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Current law authorizes a local authority to additionally lower the speed limit in specified circumstances or retain the currently adopted speed limit in certain circumstances.
AB 1085 (S
tefani) License Plates: Obstruction or Alteration.
Chapter 179, Statutes of 2025
This measure prohibits a person from installing or affixing a shade or tint that obstructs the reading or recognition of a license plate by an electronic device operated by state or local law enforcement; an electronic device operated in connection with a toll road, high- occupancy toll (HOT) lane, toll bridge, or other toll facility; or a remote emission sensing device. This measure further prohibits the manufacture of these products and devices in the state and imposes a $1,000 fine per item sold or manufactured for a violation of these provisions.
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B 1114 ( Ávila Farías) Emergency Vehicles: Fee and Toll Exemptions.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2025
This measure extends the exemption of authorized emergency vehicles from the payment of a toll or charge on a vehicular crossing, toll highway, or HOT lane and any related fines to a vehicle owned by a public or private entity used as an authorized vehicle and displaying an exempt license plate and an emergency or public agency identification, such as “Ambulance” or “Police.”
AB 1250 (
Papan) Transit Operators: Paratransit: Recertification of Eligibility.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires, on or before Jan. 1, 2027, transit operators to establish a streamlined recertification process for eligible persons. This measure requires, on and after June 1, 2027, transit operators to only use the streamlined recertification process for eligible persons unless certain conditions apply. This measure defines “eligible persons” as persons who receive or who are eligible to receive paratransit services based on a disability and whose disability cannot reasonably be expected to improve over time, as determined by the person’s qualified licensed medical professional, and whose ability to access the fixed route system cannot reasonably be expected to improve over time, as determined by the transit operator.
AB 1272 (
Dixon) Department of Motor Vehicles: Occupational Licensees.
Chapter 68, Statutes of 2025
This measure adds Internet domain names to the list of prohibited uses for the holder of an occupational license issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles to use the initials “DMV,” the Department of Motor Vehicles logogram, or the words “Department of Motor Vehicles” in any business name or telephone number.
AB 1299 (
Bryan) Parking Violations.
Chapter 346, Statutes of 2025
This measure authorizes the issuing agency that issues parking violations to reduce or waive the parking penalty if the contestant provides satisfactory evidence of either an inability to pay the parking penalty in full or any other extenuating circumstances
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relevant to payment of the parking penalty, including, but not limited to, documented homelessness status and financial hardship.
AB 1423 (
Irwin) Transportation Electrification: Electric Vehicle Charging Stations:
Payment Methods.
Chapter 192, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires the California Energy Commission (CEC), in consultation with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), to develop uptime recordkeeping and reporting standards for electric vehicle (EV) chargers installed between Jan. 1, 2021, and Jan. 1, 2024. This measure also allows the CEC to establish an enforcement process for violations of these uptime recordkeeping and reporting standards.
Additionally, it modifies the requirements applied to EV charging station payment methods.
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B 71 ( Wiener) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemptions: Transit Projects.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2025
This measure extends the CEQA exemption for certain transportation-related projects indefinitely and adds new exemptions for specific transit planning activities.
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nder current law, CEQA requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions to the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the revised project would still have a significant impact. Until Jan. 1, 2030, CEQA exempts from its requirements active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, and bicycle transportation plans involving activities such as restriping streets and highways, installing bicycle parking and storage, adjusting signal timing to improve intersection operations, and adding related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles.
SB 78 (
Seyarto) Department of Transportation: Report: State Highway System:
Safety Enhancements.
Chapter 743, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires Caltrans to prepare a report evaluating current efforts and potential opportunities to streamline the processes and procedures for the delivery of safety enhancement projects on the state highway system. This measure requires the department to submit the report to the Legislature on or before Jan. 1, 2027.
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B 128 (C mte. Budget and Fiscal Review) Department of Transportation: Funding Chapter 16, Statutes of 2025
This measure is the 2025 Transportation trailer bill, which makes changes necessary to enact transportation-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2025.
SB 364 (S
trickland) Outdoor Advertising Displays: Permits: New Alignments.
Chapter 313, Statutes of 2025
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interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application.
SB 480 (
Archuleta) Autonomous Vehicles.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2025
This measure authorizes an autonomous vehicle to be equipped with automated driving system (ADS) marker lamps in accordance with specified standards. For purposes of this provision, the measure defines an “ADS marker lamp” as a device that emits a light to indicate when an ADS is engaged in the operation of the vehicle.
SB 533 (
Richardson) Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Arenas: Payments:
Internet-based Applications.
Chapter 770, Statutes of 2025
This measure allows an EV charging station to require customers pay for charging services using an Internet-based application if the charging station is located on the premises of an arena that has a seating capacity of at least 15,000 seats and can only be accessed through the use of that Internet-based application.
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B 544 ( Laird) Railroad Crossings: Permit Applications: Review.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires an application for a railroad crossing to include, at a minimum, certain information concerning the proposed railroad crossing. This measure requires the CPUC to adopt an expedited review and approval process for rate setting proceedings for an exempt railroad crossing application. This measure also requires the Commission, upon initiating a rate setting proceeding, to determine whether the proceeding is for an exempt railroad crossing application and, if so, to issue a proposed resolution pursuant to the expedited review and approval process.
SB 671 (
Cervantes) Pedestrian Crossing Signals.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires pedestrian signal heads to have a push button or touch-free accessible pedestrian signal (APS) that activates “WALK” or “DON’T WALK” intervals and other visual signals in nonvisual formats, such as audible tones or vibrations, at signalized intersections. This measure requires touch-free APS to be installed at new signalized pedestrian crossings on capital projects on the state highway system, encroachment projects, and highway maintenance–funded projects. This measure requires, as soon as practicable, all existing state-owned or state-operated traffic signals located in certain areas to be identified and recorded in the Caltrans management system inventory database to assist future annual operational review requirements and coordination with local agencies for delegated signals. This measure requires leading pedestrian intervals to be implemented at these existing state-owned or state-operated traffic signals locations at the next opportunity for regularly scheduled operational reviews.
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SB 695 ( Cortese) Transportation: Climate Resiliency: Projects of Statewide and Regional Significance.
Chapter 781, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires Caltrans, in consultation with, among others, the Transportation Agency and the California Transportation Commission, on or before July 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to create a prioritized list of projects of statewide and regional significance to better prepare the state for extreme weather-related events, with priority based on specified criteria.
*SB 720 (
Ashby) Automated Traffic Enforcement System Programs.
Chapter 782, Statutes of 2025
This measure authorizes cities, counties, and cities and counties to establish automated traffic enforcement system programs to detect violations of traffic control signals, provided the systems meet specified requirements. Violations recorded by these systems are subject to escalating civil penalties, and the measure outlines procedures for issuing a notice of violation, conducting an initial review, holding an administrative hearing, and providing an appeals process.
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nder existing law, intersections or other designated stop locations may already be equipped with automated traffic enforcement systems if the responsible governmental agency meets certain conditions, including posting warning signs and ensuring compliance with minimum yellow light change interval standards. Current law also authorizes, until Jan. 1, 2032, a speed safety system pilot program in the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach and in the City and County of San Francisco. This pilot allows speed enforcement using automated systems in specified areas under defined criteria, with violations subject only to a civil penalty. This measure expands that framework by creating a permanent authorization for the use of automated systems to enforce traffic signal compliance, with clear guidelines for penalties and due process.
SB 770 (
Allen) Common Interest Developments: Ev Charging Stations.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2025
This measure deletes the requirement that the insurance policy name a homeowners association as an additional insured party of an EV charging station placed in a common area or an exclusive-use common area of a common-interest development and corrects an erroneous cross-reference regarding the amount of that insurance.
SB 800 (
Reyes) State Bridges and Overpasses: Suicide Prevention.
Chapter 427, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires, beginning on or before July 1, 2028, Caltrans, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and in collaboration with impacted local governments, to incorporate suicide deterrent considerations for bridges and ov
erpasses in the updates of applicable guidance documents.
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D. Telecommunications
AB 1303 ( Valencia) Communications: Lifeline Telephone Service Program.
Chapter 347, Statutes of 2025
This measure prohibits the Public Utilities Commission, its staff, the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program’s third-party administrator, and lifeline service providers and their contractors, agents, successors, or assignees from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible any information provided by an applicant or subscriber to the lifeline program, or a subprogram or pilot program of the lifeline program, to any agency of a local government, a state government, or the federal government, or to an immigration authority without a court-ordered subpoena or valid judicial warrant.
E. U tilities and Energy
AB 841 (
Patel) State Fire Marshal: Personal Protective Equipment: Battery Fires.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires, until Jan. 1, 2031, the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to develop a working group with specified membership to make recommendations regarding personal protective equipment used in responding to lithium-ion battery fires. This measure requires, at a minimum, the working group to review, and for the purpose of making the recommendations to consider, the latest personal protective equipment to limit exposure to lithium and other heavy metals, technology to clean personal protective equipment, whether different types of personal protective equipment should be used for different types of lithium-ion battery fires, and current decontamination practices at the fire scene.
AB 1410 (
Garcia) Utilities: Service Outages and Updates: Alerts.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, or local publicly owned electric utility, on or before March 1, 2026, to automatically enroll its customers in alerts for service outages and updates. This measure requires customers to be provided with the opportunity to opt out of any alerts they do not wish to receive, except as provided. This measure requires each of those utilities to annually provide information on customers’ bills on how to update their preferred contact method on the utility’s website or, if feasible, by telephone.
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B 254 ( Becker) Energy.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This measure makes various policy changes related to electrical corporations, among them, authorizing public financing and ownership of electric transmission infrastructure, addressing both wildfire mitigation spending and financing and liability of wildfire property claims; permitting of clean energy projects; providing transparency of electrical corporations’ return on equity; enforcement of timeliness of energization projects; and prohibiting large electrical corporations from including in their equity rate base an Attachment 7
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additional $6 billion of wildfire mitigation capital expenditures. This measure deems the financing of projects related to the clean energy projects funded by the bond act to be in the public interest and eligible for financing by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank or by a special purpose trust established pursuant to the bank act and requires that any such financing be treated as financing of an economic development facility for purposes of the bank act. Also, this measure eliminates local agency involvement in land-use decisions of larger energy project applications.
*SB 283 (
Laird) Energy Storage Systems.
Chapter 407, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires that an application submitted to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission after Jan. 1, 2026, and an application submitted to a local jurisdiction for an energy storage system include the applicant’s certification that, at least 30 days before submitting the application, the applicant met and conferred with the authority that has jurisdiction over fire suppression in the area where the energy storage system is proposed. This measure also prohibits the approval of those applications unless the local jurisdiction requires as a condition of approval that after installation is complete, but before commencing operations or use of the batteries, the energy storage system is inspected by the authority that has jurisdiction over fire suppression, and that the applicant bears the cost of the inspection. The measure requires, as part of the next update to the California Building Standards Code considered after July 1, 2026, the Office of the State Fire Marshal to review and consider proposing provisions that restrict the location of energy storage systems to dedicated-use noncombustible buildings or outdoor installations.
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RESOURCES
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2025 Homelessness Budget Advocacy
2025 Homelessness Budget Advocacy
Cal Cities Advocacy
This year, Cal Cities continued to urge the Legislature and the Governor's office to invest a minimum of $1 billion in ongoing funding for the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program. This request aligned with Cal Cities’ 2025 Advocacy Priorities, which f
ocus on securing funding to prevent and reduce
homelessness.
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HAP investments have shown promising results. The number of homeless Californians increased by just over 3% in 2024 — a much lower rate than the nation overall and lower than 40 other states. The HHAP program alone provides services to 100,000–130,000 Californians experiencing homelessness every year.
The Legislature and the Governor’s office were also increasingly focused on the efforts to cities to address encampments this year. In May, the Governor’s office shared a new model ordinance f
or local governments to address encampments on public property. To access funding provided by the HHAP program, cities must now have a local encampment policy that is consistent with this administration's guidance.
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o inform Cal Cities’ budget request and respond to changes in encampment policy, Cal Cities conducted a survey, which showed that while cities are accelerating their efforts to prevent and reduce homelessness in their communities, the demand for housing and services is outpacing their efforts, straining capacity, and draining resources.
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pecifically, the survey showed that eight in 10 cities are using General Fund dollars to address encampments in their communities. However, only one in five cities has been able to access state funding to address encampments. Cities cite a lack of services, funding, and coordination with state agencies as the biggest barriers when addressing encampments. Cal Cities staff shared this survey with the media and meetings with lawmakers to make the case for ongoing funding for these critical issues.
Additionally, for the third consecutive year, Cal Cities joined a broad coalition of local governments, homeless service providers, housing advocates, and business leaders in calling on legislative leaders t
o provide ongoing funding to address homelessness.
While this group of stakeholders does not always see eye to eye, all stakeholders in this space agree that ongoing funding, paired with reasonable accountability metrics, would significantly address homelessness in our state.
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nal Budget Agreement
Budget negotiations were turbulent this year, with the Legislature and the Governor at odds over funding key programs — including HHAP. Ultimately, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed SB 131 (
Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), which
zeroes out HHAP grants for the current fiscal year and sets aside $500 million for fiscal year 2026–27 — half the level of previous years.
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Below is a year-by-year breakdown of HHAP allocations:
Fiscal Year: Funding Allocated:
2019-20 $650 million
2020-21 $300 million
2021-22 $1 billion
2022-23 $1 billion
2023-24 $1 billion
2024-25 $1 billion
2025-26 $0
2026-27 $500 million
SB 131 also requires HHAP applicants to satisfy the following requirements in order to receive funding:
• Have a compliant housing element
• Have a local encampment policy consistent with administration guidance • Have a pro-housing designation
• Leverage local resources to scale state investments
• Demonstrate progress on key housing performance metrics • Demonstrate urgency and measurable results in housing and homelessness prevention
In response to the final budget, Cal Cities joined forces with the California State Association of Counties, the Bring California Home Coalition, and the Big City Mayors to urge lawmakers t
o adopt trailer bill language that would require the quick distribution of HHAP dollars to prevent devastating service disruptions. Without swift action, California’s largest cities warned of losing 3,250 shelter beds, reducing outreach services for more than 12,500 individuals, and stalling construction of over 2,250 housing units.
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he Legislature ultimately responded by amending and passing SB 158 ( Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) during the last days of the legislative session. Among other changes, this measure includes the coalition’s request to begin dispersing HHAP funding by the end of next year. While this action provides some immediate relief, it is only a stopgap. Cal Cities will continue to press lawmakers and the Governor to provide reliable, ongoing funding for homelessness programs in next year’s budget.
SB 1
58 (C mte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Land use.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2025.
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prepare to administer Round 7 of the HHAP program with the goal that the initial Round 7 disbursement will be available to grantees meeting the statutory provisions beginning Sept.1, 2026. This measure also includes notable land-use changes.
Specifically, this measure clarifies that the Permit Streamlining Act applies to ministerial housing development projects defined in the Housing Crisis Act that local agencies review. Additionally, the measure modifies the deadline for a lead public agency to approve or disapprove infill housing development projects exempt from CEQA to 30 days after the agency concludes a tribal consultation process or the time period required under the Housing Accountability Act. This measure also specifies that builder’s remedy projects greater than four acres are not eligible for a CEQA exemption or the limited application of CEQA as required in the Public Resources Code section 21080.1. Finally, this measure specifies that a housing development project located in a city with a population of more than 85,000 but less than 95,000 or in a county with a population of 440,000 but less than 455,000 must be a discretionary project if it meets the following requirements:
• A portion of the parcel where the project is located is identified on a United States Fish and Wildlife Service map as a freshwater forested or shrub wetland. • A portion of the parcel is located within a regulatory floodway determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in any official maps the agency publishes.
• The project is located on a parcel adjacent to a California historical landmark on the California Register of Historic Places.
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2025 Recovery Housing
Background
In Dec. 2023, the Cal Cities Board of Directors voted to support Proposition 1, which passed off the March 2024 ballot. Prop. 1 modernized the Mental Health Services Act for the first time in nearly two decades. The ballot measure also included a $6.38 billion bond for over 11,000 new treatment beds and housing units for people with the most acute behavioral health needs who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Cal Cities’ support of Prop. 1 aligned with existing policy. In 2022, the Cal Cities Board of Directors adopted a new policy ena bling the organization to advocate for increased access to behavioral health services for unhoused Californians. Additionally, Cal Cities' 2025 Advocacy Priorities i nclude securing increased funding and resources to prevent and reduce homelessness and expand access to wraparound services.
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n addition to supporting Prop. 1 on the ballot, the Cal Cities Board of Directors directed staff to pursue legislation to address concerns about the lack of state oversight of recovery housing facilities in residential areas. This was in response to concerns that Prop. 1 funding could be used for residential recovery housing facilities, exacerbating existing overconcentration issues in certain parts of the state.
Cal Cities has over a decade of history advocating for reforms to address concerns about residential care facilities. This advocacy included Cal Cites sponsoring two bills in
2016 in response to an annual conference resolution brought forward by the City of Malibu in 2015. Unfortunately, until now, the Legislature and the Governor have taken little to no action to move legislation that protects residents and holds bad actors accountable.
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t year, in response to the board’s directive, Cal Cities sponsored four bills to ensure drug and alcohol recovery facilities follow state regulations and provide high-quality treatment. The following measures were signed by the Governor in 2024:
• AB 2081 ( Davies) Substance Abuse: Recovery and Treatment Programs.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the operator of a licensed recovery facility to disclose to those seeking care that they can check the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) website to confirm a facility’s compliance with state licensing laws. • AB 2574 (
Valencia) Alcoholism or Drug Abuse Recovery or Treatment Programs and Facilities: Disclosures.
Chapter 410, Statutes of 2024.
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his measure expands reporting requirements for licensed recovery facility operators to enhance DHCS’s oversight of sober living homes that are operating as an integral part of a licensed drug treatment facility located elsewhere in the community.
Following the passage of these two measures in October of last year, the state auditor released a long-anticipated report on
drug and alcohol treatment facilities in California.
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The report confirmed what cities across California have been saying for years: DHCS does not have the capacity to enforce compliance with state licensure law and protect patients when problems arise.
The audit found that DHCS does not always promptly or thoroughly investigate complaints. Twenty-two of the 60 investigations the audit reviewed took over a year to complete. In 10 of those investigations, it took the department more than 600 days.
When DHCS does not complete these investigations expeditiously, problems go undetected, threatening the health and safety of those receiving care.
There were also delays with compliance inspections, with the department conducting just half of the 26 reviewed inspections on time. Moreover, the department did not always follow up on unlicensed facilities that were unlawfully advertising or providing services that require licensure. The department only conducted seven site visits for 15 related complaints, despite having a policy to perform site visits for all unlicensed facility complaints.
2025 Recovery Housing Bill Package
In response to the audit, Cal Cities staff facilitated several group discussions with cities across the state to collect feedback and develop legislative solutions. As a result, Cal Cities sponsored another four bills this session to ensure drug and alcohol recovery facilities follow state regulations and provide high-quality treatment.
Two of these measures were signed by the Governor:
AB 424 (
Davies) Alcohol and Other Drug Programs: Complaints.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires DHCS to notify individuals when their complaint has been r
eceived, when the investigation concludes, and the outcome of the investigation.
Currently, complainants do not receive updates and must file a public records request just to learn the outcome of their complaint — a process that can take over a year.
AB 492 (
Valencia) Alcohol and Drug Programs: Licensing.
Chapter 368, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires DHCS to notify a city if the department approves a new license i
n its jurisdiction. Currently, municipalities often learn of facilities after a problem arises, making it difficult to integrate programs effectively into communities.
Unfortunately, two other measures in the bill package died earlier in the year. These included:
SB 35 (
Umberg) Alcohol and Drug Programs.
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laws themselves. SB 35 also required DHCS to conduct follow-up site visits to ensure unlawful activity has stopped.
SB 329 ( Blakespear) Alcohol and Drug Recovery or Treatment Facilities:
Investigations.
This measure would have required DHCS to complete timely investigations into c
omplaints regarding alcohol or drug treatment facilities. Complaints would have needed to be assigned to investigative analysts within 10 days of receiving them, and analysts would have needed to complete investigations within 60 days.
Media Engagement
As part of the advocacy to advance this bill package, Cal Cities actively engaged the media. This included coordinating a press conference w
ith a bipartisan group of
lawmakers, city officials, and a patient advocate at Santa Ana City Hall in May. The news conference centered on Cal Cities' four sponsored bills and called for greater oversight and transparency over alcohol and drug treatment facilities.
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he Orange County Register’s long-running Rehab Riviera s eries has continued to spotlight challenges and reforms in the recovery industry. This year, after chatting with Cal Cities, columnist Teri Sforza noted t
hat “the political heft of the League of California
Cities has helped push the reform agenda forward this session,” adding that the organization “has thrown its weight behind four bills, two of which are progressing toward the finish line.”
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California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Budget Bill California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Budget Bill
Background
The Legislature enacted significant notable policy changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) through the budget process this year with the passage of SB 131. This budget trailer bill included CEQA policy changes, among other topics, that took effect immediately. SB 131 includes changes regarding the scope of the administrative record under CEQA, new project-related CEQA exemptions, and focused environmental analyses under CEQA for otherwise exempted housing projects.
Scope of the Administrative Record for CEQA Litigation
This measure reiterates a broad category of “written materials” that must be included in the administrative record prepared for CEQA litigation. However, electronic internal agency communications (including emails) do not need to be included in the administrative record if they were not presented to the project’s final decision-making body.
New CEQA Exemptions
SB 131 includes new CEQA exemptions for specific project types, including:
• Housing element implementation, including any rezoning action that implements a local jurisdiction’s approved housing element. The CEQA exemption does not apply to a rezoning that would allow for the construction of a distribution center, oil and gas infrastructure, or construction that occurs within the boundaries of any natural or protected lands.
• New agricultural employee housing projects.
• Disadvantaged community drinking water and on-site sewage treatment–related projects that include specific labor requirements, funding criteria, and various sunset provisions.
• Linear broadband deployment in a right-of-way, including local street or road, where projects can be undertaken by a public or private entity or nonprofit corporation.
• Any activity or approval necessary for or incidental to planning, design, site acquisition, construction, operation, or maintenance of a public park or nonmotorized recreational trail facilities with specific funding sources. • Wildfire risk reduction activities that are in compliance with all other applicable laws, ordinances, and zoning requirements, including:
o Prescribed fire or fuel reduction projects to reduce wildfire risk by reestablishing the fire return interval appropriate to the ecosystem for biodiversity or other benefits, excluding projects located on coastal sage scrub habitat or any other sensitive habitat. In order to qualify for the CEQA exemption, all of the following requirements must be met:
T he project cannot exceed 50 contiguous acres and must be located within a half mile of a subdivision of 30 or more dwelling units.
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to avoid or minimize impacts to candidate, rare, threatened, or endangered plants and wildlife and to wildlife nursery sites, including nesting rookeries, spawning areas, fawning areas, and maternal roosts.
The lead agency must, to the extent feasible, design the project to avoid impacts to riparian areas and water quality through use of sediment and erosion control measures where there is ground disturbance for control lines.
The lead agency must identify and, to the extent feasible, protect tribal cultural resources that may be impacted by the project. This requirement may be met by reviewing existing records, including the California Historical Resources Information System and Sacred Lands Inventory, or by engaging in consultation with relevant California Native American tribes on identification of tribal cultural resources and appropriate mitigation measures while maintaining confidentiality of sensitive records.
o Defensible space fire clearance projects up to 100 feet, as measured from the center line of the roadway, for a public roadway identified as an egress and evacuation route for a subdivision or community of 30 or more dwelling units, to remove flammable vegetation or trees of less than 12 inches in diameter as measured at chest height.
o Projects consisting of the establishment or enhancement of residential home hardening or defensible space for wildfire risk reduction within 200 feet of a legal structure in a high or very high wildfire hazard zone. o Projects consisting of a fuel break that extends up to 200 feet from structures, including the clearance of flammable vegetation and trees less than 12 inches in diameter as measured at chest height. • Specific project types that are not on natural and protected lands, including:
o Projects that consist exclusively of a daycare center that is not located in a residential area, a rural health clinic or federal qualified health clinic that is 50,000 square feet or less in size, and a nonprofit food bank or food pantry if the project is on a site zoned exclusively for industrial uses. o Projects that consist exclusively of a facility for advanced manufacturing, as defined, if the project is on a site zoned exclusively for industrial uses. o Development, construction, or operation of a maintenance facility for electrically powered high-speed rail under certain conditions. o D evelopment, construction, or modification of a proposed passenger rail station, or design changes to a passenger rail station for the purpose of serving electrically powered high-speed rail under specific conditions.
Focused Environmental Effects for Exempted Housing Projects SB 131 specifies that if a proposed housing development project would otherwise be exempt from CEQA (pursuant to specific existing statutory or categorical exemptions) but for a single condition, an initial study or environmental impact report is only required to examine the effects caused by the single condition. With certain enumerated Attachment 7
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exceptions, such environmental impact reports are not required to include a discussion of alternatives or growth-inducing impacts of the housing development project.
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Cap-and-Invest Program Reauthorization
Cap-and-Invest Program Reauthorization
Background
The Legislature took action to reauthorize the Cap-and-Invest Program by passing AB 1207 (Irwin), related to structural changes to the program, including extending it from 2030 to 2045, and SB 840 (Limón), related to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). As part of the reauthorization, the program is renamed from Cap-and-Trade to Cap-and-Invest Program.
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
SB 840 includes the Legislature’s intent to direct specific percentages of the revenues generated through the Cap-and-Invest Program into the GGRF. Cities, along with other interested parties, are eligible entities that can apply to various state programs where GGRF funding is dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the following areas: clean transportation, housing and community investment, clean air and water, wildfire prevention and resilience, agriculture, clean energy, and climate-focused innovation.o
SB 840 provides a framework for funding distribution that takes effect beginning in the 2026–27 fiscal year. The framework includes three tiers and any future appropriation is contingent upon how much money is available in the GGRF:
• Tier 1 reserves allot approximately $500 million to offset the homeowner fire prevention fees in the state responsibility areas, approximately $150 million for manufacturing product credits, and $3 million for the Legislative Counsel Climate Bureau.
• Tier 2 reserves allot funding for the following priorities:
o $1 billion high-speed rail
o $1 billion discretionary funding for the Legislature to allocate as part of the annual budget
• Tier 3 reserves, after Tiers 1 and 2 are fully allocated, direct the remaining money (for a total of $1.9 million) to be continuously appropriated as follows:
o $800 million for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program
o $400 million for the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program o $250 million for community air protection programs and for financial incentives to reduce mobile and stationary sources of criteria air pollutants or toxic air contaminants
o $200 million for the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program o $200 million for Cal Fire for healthy forest and fire prevention programs o $130 million to the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund
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SB 707 (Durazo) Ralph M. Brown Act Update
SB 707 (Durazo) Ralph M. Brown Act Update
On Oct. 3, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 707 (Durazo), a dramatic overhaul of local government meeting requirements, into law. Although this measure incorporates language from Cal Cities–sponsored legislation and is aimed at improving transparency and public engagement, it also creates significant operational, fiscal, and legal challenges for cities. Among other provisions, SB 707 adds new remote public comment, translation, and outreach requirements; creates new exemptions from certain teleconferencing rules; and extends several sunsetting Brown Act laws.
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any of this measure’s mandates apply unevenly across cities and will generate substantial new costs for audiovisual equipment, translation services, and staff time — all without reimbursement. Notably, the state itself remains exempt from many of the same requirements it is imposing on local governments.
Below is a summary of this measure:
Note: SB 707 is nuanced and highly fact-specific. Moreover, many of the obligations imposed by the law will likely be difficult to implement. Ultimately, agencies should not assume that their current Brown Act protocols will satisfy all of SB 707’s requirements.
This document does not constitute legal advice. For specific analysis, guidance on compliance, and impacts on your specific agency, please consult with your city attorney.
“Eligible Legislative Bodies” Defined
While SB 707 generally applies to all cities, certain portions only apply to newly coined “eligible legislative bodies,” which include the following:
• A city council of a city with a population of 30,000 or more • A city council of a city located in a county with a population of 600,000 or more
Beginning July 1, 2026, eligible legislative bodies will need to meet additional requirements under the Brown Act, as described below.
Information on general Brown Act changes begins in the section titled Alternative Teleconferencing Rules.
Remote Public Comments
An eligible legislative body must provide the public with a way to attend meetings and comment via a “two-way telephonic” or “two-way audiovisual platform.”
This measure describes a two-way telephonic service as one “that does not require internet access and allows participants to dial a telephone number to listen and verbally participate.” A two-way audiovisual platform is defined as an “online platform that provides participants with the ability to participate in a meeting via both an interactive video conference and a two-way telephonic service.”
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Internet Service Interruptions
An eligible legislative body must adopt, at a noticed public meeting in open session (not on consent), a policy on disruptions to telephonic or Internet service. The policy must include the following:
• If a disruption prevents public participation through two-way telephonic or audiovisual platforms, the body shall recess open session for at least one hour and attempt in “good faith” to restore service.
• The body may meet in closed session during the recess. • Open session may not reconvene until at least one hour has passed or service is restored, whichever comes first.
• If service is not restored, the body may resume only after adopting, by roll call vote, a finding that good faith efforts were made and that continuing the meeting outweighs the public’s interest in remote access.
Reasonable Translation Assistance
An eligible legislative body shall “reasonably assist” members of the public who wish to translate a public meeting into any language or wish to receive an interpretation provided by another member of the public, so long as it does not disrupt the meeting.
An eligible legislative body shall publicize how to request assistance. Assistance may include any of the following, as determined by the eligible legislative body:
• Arranging space for one or more interpreters at the meeting location • Allowing extra time during the meeting for interpretation to occur • Ensuring participants may utilize their personal equipment or reasonably access facilities for participants to access commercially available interpretation services
This section does not actually require an eligible legislative body to provide interpretation services itself. Nor is the eligible legislative body responsible for the content or accuracy of any interpretation facilitated, assisted with, or provided.
This measure does not define what “reasonable” means.
City-Provided Agenda Translations
The agenda for each meeting of an eligible legislative body shall be translated into all “applicable languages.” Each translation shall include instructions in the applicable language describing how to join the meeting by the telephonic or Internet-based service option, including any requirements for registering public comment.
The accessible Internet web page shall be translated into all applicable languages.
Each translation shall be accessible through a prominent direct link posted on the primary website home page of the eligible legislative body.
A translation made using a digital translation service shall satisfy the requirements. The bill expressly states that the agenda translation requirement does not apply to the entire agenda packet.
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Applicable Languages Defined
For purposes of this bill, “applicable languages” means languages, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent American Community Survey, spoken jointly by 20% or more of the city’s population, provided that 20% or more of the population that speaks that language speaks English less than “very well.”
For cities, the applicable population shall be determined pursuant to data from the U.S.
Census Bureau’s most recent American Community Survey:
• For an eligible legislative body, the applicable population shall be the population of the city.
• If more than three languages meet the criteria, “applicable languages” shall mean the three languages that are spoken by the largest percentage of the population. • An eligible legislative body may determine the applicable languages based upon a source other than the most recent American Community Survey if it makes a finding, based upon substantial evidence, that the other source provides equally or more reliable data for the territory over which the eligible legislative body exercises jurisdiction.
Local Outreach
An eligible legislative body must take the following steps to encourage public participation in meetings:
• Provide a system to electronically accept and fulfill agenda requests (via email or an agenda management platform), with a prominent link on the body’s home page
• Maintain a dedicated, accessible web page for public meetings that includes or links to:
o A general explanation of the meeting process
o Instructions for submitting oral (in-person or remote) or written public comment
o A calendar with the date, time, and location of each meeting o Posted agendas
o A link to this web page from the body’s home page
• Make reasonable efforts to invite groups that do not traditionally participate in meetings
No legal action may be brought against the body for failing to provide information to a specific group.
Physical Public Posting Location
An eligible legislative body shall make available a physical location that is freely accessible to the public in reasonable proximity to the physical location where council agendas and translations are posted. Members of the public must be allowed to post additional translations of the council agenda in that location.
An eligible legislative body is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any translation provided pursuant to this subdivision.
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The measure also states that no action shall be commenced or maintained against an eligible legislative body arising from the content, accuracy, posting, or removal of any translation provided by the eligible legislative body or posted by any person pursuant to this subdivision.
The following section is on general amendments to the Brown Act that are applicable to all cities, not only “eligible legislative bodies.”
Alternative Teleconferencing Rules
SB 707 extends the existing AB 2449 alternative teleconferencing provisions until Jan. 1, 2030. AB 2449 authorizes limited remote participation from undisclosed locations due to “just cause” and “emergency circumstances.” As related to AB 2449, it also permits the following:
• Allows members with certain military service obligations that result in them being unable to attend in person to use this provision.
• R emoves the requirement for the legislative body to approve each instance a member wants to participate remotely for “emergency circumstances,” and applies the same rules for participating remotely for “just cause” to “emergency circumstances.”
• R equires that the minutes for the meeting identify the specific provision that each member relied upon to participate remotely. This subdivision shall not be construed to require the member to disclose any medical diagnosis, disability, or any personal medical information that is otherwise exempt under existing law.
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dditionally, the measure confirms that members of legislative bodies with physical or mental disabilities may participate remotely per the Americans with Disabilities Act, with their participation counting toward any applicable in-person quorum requirements.
Subsidiary (Advisory) Bodies
Alternative teleconferencing is authorized for an “eligible subsidiary body” defined as one that:
• Serves exclusively in an advisory role
• Cannot take final action on legislation, regulations, contracts, licenses, permits, entitlements, grants, or fund allocations
• Does not have primary subject matter jurisdiction over elections, budgets, police oversight, privacy, restricting access to library materials, taxes, or related spending proposals
These bodies may include elected officials, nonelected officials, or both.
An eligible subsidiary body may request to present recommendations to its legislative body, which must hold a discussion at a regular meeting within 60 days (or the next regular meeting). This discussion cannot be on consent but may be combined with the legislative body’s subsequent findings for the next 12 months.
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A legislative body may not act on recommendations until the meeting following the discussion.
To use teleconferencing pursuant to this section, the legislative body that established the eligible subsidiary body must make specific findings by majority vote. The legislative body that created the eligible subsidiary body may prohibit the eligible subsidiary body from using teleconferencing pursuant to this section at any time.
Multijurisdictional Bodies Teleconferencing
Alternative teleconferencing for an eligible multijurisdictional body is authorized if a member participates remotely only when their location is more than 20 miles each way from the meeting location and the member receives no compensation other than reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses.
Neighborhood Councils Teleconferencing
An eligible neighborhood council may conduct a teleconference meeting if it complies with specific requirements.
Emergency Teleconferencing
Teleconferencing flexibility is expanded during state-declared emergencies to include local emergencies.
Social Media Usage
Existing law allows members to engage in separate conversations or communications outside of a meeting using social media for specified purposes, provided, among other things, that a majority of the members do not use the platform to discuss business of a specific nature that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. This bill makes this exception indefinite.
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Bombing
Existing law authorizes the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting or their designee to remove an individual for disrupting the meeting. This measure specifies that these rules are also applicable to any teleconferenced meeting.
Open Meeting Compensation Discussions
Existing law requires legislative bodies to provide oral summaries of compensation r
ecommendations for certain employees before taking final action. This measure adds department heads to that requirement.
Agendizing Items Previously Considered by Committee
Existing law specifies that an agenda is not required to provide an opportunity for members of the public to address the legislative body on any item that has already been considered by a committee composed of members of the legislative body.
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item; a quorum of the committee members did not originally participate; or the committee has primary subject matter jurisdiction on elections, budgets, police oversight, privacy, removing from, or restricting access to, materials available in public libraries, taxes, or related spending proposals.
Copy of the Brown Act
An agency must provide a copy of the Brown Act to any person elected or appointed to serve as a member of a legislative body of the local agency.
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s explainer is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice. Please contact your city attorney for guidance specific to your jurisdiction.
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AB 130 Housing Budget Bill
AB 130 Housing Budget Bill
Background
The Legislature enacted significant notable housing policy changes through the budget process this year, including exempting specific infill development projects from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and placing a six-year moratorium on new building codes not related to health and safety issues. The housing budget bill this year also included a variety of other notable changes to housing policy, which are discussed below.
Housing
This measure:
• Applies the Permit Streamlining Act to housing projects that qualify for ministerial review and requires approval or disapproval within 60 days of receiving a completed application
• Requires local jurisdictions to include in their annual progress reports to HCD data about the number of applications submitted, the location and number of developments approved, and the total number of building permits required by the Affordable Housing on Faith and Higher Education Lands Act • Makes permanent portions of the Housing Accountability Act (HAA) and Housing Crisis Act that would have expired on Jan. 1, 2030:
o What constitutes a complete “preliminary application” o The definition of objective standards under the HAA
o Prohibiting more than five public hearings for a housing development project that complies with all objective general plan and zoning standards o Requiring local governments to determine if a proposed project is located on a historic site at the time an application is deemed complete • Requires a COG’s methodology for allocating the regional housing need to be approved by HCD
CEQA
This measure made the following relevant changes:
• Provides a new CEQA exemption for a housing development project with two- thirds of the project designated to residential if it meets the following conditions:
o The size is not more than 20 acres or is a builder’s remedy project on a site of less than five acres.
o The project site is located in a U.S. Census Bureau–defined urban area. o The project site has been previously developed with an “urban use,” defined as “any current or previous residential or commercial development, public institution, or public park that is surrounded by other urban uses, parking lot or structure, transit or transportation passenger facility, or retail use, or any combination of those uses.” o At least 75% of the perimeter of the site adjoins parcels that are developed with urban uses.
o At least 75% of the area within a quarter-mile radius of the site is developed with urban uses.
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o For sites with four sides, at least three out of four sides are developed with urban uses, and at least two-thirds of the perimeter of the site adjoins parcels that are developed with urban uses.
o The project must be consistent with applicable general plan and zoning ordinances and local coastal programs.
o The project must be at least one-half of the density specified in a housing element to accommodate lower-income households.
o The project is not located in coastal protected areas, areas vulnerable to sea level rise, on prime agricultural land, on wetlands, within a very high fire hazard severity zone, on a hazardous waste site, in a delineated earthquake fault zone, in a special flood hazard area, or on lands identified for conservation.
o The project must not require the demolition of a historic structure that was placed on a national, state, or local historic register before the SB 330 preliminary application was filed for the project
o No portion of the project can be designated for use as a hotel, motel, bed- and-breakfast, or other transient lodging.
• The following apply to a housing project that qualifies for the new exemption:
o Local governments are required to engage in tribal consultation. o The project proponent must complete a Phase I Environmental Assessment. o Housing within 500 feet of a freeway must comply with requirements regarding centralized heating and air-conditioning, ventilation, and air filtration and may not have balconies facing the freeway.
o Specific labor requirements must be met for certain projects, including prevailing wage for 100% lower-income projects and skilled and trained workforce for buildings over 85 feet in height.
California Coastal Commission
Notable changes are as follows:
• Subjects the CCC, when acting as a responsible agency under CEQA, to Permit Streamlining Act deadlines
• Exempts multifamily housing projects of four or more units that are exclusively residential from being appealed to the CCC if the project is located in a “sensitive coastal resource area” and the project was approved by a “coastal county” where the principal permitted use in the underlying zoning is nonresidential • Requires the CCC to submit an annual report regarding the length of processing time for residential development projects
Building Code Moratorium
The measure:
• Prohibits the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) and local agencies from October 1, 2025, until June 1, 2031, from adopting any new building standards for residential projects except in specific circumstances:
o Necessary emergency standards to protect health and safety as determined by the CBSC
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o Building standards related to home hardening and proposed by the Office of the State Fire Marshal
o Building standards around single-exit, single-stairway apartment houses o Building standards around adaptive reuse projects, reducing potable water in new residential buildings, or risk-based water-quality standards for the on-site treatment and reuse of non-potable water for certain residential buildings
o Necessary standards to comply with the latest edition of the model codes for the California Building Standards Code
o Necessary standards to update accessibility requirements that align with federal accessibility laws, standards, and regulations
• Prohibits local agencies from October 1, 2025, until June 1, 2031, from adopting or modifying green building standards in residential projects or adopting standards based upon local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions unless the changes meet any of the following conditions:
o A local agency previously filed the changes or modifications, and they were in effect before Sept.20, 2025.
o The CBSC deems the changes as necessary to protect health and safety. o The changes or modifications relate to home hardening. o The building standards relate to home hardening and are proposed for adoption by a fire protection district.
o The changes are necessary to implement a local code amendment to align with a general plan approved on or before June 10, 2025, and permit mixed-fuel construction consistent with federal law while also incentivizing all-electric construction as part of an adopted greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategy.
o The changes or modifications are related to specific administrative practices.
Homelessness
The following changes will impact local governments:
• This measure requires local agencies to perform annual inspections of every homeless shelter in their jurisdiction and ensure that the shelter complies with existing laws.
o Cities are required to conduct the inspection of shelters within the city’s jurisdiction.
o Counties are required to conduct the inspection of shelters within the county’s jurisdiction.
o Cities with populations under 100,000 can partner with the county to conduct the inspection.
• Existing law requires cities and counties to submit an annual report to HCD with specified information about complaints of substandard housing claims in homeless shelters. This measure requires cities and counties to include the total number of habitability complaints they received about homeless shelters in their Attachment 7
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comm, regardless if none were received, and to report on any pending uncorrected violations.
• Failure to report this information will result in HCD withholding state funding from the local agency.
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SB 79 Housing Development: Transit-Oriented Development SB 79: Housing Development: Transit-Oriented Development
Background
One of the top housing bill fights this year in Sacramento was SB 79 (Wiener), which requires high-density residential development near specific transit stops; imposes height, density, and floor area ratio standards on transit-oriented development (TOD); grants transit agencies authority to adopt development standards on land they own; and provides local governments limited opportunity to adopt an “alternative transit-oriented development plan” with approval from the Department of Housing and Community Development . This measure was amended 13 times as it progressed through the legislative process, and as a result, it can be confusing to keep track of what is expected from local governments beginning July 1, 2026.
SB 79 Applies to the Following
This measure only applies to cities in the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Sacramento, and San Diego.
Additionally, in cities located in these counties with a population of 35,000 or less, the measure’s zoning standards will only apply within a quarter mile of the transit stop.
Cities not located in these counties are exempt from the bill’s requirements. For new transit stops or extensions, projects must be identified in a regional transportation plan on or before January 1, 2026 to qualify for SB 79 unless they would be eligible as a Tier 1 stop.
SB 79 Does the Following
This measure requires local governments located in urban transit counties, defined as “a county with more than 15 passenger rail stations,” to consider a residential development an allowed use if it is within a half-mile radius or a quarter-mile radius of a transit-oriented development stop; meets the density, height, floor area ratio, and inclusionary standards in SB 79; and is in on property zoned for residential, commercial, or mixed-use developments. Different standards apply depending on the distance from a stop (half mile or quarter mile) and the type of stop (Tier 1 or Tier 2).
SB 79 does not require ministerial approval unless the project qualifies for the streamlined ministerial approval process under SB 35 (2017) and SB 423 (2023).
By July 1, 2026, HCD must adopt standards on how to allow for the residential capacity required by SB 79 to be counted in a city’s housing element inventory of land.
What Transit Qualifies?
Tier 1 TOD Stop:
• Heavy-rail transit: A public electric railway line with the capacity for a heavy volume of traffic using high-speed and rapid-acceleration passenger rail cars operating singly or in multicar trains on fixed rails, separate rights-of-way from which all other vehicular and foot traffic are excluded, high platform loading, and not including high-speed rail.
• Very high-frequency commuter rail: A commuter rail service with a total of at least 72 trains per day in both directions at any point in the last three years. ○ Examples: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), LA Metro Rail, Caltrain Attachment 7
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Tier 2 TOD Stop:
• Light-rail transit: Streetcar, trolley, and tramway services not including airport people movers.
o Examples: Sacramento Regional Transit, San Diego Trolley, LA Metro A and E lines, Orange County Streetcar
• High-frequency commuter rail: A commuter rail operating a total of at least 48 trains per day across both directions in the last three years that do not meet the very high-frequency commuter rail definition.
o Examples: Metrolink
• Bus service with a designated bus lane or operation in a separate right-of-way dedicated to public transportation with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods. o Examples: SF Muni, LA Metro G Line, Big Blue Bus System, Alameda Transit Buses.
Concessions:
• Developments for extremely low-income households equals three additional density bonus law (DBL) concessions.
• Developments for very low-income housing equals two additional DBL concessions
• Developments for low-income households equals one additional DBL concession.
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When Do Transit Agencies Have the Authority to Set Development Standards? This measure grants authority to transit agencies to establish development standards, including height limits, density requirements, and residential floor area ratios, on two types of agency-owned parcels: parcels adjacent to a transit-oriented development stop that the agency provides service to, and a parcel within a project area at least 75% of which is located within a half mile of a transit-oriented development stop that the transit agency provides service to or plans to provide service to and was owned by the agency before Jan. 1, 2026. All these projects must meet all the following requirements:
• At least 50% of the square footage is dedicated to residential purposes. • At least 20% of the total number of units are restricted for affordable lower- income households for at least 55 years if the units are rentals or 45 years if they are owner-occupied.
• The total floor area must be less than 1,750 square feet. • The parcel is in an infill site.
• The parcels were not acquired through eminent domain on or after July 1, 2025.
Cities and counties may adopt objective written development standards, conditions, and policies that apply to development on transit agency-owned property provided they are consistent with the agency-adopted standards.
Affordability Requirements and Displacement Regulations All SB 79 projects must meet specific affordability requirements for projects with 10 or more units. If a local agency has an inclusionary zoning policy with more affordable units than the required units in SB 79, those policies will take precedence. If a local agency does not have an inclusionary zoning policy, all SB 79 projects must provide one of the following requirements:
• At least 7% of the units for extremely low-income (ELI) households. • At least 10% of the units for very low-income (VLI) households. • At least 13% of the units for low-income households.
• All units dedicated to ELI, VLI, and low-income households must ensure continued affordability for 45 years if the units are provided for homeownership or 55 years if the units are provided as rentals.
This measure will prohibit developers from using SB 79 if the project requires the demolition of housing with two or more units that were rent-controlled or price controlled in the last seven years, or if a site was rent-controlled in the last seven years and previously demolished.
Understanding the Local Alternative Transit-oriented Development Plan This measure provides local agencies with the option to establish an alternative plan, subject to approval from HCD, that maintains the same capacity in terms of both total units and residential floor area as required by SB 79. Local governments have two options. Beginning in the 7th RHNA Cycle, a local government can either conduct an additional analysis in its housing element to demonstrate how its plan will meet the total zoned capacity in terms of units and floor area ratios required by SB 79 or adopt an Attachment 7
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ordinance to comply with the requirements HCD is tasked with establishing for SB 79 projects by July 1, 2026. Both will require approval from HCD.
However, local agencies are limited in their ability to reduce density, as the measure does not allow a local government to reduce the density by more than 50% unless the sites are in a very high fire hazard severity zone, are vulnerable to a foot of sea level rise, or are situated in historic resource-designated areas on the local register. To qualify, the local government must implement the alternative plan and obtain approval from HCD that the plan meets the guidelines established by the department in July 2026.
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2025 Wildfires – Legislative and Administrative Actions 2025 Wildfires – Legislative and Administrative Actions
On Jan. 7, 2025, a series of fires broke out in Los Angeles County during a 100-miles- per-hour wind event. The biggest of those wildfires, Eaton and Palisades, lasted until Jan. 31, 2025, and resulted in 40,000 total acres burned, 16,253 structures destroyed, and 2,074 structures damaged. During this emergency, many cities responded by providing mutual aid and other resources. In fact, 130 cities provided a total of 986 fire engines to help combat the wildfires.
After the devastating wildfires in Jan. 2025, the Legislature and the Governor responded by providing emergency funding in Jan. and by introducing approximately 100 bills to try and address some of the issues, including disaster response, emergency preparedness, financial assistance, home insurance, wildfire prevention, and home hardening.
The Governor also responded with over 22 executive orders on a variety of subjects, including additional resources, banning evictions, fast-track housing permits, and various wildfire prevention issues. In March 2025, the Governor issued an executive order to fast-track the Zone 0 regulations pending at the Board of Forestry.
Budget Action
Early in Jan., the Legislature passed two budget trailer bills providing emergency funding to various state agencies to address the response and recovery conducted by the state.
ABX1 4 (
Gabriel) Budget Act of 2024.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This Budget Bill Junior amends the 2024 Budget Act to appropriate up to $1.5 billion for use in accordance with allowable uses of the Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account in areas of the state affected by wildfire states of emergency that were declared by the Governor in Jan. 2025.
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X1 3 (Wiener) B udget Act of 2024.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This Budget Bill Junior amends the 2024 Budget Act to authorize emergency expenditure authority related to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. More specifically, this measure appropriates up to $1 billion for use in accordance with allowable uses of the Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account, $4 million for local government grants to provide additional planning review and building inspection resources for expediting approvals of homeowner rebuilding, and $1 million to assist school districts and charter schools.
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n July, the Legislature also passed AB 130, w hich made changes to building standards requirements.
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Insurance Response
The California Department of Insurance finalized the catastrophe modeling regulations in early Jan. 2025, which made significant changes to the provision of insurance and reinsurance. These changes are intended to stabilize the market and lure more companies back to California.
Zone 0 Regulations
Since March, the Board of Forestry has been working on draft regulations f or Zone 0, which is the critical five feet around a home or structure that, if cleared of combustible materials, could prevent houses from burning during an urban conflagration. These regulations are the result of legislation that passed in 2020, AB 3074, which required the Department of Forestry to draft regulations for Zone 0.
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t the direction of Governor Newsom, the Board of Forestry has published draft regulations, and it has held eight public workshops with several hours of comments from the public discussing the proposed regulations. While the intention was to adopt these by June 2025, the number of public comments and concerns raised by many residents, including survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fires, have delayed this effort. The goal is still to adopt regulations by the beginning of 2026.
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t is important to note that Zone 0 would only impact those communities in a very high fire severity zone and would apply immediately upon adoption to new construction and in three years for existing structures.
The draft regulations would prohibit the following in the surrounding five feet of a home:
• Outbuildings
• Wooden fences and gates
• Vegetation
• Tree branches, with exceptions for protected trees
• Combustible landscaping materials; potted plants directly next to the structure
Currently, the Board of Forestry is still conducting stakeholder meetings and finalizing the regulations.
Key Legislation
At the conclusion of the legislative session, 40 measures were enacted by the Legislature and signed by the Governor. These include priority legislation that was supported by Cal Cities.
Crime
*AB 468 ( Gabriel) Crimes: Looting.
Chapter 533, Statutes of 2025
This measure increases penalties for looting in an evacuation zone to between two and seven years, depending on the offense.
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*SB 571 ( Archuleta) Emergencies: Crimes.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2025
This measure authorizes the court to consider the fact, if pled and proven, that the defendant committed the crime of looting while impersonating emergency personnel as a factor in aggravation.
Financial Relief
*AB 245 ( Gipson) Property Taxation: Application of Base Year Value: Disaster Relief.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This measure extends the five-year time period by three years for rebuilding a property without an owner’s property taxes increasing if the property was substantially damaged or destroyed by the 2025 Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Hurst Fire, Lidia Fire, Sunset Fire, or Woodley Fire on or after Jan. 7, 2025, but before Feb. 1, 2025.
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B 293 ( Pérez) Real Property Tax: Transfer of Base Year Value: Generational Transfers: Wildfire.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2025
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his measure extends the deadline for taxpayers to retroactively apply a Proposition 58, 193, or 19 intergenerational transfer from six months to three years if that property was damaged or destroyed by the 2025 Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Hurst Fire, Lidia Fire, Sunset Fire, or Woodley Fire, for which the Governor proclaimed a state of emergency.
*SB 663 (
Allen) Winter Fires of 2025: Real Property Tax: Exemptions and Reassessment.
Chapter 549, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This measure, in part, extends the five-year time period to transfer the base year value of a property to a comparable replacement property within the same county by three years if the property was substantially damaged or destroyed by the 2025 Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Hurst Fire, Lidia Fire, Sunset Fire, or Woodley Fire, or the 2024 Mountain Fire or Franklin Fire, on or after Nov. 1, 2024, but before Feb. 1, 2025.
Fire Insurance
*AB 1 ( Connolly) Residential Property Insurance: Wildfire Risk.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires the California Department of Insurance to include wildfire mitigation in the next draft of its catastrophe modeling regulations.
*AB 226 (
Calderon) California Fair Plan Association.
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the California Fair Plan Association, if granted prior approval from the Insurance Commissioner, to request the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue bonds and authorizes the bank to issue those bonds to finance the costs of claims.
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*AB 1339 ( González, Mark) Department of Insurance: Housing Insurance Study.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires the CDI, upon appropriation and in consultation with specified entities and affordable housing entities, to conduct a study of the property, liability, and builders’ risk insurance coverages available to affordable housing entities.
Housing and Economic Development
*AB 238 ( Harabedian) Mortgage Forbearance: State of Emergency: Wildfire.
Chapter 128, Statutes of 2025(Urgency)
This measure requires a mortgage service provider to offer a 12-month payment pause for borrowers experiencing financial hardship due to the Jan. 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
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38 ( Solache) Workforce Development: the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura: 2025 Wildfires.
Chapter 532, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This measure requires the California Workforce Development Board to provide funding to the Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity for workforce strategies to ensure that a skilled and sufficient workforce is available for the rebuilding and recovery of areas in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties impacted by the 2025 wildfires.
*AB 851 (
McKinnor) Real Property Transactions: Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura Wildfires: Unsolicited Offers.
Chapter 535, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This measure prohibits buyers from making unsolicited offers on residential properties in zip codes affected by the Los Angeles wildfires until Jan. 1, 2027.
Wildfire Mitigation and Defensible Spac
e
*AB 888 ( Calderon) California Safe Homes Grant Program.
Chapter 536, Statutes of 2025
This measure establishes the California Safe Homes grant program to be developed by the CDI to reduce local and statewide wildfire losses through grants for home hardening. The measure requires the CDI to prioritize those in a very high fire severity hazard zone when awarding grant funds. Additionally, this measure requires eligible program applicants, which include individuals, cities, counties, and special districts, to meet specified criteria.
*A
B 1455 ( Bryan) State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection: Defensible Space Requirements: Ember-resistant Zones: Emergency Regulations: California Environmental Quality Act.
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2025 (Urgency)
This measure requires the Board of Forestry (BOF) to adopt regulations to implement Zone 0 defensible space regulations in the state responsibility area and very high fire hazard severity zones in the local responsibility areas. This measure also authorizes the BOF to adopt these regulations as emergency regulations.
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2025 Wildfires – Legislative and Administrative Actions League of California Cities 2025 Legislative Report
*SB 653 ( Cortese) Wildfire Prevention: Environmentally Sensitive Vegetation Management.
Chapter 778, Statutes of 2025
This measure defines an environmentally sensitive vegetation management project to mean vegetation management that reduces catastrophic wildfire risk over the long term while supporting native wildlife and biodiversity.
*S
B 676 ( Limón) California Environmental Quality Act: Judicial Streamlining:
State of Emergency: Wildfire.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2025
This measure requires, on and after Jan. 1, 2027, a project whose intent is to maintain, repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or facilities damaged or destroyed by wildfire, located in a geographic area for which the Governor declared a state of emergency on or after Jan. 1, 2023, and the project is not otherwise exempt from CEQA, that the project be consistent with any applicable zoning and land-use ordinances. This measure requires the lead agency to prepare the record of proceeding for such projects concurrently with the administrative record under CEQA and consistent with existing law, and the lead agency may charge and collect a reasonable fee from the applicant who is requesting the concurrent preparation of the record of proceeding, thereby recovering all of the costs associated with this requirement. This measure also requires an action or proceeding brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the certification of an environmental impact report, or the adoption of a negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration, for the project to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 270 calendar days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings. This measure requires an applicant to agree to pay the costs of the trial court and court of appeal in hearing and deciding any action or proceeding brought under these provisions. This measure requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules of court to implement these requirements.
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APPENDIX B – CAL CITIES
RESOURCES
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Legislative Staff
League of California Cities 2024 Legislative Report
Legislative Staff
Jason Rhine, Senior Director of Legislative Affairs
[email protected]
Meg Desmond, Associate Manager, Legislative Administration [email protected]
Caroline Grinder, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Community Services
[email protected]
Melissa Sparks-Kranz, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Environmental Quality
[email protected]
Johnnie Pina, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations
[email protected]
Brady Guertin, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist,
Housing, Community, and Economic Development
[email protected]
Jolena Voorhis, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Public Safety
[email protected]
Ben Triffo, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Revenue and Taxation
[email protected]
Damon Conklin, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Transportation, Communications, and Public Works
[email protected]
Waleed Hojeij, Policy and Legislative Affairs Analyst
[email protected]
Leila Romero, Policy and Legislative Affairs Analyst
[email protected]
Serena Scott, Policy and Legislative Affairs Analyst
[email protected]
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Regional Public Affairs Managers
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Regional Public Affairs Managers
Sr. Di r . of Public Affairs
Kristine Guerrero
Cell: (626) 716-0076
[email protected]
Central Valley
Marla Livengood
Cell: (209) 747-3734
[email protected]
Channel Counties
David Mullinax
Cell: (805) 797-3530
[email protected]
Desert Mountain;
Inland
Empire
Laura Varela
Cell: (909) 275-4110
[email protected]
East Bay
Samantha Caygill
Cell: (916) 402-7258
[email protected]
Peninsula
Montana Cruz
Cell: (415) 298-4940
[email protected]
Los Angeles County
Jennifer Quan
Cell: (626) 786-5142
[email protected]
Nicolas Cabeza
Cell:(562) 322-1861
[email protected]
Jeff Kiernan
Cell: (310) 630-7505
[email protected]
Monterey Bay
Deanna Sessums
Cell: (831) 915-8293
[email protected]
North Bay
Nancy Hall Bennett
Cell: (415) 302-2032
[email protected]
Orange County
Connor Medina
Cell: (949) 421-9898
[email protected]
Re
dwood Empire
Sara Sanders
Office: (916) 658-8243
Cell: (916) 548-9030
[email protected]
Riverside County
Jesse Ramirez
Cell: (951) 808-2448
[email protected]
Sacramento Valley
Charles Anderson
Cell: (916) 798-2231
[email protected]
San Diego County;
Imperial County
Catherine Hill
Office: (619) 295-8282
Cell: (619) 733-1751
[email protected]
South San Joaquin
Valley
Rajveer Rakkar
Cell: (559) 214-1849
[email protected]
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10 Tips for Cities Lobbying the California Legislature
League of California Cities 2024 Legislative Report
10 Tips for Cities Lobbying the California Legislature
1. Become engaged in the state level political process by appointing a legislative liaison within your city to track key legislation and work with your regional public affairs manager. Visit the Cal Cities regional division web page t o locate contact
information for your regional public affairs manager.
2. Use Cal Cities as a resource. Visit the Cal Cities advocacy page t o access Cal Cities priority bills, sample city support and opposition letters, legislative contacts, and our online bill search feature for tracking a bill’s progress.
3. Read and subscribe to the Cal Cities Advocate, Cal Cities’ weekly newsletter, to stay current on important legislation and stories.
4. Develop relationships with your Senate and Assembly representatives as well as their Capitol and district office staff. Make sure to look up who your local state elected official are.
5. Get to know members of your local press and educate them on legislative issues affecting your city.
6. Understand how state decisions impact your city’s budget by attending Cal Cities educational conferences, policy committee meetings, and regional division events.
7. Build networks and collaborate with other stakeholders in your community, including nonprofits, businesses, and your county counterparts on key legislative issues.
8. Organize an internal process within your city for developing and proposing changes to both state and federal laws that will help your city.
9. Adopt local policies on legislation that enable your city to react quickly to the legislative process and respond to Cal Cities action alerts.
10. Write letters on legislation featured in the Cal Cities Advocate. Sample city support and opposition letters can be found using the Cal Cities bill search feature and entering the bill number or bill author.
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Effective Letter Writing Techniques
League of California Cities 2024 Legislative Report
Effective Letter-Writing Techniques
1. Include the bill number, title, and your position in the subject line. Never bury the bill number and the action you want the legislator to take in the body of the letter.
2. One bill per letter. Legislators file letters according to the bill number.
3. State the facts. Describe the impact the bill would have on your city. Use “real world” facts. Legislators like to know how a bill would specifically affect cities in their districts. Cal Cities often provides a sample letter that includes space to describe local impacts. Take the time to provide such examples. This part of the letter is the most valuable to the legislator.
4. Think about the message. Letters may be targeted to specific legislators or entire committees. Think about who you want to act on the bill and message accordingly. If you are writing in support of transportation funding, emphasizing how the project will reduce greenhouse gases might be important to one legislator, while highlighting how the project could encourage additional development and jobs might be important to another. Both messages are correct, but your effectiveness will be in selecting the right message.
5. Check for amendments. Always check the Cal Cities bill search pa ge to make sure you are addressing issues in the latest draft. Bills are often significantly amended, and the issue you are writing about may have changed or have been deleted altogether by the time you send your letter.
6. Send follow-up letters to the appropriate legislative committees as a bill moves along. You can often use your original letter with some modifications. Visit the Cal Cities bill search web page to track the bill’s location. In addition, the Cal Cities Advocate features stories on key legislation.
7. Provide a contact. At the close of the letter, provide a contact person in case there are questions about the city’s position.
8. Know the committees on which your legislator serves. A legislator is likely to pay more attention to the bill positions of their constituents especially when it comes before his or her committee. At the committee level, this is even more important because your legislator has greater ability at this point in the legislative process to have the bill amended.
9. Copy the right people. Email a copy of the letter to your local state senator, assembly member, your Cal Cities regional public affairs manager, and Cal Cities.
10. Submit your letter to the California Legislature position letter portal. The portal automatically sends letters to the author’s office and the committee(s) of jurisdiction.
Please visit the legislative portal t
o create an account and upload the letter.
[letter on following page]
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Index of Chaptered Bills
AB 1 ................................................... 86 AB 5 ................................................... 45 AB 8 ................................................... 79 AB 14 ................................................. 33 AB 16 ................................................. 45 AB 17 ................................................. 45 AB 30 ............................................... 100 AB 36 ................................................. 59 AB 39 ................................................. 59 AB 43 ................................................. 40 AB 49 ................................................. 21 AB 56 ................................................. 21 AB 59 ................................................. 41 AB 64 ................................................. 51 AB 70 ................................................. 38 AB 87 ................................................. 59 AB 91 ................................................. 51 AB 94 ................................................. 45 AB 100 ........................................... 5, 30 AB 102 ................................................. 6 AB 104 ................................................. 6 AB 116 ................................................. 7 AB 118 ................................................. 7 AB 121 ................................................. 7 AB 123 ................................................. 7 AB 130 ................................................. 7 AB 134 ................................................. 7 AB 136 ................................................. 7 AB 137 ................................................. 8 AB 138 ................................................. 8 AB 143 ................................................. 8 AB 144 ................................................. 8 AB 149 ................................................. 8 AB 154 ................................................. 8 AB 223 ............................................... 80 AB 226 ............................................... 86 AB 233 ............................................... 78 AB 234 ............................................... 86 AB 238 ............................................... 70 AB 245 ............................................... 93 AB 246 ............................................... 72 AB 250 ............................................... 80 AB 251 ............................................... 13 AB 253 ............................................... 71 AB 258 ............................................... 95 AB 263 ............................................... 41 AB 287 ............................................... 45 AB 290 ............................................... 86 AB 293 ............................................... 41 AB 299 ............................................... 96 AB 301 ............................................... 60 AB 309 ............................................... 16 AB 310 ............................................... 25 AB 321 ............................................... 80 AB 330 ............................................... 96 AB 338 ............................................... 73 AB 339 ............................................... 49 AB 343 ............................................... 56 AB 344 ............................................... 78 AB 348 ............................................... 16 AB 349 ............................................... 21 AB 352 ............................................... 80 AB 354 ............................................... 89 AB 357 ............................................... 33 AB 359 ............................................... 53 AB 366 ............................................... 80 AB 367 ............................................... 41 AB 368 ............................................... 71 AB 369 ............................................... 84 AB 370 ............................................... 56 AB 377 ............................................. 100 AB 379 ............................................... 80 AB 382 ............................................. 100 AB 383 ............................................... 85 AB 390 ............................................. 100 AB 391 ............................................... 69 AB 394 ............................................... 81 AB 411 ............................................... 39 AB 414 ............................................... 72 AB 416 ............................................... 17 AB 417 ............................................... 74 AB 418 ............................................... 93 AB 424 ............................................... 17 AB 438 ............................................... 84 AB 439 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AB 450 ............................................... 13 AB 451 ............................................... 89 AB 456 ............................................... 69 AB 457 ............................................... 75 AB 462 ............................................... 68 AB 463 ............................................... 84 AB 468 ............................................... 81 AB 476 ............................................... 99 AB 478 ............................................... 14 AB 480 ............................................... 70 AB 486 ............................................... 81 AB 492 ............................................... 17 AB 493 ............................................... 86 AB 503 ............................................... 21 AB 506 ............................................... 15 AB 507 ............................................... 60 AB 509 ............................................... 78 AB 516 ............................................... 15 AB 518 ............................................... 96 AB 519 ............................................... 15 AB 523 ............................................... 42 AB 531 ............................................... 35 AB 535 ............................................... 81 AB 538 ............................................... 99 AB 542 ............................................... 74 AB 543 ............................................... 23 AB 544 ............................................. 101 AB 545 ............................................. 101 AB 553 ............................................... 17 AB 561 ............................................... 81 AB 563 ............................................... 21 AB 564 ............................................... 96 AB 571 ............................................... 28 AB 572 ............................................... 89 AB 573 ............................................... 27 AB 584 ............................................... 85 AB 592 ............................................... 78 AB 593 ............................................... 17 AB 610 ............................................... 60 AB 621 ............................................... 81 AB 628 ............................................... 71 AB 630 ............................................... 23 AB 639 ............................................... 42 AB 645 ............................................... 84 AB 648 ............................................... 60 AB 652 ............................................... 28 AB 653 ............................................... 81 AB 670 ............................................... 61 AB 671 ............................................... 76 AB 677 ............................................... 23 AB 678 ............................................... 24 AB 692 ............................................... 49 AB 709 ............................................... 42 AB 712 ............................................... 61 AB 720 ......................................... 39, 78 AB 726 ............................................... 62 AB 737 ............................................... 35 AB 749 ............................................... 25 AB 752 ............................................... 62 AB 753 ............................................... 22 AB 761 ............................................... 95 AB 764 ............................................... 42 AB 769 ............................................... 26 AB 789 ............................................... 53 AB 790 ............................................... 24 AB 798 ............................................... 22 AB 799 ............................................... 87 AB 806 ............................................... 70 AB 808 ............................................... 54 AB 812 ............................................... 87 AB 818 ............................................... 62 AB 822 ............................................... 91 AB 825 ............................................... 35 AB 827 ............................................... 45 AB 831 ............................................... 91 AB 841 ............................................. 107 AB 847 ......................................... 56, 89 AB 848 ............................................... 82 AB 851 ............................................... 75 AB 863 ............................................... 73 AB 867 ............................................... 15 AB 875 ............................................. 101 AB 888 ............................................... 88 AB 889 ............................................... 99 AB 893 ............................................... 62 AB 899 ............................................... 39 AB 900 ............................................... 33 AB 920 ............................................... 63 AB 930 ............................................... 46 AB 932 ............................................... 26 AB 940 ............................................... 74 AB 953 ............................................... 54 Attachment 7
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AB 961 ............................................... 39 AB 965 ............................................. 101 AB 978 ............................................. 102 AB 985 ............................................... 93 AB 987 ............................................. 102 AB 992 ......................................... 49, 90 AB 996 ............................................... 34 AB 1003 ............................................. 17 AB 1004 ............................................. 56 AB 1007 ............................................. 63 AB 1014 ........................................... 102 AB 1017 ............................................. 36 AB 1021 ............................................. 63 AB 1029 ............................................. 54 AB 1036 ............................................. 82 AB 1037 ............................................. 18 AB 1046 ............................................. 39 AB 1050 ............................................. 72 AB 1061 ............................................. 63 AB 1067 ............................................. 55 AB 1069 ............................................. 13 AB 1071 ............................................. 82 AB 1072 ............................................. 46 AB 1075 ............................................. 88 AB 1076 ............................................. 18 AB 1078 ............................................. 85 AB 1079 ............................................. 51 AB 1085 ........................................... 103 AB 1087 ............................................. 82 AB 1094 ............................................. 82 AB 1096 ............................................. 42 AB 1098 ............................................. 74 AB 1104 ............................................. 36 AB 1114 ........................................... 103 AB 1127 ............................................. 85 AB 1138 ............................................. 97 AB 1139 ............................................. 29 AB 1150 ............................................. 97 AB 1152 ............................................. 79 AB 1154 ............................................. 69 AB 1167 ............................................. 36 AB 1178 ....................................... 56, 90
AB 1181 ............................................. 88 AB 1207 ............................................. 31 AB 1239 ............................................. 91 AB 1246 ............................................. 79 AB 1249 ............................................. 46 AB 1250 ........................................... 103 AB 1263 ............................................. 85 AB 1269 ............................................. 92 AB 1272 ........................................... 103 AB 1275 ............................................. 64 AB 1280 ............................................. 36 AB 1285 ............................................. 37 AB 1286 ............................................. 54 AB 1293 ............................................. 57 AB 1299 ........................................... 103 AB 1303 ........................................... 107 AB 1308 ............................................. 72 AB 1319 ............................................. 43 AB 1339 ............................................. 87 AB 1356 ............................................. 18 AB 1363 ............................................. 82 AB 1388 ....................................... 56, 90
AB 1392 ............................................. 46 AB 1398 ............................................. 57 AB 1410 ........................................... 107 AB 1411 ............................................. 47 AB 1414 ............................................. 73 AB 1416 ............................................. 94 AB 1417 ............................................. 37 AB 1423 ........................................... 104 AB 1445 ............................................. 74 AB 1455 ............................................. 88 AB 1459 ............................................. 40 AB 1466 ............................................. 43 AB 1476 ............................................. 14 AB 1478 ............................................. 40 AB 1495 ............................................. 14 AB 1504 ............................................. 19 AB 1511 ............................................. 54 AB 1512 ............................................. 47 AB 1513 ............................................. 47 AB 1516 ............................................. 94 AB 1527 ............................................. 29 AB 1529 ............................................. 76 ABX1 4 ................................................. 5 ACA 8 ................................................ 47 SB 3 ................................................... 47 SB 9 ................................................... 69 SB 19 ................................................. 82 SB 21 ................................................. 64 Attachment 7
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SB 27 ................................................. 19 SB 31 ................................................. 43 SB 42 ................................................. 54 SB 57 ................................................. 37 SB 63 ................................................. 95 SB 71 ......................................... 29, 104 SB 72 ................................................. 43 SB 78 ............................................... 104 SB 79 ................................................. 65 SB 83 ................................................. 19 SB 86 ................................................. 95 SB 87 ................................................. 96 SB 92 ................................................. 65 SB 101 ................................................. 6 SB 103 ................................................. 6 SB 105 ........................................... 6, 31 SB 119 ................................................. 9 SB 120 ................................................. 9 SB 124 ................................................. 9 SB 127 ................................................. 9 SB 128 ......................................... 9, 104 SB 129 ................................................. 9 SB 131 ................................................. 9 SB 132 ................................................. 9 SB 139 ............................................... 10 SB 140 ............................................... 10 SB 141 ............................................... 10 SB 142 ............................................... 10 SB 146 ............................................... 10 SB 147 ............................................... 10 SB 148 ............................................... 10 SB 151 ............................................... 11 SB 153 ............................................... 11 SB 155 ............................................... 11 SB 156 ............................................... 11 SB 157 ............................................... 11 SB 158 ......................................... 11, 65 SB 159 ............................................... 12 SB 160 ............................................... 12 SB 161 ............................................... 12 SB 162 ............................................... 12 SB 221 ............................................... 83 SB 233 ............................................... 66 SB 245 ............................................... 83 SB 250 ............................................... 19 SB 254 ............................................. 107 SB 258 ............................................... 83 SB 262 ............................................... 66 SB 279 ............................................... 40 SB 280 ............................................... 48 SB 283 ............................................. 108 SB 293 ............................................... 94 SB 294 ............................................... 49 SB 301 ............................................... 55 SB 303 ............................................... 50 SB 304 ............................................... 75 SB 333 ............................................... 96 SB 338 ............................................... 20 SB 340 ............................................... 66 SB 345 ............................................... 88 SB 346 ............................................... 97 SB 352 ............................................... 31 SB 358 ............................................... 70 SB 364 ............................................. 104 SB 378 ............................................... 79 SB 385 ............................................... 90 SB 390 ............................................... 75 SB 392 ............................................... 26 SB 394 ............................................... 43 SB 395 ............................................... 79 SB 398 ............................................... 48 SB 400 ............................................... 52 SB 410 ............................................... 72 SB 415 ............................................... 28 SB 429 ............................................... 87 SB 443 ............................................... 55 SB 447 ............................................... 57 SB 451 ............................................... 92 SB 456 ............................................... 16 SB 459 ............................................... 50 SB 464 ............................................... 52 SB 466 ............................................... 44 SB 477 ............................................... 73 SB 480 ............................................. 105 SB 482 ............................................... 52 SB 484 ......................................... 34, 66 SB 486 ............................................... 67 SB 487 ............................................... 57 SB 489 ............................................... 77 SB 495 ............................................... 87 SB 499 ............................................... 71 SB 500 ............................................... 37 Attachment 7
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SB 507 ............................................... 67 SB 513 ............................................... 52 SB 514 ............................................... 89 SB 515 ............................................... 53 SB 521 ............................................... 50 SB 524 ......................................... 53, 90 SB 525 ............................................... 87 SB 533 ............................................. 105 SB 543 ............................................... 69 SB 544 ............................................. 105 SB 547 ............................................... 87 SB 567 ............................................... 37 SB 571 ............................................... 83 SB 580 ............................................... 90 SB 582 ............................................... 20 SB 590 ............................................... 50 SB 593 ............................................... 38 SB 595 ............................................... 97 SB 597 ............................................... 50 SB 602 ............................................... 16 SB 610 ............................................... 73 SB 611 ......................................... 29, 67 SB 614 ............................................... 32 SB 617 ............................................... 50 SB 621 ............................................... 48 SB 625 ............................................... 68 SB 627 ............................................... 91 SB 634 ............................................... 24 SB 638 ............................................... 24 SB 639 ............................................... 75 SB 642 ............................................... 51 SB 650 ............................................... 44 SB 653 ............................................... 32 SB 655 ............................................... 72 SB 660 ............................................... 85 SB 663 ............................................... 94 SB 671 ............................................. 105 SB 676 ............................................... 30 SB 680 ............................................... 83 SB 686 ............................................... 70 SB 693 ............................................... 51 SB 695 ............................................. 106 SB 697 ............................................... 44 SB 701 ............................................... 83 SB 704 ............................................... 86 SB 707 ............................................... 57 SB 710 ......................................... 38, 94 SB 711 ............................................... 98 SB 720 ............................................. 106 SB 727 ............................................... 34 SB 731 ............................................... 40 SB 733 ............................................... 83 SB 734 ............................................... 84 SB 748 ............................................... 25 SB 753 ............................................... 25 SB 760 ............................................... 55 SB 770 ............................................. 106 SB 777 ............................................... 77 SB 778 ............................................... 22 SB 782 ............................................... 98 SB 786 ............................................... 68 SB 792 ............................................... 22 SB 793 ............................................... 27 SB 800 ............................................. 106 SB 805 ............................................... 91 SB 808 ............................................... 77 SB 827 ............................................... 53 SB 831 ............................................... 32 SB 838 ............................................... 68 SB 839 ............................................... 35 SB 840 ............................................... 33 SB 847 ............................................... 58 SB 851 ............................................... 48 SB 852 ............................................... 48 SB 854 ............................................... 51 SB 856 ............................................... 35 SB 862 ............................................... 20 SB 863 ............................................... 94 SB 864 ............................................... 30 SBX1 1 ................................................. 5 SBX1 2 ................................................. 5 SBX1 3 ................................................. 5
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