SAN MARCOS CITY COUNCIL
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.
VETOED
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.
SIGNED
SUPPORT
AB 400
Rubio
Local agency design-build projects: authorization. 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 These provisions authorizing the use of the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2025.This bill would remove the January 1, 2025, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely.
SIGNED
SUPPORT
AB 480
Ting
Surplus land. 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. The bill is in the Senate Governance and Finance committee and was amended this week with some minor amendment SIGNED
OPPOSE
AB 504
Reyes
State and Local Public Employees: Labor Relations: Disputes. Would allow local public employees to refuse to enter property that is the site of a primary labor dispute, perform work for an employer involved in a primary labor dispute, or go through or work behind a primary picket line. Would prohibit an employer from directing an employee to take those actions.
VETOED
OPPOSE
AB 519
Schiavo
Affordable Housing Finance Workgroup: affordable housing: consolidated application process. 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.
SIGNED
SUPPORT
AB 817
Pacheco
Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body. 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 teleconference 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 meetings. 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.
HELD
SUPPORT
AB 821
Grayson
Planning and zoning: general plan: zoning ordinance: conflicts. 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. Amendments to the bill move the number of days from 90 to 180 and narrow the applicability of the bill to project specific changes.
SIGNED
OPPOSE
AB 972
Maienschien
Local Assistance and Grant Program Streamlining Workgroup. This Cal Cities sponsored bill, would coordinate, align, and streamline local government assistance resources to endure that every community has the same opportunity to compete for state funding opportunities by convening a statewide, cross-agency Local Assistance and Grant Program Streamlining Workgroup, no later than April 2024. The bill was heard by the Senate Governance and Finance Committee where it was amended to clarify that state entities do not have to implement recommendations that come out of the workgroup’s report required by the bill if there is no appropriation by the Legislature.
HELD
SUPPORT
AB 976
Ting
Accessory dwelling units: owner-occupancy requirements. The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires a local ordinance to require an accessory dwelling unit to be either attached to, or located within, the proposed or existing primary dwelling, as specified, or detached from the proposed or existing primary dwelling and located on the same lot as the proposed or existing primary dwelling.This bill would instead prohibit a local agency from imposing an owner-occupancy requirement on any accessory dwelling unit..
SIGNED
OPPOSE
AB 1207
Irwin
Cannabis: labeling and advertising. This bill would implement provisions of AUMA by prohibiting the sale or manufacture of cannabis or cannabis products that are attractive to children, as defined, and by prohibiting the advertisement and marketing of cannabis or cannabis products in a way that is attractive to children. The bill would implement AUMA by prohibiting cannabis or cannabis products intended for use by inhalation or combustion from containing any natural or synthetic flavors or descriptors of flavors. The bill would require the adoption of emergency regulations to implement these provisions. This bill contains other existing laws.
VETO
SUPPORT
AB 1484
Zbur
Temporary public employees. 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. Of note, the bill applies to temporary seasonal employees.
SIGNED
OPPOSE
AB 1490
Lee
Affordable housing development projects: adaptive reuse. This bill would make 100 percent affordable housing projects that adaptively reuse existing residential buildings an allowable use, regardless of any inconsistencies between the project and any local plans, zoning, or regulations, and limits local governments from imposing maximum density or floor area ratio requirements, and any requirements to add additional parking or open space.
SIGNED
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 paid over 10-year period, and expands the exemption for approval of ministerial projects under CEQA.
HELD
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.
HELD
OPPOSE
AB 1637
Irwin
Local government: internet websites and email addresses. This bill would require local governments to acquire and transition all domain websites and email addresses to .gov by 2029. The mandate would not provide any immunity against hacking or malware attacks and would result in enormous technical and rebranding costs. The bill was heard and amended by the Senate Governance and Finance Committee to change the date by which local governments must transition their domain websites and email addresses from 2025 to 2029.
SIGNED
OPPOSE
AB 1708
Muratsuchi
Theft 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.
HELD
SUPPORT
SB 4
Wiener
Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions. 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.
SIGNED
OPPOSE
SB 236
Jones
Human trafficking: vertical prosecution program. This bill would require the office, to the extent funds are available for this purpose and until January 1, 2029, to allocate and award funds to up to 11 district attorney offices that employ a vertical prosecution methodology for the prosecution of human trafficking crimes and that meet other specified criteria, including minimum staffing levels for the program.
HELD
SUPPORT
SB 423
Wiener
Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments. The bill would modify and expand SB 35 provisions to allow certain multifamily housing developments to take advantage of a streamlined, ministerial approval process. The measure would extend the 2026 sunset on SB 35 to 2036, apply SB 35 provisions to the Coastal Zone, allow the state to approve housing developments on property they own or lease and prohibit a city from enforcing its inclusionary housing ordinance if the income limits are higher than those in SB 35. The bill was also recently 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.
SIGNED
OPPOSE
SB 706
Caballero
Public contracts: progressive design-build: local agencies. 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.
SIGNED
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 years 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. Recent amendments include The was recently amended to allow local agencies with a compliant housing element to declare some lands exempt from the Surplus Land Act.
SIGNED.
SUPPORT
SB 799
Portantino
Striking Workers: Two weeks to be eligible for unemployment benefits VETO
OPPOSE
ACA 13
Ward
New Constitutional Amendment to Increase Vote Threshold for Ballot Measures that Raises Taxes
QUALIFIED
OPPOSE
Updated – October 24, 2023