List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy Federal 2025
FY 2026 Community Project Funding Request
from the City of Sunnyvale – Build the
Cleanwater Center to Congressman Ro
Khanna
The City submitted a Community Project Funding request for $5,000,000 to build the Cleanwater Center at 1444 Borregas Avenue. N/A Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy Positions – Planning and Management
Federal 2025
FY 2026 Community Project Funding Request
from the City of Sunnyvale – Safe Routes to
Schools and Parks to Congressman Ro
Khanna
The City submitted a Community Project Funding request for $3,625,000 to make walking and biking safer near schools and parks at three locations. N/A Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy Positions – Planning and Management
Federal 2025
FY 2025 Community Project Funding Request
from the City of Sunnyvale – Rebuild Fire
Station 2 to Senator Alex Padilla
The City submitted a Community Project Funding request for $5,000,000 to rebuild the old and out-of-date Fire Station 2 at 795 E. Arques Avenue. N/A Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy Positions – Planning and Management
Federal 2025
FY 2025 Community Project Funding Request
from the City of Sunnyvale – Rebuild Fire
Station 2 to Senator Adam Schiff
The City submitted a Community Project Funding request for $5,000,000 to rebuild the old and out-of-date Fire Station 2 at 795 E. Arques Avenue. N/A Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy Positions – Planning and Management
Federal 2025 2025 Surface Transportation Reauthorization Requests for City of Sunnyvale
Support for the inclusion of their Community Project Funding (CPF) and Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) requests in the final consolidated appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2026. Support Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy Positions – Planning and Management
Federal 2025 Support for Sunnyvale East and West
Channels Flood Protection Project
Support Valley Water’s efforts to identify funding sources for this project that will help protect our communities against the effects of climate change. Support General Plan Chapter 6 - Safety and Noise
List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy Federal 2025
Executive Order 14238: Continuing the
Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy:
Elimination of the Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS)
Sunnyvale opposes Executive Order 14238: Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy. Executive Order 14238 calls for elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the only federal agency
Oppose
Council Policy 6.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positions – Cultural; Policy 6.2.1
Library — Goals and Policies
Federal 2025 2025 Surface Transportation Reauthorization Requests for City of Sunnyvale
Support for maintaining the funding levels for programs from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) as Congress crafts a new Surface Transportation Reauthorization bill. Support Council Policy 1.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positions - Land Use and
Transportation and Council Policy 7.0
Long-term Advocacy Positions –
Planning and Management
Regional 2025 Santa Clara County Active Transportation
Plan
Sunnyvale supports the County’s Active Transportation Plan (ATP). We commend the County’s efforts to develop a comprehensive plan that promotes safe, accessible, connected and sustainable transportation options for all residents. This initiative aligns closely with our own city’s vision and goals for enhancing mobility, connectivity, and quality of life for our community.
Support General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and
Transportation
Regional 2025 Funding and Services for Unhoused
Residents in Santa Clara County
Sunnyvale requests the Board support funding and services for unhoused residents in Santa Clara County.
The City is committed to systematically addressing homelessness through the development of innovative programs and services to serve unhoused individuals residing in Sunnyvale and including the voices of those with lived experience of homelessness in the service development process.
Support
General Plan Chapter 5 - Housing
Element and Council Priority:
Supporting the Unhoused Community
Regional 2025 Clean Energy Tax Credits
Coalition letter to urge Senators and Congressman to prioritize the economic and energy future of our communities by preserving all clean energy tax credits available to state and local governments through elective pay (direct pay)
Support Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positions – Planning and Management
Regional 2025 Evelyn Multiuse Trail Urge the City of Mountain View to prioritize implementing an Evelyn Multiuse Trail which connects to the Sunnyvale Evelyn Multiuse Trail at Bernardo Ave. N/A General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and Transportation
List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy State 2025 2025-2026 State Budget Proposal from the
City of Sunnyvale
The City requests a budget commitment to the City of Sunnyvale for one or more of the projects in the 2025- 2026 State Budget to help Sunnyvale meet the challenges that affect our community and that align with the environmental goals for the State.
N/A Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positions – Planning and Management
State 2025 2025-2026 State Budget Proposal from the
City of Sunnyvale
The City understands the current fiscal landscape is uncertain with the potential for a surplus. If the opportunity arises for district requests to be included in the Legislature’s budget, the City respectfully request a budget commitment to the City of Sunnyvale for one or more City projects.
N/A Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positions – Planning and Management
State 2025 SB 45 – Tethered Caps on Plastic Beverage
Containers
Coalition of stakeholders to support Senate Bill 45, which mandates that plastic beverage containers up to 2 liters feature caps that remain attached during use. Support Council Policy 3.2.4 Zero Waste and
General Plan Chapter 7 -
Environmental Management
State 2025 SB 315 - Quimby Act
The City opposes SB 315 to amend the Quimby Act. SB 315 would limit the amount of land dedication that a local agency can require of a developer to no more than 25% of the total acreage of an infill housing development, which would, in turn, reduce the number of acres of land used to calculate a park in-lieu fee (use for land acquisition and park development), more commonly known as a Quimby fee, to the proportional amount. SB 315 would, furthermore, prohibit a Quimby fee altogether if an infill development is located within ½ mile of an existing park.
Oppose General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and
Transportation
State 2025 AB 306 Building regulations: state building
standards
The City opposes AB 306 which proposes significant changes to California's Building Standards. While the bill may aim to address specific concerns such as lack of housing or supporting those affected by unforeseen disasters, we believe its provisions would have far-reaching negative consequences for our state.
Oppose
General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and
Transportation; General Plan Chapter
5 Housing Element and Climate Action
Playbook
State 2025
AB 1391 Education finance: transitional
kindergarten: funding for basic aid school
districts and necessary small schools
The City supports AB 1391 Education finance: transitional kindergarten: funding for basic aid school districts and necessary small schools which would provide universal funding for universal transitional kindergarten (UTK). AB 1391 provides a fair and urgently needed solution by creating a mechanism to ensure community- funded districts receive the same UTK support as our state-funded peers.
Support Council Policy 5.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positons - Socio-Economic
List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy State 2025 Support for Sunnyvale East and West
Channels Flood Protection Project
Letter to Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens to support Valley Water’s efforts to identify funding sources for this project that will help protect our communities against the effects of climate change. N/A General Plan Chapter 6 - Safety and Noise
State 2025 Support for Sunnyvale East and West
Channels Flood Protection Project
Letter to Senator Dr. Aisha Wahab to support Valley Water’s efforts to identify funding sources for this project that will help protect our communities against the effects of climate change. N/A General Plan Chapter 6 - Safety and Noise
State 2025 SB 561 Hazardous waste: Emergency Distress
Flare Safe Disposal Act
The City supports SB 561, which would create a producer responsibility program for end-of-life management of emergency distress flares. Senate Bill 561 requires manufacturers to create, fund, and implement a producer responsibility program for the end-of-life management of expired emergency distress flares.
Support
Council Policy 3.2.4 Zero Waste and
General Plan Chapter 7 -
Environmental Management
State 2025 2025-2026 State Budget Proposal from the
City of Sunnyvale
The City is grateful and appreciative of Senator Dr. Aisha Wahab's past efforts supporting the City, our small businesses, and region. If the opportunity arises for district requests to be included in the Legislature’s budget, the City respectfully requests a budget commitment to the City of Sunnyvale for the City of Sunnyvale’s Rebuild Fire Station 2 Project.
N/A Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positions – Planning and Management
State 2025 AB 348 Full-service partnerships
The City supports AB 348, which would establish presumptive eligibility for Full-Service Partnership (FSP) services to ensure that individuals with serious mental illness who are most at risk can access care without unnecessary delays. Under the bill, individuals would qualify for FSP services if they meet specified criteria, including having had two or more psychiatric emergency department visits in the past six months.
Establishing priority populations for FSPs would create a consistent, statewide approach to prioritizing access to these intensive behavioral health services.
Support
Council Policy 7.4.14 Legislative
Advocacy Positions (5. Affordable
Housing, Homelessness, and Land Use)
State 2025 AB 348 Full-service partnerships
The City requests the Governor's signature on AB 348 (Krell), which establishes presumptive eligibility for Full- Service Partnership (FSP) services. This measure is intended to ensure that individuals with serious mental illness who are most at risk can access care without unnecessary delays.
Request Signature
Council Policy 7.4.14 Legislative
Advocacy Positions (5. Affordable
Housing, Homelessness, and Land Use)
List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy State 2025 AB 426 Impeding emergency response with
drone
The City supports AB 426, which would prohibit individuals from operating or using unmanned aerial vehicles, remote-piloted aircraft, or drones at the scene of an emergency and thereby impeding firefighters, peace officers, medical personnel, military personnel, or other emergency personnel in the performance of their fire suppression, law enforcement, or emergency response duties.
Support General Plan Chapter 6 - Safety and
Noise
State 2025 AB 650 Planning and zoning: housing
element: regional housing needs allocation
The City supports AB 650, which would allow local governments to begin the housing element update process six months earlier. Between initial planning, community engagement, and HCD review, the housing element update process can take an extensive amount of time. AB 650 would address these issues by requiring the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) by moving up the timeline for the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process, which will allow local governments to begin updating their Housing Element six months earlier. The bill would also require HCD to provide specific text and analysis that must be included in the Housing Element to remedy deficiencies, ensuring that local governments are not penalized when HCD identifies additional deficiencies not previously identified in prior review letters.
Support
Council Policy 5.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positons - Socio-Economic and General
Plan Chapter 5 - Housing Element
State 2025 AB 650 Planning and zoning: housing
element: regional housing needs allocation
The City requests the Governor's signature for AB 650, which would allow local governments to begin the housing element update process six months earlier. Request Signature Council Policy 5.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positons - Socio-Economic and General
Plan Chapter 5 - Housing Element
State 2025 AB 726 Planning and zoning: annual report:
rehabilitated units
The City supports AB 726, which will allow for the substantial rehabilitation of existing affordable housing with local funding to be counted in the Annual Progress Report. California’s statewide housing plan consists of three key principles: protect our state’s most vulnerable residents, build housing faster, and preserve existing housing. It is the latter that lies at the heart of AB 726. Too many older affordable housing projects in Sunnyvale and across California face expiring affordability covenants and significant physical need improvements, the rehabilitation of existing affordable housing remains a key priority. This bill would ensure that steps taken by local agencies to keep these units in service as safe, healthy, and affordable is properly recognized as part of California’s overall housing strategy.
Support General Plan Chapter 5 - Housing
Element
State 2025 AB 726 Planning and zoning: annual report:
rehabilitated units
The City requests the Governor's signature for AB 726, which will allow for the substantial rehabilitation of existing affordable housing with local funding to be counted in the Housing Element Annual Progress Report.
California’s statewide housing plan consists of three key principles: protect our state’s most vulnerable residents, build housing faster, and preserve existing housing. It is the latter that lies at the heart of AB 726.
Request Signature General Plan Chapter 5 - Housing
Element
List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy State 2025 AB 823 Solid waste: plastic microbeads:
plastic glitter
The City supports AB 823, which will expand California’s existing ban on intentionally-added microbeads to include cosmetics and cleaning products. AB 823 would ensure that Californians are using safe products and not polluting the state’s waterways.
Support General Plan Chapter 7 -
Environmental Management
State 2025 AB 823 Solid waste: plastic microbeads:
plastic glitter
The City requests the Governor's signature for AB 823, which will expand California’s existing ban on intentionally-added microbeads to include cosmetics and cleaning products. AB 823 would ensure that Californians are using safe products and not polluting the state’s waterways.
Request Signature General Plan Chapter 7 -
Environmental Management
State 2025 AB 915 Dam safety: state supervision:
exceptions
The City supports AB 915, which would fund local incentive grants aimed at boosting investment in clean energy infrastructure. In 2022, the Legislature designated $1 billion for the Clean Energy Reliability Investment Plan (CERIP) in Senate Bill 846, but to date only $100,000,000 of those funds have been allocated.
This bill would appropriate the $900,000,000 worth of funds, ensuring communities across California have the resources needed to drive forward clean energy adoption.
Support General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and
Transportation
State 2025 SB 282 Residential heat pump systems: water
heaters and HVAC: installations
The City supports SB 282, which will make installing heat pumps and HVAC systems faster and easier by modernizing permitting for heat pump installations, reducing cost and hassle for contractors and consumers alike.
Support
Council Policy 7.4.14 Legislative
Advocacy Positions (3. Environmental
Regulatory & Conservation Issues) and
Climate Action Playbook
State 2025 SB 436 Unlawful detainer: notice to
terminate tenancy
The City supports SB 436, which will prevent the displacement and homelessness of a tenant during an eviction process if they are able to pay the rent due even after the eviction process has begun. This critical measure will help prevent unnecessary displacement and homelessness.
Support General Plan Chapter 5 - Housing
Element
State 2025 SB 701 Signal jammers
The City requests that SB 701 is signed into law. This bill would criminalize the manufacturing, importing, marketing, purchasing, selling, or operation of signal jammers. Radio frequency jammers disrupt critical communications systems used by drones and first responders, as well as satellite navigation and landing systems relied upon by aircraft. Despite a federal ban, these devices remain readily available for purchase online on various commercial platforms.
Support General Plan Chapter 6 - Safety and
Noise
List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy State 2025 SB 701 Signal jammers The City requests the Governor's signature on SB 701. This bill would criminalize the manufacturing, importing, marketing, purchasing, selling, or operation of signal jammers. Request Signature General Plan Chapter 6 - Safety and Noise
State 2025 SB 79 Housing development: transit-oriented
development
The City moves to neutral on Senate Bill 79. Senator Wiener and his staff have been generous with their time and worked with Sunnyvale to add key protections to the bill. Due to these two very specific protections, which address two of Sunnyvale’s greatest concerns, the City of Sunnyvale moves to a neutral position on SB 79, though concerns around preserving cities’ ability to ensure diverse land uses and complete neighborhoods remain.
Neutral
General Plan Chapter 2 - Community
Vision and General Plan Chapter 3 -
Land Use and Transportation
State 2025 SB 79 Housing development: transit-oriented
development
The City opposes SB 79. SB 79 would override the City’s certified Housing Element and we are concerned with the potential of being forced to modify it in a lengthy parcel-by-parcel process. The City of Sunnyvale appreciates and respects the desire to pursue a housing production proposal. However, as currently drafted, SB 79 will not spur much-needed housing construction in a manner that supports local flexibility, decision- making, and community input.
Oppose
General Plan Chapter 2 - Community
Vision and General Plan Chapter 3 -
Land Use and Transportation
State 2025 SB 456 Contractors: exemptions: muralists
The City requests that SB 456 is signed into law. This bill would exempt muralists from having to obtain a contractor's license through the California State Licensing Board (CSLB) before being commissioned for public and private art projects.
Support
Council Policy 6.4.4 - Art in Public
Places and Chapter 4 - Community
Center
State 2025 SB 456 Contractors: exemptions: muralists
The City requests that the Governor sign SB 456 into law. This bill would exempt muralists from having to obtain a contractor's license through the California State Licensing Board (CSLB) before being commissioned for public and private art projects.
Request Signature
Council Policy 6.4.4 - Art in Public
Places and Chapter 4 - Community
Center
State 2025 SB 561 Hazardous waste: Emergency Distress
Flare Safe Disposal Act
The City supports SB 561, which would create a producer responsibility program for end-of-life management of emergency distress flares. Senate Bill 561 requires manufacturers to create, fund, and implement a producer responsibility program for the end-of-life management of expired emergency distress flares.
Support
Council Policy 3.2.4 Zero Waste and
General Plan Chapter 7 -
Environmental Management
List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy State 2025 Homeless Housing, Assistance and
Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program
The City supports the continued funding and expansion of the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program. The HHAP program has served as a vital source of flexible funding for cities, counties, and continuums of care across California working to combat homelessness. In Sunnyvale and throughout Santa Clara County, HHAP funding has supported critical interventions including rapid rehousing, street outreach, shelter operations, and permanent supportive housing services.
Support General Plan Chapter 5 - Housing
Element
State 2025 AB 996 Public Resources: sea level rise plans The City requests that AB 996 is signed into law. We joined the League of California Cities (Cal Cities) and the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) to support AB 996 (Pellerin), which would provide local governments tools as they develop plans that incorporate the best available science to mitigate and adapt to impacts of sea level rise.
Support
Council Policy 7.4.14 Legislative
Advocacy Positions (3. Environmental
Regulatory & Conservation Issues),
Climate Action Playbook and General
Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and
Transportation
State 2025 AB 996 Public Resources: sea level rise plans The City requests that the Governor sign AB 996 into law. We joined the League of California Cities (Cal Cities) and the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) to support AB 996 (Pellerin), which would provide local governments tools as they develop plans that incorporate the best available science to mitigate and adapt to impacts of sea level rise.
Request Signature
Council Policy 7.4.14 Legislative
Advocacy Positions (3. Environmental
Regulatory & Conservation Issues),
Climate Action Playbook and General
Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and
Transportation
State 2025
Cap-and-Trade Program and Continued
Investment in Climate-Resilient
Infrastructure
The City supports the reauthorization of California’s Cap-and-Trade program. As local governments confront the accelerating impacts of climate change, ranging from extreme heat and wildfire to sea level rise and aging transportation networks—Cap-and-Trade revenues serve as one of the most consequential tools available to implement mitigation and adaptation strategies on the ground.
Support General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and
Transportation
State 2025 SB 601 Water: waste discharge The City opposes SB 601 which seeks to amend the Porter Cologne Act to apply the more stringent Federal Clean Water Act (CWA) regulations to the former Waters of the United States (WOTUS). Oppose General Plan Chapter 7 - Environmental Management
State 2025 AB 339 Local public employee organizations:
notice requirements
The City opposes AB 339 which would amend the Government Code to enhance notice requirements for local public employee organizations. While transparency and fairness are essential in public employment practices, this bill introduces unnecessary burdens that could hinder the efficiency and responsiveness of public agencies.
Oppose
Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positions – Planning and Management
and Council Policy 7.3.6 Service
Delivery Options
List of 2025 Formal Written City Advocacy and Funding Requests Attachment 5
Jurisdiction Legislative Year Bill No. or Issue Topic City's Position Existing City Policy State 2025 AB 339 Local public employee organizations:
notice requirements
The City requests that the Governor veto AB 339, which would amend the Government Code to enhance notice requirements for local public employee organizations. While transparency and fairness are essential in public employment practices, this bill introduces unnecessary burdens that could hinder the efficiency and responsiveness of public agencies.
Request Veto
Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy
Positions – Planning and Management
and Council Policy 7.3.6 Service
Delivery Options
State 2025 SB 346 Local agencies: transient occupancy
taxes: short-term rental facilitator
The City supports SB 346, which would better equip cities to enforce local ordinances related short-term rentals, including the collection and remittance of transient occupancy taxes (TOT). Support General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and Transportation
State 2025 SB 346 Local agencies: transient occupancy
taxes: short-term rental facilitator
The City requests that the Governor sign SB 346 into law. SB 346 would better equip cities to enforce local ordinances related short-term rentals, including the collection and remittance of transient occupancy taxes (TOT). Request Signature General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and Transportation
State 2025 SB 707 Open meetings: meeting and
teleconference requirements
The City supports if amended SB 707. Sunnyvale has long been supportive of legislation that would encourage or better enable public participation in government. There are several provisions of this bill, however, that are going to be difficult to comply with unless amended.
Support If Amended Council Policy 7.0 Long-term Advocacy Positions – Planning and Management