HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-02-14; City Council Legislative Subcommittee; ; Legislative and Advocacy UpdateLEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
Staff Report
Meeting Date: Feb. 14, 2023
To: Legislative Subcommittee
From: Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
Staff Contact: Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
jason.haber@carlsbadca.gov, 442-339-2958
Subject: Legislative and Advocacy Update
District: All
Recommended Action
Receive updates on federal and state legislative and budget activity and recent and ongoing
advocacy efforts; discuss and provide feedback to staff, including identifying high-priority bills,
advocacy positions, funding opportunities, and items for future City Council consideration.
Discussion
Staff and the city's contract lobbyists-Federal: Carpi & Clay/ State: Renne Public Policy Group -
will present updates and overviews of federal and state legislative activity and the priority
legislation and intergovernmental matters being tracked on behalf of the city (Exhibits 1 and 2}.
Next Steps
Staff and the city's contract lobbyists will monitor, evaluate, and engage the Legislative
Subcommittee in a discussion of legislative activity and proposed measures that may impact city
operations and policy priorities throughout the 2023/2024 Legislative Session.
Public Notification
Public notice of this item was posted in keeping with the Ralph M. Brown Act and was available for
public viewing and review at least 72 hours before the scheduled meeting date.
Exhibits
1. Carpi & Clay -Federal Update
2. Renne Public Policy Group -State Update
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City of Carlsbad
Federal Update
January 31, 2023
118th Congress Begins; McCarthy Elected Speaker of the House
On January 3rd, Congress officially began the 118th Congress. Senators were sworn in and
immediately adjourned for a two-week recess. In the House of Representatives, the swearing
in of Members was delayed for a few days as the first action the House needed to take was to
elect a new Speaker. After five days and fifteen votes, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was
elected as the new Speaker of the House.
House Committee Leaders for 118th Congress
The House of Representatives has spent the last few weeks going through organizational
activities, including selecting new Chairs and Ranking Members for all Committees. Below
is a chart outlining the Chairs and Ranking Members for each Committee for the 118th
Congress:
Committee
Armed Services
Bud et
Education & Workforce
Energy & Commerce
Ethics
Financial Services
Forei n Affairs
Homeland Securit
Administration
udiciar
Natural Resources
Oversi ht & Reform
Rules
Science, Space, &
Technolo
Small Business
Transportation &
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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-
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Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK)
Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO)
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Rankin Member
Re . David Scott D-GA
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA)
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Veterans' Affairs Re . Mark Takano D-CA
Wa s &Means Re . Richard Neal D-MA
House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairs for 118th Congress
House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger (R-TX) announced the following
House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairs for the 118th Congress:
Subcommittee Chair
Agriculture Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD)
Commerce, Justice, and Science Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY)
Defense Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Enernv & Water Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN)
Financial Services and General Government Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR)
Homeland Security Rep. David Joyce (R-OH)
Interior and Environment Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Rep, Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
Legislative Branch Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV)
Military Construction and Veterans' Rep. John Carter (R-TX)
Administration
State and Foreign Operations Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK)
Senate Committee Leaders for 118th Congress
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced the following Senate Committee
Chairs for the 118th Congress:
Committee Chair
Agriculture Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Appropriations Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Armed Services Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Budget Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Enerev and Natural Resources Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)
Environment & Public Works Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)
Finance Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Foreign Relations Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Homeland Security Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)
Judiciary Sen. Dick Durban (D-IL)
Rules Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-WI)
Small Business Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Veterans' Affairs Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)
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Capitol Complex Open to the Public
The House and Senate office buildings are fully reopened to the public, and Congressional
staff is no longer required to escort guests to meetings. Operating hours for all buildings on
Capitol Hill can be found HERE.
President Biden to Deliver State of the Union on February 7th
During the first three months of the new year, the Speaker of the House invites the President
to Congress to provide a State of the Union speech. Speaker Kevin McCarthy has formally
invited President Biden to give the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress
on Tuesday, February 7th, at 9:00 pm ET.
White House to End COVID-19 Emergency Declarations in May
The White House announced plans to end COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11th.
The emergency declaration was signed by then-President Trump in March 2020 and has
been extended in 90-day increments since then.
President Biden FY24 Budget Proposal Delayed
The President's annual budget proposal is supposed to be due to Congress on the first
Monday in February; however, this is a regularly missed deadline. At the end of January, 0MB
provided guidance to the federal agencies regarding the upcoming release of the President's
Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget. Typically, there is about a six-week period between when 0MB
provides this guidance to the agencies and when the official budget document is released,
setting up a potential timetable for the FY24 budget proposal to be out in March.
Treasury Outlines "Extraordinary Measures" to Prevent Debt
Default
Department of Treasury (Treasury) Secretary Janet Yellen announced implementation of
"extraordinary measures" to prevent the United States from exceeding the current debt
ceiling. Congress must raise the debt ceiling to prevent the United States from defaulting on
debt payments. Secretary Yellen sent a letter to Congressional leadership outlining steps
Treasury will take to push the potential for default to June and urging action to "protect the
full faith and credit of the United States." The letter can be found HERE.
Senators Introduce Community Wildfire Protection Act
Senators Feinstein and Steve Daines (R-MT) introduced the "Community Wildfire Protection
Act of 2023" (s....2..1). The bill would amend the definition of an "at-risk" community to be
more comprehensive to ensure communities at high risk of wildfire are eligible for federal
mitigation grants, including grants for developing and implementing Community Wildfire
Protection Plans that allow state, local, and tribal governments to work with the federal
government to reduce hazardous fuels in surrounding forests.
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Senator Feinstein Introduces Homelessness Assistance
Legislation
Senator Feinstein introduced the "Fighting Homelessness Through Services and Housing
Act" (S. 24), which would authorize $1 billion annually to help local governments combat
homelessness. Cities and counties applying for grants under this bill would be responsible
for implementing housing, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, and job training
programs to address homelessness. Grant recipients would be required to provide 25
percent of project funding and to report on successes, including whether individuals
remained housed.
DOE Opens EECBG Application Period
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced it is now accepting applications for the Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Block (EECBG) funding. The EECBG program is designed to
assist states, local governments, and Tribes in implementing strategies to reduce energy use,
to reduce fossil fuel emissions, and to improve energy efficiency. The IRA included $550
million in funding for this program. The EECBG program was initially created in as part of
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan (ARPA) in 2009, and this is only the second
time since its creation that Congress has provided funding. The majority of funding from IRA
for EECBG will be allocated through a direct allocation to states, cities, counties, and Tribes.
The list of eligible local governments for direct allocation can be found HE.RE. Entities that
are not eligible for a direct allocation can apply for competitive grant funding. More
information about the EEC BG program can be found HERE.
Congressional and Federal Action Related to California Storms
Federal Disaster Declaration Declared Due to California Storms. On January 14th,
President Biden signed the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) major
disaster declaration for California in the wake of devastating storms over the past month.
Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to
cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business
owners recover from the effects of the disaster. Federal funding for the approved cost-share
programs will be made available at 100 percent of the total eligible costs for debris removal
and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance under the Public
Assistance program, for 60 days from the start of the incident period. More information on
the federal response to storm damage in California can be found HERE.
Bipartisan Group Urges Expedited Support During Storm Response for Caltrans. A
bipartisan group of 38 California lawmakers, led by Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D), Salud Carbajal
(D), Jared Huffman (D), as well as Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, sent a letter to
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Highway Administrator (FHWA)
Shailen Bhatt to request expedited support, funding, and other assistance for the California
Department of Transportation in response to the ongoing winter storms. Funding can be
used to repair or reconstruct federal highways and roads on federal lands damaged due to
the storms. The letter can be found HERE.
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IRS Announces 30-Day Extension for Federal Filings for Impacted Counties. The
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that California storm victims now have until May
15th to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. The
IRS is offering relief to any area designated by FEMA. This means that individuals and
households that reside or have a business in Alameda, Colusa, Contra Costa, El Dorado,
Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Kings, Lake, Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino,
Merced, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San
Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa
Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare,
Ventura, Yolo, and Yuba counties qualify for tax relief. More information can be found HERE.
FHWA Provides $29.4 Million in Emergency Relief to California. FHWA announced $29.4
million in "quick release" Emergency Relief funds for use by the California Department of
Transportation (Caltrans) and four U.S. and four U.S. Federal land management agencies as
a down payment on the repair work needed because of multiple storms and flooding events
that damaged roads, bridges and highways in late December and January. FHWA is providing
$10.2 million to Caltrans to be distributed to local transportation agencies throughout the
State to help repair Federal-aid highways maintained by local agencies. FHWA is also
providing a total of $19.2 million to the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Reclamation to repair federal land areas
damaged by the severe storms that led to flooding, landslides and mudslides in California.
More information can be found HERE.
Federal Funding Opportunities/ Announcements
DOE Announces $50 Million Clean Energy to Communities Program. The Department of
Energy (DOE) announced the availability of $50 million in grant funding for its new Clean
Energy to Communities (C2C) Program. C2C will connect local governments, electric utilities,
community-based groups, and others with the innovative modeling and testing tools
developed at DO E's national laboratories to further expand clean energy goals and programs
at the local level. The application is expected to open in mid-February, and more information
can be found HERE.
DOE Launches $10 Million Community Power Accelerator™ Prize Program. DOE
announced $10 million for the Community Power AcceleratorT" prize program. This funding
will provide organizations with pre-development funds to build the expertise, experience,
and capacity required to develop community solar projects at scale. More information can
be found HERE.
DOT Publishes List of Dates for Upcoming BIL and IRA NOFOs. DOT published a list
of anticipated dates for notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for key programs from BIL
and IRA. The complete list can be found HERE.
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DOT Publishes Checklist for Prospective Discretionary Grant Funding Applicants. DOT
published a 10-point checklist to help local governments prepare for the year ahead and to
help take advantage of the over $32 billion that has been made available to DOT for FY23 in
competitive grant funding. The checklist can be found HERE.
DOT Announces $1.2 Billion in BIL Mega Grant Awards. DOT announced that nine
projects will receive $1.2 billion in funding as part of the National Infrastructure Project
Assistance (Mega) discretionary grant program authorized by BIL. The Mega program will
provide a total of $5 billion through 2026 for highway, bridge, freight, port, passenger rail,
and public transportation projects that are too large or complex for traditional funding
programs. More information and a list of awardees can be found HERE.
EPA Announces Availability of $100 Million in IRA EJ Grants. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $100 million in environmental justice
(EJ) grants through two programs:
• Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Cooperative
Agreement Program. This program will provide an estimated $30 million in funding
directly to community-based nonprofit organizations and their partners, with $5
million reserved for small community-based nonprofit organizations with five or fewer
full-time employees. EPA anticipates funding 50 awards of $500,000 and 30 awards of
$150,000. More information on the program can be found HERE.
• Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program. This
program will provide $70 million in funding for environmental or public health impacts
in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms. $20 million of
the total funding for this program will be for local governments. EPA anticipates
funding 70 projects of up to $1 million each for a three-year project. More information
on the program can be found HERE.
FAA Issues AIP NOFO. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a NOFO for the
availability of $268.7 million in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) supplemental
discretionary grants. The grants will help fund airport construction projects, associated
airport capital planning, noise planning and noise mitigation projects, and energy and
environmental sustainability projects. Applications are due by January 31st and more
information can be found HERE.
FHWA Announces Large Bridge Project Grant Awards. FHWA announced $2.1 billion in
Large Bridge Project Grant awards to fo ur projects that will address significant safety issues
and delays in passenger and freight movement. A list of project awards can be found HERE.
HUD Awards $24.7 Million for Affordable Housing for Non-Elderly Disabled People.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $24. 7 million to 98
local public housing authorities to provide permanent affordable housing to non-elderly
persons with disabilities. The funding is provided through the HUD's Section 811
Mainstream Housing Choice Voucher Program, which offers funding to housing agencies to
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assist non-elderly persons with disabilities who are transitioning out of institutional or other
isolated settings, at serious risk of institutionalization, homeless, or at risk of becoming
homeless. More information and a list of awardees can be found HE.RE.
Federal Agency Personnel/Regulatory Announcements
White House Releases Unified Regulatory Agenda. The White House released the latest
Unified Regulatory Agenda that outlines regulatory actions federal agencies are considering
in the next six months. The Unified Regulatory Agenda which is released twice a year and
can be found HERE.
White House Releases Strategy to Develop Statistics for Environmental-Economic
Decisions. The White House released a 15-year strategy titled the "National Strategy to
Develop Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions." The plan will assess the value of
natural assets like air and water alongside economic statistics like gross domestic product.
The strategy document can be found HERE.
CEQ Publishes Guidance on GHG Consideration and Climate Change. CEQ published
interim guidance to assist agencies in analyzing greenhouse gas and climate change effects
of their proposed actions under the National Environmental Policy Act. Comments are due
by March 10th and more information can be found HERE.
DOT, DOE, HUD, and EPA Release National Blueprint for Transportation
Decarbonization. DOT, DOE, HUD, and EPA released the "U.S. National Blueprint for
Transportation Decarbonization." The document provides a government-wide strategy for
cutting all greenhouse emissions from the transportation sector by 2050. The Blueprint will
be followed by more detailed decarbonization action plans to be developed and
implemented by DOT, DOE, HUD, EPA, and the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. The
blueprint can be found HERE.
DOT Releases Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Action Plan. DOT
released a plan that outlines the work that DOT is undertaking to help the Asian American
(AA) and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities overcome the systemic
barriers to economic opportunity and persistent disparities in access, safety, and other
considerations across our transportation system. Its focus areas include (1) assessing AA
and NHPI perceptions of public transportation, (2) promoting Title VI awareness in AA and
NHPI communities, (3) improving federal grant competitiveness of AA and NHPI businesses,
and (4) improving DOT's AA and NHPI workforce participation rates. The plan can be found
HERE.
DOT Solicits Nominations for Annual Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation
Impact Award. DOT is soliciting nominations for the annual Combating Human Trafficking
in Transportation Impact Award of individuals and entities, including non-governmental
organizations, transportation industry associations, research institutions, and state and local
government organizations for those who have created the most impactful countertrafficking
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initiative or technology. Submissions are due by March 24th and more information can be
found HE.RE..
EPA Announces Appointments to LGAC. EPA announced that fifteen new members will
join seven returning members on the Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC). LGAC
provides independent policy advice to the EPA Administrator on a broad range of issues
affecting local governments. The list of appointees can be found H.E..R.E.
EPA Releases Updated Legal Guidance on Cumulative Impacts to Address EJ. EPA
released an updated guidance document titled "Cumulative Impacts Addendum to EPA Legal
Tools to Advance Environmental Justice (EJ Legal Tools)." The guidance is a collection oflegal
authorities to identify and address cumulative impacts through a range of actions, including
permitting, regulations, and grants to advance EJ priorities. More information can be found
HERE.
FAA Issues Updated NOTAM Statement on Travel Disruptions. FAA issued an updated
statement following the air travel disruptions associated with the Notice to Air Missions
(NOTAM) system. The full statement can be found HERE.
FAA Publishes SG NPRM. FAA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
regarding SG-band interference. The NPRM would supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD)
2021-23-12, which applies to all transport and commuter category airplanes equipped with
a radio altimeter. The NPRM would require revising the limitations section of the existing
airplane/aircraft flight manual to incorporate limitations prohibiting . certain operations
requiring radio altimeter data, due to the presence of SG C-Band interference. This NPRM
would also require modifying certain airplanes to allow safe operations in the United States
SG C-Band radio frequency environment. Comments are due by February 10th and more
information can be found H.E_Rli.
FHWA Publishes New BIL Guidance for Workforce Development, Training, and
Education. FHWA published new guidance to support state investment in workforce
development, training, and education authorized under federal law. The Q&A guidance can
be found HERE.
FHWA Announces Final Re-Designation of the Primary Highway Freight System. FHWA
announced the final, re-designated Primary Highway Freight System meeting statutory
requirements. More information can be found HERE.
FHWA and FTA Announce Monetary Thresholds for the Limited Federal Financial
Assistance Categorical Exclusions. FHWA and FTA have announced that due to recent
statutory changes affecting the monetary thresholds for the limited federal financial
assistance categorical exclusions (CE) established by FHWA and FTA in regulations, the
agencies have published an amendment to the timeframe that FHWA and FTA will use for
the annual index for inflation of the monetary thresholds for those CEs, from January
( calendar year) to October (fiscal year) of each year. More information can be found HERE.
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GAO Publishes Report on FAA Drone Integration into Airspace System. The Government
Accountability Office (GAO) has published a report titled "Drones: FAA Should Improve Its
Approach to Integrating Drones into the National Airspace System". The report found that
FAA has developed various planning documents to manage its effo rts to integrate drones,
but, it has yet to develop a comprehensive strategy to guide these efforts. The full report can
be fo und HERE.
HUD Releases Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing NPRM. HUD released a NPRM
entitled "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" that will implement the Fair Housing Act's
affirmatively furthering fair housing mandate, which directs the government to promote fair
housing choice, eliminate disparities in housing, and foster inclusive communities. More
information can be fo und HERE.
HUD Announces "House America" Initiative Update. HUD announced tha t states,
municipalities, and tribes who joined the "House America" initiative have housed more than
100,000 households experiencing homelessness and added over 40,000 affordable housing
units into development through funding authorized by ARPA. In partnership with the US
Interagency Council on Homelessness, HUD organized leaders from 105 communities across
31 states and territories and the District of Columbia to join House America a nd provided
technical assistance to reach these goals. More info rmation can be found HfilIB.
IRS Provides Information on EVs Eligible for Tax Credit. The IRS released the fo llowing
information related to new, previously owned, and qualified commercial electric vehicle (EV)
credits:
• FactSheet
• Clean Vehicle Credit Seller or Dealer Requirements
• used Clean Vehicle Credit
• Manufacturers and Models for New Qualified Clean Motor Vehicles Purchased in
2022 and Before
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February 6, 2023
To: City of Carlsbad
Attn: Teresa Acosta, Councilmember
Melanie Burkholder, Councilmember
Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
From: Sharon Gonsalves
Director of Government Affairs
Renne Public Policy Group
Re: Legislative Monthly Report -January 2023
LEGISLATURE RETURNS
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Exhibit 2
On January 4, 2023, the California State Legislature reconvened for the 2023-2024 legislative session.
There are 35 new legislators this session, including 10 Senators and 25 Assemblymembers. Speaker
Anthony Rendon will continue in his role until July and Senator Toni Atkins will continue in her role as
Senate pro tempore.
As of February 6, the legislature has introduced 794 pieces of legislation since December 5, many of which
are non-substantive spot bills or resolutions, which means full bill language has yet to be introduced and
we do not know their full content. Over the next two weeks, there will be approximately 1,200 more
pieces of legislation introduced with the legislative deadline approaching on February 17.
Informational hearings took place in January, and budget hearings have begun during the first week of
February. The 30-day waiting period before bills can be heard in committee will be ending soon for many
bills, meaning that they will have language added to them that gives them significant shape in terms of
their intent. It is likely that many of the bills yet to be introduced will deal with what are shaping up to be
some of the key legislative issues of 2023: homelessness, environment and climate, and gun violence. Of
note, on February 1, Governor Newsom, along with Attorney General Banta and Senator Portantino (D-
25), announced new language for SB 2, which would make changes to how a public carry permit is
obtained in California.
RPPG MONTHLY LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY
RPPG continues to review priority bills during weekly check-ins with City staff; providing draft content for
the Council to consider positioning on bills of potential interest; crafting talking points for meetings with
state and federal representatives and agency officials; and setting up and conducting meetings with key
legislative offices as appropriate. Additionally, RPPG worked with the City's Legislative Subcommittee on
finalizing the 2023 legislative platform, which was presented and approved by the City Council on January
10. RPPG presented to the new 23-24 Legislative Subcommittee on January 24.
Over the course of January most bills that are introduced are referred to as SPOT bills or intent bills which
essentially serve as placeholders for more substantive language to be inserted into at a later date. RPPG
provided the City with several legislative updates on bills that are being tracked on behalf the city.
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RPPG was provided draft language for Senator Becker's proposed bill regarding police ra dio
communications (a narrowed version of last year's SB 1000 (Becker)), allowing the City to provide written
feedback deadline is February 6th-
RPPG reached out to the City's legislative delegation to discuss legislative and financial priorities for 2023.
RPPG has tagged 469 bills for the City which may be of potential interest or impact to the City's
operations or priority issues, per the legislative platform (Attachment A -Bills of Interest). We will
continue to bring bills of potential interest to staff for the City's review in coming weeks.
GOVERNOR NEWSOM PRESENTS PROPOSED BUDGET
On January 10, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom revealed his proposed budget for fisca l year (FY) 23-24.
Governor Newsom is proposing a combination of cuts, delays, and shifts in funding sources as part of his
$297 billion proposal, a 1% decrease from the 2022-2023 budget. It is projected that California will face a
$22.5 billion deficit in the 23-24 FY. The Governor's budget continued to include a focus on homelessness,
climate, healthcare, education, and housing. RPPG provided the City with a detailed summary of the
Governor's budget proposal, titled "RPPG January Budget Proposal Summary" sent out in the second week
of January. Over the next several months, the budget spending proposal will likely be reduced, and the
May revise may see considerable differences from what the Governor released in January.
Carlsbad received funding for the following earmarks in the 22-23 FY budget:
Project Amount
Carlsbad Veterans Memorial Park improvement $5,000,000
If your city has yet to receive these funds, it will be pivotal to work with RPPG and your legislative
delegation to ensure that these funding priorities are not impacted by the budget shortfall.
UPDATE: MULTIPLE EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Brown Act Teleconferencing
As a reminder, on October 17, 2022, Governor Newso m announced that the COVID-19 state of emergency
will end on February 28, 2023. This will also end the provisions put into place by AB 361. which allowed
local governments to use teleconferencing without complying with related regulations in the Brown Act.
As has already been advised, if you have not already, preparations should be made for a complete return
to in-person meetings whenever required by law.
End to 26 States of Emergency
On January 31, Governor Newsom announced an end t o 26 open states of emergency dating back to 2017.
These include various fires, prior storms, and other incidents such as the Monkey Pox emergency
proclaimed in August of last year. The full text of the executive order, which includes all t erminated states
of emergency, can be found here.
California Winter Storms Executive Orders
In mid-January, California faced a se ries of severe winter storms that caused flooding and property
damage in communities across the state. There have been at least 20 fatalities and the forced evacuation
of tens of thousands of residents. On January 16 and January 31, Governor Newsom signed executive
orders to bolster the emergency response and recovery efforts to the storms. The January 31 order also
waived work hour limitations for retired annuitants in local governments. The White House issued a major
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disaster declaration over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. The new declaration unlocks federal
funding and assistance programs for California cities and residents. Major disaster declarations are issued
when the damage caused by a natural event is beyond the combined capabilities of state and local
governments to respond.
LEGISLATIVE TIMING AND KEY DATES
• February 17, 2022
• March 30, 2022
• April 10, 2022
• May 12, 2022
Feb. 14,2023
Last day to introduce legislation
Spring recess begins
Legislature reconvenes from Spring recess
Last day for policy committees to meet prior to June 5
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AB 351 (Chen R) Cannabis: license transfers.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Bills of Interest
(city of
Carlsbad
Cal f o r n a
Cannabis
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
RPPG
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Attachment A
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would authorize the Department of Cannabis
Control to transfer licenses for commercial cannabis activity from a licensee to another person, subject to the
requirements of the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA).
SB 51 (Bradford D) Cannabis provisional licenses: local equity applicants.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D.
Summary: The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), for purposes of the California
Cannabis Equity Act, defines local equity program as a program adopted or operated by a local jurisdiction that focuses
on inclusion and support of individuals and communities in California's cannabis industry who are linked to populations
or neighborhoods that were negatively or disproportionately impacted by cannabis criminalization, as specified.
MAUCRSA requires the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to administer a grant program
to assist a local jurisdiction with the development of a local equity program or to assist local equity applicants and local
equity licensees through a local equity program, as specified. MAUCRSA, until June 30, 2023, authorizes the Department
of Cannabis Control, in its sole discretion, to issue a provisional license for a local equity license application if the applicant
meets specified requirements. MAUCRSA prohibits the Department of Cannabis Control from renewing a provisional
license after January 1, 2025, and provides that no provisional license is effective after January 1, 2026. This bill would
additionally authorize the Department of Cannabis Control, in its sole discretion, to issue a provisional license for a local
equity applicant for retailer activities, indefinitely, if the applicant meets specified requirements. This bill would authorize
the department, in its sole discretion, to renew a provisional license until it issues or denies the provisional licensee's
annual license, subject to specified requirements, or until 5 years from the date the provisional license was issued,
whichever is earlier. By extending provisional licensure, the applications for which are required to be signed under penalty
of perjury, the bill would expand the scope of the crime of perjury, and would thereby impose a state-mandated local
program.
Economic Development
AB 258 (Reyes D) Economic development: small businesses.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 1/20/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
Summary: Current law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and
Economic Development to advocate the causes of small business and to provide small businesses with the information
they need to survive in the marketplace. This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact future
legislation to create and promote a portal where small businesses can easily search for grant, procurement, and other
financial opportunities to grow their businesses.
AB 286 (Wood D) Broadband infrastructure: mapping.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on C. & C.
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Summary: Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in collaboration with relevant state agencies and
stakeholders, to maintain and update a statewide, publicly accessible, and interactive map showing the accessibility of
broadband service in the state. Current law authorizes the commission to collect information from providers of broadband
services at the address level and prohibits the commission from disclosing certain protected residential subscriber
information. This bill would require that the map identify, for each address in the state, each provider of broadband
services that offers service at the address and the maximum speed of broadband services offered by each provider of
broadband services at the address.
AB 306 (Sanchez R) Office of Small Business Advocate: one-stop capital shop online platform.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E.
Summary: Current law creates the Office of Small Business Advocate (the office) within GO-Biz to be led by the Small
Business Advocate, who is appointed by, and serves at the pleasure of, the Governor. Current law requires the Small
Business Advocate to, among other things, counsel small businesses on how to resolve questions and problems concerning
the relationship of sma ll business to state government. Current law requires the Small Business Advocate to prepare and
su bmit a written annual report to the Governor and to the Legislature that describes the activities and recommendations
of the office regarding sma ll business development, as prescribed. This bill would enact the One-Stop Capital Shop Act
that would require the office to serve as the lead state government entity for helping California small businesses become
finance-ready relative to state programs utilizing certain federal funds. The bill would also require the office, on or before
July 1, 2024, to launch the One-Stop Capital Shop online platform to assist small businesses in accessing safe funding
opportunities and to reduce barriers in access to affordable capital.
AB 341 (Ramos D) Gambling: local moratorium.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. M ay be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Under the Gambling Control Act, a city, county, or city and county may authorize controlled gambling
consistent with state law. Current law, however, prohibits an ordinance that would result in an expansion of gambling in
the city, county, or city and county from being valid unless the amendment is approved by a majority of the voters. Current
law requires an amendment to a city or county ordinance relating to a gambling establishment or the act to be submitted
to the department for review and comment before the ordinance is adopted by the city or county. Prior law, until January
1, 2023, prohibited the commission from issuing a gambling license for a gambling establishment that was not licensed to
operate on December 31, 1999, except as specified. This bill would reenact that prohibition until January 1, 2043, and
would prohibit the commission from issuing a gambling lice nse for a gambling establishment that was not licensed to
operate on December 31, 2022, and that is pending before the commission as of January 1, 2024. The bill would also
invalidate an application for a gambling license for a gambling establishment that was not licensed to operate on
December 31, 2022, and that was approved between December 31, 2022, and Jan uary 1, 2024.
SB 227 (Durazo D) Unemployment: Excluded Workers Program.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Corns. on L., P.E. & R. and GOV. & F.
Summary: Current law authorizes the payment of unemployment compensation benefits and requires that they be made
in accordance with regulations of the Director of Employment Development. Current law generally requires the
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they are ineligible. Current law prohibits payment of unemployment compensation benefits for services performed by a
person who is not a citizen or national of the United States, unless that person is an individual who was lawfully admitted
for permanent residence at the time the services were performed, was lawfully present for purposes of performing the
services, or was permanently residing in the United States under color of law at the time the services were performed, as
specified. This bill would establish, until January 1, 2027, the Excluded Workers Program, to be administered by the
Employment Development Department upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of providing income
assistance to excluded workers who are ineligible for the existing state or federal benefits administered by the department
and who are unemployed.
Education
AB 71 {Rodriguez D) Pupil instruction: bleeding control.
Introduced: 12/12/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on ED.
Summary: Would require, commencing with the 2025-26 school year, the governing board of a school district or the
governing body of a charter school that requires a course in health education for graduation from high school to include
in that course instruction in bleeding control, as provided. The bill would require the State Department of Education to
provide guidance on how to implement these provisions, including, but not limited to, who may provide instruction. The
bill would provide that a local agency, entity of state or local government, or other public or private organization that
sponsors, authorizes, supports, finances, or supervises, and a public employee who provides or facilitates, the instruction
of pupils in bleeding control pursuant to the bill shall not be liable for any civil damages alleged to result from the acts or
omissions of an individual who received such instruction, except as provided.
AB 278 (Reyes D) High Schools: Dream Resource Centers.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 1/24/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Current law encourages the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University
of California to establish Dream Resource Centers, on each of their respective campuses, that are authorized to offer
support services, as provided. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that
would require all schools that enroll pupils in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to have a Dream Resource Center.
AB 290 (Hoover R) Career technical education: California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: Strong
Workforce Program.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Corns. on ED. and HIGHER ED.
Summary: Current law provides, for the 2021-22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that $300,000,000 shall be
available to the State Department of Education, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the California Career Technical
Education Incentive Grant Program . Current law requires an applicant to demonstrate a proportional dollar-for-dollar
match and sets that amount for the 2021-22 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, at $2 for every $1 received from
the program. Current law prohibits an applicant from being awarded an amount higher than the amount that the
allocation formula determines them to be eligible to receive under the program. This bill instead would provide, for the
2024-25 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, that $450,000,000 shall be made available to the department upon
appropriation by the Legislature, for the program. The bill would reduce the proportional match for the 2023-24 fiscal
year, and each fiscal year thereafter, to $1 for regional occupational centers or programs operated by a joint powers
authority or those operated by a county office of education, and to $1.50 for local educational agencies. The bill would
delete the prohibition against an applicant being awarded more than the amount determined by the allocation formula.
AB 299 (Holden D) Hazing: educational institutions: civil liability.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
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Summary: Current law makes it unlawful to engage in hazing, which is defined as a method of initiation or preinitiation
into a student organization or student body, whether or not the organization or body is officially recognized by an
educational institution, that is likely to cause serious bodily injury to a former, current, or prospective student of a school,
community college, college, university, or other educational institution in the state. Current law establishes civil liability
for hazing participants or the organization if it is involved in the hazing. This bill would additionally establish civil liability
for an educational institution if the institution has direct involvement in, or knew or should have known of, the dangerous
hazing practices of the organization to which the student is seeking membership and the organization involved in the
hazing is affiliated with the educational institution at the time of the alleged hazing incident.
SB 234 (Portantino D) Opioid antagonists: schools, college campuses, stadiums, concert venues, and amusement
parks.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Corns. on ED. and HEALTH.
Summary: Current law authorizes school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency
naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist, as defined, to school nurses or trained personnel who have
volunteered, as provided. Current law authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or
another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering,
from an opioid overdose. Currentn law authorizes each public and private elementary and secondary school in the state
to determine whether or not to make emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist and trained
personnel available at its school, as provided. This bill would require each public and elementary and secondary school in
the state, including charter schools, to maintain unexpired doses of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist
on its schoolsite at all times, and to ensure that at least 2 employees are aware of the location of the naloxone
hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist.
Elections, Political Reform and Redistricting
AB 13 (Essayli R) Elections: Election Day holiday: voting by mail.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/30/2023-Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Summary: Current law requires the statewide general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November of each even-numbered year. Current law designates specific days as holidays in this state. This bill would add
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of any even-numbered year to the list of state holidays.
AB 34 (Valencia D) Elections: independent redistricting commissions.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Current law defines "independent redistricting commission" to mean a body, other than a legislative body, that
is empowered to adopt the district boundaries of a legislative body. Current law permits a local jurisdiction to establish
an independent redistricting commission to change the legislative body's district boundaries. This bill would state the
intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish an independent redistricting commission in the County of Orange.
AB 37 (Bonta D) Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds: security expenses.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or
reimburse the state for the costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system if specified
co nditions are met. These conditions include that the candidate or elected officer has received threats to physical safety
that have been verified by law enforcement, that no more than $5,000 in campaign funds be used for this purpose, and
that the candidate or elected officer report the expenditure of campaign funds to the Fair Political Practices Commission.
This bill would eliminate those conditions. The bill would instead authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign
funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic
security system, and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the
immediate family and staff of a candidate or elected officer, if those costs are reasonably related to the candidate or
elected officer's status as a candidate or elected _officer.
AB 63 {Cervantes D) Elections: candidate's residence.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Summary: Under the California Constitution, a person is ineligible to serve as a State Assembly Member or State Senator
if they have not been a resident of the their legislative district for one year. Current statutory law also requires a Member
of the State Board of Equalization to be and remai.n an inhabitant of the district in which they are elected to serve, or else
a vacancy occurs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that imposes certain consequences,
including the ineligibility to serve in office, upon a candidate for any of the above offices if the candidate files an affidavit
of voter registration that changes their residency, after being certified as a candidate but before the certification of
election results.
AB 83 (Lee D) Political Reform Act of 1974: contributions and expenditures by foreign-influenced business entities.
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits a foreign government or foreign principal from making any
contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure in connection with the qualification or support of, or opposition
to, a state or local ballot measure or an election for a state or local office. The act prohibits a person or committee from
soliciting or accepting a contribution from a foreign government or foreign principal for the same purposes. The act makes
a violation of these prohibitions a misdemeanor. This bill would expand these prohibitions to include contributions,
expenditures, or independent expenditures made by a foreign-influenced business entity, as defined, in connection with
an election or ballot measure. The bill would require a business entity that makes a contribution, expenditure, or
independent expenditure to file with the filing officer and the applicable candidate or committee a statement of
certification, signed by the entity's chief executive officer under penalty of perjury, avowing that the entity was not a
foreign-influenced business entity on the date the contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure was made.
AB 270 (Lee D) Public campaign financing.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 1/24/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide for public financing for
election campaigns in this state.
AB 292 (Pellerin D) Primary elections: ballots.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
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Summary: Would require, for any nonpartisan ballot provided to a voter who has declined to disclose a political party
preference for use in a presidential primary election, that a space be provided on the ballot for the voter to write in the
name of a candidate who has been nominated by a party that authorizes such voters to vote in its primary election.
AB 319 (Connolly D) Mobilehome Parks Act: inspectors: conflict of interest.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: The Mobilehome Parks Act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to enforce the
act. Current law requires the department or a city, county, or city and county that assumes responsibility for the
enforcement of the act to enter and inspect mobilehome parks, as prescribed. The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires
state agencies to adopt and promulgate a conflict of interest code with certain provisions, as specified. This bill would
provide that an inspector, as defined, is a designated employee for purposes of the conflict of interest code adopted by
the department and would require an inspector to disclose all interests in real property, excluding one's primary personal
residence. The bill would require the department, no later than January 1, 2025, to review the annual statement of
economic interests, as defined, by all inspectors with reportable financial interests and identify potential conflicts of
interest.
SB 24 (Umberg D) Elections: statewide direct primary.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Summary: Current law requires the statewide direct primary election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
in March in each even-numbered year that is evenly divisible by four. Current law requires the presidential primary
election to be consolidated with this statewide direct primary election and to be held on the same date. This bill would
change the date of the presidential primary and consolidated statewide direct primary described above to an unspecified
date.
SB 77 (Umberg D) Voting: signature verification: notice.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Summary: Current law requires a county elections official, upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, to compare the signature
on the identification envelope with the voter's signature appearing on specified voter registration records. If the elections
official determines that the signatures do not match, or if the identification envelope does not contain a signature, existing
law requires the elections official to mail a notice to the voter, no later than 8 days before the certification of the election,
of the opportunity to verify the voter's signature or provide a signature, as applicable. This bill would require the elections
official to additionally notify the voter by a text message or email, if the elections official has a telephone number or email
address for the voter on file.
SB 248 (Newman D) Political Reform Act of 1974: disclosures: candidate experience.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires candidates for elective office to make various disclosures relating to
a campaign for elective office. This bill would require, on or after April 1, 2024, a candidate for elective office to file with
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prior education and work history, and history of military service, if any. The filing would contain a statement, signed under
penalty of perjury, that the information contained in the form is accurate to the best of the candidate's knowledge.
SB 251 (Newman D) Political Reform Act of 1974: elected officers: conflicts of interest.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of conflicts of interest of public
officials. This bill would prohibit an elected officer from employment by any other elected officer with the same
constituency, as provided. The bill would not apply to statewide elected officers. By expanding the scope of an existing
crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Emergency Response and Disaster Preparedness
AB 267 (Bauer-Kahan D) Fire protection: Office of the State Fire Marshal.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 1/24/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Current law creates the Office of the State Fire Marshal in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to
foster, promote, and develop ways and means of protecting life and property against fire and panic. This bill would make
a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
AB 277 (Rodriguez D) Extreme Weather Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 1/24/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Would require the Office of Emergency Services and the Department of Water Resources to jointly establish
and lead the Extreme Weather Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center for the purpose of collecting, assessing,
and analyzing extreme weather data and atmospheric conditions, as specified. The bill would require that the center be
composed of representatives from specified organizations and would authorize the office and the department to invite
other organizations to designate additional representatives, as specified.
AB 297 (Fong. Vince R) Wildfires: local assistance grant program: advance payments.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a local assistance grant
program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities. Under existing law, the Director of Forestry and Fire
Protection may, until January 1, 2024, authorize advance payments from a grant program award, not to exceed 25% of
the total grant award, except as specified. This bill would extend the director's authority to authorize advance payments
from a grant program award to January 1, 2034.
SB 57 (Gonzalez D) Utilities: extreme weather events.
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to prohibit shutting off utility service during
extreme weather events.
Energy and Utilities
AB 2 (Ward D) Recycling: solar photovoltaic modules.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
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Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would create a convenient, safe, and
environmentally sound system for the end-of-life management of photovoltaic modules, minimization of hazardous
waste, and recovery of commercially valuable materials.
AB 50 (Wood D) Energy demand: communication.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Current law requires the Energy Commission, in consultation with specified state and federal agencies and at
least every 2 years, to conduct assessments and forecasts of all aspects of energy industry supply, production,
transportation, delivery and distribution, demand, and prices. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
subsequent legislation to improve consistent communication between the Energy Commission, Independent System
Operator, Public Utilities Commission, and investor-owned utilities to ensure that the state is timely meeting energy
demand.
AB 65 (Mathis R) Energy: nuclear fission thermal powerplants.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Corns. on NAT. RES. and U. & E.
Summary: Current law prohibits the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission from certifying
a nuclear fission thermal powerplant, except for specified powerplants, and provides that a nuclear fission thermal
powerplant, except those specified powerplants, is not a permitted land use in California, unless certain conditions are
met regarding the existence of technology for the construction and operation of nuclear fuel rod processing plants and of
demonstrated technology or means for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste, as specified. This bill would repeal those
provisions.
AB 326 (Alanis R) Geothermal resources: Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Current law requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to publish any printed matter relating to geothermal
resources for which there may be public demand, as provided, and requires that if these printed matter are sold, they be
sold at cost and the proceeds deposited in the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund. This bill would make a
nonsubstantive change to that provision.
SB 38 (Laird D) Battery storage facilities: safety systems.
Introduced: 12/5/2022 ·
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety
systems at battery storage facilities.
SB 233 (Skinner D) Energy: new zero-emission vehicles and electric vehicle supply equipment: bidirectional capability.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
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Summary: Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to undertake
various actions in furtherance of meeting the state's clean energy and pollution reduction objectives, including actions
related to electric vehicles. This bill would state the Legislature's intent to enact future legislation to mandate that all new
zero-emission vehicles and electric vehicle supply equipment sold in California have bidirectional capability by January 1,
2027, to the extent practical as determined by the commission.
SBXl 2 (Skinner D) Energy: transportation fuels: supply and pricing: maximum gross gasoline refining margin.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/5/2022-lntroduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law requires operators of refineries in the state that produce gasoline meeting California specifications,
within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, to submit a report to the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission containing certain information regarding its refining activities related to the production of
gasoline in that month. Current law requires the commission to notify a refiner that has failed to timely provide the
required information and imposes a civil penalty on the refiner that fails to submit the required information within 5 days
of being notified of the failure. This bill would establish a maximum gross gasoline refining margin at an unspecified
amount per gallon and would authorize the commission to annually adjust the maximum gross gasoline refining margin,
as provided. The bill would authorize the commission to petition the court to enjoin a refiner from exceeding the
maximum gross gasoline refining margin. The bill would also authorize the commission to assess an administrative civil
penalty on a refiner for exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would authorize the
commission to grant a refiner's request for an exemption from the maximum gross gasoline refining margin upon a
showing by the refiner of reasonable cause, and to subject the refiner to alternative maximum margins or other conditions
set by the commission. The bill would require a refiner seeking an exemption to file a statement under the penalty of
perjury setting forth the basis of the request for exemption.
Environment and Climate
AB 3 (Zbur D) Offshore wind energy.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to accelerate the approval,
implementation, and operation of offshore wind energy projects necessary to meet California's climate action goals and
the transition to a clean energy economy, clarify the authority of California governmental agencies related to the analysis
and selection of feasible alternatives for seawater ports and transmission infrastructure improvements required to
construct wind energy projects along the California coast, and specify criteria for the analysis and selection of port and
transmission alternatives related to offshore wind energy projects to ensure the protection of the environment and
sensitive habitats and robust community participation and comment, to keep the maximum number of jobs related to the
construction of offshore wind energy projects in California, and to achieve environmental justice goals.
AB 9 (Muratsuchi D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions limit.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state
agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Under the act, the state board
is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40%
below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030. Under the act, a violation of a rule, regulation, order, emission
limitation, emission reduction measure, or other measure adopted by the state board under the act is a crime. This bill
instead would require the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 55%
below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030.
AB 30 (Ward D) Atmospheric Rivers: Research, Mitigation, and Climate Forecasting Program.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
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Summary: Current law establishes the Atmospheric Rivers: Research, Mitigation, and Climate Forecasting Program in the
Department of Water Resources. Current law requires the department, upon an appropriation for purposes of the
program, to research climate forecasting and the causes and impacts that climate change has on atmospheric rivers, to
operate reservoirs in a manner that improves flood protection, and to reoperate flood control and water storage facilities
to ca pture water generated by atmospheric rivers. This bill would rename that program the Atmospheric Rivers Research
and Forecast Improvement Program: Enabling Climate Adaptation Through Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations and
Hazard Resiliency (AR/FIRO) Program. The bill would require the department to research, develop, and implement new
observations, prediction models, novel forecasting methods, and tailored decision support systems to improve predictions
of atmospheric rivers and their impacts on water supply, flooding, post-wildfire debris flows, and environmental
co nditions.
AB 45 (Boerner Horvath D) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: blue carbon demonstration projects: new
development: greenhouse gas emissions.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976, among other things, requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any
development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any
local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit from the California
Coastal Commission, as provided. This bill would 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 state's natural and working lands and climate resilience strategies. The bill would, among other things,
authorize the commission to require an applicant with a project that impacts coastal wetland, subtidal, intertidal, or
marine habitats or ecosystems to build or contribute to a blue carbon demonstration project.
AB 80 (Addis D) Offshore Wind Coastal Protection Act.
Introduced: 12/15/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to create the Offshore Wind Coasta l
Compensation Fund for purposes of mitigating the impacts of the deployment of offshore wind infrastructure in California
on the tourism industry, marine and other coastal wildlife, the fishing industry, and other entities, funding costs associated
with the future decommissioning of obsolete offshore wind infrastructure, and providing funding to marine life
sanctuaries, federally recognized tribes, cities, and counties.
AB 287 (Garcia D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: competitive
grant programs: funding objectives.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Summary: Current law requires the moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be used to facilitate the
achievement of reductions of greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the California Global Warming Solutions Act of
2006 and, where applicable and to the extent feasible, to maximize economic, environmental, and public hea lth benefits
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to the state, among other goals. This bill, beginning July 1, 2025, would require state agencies administering competitive
grant programs that allocate moneys from the fund to give specified communities preferential points during grant
application scoring for programs intended to improve air quality, to provide for a specified application timeline, and to
allow applicants from the Counties of Imperial and San Diego to include daytime population numbers in grant applications.
AB 344 {Wood D) Electricity: load-serving entities: offshore wind facilities.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Summary: Would expressly authorize electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice
aggregators to jointly enter into agreements to procure electricity generated from offshore wind facilities.
AB 347 {Ting D) Pollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act:
enforcement.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Summary: The Pollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act req uires a
generator of hazardous waste every 4 years to complete and conduct a source evaluation review and plan that specifies
source reduction measures that the generator will implement and to prepare a hazardous waste management
performance report concerning the hazardous waste management approaches implemented by the generator. A
generator is required to provide its review and plan or report to the Department ofToxic Substances Control or the unified
program agency within 30 days of a request. The act requires the department or the unified program agency to provide
the generator with a notice of noncompliance if it determines that the review and plan or report is incomplete. The act
requires the generator to correct the deficiencies within 60 days from its receipt of that notice, except that, in response
to a written request from the generator for an extension of that 60-day deadline for cause, the act authorizes the
department or unified program agency to grant an extension of no more than an additional 60 days. This bill would instead
limit that extension authorization to no more than an additional 30 days.
AB 356 {Mathis R) California Environmental Quality Act: aesthetic impacts.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigat ed 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. Current law, until January 1, 2024, specifies that, except as provided, a lead agency is not required to
evaluate the aesthetic effects of a project and aesthetic effects are not considered significant effects on the environment
if the project involves the refurbishment, conversion, repurposing, or replacement of an existing building that meets
certain requirements. This bill would extend the operation of the above provision indefinitely.
SB 12 {Stern D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions limit.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on E.Q.
Summary: Under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the State Air Resources Board is required to
approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990
to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the
1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030. Under the act, a violation of a rule, regulation, order, emission limitation,
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emission reduction measure, or other measure adopted by the state board under the act is a crime. This bill instead would
require the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 55% below the 1990
level by no later than December 31, 2030.
SB 48 (Becker D) Building performance standards.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to create building
performance standards for improvements in energy efficiency and reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases in
large buildings, including measures to ensure that making the necessary investments to improve these buildings will
improve equity and avoid displacement or increased energy burdens, especially in disadvantaged communities.
SB 49 (Becker D) Tax incentives: solar canopies.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide tax incentives for the construction of
solar canopies over large parking lots to boost the local generation of clean electricity in urban and suburban areas, as
specified.
SB 56 (Skinner D) Load-serving entities: integrated resource plans.
Introduced: 12/7/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt a process for each load-serving entity, defined
to include electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, to file an integrated
resource plan and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan to ensure that it meets, among other things, the state's
targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and the requirement to procure at least 60% of its electricity from
eligible renewable energy resources by December 31, 2030. Current law additionally requires the integrated resource
plan to contribute to a diverse and balanced portfolio of resources needed to ensure a reliable supply of electricity that
provides optimal integration of renewable energy resources in a cost-effective manner, meets the state's targets for
reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and prevents cost shifting among load-serving entities. This bill would make a
nonsubstantive change to the latter provision.
SB 79 (Nguyen R) Coastal resources: preservation.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 finds and declares that the basic goals of the state for the coastal zone are
to, among other things, protect, maintain, and, where feasible, en hance and restore the overall quality of t he coastal zone
environment and its natural and artificial resources. This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact
subsequent legislation that would establish policy addressing coastal preservation.
SB 253 (Wiener D) Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
Summary: Would require the State Air Resources Board, on or before January 1, 2025, to develop and adopt regulations
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requiring United States partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities with total
annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000 and that do business in California, defined as "reporting entities," to publicly
disclose to the emissions registry, as defined, and verify, starting in 2026 on a date to be determined by the state board,
and annually thereafter, their greenhouse gas emissions, categorized as scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, as defined, from the
prior calendar year, as provided. The bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2030, to review, and
update as necessary, these deadlines to evaluate trends in scope 3 emissions reporting and to consider changes to the
deadlines, as provided. The bill would require reporting entities to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions in a manner
that is easily understandable and accessible to residents of the state. The bill would require reporting entities to ensure
that their public disclosures have been independently verified by the emissions registry or a third-party auditor, approved
by the state board, with expertise in greenhouse gas emissions accounting. The bill would require the state board, in
developing these regulations, to consult with the Attorney General, other government stakeholders, investors,
stakeholders representing consumer and environmental justice interests, and reporting entities that have demonstrated
leadership in full-scope greenhouse gas emissions accounting and public disclosure and greenhouse gas emissions
reductions.
SB 261 (Stern D) Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial risk.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to make available,
and update at least annually, on its internet website the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air
contaminants for each facility that reports to the state board, as provided. Under the act, a violation of a rule, regulation,
order, emission limitation, emission reduction measure, or other measure adopted by the state board under the act is a
crime. This bill would require, on or before December 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, a covered entity, as defined, to
prepare a climate-related financial risk report disclosing the entity's climate-related financial risk and measures adopted
to reduce and adapt to climate-related financial risk disclosed. The bill would require the covered entity to submit to the
state board, and make available to the public on its own internet website, a copy of the report and to submit to the
Secretary of State a statement affirming, not under penalty of perjury, that the report discloses climate-related financial
risk. The bill would also set forth the duties of the Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Advisory Group, as specified, including
the duty to collect and review climate-related financial risk reports received in the prior calendar year and the duty to
annually prepare a public report that contains specified information, including a review of the disclosure of climate-related
financial risk contained in climate-related financial risk reports and an analysis of the systemic and sectorwide climate-
related financial risks facing the state.
SB 272 (Laird D) Sea level rise: planning and adaptation.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
Summary: 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, and receiving approval for, a local coastal program, as
defined, to the California Coastal Commission or submitting, and receiving approval for, a subregional San Francisco Bay
shoreline resiliency plan to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as applicable, on or before
January 1, 2034. By imposing additional requirements on local governments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. The bill would require local governments that receive approval for sea level rise planning and adaptation on or
before January 1, 2029, to be prioritized for sea level rise funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the
implementation of projects in the local government's approved sea level rise adaptation plan. The bill would require, on
or before December 31, 2024, the California Coastal Commission and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission, in close coordination with the Ocean Protection Council and the California Sea Level Rise State
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and Regional Support Collaborative, to establish guidelines for the preparation of that planning and adaptation. The bill
would make the operation of its provisions contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes by the Legislature in the
annual Budget Act or another statute.
Governmental Operations
AB 233 (Wilson D) Local government: animal waste disposal: horses.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/13/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
Summary: Would authorize a local agency to require the rider of, or person otherwise responsible for, a horse to collect
and dispose of any animal waste deposited by that horse on a street, sidewalk, or other public property.
AB 242 (Wood D) Critical access hospitals: employment.
Introduced: 1/13/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Summary: The Medical Practice Act authorizes the Medical Board of California to grant approval of the employment of
licensees on a salary basis by licensed charitable institutions, foundations, or clinics if no charge for professional services
is made, in accordance with specified requirements. Current law provides an exception to the prohibition on charging for
professional services for a federally certified critica l access hospital that employs licensees and charges for professional
services rendered by those licensees to patients under specified conditions, including that the medical staff concur by an
affirmative vote that the licensee's employment is in the best interest of the communities served by the hospital. Current
law makes that exception operative only until Jan uary 1, 2024. This bill would delete the provision making the above-
specified exception inoperative on January 1, 2024.
AB 262 (Holden D) Children's camps: regulation.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Summary: The California Community Care Facilities Act, generally provides for the licensing and regulation of community
care facilities, including child daycare facilities, by the State Department of Social Services. Current law also requires the
State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for organized camps,
defined as a site with a program and facilities established for the primary purposes of providing an outdoor group living
experience with social, spiritual, educational, or recreational objectives, for 5 days or more during one or more seasons
of the year, except as specified. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to establish and lead a
stakeholder workgroup to gather information and provide recommendations to the Legislature regarding development
of subsequent legislation for children's camps. The bill would define a "children's camp" for these purposes as a program
that offers daytime or overnight experiences administered by adults, that provides social, cultural, educational,
recreational, or artistic programming to more than 5 children between 3 and 17 years of age for 5 days or longer, with
specified exceptions. The bill would require the stakeholder group to be composed of representatives of designated state
entities, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Education.
AB 302 (Ward D) Department of Technology: high-risk automated decision systems: inventory.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Summary: Would require the Department of Technology to conduct, on or before September 1, 2024, a comprehensive
inventory of all high-risk automated decision systems, as defined, that have been proposed for use, development, or
procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, state agencies. The bill would require the comprehensive
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inventory to include a description of, among other things, the categories of data and personal information the automated
decision system uses to make its decisions. On or before January 1, 2025, the bill would require the department to submit
a report of the above-described comprehensive inventory to the Legislature.
AB 315 (Bauer-Kahan D) False advertising: abortion.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: Would prohibit a person doing business in California who is performing, has performed, or intends to perform
a pregnancy-related service from advertising using a false or misleading statement related to the person's provision, or
lack of provision, of abortion. The bill would make a violation of that prohibition an unfair business practice, and would
authorize the Attorney General, a district attorney, or a city attorney to file for injunctive relief or seek a civil penalty, as
specified. The bill would also authorize a private right of action seeking injunctive relief, a monetary penalty of at least
$1,000, and reasonable attorney's fees.
AB 324 (Pacheco D) Gas corporations: renewable gas procurement.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish rules and to fix the rates and charges for all
public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature, and requires that the rates and charges of a public utility be just and
reasonable. Current law requires the commission and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission to undertake specified actions to advance the state's clean energy and pollution reduction objectives,
including, where feasible, cost effective, and consistent with other state policy objectives, increasing the use of large-and
small-scale energy storage with a variety of technologies, including green electrolytic hydrogen, as defined. This bill would
require the commission to open a new proceeding, or a new phase of an existing proceeding, to consider establishing
procurement goals for renewable hydrogen, as defined, and consider requiring each gas corporation and core transport
agent to annually procure a proportionate share of renewable hydrogen to meet those goals. The bill would require the
commission to make specified findings before establishing renewable hydrogen procurement targets or goals.
AB 331 (Bauer-Kahan D) Artificial intelligence.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: The California Fair Employment and Housing Act protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all
persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of race,
religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic
information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, reproductive health
decision making, or veteran or military status. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating
to the use of artificial intelligence in accordance with prescribed principles relating to safety and effectiveness, algorithmic
discrimination, notice and explanation of use, and human alternatives, consideration, or fallback.
AB 333 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Vehicles: abatement of abandoned vehicles.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Current law authorizes a county satisfying specified conditions to establish a service authority for the
abatement of abandoned vehicles and to impose a $1 vehicle registration fee. Current law authorizes a service authority
to adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement, removal, and disposal, as a public nuisance, of an
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abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicle or part of the vehicle from private or public property and for the
recovery of costs associated with the enforcement of the ordinance. This bill would allow the ordinance to provide for the
issuance of permits or licenses, consistent with local nuisance codes and in cooperation with local code enforcement
authorities, regarding the temporary parking allowance of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles and
to authorize any necessary investigations and inspections related to the determination of a public nuisance.
AB 334 (Rubio, Blanca D) Public contracts: conflicts of interest.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Current law prohibits members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers
or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or
board of which they are members. Current law authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission to commence an
administrative or civil action against persons who violate this prohibition, as prescribed, and includes provisions for the
collection of penalties after the time for judicial review of a commission order or decision has lapsed, or if all means of
judicial review of the order or decision have been exhausted. Current law identifies certain remote interests in contracts
that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested
in a contract. This bill would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified requirements, is not an officer
for purposes of being subject to the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract.
AB 340 (Fong, Vince R) California Environmental Quality Act: grounds for noncompliance.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) prohibits an action or proceeding from being brought in a
court to challenge the approval of a project by a public agency unless the alleged grounds for noncompliance are
presented to the public agency orally or in writing by a person during the public comment period provided by CEQA or
before the close of the public hearing on the project before the issuance of the notice of determination. This bill would
require the alleged grounds for noncompliance with CEQA presented to the public agency in writing be presented at least
10 days before the public hearing on the project before the issuance of the notice of determination. The bill would prohibit
the inclusion of written comments presented to the public agency after that time period in the record of proceedings and
would prohibit those documents from serving as basis on which an action or proceeding may be brought.
SB 68 (McGuire D) Local government.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law provides for the formation and powers of various local governments, including counties and cities.
The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 provides the sole and exclusive authority and
procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to local government.
SB 69 (Cortese D) California Environmental Quality Act: judicial and administrative proceedings: limitations.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Corns. on E.Q. and JUD.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a state agency or a local agency that approves or
determines to carry out a project subject to CEQA to file a notice of determination with the Office of Planning and Research
or the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located, as provided. CEQA authorizes a state agency or a
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local agency that determines that a project is not subject to CEQA to file a notice of exemption with the office or the
county clerk of each county in which the project will be located, as provided. If a person has made a written request to a
public agency for a copy of a notice of determination or notice of exemption for a project before the date on which the
public agency approves or determines to carry out the project, CEQA requires the public agency, no later than 5 days from
the date of the public agency's action, to deposit a copy of the written notice addressed to that person in the United
States mail, first-class postage prepaid. CEQA provides that the date upon which the notice is mailed does not affect the
limitations periods applicable to specified actions or proceedings to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul specified acts
or decisions of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA. The bill would require a public agency to
provide both the notice and any subsequent amended, corrected, or revised notice, as specified, in response to a written
request for the notice, regardless of the delivery method. By requiring a local agency to provide a copy of any subsequent
amended, corrected, or revised notice, along with the notice, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 238 (Wiener D) Health care coverage: independent medical review.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Summary: Current law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Current law
establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may
seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or disability insurer
and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days. This bill would require
a decision regarding a disputed health care service to be automatically submitted to the relevant Independent Medical
Review System if the decision is to deny, modify, or delay specified mental health care services for an enrollee or insured
Oto 21 years of age, inclusive.
SB 242 (Skinner D) California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account
Program.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on HUMANS S.
Summary: Current law establishes various means-tested public social services programs administered by counties to
provide eligible recipients with certain benefits, including, but not limited to, cash assistance under the California Work
Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, nutrition assistance under the CalFresh program, and health
care services under the Medi-Cal program. This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, prohibit funds deposited
and investment returns accrued in a California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) trust fund
account from being considered as income or assets when determining eligibility and benefit amount for any means-tested
program until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers the funds from the HOPE trust fund account, as specified. To the
extent this bill would expand county duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 252 (Gonzalez D) Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
Summary: Current law prohibits the boards of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers'
Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds
in a thermal coal company, as defined. Current law requires the boards to liquidate investments in thermal coal companies
on or before July 1, 2017, and requires the boards, in making a determination to liquidate investments, to constructively
engage with thermal coal companies to establish whether the companies are transitioning their business models to adapt
to clean energy generation. Current law provides that it does not require a board to take any action unless the board
determines in good faith that the action is consistent with the board's fiduciary responsibilities established in the
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California Constitution. This bill would prohibit the boards of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State
Teachers' Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee
retirement funds in a fossil fuel company, as defined. The bill would require the boards to liquidate investments in a fossil
fuel company on or before July 1, 2030. The bill would temporarily suspend the above-described liquidation provision
upon a good faith determination by the board that certain conditions materially impact normal market mechanisms for
pricing assets, as specified, and would make this suspension provision inoperative on January 1, 2035.
SB 265 (Hurtado D) Cybersecurity preparedness: critical infrastructure sectors.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
Summary: Would require the Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to direct the California Cybersecurity Integration
Center (Cal-CSIC) to prepare, and Cal OES to submit to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2025, a strategic, multiyear
outreach plan to assist critical infrastructure sectors, as defined, in their efforts to improve cybersecurity and an
evaluation of options for providing grants or alternative forms of funding to, and potential voluntary actions that do not
require funding and that assist, that sector in their efforts to improve cybersecurity preparedness. The bill would make
related findings and declarations.
SB 269 (Laird D) Alcoholic beverages: licensed premises: retail sales and consumption.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
Summary: Current law prohibits an alcoholic beverage licensee from having, upon the licensed premises, any alcoholic
beverages other than the alcoholic beverage that the licensee is authorized to sell at the premises under their license,
and makes a violation of this prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor. Current law specifies various exceptions to that
prohibition, including authorizing the holder of a beer manufacturer's license and a winegrower's license that holds both
of those licenses for a single premises to have alcoholic beverages that are authorized under those licenses at the same
time anywhere within the premises and also authorizes that licenseholder to maintain a designated area upon that
premises where retail sales and consumption authorized under those licenses may occur, subject to specified conditions.
This bill would add craft distilled spirits manufacturer's licenses to that exception to the prohibition, thus authorizing the
holder of a beer manufacturer's license, a winegrower's license, or craft distilled spirits manufacturer's license that holds
any combination of those licenses for a single premises to have alcoholic beverages that are authorized under those
licenses at the same time anywhere within the premises and to maintain a designated area upon that premises where
retail sales and consumption authorized under those licenses may occur, subject to specified conditions.
Health and Human Services
AB 222 (Arambula D) Civil Rights Department: Californians with disabilities workgroup.
Introduced: 1/10/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Summary: The California Fair Employment and Housing Act establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business,
Consumer Services, and Housing Agency under the direction of the Director of Civil Rights. Current law sets forth the
powers and duties of the department, which include receiving, investigating, conciliating, mediating, and prosecuting
complaints alleging unlawful practices or violations of specified civil rights provisions, including those based on a mental
or physical disability, as defined. This bill would require the department to convene a workgroup to make
recommendations to the Legislature for the development of accessibility and antidiscrimination laws for people with
disabilities, as defined. The bill would require membership of the workgroup to include interested parties and
stakeholders that reflect the diversity of the state, including, among other groups, individuals who have personal
experience with a disability.
AB 232 (Aguiar-Curry D) Temporary practice allowances.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
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Summary: The licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the licensed
Professional Clinical Counselor Act generally govern the provision of marriage and family therapy services, clinical social
work services, and professional clinical counseling services, respectively, in the state and prohibit a person from practicing
those healing arts without a license granted pursuant to the respective provisions of each act. This bill, until January 1,
2026, would, under all of the acts described above, authorize a person who holds a license in another jurisdiction of the
United States as a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor to provide
services in the state for a period not to exceed 30 consecutive days in any calendar year if certain conditions are met,
including the license from another jurisdiction is at the highest level for independent clinical practice in the jurisdiction in
which the license was granted, the client is located in California during the time the person seeks to provide care in
California, and the client is a client of the person and was the person's client immediately before the client became located
in California.
AB 269 (Berman D) Public health: COVID-19 testing and dispensing sites.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Summary: Would authorize a person to perform an analysis of samples to test for SARS-CoV-2 in a clinical laboratory or a
city, county, or city and county public health laboratory if they meet the requirements under Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments (CLIA) for high complexity testing. The bill would, until January 1, 2024, authorize an entity
approved by the State Department of Public Health to operate a designated COVID-19 testing and dispensing site to
acquire, dispense, and store COVID-19 oral therapeutics, as defined, at or from a designated site.
AB 283 (Patterson, Jim R) Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Summary: 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 Oversight and Accountability Commission
to oversee the implementation of the MHSA. Current law specifies the composition of the 16-member commission,
including the Attorney General or their designee, the Superintendent of Public Instruction or their designee, specified
members of the Legislature, and 12 members appointed by the Governor, as prescribed. Current law authorizes the MHSA
to be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature if the amendments are consistent with, and further the purposes of, the
MHSA, or by a majority vote to clarify procedures and terms. This bill would urge the Governor, in making appointments,
to consider ensuring geographic representation among the 10 regions of California defined by the 2020 census.
AB 289 (Holden D) Mental health services: youth representation.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Summary: The Bronzan-McCorquodale Act contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community
mental health services in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health
programs. The Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 in the November
2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health
programs. The act may be amended by the Legislature only by a 2/3 vote of both houses and only so long as the
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amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act. The Legislature may clarify procedures and terms of the
act by majority vote. Current law establishes the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission and
requires counties to prepare and submit a 3-year program and expenditure plan, and annual updates, as specified, to the
commission and the State Department of Health Care Services. Current law requires the plan to be developed with
specified local stakeholders. This bill would include youths or youth mental health organizations as a specified local
stakeholder for purposes of a county developing a 3-year plan and annual updates.
AB 352 (Bauer-Kahan D) Reproductive and sexual health information.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect reproductive and sexual health
information.
SB 43 (Eggman D) Behavioral health.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to modernize and improve California's behavioral
health system.
SB 59 (Skinner D) Menstrual Product Accessibility Act.
Introduced: 12/19/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Corns. on G.O. and HEALTH.
Summary: Would enact the Menstrual Product Accessibility Act, which would require all women's restrooms, all all-
gender restrooms, and at least one men's restroom in a building owned by the state or in the portion of a building where
the state rents or leases office space, a building owned by a local government where a specified state-funded safety net
program is administered, or in a hospital that receives state funds, as specified, to be stocked with menstrual products,
as defined, available and accessible to employees and the public, free of cost, at all times.
SB 63 (Ochoa Bogh R) Homeless and Mental Health Court and Transitioning Home Grant Programs.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Under current law, the Board of State and Community Corrections administers several grant programs,
including a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant program, a medication-assisted treatment grant program, and a
violence intervention and prevention grant program. This bill would establish two new grant programs until January 1,
2028: the Homeless and Mental Health Court Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature,
be administered by the Judicial Council and provide grants to counties for the purpose of establishing or expanding
homeless courts and mental health courts, as specified; and the Transitioning Home Grant Program that would, subject
to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the board and provide grants to county sheriffs and jail
administrators to fund programs aimed at reducing homelessness among inmates released from custody, as specified.
SB 65 (Ochoa Bogh R) Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on HEAL TH.
Summary: Current law authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to, subject to an appropriation, establish
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a Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program. Current law authorizes the department, pursuant to this program,
to award competitive grants to qualified entities to construct, acquire, and rehabilitate real estate assets or to invest in
needed mobile crisis infrastructure to expand the community continuum of behavioral health treatment resources to
build or expand the capacity of various treatment and rehabilitation options for persons with behavioral health disorders,
as specified. This bill would authorize the department, in awarding the above-described grants, to give preference to
qualified entities that are intending to place their projects in specified facilities or properties.
SB 70 (Wiener D) Prescription drug coverage.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Summary: Current law generally authorizes a health care service plan or health insurer to use utilization review, under
which a licensed physician or a licensed health care professional who is competent to evaluate specific clinical issues may
approve, modify, delay, or deny requests for health care services based on medical necessity. Current law prohibits a
health care service plan contract that covers prescription drug benefits or a specified health insurance policy from limiting
or excluding coverage for a drug on the basis that the drug is prescribed for a use that is different from the use for which
it was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration if specified conditions are met. Current law also prohibits a
health care service plan that covers prescription drug benefits from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug that was
previously approved for coverage if an enrollee continues to be prescribed that drug, as specified. This bill would expand
the above-described prohibitions to prohibit limiting or excluding coverage of a dose of a drug or dosage form, and would
apply these prohibitions to a prescription drug that is prescribed for off-label use. The bill would prohibit a health care
service plan contract from requiring additional cost sharing not already imposed for a drug that was previously approved
for coverage. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 87 (Nguyen R) Mental health.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law generally provides for mental health services, including the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, which
co ntains provisions governing the organization and financing of community mental health services for ·persons with
mental disorders in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs,
and the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative statute enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004,
statewide general election that establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various
county mental health programs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental
health.
SB 232 (Niello R) Mental health services: gravely disabled.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Corns. on HEALTH and JUD.
Summary: The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of a person who is a
danger to themselves or others or who is gravely disabled. The act also provides for a conservator of the person or estate
to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled. Other law exempts specified licensed general acute care hospitals,
licensed acute psychiatric hospitals, licensed profess ional staff of those hospitals, or a physician and surgeon, providing
emergency medical services in any department of those hospitals, from civil or criminal liability for detaining a person if
certain conditions exist, including that the person cannot be safely released from the hospital because the person, as a
result of a mental health disorder, presents a danger to themselves or others or is gravely disabled. Current law, for the
purposes of these provisions, defines "gravely disabled," among other things, as a condition in which a person, as a result
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of a mental health disorder, is unable to provide for the basic personal needs of food, clothing, or shelter. This bill would
change the definition of "gravely disabled" for these purposes to read, in part, a condition in which a person, as a result
of a mental health disorder, is incapable of making informed decisions about, or providing for, their own basic personal
needs for food, clothing, shelter, or medical care without significa nt supervision and assistance from another person and,
as a result of being incapable of making these informed decisions, the person is at risk of substantial bodily harm,
dangerous worsening of a concomitant serious physical illness, significant psychiatric deterioration, or mismanagement
of essential needs that could result in bodily harm.
Homelessness
AB 67 (Muratsuchi D) Homeless Courts Pilot Program.
Introduced: 12/7/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Corns. on PUB. S. and JUD.
Summary: Current law governs the jurisdiction of various criminal actions and criminal proceedings. Current law also
provides various diversion programs, including programs for defendants with cognitive disabilities and programs for
defendants who were, or currently are, members of the United States military. This bill, upon an appropriation by the
Legislature, would create the Homeless Courts Pilot Program, which would remain in effect until January 1, 2028, to be
ad ministered by the Judicial Council for the purpose of providing comprehensive community-based services to achieve
stabilization for, and address the specific legal needs of, chronically homeless individuals who are involved with the
cri minal justice system. The bill would require programs seeking grant funds to provide a number of specified services or
program components, including, but not limited to, a diversion program enabling participating defendant s to have
infraction or misdemeanor charges dismissed upon co mpletion of a program, provision of supportive housing, as defined,
during the duration of the program, and a dedicated county representative to assist defendants with housing needs. The
bill would require an applica nt for grant funding under the program to submit a plan for a new homeless court program
or expansion of an existing homeless court program, and would require any funding awarded to an applicant to be used
in accordance with that plan.
AB 86 (Jones-Sawyer D) Homelessness: lead entity.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/5/2023-From printer. May be hea rd in committee February 4.
Summary: Current law requires the Council on Homelessness to, among other things, identify mainstream resources,
benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California and promote systems
integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. This bill
would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish a single entity to serve as the lead for ending
homelessness, who would perform specified duties.
AB 257 (Hoover R) Encampments: penalties.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal
property in any street, sidewalk, or other public property within 500 feet of a school, daycare center, park, or library. The
bill would make a violation of the prohibition an infraction or a misdemeanor. The bill would also make willfully resisting,
delaying, or obstructing a peace officer, public officer, or public employee in the discharge or att empt to discharge any
duty to enforce the prohibition a misdemea nor. By imposing criminal penalties for a violation of these provisions, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 271 (Quirk-Silva D) Homeless death review committees.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 1/24/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
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Summary: Would authorize counties to establish a homeless death review committee for the purposes of gathering
information to identify the root causes of death of homeless individuals and to determine strategies to improve
coordination of services for the homeless population. The bill would establish procedures for the sharing or disclosure of
information by a homeless death review committee.
AB 284 (Patterson, Joe R) Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing,
Assistance, and Prevention program.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Summary: Under current law, grants under the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program are
allocated in 4 rounds of funding, administered by the California lnteragency Council on Homelessness, as provided.
Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the
Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of
the housing programs administered by the department. Current law requires that the report include, among other things,
the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income
level. This bill would additionally require that this report include an eva luation of the HHAP program.
SB 7 (Blakespear D) Homelessness.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding homelessness and the regional housing
needs allocation.
SB 31 (Jones R) Encampments: sensitive areas: penalties.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Under current law, a person who lodges in a public or private place without permission is guilty of disorderly
conduct, a misdemeanor. Current law also provides that a person who willfully and maliciously obstructs the free
movement of any person on any street, sidewalk, or other public place is guilty of a misdemeanor. Under existing law, a
public nuisance is anything that is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, so as to interfere with the
comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an entire community, neighborhood, or considerable number of persons.
Current law provides various remedies against a public nuisance, including abatement by any public body or officer
authorized by law. This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing
personal property upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within 1000 feet of a sensitive area, as defined.
The bill would specify that a violation of this prohibition is a public nuisance that can be abated and prevented, as
provided.
SB 246 (Ochoa Bogh R) California lnteragency Council on Homelessness.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
Summary: Current law sets forth the composition of the California lnteragency Council on Homelessness, which includes,
among others, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the Secretary of California Health and
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Human Services, who serve as cochairs of the council. This bill would add a representative from the State Council on
Developmental Disabilities to the council described above.
Housing and Land Use
AB 11 (Jackson D) Affordable California Commission.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on A. & A.R.
Summary: Current law declares that the availability of housing is of vital statewide importance. Current law declares that
the provision of housing affordable to low-and moderate-income households requires the cooperation of all levels of
government. Current law declares that housing prices in California have risen dramatically in all parts of the state in the
past decade, while the wealth gap, especially the racial wealth gap, continues to be a growing problem in California.
Existing law establishes various programs for the development and preservation of affordable housing, including the
Affordable Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program and the California Dream for All Program. This bill
would create the Affordable California Commission. The bill would require that the commission be composed of 11
members, including 9 members appointed by the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the President pro Tempore
of the Senate, as provided, and one member each from the Assembly and the Senate, who would serve as ex officio
nonvoting members, as specified.
AB 42 (Ramos D) Tiny homes: fire sprinkler requirements.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Corns. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Summary: Current law prohibits a local agency from requiring an accessory dwelling unit to provide fire sprinklers, if they
are not required for the primary residence. This bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing or enforcing any
requirement to provide fire sprinklers for any dwelling with a total floor area of less than 500 square feet.
AB 49 (Soria D) Affordable housing.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable
housing and reduce homelessness.
AB 57 (Kalra D) California Pocket Forest Initiative.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Summary: Would establish the California Pocket Forest Initiative in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and
would authorize the department to coordinate implementation of the initiative in conjunction with the act. Upon an
appropriation by the Legislature, the bill would authorize the department to provide grants to cities, counties, districts,
nonprofit organizations, and public schools to establish pocket forests on public lands, as provided. The bill would require
the department to prioritize disadvantaged communities and communities that lack publicly accessible green space for
these grants. The bill would require the department to partner with one or more academic institutions to test, and submit
a report on or before January 1, 2030, to the Legislature that evaluates, the applicability and effectiveness of the Miyawaki
method, as defined, to restore degraded lands and reforest urban areas in multiple regions throughout California. The bill
would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031.
AB 66 (Mathis R) Natural Resources Agency: water storage projects: permit approval.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
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Summary: Current law establishes the Natural Resources Agency, composed of departments, boards, conservancies, and
commissions responsible for the restoration, protection, and management of the state's natural and cultural resources.
Current law establishes in the agency the Department of Water Resources, which manages and undertakes planning with
regard to water resources in the state. This bill would require the agency, and each department, board, conservancy, and
commission within the agency, to approve the necessary permits for specified projects within 180 days from receiving a
permit application, and would deem those permits approved if approval does not occur within this time period.
AB 68 (Ward D) Housing.
Introduced: 12/8/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general
plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Current law defines several terms for the
purposes of these provisions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.
AB 72 (Boerner Horvath D) Coastal resources: research: landslides and erosion: early warning system: County of San
Diego.
Introduced: 12/13/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Summary: Current law requires the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct research on coastal cliff landslides and erosion in the County of San Diego, to
be completed by January 1, 2025. Current law requires the institution to provide a report to the Legislature with
recommendations for developing a coastal cliff landslide and erosion early warning system based on available research
no later than M arch 15, 2025. This bill would extend the deadline for the above-described research to be completed to
January 1, 2026. The bill would extend the deadline to report to the Legislature to March 30, 2026.
AB 281 (Grayson D) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Corns. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Summary: Current law, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a local agency to compile a list of
information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, 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 jurisd iction, as specified, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits
no later than January 1, 2024. Current law establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application
for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant and whether to approve or deny an application, as
specified, and makes any failure to meet these time limits a violation of specified law. Current law defines various terms
for these purposes, including "local agency" to mean a city, county, or city and county, and "postentitlement phase
permit," among other things, to exclude a permit required and issued by a special district. This bill would include a special
district in the definition of "local agency" and would remove special districts from the exclusion in the definition of
"postentitlement phase permit."
AB 309 (Lee D) Social housing.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
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Summary: The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the Department of Housing and
Community Development and the California Housing Finance Agency and sets forth various programs administered by
those entities intended to, among other things, provide a comprehensive and balanced approach to the solution of
housing problems of the people of this state. The act sets forth various definitions that govern its construction. This bill
would define "social housing" for purposes of the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act.
AB 312 (Reyes D) State Partnership for Affordable Housing Registries in California Grant Program.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: Would establish, subject to appropriation by the Legislature, the State Partnership for Affordable Housing
Registries in California Grant Program to provide technical assistance to eligible entities, as defined, for the purpose of
creating a state-managed online platform of affordable housing listings, information, and applications. The bill would
require the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer the program and to adopt guidelines for
this purpose. The bill would require the department to develop a housing preapplication to standardize applications for
affordable housing and to solicit participation of eligible entities no later than January 1, 2026, and to launch the platform
no later than July 1, 2027. The bill would require the department to provide technical assistance to participating entities
and to ensure equitable access to database users, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to coordinate
with the Office of Data and Innovation to carry out the requirements of the program and to contract with vendors
pursuant to existing provisions of state contract law, as specified. The bill would establish minimum requirements for the
platform and would require a vendor selected to create and maintain the platform to demonstrate specified capabilities
and implement those requirements.
AB 318 (Addis D) Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: The Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act establishes the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection
Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development to resolve complaints from homeowners
relating to the Mobilehome Residency Law. Under current law, the act is repealed on January 1, 2024. This bill would
remove the January 1, 2024, repeal date and make the act operative indefinitely.
AB 323 (Holden D) Planning and land use: parcels: changes in use.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Would revise the Planning and Zo ning law to prohibit a developer from submitting a petition for public hearing
to a city, county, or city and county, for a change in use of a parcel intended for owner occupancy pursuant to a local
inclusionary zoning ordinance or density bonus project, as defined, unless the developer can prove that none of the
applicants for owner occupancy can qualify for the unit as an owner occupant pursuant to the income limitation recorded
on the deed or other instrument defining the terms of conveyance eligibility.
AB 346 (Quirk-Silva D) Income tax credits: low-income housing: California Debt limit Allocation Committee
rulemaking.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Summary: Current law creates the California Debt limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC) for the purpose of administering
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the volume limit for the state on private activity bonds through an allocation system. Current law authorizes CDLAC to
adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations as emergency regulations in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of
the Administrative Procedure Act. This bill, instead, would authorize CDLAC to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and
regulations without complying with the procedural requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act, except as
specified. The bill would make rules and regulations adopted, amended, or repealed by CD LAC effective immediately upon
adoption.
SB 4 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Corns. on HOUSING and GOV. & F.
Summary: Would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who
submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or
religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the
development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to
industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that
100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right
under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-
income households, provided that all of the units are provided at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the
rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill
would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified.
SB 16 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Civil rights: discrimination: enforcement.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Summary: The Unruh Civil Rights Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on specified bases.
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing and employment on specified bases
and provides procedures for enforcement by the Civil Rights Department. Current law specifies that while it is the intent
of the Legislature that the California Fair Employment and Housing Act occupy the field of regulation of discrimination in
employment and housing, nothing in the act shall be construed to limit or restrict the application of the Unruh Civil Rights
Act. This bill would also specify that nothing in the California Fair Employment and Housing Act shall be construed to limit
or restrict efforts by local entities to enforce state law prohibiting discrimination against classes of persons covered by
the act in employment and housing.
SB 20 (Rubio D) Joint powers agreements: regional housing trusts.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Corns. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING.
Summary: Would authorize 2 or more cities, by entering into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of
Powers Act, to create a regional housing trust for the purposes of funding housing to assist the homeless population and
persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their jurisdictions. The bill would require a regional
housing trust created pursuant to these provisions to be governed by a board of directors consisting of a minimum of 9
directors, as specified. The bill would authorize a regional housing trust to fund the planning and construction of housing,
receive public and private financing and funds, and authorize and issue bonds, as specified. The bill would require the
joint powers agreement establishing the regional housing trust to incorporate specified annual financial reporting and
auditing requirements.
SB 34 (Umberg D) Surplus land disposal: violations: Orange County.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
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Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of land determined to be surplus land by a local agency.
Those requirements include a requirement that a local agency, prior to disposing of a property or participating in
negotiations to dispose of that property with a prospective transferee, send a written notice of availability of the property
to specified entities, depending on the property's intended use, and send specified information in regard to the disposal
of the parcel of surplus land to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law, among other
enforcement provisions, makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these disposal provisions, after receiving
notification of violation from the department, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold in violation
for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. Under current law, except as specified, a local agency has 60
days to cure or correct an alleged violation before an enforcement action may be brought. Current law provides for the
deposit and use of penalty revenues for housing, as prescribed. This bill, until January 1, 2030, would require the County
of Orange, or any city located within Orange County, if notified by the department that its planned sale of surplus land is
in violation of existing law, to cure or correct the alleged violation within 60 days, as prescribed.
SB 37 (Caballero D) Tenancy.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would make findings and declarations relating to senior housing and would state the intent of the Legislature
to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions than would enact meaningful tenancy reform to ensure that aging
adults can remain safely housed.
SB 91 (Umberg D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: supportive and transitional housing: motel
conversion.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Corns. on E.Q. and HOUSING.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2025, exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) projects
related to the conversion of a structure with a certificate of occupancy as a motel, hotel, residential hotel, or hostel to
supportive or transitional housing, as defined, that meet certain conditions. This bill would extend indefinitely the above
exemption.
SB 225 (Caballero D) Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program: statewide contract.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Corns. on HOUSING and G.O.
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer
Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs
throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program and the California Emergency Solutions
Grants Program. Current law, upon appropriation, authorizes the department to make either or both loans and grants to
rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department-funded
housing projects that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a
remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk for conversion, as provided. This bill would establish the
Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program for purposes of funding the acquisition and rehabilitation of
unrestricted housing units and attaching long-term affordability restrictions on the housing units, while safeguarding
against the displacement of current residents.
SB 229 (Umberg D) Surplus land: disposal of property: violations: public meeting.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
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Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of land determined to be surplus land by a local agency.
Those requirements include a requirement that a local agency, before disposing of a property or participating in
negotiations to dispose of that property with a prospective transferee, send a written notice of availability of the property
to specified entities, depending on the property's intended use, and send specified information in regard to the disposal
of the parcel of surplus land to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law, among other
enforcement provisions, makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these disposal provisions, after receiving
notification of violation from the department, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold in violation
for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. Under existing law, except as specified, a local agency has 60
days to cure or correct an alleged violation before an enforcement action may be brought. This bill would require a local
agency that has received a notification of violation from the department to hold an open and public session to review and
consider the substance of the notice of violation. The bill would require the local agency's governing body to provide
prescribed notice no later than 14 days before the public session.
SB 239 (Dahle R) California Environmental Quality Act: housing development projects: judicial proceedings.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Corns. on E.Q. and JUD.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a court, in an action or proceeding brought
challenging any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA and a
finding by the court of such noncompliance, to enter an order that includes one or more of specified mandates, one of
which may be a mandate to suspend any or all specific project activity or activities, as provided. CEQA provides that,
except as otherwise specified, it is not intended to limit the equitable powers of the courts. This bill would limit the
standing to file and maintain the above action or proceeding to the Attorney General. The bill would authorize the court,
upon its own motion or of a party, to conduct a hearing to determine if the Attorney General is bringing and maintaining
an action or proceeding for nonenvironmental purposes, as defined. If the court determines that the action is brought or
maintained for nonenvironmental purposes, the bill would authorize the court to take necessary actions, including the
dismissal of the action or proceeding, award of attorneys' fees, or both dismissal and award.
SB 240 (Ochoa Bogh R) Surplus state real property.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 1/26/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25.
Summary: Current law requires a local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to satisfy certain requirements to
be considered as a potential priority buyer of the surplus state real property, including that the local agency or nonprofit
affordable housing sponsor demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the department, that the surplus state real property, or
portion of that surplus state real property, is to be used by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor for
open space, public parks, affordable housing projects, or development of local government-owned facilities. Current law
authorizes the Department of General Services to sell surplus state real property, or a portion of surplus state real
property, to a local agency, or to a nonprofit affordable housing sponsor if no local agency is interested in the surplus
state real property, for affordable housing projects at a sales price less than fair market value if the department
determines that such a discount will enable the provision of housing for persons and families of low or moderate income.
Current law also authorizes the Director of General Services to transfer surplus state real property to a local agency for
less than fair market value if the agency uses the surplus state real property for parks or open-space purposes. This bill
would remove authorization for a local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to be considered as a potential
priority buyer of surplus state real property upon demonstration that the property is to be used by the agency or sponsor
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for open space or a public park. The bill would, where surplus state real property that is to be used by the local agency or
nonprofit affordable housing sponsor for affordable housing project s and the affordable housing project is not completed
within 5 years of the date the property was acquired by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor, require
the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to pay a penalty in the amount of 1% of the purchase price. The
bill would remove authorization to transfer surplus state real property to a loca l agency for less than fair market va lue if
the agency proposes to use the surplus state real property for parks or open-space purposes.
SB 270 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: housing projects: housing sustainability districts: exemption.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts from its requirements a housing project undertaken
in a housing sustainability district designated by a local government if specified requirements are met, including that the
lead agency has certified an environmental impact report for the district, and the Department of Housing and Com munity
Development has approved the district, within 10 years of the lead agency's review ofthe housing project. This bill would
instead allow the exemption to apply if the lead agency has certified an environmental impact report for the district, and
the Department of Housing and Community Development has approved the district, within 12 years of the lead agency's
review of the housing project.
AB 21 (Gipson D) Peace officers: training.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Public Safety and EMS
Summary: Current law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to
co urses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training {POST). Current law requires POST
to require field training officers who are instructors for the field training program to have at least 8 hours of crisis
intervention behavioral health training to better train new peace officers on how to effectively interact with persons with
mental illness or intellectual disability. This bill would require the commission to revise that training to include inst ruction
on how to effectively interact with persons with Alzheimer's disease or dementia.
AB 23 (Muratsuchi D) Theft: shoplifting: amount.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Would amend Proposition 47 by reducing the threshold amount for petty theft and shoplifting from $950 to
$400. The bill would provide that it shall become effective only when submitted to, and approved by, the voters of
Ca lifornia.
AB 27 (Ta R) Sentencing: firearms enhancements.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law generally authorizes a court to dismiss an action or to strike or dismiss an enhancement in the
furtherance of justice. Current law requires a court to dismiss an enhancement if it is in the furtherance of justice to do
so, except if dismissal of that enhancement is prohibited by any initiative statute. This bill would also prohibit a court from
dismissing a firearms-related enhancement, as defined.
AB 28 (Gabriel D) Firearms: gun violence protection tax.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
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Summary: Current law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee
Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and
surcharges. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would enact a tax to fund measures
to protect against gun violence on firearms and ammunition.
AB 29 (Gabriel D) Firearms: California Do Not Sell List.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Corns. on PUB. S. and HEALTH.
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to sell or give possession of a firearm to these classes of persons prohibited from
owning a firearm. Current law requires the Department of Justice, upon submission of firearm purchaser information by
a licensed firearm dealer, to examine its records to determine whether a potential firearm purchaser is prohibited by state
of federal law from possessing, receiving, owning, or purchasing a firearm. Current law requires the department to
participate in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. This bill would require the Department of Justice
to develop and launch a secure Internet-based platform to allow a person who resides in California to voluntarily add their
own name to the California Do Not Sell List. The bill would require the department to ensure that information on the list
is uploaded and reflected in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The bill would make it a crime,
punishable as misdemeanor-or a felony, to transfer a firearm to a person who is validly registered on the California Do
Not Sell List.
AB 32 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Violent felonies: hate crimes.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law classifies certain felonies as violent felonies for purposes of various provisions of the Penal Code.
Current law imposes an additional one-year term for a sexually violent felony and a 3-year term for a violent felony for
each prior separate prison term served for a violent felony. This bill would additionally define felony hate crimes as a
violent felony, as specified. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
AB 33 (Bains D) Fentanyl task force.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to a fentanyl task force, in order to identify
and address the fentanyl crisis as part of the opioid epidemic in this state. The bill would further state the intent of the
Legislature that any future appropriation made for the purpose of implementing the fentanyl task force not exceed an
unspecified dollar amount.
AB 36 (Gabriel D) Domestic violence protective orders: possession of a firearm.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Current law prohibits a person subject to a protective order, as defined, from owning, possessing, purchasing,
or receiving a firearm while that protective order is in effect and makes a willful and knowing violation of a protective
order a crime. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to extend that prohibition for an
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additional 3 years after the expiration of a protective order, unless the court finds the person to not be a threat to public
safety.
AB 40 (Rodriguez D) Emergency medical services.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Corns. on E.M. and HEALTH.
Summary: The Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act creates
the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination of various state activities concerning
emergency medical services. Among other duties, current law requires the authority to develop planning and
implementation guidelines for EMS syst ems, provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the
purpose of developing the components of EMS systems, and receive plans for the implementation of EMS and trauma
care systems from local EMS agencies. Current law makes a violation of the act or regulations adopted pursuant to the
act punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would require the authority to develop an electronic signature for use between
the emergency department medical personnel at a receiving facility and the transporting emergency medical personnel
that captures the points in time when the hospital receives notification of ambulance arrival and when transfer of care is
executed for documentation of ambulance patient offload time, as defined. The bill would require the authority to
develop a statewide standard of 20 minutes, 90% of the time, for ambulance patient offload time.
AB 60 (Bryan D) Restorative justice program.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Summary: Current law prescribes punishments, including incarceration, for various criminal offenses. Current law
authorizes a county to establish a pretrial diversion program for a defendant who has been charged with a misdemeanor
offense, with certain exceptions. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish a right
for a victim to be informed of and participate in county-approved restorative justice programs, as provided.
AB 70 (Rodriguez D) Emergency response: trauma kits.
Introduced: 12/12/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Corns. on HEALTH and JUD.
Summary: Current law requires the person or entity responsible for managing the building, facility, and tenants of certain
occupied structures, including those that are owned or operated by a local government entity, and that are constructed
on or after January 1, 2023, to comply with certain requirements, including acquiring and placing at least 6 t rauma kits on
the premises, as specified. This bill would apply the trauma kit requirement to certain structures that are constructed
prior to January 1, 2023, and subject to subsequent modifications, renovations, or tenant improvements, as specified.
AB 73 (Boerner Horvath D) Vehicles.
Introduced: 12/13/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to a stop-as-yield pilot program seeking
to improve the flow of t raffic by allowing both drivers and bicyclists to move safely at an intersection where there is a
stop sign.
AB 74 (Muratsuchi D) Vehicles: street takeovers, sideshows, and racing.
lntroduced:12/13/2022
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Summary: Current law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or an
exhibition of speed on a highway, or to aid or abet therein. Commencing July 1, 2025, a court may suspend a person's
driver's license for 90 days to 6 months for an exhibition of speed, or aiding and abetting an exhibition of speed, if the
violation occurred as part of a sideshow. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to
street takeovers, sideshows, and racing.
AB 75 (Hoover R) Shoplifting: increased penalties for prior crimes.
Introduced: 12/14/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law, as amended by Proposition 47, provides that a registered sex offender or a person with a prior
conviction for certain serious or violent felonies, such as a sexually violent offense, who commits petty theft is subject to
imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. This bill would
reinstate a provision of law that was repeqled by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or
more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject
to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 18 months or 2 or 3 years. The bill would
also make this provision and the provision relating to a person with serious, violent, or sexual prior offenses applicable to
a person whose prior or current conviction is for shoplifting.
AB 78 (Ward D) Grand juries.
Introduced: 12/15/2022
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law permits a grand jury to inquire into all public offenses committed or triable within the county and
present them to the court by indictment. Current law requires the fees for grand jurors to be $15 per each day's
attendance as a grand juror. This bill would require that fee to be equal to 70% of the county median daily income for
each day's attendance. By increasing the fee for grand jurors, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 79 (Weber D) Law enforcement agency policies: remotely operated force options.
Introduced: 12/15/2022
Status: 1/4/2023-Read first time.
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to regulate, limit, and require the reporting of
the use of deadly force by a law enforcement agency by means of remotely operated equipment.
AB 88 (Sanchez R) Criminal procedure: victims' rights.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law authorizes a court, under specified circumstances, to resentence a defendant convicted of a felony
offense. Under current law, resentencing can be granted without a hearing upon stipulation of the parties. This bill would
require a victim of the crime who wishes to be heard regarding the resentencing to notify the prosecution of their request
for a hearing within 15 days of being notified that resentencing is being sought, and would require the court to provide
an opportunity for the victim to be heard.
AB 89 (Sanchez R) Parole hearings: attorney notice.
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Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law requires the Board of Parole Hearings, among other responsibilities, to conduct parole suitability
hearings and determine whether an inmate is suitable for parole. Current law authorizes the victim, the victim's next of
kin, the victim's family members, or 2 representatives designated by the victim or next of kin, to appear, personally or by
counsel, at parole suitability hearings and to express their views concerning the inmate and the case. This bill would
require the district attorney's office or the Attorney General's office that prosecuted the case to provide reasonable notice
to the board and to the crime victim, victim's next of kin, or members of the victim's family if t hey will not be sending a
representative to a parole hearing, thereby creating a state-mandated local program.
AB 92 (Connolly D) Body armor: prohibition.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 1/30/2023-ln committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Summary: Current law makes it a felony for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to purchase, own, or
possess body armor. Current law authorizes a person subject to that prohibition, whose employment, livelihood, or safety
is dependent on the ability to legally possess and use body armor, to file a petition for an exception to the prohibition
with the chief of police or county sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the person seeks to possess and use the body armor,
as provided. This bill would repeal those provisions and instead make it a felony for a person to commit any violent felony
while possessing a firearm and in the course of and in furtherance of that crime they wear body armor. The bill would
make it a misdemeanor for any person to purchase or take possession of body armor, unless they are employed in
specified professions.
AB 93 (Bryan D) Criminal procedure: consensual searches.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 1/10/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to prohibit officers from requesting consent to
conduct a search if the officer does not suspect criminal activity.
AB 97 (Rodriguez D) Firearms: unserialized firearms.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law prohibits the transfer or possession of a firearm with a serial number that has been altered,
removed, or obliterated. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a misdemeanor. Current law requires a person,
other than a licensed manufacturer, who assembles or manufactures a firearm, or any person who possesses an
unserialized firearm, to obtain a unique serial number from the Department of Justice and to inscribe that serial number
on the firearm, as specified. A violation of this requirement is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would make the
possession of an unserialized firearm or possession of a firearm with an altered, removed, or obliterated serial number
punishable as a felony. By increasing the punishment for these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
AB 229 (Patterson, Joe R) Violent felonies.
Introduced: 1/11/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-ln committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Summary: Would expand the crimes that are within the definition of a violent felony for all purposes, including for
purposes of the Three Strikes Law, to include additional forms of sexual crimes, as defined, human trafficking, as defined,
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and felony domestic violence, as defined. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, this bill would impose a state-
mandated local program.
AB 243 (Alanis R) Child abduction survivors: address confidentiality program.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Summary: Current law authorizes victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and elder or
dependent adult abuse to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of enabling
state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant's changed
name or location, subject to specified conditions. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to make a false
statement in an application. This bill would make victims of child abduction, as defined, and members of their households
eligible for the protections of this address confidentiality program.
AB 254 (Bauer-Kahan D) Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: reproductive or sexual health application
information.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Corns. on HEALTH and P. & C.P.
Summary: The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service
plan, a contractor, or a corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates from intentionally sharing, selling, using for
marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care
services to a patient, except as provided. This bill would revise the definition of "medical information" to include
reproductive or sexual health application information, which the bill would define to mean information related to a
consumer's reproductive or sexual health collected by a reproductive or sexual health digital service. The bill would make
a business that offers a reproductive or sexual health digital service to a consumer for the purpose of allowing the
individual to manage the individual's information, or for the diagnosis, treatment, or management of a medical condition
of the individual, a provider of health care subject to the requirements of the CMIA. Because the bill would expand the
scope of a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 256 (Dixon R) Vehicles: registration.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Current law requires current month and year tabs, indicating the month and year of expiration of a vehicle's
registration, to be attached to the rear license plate assigned to the vehicle for the last preceding registration year in
which the licensed plates were issued. Under current law, a vehicle that fails to display current month and year tabs or
display expired tabs is in violation of law. Current law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a
highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly,
unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified. This bill would, commencing July 1,
2024, until January 1, 2030, prohibit a violation of these provisions from being the basis for any enforcement action before
the 2nd month after the month of expiration of the vehicle's registration.
AB 268 (Weber D) Board of State and Community Corrections.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections to provide statewide leadership,
coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California's adult
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and juvenile criminal justice system. The duties of the board, among others, include establishing standards for local
correctional facilities and correctional officers. Under current law, the board is composed of 13 members, as specified.
This bill would, commencing July 1, 2024, add 2 add itional members to the board, a licensed health care provider and a
licensed mental health care provider, each appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate.
AB 272 (Chen R) Criminal procedure: search warrants.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Would allow a search warrant for stolen or embezzled property to include an order for such property to be
returned to a lawful owner identified in the warrant pursuant to specified procedures including a hearing, if requested,
to determine that the property was stolen or embezzled, before it is returned to its owner.
AB 276 (Dixon R) Vehicles: electronic wireless communication devices.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Would make it an infraction for a person under 21 years of age to drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless
telephone or an electronic wireless communications device, even if equipped with a hands-free device. The bill would
create an exception to that prohibition for a person 18 to 20 years of age, inclusive, who is using a wireless telephone or
an electronic w ireless communications device, as defined, while driving, when the telephone or device is used exclusively
as required by, and in the course and scope of, the person's work activities. By expanding the scope of an existing crime,
the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 280 (Holden D) Segregated confinement.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Would require every jail, prison, public or privately operated detention facility, and a facility in which
individuals are subject to confinement or involuntary detention to develop and follow written procedures governing the
management of segregated confinement, as specified. The bill would require those facilities to document the use of
segregated confinement by, among other things, providing written orders of that confinement to the individual confined,
as specified. The bill would prohibit those facilities from involuntarily placing an individual in segregated confinement if
the individual belongs to a designated popu lation, including, among others, that the individual has a mental or physical
disability or that the individual is under 26 years of age or over 59 years of age. The bill would require the facility to
periodically check on the individual and have a medical or mental health professional periodically assess the individual.
This bill would require a facility to offer out-of-cell programming to individuals in segregated confinement for at least 4
hours per day, not including time spent on housekeeping or in paid employment. The bill would require a facility to
maximize the amount of time that an incarcerated person held in segregated confinement spends outside of their cell by
providing outdoor and indoor recreation, education, clinically appropriate treatment therapies, and skill-building
activities, as specified, and would require facilities to develop and provide appropriate programming to individuals that
pose a significant safety risk to themselves or others, as specified.
AB 296 (Rodriguez D) Office of Emergency Services: 9-1-1 Public Education Campaign.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: Would establish the 911 Public Education Campaign, to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services,
for the purpose of educating the public on when it is appropriate to call 911 for assistance. The bill would include in the
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goals of the campaign, among others, reducing the number of unnecessary calls to 911 call centers and reducing delays
in the 911 system caused by nonemergency calls being placed. The bill would authorize the office to use federal
preparedness grant funds or funds appropriated by the Legislature for these purposes to implement these provisions.
AB 301 (Bauer-Kahan D) Body armor: prohibition.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law makes it a felony for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to purchase, own, or
possess body armor. Current law authorizes a person subject to that prohibition, whose employment, livelihood, or safety
is dependent on the ability to legally possess and use body armor, to file a petition for an exception to the prohibition
with the chief of police or county sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the person seeks to possess and use the body armor,
as provided. This bill would repeal those provisions and instead make it a misdemeanor for any person to purchase or
take possession of body armor, and a felony for any person who has been convicted of a violent felony to do so, unless
they are employed in specified professions.
AB 303 (Davies R) Firearms: prohibited persons.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain an online database known as the
Prohibited Armed Persons File, sometimes referred to as the Armed Prohibited Persons System, to cross-reference
persons who have ownership or possession of a firearm, and who, subsequent to the date of ownership or possession of
that firearm, fall within a class of persons who are prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm. Current law requires
the Attorney General to provide investigative assistance to local law enforcement agencies to better ensure the
investigation of individuals who are armed and prohibited from possessing a firearm. This bill would require that
investigative assistance to include all investigative notes, reports, and related materials on individuals listed in the
Prohibited Armed Persons File.
AB 304 (Holden D) Domestic violence: probation.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law specifies that the terms of probation granted to a person who has been convicted of domestic
violence are required to include, among other things, successful completion of a batterer's program, as defined, or, if such
a program is not available, another appropriate counseling program designated by the court, for a period of not less than
one year, and a protective order prote.cting the victim from further acts of violence, threats, stalking, sexual abuse, and
harassment. Current law requires the court to order the defendant to comply with all probation requirements, including
the payment of program fees based upon the ability to pay. If the court finds that a defendant does not have the ability
to pay the program fee, existing law authorizes the court to reduce or waive the program fee. Current law requires a
batterer's program to develop and utilize a sliding fee schedule based on a defendant's ability to pay. The bill would
require program providers, as defined, to publicly post, including on an internet website, a comprehensive description of
their sliding fee scales.
AB 313 (Fong, Vince R) Corrections: notifications.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to supply a form to designated agencies
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in order to enable persons to request and receive notification from the department of the release, escape, scheduled
execution, or death of the violent offender. Current law requires the agency to give the form to the victim, witness, or
next of kin of the victim for completion, explain to that person or persons the right to be notified, and forward the
completed form to the department. This bill would require the designated agencies to also give the form to the immediate
or extended family members of the victim, and to inform them of their right to request and receive a notification from
the department.
AB 327 (Jones-Sawyer D) Criminal justice: crime statistics.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Current law required the Department of Justice to report to the Legislature on the progress on reporting of
crime statistics data to the federal government in compliance with the federal National Incident-Based Reporting System.
This bill would require the Department of Justice to complete the transition of all reporting of crime data to the National
Incident-Based Reporting System and would require local law enforcement agencies to provide the necessary data to
complete this transition.
AB 328 (Essayli R) Sentencing: dismissal of enhancements.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Current law generally authorizes a court to dismiss an action or to strike or dismiss an enhancement in the
furtherance of justice. Current law requires a court to dismiss an enhancement if it is in the furtherance of justice to do
so, except if dismissal of that enhancement is prohibited by any initiative statute. This bill would also prohibit a court from
dismissing specified firearms-related enhancements.
AB 329 (Ta R) Crime: penalties for shoplifting and petty theft.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by
the electors in the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of property that does not exceed $950
in value petty theft and makes that crime punishable as a misdemeanor, with certain exceptions. This bill would amend
the initiative to make petty theft or shoplifting by a person who is not a resident of this state, did not reside in this state
in the six months prior to entering this state, and entered this state within 30 days prior to committing the offense, an
offense punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months
or 2 or 3 years. The bill would define resident as a person that has occupied a dwelling in this state, or has been domiciled
in this state, for at least 6 months.
AB 330 (Dixon R) Domestic violence: victim's information card.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Current law requires law enforcement agencies to develop and implement written policies for officer
responses to domestic violence incidents, including furnishing written notice to victims at the scene in the form of a
Victims of Domestic Violence card that contains, among other information, telephone numbers for local hotlines, shelters,
and counseling centers. This bill would add the issuance of Victims of Domestic Violence cards as a topic in the course of
instruction for the training of law enforcement officers. This bill would additionally require the Victims of Domestic
Violence card to be a different color than other cards issued by officers, to include a disclaimer, to be available in languages
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other than English, and to include various information such as the definition of domestic violence and t he statute of
limitations for domestic violence. This bill would make these changes operative on January 1, 2025. Because this bill would
expand an existing local program, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 332 (Lee D) Rabies control data.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: Cu rrent law governs the seizure, rescue, adopting out, and euthanasia of abandoned and surrendered animals
by animal control officers, law enforcement officers, animal shelters, and rescue organizations. Current law requires the
governing body of each city, city and county, or county to maintain or provide for the maintenance of an animal shelter
system and a rabies control program. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to collect certain rabies
control program data from each city, city and county, or county, as outlined.
AB 335 (Alanis R) Proposition 47: repeal.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act made various changes relating to theft and the possession of
controlled substances, including by, among other things, generally reducing the penalty for those crimes, including
reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis, establishing a procedure by which individuals convicted of
those crimes prior to the passage of the act may petition for resentencing under the act, and creating the crime of
shoplifting. The act also requires the Director of Finance to calculate the savings accruing to the state as a result of the
implementation of the act and requires the Controller to transfer that sum from the General Fund to the Safe
Neighborhoods and Schools Fund, which was created by the act. The act specifies the manner of distribution of those
funds and the purposes for which they may be used. This bill would repeal the changes and additions made by Proposition
47, except those related to reducing the penalty for possession of co ncentrated cannabis. This bill would provide that it
would become effective only upon approval of the voters, and would provide for the submission of this measure to the
voters for approval at the next stat ewid e general election.
AB 355 (Alanis R) Firearms: assault weapons: exception for peace officer training.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Summary: Current law prohibits the sale, transfer, or possession of a large-capacity magazine, as defined. Existing law
exempts from this prohibition the sale or transfer to, or the possession by, a peace officer or retired peace officer, as
specified, or to or by a person enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer
Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, for purposes of participation in the course, as
specified. Existing law prohibits the sale, transfer, or possession of an assault weapon, as specified. Current law exempts
from this prohibition the sale or transfer of an assault weapon to, or the possession of an assault weapon by, a peace
officer, as specified. This bill would also exempt from this prohibition the loaning of an assault weapon to, or the
possession of an assault weapon by, a person enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on
Peace Officer Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, while engaged in firearms training.
SB 2 (Portantino D) Firearms.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/31/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on
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Summary: Current law prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm or carrying a loaded firearm in public. Current
law authorizes a licensing authority, as specified, if good cause exists for the issuance, and subject to certain other criteria
including, among other things, the applicant is of good moral character and has completed a specified course of training,
to issue a license to carry a concealed handgun or to carry a loaded and exposed handgun, as specified. Under current
law, the required course of training for an applicant is no more than 16 hours and covers firearm safety and laws regarding
the permissible use of a firearm. This bill would require the licensing authority to issue or renew a license if the applicant
is not a disqualified person for the license and the applicant is at least 21 years of age. The bill would remove the good
character and good cause requirements from the issuance criteria. Under the bill, the applicant would be a disqualified
person if they, among other things, are reasonably likely to be a danger to self, others, or the community at large, as
specified. This bill would add the requirement that the applicant be the recorded owner, with the Department of Justice,
of the pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person.
SB 8 (Blakespear D) Firearms.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law authorizes a court to issue a temporary gun violence restraining order prohibiting a person from
possessing a firearm or ammunition if there is reasonable cause to believe that a person poses a significant danger of
harm to themselves or to another person by having a firearm. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to gun violence prevention.
SB 19 (Seyarto R) Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force to undertake
various duties relating to fentanyl abuse including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent
of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse. The bill would
require the task force to be chaired by the Attorney General, or their designee, and would specify the membership of the
task force. The bill would require the first meeting of the task force to take place no later than March 1, 2024, and would
require the task force to meet at least once every 2 months. The bill would require the task force to report its findings
and recommendations to the Attorney General, the Governor, and the Legislature by July 1, 2025. The bill would repeal
these provisions on January 1, 2026.
SB SO (Bradford D) Criminal procedure: arrests.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to limiting a peace officer's authority to
initiate pretextual stops to reduce racial profiling and the harm stemming from such stops.
SB 54 (Skinner D) Firearms.
lntroduced:12/6/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law requires any firearm sold, transferred, or manufactured in this state to include certain firearm
safety devices and the packaging of any firearm and any descriptive material that accompany any firearm to bear a label
with a specified warning statement. Current law makes a violation of these provisions punishable by a fine on the first
offense, a fine and prohibition from the manufacturing or selling of firearms in this state for 30 days on the second offense,
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and a permanent prohibition from the manufacturing or selling of firearms in this state on the third offense. This bill would
make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
SB 55 (Umberg D) Vehicles: catalytic converters.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Corns. on TRANS. and PUBS.
Summary: Would prohibit a motor vehicle dealer or retailer from selling a new motor vehicle equipped with a catalytic
converter unless the cata lytic co nverter has been engraved or etched with the vehicle identification number of the vehicle
to which it is attached. A violation of this provision would be punishable as an infraction. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
SB 58 (Wiener D) Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various
actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion. This bill
would make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of, specified quantities
of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline, for personal use or facilitated or supported
use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these
substance on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age.
SB 62 (Nguyen R) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale, specified controlled
substances, including fentanyl, and provides for imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years for a violation of this
provision. Current law also imposes an additional t erm, and authorizes a trial court to impose a specified fine, upon a
person who is convicted of a violation of, or of a conspiracy to violate, specified provisions of law with respect to a
substance containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. This bill would
impose that additional term upon, and authorize a fine against, a defendant who violates those laws with respect to a
substance containing fentanyl. By increasing the penalty for a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
SB 64 (Umberg D) Hate crimes: search warrants.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Corns. on PUBS. and APPR.
Summary: Current law specifies the grounds upon which a search warrant may be issued, including, among other grounds,
when the property or things to be seized constitute evidence showing that a felony has been committed. This bill would
authorize a sea rch warrant to be issued on the grounds that the property or things to be seized consists of evidence that
tends to show that certain misdemeanor hate crimes, as defined, have occurred or are occurring.
SB 67 (Seyarto R) Controlled substances: overdose reporting.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Corns. on HEALTH and PUB S.
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Summary: Would require an emergency medical services provider who treats and releases or transports an individual to
a medical facility who is experiencing a suspected or an actual overdose to report the incident to the Emergency Medical
Services Authority. The bill requires the authority to report the data gathered pursuant to the bill to the Overdose
Detection Mapping Application Program managed by the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
program.
SB 71 (Umberg D) Jurisdiction: small claims and limited civil case.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Corns. on JUD. and PUBS.
Summary: Current law provides that the small claims court has jurisdiction over actions seeking certain forms of relief,
including money damages in specified amounts and claims brought by natural persons, not exceeding $10,000, except as
specified. Current law requires an action or special proceeding to be treated as a limited civil case if certain conditions
exist, including, among others, that the amount in controversy does not exceed $25,000. This bill would increase the small
claims court jurisdiction over actions brought by a natural person, if the amount does not exceed $25,000, except as
specified, and would also increase the amount in controversy permitted in other specified actions within the jurisdiction
of the small claims court. The bill would increase the limit on the amount in controversy for an action or special proceeding
to be treated as a limited civil case to $100,000.
SB 76 (Wiener D) Alcoholic beverages: music venue license: entertainment zones: consumption.
Introduced: 1/11/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Summary: Current law provides for various annual fees for the issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses, depending upon
the type of license issued. Current law authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a music venue
license, as defined, that would allow the licensee to sell beer, wine, and distilled spirits at retail for consumption on the
premises in a music entertainment facility, as defined. This bill would authorize a licensee under a music venue license to
apply to the department for a caterer's permit that would authorize the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for
consumption at events only upon the licensed music entertainment facility premises. The bill would also authorize a music
venue license to apply to the department for an event permit, as specified. The bill would impose a fee for a caterer's
permit for a licensee under a music venue license and for an event permit for a licensee under a music venue license,
which would be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, and would make other conforming changes.
SB 78 (Glazer D) Criminal procedure: factual innocence.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law authorizes a person who is unlawfully imprisoned under specified circumstances, including,
without limitation, conviction on the basis of false evidence or the existence of new exculpatory evidence, to prosecute a
writ of habeas corpus ordering their release. Current law also authorizes such a person who is no longer in custody to
prosecute a motion to vacate a judgment. Under current law, if the district attorney stipulates to or does not contest the
factual allegations underlying the application for the writ or motion, the district attorney is required to provide notice to
the Attorney General. This bill would require that notice to be given no less than 7 days before entering a stipulation.
SB 81 (Becker D) Parole hearings.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to increase transparency, predictability, and
accountability of parole suitability hearings.
SB 86 (Seyarto R) Crime victims: resource center.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
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Summary: Current law requires the establishment of a resource center that operates a statewide, toll-free information
service, consisting of legal and other information, for crime victims and providers of services to crime victims, as defined.
This bill would require the resource center to additionally provide the information through an internet website and to the
families of crime victims.
SB 89 (Ochoa Bogh R) Crimes: stalking.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law makes a person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or willfully and maliciously
harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for the
person's safety, or the safety of the person's immediate family, guilty of the crime of stalking, punishable as a
misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would instead make a person guilty of stalking if the person has the intent to harm or
the intent to place under surveillance for the purpose of harming another person, and engages in conduct that either
places that person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to themselves, a close family member, or a pet,
service animal, emotional support animal, or horse that belongs to that person, or causes, attempts to cause, or would
be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to one of the above persons.
SB 94 (Cortese D) Recall and resentencing: special circumstances.
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law provides for various specified special circumstances, including murder committed for financial gain
or committed during the commission or attempted commission of certain felonies, which, if found true as specified,
require a defendant found guilty of murder in the first degree to be sentenced to death or imprisonment for life without
the possibility of parole. Current law, added by Proposition 115 of the June 5, 1990, statewide primary election, prohibits
a judge from striking or dismissing any special circumstance that is admitted by plea or found true by a jury or court, as
specified. Current law generally authorizes a court to dismiss an action or to strike or dismiss an enhancement in the
furtherance of justice, except if dismissal of that enhancement is prohibited by any initiative statute. This bill would
authorize an individual sentenced to death or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a conviction in which
one or more special circumstances were found to be true to petition for recall and resentencing if the offense occurred
before June 5, 1990, and the individual has served at least 20 years in custody. The bill would authorize the court to modify
the petitioner's sentence to impose a lesser sentence and apply any changes in law that reduce sentences or provide for
judicial discretion, or to vacate the petitioner's conviction and impose judgment on a lesser included offense, as specified.
SB 97 (Wiener D) Criminal procedure: writ of habeas corpus.
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law allows a person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of their liberty to prosecute a writ of
habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of their imprisonment or restraint. This bill would allow the district attorney or
the Attorney General to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person to rectify a wrongful conviction or
sentence. The bill would require the prosecuting agency to give written notice to that person, their last counsel of record,
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the public defender, and the local innocence organization, if the writ is based on facts showing the person may not have
committed the offense.
SB 99 (Umberg D) Crimes: alternatives to incarceration.
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law requires a court to consider alternatives to incarceration, including, without limitation,
collaborative justice court programs, diversion, restorative justice, and probation. Existing law states that it is the intent
of the Legislature that the disposition of any criminal case use the least restrictive means possible. This bill would make a
technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
SB 226 (Alvarado-Gil D) Controlled substances: armed possession: fentanyl.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law classifies certain substances, including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, as controlled substances and
generally prohibits the possession, sale, transportation, and use of these substances. Current law additionally prohibits
the possession of certain of these controlled substances including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine while armed
with a loaded and operable firearm. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a felony punishable by incarceration in
the state prison. This bill would additionally prohibit the possession of fentanyl while armed with a loaded and operable
firearm.
SB 237 (Grove R) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sa le specified controlled
substances, including fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4
years. 'Current slaw also prohibits transporting, importing into this state, selling, furnishing, administering, or giving away
specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a
county jail for 3, 4, or 5 years. Current law also prohibits the trafficking of specified controlled substances, including
fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a county jail for 3, 6, or 9 years. The bill would
punish the possession, sale, or purchase for sale of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail for 4, 5, or 6 years, the
transportation, importation, sale, furnishing, administering, or giving away of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail
for 7, 8, or 9 years, and the trafficking of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail for 7, 10, or 13 years.
SB 241 (Min D) Firearms: dealer requirements.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on PUBS.
Summary: Current law prohibits any person from selling, leasing, or transferring any firearm unless the person is licensed
as a firearms dealer, as specified. Current law prescribes certain requirements and prohibitions for licensed firearms
dealers. This bill would require a licensee and any employees that handle firearms to annually complete specified training.
The bill would require the Department of Justice to develop and implement an online training course, as specified,
including a testing certification component.
SB 249 (Wilk R) Homicide.
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Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
Summary: Current law defines first-degree murder, in part, as all murder that is committed in the perpetration of, or
attempt to perpetrate, specified felonies, including arson, rape, carjacking, robbery, burglary, mayhem, and kidnapping.
Current law, as enacted by Proposition 7, approved by voters at the November 7, 1978, statewide general election,
prescribes for that crime a penalty of death, imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole, or
imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 25 years to life. Current law defines 2nd-degree murder as all murder that
is not in the first degree and imposes a penalty of imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 15 years to life unless
specified other criteria are met. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
SB 250 (Umberg D) Controlled substances: fentanyl testing strips.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
Summary: Current law defines certain chemicals as controlled substances and prohibits, among other things, the
possession and use of those substances. Current law also defines drug paraphernalia and prohibits, among other things,
the manufacture, sale, and possession, as specified, of drug paraphernalia. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive
changes to that provision.
SB 266 (Newman D) Crimes: public safety grants.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
Summary: Current law establishes the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program to provide
funds to community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies that prevent or deter at-risk youth from participating in
gangs, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
SB 268 (Alvarado-Gil D) Crimes: serious and violent felonies.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
Summary: Current law classifies certain criminal offenses as a "violent felony" for the purposes of various provisions of
the Penal Code, including sentencing enhancements for prior convictions, as well as numerous other provisions. Current
law includes among the list of violent felonies rape accomplished against a person's will by means of force, violence,
duress, menace, or fear, or rape accomplished against the victim's will by threat of violent retaliation, but does not include
rape of a person unable to give consent due to disability, intoxication, or unconsciousness, rape under false pretenses, or
rape accomplished by threat of incarceration, arrest, or deportation. This bill would include all rape violations in the list
of violent felonies.
Revenue and Taxation
AB 16 (Dixon R) Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law: adjustment suspension.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: The Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, administered by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration,
imposes a tax upon each gallon of motor vehicle fuel removed from a refinery or terminal rack in this state, entered into
this state, or sold in this state, at a specified rate per gallon. Existing law requires the department to adjust the tax on July
1 each year by a percentage amount equal to the increase in the California Consumer Price Index, as calculated by the
Department of Finance. Article XIX of the California Constitution restricts the expenditure of revenues from the Motor
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Vehicle Fuel Tax, Diesel Fuel Tax Law, and other taxes imposed by the state on fuels used in motor vehicles upon public
streets and highways to street and highway and certain mass transit purposes. This bill would authorize the Governor to
suspend an adjustment to the motor vehicle fuel tax, as described above, scheduled on or after July 1, 2024, upon making
a determination that increasing the rate would impose an undue burden on low-income and middle-class families. The
bill would require the Governor to notify the Legislature of an intent to suspend the rate adjustment on or before January
10 of that year, and would require the Department of Finance to submit to the Legislature a proposal by January 10 that
would maintain the same level of funding for transportation purposes as would have been generated had the scheduled
adjustment not been suspended.
AB 52 (Grayson D) Sales and Use Tax Law: manufacturing equipment: research and development equipment.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: The Sales and Use Ta x Law imposes state taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sa le of
tangible personal property solp at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible
personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax
Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including an exemption from those taxes, on and after July 1, 2014,
and before July 1, 2030, for the gross receipts from the sa le of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified
tangible personal property, as defined, that is, among other things, purchased by a qualified person for purchases for use
primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal property, as specified, or
purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in research and development. Current law prohibits the
exemption described above from applying with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district pursuant to, or in
accordance with, the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, sales and
use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, and sales and use taxes imposed pursuant
to certain provisions of the California Constitution. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to expand the sales
and use tax exemption for manufacturing and research and development equipment to preserve California's status as a
hub of innovation and technology and to encourage greater investment in California.
AB 53 (Fong, Vince R) Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law: suspension of tax.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Would suspend the imposition of the tax on motor vehicle fuels for one year. The bill would require that all
savings realized based on the suspension of the motor vehicle fuels tax by a person other than an end consumer, as
defined, be passed on to the end consumer, and would make the violation of this requirement an unfair business practice,
in violation of unfair competition laws, as provided. The bill would require a seller of motor vehicle fuels to provide a
receipt to a purchaser that indicates the amount of tax that would have otherwise applied t o the transaction.
AB 59 (Gallagher R) Taxation: renter's credit.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a
credit for qualified renters in the amount of $120 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of household, and surviving
spouses if adjusted gross income is $50,000, as adjusted, or less, and in the amount of $60 for other individuals if adjusted
gross income is $25,000, as adjusted, or less. Current law requires the Franchise Tax Board to annually adjust for inflation
these adjusted gross income amounts. For 2021, the adjusted gross income limit is $87,066 and $43,533, respectively.
Current law requires any bill authorizing a new tax credit to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and
objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill, for
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taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, would extend the above-described
renter's credit to spouses filing joint returns, heads of household, and surviving spouses if adjusted gross income is
$150,000, as adjusted, or less, and for other individuals if adjusted gross income is $75,000, as adjusted, or less. The bill
would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2027, require the Franchise Tax
Board annually adjust these adjusted gross income amounts for inflation, as described.
AB 84 (Ward D) Property tax: welfare exemption: affordable housing.
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 2/2/2023-Re-referred to Corns. on H. & C.D. and REV. & TAX. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Summary: Current property tax law, in accordance with the California Constitution, provides for a "welfare exemption"
for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by
certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met. Under current property tax law, property that
meets these requirements that is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities is entitled to a partial exemption,
equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving
lower income households represents of the total number of residential units, in any year that any of certain criteria apply,
including that the property be subject to a legal restriction that provides that units designated for use by lower income
households are continuously available to or occupied by lower income households, at rents not exceeding specified limits.
For the 2018-19 fiscal year through the 2027-28 fiscal year, in the case of an eligible owner of property receiving a low-
income housing tax credit under specified federal law, existing property tax law requires that a unit continue to be treated
as occupied by a lower income household for these purposes if the occupants were lower income households on the lien
date in the fiscal year in which their occupancy of the unit commenced and the unit continues to be rent restricted,
notwithstanding an increase in the income of the occupants of the unit to 140% of area median income, adjusted for
family size. This bill, beginning with the 2024-25 fiscal year, would remove the requirement that an eligible owner of
property receive a low-income housing tax credit and would instead require that a unit continue to be treated as occupied
by a lower income household, as described above, if the property is subject to a legal restriction that provides that units
designated for use by lower income households are continuously available to or occupied by lower income households,
at rents not exceeding specified limits.
AB 259 (Lee D) Wealth Tax: False Claims Act.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 1/20/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
Summary: Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2026, impose an annual
tax at a rate of 1.5% of a resident of this state's worldwide net worth in excess of $1,000,000,000, or in excess of
$500,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately. The bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after
January 1, 2026, impose an annual tax at a rate of 1% of a resident's worldwide net worth in excess of $50,000,000, or in
excess of $25,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately. The bill would also impose, for taxable years
beginning on or after January 1, 2026, an additional tax at a rate of 0.5% of a resident's worldwide net worth in excess of
$1,000,000,000, or in excess of $500,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately. The bill would describe
worldwide net worth with reference to specific federal provisions and would provide that worldwide net worth does not
include specific assets, including personal property situated out of state, directly held real property, or liabilities related
to directly held real property. The bill would also authorize the Franchise Tax Board to adopt regulations to carry out these
provisions, including regulations regarding the valuation of certain assets that are not publicly traded. The bill would
require new certifications by taxpayers, made under penalty of perjury.
AB 265 (Boerner Horvath D) Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement Fund.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
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Summary: Current law establishes the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement Fund and
continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the Controller for specified purposes relating to the postponement of
property taxes. Current law imposes duties on the Controller related to the transfer and expenditure of moneys in the
fund. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provisions related to those duties imposed on the Controller.
AB 291 (Patterson, Jim R) Sales and Use Tax: exemptions: trucks for use in interstate or out-of-state commerce.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Summary: State sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible
personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal
property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides
various exemptions from those taxes, including, until January 1, 2024, an exemption for the sale of, or the storage, use,
or other consumption of, a new, used, or remanufactured truck with an unladen weight of 6,000 pounds or more that is
purchased for use without this state and is delivered to the purchaser within this state, and the purchaser drives or moves
the vehicle to any point outside this state within 30 or 75 days, as applicable, from and after the date of delivery, if the
purchaser furnishes certain documents to the manufacturer or remanufacturer. This bill would extend that exemption
until January 1, 2029.
AB 294 (Petrie-Norris D) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: wildfires: exclusions.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Summary: Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, provide an exclusion from gross income for any
qualified taxpayer, as defined, for amounts received for costs and losses associated with wildfires or natural disaster, as
provided. This bill would make findings and declarations related to a gift of public funds.
AB 314 (Patterson, Jim R) Sales and Use Tax: exemptions: trucks for use in interstate or out-of-state commerce.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including, until January 1, 2024, an
exemption for the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption of, a new, used, or remanufactured truck, or a new
or remanufactured trailer or sem itrailer, with an unladen weight of 6,000 pounds or more that is purchased for use
without this state and is delivered to the purchaser within this state, and the purchaser drives or moves the vehicle to any
point outside this state within 30 or 75 days, as applicable, from and after the date of delivery, if the purchaser furnishes
certain documents to the manufacturer or remanufacturer. Those documents include the purchaser's affidavit as to the
exclusive use of the vehicle in interstate or foreign commerce, and the vehicle having been taken out of the state within
the applicable time period. This bill would extend that exemption until January 1, 2029, and would similarly exempt,
without any time limitation, a used trailer or semitrailer.
AB 321 (Wilson D) Sales and Use Tax: exemptions: zero-emission public transportation ferries.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: Sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible
personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal
property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. This bill, until January 1, 2034,
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in this state of, zero-emission public transportation ferries, as defined.
ABXl 2 (Fong, Vince R) Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law: suspension of tax.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/5/2022-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would suspend the imposition of the tax on motor vehicle fuels for one year. The bill would require that all
savings realized based on the suspension of the motor vehicle fuels tax by a person other than an end consumer, as
defined, be passed on to the end consumer, and would make the violation of this requirement an unfair business practice,
in violation of unfair competition laws, as provided. The bill would require a seller of motor vehicle fuels to provide a
receipt to a purchaser that indicates the amount of tax that would have otherwise applied to the transaction.
ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full
cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an additional exception to the 1%
limit that would authorize a city, county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded
indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure,
affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if
the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, or city and county, as applicable,
and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements. The measure would specify that these provisions
apply to any city, county, city and county, or special district measure imposing an ad valorem tax to pay the interest and
redemption charges on bonded indebtedness for these purposes that is submitted at the same election as this measure.
ACA 3 (Lee D) Wealth tax: appropriation limits.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 1/20/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
Summary: Would authorize the Legislature to impose a tax upon all forms of personal property or wealth, whether
tangible or intangible, and would require any tax so imposed to be administered and collected by the Franchise Tax Board
and the Department of Justice, as determined by the Legislature in statute. The measure would authorize the Legislature
to classify any form-of personal property or wealth for differential taxation or for exemption by a majority vote.
SB 5 (Nguyen R) Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law: limitation on adjustment.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
Summary: The Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, administered by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration,
imposes a tax upon each gallon of motor vehicle fuel removed from a refinery or terminal rack in this state, entered into
this state, or sold in this state, at a specified rate per gallon. Current law requires the department to annually adjust the
tax imposed by increasing the rates based on the California Consumer Price Index, as specified. This bill would limit the
above-described annual adjustment to a maximum of 2% for rate adjustments made on or after July 1, 2023. This bill
contains other related provisions.
SB 32 (Jones R) Motor vehicle fuel tax: greenhouse gas reduction programs: suspension.
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Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations
to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that
the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit,
as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the State Air Resources Board has adopted the Low
Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the
use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Current law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected
by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be
deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This bill would sus pend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations for
one year. The bill would also exempt suppliers of transportation fuels from regulations for the use of market-based
co mpliance mechanisms for one year.
SB 93 (Nguyen R) Taxation.
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law provides for the imposition, calculation, and administration of various taxes, including, among
others, the sales and use tax, the personal income tax, and the corporation income tax. This bill would state the intent of
the Legislature to enact legislation relating to taxation.
SB 96 (Portantino D) Sales and Use Tax Law: live events: historic event venues.
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of
tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible
personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax
Law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would expand the state sales and use tax exemption to transactions during live events at California historic event
venues for reinvestment in historic preservation activities, as specified.
SB 221 (Seyarto R) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: credits: domestic violence survivor housing.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
Summary: Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, allow a credit
against the taxes imposed by the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law in an amount equal to the
difference between the fair market rental value and the amount realized in rents and other revenues from leasing
qualified rental property, as defined, to qualified nonprofits, as defined, for the purpose of providing housing to survivors
of domestic violence below market rates. The bill would state it is the intent of the Legislature to comply with the
additional information requirements of a bill authorizing a new tax expenditure.
SB 243 (Seyarto R) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemption: gun safety systems.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2028, exempt from sales and use taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of,
and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, a gun safety system, as defined. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
SB 264 (Niello R) Income taxes: deduction: disaster losses.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
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Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in conformity or modified conformity with federal
income tax laws, allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the taxes imposed by those laws,
including a deduction, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, and before January 1, 2024, for disaster
losses in any city, county, or city and county that is proclaimed by the Governor to be in a state of emergency, as specified.
Current law additionally provides that any law that suspends, defers, reduces, or otherwise diminishes the deduction of
a net operating loss, other than those variations already imposed in existing law, shall not apply to a net operating loss
attributable to these specified disaster losses. This bill would extend the deduction for disaster losses, as described above,
to taxable years beginning before January 1, 2029, and would extend for those taxable years the provision prohibiting any
law that suspends, defers, reduces, or otherwise diminishes the deduction of a net operating loss, as described above,
from applying to these specified disaster losses.
SBXl 1 (Jones R) Motor vehicle fuel tax: greenhouse gas reduction programs: suspension.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/5/2022-lntroduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt rules and
regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to
ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low
Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the
use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Current law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected
by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be
deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This bill would suspend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations for
one year. The bill would also exempt suppliers of transportation fuels from regulations for the use of market-based
compliance mechanisms for one year.
Transportation and Public Works
AB 6 (Friedman D) Transportation planning.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Current law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation
plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Current law requires each regional
transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning
organization in order to, among other things, achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region for 2020 and 2035, respectively.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would require regional
transportation agencies to prioritize and fund transportation projects, including those funded by a local sales tax measure,
that significantly contribute towards the goals outlined in a region's sustainable communities strategy and the state's
climate goals.
AB 7 (Friedman D) Transportation: funding: capacity projects.
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Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Transportation to improve and maintain the state's highways, and
establishes various programs to fund the development, construction, and repair of loca l roads, bridges, and other critical
transportation infrastructure in the state. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation
that would eliminate single occupancy vehicle freeway capacity projects, and allow capacity projects only for bus rapid
transit, rail, active transportation purposes, projects that significantly add safety, and projects that significantly reduce
congestion, without interfering with existing maintenance and rehabilitation needs.
AB 69 (Waldron R) Transportation: traffic signal synchronization: roadway improvement projects.
Introduced: 12/9/2022
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: The State Air Resources Board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to
the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse
gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open
public process to ach ieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all
moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon
appropriation. Current law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other
relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Fund. Current law authorizes moneys in the fund to be allocated, as specified, for an investment in a traffic
signal synchronization component that is part of a sustainable infrastructure project if the component is designed and
implemented to achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific emissions reduction
targets and metrics to eva luate the project's effect. This bill would additionally authorize moneys in the fund to be
allocated for an investment in a traffic signal synchronization component that is part of a roadway improvement project
requiring multiple signals, including, but not limited to, multimodal redevelopment projects, rail trail projects, urban
renewal projects, or a project near transit facilities, if the component is designed and implemented to achieve cost-
effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific emissions reduction targets and metrics to evaluate
the project's effect.
AB 96 (Katra D) Public employment: local public transit agencies: autonomous transit vehicle technology.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 1/30/2023-Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Summary: Would require a public transit employer to provide written notice to the exclusive employee representative of
the workforce affected by autonomous transit vehicle technology of its determination to begin, or its substantive progress
toward initiating, any procurement process or a plan to acquire or deploy any autonomous transit vehicle technology for
public transit services that would eliminate job functions or jobs of the workforce to which the autonomous transit vehicle
technology applies not less than 12 months before commencing the process, plan, or deployment. The bill would require
a public transit employer, upon a written request of the exclusive employee representative, to provide specified
information to the exclusive employee representative, including the potential gaps in skills that may result from the new
service. The bill would require the public transit employer, following the written request for information by the exclusive
employee representative, and within 30 days of receiving the specified information, to commence collective bargaining
on specified subjects, including creating plans to train and prepare the affected workforce to fill new positions created by
the autonomous transit vehicle technology.
AB 99 (Connolly D) State highways: vegetation management: herbicides and pesticides.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
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Summary: Current law prohibits each state agency that has responsibility for roadside vegetation control operations on,
or along, a roadway, including a state highway, from conducting a roadside vegetation control operation on a portion of
the roadway for which a property owner has made a request for information related to the roadside vegetation control
operation until c~rtain conditions are satisfied, as specified. This bill would require the Department of Transportation to
develop and adopt a statewide policy to discontinue roadside spraying of herbicides and synthetic pesticides in each
county where the county board of supervisors has adopted a resolution that opposes the spraying of herbicides and
synthetic pesticides in the county, except where no alternative vegetation management practice is feasible or during a
state of emergency relating to wildfire if the spraying is solely for purposes of preventing, combating, or mitigating the
risk of wildfire.
AB 251 (Ward D) California Transportation Commission: vehicle weight safety study.
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Would require the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to convene a task force to study the relationship
between vehicle weight and injuries to vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists, and to study the costs and
benefits of imposing a passenger vehicle weight fee. The bill would require the CTC, by no later than January 1, 2026, to
prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, as specified.
AB 295 (Fong, Vince R) Department of Transportation: maintenance projects.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 1/26/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Would authorize the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with local governmental entities,
fire departments, fire protection districts, fire safe councils, and tribal entities to perform specified projects authorized
by the department on roadways managed by the department, including activities related to roadside maintenance and
the removal and clearing of material, as provided.
AB 316 (Aguiar-Currv D) Vehicles: autonomous vehicles.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: Would prohibit the operation of an autonomous vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 10,000 pounds or more
on public roads for testing purposes, transporting goods, or transporting passengers without a human safety operator
physically present in the autonomous vehicle at the time of operation.
AB 338 (Aguiar-Curry D) Public works: definition.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 1/31/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Summary: 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. Existing law
defines the term "public works" for purposes of requirements regard ing t he 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, commencing January 1, 2025, expand the definition of "public works" to include
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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. The bill would limit those provisions to work that falls within an apprenticable occupation
in the building and construction trades for which an apprenticeship program has been approved and to contracts in excess
of $100,000. The bill would delay the application of those provisions until January 1, 2026, for nonprofits.
SB 88 (Skinner D) Pupil transportation: school pupil activity bus: drivers.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law requires the driver of a school pupil activity bus, as defined, to be subject to the regulations
adopted by the Department of the California Highway Patrol governing schoolbus drivers, except as specified. This bill
would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to codify existing regulations and rules that
currently govern who can provide pupil transportation and what type of vehicle can be used for this purpose.
SB 222 (Nguyen R) Electric bicycles.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to electric bicycles.
Water and Wastewater
AB 62 (Mathis R) Statewide water storage: expansion.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Summary: Would establish a statewide goal to increase above-and below-ground water storage capacity by a total of
3,700,000 acre-feet by the year 2030 and a total of 4,000,000 acre-feet by the year 2040. The bill would require the State
Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with the Department of Water Resources, to design and implement
measures to increase statewide water storage to achieve the statewide goal. The bill would require the state board,
beginning July 1, 2027, and on or before July 1 every 2 years thereafter until January 1, 2043, in consultation with the
department, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature on the progress made in designing and implementing
measures to achieve the statewide goal.
AB 231 (Chen R) Shareholders' meetings: remote communication.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/26/2023-Referred to Com. on B. & F.
Summary: The General Corporation Law authorizes corporations not governed by other specified state laws to conduct a
meeting of shareholders solely by electronic transmission by and to the corporation, electronic video screen
communication, conference telephone, or other means of remote communication if the meeting is conducted on or
before December 31, 2025, as specified, and includes a live audiovisual feed for the duration of the meeting. Current law
provides that a de minimis disruption of an audio, visual, or audiovisual feed does not require a corporation to end a
shareholder meeting under, or render the corporation out of compliance with, the above-described provisions. This bill
would authorize corporations conducting a meeting on or before December 31, 2025, as described above, to offer, in
addition to the live audiovisual feed, an audio-only means of participation. The bill would grant the shareholder or
proxyholder the right to choose whether to participate via audiovisual or audio-only means and would prohibit the
corporation from imposing any barriers on either mode of participation. The bill would provide that a de minimis
disruption of an audio or audiovisual feed does not require a corporation to end a shareholder meeting under, or render
the corporation out of compliance with, those provisions. The bill would extend those same provisions to a nonprofit
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corporation holding a meeting of members.
AB 249 (Holden D) Water: schoolsites: lead testing: conservation.
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 2/2/2023-Referred to Corns. on E.S. & T.M. and ED.
Summary: Would require a community water system that serves a schoolsite with a building constructed before January
1, 2010, to test for lead in the potable water system of the schoolsite before January 1, 2027. The bill would require the
community water system to report its findings to the applicable school or local educational agency, as specified. The bill
would require the local educational agency or school, if the lead level exceeds a specified level at a schoolsite, to notify
the parents and guardians of the pupils who attend the schoolsite or preschool. The bill would require the local
educational agency or school to take immediate steps to make inoperable and shut down from use all fountains and
faucets where the excess lead levels may exist. The bill would also require that the local educational agency or school
work with the schoolsites under its jurisdiction to ensure that a potable source of drinking water is provided for pupils, as
specified. The bill would require a community water system to prepare a sampling plan for each schoolsite where lead
sampling is required under these provisions.
AB 305 (Villapudua D) California Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 1/27 /2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Summary: Under current law, various general obligation bond acts have been approved by the voters to provide funds
for water projects, facilities, and programs. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent
legislation for a flood protection general obligation bond act, in an unspecified amount, that would be known as the
California Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024, and would be submitted to the voters at the next general election.
AB 345 (Wilson D) Habitat restoration: flood control: advance payments.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Summary: Would authorize the Department of Water Resources to provide advance payments, as defined, to local
agencies for projects that restore habitat for threatened and endangered species under state or federal law or improve
flood protection, as provided. The bill would prohibit the amount of funds advanced by the department to the local agency
at any one time from exceeding 25% of the entire amount authorized to be provided under the funding agreement
between the department and the local agency.
ACA 2 (Alanis R) Public resources: Water and Wildfire Resiliency Act of 2023.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Summary: Would establish the Water and Wildfire Resiliency Fund within the State Treasury, and would require the
Treasurer to annually transfer an amount equal to 3% of all state revenues that may be appropriated as described from
the General Fund to the Water and Wildfire Resiliency Fund. The measure would require the moneys in the fund to be
appropriated by the Legislature and would require that 50% of the moneys in the fund be used for water projects, as
specified, and that the other 50% of the moneys in the fund be used for forest maintenance and health projects, as
specified.
SB 23 (Caballero D) Water supply and flood risk reduction projects: expedited permitting.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
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Summary: The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the
State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water
in the state, including, among other things, overseeing the issuance and enforcement of public water system permits, as
provided. Current law authorizes specified works of improvement for the control, conservation, and utilization of
destructive flood waters and the reclamation and protection of lands that are susceptible to overflow by flood waters.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to expedite the regulatory permitting
process for water supply and flood risk reduction projects, as provided.
SB 66 (Hurtado D) Water: predictive models and data collection.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Water Resources, as part of updating The California Water Plan every
five years, to conduct a study to determine the amount of water needed to meet the state's future needs and to
recommend programs, policies, and facilities to meet those needs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to
ensure that reliable predictive models and data collection systems are used to properly forecast and allocate surface
water.