Updated - June 13, 2023
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BILL POSITIONS & STATUS
BILL AUTHOR DESCRIPTION STATUS POSITION
AB 37 Bonta
Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds: security expenses. The bill would instead authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system, and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security reasonably related to the candidate or elected officer’s status as a candidate or elected officer.
2023-05-31
To Senate Elections and
Constitutional Amendments
Committee
SUPPORT
AB 334 Rubio
Public contracts: conflicts of interest. This bill would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified requirements, is not an officer for purposes of being subject to the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract.
2023-05-30
[Hearing: Jun 6 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Elections and
Constitutional Amendments
Committee
SUPPORT
AB 400 Rubio
Current law, among other requirements for the design -build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing the use of the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2025.This bill would remove the January 1, 2025, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely. 2023-05-31
To Senate Governance and
Finance Committee
SUPPORT
AB 480 Ting
AB 480 (Ting) makes various changes to the SLA regarding the land disposal process and HCD’s authority, including changing the penalty provisions to factor in the appraised value of the land, exempting specific public-use airports from the SLA and making procedural changes to the noticing provisions regarding disposal of surplus land. 2023-05-31
To Senate Governance and
Finance Committee
OPPOSE
AB 519 Schiavo
Would require HCD to establish a workgroup to develop a consolidated application for the purposes of obtaining grants, loans, tax credits, credit enhancement, and other types of financing for building affordable housing, and developing a coordinated review process for the application. The bill would require the workgroup to include representatives of the department, the California Housing Finance Agency, the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, and the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee and would require the workgroup to identify a lead agency to receive the application and to work directly with applicants and specify the responsibilities of the lead agency. 2023-06-01
To Senate Rules Committee SUPPORT
AB 817 Pacheco
Pending amendments — would allow non-decision-making legislative bodies currently governed by the Brown Act, such as advisory bodies and commissions, to participate in two-way virtual teleconferencing without posting their physical location. The teleconfe rence flexibility granted to cities because of
COVID-19 noticeably reduced barriers to participation. Residents who were usually not able to participate due to time, distance, or mandatory physical participation requirements were able to attend public meet ings. AB 817 would maintain that access for certain legislative bodies, creating greater access to leadership opportunities and providing more diverse input on critical community proposals. 2023-04-25
To Assembly Local
Government Committee
SUPPORT
Updated - June 13, 2023
AB 821 Grayson
The bill creates a written notification process and time limit for jurisdictions to align their zoning code with the land use element of the general plan. The bill would also require a local jurisdiction to accept and consider an application for an infill housing development project that is consistent with a regional Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) and requires a general plan amendment. The bill passed out of Assembly Housing and Community Development where the bill was amended with a number of changes including moving the number of days from 90 to 180 and narrowing the applicability of the bill to project specific changes.
2023-06-01
To Senate Rules Committee OPPOSE
AB 976 Ting The bill makes permanent the existing prohibition on owner occupancy requirements for ADU’s. 2023-06-01 To Senate Rules Committee OPPOSE
AB 1484 Zbur
Sponsored by SEIU, this bill would provide that temporary employees of cities and counties are automatically included in the same bargaining unit as the permanent employees if temporary employees are not presently within the unit definition. 2023-06-01
To Senate Rules Committee OPPOSE
AB 1490 Lee
The bill requires a local government to provide an affordable housing project that is an adaptive reuse project and guarantees 100% of the units be made available for lower income households, 50% of which shall be made available to extremely low income households or very low income households.
The bill passed out of the Assembly Local Government Committee with a number of significant amendments including removing the by -right approval and replacing it with an “expedited approval process” that applies only to adaptive reuse projects that are entirely within the envelope of the existing building that will be retrofitted.
2023-05-26
To Senate Rules Committee OPPOSE
AB 1532 Haney
Office conversion projects. Make an office conversion project that meets certain requirements a use by right in all areas regardless of zoning, exempts project from impact fees that are not directly related to the conversion, allows applicable fees to be p aid over 10-year period, and expands the exemption for approval of ministerial projects under CEQA.
2023-03-23
To Assembly Housing and
Community Development
Committee
OPPOSE
AB 1630 Garcia
Planning and zoning: housing development approvals: student housing projects. prohibit a city, county, or city and county from prohibiting a dormitory on any real property located within 1/2 mile of a university campus and would require a city, county, or city and county to classify student housing as a permitted use on all real property within 1/2 mile of a university campus for zoning purposes. Would require a proposed student housing project to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or a hearing, if specified requirements are met, including that at least 50% of the units in the project be occupied by students at the local university campus to which the project site is proximate. In connection with an application, a city, county, or city and county is required, upon request, to provide a list of permits and fees that are required by the city, county, or city and county. 2023-03-22 To Assembly
Housing and Community
Development Committee
OPPOSE
AB 1637 Irwin
This bill would require local governments to acquire and transition all domain websites and email addresses to .gov by 2025. The mandate would not provide any immunity against hacking or malware attacks and would result in enormous technical and rebranding costs. 2023-06-01
To Senate Rules Committee OPPOSE
AB 1708 Muratsuchi
This bill would refine the definition of shoplifting and would specifically exclude certain offenses from prosecution as shoplifting, including, among others, the theft of a firearm or vehicle, identity theft, and credit card fraud.
2023-04-19 - Coauthors
revised. SUPPORT
SB 4 Wiener
This measure would allow by-right development of affordable housing on land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024. The bill is a re-run of SB 1336 (Wiener) that died in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee because the bill would have exempted projects from CEQA. 2023-05-31
In Assembly. Read first
time. Held at Desk.
OPPOSE
Updated - June 13, 2023
SB 236 Jones
This bill would require the office, to the extent funds are available for this purpose and until January 1, 2029, to allocate and award funds to up to 11 district attorney offices that employ a vertical prosecution methodology for the prosecution of human traf ficking crimes and that meet other specified criteria, including minimum staffing levels for the program.
2023-06-01
In Assembly. Read first time.
Held at Desk.
SUPPORT
SB 423 Wiener
The bill makes the provisions enacted by SB 35 (Wiener, 2017) permanent by removing the existing January 1, 2026 sunset date. SB 35 accelerates eligible housing projects by exempting them from discretionary review and CEQA and by ensuring building permits are issued within three to six months of approval, depending on the project’s size. The original bill had a sunset date of January 1, 2026. The bill passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee but will be amended to require a skilled and trained workforce for mixed-use income projects above 85 feet and provides that the skilled and trained requirement will be waived if a project wither has a Project Labor Agreement or if the project developer cannot get bids from at least 3 qualified subcontractors. 2023-06-01
In Assembly. Read first time.
Held at Desk.
OPPOSE
SB 706 Caballero
This bill would authorize all cities, counties, city and counties, or special districts to use the progressive design-build process for other projects in addition to water -related projects. The bill would change the required reporting date to no later than December 31, 2028.Would permanently allow local governments to use design-build processes.
2023-05-04
To Assembly Local
Government Committee.
SUPPORT
SB 747 Caballero
Land use: economic development: surplus land. This bill makes several changes to the Surplus Land Act (SLA), including amending key definitions, modifying procedure and modifying HCD’s authority over the SLA. The bill passed out of the Senate Housing Committee this week with several changes including excluding leases of 15 y ears or less from the SLA, requiring that cities can use the economic exemptions in the bill only if they have a compliant housing element and removing the conclusive standards provision from the bill. The bill is part of a larger discussion on updating the SLA. The bill passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee with an amendment to allow local agencies with a compliant housing element to declare some lands exempt from the Surplus Land Act.
In Assembly. Read first time.
Held at Desk. SUPPORT