Twentynine Palms City Council
September 26, 2023

TWENTYNINE PALMS CITY COUNCIL

REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
6136 Adobe Road
Twentynine Palms, CA 92277
www.29palms.org
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the City Council will hold a Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 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. Amy Miranda, First Assembly of God Church.

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 - NONE

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

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

2. Accept the Neighborhood Safety Project, HSIPL-5448(009).

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council:

1. Accept the Neighborhood Safety Project as completed for a total cost of $824,870.62

2. Direct the City Clerk to file the Notice of Completion for the contract work. 5 - 7

3. Direct the Finance Director to release retained funds 30 days after the filing of the Notice of Completion, provided no claims are filed against the contractor.

Accept the Neighborhood Safety Project, HSIPL-5448(009). - Pdf

3. Legislative Report - August 2023.

Legislative Report - August 2023. - Pdf
Weekly Legislative Report 081723
Housing Legislative Summary August 2023
Public Safety Legislative Summary August 2023
Surplus Land Act Legislative Summary August 2023
Weekly Legislative Report 083123
August 2023 Legislative Matriz
August 2023 Monthly Newsletter
9 - 125

4. Fire Department Emergency Response Report - August 2023 Fire Department Emergency Response Report - August 2023 - Pdf TNP Monthly Totals - Aug 2023
127 - 129

5. DCA - Density Bonus, Community Care Facilities and Emergency Shelters - Second Reading.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council find the project exempt from CEQA and adopt the Ordinance amending Chapter 19.72 Density Bonus, Chapter 19.114 Community Care Facilities and Chapter 19.116 Emergency Shelters.

DCA - Density Bonus, Community Care Facilities and Emergency Shelters - Second Reading. - Pdf
131 - 171

6. DCA - Off Street Parking and Loading - Second Reading.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council find the project exempt from CEQA and adopt the Ordinance amending Chapter 19.82 Off Street Parking and Loading.

DCA - Off Street Parking and Loading - Second Reading - Pdf 173 - 200

7. DCA - Article 2, Allowable Uses - Second Reading
RECOMMENDATION: The City Council find the project exempt from CEQA and adopt the Ordinance amending Article 2, Allowable Uses.

DCA - Article 2, Allowable Uses - Second Reading - Pdf
201 - 254

8. DCA - Accessory Dwelling Units - Second Reading.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council find the project exempt from CEQA and adopt the Ordinance amending Chapter 19.134 Accessory Dwelling Units.

DCA - Accessory Dwelling Units - Second Reading. - Pdf
255 - 269

9. Second Reading - Conflict of Interest Code Update.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council adopt Ordinance No. ____ amending the City's Conflict of Interest Code. (Attachment A)
Second Reading - Conflict of Interest Code Update. - Pdf 271 - 276

ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION
PUBLIC HEARING – NONE

DISCUSSION AND POTENTIAL ACTION ITEMS

10. Wastewater Treatment Plant Location - Future Agenda Item Request.

RECOMMENDATION: The City Council provide for direction.

Wastewater Treatment Plant Location - Future Agenda Item Request. - Pdf 277 - 296

11. APN 0621-051-12
RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council adopt Resolution 23-__ and find that the land use entitlements on APN 0621-051-12 are expired and thus null and void, and that any legal non-conforming use status to operate a mobile home park (MHP) has also expired.

APN 0621-051-12 - Pdf
297 - 300

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.

FUTURE COUNCIL INITIATED ITEMS

1. Seasonal Banners throughout the City.

2. Maintained vs. Non-Maintained Roads.

3. Identify ten lots to start a self- help construction program.

4. Discussion on forming a Youth Advisory Committee.

5. Discussion with the Homeless Committee on the possibility of hotels housing the homeless for short periods of time.

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 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., September 21, 2023.

Cindy Villescas CMC, City Clerk Time/Date

STAFF REPORT
TO: City Council
FROM: City Engineer
FOR MEETING: Sep 26 2023
SUBJECT: Accept the Neighborhood Safety Project, HSIPL-5448(009).

RECOMMENDATION:

The City Council:

1. Accept the Neighborhood Safety Project as completed for a total cost of $824,870.62

2. Direct the City Clerk to file the Notice of Completion for the contract work.

3. Direct the Finance Director to release retained funds 30 days after the filing of the Notice of Completion, provided no claims are filed against the contractor.

ORDER OF PROCEDURE:

Request Staff Report (City Manager Presenting)
Council Questions of Staff
Receive Public Comment
Council Discussion
Motion/Second
Call the Question
ATTACHMENTS:
• Notice of CompletionNeighborhood Safety Project
BACKGROUND:

On October 11, 2022, the City awarded a contract in the amount of $781,120 plus 10 % for contingencies to VSS International, Inc., to provide necessary labor, equipment, and materials for the Neighborhood Safety Project. The project included upgrading intersection pavement markings, installing advanced flashing LED warning signs, and chip-sealing various streets. The project's location is within various residential areas south of Two Mile Rd, North of Baseline Rd, East of Encelia Ave, and west of Elm Ave.

ENVIRONMENTAL:

The environmental document was approved by Caltrans on October 1, 2021.

ALTERNATIVES:

N/A
FISCAL IMPACT:

Both the design and the construction phases of the project are 100% Federally Funding as a result of an approved HSIP grant application.

Recording Requested by:

City of Twentynine Palms
When Recorded mail to:

City of Twentynine Palms
Engineering Department
6136 Adobe Road
Twentynine Palms, CA 92277
Exempt from filing fees pursuant to
Government Code Section 27383.

SPACE ABOVE THIS LINE FOR RECORDER’S USE ONLY

NOTICE OF COMPLETION
(Public Street Improvement)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that

1. The undersigned, Richard Pedersen, is the duly appointed and qualified City Engineer of the owner of interest or estate stated below in the property hereinafter described:

2. The full name of the owner is: City of Twentynine Palms, a municipal corporation of the State of California, and which is located within the County of San Bernardino, in said State, and the address is 6136 Adobe Road, Twentynine Palms, California 92277.

3. That on the 11th day of October 2022 and pursuant to approval of the City Council of the said City, the City entered into a contract with VVS International, Inc., whose address is 3785 Channel Drive, West Sacramento, CA 95691, to perform the Neighborhood Safety Project, in the City of Twentynine Palms, and in accordance with the City of Twentynine Palms' Plans and Specifications.

4. That all of the said work or improvement was located on State Route 62 in said City. Address: None, APN: Unknown.

5. That all of the said work or improvement contemplated in and under said contract was completed on August 31, 2023, and accepted by Council action on September 26, 2023.

6. That the Surety on the Performance Bond of said Contractor and the surety on the Labor and Material Bond of said Contractor, under said contract, was and is $781,120 and $781,120.

The undersigned states: That the City of Twentynine Palms, the political subdivision of the State of California conducted the proceedings for the improvement located at 6136 Adobe Road, in said City, described or referred to in the foregoing "Notice of Completion”.

I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. ____________________________________________DATE: September 26, 2023 Richard Pedersen, City Engineer,
of the City of Twentynine Palms, California

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )

COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO )
CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS )ss.

STAFF REPORT
TO: City Council
FROM: City Manager
FOR MEETING: Aug 22 2023
SUBJECT: Legislative Report - August 2023.

ATTACHMENTS:
• Weekly Legislative Report
081723
• Housing Legislative Summary
August 2023
• Public Safety Legislative
Summary August 2023
• Surplus Land Act Legislative
Summary August 2023
• Weekly Legislative Report
083123
• August 2023 Legislative Matriz
• August 2023 Monthly
Newsletter

Weekly Legislative Summary
Thursday, August 17, 2023
AB 2 (Ward D)   Recycling: solar photovoltaic modules.

Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 (act) requires a retailer selling a covered electronic device in this state to collect from a consumer at the time of retail sale a covered electronic waste recycling fee or a covered battery-embedded waste recycling fee, as specified. The act defines “covered electronic device” to include certain video display devices and battery-embedded products. The act requires all charges collected pursuant to the act to be deposited into specified subaccounts within the Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account, and outlines certain other requirements related to the establishment, adjustment, and administration of the charge. Moneys in the subaccounts are continuously appropriated for specified purposes, including, but not limited to, paying covered electronic waste recycling fee refunds and making electronic waste recovery and recycling payments. Current law incorporates the requirements and other provisions of the act by reference as requirements and provisions of the hazardous waste control laws. The act also expressly authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to enforce the act, and all regulations adopted pursuant to the act, through the hazardous waste control laws. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would, among other things, expand the definition of “covered electronic device” to include a “customer-owned solar PV module,” as defined, thereby expanding the scope of the act to include covered solar photovoltaic (PV) module products, for limited purposes, as provided. The bill would also require, on or before October 1, 2026, and on or before October 1 each year thereafter, CalRecycle to establish a covered solar PV recycling fee based on the reasonable regulatory costs to administer covered electronic waste recycling. The bill would require the charge to be imposed upon a consumer or a service provider serving the consumer for the purchase of a new or refurbished covered solar PV module product. The bill would also require the charge to be adjusted annually based on the California Consumer Price Index. The bill would create the Covered Solar PV Module Recycling Fee Subaccount as a continuously appropriated fund in the Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account. Because the funds deposited to the Covered Solar PV Module Recycling Fee Subaccount would be a new source of funds in the continuously appropriated subaccount within the continuously appropriated Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account, the bill would make an appropriation.

AB 28 (Gabriel D)   Firearms and ammunition: excise tax.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Grant Program, administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, to award competitive grants for the purpose of violence intervention and prevention. Current law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges. This bill, the Gun Violence Prevention, Healing, and Recovery Act, would, commencing July 1, 2024, impose an excise tax in the amount of 11% of the gross receipts from the retail sale in this state of a firearm, firearm precursor part, and ammunition, as specified. The tax would be collected by the state pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures

Law. The bill would require that the revenues collected be deposited in the Gun Violence Prevention, Healing, and Recovery Fund, which the bill would establish in the State Treasury.

AB 33 (Bains D)   Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force.

Current Text: Amended: 6/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, subject to an appropriation, establish the Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse, including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse. The bill would require the task force to be cochaired by the Attorney General and the Surgeon General, or their designees, and would specify the membership of the task force.

AB 37 (Bonta D)   Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds: security expenses.

Current Text: Amended: 7/10/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #169  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system if specified conditions are met. These conditions include that the candidate or elected officer has received threats to physical safety that have been verified by law enforcement and that no more than $5,000 in campaign funds be used for this purpose. This bill would eliminate those conditions. The bill would instead authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system, and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family and staff of a candidate or elected officer, if those costs are directly related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose. The bill would require the return of the security system to the committee that paid for the security system or reimbursement by the candidate, elected officer, immediate family, or staff, to the campaign fund account of the committee that paid for the security system and reporting of the reimbursement to the Fair Political Practices Commission, as specified.

AB 40 (Rodriguez D)   Emergency medical services.

Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act creates the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination of various state activities concerning emergency medical services. Among other duties, current law requires the authority to develop planning and implementation guidelines for EMS systems, provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the purpose of developing the components of EMS systems, and receive plans for the implementation of EMS and trauma care systems from local EMS agencies. Current law makes a violation of the act or regulations adopted pursuant to the act punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill, on or before June 1, 2024, would require the authority to develop and implement an electronic signature for use between the emergency department medical personnel at a receiving hospital and the transporting emergency medical personnel that captures the points in time when the hospital receives notification of ambulance arrival and when transfer of care is executed for documentation of ambulance patient offload time, as defined. The bill would require every local EMS agency, by March 1, 2024, to develop a standard not to exceed 30 minutes, 90% of the time, for ambulance patient offload time and report the standardized time to the authority. The bill would also require the authority to develop and implement by June 1, 2024, an audit tool to improve data accuracy regarding transfer of care, as specified, and to provide technical assistance and funding as needed, subject to an appropriation, for small rural hospitals and volunteer EMS providers to implement these provisions. The bill would require the authority to adopt emergency regulations to implement these provisions on or before March 1, 2024.

AB 46 (Ramos D)   Personal income taxes: exclusion: Military Services Retirement and Surviving Spouse Benefit Payment Act.

Current Text: Amended: 7/12/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2034, exclude from gross income retirement pay received by a taxpayer from the federal government for service performed in the uniformed services, as defined, during the taxable year. The bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2034, would also exclude from gross income annuity payments received by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, pursuant to a United States Department of Defense Survivor Benefit Plan during the taxable year. The bill would make related findings and declarations.

AB 50 (Wood D)   Public utilities: timely service: customer energization.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Public Utilities Commission, on or before January 1, 2025, to determine the criteria for timely service for electric customers to be energized, including, among other things, reasonable average energization time periods for categories of timely service, as specified. The bill would require each large electrical corporation that energized less than 35% of customers with completed applications exceeding 12 months in duration by January 31, 2023, to submit a report to the commission, as specified, on or before December 1, 2024, demonstrating that the large electrical corporation has energized 80% of customers with applications deemed complete as of January 31, 2023, as specified. To improve the accuracy of projected demand and facilitate achievement of the goal of timely electric service through energization, the bill would require each large electrical corporation to evaluate and update, as necessary, its existing distribution planning process. In order to inform the commission’s determination of criteria for timely service, the bill would require the commission to annually collect certain information from each large electrical corporation until new reporting requirements are established.

AB 84 (Ward D)   Property tax: welfare exemption: affordable housing.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
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 law defines “property used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes” to include facilities in the course of construction on or after the first Monday of March 1954, as specified. Under current property tax law, property that meets the above-described requirements that is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities is entitled to a partial exemption, equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units, in any year that any of certain criteria apply, including that the acquisition, rehabilitation, development, or operation of the property, or any combination of these factors, is financed with tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds or general obligation bonds, or is financed by local, state, or federal loans or grants and the rents of the occupants who are lower income households do not exceed those prescribed by deed restrictions or regulatory agreements pursuant to the terms of the financing or financial assistance. This bill would expand this partial exemption to property acquired, rehabilitated, developed, or operated, or any combination of these factors, with financing from qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, as defined.

AB 101 (Ting D)   Budget Act of 2023.

Current Text: Amended: 6/11/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2023

Status: 8/14/2023-Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

Location: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions.

AB 262 (Holden D)   Children’s camps: safety and regulation.

Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Community Care Facilities Act generally provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including child daycare facilities, by the State Department of Social Services.

Current law also requires the State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for organized camps, defined as a site with a program and facilities established for the primary purposes of providing an outdoor group living experience with social, spiritual, educational, or recreational objectives, for 5 days or more during one or more seasons of the year, except as specified. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to convene and consult with a stakeholder group on children’s camp safety. The bill would require the stakeholder group to be composed of representatives of designated state entities, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Education, and other stakeholders, such as parent advocate groups, children’s advocates and safety groups, and local parks and health departments. The bill would require the department, by June 1, 2025, to issue its recommendations, as informed by the stakeholder group, in a report to the Legislature.

AB 318 (Addis D)   Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act.

Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act establishes the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development to resolve complaints from homeowners relating to the Mobilehome Residency Law. Current law requires the department to refer any alleged violations of law or regulations within the department’s jurisdiction to the Division of Codes and Standards. Current law requires the department to use good faith efforts to select the most severe, deleterious, and materially and economically impactful alleged violations, as specified. This bill would delete the requirement that the department select the most severe, deleterious, and materially and economically impactful alleged violations.

AB 334 (Rubio, Blanca D)   Public contracts: conflicts of interest.

Current Text: Amended: 6/7/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Location: Senate Consent Calendar
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #241  SENATE CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Current law authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission to commence an administrative or civil action against persons who violate this prohibition, as prescribed, and includes provisions for the collection of penalties after the time for judicial review of a commission order or decision has lapsed, or if all means of judicial review of the order or decision have been exhausted. Current law identifies certain remote interests in contracts that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract.

Existing law makes a willful violation of this prohibition a crime. This bill would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified requirements, is not an officer for purposes of being subject to the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract.

AB 350 (Aguiar-Curry D)   Regional transportation plans: Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

Current Text: Amended: 6/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires each regional transportation plan to include, among other things, a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization, as specified, which is designed to achieve certain targets for 2020 and 2035 established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region. After adopting a sustainable communities strategy, current law requires a metropolitan planning organization to submit the strategy to the state board for review to determine whether the strategy, if implemented, would achieve the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Current law requires each transportation planning agency to adopt and submit to the California Transportation Commission and the Department of Transportation an updated regional transportation plan every 4 or 5 years, as specified. This bill would require the updated regional transportation plan, sustainable communities strategy, and environmental impact report adopted by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) on November 18, 2019, to remain in effect for all purposes until the SACOG adopts its next update to its regional transportation plan, which the bill would require it to adopt and submit on or before December 31, 2025.

AB 426 (Jackson D)   Unlicensed residential foster care facilities: temporary placement management.

Current Text: Amended: 7/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Office of the State Foster Care Ombudsperson to be established in the State Department of Social Services with prescribed powers and duties relating to the management of foster children. Current law authorizes the ombudsperson, as part of the office’s efforts to resolve complaints related to foster care, to conduct whatever investigation reasonably related to the complaint and to foster care that the ombudsperson deems necessary. Current law grants specified rights to all minors and nonminors in foster care, including, among others, the right to receive medical, dental, vision, and mental health services, the right to be informed of these rights in an age- and developmentally appropriate manner, and the right to receive a copy of these rights at specified intervals. This bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to appoint a temporary placement manager, as defined, if the department has reason to believe, including pursuant to a complaint investigated by the State Foster Care Ombudsperson, that an unlicensed residential foster care facility, as defined, is endangering the welfare of foster children or youth in the facility, including, but not limited to, in violation of any of the rights described above. The bill would require the department to issue an initial statement of allegations, followed by a formal statement of allegations that specifies the factual and legal basis for the appointment of a temporary placement manager to operate the facility 60 calendar days after issuance of the formal statement of allegations. The bill would require the appointment of the temporary placement manger to be effective 61 calendar days after the department issues the statement of causes and concerns, and until the temporary placement manager notifies the department, and the department verifies, that appropriate placements have been arranged for all foster children and youth in the facility, as prescribed. The bill would authorize a residential foster care facility that receives a formal statement of allegations to contest the appointment of a temporary manager by seeking injunctive relief in the superior court sitting in the county in which the facility is located, as specified.

AB 436 (Alvarez D)   Vehicles.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits a local authority from enacting or enforcing an ordinance on matters covered by the Vehicle Code unless expressly authorized by the Vehicle Code. Current law authorizes local authorities to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding specified matters, including, among others, crossing guards, the operation of bicycles, the removal of illegally parked vehicles, and cruising, as defined. This bill would remove the authorization for a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or regulation regarding cruising.

AB 441 (Haney D)   Temporary food facilities: permitting: farmers’ markets and night markets.

Current Text: Amended: 8/16/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended.

Location: Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Retail Food Code establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for temporary food facilities, and defines a temporary food facility to mean a food facility approved by an enforcement officer to operate at a fixed location for the duration of a community event, as specified. Current law defines a community event as an event conducted for not more than 25 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a 90-day period and that is of a civic, political, public, or educational nature, including state and county fairs, city festivals, circuses, and other public gathering events approved by the local enforcement agency. Current law prohibits a temporary food facility from being open for business without a valid permit.

Current law requires an enforcement agency to issue a permit when investigation has determined a proposed facility meets the specifications of approved plans or conforms to the requirements of the California Retail Food Code. Current law provides that a permit is only valid for the person, location, type of food sales, or distribution activity and, unless suspended or revoked for cause, for the time period indicated. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is a misdemeanor. This bill would include in the definition of a community event a farmers’ market or night market conducted for not more than 90 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a 12-month period. The bill would require a permit issued for a temporary food facility that operates at a farmers’ market or night market to be valid for all locations of that community event. The bill would designate a permit issued pursuant to these provisions as a farmers’ market or night market temporary food facility permit.

AB 474 (Rodriguez D)   State Threat Assessment Center: transnational criminal organizations.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/7/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would find and declare that the State Threat Assessment Center (STAC) serves as California’s information-sharing clearinghouse of strategic threat analysis and situational awareness reporting for statewide leadership and the public safety community, as specified, and that the STAC is California’s state primary fusion center, as designated by the Governor, and is operated by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Office of Emergency Services, and the Department of Justice. The bill would make other findings and declarations related to drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.

AB 504 (Reyes D)   State and local public employees: labor relations: strikes.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act and the Ralph C. Dills Act regulate the labor relations of employees and employers of local public agencies and the state, respectively. Those acts grant specified employees, including, among others, certain employees of fire departments, of local public agencies and the state the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their choosing and require public agency employers, among other things, to meet and confer with representatives of recognized employee organizations and exclusive representatives on terms and conditions of employment. The acts grant the Public Employment Relations Board the power to hear specified disputes in relation to these provisions and to make determinations regarding them. This bill would provide, except as specified, that it is not unlawful or a cause for discipline or other adverse action against a public employee for that public employee to refuse to enter property that is the site of a primary strike, perform work for a public employer involved in a primary strike, or go through or work behind a primary strike line. The bill would prohibit a public employer from directing a public employee to take those actions. The bill would authorize a recognized employee organization to inform employees of these rights and encourage them to exercise those rights.

AB 573 (Garcia D)   Organic waste: meeting recovered organic waste product procurement targets.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a certain reduction in statewide emissions of methane, including a goal of a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic waste reduction goals, that provide for, among other things, the calculation by the department of recovered organic waste product procurement targets for each local jurisdiction, and that may include penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance. This bill would require the department, for purposes of those regulations, to allow a local jurisdiction, until December 1, 2031, in procuring recovered organic waste products to meet the target procurement requirements, to use California-derived recovered organic waste that the local jurisdiction sends for processing at a facility or operation outside of the state that meets certain conditions, as provided.

AB 701 (Villapudua D)   Controlled substances: fentanyl.

Current Text: Amended: 6/20/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Current law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and provides for imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years for a violation of this provision. Current law also imposes an additional term, and authorizes a trial court to impose a specified fine, upon a person who is convicted of a violation of, or of a conspiracy to violate, specified provisions of law with respect to a substance containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. This bill would impose that additional term upon, and authorize a fine against, a defendant who violates those laws with respect to a substance containing fentanyl.

AB 744 (Carrillo, Juan D)   California Transportation Commission: data, modeling, and analytic software tools procurement.

Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, upon the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, require the California Transportation Commission to acquire public domain or procure commercially available or open-source licensed data, modeling, and analytic software tools to support the state’s sustainable transportation, congestion management, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, and climate change strategies and goals, as provided. This bill would authorize the commission to provide a direct allocation of funding to local agencies for the above purposes, and would require state and local agencies that receive the funds or access to data, modeling, and analytic software tools to submit reports to the commission no later than August 1, 2026, regarding their use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools. The bill would require the commission, based on those reports, to submit a report to the Legislature no later than June 1, 2027, regarding the use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools by state and local agencies. This bill would authorize the commission to establish best practices for use of data in transportation planning and to identify data elements that should be made available to state and local agencies for transportation planning.

AB 755 (Papan D)   Water: public entity: water usage demand analysis.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a public entity that supplies water at retail or wholesale within its service area to adopt, in accordance with specified procedures, and enforce a water conservation program. This bill would require a public entity, as defined, to conduct a water usage demand analysis, as defined, prior to completing, or as part of, a cost-of-service analysis conducted to set fees and charges for water service that are consistent with applicable law. The bill would require a public entity to identify, within the water usage demand analysis, the costs of water service for the highest users, as defined, incurred by the public entity, and the average annual volume of water delivered to high water users.

AB 825 (Bryan D)   Vehicles: bicycles on sidewalks.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2031, and except as specified, prohibit a local authority from prohibiting the operation of a bicycle on a sidewalk adjacent to a highway or corridor that does not include a Class I, Class II, or Class IV bikeway, as defined, and would require the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the effects of that prohibition.

AB 840 (Addis D)   Tied-house exceptions: advertising.

Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #191  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Current law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees, or their officers, directors, or agents, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. In this regard, existing law specifically prohibits paying a retailer for advertising. Current law creates a variety of exceptions to this prohibition, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee that is an owner, manager, agent or major tenant of the owner, or assignee of the owner’s advertising rights of certain venues, subject to specified conditions. Current law requires the purchase of advertising space or time, in this context, to be conducted pursuant to a written contract and, in certain instances, specifically authorizes a contract to be made with the owner, a long-term tenant of the complex, or a licensee of the complex, whether or not the owner, long-term tenant, or licensee holds an on-sale license. In this context, current law makes certain acts of coercion crimes, including when an on-sale licensee coerces other specified licensees to purchase advertising space or time. This bill would expand the above-described exception to tiedhouse restrictions that allows for the purchase of advertising by applying it to various facilities that are situated on California State University campuses located in the Counties of San Luis Obispo, Fresno, Sacramento, Monterey, Orange, Santa Clara, and Los Angeles, and on the campus of St. Mary’s College of California located in the County of Contra Costa.

AB 965 (Carrillo, Juan D)   Local government: broadband permit applications.

Current Text: Amended: 6/7/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #195  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a local agency to undertake batch broadband permit processing, as defined, upon receiving 2 or more broadband permit applications for substantially similar broadband project sites submitted at the same time by the same applicant, within a presumptively reasonable time, as defined. The bill would

define “local agency” for these purposes to mean a city, county, city and county, charter city, special district, or publicly owned utility, other than certain publicly owned electric utilities. If a local agency does not approve those broadband permit applications for substantially similar broadband project sites and issue permits, or reject the applications and notify the applicants, within the presumptively reasonable time or longer period permitted under applicable law, the bill would require that all of those permits be deemed approved. The bill would authorize a local agency to place reasonable limits on the number of broadband project sites that are grouped into a single permit while undertaking batch broadband permit processing, as specified. The bill would provide that a local agency may only remove a broadband project site from grouping under a single permit under mutual agreement with the applicant or to expedite the approval of other substantially similar broadband project sites. The bill, if a local agency denies a broadband permit application, would require the local agency to notify the applicant in writing of the reasons for the denial. The bill would specify that these provisions do not apply to eligible facility requests, as defined.

AB 1082 (Kalra D)   Authority to remove vehicles.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a peace officer and specified public employees, as an alternative to removal of a vehicle, to immobilize the vehicle with a device designed and manufactured for that purpose, if, among other circumstances, the vehicle is found upon a highway or public lands by the peace officer or employee and it is known to have been issued 5 or more notices of parking violations that are delinquent because the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded to the appropriate agency within a designated time period. This bill would instead allow only an agent of public higher educational institutions, including the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges, to remove or immobilize a vehicle under those circumstances. The bill would limit the related authority to conduct a lien sale to cover towing and storage expenses to agents of public higher educational institutions, as specified. The bill would make various conforming and technical changes.

AB 1168 (Bennett D)   Emergency medical services (EMS): prehospital EMS.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems and authorizes each county to develop an EMS program and designate a local EMS agency. Current law requires a county to enter into a written agreement with a city or fire district that contracted for or provided prehospital EMS as of June 1, 1980. Current law requires, until that written agreement is reached, prehospital EMS to be continued at not less than the existing level and the administration of prehospital EMS by cities and fire districts contracting for or providing those services as of June 1, 1980, to be retained by those cities and fire districts. This bill would require a city to be treated as if it had retained its authorities regarding, and the administration of, prehospital EMS if specified requirements are met.

AB 1175 (Quirk-Silva D)   Outdoor advertising displays: redevelopment agency project areas.

Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Outdoor Advertising Act does not apply to an on-premises advertising display, which generally advertises business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at the location where the display is located. Until January 1, 2023, the act treats an off-premises advertising display developed as part of and within the boundary limits of a redevelopment agency project, as those boundaries existed on December 29, 2011, as an on-premises advertising display if it meets certain criteria for good cause, which includes, among others, that there has been no violation of certain provisions by the owner or operator of

the advertising display, as specified. This bill would alter that good cause criteria to instead require that the Department of Transportation has not made a final determination of a violation of the same provisions, whether by a final administrative decision or by operation of law, by the owner or operator of the advertising display.

AB 1307 (Wicks D)   California Environmental Quality Act: noise impact: residential projects.

Current Text: Amended: 6/26/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Location: Senate Consent Calendar
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #260  SENATE CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (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. This bill would specify that the effects of noise generated by project occupants and their guests on human beings is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA. This bill would specify that institutions of public higher education, in an EIR for a residential or mixed-use housing project, are not required to consider alternatives to the location of the proposed project if certain requirements are met. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

AB 1448 (Wallis R)   Cannabis: enforcement by local jurisdictions.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.

MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act, and requires the department to be under the supervision and control of a director. Under MAUCRSA, a person engaging in commercial cannabis activity without a license is subject to civil penalties, as specified. MAUCRSA requires, in an action for civil penalties brought by the Attorney General, a county counsel, a city attorney, or a city prosecutor, the penalty first be used to reimburse the prosecuting agency for specified costs of bringing the action, with the remainder, if any, to be deposited in the General Fund. This bill would recast those provisions to require, in an action brought by a county counsel, city attorney, or city prosecutor, the penalty first be used to reimburse the prosecuting agency for specified costs in bringing the action, with 50% of the remainder, if any, paid to the county or city, as applicable, and the other 50% to be deposited into the General Fund.

AB 1490 (Lee D)   Affordable housing development projects: adaptive reuse.

Current Text: Amended: 7/10/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under this bill, a housing development that is, among other requirements, an extremely affordable adaptive reuse project on an infill parcel that is not located on or adjoined to a site where more than 1/3 of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use, as specified, would be an allowable use. The bill would authorize a local agency to impose objective design review standards, except as specified.

The bill would authorize a local agency to deny the project if it is proposed to be located on a site or adjoined to any site where any of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use and the local agency makes written findings that approving the development would have an adverse effect on public health and safety. The bill would provide that for purposes of the Housing Accountability Act, a proposed housing development project is consistent, compliant, and in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision if the housing development project is consistent with the standards specified in these provisions. The bill would require a local agency to determine whether the proposed development meets those standards within specified timeframes. The bill would define an

“extremely affordable adaptive reuse project” for these purposes to mean a multifamily housing development project that involves retrofitting and repurposing of a residential or commercial building that currently allows temporary dwelling or occupancy, and that meets specified affordability requirements, including that 100% of the units be dedicated to lower income households, 50% of which shall be dedicated to very low income households, as specified. Because the bill would require local officials to provide a higher level of service, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1572 (Friedman D)   Potable water: nonfunctional turf.

Current Text: Amended: 8/16/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would make legislative findings and declarations concerning water use, including that the use of potable water to irrigate nonfunctional turf is wasteful and incompatible with state policy relating to climate change, water conservation, and reduced reliance on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem. The bill would direct all appropriate state agencies to encourage and support the elimination of irrigation of nonfunctional turf with potable water.

AB 1594 (Garcia D)   Medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles: public agency utilities.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Air Quality Improvement Program that is administered by the State Air Resources Board for purposes of funding projects related to, among other things, the reduction of criteria air pollutants and improvement of air quality, and establishes the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program within the Air Quality Improvement Program to make financing tools and nonfinancial supports available to operators of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fleets to enable those operators to transition their fleets to zero-emission vehicles. This bill would require any state regulation that seeks to require, or otherwise compel, the procurement of medium- and heavy-duty zeroemission vehicles to authorize public agency utilities to purchase replacements for traditional utilityspecialized vehicles that are at the end of life when needed to maintain reliable service and respond to major foreseeable events, including severe weather, wildfires, natural disasters, and physical attacks, as specified.

The bill would define a public agency utility to include a local publicly owned electric utility, a community water system, and a wastewater treatment provider, as specified.

AB 1657 (Wicks D)   The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024.

Current Text: Amended: 4/17/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.

Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and homeownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.

AB 1679 (Santiago D)   Transactions and use taxes: County of Los Angeles: homelessness.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #167  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the Transactions and Use Tax Law, including a requirement that the combined rate of all taxes that may be imposed in accordance with that law in the county not exceed 2%. Current local transactions and use tax law for the County of Los Angeles, known as Measure H, establishes a local tax at a rate of 0.25%, and the revenue from that tax is dedicated to addressing and preventing homelessness. This bill would authorize the County of Los Angeles to impose a transactions and use tax at a rate of no more than 0.50% that, in combination with other transactions and use taxes, would exceed the above-described combined rate limit of 2%, if the county adopts an ordinance proposing the tax and the ordinance proposing the tax is approved by the voters, subject to applicable voter approval requirements. The bill would also require all revenue from the tax to be dedicated to addressing and preventing homelessness, as provided, and would require the local ordinance, upon approval by the electorate, to repeal Measure H. The bill would specify that a transactions and use tax established pursuant to its provisions would not be considered for purposes of the 2% combined rate limitation.

AB 1686 (Grayson D)   Ports and harbors: Martinez Marina.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/15/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.).

Location: Assembly Enrollment
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires, commencing June 30, 2015, and at the end of every fiscal year thereafter, and subject to an exception described below, that the City of Martinez, as trustee, transmit 20 percent of all gross revenue generated from specified trust lands to the State Lands Commission for allocation by the Treasurer to the General Fund and Land Bank Fund. Current law, in recognition of deteriorated conditions at the Martinez Marina, commencing June 30, 2015, and until June 30, 2021, authorized the commission to relieve the trustee of its obligation to transmit those gross revenues so the trustee can take action to address those conditions, including the dredging of sediment to restore adequate depth for launching, berthing, and safe navigation at the marina. This bill would authorize the commission to relieve the trustee of its obligation to transmit those gross revenues so the trustee can take action to address those conditions at the marina, including the dredging of sediment to restore adequate depth for launching, berthing, and safe navigation at the marina, commencing January 1, 2024, and until June 30, 2029.

SB 4 (Wiener D)   Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, longterm general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee within the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires the committee to allocate state low-income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law that establishes a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits. This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.

SB 19 (Seyarto R)   Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force.

Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse. The bill would require the task force to be chaired by the Attorney General, or their designee, and would specify the membership of the task force. The bill would require the first meeting of the task force to take place no later than March 1, 2024, and would require the task force to meet at least once every 2 months. The bill would require the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the Attorney General, the Governor, and the Legislature by July 1, 2025. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026.

SB 43 (Eggman D)   Behavioral health.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 hearing postponed by committee.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of a person who is a danger to themselves or others or who is gravely disabled. Current law, for purposes of involuntary commitment, defines “gravely disabled” as either a condition in which a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is unable to provide for their basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter or has been found mentally incompetent, as specified. This bill expands the definition of “gravely disabled” to also include a condition in which a person, as a result of a severe substance use disorder, or a co-occurring mental health disorder and a severe substance use disorder, is, in addition to the basic personal needs described above, unable to provide for their personal safety or necessary medical care, as defined. The bill would authorize counties to defer implementation of these provisions to January 1, 2025, as specified.

SB 50 (Bradford D)   Vehicles: enforcement.

Current Text: Amended: 6/29/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, it is unlawful to disobey the lawful order, signal, or direction of a uniformed peace officer performing any duties pursuant to the Vehicle Code or to refuse to submit to any lawful vehicular inspection authorized by the Vehicle Code. Current case law deems a temporary detention of a person during an automobile stop by the police, even if only for a brief period and for a limited purpose, a seizure, under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and as such, requires the actions to be reasonable. Under current case law, the decision to stop an automobile is reasonable if the police have probable cause to believe that a traffic violation has occurred. Current case law holds that constitutional reasonableness of traffic stops does not depend on the actual motivations of the individual officers involved and that ulterior motives do not invalidate police conduct that is justifiable on the basis of probable cause to believe that a violation of law has occurred. This bill would prohibit a peace officer from stopping or detaining the operator of a motor vehicle or bicycle for a low-level infraction, as defined, unless a separate, independent basis for a stop exists or more than one low-level infraction is observed. The bill would state that a violation of these provisions is not grounds for a defendant to move for return of property or to suppress evidence.

SB 55 (Umberg D)   Vehicles: catalytic converters.

Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 8/16/2023-From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 16).

Location: Assembly Consent Calendar
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a core recycler that accepts, ships, or sells used catalytic converters to maintain specified information regarding the purchase and sale of the catalytic converters. Current law prohibits a core recycler from providing payment for a catalytic converter unless, among other requirements,

the payment is made by check, as specified. This bill, in addition to payment by check, would allow for payment by credit card or any other form of traceable payment other than cash.

SB 58 (Wiener D)   Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline, for personal use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substances on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age.

SB 94 (Cortese D)   Recall and resentencing: special circumstances.

Current Text: Amended: 6/20/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law provides for various specified special circumstances, including murder committed for financial gain or committed during the commission or attempted commission of certain felonies, which, if found true as specified, require a defendant found guilty of murder in the first degree to be sentenced to death or imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole. Current law, added by Proposition 115 of the June 5, 1990, statewide primary election, prohibits a judge from striking or dismissing any special circumstance that is admitted by plea or found true by a jury or court, as specified. Current law generally authorizes a court to dismiss an action or to strike or dismiss an enhancement in the furtherance of justice, except if dismissal of that enhancement is prohibited by any initiative statute. This bill would authorize an individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a conviction in which one or more special circumstances were found to be true to petition for recall and resentencing if the offense occurred before June 5, 1990, and the individual has served at least 25 years in custody. The bill would exempt individuals from relief under these provisions under certain circumstances, including if the individual was convicted of first degree murder of a peace officer, as specified. The bill would authorize the court to modify the petitioner’s sentence to impose a lesser sentence and apply any changes in law that reduce sentences or provide for judicial discretion, or to vacate the petitioner’s conviction and impose judgment on a lesser included offense, as specified.

SB 233 (Skinner D)   Electric vehicles and electric vehicle supply equipment: bidirectional capability.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, on or before June 30, 2024, to convene a stakeholder workgroup to examine challenges and opportunities associated with using an electric vehicle as a mobile battery to power a home or building or to provide electricity to the electrical grid, and require the Energy Commission, in consultation with the stakeholder workgroup, on or before January 1, 2026, to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature that includes, among other things, specified information related to the bidirectional capability of electric vehicles and electric vehicle service equipment, as specified.

SB 258 (Roth D)   General aviation airports: funding needs assessment.

Current Text: Amended: 3/15/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the California Transportation Commission to prepare a funding needs assessment for the state’s general aviation airports. As part of the funding needs assessment, the bill would require the commission to forecast the expected revenue to pay for the costs identified in the needs assessment, any shortfall in revenue to cover the costs, and recommendations on how any shortfall should be addressed. The bill would require the funding needs assessment to be informed by the California Aviation System Plan and the most recent capital improvement plan. The bill would require the commission to submit the funding needs assessment to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026.

SB 321 (Ashby D)   Literacy: libraries: Local Public Library Partnership Program.

Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes the State Librarian to give advisory, consultive, and technical assistance with respect to public libraries to librarians and library authorities, and assist all other authorities, state and local, in assuming their full responsibility for library services. This bill would establish the Local Public Library Partnership Program, under the administration of the State Librarian, for purposes of ensuring that all pupils have access to a local public library by 3rd grade.

SB 389 (Allen D)   State Water Resources Control Board: investigation of water right.

Current Text: Amended: 7/6/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 16).

Location: Assembly Appropriations
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to investigate bodies of water, to take testimony in regard to the rights to water or the use of water, and to ascertain whether or not water is appropriated lawfully, as provided. Under current law, the diversion or use of water other than as authorized by specified provisions of law is a trespass, subject to specified civil liability. This bill would instead authorize the board to investigate and ascertain whether or not a water right is valid. The bill would authorize the board to issue an information order in furtherance of an investigation, as executed by the executive director of the board, to a water right holder or claimant, diverter, or user to provide the information related to a diversion and use of water, as specified. The bill would authorize a diversion or use of water ascertained to be unauthorized pursuant to this provision to be enforced as a trespass.

SB 418 (Padilla D)   California Prison Redevelopment Commission.

Current Text: Amended: 7/12/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to begin reducing private in-state male contract correctional facilities and reducing the capacity of state-owned and operated prisons or in-state leased or contract correctional facilities, as specified. This bill would establish the California Prison Redevelopment Commission, under the direction of the Director of GO-Biz and consisting of 15 members, including, among others, representatives from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Finance, and the Department of General Services, and members appointed by the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the Senate Rules Committee, as specified. This bill would specify that the task of the commission is to prepare a report with the commission’s findings and recommendations that deliver a set of clear and credible recommendations for creative uses of closed prison facilities that will turn those sites into community assets, as specified.

SB 423 (Wiener D)   Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law 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, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderateincome housing units required, as specified, remain available at affordable housing costs, as defined, or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate-income for no less than specified periods of time. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026. This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development in compliance with the above-described requirements on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would extend the operation of the streamlined, ministerial approval process to January 1, 2036.

SB 544 (Laird D)   Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act: teleconferencing.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. 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, until July 1, 2023, authorized, subject to specified notice and accessibility requirements, a state body to hold public meetings through teleconferencing and suspended certain requirements of the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, including the specified-described teleconference requirements. This bill would remove the teleconference requirements that a state body post agendas at all teleconference locations, that each teleconference location be identified in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and that each teleconference location be accessible to the public. The bill would require a state body to provide a means by which the public may remotely hear audio of the meeting, remotely observe the meeting, or attend the meeting by providing on the posted agenda a teleconference telephone number, an internet website or other online platform, and a physical address for at least one site, including, if available, access equivalent to the access for a member of the state body participating remotely.

The bill would require any notice required by the act to specify the applicable teleconference telephone number, internet website or other online platform, and physical address indicating how the public can access the meeting remotely and in person. The bill would revise existing law to no longer require that members of the public have the opportunity to address the state body directly at each teleconference location, but would continue to require that the agenda provide an opportunity for members of the public to address the state body directly. The bill would require a member or staff to be physically present at the location specified in the notice of the meeting. The bill would require a majority of the members of the state body to be physically present at the same location for at least 1/2 of the meetings of that state body.

SB 572 (Stern D)   Natural gas: prices: report.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Public Utilities Commission, on or before February 1, 2024, and in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to the extent necessary to analyze the natural gas wholesale market and trends, to submit a report to the relevant legislative policy committees on the status, outcomes, and recommendations, if any, of the commission order as specified and the status and any findings of any related investigations by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

SB 690 (Rubio D)   Domestic violence.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law makes the infliction of corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition upon specified victims, including the offender’s spouse or former spouse, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, or in a county jail for not more than one year, or a fine of up to $6,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Current law authorizes prosecution for that criminal act to be commenced within 5 years, and applies this provision to criminal acts that are committed on or after January 1, 2020, and to criminal acts for which the statute of limitations that was in effect prior to January 1, 2020, has not run as of January 1, 2020. This bill would authorize prosecution for that crime to be commenced within 15 years.

The bill would apply to crimes that are committed on or after January 1, 2024, and to crimes for which the statute of limitations that was in effect prior to January 1, 2024, has not run as of January 1, 2024.

SB 706 (Caballero D)   Public contracts: progressive design-build: local agencies.

Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 16).

Location: Assembly Consent Calendar
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #35  ASSEMBLY SECOND READING FILE -- SENATE BILLS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2029, authorizes local agencies, defined as any city, county, city and county, or special district authorized by law to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of any water from any source, to use the progressive design-build process for up to 15 public works projects in excess of $5,000,000 for each project, similar to the progressive design-build process authorized for use by the Director of General Services. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, provide additional authority for cities, counties, cities and counties, or special districts to use the progressive designbuild process for up to 10 public works in excess of $5,000,000, not limited to water-related projects, excluding projects on state-owned or state-operated facilities. The bill would require information to be provided under penalty of perjury and would require similar reports due no later than December 31, 2028.

SB 747 (Caballero D)   Land use: surplus land.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. 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 requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Current law defines “surplus land” to generally mean land owned in fee simple by a local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and not necessary for the agency’s use. Current law defines “agency’s use” to include land that is being used, is planned to be used pursuant to a written plan adopted by the local agency’s governing board, or is disposed of to support agency work or operations. Current law excludes from “agency’s use” commercial or industrial uses or activities, or property disposed of for the sole purpose of investment or generation of revenue, unless the local agency is a district, except as specified, and the agency’s governing body takes specified actions in a public meeting. Current law excludes from these requirements the disposal of exempt surplus land by an agency of the state or any local government. Current law requires a local agency to declare land as either surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it. Under current law, exempt surplus land includes, among other types of land, property that is used by a district for an “agency’s use” as expressly authorized, land for specified developments, including a mixed-use development, if put out to open, competitive bid by a local agency, as specified, and surplus land that is subject to specified valid legal restrictions. Current law defines for a local agency that is a district, except for those districts whose primary mission is to supply the public with a transportation system, “agency’s use” to include commercial or industrial uses or activities, or property disposed of for the sole purpose of investment or generation of revenue. This bill would define the term “dispose” for these purposes to mean the sale of the surplus property or a lease of any surplus property entered into on or after January 1, 2024, for a term longer than 15 years, including renewal options, as specified.

SCR 16 (Roth D)   Deputy Isaiah A. Cordero Memorial Highway.

Current Text: Enrollment: 8/15/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: Senate Enrollment
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 60 in the County of Riverside as the Deputy Isaiah A. Cordero Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.

SCR 25 (Seyarto R)   Deputy Darnell Andrew Calhoun Memorial Highway.

Current Text: Amended: 5/4/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

Location: Senate Concurrence
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #14  SENATE UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would designate a portion of State Highway Route 15 in the City of Lake Elsinore and the County of Riverside as the Deputy Darnell Andrew Calhoun Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Total Measures: 56
Total Tracking Forms: 101

Housing & Community Development
Legislative Summary 2023
AB 84 (Ward D)   Property tax: welfare exemption: affordable housing.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
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 law defines “property used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes” to include facilities in the course of construction on or after the first Monday of March 1954, as specified. Under current property tax law, property that meets the above-described requirements that is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities is entitled to a partial exemption, equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units, in any year that any of certain criteria apply, including that the acquisition, rehabilitation, development, or operation of the property, or any combination of these factors, is financed with tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds or general obligation bonds, or is financed by local, state, or federal loans or grants and the rents of the occupants who are lower income households do not exceed those prescribed by deed restrictions or regulatory agreements pursuant to the terms of the financing or financial assistance. This bill would expand this partial exemption to property acquired, rehabilitated, developed, or operated, or any combination of these factors, with financing from qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, as defined.

AB 129 (Committee on Budget)   Housing.

Current Text: Chaptered: 7/10/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 7/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 40, Statutes of 2023.

Location: Assembly Chaptered
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for purposes of carrying out state housing policies and programs, and creates in HCD the California Housing Finance Agency. This bill would remove the California Housing Finance Agency from within HCD. This bill would continue the existence of the California Housing Finance Agency in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency.

AB 515 (Ward D)   Housing programs: financing.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing and to provide housing

assistance and home loans. Current law sets forth various general powers of the department in implementing these programs, including authorizing the department to enter into long-term contracts or agreements of up to 30 years for the purpose of servicing loans or grants or enforcing regulatory agreements or other security documents. Current law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to approve an extension of a department loan, the reinstatement of a qualifying unpaid matured loan, the subordination of a department loan to new debt, or an investment of tax credit equity pursuant to specified rental housing finance programs, as specified, unless it would result in a rent increase for tenants of a development. Current law authorizes the department to charge a monitoring fee to cover the aggregate monitoring costs in years the loan is extended and a transaction fee to cover its costs for processing restructuring transactions, and requires developer fee limitations to be consistent with specified laws and regulations, including regulations by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee. This bill would revise and recast these provisions, including additionally authorizing the department to approve the payoff of a department loan in whole or part prior to the end of its term and the extraction of equity from a development for purposes approved by the department. The bill would prohibit the extension, reinstatement, subordination, payoff, extraction, or investment, as described above, if it would result in a rent increase for tenants of a development over and above the annual adjustment to the tenants’ rents under the department’s regulatory agreement. The bill would authorize the department to waive specified requirements in the regulatory agreement if the loan is paid off, including requiring occupancy and financial reports and governing the use of operating income and reserves for the development.

AB 799 (Rivas, Luz D)   Homelessness: financing plan.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California by creating partnerships between federal, state, local, and nonprofit entities. Current law requires the coordinating council to conduct, or contract with an entity to conduct, a statewide assessment to identify state programs that provide housing or services to persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, as defined, and collect and analyze data to provide a comprehensive view of the homeless response system. This bill would require the council, in collaboration with continuums of care, counties, and big cities, as defined, and other stakeholders, to establish and regularly update a financing plan to solve homelessness by the year 2035. The bill would require the council to establish and update statewide performance metrics to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in homelessness and to increase successful exits from homelessness to permanent housing by updating the Statewide Action Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness in California, no later than January 1, 2025, and would require the council to publish these goals on its internet website, as specified.

AB 968 (Grayson D)   Single-family residential property: disclosures.

Current Text: Chaptered: 7/21/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 7/21/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 95, Statutes of 2023.

Location: Assembly Chaptered
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a seller of a single-family residential property who accepts an offer for the sale of the single-family residential property within 18 months from the date that title for the single-family residential property was transferred to the seller to disclose to the buyer specified information, including any room additions, structural modifications, other alterations, or repairs made to the property since title to the property was transferred to the seller that were performed by a contractor and the name of each contractor with whom the seller entered into a contract with for the room additions, structural modifications, other alterations, or repairs, as specified. The bill would alternatively authorize a seller to satisfy these obligations by providing a list of room additions, structural modifications, other alterations, or repairs performed by, and provided by, the contractor with whom the seller contracted for the room additions, structural modifications, other alterations, or repairs. The bill would require the seller to provide a copy of any permit for any room additions, structural modifications, other alterations, or repairs to the buyer or, if the seller contracted with a third party and was not provided with a copy of the permits, by informing the buyer that information on permits may be obtained from a third party and providing the third party’s contact information. The bill would specify that these provisions apply to the sale of a single-family residential property where the seller accepts an offer from a buyer to purchase the property on or after July 1, 2024.

AB 1132 (Friedman D)   Solar energy systems: permit fees.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 6/27/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #90  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, for purposes of governing property rights, defines a “solar energy system” as specified to include any solar collector or other solar energy device whose primary purpose is to provide for the collection, storage, and distribution of solar energy for space heating, space cooling, electric generation, or water heating. Current law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2025.

This bill would extend that repeal date to January 1, 2034. By extending the operation of the requirements imposed on a city or county in connection with those solar energy systems, the bill would impose a statemandated local program.

AB 1215 (Carrillo, Wendy D)   Pets Assistance With Support Grant Program: homeless shelters: domestic violence shelters: pets.

Current Text: Amended: 5/18/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 7/3/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
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 administer the Pets Assistance With Support Grant Program (PAWS), to award grants to qualified homeless shelters and qualified domestic violence shelters, as defined. The bill would require grant recipients to meet certain availability and service requirements as they relate to the pets of people experiencing homelessness and people escaping domestic violence. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 7% of the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for those purposes for its costs in administering the program.

AB 1490 (Lee D)   Affordable housing development projects: adaptive reuse.

Current Text: Amended: 7/10/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under this bill, a housing development that is, among other requirements, an extremely affordable adaptive reuse project on an infill parcel that is not located on or adjoined to a site where more than 1/3 of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use, as specified, would be an allowable use. The bill would authorize a local agency to impose objective design review standards, except as specified.

The bill would authorize a local agency to deny the project if it is proposed to be located on a site or adjoined to any site where any of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use and the local agency makes written findings that approving the development would have an adverse effect on public health and safety. The bill would provide that for purposes of the Housing Accountability Act, a proposed housing development project is consistent, compliant, and in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision if the housing development project is consistent with the standards specified in these provisions. The bill would require a local agency to determine whether the proposed development meets those standards within specified timeframes. The bill would define an “extremely affordable adaptive reuse project” for these purposes to mean a multifamily housing development project that involves retrofitting and repurposing of a residential or commercial building that currently allows temporary dwelling or occupancy, and that meets specified affordability requirements, including that 100% of the units be dedicated to lower income households, 50% of which shall be dedicated to very low income households, as specified. Because the bill would require local officials to provide a higher level of service, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1505 (Rodriguez D)   Seismic retrofitting: soft story multifamily housing.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 7/11/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To

Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing for the purposes of providing financial assistance to owners of soft story multifamily housing for seismic retrofitting to protect individuals living in multifamily housing that have been determined to be at risk of collapse in earthquakes, as specified. Current law also establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund, and its subsidiary account, the Seismic Retrofitting Account, within the State Treasury. Current law provides that the Legislature will appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2023–24 Budget Act to the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund for the purposes of carrying out the program. Current law requires the CRMP to develop and administer the program, as specified. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2042, and repeals them as of January 1, 2043. Current federal law, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, establishes various grant opportunities, including the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program, to support hazard mitigation projects. This bill would remove the requirement for the Legislature to appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2023–24 Budget Act to the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund. The bill would authorize the Office of Emergency Services to dedicate federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities application funding to specified projects to augment and support the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing.

AB 1657 (Wicks D)   The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024.

Current Text: Amended: 4/17/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.

Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and homeownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.

AB 1734 (Jones-Sawyer D)   Local Government: Surplus Land Act: exemptions.

Current Text: Amended: 7/12/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/9/2023-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires land to be declared surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency takes any action to dispose of it consistent with the agency’s policies or procedures. Current law sets forth procedures for the disposal of surplus land, including, but not limited to, specified notice requirements, and provides that these procedures do not apply to exempt surplus land.

This bill would specify that land disposed of by a local agency for certain purposes, including low barrier navigation centers, supportive housing, transitional housing for youth and young adults, or affordable housing, as described, is not subject to the above-described requirements, if the local agency meets certain prescribed requirements, including, among others, having declared a local emergency related to homelessness, as specified. The bill would require a local agency that disposes of land pursuant to these provisions to submit a specified annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development.

ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D)   Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure:
voter approval.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city, county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, city and county, or special district, as applicable, and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements. The measure would specify that these provisions apply to any city, county, city and county, or special district measure imposing an ad valorem tax to pay the interest and redemption charges on bonded indebtedness for these purposes that is submitted at the same election as this measure.

ACA 10 (Haney D)   Fundamental human right to housing.

Current Text: Introduced: 3/6/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 3/6/2023
Status: 6/7/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Rereferred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution enumerates various personal rights, including the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy. This measure would declare that the state recognizes the fundamental human right to adequate housing for everyone in California. The measure would make it the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill this right, by all appropriate means, as specified.

AJR 3 (Grayson D)   Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2023.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/15/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 3/27/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: Assembly Enrollment
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would declare that the Legislature supports a reduction to the threshold for tax-exempt bond financing and joins the Treasurer in urging the passage of the federal Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2023.

SB 4 (Wiener D)   Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, longterm general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee within the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires the committee to allocate state low-income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law that establishes a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits. This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.

SB 35 (Umberg D)   Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program.

Current Text: Amended: 7/12/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 7/12/2023-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:  8/23/2023  9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, CHRIS, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. This bill would authorize CARE Act proceedings to be conducted by a superior court judge or by a court-appointed commissioner or other subordinate judicial officer. The bill would require that there is no fee for filing a petition nor any fees charged by any public officer for services in filing or serving papers or for the performance of any duty enjoined by the CARE Act.

SB 69 (Cortese D)   California Environmental Quality Act: local agencies: filing of notices of determination or exemption.

Current Text: Amended: 7/12/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a local agency that approves or determines to carry out a project subject to CEQA to file a notice of determination with the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located, as provided. CEQA authorizes a local agency that determines that a project is not subject to CEQA to file a notice of exemption with the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located, as provided. CEQA requires the county clerk to make the notice available for public inspection and post the notice within 24 hours of receipt in the office or on the internet website of the county clerk, as specified. CEQA requires an action or proceeding challenging an act or decision of a public agency, including a local agency, on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA to be commenced within certain time periods, as specified. This bill would require a local agency to file a notice of determination with the State Clearinghouse in the Office of Planning and Research in addition to the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located. The bill would authorize a local agency to file a notice of exemption with the State Clearinghouse in the Office of Planning and Research in addition to the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located. The bill would require the notice, including any subsequent or amended notice, to be posted both in the office and on the internet website of the county clerk and by the Office of Planning and Research on the State Clearinghouse internet website within 24 hours of receipt. The bill would specify that the posting of the notice by the Office of Planning and Research would not affect the applicable time periods to challenge an act or decision of a local agency, as described above.

SB 129 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review)   Housing.

Current Text: Amended: 6/26/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 6/26/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on BUDGET.

Location: Assembly Budget
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for purposes of carrying out state housing policies and programs, and creates in HCD the California Housing Finance Agency. This bill would remove the California Housing Finance Agency from within HCD. This bill would continue the existence of the California Housing Finance Agency in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency.

SB 240 (Ochoa Bogh R)   Surplus state real property: affordable housing and housing for formerly incarcerated individuals.

Current Text: Amended: 5/2/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to satisfy certain requirements to be considered as a potential priority buyer of surplus state real property, including that the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the department, that the surplus state real property, or portion of that surplus state real property, is to be used by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor for open space, public parks, affordable housing projects, or development of local government-owned facilities. Current law authorizes the Department of General Services to sell surplus state real property, or a portion of surplus state real property, to a local agency, or to a nonprofit affordable housing sponsor if no local agency is interested in the surplus state real property, for affordable housing projects at a sales price less than fair market value if the department determines that such a discount will enable the provision of housing for persons and families of low or moderate income. This bill would additionally authorize a local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to be considered as a potential priority buyer of surplus state real property upon demonstration that the property is to be used by the agency or sponsor for housing for formerly incarcerated individuals, subject to the same provisions described above, as specified.

SB 272 (Laird D)   Sea level rise: planning and adaptation.

Current Text: Amended: 6/6/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law creates within the Ocean Protection Council the California Sea Level Rise State and Regional Support Collaborative to provide state and regional information to the public and support to local, regional, and other state agencies for the identification, assessment, planning, and, where feasible, the mitigation of the adverse environmental, social, and economic effects of sea level rise within the coastal zone, as provided. This bill would require a local government, as defined, lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone, as defined, or within the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as defined, to implement sea level rise planning and adaptation through either submitting, and receiving approval for, a local coastal program, as defined, to the California Coastal Commission or submitting, and receiving approval for, a subregional San Francisco Bay shoreline resiliency plan to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as applicable, on or before January 1, 2034, as provided. By imposing additional requirements on local governments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require local governments that receive approval for sea level rise planning and adaptation on or before January 1, 2029, to be prioritized for sea level rise funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the implementation of projects in the local government’s approved sea level rise adaptation plan.

SB 423 (Wiener D)   Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law 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, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderateincome housing units required, as specified, remain available at affordable housing costs, as defined, or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate-income for no less than specified periods of time. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026. This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development in compliance with the above-described requirements on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would extend the operation of the streamlined, ministerial approval process to January 1, 2036.

SB 440 (Skinner D)   Regional Housing Finance Authorities.

Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production. The Los Angeles County Regional Housing Finance Act similarly establishes the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency to increase the supply of affordable housing in Los Angeles County, as specified. This bill, the Regional Housing Finance Act, would authorize 2 or more local governments, as defined, to establish a regional housing finance authority to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the jurisdiction of the authority, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for affordable housing development, including new construction and the preservation of existing housing to serve a range of incomes and housing types. The bill would require an authority to be governed by a board composed of at least 3 directors who are elected officials representing the local governments that are members of the authority.

SB 532 (Wiener D)   San Francisco Bay area toll bridges: tolls: transit operating expenses.

Current Text: Amended: 6/29/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 7/6/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (July 5). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, until December 31, 2028, require the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) to increase the toll rate for vehicles for crossing the state-owned toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay area by $1.50, as adjusted for inflation. The bill would require the revenues collected from this toll to be deposited in the Bay Area Toll Account, would continuously appropriate moneys from this toll increase and other specified tolls, and would require moneys from this toll to be transferred to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) for allocation to transit operators that provide service within the San Francisco Bay area and that are experiencing a financial shortfall, as specified. The bill would direct MTC to require each transit operator eligible to receive an allocation from the account to, on an annual basis, submit a 5-year projection of its operating needs, as specified.

SB 684 (Caballero D)   Land use: streamlined approval processes: development projects of 10 or fewer residential units on urban lots under 5 acres.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. The Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process depending on the type of housing development, as specified. Current law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, requires a city or county to approve an application for a small home lot housing development project, as defined, on a proposed site to be subdivided unless the city or county makes a finding related to the development’s compliance with certain requirements or the development’s specific, adverse public health or safety impact. This bill would require a local agency to ministerially approve, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets specified requirements. In this regard, the bill would require the housing development project to, among other things, consist of 10 or fewer residential units, meet certain minimum parcel size and density requirements, and be located on a lot zoned for multifamily or single-family residential

development that is no larger than 5 acres and is substantially surrounded by qualified urban uses. The bill would exempt the housing development project from certain requirements relating to minimum parcel size and dimensions and the formation of a homeowners’ association, except as specified.

SB 803 (Becker D)   Personal services contracts.

Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The State Civil Service Act regulates employment with the state and vests in the Department of Human Resources all powers, duties, and authority necessary to operate the state civil service system.

Current law permits state agencies to enter into personal services contracts if certain conditions are met.

Existing law requires a state agency that enters into a personal services contract for certain types of workers to include provisions for employee wages and benefits to be valued at least 85% of the state employer cost of wages and benefits provided to state employees performing similar duties. Current law requires the department to annually establish the state employer wage and benefits costs covered by these provisions.

This bill would require, for purposes of determining 85% of wage costs, that the department use the top rate of pay for the corresponding civil service classification for state employees performing similar duties.

SB 834 (Portantino D)   Housing: California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Bond Act of 2023.

Current Text: Amended: 5/2/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 7/12/2023-July 12 set for first 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 enact the California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Bond Act of 2023 (bond act), which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $25,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance the California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Program, established as part of the bond act. The bill would authorize the California Housing Finance Agency to award California Socially Responsible Second Mortgage Loans to eligible applicants to use as a down payment or to pay closing costs on the purchase of a new home. The bill would also authorize the agency to award Family Homeownership Opportunity Infrastructure Improvement Loans to developers to be used for predevelopment infrastructure improvements and other upfront costs typically incurred in connection with new home construction, under specified conditions. The bill would require that moneys received from a loan recipient for the repayment of financing provided under the program be used to pay debt service when due on bonds issued pursuant to the bond act. The bill would also authorize the agency to issue revenue bonds for the purposes of financing the program, as specified.

Total Measures: 26
Total Tracking Forms: 26

PUBLIC SAFETY
Legislative Summary 2023
AB 33 (Bains D)   Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force.

Current Text: Amended: 6/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, subject to an appropriation, establish the Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse, including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse. The bill would require the task force to be cochaired by the Attorney General and the Surgeon General, or their designees, and would specify the membership of the task force.

AB 40 (Rodriguez D)   Emergency medical services.

Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act creates the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination of various state activities concerning emergency medical services. Among other duties, current law requires the authority to develop planning and implementation guidelines for EMS systems, provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the purpose of developing the components of EMS systems, and receive plans for the implementation of EMS and trauma care systems from local EMS agencies. Current law makes a violation of the act or regulations adopted pursuant to the act punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill, on or before June 1, 2024, would require the authority to develop and implement an electronic signature for use between the emergency department medical personnel at a receiving hospital and the transporting emergency medical personnel that captures the points in time when the hospital receives notification of ambulance arrival and when transfer of care is executed for documentation of ambulance patient offload time, as defined. The bill would require every local EMS agency, by March 1, 2024, to develop a standard not to exceed 30 minutes, 90% of the time, for ambulance patient offload time and report the standardized time to the authority. The bill would also require the authority to develop and implement by June 1, 2024, an audit tool to improve data accuracy regarding transfer of care, as specified, and to provide technical assistance and funding as needed, subject to an appropriation, for small rural hospitals and volunteer EMS providers to implement these provisions. The bill would require the authority to adopt emergency regulations to implement these provisions on or before March 1, 2024.

SB 19 (Seyarto R)   Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force.

Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/16/2023-August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse. The bill would require the task force to be chaired by the Attorney General, or their designee, and would specify the membership of the task force. The bill would require the first meeting of the task force to take place no later than March 1, 2024, and would require the task force to meet at least once every 2 months. The bill would require the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the Attorney General, the Governor, and the Legislature by July 1, 2025. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026.

SB 796 (Alvarado-Gil D)   Threats: schools and places of worship.

Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 7/14/2023-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was PUB. S. on 6/8/2023) (May be acted upon Jan 2024)
Location: Assembly 2 year
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to any person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Total Measures: 4
Total Tracking Forms: 4

Surplus Land Act
Legislative Summary 2023
AB 480 (Ting D)   Surplus land.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a local agency to take formal action in a regular public meeting to declare that land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use and to declare land as either “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency’s policies or procedures. This bill would exempt a local agency, in specified instances, from making a declaration at a public meeting for land that is “exempt surplus land” if the local agency identifies the land in a notice that is published and available for public comment at least 30 days before the exemption takes effect.

AB 1469 (Kalra D)   Santa Clara Valley Water District.

Current Text: Amended: 7/10/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/22/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #257  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Santa Clara Valley Water District Act creates the Santa Clara Valley Water District, and authorizes the district to provide for the conservation and management of flood, storm, and recycled waters, and other waters, for beneficial uses and to enhance natural resources in connection with carrying out the purposes of the district.This bill would additionally authorize the district to take certain actions in order to assist unsheltered people living along streams, in riparian corridors, or otherwise within the district’s jurisdiction, in consultation with a city or the County of Santa Clara to provide solutions or improve outcomes for the unsheltered individuals. The bill would require the district to provide a report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature on or before July 1, 2029, and a subsequent report on or before July 1, 2034, containing specified information, including, among other things, the district’s actions taken to assist unsheltered people.

AB 1607 (Carrillo, Wendy D)   Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency.

Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #178  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Los Angeles County Regional Housing Finance Act (act) authorizes the agency to place funding measures on the ballot in the County of Los Angeles to raise and allocate funds to the County of Los Angeles, the cities in the county, and other public agencies and affordable housing projects within its jurisdiction for purposes of preserving and enhancing existing housing, funding renter protection programs, and financing new construction of affordable housing developments, as specified. The act limits the agency’s

jurisdiction to acting in a supplemental capacity when a municipality has, as of January 1, 2022, an existing program that provides similar supports and services, and prohibits any functions of existing programs from being transferred to or undertaken by the agency. The act also prohibits the agency from performing or undertaking any functions related to supports and services provided to people experiencing homelessness, except as specified. The act requires the governing board of the agency to adopt an annual expenditure plan for the use of housing revenue that sets forth the share of revenue and estimated funding amount to be spent on certain categories within the annual programmatic budget, as specified. This bill would authorize the agency to transfer a portion of the revenue raised by a tax measure adopted pursuant to the act to the County of Los Angeles for programs that provide supports and services to prevent and combat homelessness. The bill would exclude those transferred revenues from the annual expenditure plan and the annual programmatic budget and make other conforming changes.

AB 1734 (Jones-Sawyer D)   Local Government: Surplus Land Act: exemptions.

Current Text: Amended: 7/12/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/21/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires land to be declared surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency takes any action to dispose of it consistent with the agency’s policies or procedures. Current law sets forth procedures for the disposal of surplus land, including, but not limited to, specified notice requirements, and provides that these procedures do not apply to exempt surplus land.

This bill would specify that land disposed of by a local agency for certain purposes, including low barrier navigation centers, supportive housing, transitional housing for youth and young adults, or affordable housing, as described, is not subject to the above-described requirements, if the local agency meets certain prescribed requirements, including, among others, having declared a local emergency related to homelessness, as specified. The bill would require a local agency that disposes of land pursuant to these provisions to submit a specified annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development.

SB 34 (Umberg D)   Surplus land disposal: violations: County of Orange.

Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/28/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Assembly Third Reading
Calendar:  8/31/2023  #83  ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of land determined to be surplus land by a local agency. Those requirements include a requirement that a local agency, prior to disposing of a property or participating in negotiations to dispose of that property with a prospective transferee, send a written notice of availability of the property to specified entities, depending on the property’s intended use, and send specified information in regard to the disposal of the parcel of surplus land to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law, among other enforcement provisions, makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these disposal provisions, after receiving notification of violation from the department, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold in violation for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. Under current law, except as specified, a local agency has 60 days to cure or correct an alleged violation before an enforcement action may be brought. Current law provides for the deposit and use of penalty revenues for housing, as prescribed. This bill, until January 1, 2030, would require the County of Orange, or any city located within the County of Orange, if notified by the department that its planned disposal of surplus land is in violation of existing law, to cure or correct the alleged violation within 60 days, as prescribed. The bill would prohibit a County of Orange jurisdiction that has not cured or corrected any alleged violation from disposing of the parcel until the department determines that it has complied with existing law or deems the alleged violation not to be a violation.

SB 229 (Umberg D)   Surplus land: disposal of property: violations: public meeting.

Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Assembly Third Reading
Calendar:  8/31/2023  #84  ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of land determined to be surplus land by a

local agency. Those requirements include a requirement that a local agency, before disposing of a property or participating in negotiations to dispose of that property with a prospective transferee, send a written notice of availability of the property to specified entities, depending on the property’s intended use, and send specified information in regard to the disposal of the parcel of surplus land to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law, among other enforcement provisions, makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these disposal provisions, after receiving notification of violation from the department, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold in violation for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. Under current law, except as specified, a local agency has 60 days to cure or correct an alleged violation before an enforcement action may be brought. This bill would require a local agency that is disposing of surplus land by sale and has received a notification of violation from the department to hold an open and public meeting to review and consider the substance of the notice of violation. The bill would require the local agency’s governing body to provide prescribed notice no later than 14 days before the public meeting. The bill would prohibit the local agency’s governing body from taking final action to ratify or approve the proposed sale of surplus land until a public meeting is held as required.

SB 747 (Caballero D)   Land use: surplus land.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/23/2023-August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, HOLDEN, CHRIS, Chair
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Current law defines “surplus land” to generally mean land owned in fee simple by a local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and not necessary for the agency’s use. Current law defines “agency’s use” to include land that is being used, is planned to be used pursuant to a written plan adopted by the local agency’s governing board, or is disposed of to support agency work or operations. Current law excludes from “agency’s use” commercial or industrial uses or activities, or property disposed of for the sole purpose of investment or generation of revenue, unless the local agency is a district, except as specified, and the agency’s governing body takes specified actions in a public meeting. Current law excludes from these requirements the disposal of exempt surplus land by an agency of the state or any local government. Current law requires a local agency to declare land as either surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it. Under current law, exempt surplus land includes, among other types of land, property that is used by a district for an “agency’s use” as expressly authorized, land for specified developments, including a mixed-use development, if put out to open, competitive bid by a local agency, as specified, and surplus land that is subject to specified valid legal restrictions. Current law defines for a local agency that is a district, except for those districts whose primary mission is to supply the public with a transportation system, “agency’s use” to include commercial or industrial uses or activities, or property disposed of for the sole purpose of investment or generation of revenue. This bill would define the term “dispose” for these purposes to mean the sale of the surplus property or a lease of any surplus property entered into on or after January 1, 2024, for a term longer than 15 years, including renewal options, as specified.

Total Measures: 7
Total Tracking Forms: 40

Weekly Legislative Summary
Thursday, August 31, 2023
AB 7 (Friedman D)   Transportation: planning: project selection processes.

Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Transportation Agency is under the supervision of the Secretary of Transportation, who has the power of general supervision over the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the California Transportation Commission, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Transportation, the HighSpeed Rail Authority, and the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. The secretary, among other duties, is charged with developing and reporting to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish coordinated planning and policy formulation in matters of public interest, including transportation projects. On and after January 1, 2025, and to the extent applicable and cost effective, this bill would require the agency, the Department of Transportation, and the California Transportation Commission to incorporate specified principles into their existing program funding guidelines and processes.

AB 42 (Ramos D)   Tiny homes: temporary sleeping cabins: fire sprinkler requirements.

Current Text: Amended: 8/21/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/29/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #285  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2027, prohibit a local agency from imposing or enforcing any requirement to provide fire sprinklers for a temporary sleeping cabin that is on a site with 50 or fewer temporary sleeping cabins. The bill would define “temporary sleeping cabin” to mean a nonpermanent structure that is intended to provide temporary housing to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, has a total floor area of less than 250 feet, and does not include plumbing. The bill would require a temporary sleeping cabin that does not include fire sprinklers to comply with alternative fire life and safety standards that include providing, among other things, a smoke alarm and carbon monoxide alarm in the unit, a fire extinguisher in the unit, and ingress and egress that facilitates rapid exit of the temporary sleeping cabin. By requiring local agencies to impose alternative fire life and safety standards for these units, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 67 (Muratsuchi D)   Homeless Courts Pilot Program.

Current Text: Amended: 3/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/7/2022
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, create the Homeless Courts Pilot Program,

which would remain in effect until January 1, 2029, to be administered by the Judicial Council for the purpose of providing comprehensive community-based services to achieve stabilization for, and address the specific legal needs of, homeless individuals who are involved with the criminal justice system. The bill would require applicant cities or counties seeking grant funds to provide a number of specified services or program components, including, but not limited to, a diversion program enabling participating defendants to have specified charges dismissed upon completion of a program, provision of temporary, time-limited, or permanent housing during the duration of the program, and a dedicated representative to assist defendants with housing needs. The bill would require an applicant for grant funding under the program to submit a plan for a new homeless court program or expansion of an existing homeless court program, and would require any funding awarded to an applicant to be used in accordance with that plan.

AB 104 (Ting D)   Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.

Current Text: Amended: 8/29/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 8/30/2023-From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 30). From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

Location: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #1  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 Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes.

AB 334 (Rubio, Blanca D)   Public contracts: conflicts of interest.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/29/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.).

Location: Assembly Enrollment
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Current law authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission to commence an administrative or civil action against persons who violate this prohibition, as prescribed, and includes provisions for the collection of penalties after the time for judicial review of a commission order or decision has lapsed, or if all means of judicial review of the order or decision have been exhausted. Current law identifies certain remote interests in contracts that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract.

Existing law makes a willful violation of this prohibition a crime. This bill would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified requirements, is not an officer for purposes of being subject to the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract.

AB 350 (Aguiar-Curry D)   Regional transportation plans: Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

Current Text: Amended: 8/22/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 8/29/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #286  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires certain transportation planning agencies, including the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG), to prepare and adopt a regional transportation plan directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Certain of these agencies are designated under federal law as metropolitan planning organizations. Current law requires each regional transportation plan to include, among other things, a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization, as specified, which is designed to achieve certain targets for 2020 and 2035 established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region. This bill would require the updated regional transportation plan, sustainable communities strategy, and environmental impact report adopted by the SACOG on November 18, 2019, to remain in effect for all purposes until the SACOG adopts its next update to its regional transportation plan, which the bill would require it to adopt and submit on or before December 31, 2025. The bill would require the SACOG, on or before July 1, 2026, and biennially thereafter, to report on the regional implementation of its most recently adopted sustainable communities strategy in a publicly available format on its internet website, as

provided, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.

AB 400 (Rubio, Blanca D)   Local agency design-build projects: authorization.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/29/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.).

Location: Assembly Enrollment
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a local agency, as defined, with approval of its governing body, to procure design-build contracts for public works projects in excess of $1,000,000, awarding the contract either to the lowest bid or the best value. “Local agency” is defined, in part, for this purpose to include specified local and regional agencies responsible for the construction of transit projects, including any joint powers authority formed to provide transit service. Current law, among other requirements for the design-build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing the use of the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2025 .This bill would delete from the definition of “local agency” any joint powers authority formed to provide transit services, and would instead expand that definition to include any joint powers authority responsible for the construction of transit projects, thereby authorizing additional joint powers authorities to use the above-described design-build procurement process. The bill would extend the repeal date to January 1, 2031.

AB 436 (Alvarez D)   Vehicles.

Current Text: Amended: 8/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 8/29/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #301  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes local authorities to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding specified matters, including, among others, crossing guards, the operation of bicycles, the removal of illegally parked vehicles, and cruising, as defined. This bill would remove the authorization for a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or regulation regarding cruising.

AB 480 (Ting D)   Surplus land.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a local agency to take formal action in a regular public meeting to declare that land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use and to declare land as either “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency’s policies or procedures. This bill would exempt a local agency, in specified instances, from making a declaration at a public meeting for land that is “exempt surplus land” if the local agency identifies the land in a notice that is published and available for public comment at least 30 days before the exemption takes effect.

AB 531 (Irwin D)   The Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2023.

Current Text: Amended: 6/19/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2023 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,680,000,000 to finance grants for the acquisition of capital assets for, and the construction and rehabilitation of, unlocked, voluntary, and

community-based treatment settings and residential care settings and also for housing for veterans and others who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness and are living with a behavioral health challenge. The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide primary election.

AB 777 (Cervantes D)   Hazardous waste: Stringfellow Quarry Class I Hazardous Waste Disposal Site.

Current Text: Enrollment: 8/30/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/30/2023-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:15 p.m.

Location: Assembly Enrolled
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act establishes a program authorizing certain responses to releases of hazardous substances, including spills and hazardous waste disposal sites that pose a threat to the public health or the environment, and imposes liability for hazardous substance removal or remedial actions. The act requires any treatment, storage, transfer, or disposal facility built on the Stringfellow Quarry Class I Hazardous Waste Disposal Site to only be used to treat, store, transfer, or dispose of hazardous substances removed from that site. This bill would prohibit any sample or waste generated from a site other than the Stringfellow Quarry from being treated, stored, transferred to, or disposed of at the Stringfellow Quarry Class I Hazardous Waste Disposal Site. The bill would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to provide notice, as specified, if any material or substance generated from a site other than the Stringfellow Quarry is treated, stored, transferred to, or disposed of at the Stringfellow Class I Hazardous Waste Site. The bill would exempt any material or substance necessary to implement the ongoing cleanup of the site from the notice provision.

AB 863 (Aguiar-Curry D)   Carpet recycling: carpet stewardship organizations: fines: succession:
training.

Current Text: Amended: 7/6/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 8/29/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #289  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state to submit, either individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, a carpet stewardship plan that meets specified requirements to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Current law imposes a carpet stewardship assessment per unit of carpet sold in the state that is remitted to the carpet stewardship organization and may be expended to carry out the organization’s carpet stewardship plan. Current law requires the carpet stewardship plan to provide sufficient funding to carry out the plan, including for grants to state-approved apprenticeship programs for training apprentice and journey-level carpet installers in proper carpet recycling practices. Current law requires a carpet stewardship organization to include in the plan a description of the process by which the carpet stewardship organization will transfer assessment funds to a successor carpet stewardship organization in the event that should become necessary. Current law requires a carpet stewardship organization in possession of assessment funds to, as directed by the department, transfer those funds to a successor carpet stewardship organization with an approved plan. Existing law authorizes the department to administratively impose civil penalties on any person who is in violation of any provision of the carpet stewardship laws, of up to $5,000 per day or $10,000 per day if the violation is intentional, knowing, or negligent. This bill would amend those penalties to $10,000 per day or $50,000 per day if the violation is intentional, knowing, or reckless.

AB 965 (Carrillo, Juan D)   Local government: broadband permit applications.

Current Text: Amended: 8/30/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 8/30/2023-Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

Location: Senate Second Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #16  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 Permit Streamlining Act governs the approval process that a city or county is required to follow when approving, among other things, a permit for construction or reconstruction for a development project for a wireless telecommunications facility and a collocation or siting application for a wireless telecommunications facility. This bill, except as specified, would require a local agency to undertake batch broadband permit processing, as defined, upon receiving 2 or more broadband permit applications for substantially similar broadband project sites submitted at the same time by the same applicant, within a

presumptively reasonable time, as defined. The bill would define “local agency” for these purposes to mean a city, county, city and county, charter city, special district, or publicly owned utility, other than certain publicly owned electric utilities. If a local agency does not approve those broadband permit applications for substantially similar broadband project sites and issue permits, or reject the applications and notify the applicants, within the presumptively reasonable time or longer period permitted under applicable law, the bill would require that all of those permits be deemed approved.

AB 1082 (Kalra D)   Authority to remove vehicles.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a peace officer and specified public employees, as an alternative to removal of a vehicle, to immobilize the vehicle with a device designed and manufactured for that purpose, if, among other circumstances, the vehicle is found upon a highway or public lands by the peace officer or employee and it is known to have been issued 5 or more notices of parking violations that are delinquent because the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded to the appropriate agency within a designated time period. This bill would instead allow only an agent of public higher educational institutions, including the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges, to remove or immobilize a vehicle under those circumstances. The bill would limit the related authority to conduct a lien sale to cover towing and storage expenses to agents of public higher educational institutions, as specified. The bill would make various conforming and technical changes.

AB 1307 (Wicks D)   California Environmental Quality Act: noise impact: residential projects.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/29/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.).

Location: Assembly Enrollment
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (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. This bill would specify that the effects of noise generated by project occupants and their guests on human beings is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA. This bill would specify that institutions of public higher education, in an EIR for a residential or mixed-use housing project, are not required to consider alternatives to the location of the proposed project if certain requirements are met. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

AB 1332 (Carrillo, Juan D)   Accessory dwelling units: preapproved plans.

Current Text: Amended: 8/29/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/30/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #308  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. This bill would require each local agency, by January 1, 2025, to develop a program for the preapproval of accessory dwelling unit plans, whereby the local agency accepts accessory dwelling unit plan submissions for preapproval and approves or denies the preapproval applications, as specified. The bill would authorize a local agency to charge a fee to an applicant for the preapproval of an accessory dwelling unit plan, as specified. The bill would require the local agency to post preapproved accessory dwelling unit plans and the contact information of the applicant on the local agency’s internet website. The bill would require a local agency to either approve or deny an application for a permit for a proposed accessory dwelling unit within 30 days that utilizes either an accessory dwelling unit plan preapproved within the current triennial California Building

Standards Code rulemaking cycle or a plan that is identical to a plan used in an application for a detached accessory dwelling unit approved by the local agency within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle.

AB 1418 (McKinnor D)   Tenancy: local regulations: contact with law enforcement or criminal convictions.

Current Text: Amended: 4/12/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a local government from, among other things, imposing a penalty against a resident, owner, tenant, landlord, or other person as a consequence of contact with a law enforcement agency on or near the property, as specified. The bill similarly would prohibit a local government from requiring or encouraging a landlord to evict or penalize a tenant because of the tenant’s association with another tenant or household member who has had contact with a law enforcement agency or has a criminal conviction or to perform a criminal background check of a tenant or a prospective tenant. The bill would preempt inconsistent local ordinances, rules, policies, programs, or regulations and prescribe remedies for violations. The bill would require a local government to repeal, or bring into compliance, an inconsistent local ordinance, rule, policy, program, or regulation within one year of the effective date of the provisions. By imposing new duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 1505 (Rodriguez D)   Seismic retrofitting: soft story multifamily housing.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/24/2023-From Consent Calendar. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #275  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing for the purposes of providing financial assistance to owners of soft story multifamily housing for seismic retrofitting to protect individuals living in multifamily housing that have been determined to be at risk of collapse in earthquakes, as specified. Current law also establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund, and its subsidiary account, the Seismic Retrofitting Account, within the State Treasury. Current law provides that the Legislature will appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2023–24 Budget Act to the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund for the purposes of carrying out the program. Current law requires the CRMP to develop and administer the program, as specified. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2042, and repeals them as of January 1, 2043. Current federal law, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, establishes various grant opportunities, including the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program, to support hazard mitigation projects. This bill would remove the requirement for the Legislature to appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2023–24 Budget Act to the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund. The bill would authorize the Office of Emergency Services to dedicate federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities application funding to specified projects to augment and support the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing.

AB 1572 (Friedman D)   Potable water: nonfunctional turf.

Current Text: Amended: 8/16/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would make legislative findings and declarations concerning water use, including that the use of potable water to irrigate nonfunctional turf is wasteful and incompatible with state policy relating to climate change, water conservation, and reduced reliance on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem. The bill would direct all appropriate state agencies to encourage and support the elimination of irrigation of nonfunctional turf with potable water.

AB 1713 (Gipson D)   Local agencies: federal funds: reports.

Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a local agency that receives federal funds that are subject to an expiration date, and recurrently and persistently fails to spend a substantial amount of those funds by the expiration date, as provided, to submit a written report to the local agency’s legislative body no later than one year after the funding expiration date with an enumeration of the amount of funds returned, a summary of the reasons the funds were returned, and an analysis of policy or operational changes required to ensure that relevant federal funds are spent timely in the future. The bill would require the local agency’s legislative body to include the report on the agenda of a public meeting. The bill would apply these provisions to specified types of grants, and only where the local agency returns at least $10,000,000 from a single federal allocation.

ACA 13 (Ward D)   Voting thresholds.

Current Text: Amended: 8/17/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 7/13/2023
Status: 8/24/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Rereferred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Assembly Appropriations
Calendar:  9/1/2023  Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, CHRIS, Chair
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution provides that a proposed constitutional amendment and a statewide initiative measure each take effect only if approved by a majority of the votes cast on the amendment or measure. This measure would further provide that an initiative measure that includes one or more provisions that would amend the Constitution to increase the voter approval requirement to adopt any state or local measure would be approved by the voters only if the proportion of votes cast in favor of the initiative measure is equal to or greater than the highest voter approval requirement that the initiative measure would impose.

SB 55 (Umberg D)   Vehicles: catalytic converters.

Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 8/24/2023-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

Location: Senate Concurrence
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #39  SENATE UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a core recycler that accepts, ships, or sells used catalytic converters to maintain specified information regarding the purchase and sale of the catalytic converters. Current law prohibits a core recycler from providing payment for a catalytic converter unless, among other requirements, the payment is made by check, as specified. This bill, in addition to payment by check, would allow for payment by credit card or any other form of traceable payment other than cash.

SB 104 (Skinner D)   Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.

Current Text: Amended: 8/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on BUDGET.

Location: Assembly Budget
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill contains other related provisions.

SB 229 (Umberg D)   Surplus land: disposal of property: violations: public meeting.

Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 8/28/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Assembly Third Reading
Calendar:  8/31/2023  #84  ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of land determined to be surplus land by a local agency. Those requirements include a requirement that a local agency, before disposing of a property or participating in negotiations to dispose of that property with a prospective transferee, send a written notice of availability of the property to specified entities, depending on the property’s intended use, and send specified information in regard to the disposal of the parcel of surplus land to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law, among other enforcement provisions, makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these disposal provisions, after receiving notification of violation from the department, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold in violation for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. Under current law, except as specified, a local agency has 60 days to cure or correct an alleged violation before an enforcement action may be brought. This bill would require a local agency that is disposing of surplus land by sale and has received a notification of violation from the department to hold an open and public meeting to review and consider the substance of the notice of violation. The bill would require the local agency’s governing body to provide prescribed notice no later than 14 days before the public meeting. The bill would prohibit the local agency’s governing body from taking final action to ratify or approve the proposed sale of surplus land until a public meeting is held as required.

SB 469 (Allen D)   Housing: publicly funded low-rent housing projects.

Current Text: Enrollment: 8/30/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/30/2023-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: Senate Enrolled
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition in any manner of a low-rent housing project by any state public body, as defined, until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which it is proposed to develop, construct, or acquire the same, voting upon that issue, approve the project by voting in favor at an election. The California Constitution, for purposes of this prohibition, defines “low-rent housing project” to mean any development composed of urban or rural dwellings, apartments, or other living accommodations for persons of low income, financed in whole or in part by the federal government or a state public body, or to which the federal government or a state public body extends assistance by supplying all or part of the labor, by guaranteeing the payment of liens, or otherwise. Current law establishes exclusions from this definition of “low-rent housing project,” including a development that consists of the acquisition, rehabilitation, reconstruction, alterations work, or any combination thereof, of lodging facilities or dwelling units using moneys appropriated and disbursed pursuant to specified provisions of the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act relating to affordable housing preservation, rental housing development awarded funds from certain multifamily housing direct loan programs, and housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases.

This bill would expand that exclusion to include a development that consists of the acquisition, rehabilitation, reconstruction, alterations work, or any combination thereof, of lodging facilities or dwelling units using an allocation of federal or state low-income housing tax credits from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee or moneys appropriated and disbursed pursuant to the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, and the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, thereby excluding the developments that receive money from the specified funds and programs from the scope of the abovedescribed constitutional provision.

SB 602 (Archuleta D)   Trespass.

Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 8/24/2023-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Assembly Third Reading
Calendar:  8/31/2023  #30  ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law makes it a misdemeanor to commit the crime of trespass, which includes refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structures belonging to, or lawfully occupied by, another and not open to the general public upon being requested to leave by a peace officer at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession and upon being informed by the peace officer that they are

acting at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession. Current law requires the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession to make a separate request to the peace officer on each occasion when the peace officer’s assistance in dealing with a trespass is requested, except that a single request for peace officer assistance may be made for a period not to exceed 12 months when the premises or property is closed to the public and posted as being closed. Current law requires the requester to inform the law enforcement agency to which the request was made when the assistance is no longer desired before the 12-month period expires. Current law also authorizes a single request for a peace officer’s assistance to be made for a period of time not to exceed 30 days and identified by specific dates when there is a fire hazard or the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession is absent from the property. Under current law, a request for assistance expires when ownership of the property changes or upon a change in the person in lawful possession. This bill would authorize a single request for assistance to be made and submitted electronically, in a notarized form provided by the law enforcement agency, to a peace officer.

SB 617 (Newman D)   Public contracts: progressive design-build: local and regional agencies: transit.

Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 8/29/2023-Ordered to special consent calendar.

Location: Senate Consent Calendar
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #322  SENATE SPECIAL CONSENT CALENDAR NO. 23 Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2029, authorizes local agencies, defined as any city, county, city and county, or special district authorized by law to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of any water from any source, to use the progressive design-build process for up to 15 public works projects in excess of $5,000,000 for each project that treats, pumps, stores, or conveys water, wastewater, recycled water, advanced treated water, or supporting facilities. Current law defines “progressive design-build” as a project delivery process in which both the design and construction of a project are procured from a single entity that is selected through a qualifications-based selection at the earliest feasible stage of the project. Current law requires the selected entity and its general partners or joint venture members to verify specified information under penalty of perjury. Current law requires local agencies to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2028, regarding the use of the progressive design-build process, as specified. This bill, until January 1, 2029, would similarly authorize a transit district, municipal operator, consolidated agency, joint powers authority, regional transportation agency, or local or regional agency, as described, to use the progressive design-build process for up to 10 public works projects in excess of $5,000,000 for each project.

SB 706 (Caballero D)   Public contracts: progressive design-build: local agencies.

Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/29/2023-Ordered to special consent calendar.

Location: Senate Consent Calendar
Calendar:  9/1/2023  #324  SENATE SPECIAL CONSENT CALENDAR NO. 23 Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2029, authorizes local agencies, defined as any city, county, city and county, or special district authorized by law to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of any water from any source, to use the progressive design-build process for up to 15 public works projects in excess of $5,000,000 for each project, similar to the progressive design-build process authorized for use by the Director of General Services. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, provide additional authority for cities, counties, cities and counties, or special districts to use the progressive designbuild process for up to 10 public works in excess of $5,000,000, not limited to water-related projects, excluding projects on state-owned or state-operated facilities. The bill would require information to be provided under penalty of perjury and would require similar reports due no later than December 31, 2028.

SB 837 (Archuleta D)   Energy: building energy standards: sealed and unvented attics.

Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/24/2023-Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

Location: Assembly Consent Calendar
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation design standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient,

and unnecessary consumption of energy and to manage energy loads to help maintain electrical grid reliability. Current law requires the commission to periodically review the standards and adopt revisions that it deems necessary. This bill would require the commission, in the review of those regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, to consider revising the definition of “conditioned space, indirectly” to include sealed and unvented attics, as provided.

SCR 25 (Seyarto R)   Deputy Darnell Andrew Calhoun Memorial Highway.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/25/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/24/2023-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: Senate Enrollment
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would designate a portion of State Highway Route 15 in the City of Lake Elsinore and the County of Riverside as the Deputy Darnell Andrew Calhoun Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Total Measures: 30
Total Tracking Forms: 58

Bill Number Sponsors Title and/or Summary Summary/Status Latest Action H.R.652 Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA) Zero Food Waste Act
This bill directs the Environmental
Protection Agency to establish a grant
program to study and reduce food waste.

Introduced on January 31st, and Referred to
the Subcommittee on Health on February
10th, 2023.

H.R.610 Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) Marijuana 1-to-3 Act of 2023 This legislation would reschedule
marijuana into schedule III of the
Controlled Substances Act.

Introduced on January 27, 2023 and
referred to the House Energy and
Commerce Committee.

H.R.550 Rep. Mike Garcia (R-FL) FIRE Act of 2023
This legislation would direct the NOAA
Administrator to maintain a program that
improves wildfire forecasting and
detection.

Introduced on January 26, 2023 and
referred to the House Science, Space, and
Technology Committee.

H.R.505 Rep. Steve Cohen Living Wage Now Act This legislation would increase the Federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Introduced on January 25, 2023 and
referred to the House Committee on
Education and Workforce.

H.R.255 Rep. Jenniffer GonzalezColon (R-PR)
Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination
Act
This legislation would require a study to
streamline and consolidate information
collection and preliminary damage
assessments for certain disasters.

The House passed this bill on motion to
suspend the rules on January 25, 2023. It
was agreed to by a voice vote. The Senate
received it and referred it to the
Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs
H.R.250 Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) Clean Water SRF Parity Act This bill expands the state revolving fund
established under the Clean Water Act,
including by allowing low-interest loans
to be given to privately owned treatment
works to address wastewater. Currently,
loans are given to wastewater systems
that are publicly owned.

Introduced on January 10, 2023. Referred
to the House T&I Water Resources and
Environment Subcommittee.

H.R.215 Rep. David Valadao (R-CA) WATER for California Act This legislation was originally introduced
in the 117th Congress. It would require
the CVP and SWP to be operated
consistent with the 2019 biological
opinions, aims to hep ensure CVP and the
SWP stakeholders receive the water they
contract for, provides funding for the
Shasta enlargement project, and
reauthorizes the water storage program
originally created in the WIIN Act.

Introduced on January 9, 2023 and referred
to the House Natural Resources
Committee. The Committee held a mark-up
session and ultimately the bill was ordered
to be reported on April 28th.

H.R.186 Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) Water Supply Permitting Coordination Act
This 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.

Introduced on January 9, 2023 and referred
to the House Natural Resources
Committee. Referred to the subcommittee
on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries on
February 21st.

H.R.178 Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act of 2023
This legislation aims to promote the
development of renewable energy on
public lands.

Introduced on January 9, 2023 and referred
to the House Natural Resources
Committee. Referred to the subcommittee
on Energy and Mineral Resources on
February 21st.

H.R.160 Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) SALT Fairness Act of 2023 This bill repeals the temporary
restrictions in taxable years 2018 through
2025 on the deductibility of state and
local taxes.

Introduced on January 9, 2023 and referred
to the House Ways and Means Committee.

H.R.139 Rep. James Comer (R-KY) SHOW UP Act of 2023
This bill requires each executive agency
to reinstate the telework policies that
were in place on December 31, 2019.

Agencies may not implement expanded
telework policies unless the Office of
Personnel Management certifies that
such policies will have a positive effect on
the agency's mission and operational
costs.

Introduced on January 9, 2023 and passed
the House by a vote of 221 to 206 on
February 1, 2023. Received in the Senate
and referred to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs on February 2nd.

H.R.289 Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) Protect Our Water Rights Act This legislation would update
requirements for the operation of the
Central Valley Project and Klamath River
Basin Reclamation Project by the Bureau
of Reclamation.

Introduced in the House on January 11,
2023 and referred to the House Natural
Resources Committee. Referred to the
Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and
Fisheries.

H.R.1361 Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ) Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2023
This legislation would authorize the
Director of the Bureau of Justice
Assistance to make grants to States, units
of local government, and gun dealers to
conduct gun buyback programs.

Introduced on March 3, 2023 and referred
to the House Judiciary Committee.

H.R.1335 Rep. Bruce Westerman (RAR) TAPP American Resources Act This legislation aims to restart onshore
and offshore oil, gas, and coal leasing,
streamline permitting for energy
infrastructure, ensure transparency in
energy development on Federal lands.

Introduced on March 3, 2023 and referred
to the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and
Budget Committees. Placed on the Union
Calendar on March 23rd.

H.R.1347 Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) D-BLOC Act
This legislation would amend title 49, USC
to limit railroad carriers from blocking
railway-highway crossings.

Introduced on March 3, 2023 and referred
to the House Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure. Referred to the
Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and
Hazardous Materials on March 6th.

H.R.1367 Rep. Janice Schakowsky (DIL)
Water System Threat Preparedness and
Resilience Act of 2023
This legislation establishes a program to
increase drinking water and wastewater
system threat preparedness and
resilience.

Introduced on March 3, 2023 and referred
to the Transportation and Infrastructure
Committee. Referred to the Subcommittee
on Water Resources and Environment on
March 6th. Referred to the Subcommittee
on Environment, Manufacturing, and
Critical Materials.

S.115 Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Clean Water Allotment Modernization Act of 2023
This legislation would amend the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act to modify
certain allotments under that Act.

Introduced on January 26, 2023 and
referred to the Committee on
Environmental and Public Works.

S.64 Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) Water Rights Protection Act of 2023 This legislation would prohibit the
conditioning of any permit, lease, or
other use agreement on the transfer of
any water right to the United States by
the Secretary of the Interior and the
Secretary of Agriculture.

Introduced on January 25, 2023, read
twice, and referred to the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources.

S.21 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Community Wildlife Protection Act of 2023
This legislation would amend the Healthy
Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to modify
the definition of the term “at-risk
community”.

Introduced on January 23, 2023, read
twice, and referred to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

H.R.2419 Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) Canal Conveyance Capacity Restoration Act
The legislation would authorize a onethird federal cost share for restoring canal capacity. Specifically, it would
authorize $833.4 million for four major
projects, including: $180 million to
restore the Friant-Kern Canal, $183.9
million to restore the Delta Mendota
Canal, $289.5 million to restore the
California Aqueduct, and $180 million to
restore salmon runs on the San Joaquin
River.

Introduced on March 30, 2023 and
Referred to the House Committee on
Natural Resources. Referred to the
Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and
Fisheries on May 8.

H.J.Res.27 Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO)
Congressional Resolution of Disapproval
for the Waters of the US Rule issues by
the Army Corps and EPA
This Congressional Resolution of
Disapproval seeks to overturn the ule
submitted by the Department of the
Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of
Defense and the Environmental
Protection Agency relating to the Revised
Definition of “Waters of the United
States”
The House passed the resolution on March
9 by a vote of 227-198. The Senate passed
the resolution on March 29 by a vote of 53-

43. The President vetoed the measure, and
the House failed to override the veto.

H.R. 2811 Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 This bill increases the federal debt limit
and decreases spending. It also repeals
several energy tax credits, modifies the
permitting process and other
requirements for energy projects,
expands work requirements for the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) and other programs, and
nullifies regulations for the cancellation
of federal student loan debt.

Introduced on April 25, 2023, and passed
on April 26 by a vote of 217-215. Referred
to the Senate Committee on the Budget on
May 4.

S. 1521 Sen. Steve Daines The Community & Hydropower
Improvement Act
The Community and Hydropower
Improvement Act bolsters hydropower
production throughout the United
States by streamlining the permitting and
licensing process, increasing tribal
engagement and oversight,
expediting low impact projects,
promoting healthy habitat, and
coordinating federal decision making.

Introduced on May 10, 2023. Read twice
and referred to the Committee on Energy
and Natural Resources. Hearings held on
July 19, 2023.

H.R. 3746 Rep. Patrick McHenry Fiscal Responsibility Act This bill increases the federal debt limit,
establishes new discretionary spending
limits, rescinds unobligated funds, and
expands work requirements for federal
programs.

Introduced on May 29, 2023. Passed house
on May 31. Passed the Senate on June 1,
2023. The President signed into law on
June 3, 2023
S.J. Res. 23 Sen. Cynthia Lummis
A joint resolution providing for
congressional disapproval under chapter
8 of title 5, United States Code, of the
rule submitted by the National Marine
Fisheries Service relating to
"Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Regulations for Listing
Endangered and Threatened Species and
Designating Critical Habitat".

This joint resolution nullifies the final rule
issued by the National Marine Fisheries
Service titled Endangered and
Threatened Wildlife and Plants;
Regulations for Listing Endangered and
Threatened Species and Designating
Critical Habitat and published on June 24,
2022.

Introduced on March 30, and referred to
the Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works. Passed Senate 51-49 on May

11. Received in the House on May 15.

S.2162 Sen. Dianne Feinstein STREAM Act
The Support to Rehydrate the
Environment, Agriculture and
Municipalities Act or STREAM Act aims to
increase water supply and modernize
water infrastructure throughout the
West.

Introduced on June 22nd and referred to the
Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources. Hearings held on July 19

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Date: September 4, 2023
Re: August Monthly Legislative Update
Biden Seeks $44 Billion in New Funding, Including for Ukraine The Biden Administration submitted a supplemental appropriations request to Congress on August 10 to support Ukraine, disaster recovery, and other purposes. The request includes over $24 billion in aid to Ukraine ($13.1 billion in military aid, and $11 billion in humanitarian relief), $4 billion for border and migration activities, and $12 billion for domestic disaster relief.

The White House sees the $24 billion in aid to Ukraine and related needs, as critical to sustaining the war effort against Russia as the conflict enters a more intense phase. But Republican opposition to the aid has grown as conservatives have railed against US involvement in the war.

Of the $24 billion, $9.5 billion is designated for military equipment for Ukraine and to replenish Defense Department stocks. Continued military, intelligence and other support would cost another $3.6 billion. The defense assistance is designed to last through the end of the first quarter of next year, according to a senior US official.

Failure to approve Ukraine funding would mark a watershed moment for the US almost 18 months after Russia’s war started. Congress has passed Ukraine assistance packages on three separate occasions, most recently last December, without much controversy. It would also shake the transatlantic coalition Biden helped assemble to provide arms and training for Ukraine’s military that have proved crucial to Kyiv’s efforts to repel Russian forces.

Bipartisan support for Ukraine relief has held steady in the Senate, but the funding has become controversial in the House, where Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has vowed not to bring an assistance package to the floor if it skirts defense-spending caps set in the May debt-ceiling agreement.

Funds for Disaster Aid
President Joe Biden is also requesting an additional $4 billion in disaster relief from Congress in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia and the recent fires in Maui, substantially

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increasing the cost of a sweeping emergency package requested by the White House just weeks ago.

The administration is now asking for a total of $16 billion “given the intensity of disaster activity around the nation – including fires on Maui, in Louisiana, and across the country, massive flooding in Vermont, and now a major hurricane that hit Florida and the Southeast,” the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement.

The increase from the administration’s original request of $12 billion underscores the severity and growing score of the recent natural disasters, with the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency saying as recently as August 29 that the agency still believed its initial estimate would be sufficient.

Yet the proposal faces a difficult path on Capitol Hill, where some hardline conservatives in the House of Representatives are hoping to use the request to exact other spending cuts.

Further complicating the White House’s request - which would replenish FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund – is Biden’s insistence that the funding should move alongside more than $28 billion the White House wants to assist Ukraine and address migration issues on the US Southern border.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier this summer indicated he might demand concessions to offset the cost of additional assistance for the effort to bolster Ukraine as it continues to battle Russian invaders.

And the president on August 31 asked Congress to approve an additional $1.4 billion for the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program as part of a short-term measure that would keep the government funded while negotiations continue on the 12 annual spending bills.

Biden tried to rally support despite Republican skepticism during a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, where he met with officials monitoring recovery efforts after Idalia.
“We’re going to need a whole hell of a lot more money to deal with all you’re taking care of,” Biden said.

The president went on to express disbelief with lawmakers who did not support the emergency request. “I’m not even sure what their thinking is,” he said, adding that legislation authorizing the additional spending had to be passed within the next month.

Senators and representatives returning after the Labor Day recess have only a few weeks to avert a partial government shutdown, and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said earlier last week that her agency was diverting money from long-term projects to help address immediate needs in the aftermath of the fires and storms.

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“I want to stress that while Immediate Needs Funding will ensure we can continue to respond to disasters, it is not a permanent solution,” Criswell told reporters. “Congress must work with us on the supplemental request.”
Supreme Court Wetlands Ruling Imperils Waters on Public Lands Wetlands and waterways in national parks, monuments, forests and other federal public lands are newly vulnerable to pollution and development in the wake of the Supreme Court’s May ruling in Sackett v. EPA, natural resources attorneys say.

But because federal lands have some protection under the National Environmental Policy Act and a raft of other laws, there is broad disagreement among attorneys about how Sackett affects public land.

Sackett creates a federal jurisdictional test for waters and wetlands “that is divorced from science” and will “disempower federal land managers from protecting critical water resources on public lands,” said Craig Galli, senior partner at Holland & Hart LLP in Salt Lake City and a distinguished practitioner in residence at Brigham Young University Law School.

The ruling effectively eliminates the federal government’s role in regulating many wetlands nationwide under the Clean Water Act as waters of the US, or WOTUS. The ruling narrows which waters and wetlands qualify as WOTUS, leaving wetlands and possibly ephemeral streams that are not directly connected to large navigable rivers, streams, and coastlines either unregulated or regulated only by states. The opinion paves the way for unpermitted dredging and filling of many streams and wetlands for construction across the country.

Headwaters, Parks Unprotected
But how the ruling affects the nearly 640 million acres of land already controlled by federal agencies including the Interior Department and US Forest Service is complex.

Ephemeral and intermittent streams and other wetlands with no direct connection to navigable waters are found throughout national forests, parks, and Bureau of Land Management public lands, especially in the arid West, which hosts most of the country’s federal land and where many streams run only when it rains. “Waters that are on federal lands including national parks are not automatically considered federal waters unless they meet the standard for being a water of the United States,” Donna Downing, senior legal policy adviser for the National Association of Wetland Managers, testified during a July 26 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Democrats’ roundtable on Sackett.

Sackett shrank that standard, leaving waters on federal lands vulnerable, she said.

Protections afforded to wetlands under federal land management rules will either not be as rigorous as the rules under the Clean Water Act, or those protections will be expressly

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tied to those waters being waters of the United States, said Andrew Hawley, staff attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center.

Though public lands laws and policies allow federal agencies to protect wetlands, the agencies have to choose to do so, said Sam Kalen, an environmental law professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law.

Wetlands that were protected under the Clean Water Act prior to Sackett could be at risk “if an agency doesn’t step in and fill that void,” he said.

The ruling will affect NEPA environmental reviews for timber sales, energy projects, road construction, and other projects on federal lands, but only on federal lands that have weak state-level wetlands regulations such as Alaska, said Duncan Greene, partner at Van Ness Feldman LLP in Seattle.

Many streams and wetlands high in the mountains are fed by snowpack and groundwater that form the headwaters of the region’s rivers and water supplies. “By establishing a jurisdictional test that focuses entirely on surface waters, while ignoring the dynamic interaction of streams with shallow groundwater, a significant number of headwaters streams located on public lands will become non-jurisdictional,” and lose some protections, depending on what state they’re in, Galli said.

The Interior Department and the US Forest Service declined to comment.

Carole Holley, managing attorney for the environmental law firm Earthjustice, said nobody knows what Sackett means for federal lands in Alaska, which has millions of acres of both federal lands and wetlands. That’s because the court settled on an unclear notion of “waters of the US” that overlooks wetlands hydrology, sowing confusion. “Many operators will take advantage of that confusion, along with the overworked regulators, to destroy these valuable ecosystems,” Holley said.

Broad Disagreement
Other attorneys disagree that the ruling will affect federal lands because the federal government already controls permitting there.
“Activities on federal lands require approval by a federal agency,” said Neal McAliley, shareholder at Carlton Fields PA in Miami. “Federal actions are subject to NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, and other laws that require the agencies to consider the environmental effects of their actions.”
A 1977 executive order that is still in effect is very similar to the Clean Water Act and requires all federal agencies to avoid construction on federally-owned wetlands, he said.

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National forest plans often extend protections to all kinds of streams and wetlands, including ephemeral streams, making the ruling less important to federal lands, said Susan Jane Brown, a private environmental lawyer in Oregon. “Laws like the National Forest Management Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, etc. extend protection to aquatic features too, making CWA application duplicative,” Brown said.

John Leshy, an emeritus professor at the University of California College of the Law-San Francisco who served as Interior solicitor in the Clinton administration, said he hasn’t deeply researched Sackett‘s implications for federal lands, but the implication that the Clean Water Act limits federal land managers’ authority to protect wetlands is dubious.

Leshy said Downing, who testified at the roundtable, seemed to be suggesting that when Congress passed the Clean Water Act, it deprived federal land managers’ power under the Mineral Leasing Act to limit water pollution from energy development. “I don’t know of any court that has suggested that,” he said.

Schumer, Bennet Outdoor Recreation Bill Eyed for Farm Bill Rural communities seeking to benefit from the $800 billion outdoor recreation industry in the US would get a funding boost from legislation that could end up in the 2023 farm bill.

Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), are throwing their weight behind a measure to authorize $50 million annually through fiscal 2028 for rural areas to upgrade outdoor recreation infrastructure such as boat ramps and trails, as well as help communities plan for the increased tourism and larger workforce the industry is expected to bring.

The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), is the recreation industry’s “big play in the farm bill,” said Jessica Wahl Turner, president of the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable, in an interview.

While lawmakers introduced the measure as stand-alone legislation (S. 2604, H.R. 5052), they are eyeing attaching it to broader, bipartisan bills before year’s end. Those potential vehicles include, as well as the farm bill, a public lands or broader outdoor recreation package, or a measure reauthorizing the Economic Development Administration.

Turner said she expects the Rural Outdoor Investment Act to attract bipartisan support in the House and Senate.

Outdoor recreation in the US, especially on public lands and waters, boomed during the Covid-19 pandemic, as Americans sought alternatives to indoor activities. The industry supported 4.5 million jobs and contributed about 1.9% to the nation’s gross domestic

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product in 2021, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Outdoor recreation also contributed about $862 billion in sales and revenue in 2021.

Outdoor recreation “brings billions of dollars to New Mexico every year and employs over 35,000 people across the state,” Stansbury said in a statement. The bill will support outdoor recreation infrastructure, planning assistance, and financial support for businesses in the state’s rural communities, she said.

A family hikes to a lookout point along on Mount Washington, viewing New Hampshire’s White Mountains on June 12, 2020, as many Americans took to the outdoors during the Covid pandemic.

Outdoor recreation is an “economic engine” and a “cornerstone of our Western way of life,” said Bennet in a statement. “This legislation will expand recreation options, create good-paying jobs, and support local businesses so that as demand for outdoor recreation in Colorado grows, rural economies grow too.”
Supporters of the rural outdoor recreation measure say it’s a public works initiative.

Smaller communities could receive more technical assistance, guidance, and other grants through existing federal programs, enabling them to capitalize on the outdoor recreation economy and grow sustainably. “You can have both, but you have to plan and have a strategy,” said Turner.

Not every community wants to be a Moab, Utah, or Boulder, Colo., Turner added, referring to gateway cities with lucrative outdoor recreation that have struggled to provide affordable worker housing and smart growth for year-round residents. “A lot of communities are scared of becoming that overrun tourist destination,” she said.

Access to federal grants and targeted funding for outdoor recreation also can help rural communities attract other dollars from the private and non-profit sectors, Turner said.

Billion-Dollar Drugs Face First US Price Negotiations
Some of the most widely used drugs in the US may be heading for lower prices under Medicare, a move that could save taxpayers billions of dollars and squeeze profits for big pharmaceutical companies.

The ability for the government to haggle over prices is a marked change for pharma companies that have long been able to charge whatever they think a medication is worth, even as most other industrialized countries bargain hard. With the IRA now enabling Medicare to come to the table over products that have long been on the market, drugmakers are girding for the prospect of lower revenue from some of their biggest sellers.

For taxpayers, the savings could be significant: Negotiations could save the US $36.5 billion from 2026 to 2028, according to Wells Fargo Securities. Drugmakers are suing the government to stop the squeeze.

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“They’re going to earn less money,” said Spencer Perlman, an analyst with policy research firm Veda Partners. “That’s just a fact.”
Medicare spends more than $200 billion on outpatient prescription drugs annually.

Eliquis, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. blood thinner used to prevent heart attacks and strokes, cost the program more than $12 billion in 2021 alone.

Under the IRA, the price ceiling for a selected drug will be set somewhere between 75% and 40% of its average price, with steeper discounts for drugs that have been on the market longer. Medicare will halve its costs for the chosen drugs on average, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates. That will lower the health program’s spending total by almost $100 billion through 2031, when annual savings will approach $25 billion.

Predictions Hard
The process set in motion last week won’t hit sales until 2026, and even then, analysts suggest its early effects will be modest. The law would shave 3% from Bristol’s revenue that year, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts estimate, and 1% or less for the other companies seen undergoing the first round of negotiations. Cowen & Co. analysts deemed the impact “manageable” for pharma companies.

Each year, Medicare will add drugs to its low-cost shopping list, reshaping how medications are made and sold in the US drug market. The government can only negotiate for the drugs that Medicare spends the most on — the top 50 retail prescription drugs and the top 50 administered by physicians. The price cuts don’t apply to other purchasers like private insurers or patients paying cash.

Still, it’s a sea change that pharma companies have dreaded. “This misguided policy does not strike the right balance between incenting investment and innovation and improving affordability and access,” Merck Chief Executive Officer Robert Davis said earlier this month on a call with analysts.

Taxpayer Win
Big drugmakers have long fought to maintain their products’ patent protection and forestall the arrival of generic competition. The IRA undercuts that strategy, demanding price concessions on products that have been on the market for years and have no generic alternatives. Keytruda — provider of 35% of Merck’s revenue over the last three years — and Bristol’s Opdivo will both become potential candidates for negotiations in 2028.

The administration calls that a win for the taxpayers who fund Medicare and for the seniors enrolled in it. To the companies, it’s price-setting, and they’re hitting back.

Drugmakers have filed cases in courts across the US, potentially leading to split appellate decisions and a trip to the Supreme Court. The US Chamber of Commerce is seeking to halt negotiations before they even start.

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UK-based AstraZeneca Plc filed suit last Friday, arguing the IRA will shorten drugmakers’ window to recoup their investments. Companies are already front-loading revenues with higher launch prices, said BMO Capital Markets analyst Evan David Seigerman, pointing to Bristol’s Sotyktu that came to the market last year at an annual price of more than $70,000.
“You just have to start out with higher cash flows because you know in the out years you’re going to have lower cash flows,” Seigerman said.

Fewer New Drugs
Drugmakers are warning they can’t take chances on new products if the returns are going to shrink. They may delay seeking approval until they have evidence to get drugs cleared for their most lucrative uses. And they may focus on biologic drugs, which get 13 years of protection from negotiation, compared to nine for pills.

Indeed, the CBO estimates that price negotiations and other measures in the IRA will lower the number of new drugs coming to market by about 1% over the next 30 years.

That isn’t necessarily bad: The policy may encourage companies develop new, innovative products rather than their own versions of other companies’ branded drugs, said Juliette Cubanski, deputy director of Medicare policy at KFF, a nonprofit healthpolicy research organization. And drugmakers may not fight generic competitors as vigorously, because drugs with generic equivalents are exempt from price negotiation.

Fitch’s US Downgrade Is Stoking the Very Fight It Warned Against Washington’s hostile political factions quickly took up Fitch Ratings’ downgrade of US government debt as a new weapon of political combat — highlighting in part why the firm stripped the US of its top-tier credit rating.

Democrats and Republicans traded blame for the downgrade, with a group of hard-right conservatives promising to dig in during a looming spending fight that could shut down the federal government as soon as Oct. 1.

The bitter recriminations echoed the concerns raised by Fitch in announcing its decision after the close of financial markets on July 29. In a statement, Fitch cited an “erosion of governance relative to ‘AA’ and ‘AAA’ rated peers over the last two decades that has manifested in repeated debt limit standoffs and last-minute resolutions.” President Joe Biden, who has spent the summer promoting his “Bidenomics” agenda as the US economy shows surprising strength, was privately frustrated over the Fitch decision and expressed irritation to his team, according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to describe private conversations.

Progress on jobs, real wages and bringing down inflation — all heading in the right direction — typically matter more to voters than a Wall Street credit grader’s score. Still,

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any indicator pointing to shortfalls in stewardship of the economy could damage public perceptions of Biden as he seeks reelection.

Republicans blamed the decision on Biden’s policies, saying spending on domestic programs is fueling the national debt. The right-wing House Freedom Caucus portrayed it as further reason to demand lower spending levels during the coming shutdown fight. “It’s time to end Washington’s addiction to spending, and we have an opportunity to begin that during the appropriations process,” the group of Republican lawmakers said in response to the downgrade.

Markets mostly shrugged off the downgrade, with Treasury yields initially falling in Asian futures markets after its announcement. Bond investors pushed up Treasury yields, spooked by plans for a flood of government-debt issuance and data suggesting US companies added more jobs than expected in July.

While Fitch’s decision has thus far had minimal impact on the short-term cost of borrowing for the US government, it will likely inflame the fight over government funding levels for next fiscal year.

The House and Senate are taking conflicting paths in setting discretionary spending levels despite an agreement between Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to set an $1.59 trillion cap for fiscal 2024, cutting $12 billion from the current fiscal year, as part of deal to suspend the debt limit.

Bowing to pressure from conservatives, McCarthy has crafted spending bills with a top line of $1.47 trillion. To reach those cuts while appeasing moderates, leadership is using a series of budget gimmicks to bring down spending levels. Hard-line conservatives say they will not support that tactic and McCarthy was forced to pull an agriculture spending bill from the floor amid the dispute.

But in the Senate, there is bipartisan agreement to use budget moves to bring the effective spending level to $1.68 trillion, an $89 billion increase above the cap. It will be difficult for the chambers to bridge the divide, given pressure from conservatives. “I worry it is going to inflame the chances of a shutdown and prove Fitch right,” said Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group.

Weekly Legislative Summary
Thursday, August 17, 2023
AB 2 (Ward D)   Recycling: solar photovoltaic modules.

Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 (act) requires a retailer selling a covered electronic device in this state to collect from a consumer at the time of retail sale a covered electronic waste recycling fee or a covered battery-embedded waste recycling fee, as specified. The act defines “covered electronic device” to include certain video display devices and battery-embedded products. The act requires all charges collected pursuant to the act to be deposited into specified subaccounts within the Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account, and outlines certain other requirements related to the establishment, adjustment, and administration of the charge. Moneys in the subaccounts are continuously appropriated for specified purposes, including, but not limited to, paying covered electronic waste recycling fee refunds and making electronic waste recovery and recycling payments. Current law incorporates the requirements and other provisions of the act by reference as requirements and provisions of the hazardous waste control laws. The act also expressly authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to enforce the act, and all regulations adopted pursuant to the act, through the hazardous waste control laws. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would, among other things, expand the definition of “covered electronic device” to include a “customer-owned solar PV module,” as defined, thereby expanding the scope of the act to include covered solar photovoltaic (PV) module products, for limited purposes, as provided. The bill would also require, on or before October 1, 2026, and on or before October 1 each year thereafter, CalRecycle to establish a covered solar PV recycling fee based on the reasonable regulatory costs to administer covered electronic waste recycling. The bill would require the charge to be imposed upon a consumer or a service provider serving the consumer for the purchase of a new or refurbished covered solar PV module product. The bill would also require the charge to be adjusted annually based on the California Consumer Price Index. The bill would create the Covered Solar PV Module Recycling Fee Subaccount as a continuously appropriated fund in the Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account. Because the funds deposited to the Covered Solar PV Module Recycling Fee Subaccount would be a new source of funds in the continuously appropriated subaccount within the continuously appropriated Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account, the bill would make an appropriation.

AB 28 (Gabriel D)   Firearms and ammunition: excise tax.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Grant Program, administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, to award competitive grants for the purpose of violence intervention and prevention. Current law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges. This bill, the Gun Violence Prevention, Healing, and Recovery Act, would, commencing July 1, 2024, impose an excise tax in the amount of 11% of the gross receipts from the retail sale in this state of a firearm, firearm precursor part, and ammunition, as specified. The tax would be collected by the state pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures

Law. The bill would require that the revenues collected be deposited in the Gun Violence Prevention, Healing, and Recovery Fund, which the bill would establish in the State Treasury.

AB 33 (Bains D)   Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force.

Current Text: Amended: 6/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, subject to an appropriation, establish the Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse, including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse. The bill would require the task force to be cochaired by the Attorney General and the Surgeon General, or their designees, and would specify the membership of the task force.

AB 37 (Bonta D)   Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds: security expenses.

Current Text: Amended: 7/10/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system if specified conditions are met. These conditions include that the candidate or elected officer has received threats to physical safety that have been verified by law enforcement and that no more than $5,000 in campaign funds be used for this purpose. This bill would eliminate those conditions. The bill would instead authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system, and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family and staff of a candidate or elected officer, if those costs are directly related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose. The bill would require the return of the security system to the committee that paid for the security system or reimbursement by the candidate, elected officer, immediate family, or staff, to the campaign fund account of the committee that paid for the security system and reporting of the reimbursement to the Fair Political Practices Commission, as specified.

AB 40 (Rodriguez D)   Emergency medical services.

Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act creates the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination of various state activities concerning emergency medical services. Among other duties, current law requires the authority to develop planning and implementation guidelines for EMS systems, provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the purpose of developing the components of EMS systems, and receive plans for the implementation of EMS and trauma care systems from local EMS agencies. Current law makes a violation of the act or regulations adopted pursuant to the act punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill, on or before June 1, 2024, would require the authority to develop and implement an electronic signature for use between the emergency department medical personnel at a receiving hospital and the transporting emergency medical personnel that captures the points in time when the hospital receives notification of ambulance arrival and when transfer of care is executed for documentation of ambulance patient offload time, as defined. The bill would require every local EMS agency, by March 1, 2024, to develop a standard not to exceed 30 minutes, 90% of the time, for ambulance patient offload time and report the standardized time to the authority. The bill would also require the authority to develop and implement by June 1, 2024, an audit tool to improve data accuracy regarding transfer of care, as specified, and to provide technical assistance and funding as needed, subject to an appropriation, for small rural hospitals and volunteer EMS providers to implement these provisions. The bill would require the authority to adopt emergency regulations to implement these provisions on or before March 1, 2024.

AB 46 (Ramos D)   Personal income taxes: exclusion: Military Services Retirement and Surviving Spouse Benefit Payment Act.

Current Text: Amended: 7/12/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2034, exclude from gross income retirement pay received by a taxpayer from the federal government for service performed in the uniformed services, as defined, during the taxable year. The bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2034, would also exclude from gross income annuity payments received by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, pursuant to a United States Department of Defense Survivor Benefit Plan during the taxable year. The bill would make related findings and declarations.

AB 50 (Wood D)   Public utilities: timely service: customer energization.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Public Utilities Commission, on or before January 1, 2025, to determine the criteria for timely service for electric customers to be energized, including, among other things, reasonable average energization time periods for categories of timely service, as specified. The bill would require each large electrical corporation that energized less than 35% of customers with completed applications exceeding 12 months in duration by January 31, 2023, to submit a report to the commission, as specified, on or before December 1, 2024, demonstrating that the large electrical corporation has energized 80% of customers with applications deemed complete as of January 31, 2023, as specified. To improve the accuracy of projected demand and facilitate achievement of the goal of timely electric service through energization, the bill would require each large electrical corporation to evaluate and update, as necessary, its existing distribution planning process. In order to inform the commission’s determination of criteria for timely service, the bill would require the commission to annually collect certain information from each large electrical corporation until new reporting requirements are established.

AB 84 (Ward D)   Property tax: welfare exemption: affordable housing.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
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 law defines “property used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes” to include facilities in the course of construction on or after the first Monday of March 1954, as specified. Under current property tax law, property that meets the above-described requirements that is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities is entitled to a partial exemption, equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units, in any year that any of certain criteria apply, including that the acquisition, rehabilitation, development, or operation of the property, or any combination of these factors, is financed with tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds or general obligation bonds, or is financed by local, state, or federal loans or grants and the rents of the occupants who are lower income households do not exceed those prescribed by deed restrictions or regulatory agreements pursuant to the terms of the financing or financial assistance. This bill would expand this partial exemption to property acquired, rehabilitated, developed, or operated, or any combination of these factors, with financing from qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, as defined.

AB 101 (Ting D)   Budget Act of 2023.

Current Text: Amended: 6/11/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2023

Status: 8/14/2023-Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

Location: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions.

AB 262 (Holden D)   Children’s camps: safety and regulation.

Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Community Care Facilities Act generally provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including child daycare facilities, by the State Department of Social Services.

Current law also requires the State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for organized camps, defined as a site with a program and facilities established for the primary purposes of providing an outdoor group living experience with social, spiritual, educational, or recreational objectives, for 5 days or more during one or more seasons of the year, except as specified. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to convene and consult with a stakeholder group on children’s camp safety. The bill would require the stakeholder group to be composed of representatives of designated state entities, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Education, and other stakeholders, such as parent advocate groups, children’s advocates and safety groups, and local parks and health departments. The bill would require the department, by June 1, 2025, to issue its recommendations, as informed by the stakeholder group, in a report to the Legislature.

AB 318 (Addis D)   Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act.

Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act establishes the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development to resolve complaints from homeowners relating to the Mobilehome Residency Law. Current law requires the department to refer any alleged violations of law or regulations within the department’s jurisdiction to the Division of Codes and Standards. Current law requires the department to use good faith efforts to select the most severe, deleterious, and materially and economically impactful alleged violations, as specified. This bill would delete the requirement that the department select the most severe, deleterious, and materially and economically impactful alleged violations.

AB 334 (Rubio, Blanca D)   Public contracts: conflicts of interest.

Current Text: Amended: 6/7/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Location: Senate Consent Calendar
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #241  SENATE CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Current law authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission to commence an administrative or civil action against persons who violate this prohibition, as prescribed, and includes provisions for the collection of penalties after the time for judicial review of a commission order or decision has lapsed, or if all means of judicial review of the order or decision have been exhausted. Current law identifies certain remote interests in contracts that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract.

Existing law makes a willful violation of this prohibition a crime. This bill would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified requirements, is not an officer for purposes of being subject to the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract.

AB 350 (Aguiar-Curry D)   Regional transportation plans: Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

Current Text: Amended: 6/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires each regional transportation plan to include, among other things, a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization, as specified, which is designed to achieve certain targets for 2020 and 2035 established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region. After adopting a sustainable communities strategy, current law requires a metropolitan planning organization to submit the strategy to the state board for review to determine whether the strategy, if implemented, would achieve the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Current law requires each transportation planning agency to adopt and submit to the California Transportation Commission and the Department of Transportation an updated regional transportation plan every 4 or 5 years, as specified. This bill would require the updated regional transportation plan, sustainable communities strategy, and environmental impact report adopted by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) on November 18, 2019, to remain in effect for all purposes until the SACOG adopts its next update to its regional transportation plan, which the bill would require it to adopt and submit on or before December 31, 2025.

AB 426 (Jackson D)   Unlicensed residential foster care facilities: temporary placement management.

Current Text: Amended: 7/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Office of the State Foster Care Ombudsperson to be established in the State Department of Social Services with prescribed powers and duties relating to the management of foster children. Current law authorizes the ombudsperson, as part of the office’s efforts to resolve complaints related to foster care, to conduct whatever investigation reasonably related to the complaint and to foster care that the ombudsperson deems necessary. Current law grants specified rights to all minors and nonminors in foster care, including, among others, the right to receive medical, dental, vision, and mental health services, the right to be informed of these rights in an age- and developmentally appropriate manner, and the right to receive a copy of these rights at specified intervals. This bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to appoint a temporary placement manager, as defined, if the department has reason to believe, including pursuant to a complaint investigated by the State Foster Care Ombudsperson, that an unlicensed residential foster care facility, as defined, is endangering the welfare of foster children or youth in the facility, including, but not limited to, in violation of any of the rights described above. The bill would require the department to issue an initial statement of allegations, followed by a formal statement of allegations that specifies the factual and legal basis for the appointment of a temporary placement manager to operate the facility 60 calendar days after issuance of the formal statement of allegations. The bill would require the appointment of the temporary placement manger to be effective 61 calendar days after the department issues the statement of causes and concerns, and until the temporary placement manager notifies the department, and the department verifies, that appropriate placements have been arranged for all foster children and youth in the facility, as prescribed. The bill would authorize a residential foster care facility that receives a formal statement of allegations to contest the appointment of a temporary manager by seeking injunctive relief in the superior court sitting in the county in which the facility is located, as specified.

AB 436 (Alvarez D)   Vehicles.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #180  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits a local authority from enacting or enforcing an ordinance on matters covered by the Vehicle Code unless expressly authorized by the Vehicle Code. Current law authorizes local authorities to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding specified matters, including, among others, crossing guards, the operation of bicycles, the removal of illegally parked vehicles, and cruising, as defined. This bill would remove the authorization for a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or regulation regarding cruising.

AB 441 (Haney D)   Temporary food facilities: permitting: farmers’ markets and night markets.

Current Text: Amended: 8/16/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended.

Location: Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Retail Food Code establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for temporary food facilities, and defines a temporary food facility to mean a food facility approved by an enforcement officer to operate at a fixed location for the duration of a community event, as specified. Current law defines a community event as an event conducted for not more than 25 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a 90-day period and that is of a civic, political, public, or educational nature, including state and county fairs, city festivals, circuses, and other public gathering events approved by the local enforcement agency. Current law prohibits a temporary food facility from being open for business without a valid permit.

Current law requires an enforcement agency to issue a permit when investigation has determined a proposed facility meets the specifications of approved plans or conforms to the requirements of the California Retail Food Code. Current law provides that a permit is only valid for the person, location, type of food sales, or distribution activity and, unless suspended or revoked for cause, for the time period indicated. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is a misdemeanor. This bill would include in the definition of a community event a farmers’ market or night market conducted for not more than 90 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a 12-month period. The bill would require a permit issued for a temporary food facility that operates at a farmers’ market or night market to be valid for all locations of that community event. The bill would designate a permit issued pursuant to these provisions as a farmers’ market or night market temporary food facility permit.

AB 474 (Rodriguez D)   State Threat Assessment Center: transnational criminal organizations.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/7/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would find and declare that the State Threat Assessment Center (STAC) serves as California’s information-sharing clearinghouse of strategic threat analysis and situational awareness reporting for statewide leadership and the public safety community, as specified, and that the STAC is California’s state primary fusion center, as designated by the Governor, and is operated by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Office of Emergency Services, and the Department of Justice. The bill would make other findings and declarations related to drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.

AB 504 (Reyes D)   State and local public employees: labor relations: strikes.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act and the Ralph C. Dills Act regulate the labor relations of employees and employers of local public agencies and the state, respectively. Those acts grant specified employees, including, among others, certain employees of fire departments, of local public agencies and the state the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their choosing and require public agency employers, among other things, to meet and confer with representatives of recognized employee organizations and exclusive representatives on terms and conditions of employment. The acts grant the Public Employment Relations Board the power to hear specified disputes in relation to these provisions and to make determinations regarding them. This bill would provide, except as specified, that it is not unlawful or a cause for discipline or other adverse action against a public employee for that public employee to refuse to enter property that is the site of a primary strike, perform work for a public employer involved in a primary strike, or go through or work behind a primary strike line. The bill would prohibit a public employer from directing a public employee to take those actions. The bill would authorize a recognized employee organization to inform employees of these rights and encourage them to exercise those rights.

AB 573 (Garcia D)   Organic waste: meeting recovered organic waste product procurement targets.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a certain reduction in statewide emissions of methane, including a goal of a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic waste reduction goals, that provide for, among other things, the calculation by the department of recovered organic waste product procurement targets for each local jurisdiction, and that may include penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance. This bill would require the department, for purposes of those regulations, to allow a local jurisdiction, until December 1, 2031, in procuring recovered organic waste products to meet the target procurement requirements, to use California-derived recovered organic waste that the local jurisdiction sends for processing at a facility or operation outside of the state that meets certain conditions, as provided.

AB 701 (Villapudua D)   Controlled substances: fentanyl.

Current Text: Amended: 6/20/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Current law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and provides for imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years for a violation of this provision. Current law also imposes an additional term, and authorizes a trial court to impose a specified fine, upon a person who is convicted of a violation of, or of a conspiracy to violate, specified provisions of law with respect to a substance containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. This bill would impose that additional term upon, and authorize a fine against, a defendant who violates those laws with respect to a substance containing fentanyl.

AB 744 (Carrillo, Juan D)   California Transportation Commission: data, modeling, and analytic software tools procurement.

Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, upon the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, require the California Transportation Commission to acquire public domain or procure commercially available or open-source licensed data, modeling, and analytic software tools to support the state’s sustainable transportation, congestion management, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, and climate change strategies and goals, as provided. This bill would authorize the commission to provide a direct allocation of funding to local agencies for the above purposes, and would require state and local agencies that receive the funds or access to data, modeling, and analytic software tools to submit reports to the commission no later than August 1, 2026, regarding their use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools. The bill would require the commission, based on those reports, to submit a report to the Legislature no later than June 1, 2027, regarding the use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools by state and local agencies. This bill would authorize the commission to establish best practices for use of data in transportation planning and to identify data elements that should be made available to state and local agencies for transportation planning.

AB 755 (Papan D)   Water: public entity: water usage demand analysis.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a public entity that supplies water at retail or wholesale within its service area to adopt, in accordance with specified procedures, and enforce a water conservation program. This bill would require a public entity, as defined, to conduct a water usage demand analysis, as defined, prior to completing, or as part of, a cost-of-service analysis conducted to set fees and charges for water service that are consistent with applicable law. The bill would require a public entity to identify, within the water usage demand analysis, the costs of water service for the highest users, as defined, incurred by the public entity, and the average annual volume of water delivered to high water users.

AB 825 (Bryan D)   Vehicles: bicycles on sidewalks.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2031, and except as specified, prohibit a local authority from prohibiting the operation of a bicycle on a sidewalk adjacent to a highway or corridor that does not include a Class I, Class II, or Class IV bikeway, as defined, and would require the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the effects of that prohibition.

AB 840 (Addis D)   Tied-house exceptions: advertising.

Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #191  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Current law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees, or their officers, directors, or agents, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. In this regard, existing law specifically prohibits paying a retailer for advertising. Current law creates a variety of exceptions to this prohibition, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee that is an owner, manager, agent or major tenant of the owner, or assignee of the owner’s advertising rights of certain venues, subject to specified conditions. Current law requires the purchase of advertising space or time, in this context, to be conducted pursuant to a written contract and, in certain instances, specifically authorizes a contract to be made with the owner, a long-term tenant of the complex, or a licensee of the complex, whether or not the owner, long-term tenant, or licensee holds an on-sale license. In this context, current law makes certain acts of coercion crimes, including when an on-sale licensee coerces other specified licensees to purchase advertising space or time. This bill would expand the above-described exception to tiedhouse restrictions that allows for the purchase of advertising by applying it to various facilities that are situated on California State University campuses located in the Counties of San Luis Obispo, Fresno, Sacramento, Monterey, Orange, Santa Clara, and Los Angeles, and on the campus of St. Mary’s College of California located in the County of Contra Costa.

AB 965 (Carrillo, Juan D)   Local government: broadband permit applications.

Current Text: Amended: 6/7/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #195  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a local agency to undertake batch broadband permit processing, as defined, upon receiving 2 or more broadband permit applications for substantially similar broadband project sites submitted at the same time by the same applicant, within a presumptively reasonable time, as defined. The bill would

define “local agency” for these purposes to mean a city, county, city and county, charter city, special district, or publicly owned utility, other than certain publicly owned electric utilities. If a local agency does not approve those broadband permit applications for substantially similar broadband project sites and issue permits, or reject the applications and notify the applicants, within the presumptively reasonable time or longer period permitted under applicable law, the bill would require that all of those permits be deemed approved. The bill would authorize a local agency to place reasonable limits on the number of broadband project sites that are grouped into a single permit while undertaking batch broadband permit processing, as specified. The bill would provide that a local agency may only remove a broadband project site from grouping under a single permit under mutual agreement with the applicant or to expedite the approval of other substantially similar broadband project sites. The bill, if a local agency denies a broadband permit application, would require the local agency to notify the applicant in writing of the reasons for the denial. The bill would specify that these provisions do not apply to eligible facility requests, as defined.

AB 1082 (Kalra D)   Authority to remove vehicles.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a peace officer and specified public employees, as an alternative to removal of a vehicle, to immobilize the vehicle with a device designed and manufactured for that purpose, if, among other circumstances, the vehicle is found upon a highway or public lands by the peace officer or employee and it is known to have been issued 5 or more notices of parking violations that are delinquent because the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded to the appropriate agency within a designated time period. This bill would instead allow only an agent of public higher educational institutions, including the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges, to remove or immobilize a vehicle under those circumstances. The bill would limit the related authority to conduct a lien sale to cover towing and storage expenses to agents of public higher educational institutions, as specified. The bill would make various conforming and technical changes.

AB 1168 (Bennett D)   Emergency medical services (EMS): prehospital EMS.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems and authorizes each county to develop an EMS program and designate a local EMS agency. Current law requires a county to enter into a written agreement with a city or fire district that contracted for or provided prehospital EMS as of June 1, 1980. Current law requires, until that written agreement is reached, prehospital EMS to be continued at not less than the existing level and the administration of prehospital EMS by cities and fire districts contracting for or providing those services as of June 1, 1980, to be retained by those cities and fire districts. This bill would require a city to be treated as if it had retained its authorities regarding, and the administration of, prehospital EMS if specified requirements are met.

AB 1175 (Quirk-Silva D)   Outdoor advertising displays: redevelopment agency project areas.

Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Outdoor Advertising Act does not apply to an on-premises advertising display, which generally advertises business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at the location where the display is located. Until January 1, 2023, the act treats an off-premises advertising display developed as part of and within the boundary limits of a redevelopment agency project, as those boundaries existed on December 29, 2011, as an on-premises advertising display if it meets certain criteria for good cause, which includes, among others, that there has been no violation of certain provisions by the owner or operator of

the advertising display, as specified. This bill would alter that good cause criteria to instead require that the Department of Transportation has not made a final determination of a violation of the same provisions, whether by a final administrative decision or by operation of law, by the owner or operator of the advertising display.

AB 1307 (Wicks D)   California Environmental Quality Act: noise impact: residential projects.

Current Text: Amended: 6/26/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 8/15/2023-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Location: Senate Consent Calendar
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #260  SENATE CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (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. This bill would specify that the effects of noise generated by project occupants and their guests on human beings is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA. This bill would specify that institutions of public higher education, in an EIR for a residential or mixed-use housing project, are not required to consider alternatives to the location of the proposed project if certain requirements are met. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

AB 1448 (Wallis R)   Cannabis: enforcement by local jurisdictions.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.

MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act, and requires the department to be under the supervision and control of a director. Under MAUCRSA, a person engaging in commercial cannabis activity without a license is subject to civil penalties, as specified. MAUCRSA requires, in an action for civil penalties brought by the Attorney General, a county counsel, a city attorney, or a city prosecutor, the penalty first be used to reimburse the prosecuting agency for specified costs of bringing the action, with the remainder, if any, to be deposited in the General Fund. This bill would recast those provisions to require, in an action brought by a county counsel, city attorney, or city prosecutor, the penalty first be used to reimburse the prosecuting agency for specified costs in bringing the action, with 50% of the remainder, if any, paid to the county or city, as applicable, and the other 50% to be deposited into the General Fund.

AB 1490 (Lee D)   Affordable housing development projects: adaptive reuse.

Current Text: Amended: 7/10/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under this bill, a housing development that is, among other requirements, an extremely affordable adaptive reuse project on an infill parcel that is not located on or adjoined to a site where more than 1/3 of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use, as specified, would be an allowable use. The bill would authorize a local agency to impose objective design review standards, except as specified.

The bill would authorize a local agency to deny the project if it is proposed to be located on a site or adjoined to any site where any of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use and the local agency makes written findings that approving the development would have an adverse effect on public health and safety. The bill would provide that for purposes of the Housing Accountability Act, a proposed housing development project is consistent, compliant, and in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision if the housing development project is consistent with the standards specified in these provisions. The bill would require a local agency to determine whether the proposed development meets those standards within specified timeframes. The bill would define an

“extremely affordable adaptive reuse project” for these purposes to mean a multifamily housing development project that involves retrofitting and repurposing of a residential or commercial building that currently allows temporary dwelling or occupancy, and that meets specified affordability requirements, including that 100% of the units be dedicated to lower income households, 50% of which shall be dedicated to very low income households, as specified. Because the bill would require local officials to provide a higher level of service, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1572 (Friedman D)   Potable water: nonfunctional turf.

Current Text: Amended: 8/16/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: Senate Appropriations
Calendar:  8/21/2023  10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, ANTHONY, Chair
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would make legislative findings and declarations concerning water use, including that the use of potable water to irrigate nonfunctional turf is wasteful and incompatible with state policy relating to climate change, water conservation, and reduced reliance on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem. The bill would direct all appropriate state agencies to encourage and support the elimination of irrigation of nonfunctional turf with potable water.

AB 1594 (Garcia D)   Medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles: public agency utilities.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Air Quality Improvement Program that is administered by the State Air Resources Board for purposes of funding projects related to, among other things, the reduction of criteria air pollutants and improvement of air quality, and establishes the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program within the Air Quality Improvement Program to make financing tools and nonfinancial supports available to operators of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fleets to enable those operators to transition their fleets to zero-emission vehicles. This bill would require any state regulation that seeks to require, or otherwise compel, the procurement of medium- and heavy-duty zeroemission vehicles to authorize public agency utilities to purchase replacements for traditional utilityspecialized vehicles that are at the end of life when needed to maintain reliable service and respond to major foreseeable events, including severe weather, wildfires, natural disasters, and physical attacks, as specified.

The bill would define a public agency utility to include a local publicly owned electric utility, a community water system, and a wastewater treatment provider, as specified.

AB 1657 (Wicks D)   The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024.

Current Text: Amended: 4/17/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.

Location: Senate Appropriations Suspense File
Calendar:

Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.

Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.

Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and homeownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.

AB 1679 (Santiago D)   Transactions and use taxes: County of Los Angeles: homelessness.

Current Text: Amended: 8/14/2023  html   pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 8/14/2023-Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

Location: Senate Third Reading
Calendar:  8/17/2023  #167  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE