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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 July 12, 2022 Item #3 Page 1 of 47 • 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 July 12, 2022 Item #3 Page 2 of 47 July 6, 2022 (City of Carlsbad Cal i forn i a 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 ~~~!§ 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)). July 12, 2022 Item #3 Page 3 of 47 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. July 12, 2022 Item #3 Page 4 of 47 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. ### July 12, 2022 Item #3 Page S of 47 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 Dear Mr. Chadwick: J. RPPG Renne Public Policy Group ...,°"'",.-.. ,u1..,_p,,111r.1-r.,,.,_.41.- 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. 1 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group Afwo.M.o,tul-.,,.,,,..A,lll•ul-f,r,.,,• 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 2 J. RPPG r Renne Public Policy Group ,1n.,.,.,.,,a/Rwrn-A,.-i1-r.nlllfl• 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 3 RPPG Renne Public Polley Group Af)r-.nul.,,_P,.kl-('~• 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 4 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group ""'-••o/P,,,_A,AJJ-f;.,"if>• SB/AB 178: Amendment to 2022 Budget Act Trailer Bill • • • • 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. 5 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group .,,,..._,.,olftw-PIA,lr,,Tl_f',,,•41• • 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 • • 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. 6 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group Af.wt.,111r"lulllw-Pioit,h,;l_{.,,"-'J,• • 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. 7 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group ,.,,..-,,,.,,A,, .. ..-Pu.1/-6<,...,,. 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. 8 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group 1.n,.,...,,vu:it-...,,,.N.irlll-r.r,M4;• 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. 9 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group A.,,_,_11,otlM_A,.11-"""41• • 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 • • • • • • 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. 10 J. RPPG Renne Public Polley Group A,..,,....,,q1""'_Pl,«.f_f',."'4•• • 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 • • • 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 11 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group ,~.,u1~ .... ,,.,wi,-w,Jo.t1• 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 12 RPPG Renne Public Policy Group Ar.i,-,...,,,1ut~ .... A,.,.,1_1tfl1,:•1• 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. 13 RPPG Renne Pubhc Polley Group •n,,,,•,1oi.,,_A,.11-r.-1041• • 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. ### 14 Priority Legislation July 6, 2022 (city of Carlsbad Californ i a Brown Act RPPG Exhibit 2 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 RPPG R•mnc Pubrie Pohcy Group " --~ .... -"' 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: Notes: 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 Calendar: RPPG Ri>r,nt' Pub Policy Group ,t.f ......... t-,#, ...... Notes: 04/27 SG: Submitted letter of opposition through the Legislative portal.06/10: DH, This bill has been amended to 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 RPPG R<'nM Pub.,~ PohC)' G•oup . .,....,.. ....... ,,,..,. ..... ~- 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: Notes: 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: RPPG R,,nnc Public Pohcy G•oup ,.0.-,.,,......,,..,M,, .. ..,. Calendar: Notes: 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, Notes: 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 RPPG Ren~ Public Pohcy Group ,. -"..._ .......... 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, Notes: 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 RPPG Rrmnto Pubfc Pohcy Group .. ~.,,,~· ........ 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, Notes: 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: Calendar: Notes: 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. RPPG Rr-nnc Public Pohcy Group ,.si-..,,.o,1-...,,....,.,,.. .... Client Position: Calendar: Notes: 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. Client Position: Calendar: Notes: 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. Client Position: Calendar: Notes: 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 RPPG R1>rmt• Pub .. Pohc~• Group .. I _,.....,.. .M ,,,_ •' 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. Client Position: Calendar: Notes: 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. Client Position: Calendar: Notes: 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 Calendar: Notes: 6/29 AB: Submitted letter of support to the Assembly Appropriations Committee through the Legislative portal RPPG Renne Public Poliq· G,oup .&.Jhotlll(II,.,,.....,,..,....,. ...... 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: Calendar: Notes: 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 RPPG R1>nne Put> .. Pohc~· G•oup •o,,..,.~-.1/!'t ........ Calendar: Notes: 06/09/22 AB: Submitted Sponsor Letter through the Legislative portal and added letter to client folder 6/20/22 DA Testify in Sen Approp 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. Client Position: Calendar: Notes: 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, Notes: RPPG R1mnc Pubs~ Pohcy Group ........ t ...... ,.,., '"'° ... Homelessness/Tenant Protections 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: Calendar: Notes: 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 RPPG Re-nnc Pub,oe Pohc~· Group . -· ......,,. .... . 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, Notes: Housing, Land Use and Planning 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, Notes: 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. Client Position: Calendar: Notes: AB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022. (Amended: 6/23/2022) Link RPPG Would create the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, which would make certain housing developments 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, Notes: 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) Client Position: Calendar: l RPPG R,.nni:-Pub!... Pohcy G-oup . ,......., ..... ,.,_, .. ..,,. Notes: 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. Client Position: Calendar: Notes: 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 RPPG RP.nne Pu!Jlic Pohcy G·oup .,..,._."' ........ ~.,,,. . 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, Notes: 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: Calendar: Notes: 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 1 RPPG Ri>nne F'llblit Pohcy Group ... it...~_,.,.r'IM ,itl ... 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: Calendar: Notes: 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, RPPG Notes: 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, RPPG Renno Publ " Policy Group ·~ .,.....,l\,tll ...• Notes: Public Safety and EMS 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. .1 RPPG Re-nnr Pub\.c Pol•C~· GfOl.lp -~~.._...,,,......,., ,. 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, RPPG Renne F>ut,. " PohC)' G•oup .. -1-:J,,,,.,.,.. ....... 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 RPPG R1mne Pubic Pohcy Group •~t!! ..... r-i,11,,,.. ~· 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: Calendar: Notes: 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 RPPG R•·nrn.• Public Pohcy G•oup Ar,...-"' ......... I,.. • $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: Calendar: 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: Calendar: Notes: 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 RPPG Rr,nnc-Pu~ .. Pohc~· Group l,J.., _ _,_,...,.-_... 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: Calendar: Notes: 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 Calendar: Notes: 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 Calendar: Notes: RPPG Renne Public Polley G,oup ,., ;"-'"'""""·""' ...... 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: Calendar: Notes: 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 Calendar: Notes: 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 Calendar: RPPG Notes: 05/31 AB: Submitted letter of opposition unless amended through the Legislative portal. 6/14 SG: Testified in Senate Transportation Committee 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: Calendar: Notes: 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 l RPPG .,..,.,,..,..,.,., Rf't1nc Pu!)tJC Pohcy G:-c11Jp AC:..,.,/ ........ 1 -..,- 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. RPPG RcnM Pub"~ PollCy G"OUp ,.~~...... . 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com Dane Hutchings, Managing Director of Government Affairs, Renne Public Policy Group July 12, 2022 Legislative Calendar Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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. Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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. Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com City Sponsored Legislation Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com AB 1672 –Lifeguard Certification Equivalency Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 2022 Legislation: Brown Act Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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 Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com Thank YouQuestions/Discussion Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com