HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-07-12; City Council Legislative Subcommittee; ; Legislative and Advocacy UpdateCity Council Legislative Subcommittee
Meeting Date:
To:
From:
Item 3:
July 12, 2022
City Council Legislative Subcommittee
Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
Legislative and Advocacy Update
{city of
Carlsbad
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 and budget 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 Submitted to Committees and/or Legislative Offices
• 2022-23 State Budget Request to support the Vitality of Cities
• SB 54 (Allen): Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act -Support
• SB 443 (Hertzberg): Emergency medical services (EMS): prehospital EMS -Support
• SB 513 (Hertzberg) Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services -Support
• SB 833 (Dodd): Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022 -Support
• SB 897 (Wieckowski): Accessory Dwelling Units -Oppose
• SB 932 (Portantino): General plan: circulation element: bike, ped, traffic calming -Oppose
• SB 1105 (Hueso): SD Regional Affordable Housing Finance Agency-Oppose
• SB 1157 (Hertzberg): Indoor Residential Water Use -Oppose Unless Amended
• SB 1186 (Wiener): Medicinal Cannabis Patients' Right of Access Act -Oppose
• SB 1338 (Umberg): CARE Court Program -Support
• SB 1466 (Stern): Affordable Housing and Com Dev Investment Program (Held by Author)
• AB 500 (Ward) Loca l 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 1789 (Bennett): Outdoor recreation: California Recreational Trails System Plan -Support
• AB 1944 (Lee and C. Garcia): Local Government -Open and Public Meetings -Support
• AB 2097 (Friedman): Residential and Commercial Parking Requirements -Oppose
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• AB 2179 (Grayson): Development Fees -Oppose {Gut and Amend to COVID-19 Tenant
Relief)
• AB 2449 (Rubio): Open Meetings -Local Agencies -Teleconferencing-Support
• AB 2838 (O'Donnell): Electrical Corporations -Green Tariff Program -Oppose Unless
Amended
• AB 2953 {Salas): Department of Transportation and Local Agencies -Oppose Unless
Amended
At its meeting on June 14, 2022, the Subcommittee requested that staff prepare a letter of
support for AB 1946 (Boerner Horvath): E-Bike Safety Education and Training; however, the bill
passed out of its final policy committee that same day and was passed on the Senate Consent
Calendar on June 30, 2022. The bill now returns to the Assembly for a concurrence vote. Once
the Assembly votes to ·concur in the amendments made in the Senate, staff will prepare and
submit to the Governor's office, a request for signature letter urging Governor Newsom to sign
the measure into law.
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 -June 2022
2. Priority Legislation List -July 6, 2022
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July 6, 2022
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To: Mayor Matt Hall, Legislative Subcommittee Member
Councilmember Teresa Acosta, Legislative Subcommittee Member
Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
City of Carlsbad
From: Sharon Gonsalves, Director of Government Affairs
Renne Public Policy Group
Re: Legislative Monthly Report
JUNE MARKED KEY DEADLINE FOR BILLS IN THE SECOND HOUSE
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Exhibit 1
June closed out a busy several months of fiscal and legislative deadlines for the Administration and
Legislature, including the deadline for all bills to pass through policy committees in the second
legislative chamber as well as for lawmakers and the Governor coming to and signing a budget
agreement.
Policy Committee Deadline
To date for this second year of the legislative session, 260 bills have been chaptered, 2 have been
vetoed, 61 are enrolled and awaiting the Governor's signature or veto, 1800 failed, and 1625 continue
to make their march through the legislative process in August.
Legislative Timing and Key Dates:
July 1 Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(14)).
Summer Recess begins upon adjournment, provided Budget Bill has been passed (J.R. 51(b)(2)).
July 4 Independence Day.
Aug. 1 Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J.R. 51(b)(2)).
Aug. 12 Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(15)).
Aug. 15 -31. Floor session only. No committee may meet for any purpose except Rules Committee,
bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rules 77.2, and Conference Committees (J.R. 61(b)(16)).
Aug. 25 Last day to amend bills on the floor (J.R. 61(b)(17)).
Aug. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills (Art. IV, Sec l0(c), J.R. 61(b)(18)). Final Recess begin
upon adjournment (J.R. 51(b)(3)).
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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. The
bill is currently on the suspense file in the Senate Appropriations Committee. RPPG will spend the
legislative summer recess meeting with the committee consultant, key staff to members who serve
on the committee, the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Health.
AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) Public safety: Speeding vessels: lifeguard rescue vessels.
This measure sponsored by the City of Carlsbad will be heard on the Senate floor upon the
legislature's return from summer recess after passing the Senate Public Safety with a bipartisan
unanimous vote of 5-0. This bill would exempt vessels clearly identifiable as lifeguard rescue vessels
and vessels engaged in public safety activities from the speed limit imposed on machine-propelled
vessels operating in certain areas. Both the respective Democrat and Republican caucuses have a
support recommendation on the measure and RPPG will spend the summer recess ensuring that
adequate votes are in place.
2022/2023 STATE BUDGET
On June 30, 2022, RPPG provided a comprehensive summary of the State's Fiscal Year 2022-2023
budget-highlighting areas of interest to the City and to local government in general (Attachment 1).
The $308 billion state budget included:
• Inflation relief. $9.5 billion in tax rebates for 23 million Californians.
• Reproductive rights. Investing over $200 million in reproductive care, including making a
company's willingness to move out of anti-choice states and to California a factor in awarding
state business tax credits.
• Climate Investments. $53.9 billion in new investments in fire protection, drought response,
and forging an oil-free future.
• Homelessness. $2.2 billion for CARE Court and additional funding for the Homeless Housing,
Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program .
• Energy. $4.3 billion energy package.
• Public Safety. Funding for a permanent Smash and Grab Enforcement Unit to fight retail theft
and announcing the state is launching the largest gun buyback program in the nation.
• K-16 Education. $170 billion for K-16 education, including $7.9 billion to help with learning
recovery, more investments in higher education, an additional $2 billion for affordable
student housing (on top of last year's $2 billion), and $3.5 billion that schools can use on arts,
music, and more.
• Mental Health. Funding for youth suicide reporting and prevention.
• Transportation. $14.8 billio.n in transportation infrastructure investments, including funding
for rail and transit projects, climate adaptation projects, walking and bicycling projects, high-
speed rail, our ports, and investing to speed up transition to zero-emission vehicles.
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BALLOT MEASURES
For years, the State has been making incremental changes to reduce plastics by banning single use
plastic bags in 2016 and straws in 2019. On June 30th, SB 54 by Senator Allen (D, Santa Monica) was
signed into law after several years of stakeholder negotiations and multiple failed legislative
attempts. The final agreement was a compromise between the plastics industry, environmentalists,
local government and key legislative members who were negotiating to the very day a bill could be
amended and be in print for 72 hours before a vote took place.
The bill will create an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program for printed paper and plastic
packaging, require certain reductions and eliminations in single-use plastic packaging, promote reuse
or refill systems and implement eco-modulated fees and environmental justice provisions. It also will
require all plastic packaging in the state to reach a 30% recycling rate by 2028, increasing to 65% by
2032. The proponents of a ballot measure that was set to appear on the ballot for the 2022 General
Election, promptly removed the measure on June 30, the last day for a measure to be removed.
LOOKING FORWARD
The Legislature is currently on break for summer recess for the remainder of July and come back
August 1 to finish out this two-year session to pass bills before the August 3l51 deadline to send any
bills to Governor Newsom. When they return, all bills with a fiscal component will be heard in their
respective Appropriations committee with measures having an August 12 deadline to pass out of this
committee. After that, only floor session may meet. This month moves rapidly, with last minute gut
and amends common. RPPG will be proactively screening all measures for these 12th hour
amendments and will alert the City as appropriate to any concerning proposals that emerge.
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June 30, 2022
To: Mr. Scott Chadwick, City Manager
Mr. Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
City of Carlsbad
From: Sharon Gonsalves
Renne Public Policy Group
Re: FY 22-23 State Budget Final Summary
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Attachment A
On June 29th, the California State Senate and Assembly approved the 2022-2023 State Budget and is
now on the Governor Newsom's desk for signature. The following is a summary of the budget which
is expected to swiftly be signed later today.
FY 22-23 Budget Update Summary
The $300 billion budget adopted yesterday evening by lawmakers will provide refunds to most
taxpayers in the state. The deal moved swiftly after Governor Newsom and legislative leaders
announced the agreed upon deal Sunday evening.
Prior to Sunday, negotiations dragged on for several weeks as Newsom bargained with the
Democratic leaders of the state Senate and Assembly over whether to tie the tax relief to car
ownership; funding increases for universities, housing and social safety net programs; the details of
a major climate package; and a plan that would give state regulators more control in approving clean
energy projects. The State's $97 billion budget surplus presented opportunities for one-time
investments of key state priorities.
The centerpiece of the budget is the tax rebate that will benefit Californians to combat inflation in
the form in the increased costs from gas to groceries. The three-tier program would benefit an
estimated 23 million California taxpayers, including individual filers making as much as $250,000 and
joint filers making as much as $500,000, with low-and middle-income households set to receive
incrementally more money.
Although legislation sponsored by Governor Newsom, SB 1338 (Umberg), is still moving through the
legislature, the budget already sets aside $39.5 million for this coming year and $37.7 million in
ongoing annual funding to cover training, court costs and legal representation for the program,
known as CARE Court.
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2022-23 General Fund Summary
(in billions)
2021-22 2022-23
Available Resources $265.4 $242.2
Prop 98 Expenditures $83.7 $82.3
Non-Prop 98 Expenditures $159.3 $151.6
Total Expenditures $242.9 $234.4
Fund Balance $22.5 $7.8
(reserve for encumbrances) ($4.3) ($4.3)
Regular Reserve (SFEU) $18.2 $3.5
Safety Net Reserve $0.9 $0.9
Prop 98 Rainy Day Fund $7.3 $9.5
Rainy Day Fund $20.3 $23.3
Total Reserves $46.7 $37.2
Areas of Interest to Local Government
While this budget reflects just over $300 billion in spending, including just under $100 billion in
surplus funds, there is not much proposed investment by way of direct funding to municipalities.
However, we have identified the following investments to be of particular interest to loca l
government.
SB/ AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Summer Bridge Youth Employment Grant: $25 million to continue the Summer Bridge Youth
Employment Grant program through the remainder of the summer months.
• Golden State Award Program: $10 million for the Golden State Award program to provide
grants for innovations across the state.
• Women's Business Center Enhancement Program Grants: $8 million one-time funding for
Women's Business Center Enhancement Program Grants. Funds are available for
encumbrance and expenditure through June 30, 2025.
• Immigrant Integration and Business Initiatives: A total of $11.1 million for competitive
grants: $8.7 million to develop or expand local immigrant integration initiatives and $2
million to service providers to develop export training programs and curriculum aimed at
underserved business owners, including immigrant entrepreneurs.
• California Venues Grant Program: $15 million in California Emergency Relief Grant Funds to
expand the California Venues Grant Program to include independent theatres.
• California Small Agricultural Business Drought Relief Grant Program: $75 million from the
California Emergency Relief Grant Fund for the California Small Agricultural Business
Drought Relief Grant Program to be administered by the Governor's Office of Business and
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Economic Development. Funding is available for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30,
2024.
• Investment and Innovation Fund: Provides for the transfer of $50 million in General Fund to
the California Investment and Innovation Fund. Funds in this account will be used to provide
grants to Community Development Financial Institutions.
K-12 Education
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Mathematics Curriculum Framework: $150,000 provided to support the Mathematics
Curriculum Framework.
• Expanded Learning Opportunities Program: $4 billion ongoing Proposition 98 General Fund
for the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program.
• Teacher Residency Grant Program: $66 million re-appropriated for the Teacher Residency
Grant Program.
• Arts, Music, and Instructional Materials Discretionary Block Grant: $73 million re-
appropriated for the Arts, Music, and Instructional Materials block grant.
• Special Education Resources: $2 million included for inclusive resources for special
education families and communities.
• Teacher Examination Waivers: $24 million provided for General Fund backfill for the
Commission on Teacher Credentialing to cover teacher examination waivers.
• Classified School Employee Assistance Program: $90 million ongoing Proposition 98 General
Fund for the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program.
SB/AB 181: TK-12 Education Trailer Bill
• County Office of Education Support: Increasing the funding for county offices of education
by an overall ongoing $101.2 million Proposition 98 General Fund through their LCFF
allocation. Provides that charter schools and county offices of education that share the
same governing board as sc hool district can receive differentiated assistance from county
offices of education, and clarifies funding allocations for these purposes.
• California Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten and Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant
Program: Provides $650 million in one-time General Fund for the California Preschool,
Transitional Kindergarten and Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program. Grant funds
may be used to construct new school facilities or retrofit existing school facilities for the
purpose of providing transitional kindergarten classrooms, full-day kindergarten classrooms,
or preschool classrooms. Also clarifies that community colleges that operate preschool
programs on behalf of county offices of education or school districts can apply for funds in
this program.
• Community Engagement Initiative Expansion: $100 million one-time Proposition 98 General
Fund for the Community Engagement Initiative Expansion, which will be co-administered by
the California Collaborative for Education Excellence and the lead agency.
• Educationally Related Mental Health Services: Shifts funding for Educationally Related
Mental Health Services funds from Special Education Local Plan Areas to local educational
agencies, beginning in the 2023-24 fiscal year.
• Kitchen Infrastructure Grants: $600 million, one-time Proposition 98 General Fund for
kitchen infrastructure grants that will support local educational agencies in preparing for
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universal meals implementation, and the preparation of healthy, local, plant-based, and
dietary-restricted meals, as specified.
• Literacy Coaches Program: A one-time $250 million Literacy Coaches program, for intensive
literacy action plans in schools with at least 97 percent low-income student populations,
with minimum grant awards of $450,000 per school site, over five years. Funds are to hire
literacy coaches and implement evidence-based literacy action plans for students Preschool
through grade 3 and their families.
SB/ AB 182: TK-12 Education Learning Recovery Trailer Bill
• Learning Recovery Emergency Fund: Establishes a Learning Recovery Emergency Fund in the
State Treasury for the purpose of receiving appropriations for school districts, county offices
of education, charter schools, and community college districts related to the state of
emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
o TK-12 Initiatives: Fund provides $7.9 billion one-time Proposition 98 funding to TK-
12 local education agencies (LEA), for use through the 2027-28. Funds can be used
for instructional learning time, providing summer school or intersessional
instructional programs; Implementation, expansion, or enhancement of learning
supports; Addressing other barriers to learning, such as providing health, counseling,
or mental health services, school meals, or programs to address trauma.
o CCC Initiatives: Fund provides $650 million one-time Proposition 98 funding for the
California Community College COVID-19 Recovery Block Grant to assist with basic
needs, mental health needs, professional development opportunities for faculty and
student services professionals needed to continue educational instruction due to
COVID-19, investments to close the digital divide, and other COVID-19 related
support.
Early Education and Child Care
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Federal funds for childcare facilities: $100.5 million in one-time federal funds for childcare
facilities.
SB/AB 180: Amendment to 2021 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• California State Preschool Program: Provides an additional $1.1 million in General Fund to
cover costs of family fee waivers for the California State Preschool Program in the 2021-22
fiscal year.
• Community Schools Partnership Act: Makes technical amendments for reappropriated funds
for the Community Schools Partnership Act.
SB 127/AB 210: Early Childhood Education Trailer Bill
• Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program: Additional one-time $250 million to the
Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program at the Department of Education.
Higher Education
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SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
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Student Housing Revolving Loan Program: Includes intent language to provide $900 million
General Fund in the 2023 Budget Act, and an additional $900 million General Fund in the
2024 Budget Act, to establish a student housing revolving loan program for the University of
California, the California State University, and California Community Colleges, pursuant to
pending legislation.
Cal Grant Award: Increases the Cal Grant award amount for students attending private,
nonprofit institutions from $9,220 to $9,358 in academic year 2022-23 and each year
thereafter.
Cal Grant Support: Extends the supplemental Cal Grant support for foster youth and
students with dependent children to those attending private, nonprofit institutions in
academic year 2022-23 and each year thereafter.
First Star Foster Youth Cohort at CSUs: Clarifies that $1.48 million General Fund in 2022-23
to expand or establish a First Star Foster Youth Cohort at California State University
campuses will be selected through a competitive grant process by the Office of the
Chancellor of the CSU.
SB/AB 183: Higher Education Trailer Bill
• HireUP Program: Provides $30 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund to create the
Hire Up program, which supports up to 10 community college districts for a five-year pilot
program to provide funding for stipends to formerly incarcerated individuals, CalWORKs
recipients, and former foster youth.
Resources and Energy
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Climate-Energy Package: $19.3 billion Climate-Energy Package in 2022-23 appropriates a
total of $4.83 billion General Fund, as follows: Energy reliability, relief, and clean energy
investments, $2.49 billion; Wildfire and Forest Resilience, $320 million; Drought Response
and Resilience, $116.2 million; Extreme Heat, $150 million; Nature-Based Solutions, $594
million; 2022 Zero Emission Vehicles $500 million; Flexible Climate Set Aside, $661.2 million.
• John Muir Trail Project: $22.9 million General Fund to the California Natural Resources
Agency for a local assistance grant for John Muir Trail Projects.
• Allensworth Civic & Entrepreneurship Center: $1.6 million General Fund to the California
Natural Resources Agency for a local assistance grant to build the Allensworth Civic &
Entrepreneurship Center.
• State Coastal Conservancy for the Climate Ready Program: $120 million ($80 million
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) and $40 million General Fund) to the State Coastal
Conservancy for the Climate Ready Program for purposes of funding nature-based projects
to address sea level rise. Of this total funding, $30 million is directed towards projects in the
San Francisco Bay Area.
• California Cultural and Art Installations in the Parks Program: $25 million to Parks for the
California Cultural and Art Installations in the Parks Program.
• PFAS in Drinking Water Systems: $15 million General Fund to the State Water Resources
Control Board for grants, contracts, and direct expenditures for the purpose of addressing
Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water systems.
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• Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: $180 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the
Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for grants to local jurisdictions for
purpose of funding organic waste infrastructure projects.
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: $600 million in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)
for California Air Resources Board {CARB) for clean trucks, buses and off-road equipment,
including the administration of the Hybrid and Zero Emission Truck and Bus Voucher
Incentive Project (HVIP), and supporting advanced technology demonstration and pilot
commercial deployment projects.
• Charge Ahead Initiative: $76 million GGRF to CARB for a suite of equity transportation
programs established under the Charge Ahead Initiative, including Clean Cars 4 All Program.
• Zero Emission School Buses: $1.5 billion Proposition 98 General Fund to the CEC and CARB
for zero emission school buses.
SB/AB 180: Amendment to 2021 Budget Act Trailer Bill
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Climate-Energy Package 2021-22: Appropriates, for the Climate-Energy Package in 2021-22,
the following: Drought and Water Resilience, $1.14 billion General Fund and California
Emergency Relief Fund; Wildfire and Forest Resilience, $50 million General Fund; $619
million General Fund to support the transition to Zero Emission Vehicles and associated
infrastructure.
Department of Water Resources Local Assistance: Appropriates to the Department of Water
Resources from the California Emergency Relief Fund for local assistance, as follows: $200
million for Urban Water Community Drought Relief; $100 million for Small Community
Drought Relief; $75 million for Conservation for Urban Suppliers; $25 million for
Conservation for Small Suppliers; $75 million for Turf Replacement; $60 million for
Agriculture Drought Response Program and Delta Response Pilot; $10 million for Migratory
Bird Habitat.
SB 120/AB 203: Resources Trailer Bill
• Green Infrastructure Projects {Urban Greening Program): Financial Assistance: For purposes
of the Urban Greening Program, defines "special district," to mean an agency of the state,
formed pursuant to general law or a special act, for the performance of governmental or
proprietary functions, with limited geographic boundaries, including, but not limited to, a
school district and a community college district.
• Division of Boating and Waterways: Beach Erosion Control: Changes the declaration of
policy that the state bears half the costs of required local participation for beach erosion
control projects, as specified, to requiring the state to consider bearing half the costs of
required local participation for these beach erosion control projects, subject to the same
conditions.
SB 122/AB 203: Energy Trailer Bill
• Opt in Permitting: Allows specified clean energy projects to seek consolidated permitting at
the Energy Commission (CEC) by June 30, 2029, if they have adhere to labor standards and
provide community benefits.
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• Long Duration Energy Storage Program: Establishes the Long Duration Storage Program at
the Energy Commission to provide financial incentives for projects that have power ratings
of at least one megawatt and are capable of reaching a target of at least eight hours of
continuous discharge of electricity in order to deploy innovative energy storage systems to
the electrical grid.
SB 125/AB 208: Lithium Valley Trailer Bill
• Lithium Extraction Tax: Requires any person, beginning January 1, 2023, who extracts
lithium from geothermal fluid, spodumene ore, rock, minerals, clay, or any other naturally
occurring substance in this state to pay a lithium extraction excise tax upon each metric ton
of extracted lithium carbonate equivalent, as specified. Specifies that the tax is in lieu of all
county, municipal, or district taxes on lithium extraction or lithium storage, except as
provided.
• Lithium Extraction Excise Fund: Requires the State Controller to distribute 80 percent of the
moneys in the Lithium Extraction Excise Fund to counties in proportion to the amounts of
the taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts collected for lithium extraction within each
county and to deposit 20 percent of the moneys in the fund into the Lithium Subaccount
described above.
Health
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Youth Behavioral Health: $175 million General Fund to support youth behavioral health,
including the following:
o DHCS -$10 million for the School-Based Peer Mental Health Demonstration Project,
to provide grants to up to eight high schools to establish peer-to-peer support
programs.
o CDPH -$40 million to support a Youth Suicide Prevention Media Campaign and
Community-Based Organization Mini-Grant Program, no later than December 1,
2022.
• Workforce Development Programs for Behavioral Health: $275.1 million General Fund to
support workforce development programs for behavioral hea lth, public health, clinics and
primary care, including the following components:
o $26 million to increase the number of licensed behavioral health professionals
through grants to existing university or college behavioral health professional
training programs.
o $30 million to provide grants to public schools of social work to expand the number
of Masters of Social Work students.
o $5 million to support competitive grants to psychiatry graduate medical education
programs that prioritize medically underserved populations and areas.
o $14 million to support a loan repayment program for psychiatrists that agree to a
five year service commitment at DSH, and a one day a week rotation of service in
the loca l public behavioral health system.
o $8 million to support a Public Health Pathways Training Corps aimed at providing
fellowships for early career public health professionals and internships for students
from diverse backgrounds and disproportionately affected communities to conduct
public health activities at loca l health departments.
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o $20 million to support targeted recruitment and retention resources and financial
support to ensure clinicians and other health workers can receive abortion training.
• Dental Community-Based Clinical Rotations: $10 million General Fund to support
community-based clinical education rotations for dental students in their final year, or
dental residents.
• Community Clinics Providing Abortion Services: $14.8 million General Fund to support
supplemental payments to nonhospital community clinics that provide abortion services
and serve Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
AB/SB 184: Health Trailer Bill
• Shifts of Suicide Prevention Voluntary Contribution Fund Administration: Eliminates the
requirement that 50 percent of these funds be awarded as grants to provide suicide
prevention services to rural and desert communities and that 50 percent of the funds be
disbursed on a proportional basis to crisis centers based on the number of calls answered by
the crisis centers.
• Community-Based Mobile Crisis Intervention Services: Requires DHCS to seek federal
approval to provide Medi-Cal coverage for community-based mobile crisis intervention
services, including those that are furnished by a multidisciplinary mobile crisis team, as
specified, available 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and furnished to an individual
otherwise eligible for medical assistance under the state plan or waiver pursuant to
Medicaid provisions, who is outside of a hospital or other facility setting, and who is
experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis.
• Local Health Jurisdictions Public Health Plans: Requires each local health jurisdiction, by
December 30, 2023, and by July 1 every three years thereafter, as a condition of funding, to
submit a public health plan to CDPH that should be informed by the Community Health
Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan, including proposed evaluation
methods and metrics.
• Local Health Jurisdictions Base Grant: Requires that each LHJ receive a base grant of
$350,000, and requires the remaining funding be distributed based on population, poverty,
and demographics.
• Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSCOAC): Expands the
types of entities that qualify for these grants from just county and city health departments
to also include other local government agencies, community-based organizations, health
care providers, hospitals, health systems, childcare providers, and other entities.
SB/AB 186: Skilled Nursing Facilities Trailer Bill
• Skilled Nursing Facility Financing Reform: Establishes a new Medi-Cal reimbursement rate
structure for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), authorized for calendar years 2023 through
2026.
Human Services
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Ca/WORKs Grants: Includes funding to increase CalWORKs grants levels by 21 percent
beginning October 1, 2022.
• SSP Grants: $150 million in 2022-23 to accelerate the SSP grant increase approved in the
2021 Budget Act.
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SB/AB 187: Human Services Trailer Bill
• California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) Expansion to Individuals 55 Years of Age or Older:
Makes an individual 55 years of age or older eligible for the California Food Assistance
Program (CFAP) if the individual's immigration status is the sole basis for their ineligibility
for CalFresh benefits through the CFAP.
• Tribal Nutrition Assistance Program: Establishes the Tribal Nutrition Assistance Program, to
be administered by the DSS. Subject to an appropriation, requires the DSS to award grants,
no later than July 1, 2023, to eligible tribes and tribal organizations to address food
insecurity and inequities between Cal Fresh benefits and FDPIR.
SB/AB 188: Developmental Services Trailer Bill
• Coordinated Family Support Services Pilot Program: Requires the department to establish a
Coordinated Family Support Services pilot program for adults with developmental
disabilities that reside in the family home.
Cannabis
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Cannabis Local Jurisdiction Retail Access Grant Program: Establishes the Cannabis Local
Jurisdiction Retail Access Grant Program, and will grant up to $20 million to local
jurisdictions that plan to expand cannabis retail access that currently do not have any
cannabis retail permitting programs.
SB/AB 195: Cannabis Trailer Bill
• Equity Fee Waivers Tax Retention: Allows equity retailers who have received an equity fee
waiver from the Department of Cannabis Control to retain 20% of the excise tax they
collect.
• Civil Penalties on Unlicensed Operations: Allows state and local governments to impose civil
penalties on individuals who knowingly rent, lease, or make available commercial properties
to facilitate unlicensed cannabis operations.
• State and Local Entity Communication Task Force: Establishes a task force on state and local
entity regulation of commercial cannabis activity to promote communication between state
and local entities engaged in the regulation of commercial cannabis activity and facilitate
cooperation to enforce applicable state and local laws.
Housing
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Encampment Resolution Grants: $300 million in 2022-23 and $400 million in 2023-24 for
Encampment Resolution grants, to help local governments with resolving critical
encampments and transitioning individuals into permanent housing. This includes funding
specifically for addressing encampments on state rights of way.
• Infill Infrastructure Grant Program: $200 million in 2022-23 for the Infill infrastructure Grant
Program. This includes $34 million set aside for small jurisdictions. The budget framework
includes an additional $225 million in 2023-24.
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• Legal Aid for Eviction Prevention: $30 million in 2022-23 to increase funding for legal aid to
prevent evictions.
SB/AB 180: Amendment to 2021 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Project Homekey: Additional $150 million from the General Fund for Project Homekey. This
will augment the roughly $1.4 billion already budgeted for this program in the 2021-22
budget.
SB/ AB 197: Housing Trailer Bill
• Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA): Grants a local government three years and 120
days from the statutory deadline for the adoption of its statutorily-required housing
element to complete the required rezoning of sites to comply with that housing element if
the statutory deadline for adoption of the 6th revision of the housing element was in the
2021 calendar year, the local government failed to adopt a housing element that the
Department of Housing and Community Development found to be in substantial compliance
with specified requirements, and the local government adopts its 6th revision of the
housing element that the department finds to be in substantial compliance within one year
of the applicable statutory deadline.
• Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Resident Ownership Program: Authorizes the
Department of Housing and Community Development to make loans or grants, as
applicable, for the additional purposes of reconstruction and replacement of mobile home
parks.
Public Safety
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
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CARE Court: $39.5 million for the Judicial Branch to implement Community Assistance,
Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court contingent on the passage of implementing
legislation
Home Hardening: Reappropriates up to $16,042,000 for community-wide home hardening .
Capacity Building Prisons Grant: s $20 million General Fund for a capacity building grant to
community-based organizations that provide programming for prisons.
Community Reentry Program: Adjusts the amount of budget year funding for the
Community Reentry Program from $75 million to $40 million, reflecting an agreement to
provide $120 million over three years.
Mobile Service Centers for Court Appearances: $20 million for grants to county probation
departments to implement mobile service centers to facilitate court appearances and
provide resources, particularly for unhoused probationers.
Peace Officer Wellness Grants: Increases the funding available for peace officer wellness
grants to $50 million.
SB/AB 200: Public Safety Trailer Bill
• Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) Realignment: Makes various statutory changes to facilitate
the closure of DJJ on June 30, 2023. Establishes the Flexible Assistance for Survivors Grant
Program in the Office of Emergency Services.
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• Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund: Adjusts the Community Corrections
Performance Incentives Fund to provide two years of stable funding to adjust for COVID-19
related impacts.
• Environmental Violations Grants: Authorizes the Secretary of Environmental Protections to
provide grants to qualifying community-based organizations to address environmental
violations that occur in or disproportionately impact disadvantaged communities and
develop trainings for community based nonprofit organizations, public prosecutors, and
others.
SB/AB 202: Public Safety Facilities Trailer Bill
• This bill modifies the amount of revenue bonds and notes that the State Public Works Board
may issue for local jail facilities that are approved by the Board of State and Community
Corrections to $740,445,397.
Workforce and Labor
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
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Apprenticeship Innovation Funding Program: $55 million for the Apprenticeship Innovation
Funding Program, which expands non-traditional apprenticeship programs and supports
additional apprentice activities. This agreement includes $60 million General Fund in each of
2023-24 and 2024-25 to fund the program.
Emerald Cities Collaborative for the California Youth Leadership Corps: $20 million General
Fund as advance payment and support to the Emerald Cities Collaborative for the California
Youth Leadership Corps for community change learn-and-earn career pathway programs at
20 selected community colleges over a four-year period. Includes Legislative intent to
provide $20 million in each of 2023-24 and 2024-25.
Low Carbon Economy Grant Program: $15 million General Fund in 2022-23 for support of
the Low Carbon Economy Grant Program.
SB/AB 191: Labor Trailer Bill
• Youth Apprenticeship Grant Program: Establishes the Youth Apprenticeship Grant Program
which would provide grants for the purpose of providing funding for existing apprenticeship
and preapprenticeship programs or to develop new apprenticeship and preapprenticeship
programs to serve the target population and satisfy the goals and objectives of the grant
program, as specified.
• Local Data Sharing: Authorizes EDD to exchange information with federal, state, or local
governmental departments and agencies that are concerned with the administration of
unemployment or disability insurance, and with other federal, state, or local departments or
agencies of government as necessary for the administration of provisions relating to
unemployment and disability compensation.
SB/AB 196: Memorandum of Understanding #1 Trailer Bill
• MOU Side Letters BU 13: This bill makes necessa ry statutory changes to ratify and
implement a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and MOU side letters between 13
bargaining units (BUs) and the state. Specifically, this bill ratifies the Memorandum of
Understanding with BU 13. This bill ratifies an MOU entered into between the state and BU
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13 on June 14, 2022, represented by the IUOE, notwithstanding the requirement for the
LAO to produce a fiscal analysis.
SB 130/AB 212: Memorandum of Understanding #2 Trailer Bill
• Public Safety Recognition Payment: This bill ratifies MOU side letter agreements entered
into between the state and BU 5 {CAHP) on June 9, 2022, BU 7 {CSLEA) on June 15, 2022,
and BU 8 {Cal FIRE Local 2881) on June 23, 2022. This bill includes a one-time payment of
$1,500 to employees who have served in-person supporting the delivery of public safety
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Health Care Facility Retention Payment: This bill ratifies an MOU side letter entered into
between the state and BU 6 {CCPOA) on June 15, 2022. This bill includes a one-time
payment of $1,500 to employees "who have been in-person supporting the delivery of care
and safety to the most acute patients during the COVID-19 pandemic."
SB 132/AB 129: Memorandum of Understanding #3 Trailer Bill
• MOU Side Letters BUs 16 and 18: This bill ratifies two MOU side letter agreements entered
into between the state and BU 16 {UAPD) on May 1, 2022 and BU 18 {CAPT) on May 3, 2022,
notwithstanding the requirement for the LAO to produce a fiscal analysis.
Transportation
SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Climate Adoptions State Highway System: $200 million in federal funding for climate
adaptation projects on the state highway system.
SB/AB 180: Amendment to 2021 Budget Act Trailer Bill
• Transportation Infrastructure: Provides $5.4 billion for a variety of investments in
transportation infrastructure. Includes $1.05 billion for the Active Transportation Program,
$200 million to help local jurisdictions plan and invest in adapting their transportation
infrastructure to climate change, and $150 million for planning and delivery of projects that
will inform the future conversion of underutilized highways into multimodal corridors that
serve existing communities.
SB/AB 198: Transportation Trailer Bill
• Highways to Boulevards Program: Creates the Highways to Boulevards program at Caltrans
to provide grants to local governments to plan and implement projects to work towards the
future conversion of key underutilized highways into multimodal corridors that serve
existing residents by developing affordable housing and complete streets features. The
program would provide 25 percent of available funds for planning activities, and 75 percent
for projects.
• Climate Adaption Program: Establishes three programs that are intended to fund activities
necessary to help the state and local governments identify and fund projects to adapt
transportation infrastructure to climate change. These include:
o The Transportation Infrastructure Climate Adaptation Strategy Grant Program,
which is designed to provide competitive grants to local agencies to plan for climate
adaptation. Funds can be used to identify transportation-related climate
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vulnerabilities through the development of climate adaptation plans, including
climate action plans, hazard mitigation plans, safety elements of required general
plans, and resilience improvement plans.
o The Local Transportation Infrastructure Climate Adaptation Project Program, which
would provide competitive grants to local agencies to support the development and
implementation of projects adapting local transportation infrastructure to climate
change.
o The State Transportation Infrastructure Climate Adaptation Program, which would
be designed to support the planning, developing, and implementing projects
adapting state transportation infrastructure to climate change.
Miscellaneous
SB/AB 189: General Government Trailer Bill
• Middle Mile Broadband Network: $550 million General Fund in 2023-24 and 2024-25 to
support the middle mile broadband network.
• Seismic Retrofit: Establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily
Housing and its associated housing fund and subsidiary account to provide financial
assistance to owners of multifamily housing for seismic retrofitting that have been
determined to be at risk of collapse in earthquakes. Prioritizes financial assistance to benefit
communities with high social vulnerability and communities with high concentrations of soft
story multi-family housing or in areas of high seismicity.
• Assessors IT Grant Program: Establishes the County Assessor's Grant Program from July 1,
2022, to June 30, 2025 and provides for a grant program to meet the information
technology needs of county assessors in administering the property tax system.
SB/AB 192: Tax ReliefTrailer Bill
• Better for Families Act: Establishes the Better for Families Act, a framework to provide
approximately $9.5 billion of payments to low-income and middle-income Californians in
order to provide financial relief for economic disruptions resulting from the COVID-19
emergency, such as the financial burdens of inflation and increasing costs for gas, groceries,
and other necessities.
SB/AB 193: Economic Development Trailer Bill
• Venture Capital Program: Establishes the Venture Capital Program within I-Bank under the
Small Business Act to, among other things to the extent permissible, acquire contract rights,
or make loans with respect to investment funds, investment fund management companies,
special purpose investment vehicles, trusts, nonprofit entities, small businesses, and other
private business entities.
• California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprises Program: Creates a competitive grant
program to provide grants through June 2024, to employment social enterprises within the
state of not more than $500,000 per grantee. Preferences for grants shall be given to areas
of the state with characteristics similar to the Inland Empire and the Central Valley, and are
led by individuals with lives experience, such as incarceration, homelessness, or substance
abuse.
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• California Small Business COV/D-19 Relief Grant Program: Redefines certain definitions of
the California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program including expanding the
definition of "qualified small business" to include divisions or departments of tribal
governments, cities, and counties, fiscally sponsored organizations, and organizations with
an annual gross revenue of up to $5,000,000, and would additionally define new terms.
• Local Government Budget Sustainability Fund: Creates the Local Government Budget
Sustainability Fund to provide grant funding for project support for county governments
with a goal of providing opportunities for revenue stability.
SB/AB 194: Revenue and Taxation Trailer Bill
• Diesel Tax Pause: Exempts the sales tax rate on diesel fuel beginning October 1, 2022,
through October 1, 2023.
• Payment Protection Program (PPP): Conforms to federal law by excluding from gross income
any covered loan amounts forgiven pursuant to the PPP Extension Act of 2021.
SB/AB 199: Courts Trailer Bill
• Remote Court Proceedings: Extends remote court proceedings until January 1, 2024, with
various limitations.
SB/AB 201: Earned Income Tax Young Child Credit Trailer Bill
• Young Child Tax Credit: Expand the definition of a "qualified taxpayer" to include an eligible
individual who has a qualified child and would have received the EITC, but has earned
income of zero dollars or less in the taxable year. Indexes the value of the YCTC to inflation.
SB 131/AB 213: Elections Trailer Bill
• Ballots: Makes findings and declarations that California voters will be asked to vote on a
number of constitutional and statutory amendments at the November 8, 2022 statewide
general election, and the importance to clearly identify those constitutional amendments
proposed by the Legislature.
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AB 2449 (Rubio, Blanca) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences. (Amended: 6/30/2022) Link
Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local
agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The
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 agencys jurisdiction. This bill would revise and recast those teleconferencing
provisions and, until January 1, 2026, would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with the
teleconferencing requirements that each teleconference location be identified in the notice and agenda and that each
teleconference location be accessible to the public if 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 local agencys jurisdiction. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: No Position
Calendar:
Notes: 5/24/22 SG: Subcommittee and Council took a support position. 5/26/22 SG: DRAFT letter of support sent to City.
5/31 AB: Submitted letter of support through the Legislative portal 06/14: Moved to no position as amended 6/28 DH:
Clarified neutral position in Sen Jud
SB 1100 (Cortese) Open meetings: orderly conduct. (Amended: 6/6/2022) Link
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 bodys
consideration of the item, that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. Current law authorizes the
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
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removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting. This bill would authorize the presiding mem ber of the
legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for disrupting the meeting.
Status: 6/22/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position:
Calendar:
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Cannabis
SB 1186 {Wiener) Medicinal Cannabis Patients Right of Access Act. {Amended: 6/29/2022) Link
Would enact the Medicinal Cannabis Patients Right of Access Act, which, on and after January 1, 2024, would prohibit a
local jurisdiction from adopting or enforcing any regulation that prohibits the retail sale by delivery within the local
jurisdiction of medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers by medicinal cannabis
businesses, as defined, or that has the effect of prohibiting the retail sa le by delivery within the local jurisdiction of
medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers in a timely and readily accessible manner
and in types and quantities that are sufficient to meet demand from medicinal cannabis patients within the local
jurisdiction, as specified. The bill, on and after January -1, 2024, would provide that the act may be enforced by an action
for writ of mandate brought by a medicinal cannabis patient or their primary caregiver, a medicinal cannabis business,
the Attorney General, or any other party otherwise authorized by law.
Status: 6/29/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Oppose
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes: 4/29 SG: Subcommittee took an oppose position 5/20 SG: Sent draft letter to City 5/31 AB: Submitted letter of
opposition through the Legislative portal 6/21 AS: Testified in Asm B+P in opposition 6/24 AB: Submitted letter of
opposition to the Assembly Judiciary and Senate Environmental Quality Committees through the Legislative portal
6/28/22 AS: Testified in opposition Asm Jud
Children, Youth and Recreation
AB 1737 (Holden) Childrens camps: safety. (Amended: 6/30/2022) Link
Existing law requires the State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards
for organized camps. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt minimum fire safety regulations for organized
camps. Existing law requires local hea lth officers to enforce building standards relating to organized camps and the other
rules and regulations adopted by the State Public Health Officer. Existing 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 socia l, spiritual, educational, or recreational objectives, for 5 days or more during one or more
seasons of the year, except as specified.This bill additionally would define childrens camp as a camp that offers daytime
or overnight experiences administ ered 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, except as specified. The bill
would exempt youth sports leagues and teams, and ca mps owned or operated by loca l education agencies, from the
definition of a childrens cam p.This bill contains other related provisions.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Oppose
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remove a majority of the registration and enforcement provisions from Cities and have shifted them to County Health
Departments. Most City run camps are exempt from the bill. However, there is still some ambiguity around the bills
provisions as it related registration requirement for camps operated by City libraries. 6/24 AB: Submitted letter of
opposition to the Senate Public Safety and Human Safety Committees through the Legislative portal 6/28/22 AS:
testified in Sen PS
AB 1789 (Bennett) Outdoor recreation: California Recreational Trails System Plan: State Park and Recreation
Commission. (Amended: 6/21/2022) Link
Current law requires the Director of Parks and Recreation 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 plan to include recommended priorities for
funding to improve and expand, among other things, non motorized natural surface trails, as provided. The bill would
require the director, among other things, on or before January 1, 2024, to prepare and provide to the Legislature a full
update of the plan. The bill would instead require the director to submit a report every 3 years following an update to
the plan to the Legislature describing the progress in carrying out the plan, as provided. The bill would make other
changes regarding the plan and the updates to the plan.
Status: 6/21/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Support
Calendar:
Notes: 5/10/22 SG: Subcommittee approved support position 5/27 /22 SG: Review amended bill at next subcommittee
meeting 6/20/22 SG: Bill on consent in Senate Natural Resources Committee 6/28/22 AB: Submitted letter of support to
the Appropriations Committee through the Legislative Committee and added to the clients folder
AB 2465 (Bonta, Mia) Pupil instruction: third-grade literacy: literacy grant program. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
Would create the Family and Community Literacy: Supporting Literacy and Bi literacy in Schools, Families, and
Communities Grant Program for the purpose of supporting the goal of all of Californias pupils reading at grade level by
third grade and engaging families at every stage of that process. The bill would require the department to award
competitive grants from the California Family Literacy Innovation Project to local educational agencies, as provided.
Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
Notes:
Elections, Political Reform and Redistricting
AB 1416 (Santiago) Elections: ballot label. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
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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, existing 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 measu res, 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. The bill would require the signers of the ballot arguments to
submit the lists of supporters and opponents to the Secretary of State or the respective elections official and would
require the Secretary of State or respective elections official to provide those lists to county elections officials as part of
the ballot label.
Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
Notes:
AB 2582 (Bennett) Recall elections: local offices. (Amended: 5/2/2022) Link
The California Constitution reserves to the electors the power to recall an elective officer and requires the Legislature to
provide for recall of local officers. 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 officers 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 loca l officer is removed from office in a recall
election, the bill would provide that the office is vacant until it is filled according to law.
Status: 6/22/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position:
Calendar:
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ACA 12 (Lee) Elections: nonpartisan office. (Introduced: 3/16/2022) Link
The California Constitution designates as nonpartisan all judicial, school, county, and city offices, including the
Superintendent of Public Instruction. The California Constitution prohibits including the political party preference of a
candidate for nonpartisan office on the ballot for the office.This measure would instead permit the political party
preference, or lack of a political party preference, of a candidate for nonpartisan office, except for judicial offices, to be
indicated on the ballot in the manner provided by statute.
Status: 4/25/2022-ln committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Client Position:
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SB 1131 (Newman) Address confidentiality: public entity employees and contractors. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
Current law authorizes reproductive health care service providers, employees, volunteers, and patients to complete an
application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to respond to
requests for public records without disclosing a program participants residence address contained in any public record
and otherwise provide for confidentiality of identity for that person, subject to specified conditions. Current law requires
an applicant seeking address confidentiality under this program due to their affiliation with a reproductive health care
services facility to provide a certified statement signed by a person authorized by the reproductive health care services
facility stating that the facility or any of its providers, employees, volunteers, or patients is or was the target of threats
or acts of violence within one year of the date of the application. Under current law, any person who makes a false
statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would authorize an applicant seeking address
confidentiality under this program to submit a certified statement by the employee, patient, or volunteer for a
reproductive health care services facility that they have been the target of threats, harassment, or acts of violence, or a
workplace violence restraining order issued because of threats or acts of violence connected with a reproductive health
care services facility, as specified, instead of a certified statement from a representative of the reproductive health care
services facility.
Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
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AB 2838 (O'Donnell) Electrical corporations: green tariff shared renewables program. (Amended: 6/22/2022) Link
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to require each electrical corporation with 100,000 or more
customer accounts in California to administer a green tariff shared renewables program to enable ratepayers to
participate directly in offsite electrical generation facilities that use eligible renewable energy resources, as specified.
Current law requires the commission to ensure that charges and credits associated with an electrical corporations
program are set in a manner that ensures nonparticipant ratepayer indifference for the remaining bundled service,
direct access, and community choice aggregation customers and ensures that no costs are shifted from participating
customers to nonparticipating ratepayers. This bill would authorize the commission, on and after April 1, 2023, to
authorize those electrical corporations to terminate their green tariff shared renewables programs.
Status: 6/22/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: oppose unless amended
Calendar:
Notes: 5/26/22 SG: Review bill for June subcommittee 5/31/22 SG: Bill was pulled from committee 6/7 /22 AB:
Submitted letter of opposition unless amended letter through the Legislative portal and emailed the City's legislative
delegation 6/15/22: Testified OUA Sen EUC; 6/30/22 SG: Cal CCA is removing their opposition
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SB 379 (Wiener) Residential solar energy systems: permitting. (Amended: 6/20/2022) Link
Would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that
verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time or allows the city, county, or city and county to issue permits in
real time for a residential solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current
nameplate rating and a residential energy storage system, as defined, paired with a residential solar energy system that
is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating.
Status: 6/29/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June
29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
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SB 833 (Dodd) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022. (Amended: 6/30/2022) Link
Current law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission. Current law assigns the 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 to award grants through a noncompetitive process
for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience objectives and
state clean energy and air quality goals.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Support
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes: 6/28 AB: Submitted letter of support to the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee through the Legislative
portal and added to the clients folder
SB 884 (McGuire) Electricity: expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program.
(Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
Would require the Public Utilities Commission to establish an expedited utility distribution infrastructure
undergrounding program, and would authorize only those electrical corporations with 250,000 or more customer
accounts within the state to participate in the program. In order to participate in the program, the bill would require a
large electrical corporation to submit a distribution infrastructure undergrounding plan, including the undergrounding
projects that it will construct as part of the program, to the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, which would be
required to approve or deny the plan within 6 months. If the office approves the large electrical corporations plan, the
bill would require the large electrical corporation to submit to the commission a copy of the plan and an advice letter
requesting review and conditional approval of the plans costs and would require the commission to approve or deny the
plan within 6 months. If the plan is approved by the office and commission, the bill would require the large electrical
corporation to file specified progress reports, include additional information in its wildfire mitigation plans, and hire an
independent monitor to review and assess its compliance with its plan, require each undergrounding project to fully
exhaust all available federal, state, and other non ratepayer moneys before any costs are recovered from ratepayers, and
deem each undergrounding project to be a development project for purposes of the Permit Streamlining Act, as
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specified. The bill would authorize the commission to annually assess penalties on a large electrical corporation that fails
to substantially comply with its plan.
Status: 6/27 /2022-June 27 hearing postponed by committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule
96.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
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Environmental and Climate
AB 1001 (Garcia, Cristina) Environment: mitigation measures for air quality impacts: environmental justice.
(Amended: 3/22/2022) Link
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
disadvantaged community that directly mitigate those effects.
Status: 7 /5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S. E.Q. on 5/4/2022)
Client Position:
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AB 1985 (Rivas, Robert ) Organic waste: recovered organic waste product procurement targets.
(Amended: 6/30/2022) Link
Existing 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 carbon by 50% below 2013 levels by 2030. This bill would
require the departments regulations to allow a local jurisdiction to procure a product made from California, landfill-
diverted recovered organic waste, as provided, to comply with these recovered organic waste product procurement
target requirements. The bill would allow a local jurisdiction, in procuring recovered organic waste products, to utilize
California-derived recovered organic waste that is processed outside of the state. The bill would require any penalties
imposed by the department on a local jurisdiction that fails to meet its recovered organic waste procurement target to
be imposed pursuant to a specified schedule based on the percentage of the local jurisdictions recovered organic waste
product procurement target achieved.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2142 (Gabriel) Income taxes: exclusion: turf replacement water conservation program. (Amended: 4/6/2022) Link
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: 6/27 /2022-ln committee: Referred to suspense file.
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AB 2160 (Bennett) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: fees. (Amended: 5/5/2022) Link
The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires any person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal
zone, as defined, 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, as provided. The act further 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 local 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 applica nt, 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: 6/14/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. {Ayes 7. Noes 2.) {June 14). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
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AB 2593 (Boerner Horvath) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: blue carbon demonstration projects: new
development: greenhouse gas emissions. (Amended: 6/15/2022) Link
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 add ition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any
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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 authorize the commission to authorize blue carbon
demonstration projects, as defined, in order to demonstrate and quantify the carbon sequestration potential of these
projects to help inform the states natural and working lands and climate resilience strategies.
Status: 6/27 /2022-ln committee: Referred to suspense file.
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SB 45 (Portantino) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals: local jurisdiction assistance.
(Amended: 1/3/2022) link
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
annual Budget Act, for purposes of assisting local agencies to comply with these provisions, including any regulations
adopted by the department.
Status: 6/29/2022-June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
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SB 54 (Allen) Solid waste: reporting, packaging, and plastic food service ware. (Chaptered: 6/30/2022) Link
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and
Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. The act requires disposal facility
operators to submit information to the department on the disposal tonnages that are disposed of at the disposal facility,
and requires solid waste handlers and transfer station operators to provide information to disposal facility operators for
purposes of that requirement. The act requires recycling and composting operations and facilities to submit periodic
information t o the department on the types and quantities of materials that are disposed of, sold, or transferred to
other recycling or composting facilities or specified entities. This bill would provide that these reporting requirements do
not apply to materials that are used by facilities defined as end users pursuant to the regulations adopted by the
department or that are otherwise exempt pursuant to those regulations.
Status: 6/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State -Chapter 54, Statutes of 2022.
Client Position: Support
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Notes: 6/29 AB: Submitted letter of support to the Assembly Appropriations Committee through the Legislative portal
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SB 867 (Laird} Sea level rise: planning and adaptation. (Amended: 6/13/2022) Link
Current law creates within the Ocean Protection Council the California Sea Level Rise State and Regional Support
Collaborative to provide state and regional information to the public and support to local, regional, and other state
agencies for the identification, assessment, planning, and, where feasible, the mitigation of the adverse environmental,
social, and economic effects of sea level rise within the coastal zone, as provided. This bill would require a local
government, as defined, lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone, as defined, or within the jurisdiction of the
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as defined, to implement sea level rise planning and
adaptation through either submitting a local coastal program, as defined, to the California Coastal Commission or
submitting a subregional San Francisco Bay shoreline resiliency plan to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission, as applicable, by January 1, 2026. The bill would require those local governments to provide
a comprehensive update to that planning and adaptation every 10 years, and technical adjustments every 5 years, as
prescribed.
Status: 6/13/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes:
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) Link
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: 5/19/2022-ln committee: Held under submission.
Client Position:
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Government Operations and Economic Development
AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath} Public swimming pools: lifeguards. (Amended: 6/2/2022) Link
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 at a public swimming pool if certain requirements are met.
Status: 6/20/2022-ln committee: Referred to suspense file.
Client Position: Sponsor
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AB 2164 (Lee) Disability access: certified access specialist program: funding. (Amended: 5/19/2022) Link
Current law requires the State Architect to establish and publicize a program for voluntary certification by the state of
any person who meets specified criteria as a certified access specialist (CASp), as provided. Current law, on and after
January 1, 2018, and until December 31, 2023, inclusive, requires any applicant for an original or renewal of a local
business license or equivalent instrument or permit to pay an additional fee of $4 for that license, instrument, or permit,
or in any city, county, or city and county that does not issue a business license or an equivalent instrument or permit,
existing law requires an applicant for a building permit to pay an additional fee of $4, to be collected by the city, county,
or city and county that issued the license, instrument, or permit for specified purposes related to disability access,
including the CASp program. Commencing January 1, 2024, that fee is reduced to $1. Current law requires a portion of
those fees to be deposited in the Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund. This bill would repeal the provision
reducing the fee to $1 commencing January 1, 2024, thereby extending the operation of this fee at the amount of $4
indefinit ely. By expanding the increased fee deposited into the Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund, this bill
would make an appropriation.
Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
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SB 1044 (Durazo) Employers: state of emergency or emergency condition: retaliation. (Amended: 6/29/2022) Link
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, except as specified. The bill would also prohibit an employer from preventing
any employee, including employees of public entities, as specified, from accessing the employees mobile device or other
communications device for seeking emergency assistance, assessing the safety of the situation, or communicating with 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 a declared official state of emergency remains in place but
emergency conditions that pose an imminent and ongoing risk of harm to the workplace, the worker, or the workers
home have ceased.
Status: 6/29/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -1021 0 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
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AB 2339 (Bloom) Housing element: emergency shelters: regional housing need. (Amended: 6/20/2022) Link
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term
general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes a housing element. Current law requires
that the housing element identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing,
mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, and make adequate provision for the existing and projected needs of all
economic segments of a community. Current law also requires that the housing element include an analysis of potential
and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income
levels. This bill would revise the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with zoning
designations that allow residential use, including mixed use, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use
without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. The bill would delete language regarding emergency shelter
standards structured in relation to residential and commercial developments and instead require that emergency
shelters only be subject to specified written, objective standards.
Status: 6/28/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position:
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SB 513 (Hertzberg) Homeless and domestic violence shelters grants: pets and veterinary services.
(Amended: 6/6/2022) Link
Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, subject to an appropriation in the annual
Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless shelters and qualified domestic
violence shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people
experiencing homelessness or escaping domestic violence. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 5% of
the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for those purposes for its costs in administ ering the program.
Status: 6/15/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June
15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Support
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes: 06/09 AB: Submitted letter of support to Housing and Community Development Committee and added to client
folder 06/15 SG: Testified in support A H&CD
SB 847 (Hurtado) COVID-19 relief: tenancy: grant program. (Amended: 6/16/2022) Link
The COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, until October 1, 2025, establishes procedural requirements and limitations on evictions
for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. Current law, among other things, prohibits a tenant
that delivers to a landlord or files with the court a declaration, under penalty of perjury, of COVID-19-related financial
distress, as defined, from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt, as prescribed. This bill
would, until January 1, 2025, create a grant program under the administration of the Department of Housing and
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Community Development and would require the department to, among other things, award a program grant, as
defined, to a qualified applicant who submits a complete application, as defined, on a first-come, first-served basis,
except that the bill would require the department to provide grants to all tier one applicants, as defined, before
processing the applications of other applicants, as specified. The bill would define qualified applicant to mean a landlord
who has applied for rental assistance funds pursuant to the State Rental Assistance Program and satisfies certain
criteria, including that the landlord has received a negative final decision, as specified.
Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -1021 0 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
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AB 916 (Salas) Zoning: accessory dwelling units: bedroom addition. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
Would prohibit a city or county legislative body from adopting or enforcing an ordinance requiring a public hearing as a
condition of reconfiguring existing space to increase the bedroom count within an existing dwelling unit. The bill would
apply these provisions only to a permit application for no more than 2 additional bedrooms within an existing dwelling
unit. The bill would specify that these provisions are not to be construed to prohibit a local agency from requiring a
public hearing for a proposed project that would increase the number of dwelling units within an existing structure. 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.
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -1021 0 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
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AB 1445 (Levine) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts.
(Amended: 6/6/2022) Link
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
mandatory elements, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law
requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for
housing for each region. Current law requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and
counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the
regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. Current law requires that the final regional
housing plan adopted by a council of governments, or a delegate subregion, as applicable, be based on a methodology
that includes specified factors, and similarly requires that the department take into consideration specified factors in
distributing regional housing need, as provided. Commencing January 1, 2025, this bill would require that a council of
governments, a delegate subregion, or the department, as applicable, additionally consider among these factors
emergency evacuation route capacity, wildfire risk, sea level rise, and other impacts caused by climate change.
Status: 6/13/2022-ln committee: Referred to suspense file.
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AB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
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that meet specified affordability and site criteria and objective development standards a use by right within a zone
where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, and would subject these development projects to one of
2 streamlined, ministerial review processes. The bill would require a development proponent for a housing development
project approved pursuant to the streamlined, ministerial review process to require, in contracts with construction
contractors, that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be
paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require a development proponent to
certify to the local government that those standards will be met in project construction. By expanding the crime of
perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
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AB 2053 (Lee) The Social Housing Act. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
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 t he 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 seeks to achieve revenue neutrality, as defined, and would require the authority to seek to recover the
cost of development and operations over the life of its properties through the mechanism of rent cross-subsidization, as
defined. The bill would require the authority to prioritize the development of specified property, including vacant
parcels and parcels near transit, and would prescribe a process for the annual determination of required social housing
units. Under the bill, social housing would accommodate a mix of household income ranges and would provide specified
protections for residents, who wou Id participate in the operation and management of the units in which they reside.
Status: 7 /5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S. GOV. & F. on 6/22/2022)
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AB 2094 (Rivas, Robert ) General plan: annual report: extremely low-income housing. (Amended: 5/24/2022) 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. 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 countys 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 countys annual report to include the localitys progress in meeting the housing needs of
extremely low income households, as specified.
Status: 6/23/2022-From Consent Calendar. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Cortese.
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AB 2097 (Friedman) Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements.
(Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
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. Current law also permits variances to be granted
from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive
to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities. This
bill would prohibit a public agency, in a county with a population of 600,000 or more, from imposing or enforcing a
minimum automobile parking requirement, on any of specified residential, commercial, or other development types if
the project is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. The bill would also prohibit a public agency, in a
county with a population of less than 600,000, and a city with a population of 75,000 or more, from imposing or
enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement on specified residential, commercial, or other development types
if the project is located within 1/4 mile of public transit. For a city w ith a population of less than 75,000, or a county with
a population of less than 600,000, the bill would authorize that city or county to adopt an ordinance or resolution that
applies certain prohibitions regarding the above-described parking requirements within its boundaries. When a project
provides parking voluntarily, the bill would authorize a public agency to impose specified requirements on the voluntary
parking.
Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Oppose
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -1021 0 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
Notes: SG: 4/27/2022 -Letter of Opposition submitted through portal SG: 6/15/2022 -Testified in opposition in S G&F
6/21/22 DH: Testified in opposition Sen Housing 6/29/22 DH: Testified in opposition in Sen G+F
AB 2234 (Rivas, Robert ) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
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Would require a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase
permit, as defined, to post an example of a complete, approved application and an example of a complete set of
postentitlement phase permits for at least 5 types of housing development projects in the jurisdiction, as specified, and
to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would define
local agency for these purposes to mean a city, county, or city and county.
Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -1021 0 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
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AB 2656 (Ting) Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act. (Amended: 6/23/2022)
Link
The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described,
unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance ofthe evidence in the record. The act defines
disapprove the housing development project as including any instance in which a local agency either votes and
disapproves a proposed housing development project application, including any required land use approvals or
entitlements necessary for the issuance of a building permit, or fails to comply with specified time periods. Current law,
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared,
and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or
approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if the lead agency finds
that the project will not have that effect. This bill would define disapprove the housing development project as also
including any instance in which a loca l agency fails to issue a project an exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as
described, or fails to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project or to approve another comparable
environmental document, if certain conditions are satisfied. Among other conditions,
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.)
(June 29).
Client Position:
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SB 12 (McGuire) Local government: planning and zoning: wildfires. (Amended: 6/6/2022) Link
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term
general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a housing element and a safety element for the
protection of the community from unreasonable risks associated with the effects of various geologic and seismic
hazards, flooding, and wild land and urban fires. Current law requires the housing element to be revised according to a
specific schedule. Current law requires the planning agency to review and, if necessary, revise the safety element upon
each revision of the housing element or local hazard mitigation plan, but not less than once every 8 years to identify new
information relating to flood and fire hazards and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies applicable to the city or
county that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element. Current law requires that the Office of
Planning and Research, among other things, coordinate with appropriate entities, including state, regional, or local
agencies, to establish a clearinghouse for climate adaptation information for use by state, regional, and local entities, as
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provided. This bill would require the safety element, upon the next revision of the housing element or the hazard
mitigation plan, on or after July 1, 2024, whichever occurs first, to be reviewed and updated as necessary to include a
comprehensive retrofit strategy to reduce the risk of property loss and damage during wildfires, as specified, and would
require the planning agency to submit the adopted strategy to the Office of Planning and Research for inclusion into the
above-described clearinghouse
Status: 7 /5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(l4). (Last location was A. H. & C.D. on 5/24/2022)
Client Position:
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SB 897 (Wieckowski) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units. (Amended: 6/30/2022) Link
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 of this requirement, the bill would define objective standard as a standard that
involves no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified. The bill would
also prohibit a local agency from denying an application for a permit to create an accessory dwelling unit due to the
correction of nonconforming zoning conditions, building code violations, or unpermitted structures that do not present
a threat to public health and safety and are not affected by the construction of the accessory dwelling unit.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Oppose
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes: SG -Draft letter of opposition sent 3/17 /22 SG -Testified in Senate Housing 3/17 /22 SG -Testified in Senate
Governance and Finance 4/7 /22 SG -Draft letter reflecting amended language sent 4/18/22 SG -Letter submitted
through portal 4/27 /22 SG -Testified in opposition in A H&CD 6/29/22 AS: Testified in opposition Asm Local Gov
SB 1032 (Becker) State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: electrical transmission grid
development and expansion: study. (Amended: 6/27/2022) Link
Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, on or before January 1, 2024, to
submit to the Governor and the Legislature a study identifying proposals to accelerate the development of, and reduce
the cost to ratepayers of expanding, the states electrical transmission grid as necessary to achieve the states goals, and
meet the states requirements, to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, as specified.
Status: 6/27 /2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -1021 0 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
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SB 1105 (Hueso) San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentally Friendly Affordable Housing Agency.
(Amended: 6/30/2022) Link
Current law provides for the establishment of various special districts that may support and finance housing
development, including affordable housing special beneficiary districts that are authorized to promote affordable
housing development with certain property tax revenues that a city or county would otherwise be entitled to receive.
This bill, 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 agencys 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.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Oppose
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes: 4/29 SG: Subcommittee voted to oppose 5/20 SG: Sent draft letter to City 5/31 AB: Submitted letter of
opposition through the Legislative portal 6/09 AB: Submitted letter of opposition to the Housing and Community
Development and Local Government Committees added letter to client folder 6/14 SG: Testified in opposition Asm H+CD
6/24 AB: Submitted an updated letter of opposition to the Housing and Community Development and Local Government
through the Legislative portal, letter is in clients folder 6/29/22 AS: Testified in opposition Asm Local Gov 6/29/22 SG:
Testified in opposition Asm HCD
Misc.
SB 970 (Eggman) Mental Health Services Act. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
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 childrens mental health care, adult and older adult
mental health care, preventi9n and early intervention programs, and innovative programs This bill would require the
California Health and Human Services Agency, by July 1, 2025, to establish the California MHSA Outcomes and
Accountability Review (MHSA-OAR), consisting of performance indicators, county self-assessments, and county MHSA
improvement plans, to facilitate a local accountability system that fosters continuous quality improvement in county
programs funded by the MHSA and in the collection and dissemination by the agency of best practices in service
delivery. The bill would require the agency to convene a workgroup, as specified, to establish a workplan by which the
MHSA-OAR shall be conducted, including a process for qualitative peer reviews of counties MHSA services and uniform
elements for the county MHSA system improvement plans. The bill would require the agency to establish specific
process measures and uniform elements for the county MHSA improvement plans and updates. The bill would require
the counties to execute and fulfill components of its MHSA system improvement plan that can be accomplished with
existing resources.
Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
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AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) Vessels: public safety activities. (Amended: 6/6/2022) Link
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 state. 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: 6/15/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position: Sponsor
Calendar:
Notes: 6/14/22: Carlsbad lead witness Sen PS 06/22 AB: Submitted sponsor letter through the Legislative portal and
added to client folder
AB 2294 (Jones-Sawyer) Diversion for repeat retail theft crimes. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link
Current law requires a peace officer to release a person who has been arrested for a misdemeanor after securing that
persons 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: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -1021 0 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
Notes:
AB 2407 (O'Donnell) Vehicle tampering: theft of catalytic converters. (Amended: 6/8/2022) Link
Current law imposes various requirements on a core recycler, as defined. Existing law requires a core recycler who
accepts a catalytic converter for the purposes of recycling or who sells or ships used catalytic converters to a recycler or
smelter to maintain specified information regarding the purchase and sale of the catalytic converters for not less than 2
years and to make that information available for inspection upon the request of law enforcement. Current law provides
that a person who violates these requirements is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would require a core recycler to
report the information collected to the chief of police or the sheriff, as prescribed, and to request to receive theft alert
notifications regarding the theft of catalytic converters from a specified theft alert system. The bill would also require a
core recycler to obtain the thumbprint of a seller of a catalytic converter and to preserve the thumbprint for a period of
2 years, except as specified.
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Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
Notes:
AB 2644 {Holden) Custodial interrogation. {Amended: 6/15/2022) Link
Would, commencing January 1, 2024, prohibit law enforcement officers from employing threats, physical harm,
deception, or psychologically manipulative interrogation tactics, as specified, during an interrogation of a person 25
years of age or younger.
Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Watch
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. -1021 0 Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair,
Notes: 5/2/22 -SG: SD County public safety delegation will be sending a letter of opposition.
SB 443 {Hertzberg) Emergency medical services {EMS): prehospital EMS. {Amended: 6/16/2022) Link
Would require a city or fire district that contracted for or provided, as of June 1, 1980, prehospital emergency medical
services, to be deemed to retain its authority regarding, and administration of, the prehospital emergency medical
services when a city or fire district enters into an agreement with a county for the joint exercise of powers regarding
prehospital emergency medical services for that city or fire district, or ceases to contract for, provide, or administer
prehospital emergency m edical services as a result of a judicial finding, as specified. The bill would clarify the
Legislatures intent that a citys or fire districts entry into a written agreement, as described, does not make the city or
fire district ineligible to contract with a county, as described above, or result in the transfer, termination,
relinquishment, or extinguishment of that citys or fire districts authorities regarding, or administration of, pre hospital
emergency medical services, and to abrogate contrary judicial holdings.
Status: 7 /5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was A. HEAL TH on 6/16/2022)
Client Position: Support
Calendar:
Notes: 6/27 AB: Submitted letter of support to the Assembly Health Committee through the Legislative portal and added
to client folder
SB 986 {Umbergl Vehicles: catalytic converters. {Amended: 5/19/2022) Link
Current law requires a core recycler that accepts, ships, or sells used catalytic converters t o maintain specified
information regarding the purchase and sale of the catalytic converters. Current law prohibits a core recycler from
providing payment for a catalytic converter unless the payment is made by check, the check is mailed or provided no
earlier than 3 days after the date of sa le, unless the seller is a business, and the core recycler obtains a photograph or
video of the seller, a written statement regarding the origin of the catalytic converter, and certain other identifying
information, as specified. Current law exempts from this requirement a core recycler that buys used catalytic converters,
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transmissions, or other parts removed from a vehicle if the core recycler and the seller have a written agreement for the
transaction. Current law requires a core recycler to provide this information for inspection by local law enforcement
upon demand. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would instead of payment by
check, require payment by any traceable method, other than cash.
Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes:
SB 1000 (Becker) Law enforcement agencies: radio communications. (Amended: 5/19/2022) Link
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. Existing 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
sheriffs departments, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police departments,
to, by no later than January 1, 2024, ensure public access to the radio communications of that agency, as specified.
Status: 6/21/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 21). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes:
SB 1087 (Gonzalez) Vehicles: catalytic converters. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link
Would prohibit any person from purchasing a used catalytic converter from anybody other than certain specified sellers,
including an automobile dismantler, an automotive repair dealer, or an individual possessing documentation, as
specified, that they are the lawful owner of the catalytic converter. A violation of this provision would be an infraction,
punishable by a fine, as specified.
Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar.
(Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes:
SB 1338 (Umberg) Community Assistance, Recovery. and Empowerment (CAREi Court Program.
(Amended: 6/30/2022) Link
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Would enact the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which would authorize specified
persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement
services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization
medication, housing, and other enumerated services to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness
and have a diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorders and who meet other specified criteria. 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 facts that support the petitioners assertion that
the respondent meets the CARE criteria. The bill would also specify the schedule of review hearings required if the
respondent is ordered to comply with an up to one-year CARE plan by the court. The bill would make the hearings in a
CARE proceeding confidential and not open to the public, thereby limiting public access to a meeting of a public body.
The bill would authorize the CARE plan to be extended once, for up to one year, and would prescribe the requirements
for the graduation plan. By expanding the crime of perjury and imposing additional duties on the county behavioral
health agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Support
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes: 4/29 SG: Subcommittee voted to take a support position 5/20 SG: Sent draft letter to Cit y 5/31 AB: Submitted
letter of support through the Legislative portal 6/14 AB: Submitted letter of support t o the Assembly Jud iciary and
Health Committees, through the Legislative portal 6/21 SG: Testified in Assembly Judiciary in support 6/24 AB:
Submitted letter of support to the Assembly Health, Senate Human Services, Senate Public Safety Committees through
the Legislative portal 6/28 SG: Testified in Asm Health in support
Revenue and Taxation
AB 411 (Irwin) Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2022. (Amended: 1/24/2022) Link
Existing law, the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2014 (the 2014 bond act), authorizes the
issua nce 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 Prevention 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 dispos ition of the funds in the sa me manner as the 2014 bond act. This bill contains other
related provisions.
Status: 6/27 /2022-ln committee: Referred to suspense file.
Client Position:
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AB 1951 (Grayson) Sales and use tax: exemptions: manufacturing. (Amended: 5/19/2022) Link
The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including a partial exemption from those
taxes, on and after July 1, 2014, and before July 1, 2030, for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or
other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for purchases not exceeding
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$200,000,000, for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal
property, as specified; qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily
in research and development, as provided; qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person
to be used primarily to maintain, repair, measure, or test any qualified tangible personal property, as provided; and
qualified tangible personal property purchased by a contractor purchasing that property for use in the performance of a
construction contract for the qualified person, that will use that property as an integral part of specified processes.
Current law, on and after January 1, 2018, and before July 1, 2030, additionally exempts from those taxes the sale of,
and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified
person to be used primarily in the generation or production, as defined, or storage and distribution, as defined, of
electric power. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, make this a full exemption for
purchases not exceeding $200,000,000. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028, and would revert to
the above-described partial exemption on that date.
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
(June 29).
Client Position:
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Notes: 03/03/22 DH: Sent detailed breakdown of bills implications to client for review. No further direction provided.
Transportation and Public Works
AB 1717 (Aguiar-Curry) Public works: definition. (Amended: 5/19/2022) Link
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 done under contract
and paid for in whole or in part out of public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project, as specified.
Status: 6/27 /2022-ln committee: Referred to suspense file.
Client Position:
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AB 1740 (Muratsuchi) Catalytic converters. (Amended: 6/21/2022) Link
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, an 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 require a core recycler to include additional
information in the written record, including the year, make, and model of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter
was removed and a copy of the title of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed. The bill would
prohibit a core recycler from entering into a transaction to purchase or receive a catalytic converter from a person that
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is not a commercial enterprise, as defined, or a verifiable owner of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was
removed, as specified, and would make other conforming changes.
Status: 6/27 /2022-ln committee: Referred to suspense file.
Client Position:
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AB 1778 (Garcia, Cristina) State transportation funding: freeway projects: poverty and pollution: Department of
Transportation. (Amended: 6/20/2022) Link
Would require the Department of Transportation to consult the California Healthy Places Index, as defined, as a
condition of using state funds or personnel time to fund or permit freeway projects, as provided. The bill would require
the department to analyze housing and environmental indicators through the index, as provided, and would prohibit any
state funds or personnel time from being used to fund or permit freeway projects in certain areas that fall within the
zero to 40th percentile on the housing and environmental indicators analyzed through the index, as provided.
Status: 7 /5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S. TRANS. on 6/1/2022)
Client Position: Watch
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AB 1833 (Ward) San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board: North County Transit District: consolidated
agency: public contracting. (Enrolled: 6/29/2022) Link
The San Diego Regional Transportation Consolidation Act creates the consolidated agency, commonly known as the San
Diego Association of Governments (SAN DAG), through the consolidation of certain regional transportation planning,
programming, and related functions in the County of San Diego from various agencies. Current law requires the San
Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, North County Transit District, and consolidated agency, commonly
known as the San Diego Association of Governments (SAN DAG) to follow specified procedures when contracting for
certain services, the acquisition or lease of materials, supplies, or equipment, architectural, landscape architectural,
engineering, environmental, land surveying, or construction project management services. Current law requires those
entities to follow different procedures when the amount of the contract exceeds specified thresholds. This bill would
increase those thresholds from $100,000, or $50,000 in certain instances, to $150,000, and would make other clarifying
changes, as specified.
Status: 6/27 /2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.). In Assembly. Ordered to
Engrossing and Enrolling.
Client Position: Watch
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AB 1946 (Boerner Horvath) Electric bicycles: safety and training program. (Amended: 6/6/2022) Link
The Protected Bikeways Act of 2014 provides that the states bicycle programs have not been fully developed or funded.
Existing law establishes the Department of the California Highway Patrol within the Transportation Agency. This bill
would require the department to develop, on or before September 1, 2023, statewide safety and training programs
based on evidence-based practices for users of electric bicycles, as defined, including, but not limited to, general electric
bicycle riding safety, emergency maneuver skills, rules of the road, and laws pertaining to electronic bicycles. The bill
would require the safety and training programs to be developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and to be
posted on the internet website of the department.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.). In Assembly. Concurrence in
Senate amendments pending.
Client Position:
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AB 2367 (Ward) Regional transportation plans: implementation authority: San Diego Association of Governments.
(Enrolled: 6/29/2022) Link
Current law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt a regional transportation plan
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.This bill would explicitly authorize SAN DAG to implement every component of the regional transportation
plan and to seek resources and funding for projects identified in the sustainable communities strategy, as provided. The
bill would also authorize SAN DAG to exercise its bonding authority to implement the regional transportation plan, as
provided.
Status: 6/27 /2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.). In Assembly. Ordered to
Engrossing and Enrolling.
Client Position: Watch
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AB 2953 (Salas) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials.
(Amended: 3/17/2022) Link
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 increa sing the duties of local agencies,
this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Status: 6/27 /2022-ln committee: Referred to suspense file.
Client Position: oppose unless amended
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SB 922 (Wiener) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.
(Amended: S/11/2022) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements bicycle
transportation plans for an urbanized area for restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal
timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles
under certain conditions. This bill would delete the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized
area. The bill would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan. 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: 6/30/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Client Position:
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SB 932 (Portantino) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans.
(Amended: 6/20/2022) Link
Current law states the Legislatures intention that a county or city general plan and the elements and parts of that
general plan comprise an integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting
agency.This bill would emphasize the intent of the Legislature to fight climate change with these provisions.
Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Oppose
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes: 6/28 AB: Submitted letter of opposition to the Assembly Appropriation, Local Government and Transportation
Committees and added to the clients folder
Utilities
AB 2635 (Levine) Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006: public, educational, and government
access channels. (Amended: 3/11/2022) Link
The Digital Infrastructure and Video Comp,etition Act of 2006 provides that the holder of a state franchise is not a public
utility as a result of providing video services and does not provide the Public Utilities Commission with authority to
regulate the rates, terms, and conditions of video service, except as explicitly set forth in the act. The act requires a
holder of a state franchise to designate a sufficient amount of capacity on its network for public, educational, and
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governmental access (PEG) channels, as specified. The act requires that the PEG signal be receivable by all subscribers,
without the need for any equipment other than the equipment necessary to receive the lowest cost t ier of service, and
that PEG access ca pacity is of similar quality and functionality to that offered by commercia l channels on the lowest cost
tier of service, as specified. This bill would instea d require that the PEG signal be receivable by all subscribers, without
the need for any equipment different from that equipment necessary to receive the highest quality broadcast television
channels, and that PEG access capacity is of similar quality and functionality to that offered by commercial channels, as
specified.
Status: 7 /5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was A. INACTIVE FILE on 6/6/2022)
Client Position:
Calendar:
Notes:
AB 2106 (Rivas, Robert) Water quality: permits. (Amended: 6/30/2022) Link
Under existing law, 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 (NPDES) permit program established by the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-
Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law requires each regional board to formulate and adopt water quality
control plans for all areas within the region, as provided. This bill would require, on or before December 31, 2024, t he
state board to modernize its stormwater data collection systems through specified actions.This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws.
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position:
Calendar:
Notes:
SB 1157 (Hertzberg) Urban water use objectives. (Amended: 6/16/2022) Link
Current law, until January 1, 2025, establishes 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water
use. Current law establishes, beginning January 1, 2025, the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard
recommended by the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board as the standard for
indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, establishes the greater of SO gallons per capita daily or a
standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. Current law
requires the board, in coordination with the department, to adopt by regulation variances recommended by the
department and guidelines and methodologies pertaining to the calculation of an urban retail water suppliers urban
water use objective recommended by the department. This bill would eliminate the option of using the greater of 52.5
gallons per capita daily and the greater of 50 ga llons per capita daily, as applicab le, or a standard recommended by the
department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. The bill would instead require that from
January 1, 2025, to January 1, 2030, the standard for indoor residential water use be 47 gallons per capita daily and
beginning January 1, 2030, the standard be 42 gallons per capita daily.
Status: 6/16/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Client Position: Oppose
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. -10210 Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair,
Notes: 4/27 /22 SG: Letter of opposition submitted. 5/12/22 AB: Signed Letter of opposition submitted through the
Legislative portal. 06/14 AS: Testified in opposition in Asm Water, Park, Wildlife -bill significantly amended, SG sent to
client for review
City of Carlsbad Legislative Subcommittee
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July 12, 2022
Legislative Calendar
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July 1-July 31—Legislative Summer Recess.
August 1-31—Last month of the two-year legislative session.
September 30—Last day for Governor to sign or veto legislation.
November 8 –General Election Day
December 5: 2023-2024 Regular Convenes for Organizational Session
2022/2023 State Budget
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2022/2023 State Budget: Inflation Relief
Budget Plan includes an Inflation Relief Plan:
•$9.5 Billion for Tax Refund directly to Californians to help combat inflation
•$1.95 Billion for Emergency Rental Assistance Program
•$1.4 Billion for Past Due Utility Bills
•$439 Million to Pause State Sales Tax on Diesel for 12 months
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2022/2023 State Budget: Climate Resiliency
$53.9 Billion for Climate Resiliency:
•$2.8 billion towards Drought, Water Resilience, and Conservation
•$2.7 Billion for fighting wildfires and improve forest health through fuel breaks, prescribed burns and forest thinning.
•$4.3 Billion to bolster the State’s Energy System including clean energy projects to boost reliability.
•$180 million to implement state-mandated organic waste recycling programs.
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2022/2023 State Budget: Housing and Homelessness
•$300 million for Encampment Resolution grants, to help local governments with resolving critical encampments and transitioning individuals into permanent housing.
•$500 million over two fiscal years for the Homeless Housing, Accountability, and Prevention Program (HHAPP).
•$30 million in 2022-23 to increase funding for legal aid to prevent eviction protection.
•$65 million for the implementation of CARE Court.
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2022/2023 State Budget: Transportation
$14.8 Billion for Transportation Infrastructure for investments in:
•Rail and Transit Projects
•Climate Adaptation Projects
•Walking and Bicycling Projects
•High Speed Rail
•Ports
•Zero Emission Vehicles
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City Sponsored Legislation
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AB 1672 –Lifeguard Certification Equivalency
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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.
•RPPG continues to meet with committee members, consultants and stakeholders such as the Department of Public Health and Department of Finance.
•Currently on Senate Appropriations Suspense File
AB 1682 –Water Vessels Speed Limit Exemption
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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.
•Met with policy committee members and consultants in the Senate.•Passed the Senate Public Safety Committee with a 5-0 vote.•Will be heard on the Senate Floor upon the Legislature’s return.
Bills of Interest
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2022 Legislation: Brown Act
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AB 1944 (Lee)Local government: open and public meetingsThis bill states 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.City Position: Support Status: Held in Senate Governance and Finance
AB 2449 (Rubio)Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences This bill would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with thosespecifiedteleconferencingrequirementsifatleastaquorumofthemembersofthelegislativebodyparticipatesinpersonfromasingularlocationclearlyidentifiedontheagendathatisopentothepublicandsituatedwithinthelocalagency’s jurisdiction.Requires members participatingremotelytodisclosenamesofthoseovertheageof18whoareintheroomandtheirrelationshiptothatperson.This bill would sunset in 2026.City Position:Moved to Neutral As AmendedStatus:Senate Appropriations Committee
2022 Legislation: Sustainability
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SB 54 (Allen) Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act
This bill imposes minimum content requirement for single use packaging and food ware to be
achieved through an expanded producer responsibility program.
After extensive negotiations, stakeholders representing businesses, local government, haulers,
and environmentalists were supportive of the final draft of the bill.
In the last week of June, the bill was amended and approved by both houses.
On June 30, proponents of the ballot measure removed the proposition, the last day to remove
an initiative from the 2022 November ballot.
City Position: Support
Status: Signed into law June 30, 2022
2022 Legislation: Housing
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SB 1105 (Hueso) SD REEF
This bill would establish the San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentally Friendly Affordable
Housing Agency and 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, equitable housing preservation, and
rental protection programs.
The bill would require a board composed of 6 voting members who are primary or alternate
members of the San Diego Association of Government
On June 30 bill was heard in both Assembly Housing and Local Government
Stakeholder meetings
City Position: OpposeStatus: Assembly Appropriations Committee
2022 Legislation: Emergency Services
SB 443 (Hertzberg)Emergency Medical ServicesThis bill would ensure a city or fire district can make policy decision regarding their services based on their communities’ needs.
Gut and amended on June 16, 2022 as a result of two recent court cases that have cast confusion over the scope of authority.
Bill was supported by Cal Cities, Fire Chiefs Association and the California Professional Firefighters.
City Position: SupportStatus: Held in Assembly Health Committee
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2022 Legislation: Climate Resiliency
SB 867 (Laird) Sea Level Rise: Planning and Adaption
Requires a local government within the coastal zone to address sea level rise planning and adaptation through either a local coastal program or a San Francisco Bay shoreline coastal resiliency plan by January 1, 2026, and to update that planning and adaptation every 5 years.
Status: Assembly Appropriations
SB 932 (Portantino) Circulation Element: Bicycle and Pedestrian Calming Plans
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Requires the circulation element of a general plan to include specified contents related to
bicycle plans,pedestrian plans,and traffic calming plans,and provides that failure to
implement the plans creates a cause of action for victims of traffic violence.
City Position:Oppose
Status:Assembly Appropriations
2022 Legislation: Energy
AB 2838 (O’Donnell) Electrical Corporations: Green Tariff Shared Renewables ProgramThis bill would allow an IOU to terminate their Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program. Bill was amended to specify nonparticipants will not bear any cost.
City Position: Oppose unless Amended
Recommendation: Move to Neutral Position As Amended
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee
SB 833 (Dodd)Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022
This bill would require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop and implement a grant program for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans to address power outages and objective to meet state clean energy and air quality goals.
City Position: Support
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee
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