City of Santa Clara
2022 Q3 Legislative Update
2022 Housing LAP
AB 682 (Bloom D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: shared housing buildings.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2021
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 634, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/28/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, 10% of the total units of a housing development for rental or sale to lower income households, as defined; or 5% of the total units for rental or sale to very low income households, as defined; a senior citizen housing development, as defined, or a mobilehome park that limits residency based on age requirements, as specified; or 100% of all units in the development for lower income households, as defined, subject to certain exceptions, and meets other requirements. This bill would provide that a housing development eligible for a density bonus be provide under these provisions includes a shared housing building, as defined, that will contain 10% of the total units for lower income households; contain or 5% of the total units for very low income households; is a senior housing development; or in which 100% of all the units are for lower income households, as described above.
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AB 916 (Salas D) Zoning: bedroom addition.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2021
Last Amend: 8/22/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 635, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/28/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a city or county legislative body from adopting or enforcing an ordinance requiring a public hearing as a condition of reconfiguring existing space to increase the bedroom count within an existing dwelling unit. The bill would apply these provisions only to a permit application for no more than 2 additional bedrooms within an existing dwelling unit. The bill would specify that these provisions are not to be construed to prohibit a local agency from requiring a public hearing for a proposed project that would increase the number of dwelling units within an existing structure. The bill would include findings that ensuring adequate housing is a matter of statewide concern and is not a municipal affair, and that the provision applies to all cities, including charter cities.
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AB 2011 (Wicks D) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 647, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/28/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would create the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, which would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, and would make the development a use
by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes. The bill would require a development proponent for a housing development project approved pursuant to the streamlined, ministerial review process to require, in contracts with construction contractors, that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require a development proponent to certify to the local government that those standards will be met in project construction.
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AB 2097 (Friedman D) Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/22/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 9/22/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 459, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/22/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a land use element, and a conservation element. Current law also authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking, and permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities. This bill would prohibit a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project, as defined, that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. The bill, notwithstanding the above-described prohibition, would authorize a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a housing development project if the public agency makes written findings, within 30 days of the receipt of a completed application, that not imposing or enforcing minimum automobile parking requirements on the development would have a substantially negative impact, supported by a preponderance of the evidence in the record, on the public agency’s ability to meet its share of specified housing needs or existing residential or commercial parking within 1/2 mile of the housing development.
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AB 2221 (Quirk-Silva D) Accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 650, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/28/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: 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 specify that an accessory dwelling unit that is detached from the proposed or existing primary dwelling may include a detached garage.
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AB 2234 (Rivas, Robert D) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 8/18/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 651, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/28/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from
disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, specified housing development projects, including projects for very low, low, or moderate-income households and projects for emergency shelters, that comply with applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision standards and criteria in effect at the time the application for the project is deemed complete, unless the local agency makes specified written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act authorizes a project applicant, a person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the housing development or emergency shelter, or a housing organization to bring a lawsuit to enforce its provisions. This bill would require a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, as defined, to post an example of a complete, approved application and an example of a complete set of postentitlement phase permits for at least 5 types of housing development projects, as defined, in the jurisdiction, as specified, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would define “local agency” for these purposes to mean a city, county, or city and county.
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SB 6 (Caballero D) Local planning: housing: commercial zones.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 659, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/28/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If the inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all households pursuant to specified law, current law requires the local government to rezone sites within specified time periods and that this rezoning accommodate 100% of the need for housing for very low and low-income households on sites that will be zoned to permit owner- occupied and rental multifamily residential use by right for specified developments. This bill, the Middle Class Housing Act of 2022, would deem a housing development project, as defined, an allowable use on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, if specified conditions are met, including requirements relating to density, public notice, comment, hearing, or other procedures, site location and size, consistency with sustainable community strategy or alternative plans, prevailing wage, and a skilled and trained workforce.
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SB 897 (Wieckowski D) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/1/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 664, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/28/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. This bill would require that the standards imposed on accessory dwelling units be objective. For purposes of this requirement, the bill would define “objective standard” as a standard that involves no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified.
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SB 1338 (Umberg D) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/14/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/14/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 319, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/14/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, contingent upon the State Department of Health Care Services developing an allocation to provide financial assistance to counties, enact the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which would authorize specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. The bill would require the Counties of Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne and the City and County of San Francisco to implement the program commencing October 1, 2023, and the remaining counties to commence no later than December 1, 2024. The bill would require the Judicial Council to develop a mandatory form for use in filing a CARE process petition and would specify the process by which the petition is filed and reviewed, including requiring the petition to be signed under penalty of perjury, and to contain specified information, including the facts that support the petitioner’s assertion that the respondent meets the CARE criteria.
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SCA 2 (Allen D) Public housing projects.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/13/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 12/7/2020
Status: 9/13/2022-Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 182, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/13/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition of a low- rent housing project, as defined, in any manner by any state public body until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which the development, construction, or acquisition of the low-rent housing project is proposed approve the project by voting in favor at an election, as specified. This measure would repeal these provisions.
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Broadband Cable Services and Wireless Telecommunications Facilities LAP
AB 988 (Bauer-Kahan D) Mental health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2021
Last Amend: 8/18/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 747, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/29/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Miles Hall Lifeline and Suicide Prevention Act. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to verify, no later than July 16, 2022, that technology that allows for transfers between 988 centers as well as between 988 centers and 911 public safety answering points, is available to 988 centers and 911 public safety answering points throughout the state. The bill would require, no later than 90 days after passage of the act, the office to appoint a 988 system director, among other things. The bill would require, no later than July 1, 2024, the office to verify interoperability between and across 911 and 988. The bill would require the office to consult with specified entities on any technology requirements for 988 centers.
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COVID-19 Legislation
AB 2179 (Grayson D) COVID-19 relief: tenancy.
Current Text: Enrollment: 3/31/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 3/28/2022
Status: 3/31/2022-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 13, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 3/31/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, until October 1, 2025, establishes procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. The act, among other things, requires that a notice that demands payment of COVID-19 rental debt served pursuant to specified law be modified, as provided. The act requires that a notice that demands payment of rent that came due during the transition time period, as defined, comply with certain requirements, including that the notice include certain text which varies depending on the date that the notice is served. This bill would require notices described above that are served on or after April 1, 2022, and before July 1, 2022, to include certain text.
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Human Resources/Public Sector Employment LAP
AB 1751 (Daly D) Workers’ compensation: COVID-19: critical workers.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/1/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 758, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/29/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee, as defined, for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Current law defines “injury” for an employee to include illness or death resulting from the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) under specified circumstances, until January 1, 2023. Current law creates a disputable presumption, as specified, that the injury arose out of and in the course of the employment and is compensable, for specified dates of injury. Current law requires an employee to exhaust their paid sick leave benefits and meet specified certification requirements before receiving any temporary disability benefits or, for police officers, firefighters, and other specified employees, a leave of absence. Current law also make a claim relating to a COVID-19 illness presumptively compensable, as described above, after 30 days or 45 days, rather than 90 days. Current law, until January 1, 2023, allows for a presumption of injury for all employees whose fellow employees at their place of employment experience specified levels of positive testing, and whose employer has 5 or more employees. This bill would extend the above- described provisions relating to COVID-19 until January 1, 2024. The bill would also expand the above- described provisions applicable to firefighters and police officers to include active firefighting members of a fire department at the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Department of Developmental Services, the Military Department, and the Department of Veterans Affairs and to officers of a state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals and the State Department of Developmental Services.
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AB 2449 (Rubio, Blanca D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/13/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Last Amend: 8/8/2022
Status: 9/13/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 285, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/13/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act generally requires posting an agenda at least 72 hours before a regular meeting that contains a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted or discussed at the meeting, and prohibits any action or discussion from being undertaken on any item not appearing on the posted agenda. This bill would revise and recast those teleconferencing provisions and, until January 1, 2026, would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with the teleconferencing requirements that each teleconference location be identified in the notice and agenda and that each teleconference location be accessible to the public if at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the local agency’s jurisdiction.
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AB 2647 (Levine D) Local government: open meetings.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/30/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 8/4/2022
Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 971, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/30/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law, the California Public Records Act, requires state agencies and local agencies to make public records available for inspection, subject to specified criteria, and with specified exceptions.
Current law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires the meetings of the legislative body of a local agency to be conducted openly and publicly, with specified exceptions. Current law makes agendas of public meetings and other writings distributed to the members of the governing board disclosable public records, with certain exceptions.This bill would instead require a local agency to make those writings distributed to the members of the governing board available for public inspection at a public office or location that the agency designates and list the address of the office or location on the agenda for all meetings of the legislative body of the agency unless the local agency meets certain requirements, including the local agency immediately posts the writings on the local agency’s internet website in a position and manner that makes it clear that the writing relates to an agenda item for an upcoming meeting.
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AB 2693 (Reyes D) COVID-19: exposure.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 799, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/29/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: (1)Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, authorizes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to prohibit the performance of an operation or process, or entry into that place of employment when, in its opinion, a place of employment, operation, or process, or any part thereof, exposes workers to the risk of infection with COVID-19, so as to constitute an imminent hazard to employees. This bill would extend those provisions until January 1, 2024. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill imposes a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 931 (Leyva D) Deterring union membership: violations.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Last Amend: 8/15/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 823, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/29/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits a public employer from deterring or discouraging public employees or applicants to be public employees from becoming or remaining members of an employee organization, authorizing representation by an employee organization, or authorizing dues or fee deductions to an employee organization. Current law generally vests jurisdiction over violations of these provisions in the Public Employment Relations Board. This bill would authorize an employee organization, as described, to bring a claim before the Public Employment Relations Board alleging that a public employer violated the above-described provisions. Upon a finding by the board that the public employer violated those provisions, the public employer would be subject to a civil penalty, to be deposited in the General Fund, of up to $1,000 for each affected employee, not to exceed $100,000 in total, and subject to attorney’s fees and costs, as described and except as specified.
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SB 1044 (Durazo D) Employers: emergency condition: retaliation.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 8/15/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 829, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/29/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Would prohibit an employer, in the event of an emergency condition, as defined, from taking or threatening adverse action against any employee for refusing to report to, or leaving, a workplace or worksite within the affected area because the employee has a reasonable belief that the workplace or worksite is unsafe, except as specified. The bill would also prohibit an employer from preventing any employee, including employees of public entities, as specified, from accessing the employee’s mobile device or other communications device for seeking emergency assistance, assessing the safety of the situation, or communicating with a person to confirm their safety. The bill would require an employee to notify the employer of the emergency condition requiring the employee to leave or refuse to report to the workplace or worksite, as specified. The bill would clarify that these provisions are not intended to apply when emergency conditions that pose an imminent and ongoing risk of harm to the workplace, the worksite, the worker, or the worker’s home have ceased.
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SB 1100 (Cortese D) Open meetings: orderly conduct.
Current Text: Chaptered: 8/22/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Last Amend: 6/6/2022
Status: 8/22/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 171, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 8/22/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law authorizes the members of the legislative body conducting the meeting to order the meeting room cleared and continue in session, as prescribed, if a group or groups have willfully interrupted the orderly conduct of a meeting and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting. This bill would authorize the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting or their designee to remove, or cause the removal of, an individual for disrupting the meeting. The bill, except as provided, would require removal to be preceded by a warning to the individual by the presiding member of the legislative body or their designee that the individual’s behavior is disrupting the meeting and that the individual’s failure to cease their behavior may result in their removal. The bill would authorize the presiding member or their designee to then remove the individual if the individual does not promptly cease their disruptive behavior. The bill would define “disrupting” for this purpose.
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SB 1127 (Atkins D) Workers’ compensation: liability presumptions.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Last Amend: 8/23/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 835, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/29/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires an injured employee to file a claim form with the employer. Under current law, except for specified injuries, if liability is not rejected within 90 days after the date the claim form is filed with the employer, the injury is presumed compensable and the presumption is rebuttable only by evidence discovered subsequent to the 90-day period. For certain injuries or illnesses, including hernia, heart trouble, pneumonia, or tuberculosis, among others, sustained in the course of employment of a specified member of law enforcement or a specified first responder, this bill would reduce those time periods to 75 days. The bill would make other conforming changes.
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SB 1407 (Becker D) California Employee Ownership Act.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 8/15/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 733, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/29/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the California Employee Ownership Hub within the Office of Small Business Advocate to increase awareness and understanding of employee ownership among stakeholders, assist business owners and employees in navigating available resources, and streamline and reduce barriers to employee ownership. The bill would require an Employee Ownership Hub Manager to administer the hub, and would authorize the manager to be responsible for prescribed duties, including partnering with specified state agencies and private entities to promote employee ownership transitions.
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Support
Public Safety LAP
AB 1613 (Irwin D) Theft: jurisdiction.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/30/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/5/2022
Last Amend: 5/23/2022
Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 949, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/30/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the jurisdiction of a criminal action brought by the Attorney General for theft, organized retail theft, or receipt of stolen property as including the county where an offense involving the theft or receipt of the stolen merchandise occurred, the county in which the merchandise was recovered, or the county where any act was done by the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, or aiding in the commission of the offense. The bill would also, if multiple offenses of theft or other specified crimes all involving the same defendant or defendants and the same merchandise, or the same defendant or defendants and the same scheme or substantially similar activity, occur in multiple jurisdictions, establish that any of those jurisdictions is a proper jurisdiction for all of the offenses. The bill would extend jurisdiction to all associated offenses connected together in their commission to the underlying theft offenses.
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AB 1653 (Patterson R) Property crimes: regional property crimes task force.
Current Text: Chaptered: 7/19/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/14/2022
Status: 7/19/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 105,
Statutes of 2022.
Location: 7/19/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2026, requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to coordinate with the Department of Justice to convene a regional property crimes task force to identify geographic areas experiencing increased levels of property crimes and assist local law enforcement with resources, such as personnel and equipment. This bill would specify theft of vehicle parts and accessories as a property crime for consideration by the regional property crimes task force.
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AB 1685 (Bryan D) Vehicles: parking violations.
Current Text: Vetoed: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Vetoed by Governor.
Location: 9/29/2022-A. VETOED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a processing agency to offer a payment plan for unpaid parking citations to qualified indigent persons. This bill would require a processing agency, if it seeks to collect an unpaid parking penalty by requesting the Department of Motor Vehicles to place a registration hold on the vehicle, to forgive at least $1,500 in parking fines and fees annually for a qualified homeless person, provide certain information regarding the parking citation forgiveness program, including on its internet website, and collect and have readily available specified information.
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AB 1740 (Muratsuchi D) Catalytic converters.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/25/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 9/25/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 513, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/25/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law requires a core recycler, as defined, who accepts a catalytic converter for recycling to maintain a written record of specified information regarding the transaction, including the item type and quantity, amount paid for the catalytic converter, an identification number, if any, and the vehicle identification number, for not less than 2 years. Current law makes it a crime to violate these requirements. This bill would require a core recycler to include additional information in the written record, including the year, make, and model of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed and a copy of the title of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed.
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SB 1087 (Gonzalez D) Vehicles: catalytic converters.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/25/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 9/25/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 514, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/25/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Would prohibit any person from purchasing a used catalytic converter from anybody other than certain specified sellers, including an automobile dismantler, an automotive repair dealer, or an individual possessing documentation, as specified, that they are the lawful owner of the catalytic converter. A violation of this provision would be an infraction, punishable by a fine, as specified.
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Regional and Statewide Water Supply and Conservation LAP
SB 222 (Dodd D) Water Rate Assistance Program.
Current Text: Vetoed: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/14/2021
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Location: 9/28/2022-S. VETOED
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Summary: Current law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. Existing law declares it to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. This bill would establish the Water Rate Assistance Fund in the State Treasury to help provide water affordability assistance, for both drinking water and wastewater services, to low-income residential ratepayers. The bill would make moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature to the state board to provide, in consultation with relevant agencies, direct water bill assistance to low-income residential ratepayers served by eligible systems, as defined, and would require 80% of total expenditures from the fund to be directly applied to residential ratepayer accounts.
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Regional Issues and Collaboration LAP
AB 2789 (Mullin D) Design-build projects: local agencies.
Current Text: Chaptered: 8/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 4/18/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 214, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 8/29/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law establishes procedures for the formation of regional park districts and regional open-space districts or authorities and prescribes the powers, functions, and duties of those districts or authorities, including competitive bidding requirements relating to the construction of facilities or other buildings.This bill would repeal the January 1, 2023, sunset date, thereby indefinitely extending the authority of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and the Santa Clara Valley Open-Space Authority to use the design-build process. The bill would modify and expand the purposes for which the process is authorized to include construction, restoration, and improvement of buildings and facilities, the construction, restoration, and improvement of public access and recreation facilities, and prescribed nature-based infrastructure projects within the entity. The bill would similarly authorize the East Bay Regional Park District to use the design-build process.
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Regional Transportation Issues LAP
AB 1909 (Friedman D) Vehicles: bicycle omnibus bill.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2022
Last Amend: 8/11/2022
Status: 9/16/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 343, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/16/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law generally regulates the operation of bicycles upon a highway. A violation of these provisions, generally, is punishable as an infraction. Current law prohibits the operation of a motorized bicycle or a class 3 electric bicycle on a bicycle path or trail, bikeway, bicycle lane, equestrian trail, or hiking or recreational trail, as specified. Current law authorizes a local authority to additionally prohibit the operation of class 1 and class 2 electric bicycles on these facilities. This bill would remove the prohibition of class 3 electric bicycles on these facilities and would instead authorize a local authority to prohibit the operation of any electric bicycle or any class of electric bicycle on an equestrian trail, or hiking or recreational trail.
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AB 2438 (Friedman D) Transportation funding: guidelines and plans.
Current Text: Vetoed: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Vetoed by Governor.
Location: 9/29/2022-A. VETOED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law provides for the funding of projects on the state highway system and other transportation improvements, including under the interregional transportation improvement program, the state highway operation and protection program, the Solutions for Congested Corridors Program, the Trade Corridor Enhancement Program, and the program within the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program commonly known as the Local Partnership Program. This bill would require, no later than January 1, 2024, the guidelines or plans applicable to those programs to include the strategies established in the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure adopted by the Transportation Agency, as provided.
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AB 2953 (Salas D) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/30/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 8/18/2022
Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 872, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/30/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 requires the Director of Transportation, upon consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to review and modify all bid specifications relating to the purchase of paving materials and base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials using certain recycled materials. Existing law requires the specifications to be based on standards developed by the Department of Transportation for recycled paving materials and for recycled base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials. Existing law requires a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway to either adopt these standards developed by the Department of Transportation or to discuss at a public hearing why the standards are not being adopted. Existing law requires the State Procurement Officer, when purchasing materials to be used in paving or paving subbase for use by the Department of Transportation and any other state agency that provides road construction and repair services, to contract for those items that use recycled material in those materials, unless the Director of Transportation determines that the use of the materials is not cost effective.This bill would require the Department of Transportation and a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway, to the extent feasible and cost effective, to use advanced technologies and material recycling techniques that reduce the cost of maintaining and rehabilitating streets and highways and that exhibit reduced levels of greenhouse gas emissions through material choice and construction method. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2024, a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway, to the extent feasible and cost effective, to apply standard specifications that allow for the use of recycled materials in streets and highways, as specified. The bill would exempt cities and counties whose populations do not exceed specified thresholds and special districts from these requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 922 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/30/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/3/2022
Last Amend: 8/4/2022
Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 987, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/30/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements bicycle transportation plans for an urbanized area for restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles under certain conditions. This bill would delete the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area. The bill would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan. The bill would define “active transportation plan” and “pedestrian plan.” The bill would specify that individual projects that are a part of an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan remain subject to the requirements of CEQA unless those projects are exempt by another provision of law.
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SB 932 (Portantino D) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/28/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 710, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/28/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law states the Legislature’s intention that a county or city general plan and the elements and parts of that general plan comprise an integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting agency. This bill would emphasize the intent of the Legislature to support and encourage communities in reaching environmental and climate change objectives with these provisions.
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SB 1079 (Portantino D) Vehicles: sound-activated enforcement devices.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/19/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 6/29/2022
Status: 9/19/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 449, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/19/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law requires every motor vehicle subject to registration to be equipped with an adequate muffler in constant operation and properly maintained to prevent any excessive or unusual noise and prohibits a muffler or exhaust system from being equipped with a cutout, bypass, or similar device. Current law further prohibits the modification of an exhaust system of a motor vehicle in a manner that will amplify or increase the noise emitted by the motor of the vehicle so that the vehicle exceeds existing noise limits when tested in accordance with specified standards. This bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol to evaluate the efficacy of sound-activated enforcement devices by evaluating devices from at least 3 different companies, and would require the department, on or before January 1, 2025, to prepare and submit its findings and recommendations from the evaluation in a report to the Legislature, as specified.
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Sustainable and Environmental Legislation, Regulations, and Issues LAP
AB 661 (Bennett D) Recycling: materials.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/25/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2021
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/25/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 517, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/25/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law relating to public contracting establishes the State Agency Buy Recycled Campaign (SABRC), which requires state agencies to ensure specific percentages of reportable purchases from prescribed product categories to be recycled products. Current law requires, if fitness and quality are equal, each state agency to purchase recycled products instead of nonrecycled products whenever recycled products are available at the same or a lesser total cost than nonrecycled products. Current law establishes minimum content requirements for recycled products. Current law requires a state agency to report annually to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery its progress in meeting the recycled product purchasing requirements using a SABRC report format.
Current law requires the Department of General Services (DGS), if a requirement has not been met, in consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to review purchasing policies and make recommendations for immediate revisions to ensure that the recycled product purchasing requirements are met. This bill would require a state agency, if fitness and quality are equal, to purchase recycled products instead of nonrecycled products whenever recycled products are available at no more than 10% greater total cost than nonrecycled products, and specified circumstances exist.
The bill would substantially revise product categories. The bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in concurrence with the DGS and in consultation with impacted agencies, to update a list of products and minimum recycled content percentages, as determined to be appropriate, commencing January 1, 2026, and every 3 years thereafter.
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AB 1279 (Muratsuchi D) The California Climate Crisis Act.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 8/28/2022
Status: 9/16/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 337, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/16/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost- effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. This bill, the California Climate Crisis Act, would declare the policy of the state both to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and achieve and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter, and to ensure that by 2045, statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 85% below the 1990 levels. The bill would require the state board to work with relevant state agencies to ensure that updates to the scoping plan identify and recommend measures to achieve these policy goals and to identify and implement a variety of policies and strategies that enable carbon dioxide removal solutions and carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies in California, as specified. The bill would require the state board to submit an annual report, as specified.
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AB 1445 (Levine D) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/30/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 948, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/30/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region.
Current law requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. Current law requires that the final regional housing plan adopted by a council of governments, or a delegate subregion, as applicable, be based on a methodology that includes specified factors, and similarly requires that the department take into consideration specified factors in distributing regional housing need, as provided.
Commencing January 1, 2025, this bill would instead require a council of governments or a delegate subregion to consider including specified factors in developing the above-mentioned methodology.
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AB 1985 (Rivas, Robert D) Organic waste: recovered organic waste product procurement targets.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Last Amend: 8/1/2022
Status: 9/16/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 344, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/16/2022-A. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law requires, no later than January 1, 2018, the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a reduction in statewide emissions of methane by 40%, hydrofluorocarbon gases by 40%, and anthropogenic black carbon by 50% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law requires the methane emissions reduction goals to include a 50% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2020 and a 75% reduction by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic waste reduction goals that include, among other things, requirements intended to meet the goal that not less than 20% of edible food that is currently disposed of be recovered for human consumption by 2025 and that may include penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance, as provided. The department‘s regulations provide for, among other things, the calculation by the department of recovered organic waste product procurement targets for each local jurisdiction. This bill would require any penalties imposed by the department on a local jurisdiction that fails to meet its recovered organic waste procurement target to be imposed pursuant to a specified schedule based on the percentage of the local jurisdiction’s recovered organic waste product procurement target achieved. The bill would exempt jurisdictions in possession of a specified rural exemption from these requirements until December 31, 2026.
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AB 2247 (Bloom D) Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and PFAS products and product components: publicly accessible data collection interface.
Current Text: Vetoed: 9/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 9/29/2022-Vetoed by Governor.
Location: 9/29/2022-A. VETOED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require, as part of the hazardous waste control laws, the department to contract with an existing multistate chemical data collection entity that is used by other states and jurisdictions to implement, by January 1, 2026, a publicly accessible data collection interface to collect information about perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and products or product components containing intentionally added PFAS. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, a manufacturer, as defined, of PFAS or a product or a product component containing intentionally added PFAS that, during the prior calendar year, is sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state to register the PFAS or the product or product component containing intentionally added PFAS, and specified other information, on the publicly accessible data collection interface. The bill would specify that the above requirements do not
apply to certain products regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration or products intended for certain animal uses that are regulated under certain federal laws.
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SB 38 (Wieckowski D) Beverage containers.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/30/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 8/15/2022
Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 977, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/30/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer, and requires a processor to pay a certified recycling center or other program the refund value, a percentage of the refund value for administrative costs, and the processing payment. The act provides that a violation of the act or a regulation adopted pursuant to the act is a crime. This bill would require a processor to make those payments by check or electronic fund transfer, and not by cash payment.
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SB 45 (Portantino D) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals: local jurisdiction assistance.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/19/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 8/15/2022
Status: 9/19/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 445, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/19/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board for 2020 and 2025, as provided. Current law requires the department, no later than July 1, 2020, and in consultation with the state board, to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government, and local governments have made in achieving these organic waste reduction goals. Current law authorizes the department, if it determines that significant progress has not been made toward achieving the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board, to include incentives or additional requirements in its regulations to facilitate progress towards achieving the goals. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the state board, to assist local jurisdictions in complying with these provisions, including any regulations adopted by the department.
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SB 54 (Allen D) Solid waste: reporting, packaging, and plastic food service ware.
Current Text: Chaptered: 6/30/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 6/26/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 75, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 6/30/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. The act requires disposal facility operators to submit information to the department on the disposal tonnages that are disposed of at the disposal facility, and requires solid waste handlers and transfer station operators to provide information to disposal facility operators for purposes of that requirement. The act requires recycling and composting operations and facilities to submit periodic information to the department on the types and quantities of materials that are disposed of, sold, or
transferred to other recycling or composting facilities or specified entities. This bill would provide that these reporting requirements do not apply to materials that are used by facilities defined as end users pursuant to the regulations adopted by the department or that are otherwise exempt pursuant to those regulations.
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SB 846 (Dodd D) Diablo Canyon powerplant: extension of operations.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/2/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/13/2022
Last Amend: 8/28/2022
Status: 9/2/2022-Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 239, Statutes of 2022 Location: 9/2/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: The Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant, composed of Reactor Units 1 and 2, is operated by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, an electrical corporation, in the County of San Luis Obispo. On January 11, 2018, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s proposal to retire Unit 1 in 2024 and Unit 2 in 2025. This bill would invalidate the PUC’s approval of that proposal and would require the PUC to set new retirement dates for the Diablo Canyon powerplant, as provided, conditioned upon the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission extending the powerplant’s operating licenses, as specified. The bill would require the PUC to take certain actions to enable the operator of the Diablo Canyon powerplant to recover the reasonable costs and expenses of operating the Diablo Canyon powerplant, as provided, including the imposition of a fully nonbypassable charge on all customers of electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, and would require the PUC to authorize the operator to recover in rates an operating fee for each megawatthour generated by the powerplant, as specified.
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SB 905 (Caballero D) Carbon sequestration: Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/2/2022
Last Amend: 8/28/2022
Status: 9/16/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 359, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/16/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law requires, no later than July 1, 2023, the Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with the State Air Resources Board, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies, to establish the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy and, in developing the strategy, to create a framework to advance the state’s climate goals. Current law requires the state board, as part of its scoping plan, to establish specified carbon dioxide removal targets for 2030 and beyond. This bill would require the state board to establish a Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program, as provided, to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and viability of carbon capture, utilization, or storage (CCUS) technologies and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies and facilitate the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from those technologies, where appropriate. The bill would require the program to ensure that carbon dioxide capture, removal, and sequestration projects include specified components including, among others, certain monitoring activities. In carrying out the program’s objectives, the bill would require the state board to prioritize, among other priorities, reducing the emissions of greenhouses gases and reducing fossil fuel production in the state.
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SB 1020 (Laird D) Clean Energy, Jobs, and Affordability Act of 2022.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2022
Last Amend: 8/29/2022
Status: 9/16/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 361, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/16/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost- effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. The act requires the state board to conduct a series of public workshops to give interested parties an opportunity to comment on the plan and requires a portion of those workshops to be conducted in regions of the state that have the most significant exposure to pollutants. The act specifically includes as regions for these workshops communities with minority populations, communities with low-income populations, or both. This bill would instead include as regions for these workshops federal extreme nonattainment areas that have communities with minority populations, communities with low-income populations, or both.
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SB 1137 (Gonzalez D) Oil and gas: operations: location restrictions: notice of intention: health protection zone: sensitive receptors.
Current Text: Chaptered: 9/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Last Amend: 8/27/2022
Status: 9/16/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 365, Statutes of 2022.
Location: 9/16/2022-S. CHAPTERED
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Summary: Current law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation, under the direction of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, who is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state and the operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and facilities related to oil and gas production within an oil and gas field, so as to prevent damage to life, health, property, and natural resources.
Current law requires the operator of a well to file a written notice of intention to commence drilling with, and prohibits any drilling until approval is given by, the supervisor or district deputy. Current law authorizes the supervisor to require other pertinent information to supplement the notice. Current law requires the owner of any well to file with the supervisor a monthly statement that provides certain information relating to the well, as provided. Current law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment to apply to the supervisor or district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments. Under current law, a person who fails to comply with this and other requirements relating to the regulation of oil or gas operations is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would prohibit, commencing January 1, 2023, the division from approving any notice of intention within a health protection zone, as defined, except for reasons related to preventing or responding to a threat to public health, safety, or the environment, complying with a court order, or to plug and abandon or reabandon a well, as provided.
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Total Measures: 46
Total Tracking Forms: 46