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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA • CENTRAL CALIFORNIA • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Q3 Legislative Update Sacramento General Overview 2022
Legislative Session ended on August 31st and Governor acted on all bills passed by the Legislature on September 30th
Breakdown of Bill Data
• 2,055 bills introduced
• Legislature passed 1,166 (excluding resolutions and constitutional amendments) Governor signed 997 bills into law and vetoed 169
: Vete rator higher than prior years (16% in 2022 vs. 7.3% in 2021) 2022 Q3 Legislative Update Slide 2
POST MEETING MATERIAL
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Adopted Budget Provisions
2022 State Budget:
$307.9 billion in total spending, near $100 billion surplus ($49 billion for discretionary use)
One-time spending formulas
$9.5 billion $2 billion for
Healthcare inflation relief
housing
expansion rebate investments
Building $19 billion multi-
reserves/rainy year climate
day fund package
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2022 Legislative Session: Major Themes
Housing and Land Behavioral Health
Climate Resiliency Use
Open Meetings Public Safety
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Legislative Outcomes: Housing and Land Use
SB 6 (Caballero): Middle Class Housing Act of 2022
Establishes housing as an allowable use on any parcel zoned for office or retail uses so long as developers use a skilled and trained workforce Signed into Law - Effective July 2023
AB 2011 (Wicks): Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022 Create a ministerial, streamlined approval process for 100% affordable housing projects in commercial zones and for mixed-income housing projects along commercial corridors.
Signed into Law - Effective July 2023
AB 2097 (Friedman) Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements.
Prohibits public agencies from imposing minimum automobile parking requirements on specified residential, commercial and other developments located within one-half mile of public transit.
Signed into Law - Effective January 2023
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Legislative Outcomes: Open Meetings
SB 1100 (Cortese) Open Meetings; orderly conduct
authorizes the presiding member of a legislative body conducting a meeting, or AB 1944 (Lee) Local government: open and public meetings llows, until January 1, 2030, members of a legislative body of a local agency to use teleconferencing without noticing their teleconference locations and making them publicly accessible under certain conditions.
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Legislative Outcomes: Open Meetings Cont.
AB 2449 (Rubio) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences Allows, until January 1, 2026, members of a legislative body of a local agency to use teleconferencing without noticing their teleconference locations and making them publicly accessible under certain conditions.
Signed into Law - Effective January 2023
AB 2647 (Levine) Local government: open meetings
Exempts local agencies from making materials available for public inspection at the time they distribute them to members of the legislative body less than 72 hours before the meeting, if the agency meets certain requirements.
Signed into Law - Effective January 2023
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Legislative Outcomes: Public Safety
AB 1740 (Muratsuchi) and SB 1087 (Gonzalez) Catalytic Converters Both bills establish robust tracing requirements for the purchase and sale of vehicle catalytic converters. Both measures impose civil and criminal penalties associated with negligence in adhering to the tracing standards and will likely curb catalytic converter crimes with increased enforcement.
Signed into Law - Effective January 2023
SB 1327 (Hertzberg) Fire arms: private right of action
This bill establishes privately-enforced civil causes of action against those who manufacture, distribute, transport, import into California, or sell illegal assault weapons Signed into Law - Effective January 2023
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Legislative Outcomes: Climate Resiliency
AB 1279 (Muratsuchi) The California Climate Crisis Act
This bill declares it the policy of the state to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, to achieve that goal with at least ar 35% reduction in GHG emissions, and to achieve and maintain net negative GHG emissions Signed into Law - Effective January 2023
SB 1020 (Laird) Clean Energy, Jobs, and Affordability Act of 2022 This bill sets interim targets for generating clean energy. A current law already requires 100% of retail electricity to be fueled by renewables such as wind and solar by 2045. The w law would add 90% by 2035 and 95% by 2040. In addition, all State agencies mu urce their energy from 100% renewable sources by 2035, ten years sooner curren Signed into Law - Effective January 2023
SB 846 (Dodd) Diablo Canyon powerplant: extension of operations This bill authorizes the extension of operating the Diablo Canyon Nuclear power plant Signed into Law - Effective January 2023
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Looking Ahead: 2023 Legislative Session
Beginning of a new Potential changes in
2-Year Session budget reserves
Continued Focus on
New class of
issue areas of
Legislators and behavioral health,
possible changes to housing production,
leadership and tax reform
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Federal Update
• FY 2023 Appropriations
• Continuing Resolution in
place until December 15th
• Santa Clara has two
Community Projects pending
• Anna Drive Flood Control
• Fire Station Microgrid
• Potential action in lame duck
session after the general
election
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