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City Council Legislative Subcommittee
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April 29, 2022
City Council Legislative Subcommittee
Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
Legislative and Advocacy Update
Recommendation: Receive an update on state and federal legislative and budget activity and
recent and ongoing advocacy efforts; discuss and provide feedback to staff, including
identifying high-priority bills, advocacy positions, and items for future City Council
consideration.
Discussion:
Staff and the Renne Public Policy Group (RPPG) will present an update and overview of state
legislative activity (Exhibit 1) and the priority legislation being tracked on behalf of the city
(Exhibit 2). 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.
Position Letters Authorized or Submitted to Committees and/or Legislative Offices
SB 54 (Allen): Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act -Support
SB 513 (Hertzberg) Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services -Support
SB 897 (Wieckowski): Accessory Dwelling Units -Oppose
SB 1157 (Hertzberg): Indoor Residential Water Use -Oppose Unless Amended
SB 1466 (Stern): Aff. Housing and Community Development Investment Program (Held by Author)
AB 500 (Ward) Local planning: coastal development: streamlined permitting -Oppose
AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath): Public Swimming Pools: Lifeguards -Support (Sponsor)
AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath): Vessels: Public Safety Activities -Support (Sponsor)
AB 1737 (Holden): Children's Camps Local Registration and Inspections-Oppose
AB 2097 (Friedman): Residential and Commercial Parking Requirements -Oppose
AB 2179 (Grayson): Development Fees -Oppose (Gut and Amend to COVID-19 Tenant Relief)
Staff continues to evaluate bills that may impact city operations and policy priorities, which will
be presented for discussion and feedback from the Legislative Subcommittee.
Exhibits:
1. RPPG Legislative Monthly Report -March/ April 2022
2. Priority Legislation List -April 26, 2022
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Exhibit 1
Cal f o r n a
April 26, 2022
To: Mayor Matt Hall, Legislative Subcommittee Member
Councilmember Teresa Acosta, Legislative Subcommittee Member
Jaso n Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
City of Carlsbad
From: Sharon Gonsalves
Director of Government Affairs
Renne Public Policy Group
Re: legislative Monthly Report -March/ April 2022
The Capitol has been active during the months of March and April. Currently the Legislative Session
is in full swing with hundreds of bills having been set in their respective policy committee(s) and
committee hearings well underway with stacked agendas. Furthermore, in the Assembly, several
committees, including the Local Government Committee, have opted to end remote testimony for
their policy hearings.
UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE DEADLINES
• April 18: Legislature reconvenes from Spring Recess
• April 29: Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal committees' fiscal
bills introduced in their house
• May 6 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to t he floor nonfiscal bills
introduced in their house (J.R. 61(b)(6))
• May 13 Last day for policy committees to meet prior to May 31 (J.R. 61(b)(7)
• May 20 La st day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the floor bills introduced in
their house (J.R. 61 (b)(8))
Last day for fiscal committees to meet prior to May 31 (J.R. 61 (b)(9))
• May 23-27 Floor session only. No committee may meet for any purpose except for Rules
Committee, bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2, and Conference Committees (J.R.
61(b)(10))
• May 27 Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house (J.R. 61(b)(11))
• May 31 Committee meetings may resume (J.R. 61(b)(12))
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CITY SPONSORED LEGISLATION
AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath) Public Swimming Pools: lifeguards.
This bill sponsored by the City of Carlsbad would authorize lifeguards who are certified by the United
States Lifesaving Association (USLA) to provide services at municipal operated swimming pools. This
bill was heard in the Assembly Health Committee on March 22. RPPG provided lead testimony on
behalf of the City, outlining the need for the measure and the specific steps taken to ensure that all
concerns were addressed.
The measure advanced out of committee on a unanimous vote and was heard in the Assembly
Appropriations committee on April 6. Due to a procedural rule, the measure advanced out of the
appropriations committee as a consent item but will now be amended on the Assembly Floor to
address the technical concerns expressed by the American Red Cross. It is anticipated that once the
measure is amended, it will be placed back on consent and advance through the remainder of the
legislative process. At that point, both the American Red Cross and the City of San Diego have
indicated that they will be submitting a letter of support for the bill.
AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) Public safety: Speeding vessels: lifeguard rescue vessels.
This bill is joint authored by Assemblymember Chris Ward and co-sponsored by the City of San
Diego. The measure was passed out of the Assembly on March 7 on a unanimous vote. As it stands,
each house is diligently working through their respective measures. It is anticipated that this bill will
not be heard in the Senate Public Safety Committee until mid-to-late May, after the majority of
Senate bills have made it through their house of origin policy committees. RPPG, City staff and the
City of San Diego continue to negotiate with the California State Sheriffs Association on technical
amendments specific to situational operating speeds of public safety vessels. It is anticipated that we
will be able to come to a consensus.
CALIFORNIA GAS REBATE
The details of the Governor's $11 billion gas price relief package was released in March. The
proposal includes:
• $400 rebates per registered vehicle
• $750 million in incentive grants to transit and rail agencies to provide free transit for
Californians for 3 months
• Up to $600 million to pause a part of the sa les tax rate on diesel for one year
• $523 million to pause the inflationary adjustment to the gas and diesel excise tax rates
In order to stop the gas tax's inflation adjustment from taking effect on July 1, lawmakers would need
to pass legislation by Sunday, May 1 as an early-action budget item. This is unlikely to happen as
lawmakers have not introduced or amended any legislation despite the Administration and
Department of Finance having prepared bill language.
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CARE COURT STAKEHOLDER ROUNDTABLES
CARE Court is a proposed framework to deliver mental health and substance use disorder services
to the most severely impaired Californians who too often languish -suffering in homelessness
CARE Court is an upstream diversion to prevent more restrictive conservatorships or incarceration;
this is based on evidence which demonstrates that many people can stabilize, begin healing, and
exit homelessness in less restrictive, community-based care settings. The 5-Step process would
include:
• Referral -An individual with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder may be referred to the
court by a family member, behavioral health provider, first responder, or other approved
party.
• Clinical Evaluation -An evaluation will be conducted and a supporter provided. The Court
will review the clinical evaluation and make a determination if a Care Plan is warranted.
• Care Plan -If the Court determines that an individual meets the criteria, a Care Plan is
developed by the County behavioral health department, participant, and the appointed
supporter that includes housing, medication, and treatment for up to 12 months.
• Support-Treatment will begin with regularly scheduled reviews and updates to the Care Plan
as needed.
• Success -Successful completion and graduation by the Court. Participant remains eligible for
ongoing treatment, supportive services, and housing in the community to support long term
recovery.
On April 25, Governor Newsom hosted a coalition of stakeholders to discuss and gather support for
the CARE Court proposal. The coalition included members of California's Big City Mayors, the
National Alliance on Mental Illness, California Professional Firefighters, the California Medical
Association, and the California Hospital Association, among others.
COVID-19 RENTAL RELIEF
AB 2179 by Assemblymember Grayson is a gut and amend that extends, through June 30, 2022,
procedural protections in the unlawful detainer process for residential tenants and mobile home park
residents facing eviction for nonpayment of rent that accumulated due to COVID-19 hardship,
provided they applied for government rental assistance before April 1, 2022, but have not yet had a
final decision issued on their applications. The bill moved swiftly first being heard in the Assembly
Judiciary Committee. On March 31, Acting Governor Eleni Kounalakis signed AB 2179 that extends
eviction protections for Californians participating in rental assistance programs, making her the first
woman in California's history to sign a piece of legislation into law.
WATER CONSERVATION AND DROUGHT PREPAREDNESS
The Governor and the Legislature have invested $5.2 billion over three years to support the
immediate drought response and build water resilience statewide. The budget includes funding to
secure and expand water supplies; bolster drought contingency planning and multi-benefit land
repurposing projects; support drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, with a focus on small
and disadvantaged communities; advance Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
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implementation to improve water supply security and quality; and support wildlife and habitat
restoration efforts, among other nature-based solutions.
In an executive order signed on March 28, the Governor ordered the State Water Resources Control
Board (SWRCB) to evaluate the adoption of regulations banning irrigation of "non-functional" turf
(or grass), such as decorative grass adjacent to large industrial and commercial buildings. The ban
would not include residential lawns or grass used for recreation, such as school fields, sports fields
and parks. The Department of Water Resources estimates this ban alone will result in potential
water savings of several hundred thousand acre-feet. An acre-foot of water serves the needs of
approximately three households for a year.
LOOKING FORWARD
Upon returning from spring recess, the next two and half months will move quickly. By mid-May
Governor Newsom will submit his May Revision budget proposal with updated general fund
revenues, expenditures, and reserve estimates based on the latest economic forecast, and changes
in population, caseload, or enrollment estimates. This is considered the beginning of active budget
negotiations between lawmakers and the Administration which must be voted on by June 15, 2022.
Lawmakers will take a month off in July for their summer recess prior to the last month of session.
When they return it will be a race to the finish as all pending legislation will have to be acted on by
August 31, 2022.
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Priority Legislation April 26, 2022
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Brown Act
AB 1944 (lee) Local government: open and public meetings (Amended: 4/18/2022)
RPPG
Exhibit 2
The Ralph M. Brown Act contains specified provisions regarding the timelines for posting an agenda and providing for
the ability of the public to observe and provide comment. The act allows for meetings to occur via teleconferencing
subject to certain requirements, particularly that the legislative body notice each teleconference location of each
member that will be participating in the public meeting, that each teleconference location be accessible to the public,
that members of the public be allowed to address the legislative body at each teleconference location, that the
legislative body post an agenda at each teleconference location, and that at least a quorum of the legislative body
participate from locations within the boundaries of the local agency's jurisdiction. The act provides an exemption to the
jurisdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined. This bill would require the agenda to identify any member
of the legislative body that will participate in the meeting remotely. The bill would also require an updated agenda
reflecting all of the members participating in the meeting remotely to be posted, if a member of the legislative body
elects to participate in the meeting remotely after the agenda is posted.
Status: Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. Hearing on 4/27 /22
Client Position:
AB 2449 (Rubio, Blanca) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences (Introduced: 2/17/2022)
Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with specified
teleconferencing requirements in specified circumstances when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other
situations related to public health. This bill would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying
with those specified teleconferencing requirements if at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body
participates in person from a singular location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated
within the local agency's jurisdiction. The bill would impose prescribed requirements for this exception relating to
notice, agendas, the means and manner of access, and procedures for disruptions. The bill would require the legislative
body to implement a procedure for receiving and swiftly resolving requests for reasonable accommodation for
individuals with disabilities, consistent with federal law.
Status: Referred to Com. on L. GOV. Hearing on 5/4/22
Client Position:
SB 1100 (Cortese) Open meetings: orderly conduct (Amended: 4/7/2022)
Current law requires every agenda for regular meetings of a local agency to provide an opportunity for members of the
public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, before or during the legislative body's
consideration of the item, that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. Current law authorizes the
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legislative body to adopt reasonable regulations to ensure that the intent of the provisions relating to this public
comment requirement is carried out, including, but not limited to, regulations limiting the total amount of time
allocated for public testimony on particular issues and for each individual speaker. Current law authorizes the members
of the legislative body conducting the meeting to order the meeting room cleared and continue in session, as prescribed,
if a group or groups have willfully interrupted the orderly conduct of a meeting and order cannot be restored by the
removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting. This bill would authorize the presiding member of the
legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for disrupting the meeting. The bill would define
disrupting for this purpose.
Status: Senate Floor -Third Reading file
Client Position:
Cannabis
SB 1186 (Wiener) Medicinal Cannabis Patients' Right of Access Act (Amended: 3/29/2022)
Would enact the Medicinal Cannabis Patients' Right of Access Act, which would prohibit a local jurisdiction from
adopting or enforcing any regulation that prohibits the sale of, or otherwise imposes unreasonable restrictions on the
safe and affordable sale of, medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers by medicinal
cannabis businesses, as defined. The bill would prohibit regulations that unreasonably restrict, among other things, the
operating hours or the number or frequency of sales of medicinal cannabis businesses. This bill would authorize a local
jurisdiction to adopt and enforce regulations limiting the sale of medicinal cannabis to delivery only. The bill would
provide that the act may be enforced by an action for writ of mandate brought by a medical cannabis patient or their
primary caregiver, a medicinal cannabis business, the Attorney General, or any other party otherwise authorized by law.
Status: 4/20/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on (Appropriations]
(PASS)
Client Position:
Children, Youth and Recreation
AB 1737 (Holden) Children's camps: local registration and inspections (Amended: 4/20/2022)
Current law requires the State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards
for organized camps. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt minimum fire safety regulations for organized
camps. Current law requires local health officers to enforce building standards relating to organized camps and the other
rules and regulations adopted by the State Public Health Officer. Current law defines organized camp for these purposes,
as a site with a program and facilities established for the primary purposes of providing an outdoor group living
experience with social, spiritual, educational, or recreational objectives, for 5 days or more during one or more seasons
of the year, except as specified. Current law requires the Director of Public Health to consider the Camp Standards of the
American Camping Association when adopting rules and regulations pursuant to these provisions. This bill would include
children's camps within the definition of organized camps and would define children's camp as a camp that offers
daytime or overnight experiences administered by adults who provide social, cultural, educational, recreational, or
artistic programming to more than 5 children between 3 and 17 years of age for 5 days or longer during at least one
season, except as specified.
Status: Passed Com. on PUB. S. Hearing 4/26/22
Client Position: Oppose
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AB 1789 (Bennett) Outdoor recreation: California Recreational Trails System Plan: California Trails Commission: Trails
Corps Program: grant program.(Amended:4/6/2022)
Current law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Parks and Recreation, which is under
the control of the Director of Parks and Recreation. Current law requires the director to cause to be prepared, and
continuously maintained, a comprehensive plan for the development and operation of a statewide system of recreation
trails, which is known as the California Recreational Trails System Plan. Current law requires the plan to be continuously
reviewed, revised, and updated by the director. Current law requires the director to submit a report every 2 years to the
Legislature describing the progress in carrying out the plan, as provided. This bill would require the director, on or
before January 1, 2024, to prepare and provide to the Legislature a full update of the plan.
Status: 4/7 /2022-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
AB 2346 (Gabriel) Outdoor recreation: Outdoors for All Program (Amended: 4/19/2022)
Would establish in the Natural Resources Agency the Outdoors for All Program to support access to natural or cultural
resources for at-risk youth, outdoor environmental educational experiences for underserved and at-risk populations,
and equitable access to parks and outdoor spaces for all Californians. This program would encompass the existing
Outdoor Equity Grants Program and Youth Community Access Program, as well as the Californians Outside Program,
established by this bill, to provide grants to an eligible entity, as defined, for projects that provide transportation to
outdoor spaces, outdoor-related recreation, outdoor physical activity programming, outdoor education, natural
resources workforce development, and communications related to water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and other
outdoor pursuits.
Status: Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W.; Hearing on 4/26/22
Client Position:
AB 2465 (Bonta, Mia) Pupil instruction: third-grade literacy: literacy grant programs: multilingual and dual language
immersion educators: libraries (Amended: 4/18/2022)
Current law authorizes the creation of library districts to establish, equip, and maintain public libraries for the
dissemination of knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature. Current law establishes in the state government
an agency known as the California State library. This bill would, contingent on an appropriation, require the department
to develop and implement a competitive grant program to award funds to local educational agencies, library districts,
and public libraries for the purpose of providing a library card to every public school pupil enrolled in the local
educational agency, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to encourage all
residents to use California state libraries, regardless of immigration status, and the department to provide information
on its internet website about legal assistance and guidance to undocumented pupils, immigrants, and their families.
Status: Passed Assembly Education; Re-referred to Com. on Appropriations
Client Position:
RPPG
Elections, Political Reform and Redistricting
AB 1416 (Santiago) Elections: ballot label (Amended: 1/27/2022)
Current law defines the ballot label as the portion of the ballot containing the names of the candidates or a statement of
a measure. For statewide measures, current law requires the Attorney General to prepare a condensed version of the
ballot title and summary, including the fiscal impact summary prepared by the Legislative Analyst that is printed in the
state voter information guide. This bill would additionally require the ballot label for statewide measures, and, at the
option of a county, the ballot label or similar description on the ballot of county, city, district, and school district
measures, to include a listing of nonprofit organizations, businesses, or individuals taken from the signers or the text of
ballot arguments printed in the voter information guide that support and oppose the measure, as specified. The bill
would require a nonprofit organization, business, or individual to meet certain criteria before being listed on the ballot
label or similar description of the measure on the ballot.
Status: 2/1/2022-ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position:
AB 2582 (Bennett) Recall elections: local offices (Introduced: 2/18/2022)
Current law requires a recall election to include the question of whether the officer sought to be recalled shall be
removed from office and an election for the officer's successor in the event the officer is removed from office. This bill
would instead require a recall election for a local officer to include only the question of whether the officer sought to be
recalled shall be removed from office. If a local officer is successfully removed from office in a recall election, the bill
would provide that the office becomes vacant and would require it to be filled according to law.
Status: Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. Hearing on 4/27 /22
Client Position:
Energy
SB 379 (Wiener) Residential solar energy systems: permitting (Amended: 1/12/2022)
Current law requires a city or county to approve administratively applications to install solar energy systems through the
issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Current law requires every city, county, or city and
county to develop a streamlined permitting process for the installation of small residential rooftop solar energy systems,
as that term is defined. Current law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential
and commercial solar energy system. Current law creates the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission (Energy Commission) in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes its duties, which include administering
programs for the installation of solar energy systems.This bill would require every city, county, or city and county to
implement an on line, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time for a
solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and an energy
storage system, as defined, paired with a solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current
nameplate rating.
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 1.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time.
Held at Desk.
Client Position:
RPPG
SB 833 (Dodd) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022 (Amended: 3/21/2022)
Current law assigns the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission various duties, including
applying for and accepting grants, contributions, and appropriations, and awarding grants consistent with the goals and
objectives of a program or activity the commission is authorized to implement or administer. This bill, the Community
Energy Resilience Act of 2022, would require the commission to develop and implement a grant program for local
governments to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience objectives and state
clean energy and air quality goals.
Status: 4/4/2022-April 4 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Client Position:
SB 884 (McGuire) Electricity: expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program (Amended:
4/7/2022)
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical
corporations. Under current law, it is the policy of this state to achieve, whenever feasible and not inconsistent with
sound environmental planning, the undergrounding of all future electric and communication distribution facilities that
are proposed to be erected in proximity to designated state scenic highways and that would be visible from those
highways if erected above ground. The commission's existing Electric Tariff Rule 20 establishes policies for the
undergrounding of electrical facilities and includes, among other programs, the Rule 20A undergrounding program that
requires electrical corporations to convert overhead electrical facilities to underground facilities when it is in the public
interest for specified reasons. This bill would require the commission to establish an expedited utility distribution
infrastructure undergrounding program, and would authorize a large electrical corporation, as defined, to participate in
the program by submitting to the commission, on or before July 1, 2023, a plan that identifies the undergrounding
projects that it will construct as part of the program, including time lines for the completion of those undergrounding
projects.
Status: 4/20/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on (Appropriations)
(PASS)
Client Position:
Environmental and Climate
AB 1001 (Garcia, Cristina) Environment: mitigation measures for air quality impacts: environmental justice (Amended:
3/22/2022)
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a
project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that
effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the
environment. This bill would require mitigation measures, identified in an environmental impact report or mitigated
negative declaration to mitigate the adverse effects of a project on air quality of a disadvantaged community, to include
measures for avoiding, minimizing, or otherwise mitigating for the adverse effects on that community. The bill would
require mitigation measures to include measures conducted at the project site that avoid or minimize to less than
significant the adverse effects on the air quality of a disadvantaged community or measures conducted in the affected
disa dvantaged community that directly mitigate those effects.
Status: 3/22/2022-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second
time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.
RPPG
Client Position:
AB 1985 (Rivas, Robert) Organic waste: list: available products (Introduced: 2/10/2022)
Current law requires, no later than January 1, 2018, the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a
comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a reduction in statewide emissions of methane by 40%,
hydrofluorocarbon gases by 40%, and anthropogenic black ca rbon by 50% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law
requires the methane emissions reduction goals to include a 50% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of
organic waste from the 2014 level by 2020 and a 75% reduction by 2025. Current law requires the Department of
Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic
waste reduction goals, including a requirement intended to meet the goal that not less than 20% of edible food that is
currently disposed of be recovered for human consumption by 2025. This bill would require the department to compile
and maintain on its internet website a list, organized by ZIP Code, of information regarding persons or entities that
produce and have available in the state organic waste products and update the list at least every 6 months.
Status: 3/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com . on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent
Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
AB 2142 (Gabriel) Income taxes: exclusion: turf replacement water conservation program (Amended: 4/6/2022)
Current law provides an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate or voucher from a local water
or energy agency or supplier for the purchase or installation of a water conservation water closet, energy efficient
clothes washers, and plumbing devices, as specified. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1,
2022, and before January 1, 2027, under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, provide an
exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive issued by a public
water system, as defined, local government, or state agency for participation in a turf replacement water conservation
program.
Status: 4/7 /2022-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Client Position:
AB 2160 (Bennett) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: fees (Amended: 3/29/2022)
The California Coastal Act of 1976 provides for the certification of local coastal programs by the California Coastal
Commission. The act prohibits the commission, except as provided, from exercising its coastal development permit
review authority, as specified, over any new development within the area to which the certified loca l coastal program,
or any portion thereof, applies. Current law requires a local government, if it has been delegated authority to issue
coastal development permits, to recover any costs incurred from fees charged to individual permit applicants. Current
law authorizes the loca l government to elect to not levy fees, as provided. This bill would, at the request of an applicant,
as defined, for a coastal development permit, authorize a city or county to waive or reduce the permit fee for specified
projects. The bill would authorize the applicant, if a city or county rejects a fee waiver or fee reduction request, to
submit the coastal development permit application directly to the commission.
Status: 4/5/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 4). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
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AB 2593 (Boerner Horvath) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: blue carbon projects: new development:
greenhouse gas emissions (Amended: 4/18/2022)
The California Coastal Act of 1976, among other things, requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any
development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any
local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit from the
California Coastal Commission, as provided. This bill would require the commission to require an applicant with a project
that impacts coastal wetland, intertidal, or marine habitats or ecosystems seeking a coastal development permit to
mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by building or contributing to a blue carbon project, as defined.
Status: 4/19/2022-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
SB 45 (Portantino) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals: local jurisdiction assistance
(Amended: 1/3/2022)
Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources
Board, to adopt regulations to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board for 2020 and
2025, as provided. Current law requires the department, no later than July 1, 2020, and in consultation with the state
board, to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government, and local governments have made in achieving
these organic waste reduction goals. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the state board, to
provide assistance to local jurisdictions, including, but not limited to, any funding appropriated by the Legislature in the
an nual Budget Act, for purposes of assisting local agencies to comply with these provisions, including any regulations
adopted by the department.
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time.
Held at Desk.
Client Position:
SB 54 (Allen) Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act (Amended: 2/25/2021)
Would establish the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, which would prohibit producers of single-use,
disposable packaging or single-use, disposable food service ware products from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or
importing in or into the state such packaging or products that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2032, unless they
are recyclable or compostable.
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time.
Held at Desk.
Client Position: Support letter submitted in 2021.
SB 867 (Laird) Sea level rise planning: database (Introduced: 1/24/2022)
Current law requires the Natural Resources Agency, in collaboration with the Ocean Protection Council, to create,
update biannually, and post on an internet website a Planning for Sea Level Rise Database describing steps being taken
throughout the state to prepare for, and adapt to, sea level rise. Current law further requires that various public
agencies and private entities provide to the agency, on a biannual basis, sea level rise planning information, as defined,
that is under the control or jurisdiction of the public agencies or private entities, and requires the agency to determine
the information necessary for inclusion in the database, as prescribed. Current law repeals these provisions on January
1, 2023.This bill would extend the sunset date for the above provisions until January 1, 2028.
Status: Assembly; Pending referral
Client Position:
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AB 2387 (Garcia, Eduardo) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention. Drought Preparation. Flood Protection, Extreme
Heat Mitigation. and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2022 (Amended: 3/21/2022)
Would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat
Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $7,430,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance
projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation,
and workforce development programs.
Status: Passed Com. on NAT. RES.
Client Position:
Government Operations and Economic Development
AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath) Public swimming pools: lifeguards (Amended: 3/7/2022)
Would authorize a local public agency that is certified by the United States Lifesaving Association to use qualified
lifeguard personnel, as defined, to provide lifeguard services and aquatic instruction at a public swimming pool if certain
requirements are met.
Status: 4/18/2022-From Consent Calendar. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position: Sponsor
AB 2164 (Lee) Disability access: funding (Amended: 3/23/2022)
The federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the California Building Standards Code require that specified
buildings, structures, and facilities be accessible to, and usable by, persons with disabilities. Current law establishes a
Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, within the Division of the State
Architect for purposes of increasing disability access and compliance with construction-related accessibility
requirements and developing educational resources for businesses to facilitate compliance with federal and state
disability laws, as specified. This bill would expand the purpose of the fund to include providing financial assistance to
small businesses, as defined, for construction of physical accessibility improvements.
Status: Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
Client Position:
SB 1044 (Durazo) Employers: state of emergency or emergency condition: retaliation (Amended: 3/23/2022)
Would prohibit an employer, in the event of a state of emergency or an emergency condition, as defined, from taking or
threatening adverse action against any employee for refusing to report to, or leaving, a workplace within the affected
area because the employee feels unsafe. The bill would also prohibit an employer from preventing any employee from
accessing the employee's mobile device or other communications device for seeking emergency assistance, assessing
the safety of the situation, or communicating a person to confirm their safety. The bill would require an employee to
notify the employer of the state of emergency or emergency condition requiring the employee to leave or refuse to
report to the workplace, as specified. The bill would clarify that these provisions are not intended to apply when an
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to the workplace, the worker, or the worker's home have ceased.
Status: 4/4/2022-April 4 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Client. Position:
Homelessness/Tenant Protections
AB 2211 (Ting) Shelter crisis: homeless shelters (Introduced: 2/15/2022)
Current law, among other things, exempt s from the California Environmental Quality Act specified actions by a state
agency or a city, county, or city and county relating to land owned by a local government to be used for, or to provide
financial assistance to, a homeless shelter constructed pursuant to these provisions, and provides that homeless shelters
constructed or allowed pursuant to these shelter crisis declarations are not subject to specified laws, including the
Special Occupancy Parks Act. Current law defines a homeless shelter as a facility with overnight sleeping
accommodations, the primary purpose of which is to provide temporary shelter for the homeless that is not in existence
after the declared shelter crisis. Current law provides that a temporary homeless shelter community may include
supportive and self-sufficiency development services and that a homeless shelter includes a parking lot owned or leased
by a city, county, or city and county specifically identified as one allowed for safe parking by homeless and unstably
housed individuals. Current law repeals these provisions as of January 1, 2026. This bill would remove the repea l date
from these provisions. This bill would provide that a city, county, or city and county is in a shelter crisis if the number of
unsheltered homeless persons that comprises the total homeless population within the jurisdiction of the city, county,
or city and county is greater, as a percentage, than the combined average of the 49 states in the United States not
including California, as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as specified.
Status: Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.; Hearing on 4/27 /22
Client Position:
AB 2325 (Rivas, Luz) Coordinated homelessness response: Office of the lnteragency Council on
Homelessness.(Amended: 4/25/2022)
Would place the California lnteragency Council on Homelessness under the jurisdiction of the Office of the lnteragency
Council on Homelessness, w hich the bill would establish within the Governor's office, under the control of a director, on
or before September 30, 2023. The bill would require the Governor to appoint a director of the office to perform
specified duties and responsibilities in con nection with overseeing the work of the office. The bill would specify the
primary purposes of the office, which would include coordinating homeless ness programs, services, data, and policies.
The bill would require stat e agencies and departments with representatives on the council, or workgroups established
by the council, to report to and coordinate with the director of the office and would require the direct or to coordinate
with the chairs of the council.
Status: 4/20/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Client Position:
AB 2339 (Bloom) Housing element: emergency shelters: regional housing need (Introduced: 2/16/2022)
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term
general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes a housing element. Current law requires
that the housing element identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing,
mobile homes, and emergency shelters, and make adequate provision for the existing and projected needs of all
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economic segments of a community. Current law also requires that the housing element include an analysis of potential
and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income
levels. This bill would revise the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with zoning
designations that allow residential use, including mixed use, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use
without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. The bill would prohibit a city or county from establishing overlay
districts to comply with these provisions.
Status: Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. 4/27 /22
Client Position:
SB 513 (Hertzberg) Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services (Amended: 1/3/2022)
Current law establishes the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program, under the administration of the
Department of Housing and Community Development and requires the department to, among other things, provide
rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services to ensure housing affordability to people who are
experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness. This bill would require the department, subject to an
appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless
shelters, as described, for the provisio n of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people
experiencing homelessness.
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time.
Held at Desk.
Client Position: Support
Housing, Land Use and Planning
AB 500 (Ward) Local planning: coastal development: streamlined permitting .(Amended: 8/31/2021)
The Coastal Act generally requires each local government lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone to prepare a
local coastal program for that portion of the coastal zone within its jurisdiction. Ths bill would require a local
government lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone that has a certified land use plan or a fully certified loca l
coastal program to adopt, by January 1, 2024, an amendment to that plan or program, as applicable, specifying
streamlined permitting procedures in nonhazardous zones for the approval of (1) accessory dwelling units or junior
accessory dwelling units, consistent with specified requirements relating to the rental of those units (2) projects in which
a specified percentage of the units will be affordable to lower income households or designated for supportive hous ing,
as those terms are defined, and (3) Low Barrier Navigation Centers, as defined. The bill would require that the
amendment be submitted to, and processed and approved by, the commission consistent with the above-described
requirements for the amendment of a local coast al program.
Status: 9/10/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(15). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/9/2021)(May be
acted upon Jan 2022)
Client Position: Oppose
AB 916 (Salas) Zoning: accessory dwelling units: bedroom addition (Amended: 1/3/2022)
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that regulate the
use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes.This bill
would prohibit a city or county legislative body from adopting or enforcing an ordinance requiring a public hearing as a
condition of adding space for additional bedrooms or reconfiguring existing space to increase the bedroom count within
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an existing house, condominium, apartment, or dwelling. The bill would include findings that ensuring adequate housing
is a matter of statewide concern and is not a municipal affair, and that the provision applies to all cities, including
charter cities. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Status: 1/27 /2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for
assignment.
Client Position:
AB 1445 (Levine) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts (Amended: 1/3/2022)
Would, commencing January 1, 2025, require that a council of governments, a delegate subregion, or the Department of
Housing and Community Development, as applicable, additionally consider among these factors emergency evacuation
route capacity, wildfire risk, sea level rise, and other impacts caused by climate change.
Status: 2/1/2022-ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position:
AB 1748 (Seyarto) Exempt surplus land: regional housing need (Amended: 4/6/2022)
Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Current law provides that an
agency is not required to follow the requirements for disposal of surplus land for exempt surplus land, except as
provided. Current law categorizes as exempt surplus land, surplus land that a local agency is transferring to another
local, state, or federal agency for the agency's use. This bill would add to the definition of exempt surplus land, surplus
land that is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential units, if residential properties within a radius of 500 feet of the site
are zoned to have an allowable density of fewer than 30 dwelling units per acre and the most recent annual progress
report, as described, submitted by the city or county that owns the surplus land shows that the total number of low-
income and very low income housing units built within the city or county meets or exceeds proportionate annual
progress toward the number of those housing units needed to meet the city's or county's share of regional housing need
for the 6th cycle of its housing element, as described.
Status: 4/20/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.
Client Position:
AB 2053 (Lee) The Social Housing Act (Amended: 4/6/2022)
Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independent state body,
the mission of which would be to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the
gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets, as specified. The bill would prescribe a
definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other
entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed by the authority would be owned by the authority. The
bill would prescribe the composition of the California Housing Authority Board, which would govern the authority, and
would be composed of appointed members and members who are elected by residents of social housing developments,
as specified. The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of the authority and the board. The bill would provide that
the authority is bound to revenue neutrality, as defined, and would require the authority to recover the cost of
development and operations over the life of its properties through the mechanism of rent cross-subsidization, as
defined.
Status: 4/20/2022-VOTE: Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
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AB 2063 (Berman) Density bonuses: affordable housing impact fees (Amended: 3/29/2022)
Current law requires the amount of a density bonus and the number of incentives or concessions a qualifying developer
receives to be pursuant to a certain formula based on the total number of units in the housing development, as
specified. Current law prohibits affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees and in-lieu fees, from
being imposed on a housi ng development's affordable units. This bill would prohibit affordable housing impact fees,
including inclusionary zoning fees, in-lieu fees, and public benefit fees, from being imposed on a housing development's
density bonus units, unless the city, county, or city and county has adopted a local density bonus ordinance or
established a local housing program on or before January 1, 2022, that allows for a density bonus of at least 50% for any
for-sale or rental housing development containing restricted affordable units that dedicates a specified percentage of
units for extremely low, very low, low-, or moderate-income households.
Status: 4/20/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
(April 20).
Client Position:
AB 2094 (Rivas, Robert) General plan: annual report: extremely low-income housing (Introduced: 2/14/2022)
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its
boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law requires the planning agency of a city or
county to provide an annual report to certain specified entities by April 1 of each year that includes, among other
information, the city or county's progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and local efforts to remove
governmental constraints to the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing, as specified. This bill would
additionally require a city or county's annual report to include the locality's progress in meeting the housing needs of
extremely low income households, as specified.
Status: 4/20/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
AB 2097 (Friedman) Residential and commercial development: remodeling, renovations, and additions: parking
requirements (Introduced: 2/14/2022)
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its
physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other
mandatory elements, a land use element and a conservation element. This bill would prohibit a public agency from
imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement, or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement, on
residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within one-half mile of
public transit, as defined. When a project provides parking voluntarily, the bill would authorize a public agency to
impose specified requirements on the voluntary parking. The bill would prohibit these provisions from reducing,
eliminating, or precluding the enforcement of any requirement imposed on a new multifamily or nonresidential
development to provide electric vehicle supply equipment installed parking spaces or parking spaces that are accessible
to persons with disabilities.
Status: 4/20/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.
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AB 2234 (Rivas, Robert) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits (Amended: 4/6/2022)
Would require a public agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase
permit, as defined, to post an example of an ideal application and an example of an ideal complete set of
postentitlement phase permits for the_ most common housing development projects in the jurisdiction, and to make
those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would define public
agency for these purposes to mean a city, county, or city and county. No later than January 1, 2024, except as specified,
the bill would require a public agency to require permits to be applied for, completed, and stored through a process on
its internet website, and to accept applications and related documentation by electronic mail until that internet website
is established. The bill would require the internet website or electronic mail to list the current processing status of the
applicant's permit by the public agency, and would require that status to note whether it is being reviewed by the
agency or action is required from the applicant.
Status: 4/20/2022-VOTE: Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development)
(PASS)
Client Position:
AB 2328 (Flora) Local ordinances: home experience sharing (Introduced: 2/16/2022)
Current law defines "hosting platform" as a marketplace that is created for the primary purpose of facilitating the rental
of a residential unit, as specified. This bill would prohibit a city or county from prohibiting or effectively prohibiting the
use of property as a home experience sharing unit. The bill would define "home experience sharing unit" as a privately
owned, noncommercial property or residential dwelling unit that is rented partially for a fee for a period of fewer than
18 continuous hours and that does not provide sleeping accommodations to transients. The bill would authorize a city or
county to reasonably regulate home experience sharing units to protect the public's health and safety, as specified. This
bill contains other related provisions.
Status: 3/3/2022-Referred to Corns. on L. GOV. and JUD.
Client Position:
AB 2357 (Ting) Surplus land (Amended: 4/5/2022)
Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, as defined, and requires, except
as provided, a local agency disposing of surplus land to comply with certain notice requirements before disposing of the
land or participating in negotiations to dispose of the land with a prospective transferee, particularly that the local
agency send a notice of availability to specified entities that have notified the Department of Housing and Community
Development of their interest in surplus land, as specified. Under current law, if the local agency receives a notice of
interest, the local agency is required to engage in good faith negotiations with the entity desiring to purchase or lease
the surplus land. This bill would also require the department to maintain on its internet website a listing of all entities,
including housing sponsors, that have notified the department of their interest in surplus land for the purpose of
developing low-and moderate-income housing.
Status: 4/20/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.
Client Position:
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SB 897 (Wieckowski) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units (Amended: 4/18/2022)
The Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation
of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to
impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape,
architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. This bill would require that the standards imposed on accessory
dwelling units be objective. For purposes ofthis requirement, the bill would define objective standard as a standard that
involves no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified.
Status: Senate Appropriations.
Client Position: Oppose
SB 1032 (Becker) Clean Energy Infrastructure Authority Act (Amended: 4/7/2022)
Would create the Clean Energy Infrastructure Authority as a public instrumentality of the state for the purpose of
leading the state's efforts to build critical clean energy infrastructure necessary to enable the state to transition to 100%
clean energy, as specified. The bill would require the authority to do any and all things necessary or proper to
accomplish that purpose. The bill would authorize the authority, among other things, to identify and establish corridors
for the transmission of electricity within the state, to coordinate, investigate, plan, prioritize, and negotiate with entities
within and outside the state to establish interstate transmission corridors, to finance, plan, develop, acquire, own,
maintain, sell, or operate electrical transmission infrastructure and transmission-related energy storage systems, to
exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property or rights-of-way for public use, to issue bonds as necessary to
undertake electrical transmission infrastructure or transmission-related energy storage system projects, and to act as
the lead agency for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act and other environmental reviews, as specified.
Status: 4/19/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred
to Com. on GOV. & F. April 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Client Position:
SB 1105 (Hueso) San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentally Friendly Affordable Housing Finance Agency
(Amended: 4/18/2022)
The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Agency to raise,
administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined, and provide technical
assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing
production. This bill, the San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentally Friendly Housing Act, would establish the
San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentally Friendly Affordable Housing Agency and would state that the
agency's purpose is to increase the supply of equitable and environmentally friendly housing in the County of San Diego
by providing for significantly enhanced funding and technical assistance across the regional level for equitable and
environmentally friendly housing projects and programs, equitable housing preservation, and rental protection
programs, as specified. The bill would require a board composed of 6 voting members from the County of San Diego, as
specified, to govern the agency.
Status: 4/20/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
(PASS)
Client Position:
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SB 1338 (Umberg) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program (Amended: 4/7/2022)
The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act provides for short-term and longer-term involuntary treatment and conservators hips for
people who are determined to be gravely disabled. This bill would enact the Community Assistance, Recovery, and
Empowerment (CARE) Act, which would authorize specified people to petition a civil court to create a CARE plan and
implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, stabilization
medication, and housing support to adults who are suffering from schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorders and
who lack medical decision making capacity. The bill would specify the process by which the petition is filed and
reviewed, including requiring the petition to be signed under penalty of perjury, and to contain specified information,
including the acts that support the petitioner's belief that the respondent meets the CARE criterion.
Status: 4/20/2022-Re-referred to Corns. on JUD., HEALTH, and HUMAN S.
Client Position:
SB 970 (Eggman) Mental Health Services Act (Amended: 4/18/2022)
The Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November
2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund (MHSF), a continuously appropriated
fund, to fund various county mental health programs, including children's mental health care, adult and older adult
mental health care, prevention and early intervention programs, and innovative programs. Current law authorizes the
MHSA to be amended by a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature if the amendments are consistent with, and further
the intent of, the MHSA. The MHSA establishes the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission
and requires the counties to prepare and submit a 3-year program and expenditure plan, and annual updates, as
specified, to the commission and the department. This bill would amend the MHSA by, instead, requiring the counties to
prepare and submit 5-year program and expenditure plans, and annual updates, as specified.
Status: 4/18/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com.
on HEALTH.
Client Position:
Public Safety and EMS
AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) Vessels: public safety activities (Amended: 2/28/2022)
Current law generally regulates the operation of vessels and associated equipment used, to be used, or carried in vessels
used on waters subject to the jurisdiction of the st ate. Current law provides specified exemptions to the above-
described provision, including for a vessel whose owner is a state or subdivision thereof, that is used principally for
governmental purposes, and which is clearly identifiable as such. This bill would define subdivision thereof or subdivision
of the state to include cities and counties.
Status: 3/17 /2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for
assignment.
Client Position: Sponsor
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AB 2062 (Salas) Local law enforcement hiring grants {Introduced: 2/14/2022)
Would, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act and until January 1, 2029, require the
Board of State and Community Corrections to establish a grant program to provide $50,000,000 in grants to local law
enforcement agencies to incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved
communities and to live in the communities that they are serving. The bill would require grant funds to be used to
provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved
communities that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the
peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work. The bill would require local law enforcement agencies
that receive grants to report specified information to the board annually and would require the board to report to the
Legislature and the Governor's office on the efficacy of the program, as prescribed, on or before July 1, 2028.
Status: 3/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent
Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
AB 2294 (Jones-Sawyer) Diversion for repeat retail theft crimes (Amended: 4/18/2022)
Current law requires a peace officer to release a person who has been arrested for a misdemeanor after securing that
person's promise to appear, as specified, unless certain conditions are met for nonrelease, including, among others,
there is reason to believe that the person would not appear as required or there was a reasonable likelihood that the
offense or offenses for which the person was arrested would continue or resume. This bill, until January 1, 2026, would
include in the reasons for non release that the person has been cited, arrested, or convicted for misdemeanor or felony
theft from a store in the previous 6 months and that there is probable cause to believe that the person arrested is guilty
of committing organized retail theft.
Status: 4/20/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 19). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
SB 1000 (Becker) Law enforcement agencies: radio communications (Amended: 3/16/2022)
Current law establishes the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) to make specified criminal
justice databases, including individual criminal histories, wanted and missing persons, and stolen firearms, vehicles, and
property, available to participating law enforcement agencies. Current law prohibits unauthorized access to CLETS and
the unlawful use of CLETS information by authorized users. Current law authorizes the Attorney General to adopt
policies, procedures, and practices related to the use of CLETS. These rules require a participating agency to restrict
access to CLETS and define access as the ability to see or hear any information obtained from CLETS. This bill would
require a law enforcement agency, including the California Highway Patrol, municipal police departments, county
sheriff's departments, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police
departments, to ensure public access to the radio communications of that agency, as specified.
Status: 4/19/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 19). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
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SB 1038 (Bradford) Law enforcement: facial recognition and other biometric surveillance (Introduced: 2/15/2022)
Current law, until January 1, 2023, prohibits a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from installing,
activating, or using any biometric surveillance system in connection with an officer camera or data collected by an
officer camera. Current law allows a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief against a law
enforcement agency or officer who violates this prohibition. This bill would extend these provisions indefinitely.
Status: 3/16/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position:
Bond Measures
AB 411 (Irwin) Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2022 (Amended: 1/24/2022)
Existing law, the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2014 (the 2014 bond act), authorizes the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $600,000,000, as specified, for expenditure by the California Housing Finance
Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide
housing to veterans and their families pursuant to the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevent ion Act of 2014
(VHHPA).This bill would enact the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2022 to authorize the
issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $600,000,000 to provide additional funding for the VHHPA. The bill would
provide for the handling and disposition of the funds in the same manner as the 2014 bond act. Th is bill contains other
related provisions.
Status: 2/1/2022-ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position:
Transportation and Public Works
AB 1622 (Chen) Smog check program: catalytic converter theft (Introduced: 1/10/2022)
Existing law establishes a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program, commonly known as the smog check
program, that is administered and enforced by the Department of Consumer Affairs. The smog check program requires
inspection of motor vehicles upon initial registration, biennially upon renewal of registration, upon transfer of
ownership, and in certain other circumstances. Among other things, the smog check program requires the department
to provide a licensed smog check station with a sign informing customers about options when their vehicle fails a
biennial smog check inspection. Existing law requires the sign to be posted conspicuously, as provided, and requires the
sign in all licensed smog check stations. Existing regulations implement this requirement. A person who violates these
laws, including any order, rule, or regulation of the department adopted pursuant to these laws, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.This bill would require the department to provide a licensed smog check station with a sign informing
customers about strategies for deterring catalytic converter theft, including the etching of identifying information on the
catalytic co nverter. The bill would require the sign to be posted conspicuously in an area frequented by customers and
would require it in all licensed smog check stations. The bill would also authorize stations where licensed smog check
technician repairs are performed to offer and recommend to customers the etching as an optional service provided in
conjunction with the smog check. Because the department would adopt regulations implementing the new
requirements and a violation of these regulations would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Status: 1/24/2022-Coauthors revised.
Client Position: Watch
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AB 1717 (Aguiar-Curry) Public works: definition (Introduced: 1/27/2022)
Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined
by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Current law defines the
term "public works" for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction,
alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as
specified. Current law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a
misdemeanor. This bill would expand the definition of "public works" to include fuel reduction work paid for in whole or
in part out of public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project, as specified.
Status: 3/17 /2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 16). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
AB 1740 (Muratsuchi) Catalytic converters.(lntroduced: 1/31/2022)
Current law requires a core recycler, as defined, who accepts a catalytic converter for recycling to maintain a written
record of specified information regarding the transaction, including the item type and quantity, amount paid for the
catalytic converter, and identification number, if any, and the vehicle identification number, for not less than 2 years.
Current law makes it a crime to violate these requirements. This bill would additionally require a core recycler to
maintain a written record ofthe year, make, and model of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed.
Status: 4/5/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
AB 2237 (Friedman) Transportation planning: regional transportation improvement plan: sustainable communities
strategies: climate goals (Amended: 4/18/2022)
Current law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans
directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Current law requires each regional
transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning
organization. Current law requires the Strategic Growth Council, by January 31, 2022, to submit a report to the relevant
policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature that includes, among other things, an overview of those sustainable
communities strategies, an assessment of how implementation of those sustainable communities strategies will
influence the configuration of the statewide integrated multimodal transportation system, and a review of the potential
impacts and opportunities for coordination of specified funding programs, including the Affordable Housing and
Sustainable Communities Program. This bill would require the council, in consultation with the State Air Resources
Board, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Transportation Agency, to convene a task
force to review the roles and responsibilities of metropolitan planning organizations and to define sustainable
community.
Status: 4/19/2022-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Client Position:
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AB 2953 (Salas) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials
(Amended: 3/17/2022)
Would require the Department of Transportation and a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway, to the
extent feasible and cost effective, to use advanced technologies and material recycling techniques that reduce the cost
of maintaining and rehabilitating streets and highways and that exhibit reduced levels of greenhouse gas emissions
through material choice and construction method. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2024, 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, as specified. The bill would exempt cities and counties
whose revenues do not exceed specified thresholds from these requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies,
this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Status: 4/19/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
SB 922 (Wiener) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.(Amended:
4/4/2022)
CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements bicycle transportation plans for an urbanized area for
restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection
operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles under certain conditions. This bill would specify
that the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area or urban cluster, as designated by the
United States Census Bureau. The bill would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan in
an urbanized area or urban cluster. The bill would define active transportation plan and pedestrian plan. The bill would
specify that individual projects that are a part of an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan remain subject to the
requirements of CEQA unless those projects are exempt by another provision of law.
Status: 4/19/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position:
SB 932 (Portantino) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans.
(Amended: 3/23/2022)
Current law states the Legislature's intention that a county or city general plan and the elements and parts of that
general plan comprise an integrated, internally consist ent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting agency.
This bill would emphasize the intent of the Legislature to fight climate change with these provisions.
Status: 3/30/2022-Set for hearing April 26.
Client Position:
Water
AB 2106 (Rivas, Robert l Water quality: permits.(Amended: 3/15/2022)
The State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water
quality and prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge
elimination system (NP DES) permit program established by the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water
Quality Control Act. Current law requires each regional board to formulate and adopt water quality control plans for all
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areas within the region, as provided. This bill would require, on or before December 31, 2024, the state board to
modernize its Stormwater Multiple Application and Report Tracking System (SMARTS) database through specified
actions.
Status: 3/23/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. {Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 22). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
SB 1157 (Hertzberg) Urban water use objectives: indoor residential water use (Introduced: 2/17/2022)
Current law requires the Department of Water Resources, in coordination with the State Water Resources Control
Board, and including collaboration with and input from stakeholders, to conduct necessary studies and investigations
and authorizes the department and the board to jointly recommend to the Legislature a standard for indoor residential
water use. Current law, until January 1, 2025, establishes 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor
residential water use. Existing law establishes, beginning January 1, 2025, the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a
standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and
beginning January 1, 2030, establishes the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the
department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. This bill would eliminate the option of using
the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily and the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily, as applicable, or a standard
recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use.
Status: 4/19/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position:
City of Carlsbad Legislative Subcommittee
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April 29, 2022
Legislative Calendar
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April18—Legislature reconvened from Spring Recess.
April 29 –Last day for policy committees to hear and report on fiscal bills.
Early May—Governor will present “May Revision” of his FY22-23 budget
proposal.
May 27—House of origin deadline last day for bills introduced in 22’ to
advance to the opposite house.
June 30 -FY22-23 Budget Must be signed by the Governor.
City Sponsored Legislation
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AB 1672 –Lifeguard Certification Equivalency
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Introduced on January 20, AB 1672 by Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath will allow for lifeguard certification by the United State’s Lifesaving Association (USLA) be permitted to work as lifeguards at city operated swimming pools.
•Bill was amended on March 7 to address concerns raised by USLA.
•RPPG continues to meet with committee members, consultants and stakeholders.
•Amended on Assembly Floor.
AB 1682 –Water Vessels Speed Limit Exemption
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Introduced on January 24, AB 1682 is joint authored by Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath and Assemblymember Chris Ward. This bill will exempt City water vessels from the current 5 mile per hour speed limit requirement.
City of San Diego is a co-sponsor.
Next Steps: •Meet with committee members and consultants in the Senate.•Continue to build support coalition and meet with stakeholders.•Bill was on consent in the Assembly. •In Senate Rules Committee awaiting referral.
2022/2023 Budget Requests
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2022/2023 State Budget: Funding Requests
Ahead of the May Revise, it is estimated tax revenues will be $65 billion higher than forecasted in January. Key budget asks for local agencies include:
$500 million for New Housing and Economic Development Program•Would encourage State-Local Partnerships to make significant investments in:•Affordable Housing
•Public Infrastructure
•Economic Development
$933.5 million for Unfunded State Mandates•Over $933 million is owed to local governments for state mandated local programs.
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Administration Proposals
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CARE COURT
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SB 1338 (Umberg & Eggman) Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Court
This bill details the CARE COURT proposal to get people with mental health and substance
use disorders the support and care they need and out of jails and the streets.
•Court Ordered Care Plan and Supporter can be provided for up to 24 months.
•Individualized Care Plan –CARE COURT will connect a person with a care team that can
include a housing plan, stabilizing medication, and supportive services.
•All counties will participate in CARE COURT under the bill. The Court will have the ability to
order sanctions if counties do not meet specified criteria.
Status: Heard in Senate Judiciary (4/26) and Senate Health (4/27)
Bills of Interest
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2022 Legislation: Mental Health
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SB 970 (Eggman) MHSA Outcomes and Accountabiity Act
This bill would amend the Mental Health Services Act to establish measurable outcomes that
address top public priorities and allow county goals to drive spending.
Status: Senate Health
SB 1416 (Eggman) Redefining Gravely Disabled
This bill would update the definition of grave disability to includes one’s ability to provide for their
medical care and own personal safety and protection. The current definition is so narrowly
interpreted it leaves out those who are at great risk of harm to their inability to live safely in the
community.Status: Senate Appropriations
2022 Legislation: Housing and Land Use
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SB 897 (Wieckowski) Accessory Dwelling Units
This bill would increase the maximum height limitation that may be imposed by a local agency on
an accessory dwelling unit to 25 feet ministerially.This bill would provide that the construction of an
accessory dwelling unit does not constitute an occupancy change under the local building code.
The bill would also prohibit the construction of an accessory dwelling unit from triggering a
requirement that fire sprinklers be installed in the proposed or existing primary dwelling.City Position:Oppose
Status:Senate Appropriations
AB 2097 (Friedman) Parking Requirements
This bill would prohibit a public agency from imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement,
or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement,on residential,commercial,or other
development if the development is located on a parcel that is within one-half mile of public transit,
as defined.When a project provides parking voluntarily,the bill would authorize a public agency to
impose specified requirements on the voluntary parking.
City Position:OpposeStatus:Assembly Appropriations
2022 Legislation: Housing and Land Use
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SB 1105 (Hueso) San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentlally Friendly Affordable Housing
Finance Agency (SD REEF)
This bill would create and a new regional authority that covers all of San Diego County and the
cities in the County.
•Creates the governance structure:
•One appointee and alternate appointed by the Mayor of San Diego
•One appointee and alternate appointed by the Board of Supervisors
•On member and alternate from the SANDAG east county,north county coastal,
north county inland and the south county subregions.
•Governing Board would be authorized to:
•Place revenue measures on the ballot,incur dept,hire staff and apply for grants,
among others
•Establishes how funding will be expended.
•50%would go to SD Reef
•50%would go to eligible jurisdictionsStatus: Senate Appropriations hearing postponed
2022 Legislation: Housing and Land Use
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AB 2011 (Wicks) The Affordable Housing and High Road Job Act of 2022
This bill would create a ministerial streamlined approval process for 100% affordable housing in
commercially-zoned areas and for mixed-income housing along commercial corridors.
•Ensures certain wage and labor standards will be met including being paid at least
prevailing wage.
•For projects of 50 or more units, contractors must either participate in a state approved
apprenticeship program or request workers from such a program and provide health
benefits.
•Enforcement mechanisms will be instilled to ensure payroll and benefit requirements are
being met.
•There is a potential for a reduction in sales tax revenue and TOT from the loss of
commercial properties.
Status: Passed Assembly Housing 4/27; Re-referred to Rules Committee
2022 Legislation: Transportation
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AB 1833 (Ward)San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board: North County Transit District: Public Contracting
This bill would make various changes to bidding thresholds for MTS, NCTD and SANDAG to
align with the federal thresholds.Status: Assembly Appropriations
AB 2367 (Ward) SANDAG Regional Transportation Plans
This bill would clarify and specify that SANDAG may implement every component of its
regional transportation plan.Status:Assembly Second Reading
AB 2953 (Salas)Streets and Highways:Recycled Materials
This bill would require Caltrans and local agencies that have jurisdiction over a street or
highway to use to the extent possible recycled materials.Status:Assembly Appropriations
2022 Legislation: Climate Resiliency
AB 2142 (Gabriel) Income Tax: Turf Replacement Water Conservation ProgramThis bill would reinstate a turf replacement rebate exemption from gross income that sunset in 2019.Status: Assembly Revenue and Taxation
AB 2237 (Friedman) Regional Transportation Plans: Climate GoalsThis bill strips away regional and local flexibility to meet greenhouse gas emission targets. This bill would require the Air Resources Board to determine if projects outlined in a reginal transportation plan is consistent with the State’s climate goals and reallocate funding for projects that are found to be inconsistent.Status: Assembly Appropriations
SB 1157 (Hertzberg) Urban Water Use ObjectivesThis bill would reduce residential water use to 47 gallons per capita daily from January 1, 2025 -January 1, 2030, and then to 42 gallons per capita daily.City Position: OpposeStatus:Assembly
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2022 Legislation: Public Safety
SB 1000 (Becker) Law Enforcement: Radio CommunicationsThis bill would require a law enforcement agency to ensure public access to radio communications.Status: Senate Appropriations
SB 1186 (Wiener) Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access
This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from banning or imposing restrictions on the sale of medicinal cannabis.Status: Senate Appropriations
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2022 Legislation: Brown Act
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AB 1944 (Lee)Local government: open and public meetingsThis bill was amended 4/18 to: •State that if an official is participating from a public place, that the official must publicize their address and make it available to the public in accordance with current law. •States that there is an exemption from posting an official’s physical location if the official is participating from a private location. •Specifies that in exchange for the use of hybrid meetings, the local jurisdiction shall provide two-way teleconferencing for members of the public. •This bill would sunset in 2030.Status:Will be heard in Assembly Local Government May 4,2022
AB 2294 Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences This bill would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with thosespecifiedteleconferencingrequirementsifatleastaquorumofthemembersofthelegislativebodyparticipatesinpersonfromasingularlocationclearlyidentifiedontheagendathatisopentothepublicandsituatedwithinthelocalagency’s jurisdiction.Status: Will be heard in Assembly Local Government May 4, 2022
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