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Legislative Summary
September 23, 2025
2 Presentation Overview
2025 Legislative Session
Overview
Overview and Continuation
of Advocacy Efforts
End of Session Timeline Looking Forward to 2026
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
3 State Budget Update
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
May Revision
Projects Deficit
CA-DC Fiscal
Dynamics Drive
Uncertainty
Overspending in
Key Programs
Trailer Bills & Budget
Bill Juniors
4 SB 707 (Durazo) – Brown Act Modernization
Modernizes the Brown Act:
Requires hybrid public
participation options (e.g.,
call-in and video), public
meeting websites, and
accessible meeting info.
Teleconferencing
Requirements
Mandates translated
agendas and interpretation
request systems for city
councils and boards of
supervisors.
Public Language Access
Expands notice and agenda
rules, clarifies closed session
provisions, and increases
public comment
opportunities.
Transparency Improvements
Impacts:
• Increases compliance costs and staff workload (e.g., translation, livestreaming, remote access).
• Adds flexibility for advisory bodies to hold hybrid/remote meetings. • Requires updates to public engagement practices and accessibility policies.
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
5 SB 79 (Weiner) – Land Use: Public Transit
Details
Status
• Makes transit-oriented development an allowable use on any site zoned residential, mixed, commercial, or light industrial development
• Must be near transit-oriented development stops
• Allows a transit agency to adopt objective standards for both residential and commercial developments proposed on land owned the transit agency own
• Pending final action.
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
6 SB 63 (Wiener/Arreguin) – Regional Transportation
Measure
Details
• This bill would create a Transportation Revenue Measure District covering Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. • 14-year retail transaction and use tax (subject to voter approval in November 2026), administered by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). • Transit agencies receiving funds must undergo a financial efficiency review and follow related oversight recommendations.
• Union City Transit is specifically mentioned in the bill as a beneficiary.
Status
• Pending final action.
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
7 AB 379 (Shultz) – Loitering/Sex Trafficking
Details
• Makes it a misdemeanor to loiter with the intent to purchase commercial sex
• Increases the penalty for solicitation of a minor in specified circumstances
• CalVCB must establish a grant program to provide moneys from the Fund to CBOs that provide services to victims of sex trafficking and exploitation
Status
• Signed into law.
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
8 2025 Key Federal Issues
119th Congress:
Evolving Federal
Dynamics
CA/DC Dynamics:
(Climate standards,
Sanctuary City/State
Policies, Grant
Funding programs)
Continuing Resolution
Through September
Budget
Reconciliation
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
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FY 2025 Community Project Funding
Details
Status
Enhanced Street Lighting to Increase Public Safety Project The Enhanced Street Lighting to Increase Public Safety Project is a cost effective and safe way to address public safety without hiring more staff. There are approximately 4,300 streetlights in Union City within the roadway and local streets.
• Selected by Congress Member Swalwell
• Included in the THUD Bill for $250,000
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FY 2025 Community Project Funding
Details
Status
Fire Equipment Enhancement
The City of Union City, in partnership with Alameda County Fire, need to purchase a new fire engine as its current one is 11 years past its useful life.
• Selected by Congress Member Swalwell
• Included in the THUD Bill for $850,000
11 Continuation of Advocacy Efforts
Federal and State Funding Requests
Ensure Positive Relationships With Our
Elected Representatives
Legislative, Budget, and Grant Funding
Updates
Vigilance for Legislation with Potential
Impacts
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
12 Looking Ahead to 2026 – Sacramento
End of
Session
Recap
Continued
Budget
Tightening
November
Election
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
13 Looking Ahead to 2026 – Washington D.C.
Infrastructure Spending
Budget Negotiations
Surface Transportation
Reauthorization
TPA Advocacy Briefing for the City of Union City
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