Agenda — Twentynine Palms City Council, April 26, 2022 (part 1 of 4)

TWENTYNINE PALMS CITY COUNCIL

REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
6136 Adobe Road
Twentynine Palms, CA 92277
www.29palms.org
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the City Council will hold a Regular Meeting on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at City Hall, 6136 Adobe Road, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277 to consider the following:

REGULAR SESSION AGENDA
6:00 P.M.

CALL TO ORDER
Pledge of Allegiance.

Invocation - Rev. Donald Thursby, Little Church of the Desert.

Roll Call.

Closed Session Announcements.

Changes to the Agenda.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
These proceedings may be viewed on demand on the City of Twentynine Palms website at www.29palms.org.

You may also Live Stream this meeting by going on our website and clicking on the "Meeting Agendas" link.

AWARDS, PRESENTATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND PROCLAMATIONS

1. Presentation to the Twentynine Palms High School Girls' Softball Team, the Twentynine Palms High School Girls' Basketball Team and Rotary for their Participation in the Cash for Trash and Recycling Program.

2. Proclamation recognizing April 2022 Child Abuse Awareness Month Proclamation recognizing April 2022 Child Abuse Awareness Month 5 COUNCIL COMMENTS AND REPORTS OF MEETINGS ATTENDED

CONSENT CALENDAR
All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are to be considered routine by the City Council and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed. Any item may be removed from the Consent Calendar and considered separately by the City Council. The public will be given an opportunity to comment on Consent Calendar items prior to the City Council action.

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3. Waive the Reading of Ordinance and Approve the Reading by Title Only.

4. Approval of Minutes of the City Council Meeting Held on March 8, 2022 and March 21, 2022.

City Council - Regular Meeting - 08 Mar 2022 - Minutes - Pdf City Council - Special Meeting - 21 Mar 2022 - Minutes - Pdf 7 - 12

5. Approval of Project Phoenix Warrant Register Totaling $690,514.90.

Project Phoenix Warrant Register
13 6. Approval of Warrant Register Totaling $2,045,328.42 Warrant Register 042622
15 - 21

7. Appointment of City Treasurer
RECOMMENDATION: The City Council adopt Resolution No. 22-___ appointing the Finance Director as the City Treasurer.

Appointment of City Treasurer - Pdf
23 - 25

8. Morongo Basin Ambulance Report - March 2022.

Morongo Basin Ambulance Report - March 2022
27 9. Legislative Report - March 2022.

March 2022 Monthly Newsletter
March 2022 Legislative Matrix
State Legislative Update 3.14.22
Weekly Report March 2022
Housing March 2022
29 10. Design Contract Amendment for the Split Rock Avenue Bridge Project.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council approve Amendment #1 with Dokken Engineering, in the amount of $24,482.28 for Right-of-Way services, and approve the extension of time request to December 31, 2022.

Design Contract Amendment for the Split Rock Avenue Bridge Project. - Pdf 115 - 121

11. Single Audit Report on Federal Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-21.

RECOMMENDATION: City Council receive and file.

Single Audit Report on Federal Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-21. - Pdf 123 - 138

12. Acceptance of Construction for the Project Phoenix Sewer and Water Improvements.

RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that the City Council:

1. Accept the Project Phoenix Sewer and Water Improvements as completed for a total cost of $933,915.42;

2. Authorize Staff to record a Notice of Completion;

3. Approve the release of all withheld retention, $46,695.77, after thirty (30) days from the date of recordation;

4. Authorize the dedication of the water improvements to the Twentynine Palms Water District.

Acceptance of Construction for the Project Phoenix Sewer and Water Improvements. - Pdf 139 - 141

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ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION

PUBLIC HEARINGS

13. Development Impact Fee (DIF).

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council approve the Impact Fee Nexus Study.

Development Impact Fee (DIF). - Pdf
143 - 165

14. Adoption of the Downtown Specific Plan and Mitigated Negative Declaration.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council hold a Public Hearing, introduce Ordinance No.____ and approve Ordinance No._____ adopting the new Downtown Specific Plan and the associated Mitigate Negative Declaration.

Adoption of the Downtown Specific Plan and Mitigated Negative Declaration. - Pdf 167 - 449

DISCUSSION AND POTENTIAL ACTION ITEMS

15. Contract Code Enforcement for Weekend Coverage.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council approve an extension with Southwest Security to provide private security to enforce our local rules on Friday and Saturday evenings indefinitely for $35,100 annually.

Contract Code Enforcement for Weekend Coverage. - Pdf
451 - 499

16. City Sewer Project Engineering.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council approve the scope of services to complete the final design for Phase 1 (trunk and collection) along with Phase 2 trunk lines for furtherance of the City Sewer Project and authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a contract in the amount of $1,883,200 with NV5.

City Sewer Project Engineering. - Pdf
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FUTURE COUNCIL INITIATED ITEMS

1. Adding Sidewalk and picnic tables in Veterans' Park.

2. Shopping Carts.

3. Voting for Mayor as opposed to current selection process.

4. Seasonal banners throughout the City.

5. Solar Moratorium.

6. Expanding the coverage area of the Building Improvement Program.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
This is the time for the public to address the City Council on issues within the jurisdiction of the City Council that are NOT on this agenda. All comments are to be directed to the City Council and shall not consist of any personal attacks. Members of the public are expected to maintain a professional, courteous decorum during their comments. There is a time limitation of three minutes per person. If you haven’t already done so, please fill out name and address slips and give them to the City Clerk. The City Council is prohibited by State law from taking action or discussing items not included on the printed agenda. Public comments on specific agenda items will be deferred until consideration of the item on the agenda.

CITY MANAGER UPDATE

ADJOURNMENT
It is the intention of the City of Twentynine Palms to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act in all respects. If you are a person with a disability who requires a disability-related modification or accommodation in order to participate in a meeting, including auxiliary aids or services, please request such modification or accommodation from the City Clerk at (760) 367- 4890 (facsimile). Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to

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assure accessibility to the meeting. Please advise us at the time whether you will require accommodations to participate in meetings on a regular basis. Any person affected by any application on this agenda may submit their concerns in writing prior to the meeting or appear in person and be heard in support or opposition to the proposal at the time the matter is considered on the agenda. The staff reports, applications and environmental documents may be viewed at either the office of Community Development or the office of the City Clerk, 6136 Adobe Road, from 7:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, except legal holidays. The Invocation is given per Policy 10-01, and does not reflect the views of the City but rather is an expression of speech by a private citizen making the presentation. Telephone inquiries may be made at (760) 367-6799. If you challenge any agenda issue in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues that you or someone else raised at the public meeting described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Twentynine Palms at, or prior to, the public meeting.

This notice of agenda is hereby certified to have been posted on or before 6:00 p.m., April 21, 2022.

Cindy Villescas CMC, City Clerk Time/Date

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PROCLAMATION

OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF TWENTYNINE PALMS

CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AWARENESS MONTH
APRIL 2022
WHEREAS, the tragedy of child abuse and neglect affects every community in California and touches the lives of far too many citizens regardless of cultural, ethnic, religious or socioeconomic level; and
WHEREAS, the threat to our children’s welfare is demonstrated by steady increases in the number and in the seriousness of reported cases of child abuse and neglect; and WHEREAS, if our children are to be productive adults, they should have the right to a childhood free from neglect, physical abuse, sexual molestation and exploitation; and WHEREAS, it is recognized that primary prevention programs designed to work with children themselves, their parents, and care givers within the community are successful in preventing first time abuse situations; and
WHEREAS, early identification and intervention are essential to successfully interrupting the generational cycle of abuse and neglect. Collaboration among professionals, concerned parents, volunteers and policy makers can help reduce the level of child abuse and neglect in our communities; and
WHEREAS, dedicated volunteers and professionals are working to decrease the incidence of child abuse through prevention programs and coordination among agencies delivering services to child abuse victims and their families; and WHEREAS, the observance of Child Abuse Prevention Month provides an excellent opportunity for all citizens to reflect on this tragic crime, while rededicating themselves to taking an active role in the child abuse prevention activities in their communities.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Twentynine Palms, do hereby proclaim April 2022 as CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AWARENESS MONTH in the City of Twentynine Palms and encourages all residents to join with local community efforts in making sure that every child has the right to grow up in a stable, loving environment free from abuse and neglect.
“SAFE, STRONG AND FREE.”
Proclaimed this 26th day of April 2022
____________________________
Karmolette O’Gilvie, Mayor

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TWENTYNINE PALMS CITY COUNCIL

CITY COUNCIL - REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
City Hall, 6136 Adobe Road, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277
www.29palms.org
March 8, 2022
CALL TO ORDER - Mayor O'Gilvie called the meeting to order at 6:03 p.m.

Pledge of Allegiance - City Manager Luckino led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Invocation - Rev. Peggy Ventris, St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church, gave the Invocation.

Roll Call - The following Councilmembers were present: Bilderain, Klink, Wright, O'Gilvie. Councilmember Mintz will arrive late.

Closed Session Announcements - None.

Changes to the Agenda - City Manager Luckino announced that the Public Hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and based on how the items are presented, the City Council could go over other items and hold off on the Public Hearing until 6:30 p.m.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mayor O'Gilvie announced that these proceedings may be viewed on demand on the City of Twentynine Palms website at www.29palms.org. You may also Live Stream this meeting by going on our website and clicking on the "Meeting Agendas" link.

AWARDS, PRESENTATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND PROCLAMATIONS

1. Presentation to Feathers n Fur Wildlife Rehabilitation Team for their Participation in the Cash for Trash and Recycling Program.

Mayor Pro Tem Wright presented a check for $300 from the City of Twentynine Palms and a check for $300 on behalf of Burrtec Waste and Recycling to Feather and Fur Rescue Team for their participation in the Cash for Trash and Recycling Program.

2. Proclamation proclai Mayor O'Gilvie read the Proclamation Designating March 2022 as Women's History Month. ming March 2022 as Women's History Month.

COUNCIL COMMENTS AND REPORTS OF MEETINGS ATTENDED
Councilmember Klink wished everyone celebrating a birthday in March a Happy Birthday.

Councilmember Bilderain commented that he did not attend any meetings. He wished everyone celebrating a birthday in March a Happy Birthday, especially his youngest daughter Gena, who is turning 11 years old this month.

Mayor Pro Tem Wright mentioned that he attended the Service Members of the Quarter Luncheon aboard the Base sponsored by the ASYMCA and he wished everyone celebrating a birthday in March a Happy Birthday, especially his sister Angie.

Mayor O'Gilvie mentioned that she did not attend any meetings and she wished everyone a Happy Birthday celebrating a birthday in March, especially her brother who is no longer with us.

Councilmember Mintz commented that he attended a MDAQMD meeting and the reason he was late to the meeting tonight was because his high school girls’ softball team had a game and won against Yucca Valley.

CONSENT CALENDAR

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City Council - Regular Meeting
March 8, 2022

3. Waive the Reading of Ordinance and Approve the Reading by Title Only.

4. Approval of Minutes of the City Council Meeting Held on January 25, 2022, and February 22, 2022.

5. Approval of Project Phoenix Warrant Register Totaling $962,669.12.

6. Approval of Warrant Register Totaling $1,517,368.58.

7. Investment Policy.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council review and approve the City's Investment Policy.

8. Project Phoenix Wastewater System Service Contract Amendment.

RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council:

1. Approve Amendment No. 1 to the contract for the Project Phoenix Wastewater System Operations and Maintenance with the County of San Bernardino Special Districts Department County Service Area 70 (CSA 70) in the amount of $135,718.92 for a total not-to-exceed amount of $199,689.00;

2. Authorize the City Manager to execute all documents necessary to execute the Amendment, including any necessary amendments thereto.

9. Project Phoenix Wastewater System Service Contract Amendment.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council approve the expenditure not to exceed $190,000.00 from Measure I and Article 8 funding to overlay Valle Vista from Condor Road to Utah Trail and Raymond Way from Mesquite Springs Road to Yucca Avenue.

ACTION: A motion was made by Mayor Pro Tem Wright, seconded by Councilmember Bilderain to approve the Consent Calendar as submitted.

The above motion was carried by the following:

ROLL CALL VOTE:

AYES: BILDERAIN, KLINK, WRIGHT, O'GILVIE
NOES: NONE
ASTAIN: NONE
ABSENT: MINTZ
ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION - None.

Councilmember Mintz arrived at the meeting at 6:25 p.m.

PUBLIC HEARING

10. Adopt City Council District Map Pursuant to Election Codes 21607 and 21607.1.

RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council:

A. Hold a fourth public hearing regarding the State-mandated redistricting process, pursuant to Elections Code sections 21607 and 21607.1; and
B. Adopt a Resolution entitled: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS, CALIFORNIA ADOPTING A DISTRICT MAP FOLLOWING THE 2020 CENSUS PURSUANT TO ELECTIONS CODE SECTIONS 21607 AND 21607.1 City Manager Luckino introduced City Attorney Munoz who presented the Staff Report. City Attorney then introduced Mr. Todd Tatum with National Demographic Corporation, who gave a Power Point Presentation on Redistricting.

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City Council - Regular Meeting
March 8, 2022
Mayor O'Gilvie opened the Public Hearing.

Cindy Bernard, Twentynine Palms, spoke in favor of the public map 2. She commented that if the City Council did not choose public map 2, then she favors the orange map.

Mayor O'Gilvie read emails and names into the record as wanting to be in favor or public map 2.

Adrienne Jenik and 29 Palms Neighbors.

Heidi Grunt commented that the public map 2 makes sense.

Mayor O'Gilvie closed the Public Hearing.

After a brief discussion, a motion was made by Councilmember Mintz, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Wright to approve District Map Orange.

The above motion was carried by the following:

ROLL CALL VOTE:

AYES: BILDERAIN, KLINK, MINTZ, WRIGHT, O'GILVIE
NOES: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
A motion was made by Councilmember Mintz, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Wright, to approve Resolution 22-04, adopting District Map Orange.

The above motion was carried by the following:

ROLL CALL VOTE:

AYES: BILDERAIN, KLINK, MINTZ, WRIGHT, O'GILVIE
NOES: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
ABSENT: NONE

DISCUSSION AND POTENTIAL ACTION ITEMS

11. Amboy Road Bike Path.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council approve the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $110,000.00 and approve the use of a Type 2 bike path.

Public Works Superintendent Stacey presented the Staff Report.

After a brief discussion, a motion was made by Councilmember Klink, seconded by Councilmember Bilderain to approve the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $110,000.00 and approve the use of a Type 2 bike path.

The above motion was carried by the following:

ROLL CALL VOTE:

AYES: BILDERAIN, KLINK, WRIGHT, O'GILVIE
NOES: NONE
ASTAIN: NONE
ABSENT: MINTZ

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City Council - Regular Meeting
March 8, 2022

FUTURE COUNCIL INITIATED ITEMS

1. Adding sidewalk and picnic tables in Veterans' Park.

2. Shopping Carts.

3. Voting for Mayor as opposed to current selection process.

4. Seasonal banners throughout the City.

5. Solar Moratorium.

Mayor Pro Tem Wright requested the discussion of expanding the coverage area of the Building Improvement Program. Councilmember Klink seconded the request.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
Cindy Bernard, Twentynine Palms, asked about the genesis of the future agenda item, voting for Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem as opposed to the current selection process. She wanted to know why we would change the current process? City Manager Luckino commented that with the new Districting process, it is more difficult to follow the process of the Councilmember with the most votes in an election becoming the Mayor, so the City Council should discuss how they want to proceed.

CITY MANAGER UPDATE
City Manager Luckino asked Community Development Director Clark to give an update on the Channel Trail. Director Clark provided the update.

City Manager commented that the Grand Opening of Project Phoenix is this coming weekend, he mentioned that with the unfortunate acts on Ukraine, the City has encountered many cyber-attacks and we are working diligently to monitor this, the third billing of sewer in Project Phoenix will be going out and the State recommends we apply for 100% of funding for the City-wide sewer project.

ADJOURNMENT - Mayor O'Gilvie adjourned the meeting at 6:46 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Cindy Villescas, CMC
City Clerk/PIO

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TWENTYNINE PALMS CITY COUNCIL

SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES
City Hall, 6136 Adobe Road, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277
www.29palms.org
March 21, 2022
CALL TO ORDER - Mayor O'Gilvie called the meeting to order at 12:00 p.m.

Pledge of Allegiance - City Clerk Villescas led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Roll Call - The following Councilmembers were present: Bilderain, Klink, Mintz, Wright, O'Gilvie.

PUBLIC COMMENTS - None.

DISCUSSION AND POTENTIAL ACTION ITEMS

1. Luckie Park Pool Rehabilitation.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council review the proposed layout and features for the Luckie Park Pool and provide direction on the release of bidding given the current higher bidding market.

City Manager Luckino presented the Staff Report and explained that the reason for this meeting today is to relay the additional dollars needed to construct and the need for the touch scoring system per the new CIF rules from the High School. He mentioned that Bryant Ismerio with Tilden-Coil and Ken Moeller with Arch-Pac Aquatics, were present via Zoom to explain or answer any questions.

Councilmember Mintz asked if installing the gutter system would be more efficient as opposed to the skimmer.

Mr. Moeller replied yes for competitive pools it is better. Councilmember Mintz asked Recreation Division Manager Minatrea if the restrooms are efficient and Recreation Division Manager Minatrea replied that they are, however, they could use a complete renovation.

Councilmember Bilderain commented that the School District needs to step up and help with this funding, especially for the touch screen scoring system. Mayor O'Gilvie agreed. Councilmember Mintz stated yes, they do, however, they are not going to pay for the actual infrastructure part of the pool, we have the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money, and it is a one-time opportunity to put something nice in Twentynine Palms, so we should act on it and do it all right. Councilmember Klink commented that the School District needs to be a part of this scoring system upgrade. Mayor Pro Tem Wright commented that we need to consider the children, giving them the same advantages, that others have, and he agrees 100% that if the School District is going to upgrade the scoring system at Yucca Valley High School, then they need to do so here. Mayor O'Gilvie asked if the Council could wait to vote on the scoring system so that an answer can be obtained from the School District on whether they will assist with the funding of the scoring system.

ACTION: A motion was made by Councilmember Mintz, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Wright to move forward with all the pool improvements, upgrade the gutter system, add the wiring for the score system, adding the 1.1 million to the budget to make sure the pool is ready for competition as soon as deemed possible.

The above motion was carried by the following:

ROLL CALL VOTE:

AYES: BILDERAIN, KLINK, MINTZ, WRIGHT, O’GILVIE
NOES: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
ABSENT: NONE

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City Council - Special Meeting
March 21, 2022
ADJOURNMENT - Mayor O'Gilvie adjourned the meeting at 12:38 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Cindy Villescas, CMC
City Clerk/PIO

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Check Date
Warrant Register
PPBI Gen Chkng

CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS
Vendor
WARRANT DATE: 4-26-22
Check / Payment
0013866 3/02/2022 [1052] CHARLES ABBOTT ASSOCIATES INC 840.00 0013867 3/02/2022 [1052] CHARLES ABBOTT ASSOCIATES INC 12,556.00 0013871 3/02/2022 [3563] CSM SALES LLC 16,175.96
0013875 3/02/2022 [3524] MICHAEL HEIL 2,200.00
0013898 3/02/2022 [3603] BRIAN JOHN TONG 1,966.50
0013906 3/07/2022 [3582] ANIMAL CRACKER CONSPIRACY 2,200.00 0013923 3/09/2022 [2840] GEOCON INC 974.60
0013929 3/09/2022 [2732] HOLT ARCHITECTURE 83,439.50
0013933 3/09/2022 [3220] JACOBSSON ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION, INC. 336,607.56 0013948 3/09/2022 [1212] RUTAN AND TUCKER 5,195.20
0013967 3/16/2022 [3288] BOGH ENGINEERING, INC. (9150) 38,831.39 0013968 3/16/2022 [3288] BOGH ENGINEERING, INC. (9150) 2,043.76 0013970 3/16/2022 [3292] CASTON, INC (9148) 3,793.35
0013973 3/16/2022 [3268] CONSTRUCTION ELECTRIC INC. (9124) 6,816.25 0013974 3/16/2022 [3284] CONTINENTAL PLUMBING INC. (9143) 3,137.08 0013975 3/16/2022 [3279] DONALD M HOOVER COMPANY (9136) 2,205.90 0013976 3/16/2022 [3285] FLOORED TILE & STONE (9141) 2,489.00 0013982 3/16/2022 [3293] LETNER ROOFING COMPANY (9154) 5,823.78 0013986 3/16/2022 [3294] MCKERNAN INC. (9151) 2,204.48
0013987 3/16/2022 [3283] MONTGOMERY HARDWARE COMPANY (9147) 302.10 0013989 3/16/2022 [1182] NV5 INC (8793) 19,599.76
0013993 3/16/2022 [3291] PGC CONSTRUCTION INC (9149) 4,550.50 0013995 3/16/2022 [1203] REACH OUT MORONGO BASIN (5005) 300.00 0013996 3/16/2022 [3280] RND CONTRACTORS INC. (9139) 19,118.75 0013997 3/16/2022 [3282] S C COATINGS CORPORATION (9145) 1,722.35 0014003 3/16/2022 [2919] TILDEN COIL CONSTRUCTORS 44,846.55 0014009 3/16/2022 [3262] VIC'S AIR CONDITIONING AND ELECTRICAL (9092) 3,121.70 0014011 3/16/2022 [3266] WORLD FIRE PROTECTION INC. (9130) 715.35 0014020 3/23/2022 [3562] ABV SCOREBOARD SERVICES INC 4,500.00 0014024 3/23/2022 [3607] BENTON BROS., LTD 10,000.00
0014027 3/23/2022 [1052] CHARLES ABBOTT ASSOCIATES INC 11,379.00 0014044 3/23/2022 [3606] MID STATE CONTAINER SALES, INC 9,095.00 0014063 3/23/2022 [1252] TPHS 300.00
0014085 3/30/2022 [2840] GEOCON INC 5,565.00
0014090 3/30/2022 [0202] KARY MINATREA 50.64
0014127 4/06/2022 [1182] NV5 INC (8793) 16,028.67
0014142 4/06/2022 [1246] THE VAN DYKE CORP (0750) 9,819.22 Approved by: Date:

Total Checks: 690,514.90
Run: 4/19/2022 at 12:34 PM Page: 1

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Check Date
Warrant Register
PPBI Gen Chkng

CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS
Vendor
WARRANT DATE: 4-26-22
Check / Payment
0013860 3/02/2022 [2408] ACCUFUND, INC 1,560.00
0013861 3/02/2022 [2809] ACTION INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY 285.24 0013862 3/02/2022 [1360] ACTION PUMPING INC (0556) 164.00 0013863 3/02/2022 [2680] AIS 111.23
0013864 3/02/2022 [2996] AMERIGAS 635.38
0013865 3/02/2022 [1052] CHARLES ABBOTT ASSOCIATES INC 48,550.48 0013868 3/02/2022 [1053] CINTAS CORPORATION (8315) 437.47 0013869 3/02/2022 [2785] COPY CENTER PLUS INC. (8893) 921.41 0013870 3/02/2022 [2268] COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 108.76 0013872 3/02/2022 [2473] ENNIS-FLINT, INC. 1,860.78
0013873 3/02/2022 [1109] GALLS LLC 231.12
0013874 3/02/2022 [2947] HALLER CONSULTING LLC (9008) 40.00 0013876 3/02/2022 [3541] KOFF & ASSOCIATES INC. 1,278.75 0013877 3/02/2022 [3534] LIFT ENERGY CONSTRUCTION INC 338.00 0013878 3/02/2022 [1149] LLOYD PEST CONTROL CO INC (8202) 497.00 0013879 3/02/2022 [2581] LOZANO SMITH LLP 2,418.00
0013880 3/02/2022 [1150] MARK SPEER AUTOMOTIVE (2109) 449.06 0013881 3/02/2022 [3588] METLIFE SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 3,983.74 0013882 3/02/2022 [1162] MOJAVE DESERT & MOUNTAIN 5,109.00 0013883 3/02/2022 [1175] AARON NEVEU 1,464.00
0013884 3/02/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - SUPINDA SIRIHEKAPHONG 104.00 0013885 3/02/2022 [1192] PETTY CASH/JP 30.00
0013886 3/02/2022 [3602] RANDEL ARCHITECTURE, INC 350.00 0013887 3/02/2022 [2396] SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY-CSA 273.48 0013888 3/02/2022 [2217] SEMPER SOLARIS CONSTRUCTION (8543) 454.17 0013889 3/02/2022 [3278] SMITTY'S BARGAIN BOX & TRADING POST (9142) 40.00 0013890 3/02/2022 [3590] SOUTHWEST PROTECTIVE 2,926.00
0013891 3/02/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 119.99
0013892 3/02/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 139.98
0013893 3/02/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 119.99
0013894 3/02/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 2,358.00
0013895 3/02/2022 [2127] SPORTS GEAR SWAG 5,668.82
0013896 3/02/2022 [1778] SUNRUN INSTALLATION SERVICES INC (8007) 138.00 0013897 3/02/2022 [2919] TILDEN COIL CONSTRUCTORS 7,074.00 0013899 3/02/2022 [1250] TOTAL FITNESS (8331) 779.76
0013900 3/02/2022 [1255] TURF STAR INCORPORATED 3,639.23 0013901 3/02/2022 [3597] TWENTYNINE PALMS DOWNTOWN BUSINESS 1,707.50 0013902 3/02/2022 [1259] TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT 4,757.91 0013903 3/02/2022 [1274] VSP 591.96
0013904 3/02/2022 [1284] WONDER ELECTRIC COMPANY (0052) 147.00 0013905 3/02/2022 [0516] MATTHEW C KLINK 102.15
0013907 3/07/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 945.55
0013908 3/09/2022 [2809] ACTION INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY 112.49 Run: 4/19/2022 at 12:32 PM Page: 1

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0013909 3/09/2022 [2996] AMERIGAS 199.10
0013910 3/09/2022 [3364] BOX OF KITTENS 2,000.00
0013911 3/09/2022 [1053] CINTAS CORPORATION (8315) 385.47 0013912 3/09/2022 [1081] STEPHEN F DAVIS 400.00
0013913 3/09/2022 [3049] DESERT BEACON (9073) 2,600.00
0013914 3/09/2022 [1087] DESERT HARDWARE (0301) 292.95
0013915 3/09/2022 [2904] DILIGENT CORP 4,682.67
0013916 3/09/2022 [1103] FRANCOTYP-POSTALIA INC 209.95
0013917 3/09/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 800.00
0013918 3/09/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 77.42
0013919 3/09/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 78.83
0013920 3/09/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 42.35
0013921 3/09/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 173.88
0013922 3/09/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 7.08
0013924 3/09/2022 [1122] HI DESERT PUBLISHING 853.00
0013925 3/09/2022 [1122] HI DESERT PUBLISHING 360.00
0013926 3/09/2022 [1125] HINDERLITER DE LLAMAS & ASSOCIATES 1,189.28 0013927 3/09/2022 [2987] HISTORIC INNS OF TWENTYNINE PALMS LL. DBA 29 40.00 0013928 3/09/2022 [2988] HISTORIC INNS OF TWENTYNINE PALMS LLC DBA 40.00 0013930 3/09/2022 [1133] IMAGE SOURCE 395.81
0013931 3/09/2022 [2164] INNOVATIVE FEDERAL STRATEGIES LLC 3,800.00 0013932 3/09/2022 [1134] INTERVET INC 770.18
0013934 3/09/2022 [2022] LAMAR COMPANIES (8442) 2,500.00 0013935 3/09/2022 [1173] NATIONWIDE RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS 2,172.57 0013936 3/09/2022 [1172] NATIONWIDE RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS OB 141.02 0013937 3/09/2022 [1228] NCSI 74.00
0013938 3/09/2022 [1182] NV5 INC (8793) 11,628.24
0013939 3/09/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - MAURICIO ARROYO 631.00 0013940 3/09/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - SEAN WYCLIFFE 443.60 0013941 3/09/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - JOHNNIE WARD 71.00 0013942 3/09/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - RACHEL METZ 71.00 0013943 3/09/2022 [1189] PACIFIC TIER SOLUTIONS INC 1,086.78 0013944 3/09/2022 [2499] RACKSPACE US, INC 5,962.97
0013945 3/09/2022 [3602] RANDEL ARCHITECTURE, INC 3,975.00 0013946 3/09/2022 [1203] REACH OUT MORONGO BASIN (5005) 12,949.89 0013947 3/09/2022 [1212] RUTAN AND TUCKER 18,495.57
0013949 3/09/2022 [1230] SCE 6,402.51
0013950 3/09/2022 [3590] SOUTHWEST PROTECTIVE 2,464.00
0013951 3/09/2022 [1231] SPARKLETTS 263.87
0013952 3/09/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 73.19
0013953 3/09/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 119.98
0013954 3/09/2022 [2484] TERRA NOVA PLANNING & RESEARCH INC. (9096) 6,952.50 0013955 3/09/2022 [1243] THE GAS COMPANY 3,450.86
0013956 3/09/2022 [1259] TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT 156.97 0013957 3/09/2022 [1268] VAGABOND WELDING SUPPLY 25.86
0013958 3/09/2022 [1269] VALIC C/O JP MORGAN CHASE 2,683.97 0013959 3/09/2022 [1271] VCA 29 PALMS ANIMAL HOSPITAL (0319) 655.00 0013960 3/09/2022 [1287] XEROX FINANCIAL SVC 339.70
0013961 3/16/2022 [2463] 4 SPORTS N' MORE (8671) 258.25 0013962 3/16/2022 [2408] ACCUFUND, INC 7,520.00
0013963 3/16/2022 [1005] AFLAC 597.62
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0013964 3/16/2022 [1014] ARROWHEAD CREDIT UNION 21,851.65 0013965 3/16/2022 [3604] ASSUREHIRE, INC 150.95
0013966 3/16/2022 [1017] AUTOZONE (0842) 223.45
0013969 3/16/2022 [1037] BURRTEC WASTE & RECYCLING (2692) 28,548.98 0013971 3/16/2022 [3605] ALEXANDER G CHAVEZ 320.00
0013972 3/16/2022 [1053] CINTAS CORPORATION (8315) 224.12 0013977 3/16/2022 [1102] FORENSIC DTS INC 59.00
0013978 3/16/2022 [2960] FOX AUTOMOBILE 102.00
0013979 3/16/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 22.64
0013980 3/16/2022 [2945] GLADWELL GOVERNMENTAL 250.00
0013981 3/16/2022 [0508] SHAWN KILPATRICK 1,571.60
0013983 3/16/2022 [1150] MARK SPEER AUTOMOTIVE (2109) 62.80 0013984 3/16/2022 [1151] ELIJAH (2503) MARSHALL 2,136.65 0013985 3/16/2022 [1154] LAYTON MATTHEWS II 240.00
0013988 3/16/2022 [1167] MORONGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 9,888.48 0013990 3/16/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - INTERSTATE USED PARTS 71.00 0013991 3/16/2022 [2582] OREILLY 1,033.91
0013992 3/16/2022 [1036] PARKER'S BUILDING SUPPLY 29 PALMS (8036) 1,317.10 0013994 3/16/2022 [2686] QUEST DIAGNOSTICS 36.00
0013998 3/16/2022 [1224] SKY'S THE LIMIT (3503) 40.00
0013999 3/16/2022 [3596] RICARDO SORIANO 640.00
0014000 3/16/2022 [1231] SPARKLETTS 81.26
0014001 3/16/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 132.09
0014002 3/16/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 184.48
0014004 3/16/2022 [1250] TOTAL FITNESS (8331) 359.88
0014005 3/16/2022 [1252] TPHS 300.00
0014006 3/16/2022 [3580] TRIPEPI, SMITH AND ASSOCIATES INC. 9,800.00 0014007 3/16/2022 [1141] US ROOTER (1187) 1,200.00
0014008 3/16/2022 [1267] UTILITY COST MANAGEMENT LLC 1,558.77 0014010 3/16/2022 [1284] WONDER ELECTRIC COMPANY (0052) 390.98 0014012 3/16/2022 [1744] YUNEX LLC 550.00
0014013 3/21/2022 [1051] CHANCEY (3220) CHAMBERS 8,435.00 0014014 3/22/2022 [0514] ZACHARY S SIEDSCHLAG 360.74
0014016 3/22/2022 [0514] ZACHARY S SIEDSCHLAG 744.46
0014017 3/23/2022 [0514] ZACHARY S SIEDSCHLAG 90.19
0014018 3/23/2022 [2086] 29 PALMS FOOD PANTRY & OUT REACH MINISTRIES 1,419.67 0014019 3/23/2022 [1001] LORI (8411) ABDELNOUR 1,475.00 0014021 3/23/2022 [3581] ADVANCED IMAGING SOLUTIONS 198.62 0014022 3/23/2022 [1007] ANDY'S LANDSCAPE AND TREE SERVICE (3803) 1,975.00 0014023 3/23/2022 [1008] ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE INC 940.00 0014025 3/23/2022 [3364] BOX OF KITTENS 3,000.00
0014026 3/23/2022 [1052] CHARLES ABBOTT ASSOCIATES INC 57,366.18 0014028 3/23/2022 [1063] COMPUTERWORKS NFP SOLUTIONS 450.00 0014029 3/23/2022 [1065] COPPER MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 1,245.00 0014030 3/23/2022 [2268] COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 108.76 0014031 3/23/2022 [2684] DOG WASTE DEPOT 193.86
0014032 3/23/2022 [1104] CHRIS (8507) FRASHER 335.58
0014033 3/23/2022 [2793] GARCIA SERVICES (8895) 357.68
0014034 3/23/2022 [2222] GHD INC (8551) 24,122.30
0014035 3/23/2022 [2696] HARRELL'S 9,573.59
0014036 3/23/2022 [1123] HIGH TECH IRRIGATION INCORPORATED 5,956.32 Run: 4/19/2022 at 12:32 PM Page: 3

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0014037 3/23/2022 [2183] JOE A GONSALVES & SON 3,000.00 0014038 3/23/2022 [3541] KOFF & ASSOCIATES INC. 465.00
0014039 3/23/2022 [0430] JAMES KRUSHAT 632.51
0014040[VOID] 3/23/2022 [1145] LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES 600.00 0014041 3/23/2022 [2581] LOZANO SMITH LLP 6,592.00
0014042 3/23/2022 [1155] SYLVIA MATTHEWS 1,500.00
0014043 3/23/2022 [3588] METLIFE SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 4,288.84 0014045 3/23/2022 [3608] MPLC 214.50
0014046 3/23/2022 [1173] NATIONWIDE RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS 2,172.57 0014047 3/23/2022 [1172] NATIONWIDE RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS OB 178.98 0014048 3/23/2022 [1177] NEWCO DISTRIBUTORS INCORPORATED 1,917.86 0014049 3/23/2022 [1178] NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS 134.04
0014050 3/23/2022 [1184] OFFICE DEPOT CREDIT PLAN 518.69 0014051 3/23/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - SANDRA THOMPSON 20.00 0014052 3/23/2022 [1196] PITNEY BOWES 76.77
0014053 3/23/2022 [1213] SAN BERNARDINO CO SHERIFFS DEPT 370,759.00 0014054 3/23/2022 [2396] SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY-CSA 2,818.66 0014055 3/23/2022 [1230] SCE 1,814.61
0014056 3/23/2022 [3056] SOAP SUDS CLEANING SERVICE (9049) 3,183.33 0014057 3/23/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 12.59
0014058 3/23/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 22.17
0014059 3/23/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 38.20
0014060 3/23/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 119.99
0014061 3/23/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 149.98
0014062 3/23/2022 [1375] TEASE SHIRTS 581.81
0014064 3/23/2022 [3580] TRIPEPI, SMITH AND ASSOCIATES INC. 5,500.00 0014065 3/23/2022 [3597] TWENTYNINE PALMS DOWNTOWN BUSINESS 3,297.94 0014066 3/23/2022 [1141] US ROOTER (1187) 500.00
0014067 3/23/2022 [1269] VALIC C/O JP MORGAN CHASE 2,683.97 0014068 3/23/2022 [1270] VALLEY INDEPENDENT PRINTING 734.06 0014069 3/23/2022 [1271] VCA 29 PALMS ANIMAL HOSPITAL (0319) 31.00 0014070 3/23/2022 [1274] VSP 685.08
0014071 3/23/2022 [1275] VICKIE (3145) WAITE 200.00
0014072 3/23/2022 [2528] WELLS FARGO VENDOR FIN SERV 173.48 0014073 3/23/2022 [1284] WONDER ELECTRIC COMPANY (0052) 312.90 0014074 3/30/2022 [1000] 29 PALMS FENCE (0035) 1,450.00 0014075 3/30/2022 [3121] AMERICAN EXPRESS 2,603.44
0014076 3/30/2022 [1018] AVALON URGENT CARE INC 95.00
0014077 3/30/2022 [3591] AVCOM SERVICES 390.00
0014078 3/30/2022 [2395] BENCHMARK (8718) 175.00
0014079 3/30/2022 [1027] BLUE DIAMOND MATERIALS 104,172.65 0014080 3/30/2022 [1070] CNTY SAN BERDO CLERK BRD SUPERVISORS 50.00 0014081 3/30/2022 [1080] DAVID EVANS AND ASSOCIATES INC 1,589.32 0014082 3/30/2022 [1100] FEDEX 32.88
0014083 3/30/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 78.83
0014084 3/30/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 42.35
0014086 3/30/2022 [2432] KOA CORP (9174) 3,842.56
0014087 3/30/2022 [1149] LLOYD PEST CONTROL CO INC (8202) 497.00 0014088 3/30/2022 [3323] MARTIN CRAWFORD (V0179) 290.00 0014089 3/30/2022 [2884] PAUL F MAURER 1,675.20
0014091 3/30/2022 [1167] MORONGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 5,751.11 Run: 4/19/2022 at 12:32 PM Page: 4

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0014092 3/30/2022 [1167] MORONGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 14,213.00 0014093 3/30/2022 [1175] AARON NEVEU 1,425.60
0014094 3/30/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - CINDY ROBERTS 50.00 0014095 3/30/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - DEBRA ACOSTA 22.00 0014096 3/30/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - FIRST RESPONSE AIR 104.00 0014097 3/30/2022 [2355] RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO. 1,851.19 0014098 3/30/2022 [3609] BRYAN RODNEY 100.00
0014099 3/30/2022 [1210] ROTARY CLUB OF TWENTYNINE PALMS 300.00 0014100 3/30/2022 [1215] SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY LICENSE DEPT 872.00 0014101 3/30/2022 [1230] SCE 867.23
0014102 3/30/2022 [3596] RICARDO SORIANO 240.00
0014103 3/30/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 32.85
0014104 3/30/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 119.99
0014105 3/30/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 1,179.00
0014106 3/30/2022 [1252] TPHS 300.00
0014107[VOID] 3/30/2022 [1387] TWENTYNINE PALMS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (0867) 500.00 0014108 3/30/2022 [3610] RYAN M WADDELL 420.00
0014109 3/30/2022 [1744] YUNEX LLC - SIEMENS MOBILITY, INC 976.30 0014110 4/06/2022 [2680] AIS 61.71
0014111 4/06/2022 [1037] BURRTEC WASTE & RECYCLING (2692) 152.46 0014112 4/06/2022 [1053] CINTAS CORPORATION (8315) 693.51 0014113 4/06/2022 [2785] COPY CENTER PLUS INC. (8893) 209.55 0014114 4/06/2022 [2785] COPY CENTER PLUS INC. (8893) - COPY CENTER PLUS 332.51 0014115 4/06/2022 [1079] DATA TICKET INC 361.00
0014116 4/06/2022 [1081] STEPHEN F DAVIS 400.00
0014117 4/06/2022 [2194] DIVISION OF THE STATE ARCHITECT 149.60 0014118 4/06/2022 [1102] FORENSIC DTS INC 59.00
0014119 4/06/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 800.00
0014120 4/06/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 7.08
0014121 4/06/2022 [0291] JOEL ANTHONY KLINK 121.68
0014122 4/06/2022 [3541] KOFF & ASSOCIATES INC. 3,758.75 0014123 4/06/2022 [2022] LAMAR COMPANIES (8442) 1,000.00 0014124 4/06/2022 [0175] DANIEL MINTZ SR 122.85
0014125 4/06/2022 [1173] NATIONWIDE RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS 2,172.57 0014126 4/06/2022 [1172] NATIONWIDE RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS OB 119.04 0014128 4/06/2022 [0466] KARMOLETTE O'GILVIE 127.53
0014129 4/06/2022 [0431] LESLIE PAAHANA 141.73
0014130 4/06/2022 [1036] PARKER'S BUILDING SUPPLY 29 PALMS (8036) 960.27 0014131 4/06/2022 [2591] PORTER EQUIPMENT 2,010.60
0014132 4/06/2022 [2686] QUEST DIAGNOSTICS 36.00
0014133 4/06/2022 [1210] ROTARY CLUB OF TWENTYNINE PALMS 10,872.35 0014134 4/06/2022 [3590] SOUTHWEST PROTECTIVE 2,464.00
0014135 4/06/2022 [1231] SPARKLETTS 89.55
0014136 4/06/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 119.99
0014137 4/06/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 139.98
0014138 4/06/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 73.19
0014139 4/06/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 119.98
0014140 4/06/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 169.98
0014141 4/06/2022 [1243] THE GAS COMPANY 2,019.00
0014143 4/06/2022 [2201] TRANSUNION RISK AND ALTERNATIVE 150.00 0014144 4/06/2022 [3580] TRIPEPI, SMITH AND ASSOCIATES INC. 2,408.75 Run: 4/19/2022 at 12:32 PM Page: 5

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0014145 4/06/2022 [1259] TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT 3,903.69 0014146 4/06/2022 [1269] VALIC C/O JP MORGAN CHASE 2,683.97 0014147 4/06/2022 [0392] MCARTHUR WRIGHT 126.36
0014148 4/11/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 963.55
0014149 4/11/2022 [3611] TWENTYNINE PALMS PROSPECTS ASSOCIATION 500.00 0014150 4/13/2022 [2086] 29 PALMS FOOD PANTRY & OUT REACH MINISTRIES 4,546.33 0014151 4/13/2022 [1506] A NEW CREATION FLOWERS & GIFTS (2187) 94.28 0014152 4/13/2022 [3604] ASSUREHIRE, INC 124.95
0014153 4/13/2022 [1017] AUTOZONE (0842) 41.02
0014154 4/13/2022 [1037] BURRTEC WASTE & RECYCLING (2692) 52,376.69 0014155 4/13/2022 [3605] ALEXANDER G CHAVEZ 80.00
0014156 4/13/2022 [1087] DESERT HARDWARE (0301) 144.09
0014157 4/13/2022 [1100] FEDEX 34.14
0014158 4/13/2022 [1103] FRANCOTYP-POSTALIA INC 151.62
0014159 4/13/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 77.42
0014160 4/13/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 172.31
0014161 4/13/2022 [1106] FRONTIER 22.64
0014162 4/13/2022 [2696] HARRELL'S 616.87
0014163 4/13/2022 [1122] HI DESERT PUBLISHING 2,313.79
0014164 4/13/2022 [2732] HOLT ARCHITECTURE 13,822.75
0014165 4/13/2022 [0489] CLINT HUMPHREVILLE 155.00
0014166 4/13/2022 [1133] IMAGE SOURCE 480.56
0014167 4/13/2022 [2164] INNOVATIVE FEDERAL STRATEGIES LLC 3,800.00 0014168 4/13/2022 [2432] KOA CORP (9174) 77,175.83
0014169 4/13/2022 [1407] MIRACLE RECREATION (1141) 1,055.37 0014170 4/13/2022 [2583] MISSION LINEN SUPPLY (8753) 108.82 0014171 4/13/2022 [1228] NCSI 18.50
0014172 4/13/2022 [0001] ONE TIME VENDOR - JADE PORTER 631.00 0014173 4/13/2022 [1468] PIZZA HUT (1901) 40.00
0014174 4/13/2022 [2499] RACKSPACE US, INC 6,032.71
0014175 4/13/2022 [1213] SAN BERNARDINO CO SHERIFFS DEPT 407,361.35 0014176 4/13/2022 [1230] SCE 10,716.74
0014177 4/13/2022 [1231] SPARKLETTS 68.66
0014178 4/13/2022 [1249] SPECTRUM 131.60
0014179 4/13/2022 [2669] STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD 912.00 0014180 4/13/2022 [3186] STILES ANIMAL REMOVAL INC. 1,350.00 0014181 4/13/2022 [2919] TILDEN COIL CONSTRUCTORS 7,074.00 0014182 4/13/2022 [1268] VAGABOND WELDING SUPPLY 25.86
0014183 4/13/2022 [1270] VALLEY INDEPENDENT PRINTING 46.76 0014184 4/13/2022 [1271] VCA 29 PALMS ANIMAL HOSPITAL (0319) 208.00 2181168 3/20/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 267.90
24837290 3/11/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 117.50
457030422 3/04/2022 [1044] CALPERS 1,714.74
457032322 3/23/2022 [1044] CALPERS 1,714.74
457DC022522 2/25/2022 [1044] CALPERS 1,714.74
CCF022822 2/28/2022 [2412] CREDIT CARD FEES 4,881.20
CCF033122 3/31/2022 [2412] CREDIT CARD FEES 3,241.94
CR032322 3/23/2022 [1044] CALPERS 397.90
EFT 2/25/2022 72,937.54
EFT 2/25/2022 3,113.99
EFT 3/11/2022 71,048.59
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EFT 3/25/2022 75,255.59
EFT 3/25/2022 2,106.71
FSA033122 3/31/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 292.16
FSACK5000003 3/02/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 72.60
GA022422 2/24/2022 [1055] PAYROLL 246.92
GA030622 3/10/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 246.92
GA032422 3/24/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 246.92
HEALTH030422 3/04/2022 [1044] CALPERS 21,658.01
HRA031422 3/14/2022 [2367] MIDAMERICA 7,071.87
HRA041822 4/18/2022 [2367] MIDAMERICA 8,321.87
PERSRC022522 2/25/2022 [1044] CALPERS 15,783.48
PRTX 3/11/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 17,049.69
PRTX022522 2/25/2022 [1055] PAYROLL 17,836.36
PRTX032522 3/25/2022 [2231] PAYCHEX INC 17,818.80
RC030622 3/11/2022 [1044] CALPERS 16,178.92
RC032022 3/23/2022 [1044] CALPERS 16,101.20
RCC022522 2/25/2022 [1044] CALPERS 397.90
WIREESCNO001 3/07/2022 [1101] FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY 56,355.22 Approved by: Date:

Total Checks: 2,045,328.42
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STAFF REPORT
TO: City Council
FROM: City Manager
FOR MEETING: Apr 26 2022
SUBJECT: Appointment of City Treasurer
RECOMMENDATION:

The City Council adopt Resolution No. 22-___ appointing the Finance Director as the City Treasurer.

ORDER OF PROCEDURE:

Request Staff Report (City Manager Presenting)
Council Questions of Staff
Request Public Comment
Council Discussion
Motion/Second
Discussion of Motion
Call the Question
ATTACHMENTS:
• Resolution No. 22-____
• Government Code Section
41001-41007
BACKGROUND:

The City of Twentynine Palms' Treasurer is an appointed office within this general law City. The responsibilities of the City Treasurer are to assure the proper handling and recording of all municipal funds and overseeing the investment of these funds. The legal requirement of the City Treasurer is set forth in the California Government Code: Section 41001 through 41007, which outline the primary statutory duties of the City Treasurers in general law cities. These duties were transferred to the City of Twentynine Palms' Finance Director since incorporation.

ENVIRONMENTAL:

Not applicable
ALTERNATIVES:

The City Council could choose to appoint another Staff member.

FISCAL IMPACT:

N/A

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CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS

CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. 22-___

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

TWENTYNINE PALMS APPOINTING A CITY TREASURER
WHEREAS, the City of Twentynine Palms was incorporated on November 23, 1987, as a general law city of the State of California; and
WHEREAS, a new Finance Director now has been appointed.

WHEREAS, it is necessary that the Finance Director be appointed as City Treasurer in order that the affairs of the City may be properly administered;

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS DOES RESOLVE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The Finance Director is hereby appointed City Treasurer of the City of Twentynine Palms, effective April 26, 2022, to serve at the pleasure of the City Council.

Section 2. The City Treasurer is required to supply a bond for which the City will pay the premium. The City presently has an employee bond that includes the Treasurer; therefore, the requirement is fulfilled.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 26th day of April, 2022.

_____________________________
Karmolette O’Gilvie, Mayor
ATTEST:
______________________________
Cindy Villescas CMC, City Clerk
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of Resolution No.22-__, introduced and duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Twentynine Palms in a meeting held on 26th day of April, 2022, in Twentynine Palms, California by the following vote, to wit.

AYES: COUNCILMEMBER:

NOES: COUNCILMEMBER:

ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBER:

ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBER:
________________________________
Cindy Villescas CMC, City Clerk

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GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTTON 41001-41007
41001. The city Lreasurer shall leceive and safely keep aIl money coming into his hands as treasurer.
41002. He sha1l conply irith all laws governing the deposit and securing of public funds and the handling of trust funds in his Posse ss ion.
41003. He shall pay out noney only on warrants signed by legally designated persons.
41004, Regulally, at least once each month, the city tleasurer shall subnit to the city clerk a writ.ten report and accounting of all receipts, disbursements, and fund baLances, He shall fiLe a copy with the legislative body,
41005. The city treasurer sha.Ll perform such duties relative to the collection of ciLy taxes and license fees as are prescribed by ordinance.
41006. The city tleaaure! nay appoint deputies for whose acts he and his bondsnen are lesponsible.
41007. The deputies sha11 hold office at the pleasure of the city treasurer and receive such compensation as is provided by the legisLative body.

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MBA Before 29 FD MBA & 29 FD Same Response MBA Arived After ALS BLS Total Calls 129 29 23 93 12 194
MBA Before
29 FD
MBA & 29 FD
Same
Response
MBA Arived
After ALS BLS Total Calls
Series1 129 29 23 93 12 194
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INNOVATIVE FEDERAL STRATEGIES, LLC
Comprehensive Government Relations
511 C Street, NE • Washington, DC 20002 • 202-347-5990 • Fax 202-347-5941

MEMORANDUM
To: Frank Luckino, City of 29 Palms
From: Letitia White, Jean Denton, and Drew Tatum
Date: April 1, 2022
Re: March Monthly Legislative Update
White House Releases FY23 Budget Blueprint
President Joe Biden’s $5.8 trillion fiscal 2023 budget proposal, released on Monday, March 28, calls for boosted funding for health, manufacturing, and environmental programs while taming a federal deficit that skyrocketed in recent years.

The Departments of Commerce, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs would get some of the biggest increases under Biden’s plan, though lawmakers often ignore key proposals in the president’s budget. The document projects a fiscal 2023 deficit of nearly $1.2 trillion, or

4.5% of GDP, down from a peak of $3.1 trillion, or 14.9% of GDP, in 2020.

The White House proposal calls for $1.6 trillion for discretionary funds, including $813 billion for defense-related programs and $769 billion for domestic spending. That compares to $1.5 trillion enacted in the fiscal 2022 omnibus spending bill signed by Biden this month, which had $782 billion for defense and $730 billion for domestic spending.

Those figures include a proposal to increase federal pay for military and civilian employees by

4.6%.

Biden’s plan sets aside the debate over key legislative proposals included in his previous “Build Back Better” agenda, including tax increases on the wealthy, climate spending, and prescription drug pricing measures. Instead, officials considered any forthcoming bill to be deficit neutral, though Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has called for a deficit-cutting measure.

Biden has played up his work to cut the deficit from its historic highs in fiscal 2020 and 2021, when the government was responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. He called it “a budget that includes historic deficit reduction, historic investments in our security at home and abroad, and an unprecedented commitment to building an economy where everyone has a chance to succeed,” in a statement. He also touted a decrease in the deficit of more than $1 trillion in one year during his State of the Union address.

But the deficit figures under his proposal still remain high compared to recent history. His proposal calls for a fiscal 2023 deficit of nearly $1.2 trillion, or 4.5% of GDP. That figure would hover between 4.5% and 4.9% through 2032. For comparison, the federal government ran

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deficits of less than 4.5% from 2013 to 2018, according to White House Office of Management and Budget data.

Publicly held federal debt would total $26 trillion in fiscal 2023, or 101.8% of GDP, under the document’s projections. That would rise to $39.5 trillion, or 106.7% of GDP, in 2032.

Despite the proposed nominal funding increases, the plan reflects a long-term squeeze on discretionary spending as mandatory programs such as Social Security and Medicare grow.

Discretionary spending would fall from 7.3% of GDP in 2021 to 5.3% in 2032. Mandatory spending would continue a long-term increase except for a peak due to Covid-19 spending. After hitting a low point of 14.1% of GDP in 2024, it would rise to 15.7% in 2032.

The document assumes inflation would drop to a rate of 2.3% in 2023, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The administration expects that if that number rises, spending and receipts would rise by similar amounts, keeping the debt and deficit figures at a similar level.

The document calls for significant increases for manufacturing, environmental, and health programs, though Congress may ignore those proposals.

The document serves as a starting place for Congressional negotiations on top-line defense and nondefense spending figures. House appropriators have already scheduled budget hearings this week with administration officials.
“I’ve been here a few years, and I don’t know of any budget proposal that’s been adopted into law later,” Senate Appropriations Vice Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) told reporters in anticipation of the budget drop.
“The biggest impact of the budget is getting it here,” Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee, said. “And once that happens, the appropriators could start talking, and I think there’s no reason to believe we couldn’t get all or most of the bills done by the first of October.” Key congressional Republicans will focus on Biden’s proposed funding increase for defenserelated activities. The $813 billion under the proposal responds to higher costs of living and goods, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may push the price tag higher. Shelby said lawmakers will have to consider elevated inflation expectations in negotiating a defense spending figure. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin “has created a more dangerous world than we thought six months ago.”
House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) praised the budget proposal for requesting funding increases for schools, childcare, veterans’ health care, and addressing opioid use.

Representative Jason Smith (R-MO), ranking member of the House Budget Committee, said the budget shows Biden “values more spending more debt, more taxes, and more pain for the American people.”

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Biden Details Oil Release Plan
President Joe Biden said his plan to release a million barrels of oil a day from U.S. reserves for six months would lay a foundation for the country to achieve independence from foreign energy suppliers.

Biden blamed a surge in gasoline prices this year on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, calling it “Putin’s price hike.” But he also criticized American oil companies that have been reluctant to increase production, and called for Congress to charge fees to firms that have unused drilling leases on federal lands. “Companies have an obligation that goes beyond just the shareholders: to their customers, their communities and their country,” Biden said Thursday, March 31 following a White House announcement of the largest-ever drawdown from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. “No American company should take advantage of a pandemic, or Vladimir Putin, to enrich themselves at the expense of American families.”
Biden also announced that he would invoke Cold War-era powers to encourage domestic production of critical minerals for batteries for electric vehicles and other uses. Battery materials will join the list of items covered by the 1950 Defense Production Act. “It’s time to deliver true long-term energy independence to America once and for all,” Biden said. “It’s not a time for politics.”
He said that he expects U.S. allies will agree to release 30 million to 50 million more barrels of oil from their own reserves. Up to 180 million barrels may be released from the stockpile over the next several months, an amount the White House and oil market analysts called unprecedented. The move underscores the Biden administration’s concern over rising gasoline prices and supply shortages following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

High prices at the pump are weighing heavily on the White House’s political hopes in November. The president has struggled to tame both fuel prices and wider inflation, which is at 40-year highs as the global economy adjusts from pandemic disruptions. Despite the White House’s insistence last year that fuel prices would fall in 2022, they have instead risen dramatically.

Supreme Court Judiciary Committee Vote to be Held on April 4th Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination on April 4th.

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the committee, announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an executive business meeting on Monday, March 29 at the end of the second day of questioning. Committee rules, however, allow any senator to request that an item—be it legislation or a nomination—be held over for a week. As has been the recent practice of both parties, Republicans requested that the nomination be held over for a week, making the actual vote April 4th.

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Jackson will most like face a tied party line vote in committee. While two Republican Senators on the committee, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) previously advanced her nomination to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, both Senators have announced their opposition to her nomination to the Supreme Court.

The tie vote, however, will not sink her nomination as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) can still bring her nomination to the floor by moving to discharge the nomination from the Senate Judiciary Committee. That vote requires a simple majority, which Democrats are expected to have with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) announcing her support of the nomination.

Jackson’s confirmation hearings largely went as expected during the week of March 21. Few new details emerged about her record. Republicans largely focused on her sentencing record, noting they believed she was too lenient as trial court judge in sentencing defendants in child pornography cases. They also focused on what they called a lack of a “judicial philosophy” from Jackson. She countered those arguments by noting she had a general methodology when approaching cases.

Senator Manchin Reopens Social Spending Talks
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has restarted conversations concerning the social spending package he effectively tanked in December.

Senator Manchin told Democrats that a vote on the package must take place before the August recess.

The West Virginian told them he believed it to be possible to reach a deal addressing climate change, prescription drug prices, and the tax code. He does, however, want concessions for oil and gas to be made on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The Department of Interior has been slow to draft a five-year plan for offshore oil and leasing gas in federal waters as the current one is slated to expire at the end of June.

On Wednesday, Senator Joe Manchin also outlined some energy policy he would be in favor of – these include a tax credit for clean energy manufacturing and legislation that replaces fossil fuel with advanced nuclear power.

A spokesperson for Senator Manchin told the Hill that the Senator is “always willing to engage in discussion about the best way to move our country forward.” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) said he anticipates senators will focus on a reconciliation bill after they return from their April break. “It’s the starting point of the next round of the debate,” Wyden said on March 24 while speaking remotely at a conference organized by the American Council on Renewable Energy in Washington.

Wyden said no decisions have been made on whether to include a corporate minimum tax versus a raise in the corporate tax rate.

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“Until 50 United States senators have given a final emphatic indication on what they’ll support, we continue to have this discussion,” Wyden said in response to a question about pay-fors.

House Republicans Lay Out Policy Agenda through Midterm House Republicans took their annual issues retreat from Wednesday, March 23 through Friday March 25. They spent time designing a legislative blueprint that they will use as a messaging tool leading up to the midterm elections on how they would govern if they took the majority next year.

They are calling their plan the “Commitment to America” which is a nod to the “Contract with America” on which Republicans campaigned when they won control of the House in 1994 after being out of power for over 40 years.

The plan will be finalized around August and will give Republicans a unified policy message to back to constituents on the campaign trail.

Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) said the main aim of the retreat was to “get the entire conference together on these issues so we’re not having these divisions you’re seeing with the Democrats right now” and that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was “trying to be very inclusive, to get everyone’s input.”
For Representative McCarthy, the retreat was a way to ensure that members have buy-in with the plan and to ensure there are no divergences within his conference.

Representative John Katko (R-NY) said that the blueprint is “something that Democrats didn’t do at the beginning of their term, and they squandered a huge opportunity.” Representative McCarthy and his colleagues have been working on the blueprint for nearly a year. The blueprint includes seven task forces including: Jobs and the Economy; Big Tech Censorship and Data; Future of American Freedoms; Energy, Climate, and Conservation; American Security; Healthy Future and China Accountability.

White House Environmental Equity Screening Tool Faulted on Data A White House tool to help agencies and departments identify communities long suffering from pollution and other inequities shows promise but also gaps in fully understanding the communities, according to advocates.

Environmental justice and public health advocates have been testing a beta version of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool since its release last month by the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The tool assesses census tracts using eight metrics including legacy pollution and access to renewable energy and clean transportation.

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Drawing on similar tools used for years by EPA and a handful of states, the goal is to deliver on President Joe Biden’s Justice40 pledge to direct 40% of the benefits of climate, clean energy, and other funding to communities bearing the brunt of pollution.

Thus far those efforts are “more declarations of good intentions” than a marked shift in federal attention to such communities, Paul Mohai, a University of Michigan professor who co-founded the university’s environmental justice program, said at a forum held in March by Resources for the Future research group.

CEQ’s tool is hamstrung in part by varying quality of data, the absence of “community-input” health information, and unanswered questions over whether the data is sufficient to generate rankings for communities most in need, Mohai said.
“I see this as the beginning stage, but I do see a lot of potential for these kinds of tools in the future,” he said.

The screening tools launched so far by states in New England along with California, Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado, and Maryland, show in some cases how a more local focus can help provide tools to better understand what communities are most in need, according to Sacoby Wilson, director for the University of Maryland’s Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health.

But “as you get to the Deep South, there’s not state-level tools,” Wilson said, which has meant too little attention on disadvantaged communities that are among the hardest hit by legacy pollution and other inequities.

Such inattention suggests many communities are suffering “contamination without representation,” he said.

Speaker Pelosi Calls on White House to Request New Covid Aid; Senate Negotiates On Thursday, March 17 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she has asked the Biden administration to seek more funding in emergency COVID-19 relief citing it will cost more than $40 billion for the testing, vaccine and therapeutic needs of the United States.

Initially, the President requested $22.5 billion in funding, a number which dropped to $15.6 billion in negotiations to include the funding in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022— funding that was later stripped from the bill.

Pelosi said that even the original $22.5 billion was too small a number. “I think they should be double what they asked for, because even when they were asking for like 20-some [billion dollars] it was only going to get us to June,” Speaker Pelosi said at a press conference.

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The Administration said that the $22.5 billion would cover the “immediate needs” of the pandemic response over the span of a few months. The bulk of the funding, $18.25 billion, would go to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Republicans, however, pushed back saying it was too high and negotiated a reduction to $15.6 billion, which was fully offset. The final agreement, however, was rejected by rank-and-file Democrats because the offsets included rescinding $7 billion from state COVID-19 relief funds.

That opposition ultimately resulted in the COVID supplemental being pulled from the broader government funding bill.

Speaker Pelosi said Thursday that whatever bill comes forward will be fully paid forever. “What I've said to the administration is ... you must ask for more. Because we need more, and you can't expect money, this [bill], to turn around just like that because the legislative process takes time. We want it to be bipartisan; we need it to be paid for. And so let's just go for a bigger chunk,” she said.

Pelosi has suggested she hopes to move quickly, though the timeline is still not clear.

Despite calls from the Speaker, a bipartisan group of Senators, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) have been negotiating a smaller package that could pass the Senate before the chamber leaves for the traditional two week Easter recess.

Those lawmakers have an agreement in principle on $10 billion in Covid-19 aid, including offsets for the full cost.

Senator Romney said Republicans were waiting for an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. He said $1 billion in global vaccine funding could be added at the request of Democrats, but that other funding would have to be cut to keep the total at $10 billion.

International vaccine funding is important to key Democrats. House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) has said she wants “to make sure that international is in” the next Covidresponse legislation passed by Congress.

The agreement in principle would be fully paid for, partly by pulling back unspent funds previously appropriated for pandemic aid to businesses. The remaining “pay-fors” have not yet been announced.

Panel Explores Changes to Wastewater Funding Formula
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on Wednesday, March 16 regarding the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund Formula.

During the hearing, a number of Senators express concerns about how the original formula for the CWSRF was developed for wastewater infrastructure upgrades and expressed support for

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refining the formula to prioritize environmental justice and actual need for wastewater investments.
“No one knows why the formula was created the way it was,” Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) said during the hearing about possible ways to update the formula used for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.

Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said he doesn’t want the formula to focus mainly on a state’s population, and that it must address environmental justice.

The Fund was established in 1987 as an amendment to the Clean Water Act to provide money to states to fund loans that would help build local wastewater treatment plants, control water pollution, protect estuaries and pay for other water quality projects. The Environmental Protection Agency administers the fund, which is passed down to the States for project selection and implementation.

The Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (bipartisan infrastructure bill) infused the fund with $12.7 billion spread out over the next several fiscal years. That includes $1 billion to pay for remediation of emerging contaminants such as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, that have been used in nonstick cookware and firefighting foam.

The formula for allocating the funding has been tweaked but not significantly updated since 1987, Jonathan Ramseur, a Congressional Research Service policy specialist, said at the hearing.

The current formula provides states money based on “some combination” of wastewater needs, population and other factors, but the law doesn’t describe those factors and how they are weighted, nor does it factor in new census numbers, Ramseur said.

The EPA has determined that the current funding formula doesn’t provide states enough funding based on their infrastructure needs and population, Ramseur said.

States benefit from the fund unevenly. The fund’s biggest winner in 2021 was New York, which received more than $175 million. California, the most populous state, received about $114 million. The least populous states, including Wyoming and Vermont, received about $7.9 million.

Ramseur said Congress has the option to model the Clean Water SRF after the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, a similar program dedicated to drinking water systems that allots money to states based on a needs survey conducted by the EPA every four years.

Some previous efforts to update the formula focused solely on making a state’s population the primary factor in allocating funds. But rural states protested, saying the wastewater infrastructure needs in their states eclipse their populations.
“Need varies across states” based on population growth, and age and condition of existing infrastructure, Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) said.

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A formula based on population “may not reflect all of the needs within a state,” Laura Watson, director of the Washington State Department of Ecology, said at the hearing. Environmental justice and each system’s state of repair should be prioritized in the formula, she said.

Senate Democrats Eye Clean Grid Legislation
The U.S. electric sector would be required to better plan for power grid upgrades to accommodate the renewable energy rollout while more frequently reporting greenhouse gas emissions data to federal energy regulators, according to legislation that Senate Democrats unveiled Thursday, March 17.

The bill, called the Charge Act of 2022, aims to spur growth of power lines and infrastructure by expanding oversight of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the five-member panel that oversees the interstate flow of power and the wholesale power market.

Clean energy generators have struggled to connect to the power grid because of a lack of wires to move the power from solar and wind farms to consumers. The bill’s title is an acronym for the chief goal of the drafters: Connecting Hard-to-Reach Area with Renewably Generated Energy. “Right now, the United States relies on two-lane roads for our electricity traffic when we need a renewable energy superhighway,” Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said in a statement.

Markey’s cosponsors include some of the Senate’s biggest climate advocates: Tina Smith (DMN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

Democrats are seeking a path forward on climate priorities as its main vehicle, the Build Back Better Act, stalls in the Senate. The bill also comes amid a renewed push to build out U.S. energy production and lessen reliance on adversarial countries. “Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has given Americans a bitter lesson about our reliance on fossil energy,” Smith said, adding, “no foreign dictator can tell us when the wind blows or the sun shines.”
The legislation comes as the energy commission considers an overhaul of transmission planning, facing thorny disputes on how to spread out the costs for long-range projects that can cross multiple states. New rules could arrive by the end of this year, the commission has said.

The Charge Act would require FERC to go further by establishing a minimum reliability standard among regions of the country. Such a standard would limit damaging power outages during extreme weather events, such as when Winter Storm Uri knocked out power in Texas and Oklahoma. Back-up generation from neighboring regions was limited during that cold snap, the commission found.

The emissions reporting rule would require utilities to submit hourly data to the Energy Information Administration, which would post the data online. More granular emissions data

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would give grid planners certainty that new power line projects are leading to emissions reductions, energy analysts have argued.

The bill would also require the commission to eliminate policies that could prevent renewable generators from participating in wholesale power markets if they receive state subsidies.

Renewable energy and some nuclear plants that receive state incentives faced barriers to those markets in PJM Interconnection, which coordinates the flow of power through 13 Eastern states and Washington, D.C. The commission scaled back, but did not eliminate, PJM’s pricing rule last year.

A summary of the legislation, as prepared by Senator Markey’s office, can be found here:
https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CHARGE%20Act_One%20Pager.pdf Congress Completes Work on Omnibus Appropriations Package On Wednesday, March 9, the House passed H.R.2471, the legislative vehicle for the $1.5 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2022. The House used a procedure via the rule for consideration of the legislation to “divide the question” on different sections of the bill, which resulted in a “security” related vote and a “non-security” related vote. Democrats did this because they expected to lose progressive votes on the security portions of the legislation that funded the Defense Department, Homeland Security, and other related bills.

The security division passed by a vote of 361 to 69. 155 Republicans joined all but 15 Democrats in support. The non-security division passed 260 to 171, with one Democrat voting Present. Only 39 Republicans voted for that portion of the legislation.

Even though the House “divided the question,” the bill only required one vote for final passage in the Senate. The Senate passed the legislation on Thursday, March 10 by a vote of 68-31. In order to get a unanimous consent agreement to expedite consideration of the legislation, Senators also took votes on three amendments, all of which failed. Amendments included one offered by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) that would have prevented vaccine requirements, one from Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) that would have removed all earmarks from the bill, and an amendment from Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) that would have provided $2 billion in disaster aid for areas affected by Hurricanes Laura, Delta, and Ida in 2020 and 2021.

The legislation took several days to be “enrolled” by the House and Senate, meaning it was not signed into law until Tuesday, March 15. With the legislation’s enactment, all federal agencies will be funded through the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2022.

The omnibus appropriations bill included a 6.7% increase for non-defense spending and increases defense funds by 5.6%. The package also included earmarks for the first time since they were banned in 2011, and it included a Ukrainian aid supplemental bill with around $13.6 billion in support for the nation in response to the Russian invasion.

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During State of the Union, Biden Asks for Unity Amidst Discord On Tuesday, March 1, the President addressed the nation asking Americans to rally behind a shared political vision and against foes causing geopolitical woe.

The President opened his remarks condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which was met with bipartisan applause. He called upon lawmakers to stand up to President Vladimir Putin and said that the Russian dictator had “no idea what’s coming.” He went on to say that the war in Ukraine was “badly miscalculated” and that the war would leave Russia much weaker. The President announced that the United States would close its airspace to Russian airlines, following the European nations in their decision to do so.

The President spoke with optimism about the fight against COVID-19, praising the perseverance of the American people during the pandemic. He also said that over one million of Pfizer’s antiviral pills, which are used to treat Covid, will be ready in March and that the United States is launching a program in which people can receive tests at pharmacies and free antiviral pills if they test positive.

On this vein, he introduced his “unity agenda” which includes certain unifying topics such as combating cancer and opioid abuse, giving aid to veterans, and bolstering mental health services.

President Biden said, “There’s something happening in America. Just look around and you’ll see an amazing story.”
Regarding inflation, which the President named as one of his top priorities, he offered elements of his stalled “Build Back Better” agenda as a way of tempering the surging prices. The President claimed that the agenda would cut costs to child-care and energy which would alleviate some of the financial strain.

Of inflation the President said, “With all the bright spots in our economy, record job growth and higher wages, too many families are struggling to keep up with the bills.” The President also praised the investments made by the bipartisan infrastructure law and extolled the virtues of becoming more resilient with regards to climate change. He touted combating climate change as a way to build a stronger and more economically secure nation. The President promised that investments in clean energy would cut families’ energy costs to an average of $500 year.

The text of President Biden’s full speech can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/stateof-the-union-2022/ Congressional Retirements
Below is a list of Members and Senators who have announced they will not be seeking reelection to their current seat next Congress. While many are retiring, others have announced they will seek other office.

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Departing Senators Party State Reason
Richard Burr R North Carolina Retiring
Pat Toomey R Pennsylvania Retiring
Rob Portman R Ohio Retiring
Richard Shelby R Alabama Retiring
Roy Blunt R Missouri Retiring
Patrick Leahy D Vermont Retiring
Jim Inhofe R Oklahoma Retiring before end of term
Departing Members Party District Reason
Ann Kirkpatrick D AZ-02 Retiring
Tom Reed R NY-23 Retiring
Jody Hice R GA-10 Running for GA Secretary of State
Filemon Vela D TX-34 Retiring
Mo Brooks R AL-05 Running for Senate
Lee Zeldin R NY-01 Running for Governor
Kevin Brady R TX-08 Retiring
Tim Ryan D OH-13 Running for Senate
Ted Budd R NC-13 Running for Senate
Cheri Bustos D IL-17 Retiring
Charlie Crist D FL-13 Running for Governor
Val Demings D FL-10 Running for Senate
Vicky Hartzler R MO-04 Running for Senate
Billy Long R MO-07 Running for Senate
Conor Lamb D PA-17 Running for Senate
Ron Kind D WI-03 Retiring
Anthony Gonzalez R OH-16 Retiring
Karen Bass D CA-37 Running for Los Angeles mayor
John Yarmuth D KY-03 Retiring
David Price D NC-04 Retiring
Mike Doyle D PA-18 Retiring
Anthony Brown D MD-04 Running for Maryland AG
Adam Kinzinger R IL-16 Retiring
Jackie Speier D CA-14 Retiring
G.K. Butterfield D NC-01 Retiring
Eddie Bernice
Johnson
D TX-30 Retiring
Peter Welch D VT-AL Running for Senate
Louie Gohmert R TX-01 Running for Texas AG
Tom Suozzi D NY-03 Running for Governor

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Peter Defazio D OR-04 Retiring
Alan Lowenthal D CA-47 Retiring
Stephanie Murphy D FL-07 Retiring
Lucille Roybal-Allard D CA-40 Retiring
Albio Sires D NJ-08 Retiring
Bobby Rush D IL-01 Retiring
Brenda Lawrence D MI-14 Retiring
Ed Perlmutter D CO-07 Retiring
Trey Hollingsworth R IN-09 Retiring
John Katko R NY-24 Retiring
Jerry McNerney D CA-09 Retiring
Jim Langevin D RI-02 Retiring
Jim Cooper D TN-05 Retiring
Kathleen Rice D NY-05 Retiring
Ted Deutch D FL-22 Retiring
Markwayne Mullin R OK-02 Running for Senate
Fred Keller R PA-12 Retiring
Van Taylor R TX-03 Retiring
There are currently 5 vacancies in the House, including:
• CA-22 due to the resignation of Devin Nunes (R)
• MN-01 due to the death of Jim Hagedorn (R)
• AK-AL due to the death of Don Young (R)
• NE-01 due to the resignation of Jeff Fortenberry (R)
• TX-34 due to the resignation of Filemon Vela (D)

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Bill Number Sponsors Title and/or Summary Summary/Status Latest Action H.R.5376 President Joe Biden /
Congressional Democrats Build Back Better Act
The Build Back Better Act proposes
spending nearly $2 trillion over a 10-
year period, with certain programs
expiring after only a year or two to
keep the total cost of the bill down.

Congressional Democrats hope to use
the budget reconciliation process to
pass elements of the administration’s
American Families Plan.

Efforts to pass the legislation in 2021
were unsuccessful even after the
House passed a modified version of the
legislation.

Senator Joe Manchin came out in
opposition to the legislation in late2021, though he has recently expressed a willingness to pass a scaled-back
version of the legislation that is paid for
through tax increases. He has indicated
that the scope of the legislation would
need to be limited to do a few things
permanently rather than create several
new programs for a short period of
time.

There is no currently timeline or
legislative language for a package that
may be considered in the Senate.

S. 29 / H.R.
2008
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (DMN) / Rep. Angie Craig
(D-MN)
Local Water Protection Act
A bill to amend the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
to reauthorize certain programs
relating to nonpoint source
management, and for other
purposes.

The Senate legislation was introduced
on January 22, 2021 and referred to the
Committee on Environment and Public
Works.

The legislation in the House was
introduced on March 18, 2021 and
passed the House under suspension of
the rules on June 15.

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H.R 1563 Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA)
To extend the authorities under the
Water Infrastructure
Improvements for the Nation Act of
2016 providing operational
flexibility, drought relief, and other
benefits to
the State of California
The legislation would extend the
authorities under the Water
Infrastructure Improvements for the
Nation Act of 2016 providing
operational flexibility, drought relief,
and other benefits to the State of
California. The legislation would
extend 4007 authorities through
January 1, 2028.

The legislation was introduced on
March 3, 2021 and was referred to the
House Committees on Natural
Resources and Science, Space, and
Technology.

S.984 /
H.R.2238
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) /
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (DCA)
Break Free from Plastic Pollutions
Act
The comprehensive legislation would
require corporations to take
responsibility for pollution,
incentivize corporations to make
reusable products and items that can
be recycled, create a nationwide
beverage container refund program,
and other items to promote recycling
and other investments in U.S.
domestic recycling.

The legislation was introduced on
March 25, 2021 and referred to the
House Committees on Energy and
Commerce, Ways and Means,
Transportation, and Foreign Affairs.

H.R 866 Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) FISH Act
This bill gives the Fish and Wildlife
Service (FWS) the sole authority to
protect endangered or threatened
species that are anadromous species
(species of fish that spawn in fresh or
estuarine waters and that migrate to
ocean waters) or catadromous
species (species of fish that spawn in
ocean waters and migrate to fresh
waters). Currently, the FWS shares
this authority with the National
Marine Fisheries Service.

The legislation was introduced on
February 5, 2021 and referred to the
House Committee on Natural
Resources.

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H.R. 1015 Rep. Grace Napolitano
(D-CA)
Water Recycling Investment and
Improvement Act
This bill makes permanent, and
otherwise revises, the Bureau of
Reclamation's grant program for the
funding of water recycling and reuse
projects. Specifically, the bill removes
priority under the program for
projects in areas that, in the
preceding four-year period, have
been (1) identified as experiencing
severe, extreme, or exceptional
drought; or (2) designated as a
disaster area by a state. Additionally,
the bill increases through FY2025 the
authorization of appropriations for
the program and otherwise revises
provisions related to program
funding.

The legislation was introduced on
February 11, 2021 and referred to the
House Committee on Natural
Resources.

H.R.1881 Rep. John Garamendi (DCA)
To amend the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act with respect to
permitting terms, and for other
purposes.

The legislation would extend permit
terms for publicly owned water
infrastructure projects under the
National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) from 5 years to a maximum
of 10 years.

The legislation was introduced on
March 12, 2021 and referred to the
Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure.

H.R. 737 Rep. David Valadao (RCA) RENEW WIIN Act
The legislation would extend the
authorities under the Water
Infrastructure Improvements for the
Nation Act of 2016 providing
operational flexibility, drought relief,
and other benefits to the State of
California.

The legislation was introduced on
February 2, 2021 and referred the
House Committee on Natural
Resources.
10 members of the California
delegation have cosponsored the
legislation.

S.91 /
H.R.535
Sen. Krysten Sinema (DAZ) / Rep. John
Garamendi (D-CA)
Special Districts Provide Essential
Services Act
The legislation would include special
districts in the coronavirus relief fund
and direct the Secretary of the
Treasury to include special districts as
an eligible issuer under the Municipal
Liquidity Facility.

The legislation was introduced on
January 28, 2021, in both the House
and Senate. It has been referred to
relevant committees in both chambers.

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H.R. 2515 Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA)
Building U.S. Infrastructure through
Limited Delays and Efficient Reviews
(BUILDER) Act
The legislation modernizes the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) and aims to make
infrastructure project reviews more
efficient, reduce project costs, and
spur economic recovery.

The legislation was introduced on April
14, 2021 and was referred to the House
Committee on Natural Resources.

The legislation's 46 cosponsors are all
Republican, including members of GOP
leadership.

H.R. 939 Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) Combustion Avoidance along Rural Roads (CARR) Act
The bill exempts wildfire mitigation
activities conducted within 300 feet
of a road from all laws governing
environmental review of proposed
agency actions or protection of
endangered or threatened species.

The legislation was introduced on
February 8, 2021 and was referred to
the House Committees on Natural
Resources and Agriculture.

H.R.3267 Rep. Brendan Boyle (DPA)
Protect Drinking Water from PFAS
Act
The bill amends the Safe Drinking
Water Act to require the
Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency to publish a
maximum contaminant level goal and
promulgate a national primary
drinking water regulation for total
per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

The legislation was introduced on May
17, 2021 and referred to the House
Committee on Energy and Commerce.

S. 953 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) Water for Conservation and Farming Act
The legislation would create a
Reclamation fund of $300M to
support water recycling projects,
water-use efficiency projects and
dam safety projects; the
WaterSMART program to increase
water supply reliability by funding
infrastructure and conservation
projects; Establishes a grant program
for any Reclamation States, Tribes,
nonprofit conservation organizations,
irrigation or water districts, and
regional and local authorities to
complete habitat restoration projects
that improve watershed health and
mitigate climate change; among
other actions.

The legislation was introduced on
March 24, 2021 and referred to the
Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources.

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H.R.3293 Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester
(D-DE)
Low-Income Water Customer
Assistance Programs Act
The legislation would amend the Safe
Drinking Water Act and the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act to
establish programs to assist lowincome households in maintaining access to drinking water and
wastewater services.

The legislation was introduced on May
18, 2021 and referred to the relevant
committees. The legislation has passed
out of the House Energy and
Commerce Committee by a vote of 32-
24 and now moves on to consideration
on the House floor.

H.R. 3286 Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA)
Emergency Order Assurance, Safety,
and Inspection of water Systems
(Emergency OASIS Act)
The legislation would require the EPA
to establish regulations to flush a
drinking water system if
contaminants were present in the
system for longer than six months, or
if water stood motionless in the
system for longer than six months.

The legislation was introduced on May
17, 2021 and referred to the House
Committee on Energy and Commerce.

H.R. 3622 /
S. 1907
Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH)
/ Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-NY)
Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act
The legislation would require the
Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency to develop effluent
limitations guidelines and standards
and water quality criteria for PFAS
under the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, to provide Federal grants
to publicly owned treatment works to
implement such guidelines and
standards
The legislation was introduced in the
House on May 28, 2021, and in the
Senate on May 27, 2021.

The legislation in the House is
bipartisan.

S. 2168 /
S.2567
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) /
Sen. Shelley Moore
Capito (R-WV)
Define WOTUS Act / Navigable
Waters Protection Act of 2021
The legislation would amend the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
to modify the definition of navigable
waters, and to make the definition of
the "waters of the United States"
permanent.

These bills were introduced in June and
July of 2021 in response to the EPA's
announcement earlier in June of its
intent to rewrite the Navigable Waters
Protection rule.

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H.R. 3814 /
S. 717
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) /
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
Undoing NEPA’s Substantial Harm by
Advancing Concepts that Kickstart
the Liberation of the Economy Act
(UNSHACKLE Act)
The legislation combines the
following five stand-alone NEPA
reform bills on agency process, state
expansion, legal changes, and data
reporting into one comprehensive
text.
- NEPA Agency Process Accountability
Act
- NEPA Accountability and
Enforcement Act
- NEPA State Assignment Expansion
Act
- NEPA Legal Reform Act
- NEPA Data Transparency Act
The Senate legislation was introduced
on March 11, 2021 and referred to the
Committee on Environment and Public
Works.

The House legislation was introduced
on June 11, 2021 and referred to the
House Committees on Natural
Resources; Judiciary; Transportation
and Infrastructure; and Energy and
Commerce.

H.R. 1352 Rep. Brenda Lawrence (DMI)
Water Affordability, Transparency,
Equity, and Reliability Act of 2021
The bill would create a trust fund to
support drinking water and clean
water infrastructure. Additionally, the
bill provides $34.85 billion a year to
drinking water and wastewater
improvements; creates a water trust
fund; creates up to nearly 1 million
jobs across the economy and protect
American workers; prioritizes
disadvantaged communities with
grants and additional support;
expands funding for technical
assistance to small, rural, and
indigenous communities; funds
projects to address water
contamination from PFAS; requires
US EPA to study water affordability,
shutoffs, discrimination, and civil
rights violations by water providers;
upgrades household wells and septic
systems; helps homeowners replace
lead service lines; and provides more
than $1 billion a year to update water
infrastructure in public schools.

The legislation was introduced on
February 25, 2021 and was referred to
the relevant committees.

The legislation has 86 cosponsors,
including 14 members of the California
delegation.

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H.R. 4647 /
S. 2430
Rep. Jared Huffman (DCA) / Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA)
Water Conservation Rebate Tax
Parity Act
The legislation would amend federal
tax law so that homeowners wouldn’t
pay income tax on rebates from
water utilities for water conservation
and water runoff management
improvements
The House legislation was introduced
on July 22, 2021 and referred to the
House Committee on Ways and Means.

The legislation in the Senate was
introduced on July 22, 2021 and
referred to the Senate Committee on
Finance.

S.2454 Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Water Reuse and Resiliency Act The legislation would authorize $1
billion over five years for the EPA’s
Pilot Program for Alternative Water
Source Projects grants program. This
is an increase from the $125 million
over five years authorized for the
program in the Drinking Water and
Wastewater Infrastructure Act passed
by the Senate in April.

The legislation was introduced on July
22, 2021 and referred to the Senate
Committee on Environment and Public
Works.

H.R.4915 Rep. Tom McClintock (RCA)
Water Supply Permitting
Coordination Act
The legislation would authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to
coordinate Federal and State
permitting processes related to the
construction of new surface water
storage projects on lands under the
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the
Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture and to designate the
Bureau of Reclamation as the lead
agency for permit processing.

The legislation was introduced on
August 3, 2021 and referred to the
House Committee on Natural
Resources.

H.R.4979 /
S.1783
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
/ Rep. Jeff Merkley (DOR)
Maintaining Access to Essential
Services Act
The legislation provides $13.5 billion
in low-interest loans to public and
private water utilities, which will be
forgiven when the utility forgives
household water arrears; and
provides $13 billion in low-interest
loans to power utilities, which will be
forgiven when the utility forgives
household arrears. The legislation
also provides $13 billion in lowinterest loans to broadband utilities, which will be forgiven when the
utility forgives household arrears. The
bill Requires loan recipients to
The legislation in the House was
introduced on August 6, 2021 and was
referred to the House Committees on
Financial Services and Ways and
Means.

The legislation in the Senate was
introduced on May 20, 2021 and was
referred to the Senate Committee on

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Finance.
suspend utility shutoffs and restore
any disconnected service, suspend
late fees and charges, stop the sale of
household debt to debt collectors,
stop placing or selling liens on
households due to outstanding utility
debt, and stop filing adverse reports
on households due to unpaid utility
bills to credit agencies.

H.R. 4976 Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) Ensuring PFAS Cleanup Meets or Exceeds Stringent Standards Act
The legislation directs the Secretary
of Defense to ensure that removal
and remedial actions relating to PFAS
contamination result in levels
meeting or exceeding certain
standards.

The legislation was introduced in the
House on August 6, 2021 and was
referred to the House Committees on
Armed Services, Transportation and
Infrastructure, and Energy and
Commerce.

S.2372 /
H.R.2773
Sen. Heinrich, Martin (DNM) / Representative
Debbie Dingell (D-MI)
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of
2021
The legislation would fund
conservation efforts for more than
12,000 species of wildlife and plants
in need of assistance by providing
$1.3 billion in dedicated annual
funding for proactive, on-the-ground
efforts across the country, ensure
wildlife recovery efforts will be
guided by the Congressionallymandated State Wildlife Action Plans, which identify specific strategies to
restore the populations of species of
greatest conservation need,
accelerate the recovery of 1,600 U.S.
species already listed as threatened
or endangered under the Endangered
Species Act, and include
improvements to ensure funds are
appropriately targeted to the areas of
greatest need and facilitate additional
investments in protecting at-risk
plant species.

The legislation was introduced on July
15, 2021 and referred to the
Committee on Environment and Public
Works.

The House bill was introduced on April

22. The House Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and
Wildlife held a hearing on the
legislation on July 29, 2021. On January
19, the legislation passed out of the
House Natural Resources Committee by
a vote of 29-15 and now moves on to
consideration on the House floor.

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In the Senate, RAWA also directs fees
and penalties assessed for
environmental violations to help fund
RAWA, using fee and penalty
amounts that aren’t already targeted
for existing environmental funds.

H.R.4602 /
S.3956
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (DCA) / Rep. Lisa McClain
(R-MI) and Sen. Jeff
Merkley (D-OR) / Sen.

Susan Collins (R-ME)
WIPPES Act
The legislation would direct the
Federal Trade Commission to issue
regulations requiring certain products
to have “Do Not Flush” labeling
The legislation was introduced on July
21, 2021 and referred to the
Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Rep. Lowenthal introduced the standalone bill after introducing a similar amendment to the House’s
infrastructure bill.

The Senate bill was introduced on
March 30, 2022.

H.R.6591
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) /
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (DCA)PIPES Act
The legislation would require the
Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency to publish a rule
that establishes standards for the
flushability of disposable nonwoven
wipes.

The legislation was introduced on
February 3, 2022 and was referred to
the House Committee on Energy and
Commerce.

S. 2806 /
H.R. 3534
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (DCA) / Rep. Jimmy Panetta
(D-CA)
Wildfire Emergency Act of 2021
Amongst other things, the legislation
authorizes $250 million over 5 years
for up to 20 Forest Service projects of
100,000 acres or greater; Establish a
new $100 million grant program to
assist critical facilities like hospitals
and police stations become more
energy efficient and better adapted
to function during power shutoffs;
Establishes one or more Prescribed
Fire Centers to coordinate research
and training of foresters and forest
managers in the western United
States in the latest methods and
The Senate legislation was introduced
on September 22, 2021 and referred to
the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources.

The House bill was introduced on May
25, 2021 and was referred to the
Subcommittee on Conservation and
Forestry.

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innovations in prescribed fire
(controlled burns) practices.

S. 3011 /
H.R. 5735
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) /
Rep. Dusty Johnson (RSD)
State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial
Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and
Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
The legislation provides additional
flexibility for States, Tribes, and units
of local government to spend their
allocations of the COVID Relief Funds
on certain infrastructure projects,
including water, wastewater, and
broadband infrastructure projects.

The bill also allows these funds to be
used to provide emergency relief
from natural disasters. There is a
cap—the greater of $10 million or
30% of the funds—on how much of
the COVID money can be spent on
these new purposes.

The legislation was introduced on
October 19, 2021 and passed the
Senate by unanimous consent that day.

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) is an
original cosponsor of the legislation.

The act was introduced in the House on
October 26 and referred to the House
Committee on Oversight and Reform.

H.R. 6461 /
S. 3531
Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) /
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)
National Climate Adaptation and
Resilience Strategy Act
The legislation creates a Chief
Resilience Officer, among other
positions, that will assist the
President to streamline the federal
response to climate hazards that
threaten human health, safety, and
critical infrastructure.

The act also calls for a Climate
Adaptation and Resilience Strategy
that outlines the federal
government’s response to climate
hazards such as sea level rise,
drought, biodiversity loss, and coastal
bank erosion.

The legislation was introduced in the
House on January 20, 2022 and
referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce.

The legislation was introduced in the
Senate on January 20, 2022, read twice,
and referred to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Government
Affairs.

H.R. 6396 Rep. Earl Blumenauer (DOR) Climate RESILIENCE Act The act amends FEMA's disaster
definition to include extreme
temperature events, like heat waves
and freezes; changes FEMA's
definitions and cost share eligibility
requirements for disadvantaged
communities and underserved
communities; includes a focus on
The legislation was introduced in the
House on January 13, 2022 and
referred to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure.

The legislation has 32 cosponsors,
including 8 members of the California
delegation.

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resiliency planning and investments;
provides both financial and nonfinancial technical assistance for hazard mitigation planning, as well as
for grant applications for small
impoverished and disadvantaged
communities; and expands PreDisaster Mitigation Assistance funding to address FEMA’s
oversubscription issues.

H.R.6492 Rep. Pramila Jayapal (DWA) Climate Resilience Workforce Act The bill establishes a climate
resilience workforce in communities
most affected by the climate crisis. It
also funds the development of
regional, state, local, and communitybased climate resilience action plans.

The legislation creates an Office of
Climate Resilience within the White
House, starts new workforce
development programs, and removes
barriers to employment in climate
resilience jobs based on immigration
status and prior involvement with the
criminal justice system.

The legislation was introduced in the
House on January 25, 2022 and
referred to the Subcommittee on
Conservation and Forestry.

The legislation has 38 cosponsors,
including 9 members of the California
delegation.

H.R. 6989 Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) Housing for All Act of 2022 This legislation would address critical
affordable housing shortages in
California and across the country by
investing in hotel and motel
conversions to permanent supportive
housing with supportive services;
investing in the Eviction Protection
Grant Program; investing in mobile
crisis intervention teams to help
those with medical or psychological
needs avoid the criminal justice
system; investing in libraries that
support people experiencing
homelessness; investing in programs
that offer a safe place to park
overnight and facilitate access to
The legislation was introduced in the
House on March 8, 2022 and referred
to the Subcommittee on Highways and
Transit.

The legislation has 14 cosponsors,
including 12 members of the California
delegation.

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rehousing services and essential
services; and investing in inclusive,
transit-oriented development and
infill development
S. 623 Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 This bill makes daylight saving time
the new, permanent standard time,
effective November 5, 2023.

The legislation passed the Senate on
March 15, 2022 and sent to the House.

Enacted Legislation (Removed after 2 months)
H.R. 2471 Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (DNY)
Consolidated Appropriations Act,
2022
This $1.5 trillion bill provides
appropriations to federal agencies for
the remainder of FY22, provides
supplemental appropriations for
activities to support Ukraine, and
modifies or establishes various
programs that address a wide range
of policy areas. The bill includes the
12 regular appropriations bills that
fund federal agencies for FY2022.

The legislation passed the House on
March 9, 2022 and passed the Senate
the following day.

President Biden signed the bill into law
on March 15, 2022.

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FROM: Anthony, Jason & Paul Gonsalves
SUBJECT: Legislative Update
DATE: Monday, March 14, 2022
______________________________________________________________________________

STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
February 18th was the bill introduction deadline for introducing new legislation. All new bills This year, the Assembly introduced 1,361 new bills and the Senate introduced 660 new bills, for a total of 2,021 newly introduced bills for the 2022 legislative session.

All new bills must be in print for 30 days before they can be heard in committee. There were a total of 421 Assembly bills and 218 Senate bills that were “intent” or “spot bills”, meaning they currently do not contain substantive language. The figures above only include bills; they do not include resolutions or constitutional amendments. We will continue to monitor all bills as they are amended and vetted through the process and keep you apprised.

Additionally, the Legislature opened the “Swing Space” (1021 O Street building) to the public on March 1, 2022. There is limited space for meetings in Legislators office’s, therefore, all meetings must take place in 1 of the 8 conference rooms in the building. The conference rooms, which can hold between 5-12 people, must be reserved through the Sergeant-at-Arms. Reserving rooms for outside organizations is not permitted as they are reserved for legislative business. The conference rooms are marked for social distancing, creating lower capacities than usual, and masks must be worn at all times. Committee hearings will be open to the public and will provide for in-person public testimony as long as individuals are following the COVID-19 protocols (masks, distancing, etc.).

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LEGISLATIVE TURNOVER
2022 is an election year for all members of the State Assembly and half of the State Senate. This, coupled with reapportionment, has caused a mass exodus from the legislature. 5 Legislators have resigned and over 20 Legislators have announced they will not be seeking reelection.

State Senate
Half of the State Senate seats are up for reelection every two years. 7 Senators are termed out in 2022, which includes Senator’s Bates, Hertzberg, Hueso, Melendez, Nielsen, Pan, and Wieckowski. 3 Senators are not running for re-election, which includes Senator’s Borgeas, Kamlager, and Leyva. 6 Senators are running for re-election this November for their final 4-year term, which includes Senator’s Allen, Caballero, Grove, Jones, McGuire, and Umberg. 10 Senators will be termed out in 2024, which include Senator’s Atkins, Bradford, Dahle, Dodd, Eggman, Glazer, Portantino, Roth, Skinner, and Wilk.

State Assembly
All State Assembly seats are up for reelection every two years. There are no Assembly Members who are termed out in 2022. 9 Assemblymember’s have decide to retire and not seek reelection, which includes Assemblymember’s Bigelow, Bloom, Cunningham, Mayes, Medina, Nazarian, O’Donnell, Quirk, and Stone. Only 8 Assembly Members are running for re-election in 2022 for their final term, which includes Assemblymember’s Cooley, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Maienschein, Patterson, Rendon, Rodriguez, Ting, and Waldron.

Due to the vacancies from the resignation of Assemblymember’s Burke, Chau, Chiu, Frazer, and Gonzalez, 5 special elections will be held in 2022 to fill vacancies. Mike Fong has already taken Assemblymember Ed Chau’s seat; so, 4 vacancies remain to be filled this year. 24 Assembly Members are termed out in 2024, which includes Assemblymember’s Bigelow, Bloom, Chau, Cooley, Daly, Frazier, C. Garcia, Gonzalez, Gray, Holden, Jones-sawyer, Levine, Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Nazarian, Patterson, Quirk, Rendon, Rodriguez, Salas, Stone, Ting, and Waldron.
18 Assembly Members are termed out in 2026, which includes Assemblymember’s Arambula, Burke, Chiu, Cooper, Gallagher, E. Garcia, Gipson, Irwin, Lackey, Low, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Muratsuchi, O’Donnell, Quirk-Silva, Santiago, and Wood. Of the 18 Assemblymember’s who would term out in 2026, 5 have already decided against running. They include Assemblymember’s Burke, Chiu, Cooper, Mayes, and O’Donnell.

Legislative Turnover Summary:
2022 marks one of the biggest turnovers in the California Legislature since 2012, when the first group of 12-year term limit legislators entered office. It is likely that 30 Senators will continue in

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2023, assuming re-election of those on the ballot in November. This means that 25% of the Senate will be new to the legislature in December.

It is likely that 57 Assembly Members will continue in 2023, assuming re-election of those on the ballot in November. This number does not count the 5 who will be elected to office in special elections this year. Therefore, 29% of the Assembly will be new legislators in December.

With at least 33 new legislators being elected to the California Legislature in November, the start of the 2023-24 Session will have a lot of new faces – at least 27% of the 120-member Legislature.

INITIATIVE UPDATE
As of March 14, 2022, 37 ballot initiatives have cleared for circulation. Of those 37, four have qualified for the ballot in California for elections in 2022. The following will provide you with a summary of each proposition:

1. California Legalize Sports Betting on American Indian Lands Initiative The California Legalize Sports Betting on American Indian Lands Initiative has qualified for the ballot in California as a combined initiated constitutional amendment and state statute on November 8, 2022.

A "yes" vote supports this ballot initiative to (i) legalize sports betting at American Indian gaming casinos and licensed racetracks in California; (ii) tax profits derived from sports betting at racetracks at 10%; and (iii) legalize roulette and dice games, such as craps, at tribal casinos.

A "no" vote opposes this ballot initiative, thus continuing to prohibit sports betting in California and roulette and dice games at tribal casinos
Overview:

The ballot measure would legalize sports betting at American Indian gaming casinos and licensed racetracks in California. The ballot measure would define sports betting as wagering on the results of professional, college, or amateur sport and athletic events, with the exception of high school sports and events featuring a California college team. Individuals would need to be 21 years of age to engage in legal sports betting.

The ballot measure would enact a tax of 10% on profits derived from sports betting at racetracks.

The state government would be required to distribute the revenue as follows:
(a) 15% to the California Department of Health for researching, developing, and implementing programs for problem gambling prevention and mental health and providing grants to local governments to address problem gambling and mental health; (b) 15% to the Bureau of Gambling Control for enforcing and implementing sports wagering and other forms of gaming within the state;
(c) 70% to the General Fund.

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The ballot measure would also legalize roulette and dice games, such as craps, at tribal casinos; however, tribal-state compacts would need to be amended before these games can be offered.

The Coalition to Authorize Regulated Sports Wagering is leading the campaign in support of the ballot initiative. The coalition is supported by several American Indian tribes, including the top donors to the campaign—the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. The campaign had raised $12.93 million.

Taxpayers Against Special Interest Monopolies is leading the campaign against the proposal.

The campaign, along with a terminated PAC No on the Gambling Power Grab, raised $25.29 million. The top donors to the opposition were gambling-related companies, including the California Commerce Club, Hawaiian Gardens Casino, Park West Casinos, The Bicycle Hotel & Casino, PT Gaming LLC, and Knighted Ventures LLC.

Fiscal impact:

Increased state revenues, potentially reaching the tens of millions of dollars annually, from payments made by facilities offering sports wagering and new civil penalties authorized by this measure. Some portion of these revenues would reflect a shift from other existing state and local revenues. Increased state regulatory costs, potentially reaching the low tens of millions of dollars annually. Some or all of these costs would be offset by the increased revenue or reimbursements to the state. Increased state enforcement costs, not likely to exceed several million dollars annually, related to a new civil enforcement tool for enforcing certain gaming laws.

Support and Opposition
Support:

American Indian Tribes
• Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
• Barona Band of Mission Indians
• Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians
• Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians
• Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
• Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria
• Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
• Morongo Band of Mission Indians
• Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians
• Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians
• San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
• Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi-Yokut Tribe
• Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
• Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians
• Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation
• Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians
• Wilton Rancheria
• Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation

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Organizations
• California Thoroughbred Breeders Association
Opposition:

Corporations
• Bicycle Casino
• Elevation Entertainment Group
• Hawaiian Gardens Casino
• Hollywood Park Casino
• Knighted Ventures LLC
• PT Gaming LLC
• Parkwest Casinos

2. California Changes to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Cap Initiative The California Changes to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Cap Initiative has qualified for the ballot in California as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.

A "yes" vote supports this ballot initiative to increase California's $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits based on changes in inflation since 1975 and allow judges and juries to award damages above the cap for catastrophic injuries.

A "no" vote opposes this ballot initiative, therefore keeping California's cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits at $250,000.

Overview
The ballot initiative would increase California's cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits based on changes in inflation since 1975, which is when the cap on noneconomic damages was enacted. In 1975, the cap was set at $250,000. The ballot initiative would require an annual adjustment of the cap based on inflation.

The ballot initiative would allow judges and juries to award damages above the cap for catastrophic injuries, defined as death, permanent physical impairment, permanent disfigurement, permanent disability, or permanent loss of consortium. The ballot initiative would also replace language about noneconomic damages with quality of life damages and survivor damages.

The Fairness for Injured Patients Act Coalition is leading the campaign in support of the ballot initiative. Through December 31, 2021, the campaign received $5.41 million, including $3.81 million from trial lawyer Nicolas Rowley and $500,000 from Trial Lawyers for Justice.

Californians to Protect Patients and Contain Health Care Costs is leading the campaign in opposition to the ballot initiative. Through December 31, 2021, the campaign received $29.70

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million, including $6.15 million from The Doctors Company and $5.00 million from Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

Fiscal Impact:

Increased state and local government health care costs predominantly from raising or removing the cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases, likely ranging from the low tens of millions of dollars to the high hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Support and Opposition:

Supporters
• Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer
• Consumer Watchdog
• Trial Lawyers for Justice
• Nicolas Rowley
Opposition:
• Medical Insurance Exchange of California
• The Doctors Company
• California Medical Association
• Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

3. California Plastic Waste Reduction Regulations Initiative The California Plastic Waste Reduction Regulations Initiative has qualified for the ballot in California as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.

A "yes" vote supports this ballot initiative to require CalRecycle to adopt regulations that reduce the use of single-use plastic packaging and enact a maximum one-cent per item fee on single-use plastic packaging and foodware, with revenue from the fee distributed to CalRecycle, the California Natural Resources Agency, and local governments.

A "no" vote opposes this ballot initiative, thus not requiring CalRecycle to adopt regulations that reduce the use of single-use plastic packaging nor enacting a fee on single-use plastic packaging and foodware.

Overview
The ballot initiative would require the California Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery (CalRecycle), in consultation with other agencies, to adopt regulations that reduce the use of single-use plastic packaging and foodware, including:
• requiring producers to ensure that single-use plastic packaging and foodware is recyclable, reusable, refillable, or compostable by 2030; • requiring producers to reduce or eliminate single-use plastic packaging or foodware that CalRecycle determines is unnecessary for product or food item delivery;

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• requiring producers to reduce the amount of single-use plastic packaging and foodware sold in California by at least 25 percent by 2030;
• requiring producers to use recycled content and renewable materials in the production of single-use plastic packaging and foodware;
• establishing "mechanisms for convenient consumer access to recycling," including takeback programs and deposits; • establishing and enforcing labeling standards to support the sorting of discarded singleuse plastic packaging and foodware; and • prohibiting food vendors from distributing expanded polystyrene food service containers.

The ballot initiative would also enact a fee, called the California Plastic Pollution Reduction Fee, on single-use plastic packaging and foodware. CalRecycle would determine the fee amount with a maximum amount of 1 cent per item of packaging or foodware. Beginning in 2030, the fee would be adjusted based on changes in the California Consumer Price Index.

Fiscal Impact:

State revenue from new tax on single-use plastic packaging and foodware likely in the range of a few billion dollars annually. Revenues would be used to administer and implement programs intended to reduce waste, increase recycling, and restore habitats. Unknown net effect on local governments. There would likely be increased costs for waste collecting and sorting which might be partially or fully offset by new tax revenue, payments from producers to support recycling, or lower costs associated with a reduction in total plastic waste collected.

Revenue from the fee would be distributed to CalRecycle, the California Natural Resources Agency, and local governments as follows:
• 50% to CalRecycle for implementing and enforcing the measure and providing funds for statewide recycling, reduction, and composting efforts; • 30% to the California Natural Resources Agency for state and local grants to address the environmental impacts of plastic pollution, such as habitat restoration; and • 20% to local governments for recycling and composting programs and plastic pollution mitigation.

Support and Opposition:

Support:

Officials
• State Asm. Luz Maria Rivas (D)
Corporations
• Recology, Inc.

Organizations
• Corn Refiners Association
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Save The Bay
• Surfrider Foundation
• The Nature Conservancy

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Opposition:

Corporations:
• American Chemistry Council

4. California Flavored Tobacco Products Ban Referendum
The California Flavored Tobacco Products Ban Referendum is on the ballot in California as a veto referendum on November 8, 2022.

A "yes" vote is to uphold the contested legislation, Senate Bill 793 (SB 793), which would ban the sale of flavored tobacco products.

A "no" vote is to repeal the contested legislation, Senate Bill 793 (SB 793), thus keeping the sale of flavored tobacco legal in the state.

Overview:

Proponents of the veto referendum seek to overturn Senate Bill 793 (SB 793), which was signed into law on August 28, 2020. SB 793 was designed to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products and tobacco product flavor enhancers, with exceptions for hookah tobacco, loose leaf tobacco, and premium cigars. Retailers would be fined $250 for each sale violating the law.

The California State Legislature passed SB 793 in August 2020. The legislation received support from most legislative Democrats (84 of 89) and a quarter of legislative Republicans (8 of 30).

One legislator voted against the bill, and the remaining legislators were absent or abstained. State Sen. Jerry Hill (D-13), the legislative sponsor of SB 793, said, "Using candy, fruit and other alluring flavors, the tobacco industry weaponized its tactics to beguile a new generation into nicotine addiction while keeping longtime users hooked. SB 793 breaks Big Tobacco’s death grip."
The California Fuels & Convenience Alliance, which opposed SB 793, described the flavored tobacco ban as "misguided policy that will do more harm than good" and "hurt small businesses, eliminate necessary tax revenue, and perpetuate dangerous and avoidable police interactions in our communities."
The California Coalition for Fairness is campaigning for the veto referendum to repeal SB 793.

Through December 31, 2021, the campaign had received $21.16 million, including $10.33 million from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and $9.83 million from Philip Morris USA.

Fiscal Impact:

There is no fiscal impact related to this initiative.

Support and Opposition:

Support:

Corporations
• ITG Brands, LLC

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• Philip Morris USA, Inc.
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
• Swedish Match North America, LLC
Organizations
• National Association of Tobacco Outlets
Opposition:

Officials
• Governor Gavin Newsom
CALIFORNIA TAX FOUNDATION: TAX AND FEE REPORT
On March 10, 2022, the California Tax Foundation released their “Tax and Fee Report.” The report found that during the first two months of 2022, state lawmakers considered raising annual taxes and fees by more than $190 billion. Despite the state’s reserves of more than $34.6 billion, a windfall of unexpected tax revenue (nearly $16 billion above projections during the first seven months of the 2021-22 fiscal year alone) and a projected surplus of $45.7 billion, there were a total of 39 proposals with higher taxes or fees. Although the cost to taxpayers cannot be quantified for 31 of the measures, the remaining eight represent a cumulative total of $190 billion in additional taxes and fees if all were approved.

The following link will provide you with a copy of the report: Tax and Fee Report.

LEGISLATIVE DEADLINES
The following will provide you with relevant dates and deadlines for the 2022 Legislative session:

February 18, 2022: Last day for new bills to be introduced.

April 7-18, 2022: Spring Recess
April 29, 2022: Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal committees fiscal bills introduced in their house.

May 6, 2022: Last day for policy committees to hear and report to the floor nonfiscal bills introduced in their house.

May 13, 2022: Last day for policy committees to meet prior to May 31 May 20, 2022: Last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the floor bills introduced in their house. Last day for fiscal committees to meet prior to May 31

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May 27, 2022: Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house June 15, 2022: Budget Bill must be passed by midnight
June 30, 2022: Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the Nov. 8, 2022 General Election ballot
July 1, 2022: Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills July 1- August 1, 2022: Summer Recess
August 12, 2022: Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills August 15 – 31, 2022: Floor session only. No committee may meet for any purpose except Rules Committee.

August 25, 2022: Last day to amend bills on the floor
August 31, 2022: Last day for each house to pass bills. Final Recess begins upon adjournment

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Weekly Legislative Report
Thursday, March 31, 2022
AB 169 (Ting D) Budget Act of 2021.

Current Text: Amended: 3/11/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2021
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

Location: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would amend the Budget Act of 2021 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.

AB 769 (Grayson D) Corporations: meetings: state of emergency.

Current Text: Chaptered: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2021
Status: 3/28/2022-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 12, Statutes of 2022.

Location: Assembly Chaptered
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of a corporation, nonprofit public benefit corporation, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, nonprofit religious corporation, or cooperative corporation. Current law authorizes meetings of shareholders or members, as applicable, to be held at any place as stated or fixed in the bylaws, as specified, and provides that, subject to certain conditions, shareholders or members not physically present may participate in a meeting, be deemed present, and vote by electronic transmission by and to the corporation, electronic video screen communication, conference telephone, or other means of remote communication. Current law prohibits conducting a meeting of shareholders or members solely by electronic transmission, electronic video screen communication, conference telephone, or other remote communications unless all of the shareholders or members consent or the board determines it is necessary or appropriate because of an emergency, as defined. This bill would authorize shareholders or members, as applicable, to also conduct a meeting of shareholders or members solely by electronic transmission by and to the corporation, electronic video screen communication, conference telephone, or other means of remote communication if the meeting is conducted on or before June 30, 2022. This bill contains other related provisions.

AB 1632 (Weber, Akilah D) Restroom access: medical conditions.

Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

Location: Assembly Health
Calendar: 4/19/2022 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, WOOD, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, if certain conditions are met, require a place of business open to the general public for the sale of goods or services that has a toilet facility for its employees to allow any individual who is lawfully on the premises of that place of business to use that toilet facility during normal business hours, even if the place of business does not normally make the employee toilet facility available to the general public. A willful or grossly negligent violation of this requirement would be a civil penalty, not exceeding $100 per violation.

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AB 1670 (Bryan D) Criminal justice: Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration.

Current Text: Amended: 2/23/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/19/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

13. Noes 2.) (March 29).

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar: 3/31/2022 #4 ASSEMBLY SECOND READING FILE -- ASSEMBLY BILLS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would create the Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to study alternatives to incarceration, alternative crisis response models, and the effects of family separation in the jail and state prison systems.

AB 1690 (Rivas, Luz D) Tobacco and cannabis products: single-use components.

Current Text: Amended: 3/1/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: Assembly Health
Calendar: 4/5/2022 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, WOOD, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act, an enforcing agency, as defined, may assess civil penalties against any person, firm, or corporation that sells, gives, or furnishes specified tobacco and cigarette related items, including cigarette papers, to a person who is under 21 years of age, except as specified. This bill would prohibit a person or entity from selling, giving, or furnishing to another person of any age in this state a cigarette utilizing a single-use filter made of any material, a single-use plastic device meant to facilitate manual manipulation or filtration of a cigar, a single-use electronic cigarette, or a singleuse integrated cannabis vaporizer.

AB 1713 (Boerner Horvath D) Vehicles: required stops: bicycles.

Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/26/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (March 28).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a person who is 18 years of age or older riding a bicycle upon a two-lane highway when approaching a stop sign at the entrance of an intersection with another roadway with two or fewer lanes, where stop signs are erected upon all approaches, to yield the right-of-way to any vehicles that have either stopped at or entered the intersection, or that are approaching on the intersecting highway close enough to constitute an immediate hazard, and to pedestrians, as specified, and continue to yield the rightof-way to those vehicles and pedestrians until reasonably safe to proceed. The bill would require other vehicles to yield the right-of-way to a bicycle that, having yielded as prescribed, has entered the intersection.

The bill would state that these provisions do not affect the liability of a driver of a motor vehicle as a result of the driver’s negligent or wrongful act or omission in the operation of a motor vehicle. The bill would impose a warning citation for a first violation by a person who is under 18 years of age and fails to stop when approaching a stop sign at the entrance of an intersection.

AB 1751 (Daly D) Workers’ compensation: COVID-19: critical workers.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/1/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/1/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (March 30).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines "injury" for an employee to include illness or death resulting from the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) under specified circumstances, until January 1, 2023. Existing law create a disputable presumption, as specified, that the injury arose out of and in the course of the employment and is compensable, for specified dates of injury. Current law requires an employee to exhaust their paid sick leave benefits and meet specified certification requirements before receiving any temporary disability benefits or, for police officers, firefighters, and other specified employees, a leave of absence.

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Existing law also make a claim relating to a COVID-19 illness presumptively compensable, as described above, after 30 days or 45 days, rather than 90 days. Current law, until January 1, 2023, allows for a presumption of injury for all employees whose fellow employees at their place of employment experience specified levels of positive testing, and whose employer has 5 or more employees. This bill would extend the above-described provisions relating to COVID-19 until January 1, 2025.

AB 1797 (Weber, Akilah D) Immunization registry.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

Location: Assembly Health
Calendar: 4/19/2022 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, WOOD, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes local health officers and the State Department of Public health to operate immunization information systems. Current law, except as provided, authorizes health care providers and other agencies, including, among others, schools, childcare facilities, family childcare homes, and county human services agencies, to disclose specified immunization information with local health departments and the State Department of Public Health, and authorizes local health departments and the department to disclose that same information to each other and to health care providers, schools, childcare facilities, family childcare homes, and county human services agencies, among others, as specified. Current law specifies the immunization, patient, or client information that may be disclosed, which includes, among other things, patient or client demographic information, immunization data, adverse reactions to the immunization, or other information needed to identify the patient or client or to comply with other laws. This bill would instead require health care providers and other agencies, including schools, childcare facilities, family childcare homes, and county human services agencies to disclose the specified immunization information, and would add the patient’s or client’s race or ethnicity to the list of information that shall or may be disclosed.

AB 1814 (Grayson D) Transportation electrification: community choice aggregators.

Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

Location: Assembly U. & E.

Calendar: 4/6/2022 Upon adjournment of Communications and Conveyance Committee - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY UTILITIES AND ENERGY, GARCIA, EDUARDO, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution and the Public Utilities Act vest the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Current law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the State Air Resources Board, to direct electrical corporations to file applications for programs and investments to accelerate widespread transportation electrification to reduce dependence on petroleum, meet air quality standards, achieve the goals set forth in the Charge Ahead California Initiative, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. Current law requires that those programs proposed by electrical corporations seek to minimize overall costs and maximize overall benefits. The bill would prohibit the programs and investments proposed by community choice aggregators from deploying infrastructure in front of a meter.

AB 1816 (Bryan D) Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/7/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6.

Noes 2.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the Housing for a Healthy California Program, and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program. Upon appropriation by the Legislature for this express purpose, this bill would require the department to create the Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program, and would require the department to take specified actions to provide grants to applicants, as defined, for innovative or evidence-based housing, housing-based services, and employment interventions to allow people with recent histories of incarceration to exit homelessness and remain stably housed.

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AB 1855 (Nazarian D) Senior centers: fairs and farmers’ markets.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C.

Location: Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Senior Center Bond Act of 1984, provides for the sale of general obligation bonds, and requires the California Department of Aging to make awards to private nonprofit agencies for the purpose of acquiring, renovating, constructing, and purchasing equipment for senior centers, funding startup costs of programs, or program expansion of senior center programs. This bill would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for this purpose, require the department to establish a 3-year pilot program in the County of Los Angeles, and would require the department to allocate funds to the area agencies on aging in the County of Los Angeles, which shall use the funds to provide grants to senior centers to host fairs and farmers’ markets at the senior centers, as specified. The bill would require a senior center that receives a grant to use the grant funds to purchase items needed to host the fair or farmers’ market, conduct outreach to local vendors, and offer subsidies to local vendors in order to offer discounts to seniors for goods sold. The bill would require the department to submit a report to the Legislature evaluating the pilot program, and would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.

AB 1931 (Rivas, Luz D) Community water systems: lead pipes.

Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.

Location: Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a community water system to replace or remove all lead service lines, as defined, in their entirety. The bill would require the community water system to undertake specified mitigation best practices, including providing written notice to the owner and residents of all buildings and units served by the line, as specified, before commencing the replacement, removal, or disturbance, as defined. The bill would require the community water system to replace or remove the entire service line, when replacing or removing a lead service line, within 30 days of the start of construction, unless the community water system does not own the entire service line, as specified. The bill would prohibit a person or community water system from performing a partial lead service line replacement. This bill contains other existing laws.

AB 1945 (Aguiar-Curry D) Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish and administer the Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program to fund the predevelopment expenses, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of property to develop or preserve affordable housing in the state’s declared disaster areas that have experienced damage and loss of homes occupied by or affecting lower income households. The bill would require the department to establish an application process for community development financial institutions, as defined, to apply for emergency short-term or temporary loans under the program.

AB 1953 (Maienschein D) Drinking water: accessible water bottle refill stations.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.

Location: Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Calendar: 4/5/2022 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS, QUIRK, Chair

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require, by January 1, 2025, the owner or operator of a transit hub, local park, public building, publicly owned building, shopping mall, or municipal golf course that has a water infrastructure source to install and maintain at least one, or maintain at least one existing, accessible water bottle refill station, as prescribed and except as specified. The bill would also require those owners and operators that have a water bottle refill station that is not accessible to upgrade, by January 1, 2025, the water bottle refill station to an accessible water bottle refill station.

AB 1978 (Ward D) Department of Housing and Community Development: powers.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to, among other things, administer various programs intended to fund the acquisition of property to develop or preserve affordable housing. Current law grants the department various powers and duties, including, among other things, the power to provide advice, technical information, and consultative and technical services. This bill would authorize the department, in administering those programs, to (1) publish a notice of funding availability and application deadlines ahead of, and contingent upon, availability of funding, (2) issue funding to an award recipient up-front rather than as a reimbursement, and (3) provide technical assistance to applicants that meet program submission deadlines to correct technical errors or provide missing information.

AB 1993 (Wicks D) Employment: COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: Assembly Labor and Employment
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require an employer to require each person who is an employee or independent contractor, and who is eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, to show proof to the employer, or an authorized agent thereof, that the person has been vaccinated against COVID-19. This bill would establish an exception from this vaccination requirement for a person who is ineligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine due to a medical condition or disability or because of a sincerely held religious belief, as specified, and would require compliance with various other state and federal laws. The bill would require proof-of-vaccination status to be obtained in a manner that complies with federal and state privacy laws and not be retained by the employer, unless the person authorizes the employer to retain proof.

AB 2062 (Salas D) Local law enforcement hiring grants.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act and until January 1, 2029, require the Board of State and Community Corrections to establish a grant program to provide $50,000,000 in grants to local law enforcement agencies to incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities and to live in the communities that they are serving. The bill would require grant funds to be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work. The bill would require local law enforcement agencies that receive grants to report specified information to the board annually and would require the board to report to the Legislature and the Governor’s office on the efficacy of the program, as prescribed, on or before July 1, 2028.

AB 2164 (Lee D) Disability access: funding.

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Current Text: Amended: 3/23/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the California Building Standards Code require that specified buildings, structures, and facilities be accessible to, and usable by, persons with disabilities. Current law establishes a Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, within the Division of the State Architect for purposes of increasing disability access and compliance with construction-related accessibility requirements and developing educational resources for businesses to facilitate compliance with federal and state disability laws, as specified. This bill would expand the purpose of the fund to include providing financial assistance to small businesses, as defined, for construction of physical accessibility improvements.

AB 2186 (Grayson D) Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program.

Current Text: Amended: 3/23/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar: 4/5/2022 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WICKS, Chair
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program, to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, for the purpose of reimbursing cities, counties, and cities and counties for development impact fee reductions provided to qualified housing developments, as defined, and for the reasonable interest costs associated with impact fee deferrals. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the department to provide grants to applicants in an amount equal to 50% of the amount of development impact fee reduced for a qualified housing development and grants to applicants in an amount equal to the accrued interest on a deferred development impact fee, as provided. This bill would require the department to administer these grants by issuing a Notice of Funding Availability before December 31 of the year that the program receives funding, as specified, and accepting grant applications after the subsequent year. The bill would require an applicant that receives a grant under the program to use those funds solely for those purposes for which the development impact fee that was reduced or deferred would have been used. The bill would require the department to adopt guidelines to implement the program and exempt those guidelines from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.

AB 2252 (Aguiar-Curry D) Broadband infrastructure: disasters: reports.

Current Text: Amended: 3/3/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.M. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (March 23).

Re-referred to Com. on E.M.

Location: Assembly Emergency Management
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, following a state or local disaster for which the Governor has issued a declaration of emergency, require the Public Utilities Commission, within 12 months of the declaration of the emergency, to collect specified information from broadband service providers relating to the provider’s efforts to restore, repair, or replace broadband infrastructure that was damaged as a result of the disaster, as specified. The bill would require that the information collected from broadband service providers by the commission be broken down by each disaster, submitted annually in a report by the commission to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, and posted in a conspicuous area on the commission’s internet website. The bill would authorize the commission to make that information public, consistent with the commission’s procedures.

AB 2258 (Wood D) Property Assessed Clean Energy program: wildfire safety improvements.

Current Text: Amended: 3/30/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L.

GOV. Read second time and amended.

Location: Assembly Local Government
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a legislative body of any public agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, that has accepted the designation of very high fire hazard severity zone to designate an area for contractual assessments to finance the installation of wildfire safety improvements, as defined, that are permanently fixed to real property. This bill would instead authorize a public agency that has established a PACE program, as specified, to enter into voluntary contractual assessments with property owners to finance the installation of wildfire safety improvements, as defined, that are permanently fixed to real property and would provide that wildfire resiliency and safety improvements that contribute to the defensible space Zones 1 and 2 of a property, as specified, are wildfire safety improvements for purposes of those provisions.

AB 2264 (Bloom D) Pedestrian crossing signals.

Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 28).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines a traffic-actuated signal as an official traffic signal, as specified, that displays one or more of its indications in response to traffic detected by mechanical, visual, electrical, or other means.

Upon the first placement or replacement of a traffic-actuated signal, as specified, current law requires the traffic-actuated signal to be installed and maintained to detect bicycle or motorcycle traffic on the roadway.

This bill would require a traffic-actuated signal to be installed and maintained to have a leading pedestrian interval, upon the first placement or replacement of a traffic-actuated signal. The bill would also require an existing traffic-actuated signal capable of being implemented with remote installation or in-person programming to be programmed with a leading pedestrian interval when maintenance work is done on the intersection in which the traffic-actuated signal is located, if the signal is in a residence, business, or business activity district, a safety corridor, or an area with a high concentration of pedestrians and cyclists, as specified.

AB 2295 (Bloom D) Local educational agencies: housing development projects.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of a city’s or county’s general plan, specific plan, zoning ordinance, or regulation, require that a qualified housing development on land owned by a local educational agency be an authorized use if the housing development complies with certain conditions.

Among these conditions, the bill would require the housing development to consist of at least 10 units, be subject to a recorded deed restriction for at least 55 years requiring that at least 49% 30% of the units have an affordable rent for lower income households, as those terms are defined, at least 20% of the units be occupied by teachers and employees of a local educational agency at rents that do not exceed 120% of the area median income, and 100% of the units be rented by teachers and employees of the local educational agency, except as specified. This bill would authorize a city or county to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards, as defined, that do not conflict with these provisions unless those standards would have the effect of physically precluding the construction of a qualified development project of less than or equal to 3 stories and 30 feet in height. This bill would deem a qualified housing development consistent, compliant, and in conformity with local development standards, zoning codes or maps, and the general plan.

AB 2336 (Friedman D) Vehicles: Speed Safety System Pilot Program.

Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

Location: Assembly P. & C.P.

Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes a basic speed law that prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a

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highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent given the weather, visibility, traffic, and highway conditions, and in no event at a speed that endangers the safety of persons or property. This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2028, the Cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose, and Glendale, one southern California city, and the City and County of San Francisco, to establish the Speed Safety System Pilot Program if the system meets specified requirements. The bill would require the participating cities or city and county to adopt a Speed Safety System Use Policy and a Speed Safety System Impact Report before implementing the program, and would require the city or city and county to engage in a public information campaign at least 30 days before implementation of the program, including information relating to when the systems would begin detecting violations and where the systems would be utilized.

AB 2356 (Rodriguez D) Crimes: theft in concert.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Location: Assembly Public Safety
Calendar: 4/5/2022 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law generally provides that grand theft is theft committed when the money, labor, or real or personal property taken is of a value exceeding $950 and is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. Current law further provides that if 2 or more persons conspire to commit a crime, that conspiracy is punishable as either a misdemeanor or felony, as specified. This bill would additionally provide that grand theft occurs where money, labor, or real or personal property in an aggregate amount exceeding $950 is taken as a result of an agreement or prior arrangement to take and the taking is made in concert with one or more other individuals.

AB 2398 (Villapudua D) Catalytic converters.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.

Location: Assembly Public Safety
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits the removal from a vehicle of any part without the consent of the owner.

Current law requires a core recycler who accepts a catalytic converter for recycling to maintain a written record that contains the name and driver’s license number of the seller of the catalytic converter and a statement indicating either that the seller is the owner of the catalytic converter or the name of the person from whom they obtained the catalytic converter, among other requirements. This bill would make the possession of a detached catalytic converter a crime, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. The bill would make this crime inapplicable to a person who demonstrates authorization to possess the detached catalytic converter by providing a certificate of title or registration showing the person’s interest in the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was detached, written authorization from the person holding the certificate of title or registration, or evidence that the catalytic converter was acquired in a lawful transaction, as provided.

AB 2493 (Chen R) County employees’ retirement: Orange County: disallowed compensation: benefit adjustments.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R.

Location: Assembly Public Employment and Retirement
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act. PEPRA, among other things, establishes new defined benefit formulas and caps on pensionable compensation. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to their employees. CERL authorizes a county retirement system in Los Angeles County to adjust retirement payments due to errors or omissions, as specified. The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) also authorizes its board of administration to adjust retirement payments due to errors or omissions, including for cases in which the retirement systems that the benefits of a member or annuitant are, or would be, based on disallowed compensation that conflicts with PEPRA and other specified laws and is thus impermissible. This bill would similarly authorize a county retirement system in Orange County to adjust retirement payments based on disallowed compensation for sworn peace officers and firefighters of that system. The bill would provide that if the retirement system determines that the

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compensation reported for a sworn peace officer or firefighter of the system is disallowed compensation, as defined, the system would require the county employer or agency to discontinue reporting the disallowed compensation.

AB 2601 (Garcia, Eduardo D) Waste discharge permits: landfills: Mexico border.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.

Location: Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Calendar: 4/5/2022 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS, QUIRK, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 prohibits a regional board from issuing a waste discharge permit for a new landfill, or a lateral expansion of an existing landfill, that is used for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste if the land has been primarily used at any time for the mining or excavation of gravel or sand. Current law authorizes a regional board to grant a variance from that prohibition under specified circumstances, except within the boundaries of the Main San Gabriel Groundwater Basin.

This bill would additionally prohibit a regional board from issuing a waste discharge permit for a new landfill, or a lateral expansion of an existing landfill, that is used for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste if the land is located within 3 miles of the United States border with Mexico. The bill would prohibit a regional board from granting a variance from that prohibition.

AB 2770 (Villapudua D) Income tax: credits: Export Investment Act of 2022.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

Location: Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Calendar: 4/18/2022 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY REVENUE AND TAXATION, IRWIN, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2027, to a qualified taxpayer in an amount equal to the product of $1.50 and the number of tons of additional qualified cargo moved by the qualified taxpayer in the taxable year. The bill would require a qualified taxpayer to submit an application, as specified, to the Franchise Tax Board for certification of qualified cargo and would require the applicant to pay an application fee, as specified. The bill would limit the total aggregate amount of the credit awarded in a taxable year, as specified, and would authorize the Franchise Tax Board to reduce the credit formula, as necessary, if the number of applicants exceeds the total aggregate amount of the credit authorized. This bill would also allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2023, to a qualified taxpayer in an amount equal to the product of $30 and the number of pieces of hired export equipment by the qualified taxpayer in the taxable year.

AB 2780 (Arambula D) Dissolution of redevelopment agencies: enhanced infrastructure financing districts.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law dissolved all redevelopment agencies in accordance with a detailed statutory process and provides for the designation of successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community.

Existing law prohibits a city or county that created a redevelopment agency from initiating the creation of an enhanced infrastructure financing district or participating in the governance or financing of an enhanced infrastructure financing district until certain specified events occur, including that the successor agency for the former redevelopment agency created by the city or county has received a finding of completion, as specified. This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, authorize a successor agency or an entity that created a redevelopment agency to initiate, participate in, govern, or finance an enhanced infrastructure financing district if those specified events have occurred, except the requirement to have received a finding of

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completion, and if the successor agency or entity is in compliance with a settlement agreement it has entered into with the state to resolve any redevelopment agency dissolution issues.

AB 2890 (Bloom D) Property and business improvement districts.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 authorizes local governmental entities to levy assessments on properties and businesses within a property and business improvement district for the purpose of financing certain improvements and promoting activities that benefit property in the district. Current law requires the management district plan for a property-based district to include, among other things, the total amount of all special benefits to be conferred upon the properties located within the property-based district and the total amount of general benefits, if any. This bill would delete those requirements.

SB 833 (Dodd D) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022.

Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2022
Status: 3/25/2022-Set for hearing April 4.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar: 4/4/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law assigns the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission various duties, including applying for and accepting grants, contributions, and appropriations, and awarding grants consistent with the goals and objectives of a program or activity the commission is authorized to implement or administer. This bill, the Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022, would require the commission to develop and implement a grant program for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience objectives and state clean energy and air quality goals.

SB 847 (Hurtado D) COVID-19 relief: tenancy: grant program.

Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/13/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: Senate Judiciary
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The State Rental Assistance Program establishes a program for providing rental assistance, using funding made available pursuant to federal law, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would, until January 1, 2025, create a grant program under the administration of the department and would require the department to award a program grant, as defined, to a qualified applicant who submits a complete application, as defined, on a first-come, first-served basis, except that the bill would require the program to provide grants to all tier one applicants, as defined, before providing grants to other applicants. The bill would define “qualified applicant” to mean a landlord who satisfies certain criteria, including that the landlord has applied for rental assistance funds pursuant to the State Rental Assistance Program and either received a negative final decision, as specified, or the landlord has been notified that an application to the State Rental Assistance Program was submitted, as specified, but 20 days have passed without a final decision being rendered.

SB 852 (Dodd D) Climate resilience districts: formation: funding mechanisms.

Current Text: Amended: 3/9/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Set for hearing April 7.

Location: Senate Gov. & F.

Calendar: 4/7/2022 Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, CABALLERO, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes certain local agencies to form a community revitalization authority (authority) within a community revitalization and investment area, as defined, to carry out provisions of the

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Community Redevelopment Law in that area for purposes related to, among other things, infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic revitalization. Current law provides for the financing of these activities by, among other things, the issuance of bonds serviced by property tax increment revenues, and requires the authority to adopt a community revitalization and investment plan for the community revitalization and investment area that includes elements describing and governing revitalization activities. This bill would authorize a city, county, city and county, special district, or a combination of any of those entities to form a climate resilience district for the purposes of raising and allocating funding for eligible projects and the operating expenses of eligible projects. The bill would define “eligible project” to mean projects that address sea level rise, extreme heat, extreme cold, the risk of wildfire, drought, and the risk of flooding, as specified.

SB 869 (Leyva D) Housing: mobilehome parks: recreational vehicle parks: manager training.

Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, by May 1, 2024, to adopt regulations to require each person employed or acting under contract as an onsite manager or assistant manager, or otherwise acting in an onsite or offsite managerial capacity or role, on behalf of a mobilehome park or recreational vehicle park to receive appropriate training of at least 18 hours during the initial year and an unspecified number of hours of followup training each year thereafter on rules and regulations for the park, among other matters.

SB 896 (Dodd D) Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.

Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/1/2022
Status: 3/25/2022-Set for hearing April 4.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, shrub-covered lands, grasscovered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material to maintain defensible space of 100 feet from each side. Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a statewide program to allow qualified entities, including counties and other political subdivisions of the state, to support and augment the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in its defensible space and home hardening assessment and education efforts. Current law requires the director to establish a common reporting platform that allows defensible space and home hardening assessment data, collected by the qualified entities, to be reported to the department. This bill would require any local government entity that is qualified to conduct these defensible space assessments in very high and high fire hazard severity zones and that reports that information to the department, to report that information using the common reporting platform.

SB 897 (Wieckowski D) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units.

Current Text: Amended: 3/14/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/1/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Set for hearing April 7.

Location: Senate Gov. & F.

Calendar: 4/7/2022 Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, CABALLERO, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Tthe Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. This bill would require that the standards imposed on accessory dwelling units be objective. For purposes of this requirement, the bill would define “objective standard” as a standard that involves no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified.

SB 914 (Rubio D) HELP Act.

Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/2/2022

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Status: 3/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: Senate Housing
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the HELP (Homeless Equity for Left Behind Populations) Act. The bill would require cities, counties, and continuums of care receiving state funding to address homelessness on or after January 1, 2023, to take specific steps to ensure that the needs of victim service providers and survivors of violence, and a gendered analysis of the causes and consequences of homelessness, are incorporated into homelessness planning and responses. The bill would also impose other homelessness planning and data analysis requirements on these cities, counties, and continuums of care. The bill would prohibit victim service providers, as defined, from being required or expected to enter client-level data into specified homeless data systems and would permit any funding provided to cities, counties, and continuums of care to be used to support the development of these data systems and the maintenance of comparable databases, as specified.

SB 922 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.

Current Text: Amended: 3/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/3/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements bicycle transportation plans for an urbanized area for restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles under certain conditions. This bill would extend the above exemption indefinitely. The bill would also repeal the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area and would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan, or to a feasibility and planning study for active transportation, bicycle facilities, or pedestrian facilities.

SB 932 (Portantino D) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans.

Current Text: Amended: 3/23/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Set for hearing April 26.

Location: Senate Transportation
Calendar: 4/26/2022 9 a.m. - Senate Chamber SENATE TRANSPORTATION, GONZALEZ, LENA, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law states the Legislature’s intention that a county or city general plan and the elements and parts of that general plan comprise an integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting agency. This bill would emphasize the intent of the Legislature to fight climate change with these provisions.

SB 938 (Hertzberg D) The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000:
protest proceedings: procedural consolidation.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on GOV. & F.

Location: Senate Gov. & F.

Calendar: 3/31/2022 Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, CABALLERO, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a commission to dissolve an inactive district if specified conditions are satisfied. This bill would also authorize a commission to initiate a proposal for the dissolution of a district if the commission approves, adopts, or accepts a specified study that includes a finding, based on a preponderance of the evidence, that, among other things, the district has one or more documented chronic service provision deficiencies, the district spent public funds in an unlawful or reckless manner, or the district has shown willful neglect by failing to consistently adhere to the California Public Records Act. The bill would require the commission to adopt a resolution of intent to initiate a dissolution based on these provisions and

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to provide a remediation period of at least 12 months, during which the district may take steps to remedy the stated deficiencies. The bill would authorize the commission, at the conclusion of the remediation period, to find that the district has failed to remedy the deficiencies and adopt a resolution to dissolve the district.

SB 942 (Newman D) Low Carbon Transit Operations Program: free or reduced fare transit program.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/8/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 28).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law continuously appropriates specified portions of the annual proceeds in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to various programs, including 5% for the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, which is administered by the Department of Transportation and provides operating and capital assistance for transit agencies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve mobility. Current law requires each of those transit agencies to demonstrate that each expenditure of program moneys allocated to the transit agency reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases and does not supplant another source of funds, to use those moneys to provide transit operating or capital assistance, to use at least 50% of those moneys to benefit disadvantaged communities, and to submit specified information to the department before seeking a disbursement of those program moneys, as specified. This bill would authorize a transit agency that uses program moneys to fund a free or reduced fare transit program and that demonstrates compliance with the above-described requirements in its initial program application to continue to use those moneys to maintain that program on an ongoing basis without demonstrating continued compliance with those requirements.

SB 1006 (Jones R) Law enforcement: homeless outreach teams.

Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2022
Status: 3/25/2022-Set for hearing April 4.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar: 4/4/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county and to allow provider agencies to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Current law authorizes the team to include, among others, housing or homeless services provider agencies, medical personnel, and legal counsel, as specified. This bill would require the Department of Justice, to the extent funding is provided for these purposes, to administer a competitive grant program to enable local law enforcement agencies to establish and operate homeless outreach teams.

SB 1062 (McGuire D) The Fixing the Firefighter Shortage Act of 2022.

Current Text: Amended: 3/14/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Set for hearing April 5.

Location: Senate Natural Resources and Water
Calendar: 4/5/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, STERN, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to maintain a standard minimum level of staffing for each of its engines, as specified, without the regular practice of forcing overtime on its personnel. The bill would require the department to increase its existing firefighter fuel crews, as specified.

The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2024, to provide to the Legislature a longterm staffing plan to meet the new era of wildfire firefighting.

SB 1094 (Becker D) Local planning.

Current Text: Amended: 3/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Set for hearing April 28.

Location: Senate Housing
Calendar: 4/28/2022 10:30 a.m. or upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2100

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SENATE HOUSING, WIENER, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, and requires the share of a city or county of the regional housing need to include that share of the housing need of persons at all income levels within the area significantly affected by the general plan of the city or county. Current law requires the housing element to identify adequate sites for housing, as specified.

Current law allows the department to permit a city or county to substitute up to 25% of its obligation to identify adequate sites for any income category in its housing element if the city or county includes a program that commits the local government to provide units in that income category through the provision of committed assistance during the planning period covered by the element to low- and very low income households at affordable housing costs or affordable rents, as specified. Current law provides that this provision does not apply to any city or county that has not met its share of regional housing needs for lowand very low income households, as specified. This bill would allow sites that contain interim housing developments to be identified as adequate sites for very low and low-income categories if the housing element demonstrates that the units will be available for occupancy by individual families who are homeless or who are at risk of homelessness during the entire planning period and that the interim units are within a residential zone.

SB 1097 (Pan D) Cannabis and cannabis products: labeling and advertisement.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

Location: Senate B., P. & E.D.

Calendar: 4/4/2022 10 a.m. - Senate Chamber SENATE BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ROTH, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, on and after January 1, 2025, and in addition to the currently prescribed warnings, require cannabis or a cannabis product, other than those for topical use, to include a warning label that covers at least 1/3 of the front or principal face of a product, is in the largest type possible for the area, is bright yellow, and includes a pictorial or graphic element, as specified, and one of a series of warnings. The bill would require the licensee to use a mandated rotating warnings approach where batches of products are equally divided between the prescribed messages. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the University of California, including the University of California San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, to either recertify the warnings or provide updated warning label language and designs every 5 years commencing January 1, 2030.

SB 1100 (Cortese D) Open meetings: orderly conduct.

Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-April 5 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: Senate Judiciary
Calendar: 4/19/2022 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes the members of the legislative body conducting the meeting to order the meeting room cleared and continue in session, as prescribed, if a group or groups have willfully interrupted the orderly conduct of a meeting and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting. This bill would authorize the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for willfully interrupting the meeting. The bill, except as provided, would require removal to be preceded by a warning by the presiding member of the legislative body that the individual is disrupting the proceedings, a request that the individual curtail their disruptive behavior or be subject to removal, and a reasonable opportunity to cease the disruptive behavior. The bill would similarly require a warning, a request that the individual curtail their disruptive behavior or be subject to removal, and a reasonable opportunity to cease the disruptive behavior before clearing a meeting room for willful interruptions by a group or groups. The bill would define “willfully interrupting” to mean intentionally engaging in behavior during a meeting of a legislative body that substantially impairs or renders infeasible the orderly conduct of the meeting in accordance with law and applicable rules, as specified.

SB 1108 (Bates R) Shoplifting: increased penalties for prior crimes.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-March 29 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 4.)

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Reconsideration granted.

Location: Senate Public Safety
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would reinstate a provision of law that was repealed by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. The bill would also make this provision and the provision relating to a person with serious, violent, or sexual prior offenses applicable to a person whose prior or current conviction is for shoplifting.

SB 1111 (Archuleta D) Trash receptacles and storage containers: reflective markings.

Current Text: Amended: 3/15/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/25/2022-Set for hearing April 5. Set for hearing April 19.

Location: Senate Judiciary
Calendar: 4/19/2022 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE JUDICIARY, UMBERG, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require, commencing January 1, 2025, a manufacturer who sells or provides for compensation a trash receptacle or storage container that is longer than 3 feet and taller than 4 feet and that is designed to be placed on a roadway or the curb of a roadway in order to be emptied or picked up to mark the receptacle or container with a reflector on each side, as specified. The bill would require an owner who sells or provides for compensation a trash receptacle or storage container that is designed to be placed on a roadway or the curb of a roadway in order to be emptied or picked up to clearly label the trash receptacle or storage container with the owner’s name and current telephone number.

SB 1117 (Becker D) State Public Defender: grants.

Current Text: Amended: 3/3/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Set for hearing April 19.

Location: Senate Public Safety
Calendar: 4/19/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, BRADFORD, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The primary responsibilities of the State Public Defender are to represent those persons who are entitled to representation at public expense in specified proceedings and to provide assistance and training to specified attorneys. The State Public Defender, among other things, is authorized to represent any person who is not financially able to employ counsel in specified matters and to appear as a friend of the court, as specified. This bill would authorize the State Public Defender to administer and award grants to improve indigent defense services.

SB 1144 (Wiener D) Water efficiency and quality assessment reports: state buildings and public school buildings.

Current Text: Amended: 3/8/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-Set for hearing April 5.

Location: Senate Governmental Organization
Calendar: 4/5/2022 9 a.m. - Senate Chamber SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, DODD, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. In this regard, current law prohibits a person from using any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of any public water system or any plumbing in a facility providing water for human consumption, except as provided. This bill would require, no later than January 1, 2024, except as provided, an operating agency, as defined, to complete a water efficiency and quality assessment report, as specified, for each covered building. The bill would define a “covered building” to mean a building owned and occupied, or leased and occupied, by a state agency, or a public school building, as described. If the report identifies noncompliant plumbing fixtures and appliances, or determines that a building contains lead pipe, or pipe of an unknown material that was installed prior to 1986, the bill would require the operating agency to replace those materials or take other specified action, as described.

SB 1157 (Hertzberg D) Urban water use objectives: indoor residential water use.

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Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Set for hearing April 5.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Water Resources, in coordination with the State Water Resources Control Board, and including collaboration with and input from stakeholders, to conduct necessary studies and investigations and authorizes the department and the board to jointly recommend to the Legislature a standard for indoor residential water use. Current law, until January 1, 2025, establishes 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water use. Existing law establishes, beginning January 1, 2025, the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, establishes the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. This bill would eliminate the option of using the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily and the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily, as applicable, or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use.

SB 1201 (Melendez R) Clean California Local Grant Program of 2021: Clean California State Beautification Program of 2021: homeless encampments.

Current Text: Amended: 3/15/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-Set for hearing April 19.

Location: Senate Transportation
Calendar: 4/19/2022 9 a.m. - Senate Chamber SENATE TRANSPORTATION, GONZALEZ, LENA, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, the Department of Transportation administers the Clean California Local Grant Program of 2021 to provide funding for grants to specified local entities for purposes of beautifying and cleaning up local streets and roads, tribal lands, parks, pathways, transit centers, and other public spaces, and administers the Clean California State Beautification Program of 2021 to provide funding for purposes of beautifying and cleaning up state highways. This bill would authorize local governments to use funding received under those programs to clean up homeless encampments on or around highway rights-of-way, within one mile of the freeway or flood channels under and surrounding the highways.

SB 1214 (Jones R) Planning and zoning: local planning.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on GOV. & F.

Location: Senate Gov. & F.

Calendar: 3/31/2022 Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, CABALLERO, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The bill would authorize a planning agency to maintain official copies of architectural drawings with protected information submitted to the agency, subject to specified restrictions. The bill would also authorize a planning agency to take specified actions regarding these architectural drawings. The bill would also authorize a planning agency to provide a copy of or post a site plan or massing diagram, as defined, on the internet and allow the site plan or massing diagram to be copied. This bill contains other existing laws.

SB 1290 (Allen D) California Retail Food Code.

Current Text: Amended: 3/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Referral to Com. on GOV. & F. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus.

Location: Senate Gov. & F.

Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits a local authority, as defined, from regulating sidewalk vendors, except in accordance with specified provisions. Current law establishes that a violation of a local authority’s sidewalk vending program is punishable only by an administrative fine, subject to an ability-to-pay determination, and recision of a permit issued to a sidewalk vendor for the term of that permit upon the 4th violation or

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subsequent violations, as specified. This bill would authorize a local authority to impose additional regulations on sidewalk vendors, including prohibiting improper discharge of fats, oils, and grease into sewer, water, and storm systems or within other areas of the environment and prohibiting conditions that create a fire or environmental hazard.

SB 1354 (Jones R) Design-build contracting: cities, counties, and cities and counties: compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/25/2022-Set for hearing April 4.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would authorize a city, county, or city and county to use the design-build contracting process to award contracts for constructing projects that are necessary in order to comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. By expanding design-build authority to include additional projects, the bill would expand the scope of the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.

SB 1439 (Glazer D) Campaign contributions: agency officers.

Current Text: Amended: 3/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 28).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits an officer of an agency from accepting, soliciting, or directing a contribution of more than $250 from any party, participant, or a party or participant’s agent, while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 3 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding, if the officer knows or has reasons to know that the participant has financial interest, as defined. The act also prohibits a party, participant, or participant’s agent from making a contribution of more than $250 to an officer of the agency during the proceeding and 3 months following the date a final decision is rendered. The act defines “agency” for these purposes to mean any state or local government agency, except certain entities, including local government agencies whose members are directly elected by the voters. This bill would remove the exception for local government agencies, thereby subjecting them to the prohibition described above. The bill would extend the prohibition on contributions from 3 to 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding.

SB 1449 (Caballero D) Office of Planning and Research: grant program: annexation of unincorporated areas.

Current Text: Amended: 3/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Set for hearing April 7.

Location: Senate Gov. & F.

Calendar: 4/7/2022 Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, CABALLERO, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Office of Planning and Research to, among other things, accept and allocate or expend grants and gifts from any source, public or private, for the purpose of state planning and undertake other planning and coordinating activities, as specified, and encourage the formation and proper functioning of, and provide planning assistance to, city, county, district, and regional planning agencies. The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 provides the authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization, reorganization, and sphere of influence changes for cities and districts, as specified. Current law requires that an applicant seeking a change of organization or reorganization submit a plan for providing services within the affected territory that includes, among other requirements, an enumeration and description of the services to be extended to the affected territory and an indication of when those services can feasibly be extended. This bill would require the office to, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the Unincorporated Area Annexation Incentive Program, authorizing the office to issue a grant to a city for the purpose of funding infrastructure projects related to the proposed or completed annexation of a substantially surrounded unincorporated area, as defined, subject to approval by the director after the city submits an application containing specified information.

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SB 1464 (Pan D) Law enforcement: public health orders.

Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-Set for hearing April 6.

Location: Senate Health
Calendar: 4/6/2022 1 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE HEALTH, PAN, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires all sheriffs to execute all lawful orders of a department in their counties.

Existing law authorizes each sheriff to enforce all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. Current law authorizes each peace officer of every political subdivision of the county to enforce within the area subject to their jurisdiction all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. This bill would instead require those sheriffs and peace officers to enforce those orders.

SB 1472 (Stern D) Vehicular manslaughter: speeding and reckless driving.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Set for hearing April 19.

Location: Senate Public Safety
Calendar: 4/19/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, BRADFORD, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would create and define the new crimes of vehicular manslaughter while driving and speeding and vehicular manslaughter while driving in a reckless manner as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought, where the driving was either a violation of the prohibition against driving a vehicle at a speed greater than 100 miles per hour that occurred within a 3-year period of one or more prior convictions of that crime, or a violation of driving in a reckless manner that occurred within a 3-year period of 2 or more prior convictions of that crime, respectively, and the killing was either the proximate result of the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, but without gross negligence, or the proximate result of the commission of a lawful act that might produce death, in an unlawful manner, but without gross negligence. The bill would prescribe penalties for a violation of those crimes to be imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 4 years and a fine of up to $10,000.

SB 1479 (Pan D) COVID-19 testing in schools: COVID-19 testing plans.

Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Education] (PASS)
Location: Senate Education
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law appropriates funds to the State Department of Public Health for various programs related to the safe reopening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, including funds to support COVID-19 testing in schools allocated from the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and funds from the General Fund for the Safe Schools For All Team to coordinate technical assistance, community engagement, increased transparency, and enforcement by the appropriate entity for public school health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current law authorizes certain school apportionments to be used for any purpose consistent with providing in-person instruction for any pupil participating in in-person instruction, including, but not limited to, COVID-19 testing, as provided. Current law prescribes public health reporting requirements related to COVID-19 for local educational agencies, including the development of a COVID-19 safety plan, as provided. This bill would require the department to continue administering specified school district, county office of education, and charter school COVID-19 testing programs that are currently federally funded, and would require the department to administer testing programs for teachers, staff, and pupils to help schools reopen and keep schools operating safely for in-person learning.

Total Measures: 61
Total Tracking Forms: 66

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Housing & Community Development
Legislative Summary 2022
AB 408 (Quirk-Silva D) Homeless children and youths: reporting.

Current Text: Amended: 1/3/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/3/2021
Status: 1/27/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3400.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: Senate Rules
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a local educational agency, as defined to include a school district, county office of education, charter school, or special education local plan area, to establish homeless education program policies that are consistent with specified state laws, and would further require the local educational agency to update these policies at intervals not exceeding 3 years. The bill would require a local educational agency liaison for homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths to provide training at least annually on designated subjects to classified and certificated employees of the local educational agency who work with pupils, as specified, and would further require the liaison to inform those employees of the availability of training and services the liaison provides to pupils who are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, homelessness.

AB 1695 (Santiago D) Affordable housing loan and grant programs: adaptive reuse.

Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2022
Status: 3/21/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes various programs and funding sources administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to enable the development of affordable housing, including, among others, the Building Homes and Jobs Act, the Multifamily Housing Program, and the Housing for a Healthy California Program. This bill would provide that any notice of funding availability issued by the department for an affordable housing loan and grant program shall state that adaptive reuse of a property for affordable housing purposes is an eligible activity. The bill would define “adaptive reuse” to mean the repurposing and rehabilitation of an existing building for use as permanent or long-term residences.

AB 1755 (Levine D) Homeowners’ insurance: home hardening.

Current Text: Amended: 3/8/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/1/2022
Status: 3/9/2022-Re-referred to Com. on INS.

Location: Assembly Insurance
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require an admitted insurer licensed to issue homeowners’ insurance policies to issue a policy to a homeowner who has hardened their home against fire, as specified, regardless of the home’s location, on and after January 1, 2025, and would require an insurer to make conforming changes to its internet website and print materials on or before July 1, 2025. The bill would create the Wildfire Protection Grant Program, under which the Department of Insurance would be required to award grants of up to $10,000 each to help homeowners pay for costs associated with wildfire mitigation improvements. The bill

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would require the department to promulgate regulations to administer the Wildfire Protection Grant Program.

AB 1771 (Ward D) The California Housing Speculation Act: income taxes: capital gains: sale or exchange of qualified asset: housing.

Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/2/2022
Status: 3/23/2022-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

Location: Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law impose taxes upon income, including income generated from any gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, impose an additional 25% tax on that portion of a qualified taxpayer’s net capital gain from the sale or exchange of a qualified asset, as defined. The bill would reduce those taxes depending on how many years has passed since the qualified taxpayer’s initial purchase of the qualified asset.

AB 1816 (Bryan D) Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/7/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6.

Noes 2.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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AB 1837 (Bonta, Mia D) Residential real property: foreclosure.

Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Status: 3/21/2022-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes various requirements to be satisfied before the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust and prescribes a procedure for the exercise of that power. Current law authorizes a trustee, or their agent or successor in interest, upon the sale of property pursuant to a power of sale, to demand and receive from a beneficiary, or their agent or successor in interest, or deduct from the proceeds of the sale, specified reasonable costs and expenses that are actually incurred in enforcing the terms of the obligation and trustee’s or attorney’s fees. Current law, until January 1, 2026, prescribes a process in connection with a trustee’s sale of property under a power of sale contained in a deed of trust or mortgage on real property containing 1 to 4 residential units, inclusive. Under current law, if a prospective owner-occupant, as defined, is the last highest bidder, the date upon which specified conditions required of the bidder at the trustee sale to become final are met. This bill would revise the process described above and extend its operation until January 1, 2031. The bill would revise the definition of an eligible tenant buyer to, among other things, also describe natural people who are occupying property under a rental or lease agreement with a mortgagor’s or trustor’s predecessor in interest.

AB 1850 (Ward D) Public housing: unrestricted multifamily housing.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law provides for the establishment of various special districts that may support and finance housing development, including affordable housing special beneficiary districts that are authorized to promote affordable housing development with certain property tax revenues that a city or county would otherwise be entitled to receive. This bill would prohibit a city, county, city and county, joint powers authority, or any other political subdivision of a state or local government from acquiring unrestricted multifamily housing, as defined, unless each unit in the development meets specified criteria, including that the initial rent for the first 12 months postconversion is at least 10% less than the average monthly rent charged for the unit over the 12-month period prior to conversion and at least 20% less than the small area fair market rent.

AB 1886 (Cooper D) Public works: definition.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/8/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2022
Status: 3/17/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 16).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Current law defines the term "public works" for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Existing law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a misdemeanor.This bill would expand the definition of "public works" to include street sweeping maintenance performed for the preservation, protection, and keeping of any publicly owned or publicly operated street, road, or highway done under contract and paid for in whole or in part out of public funds.

AB 1910 (Garcia, Cristina D) Publicly owned golf courses: conversion: affordable housing.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 23).

Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar: 4/6/2022 8:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AGUIARCURRY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer a program to provide incentives in the form of grants to local agencies that enter into a development agreement to convert a golf course owned by the local agency into housing and publicly accessible open space, as specified. This bill would require the department to award funding in accordance with the number of affordable units a local agency proposes to construct.

AB 1911 (Gabriel D) Income taxes: credits: low-income housing.

Current Text: Amended: 3/7/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2022
Status: 3/22/2022-In committee: Hearing for testimony only.

Location: Assembly Revenue and Taxation
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, would allow a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer that is transferred, and allocated, credits pursuant to the sale of a specified multifamily rental housing development or mobilehome park to a qualified developer, that has received a credit reservation from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, in specified amounts. The bill would define a qualified developer for purposes of this bill, in part, as a specified entity that commits, under penalty of perjury, to employing a tax credit reservation allowed by the bill in the acquisition of a qualified development.

AB 1933 (Friedman D) Property taxation: welfare exemption: nonprofit corporation: low and moderate

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income families.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/17/2022-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Location: Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Calendar: 4/4/2022 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY REVENUE AND TAXATION, IRWIN, Chair
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Summary: Current property tax law, in accordance with the California Constitution, provides for a "welfare exemption" for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met. Current property tax law states that property is within that welfare exemption if the property is owned and operated by a nonprofit corporation, otherwise qualifying for the welfare exemption, that is organized and operated for the specific and primary purpose of building and rehabilitating single or multifamily residences for sale at cost to low-income families, with financing in the form of a zero interest rate loan and without regard to religion, race, national origin, or the sex of the head of household. This bill would also provide that property is fully exempt from property taxation and is also within that welfare exemption if that property is owned and operated by a nonprofit corporation, as described, that is organized and operated for the specific and primary purpose of building and rehabilitating single or multifamily residential units and the units meet specified requirements.

AB 1945 (Aguiar-Curry D) Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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AB 1961 (Gabriel D) Affordable housing: Department of Housing and Community Development.

Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/14/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the Housing for a Healthy California Program, and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program. This bill would require the department to create an online database of affordable housing listings, information, and applications, as provided. The bill would also require the department to integrate information with the other state entities and departments within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, as well as local councils of governments and metropolitan planning organizations.

AB 1976 (Santiago D) Planning and zoning: housing element compliance: very low and lower income households.

Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/21/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Summary: Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected housing need, and requires each council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city and county, as provided. If the inventory of sites included in a housing element does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels pursuant to the allocation of regional housing need, current law requires that the local government rezone sites within specified deadlines. This bill would authorize the department, after notifying the city or county of the violation of the housing element provision and before notifying the Attorney General, either to complete the rezoning to accommodate 100% of the allocated need for housing for very low and lower income households on behalf of a local government within the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura that failed to complete that rezoning by the required deadline, or to impose administrative civil penalties upon the local government of up to $10,000 per day until the local government is no longer in violation of state law or the department decides to refer the violation to the Attorney General.

AB 1978 (Ward D) Department of Housing and Community Development: powers.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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AB 1991 (Gabriel D) Motels and hotels: publicly funded shelter programs.

Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/14/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law regulates the terms and conditions of tenancies and defines the term “persons who hire” for the purpose of regulating residential tenancies. Current law excludes from these provisions, among other things, occupancy at a hotel or motel if certain conditions are met. This bill would provide that the continued occupancy of a shelter program participant, as defined, in a motel or hotel does not constitute a new tenancy and is not considered a “person who hires” if the shelter program meets the core components of Housing First, as defined, and specified requirements related to termination policies and grievance processes.

AB 2013 (Quirk-Silva D) California Statewide Housing Plan.

Current Text: Amended: 3/9/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that the California Statewide Housing Plan incorporate, among other things, a statement of housing goals, policies, and objectives and that the Department of Housing and Community Development update and provide a revision of the plan to the Legislature every 4 years. Current law requires each update and revision to the plan occurring on or after January 1, 2023, to incorporate specified elements, including an inventory of the number of affordable units needed to meet the state’s affordable housing needs for the plan period. The bill would additionally require the plan to include a goal to increase home ownership among people of color in the state of California, as specified.

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AB 2063 (Berman D) Density bonuses: affordable housing impact fees.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the amount of a density bonus and the number of incentives or concessions a qualifying developer receives to be pursuant to a certain formula based on the total number of units in the housing development, as specified. Current law prohibits affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees and in-lieu fees, from being imposed on a housing development’s affordable units. This bill would prohibit affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees, inlieu fees, and public benefit fees, from being imposed on a housing development’s density bonus units, unless the city, county, or city and county has adopted a local density bonus ordinance or established a local housing program on or before January 1, 2022, that allows for a density bonus of at least 50% for any forsale or rental housing development containing restricted affordable units that dedicates a specified percentage of units for extremely low, very low, low-, or moderate-income households.

AB 2094 (Rivas, Robert D) General plan: annual report: extremely low-income housing.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to certain specified entities by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information, the city or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and local efforts to remove governmental constraints to the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing, as specified. This bill would additionally require a city or county’s annual report to include the locality’s progress in meeting the housing needs of extremely low income households, as specified.

AB 2123 (Villapudua D) Bringing Health Care into Communities Act of 2023.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HEALTH pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current establishes various programs to facilitate the expansion of the health care workforce in rural and underserved communities, including, but not limited to, the Health Professions Career Opportunity Program and the California Registered Nurse Education Program. This bill, the Bringing Health Care into Communities Act of 2023, would establish the Bringing Health Care into Communities Program to be administered by the agency to provide housing grants to specified health professionals to be used for mortgage payments for a permanent residence in a health professional shortage area, as specified. Under the bill, a health professional would be eligible for a grant for up to 5 years. The bill would make its provisions operative upon appropriation by the Legislature.

AB 2179 (Grayson D) COVID-19 relief: tenancy.

Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (March 30).

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar: 3/31/2022 #15 SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - SECOND READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act until October 1, 2025, establishes procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. The act, among other things, requires that a notice that demands payment of COVID-19 rental debt served pursuant to

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specified law be modified, as provided. The act requires that a notice that demands payment of rent that came due during the transition time period, as defined, comply with certain requirements, including that the notice include certain text which varies depending on the date that the notice is served. This bill would require notices described above that are served on or after April 1, 2022, and before July 1, 2022, to include certain text. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 2186 (Grayson D) Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program.

Current Text: Amended: 3/23/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

AB 2203 (Rivas, Luz D) Fair employment and housing protections: credit reports.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (March 23).

Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: Assembly Judiciary
Calendar: 4/5/2022 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY, STONE, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), protects the right to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination because of specified characteristics and prescribes various employment, labor, and apprenticeship practices, among other things, in this regard. Among the protected characteristics are race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, and military or veteran status. This bill would prohibit requiring a consumer credit report, as defined, as part of the application process for a rental housing accommodation in instances where there is a government rent subsidy.

AB 2217 (Reyes D) CalHome Program: grant allocation.

Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the CalHome Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to support existing home ownership programs aimed at lower and very low income households, among other purposes. Under the CalHome program, the department issues grants and loans to local public agencies and nonprofit corporations for specified purposes, including the construction of home ownership units. This bill would require the department to consider setting higher per-unit and total project allocations based on local development costs when appropriate.

AB 2218 (Quirk-Silva D) California Environmental Quality Act: standing: proposed infill housing projects.

Current Text: Amended: 3/9/2022 html pdf

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Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/17/2022-Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

Location: Assembly Rules
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) establishes procedures applicable to an action or proceeding brought to challenge a public agency’s action on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA. This bill would provide that a person does not have standing to bring an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul acts or decisions of a public agency undertaken to implement a project involving the development of housing at an infill site, unless the person resides within 20 miles of the project.

AB 2221 (Quirk-Silva D) Accessory dwelling units.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires a permitting agency to act on the application to create an accessory dwelling unit or a junior accessory dwelling unit within specified timeframes. This bill would provide that the requirement for an agency to act on an application means either to return in writing a full set of comments to the applicant with a comprehensive request for revisions or to return the approved permit application. The bill would define “permitting agency” for its purposes.

AB 2233 (Quirk-Silva D) Excess state land: development of affordable housing.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of General Services (DGS) in the Government Operations Agency for purposes of, among other things, planning, acquiring, constructing, and maintaining state buildings and property. Under current law, by executive order, the DGS was required to, among other things, create a digitized inventory of all excess state land, create screening tools for prioritizing affordable housing development on excess state land, and issue requests for proposals for and select affordable housing developments on excess state land, as described. This bill would require the DGS to develop, no later than September 1, 2023, a set of criteria to consistently evaluate state-owned parcels for suitability as affordable housing sites. The bill would also require, on or before July 1, 2024, and every 4 years thereafter, the DGS to, among other things, conduct a review of all state-owned property and identify state-owned parcels that are potentially viable for affordable housing based on those criteria.

AB 2234 (Rivas, Robert D) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act requires public agencies to approve or disapprove of a development project within certain specified timeframes. Current law requires a city, county, or special district to provide specified information, including a current schedule of fees, exactions, and affordability requirements applicable to a proposed housing development project, and an archive of impact fee nexus studies, cost of service studies, or equivalent studies, conducted by the city, county, or special district, on its internet website. This bill would require a public agency to create a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, as defined, to create an ideal application and ideal complete set of postentitlement phase permits, and to make those items available to all applicants for these

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permits no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would define “public agency” for these purposes to mean a city, county, or city and county.

AB 2244 (Wicks D) Religious institution affiliated housing: colocated place of worship.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits a local agency from requiring the replacement of religious-use parking spaces, as defined, that a developer of a religious institution affiliated housing development project proposes to eliminate as part of that housing development project. Current law prohibits the number of religious-use parking spaces requested to be eliminated from exceeding 50% of the number that are available at the time the request is made. This bill would clarify that the definition of “religious-use parking spaces” applies to both existing parking spaces and those parking spaces required of a proposed development for a new place of worship. The bill would recast the provisions relating to the elimination of parking spaces to prohibit the number of spaces proposed to be eliminated in the case of a proposal for a newly constructed place of worship from exceeding 50% of the spaces that would otherwise be required.

AB 2256 (Quirk-Silva D) Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy: reports.

Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Technology to provide oversight and policy input for the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network. Current law requires the department to establish a broadband advisory committee to oversee the construction and establishment of the statewide open-access middle-mile broadband network. Current law requires that committee to be comprised of various representatives, including a representative of the department, the Department of Finance, and 2 ex officio members of the Assembly. This bill would additionally include a local government official, appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, as a member of the committee.

AB 2295 (Bloom D) Local educational agencies: housing development projects.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

AB 2297 (Wicks D) Tenancy: fee in lieu of a security deposit.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2022 html pdf

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Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/3/2022-Referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: Assembly Judiciary
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law generally regulates security for a rental agreement for residential property that is used as the dwelling of the tenant. This bill, among other things, would require a landlord who offers a tenant or prospective tenant the option of paying a fee in lieu of a security deposit to take certain action, including offer the tenant or prospective tenant the option to instead pay a security deposit. The bill would authorize a tenant who accepts an offer to pay a fee in lieu of a security deposit to terminate the agreement to pay the fee in lieu of a security deposit at any time and to stop paying the fee if the tenant chooses to instead make a security deposit in the amount that the landlord offers to new tenants for substantially similar housing on the date the tenant chooses to make a security deposit instead of paying a fee in lieu of a security deposit.

AB 2305 (Grayson D) Housing Finance: Coordinated Housing Finance Committee.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/23/2022-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the Coordinated Affordable Housing Finance Committee and would require that the committee be comprised of representatives from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, the Treasurer, and the Controller. This bill would require the committee to allocate state-controlled resources for the finance of affordable rental housing, as defined, through a single process and competition. This bill would require the committee to develop an application, threshold requirements, a rating and ranking system, as specified, for applicants seeking these resources. This bill would authorize the committee to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the allocation of state-controlled resources for the finance of affordable rental housing that take effect immediately upon adoption. This bill would provide that the adoption, amendment, or repeal of these rules and regulations is not subject to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act but would require the committee to follow specified procedures pursuant to the adoption of the rules and regulations.

AB 2325 (Rivas, Luz D) Coordinated homelessness response.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/23/2022-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the California Interagency on Homelessness, on or before September 30, 2023, to convene a funder’s workgroup to accomplish specified goals related to ending homelessness. The bill would require the workgroup to include council staff, staff working for agencies or departments represented on the council, and representatives from specified committees. The bill would require the Deputy Secretary on Homelessness to oversee the work of the funder’s workgroup and to report on at least a quarterly basis to the council on progress made on specified goals. The bill would also require the council, as part of its goals, to develop and implement a statewide strategic plan on homelessness that establishes measurable objectives and strategies to enhance state-level accountability, coordination, and best practices.

AB 2328 (Flora R) Local ordinances: home experience sharing.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/3/2022-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines "hosting platform" as a marketplace that is created for the primary purpose of facilitating the rental of a residential unit, as specified. This bill would prohibit a city or county from prohibiting or effectively prohibiting the use of property as a home experience sharing unit. The bill would define "home experience sharing unit" as a privately owned, noncommercial property or residential dwelling

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unit that is rented partially for a fee for a period of fewer than 18 continuous hours and that does not provide sleeping accommodations to transients. The bill would authorize a city or county to reasonably regulate home experience sharing units to protect the public’s health and safety, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.

AB 2339 (Bloom D) Housing element: emergency shelters: regional housing need.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/3/2022-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes a housing element. Current law requires that the housing element identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, and make adequate provision for the existing and projected needs of all economic segments of a community. Current law also requires that the housing element include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels. This bill would revise the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with zoning designations that allow residential use, including mixed use, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. The bill would prohibit a city or county from establishing overlay districts to comply with these provisions.

AB 2357 (Ting D) Surplus land.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2022
Status: 3/3/2022-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to maintain on its internet website, an up-to-date listing of all notices of availability throughout the state. This bill would also require the department to maintain on its internet website a listing of all entities, including housing sponsors, that have notified the department of their interest in surplus land for the purpose of developing low- and moderate-income housing.

AB 2434 (Santiago D) Homelessness Action Authority: County of Los Angeles.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law specifically authorizes the creation of the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust, a joint powers authority, consisting of specified entities, including the County of Los Angeles, for the purposes of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within the San Gabriel Valley Region. This bill would similarly authorize the creation of the Homelessness Action Authority, a joint powers authority, by the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and any other city within the jurisdiction of the County of Los Angeles, with the stated purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within the County of Los Angeles.

AB 2439 (Bloom D) State property: Department of Motor Vehicles field offices: affordable housing.

Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/29/2022-Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R.

Location: Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Calendar: 4/6/2022 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY ACCOUNTABILITY AND ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW, PETRIE-NORRIS, Chair
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Summary: Would require the Director of General Services, in consultation with the Director of Motor Vehicles and the city in which specified properties are located, to enter into a public-private partnership agreement with a housing developer for the lease for a term of years, as determined by the Director of General Services, of specified parcels of real property that are acquired and used by the state for the benefit of the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop affordable housing and new field offices for the Department of Motor Vehicles, subject to specified conditions. The bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicle to assist the Director of General Services in the fulfillment of these requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 2445 (Gallagher R) California Environmental Quality Act: affordable housing: judicial review: bonds.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/3/2022-Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD.

Location: Assembly Natural Resources
Calendar: 4/18/2022 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 ASSEMBLY NATURAL RESOURCES, RIVAS, LUZ, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: 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 in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA establishes a procedure by which a person may seek judicial review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA. This bill would require a person seeking judicial review of the decision of a lead agency made pursuant to CEQA to carry out or approve an affordable housing project to post a bond of $500,000 to cover the costs and damages to the affordable housing project incurred by the respondent or real party in interest. The bill would authorize the court to waive or adjust this bond requirement upon a finding of good cause to believe that the requirement does not further the interest of justice.

AB 2469 (Wicks D) Housing: Statewide Rental Registry.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop and maintain a rental registry online portal designed to collect specified information related to housing and make that information available to the public. The bill would require the department to develop a rental registry form to collect information from landlords, as defined, including the address and owners of a rental property, the number and type of rooms in the rental property, and information related to the payments collected and the duration of tenancies. This bill would require a landlord to submit a rental registry form annually, under penalty of perjury.

AB 2483 (Maienschein D) Housing for individuals experiencing homelessness.

Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, by December 31, 2023, to award incentives, as specified, to Multifamily Housing Program project applicants that agree to set aside at least 25% of the project’s units for individuals that are either experiencing homelessness or eligible to receive specified services, including, among others, those received under the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. The bill would also require the department to partner with the State Department of Health Care Services to determine the most effective way to align qualifying services in housing projects funded by the Multifamily Housing Program. The bill would require the department to assess tenant outcomes and engage with an evaluator to identify specified information with respect to projects receiving incentives under these provisions, including the number and demographics, including age, race, or ethnicity, and presubsidy housing status, of people being served.

AB 2492 (Grayson D) Factory-built housing: qualified manufacturers: incentives.

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Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Factory-Built Housing Law provides for the regulation of factory-built housing, as defined, by the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires, among other things, that all factory-built housing sold or offered for sale to first users within this state bear the insignia of approval issued by the department. Current law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city, county, or city and county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the jurisdictional boundaries of that city, county, or city and county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units, or for the donation of land within the development, if the developer agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderateincome households or qualifying residents and meets other requirements. This bill would grant certain benefits to a factory-built housing development, as defined, that is manufactured by a qualified manufacturer. In this regard, the bill would require a qualified manufacturer to satisfy certain conditions, including, among other things, providing medical coverage to all of its employees and entering into and abiding by the terms of a labor peace agreement.

AB 2503 (Garcia, Cristina D) Landlords and tenants: lessors and lessees.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: Assembly Judiciary
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law generally regulates the relationship between parties to a lease of real property.

Current law refers to the lessor of real property variously as, among other terms, "landlord" or "lessor" and refers to the lessee of real property variously as, among other terms, "tenant" or "lessee." This bill would, among other things, amend those provisions to replace the term "landlord" with the term "lessor or lessor’s agent" and to replace the term "tenant" with "lessee."
AB 2517 (Bonta, Mia D) California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Com. on HUM. S.

Location: Assembly Human Services
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Cradle-to-Career Data System for the purpose of connecting individuals and organizations to trusted information and resources, as a source for actionable data and research on education, economic, and health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities, and to provide for expanded access to tools and services that support the education-to-employment pipeline, as specified. This bill, the It Takes a Village Act of 2022, subject upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for these purposes, would establish the California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program to be administered by the State Department of Social Services. The bill would require the department to grant awards on a competitive basis to eligible entities that are Promised Neighborhoods, other community-based networks, or multineighborhood regional cradle-to-career networks, as those terms are defined, to either implement a comprehensive, integrated continuum of cradle-to-career solutions at the neighborhood level or support the civic infrastructure and backbone of cradle-to-career networks that support their network partners to accomplish systems change.

AB 2547 (Nazarian D) Housing Stabilization to Prevent and End Homelessness Among Older Adults and People with Disabilities Act.

Current Text: Amended: 3/23/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House

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Summary: Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the California Department of Aging, by December 31, 2023, to create and administer the Housing Stabilization to Prevent and End Homelessness Among Older Adults and People with Disabilities Program. The bill would require the department, in administering the program, to offer competitive grants to nonprofit community-based organizations, continuums of care, and public housing authorities to administer a housing subsidy program for older adults and persons with a disability that are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, as those terms are as defined. The bill would require the department, in establishing program guidelines, to prioritize communities where renters face high rates of poverty, displacement, gentrification, and homelessness AB 2561 (Grayson D) Planning and zoning: housing: streamlined, ministerial approval: Benicia Arsenal Historic District.

Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2022
Status: 3/21/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including that the development would not require the demolition of a historic structure that was placed on a national, state, or local historic register. This bill would additionally include as an objective planning standard that the development is not located in the Benicia Arsenal Historic District, as specified.

AB 2569 (Nguyen R) Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach, and Support.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HUM. S.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group that includes representatives from all departments and agencies that currently receive funding relating to services for homeless individuals. The bill would require the working group to determine the best approach to creating a Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach, and Support and to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2024.

AB 2591 (Valladares R) Homeless services: nonprofit charitable organizations: immunity from civil liability.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: Assembly Judiciary
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would exempt a nonprofit charitable organization, as defined, from civil liability for an injury occurring on its premises and resulting from the provision of services to homeless persons, unless the injury results from gross negligence or intentional misconduct.

AB 2597 (Bloom D) Dwelling unit standards.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that any building with a dwelling unit maintain certain characteristics in order to be tenantable, including the maintenance of adequate heating that conforms to the standard of quality set by applicable law. This bill would require that any building with a dwelling unit also maintain

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adequate cooling, as specified.

AB 2623 (Villapudua D) Housing First: sober housing.

Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Coauthors revised.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a state agency or department that funds, implements, or administers a state program that provides housing or housing-related services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness to revise or adopt guidelines and regulations to include enumerated Housing First policies. Current law specifies the core components of Housing First, including prohibiting the use of alcohol or drugs, in and of itself, without other lease violations, from constituting a reason for eviction .This bill would provide an exception to that prohibition, to allow a housing provider to adopt a written policy prohibiting the use of alcohol or drugs and authorizing a tenant’s eviction based upon more than one violation of the policy when children are housed in the same location, and a court order prohibits use of alcohol or drugs by the tenant to promote substance abuse recovery as a condition for reunification of tenant with their child.

AB 2630 (O'Donnell D) Housing: California Interagency Council on Homelessness: report.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes various programs to assist local governments in addressing homelessness, such as the Homeless Emergency Aid Program and the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program. This bill would require each city, county, and city and county that has used funds from any source to assist in addressing homelessness to submit a report to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness providing specified information, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.

AB 2651 (Petrie-Norris D) Property taxes: welfare exemption: community land trust.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

Location: Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Calendar: 4/18/2022 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY REVENUE AND TAXATION, IRWIN, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law provides that property is within the welfare exemption if that property is owned by a community land trust, as defined, otherwise qualifying for the welfare exemption, and specified conditions are met, including that the property is being or will be developed or rehabilitated as housing, as specified.

Current law requires the exemption to apply for 5 lien dates, as provided. Current law requires the community land trust to be liable for property tax for the years for which the property was exempt if the property was not developed or rehabilitated, or if the development or rehabilitation is not in the course of construction, within a specified timeframe, depending on when the community land trust acquired the property. Current law requires the community land trust to notify the assessor if property owned by the community land trust is not in the course of construction by these dates. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2025. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2030.

AB 2653 (Wicks D) Planning and Zoning Law: housing elements.

Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/14/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use

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development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information, a housing element portion that includes, as provided, the city or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and local efforts to remove governmental constraints on the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing, as specified. This bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to reject the housing element portion of an annual report if the report is not in substantial compliance with these requirements.

AB 2656 (Ting D) Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Location: Assembly Housing and Community Development
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act defines “disapprove the housing development project” as including any instance in which a local agency either votes and disapproves a proposed housing development project application, including any required land use approvals or entitlements necessary for the issuance of a building permit, or fails to comply with specified time periods. Current law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if the lead agency finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would define “disapprove the housing development project” as also including any instance in which a local agency denies a project an exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as described, or requires further environmental study to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project or to certify an environmental impact report for the project when there is a legally sufficient basis in the record before the local agency to adopt a negative declaration or addendum or to certify an environmental impact report without further study.

AB 2662 (Kalra D) Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/30/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Assembly Third Reading
Calendar: 3/31/2022 #32 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - ASSEMBLY BILLS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) makes certain discriminatory employment and housing practices unlawful, and authorizes a person claiming to be aggrieved by an alleged unlawful practice to file a verified complaint with the DFEH. The FEHA requires the DFEH to make an investigation in connection with a filed complaint alleging facts sufficient to constitute a violation of the FEHA, and requires the DFEH to endeavor to eliminate the unlawful practice by conference, conciliation, and persuasion. With regard to unlawful employment practices, if conference, conciliation, mediation, or persuasion fails and the DFEH has required all parties to participate in a mandatory dispute resolution, as specified, the FEHA authorizes the director, in their discretion, to bring a civil action in the name of the DFEH on behalf of the person claiming to be aggrieved. With regard to housing discrimination, if conference, conciliation, mediation, or persuasion fails and the DFEH has required all parties to participate in a mandatory dispute resolution, as specified, the FEHA requires the director to bring a civil action in the name of the DFEH on behalf of the person claiming to be aggrieved. This bill would provide that, by performing the functions and duties and exercising the powers set forth in the FEHA, the DFEH represents the interests of the state and effectuates the declared public policy of the state to protect and safeguard the rights and opportunities of all persons from unlawful discrimination and other violations of the FEHA and that this statement is declarative of existing law as stated in specified case law.

AB 2663 (Ramos D) Youth Acceptance Project.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.

Location: Assembly Human Services
Calendar: 4/5/2022 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HUMAN SERVICES, CALDERON, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House

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Summary: Would require the State Department of Social Services to establish a 5-year pilot project, the Youth Acceptance Project (YAP), in counties that shall be selected to participate on a voluntary basis in the pilot project, as specified. The bill would require the department to contract with the nonprofit organization, Family Builders by Adoption, to provide, in conjunction with participating counties, advocacy, therapeuticstyle support, and intervention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and plus (LGBTQ+) youth who receive, or are at risk of receiving, child welfare services and LGBTQ+ youth who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, and their families who are struggling with accepting the youth’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression (SOGIE). The bill would require YAP services provided under the pilot project to meet specified requirements, including, that the services are to be provided by a clinician or social worker and designed to increase acceptance among a LGBTQ+ youth’s parents, caregivers, foster parents, adoptive parents, extended family members, social workers, and additional staff involved in a youth’s care. The bill would require the department to submit a report to the Legislature with an evaluation of the pilot project, and would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030.

AB 2668 (Grayson D) Planning and zoning: housing: streamlined, ministerial approval.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/24/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 23).

Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a local government from determining that a development, including an application for a modification, is in conflict with the objective planning standards on the basis that application materials are not included, if the application contains sufficient information that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the development is consistent with the objective planning standards. This bill contains other existing laws.

AB 2705 (Quirk-Silva D) Housing: fire safety standards.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/17/2022-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and NAT. RES.

Location: Assembly Local Government
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to prepare, adopt, and submit building standards and other fire and life safety regulations to the California Building Standards Commission for approval establishing minimum requirements for the storage, handling, and use of hazardous materials. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to seek the advice of the Secretary for Environmental Protection in establishing those requirements. This bill would prohibit the legislative body of a city or county from approving a discretionary entitlement, as defined, that would result in a new residential development project, as defined, being located within a very high fire hazard severity zone, unless the city or county finds that the residential development project will meet specified standards intended to address wildfire risks, as specified.

AB 2710 (Kalra D) Residential real property: sale of rental properties: right of first offer.

Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/28/2022-Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: Assembly Judiciary
Calendar: 4/19/2022 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY, STONE, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes various real estate disclosure requirements applicable to the transfer of residential real property. This bill would require an owner of residential real property, defined to include a single-family residential property that is occupied by a tenant or a multifamily residential property except as specified, to take various actions before offering the residential real property for sale to any purchaser, soliciting any offer to purchase the residential real property, or otherwise entering into a contract for sale of the residential real property. The bill would exempt certain transfers of a residential real property from its provisions, including, among others, a transfer between spouses, domestic partners, parent and child, siblings, grandparent and grandchild, a transfer pursuant to a court order, and a transfer by eminent domain.

This bill would require the owner of the residential real property to notify each tenant and each qualified entity, as defined, of the owner’s intent to sell the residential real property. The bill would provide each qualified entity with 10 days to notify the property owner of their interest in purchasing the property and further provide a qualified entity with either 60 days or 40 days, depending on the number of units of the

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