HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-03-18; City Council Legislative Subcommittee; 02; Legislative and Advocacy Update Meeting Date: March 18, 2025
To: Legislative Subcommittee
From: Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
Staff Contact: Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
jason.haber@carlsbadca.gov, 442-339-2958
Subject: Legislative and Advocacy Update
District: All
Recommended Action
Receive updates on federal and state legislative and budget activity and recent and ongoing
advocacy efforts; discuss and provide feedback to staff, including identifying high-priority bills,
advocacy positions, funding opportunities, and items for future City Council consideration.
Discussion
Staff and the city’s contract lobbyists – Federal: Carpi & Clay Government Relations / State:
California Public Policy Group – will present updates and overviews of federal and state legislative
activity (Exhibits 1 and 2) and the priority legislation (Exhibit 3) and intergovernmental matters
being tracked on behalf of the city.
The Subcommittee is requested to provide feedback to help city staff and the city’s lobbying
consultants focus the city’s advocacy efforts on high-priority bills and to identify bills for future City
Council consideration.
Next Steps
Staff and the city’s contract lobbyists will monitor, evaluate, and engage the Legislative
Subcommittee in a discussion of legislative activity and proposed measures that may impact city
operations and policy priorities throughout the legislative session.
If the Legislative Subcommittee decides to refer any matters to the City Council, staff will work with
the City Manager to place an item on a future City Council agenda for consideration.
Exhibits
1. Carpi & Clay Government Relations – Federal Update
2. California Public Policy Group – State Update
3. California Public Policy Group – Priority Legislation as of March 11, 2025
LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
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March 12, 2025
City of Carlsbad
Federal Update
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Appropriations Update
Earlier this week, Congress took a step towards avoiding a government shutdown at the end of
the week. On Tuesday, the House passed a year-long Continuing Resolution (CR) for the rest of
Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The CR passed by a vote of 217 to 213, almost strictly by party lines (one
Republican voted against the bill and one Democrat voted for it). The CR would maintain current
FY24 funding levels through September 30th (the end of the federal fiscal year). Additionally, the
CR does not include funding for any community project requests (earmarks) for FY25, meaning
that unfortunately the projects included in the House and Senate bills will not be receiving
funding.
Following passage of the CR, the House left town for the rest of the week and is not scheduled to
return until the week of March 24th. The CR is now before the Senate for consideration. The CR
needs 60 votes to move forward in the Senate, which puts Senate Democrats in a difficult
position. With roughly 48 hours before the current CR expires and the House leaving town,
should the Senate not have the votes to pass the CR it would mean a government shutdown. At
the time of this memo (March 12th), it is not clear if there will be 8 Senate Democrats that will
support the CR. Currently, only one Senate Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), has stated
publicly that he will support the CR.
Looking ahead to Fiscal Year 2026, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) announced that
the committee will begin marking up appropriations bills in April. Many Members of Congress are
already moving forward with the request process, accepting proposals for programmatic funding,
report language, and community project funding (earmarks). Meanwhile, the Senate
Appropriations Committee has not yet announced its schedule for the FY26 appropriations
process.
House and Senate Pass Separate Budget Resolutions
The House and Senate are advancing competing budget resolutions, both aiming to further the
President’s agenda. Tuesday evening, the House passed its budget resolution (H. Con. Res. 14)
which includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and over $1.5 trillion in spending reductions. Earlier this
month, the Senate passed its own budget resolution (S. Con. Res. 7), focusing on border security,
defense, and energy spending but excluding an extension of the 2017 tax cuts. The House and the
Senate will now need to come together to reconcile the differences in their resolutions.
Exhibit 1
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Federal Employee Reductions
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has implemented widespread staff reductions
across federal agencies as part of a broader effort to streamline operations and reduce spending.
These measures have resulted in layoffs affecting both career and probationary employees—
totaling roughly 30,000 federal workers across various departments, including independent
agencies. A memo dated February 26th from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) mandates that agencies develop reorganization plans by
March 13th, focusing on eliminating non-essential positions and reducing management layers.
There is growing concern that further job cuts could disrupt government services, particularly
those supporting local governments.
Trump Cabinet Nominations
The Senate continues to work through confirming President Trump’s cabinet secretaries. The
chart below details approval votes for confirmed nominees.
Dept/Agency Position Nominee Confirmation
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins 2/13 by a vote of 72-28
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick 2/18 by a vote of 51-45
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 1/24 by a vote of 51-50
Education Secretary Linda McMahon 3/3 by a vote of 51-45
Energy Secretary Chris Wright 2/3 by a vote of 59-38
Health & Human
Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 2/13 by a vote of 52-48
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem 1/25 by a vote of 59-34
Housing & Urban
Development Secretary Scott Turner 2/5 by a vote of 55-45
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum 1/30 by a vote of 79-18
Justice Attorney General Pam Bondi 2/4 by a vote of 54-46
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeReemer 3/10 by a vote of 67-32
State Secretary Marco Rubio 1/21 by a vote of 99-0
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy 1/28 by a vote of 77-22
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent 1/27 by a vote of 68-29
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins 2/4 by a vote of 77-23
Central Intelligence
Agency Director John Ratcliffe 1/23 by a vote of 74-25
Environmental
Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin 1/29 by a vote of 56-42
Office of Management
and Budget Director Russel Vought 2/6 by a vote of 53-47
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Trump Administration Appointments
President Trump and his Cabinet officials announced the below political appointees in February.
Dept/Agency Position Appointee
Commerce Administrator of the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration Neil Jacobs
Commerce Assistant Secretary Taylor Jordan
Energy Administrator of the Energy Information
Administration Tristan Abbey
Energy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy Audrey Robertson
Energy Assistant Secretary for International
Affairs David Eisner
Energy Chief Financial Officer Tina Pierce
EPA Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and
Radiation Aaron Szabo
EPA Assistant Administrator, Office of Water Jessica Kramer
EPA Chief Financial Officer Catherine Paige Hanson
EPA General Counsel Sean Donahue
Interior Assistant Secretary for the Office of
Water and Science Andrea Travnicek
Interior Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Indian Affairs William Kirkland
Interior Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Lands and Minerals Management Leslie Beyer
Interior Director of the Bureau of Land
Management Kathleen Sgamma
Interior Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service Brian Nesvik
Interior Director of the US Geological Survey Ned Mamula
Interior Solicitor William Doffermyre
Transportation (Acting) Administrator, Federal Aviation
Administration Christopher Rocheleau
Transportation
(Acting) Administrator, Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration
Benjamin (Ben) Kochman
Transportation Administrator of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration Jonathan Morrison
Transportation Assistant to the Secretary and Director of
Public Affairs Alison (Ali) Soule
Transportation
Chief Counsel and (Acting) Deputy
Administrator, Federal Aviation
Administration
William (Liam) McKenna
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Transportation Chief Counsel, Federal Highway
Administration James (Jay) Payne
Transportation Chief Counsel, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration Jesse Elison
Transportation Chief Counsel, Federal Railroad
Administration Kyle Fields
Transportation Chief Counsel, National Highway Traffic
and Safety Administration Peter Simshauser
Transportation Chief Counsel, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration Keith Coyle
Transportation Chief of Staff Charles (Pete) Meachum
Transportation
Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Congressional Affairs (House), Office of
Governmental Affairs
Hannah Matesic
Transportation Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Transportation Policy Loren Smith
Transportation Deputy Chief of Staff Ryan McCormack
Transportation Deputy Secretary Steven Bradbury
Transportation Director of Governmental and Legislative
Affairs, Federal Transit Administration Melissa Mejias
Transportation Director of Public Liaison and Senior
Advisor Ben Siegrist
Transportation Safety Policy Advisor Stephen Walling
Transportation Senior Advisor, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Administration Barry Plans
Transportation Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary Daniel Abrahamson
Transportation Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary Anne Byrd
Transportation Senior Counselor to the Secretary Owen Morgan
Transportation Special Assistant Monica Morrison
Transportation Special Assistant, Federal Railroad
Administration John Schultz
Transportation Special Assistant, Office of
Governmental Affairs Jonathan Priebe
White House Associate Director in the White House
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Chase Wilson
White House Associate Director in the White House
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Michael Silvio
White House Associate Director in the White House
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Sam Martinez
White House
Deputy Assistant to the President and
Director of the White House Office of
Intergovernmental Affairs
Alex Meyer
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White House
Deputy Associate Director in the White
House Office of Intergovernmental
Affairs
Hope Moreland
White House
Special Assistant to the President and
Deputy Director of the White House
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs for
State Governments
Jared Borg
White House Staff Assistant in the White House Office
of Intergovernmental Affairs Elizabeth McAlindon
White House
White House as Coordinator in the White
House Office of Intergovernmental
Affairs
Finley Varughese
White House
White House as Special Assistant to the
President and Deputy Director of the
White House Office of Intergovernmental
Affairs for Local and Tribal Governments
Christine Serrano Glassner
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY AND COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Senate EPW Passes Brownfields Reauthorization and Recycling Bills. On February 5th, the
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) unanimously passed two bills,
setting up a vote before the full Senate:
Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025 (S. 347). This bill reauthorizes EPA’s Brownfields
Program through FY30 and streamlines the application process to ease the burden for
smaller and underserved communities seeking cleanup resources.
Strategies to Eliminate Waste and Accelerate Recycling Development (STEWARD) Act (S.
351). This legislation would establish the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility
Program at EPA to expand and improve recycling access in underserved communities by
authorizing infrastructure improvements and public-private partnerships. It would also
establish standardized data metrics for recycling and composting data to assess and
improve waste management systems nationwide.
House Members Reintroduce Bipartisan Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act.
Representatives Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez (D-WA) and Celeste Maloy (R-UT) reintroduced the
Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act (H.R. 1267). The legislation would provide guardrails
to protect water and wastewater agencies from liabilities related to the EPA CERCLA hazardous
substances designation. The bill was referred to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and
Transportation and Infrastructure for consideration.
Bipartisan Disaster Recovery and Insurance Crisis Legislation Introduced. California
Representatives Mike Thompson (D) and Doug LaMalfa (R) introduced the Disaster Resiliency and
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Coverage Act of 2025 (H.R. 1105) to provide homeowners in disaster-prone areas with incentives
to mitigate wildfire and other natural disaster risks. The legislation seeks to incentivize
homeowner investment to harden their properties against natural hazards by lowering costs to
bring insurers back into the market and lower insurance rates. Specifically, the bill would provide
states with funding to provide certain homeowners with up to $10,000 in specified hazard
mitigation project funding and a 30 percent tax credit for mitigation activities conducted by
individuals, farms, and businesses. The legislation also establishes that state-administered
disaster resiliency payments from federal emergency agricultural programs are not considered
income for federal tax reporting. The legislation was referred to the Committees on Ways and
Means and Transportation and Infrastructure for consideration.
Bipartisan DRONE Act of 2025 Reintroduced. Representatives Luis Correa (D-CA) and Troy
Nehls (R-TX) reintroduced the Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies Act of
2025 (DRONE) Act of 2025 (H.R. 1058), which authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) grants
to help purchase and operate unmanned aircraft to benefit public safety.
Aviation Impacted Communities Legislation Introduced. Representative Adam Smith (D-WA)
introduced two bills related to aviation impacted communities that were referred to the
Committees on Energy and Commerce and Transportation and Infrastructure:
Aviation Impacted Communities Act (H.R. 898). This bill seeks to help localities,
neighborhoods, and community members to engage with the FAA more effectively and
productively. This legislation would require that the FAA interface directly with and be
responsive to residents and locally nominated leaders on issues of aviation noise and
environmental impacts. Through the creation of community boards, affected areas will be
empowered to effectively work toward achieving relief from the impacts of civil and
commercial aviation.
Aviation Noise and Emission Mitigation Act (H.R. 1048). This bill seeks to help communities
near airports and airflight pathways monitor and mitigate aviation noise and emissions.
This legislation would create two new pilot grant programs at EPA for hyperlocal studies of
air quality and noise and for mitigation projects in these communities.
CONGRESSIONAL LETTERS
Senate EPW Democrats Request Answers from DOT on NEVI Cuts. Democratic members of
the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) sent a letter to Secretary of
Transportation Sean Duffy to request answers as to why DOT cut off funding for the National
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. The program provides funding to states
for installing public zero-emission vehicle charging stations.
California House Delegation Urges FEMA and SBA to Extend Disaster Relief Deadlines until
End of Year. All California Members of the House sent a letter to the Acting Administrators of the
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Small Business Administration (SBA) to
request an extension of the disaster relief application period for the California Wildfires and
Straight-line Winds Major Disaster until the end of 2025. The current deadline applications is
March 10, and the lawmakers argue that while “the standard 60-day application period is
sufficient for many disasters,” the California wildfires were an “extraordinary [case]” that
necessitates an extended relief application timeline.
Reps. Huffman and Larsen Seek Answers on Unscheduled California Water Releases.
Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources
Committee, and Rick Larsen (D-WA), Ranking Member of the House Transportation and
Infrastructure Committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Interior Secretary
Doug Burgum seeking answers on the US Army Corps of Engineers’ unscheduled release of water
from Terminus Dam and Schafer Dam in California’s Central Valley.
FEDERAL AGENCY REGULATORY ACTIONS
CEQ Releases Interim Final Rule on Implementing NEPA Regulations. The Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) released an interim final rule (IFR) to remove existing
implementation regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to align the
NEPA process with President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) titled “Unleashing American
Energy.” The IFR removes all NEPA regulations, including 40 CFR parts 1500, 1501, 1502, 1503,
1504, 1505, 1506, 1507, and 1508. The effective date of the IFR is April 11th.
DOT Publishes Delay of Several Rulemaking. On February 21st, DOT issued a delay for several
final rules until March 20th:
Periodic Revisions to Denied Boarding Compensation and Domestic Baggage Liability
Limits
Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers with Disabilities Using Wheelchairs
Transportation for Individuals with Disabilities: Adoption of Accessibility Standards
for Pedestrian Facilities in the Public Right-of-Way
FEDERAL AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Trump Signs EO on Federal Resources for Local Government Enforcement of
Immigration Policies. President Trump signed an EO titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of
Open Borders” that requires local and state governments using federal law enforcement
resources to adhere to federal immigration policies set forth by the Trump Administration. This
order mandates all federal agencies to ensure that federal payments to states and localities do
not “by design or effect, facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration, or abet so-
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called “sanctuary” policies that seek to shield illegal aliens from deportation.” It also directs
federal agencies to enhance eligibility verification systems and identify all federally funded
programs through which undocumented immigrants can obtain any form of cash or non-cash
public benefits. The order instructs agencies to refer any improper receipt or use of federal
benefits to the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for “appropriate
action.”
DOT IG Publishes Report Finding That FHWA Lacks Adequate Guidance and Procedures for
Its Oversight of Construction Quality Assurance. DOT IG published a report titled FHWA Lacks
Adequate Guidance and Procedures for Its Oversight of Construction Quality Assurance. The
report assessed: (1) the 52 FHWA Divisions’ oversight of State Department of Transportation
(State DOT) construction quality assurance programs, (2) FHWA Headquarters’ construction
quality assurance reviews, and (3) FHWA’s dissemination of construction quality assurance
information on the Agency’s public website. The report found that FHWA divisions do not
effectively oversee State Departments of Transportation (State DOTs) construction quality
assurance programs. They could not demonstrate full approval of all State DOTs’ programs as
required for projects on the National Highway System and lacked sufficient guidance from FHWA
Headquarters on reviewing program implementation. Additionally, FHWA Headquarters has not
provided adequate guidance for overseeing project materials certification and construction
inspections, with existing guidance either lacking detail or being outdated. FHWA’s reviews of
State DOTs’ programs do not fully address regulatory compliance or fraud risk, as one review does
not cover all program requirements and the other does not assess efforts to minimize waste,
fraud, and abuse. Furthermore, FHWA’s public webpages on construction quality assurance are
outdated and incomplete, with key policy and guidance documents missing from its central online
resource.
DOT IG Publishes Report on DOT’s Workforce Planning Procedures and Metrics to Deliver
IIJA Programs. DOT IG published a report titled DOT Can Improve Workforce Planning
Procedures and Metrics for Estimating Needs and Assessing Capacity to Deliver IIJA
Programs. The report found that surface transportation Operating Administrations and the Office
of the Secretary (OST) need to improve workforce planning processes and better integrate data-
analytic methods for estimating Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) workforce needs.
While they are required to plan for and manage hiring goals, most did not document formal
policies or procedures for estimating workforce needs or updating hiring targets. Although DOT
has reported filling 1,204 new IIJA positions as of May 2024, its hiring metrics may not accurately
reflect actual onboard workforce capacity since reported numbers include individuals who
received offers but may not have started or remained in their roles. Additionally, several Operating
Administrations and OST have adjusted their hiring targets, increasing the total goal to 1,638
positions by the end of fiscal year 2026.
FAA Announces ATC Hiring Push. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it is
opening its hiring window to become an air traffic controller (ATC) from February 27th to March
17th. The agency hopes the open window will help address the current ATC shortages by attracting
more applicants to the FAA Academy for training.
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FEMA Borrows $2 Billion to Cover NFIP Claims. FEMA announced that it borrowed $2 billion
from the US Treasury to pay eligible National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholder claims.
According to FEMA, the agency’s “borrowing authority is $30.425 billion, of which FEMA has
already borrowed $20.525 billion in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina, Sandy and Harvey
between 2005-2017. The debt is now $22.525 billion.”
FHWA Suspends Approval of State EV Infrastructure Deployment Plans. On February 6, the
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a memo instructing state transportation
directors to suspend all new obligations under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI)
program, pending a policy review by the Department of Transportation's new leadership. This
suspension halts the approval of state EV infrastructure deployment plans and the allocation of
new funds, though reimbursements for existing projects will continue to prevent financial
disruptions. The NEVI program, established under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
(IIJA), allocated $5 billion for the strategic deployment of EV chargers.
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Date: March 6, 2025
To: Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
Cindie McMahon, City Attorney
City of Carlsbad
From: Sharon Gonsalves
Managing Director
California Public Policy Group
Re: CPPG Legislative Summary – February 2025
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
Bill Introductions
February 21 was the deadline to introduce bills for the first year of the 2025-26 legislative session,
with a total of 2,520 pieces of legislation having been introduced so far. Although that is fewer than
the first year of 2023-24 session, it is still amongst the highest number of measures introduced in
one year during the past decade. Of the 2,520 total, 2,359 are policy bills that aim to make a change
to the law, which works out to about 20 per legislator. Given that the maximum number of bills per
legislator for each two-year session is now 35, the average number of introduced bills per legislator
in 2026 will work out to around 15.
Approximately one-third of measures remain spot bills, which means that they do not contain
substantive language and we do not yet know their full intent. There are therefore hundreds of
legislative proposals that are still in minimum draft form. The deadlines for adding substantive
language to spot bills are March 17 in the Assembly and March 26 in the Senate. After those
deadlines, CPPG will be able to work with City staff to determine a bill’s importance to the City. In
January and February, committees have been holding mostly informational hearings on items of
interest. Informational hearings are just that—information only—so no votes are taken during them.
Policy hearings have also begun and will continue to ramp up throughout the month of March.
Legislation of Interest
SB 477 (Blakespear) is currently a spot bill.
Two AB 98 (Carrillo) [Chapter 931, Statutes of 2024] cleanup bills have been introduced, AB 735
(Carrillo) and SB 415 (Reyes). AB 735 would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st
century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the
application for a development of a 21st century warehouse is submitted and make other clarifying
changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those
locations. SB 415 is currently a spot bill.
Utility Bill Oversight Hearing
On February 19, the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee held an oversight
hearing on “The California Public Utilities Commission and the Public Advocates Office Annual
Update to the Legislature: Addressing Electricity Utility Bill Affordability While Advancing the State’s
Exhibit 2
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Clean Energy Goals.” Oversight hearings, like informational hearings, are designed for the
Legislature to gather information in a specific subject area so that they may be better equipped to
consider any related legislation. No formal actions are taken at oversight hearings, but comments
by committee members and any testimony presented can provide insight into future legislation that
may be advanced by the Legislature.
During the February 19 hearing, the Committee heard panel testimony from Alice Reynolds,
President of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), David Hochschild, Chair of the
California Energy Commission (CEC), and Linda Serizawa, Director of the Public Advocates Office
(PAO). The Committee also heard testimony from a wide array of energy policy stakeholders. Much
of the hearing discussion centered around the causes of investor-owned utility rate hikes and how
to address them in the context of broader affordability concerns.
President Reynolds discussed the PUC’s 2024 annual report and noted that the majority of utility
operating costs continues to be those related to distribution, which have risen for the past several
years in a row as a consequence of wildfire-related costs. The CPUC’s greenhouse gas emissions
modeling indicates that the state is on track to reduce its natural gas usage from 49 million metric
tons in 2025 to 8 million metric tons in 2045, a reduction of about 85%. President Reynolds
recommended two areas for utility bill cost containment: providing the utility bill climate credit only
to low-income customers, and requiring utilities to integrate wildfire mitigation into their planning
processes. Chair Hochschild stated that continued decarbonization will further reduce the risk of
blackouts and higher utility bills. Director Serizawa discussed the PAO’s 2024 annual report and
potential ways to address rising utility rates.
All Committee members who spoke at the hearing expressed significant concern about high
electricity bills. Potential policies mentioned to address this issue included: shifting more of the
wildfire mitigation costs to utility shareholders instead of ratepayers, controlling utility spending,
limiting the number of allowed utility rate increases per year, adjusting the utilities’ regulated return
on investment, accelerating electrical equipment undergrounding projects, and revising rate
structures.
The agenda for the hearing can be found here.
Background information for the hearing can be found here.
Proposition 4 Informational Hearings
On February 19, the Assembly Budget Committee held an informational hearing on the
implementation of Proposition 4 funds relating to climate, energy, and transportation. During the
hearing, the Committee heard testimony from the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst’s
Office (the Legislature’s nonpartisan research and advisory division), Toks Omishakin, Secretary of
the State Transportation Agency, Wade Crowfoot, Secretary of the Department of Natural
Resources, Yana Garcia, Secretary of CalEPA, and Karen Ross, Secretary of the Department of Food
and Agriculture.
Secretary Omishakin proposed plans to supplement budget allocations from the general fund with
Proposition 4 dollars as a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from transportation will help to
achieve climate goals. Contentions were raised by Committee members surrounding high speed rail
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due to ballooning costs and timelines, as well as loss of farmland and agricultural jobs. Assurances
were made by Secretary Omishakin and the Department of Finance that the project is in the final
phases of environmental review and will be completed within five to seven years.
Secretary Crowfoot proposed $500 million to improve water security and outlined proposals to
create more parks and outdoor access to greenspaces. Secretary Garcia noted that in the past year,
CalEPA has invested $500 million in disadvantaged communities and is proposing another $1.1
billion from Proposition 4 to invest in water recycling, stormwater management, and water quality
improvements. Secretary Ross proposed Proposition 4 funds be used to invest in urban agriculture,
healthy soils, modernizing irrigation technology, managing invasive species, rehabilitating
fairgrounds to double as emergency evacuation sites, investing in tribal food sovereignty, and
creating a regional farm equipment sharing program.
The agenda for the hearing can be found here.
Other background materials for the hearing can be found here, here, and here.
On February 26, the Assembly Budget Committee held an informational hearing on the
implementation of Proposition 4 funds relating to wildfire and forest resilience. The hearing
addressed the allocation of $1.5 billion in funding, including $325 million proposed for the 2025-26
fiscal year, to enhance wildfire prevention and forest health programs. Key areas of focus included
CAL FIRE’s forest health initiatives, landscape-scale projects, wildfire prevention grants, and
support for local collaboration. Discussions emphasized the need for a comprehensive approach to
wildfire prevention, including home hardening programs and defensible space initiatives.
Legislators and panelists raised concerns about budget allocations, the effectiveness of prevention
strategies, and the equitable distribution of funds across regions, particularly in disadvantaged
communities. Challenges were noted in achieving operational efficiencies, addressing workforce
shortages, and ensuring adequate infrastructure and resources for CAL FIRE’s evolving staffing and
fire suppression aircraft needs. Sustainable long-term funding and cross-agency collaboration to
enhance California’s wildfire resilience were also discussed.
The agenda for this hearing can be found here.
Proposition 36 Informational Hearing
On February 25th, 2025, the Senate Public Safety Committee and the Senate Budget Committee held
a joint informational hearing on the implementation of Proposition 36, which increases criminal
penalties for drug and theft crimes and mandates treatment for drug offenses. Legislators began by
stating their commitment to implementing the ballot measure, while finding an equitable and
efficient way to do so. Panelists then discussed the measure’s budgetary implications, including
potential increases in state prison populations, criminal justice system workload, and local
government expenses. Concerns were raised about the lack of designated funding for Proposition
36, which may necessitate reallocating state resources from existing mental health and drug
treatment programs. Additionally, it was noted that Proposition 36 could reduce savings from
Proposition 47, impacting grant programs funded under that measure.
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Panelists included district attorneys, public defenders, county officials, and behavioral health
experts. While some speakers emphasized the importance of implementing the measure, other
speakers highlighted significant challenges in its implementation. Panelists pointed to inadequate
treatment resources, inconsistent application across counties, and the disproportionate impact on
communities of color. Many noted a lack of housing and tailored treatment options, with 22 counties
across the state having no residential facilities for mandated drug treatment. Also discussed were
equitable cost-sharing between state and local governments and targeted investments to effectively
implement Proposition 36.
The agenda for the hearing can be found here.
CPPG ACTIVITY
CPPG continues to review priority bills—keeping City staff apprised of developments on legislation
during our standing meetings and throughout the month as needed. CPPG continues to work hand
in hand with City staff to gather City-specific information while actively engaging with lawmakers and
agency officials on legislation of interest to the City. CPPG has marked 45 bills as “priority” for the
City and will continue to bring bills of potential interest to staff for review in the coming weeks.
LOOKING FORWARD
• April 11-18: Spring Recess
• June 6: Last day for the Legislature to pass bills out of their house of origin
• June 15: Legislature must pass the primary budget bill
• June 30: Governor must sign the primary budget bill
• July 21-August 15: Summer Recess
• September 12: Last day for the Legislature to pass bills
• October 12: Last day for the Governor to sign or veto bills
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City of Carlsbad: Priority Legislation as of March 11, 2025
Economic Development
SB 5 (Cabaldon) Infrastructure financing districts: allocation of taxes: agricultural land
exclusion. (Introduced 12/02/2024) Link
Existing law, the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act,
authorizes a city or county to enter into contracts with owners of agricultural land to preserve the
land for agricultural use, as specified, in return for reduced property tax assessments. The act also
authorizes a landowner of specified agricultural land to petition the city or county to cancel the
Williamson Act contract in order to designate the land as a farmland security zone, whereby the
land is eligible for a specified property tax valuation and taxed at a reduced rate for specified
special taxes. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to establish an
enhanced infrastructure financing district, with a governing body referred to as the public financing
authority, to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide
significance. Existing law requires the public financing authority to prepare and adopt a proposed
infrastructure financing plan, as specified. Existing law authorizes the plan to require a certain
portion of specified taxes levied upon property within the district to be allocated to the district each
year, as specified. This bill would exclude the taxes levied upon a parcel of land enrolled in or
subject to a Williamson Act contract or a farmland security zone contract, as specified, from the
above-described allocation to the district. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)
Status: 01/29/2025 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Emergency Response and Disaster Preparedness
AB 66 (Tangipa) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: egress route projects: fire
safety. (Amended 02/24/2025) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project
that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to
adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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
Exhibit 3
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no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the
environment. This bill would, until January 1, 2032, exempt from CEQA egress route projects
undertaken by a public agency to improve emergency access to and evacuation from a subdivision
without a secondary egress route if the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has
recommended the creation of a secondary access to the subdivision and certain conditions are
met. The bill would require the lead agency to hold a noticed public meeting to hear and respond to
public comments before determining that a project is exempt. The bill would require the lead
agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA and approves or carries out that
project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and with
the clerk of the county in which the project will be located. (Based on 02/24/2025 text)
Status: 02/25/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Calendar: 03/24/25 A-NATURAL RESOURCES 2:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 BRYAN, ISAAC,
Chair
AB 262 (Caloza) California Individual Assistance Act. (Introduced 01/16/2025) Link
Existing law, the California Disaster Assistance Act, requires the Director of Emergency Services to
provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the
cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a
state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously
appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake
Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act. This bill
would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide
financial assistance to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for
specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. The bill would require the director to allocate
from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those
purposes. By authorizing increased expenditure of moneys from a continuously appropriated fund
for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would require the director to
adopt regulations, as determined to be necessary, to govern the administration of the program.
This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/16/2025 text)
Status: 02/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on E.M.
AB 442 (Hadwick) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: prescribed fire, thinning,
and fuel reduction projects. (Introduced 02/06/2025) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project
that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to
adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires
a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant
effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is
no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the
environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements prescribed fire, reforestation, habitat
restoration, thinning, or fuel reduction projects, and certain related activities, undertaken in whole
or in part on federal lands to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire, if those projects and activities
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meet certain requirements. This bill would exempt from CEQA prescribed fire, thinning, or fuel
reduction projects undertaken within a community with a single ingress and egress evacuation
route. Because the bill would require the lead agency to determine whether the exemption is
applicable to a project, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/06/2025 text)
Status: 02/18/2025 - Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
SB 732 (Ochoa Bogh) Emergency backup generators: critical facilities: exemptions.
(Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air
pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates air pollution
control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air
pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Existing law requires the State Air
Resources Board to identify toxic air contaminants that are emitted into the ambient air of the state
and to establish airborne toxic control measures to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants
from nonvehicular sources. This bill would require an air district without a specified rule on
emergency backup generators, as defined, as of January 1, 2026, that adopts such a rule to include
in the rule provisions that allow the operator of a critical facility, as defined, to use a permitted
emergency backup generator in exceedance of the applicable runtime and testing and
maintenance limits if specified conditions are met. The bill would require a critical facility allowed
to exceed applicable limits under a rule adopted pursuant to that provision to attest to and provide
evidence of having taken demonstrable steps toward implementing the use of backup power
technologies that meet or exceed emission standards set by the state board. By adding to the
duties of air districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24. Read first time.
Energy and Utilities
AB 365 (Schiavo) The Justin Kropp Safety Act: Public utilities: AED availability at worksites.
(Introduced 02/03/2025) Link
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities,
including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all
public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature. The Public Utilities Act authorizes the
commission, after a hearing, to require every public utility to construct, maintain, and operate its
line, plant, system, equipment, apparatus, tracks, and premises in a manner so as to promote and
safeguard the health and safety of its employees, passengers, customers, and the public, and
authorizes the commission to prescribe the installation, use, maintenance, and operation of
appropriate safety or other devices or appliances. This bill, the Justin Kropp Safety Act, would
require a public utility, and an independent contractor or subcontractor of the public utility, to have
available at every worksite that has transmission or distribution lines of any voltage an automatic
external defibrillator (AED) and would require the public utility, and the independent contractor or
subcontractor of the public utility, to comply with certain standards and ensure specified
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procedures are followed. The bill would provide an exemption from civil liability for a public utility,
and an independent contractor or subcontractor of the public utility, or a person when the person
renders emergency care or treatment through the use, attempted use, or nonuse of an AED, except
in case of gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct by the person rendering aid. By creating
a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/03/2025 text)
Status: 02/18/2025 - Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and JUD.
Calendar: 03/26/25 A-UTILITIES AND ENERGY Upon adjournment of Communications and
Conveyance Committee - State Capitol, Room 437 PETRIE-NORRIS, COTTIE, Chair
SB 252 (Valladares) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: undergrounding
powerlines. (Introduced 02/03/2025) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project
that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to
adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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 exempt from the provisions of CEQA a project to underground
powerlines. Because a lead agency would be required to determine if a project qualifies for this
exemption, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/03/2025 text)
Status: 03/07/2025 - Set for hearing March 19.
Calendar: 03/19/25 S-ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 BLAKESPEAR,
CATHERINE, Chair
Environment and Climate
AB 1207 (Irwin) Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism.
(Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as
the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases
and requires the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at
least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes the state board to
adopt a regulation establishing a system of market-based declining aggregate emissions limits for
sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases (market-based compliance
mechanism) that meets certain requirements. Pursuant to this authority, the state board adopted
the California Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program. This bill would state the intent of the
Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to reauthorize the California Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-
Trade Program. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
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Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
SB 454 (McNerney) State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.
(Introduced 02/19/2025) Link
Existing law designates the State Water Resources Control Board as the agency responsible for
administering specific programs related to drinking water, including, among others, the California
Safe Drinking Water Act and the Emerging Contaminants for Small or Disadvantaged Communities
Funding Program. This bill would create the PFAS Mitigation Fund in the General Fund and would
authorize the fund to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for
purposes of these provisions. The bill would authorize the state board to seek out and accept
nonstate, federal, and private funds, require those funds to be deposited into the PFAS Reduction
Account within the PFAS Mitigation Fund, and continuously appropriate the moneys in the account
to the state board for purposes of these provisions, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would
authorize the state board to expend moneys from the fund and account in the form of a grant, loan,
or contract, or to provide assistance services to water suppliers and wastewater operators, as
those terms are defined, for multiple purposes, including, among other things, to cover or reduce
the costs for water suppliers associated with treating drinking water to meet the applicable state
and federal maximum PFAS contaminant levels. The bill would require a water supplier or
wastewater operator to include a clear and definite purpose for how the funds will be used to
provide a public benefit related to safe drinking water or treated wastewater in order to be eligible
to receive funds. The bill would authorize the state board to adopt guidelines to implement these
provisions. (Based on 02/19/2025 text)
Status: 02/26/2025 - Referred to Com. on E.Q.
Calendar: 04/02/25 S-ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 BLAKESPEAR,
CATHERINE, Chair
Notes 1: CalCities Sponsored
SB 496 (Hurtado) Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: appeals advisory committee:
exemptions. (Introduced 02/19/2025) Link
Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle
emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the
control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution that the state board has found necessary,
cost effective, and technologically feasible. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
establishes the state board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources
emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve
the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions
from those sources. This bill would require the state board to establish the Advanced Clean Fleets
Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee by an unspecified date for purposes of reviewing appeals
of denied requests for exemptions from the requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation.
The bill would require the committee to include representatives of specified governmental and
nongovernmental entities. The bill would require the committee to meet monthly and would require
recordings of its meetings to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website. The
bill would require the committee to consider, and make a recommendation on, an appeal of an
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exemption request denial no later than 60 days after the appeal is made. The bill would require
specified information relating to the committee’s consideration of an appeal to be made publicly
available on the state board’s internet website. The bill would require the state board to consider a
recommendation of the committee at a public meeting no later than 60 days after the
recommendation is made. (Based on 02/19/2025 text)
Status: 02/26/2025 - Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and TRANS.
Calendar: 04/02/25 S-ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 BLAKESPEAR,
CATHERINE, Chair
Governmental Operations
AB 24 (DeMaio) Balanced Budget Accountability Act of 2025. (Introduced 12/02/2024) Link
The California Constitution requires the Governor to submit to the Legislature, as specified, a
budget for the ensuing fiscal year containing itemized statements for recommended state
expenditures and estimated state revenues. The California Constitution requires the Legislature to
pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year and authorizes each house to pass the
budget bill and other bills providing for appropriations related to the budget bill by rollcall vote
entered in the journal, a majority of the membership concurring. The California Constitution
prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the state, as defined, and of each
local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of government for the prior
year adjusted for the change in the cost of living and the change in population. Except as provided,
existing statutory law requires a state agency to secure at least 3 competitive bids or proposals for
each contract. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact a constitutional
amendment that would achieve cost savings for the state and that would balance the budget by
cutting then capping the total annual labor costs in the state budget, requiring state government
agencies to competitively source or contract out services, and requiring that both the state budget
as a whole and any new program fees be approved by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature. (Based on
12/02/2024 text)
Status: 12/03/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
AB 339 (Ortega) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.
(Introduced 01/28/2025) Link
Existing law, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, contains various provisions that govern collective
bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment
Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public
agency employers and employees. Existing law requires the governing body of a public agency to
meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of
employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Existing law requires the
governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the
governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to
each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation
directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the
governing body or the designated boards and commissions. This bill would require the governing
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body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body
of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 120 days’ written
notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an
existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications
represented by the recognized employee organization. The bill would require the notice to include
specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract. The bill would also require
the public agency, if an emergency or other exigent circumstance prevents the public agency from
providing the written notice described above, to provide as much advance notice as is practicable
under the circumstances. If the recognized employee organization demands to meet and confer
within 30 days of receiving the written notice, the bill would require the public agency and
recognized employee organization to promptly meet and confer in good faith, as specified. By
imposing new duties on local public agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 01/28/2025
text)
Status: 02/18/2025 - Referred to Com. on P. E. & R.
Calendar: 03/19/25 A-PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444
MCKINNOR, TINA, Chair
AB 370 (Carrillo) California Public Records Act: cyberattacks. (Introduced 02/03/2025) Link
The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available
for public inspection, except as specified. Existing law requires each agency, within 10 days of a
request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public
records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the
reasons therefor. Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days
under unusual circumstances, and defines “unusual circumstances” to include, among other
things, the need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine records during a state of
emergency when the state of emergency currently affects the agency’s ability to timely respond to
requests due to staffing shortages or closure of facilities, as provided. This bill would revise the
definition of unusual circumstances as it applies to a state of emergency to require the state of
emergency, in addition to currently affecting the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests as
described above, to also require the state of emergency to directly affect the agency’s ability to
timely respond to requests as described above. By restricting the time period in which a local
agency may respond to requests, thus increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would create
a state-mandated local program. This bill would also expand the definition of unusual
circumstances to include the inability of the agency, because of a cyberattack, to access its
electronic servers or systems in order to search for and obtain a record maintained on the servers
or systems in an electronic format that may be responsive to a request. Under the bill, the
extension would apply only until the agency regains its ability to access its electronic servers or
systems and search for and obtain electronic records that may be responsive to a request. This bill
contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/03/2025 text)
Status: 02/18/2025 - Referred to Com. on JUD.
Calendar: 03/11/25 A-JUDICIARY 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 KALRA, ASH, Chair
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AB 561 (Quirk-Silva) Restraining orders. (Amended 03/10/2025) Link
Existing law authorizes a person who has suffered harassment, as defined, to seek a temporary
restraining order and an order prohibiting harassment. Existing law prohibits a filing fee for, and a
fee for the service of process by a sheriff or marshal of, a protective or restraining order if the order
is based upon stalking, unlawful violence, or a credible threat of violence. This bill would authorize
a petitioner, at no cost, to file a petition for a protective or restraining order electronically and
remotely appear at the hearing if the order is based upon stalking, unlawful violence, or a credible
threat of violence. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on
03/10/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to
Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
AB 569 (Stefani) California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: exceptions:
supplemental defined benefit plans. (Introduced 02/12/2025) Link
Existing law, the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA), on and after
January 1, 2013, requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to
comply with PEPRA, as specified. Among other things, PEPRA prohibits a public employer from
offering a defined benefit pension plan exceeding specified retirement formulas, requires new
members of public retirement systems to contribute at least a specified amount of the normal
cost, as defined, for their defined benefit plans, and prohibits an enhancement of a public
employee’s retirement formula or benefit adopted after January 1, 2013, from applying to service
performed prior to the operative date of the enhancement. PEPRA prohibits a public employer from
offering a supplemental defined benefit plan if the public employer did not do so before January 1,
2013, or, if it did, from offering that plan to an additional employee group after that date. This bill
would, notwithstanding that prohibition, authorize a public employer, as defined, to bargain over
contributions for supplemental retirement benefits administered by, or on behalf of, an exclusive
bargaining representative of one or more of the public employer’s bargaining units. (Based on
02/12/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Referred to Com. on P. E. & R.
AB 875 (Muratsuchi) Vehicle removal. (Introduced 02/19/2025) Link
Existing law authorizes a peace officer or a regularly employed and salaried employee who is
engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations to remove a vehicle when,
among other things, the officer arrests a person driving or in control of a vehicle for an alleged
offense, and the officer is, by the Vehicle Code or other law, required or permitted to take, and does
take, the person into custody. This bill would additionally authorize a peace officer to remove an
electric bicycle operated on the highway that is capable of speeds greater than any speed
permitted for an electric bicycle, as specified. The bill would also authorize a peace officer to
remove a bicycle operated by a person who (1) is under 16 years of age and is operating a class 3
electric bicycle or (2) is operating, or riding upon, a class 3 electric bicycle without a helmet, as
specified. (Based on 02/19/2025 text)
Status: 02/20/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
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AB 1109 (Kalra) Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.
(Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
Existing law governs the admissibility of evidence in court proceedings and generally provides a
privilege as to communications made in the course of certain relations, including the attorney-
client, physician-patient, and psychotherapist-patient relationship, as specified. Under existing
law, the right of any person to claim those evidentiary privileges is waived with respect to a
communication protected by the privilege if any holder of the privilege, without coercion, has
disclosed a significant part of the communication or has consented to a disclosure. This bill would
establish a privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented employee or
represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the
employee or former employee and the union agent made while the union agent was acting in the
union agent’s representative capacity, except as specified. The bill would permit a represented
employee or represented former employee to prevent another person from disclosing a privileged
communication, except as specified. The bill would further provide that this privilege may be
waived in accordance with existing law and does not apply in criminal proceedings. (Based on
02/20/2025 text)
Status: 02/21/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
AB 1337 (Ward) Information Practices Act of 1977. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, prescribes a set of requirements, prohibitions,
and remedies applicable to agencies, as defined, with regard to their collection, storage, and
disclosure of personal information, as defined. Existing law exempts from the provisions of the act
counties, cities, any city and county, school districts, municipal corporations, districts, political
subdivisions, and other local public agencies, as specified. This bill would recast those provisions
to, among other things, remove that exemption for local agencies. The bill would make other
technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. Because the bill would expand the duties of
local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
AB 1388 (Bryan) Law enforcement: settlement agreements: prohibition.
(Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, and requires the
commission to, among other things, establish a certification program for peace officers, as
defined. Existing law requires the commission to establish procedures for accepting complaints
from members of the public regarding peace officers or law enforcement agencies that may be
investigated. Existing law establishes, within the commission, the Peace Officer Standards
Accountability Division and requires the division, among other things, to bring proceedings seeking
the suspension or revocation of certification of a peace officer. This bill would prohibit a law
enforcement agency from entering into a settlement agreement with a peace officer who has a
pending complaint of misconduct with a term that requires the law enforcement agency to keep
the misconduct confidential. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
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Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
AB 1494 (Ta) General plans. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a
comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and of
any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law further requires the
planning agency having jurisdiction over a general plan to render a report as to conformity with the
adopted general plan before, among other things, the acquisition or disposition of real property or
the construction or authorization of a public building or structure impacting the general plan,
except as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. (Based on
02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
ACA 1 (Valencia) Public finance. (Introduced 12/02/2024) Link
The California Constitution prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the
State and of each local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of
government for the prior year adjusted for the change in the cost of living and the change in
population. The California Constitution defines “appropriations subject to limitation” of the State
for these purposes. This measure would change the 1.5% required transfer to an undetermined
percentage of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year. The measure
would change the 10% limit on the balance in the Budget Stabilization Account to 20% of the
amount of the General Fund proceeds of taxes for the fiscal year estimate, as specified. The
measure would specify that funds transferred under these provisions to the Budget Stabilization
Account do not constitute appropriations subject to the above-described annual appropriations
limit. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)
Status: 01/29/2025 - Introduced measure version corrected.
SB 240 (Jones) San Diego Association of Governments. (Introduced 01/30/2025) Link
Existing law, the San Diego Regional Transportation Consolidation Act, provides for the
reorganization of transportation responsibilities in the San Diego region by the consolidation of the
San Diego Association of Governments and the transit operations of 2 specified transit boards. This
bill would make nonsubstantive changes to provisions of the act that describe generally the nature
of this consolidation. (Based on 01/30/2025 text)
Status: 02/14/2025 - Referred to Com. on RLS.
SB 365 (Alvarado-Gil) Fire insurance: reporting on cancellation and nonrenewal.
(Introduced 02/13/2025) Link
Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including residential property insurance.
Existing law prohibits an insurer from canceling or refusing to renew a policy of residential property
insurance for a property located in a ZIP Code within or adjacent to a fire perimeter for one year
after the declaration of a state of emergency, if the cancellation or nonrenewal is based solely on
the fact that the insured structure is located in an area in which a wildfire has occurred. This bill
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would require the Department of Insurance, on or before January 1, 2027, and on or before each
January 1 thereafter, to report specified information to the Legislature on the effect the above-
described one-year prohibition against cancellation or nonrenewal has had on cancellations and
nonrenewals of policies of residential property insurance in ZIP Codes adjacent to, but not
included in, an area where the prohibition applies, as well as for ZIP Codes for which the
prohibition has expired. (Based on 02/13/2025 text)
Status: 02/26/2025 - Referred to Com. on INS.
Health and Human Services
AB 492 (Valencia) Alcohol and drug programs: licensing. (Introduced 02/10/2025) Link
Under existing law, the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for administering
prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse and problem gambling.
Existing law authorizes the department to issue a license to operate an alcohol or other drug
recovery or treatment facility upon receipt of a completed written application, fire clearance, and
licensing fee, as specified. This bill would require the department, whenever it issues a license to
operate an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, to concurrently provide written
notification of the issuance of the license to the city or county in which the facility is located. The
bill would require the notice to include the name and mailing address of the licensee and the
location of the facility. (Based on 02/10/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Referred to Com. on Health.
Notes 1: 2/24/25: Jason requested in an email that the bill be tagged priority.
Homelessness
AB 750 (Quirk-Silva) Homeless shelters: safety regulations. (Introduced 02/18/2025) Link
The State Housing Law, among other things, requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the protection of the health,
safety, and general welfare of the occupant and the public relating to specified residential
structures, as provided, which apply throughout the state. Existing law requires the housing or
building department of every city or county, or the health department if there is no building
department, to enforce within its jurisdiction the provisions of the State Housing Law, building
standards, and the other rules and regulations adopted by the department pertaining to the
maintenance, sanitation, ventilation, use, or occupancy of apartment houses, hotels, or dwellings.
Existing law authorizes an officer, employee, or agent of an enforcement agency to enter and
inspect any building or premises whenever necessary to secure compliance with, or prevent a
violation of, specified law, including the State Housing Law. A violation of the State Housing Law, or
of the building standards or rules and regulations adopted pursuant to that law, is a misdemeanor.
Existing law requires a city or county that receives a complaint from an occupant of a homeless
shelter, as defined, or an agent of an occupant, alleging that a homeless shelter is substandard to
inspect the homeless shelter, as specified. Existing law requires a city or county that determines a
homeless shelter is substandard to issue a notice to correct the violation to the owner or operator
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of the homeless shelter, as specified. Existing law makes the owner or operator of a homeless
shelter responsible for correcting any violation cited pursuant to these provisions. This bill would
require a city or county to additionally perform an annual inspection of every homeless shelter
located in its jurisdiction. The bill would authorize the above-described inspection or annual
inspection to be announced or unannounced. The bill would require homeless shelters to
prominently display notice of an occupant’s rights, the process for reporting a complaint alleging a
homeless shelter is substandard, and prescribed information, including specified contact
information. The bill would require the homeless shelter to provide the same notice in writing to
new occupants upon intake. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 02/18/2025 text)
Status: 03/03/2025 - Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD.
SB 329 (Blakespear) Alcohol and drug recovery or treatment facilities: investigations.
(Introduced 02/11/2025) Link
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment
facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law prohibits operating an
alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to provide recovery, treatment, or detoxification
services within this state without first obtaining a current valid license. If a facility is alleged to be
providing those services without a license, existing law requires the department to conduct a site
visit to investigate the allegation. Existing law also authorizes the department to conduct
announced or unannounced site visits to licensed facilities for the purpose of reviewing them for
compliance, as specified. This bill would require the department to assign a complaint regarding an
alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to an analyst for investigation within 10 days of
receiving the complaint. The bill would require the department to complete an investigation into a
complaint regarding a facility within 60 days of receiving the complaint. (Based on 02/11/2025 text)
Status: 02/19/2025 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Housing and Land Use
AB 39 (Zbur) General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act. (Amended 02/25/2025) Link
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive
general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements,
including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and
general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation
element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares,
transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and
facilities, as specified. This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require a each city,
county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2027, but no later than January 1, 2030, to prepare
and adopt a specified plan, or integrate a plan in the next adoption or revision of the general plan,
that includes locally based goals, objectives, policies, and feasible implementation measures that
include, among other things, the identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging,
as specified, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of
disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for equitable and
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prioritized investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups. For these
purposes, the bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to incorporate by reference into
the general plan a previously adopted similar plan that meets the above-described requirements,
as specified. By increasing the duties of local public officials, the bill would establish a state-
mandated local program. The bill would deem a plan adopted pursuant to these provisions as a
regional plan for specified purposes. The bill would require that the above-described provisions
only apply to a city, county, or city and county with a population greater than 75,000 residents. The
bill would define terms for these purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws. (Based on 02/25/2025 text)
Status: 02/26/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
AB 249 (Ramos) Housing: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: youth-
specific processes and coordinated entry systems. (Introduced 01/15/2025) Link
Existing law requires the Governor to create the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council,
renamed the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, to, among other things, identify
mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end
homelessness in California and to serve as a statewide facilitator, coordinator, and policy
development resource on ending homelessness in California. Existing law establishes the
Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program, administered by the Interagency Council
on Homelessness, with respect to rounds 1 through 5, inclusive, of the program, and Department
of Housing and Community Development (department), with respect to round 6 of the program, for
the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional
coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness
challenges, as specified. Existing law requires the department, upon appropriation, to distribute
certain amounts, as specified, for purposes of round 6 of the program. Existing law requires an
applicant to submit an application containing specified information in order to apply for a program
allocation. Existing law requires an applicant to use at least 10% of specified funds allocated for
services for homeless youth populations. This bill would require a continuum of care, upon
appropriation and beginning with the 2026–27 fiscal year, to annually certify that they create or
maintain a youth-specific process with their respective coordinated entry system, as specified,
implement a youth-specific assessment tool, create a body or identify an existing body composed
of youth with lived experience of homelessness that the continuum of care and other Homeless
Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program grantees must consult with regularly, and create an
array of youth-specific housing inventory. The bill would require the continuum of care to
document in their application how the housing assessment is youth-specific and their prioritization
policy if the continuum of care states they already maintain a youth-specific coordinated entry
system. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/15/2025 text)
Status: 02/10/2025 - Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HUM. S.
AB 253 (Ward) California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building
permits. (Introduced 01/15/2025) Link
Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards
for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body
to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized
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under the State Housing Law. This bill, the California Residential Private Permitting Review Act,
would require a county’s or city’s building department to prepare a residential building permit fee
schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city
prescribes residential building permit fees. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws. (Based on 01/15/2025 text)
Status: 03/03/2025 - Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
Calendar: 03/12/25 A-HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol,
Room 437 HANEY, MATT, Chair
03/12/25 A-LOCAL GOVERNMENT 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 447 CARRILLO, JUAN, Chair
AB 306 (Schultz) Building regulations: state building standards. (Amended 03/05/2025) Link
Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in
the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law, the California Building
Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the
Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt
building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code).
Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards
for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law requires, among other things, the building
standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified,
to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Existing law authorizes any city or county to
make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green
building standards. Existing law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making
modifications or changes to those green building standards, to make an express finding that those
modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or
topographical conditions. This bill would, from June 1, 2025, until June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a
city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above-described
building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those
changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety. By
requiring a city or county to take certain actions relating to building standards, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would, from June 1, 2025, until June 1, 2031,
inclusive, require the commission to reject a modification or change to any building standard, as
described above, affecting a residential unit and filed by the governing body of a city or county
unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or
modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety. The bill would also
make related findings and declarations. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws. (Based on 03/05/2025 text)
Status: 03/06/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Calendar: 03/12/25 A-HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol,
Room 437 HANEY, MATT, Chair
AB 462 (Lowenthal) Land use: coastal development permits: accessory dwelling units.
(Amended 02/27/2025) Link
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Existing law provides for the creation by local ordinance, or by ministerial approval if a local agency
has not adopted an ordinance, of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for single-family or
multifamily dwelling residential use in accordance with specified standards and conditions. The
California Coastal Act of 1976, which is administered by the California Coastal Commission,
requires any person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, as
defined, to obtain a coastal development permit from a local government or the commission,
except as provided. Existing law specifies that the above-described provisions governing accessory
dwelling units do not supersede or in any way alter or lessen the effect or application of the
California Coastal Act of 1976, except as specified. This bill would exempt the construction of an
accessory dwelling unit located within the County of Los Angeles, and in any county that is subject
to a proclamation of a state of emergency made by the Governor on or after February 1, 2025, as
provided, from the need to obtain a coastal development permit, as specified. This bill would make
legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los
Angeles. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of
statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter
cities. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. (Based on
02/27/2025 text)
Status: 02/28/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Calendar: 03/12/25 A-HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol,
Room 437 HANEY, MATT, Chair
AB 590 (Lee) Social Housing Bond Act of 2026. (Introduced 02/12/2025) Link
Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency
housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership, and downpayment
assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of bonds in
specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds
from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay
related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-
related parks. This bill would enact the Social Housing Bond Act of 2026 which, if approved by the
voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $950,000,000 pursuant to the State
General Obligation Bond Law, to fund social housing programs, as specified. The bill would create
the California Housing Authority, which would be governed by the California Housing Authority
Board, to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with
specified goals and would authorize the authority to issue the bonds and, upon appropriation of the
Legislature, utilize funds from other sources to build more low, very low, and extremely low income
housing. The bill would create the Social Housing Revolving Loan Fund to be used, upon
appropriation of the Legislature, to provide zero-interest loan for the purpose of constructing
housing to accommodate a mix of household incomes. The bill would provide for the submission of
the bond act to the voters at the November 3, 2026, statewide general election. This bill contains
other related provisions. (Based on 02/12/2025 text)
Status: 03/03/2025 - Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
AB 736 (Wicks) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026. (Introduced 02/18/2025) Link
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Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency
housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income
households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes
the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law
and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing
housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes
infill development, and housing-related parks. This bill would enact the Affordable Housing Bond
Act of 2026, 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 home
ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome
Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. This bill contains other related
provisions. (Based on 02/18/2025 text)
Status: 03/03/2025 - Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
AB 818 (Ávila Farías) Permit Streamlining Act: local emergencies.
(Introduced 02/19/2025) Link
Existing law, the Permit Streamlining Act, requires a public agency to determine whether an
application for a development project is complete within specified time periods, as specified. The
act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or
disapprove that project within specified time periods. Existing law, the California Emergency
Services Act, among other things, authorizes a local emergency to be proclaimed by the governing
body of a city, county, or city and county, as specified, and grants political subdivisions various
powers and authorities in periods of local emergency. This bill would prohibit, during the period of a
local emergency, a local agency from denying an application for a permit necessary to rebuild or
repair a residential property affected by a natural disaster unless the permit would result in the
property being deemed a substandard building. The bill would require the local agency to approve
or disapprove that application within 45 days of receipt of the application, and would require other
expedited approvals. The bill would prohibit specified fees from being charged for these projects.
By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide
concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/19/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
AB 874 (Ávila Farías) Mitigation Fee Act: waiver of fees: affordable rental housing.
(Introduced 02/19/2025) Link
Existing law, the Mitigation Fee Act, imposes certain requirements on a local agency that imposes a
fee as a condition of approval of a development project that is imposed to provide for an
improvement to be constructed to serve the development project, or a fee for public
improvements, as specified. The act also regulates fees for development projects and fees for
specific purposes, including water and sewer connection fees, among others. The act, among
other things, requires local agencies to comply with various conditions when imposing fees,
extractions, or charges as a condition of approval of a proposed development or development
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project. The act prohibits a local agency that imposes fees or charges on a residential development
for the construction of public improvements or facilities from requiring the payment of those fees
or charges until the date of the final inspection or the date the certificate of occupancy is issued,
whichever occurs first, except for utility service fees, as provided. This bill would require a local
agency to waive fees or charges that are collected by a local agency to fund the construction of
public improvements or facilities for residential developments subject to a regulatory agreement
with a public entity, as provided, that includes certain income and affordability requirements. The
bill would exclude from this requirement those fees or charges, as applicable, for the construction
or reconstruction of school facilities or that cover the cost of code enforcement, inspection
services, or other fees collected to pay for the cost of enforcement of local ordinances or state
law. (Based on 02/19/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
AB 1102 (Boerner) Development projects: sea level rise and groundwater rise risk assessment.
(Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
Existing law requires a public agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the
information that will be required from any applicant for a development project, as defined. This bill
would require a proponent of a new development to complete a sea level rise and groundwater rise
risk assessment as part of the application to a public agency if the proposed development will be
within 1,000 feet of a contaminated site, as provided, and will be within an area vulnerable to
groundwater rise or sea level rise, as defined. Because the bill would place additional duties on
local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 02/21/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
AB 1154 (Carrillo) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units.
(Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of accessory dwelling
units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial
approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law prohibits a local
agency from imposing parking standards for an accessory dwelling unit under certain
circumstances, whether or not the local agency has adopted a local ordinance pursuant to the
above provisions. Under existing law, those circumstances include, among others, if the accessory
dwelling unit is located within 1/2 of one mile walking distance of public transit or there is a car
share vehicle located within one block of the accessory dwelling unit. This bill would additionally
prohibit a local agency from imposing any parking standards if the accessory dwelling unit is 500
square feet or smaller. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on
02/20/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
AB 1206 (Harabedian) Single-family and multifamily housing units: preapproved plans.
(Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
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Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, provides for the adoption and administration of zoning
laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities and the implementation of those
general plans as may be in effect in those counties or cities. In that regard, existing law requires
each local agency, by January 1, 2025, to develop a program for the preapproval of accessory
dwelling unit plans. This bill would require each local agency, by January 1, 2026, to develop a
program for the preapproval of single-family and multifamily residential housing plans, whereby the
local agency accepts single-family and multifamily 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 a single-family or multifamily residential housing
plan, as specified. The bill would require the local agency to post preapproved single-family or
multifamily residential housing 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 single-family or multifamily residential housing unit within 30 days that utilizes
either a single-family or multifamily residential housing 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 single-family or multifamily residential housing unit approved by the
local agency within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle. By
imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The
bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide
concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
AB 1353 (Haney) Affordable housing. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law finds and declares that the Legislature has provided specified reforms and incentives
to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. This bill would make
nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
AB 1359 (Ahrens) Planning and zoning: permitted use: housing forward jurisdictions.
(Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land
use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The
housing element is required to be updated at specified intervals, and, when updating the housing
element, the local government is required to take into account regional housing needs for various
income levels, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with
specified provisions of the Planning and Zoning Law, and requires HCD to designate jurisdictions
as prohousing, as prescribed. This bill would state the intent of the legislature to enact subsequent
legislation that would authorize a housing forward jurisdiction, defined to mean a city, county, or
city and county that is designated as a prohousing jurisdiction by HCD and has met or exceeded its
regional housing needs allocation, to impose certain conditions on development projects. (Based
on 02/21/2025 text)
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Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
AB 1385 (Petrie-Norris) Housing: permits. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development
project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. This bill would state the
intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to housing and permitting
reform. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
AB 1456 (Bryan) California Environmental Quality Act: vegetation fuel management project
exemption. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project
that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to
adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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 exempt from CEQA a vegetation fuel management project, as defined,
undertaken or funded by a public agency, or the adoption of an ordinance requiring the
implementation of a vegetation fuel management project. The bill would require a lead agency that
determines to carry out or approve an activity that is within the exemption to file a notice of
exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, as specified. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
SB 73 (Cervantes) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions.
(Introduced 01/15/2025) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a
project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the
environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.
CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may
have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that
effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant
effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements certain residential, employment
center, and mixed-use development projects meeting specified criteria, including that the project
is located in a transit priority area and that the project is undertaken and is consistent with a
specific plan for which an environmental impact report has been certified. This bill would
additionally exempt those projects located in a very low vehicle travel area, as defined. The bill
would require that the project is undertaken and is consistent with either a specific plan prepared
pursuant to specific provisions of law or a community plan, as defined, for which an EIR has been
certified within the preceding 15 years in order to be exempt. The bill would additionally require the
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project site to have been previously developed or to be a vacant site meeting certain requirements.
Because a lead agency would be required to determine the applicability of this exemption, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws. (Based on 01/15/2025 text)
Status: 03/07/2025 - Set for hearing March 19.
Calendar: 03/19/25 S-ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 BLAKESPEAR,
CATHERINE, Chair
SB 79 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing development: transit-oriented development.
(Amended 03/05/2025) Link
Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law
defines “surplus land” for these purposes to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for
which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action declaring that the land is surplus and
is not necessary for the agency’s use. Existing law defines “agency’s use” for these purposes to
include land that is being used for agency work or operations, as provided. Existing law exempts
from this definition of “agency’s use” certain commercial or industrial uses, except that in the case
of a local agency that is a district, except a local agency whose primary purpose or mission is to
supply the public with a transportation system, “agency’s use” may include commercial or
industrial uses or activities, as specified. This bill would additionally include land leased to support
public transit operations in the definition of “agency’s use,” as described above. The bill would also
revise the definition of “agency’s use” with respect to commercial or industrial uses to instead
provide that a district or a public transit operator may use land for commercial or industrial uses or
activities, as described above. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based on 03/05/2025 text)
Status: 03/05/2025 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
SB 92 (Blakespear) Housing development: density bonuses: mixed-use developments.
(Amended 03/10/2025) Link
Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a
developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a
density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to
construct specified percentages of units for lower income households or very low income
households, and meets other requirements. Existing law defines “housing development” to mean a
development project for 5 or more residential units, including mixed-use developments, as
specified. This bill would define “mixed-used developments” to mean mixed-used developments
consisting of residential and nonresidential uses that meet specified conditions. By revising and
expanding the duties for a city, county, or a city and a county to administer the Density Bonus Law
with respect to mixed-use developments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 03/10/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
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Calendar: 03/18/25 S-HOUSING 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 WAHAB, AISHA, Chair
SB 262 (Wahab) Housing element: prohousing designations: prohousing local policies.
(Introduced 02/03/2025) Link
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a
comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and
specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a
housing element. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development
to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with those provisions.
Existing law requires the department to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to
emergency regulations adopted by the department, as prescribed. Existing law requires that
jurisdictions that are prohousing and that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions
be awarded additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state
programs. Existing law defines “prohousing policies” for these purposes and specifies a
nonexhaustive list of examples of those policies, including local financial incentives for housing
and adoption of zoning allowing for use by right for residential and mixed-use development. This bill
would additionally specify, as examples of prohousing policies under the above-described
provisions, residential rent stabilization ordinances, safe parking and safe camping programs, as
specified, and funding legal services for eviction defense and eviction prevention. (Based on
02/03/2025 text)
Status: 03/06/2025 - Set for hearing March 18.
Calendar: 03/18/25 S-HOUSING 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 WAHAB, AISHA, Chair
SB 346 (Durazo) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
(Introduced 02/12/2025) Link
Existing law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a
room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging
for a period of less than 30 days. This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city,
county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as
defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the assessor parcel
number of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period, as well as any additional
information necessary to identify the property as may be required by the local agency. The bill
would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the
report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as
described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted
an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number
associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a
local agency. The bill would state these provisions do not preempt a local agency from adopting an
ordinance that regulates short-term rentals, short-term rental facilitators, or the payment and
collection of transient occupancy taxes in a manner that differs from those described in the
bill. (Based on 02/12/2025 text)
Status: 03/04/2025 - Set for hearing March 19.
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Calendar: 03/19/25 S-LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 DURAZO, MARÍA
ELENA, Chair
SB 358 (Becker) Mitigation Fee Act: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts.
(Introduced 02/12/2025) Link
Existing law, the Mitigation Fee Act, imposes various requirements with respect to the
establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a
development project. Existing law requires a local agency that imposes a fee on a housing
development for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts to set the rate for that fee to
reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation associated with such housing developments in
comparison with housing developments without prescribed characteristics, unless the local
agency adopts findings after a public hearing establishing that the housing development, even with
those characteristics, would not generate fewer automobile trips than a housing development
without those specified characteristics. For purposes of these provisions, existing law specifies
one of those characteristics is that the housing development provides either the minimum number
of parking spaces required by the local ordinance, or no more than one onsite parking space for
zero- to 2-bedroom units, and 2 onsite parking spaces for 3 or more bedroom units, whichever is
less. For purposes of a local agency setting the rate for a mitigating vehicular traffic impacts fee,
this bill would delete the provision about adopting findings after a public hearing and would,
instead, require the rate for housing developments that satisfy those specified characteristics be at
least 50% less than the rate for housing developments without all of those characteristics. With
regard to the above-described characteristic, the bill would, instead, specify that the housing
development provides no more than one onsite parking space for zero- to 2-bedroom units, and 2
onsite parking spaces for 3 or more bedroom units. By imposing a mandate on local agencies that
approve housing development projects with regard to impact fees, this bill would impose a state-
mandated local program. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based on 02/12/2025 text)
Status: 02/19/2025 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
SB 417 (Cabaldon) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026. (Introduced 02/18/2025) Link
Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency
housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income
households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes
the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law
and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing
housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes
infill development, and housing-related parks. This bill would enact the Affordable Housing Bond
Act of 2026, 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 home
ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome
Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. This bill would provide for
submission of the bond act to the voters at the June 2, 2026, statewide primary election, in
accordance with specified law. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute. (Based on 02/18/2025 text)
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Status: 02/19/2025 - From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
SB 457 (Becker) General plan: annual report: suite-style student housing quarters.
(Introduced 02/19/2025) Link
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use
development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law
requires the housing element to include, among other things, an identification and analysis of
existing and projected housing needs. That law requires the planning agency of a city or county to
provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of
Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the
number of units of housing demolished and new units of housing that have been issued a
completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy. This bill would, for the 7th
and subsequent revisions of the housing element, require the city or county to additionally include
in the annual report the number of suite-style student housing quarters, subject to specified
requirements, within the number of housing units demolished and new units. By requiring a city or
county to include additional information in the annual report, the bill would impose a state-
mandated local program. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address
a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities,
including charter cities. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based
on 02/19/2025 text)
Status: 02/26/2025 - Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
SB 677 (Wiener) Housing development: streamlined approvals. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
(1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a proposed housing development containing
no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered
ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets
certain requirements. This bill would require ministerial approval for proposed housing
developments containing no more than 2 residential units on any lot hosting a single-family home
or zoned for 4 or fewer residential units, notwithstanding any covenant, condition, or restriction
imposed by a common interest development association. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 03/05/2025 - Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
SB 681 (Wahab) Planning and zoning: annual progress report: density bonus ordinances.
(Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city, county, or city and county to provide
a developer that proposes a housing development within the jurisdictional boundaries of that city,
county, or city and county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the
production of lower income housing units, if the developer agrees to construct a specified
percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or
qualifying residents and meets other requirements. Existing law requires a city, county, or city and
county to adopt an ordinance that specifies how compliance with the Density Bonus Law will be
implemented. This bill would require a city or county that has a local density bonus ordinance to
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submit as part of their annual report a copy of the text of that ordinance. By increasing the scope of
data required to be reported in the annual report, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. The bill would also make a nonsubstantive change to update a reference to the Office of
Land Use and Climate Innovation in these provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 03/05/2025 - Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Open Meetings and Transparency
AB 259 (Rubio, Blanca) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
(Introduced 01/16/2025) Link
Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a
legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted
to attend and participate. The act authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use
teleconferencing, as specified, and requires a legislative body of a local agency that elects to use
teleconferencing to comply with specified requirements, including that the local agency post
agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and
agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the
public. Existing law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use
alternative teleconferencing if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the
members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly
identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the
territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with
prescribed requirements. Existing law requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to
participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions,
including that specified circumstances apply. Existing law establishes limits on the number of
meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location pursuant to
these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including prohibiting such participation for more
than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less. This bill
would remove the January 1, 2026, date from those provisions, thereby extending the alternative
teleconferencing procedures indefinitely. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws. (Based on 01/16/2025 text)
Status: 02/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
SB 239 (Arreguín) Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.
(Introduced 01/30/2025) Link
Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a
legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted
to attend and participate. The act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of
a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations,
identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and
have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Existing law also requires that,
during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate
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from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises
jurisdiction, except as specified. Existing law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes specified
neighborhood city councils to use alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda,
and public participation, as prescribed, if, among other requirements, the city council has adopted
an authorizing resolution and 2/3 of the neighborhood city council votes to use alternate
teleconference provisions, as specified. This bill would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to
use alternative teleconferencing provisions and would impose requirements for notice, agenda,
and public participation, as prescribed. The bill would require the subsidiary body to post the
agenda at the primary physical meeting location. The bill would require the members of the
subsidiary body to visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is publicly
accessible via the internet or other online platform, as specified. The bill would also require the
subsidiary body to list a member of the subsidiary body who participates in a teleconference
meeting from a remote location in the minutes of the meeting. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 01/30/2025 text)
Status: 02/14/2025 - Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD.
SB 707 (Durazo) Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements.
(Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a
legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted
to attend and participate. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, require a city council or a county
board of supervisors to comply with additional meeting requirements, including that all open and
public meetings include an opportunity for members of the public to attend via a two-way
telephonic option or a two-way audiovisual platform, as defined, that a system is in place for
requesting and receiving interpretation services for public meetings, as specified, and that good
faith efforts are made to encourage residents to participate in public meetings, as specified. By
imposing additional meeting requirements on city councils and county boards of supervisors, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24. Read first time.
Public Safety and EMS
AB 486 (Lackey) Vehicles: sideshows and street takeovers. (Introduced 02/10/2025) Link
Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle speed contest
on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. Upon conviction, existing law punishes the person by
imprisonment in a county jail for between 24 hours and 90 days, inclusive, by a fine between $355
and $1,000, inclusive, or by both that fine and imprisonment, except as specified. If the vehicle
used in the violation was registered to the person who violated the prohibition, existing law also
authorizes the impounding of the person’s vehicle for between 1 and 30 days. Existing law prohibits
a person from engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in
an offstreet parking facility. Upon conviction, existing law punishes the person by imprisonment in
a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than $500, or by both that fine and
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imprisonment. Existing law, commencing July 1, 2025, authorizes the court to order the privilege to
operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to 6 months and restrict the person’s operation of a
motor vehicle for the purposes of the person’s employment if the violation of the prohibition on
engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet
parking facility occurred as part of a sideshow, as defined. This bill would clarify that, for purposes
of those prohibitions, aiding or abetting includes, but is not limited to, organizing, facilitating,
encouraging, promoting, or instigating a violation as part of a sideshow. The bill would also specify
that physical presence at the scene of a sideshow is not required to aid or abet. By expanding the
prohibition on aiding or abetting to include an individual who aids or abets, but is not physically
present at the scene of, a sideshow, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/10/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Calendar: 03/25/25 A-PUBLIC SAFETY 8:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 SCHULTZ, NICK, Chair
AB 1013 (Garcia) Peace officer training: behavioral health. (Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish and
keep updated a classroom-based continuing training course that includes instructor-led active
learning, such as scenario-based training, relating to behavioral health and law enforcement
interaction with persons with mental illness, intellectual disability, and substance use disorders.
Existing law requires the commission to make available the course to each law enforcement officer
with a rank of supervisor or below and who is assigned to patrol duties or to supervise officers who
are assigned to patrol duties. This bill would authorize the commission to partner with local
departments of behavioral health, community-based organizations, or nonprofit organizations to
establish and keep updated this classroom-based continuing training course. The bill would
require a law enforcement officer with a rank of supervisor or below and who is assigned to patrol
duties or to supervise officers who are assigned to patrol duties to complete the course. By
imposing additional training costs on local law enforcement agencies, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 1022 (Kalra) Authority to remove vehicles. (Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
Existing law authorizes a peace officer, as defined, or a regularly employed and salaried employee,
who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations, of a city, county, or
jurisdiction of a state agency in which a vehicle is located, to remove a vehicle located within the
territorial limits in which the officer or employee may act, under designated circumstances,
including, but not limited to, when a vehicle is found upon a highway or public land, or removed
pursuant to the Vehicle Code, and it is known that the vehicle has been issued 5 or more notices of
parking violations to which the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded within
designated time periods, or the registered owner of the vehicle is known to have been issued 5 or
more notices for failure to pay or failure to appear in court for traffic violations for which a
certificate has not been issued by the magistrate or clerk of the court hearing the case, as
specified. Under existing law, a vehicle that has been removed and impounded under those
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circumstances that is not released may be subject to a lien sale to compensate for the costs of
towage and for caring for and keeping safe the vehicle. This bill would remove the authority of a
peace officer or public employee, as appropriate, to remove a vehicle under the above-described
circumstances, and make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 02/21/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
AB 1094 (Bains) Crimes: torture of a minor: parole. (Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
Existing law makes a person who, with the intent to cause cruel or extreme pain and suffering for
the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or for any sadistic purpose, inflicts great bodily
injury upon the person of another guilty of torture, and makes the crime punishable by
imprisonment in the state prison for a term of life. Existing law specifies that an inmate imprisoned
under a life sentence shall not be paroled until they have served a term of at least 7 years or as
established pursuant to a law that establishes a minimum term. This bill would prohibit a person
imprisoned for committing the crime of torture from being eligible for parole until they have served
at least 25 years, if the victim of the torture was under 14 years of age at the time of the crime. By
creating a new sentencing enhancement, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 1115 (Castillo) Peace officers: mental health liaisons. (Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
The California Constitution authorizes local governments to make and enforce all police and
sanitary ordinances and regulations within its limits that are not in conflict with general laws.
Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a county and the governing body of a city to take
measures necessary to preserve and protect the public health in its jurisdiction. This bill would
authorize a local government to designate one or more existing employees specializing in
counseling or mental health services as a law enforcement mental health liaison to facilitate
mental health support for peace officers who serve the local jurisdiction. This bill contains other
related provisions. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 1127 (Gabriel) Firearms: converter attachments. (Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
Existing law defines a machine gun as any weapon that shoots, is designed to shoot, or can readily
be restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single
function of the trigger. Existing law prohibits, among other things, the conversion of a firearm into a
machine gun. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a felony. This bill would state the intent
of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding semi-automatic firearms that can be converted into
automatic firearms by a converter attachment. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 02/21/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
AB 1178 (Pacheco) Peace officers: confidentiality of records. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
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Existing law, the California Public Records Act, generally requires public records to be open for
inspection by the public. Existing law provides numerous exceptions to this requirement. Under
existing law, the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers are confidential and not
subject to public inspection. Existing law provides certain exemptions to this confidentiality,
including the reports, investigations, and findings of certain incidents involving the use of force by a
peace officer. Existing law authorizes an agency to redact the records disclosed for specified
purposes including, among others, to remove personal data or information, as specified, and
where there is a specific, articulable, and particularized reason to believe that disclosure of the
record would pose a significant danger to the physical safety of the peace officer, custodial officer,
or another person. This bill would additionally require a law enforcement agency to redact records
to remove the rank, name, photo, or likeness of specified people, including, among others, all duly
sworn officers working an undercover assignment or who worked in an undercover assignment in
the past 24 months, all sworn personnel attached to a federal or state task force, and members of
a law enforcement agency who received verified death threats to themselves or their families
within the last ten years because of their law enforcement employment. By increasing duties on
local law enforcement agencies to redact information, this bill would impose a state-mandated
local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on
02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
AB 1489 (Bryan) Peace officers. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law defines persons who are peace officers and the entities authorized to appoint them.
Existing law prescribes certain minimum standards for a person to be appointed as a peace officer,
including moral character and physical and mental condition, and certain disqualifying factors for
a person to be employed as a peace officer, including a felony conviction. This bill would require a
law enforcement agency that issues a firearm to a peace officer it employs to have a policy
prohibiting that officer from carrying the firearm issued by the agency with a blood alcohol
concentration greater than 0.00%, whether the officer is on duty or off duty. By imposing new duties
on local law enforcement, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Read first time.
SB 264 (Valladares) Impersonation of a peace officer or firefighter during a state of emergency
or local emergency. (Introduced 02/03/2025) Link
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of
emergency, as defined, under specified circumstances. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to
impersonate a peace officer or an officer or member of a fire department or the Office of the State
Fire Marshal. This bill would make impersonating a peace officer or an officer or member of a fire
department or the Office of the State Fire Marshal during a state of emergency or local emergency
punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified. By increasing the punishment of a
crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/03/2025 text)
Status: 02/14/2025 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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SB 680 (Rubio) Sex offender registration: unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
(Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law, the Sex Offender Registration Act (act), requires a person convicted of specified
crimes to register with law enforcement as a sex offender while residing in California or while
attending school or working in California, as specified. Existing law establishes 3 tiers of
registration based on specified criteria, for periods of at least 10 years, at least 20 years, and life,
respectively, for a conviction of specified sex offenses. Existing law exempts from mandatory
registration under the act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is
not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person
to register. A willful failure to register, as required by the act, is a misdemeanor or felony,
depending on the underlying offense. This bill would require offenders guilty of engaging in an act of
unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor who is more than 3 years younger than the offender or, if
the offender was 21 years of age or older, engaging in an act of unlawful sexual intercourse with a
minor who is under 16 years of age, to register for 10 years as a tier one offender under the act,
unless the offender was not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only
one requiring the offender to register. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 03/05/2025 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
SB 830 (Arreguín) Picketing at an individual residence. (Introduced 02/21/2025) Link
Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to picket or parade in or near a building that
houses a court of this state with the intent to interfere with, obstruct, or impede the administration
of justice or with the intent to influence any judge, juror, witness, or officer of the court in the
discharge of their duty.This bill would make it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding
$1,000 for each violation, for a person to engage in picketing activity that is targeted, as defined, at
and is within 300 feet of a targeted residential dwelling, as defined, and if enforcement of that law is
suspended, would make it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, for a person
to engage in picketing before or about a residential dwelling of an individual if the picketing
proceeds on a definite course or route in front of, and is directed at, that residential dwelling. By
creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would create
a private right of action for a person who is aggrieved by the activities described above, and would
authorize the court to award specified relief and damages to the aggrieved person. This bill
contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24. Read first time.
Revenue and Taxation
AB 21 (DeMaio) Taxpayer Protection Act of 2025. (Introduced 12/02/2024) Link
The California Constitution requires a state statute that would result in any taxpayer paying a higher
tax to be imposed by an act passed by 2/3 vote of the each house of the Legislature. The California
Constitution also provides that all taxes imposed by a local government are either general taxes or
special taxes, as defined, and requires that taxes imposed, extended, or increased by a local
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government be submitted to the electorate and approved by a majority vote, in the case of general
taxes, or a 2/3 vote, in the case of special taxes. Existing law imposes specified requirements on
state and local ballots, including, among other things, on the contents of the ballot label, ballot
title, and summary. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact a constitutional
amendment to limit the ability of state and local governments to raise taxes, restore a 2/3 vote
requirement on local special tax increases, impose voter approval requirements on specific
categories of new taxes, and regulate the titles on state and local ballot measures relating to tax
increases. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)
Status: 12/03/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
SB 549 (Allen) Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act.
(Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county, defined to include a city and
county, to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities
or other specified projects of communitywide significance, as provided. Existing law provides for
the preparation of a proposed infrastructure financing plan, as provided, which takes effect upon
adoption by the public financing authority of the district following a specified public hearing and
protest procedure. Existing law authorizes the infrastructure financing plan to provide for the
division of taxes levied on taxable property in the area included within the district, as specified, and
authorizes the public financing authority to issue bonds by adopting a resolution containing
specified provisions, including a determination of the amount of tax revenue available or estimated
to be available for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the bonds. This bill would revise
NIFTI-2 to instead authorize, for resolutions adopted under that act’s provisions on or after January
1, 2026, a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the
adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to
allocate property tax revenues, and to remove the authorization for adoption of a resolution that
allocates revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns
Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes. The bill would also repeal the
condition that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous
with the city or county that established the district. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 03/05/2025 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Transportation and Public Works
AB 382 (Berman) Pedestrian safety: school zones: speed limits. (Amended 02/24/2025) Link
Existing law establishes a prima facie speed limit of 25 miles per hour when approaching or passing
a school building or grounds contiguous to a highway or when the school grounds are not
separated from the highway, as specified. Existing law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or
resolution, to reduce the prima facie speed limit based on an engineering and traffic survey, as
specified. This bill would establish a prima facie speed limit of 20 miles per hour in a school zone,
as defined, subject to specified conditions, including, among others, when a school speed limit
sign states “children are present” and children are present, as defined, and when a school speed
limit sign states specific hours, as specified. By establishing new prima facie speed limits in school
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zones that would require changes to local speed limit signs, this bill would create a state-
mandated local program. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based on 02/24/2025 text)
Status: 02/25/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
AB 440 (Ramos) Suicide prevention. (Amended 03/05/2025) Link
Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to establish the Office of Suicide
Prevention. Existing law authorizes the office, if established, to perform certain functions,
including, among others, conducting state-level assessment of regional and statewide suicide
prevention policies and practices and reporting on progress to reduce rates of suicide. This bill
would require the office to identify state bridges and roadways that have a history of a relatively
high number of suicide-related deaths. The bill would also require the office to work with the
Department of Transportation to identify cost-effective strategies to reduce suicides on the state’s
bridges and roadways. This bill would require the office to prepare and submit a report to the
Legislature and the relevant policy committees on the strategies that it identifies on or before
December 31, 2026. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2028. (Based on 03/05/2025
text)
Status: 03/06/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
AB 544 (Davies) Electric bicycles: required equipment. (Amended 03/05/2025) Link
(1)Existing law requires a bicycle, as defined, operated during darkness on a highway, sidewalk, or
bikeway to be equipped with, among other things, a red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with
a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in
front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. Existing law defines an electric
bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed
750 watts of power and categorizes electric bicycles into 3 classes. A violation of the provisions
relating to the requirements for equipping a bicycle or an electric bicycle is punishable as an
infraction. This bill would require an electric bicycle during all hours to be equipped with a red
reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a
distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a
motor vehicle. By expanding the requirements for equipping an electric bicycle, the violation of
which would be a crime, this bill would expand an existing crime, thereby imposing a state-
mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based
on 03/05/2025 text)
Status: 03/06/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Calendar: 03/24/25 A-TRANSPORTATION 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 WILSON, LORI,
Chair
AB 545 (Davies) Vehicles: electric bicycles. (Introduced 02/11/2025) Link
Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an
electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill
would clarify that an electric bicycle is a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an
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electric motor that is not physically capable of exceeding 750 watts of power. (Based on
02/11/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Calendar: 03/24/25 A-TRANSPORTATION 2:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 WILSON, LORI,
Chair
AB 902 (Schultz) Transportation planning and programming: barriers to wildlife movement.
(Introduced 02/19/2025) Link
Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional
transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation
system. Existing law requires that each regional transportation plan include a sustainable
communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among
other things, achieve certain regional targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region for 2020
and 2035, respectively. This bill would require the regional transportation plan or sustainable
communities strategy, upon the adoption or next revision on or after January 1, 2028, to, among
other things, identify and analyze connectivity areas, permeability, and natural landscape areas
that are partially or fully within the region of the metropolitan planning organization or
transportation planning agency, and consider the impacts of development and the barriers caused
by transportation infrastructure and development to wildlife and habitat connectivity. The bill
would also require metropolitan planning organizations and regional transportation agencies, in
implementing those requirements, to, among other things, incorporate appropriate standards,
policies, and feasible implementation programs, consult with certain entities, and consider
relevant best available science as appropriate. By imposing additional duties on local entities, the
bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize metropolitan planning
organizations and regional transportation agencies, in implementing the above-described
requirements, to consult with specified entities and incorporate relevant information, guidelines,
and standards from specified sources. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 02/19/2025 text)
Status: 02/20/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
AB 965 (Dixon) Vehicles: bicycle helmets. (Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
Existing law requires a minor to wear a helmet when engaged in physical activities, such as riding a
bicycle, nonmotorized scooter, or skateboard, or wearing in-line or roller skates. Existing law
requires that the helmet be properly fitted and fastened that meets the standards of the American
Society for Testing and Materials or the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Existing law makes a violation of these provisions an infraction punishable by a fine of not more
than $25, except as specified. This bill would increase the above-described fine to not more than
$50. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on TRANS.
AB 968 (Boerner) Electric bicycles: disclosure. (Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
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Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an
electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different
restrictions for various purposes. Existing law subjects a person riding an electric bicycle to all laws
concerning the operation of bicycles, as specified. Existing law requires that manufacturers and
distributors of electric bicycles apply a label that is permanently affixed to each electric bicycle
that contains, among other things, the classification number of the electric bicycle, as specified. A
violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, require
manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to include a notice in the electric bicycle’s
packaging that informs parents of minor riders of the risks and responsibilities associated with
operating an electric bicycle. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated
local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and
school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures
for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on TRANS.
AB 978 (Hoover) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways:
recycled materials. (Introduced 02/20/2025) Link
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 requires the Director of Transportation,
upon consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to review and
modify all bid specifications relating to the purchase of paving materials and base, subbase, and
pervious backfill materials using certain recycled materials. Existing law requires the specifications
to be based on standards developed by the Department of Transportation for recycled paving
materials and for recycled base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials. Existing law requires a
local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway, to the extent feasible and cost effective,
to apply standard specifications that allow for the use of recycled materials in streets and
highways, except as provided. Existing law requires, until January 1, 2027, those standard
specifications to allow recycled materials at or above the level allowed in the department’s
standard specifications that went into effect on October 22, 2018, for specified materials. This bill
would eliminate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness provision described above and would
indefinitely require a local government’s standard specifications to allow recycled materials at a
level no less than the level allowed in the department’s specifications for those specified
materials. By increasing the duties of local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2025
text)
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on TRANS.
SB 71 (Wiener) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.
(Introduced 01/14/2025) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project
that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to
adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires
a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant
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effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is
no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the
environment. CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements active transportation
plans, pedestrian plans, or bicycle transportation plans for the restriping of streets and highways,
bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations,
and the related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles. This bill would extend the operation
of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely. The bill would also exempt a transit
comprehensive operational analysis, as defined, a transit route readjustment, or other transit
agency route addition, elimination, or modification, from the requirements of CEQA. Because a
lead agency would be required to determine whether a plan qualifies for this exemption, the bill
would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws. (Based on 01/14/2025 text)
Status: 03/07/2025 - Set for hearing March 19.
Calendar: 03/19/25 S-ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 BLAKESPEAR,
CATHERINE, Chair
SB 274 (Cervantes) Automated license plate recognition systems.
(Introduced 02/04/2025) Link
Existing law prohibits the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or any agency or political
subdivision of the state, a city, a county, or a city and county, including, but not limited to, a law
enforcement agency, from selling, sharing, or transferring automated license plate recognition
(ALPR) information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law.
Existing law defines ALPR information as information or data collected through the use of an ALPR
system. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that, among other
things, imposes privacy protection requirements on cities, counties, and entities that use ALPR
data. (Based on 02/04/2025 text)
Status: 02/14/2025 - Referred to Com. on RLS.
Water and Wastewater
AB 514 (Petrie-Norris) Water: emergency water supplies. (Introduced 02/10/2025) Link
Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban
water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and
adopt an urban water management plan. The act requires an urban water management plan to
include a water shortage contingency plan, as provided. This bill would declare that it is the
established policy of the state to encourage, but not mandate, the development of emergency
water supplies by local water suppliers, and to support their use during times of drought or
unplanned service or supply disruption, as provided. (Based on 02/10/2025 text)
Status: 02/24/2025 - Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.
Calendar: 03/25/25 A-WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 PAPAN,
DIANE, Chair
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AB 532 (Ransom) Water rate assistance program. (Introduced 02/11/2025) Link
Existing federal law, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, among other things, requires the
federal Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a Low-Income Household Drinking
Water and Wastewater Emergency Assistance Program, which is also known as the Low Income
Household Water Assistance Program, for making grants to states and Indian tribes to assist low-
income households that pay a high proportion of household income for drinking water and
wastewater services, as provided. Existing law requires the Department of Community Services
and Development to administer the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program in this
state, and to receive and expend moneys appropriated and allocated to the state for purposes of
that program, pursuant to the above-described federal law. The Low Income Household Water
Assistance Program was only operative until March 31, 2024. This bill would repeal the above-
described requirements related to the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. The bill
would instead require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Department of Community
Services and Development to establish and administer the California Low Income Household
Water Assistance Program to provide water rate assistance to residential ratepayers of community
water systems with under 3,000 connections, or water systems serving predominantly
disadvantaged communities, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws. (Based on 02/11/2025 text)
Status: 03/03/2025 - Referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
SB 350 (Durazo) Water Rate Assistance Program. (Introduced 02/12/2025) Link
Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board, by January 1, 2018, to develop a
plan for the funding and implementation of the Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Program.
Existing law requires the plan to include, among other things, a description of the method for
collecting moneys to support and implement the program and a description of the method for
determining the amount of moneys that may need to be collected from water ratepayers to fund
the program. This bill would establish the Water Rate Assistance Program. As part of the program,
the bill would establish the Water Rate Assistance Fund in the State Treasury to provide water
affordability assistance, for both drinking water and wastewater services, to low-income
residential ratepayers, as specified. The bill would require the state board to take various actions in
administering the fund, including, among other things, track and manage revenue in the fund
separately from all other revenue. The bill would require the state board, in consultation with
relevant agencies and after a public hearing, to adopt guidelines for implementation of the program
and adopt an annual report to be posted on the state board’s internet website identifying how the
fund has performed, as specified. The bill would require the guidelines to include minimum
requirements for eligible systems, including the ability to confirm eligibility for enrollment through a
request for self-certification of eligibility under penalty of perjury. By expanding the crime of
perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the state
board to take various actions in administering the program, including, but not limited to, providing
guidance, oversight, and funding for low-income rate assistance for residential ratepayers of
eligible systems. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring an action in state court to
restrain the use of any method, act, or practice in violation of these provisions, except as
provided. (Based on 02/12/2025 text)
Status: 03/07/2025 - Set for hearing March 19.
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