City of San Marcos
Official Legislative Positions 2024
BILL
AUTHOR
DESCRIPTION
POSITION
AB 1168
Bennett
Would require a city or fire district to retain its authorities and the administration of prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) if it provided, as of June 1980, prehospital EMS through a joint powers agreement with a county and ceased to contract for, provide, or administer prehospital EMS as a result of a judicial finding, or if it is, as of January 2024, providing prehospital EMS and enters a joint powers agreement with a county for joint exercise of powers regarding prehospital EMS.
SUPPORT
AB 1820
Schiavo
Would require all local agencies to provide within 20 days of a request by a developer, an itemized list and the total sum of all fees and exactions for a proposed development project during the preliminary application process.
OPPOSE
AB 1886
Alvarez
Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act. This measure would allow “builder’s remedy” to begin as soon as the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) or a court determines a jurisdiction’s housing element is out of compliance.
OPPOSE
AB 1893
Wicks
Allows “builder’s remedy” to apply if HCD determines that a local jurisdiction is not in compliance with Housing Element Law and a proposed development project provides a minimum of 10% of the units for low-income or very low- income residents. The measure would also limit the “builder’s remedy” only to areas zoned for residential and mixed-use development and caps maximum density OPPOSE
AB 2485
Carrillo
Regional housing need: determination. This bill would require the department to publish on its internet website the data sources, analyses, and methodology, as specified, prior to finalization of the regional determination.
SUPPORT
AB 2561
McKinnor
Would require each public agency with bargaining unit vacancy rates exceeding 10% for more than 90 days within the past 180 days to meet and confer with a representative of the recognized employee organization to produce, publish, and implement a plan consisting of specified components to fill all vacant positions within the subsequent 180 days.
OPPOSE
AB 2631
Fong
Contingent upon an appropriation for these purposes, require the Fair Political Practices Commission, in consultation with the Attorney General, to create, maintain, and make available to local agency officials an ethics training course.
SUPPORT
SB 937
Wiener
Would prohibit local agencies from collecting the payment of fees for the construction of public improvements or facilities until the development receives its certificate of occupancy.
OPPOSE
SB 1037
Wiener
Attorney General, on behalf of HCD, can enforce the adoption of housing element revisions or to enforce any state law that requires a city to ministerially approve any land use decision or permitting application for a housing development project, as specified, would subject the city to specified remedies, including a civil penalty of, at minimum, $10,000 per month, and not exceeding $50,000 per month, for each violation, as specified.
OPPOSE
SB 1116
Portantino
Would allow striking workers to draw unemployment benefits after two weeks.
OPPOSE
SB 1164
Newman
Creates a property tax assessment exemption on newly constructed ADUs, and will deprive local governments of the revenues needed to provide and expand services that are of communitywide benefit.
OPPOSE
Project
NCTD
North County Transit District’s (NCTD) application for funding from the Federal Railroad Administration’s Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program for the Eastbrook to Shell Double Track Project. This project will improve safety, expand capacity, enhance reliability, and support supply chain resiliency on the nationally significant Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor.
SUPPORT