the streamlined judicial review. It also requires the Judicial Council, on or before July 1, 2025, to adopt rules of court establishing procedures requiring actions or proceedings seeking judicial review of the certification of an environmental impact report for an environmental leadership media campus project or the granting of any project approval, including any appeals to the court of appeal or the Supreme Court to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 365 calendar days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court. This measure requires the environmental leadership media campus project to meet specific labor requirements.

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SB 1342 (Atkins) California Environmental Quality Act: Infrastructure Projects:

County of San Diego.

Chapter 794, Statutes of 2024
This measure includes the San Vicente Energy Storage Facility project proposed by the San Diego County Water Authority and a project for the repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of the South Bay Sewage Treatment Plant in the County of San Diego operated by the International Boundary and Water Commission as infrastructure projects, thereby providing streamlining benefits certified by the Governor. *SB 1361 (Blakespear) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Local Agencies: Contract for Providing Services for People Experiencing Homelessness.

Chapter 188, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that local agencies’ actions to provide services for people experiencing homelessness are exempt from CEQA.

C. Climate Change
*AB 1889 (Friedman) Conservation Element: Wildlife and Habitat Connectivity.

Chapter 686, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to include a wildlife connectivity element in their next general plan update after Jan. 1, 2028, within their conservation element. The local jurisdiction must consider how development will impact wildlife movement using relevant data and consult with appropriate state agencies to achieve this.

AB 2684 (Bryan) Safety Element: Extreme Heat.

Chapter 1009, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to update and include in their general plans after January 1, 2028, how to address the hazard of extreme heat. It also requires local agencies, upon the next revision of their housing element or local hazard mitigation plan after January 1, 2028, to identify new information related to extreme heat hazards applicable to the local jurisdiction that was unavailable during the previous revision of the safety element.

SB 1136 (Stern) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Report.

Chapter 184, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires CARB’s annual informational report on the reported emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies to cover topics related to the California Global Warming Solutions Act Scoping Plan.

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*SB 867 (Allen) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024.

Chapter 83, Statute of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure enacts the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters at the November 2024 statewide general election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of approximately $10 billion to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean energy, and workforce development programs.

D. Coastal
AB 1881 (Davies) California Coastal Commission: Scientific Panel Expertise:

Coastal Erosion.

Chapter 88, Statutes of 2024
This measure includes persons with expertise and training in the topic of coastal erosion, among other scientific backgrounds, to be considered when composing a scientific panel that the California Coastal Commission (Commission) may form to review technical documents and reports, provide advice, and make recommendations to the Commission.
*AB 3093 (Ward) Land Use: Housing Element.

Chapter 282, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to account for the housing needs of people experiencing homelessness in their housing elements by adding two new income categories to the Regional Housing Needs Assessment framework for the seventh cycle: acutely low income and extremely low income. This measure also requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to prepare guidance by Dec. 31, 2026, that provides sample analyses and programs for local governments to use in meeting the obligations of this measure.

This measure also requires when the HCD reviews housing elements for compliance and requires a rezoning of the inventory of sites, the local jurisdiction should complete any necessary local coastal program amendments during the housing element planning period if the rezone sites are located within the coastal zone. The amendment could include an updated zoning ordinance or zoning district map as part of the California Coastal Commission’s de minimis review process.
*SB 689 (Blakespear) Local Coastal Program: Bicycle Lane: Amendment.

Chapter 445, Statues of 2024
This measure provides that an application by a local government to convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane, dedicated transit lane, or a pedestrian walkway shall not require a traffic study for the processing of either a coastal development permit or an amendment to a local coastal program by the California Coastal Commission. This measure would also require that the amendment of an

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application be processed in accordance with the procedures applicable to de minimis local coastal program amendments if the executive director of the commission makes specified determinations.

SB 1077 (Blakespear) Coastal Resources: Local Coastal Program: Amendments:

Accessory and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units.

Chapter 454, Statutes of 2024
In coordination with the HCD, this measure requires the Commission to develop and provide guidance for local governments to clarify and simplify the permitting process for accessory dwelling units (ADU) and junior accessory dwelling units (JADU) in the coastal zone and give guidance to update Local Coastal Programs accordingly by July 1, 2026. This measure also requires at least one public workshop to receive and consider public comments on the draft guidance provided by the respective state agencies.

E. Energy and Utilities
AB 1921 (Papan) Energy: Renewable Electrical Generation Facilities: Definition.

Chapter 556, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises the definition of “renewable electrical generation facility” to include a facility that uses fuel cells or linear generators using fuels, among other facility uses, such as biomass, solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, small hydroelectric generation of 30 megawatts or fewer, digester gas, municipal solid waste conversion, landfill gas, ocean wave, ocean thermal, or tidal current, and any additions or enhancements to the facility using that technology.

AB 2109 (Carrillo, Juan) Electricity: Surcharge Exemption: Industrial Process Heat Recovery.

Chapter 700, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that the enhancement or increased efficiency of equipment occurring in the normal course of business includes industrial process heat recovery technology that meets specific requirements. This measure prohibits non-bypassable or departing load surcharges from applying to a reduction in kilowatt hours of electricity that an electrical corporation customer consumes from the electrical grid in a metered interval due to industrial process heat recovery technology, up to a cap established by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). This measure requires the CPUC to minimize the cost impacts to all nonparticipating customers that are directly attributable to the non-bypassable or departing load charges of customers using industrial process heat recovery technology.

AB 2661 (Soria) Electricity: Westlands Water District.

Chapter 573, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Westlands Water District (District) to use the electricity for the District’s own purposes, and this measure authorizes the District to sell surplus electricity to a public or private entity engaged in the distribution or sale of electricity.

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This measure authorizes the District to construct, operate, and maintain energy storage systems and electric transmission lines, and to construct, operate, and maintain works, facilities, improvements, and property necessary or convenient for the operation of the energy storage system and electric transmission lines within the boundaries of the District. It also requires the District to report the amount of income and the purposes for expenditure of that income from these electricity facilities in a report. This measure requires the District to establish a community benefits agreement plan for an electrical infrastructure development plan and related transmission and other electrical projects.

AB 2750 (Gallagher) Electricity: Procurement: Generation from Biomass.

Chapter 575, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the procurement deadline from Dec. 1, 2023, to July 1, 2025 for electrical corporations to collectively procure their proportionate share of 125 megawatts of cumulative rated generating capacity from bioenergy projects that began before June 1, 2013, and that use certain feedstocks.

AB 2779 (Petrie-Norris) Independent System Operator: Transmission Planning.

Chapter 741, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Independent System Operator, upon approval of each transmission plan, to report to the CPUC and to the relevant policy committees of each house of the Legislature any new use of any grid-enhancing technology that is deemed reasonable by the California Independent System Operator in that plan and the cost and efficiency savings of the deployment of that grid-enhancing technology.

AB 3264 (Petrie-Norris) Energy: Cost Framework: Residential Rates: Demand-side Management Programs Report: Electrical Transmission Grid Study.

Chapter 762, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the CPUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (CEC), to develop a framework for assessing, tracking, and analyzing total annual energy costs paid by residential households in California. This measure authorizes the CPUC to use the framework for purposes of evaluating any request by an electrical corporation and gas corporation to track new spending eligible for recovery or to adjust a revenue requirement. This measure requires the CPUC to submit a report to the Legislature containing the framework. It also requires large electrical corporations and large gas corporations by Jan. 1, 2026, and each year thereafter to publish on their internet websites and provide to the CPUC a visual representation of cost categories included in residential electric or gas rates for the succeeding calendar year.

SB 1006 (Padilla) Electricity: Transmission Capacity: Reconductoring and Gridenhancing Technologies.

Chapter 597, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires each transmission utility on or before Jan. 1, 2026, and every two years thereafter to prepare a study of the feasibility of projects using grid-enhancing technologies to achieve increased capacity to connect new renewable energy and zerocarbon resources. This measure requires each transmission utility on or before Jan. 1,

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2026, and at least every four years thereafter to prepare a study of which its transmission lines can be reconductored with advanced conductors to achieve increased capacity to connect new renewable energy and zero-carbon resources. This measure, upon completion of those studies, requires each transmission utility to submit the studies to the California Independent System Operator and requires each transmission utility to request that the California Independent System Operator review the results of the studies as part of the annual transmission planning process for economic, reliability, and policy goals. This measure requires the transmission utilities to make their studies publicly available upon submission to the California Independent System Operator.

SB 1130 (Bradford) Electricity: Family Electric Rate Assistance Program.

Chapter 457, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands eligibility for the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program by eliminating the requirement that a household consist of three or more persons. This measure requires the CPUC by March 1, 2025, and each year thereafter to require the state’s three largest electrical corporations to report on their efforts to enroll customers in the FERA program. This measure requires the CPUC 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 CPUC determines to be eligible within the electrical corporation’s service territory.

F. Forestry and Fire
AB 2276 (Wood) Forestry: Timber Harvesting Plans: Exemptions.

Chapter 388, Statutes of 2024
This measure consolidates the Small Timberland Owner Exemption and the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption under a new exemption called the Forest Resilience Exemption for efforts related to vegetative management and defensible space, revises the standards and criteria for qualifying for that exemption, and sunsets the new exemption on Jan. 1, 2031.

SB 310 (Dodd) Prescribed Fire: Civil Liability: Cultural Burns.

Chapter 666, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of a burn boss to include a person qualified through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and limits the tribal approval condition to the approval of the governing body of a California Native American tribe in relation to prescribed burns and the certification program developed by the State Fire Marshal.

SB 675 (Limón) Prescribed Grazing: Local Assistance Grant Program: Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force.

Chapter 772, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires on or before July 1, 2025 the Range Management Advisory Committee appointed by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to consult and

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develop guidance for local or regional prescribed grazing plans. This measure requires the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and the Department of Conservation to consider and incorporate this guidance in grant programs.

SB 1101 (Limón) Fire Prevention: Prescribed Fire: State Contracts: Maps.

Chapter 778, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a contract entered into by CAL FIRE for the purpose of providing logistical support for large-scale prescribed fire operations to be an exception to the state agency requirement to secure at least three competitive bids or proposals for each contract.

G. Hazardous Materials
AB 347 (Ting) Household Product Safety: Toxic Substances: Testing And Enforcement.

Chapter 932, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), on or before Jan. 1, 2029, to adopt regulations for the enforcement of the prohibitions on the use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in juvenile products, textile articles, and food packaging, and, on and after July 1, 2030, to enforce and ensure compliance with those provisions and regulations. This measure requires manufacturers of these products, on or before July 1, 2029, to register with DTSC, to pay a registration fee to DTSC, and to provide a statement of compliance certifying compliance with the applicable prohibitions on the use of PFAS to DTSC. It also authorizes DTSC to test products and to rely on third-party testing to determine compliance with prohibitions on the use of PFAS. This measure requires DTSC to issue a notice of violation for a product in violation of the prohibitions on the use of PFAS.

AB 1864 (Connolly) Pesticides: Agricultural Use Near Schoolsites: Notification and Reporting.

Chapter 552, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to require a separate site identification number for the portion of an agricultural field that lies within 1/4 mile of a school site. This measure requires DPR, for permit applications for agricultural use of pesticides designated as restricted materials, notices of intent for use of a pesticide designated as a restricted material, and pesticide use reporting forms and procedures as they pertain to an agricultural field of which any portion lies within 1/4 mile of a school site, to require reporting on the anticipated or specific method of applying the pesticide and certain information relating to the dates and times of the pesticide application. This measure also requires the DPR director, in evaluating a county’s pesticide use enforcement program, to evaluate the county’s effectiveness in enforcing specified laws and regulations regarding applying pesticides near school sites.

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AB 1963 (Friedman) Pesticides: Paraquat Dichloride.

Chapter 688, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires DPR, on or before Jan. 1, 2029, to complete a reevaluation of paraquat dichloride pesticide and make the determination to retain, cancel, or suspend its registration or to place new appropriate restrictions on the use of pesticide products containing the active ingredient paraquat dichloride.

AB 2515 (Papan) Menstrual Products: Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).

Chapter 1008, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits any person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any menstrual products that contain regulated PFAS. This measure requires DTSC to adopt regulations on or before Jan. 1, 2029 for the purposes of implementing, interpreting, and enforcing the regulations. This measure requires DTSC to publish on its internet website on or before Jan. 1, 2027, a list of accepted testing methods for testing for regulated PFAS in menstrual products. This measure requires a manufacturer of menstrual products to register with DTSC on or before July 1, 2029.

This measure requires DTSC to issue a notice of violation, including that DTSC determines that a violation of the regulations has occurred or DTSC receives a report of an alleged violation and verifies the alleged report through its own independent testing, verification, or inspection. It also makes a violation of these provisions punishable by administrative or civil penalties and authorizes the Attorney General, on behalf of DTSC or on behalf of the people of the state at the request of DTSC, to bring an action to enforce these provisions. This measure creates and requires all moneys collected from penalties to be deposited in the T.A.M.P.O.N. Act Fund.

AB 2552 (Friedman) Pesticides: Anticoagulant Rodenticides.

Chapter 571, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits the use of a first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide, defined as a pesticide product containing the active ingredients diphacinone, chlorophacinone, or warfarin, in a wildlife habitat area.

SB 1266 (Limón) Product Safety: Bisphenol.

Chapter 790, Statutes of 2024
This measure, on and after Jan. 1, 2026, applies prohibitions and requirements to any juvenile’s feeding product or juvenile’s sucking or teething product that contains any form of bisphenol at a detectable level above the practical quantitation limit, as determined by DTSC. This measure authorizes DTSC to establish standards for juvenile products that are more protective of public health, sensitive populations, or the environment and authorizes DTSC or the Attorney General to enforce these prohibitions and requirements. This measure prohibits manufacturers from replacing any form of bisphenol with any chemical identified by DTSC as a Candidate Chemical.

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H. Oil and Gas
AB 1866 (Hart) Oil and Gas: Idle Wells.

Chapter 548, Statutes of 2024
This measure increases the fees for idle wells and additionally imposes fees for each idle well that has been idle for less than three years.

AB 3233 (Addis) Oil and Gas: Operations: Restrictions: Local Authority.

Chapter 550, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a local entity to limit or prohibit oil and gas operations or development by ordinance in its jurisdiction, notwithstanding any other law or any notice of intention, supplemental notice, well stimulation treatment permit, or similar authorization issued by the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or district deputy.

I. Solid Waste and Recycling
AB 863 (Aguiar-Curry) Carpet Recycling: Producer Responsibility Organizations:

Fines: Succession: Training.

Chapter 675, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a carpet stewardship organization to include nonvoting board members and requires the carpet stewardship organization to pay the travel costs and other expenses for those nonvoting members to participate in all board meetings. This measure requires a carpet stewardship organization to be responsible for, and make decisions regarding, a carpet stewardship plan. It also prohibits a carpet stewardship organization from delegating any responsibility of its board of directors or any decisionmaking responsibility to a person who is not a member of its board of directors. This measure requires a carpet stewardship organization to allocate 8% of the assessments it collects for grants to apprenticeship programs and authorizes the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to audit a carpet stewardship organization and a manufacturer annually.
*AB 2346 (Lee) Organic Waste Reduction Regulations: Procurement of Recovered Organic Waste Products.

Chapter 712, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes local jurisdictions to count toward their procurement targets compost produced and procured from certain compost operations, investments, and expenditures. This measure authorizes a local jurisdiction to determine a local per capita procurement target using information from a local waste characterization study.

This measure also authorizes a local jurisdiction to satisfy its annual procurement obligations by procuring a quantity of recovered organic waste products that meets or exceeds a five-year procurement target.

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AB 2511 (Berman) Beverage Container Recycling: Market Development Payments.

Chapter 405, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the inoperative date of the market development payment program under the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act to July 1, 2027, subject to the availability of funds from the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, and repeals the program as of Jan. 1, 2028. *AB 2902 (Wood) Solid Waste: Reduction and Recycling.

Chapter 421, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the rural jurisdiction exemption until Jan. 1, 2037, as part of CalRecycle’s Organic Waste Regulations. This measure requires CalRecycle to adopt regulations to establish a process to renew the exemption after that date for periods of up to five years. This measure declares that the free provision or granting of incentive payments for use of compost or mulch by a jurisdiction constitutes a public purpose resulting in the public benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing soil productivity and water retention, and facilitating diversion of organic waste, and shall not be construed to be gifts of public funds.

SB 551 (Portantino) Beverage Containers: Recycling.

Chapter 983, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes certain beverage manufacturers to submit a consolidated report with other beverage manufacturers, in lieu of individual reports, that identifies the postconsumer recycled plastic content for beverage containers and the amounts of virgin plastic and postconsumer recycled plastic used in beverage containers, as required consistent with the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. This measure requires the consolidated report to be submitted under penalty of perjury and pursuant to standardized forms prescribed by CalRecycle.

SB 707 (Newman) Responsible Textile Recovery Act Of 2024.

Chapter 864, Statutes of 2024
This measure enacts a stewardship program known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, which requires a producer of apparel or textile articles to form and join a producer responsibility organization (PRO). This measure requires the PRO to be approved by CalRecycle. This measure requires CalRecycle to adopt regulations to implement the program no earlier than July 1, 2028. This measure also requires the PRO to submit to CalRecycle for approval or disapproval a complete plan for the collection, transportation, repair, sorting, and recycling, and the safe and proper management of apparel and textile articles in the state. Upon approval of a plan or commencing on July 1, 2030, whichever is earlier, this measure makes a producer subject to civil penalties unless the producer is a participant of a PRO, and all apparel and textiles are accounted for in the plan. This measure requires the PRO to review the plan at least every five years after approval. This measure also requires a PRO to submit an annual report to CalRecycle. This measure imposes a state-mandated local program.

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*SB 1046 (Laird) Organic Waste Reduction: Program Environmental Impact Report: Small and Medium Compostable Material Handling Facilities or Operations.

Chapter 452, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires CalRecycle to prepare and certify by Jan. 1, 2027, a program environmental impact report under CEQA that streamlines the process where local jurisdictions can develop and site small and medium compostable material handling facilities or operations for processing organic material.

SB 1053 (Blakespear) Solid Waste: Recycled Paper Bags: Standards: Carryout Bag Prohibition.

Chapter 453, Statutes of 2024
This measure recasts and revises the definition of a “single-use carryout bag” to a “carryout bag,” which means 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. This measure prohibits a store from providing, distributing, or selling a carryout bag at the point of sale. This measure also creates 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. This measure revises the definition of “recycled paper bag” and requires it be made from a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and after Jan. 1, 2028, without exception. This measure requires a store to make available for purchase at the point of sale a “recycled paper bag” but shall not sell it for less than 10 cents in order to ensure that the cost of providing a recycled paper bag is not subsidized by a consumer who does not require that bag. *SB 1143 (Allen) Paint Products: Stewardship Program.

Chapter 989, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises and recasts the architectural paint recovery program as the paint product recovery program. This measure expands the scope of the stewardship program from architectural paint to paint products, and thereby subjects paint products to the requirements of the program. It also defines “paint product” to mean architectural coatings, aerosol coating products, nonindustrial coatings, and coating-related products.

This measure would exempt aerosol coating products, coating-related products, and nonindustrial coatings added to the stewardship program from the requirements of the program until Jan. 1, 2028, or the approved stewardship plan’s implementation date for those products, whichever occurs sooner. This measure requires a manufacturer, individually or through a stewardship organization, to review its plan at least every five years after approval by CalRecycle and determine whether amendments to the plan are necessary.
*SB 1280 (Laird) Waste Management: Propane Cylinders: Reusable or Refillable.

Chapter 466, Statutes of 2024
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measure requires CalRecycle to adopt regulations to implement these provisions with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2028.

J. Water
AB 460 (Bauer-Kahan) State Water Resources Control Board: Water Rights and Usage: Civil Penalties.

Chapter 342, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to adjust for inflation, by Jan. 1 of each year, beginning in 2026, in the amounts of civil and administrative liabilities or penalties imposed by the SWRCB or in water right actions brought at the request of the SWRCB.

AB 805 (Arambula) Sewer Service: Disadvantaged Communities.

Chapter 505, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the SWRCB, until Jan. 1, 2029, and after it makes a finding or findings by resolution, to require a designated sewer system to contract with an administrator designated or approved by the SWRCB for administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services to assist another designated sewer system with the delivery of adequate sewer service.

AB 1827 (Papan) Local Government: Fees and Charges: Water: Higher Consumptive Water Parcels.

Chapter 359, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides that the fees or charges for property-related water service imposed or increased may include the incrementally higher costs of water service due to specified factors, including the higher water usage demand of parcels.

AB 2318 (Papan) State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account:

Receipts and Expenditures: Report.

Chapter 957, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the SWRCB, no later than Jan. 1 of each year, to post on its internet website a report describing the receipts and expenditures of the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account. This measure requires the SWRCB to provide the initial report no later than Jan. 1, 2026, and to include data for the period from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2025, in that report.

AB 2454 (Lee) Drinking Water: Rental Property: Domestic Well Testing.

Chapter 506, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires an owner of a domestic well that serves a rental property within the boundaries of a testing program to participate in the testing program. It also requires the SWRCB to post information regarding applicable testing programs on its internet website. This measure requires the owner of a domestic well that serves a rental property to ensure that the test results, and information on how to read and understand

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the test results, are provided to current residents of the rental property within 10 days of receiving the test results.

AB 2501 (Alvarez) Water Quality Control Plans: Donations and Grants.

Chapter 833, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the SWRCB, on behalf of itself or a regional board, to accept moneys from donations, grants, or contributions or through contractual agreements from public agencies for the purpose of planning, permitting, or providing technical support for projects of public benefit within the SWRCB’s or regional board’s jurisdiction. This measure requires all funds received to be deposited, and separately accounted for, in the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account for expenditure in accordance with the terms of the donation, grant, contribution, or contractual agreement. This measure requires the SWRCB to provide notice before accepting those moneys. Because the funds deposited would be a new source of funds in the continuously appropriated State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account within the continuously appropriated State Water Quality Control Fund, this measure makes an appropriation.

AB 2599 (Cmte. on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials) Water: Public Beaches: Discontinuation of Residential Water Service.

Chapter 411, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides that a local health officer who is required to test waters adjacent to all public beaches for microbiological contaminants may rely on data from test results from other parties only if that data meets the same quality requirements that apply to local agencies pursuant to state regulations and standards. This measure requires that test results used by the local health officer be made available to the public.

AB 2875 (Friedman) Wetlands: State Policy.

Chapter 579, Statutes of 2024
This measure declares that it is the policy of the state to ensure no net loss and longterm gain in the quantity, quality, and permanence of wetlands acreage and values in California.

AB 2962 (Papan) Wholesale Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act.

Chapter 203, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the repeal date of the Wholesale Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act for the City and County of San Francisco from Jan. 1, 2026 to Jan. 1, 2036.

AB 3090 (Maienschein) Drinking Water Standards: Emergency Notification Plan.

Chapter 68, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes and encourages a public water system, when updating an emergency notification plan, to provide notification to water users by means of other communications technology, including, but not limited to, text messages, email, or social media.

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*AJR 12 (Alvarez) Tijuana River: Cross-border Pollution.

Chapter 201, Statutes of 2024
This measure urges the United States Congress and President Joseph R. Biden to fully fund the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Comprehensive Infrastructure Solution for the Tijuana River due to the ongoing impacts to public health, the environment, and the local economy caused by cross-border pollution and would urge President Joseph R. Biden to declare a national emergency due to those ongoing impacts.

SB 583 (Padilla) Salton Sea Conservancy.

Chapter 771, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes the Salton Sea Conservancy within the Natural Resources Agency for purposes related to the Salton Sea region, including to operate, maintain, and manage projects, as they are completed, to fulfill the state’s obligations to acquire, hold, and manage land and property rights, including easements and water rights, within the Salton Sea Region after restoration or mitigation projects are built. This measure requires the Salton Sea Conservancy to be governed by a board of directors composed of designated membership by Jan. 1, 2026. It also creates the Salton Sea Conservancy Fund and would state that the Legislature intends to support the fund through authorized proceeds from the sale of bonds and allocations from the Salton Sea Lithium Fund. This measure makes its provisions operative only if the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 is approved by the voters at the Nov. 5, 2024, statewide general election.

SB 597 (Glazer) Building Standards: Rainwater Catchment Systems.

Chapter 861, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to review current building standards, conduct research, and develop recommendations regarding building standards for the installation of rainwater catchment systems for nonpotable uses in newly constructed residential dwellings and authorizes HCD to propose related building standards to the California Building Standards Commission for consideration. This measure authorizes HCD to expend moneys from the Building Standards Administration Special Revolving Fund for the above-described purposes upon appropriation by the Legislature.
*SB 1072 (Padilla) Local Government: Proposition 218: Remedies.

Chapter 323, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a local agency, if a court determines that a fee or charge for a property-related service violates the California Constitution relating to fees and charges (including Proposition 218), to credit the amount of the fee or charge attributable to the violation against the amount of the revenues required to provide the property-related service, unless a refund is explicitly provided for by statute.

SB 1147 (Portantino) Drinking Water: Microplastics Levels.

Chapter 881, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

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(OEHHA) to study the health effects of microplastics in drinking and bottled water to evaluate toxicity characteristics and levels of microplastics in water that are not anticipated to cause or contribute to adverse health effects or to identify data gaps that would need to be addressed to establish those levels. This measure requires OEHHA to provide biennial status updates and post a final report on its internet website and authorizes the SWRCB, after taking into consideration the findings of the report, to request that OEHHA prepare and publish a public health goal for microplastics in drinking water.

SB 1188 (Laird) Drinking Water: Technical, Managerial, and Financial Standards.

Chapter 507, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the SWRCB to develop and adopt minimum standards in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act related to the technical, managerial, and financial capacity of community water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people or three, 300 service connections and non-transient, non-community water systems that serve K–12 schools. This measure requires community water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people or 3,300 service connections and non-transient, non-community water systems that serve K-12 schools to demonstrate compliance with those standards. This measure requires new community water systems serving fewer than 10,000 persons or 3,300 service connections and non-transient, noncommunity water systems that serve K-12 schools to demonstrate, as part of a permit application, compliance with the minimum technical, managerial, and financial standards.

SB 1226 (Cortese) Hunting: Navigable Waters.

Chapter 186, Statutes of 2024
This measure restricts the application of land temporarily inundated by water flowing outside the established banks of a waterway to non-navigable waters. This measure states that these provisions do not restrict the public’s right to use navigable waters for hunting, fishing, or other public purposes under the California Constitution.

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IV. Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations
A. Elections and Redistricting
AB 453 (Cervantes) District-based Elections.

Chapter 195, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a political subdivision that is changing from at-large to districtbased elections to set a fixed time to discuss the matter at all required public hearings.

AB 1784 (Pellerin) Primary Elections: Candidate Withdrawals.

Chapter 355, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that state law prohibits a person from running for more than one office at a primary election. This measure also allows a person who has filed to be a candidate at a primary election, other than a candidate for statewide office, to withdraw that candidacy until the filing deadline for that office. A candidate’s paperwork to withdraw a candidacy after filing nomination documents must include an acknowledgment that the candidate understands that they will not receive a refund of any filing fees that the candidate already paid.

AB 2127 (Berman) Voter Registration: California New Motor Voter Program.

Chapter 378, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends, from Jan. 1, 2025, to Jan. 1, 2030, the California New Motor Voter (CNMV) taskforce established by the Secretary of State (SOS) to advise the SOS and the Department of Motor Vehicles on the effective implementation of the CNMV program.

AB 2582 (Pellerin) Elections Omnibus Bill.

Chapter 109, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several changes to the voter registration and candidate paperwork filing processes, including the following:
• Repeals the provisions of law that contain specific voter registration procedures for new citizens and new residents who want to vote in an election 15 or fewer days after registering to vote.
• Repeals, as of Jan. 1, 2027, a requirement for an elections official to preserve the list of new resident voters for 22 months.
• Deletes the requirement that a candidate for municipal office file an affidavit of nominee form and replaces it with a requirement to file a declaration of candidacy form substantially similar to the declaration of candidacy forms used for state and county candidates.
• Requires the SOS to establish uniform forms for candidates for municipal office to use when filing their nomination and declaration of candidacy documents, and requires candidates to use those new forms.

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AB 2642 (Berman) Elections: Intimidation.

Chapter 533, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure prohibits a person from intimidating, threatening, or coercing, or attempting to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for engaging in electionrelated activities, and authorizes an aggrieved person, an officer holding an election or conducting a canvass, or the Attorney General to file a civil action to enforce those prohibitions. It also creates a presumption that a person who openly carries a firearm or imitation firearm while interacting with or observing specified election-related activities is presumed to have engaged in prohibited intimidation.

AB 2655 (Berman) Defending Democracy From Deepfake Deception Act of 2024.

Chapter 261, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires large online platforms to remove materially deceptive and digitally modified or created content related to elections, or to label that content, during periods before and after an election, if the content is reported to the platform. This measure is limited to content related to elections in California, and to candidates for President and Vice President, statewide office, Board of Equalization, state Legislature, and United States House of Representatives. The provisions of the measure begin six months before an election in California.

AB 2839 (Pellerin) Elections: Deceptive Media in Advertisements.

Chapter 262, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure prohibits the distribution of campaign advertisements and other election communications that contain media that has been digitally altered in a deceptive way.

This measure also allows a court to issue injunctive relief prohibiting the distribution of such content, and to award general or special damages against a person who distributed the content. The prohibition shall apply within 120 days of an election in California.

AB 2951 (Cervantes) Voter Registration: Cancellation.

Chapter 424, Statutes of 2024
This measure permits a county elections official, during the period of Jan. 1, 2025, through June 30, 2025, when the official sends a required notice that a voter’s registration is being canceled due to the death of the voter, to send that notice within 15 days either before or after the cancellation of the registration. A county elections official must, beginning July 1, 2025, send these notices between 15 and 30 days before canceling a person’s registration due to the death of the voter. This measure also requires the SOS to update the Legislature monthly on its progress in making changes to allow for these notices to be sent prior to the cancellation of a voter’s registration. *AB 3184 (Berman) Elections: Signature Verification Statements, Unsigned Ballot Identification Statements, and Reports of Ballot Rejections.

Chapter 437, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure requires that voters be given until the 26th day after this year’s presidential general election to resolve issues with their vote by mail (VBM) ballots. It deletes a provision of existing law that requires the SOS to publish a report on the

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SOS’s website for local elections that contains the number of rejected VBM ballots and the reasons for those rejections. For the Nov. 5, 2024, presidential general election, county elections officials may not certify the results of the election prior to the 28th calendar day following the election. A county elections official must accept a completed signature verification statement, unsigned identification envelope statement, or combined signature verification and unsigned identification envelope statement until 5 p.m. on the 26th calendar day following the election.

AB 3197 (Lackey) Elections.

Chapter 120, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a county elections official to require the use of a standardized form for all elections petitions and papers circulated in the county related to elections for local government. This measure allows a county elections official that conducts an election for another local agency to permit candidates in that election to submit candidates’ statements for the purpose of electronic distribution.

AB 3284 (Committee on Elections) Elections Omnibus Bill.

Chapter 854, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes minor and technical changes to the elections code.

SB 1174 (Min) Elections: Voter Identification.

Chapter 990, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local government from enacting or enforcing any charter provision, ordinance, or regulation requiring a person to present identification for the purpose of voting or submitting a ballot at any polling place, vote center, or other location where ballots are cast or submitted, unless required by state or federal law.

SB 1328 (Bradford) Elections.

Chapter 605, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the SOS to impose additional conditions of approval for electronic poll books, ballot manufacturers and finishers, ballot on demand systems, voting systems, and remote accessible vote-by-mail systems. This measure updates existing election record retention, preservation, and destruction requirements to provide clear guidance for electronic voting data. It also expands and clarifies an existing felony related to voting technology security.

SB 1450 (Allen) Elections.

Chapter 480, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes various changes to the California Voter’s Choice Act, including reestablishing a taskforce that included certain individuals to review all-mailed ballot or vote center elections and to provide comments and recommendations to the Legislature within six months of each all-mailed ballot election or vote center election.

SB 1493 (Blakespear) Elections.

Chapter 800, Statutes of 2024
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information guides the SOS must mail to certain individuals and institutions, such as elected officials and public libraries. Upon request, the SOS must furnish additional copies of the guide to those individuals and institutions.

SCA 1 (Newman) Elections: Recall of State Officers.

Chapter 204, Statutes of 2024
This measure is a constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters, will eliminate the successor election for a recalled state officer and will provide, in the event an officer is removed in a recall election, that the office will remain vacant until it is filled in accordance with existing law. This constitutional amendment also repeals the prohibition against the officer subject to the recall from being a candidate to fill the office in a special election but prohibits the appointment of the officer subject to the recall election to fill the vacancy.

B. Employee Relations
AB 1941 (Quirk-Silva) Local Public Employee Organizations.

Chapter 57, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes peace officer unions to charge a nonunion member peace officer for the reasonable costs of the union’s representation in a discipline, grievance, arbitration, or administration hearing.

AB 2011 (Bauer-Kahan) Unlawful Employment Practices: Small Employer Family Leave Mediation Program: Reproductive Loss Leave.

Chapter 147, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds claims for violations of reproductive leave loss provisions to coverage under the small employer family leave mediation pilot program and makes the pilot permanent.

AB 2123 (Papan) Disability Compensation: Paid Family Leave.

Chapter 949, Statutes of 2024
This measure deletes the authorization for an employer to require an employee to take two weeks of vacation leave before accessing benefits under California’s Paid Family Leave program. Provisions of this measure only apply to a disability commencing on or after Jan. 1, 2025.

AB 2499 (Schiavo) Employment: Unlawful Discrimination and Paid Sick Days:

Victims of Violence.

Chapter 967, Statutes of 2024
This measure entitles an employee of an employer with 25 or more employees who is a victim, or who has a family member who is a victim, of a crime to job-protected leave to attend to their or their family member’s needs and ensure their safety. This measure additionally permits both an employee victim and an employee who has a family member who is a victim to use sick leave for time off to obtain victim services. The total leave taken may be capped at 12 weeks. This measure requires the Civil Rights

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Department to develop and post, on or before July 1, 2025, a form that an employer may use to comply with the measure.
*AB 2561 (McKinnor) Local Public Employees: Vacant Positions.

Chapter 409, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a local public agency to present the status of vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts at a public hearing at least once per fiscal year and entitles the recognized employee organization to present at the hearing. If the number of job vacancies within a single bargaining unit meets or exceeds 20% of the total number of authorized full-time positions, this measure requires the public agency, upon request of the recognized employee organization, to include specified information during the public hearing.

AB 2705 (Ortega) Labor Commissioner.

Chapter 242, Statutes of 2024
This measure states that, for a violation of public works law, the statute of limitations (SOL) for the Labor Commissioner (LC) to sue a bonding company shall be the same as the 18-month SOL for the LC to issue a civil wage and penalty assessment to the contractor or subcontractor on that project, or both.

AB 2738 (Rivas, Luz) Labor Code: Alternative Enforcement: Occupational Safety.

Chapter 969, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the training certification requirements of entertainment events’ employees may be alternatively enforced by a public prosecutor and adds a public events venue or a contracting entity to the entities that may be assessed a penalty for violating these requirements. The measure subjects the contract to a provision of the California Public Records Act that makes any executed contract for the purchase of goods or services by a state or local agency, including the price and terms of payment, a public record subject to disclosure under that act. *SB 399 (Wahab) Employer Communications: Intimidation.

Chapter 670, Statutes of 2024
This measure enacts the California Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act to 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.

SB 1090 (Durazo) Unemployment Insurance: Disability and Paid Family Leave:

Claim Administration.

Chapter 876, Statutes of 2024
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payment on those claims within 14 days of receipt (per existing law) or as soon as eligibility begins for the claimant, whichever is later.

SB 1100 (Portantino) Discrimination: Driver’s License.

Chapter 877, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to include a statement in various employment materials that an applicant must have a driver’s license unless the employer reasonably expects the duties of the position to require driving and the employer reasonably believes that satisfying that job function using an alternative form of transportation would not be comparable in travel time or cost to the employer.

SB 1137 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Discrimination Claims: Combination of Characteristics.

Chapter 779, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the provisions of the Education Code prohibiting discrimination in public education, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibit discrimination on the basis not just of individual protected traits but also on the basis of the combination of two or more protected traits.

C. Government Operations
AB 1976 (Haney) Occupational Safety and Health Standards: First Aid Materials:

Opioid Antagonists.

Chapter 689, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, before Dec. 1, 2027, to submit a draft rulemaking proposal to revise standards to require first aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to reverse opioid overdose and instructions for using the opioid antagonist.

The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall consider for adoption these revised standards on or before Dec. 1, 2028.

This measure also requires the division, in drafting the rulemaking proposal, to consider, and provide guidance to employers on, proper storage of the opioid antagonist in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

AB 2299 (Flora) Labor Commissioner: Whistleblower Protections: Model List of Rights and Responsibilities.

Chapter 105, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the LC to develop a model list of employees’ rights and responsibilities under existing whistleblower laws for employer use to meet existing posting requirements.

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AB 2455 (Gabriel) Whistleblower Protection: State and Local Government Procedures.

Chapter 568, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands and modernizes California's whistleblower protection laws by doing the following:
• Requiring an independent investigator to provide a confidential report detailing the facts supporting a conclusion that an employee engaged or participated in improper governmental activities to the Assembly and Senate Budget Committees and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee.
• Requiring the State Auditor to provide an investigative report regarding a finding that a state agency or employee may have engaged or participated in an improper governmental activity to the Assembly and Senate Budget Committees and Joint Legislative Audit Committee.
• Authorizing a city, county, or city and county auditor or controller who is elected to office to maintain a whistleblower hotline to receive calls from persons who have information regarding improper governmental activity. • Authorizing a city, county, or city and county auditor or controller to identify a designee within the office responsible for maintenance of the whistleblower hotline.
*AB 2631 (Fong, Mike) Local Agencies: Ethics Training.

Chapter 201, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), in consultation with the Attorney General, to create, maintain, and make available to local agency officials an ethics training course.

AB 3190 (Haney) Public Works.

Chapter 759, Statutes of 2024
This measure subjects to public works law, beginning on Jan. 1, 2026, and ending on Jan. 1, 2031, certain affordable housing projects by adding certain low-income housing tax credits to the definition of “paid for in whole or in part out of public funds,” and provides that specified projects built pursuant to certain low-income housing tax credits with a state agency, redevelopment agency, successor agency to a redevelopment agency when acting in that capacity, or a local housing authority are subject to public works requirements.

SB 1162 (Cortese) Public Contracts: Employment Compliance Reports:

Apprenticeship Programs.

Chapter 882, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a contractor, bidder, or other entity to include the full name of, and identify the apprenticeship program name, location, and graduation date of, all workers in existing monthly compliance reports made to the public entity or other awarding body for projects with a skilled and trained workforce requirement. This measure also requires the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to, on or before July 1, 2025, create and maintain a public online database to verify that a worker graduated from a California apprenticeship program.

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SB 1340 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Discrimination.

Chapter 626, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes local entities to enforce the employment components of California’s state civil rights laws.

D. Political Reform Act of 1974
AB 1170 (Valencia) Political Reform Act of 1974: Filing Requirements.

Chapter 211, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires public officials and candidates who file their original statements of economic interests (SEIs) with the FPPC, to file those SEIs using the FPPC's electronic filing system. This measure permits a filing officer to retain a report or statement filed in a paper format as a copy on microfilm or other space-saving material or as an electronic copy without a two-year waiting period.

AB 2001 (Gallagher) Political Reform Act of 1974.

Chapter 97, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several technical and clarifying changes to the Political Reform Act (PRA). This measure:
• Clarifies:
o When campaign finance document filings are made late, the local agency must post them online within 72 hours of receiving them. o If an agency receives a filing it was not supposed to receive (e.g., the candidate filed the document with the wrong agency), that agency is not required to post the filing but must notify the filer of the error. o The online posting requirements apply regardless of whether the filing was made electronically, on paper, by email, or via fax.
• Ensures the two Government Code section 84504.2s are identical relative to the typeface used in the print ads and the prohibition on using text and images not required by law.
• Removes “preparing campaign finance disclosure statements” from the definition of “campaign expenditures” as it relates to the limits on what candidates for certain offices who accept voluntary expenditure limits can spend money on. • Corrects an erroneous code reference by stating certain social media ads are not required to comply with certain disclosure requirements in two specific circumstances.
• Clarifies the deadline for bringing civil enforcement actions for alleged violations of the PRA under certain circumstances.
*AB 2041 (Bonta) Political Reform Act of 1974: Campaign Funds: Security Expenses.

Chapter 372, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes campaign funds to be used for costs related to security expenses, as defined, to protect a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family or staff of a candidate or elected officer. This measure permits a maximum of $10,000 of

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campaign funds to be expended for these purposes by a candidate or elected officer during their lifetime.

AB 2355 (Carrillo, Wendy) Political Reform Act of 1974: Political Advertisements:

Artificial Intelligence.

Chapter 260, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires any political advertisement, that is published or distributed by a political committee, to include a disclaimer if content in the ad was generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence.

AB 2803 (Valencia) Campaign Expenditures: Criminal Convictions: Fees and Costs.

Chapter 576, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a candidate or elected officer from using campaign funds to pay or reimburse a fine, penalty, judgment, settlement, or legal expenses related to the candidate’s or elected officer’s conviction of a felony involving fraud or certain public trust crimes.

SB 1027 (Menjivar) Political Reform Act of 1974: Disclosures.

Chapter 180, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a campaign committee to redact the bank account number on a copy of a statement of organization filed with a local filing officer, and requires the SOS to redact the bank account number on a statement of organization filed with the SOS before making the statement available to the public in any form.

SB 1111 (Min) Public officers: Contracts: Financial Interest.

Chapter 324, Statutes of 2024
This measure, on or after Jan. 1, 2026, expands the definition of remote interest to include the financial interests of a public officer if their child is an officer or director of, or has an ownership of 10% interest or more in, a party to a contract entered into by the body or board of which the officer is a member.
*SB 1181 (Glazer) Campaign Contributions: Agency Officers.

Chapter 785, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes various changes to the Levine Act that restricts campaign contributions to agency officials from entities with business before the agency involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use.

Specifically, this measure:
• Exempts the following types of proceedings from those that are covered by the Levine Act:
o The periodic review or renewal of development agreements unless there is a material modification or amendment proposed to the agreement. o Periodic reviews or renewal of competitively bid contracts unless there are material modifications or amendments proposed to the agreement that are

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valued at more than 10% of the value of the contract or $50,000, whichever is less.
o Modification of or amendments to contracts that are otherwise exempt, other than competitively bid contracts.
• Provides that the Levine Act’s restrictions do not apply to a city attorney or county counsel who is providing legal advice to their agency, and who does not have the authority to make a final decision in the proceeding. • Extends the period of time during which an officer may return a contribution that would otherwise require disqualification under the Levine Act, and thus be permitted to participate in the relevant proceeding, such that the officer can return a contribution as late as 30 days from the time the officer makes any decision in the proceeding.
• Codifies regulations adopted by the FPPC that specify when a person is and is not an “agent” for the purposes of the Levine Act.
*SB 1243 (Dodd) Campaign Contributions: Agency Officers.

Chapter 1017, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes various changes to the Levine Act that restrict campaign contributions to agency-elected officials from entities with business before the agency involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use, including raising the threshold for campaign contributions regulated by the Levine Act from $250 to $500. This measure also extends the period during which an officer may cure a violation to within 30 days of accepting, soliciting, or directing the contribution, whichever is latest. This measure specifies that a person is not a “participant” for the purposes of these provisions if their financial interest in a decision will result solely from an increase or decrease in membership dues. The measure also:
• Exempts the following types of proceedings from the types of actions that are subject to the Levine Act’s restrictions:
o Contracts between two or more governmental agencies.
o Contracts where neither party receives financial compensation. o Contracts valued under $50,000.
o The periodic review or renewal of development agreements, unless a material modification or amendment is proposed to the agreement. • Provides, for the purposes of the Levine Act, that contributions of an agent shall not be aggregated with contributions from a party or a participant. • Prohibits an agent to a party or a participant from making a contribution in any amount to an officer during the proceeding and for 12 months following the date of the final decision.
• Provides that if a court strikes down the prohibition on contributions by an agent, the provision providing that agent contributions shall not be aggregated shall be inoperative.
• Provides that the Levine Act’s restrictions do not apply to an elected officer if the officer or the body of which they are a member does not have the authority to make any decision or recommendation in the proceeding.

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SB 948 (Limón) Political Reform Act of 1974: Contribution Limitations.

Chapter 125, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that a candidate who receives campaign contributions for an election but does not file to run in the primary election, or who wins an election outright in the primary election without the need for a general election, can transfer campaign funds raised for the general election to a committee for a subsequent election. This measure also requires the transferred contributions to be attributed to specific contributors and subject to any relevant contribution limits.

E. Public Employee Retirement System
AB 1246 (Nguyen) Public Employees’ Retirement: Public Employees’ Retirement System Optional Settlements.

Chapter 350, Statutes of 2024
This measure, commencing Jan. 1, 2026, permits a member who elected to receive a specified optional settlement at retirement, if the member’s former spouse was named as beneficiary and a legal judgment awards only a portion of the interest in the retirement system to the retired member, to elect to add their new spouse as the beneficiary of the member’s interest, subject to meeting certain conditions.

AB 2770 (Committee on Public Employment and Retirement) Public Employees’ Retirement.

Chapter 117, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes technical, non-substantive amendments to clean up and clarify specified portions of the Education and Government Codes regulating the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, and the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (37 Act or CERL) retirement systems.

AB 3025 (Valencia) County Employees’ Retirement: Disallowed Compensation:

Benefit Adjustments.

Chapter 427, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes certain processes and procedures in the County Employees' Retirement Law (CERL), administered by CERL systems, relating to compensation earnable, disallowed compensation, and the recovery of overpayments.

F. Public Meetings and Public Records
*AB 1785 (Pacheco) California Public Records Act.

Chapter 551, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a state or local agency from publicly posting the home address, telephone number, or both the name and assessor parcel number associated with the home address of any elected or appointed official on the internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual.

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*AB 2302 (Addis) Open Meetings: Local Agencies: Teleconferences.

Chapter 389, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises and recasts the number of meetings that a member of a legislative body may attend remotely for “just cause” and “emergency circumstances” without noticing their teleconference location or making that location public. Rather than specifying 20% of meetings per year, this measure limits the number of meetings as follows:
• Two meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less.
• Five meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets twice per month. • Seven meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets three or more times per month.

This measure also changes the definition of a “meeting” for purposes of counting how many times a member uses their teleconference flexibility to include any number of meetings of a legislative body that begin on the same calendar day. *AB 2715 (Boerner) Ralph M. Brown Act: Closed Sessions.

Chapter 243, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that a legislative body can discuss a threat to critical infrastructure controls or critical infrastructure information relating to cybersecurity during a closed session.

AB 2738 (Rivas, Luz) Labor Code: Alternative Enforcement: Occupational Safety.

Chapter 969, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the training certification requirements of entertainment events employees may be alternatively enforced by a public prosecutor and adds a public events venue or a contracting entity to the entities that may be assessed a penalty for violating these requirements. This measure subjects the contract to a provision of the California Public Records Act that makes any executed contract for the purchase of goods or services by a state or local agency, including the price and terms of payment, a public record subject to disclosure under that act.

SB 400 (Wahab) Peace Officers: Confidentiality of Records.

Chapter 3, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the confidentiality provision under the California Public Records Act does not prohibit an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or custodial officer from disclosing the termination for cause of that officer. *SB 1034 (Seyarto) California Public Records Act: State of Emergency.

Chapter 161, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds an additional unusual circumstance under which the initial response time to a public records request may be extended to include the need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine records during a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor in the jurisdiction where the agency is located. This measure takes effect when the state of emergency currently affects, due to the state of emergency, the

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agency’s ability to provide a timely response to requests due to staffing shortages or closure of facilities where the request records are located, and it specifies that this provision only applies to records not created during and applying to the state of emergency.

SB 1441 (Allen) Examination of Petitions: Time Limitations and Reimbursement of Costs.

Chapter 479, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises rules relating to the process for a county to examine an election petition for insufficiency to help ensure that examinations are completed in a timely manner and are not a financial burden to county election offices. A proponent must conclude an examination of an election petition for insufficiency no later than 60 days from the date the examination commenced. This measure also requires costs incurred by the county elections official past the fifth business day of the examination to be paid by the proponent.

C. Workers’ Compensation
AB 1870 (Ortega) Notice to Employees: Legal Services.

Chapter 87, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires employers to include information concerning an employee’s right to consult a licensed attorney in their workers’ compensation employee rights notice.

AB 2337 (Dixon) Workers’ Compensation: Electronic Signatures.

Chapter 392, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the use of electronic signatures in proceedings before the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.

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V. Housing, Community, and Economic Development
A. Land Use/Planning
*AB 98 (J. Carrillo and Reyes) Planning and Zoning: Logistics Use: Truck Routes.

Chapter 931, Statutes of 2024
This measure, beginning Jan. 1, 2026, prescribes statewide 21st-century warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments within 900 feet of a sensitive receptor, including standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. It also requires any new logistics use development shall be sited on roadways that meet specific conditions. This measure exempts from those design and build standards certain existing logistics use developments, proposed expansions of a logistics use development, and property currently in a local entitlement process to become a logistics use development. It requires a facility operator, prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, to establish and submit for approval by a city, county, or city and county a truck routing plan to and from the state highway system based on the latest truck route map of the city, county, or city and county. It also requires a facility operator to enforce the plan.

This measure requires all cities, counties, or a city and county to update their circulation elements by Jan. 1, 2028, to identify and establish specific travel routes for the transport of goods, materials, or freight for storage, transfer, or redistribution to safely accommodate additional truck traffic and avoid residential areas and sensitive receptors and maximize the use of interstate or state divided highways as preferred routes for truck routes. This measure requires a city or county to make truck routes publicly available in geographic information system (GIS) format and share GIS maps of the truck routes with warehouse operators, fleet operators, and truck drivers. This measure requires the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino and the Cities of Chino, Colton, Fontana, Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley, Ontario, Perris, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Rialto, Riverside, and San Bernardino to complete the required circulation element update by Jan. 1, 2026. This measure authorizes the Attorney General to impose a fine against a jurisdiction that is in violation of up to $50,000 every six months if the required circulation element update has not been made. This measure includes additional replacement housing standards and air quality monitoring requirements. Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.

AB 1801 (Jackson) Supportive Housing: Administrative Office Space.

Chapter 683, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands what types of supportive housing developments must be ministerially approved by the local agency to include administrative office spaces utilized by a nonprofit organization to provide on-site supportive services at a supportive housing development. This measure reduces the area of the development dedicated to administrative office space from 50% to 25% of the total floor area. This measure additionally specifies that a supportive housing development with more than 20 units

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may provide 3% of the total floor area to provide on-site supportive services limited to tenant use, such as community rooms, case management offices, computer rooms, and community kitchens, instead of 3% of the total nonresidential floor area. *AB 1886 (Alvarez) Housing Element Law: Substantial Compliance: Housing Accountability Act.

Chapter 267, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that a local agency’s housing element is certified only when the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) or a court of competent jurisdictions determines a local agency has met the requirements of the housing element law. It eliminates the ability of local governments to “self-certify” their housing elements. It allows the builder’s remedy to begin as soon as HCD has determined a city is out of compliance with state law and the local agency has missed its statutory deadline to have a certified housing element.
*AB 1889 (Friedman) Conservation Element: Wildlife and Habitat Connectivity.

Chapter 686, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to include a wildlife connectivity element in their next general plan update after Jan. 1, 2028, within their conservation element. The local jurisdiction must consider how development will impact wildlife movement using relevant data and consult with appropriate state agencies to achieve this.

*AB 1893 (Wicks) Housing Accountability Act: Housing Disapprovals: Required Local Findings.

Chapter 268, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local agencies from denying a housing development project if it is a builder’s remedy, mixed-income, or low-income project, if the city does not have a certified housing element. This measure also prohibits a local agency from using objective standards that make a project infeasible or from taking any vote or administrative action that causes an unnecessary delay or a needless increase in the cost of the proposed development project. The administrative actions include a local agency determining an application for a housing development project is incomplete or requires more than two resubmittals of the application by the applicant unless the local agency can make a finding that it is not an effective disapproval of the project. Finally, this measure allows a builder’s remedy project to continue if it was submitted before a local agency has gotten certified by HCD that they have an approved housing element, even if the local agency gets certified later.

This measure creates a new definition for housing for mixed-income households to include any project that proposes the following:
• 7% of the units are meant for highly low-income households. • 10% of the units are meant for low-income households. • 13% of the units are dedicated to lower-income households. • A project with 10 units or fewer on a site smaller than one acre and with a minimum density of at least 10 units per acre.

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• A project where 100% of the units are dedicated to highly low-income, very lowincome, and low-income households that have an affordable housing cost and will remain affordable for 55 years.
*AB 2023 (Quirk-Silva) Housing Element: Inventory of Land: Substantial Compliance: Rebuttable Presumptions.

Chapter 269, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a higher legal standard for local agencies to challenge the HCD’s finding that a local government does not have a certified housing element in a court of law. This measure additionally requires local agencies that do not meet their statutory deadline for housing elements to complete all site rezoning within one year of their statutory deadline. Local agencies that submit their housing element 90 days before their statutory deadline to get a certified housing element by HCD will have three years and 90 days to complete all rezonings. Finally, any amendments to a local agency’s housing element in response to the HCD’s findings must go back to HCD for 90 days of review by HCD and 30 days of public comment, no matter how technical or minor the proposed amendments to the housing element are.
*AB 2085 (Bauer-Kahan) Planning and Zoning: Permitted Use: Community Clinic.

Chapter 820, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to ministerially approve a community clinic providing reproductive health services if the site is in a zone where office, retail, parking, or health care is permitted. This measure requires a local agency to approve or deny a project application for a community clinic within 60 days of submittal. If a local agency denies the project application, the jurisdiction must provide written documentation of the standard or standards that the project conflicts with. Finally, this measure allows the Attorney General to sue a local agency if it is not following the law.

AB 2117 (Joe Patterson) Development Permit Expirations: Actions or Proceedings.

Chapter 270, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the timeline for reviewing a variance, conditional use permit, or other development permit by pausing its expiration when a legal action, court, or proceeding is taking place to determine whether a project can or cannot be approved. *AB 2243 (Wicks) Housing Development Projects: Objective Standards:

Affordability and Site Criteria.

Chapter 272, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends by-right zoning requirements established by AB 2011 (2022) to regional mall sites up to 100 acres, sites located 500 feet from a freeway so long as they meet specific air-filtration requirements, and sites within existing high-rise districts not along a commercial corridor. This measure also clarifies that the affordability requirements only apply to proposed base units and that any units proposed through the Density Bonus Law do not count. Finally, this measure sets new timelines for local agencies to determine if a proposed project meets the following objective planning standards:

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• 60 days after a project proposal is submitted if the project has 150 units or less. • 90 days if the project contains more than 150 units.
• 30 days to review a resubmittal in response to the local agency’s findings that a project does not meet objective planning standards.

AB 2371 (J. Carrillo) Electrified Security Fences.

Chapter 235, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure prohibits local agencies from banning electrified security fences if they are legally authorized to be used for a commercial purpose that stores, parks, services, sells, or rents vehicles, vessels, equipment, materials, freight, or utility infrastructure within an outdoor lot or yard that is not in any existing residential or hospitality zone.

This measure allows local governments to require an administrative permit for approval if the electrified fence is proposed within a residential zone, abuts a residential property, or is within 300 feet of a public park, childcare facility, recreation center, community center, or school facility.

AB 2580 (Wicks) Historical Resources.

Chapter 723, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to provide information in their annual progress report regarding new historic designations in the jurisdiction within the last year and the status of any housing development projects proposed for newly designated historic sites.
*AB 2597 (Ward) Planning and Zoning: Revision of Housing Element: Regional Housing Need Allocation Appeals: Southern California Association of Governments.

Chapter 572, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes numerous changes to the Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA) process, including:
• Reducing the timeline for local governments to appeal the RHNA numbers from 45 to 30 days.
• Requiring the Council of Governments (COG) to submit proposed RHNA plans to HCD and to set a date for a public hearing to adopt the final RHNA numbers within 45 days of a public hearing to consider all appeals filed. • Reducing the time HCD must determine whether the COG’s final adopted RHNA plan is consistent with existing and projected housing needs for the region from 30 to 15 days.
• Allowing a COG to reduce the RHNA appellate timeline if there is a minimum of 10 days to appeal the proposed RHNA numbers.

Finally, this measure provides jurisdictions within the Southern California Association of Governments an additional six months to complete their housing element revisions. It removes the requirement that a city must have a compliant housing element to access the extra six months.

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*AB 2632 (Wilson) Planning and Zoning: Thrift Retail Stores.

Chapter 728, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local governments from treating thrift retail stores differently than nonthrift retail stores in local zoning codes and development standards. However, local governments can still enforce reasonable local rules or ordinances for the following:
• Requirements that the delivery of goods or donations is conducted within a specific area on the premises of the thrift retail store. • Requirements that donations can only be accepted during business hours. • Requirements that employees of the thrift retail store operate the donation process and that the donations of goods from the public are collected and received by thrift store employees.
• Limitations on the square footage or percentage of the thrift retail store premises where collecting and receiving donations are allowed.
• Requirements about equipment operation associated with the collection, receipt, processing, or disposal of used and donated goods.
• Enforcement of health and safety standards, including standards related to the ingress and egress of the shopping center and the enforcement of illegal dumping.

AB 2667 (Santiago) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Housing Element:

Reporting.

Chapter 277, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies in the seventh RHNA cycle to make a draft of their site inventory available to HCD and the public at least 90 days before the housing element's initial adoption and at least seven days before any subsequent adoption submittal if the site inventory has changed. It additionally requires HCD to develop a standardized reporting format for fair housing programs. This measure requires local agencies to report in their annual reports the number of units approved in the previous year for acutely low, extremely low, very-low, lower, moderate, and above-moderateincome households within an opportunity area. Finally, this measure requires local agencies to make publicly available online its inventory of sites and notify individuals and organizations that have expressed an interest in the issue by email.

AB 2684 (Bryan) Safety Element: Extreme Heat.

Chapter 1009, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to update and include in their general plans after Jan. 1, 2028, how to address the hazard of extreme heat. It also requires local agencies, upon the next revision of their housing element or local hazard mitigation plan after Jan. 1, 2028, to identify new information related to extreme heat hazards applicable to the local jurisdiction that was unavailable during the previous revision of the safety element.

AB 2694 (Ward) Density Bonus Law: Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly.

Chapter 278, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that a residential care facility for the elderly qualifies as a senior citizen housing development project under the Density Bonus Law.

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AB 2904 (Quirk-Silva) Zoning Ordinances: Notice.

Chapter 747, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to give the public 20 days’ notice of a planning commission hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance or amendment to a zoning ordinance.

AB 2926 (Kalra) Planning and Zoning: Assisted Housing Developments: Notice of Expiration of Affordability Restrictions.

Chapter 281, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires an owner of an assisted housing development project in which at least 5% of the units are subject to affordability restrictions that are expiring to either sell the property to a qualified preservation buyer at fair market value or re-restrict the development of affordable housing for at least another 30 years. This measure removes the property owner’s option to hold on to the property for five years and adds new streamlined, affordable housing projects such as AB 2011 (2022) and SB 4 (2023) to the list of projects that qualify for the Preservation Notice Law. *AB 3093 (Ward) Land Use: Housing Element.

Chapter 282, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to account for the housing needs of people experiencing homelessness in their housing elements by adding two new income categories to the RHNA framework for the seventh cycle: acutely low income and extremely low income. This measure also requires the HCD to prepare guidance by Dec. 31, 2026, that provides sample analyses and programs for local governments to use in meeting the obligations of this measure.

This measure also requires when the HCD reviews housing elements for compliance and requires a rezoning of the inventory of sites, the local jurisdiction should complete any necessary local coastal program amendments during the housing element planning period if the rezone sites are located within the coastal zone. The amendment could include an updated zoning ordinance or zoning district map as part of the California Coastal Commission’s de minimis review process.

AB 3116 (Garcia) Housing Development: Density Bonuses: Student Housing Developments.

Chapter 432, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a new definition of student housing development projects that qualify for the Density Bonus Law (DBL). These newly defined developments contain units with two or more bedspaces that have a shared or private bathroom, have access to a shared or private living room and laundry facilities, and have access to a shared or private kitchen. This measure also specifies that if at least 23% of the total student housing units have lower-income students, the developer qualifies for two incentives or concessions under the DBL.

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AB 3122 (Kalra) Streamlined Housing Approvals: Objective Planning Standards and Subdivision Applications.

Chapter 754, Statutes of 2024
This measure reduces the affordable housing threshold that local agencies can apply recently adopted objective planning standards when an SB 423 (2023) project is modified post-entitlement and revises certain aspects of the streamlined ministerial process established by the previous law. The following changes were made in this measure:
• Clarifies that an SB 423 project application subject to the Subdivision Map Act is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and all local objective standards if the project receives Low-Income Housing Tax Credits or is in specific infill areas.
• Establishes a lower affordability threshold to include 20% of the total units before calculating any density bonus, with at least 9% affordable to households earning up to 50% of area median income (AMI) and the rest affordable to households earning up to 80% AMI, for SB 423 projects submitted before Jan. 1, 2019, that include at least 500 units of housing.
• Clarifies that all references to units affordable to very low-income households that earn 0-50% of AMI include acutely low-income households (that earn 0-15% of AMI) and extremely low-income households (that earn 15-30% of AMI). • Establishes a 30-day timeline for local governments to review revisions made to address written feedback from the local government submitted by the developer.

SB 7 (Blakespear) Regional Housing Need: Determination.

Chapter 238, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local agency from filing an objection to the Reginal Housing Need Determination (RHND) in regions where HCD is required to act as the COG to distribute the RHND. This measure reduces the time the COG must distribute the draft allocation from 90 to 45 days.

SB 347 (Newman) Subdivision Map Act: Exemption: Hydrogen Fueling Stations and Electric Vehicle Charging Stations.

Chapter 591, Statutes of 2024
This measure exempts leases or easements for electric-vehicle charging stations and hydrogen-fueling stations from the Subdivision Map Act if the project is subject to discretionary action by the local government.
*SB 450 (Atkins) Housing Development: Approvals.

Chapter 286, Statutes of 2024
This measure removes the ability of local governments to deny a SB 9 (2021) project for objective standards on the specific project. Instead, it specifies that objective standards must only apply to the underlying zone on which the main lot is located. This measure also prohibits local agencies from denying an SB 9 project if the proposed project would impact the physical environment. Finally, this measure requires local agencies to approve or reject a project application within 60 days from the date the local agency receives a completed application or is deemed approved.

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*SB 1037 (Wiener) Planning and Zoning: Housing Element: Enforcement.

Chapter 293, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows the Attorney General to fine local jurisdictions up to $50,000 a month for not having a certified housing element, for not ministerially approving an affordable housing project required by state law, or for any local agency act or omission that is “arbitrary, capricious, entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair.” These fines can only occur after a court has ruled the city has violated the law. Finally, this measure will fine jurisdictions $50,000 a month until their housing element is certified by the HCD if the city does not get a housing element approved by the state within 120 days of a court ruling that a city does not have a compliant housing element.

SB 1048 (Jones) Planning and Zoning: Local Planning: Site Plans.

Chapter 29, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides clean-up language regarding site plans that local agencies share or post online. This measure removes the requirement that a site plan include topographic lines, drainage, lighting, distance between buildings, and ground sign locations.
*SB 1123 (Caballero) Planning and Zoning: Subdivisions: Ministerial Review.

Chapter 294, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to ministerially approve the subdivision of a parcel map for up to 10 housing units and to allow the ministerial approval of any housing units on-site that are in vacant, single-family zoned sites beginning July 1, 2025. Additional projects that qualify include:
• Multifamily housing on lots of no more than five acres. • Single-family housing on lots of no more than 1.5 acres. • Subdivided parcels that are no smaller than 1,200 square feet. • Housing units subject to ministerial approval as a tenancy in common.

SB 1514 (Cmte. on Local Government) Local Government Omnibus Act Of 2024.

Chapter 494, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several minor and noncontroversial changes to land use law regarding the Surplus Land Act (SLA) and the delayed enforcement of code violations for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU). The following changes were made:
• The SLA had two non-substantive drafting errors to streamline the process for SLA compliance for local agencies and to reduce uncertainty. This measure corrects that problem. In addition, there was an incorrect cross-reference to a nonexistent section of law, which was fixed in this measure. • Current law allows the owner of an ADU to request a delay in enforcement of any violation of building standards for five years. The law section contains an incorrect cross-reference to the definition of an ADU, which required a reorganization of ADU law, and this measure corrects the cross-reference.

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B. Accessory Dwelling Units
AB 2533 (J. Carrillo) Accessory Dwelling Units: Junior Accessory Dwelling Units:

Unpermitted Developments.

Chapter 834, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local agency from denying a permit for an unpermitted ADU or Junior Accessory Dwelling Units (JADU) constructed before Jan. 1, 2020, unless the local agency finds that correcting the violation is necessary to comply with conditions that would otherwise deem the building substandard. In addition, this measure requires local agencies to inform the public about the new law through public information resources, including developing permit checklists showing how a building is deemed substandard, providing information about this measure on the local agency’s website, and informing homeowners before submitting a permit application that they may obtain a third-party code inspection from a licensed contractor. Finally, this measure prohibits the local agency from requiring a homeowner to pay impact fees or capacity charges on the unpermitted ADU unless utility infrastructure is necessary not to make the project a substandard building.

AB 3057 (Wilson) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Junior Accessory Dwelling Units Ordinances.

Chapter 210, Statutes of 2024
This measure exempts from CEQA any ordinance adopted by a local city or county that permits the creation of JADUs in single-family residential zones.

SB 477 (Cmte. on Housing) Accessory Dwelling Units.

Chapter 7, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes numerous noncontroversial and technical changes to sections of laws related to housing. Among these housing-related changes are the following:
• Moves several sections of the Government Code relating to ADUs into a single chapter.
• Reorganizes sections of housing law related to ADUs and JADUs. • Integrates changes passed by the Legislature in 2023 and signed into law by the Governor and updates cross-references impacted by recasting these sections.

SB 1077 (Blakespear) Coastal Resources: Local Coastal Program: Amendments:

Accessory and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units.

Chapter 454, Statutes of 2024
In coordination with the HCD, this measure requires the California Coastal Commission to develop and provide guidance for local governments to clarify and simplify the permitting process for ADUs and JADUs in the coastal zone and give guidance to update Local Coastal Programs accordingly by July 1, 2026. This measure also requires at least one public workshop to receive and consider public comments on the draft guidance provided by the respective state agencies.

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*SB 1211 (Skinner) Land Use: Accessory Dwelling Units: Ministerial Approval.

Chapter 296, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to ministerially approve up to eight detached units on an existing multifamily dwelling lot, so long as the number of ADUs does not exceed the number of existing dwelling units on the lot. This measure also prohibits local agencies from requiring the replacement of uncovered parking spaces that are demolished to construct an ADU.

C. Mobile Homes
AB 661 (Joe Patterson) Utility Services: Electronic Communication.

Chapter 23, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows mobile home park management to provide tenants with advanced notice of interruptions to utility services by electronic communication if the tenant gives their voluntary, written consent to management.

AB 2247 (Wallis) Mobilehome Parks Act: Enforcement: Notice of Violations:

Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization (MORE) Program: Annual Fee.

Chapter 387, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the sunset date of the Mobilehome Parks Act (MPA) from Jan. 1, 2025, by five years, until Jan. 1, 2030. This measure also adds loans from the Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization Program to the list of potential funding sources for mobile home park owners who receive a notice of violation by an enforcement agency.

AB 2304 (Lee) Unlawful Detainer: Case Records.

Chapter 711, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires court clerks to provide records about unlawful detainer cases involving the termination of mobile home tenancies if the public requests them.

AB 2373 (Rendon) Mobilehomes: Tenancies.

Chapter 395, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a mobile home park owner from terminating a tenancy due to nonpayment of rent, utility charges, reasonable incidental charges, or a change in the park’s use unless the park has a valid permit to operate issued by the enforcement agency and follows the MPA.

AB 2387 (Pellerin) Mobilehome Parks: Additional Lots: Exemption from Additional Fees or Charges.

Chapter 396, Statutes of 2024
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registration fee, use permit fee, or other fee that does not apply to the existing lots in the park.

AB 2399 (Rendon) Mobilehome Park Residences: Rental Agreements:

Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program.

Chapter 397, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires mobile homeowners to provide and include annually a notice about the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program to the tenants of a mobile home park.

SB 1190 (Laird) Mobilehomes: Solar Energy Systems.

Chapter 162, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits mobile home park owners from banning or restricting solar energy systems on the mobile home site, lot, or space and makes any previous regulations void and unenforceable.

SB 1408 (Roth) Mobilehome Parks: Vehicle Removal.

Chapter 79, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits management from removing vehicles from a homeowner or resident’s driveway, parking space, or space provided by management for parking vehicles if the vehicle is used for work, employment, or advertising trades and services unless the vehicle extends into the park roadway or poses a significant danger to public health and safety.

D. Housing and Housing Finance
AB 846 (Bonta) Housing Programs: Rent Increases.

Chapter 674, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) to adopt regulations by June 30, 2025, to establish a limit on annual rent increases in existing properties that were allowed a low-income housing tax credit and to assess the rent increase limit annually. In addition, this measure prohibits rental housing developments that dedicate 80% of units to lower-income households from exceeding the rent prescribed by deed restrictions or regulatory agreements required for public financing or public financial assistance for the rental housing development if the project additionally receives federal or state low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt private activity bonds or general obligation bonds, or any local, state, or federal loans or grants.

AB 1053 (Gabriel) Housing Programs: Multifamily Housing Programs:

Expenditure of Loan Proceeds.

Chapter 264, Statutes of 2024
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program to choose to use the loans in the programs to finance construction, create permanent financing for housing.

AB 1413 (Ting) Housing Accountability Act: Disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act.

Chapter 265, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to post within five working days of receiving a notice from a project applicant that the local agency failed to determine a Housing Accountability Act project is exempt from CEQA and to post the notice on their internet website and to interested stakeholders. This measure also requires local agencies to consider all objections, comments, evidence, and concerns submitted about the project and may not decide on the project objections until 60 days after the notice is given.

AB 1782 (Ta) Redevelopment: Successor Agencies: Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund.

Chapter 85, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows local agencies acting as housing successors to spend up to $500,000 a year, plus any percentage change in the cost of living, on homeless prevention and rehousing services.

AB 1878 (Garcia) Housing Programs: Tribal Housing Program.

Chapter 266, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates the Tribal Housing Grant Program Fund Advisory Committee to provide funding to promote housing development on tribal lands. This measure prohibits HCD from requiring a tribe eligible to receive state funding to waive tribal sovereign immunity to access state or federal funds.

AB 2005 (Ward) California State University: Faculty and Employee Housing.

Chapter 558, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the California State University (CSU) system to establish and implement programs that address the housing needs of CSU faculty or employees who face challenges securing affordable housing. This measure allows CSU to restrict occupancy of a proposed affordable housing project funded through affordable housing funds or tax credits and located on CSU land to be strictly occupied by CSU faculty or employees.

AB 2240 (Arambula) Farm Labor Centers: Migratory Agricultural Workers.

Chapter 523, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires HCD by Jan. 1, 2027, to submit a report to the Assembly and Senate Housing Committees that analyzes the feasibility and impact of transitioning housing units at Office of Migrant Services (OMS) centers to year-round availability. The measure additionally requires HCD after completion of the report to identify available excess sites near OMS centers to prioritize locations for the development of permanent farmworker housing on those sites in coordination with the Department of General Services and Department of Food and Agriculture.

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AB 2424 (Schiavo) Mortgages: Foreclosure.

Chapter 311, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds new procedural requirements to the foreclosure process, including notification requirements intended to help borrowers find assistance in navigating the process, additional time before a foreclosure auction commences for borrowers who attempt to sell their property, and a minimum sales price in relation to fair market value for the initial foreclosure auction.

AB 2835 (Gabriel) Motels and Hotels: Publicly Funded Shelter Programs.

Chapter 209, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of transient lodging to include bed-and-breakfasts.

It also allows a shelter program operator to terminate a participant’s enrollment if the participant physically harms hotel guests. Finally, this measure removes the sunset date on tenancy rules governing occupancy in interim homelessness programs.

AB 2967 (Ting) Teacher Housing Act of 2016: Nonprofit Organization Employees.

Chapter 748, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the Teacher Housing Act of 2016, which allows school districts and developers that receive local and state funds or tax credits designated for affordable rental housing to restrict occupancy in the development project to teachers and school district employees if the project is located on land owned by school districts, to include some nonprofit employees. The nonprofit employees must work for a nonprofit organization that operates early childhood, prekindergarten, school age childcare, classrooms, programs, or expanded learning classrooms and programs on school district property that receives funding from the State Department of Education, the federal Head Start Program, or other public financing programs targeted to children from families of low and moderate incomes.

SB 440 (Skinner) Regional Housing Finance Authorities.

Chapter 767, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes two or more local governments to establish a regional housing authority (RHA) to raise, administer, allocate funding, or provide technical assistance for affordable housing development at the regional level. The RHA can create funding streams to promote affordable housing development and preserve the infrastructure necessary for those projects. It additionally allows the RHA to set the land use and development parameters for affordable housing properties, including the request for proposal criteria and selection process for a development partner.

SB 1187 (McGuire) Housing Programs: Tribal Housing Reconstitution and Resiliency Act.

Chapter 295, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a new tribal housing program, the Tribal Housing Grant Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development, to construct and rehabilitate housing on federally recognized Indian reservations or rancherias. The measure authorizes the funds in the program to be used for providing housing and housing-related program services for affordable housing, cover housing and community

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development costs, provide management services for affordable housing, or cover administration costs.

SB 1395 (Becker) Shelter Crisis: Low Barrier Navigation Center: Use by Right:

Building Standards.

Chapter 297, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the sunset date of the Shelter Crisis Act from Jan. 1, 2026, to 1, 2036. It also deletes the sunset date, indefinitely requiring the ministerial approval of Low Barrier Navigation Centers (LBNC). It revises the definition to clarify that LBNCs may be non-congregate and relocatable. Finally, this measure exempts from CEQA any of the following actions by a local agency:
• Facilitating the land lease owned by the local agency for an LBNC. • Activities associated with the lease for an LBNC.
• Providing financial assistance to LBNCs.
• Constructing or operating an LBNC.
• Entering a contract to provide services to an LBNC.

SB 1512 (Cmte. on Housing) Housing Omnibus.

Chapter 493, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes noncontroversial changes to sections of law relating to housing.

The changes include:
• Replacing a cross-reference to the Tax Credit Allocation Committee with a crossreference to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to correctly identify the state entity that can allocate mortgage credit certificates consistent with federal law.
• Corrects a cross-reference in the Insurance Code from the “Senate Committee on Housing and Transportation” to the “Senate Committee on Housing.” • Restores language that was deleted from the definition of “rural area” by AB 129 (2023) for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit so that an incorporated city having a population of 40,000 or fewer, as identified in the most recent Report E-1 published by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, is not also in an area located within a census block designated as an urban area by the United States Census Bureau in the most recent decennial census.

E. Development Fees
*AB 1820 (Schiavo) Housing Development Projects: Applications: Fees and Exactions.

Chapter 358, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to provide a preliminary fee and exaction estimate to any development proponent requesting an estimate of project fees within 30 business days of a request during the preliminary application process. This measure specifies that the estimate is for informational purposes only and is not legally binding.

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local agencies 30 days after final approval of a project to provide a total sum of fees and exactions to the developer.

AB 2430 (Alvarez) Planning and Zoning: Density Bonuses: Monitoring Fees.

Chapter 273, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local governments from charging a monitoring fee to ensure affordability requirements under the Density Bonus Law (DBL) for a 100% affordable housing development project. This measure additionally specifies that beginning in 2025, the local government will no longer be able to charge these fees for any project that currently requires them.

AB 2553 (Friedman) Housing Development: Major Transit Stops: Vehicular Traffic Impact Fees.

Chapter 275, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to set lower traffic impact mitigation fees for transit-oriented developments, including if a proposed housing development project will be developed in an area expected to have a completed transit stop within one year from the scheduled completion and occupancy of the housing project. This measure also expands the definition of a major transit stop according to the Mitigation Fee Act and CEQA to include a transit stop with a service interval of 20 minutes instead of 15 minutes.

AB 3012 (Grayson) Development Fees: Fee Schedule Template: Fee Estimate Tool.

Chapter 752, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to make a fee estimate tool available on their internet website that the public can use to estimate fees and exactions for a proposed housing development by specific deadlines. Cities with a population of 500,000 or more must comply by July 1, 2031, while cities with a population of 500,000 or fewer must comply by July 1, 2032.

AB 3177 (W. Carrillo) Mitigation Fee Act: Land Dedications: Mitigating Vehicular Traffic Impacts.

Chapter 436, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local agencies from imposing land dedication requirements on new housing developments for spot widening in Transit Priority Areas or within 1/2 mile of a planned major transit stop that will be completed before or within one year of the housing development's completion and occupancy.
*SB 937 (Wiener) Development Projects: Fees And Charges.

Chapter 290, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to defer the payment of mitigation fees until the certificate of occupancy or final inspection occurs for specific affordable housing projects. This measure also requires a developer to break ground on the affordable housing project in five years to qualify for fee deferral and limits when a local agency can collect fees earlier than a certificate of occupancy.

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The following projects qualify for the fee deferral:
• A project will provide 100% affordable units exclusive of manager’s units. • Low Barrier Navigation Centers.
• AB 2011 (2023) projects.
• The project is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process. • The project is a DBL project.
• A project that has 10 units or fewer.

Local agencies can collect fees earlier for the following reasons:
• The fees or charges will reimburse the local agency for expenditures previously made by the local government.
• Public improvements or facilities related to providing water service to the residential development.
• Public improvements or facilities related to providing sewer or wastewater services to the residential project.
• Public improvements or facilities for providing fire, public safety, and emergency services to the residential development.
• Roads, sidewalks, or other public improvements or facilities that provide transportation for people serving the development.
• Construction or rehabilitation of school facilities if the school district has a fiveyear plan.

Finally, this measure allows developers to choose to post a performance bond or letter of credit on the proposed projects. However, if they fail to do so, local agencies can put a lien on the land for unpaid fees or charges.

SB 1210 (Skinner) New Housing Construction: Electrical, Gas, Sewer, and Water Service: Service Connection Information.

Chapter 787, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires electrical, gas, sewer, and water service utilities to post estimated fees and timeframes for new service connections for new housing construction projects on their website on or before Jan. 1, 2026. A utility with fewer than 4,000 service connections that does not establish or maintain an internet website due to hardship is exempted from this measure so long as the utility annually adopts a resolution that includes detailed findings on why there is an undue hardship.

F. Housing Regulations
AB 2114 (Irwin) Building Standards: Exterior Elevated Elements: Inspection.

Chapter 100, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure allows a licensed civil engineer to inspect balconies in multiunit buildings located in common interest developments.

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AB 2579 (Quirk-Silva) Inspections: Exterior Elevated Elements.

Chapter 835, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides a 12-month extension for inspections to begin for balconies in multifamily dwelling units from Jan. 1, 2025, to Jan. 1, 2026.

AB 2729 (Joe Patterson) Development Projects: Permits and Other Entitlements.

Chapter 737, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends by an additional 18 months any housing entitlements proposed before Jan. 1, 2024, that will expire on Dec. 31, 2025. In addition, this measure specifies that the expiration date of an entitlement will be tolled during any time the entitlement is subject to a legal challenge.

SB 382 (Becker) Single-family Residential Property: Disclosures.

Chapter 443, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires sellers of single-family residential properties after Jan. 1, 2026, to provide disclosures to prospective buyers that it would be advisable to get an inspection of the home’s electrical systems and list the various safety risks or concerns due to substandard, recalled, or faulty wiring and limited electrical capacity. In addition, the measure requires the property seller to disclose any state or local requirements relating to the future replacement of existing gas-powered appliances if they are aware of those upcoming regulations.

SB 1465 (Archuleta) State Building Standards.

Chapter 487, Statutes of 2024
This measure updates the definition of substandard buildings to include conditions that endanger nearby residents or the public regardless of the zoning designation or approved use of the building if it significantly impacts public health and safety. This measure prohibits a local enforcement agency from commencing court proceedings to abate the violation by repair if the building owner declares under the penalty of perjury that the occupant is illegally occupying the building, the owner has filed and is prosecuting an unlawful detainer action against the occupant or the occupant is being removed under criminal trespass laws, or the enforcement agency determines the substandard building or portion of the building poses no risk to tenants, nearby residents, or the public.

G. Common Interest Developments
AB 2159 (Maienschein) Common Interest Developments: Association Governance: Elections.

Chapter 383, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows common interest development (CID) associations to conduct elections using electronic secret ballots. Members can change their voting method up to 90 days before the election. CIDs must also notify members 30 days before the election if the election will use an electronic secret ballot.

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AB 2460 (Ta) Common Interest Developments: Association Governance: Member Election.

Chapter 401, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a CID to provide a general notice for a reconvened meeting at least 15 days before the meeting if a quorum was not reached at the initial meeting.

SB 900 (Umberg) Common Interest Developments: Repair and Maintenance.

Chapter 288, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a homeowners association (HOA) to make repairs and replacements necessary to restore interrupted gas, heat, water, or electrical services in common areas even if the matter extends to individual units, unless there is an emergency declaration. This measure also requires repairs to be completed within 14 days of a problem occurring, allows the HOA to borrow funds or levy emergency assessments if reserves are insufficient, and allows the board to expedite repairs if necessary for public health and safety.

H. Landlord-Tenant
AB 2493 (Pellerin) Tenancy: Application Screening Fee.

Chapter 966, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a landlord from charging an application fee for a tenant if the landlord knows, or should have known, a unit is available or will be available to rent within a reasonable time. In addition, this measure limits when a landlord can charge an application fee for limited circumstances.

AB 2801 (Friedman) Tenancy: Security Deposits.

Chapter 280, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits landlords from using security deposits for repairs or cleanings not identified in the itemized statement after a tenant vacates a rental unit and from using security deposits to pay for professional carpet cleaning or other professional cleaning services unless it is reasonably necessary to return the premises to their original condition before tenancy. This measure additionally requires landlords to provide an itemized statement to the tenant for repairs or cleanings. It requires photographs of the unit immediately before the tenancy is initiated and after possession is returned to the landlord before completing repairs or cleanings.

AB 2898 (W. Carrillo) Unbundled Parking: Exemptions: Housing Choice Vouchers.

Chapter 420, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a landlord from requiring a separate lease for a parking space if the tenant receives a federal Housing Choice Voucher or a federal Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing voucher.

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SB 393 (Glazer) Civil Actions: Housing Development Projects.

Chapter 285, Statutes of 2024
This measure increases the legal barrier that a defendant must meet when challenging the development of specific low or moderate-income housing projects through CEQA by requiring the defendant to show that the action is without merit. This measure additionally requires the plaintiff to show that posting a bond would create an undue economic hardship for them and allows the court to decline to impose a bond on the plaintiff if this is the case.

SB 479 (Durazo) Termination of Tenancy: No-fault Just Cause: Natural Person.

Chapter 8, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes a noncontroversial and technical change to the definitions of a “natural person” in SB 567 (2023). This measure clarifies that a natural person who can qualify for owner move-in provisions of the no-fault cause eviction in the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 by stating that a beneficial owner of a limited liability company or partnership can utilize these provisions if they have at least 25% ownership interest in the property.

SB 924 (Bradford) Tenancy: Credit Reporting: Lower Income Households.

Chapter 519, Statutes of 2024
This measure removes the July 1, 2025, sunset date, requiring any landlord of an assisted housing development to offer each tenant on a lease the option of having the tenant’s rental payment information reported to at least one nationwide consumer reporting agency. This measure additionally allows a landlord to provide the offer of rent reporting to the tenant by mail or email after agreement from the tenant.

SB 1051 (Eggman) Victims of Abuse or Violence: Lock Changes.

Chapter 75, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of a protected tenant for lock changes after a tenant gives the landlord a copy of a court order or police report regarding abuse or violence to include an immediate family or household member of a tenant. This measure requires a landlord to replace the lock at their own expense for tenants who are victims of abuse or violence within 24 hours of receiving a court order or police report from the tenant that they are victims of abuse or violence.

I. Community and Economic Development
AB 2213 (B. Rubio) Redevelopment: Oversight Boards.

Chapter 63, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires Redevelopment Oversight Boards territories to align with district boundaries as determined by the Citizens Redistricting Commission rather than fixed boundaries established in July 2018. This measure also specifies that if a successor agency spans more than one district, the county board of supervisors must determine the oversight boards by July 15, 2025, and then follow any future redistricting adjustments.

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AB 2832 (Ward) Economic Development: International Trade and Investment.

Chapter 577, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes funds from the California Agricultural Export Account for additional activities to promote the sale of California’s agricultural products in foreign markets and expands the current authority for the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to promote international trade and investments. This measure also allows the California Department of Food and Agriculture and GO-Biz to enter contracts exempt from specific state laws to promote California agricultural exports and expand GO-Biz’s international trade and investment authority.

AB 2873 (Garcia) Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative: Grants.

Chapter 224, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a grant applicant for the Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative (BBEI) to avoid partnering with a local workforce development board or communitybased organization if they can demonstrate that securing a partner entity was impossible before the application deadline closed. This measure additionally reserves up to 15% of all BBEI funds to go toward applicants that meet the abovementioned exception.

AB 2922 (Garcia) Economic Development: Capital Investment Incentive Programs.

Chapter 581, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure reinstates the Capital Investment Incentive Program until Jan. 1, 2035, to promote economic development in local communities by providing incentives to qualified manufacturing facilities with an assessed value exceeding $25 million in job creation for the local community.

J. Regional
AB 2712 (Friedman) Preferential Parking Privileges: Transit-oriented Development.

Chapter 415, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits the City of Los Angeles from granting preferential parking permits to residents of new developments exempt from minimum parking requirements under existing law.

AB 3035 (Pellerin) Farmworker Housing.

Chapter 524, Statutes of 2024
This measure for the Counties of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz expands the streamlined, ministerial approval process for farmworker housing to include agricultural housing developments that are 150 units or fewer and within 15 miles of an area designated as farmland or grazing by the Department of Conservation and is not a site or adjoined to a site where more than one-third of the square footage is dedicated to industrial use.

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SB 572 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Surplus State Real Property: Community Land Trusts.

Chapter 770, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the Department of General Services to sell approximately 59,200 square feet of property off Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles by Jan. 1, 2030, for the purposes of redeveloping the property as an affordable housing or mixed-use housing project. If the property is not sold by Jan. 1, 2030, the property can be disposed of through the current process for the disposal of surplus property.

SB 951 (Wiener) California Coastal Act of 1976: Coastal Zone: Coastal Development.

Chapter 775, Statutes of 2024
This measure exempts a local government that is both a city and county from Coastal Commission appeals after the city and county has gotten its local coastal program approved and certified by the Coastal Commission.

SB 958 (Dodd) Surplus State Property: County of Napa.

Chapter 988, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the Department of General Services to sell or exchange at fair market value Camp Coombs to the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District by Jan. 1, 2026.

SB 1336 (Archuleta) Department of General Services: State Property: Metropolitan State Hospital.

Chapter 473, Statutes of 2024
This measure will allow the Department of General Services to lease seven buildings at the Metropolitan State Hospital in the City of Norwalk to a nonprofit or local government for up to 65 years to provide care, resources, and housing for individuals with behavioral health needs, under terms deemed suitable by the director.

SB 1357 (Wahab) Housing Authority of the County of Alameda.

Chapter 795, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the County of Alameda Housing Authority to, by Jan. 1, 2026, conduct an evaluation and review of its internet website to ensure the website is easily accessible and navigable for those who are non-English speakers. By March 31, 2025, this measure also requires the authority to publish Housing Choice Voucher program waitlist data on its website. Finally, this measure requires the development of an annual report, beginning on Sept. 30, 2025, to publish data on its website the efficacy of its programs, data about the properties the authority manages, and employment within the housing authority.

SB 1500 (Durazo) Housing: Federal Waiver: Income Eligibility.

Chapter 491, Statutes of 2024
This measure for the City and County of Los Angeles prohibits the Tax Credit Allocation Committee and the HCD from taking negative actions against affordable housing