LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES - HOT AND SPONSORED BILLS LIST AS OF 4/27/2025
Community Services
AB 424 (Davies R) Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints.
AB 424 would require DHCS to notify individuals at three key points: when their complaint is received when the investigation concludes, and the outcome of the investigation. Currently, DHCS does not automatically provide this information. Instead, complainants must file a Public Records Act (PRA) request, which can take months—sometimes over a year— to receive a response.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Caroline Grinder Policy Committee : CS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 424 (Davies) CITY LETTER Support Letter to Asm Health AB 424 (Davies) Co-Sponsor Support Letter to Asm Health AB 424 (Davies) Support Letter Author 2.26.25
AB 424 (Davies) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter Author 2.26.25
AB 492 (Valencia D) Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.
This measure would require the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to notify cities anytime a new alcohol and drug treatment facility is approved in their jurisdiction.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Caroline Grinder Policy Committee : CS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 492 (Valencia) Support Letter Author 2.26.25
AB 492 (Valencia) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter Author 2.26.25
SB 16 (Blakespear D) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: housing element: unsheltered and chronic homelessness: assessment and financing plan.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a housing element to consist of an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs and a statement of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing. Current law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to meeting these needs. Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program
(HHAP) for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified.(3)The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Unless
Amended
Primary Lobbyist: Caroline Grinder Policy Committee : CS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 16 (Blakespear) CITY SAMPLE Oppose Unless Amended Letter Sen Housing SB 16 (Blakespear) Oppose Unless Amended Letter Sen Housing
SB 35 (Umberg D) Alcohol and drug programs.
This measure establishes timelines for the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to investigate allegations of licensed treatment being provided at unlicensed sober living homes. If DHCS cannot meet the timelines, SB 35 would authorize cities and counties to request approval to conduct site visits and enforce compliance with existing state licensing requirements.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Caroline Grinder Policy Committee : CS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 35 (Umberg) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter to Sen Health Comm SB 35 (Umberg) Sponsor Letter to Sen Health Comm
SB 35 (Umberg) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter to Author
SB 35 (Umberg) Sponsor Support Letter to Author
SB 329 (Blakespear D) Alcohol and drug recovery or treatment facilities: investigations.
This measure requires the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to complete timely investigations into complaints about alcohol or drug treatment facilities. While existing law requires DHCS to investigate complaints against licensed alcohol and drug treatment facilities, it does not establish timelines for completing those investigations. SB 329 sets clear, reasonable deadlines—aligned with existing DHCS policy —to enhance public transparency and ensure providers are held accountable for delivering high-quality treatment and care.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Caroline Grinder Policy Committee : CS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 329 (Blakespear) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter to Sen Appr Comm SB 329 (Blakespear) Support Letter to Sen Appr Comm
SB 329 (Blakespear) Support Letter Author 2.26.25
SB 329 (Blakespear) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter Author 2.26.25
SB 456 (Ashby D) Contractors: exemptions: muralists.
This measure would exempt muralists from having to obtain a contractors license through the California State Licensing Board before being commissioned for public and private art projects.
Cal Cities Position: Co-sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Caroline Grinder Policy Committee : CS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 456 (Ashby) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter to Sen Appr
SB 456 Co-Sponsor Support Letter to Sen Appr
SB 456 Co-Sponsor Support Letter to Sen Bus, Prof & ED
SB 456 Sponsor CITY SAMPLE_Sen Bus, Prof & ED
SB 456 (Ashby) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter to Author 2.28.25 SB 456 (Ashby) Co-Sponsor Support Letter to Author 2.28.25
SB 569 (Blakespear D) Department of Transportation: homeless encampments.
This measure requires Caltrans to develop locally tailored plans for homeless encampments on state -owned land. It would also require the department to establish advisory committees in each Caltrans district, set clear timelines, speed up the contracting process, and provide additional funding to better help transition people into shelter and services.
Cal Cities Position: Co-sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Caroline Grinder Policy Committee : CS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 569 (Blakespear) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter to Sen Trans Comm SB 569 Co-Sponsor Support Letter to Sen Transportation Comm.
Co-Sponsor Support Letter SB 569 (Blakespear)
SB 569 (Blakespear) CITY SAMPLE Support Letter
SB 634 (Pérez D) Homelessness: civil and criminal penalties.
The California Constitution authorizes a county or city to make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, an d other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws. Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. Current law also prohibits a state agency from adopting or enforcing any rule or a violation of which can result in the imposition of a fine or imprisonment, or both, unless a statute specifically authorizes the imposition of such fine or imprisonment, or both, for a violation of the rule or regulation. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that imposes civil or criminal penalties on a person who is homeless for any act immediately related to homelessness or any act related to basic survival, or on a person who is assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would similarly prohibit a state agency from adopting any regulation or issuing any policy or guidance, or enforcing an existing regulation, policy, or guidance, that imposes those civil or criminal penalties. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Primary Lobbyist: Caroline Grinder Policy Committee : CS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 634 (Perez) Opposition Letter Sen Jud Committee CITY SAMPLE LETTER SB 634 (Perez) Opposition Letter Sen Jud Committee
SB 634 (Perez) Opposition Letter Sen Local Gov
SB 634 (Perez) Opposition Letter Sen Local Gov_CITY SAMPLE LETTER
Environmental Quality
AB 262 (Caloza D) California Individual Assistance Act.
AB 262 would establish the California Individual Assistance Act under the Office of Emergency Services to distribute funding to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals with assistance following a disaster. This measure’s intent is to quickly provide assistance to California residents following the declaration of a local or state emergency that may not warrant federal disaster assistance for individuals.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Melissa Sparks- Kranz
Policy Committee : EQ
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 262 Asm EM Comm Support Letter Cal Cities
AB 262 Asm EM Comm SUPPORT SAMPLE LETTER
AB 735 (Carrillo D) Planning and zoning: logistics use: truck routes.
AB 735 is a spot bill for clean up legislation related to AB 98 (2024), the warehouse design standards, truck route, and circulation element update bill.
Cal Cities Position: Concerns Primary Lobbyist: Melissa Sparks- Kranz
Policy Committee : EQ
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 735 SB 415 Warehouse Bill Clean Up Priorities Cal Cities CSAC AB 735 SB 415 Warehouse Bill Clean Up Priorities (Attached List) AB 735 SB 415 Cal Cities CSAC Concerns Letter to Authors
AB 846 (Connolly D) Endangered species: incidental take: wildfire preparedness activities.
This bill would create a pathway to streamline any necessary environmental permits from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for wildfire preparedness projects submitted by a local agency.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Melissa Sparks- Kranz
Policy Committee : EQ
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 846 Support Coalition Letter Asm WPW Comm
AB 846 Support Asm WPW Comm SAMPLE LETTER
AB 846 Support to Author SAMPLE LETTER
AB 846 Fact Sheet
League of California Cities AB 846 Letter of Support to the Author
AB 996 (Pellerin D) Public Resources: California Coastal Act of 1976: California Coastal Planning Fund: sea level rise plans.
AB 996 would establish the California Coastal Planning Fund in the State Treasury to help coastal and bay local governments to adequately plan for sea level rise. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, make moneys in the fund available to the Coastal Commission for local and state costs related to the development and review of local coastal programs and sea level rise plans. Further the bill would establish an early consultation with the Coastal Commission for coastal cities to receive written recommendations of what would preclude approval of a sea level rise plan. The bill clarifies that existing sea level rise information or plans may satisfy the requirements of creating sea level rise plans by 2034.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Melissa Sparks- Kranz
Policy Committee : EQ
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 996 Support Letter Asm NR Comm SAMPLE LETTER
AB 996 Support Letter Asm NR Comm Cal Cities
SB 415 (Reyes D) Planning and zoning: logistics use: truck routes.
SB 415 is a spot bill for clean up legislation related to AB 98 (2024), the warehouse design standards, truck route, and circulation element update bill.
Cal Cities Position: Concerns Primary Lobbyist: Melissa Sparks- Kranz
Policy Committee : EQ
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 735 SB 415 Cal Cities CSAC Concerns Letter to Authors AB 735 SB 415 Warehouse Bill Clean Up Priorities (ATTACHED LIST) AB 735 SB 415 Warehouse Bill Clean Up Priorities Cal Cities CSAC
SB 454 (McNerney D) State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.
This measure would create the PFAS Mitigation Fund to support cities and local water agencies treat and remediate PFAS from water and wastewater supplies.
Cal Cities Position: Co-sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Melissa Sparks- Kranz
Policy Committee : EQ
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 454 Support Coalition Letter Sen EQ Comm
Instructions to Join SB 454 Coalition Letter
SB 454 Sen EQ Comm SUPPORT SAMPLE LETTER
SB 454 Fact Sheet
Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations
AB 339 (Ortega D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 120 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization. The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Primary Lobbyist: Johnnie Piña Policy Committee : GTLR Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 339 (Ortega) Coalition Oppose -ASM Approps
AB 339 (Ortega) Coalition Author Oppose
AB 340 (Ahrens D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.
Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers - Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of current law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by current law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Primary Lobbyist: Johnnie Piña Policy Committee : GTLR Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 340 (Ahrens) ASM Approps Letter - Coalition Oppose
AB 340 (Ahrens) Author Letter - Coalition Oppose
AB 340 (Ahrens) Assembly PER Committee - Coalition Oppose
AB 1109 (Kalra D) Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.
Current law governs the admissibility of evidence in court proceedings and generally provides a privilege as to communications made in the course of certain relations, including the attorney-client, physician-patient, and psychotherapist-patient relationship, as specified. Under current law, the right of any person to claim those evidentiary privileges is waived with respect to a communication protected by the privilege if any holder of the privilege, without coercion, has disclosed a significant part of th
e communication or has consented to a disclosure. This bill would establish a privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented employee or represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent made while the union agent was acting in the union agent’s representative capacity, except as specified. The bill would permit a represented employee or represented former employee to prevent another person from disclosing a privileged communication, except as specified.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Primary Lobbyist: Johnnie Piña Policy Committee : GTLR Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 1109 (Kalra) Coalition Author Oppose
AB 1109 (Kalra) Coalition Judiciary Oppose
SB 239 (Arreguín D) Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.
This measure would modernize the Brown Act for advisory bodies and improve representation by allowing increased teleconferencing flexibility for certain advisory bodies.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Johnnie Piña Policy Committee : GTLR Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 239 (Arreguín) Coalition Support Sen Local Gov
SB 239 (Arreguín) Coalition Sponsor Letter
Housing Community and Economic Development
AB 647 (González, Mark D) Housing development approvals: residential units.
The Planning and Zoning law requires a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements, including, among other requirements, that the parcel subject to the proposed housing development is located within a city, the boundaries of which include some portion of either an urbanized area or urban cluster, as defined, or, for unincorporated areas, a legal parcel wholly within the boundaries of an urbanized area or urban cluster, as defined. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards that do not conflict with specified provisions, except as provided. This bill would require a proposed housing development containing no more than 8 residential units that is located on a lot with an existing single-family home or is zoned for 8 or fewer residential units to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements, including, among other requirements, that the proposed housing development dedicates at least one residential unit to deed-restricted affordable housing to households making at or below 80% of the area median income, as specified. The bill would prohibit a local agency from applying any development standard that will have the effect of physically precluding the construction of a housing development that meets those requirements, as specified, and from imposing on a housing development subject to these provisions any objective zoning standard or objective design standard that meets certain criteria, including imposing any requirement that applies to a project solely or partially on the basis that the housing development receives approval pursuant to these provisions.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Primary Lobbyist: Brady Guertin Policy Committee : HCED Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 647 (González) Oppose Letter to Asm Housing
AB 647 (González) SAMPLE to ASM Housing
AB 650 (Papan D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
Current law requires a public agency to administer its programs and activities relating to housing and community development in a manner to affirmatively further fair housing, and take no action that is materially inconsistent with its obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. Current law defines “affirmatively furthering fair housing,” as provided. The Planning and Zoning Law requires that a housing element include, among other things, a program that sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken pursuant to the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing. This bill would require the department to develop the above-described standardized reporting format on or before December 31, 2026.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Brady Guertin Policy Committee : HCED Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 650 (Papan) Support Letter to Asm Housing
AB 650 (Papan) SAMPLE Letter
AB 650 (Papan) Sponsor Letter to Author_As Amended 3.28.25
AB 736 (Wicks D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
This measure would create a $10 billion housing bond to finance affordable rental housing and homeownership programs.
Cal Cities Position: Support Primary Lobbyist: Brady Guertin Policy Committee : HCED Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 736 (Wicks) Letter of Support to Asm Housing
SB 79 (Wiener D) Local government land: public transit use: housing development: transit- oriented development.
This measure would require cities to approve higher-density residential projects up to 7 stories near public transit stops ministerially regardless of local zoning codes, limit the use of local development standards on the proposed project, and allow transit agencies full land authority over residential and commercial development on property they own or lease.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Primary Lobbyist: Brady Guertin Policy Committee : HCED Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 79 (Wiener) Oppose Letter to Sen Local Gov
SB 79 (Wiener) TOD SAMPLE Letter of Opposition
SB 79 (Wiener) TOD Letter of Opposition 3 27 25
Public Safety
AB 1 (Connolly D) Residential property insurance: wildfire risk.
This measure would require the Department of Insurance to include wildfire mitigation in the next draft of the Catastrophe Modeling regulations.
Cal Cities Position: Support Primary Lobbyist: Jolena Voorhis Policy Committee : PS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
League of California Cities, Rural County Representatives of California, California State Association of Counties AB 1 Letter of Support to Assembly Appropriations Committee League of California Cities, Rural County Representatives of California, California State Association of Counties AB 1 Letter of Support to Assembly Insurance Committee
League of California Cities, Rural County Representatives of California, and California State Association of Counties AB 1 Letter of Support to Author
Revenue and Taxation
SB 346 (Durazo D) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
This measure would require short-term rental facilitators, at the request of a city, to provide the Assessor Parcel Number of a short-term rental listing to a city, would provide cities audit authority for transient occupancy taxes (TOT) collected and remitted by short-term rental facilitators, and would require the publishing of the local license number and TOT Certification on the short-term rental listing.
Cal Cities Position: Sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Ben Triffo Policy Committee : RT Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 346 Sponsor CITY SAMPLE_Sen Judiciary
SB 346 Sponsor CITY SAMPLE
SB 346 Sponsor Sen Judiciary
SB 346 Sponsor
SB 710 (Blakespear D) Property taxation: active solar energy systems: extension.
This measure would indefinitely extend the property tax exemption home and business owners receive when installing solar panels and storage on their properties.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose (Letter
Pending)
Primary Lobbyist: Ben Triffo Policy Committee : RT
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Transportation, Communications and Public Works
AB 476 (González, Mark D) Metal theft.
Non-ferrous metals like aluminum, copper, and zinc are crucial for public infrastructure due to their unique properties (including corrosion resistance, conductivity, and recyclability) and are used in applications like wiring, piping, and building materials. However, cities across the state have seen a surge in vandalism of public infrastructure and construction sites. One such project was stripped of 7 miles of copper wires with a sell value of $11K for the thieves but cost the taxpayers over $2 million to repair. AB 476 would increase fines to better reflect the cost of damages to the taxpayer, enhance licensing and reporting requirements that recyclers must collect detailed transaction records, signed statements, proof of ownership, and expand the definition of metals that are used in all public infrastructure projects.
Cal Cities Position: Co-sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Damon Conklin Policy Committee : TCPW Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 476 (Gonzalez) Support to ASM Public Safety
AB 476 (Gonzalez) Support to ASM B&P
AB 476 (Gonzalez) City Sample Letter Support to Author
Support Letter AB 476
AB 620 (Jackson D) Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program:
rental vehicles.
This bill, for any regulation adopted to develop or implement the program, or other regulations that are regarding the procurement or use of medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles by a public or private fleet, would require the California Air Resources Board to make specific considerations, including the environmental and supply chain benefits of renting medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles compared to procuring them.
Cal Cities Position: Support Primary Lobbyist: Damon Conklin Policy Committee : TCPW Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 620 Support Rental ZEVs ACF
AB 911 (Carrillo D) Emergency telecommunications medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles.
This bill would exempt emergency telecommunications vehicles owned or purchased by emergency telecommunications service providers that are used to participate in the federal Emergency Alert System, to provide access to 911 emergency services, or to provide wireless connectivity during service outages from specified requirements in the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulations.
Cal Cities Position: Support Primary Lobbyist: Damon Conklin Policy Committee : TCPW Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 911 Coalition Support Letter
AB 1022 (Kalra D) Authority to remove vehicles.
Current law authorizes a peace officer, as defined, or a regularly employed and salaried employee, who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations, of a city, county, or jurisdiction of a state agency in which a vehicle is located, to remove a vehicle located within the territorial limits in which the officer or employee may act, under designated circumstances, including, but not limited to, when a vehicle is found upon a highway or public land, or removed pursuant to the Vehicle Code, and it is known that the vehicle has been issued 5 or more notices of parking violations to which the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded within designated time periods, or the registered owner of the vehicle is known to have been issued 5 or more notices for failure to pay or failure to appear in court for traffic violations for which a certificate has not been issued by the magistrate or clerk of the court hearing the case, as specified. Under current law, a vehicle that has been removed and impounded under those circumstances that is not released may be subject to a lien sale to compensate for the costs of towage and for caring for and keeping safe the vehicle. This bill would remove the authority of a peace officer or public employee, as appropriate, to remove a vehicle under the above-described circumstances, and make conforming changes.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Primary Lobbyist: Damon Conklin Policy Committee : TCPW Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
AB 1022 (Kalra) CalCities/ RCRC Oppose
Sample Letter Oppose AB 1022
Assembly Transportation Oppose AB 1022
Oppose AB 1022 Letter to Author
SB 74 (Seyarto R) Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program.
SB-74 establishes a “Gap Fund” grant to provide from the state up to 20% of project costs to cities that are able to pull together the remaining balance. California has led the nation on many fronts; however the state’s infrastructure is decaying due in part to the delayed allocation of funds that ultimately hinders critical infrastructure projects from being completed. This measure bridges those gaps.
Cal Cities Position: Co-sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Damon Conklin Policy Committee : TCPW Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 74 (Seyarto) City Sample Letter
Support Letter Sen Local Govt
SB 445 (Wiener D) Transportation: planning: complete streets facilities: sustainable transportation projects.
This year the legislature has introduced numerous bills in the local permitting space. Some related to the southern CA fires, housing inventories and transportation. SB 445 is no exception as it seeks to impose strict and arbitrary deadlines (shot clocks) on municipalities reviewing “sustainable” transportation projects. SB 445 applies to a wide range of transportation projects (anything that builds, modifies, enhances transit, ATP, pedestrian, etc SB 445 poses significant concerns regarding local governance, community input, and responsible development. The measure would grant transit agencies the authority to begin construction if those arbitrary deadlines are not met undermining the ability of local jurisdictions to thoroughly review projects, assess environmental and community impacts, and ensure that development aligns with local planning needs. Also, rushing the permitting process could also lead to unintended consequences, including environmental degradation, displacement, and inadequate infrastructure planning.
Cal Cities Position: Concerns Primary Lobbyist: Damon Conklin Policy Committee : TCPW Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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SB 496 (Hurtado D) Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: appeals advisory committee: exemptions.
SB 496 established several critically important provisions to help local municipalities comply with California Air Resource Board’s Advanced Clean Fleets requirements: 1) Establishes an appeals committee to hear any denials to requested extensions or exemptions to the regulation. 2) The bill also updates and expands the definition of authorized Emergency Vehicle Exemption. 3) And, the bill eliminates the current “pay for extension” provisions in the ACF that require purchasing ZEV in order to be eligible for consideration for any requested extension for infrastructural delays that are outside the control of a municipality (lack of contractors or a delay to energize a proposed refueling site).
Cal Cities Position: Co-sponsor Primary Lobbyist: Damon Conklin Policy Committee : TCPW Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
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Cal Cities Position Letter(s) & City Sample Letter(s):
SB 496 City Sample Letter of Support
Coalition Flyer Support SB 496
SB 496 Sponsor Letter
Total Measures: 32
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