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LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
May 10, 2021
1:00 P.M.
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Supervisor Diane Burgis, Chair
Supervisor Karen Mitchoff, Vice Chair
Agenda
Items:
Items may be taken out of order based on the business of the day and preference
of the Committee
1.Introductions
2.Public comment on any item under the jurisdiction of the Committee and not on this
agenda (speakers may be limited to three minutes).
3. RECEIVE and APPROVE the Record of Action for the April 12, 2021 meeting of
the Legislation Committee, with any necessary corrections.
4. ACCEPT the report on the 2021-22 State Budget and Legislation of Interest to
Contra Costa County, and provide direction to staff and state lobbyists, as needed.
5. CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position on SB 10
(Wiener): Planning and zoning: housing development: density, as amended.
6. CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position on SB 617
(Wiener): Residential Solar Energy Systems: Permitting.
7. CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position on SB 90
(Stern): Elections: Ballot Label.
8. ACCEPT the report on federal legislation of interest and provide direction to staff
and the County's federal lobbyists, as needed.
9.The next meeting is currently scheduled for Monday, June 14, 2021 at 1:00 p.m .
10.Adjourn
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For Additional Information Contact:
Lara DeLaney, Committee Staff
Phone (925) 655-2057, Fax (925) 655-2066
lara.delaney@cao.cccounty.us
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LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 3.
Meeting Date:05/10/2021
Subject:Record of Action for Legislation Committee Meeting
Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,
Department:County Administrator
Referral No.: 2021-01
Referral Name: Record of Action
Presenter: L. DeLaney Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057
Referral History:
County Ordinance requires that each County body keep a record of its meetings. Though the
record need not be verbatim, it must accurately reflect the agenda and the decisions made in the
meeting.
Referral Update:
Attached is the draft Record of Action for the April 12, 2021 meeting of the Committee.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE and APPROVE the Record of Action for the April 12, 2021 meeting with any
necessary corrections.
Attachments
DRAFT Record of Action
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D R A F T
LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
RECORD OF ACTION FOR
April 12, 2021
Supervisor Diane Burgis, Chair
Supervisor Karen Mitchoff, Vice Chair
Present: Diane Burgis, Chair
Karen Mitchoff, Vice Chair
Staff Present:Lara DeLaney, Senior Deputy County Administrator, staff to Committee; Ryan
Hernandez, Department of Conservation & Development, Water agency; Gayle
Israel, District Representative, District II; Aruna Bhat, Deputy Director, DCD; Mark
Goodwin, Chief of Staff, District III; Chris Wickler, Field Representative, District IV;
John Kopchik, Director of Department of Conservation & Development; Lynn Peralta,
Division Manager, EHSD; Brian Balbas, Director, Public Works Department; Jody
London, Sustainability Coordinator; Bob Campbell, Auditor-Controller
Attendees:James Gross, Michelle Rubalcava; Steve Cruz; Dr. William Walker; Paul Schlesinger,
Perrin Badini; Juan Valdez; Bill Speir; Audrey
1.Introductions
Chair Burgis called the meeting to order at 1:03 p.m. with introductions of
herself and Vice Chair Mitchoff.
2.Public comment on any item under the jurisdiction of the Committee and not on
this agenda (speakers may be limited to three minutes).
No public comment was made to the Committee.
3.RECEIVE and APPROVE the Record of Action for the March 8, 2021 meeting.
The Record of Action for the March 8, 2021 meeting of the Committee was approved as
presented.
AYE: Chair Diane Burgis
Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff
4.ACCEPT the report and provide direction to staff and the County's federal
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4.ACCEPT the report and provide direction to staff and the County's federal
lobbyists, as needed.
The County's federal advocate, Paul Schlesinger, provided an update on the
Administration's FY 22 top-line budget numbers. He reported on the major
feature of the Appropriations bills for FY 22: the return of congressionally
directed spending (also known as earmarks). He also reported on the $2 trillion
American Jobs Plan unveiled by President Biden, indicating a second
infrastructure bill would be coming. Chair Burgis discussed the potential impact
on redistricting on the County's congressional make-up. No direction was given
to staff and the federal lobbyists.
AYE: Chair Diane Burgis
Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff
5.ACCEPT the report on the state resiliency bond measures and provide direction
to staff and advocates, as needed.
Steve Cruz, the County's water advocate, provided the Committee with an update on the
status of the discussions surrounding resiliency bonds at the State Capitol, noting the
significant bills in motion, SB 45 and AB 1500. Owing to the pending drought and water
conditions, there was renewed attention to the bond proposals, and the Senate had taken
early action on $2 billion of water-related projects (using proceeds from prior bond measures).
The bond proposals currently were more broad-ranging with climate change and sea-level
rise adaptation included. Mr. Cruz was working with staff and Supervisors Burgis and Mitchoff
to identify adequate funding in any bond measures for County flood control and Delta
protection.Chair Burgis wanted to draw attention to the issue as drought disasters were
looming. No further direction was given by the Committee.
AYE: Chair Diane Burgis
Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff
6.ACCEPT the report and provide direction to staff and the County's state
lobbyists, as needed.
The County's state advocate, Michelle Rubalcava from Nielsen Merksamer,
provided an update on efforts at the Capitol to address the issue of homeowner
insurance fire policy cancellation including those by Insurance Commissioner
Ricardo Lara and the legislature. Chair Burgis asked about the data
surrounding numbers of impacted homeowners, indicating that she has
received information about numerous cancellations in Clayton and Brentwood,
and asked about other actions that could be taken to address the problem
aside from advocacy and education. Jim Gross, also from Nielsen Merksamer,
provided the Committee with an update on the County's sponsored bills, AB
988 and AB 389.
AYE: Chair Diane Burgis
Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff
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7.CONSIDER recommending a position on SB 9 (Atkins) to the Board of
Supervisors.
Supervisor Mitchoff asked if the County had taken a position on the bill last year, and staff
indicated there was no official position on SB 1120. She recommended that the County take
an "Oppose Unless Amended" position on SB 9 and requested that the item be sent to the
Board of Supervisors for discussion rather than on Consent. She would prefer cooperation
with the state instead of directives.
AYE: Chair Diane Burgis
Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff
8.CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position on SB 10
(Wiener) and directing staff on its placement on a Board agenda.
Supervisor Mitchoff indicated serious concerns with the bill though she wasn't
ready to make a recommendation to the Board for a position. She directed staff
to watch the bill and bring it back for reconsideration by the Committee.
AYE: Chair Diane Burgis
Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff
9.The next meeting is currently scheduled for Monday, May 10, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.
10.Adjourn
For Additional Information Contact:
Lara DeLaney, Committee Staff
Phone (925) 335-1097, Fax (925) 646-1353
lara.delaney@cao.cccounty.us
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LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 4.
Meeting Date:05/10/2021
Subject:2021-22 State Budget and Legislation of Interest
Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,
Department:County Administrator
Referral No.: 2021-02
Referral Name: State Budget and Bills of Interest
Presenter: L. DeLaney and Nielsen Merksamer
Team
Contact: L. DeLaney,
925-655-2057
Referral History:
The Legislation Committee of the Board of Supervisors regularly receives reports on the State
Budget and state legislation of interest to the County.
Referral Update:
The week, of April 26, the Legislature and Governor acted on the last of early 2021-22 budget
action. "Regular” budget action resumed the week of May 3 with the scheduling of numerous
budget subcommittee hearings in the run-up to the Governor’s May Revision, which is likely
nearing its final stage of completion and is expected to be released the week of May 10 – possibly
earlier in the week, but certainly no later than Friday, May 14.
In advance of the May Budget Revision, CSAC sent Governor Gavin Newsom strategic budget
requests aligned to key County priorities this week. The May Revise is a chance for the Governor
to update his January proposal with current revenue and caseload projections. Between the $26
billion provided to the State through the American Rescue Plan and an unprecedented $25.3
billion projected budget surplus, California and Governor Newsom are faced with a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make serious investments that will move the state beyond
recovery and ensure strong foundations for the future. CSAC’s Budget Priority letter includes a
host of one-time and ongoing investments in critical infrastructure and programs. In alignment
with CSAC’s key advocacy priorities, the budget request letter includes an $8 Billion one-time
investment for Broadband Infrastructure and Digital Literacy programs. Also included are
requests for ongoing flexible homelessness response funds, $500 million for Drought Emergency
Funding, an additional $200 million for disaster resilience and recovery, as well as investments in
transportation, public health, and elections. Here is what happened with the last round of early
budget trailer bills.
The Legislature approved and Governor Newsom signed AB 80, a measure that conforms
California tax law to federal tax law to ensure that forgiven Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
loans that businesses received from the federal government during the pandemic will not be
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counted as taxable income and that these businesses can also deduct the costs of expenses that the
PPP loans paid for. This action comes just prior to the filing deadlines for federal and state
income taxes on May 17.
Additionally, the Senate approved and sent to the Assembly SB 92, the trailer bill intended to
facilitate implementation of the DJJ Realignment measure of 2020, while the Assembly
considered an identical measure (AB 87) in its full budget committee. It is expected that after final
floor action, a bill will be presented to shortly thereafter to the Governor for his action. Key
provisions in the trailer bill would:
Enact new Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) 875 to provide juvenile courts – and all
other involved agencies – with a framework and process for placing youth who previously
would have been eligible for DJJ into an appropriately responsive dispositional track to
address their programming and treatment needs. In addition to outlining specialized
considerations for the court, the framework also is meant to guard against an increase in
referrals of youth to the adult court system;
Clarify language regarding which county agencies are eligible for SB 823 programmatic
funding that accompanies the shift of responsibility;
Restore a previous code section describing who was eligible for placement in DJJ to ensure
that – if ever necessary, as specified under WIC Section 733.1 – provisions to revert
responsibility back to the state could be executed if funding is not provided to counties;
Specify that county payments to accompany the shift in responsibility are to be paid
annually rather than monthly; and
Set a hard closure date for all DJJ facilities on June 30, 2023, and require the state’s DJJ
director to develop a plan by January 1, 2022 for managing the transfer of the youth who
remain at DJJ at the final closure date.
Assembly Budget Blueprint Released
Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting released the Assembly’s Budget Blueprint for 2021-22, including
a number of proposals to restore state service and invest in priority areas, while stimulating the
economy. The blueprint notes that the state’s significant budget surplus and available federal
funds allow for new investments to expand opportunities for Californians most in need.
Highlights of the Assembly priority spending include:
Stabilization and expansion of some critical programs and services: Repay
school/community college deferrals; restore cuts to UC, CSU, courts, housing, child
support, health and human services; bolster access to Medi-Cal and Covered California;
retain healthy reserves
Maintain COVID-19 response: Continue investing in public health infrastructure; safely
reopen schools for the fall; protect vulnerable populations in nursing homes and prisons;
ensure workplace safety enforcement; greater transparency & oversight of all
disaster-related funding
Support for working families: Ongoing funding to head off homelessness; more Golden
State Stimulus payments; implementation of TK-For-All and expansion of Early Care &
Education; increase college financial aid and refund amounts for California Earned Income
Tax Credit (CalEITC) filers; safeguard communities from wildfires
Reopening/economic recovery: Add retraining programs for laid off workers; debt-free
college; establish a Climate Crisis investment plan and infrastructure strategy to stimulate
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green jobs while benefiting low-income communities; empower communities & celebrating
diversity to combat racism; modernization of the Employment Development Department
(EDD)
Additionally, specific subcommittee priorities of note include the following.
Assembly Subcommittee No. 1 on HHS –
Respond to California’s behavioral health crisis by supporting the California Reducing
Disparities Project, All Children Thrive, emergency department peer navigators, Mental
Health Student Services Act school-county partnerships, and start-up costs for peer support
specialist certification programs
Increase health care access by expanding Medi-Cal to all, regardless of immigration status,
making Covered California more affordable, eliminating the Medi-Cal assets test,
implementing CalAIM, extending telehealth flexibilities, and investing in enrollment
navigators
Build a robust public health infrastructure with significant investments in county public
health staff, to effectively address future pandemics as well as current epidemics of HIV,
HCV, and STDs, heart disease, diabetes, and deaths of despair
Advance the Master Plan for Aging with key investments in In-Home Supportive Services,
Adult Protective Services/Home Safe, Senior Nutrition, and other vital Aging programs
Protect vulnerable children by preventing child welfare removals, supporting foster families,
and providing more support for struggling older youth
Increase developmental services rates and expand services
Refocus CalWORKs into a program that elevates child and family wellbeing, increasing
grants, and providing more resources to truly support the positive trajectory of these
California families
Assembly Subcommittee No. 5 on Public Safety –
Adopt fiscally responsible prison spending and long-term planning
Improve outcomes and state oversight of the juvenile justice system
Adopt policies that comply with court ordered oversight of prisons
Reduce gun violence
Reduce barriers to reentry
Enhance workforce development opportunities and housing
Enhance court access and services for low income and indigent people
Support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault
Improve services for court users
As noted above, budget subcommittees have resumed work in preparation for the May Revision.
Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on HHS discussed public health infrastructure and the Office
of Health Care Affordability on Tuesday, May 4. On May 6, the subcommittee will discuss child
support and aging issues, among other items.
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on Public Safety met on Monday, May 3 to close out
various issues, including several court facility construction proposals as well as at least one
Department of Justice item of note – the funding to convene the working group charged with
developing a plan to replace the current statewide juvenile justice database (the Juvenile Court
and Probation Statistical System or JCPSS), as required under the provisions of the DJJ
Realignment measure of last year (SB 823). Additionally, the subcommittee will consider a plan
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to appropriate $3.1 million and 14 new positions at the Board of State and Community
Corrections (BSCC) to strengthen jail inspections and oversight.
On the Senate side, Subcommittee No. 5 meets Thursday, May 6 where they will discuss judicial
branch issues – including dependency counsel funding, a spending priority identified in the Senate
Democrats’ recently released Build Boldly Back plan. Also on the subcommittee’s agenda are
BSCC, state corrections, and DOJ budgets.
Senate Budget Subcommittee Approves Drought Package
The Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 2 approved a $3.4 billion spending proposal to address the
state’s water supply needs, as the state approaches a second consecutive dry summer. The
package includes spending proposals on drinking water, conservation, recycling and efficiency
projects, groundwater, stormwater management, fish and wildlife, and rate assistance for drinking
water and wastewater utilities. Funding is proposed to come from the state General Fund and
previously approved bonds, while $1 billion for ratepayers and water utilities would come from
Coronavirus State and Local Relief Funds approved as part of the federal American Rescue Plan.
The Legislature may also place a bond on the 2022 ballot to fund $6 to $7 billion in projects to
address drought, drinking water, floods, wildfire, and extreme heat. The Senate’s proposal is
contained in SB 45, while AB 1500 reflects the Assembly’s plan. The bond is focused on
longer-term projects, while the budget proposal reflects immediate projects.
The subcommittee approved the package unanimously after a request from Senator Brian Dahle
for $15 million for the Klamath River Basin was included in the package.
Newsom Recall Election Underway
Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber reported on April 26 that the effort to recall Governor Gavin
Newsom was successful, even with outstanding ballots left to count. Recall proponents submitted
more than 1,495,709 verified voter signatures, meeting the minimum threshold to force a special
recall election later this year.
Counties were to report final signatures were to the Secretary of State on April 29, 2021; once
those are verified by the Secretary of State, the 30-day period for voters to request that their
signatures be removed from recall petitions begins. When that 30-day period has concluded, the
Secretary of State must notify the Department of Finance whether the recall has failed or may
proceed. Within 30 business days of this notification, the Department of Finance must consult
with county elections officials and the Secretary of State to estimate the costs of the recall election
and submit that estimate to the Chair of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, Governor, and
Secretary of State. (Note that press reports have suggested that the estimated cost of the recall
election would be around $400 million.)
The Joint Legislative Budget Committee then has 30 days to review and comment on the estimate
provided by the Department of Finance. After this review period, the Secretary of State will
certify that the proponents have submitted the requisite number of signatures to qualify the recall
for the ballot. Then, the Lieutenant Governor must call a recall election to be held not less than 60
days nor more than 80 days from the date of certification of sufficient signatures.
CalAIM Bill Package
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As anticipated, the CalAIM bill package moved out of the Senate and Assembly Health
Committees and will be heard in the relevant Appropriations Committees. During his bill
presentations, Assembly Member Jim Wood, chair of the Assembly Health Committee,
announced that he had conferred with Senator Richard Pan, chair of the Senate Health
Committee, on the CalAIM measures and process. The chairs’ plan is to have policy committees
hear and discuss the major CalAIM components. As agreement is reached with stakeholders and
the Administration on language, those agreed upon components will move into a budget trailer
bill.
The CalAIM measures before the Legislature are:
AB 875 (Wood): This measure includes: 1) the transition from the PRIME program to the
Quality Improvement Program, as PRIME is being phased out of the current 1115 waiver; 2)
the Global Payment Program; 3) jail services; and 4) state monitoring of county
performance for county eligibility work for Medi-Cal. The measure, via future amendments,
will also include state monitoring of county performance for California Children’s Services
(CCS) and Child Health Disability Prevention (CHDP) program.
AB 942 (Wood): Behavioral health components of CalAIM, including the funding change
from certified public expenditures to Intergovernmental Transfers (IGTs).
AB 1132 (Wood): Medicare Advantage Dual Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) components.
SB 256 (Pan): Population Health Management, Enhanced Care Management and In Lieu of
Services components. SB 256 also contains the authority for incentive payments to Medi-Cal
managed care plans.
SB 279 (Pan): Health Homes sunset, dental services, and health plan accreditation.
Update on Telehealth Legislative Effort
AB 32 (Aguiar-Curry), which would permanently extend many of the telehealth flexibilities
provided during the pandemic, passed out of Assembly Health Committee 13-0. The April 23
amendments require the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to reimburse each federally
qualified health center (FQHC) and rural health clinic (RHC) for health care services provided
through audio-only telehealth, including telephone, at the applicable prospective payment system
(PPS) per-visit rate, consistent with this bill, until the earlier of January 1, 2025, or the date that
the FQHC or RHC elects to participate in an alternative payment methodology (APM). The
amendments also require specified mental health services furnished through audio-only
telehealth, to continue to be reimbursed at the applicable PPS per-visit rate indefinitely, except if
the FQHC or RHC elects an APM that covers those services.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee will consider the bill next. The California Health
Benefits Review Program (CHBRP) has provided a fiscal estimate on the changes in AB 32,
estimating the measure will cost $240 million across the health care system - $136 million in costs
related to Medi-Cal. The CHBRP analysis does not project any cost offsets or savings in
expenditures that would result because of the enactment of this bill.
Measure to Redirect JJCPA Funding
SB 493 (Bradford) proposes an array of changes to the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act
(JJCPA), including redirection of 95 percent of the program’s funding to non-law enforcement
local agencies or community-based organizations (CBOs). JJCPA represents a long-standing
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investment in local juvenile justice responses and, beginning in 2000, has helped local probation
along with their CBO partners build a continuum of juvenile prevention and intervention services.
It was on this foundation that the state realigned a portion of the juvenile justice system to
counties in 2007. Given that JJCPA and the adjacent funding associated with the 2007 shift in
juvenile justice responsibility both were realigned in 2011, these programs now enjoy
constitutional protections that appear to be abridged by the approach contemplated in SB 493.
This measure was heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday. In addition to
probation union opposition, the statewide county associations of CSAC, UCC, and RCRC along
with the probation chiefs are in opposition to the bill. the counties’ opposition letter to the
Appropriations Committee details the various ways in which SB 493 interacts and conflicts with
constitutional protections accorded to programs and funding realigned in 2011.
The County's list of priority bills of interest is Attachment A.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
ACCEPT the report and provide direction to staff and the County's state advocates, as needed.
Attachments
Attachment A: Priority Bills for CCC
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2021 PRIORITY BILLS
For Contra Costa County
05/06/21
AB 4 AUTHOR: Arambula [D]
TITLE: Medi-Cal: Eligibility
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Extends eligibility for full scope Medi-Cal benefits to anyone regardless of age,
and who is otherwise eligible for those benefits but for their immigration status,
pursuant to an eligibility and enrollment plan. Requires the eligibility and
enrollment plan to ensure that an individual maintains continuity of care with
respect to their primary care provider.
STATUS:
04/13/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (11-3)
AB 14 AUTHOR: Aguiar-Curry [D]
TITLE: Communications: Broadband: Advanced Services Fund
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: yes
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes local educational agencies to report to the State Department of
Education their pupils' estimated needs for computing devices and internet
connectivity adequate for at-home learning. Authorizes the board of
supervisors of a county to acquire, construct, improve, maintain, or operate
broadband internet access service, and any other communications service
necessary to obtain federal or state support.
STATUS:
04/28/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Do
pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-2)
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
AB 15 AUTHOR: Chiu [D]
TITLE: COVID-19 Relief: Tenancy Stabilization Act of 2021
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: yes
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee
SUMMARY:
Extends the definition of "COVID-19 rental debt" as unpaid rent or any other
unpaid financial obligation of a tenant that came due between March 1, 2020,
and December 31, 2021. Extends the repeal date of the COVID-19 Tenant Relief
Attachment A
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Act of 2020 to January 1, 2026. Prohibits a landlord from taking certain
actions with respect to a tenant's COVID-19 rental debt, including, among
others, charging or attempting to collect late fees, or withholding a service or
amenity.
STATUS:
01/11/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT.
AB 16 AUTHOR: Chiu [D]
TITLE: Tenancies: Tenant, Small Landlord, and Housing Act
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 01/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider
Stabilization Program. Authorizes the Director of Housing and Community
Development to direct an existing office or program within the Department of
Housing and Community Development to implement the program. Establishes in
the State Treasury the COVID-19 Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable
Housing Provider Stabilization Fund, and, upon appropriation, distributes all
moneys in the fund to carry out the purposes of the program.
STATUS:
01/12/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT with author's amendments.
01/12/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT.
AB 22 AUTHOR: McCarty [D]
TITLE: Preschool Programs and Transitional Kindergarten
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Superintendent to authorize California state preschool program
contracting agencies to offer wraparound childcare services for eligible children
enrolled in a K-12 educational program.
STATUS:
04/28/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
AB 32 AUTHOR: Aguiar-Curry [D]
TITLE: Telehealth
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/22/2021
Attachment A
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DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires certain provisions of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act
relative to telehealth to apply to a plan or insurer's contract entity. Subjects
county organized health systems that provide services under Medi-Cal to these
provisions. Authorizes a provider to enroll in specified Medi-Cal programs
through telehealth. Requires health care services furnished by an enrolled clinic
to be reimbursed by Medi-Cal at the same rate as those services if furnished in
person.
STATUS:
04/27/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Coauthors revised.
04/27/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (13-0)
Commentary001:
Sent LOS, per Dr. Walker recommendation. Consistent with Platform.
AB 34 AUTHOR: Muratsuchi [D]
TITLE: Broadband for All Act of 2022
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/06/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Enacts the Broadband for All Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters,
authorizes the issuance of bonds pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to support the 2022 Broadband for All Program to be administered by the
Department of Technology for purposes of providing financial assistance for
projects to deploy broadband infrastructure and broadband services.
STATUS:
05/05/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
AB 52 AUTHOR: Frazier [D]
TITLE: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Natural Resources Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the State Air Resources Board, in each scoping plan update prepared
by the state board after January 1, 2022, to include, consistent with the Global
Warming Solutions Act of 2006, recommendations for achieving the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions of emissions of greenhouse
gases and black carbon from wildfires. Expresses the intent of the Legislature to
appropriate an amount from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for wildfire
mitigation and prevention.
STATUS:
Attachment A
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01/11/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES.
AB 71 AUTHOR: Rivas [D]
TITLE: Homelessness Funding: Bring California Home Act
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes various changes to the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation
Tax Law and designates that any resulting revenue be used for purposes of the
Bring California Home Act. Modifies the duties of the Homeless Coordinating and
Financing Council.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
Sent LOS. Consistent with Platform.
AB 80 AUTHOR: Burke [D]
TITLE: Tax: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: yes
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
ENACTED: 04/29/2021
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
CHAPTER: 2021-017
SUMMARY:
Excludes, on or after a certain date, from gross income any advance grant
amount, as defined, issued pursuant to specified provisions of the CARES Act or
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, and covered loan amounts forgiven
pursuant to the Consolidated Appropriations Act. Adopts the provisions of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act prohibiting any reduction in tax deductions,
denials of basis adjustments, and reductions in tax attributes based on the
exclusion from gross income, as specified.
STATUS:
04/29/2021 Signed by GOVERNOR.
04/29/2021 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2021-017
AB 98 AUTHOR: Frazier [D]
TITLE: Health Care
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/09/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/29/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Aging, on or before January 1, 2026, to submit a
report to the Assembly Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care, the Assembly
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Committee on Health, and the Senate Committee on Health that includes an
evaluation of the success of the pilot program and challenges in
implementation.
STATUS:
04/29/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
AB 112 AUTHOR: Holden [D]
TITLE: Medi-Cal Eligibility
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/17/2020
LAST AMEND: 03/25/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the suspension of Medi-Cal benefits to an inmate of a public institution
who isn't a juvenile to end on the date they are no longer an inmate or 3 years
from the date they become an inmate of a public institution, whichever is
sooner. Requires the suspension of Medi-Cal benefits to an inmate who is a
juvenile on the date that the individual is no longer an inmate or 3 years after
the date the individual is no longer an eligible juvenile under federal law,
whichever is sooner.
STATUS:
04/21/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
AB 119 AUTHOR: Salas [D]
TITLE: County Assessors: Direct Levies
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/18/2020
LAST AMEND: 01/26/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Local Government Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the county auditor, or other county officer designated by the county,
to make publicly available on their internet website information about direct
levies as defined, including the range of combined direct levies assessed on real
property. Requires a website posting that identifies contact information for each
direct levy assessed within their jurisdiction, to also include the range of fees
assessed on individual parcels of real property subject to the special district's
assessment.
STATUS:
01/26/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT with
author's amendments.
01/26/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Commentary001:
Auditor Bob Campbell is opposed and recommends a letter from BOS to oppose.
Leg Com recommends oppose.
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AB 226 AUTHOR: Ramos [D]
TITLE: Children's Crisis Psychiatric Residential Treatment
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/11/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/13/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Reclassifies children's crisis residential programs as children's crisis psychiatric
residential treatment facilities, and transfers responsibility for licensing these
facilities to the State Department of Health Care Services. Requires the
department to establish regulations for the licensing of children's crisis
psychiatric residential treatment facilities, and requires those facilities to obtain
certification from the department.
STATUS:
04/21/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HUMAN SERVICES: Do
pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (8-0)
Commentary001:
CSAC supports.
AB 240 AUTHOR: Rodriguez [D]
TITLE: Local Health Department Workforce Assessment
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Public Health to contract with an appropriate and
qualified entity to conduct an evaluation of the adequacy of the local health
department infrastructure and to make recommendations for future staffing,
workforce needs, and resources, in order to accurately and adequately fund
local public health.
STATUS:
04/14/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
Commentary001:
Leg Com found consistent with Platform 2/8/21. Sending LOS.
Commentary002:
CSAC in support
AB 270 AUTHOR: Ramos [D]
TITLE: Core Behavioral Health Crisis Services System
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/19/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Health Committee
SUMMARY:
Creates the Core Behavioral Health Crisis Services System, using the digits 988
for the 988 Suicide Prevention and Behavioral Health Crisis Hotline, in
compliance with existing Federal Law and standards governing the National
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Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Requires the department, as defined, to take
specified actions to implement the hotline system.
STATUS:
01/28/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committees on HEALTH and
COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE.
Commentary001:
AB 988 similar bill
AB 273 AUTHOR: Irwin [D]
TITLE: Cannabis: Advertisements: Highways
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/26/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Business and Professions Committee
SUMMARY:
Removes the existing reference to advertising or marketing on a billboard or
similar device visible from an interstate highway or on a state highway within
California, and specifies that a licensee seeking to advertise or market through
broadcast, cable, radio, print, and digital communications is required to obtain
reliable up-to-date audience composition data demonstrating that a certain
percent of the audience viewing the advertising or marketing is reasonably
expected to be 21 years of age.
STATUS:
04/27/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS:
Failed passage.
Commentary001:
To Leg Com for found consistent with Platform. LOS sent.
AB 284 AUTHOR: Rivas R [D]
TITLE: Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Climate Goal
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/21/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/14/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the State Air Resources Board, when updating the scoping plan and in
collaboration with the Natural Resources Agency and other relevant state
agencies and departments, to take specified actions by a certain date, including,
among others, identifying a 2045 climate goal, with interim milestones, for the
state's natural and working lands and identifying practices, policy and financial
incentives, market needs, and potential reductions in barriers that would help
achieve the 2045 climate goal.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
AB 328 AUTHOR: Chiu [D]
TITLE: Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
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URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/26/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/17/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes the Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program. Requires
the Department of Housing and Community Development to, on or before a
specified date, take specified actions to, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
provide grants to applicants, as defined, for innovative or evidence-based
housing, housing-based services, and employment interventions to allow people
with recent histories of incarceration to exit homelessness and remain stably
housed.
STATUS:
04/21/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
AB 329 AUTHOR: Bonta [D]
TITLE: Bail
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/27/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires bail to be set at a specified level for all offenses except, among others,
serious or violent felonies, violations of specified protective orders, battery
against a spouse, sex offenses, and driving under the influence. Requires the
Judicial Council to prepare, adopt, and annually revise a bail schedule for the
exempt offenses.
STATUS:
03/23/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Do pass
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-2)
AB 332 AUTHOR: Env Safety & Toxic Material Cmt
TITLE: Hazardous Waste: Treated Wood Waste: Management
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: yes
INTRODUCED: 01/27/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/26/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 74
LOCATION: Assembly Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Requires a person managing treated wood waste to comply with the hazardous
waste control laws or certain management standards, including standards for
the reuse, storage, treatment, transportation, tracking, identification, and
disposal of treated wood waste.
STATUS:
04/22/2021 In ASSEMBLY. From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
Commentary001:
Consistent with Platform. Signed on to coalition letter.
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AB 339 AUTHOR: Lee [D]
TITLE: Local Government: Open and Public Meetings
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/28/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires all open and public meetings of a city council or a county board of
supervisors that governs a jurisdiction containing least 250,000 people to
include an opportunity for members of the public to attend via a telephonic
option or an internet-based service option.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
AB 361 AUTHOR: Rivas R [D]
TITLE: Open Meetings: Local Agencies: Teleconferences
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/01/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/06/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Second Reading File
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with the
teleconferencing requirements imposed by the Ralph M. Brown Act when a
legislative body of a local agency holds a meeting for the purpose of declaring
or ratifying a local emergency, during a declared state of emergency or local
emergency, when state or local health officials have imposed or recommended
measures to promote social distancing, and during a declared local emergency.
Makes conforming changes.
STATUS:
05/05/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Do
pass as amended. (7-0)
AB 377 AUTHOR: Rivas R [D]
TITLE: Water Quality: Impaired Waters
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/01/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/13/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the state board and regional boards to prioritize enforcement of all
water quality standard violations that are causing or contributing to an
exceedance of a water quality standard in a surface water of the state.
STATUS:
04/21/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
AND TOXIC MATERIALS: Do pass to Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS. (5-3)
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AB 383 AUTHOR: Salas [D]
TITLE: Mental Health: Older Adults
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/02/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/22/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes within the State Department of Health Care Services an Older Adult
Mental Health Services Administrator to oversee mental health services for older
adults. Prescribes the functions of the administrator and its responsibilities,
including, but not limited to, developing outcome and related indicators for
older adults for the purpose of assessing the status of mental health services for
older adults, monitoring the quality of programs for those adults, and guiding
decisionmaking.
STATUS:
04/22/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
Advisory Council on Aging in support
Commentary002:
Dr. Walker reports CBHDA has support if amended position regarding source of
funding (MHSA). Hold until resolved.
AB 389 AUTHOR: Grayson [D]
TITLE: Ambulance Services
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/02/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 62
LOCATION: Assembly Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Relates to ambulance services. Authorizes a county to contract for emergency
ambulance services with a fire protection district that is governed by the
county's board of supervisors and provides those services, in whole or in part,
through a written subcontract with a private ambulance service. Authorizes a
fire protection district to enter into a written subcontract with a private
ambulance service for these purposes.
STATUS:
04/15/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Commentary001:
Our sponsored bill
BOS: Support
AB 413 AUTHOR: Ting [D]
TITLE: Foster Youth: Housing
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/03/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/17/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
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LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Deletes provisions conditionally suspending a program requiring the Department
of Housing and Community Development to provide funding to counties for
allocation to child welfare services agencies to help young adults who are 18 to
24 years of age secure and maintain housing, and subjecting the requirements
of the program to an annual appropriation in the Budget Act.
STATUS:
04/21/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
Commentary001:
Sent LOS. Consistent with Platform.
AB 428 AUTHOR: Mayes [R]
TITLE: Government: Board Of Supervisors
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/04/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 105
LOCATION: Assembly Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Requires that, when term limits are imposed, the limit must be no fewer than a
specified amount of terms. Specifies that the board of supervisors is included in
the definition of county officers for whom the board of supervisors is required to
prescribe compensation.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Commentary001:
Supv. Mitchoff requests support
AB 518 AUTHOR: Wicks [D]
TITLE: Criminal Law: Violations Punishable in Multiple Ways
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/10/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 66
LOCATION: Assembly Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Relates to existing law which requires an act or omission that is punishable in
different ways by different laws to be punished under the law that provides for
the longest possible term of imprisonment. This bill, instead, would authorize an
act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different laws to be
punished under either of those provisions.
STATUS:
04/15/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
AB 540 AUTHOR: Petrie-Norris [D]
TITLE: Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
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URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/10/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/27/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Exempts a Medi-Cal beneficiary who is enrolled in a PACE organization with a
contract with the Department of Health Care Services from mandatory or
passive enrollment in a Medi-Cal managed care plan, and requires persons
enrolled in a PACE plan to receive all Medicare and Medi-Cal services from the
PACE program.
STATUS:
04/27/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
EHSD tracked bill
AB 602 AUTHOR: Grayson [D]
TITLE: Development Fees: Impact Fee Nexus Study
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/11/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires a city, county, or special district that conducts an impact fee nexus
study to follow specific standards and practices. Requires a city, county, or
special district to post a written fee schedule or a link directly to the written fee
schedule on its internet website. Requires a city or county to request the total
amount of fees and exactions associated with a project upon the issuance of a
certificate of occupancy, and to post this information on its internet website.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
CSAC taking "oppose unless amended"
AB 624 AUTHOR: Bauer-Kahan [D]
TITLE: Juveniles: Transfer to Court of Criminal Jurisdiction
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/12/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/21/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes an order transferring a minor from a juvenile court to a court of criminal
jurisdiction subject to appeal.
STATUS:
04/28/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Coauthors revised.
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AB 636 AUTHOR: Maienschein [D]
TITLE: Financial Abuse of Elder or Dependent Adults
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Authorizes information relevant to the incident of elder or dependent adult
abuse to be given to a federal law enforcement agency charged with the
investigation of elder or dependent adult abuse or to a local code enforcement
agency for the sole purpose of investigating a property where the health and
safety of an elder or dependent adult resident is at risk.
STATUS:
04/12/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY.
*****To SENATE. (73-0)
Commentary003:
LOS sent 4/5/21
AB 640 AUTHOR: Cooley [D]
TITLE: Extended Foster Care: Eligibility Redetermination
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/12/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the State Department of Social Services to develop and disseminate
guidance to county child welfare and probation agencies on recommended
procedures to follow in order to transition a youth to the extended foster care
program in a manner that enables the county to redetermine the youths
eligibility for federal financial participation.
STATUS:
04/21/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HUMAN SERVICES: Do
pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (8-0)
Commentary001:
CWDA sponsors; CSAC supports
AB 684 AUTHOR: Fong [R]
TITLE: Hazardous Waste: Treated Wood Waste
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials
Committee
SUMMARY:
Defines the term treated wood and would require treated wood waste, as
defined, to be disposed of in either a class I hazardous waste landfill or in a
composite-lined portion of a solid waste landfill unit that meets specified
requirements. Requires any solid waste landfill accepting treated wood waste to
meet certain requirements specified in the bill and to manage the treated wood
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waste in a specified manner.
STATUS:
02/25/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND
TOXIC MATERIALS.
AB 686 AUTHOR: Arambula [D]
TITLE: Community-Based Behavioral Health Outcomes and Review
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Health Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to establish, by July
1, 2022, the California Community-Based Behavioral Health Outcomes and
Accountability Review (CBBH-OAR) to facilitate a local accountability system
that fosters continuous quality improvement in county behavioral health
programs and in the collection and dissemination by the agency of best
practices in service delivery.
STATUS:
02/25/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
AB 695 AUTHOR: Arambula [D]
TITLE: Elder and Dependent Adults
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/08/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a local adult protective services agency, local law enforcement
agency, and the Department of Business Oversight to disclose to a mandated
reporter of suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult or their
employer, upon request, the general status or final disposition of any
investigation that arose from a report made by that mandated reporter of
suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult.
STATUS:
04/20/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on AGING & LONG TERM CARE:
Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (7-0)
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
AB 780 AUTHOR: Ting [D]
TITLE: Local Zoning Ordinances: School Employee Housing
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/15/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Local Government Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to render a city or county
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zoning ordinance inapplicable if the proposed use of property by the school
district is to offer school district employee housing under specified conditions.
Exempts the rendering of a city or county zoning ordinance as inapplicable, in
order to offer school district employee housing, from review under this
authority.
STATUS:
03/25/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Suspend Assembly Rule 96.
03/25/2021 Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committees on LOCAL
GOVERNMENT and EDUCATION.
Commentary002:
Chris Lee at CSAC says it's a two-year bill now. They had a draft OUA letter
circulating.
AB 808 AUTHOR: Stone [D]
TITLE: Foster Youth: Children's Crisis Continuum Pilot Program
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/25/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the State Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the
State Department of Health Care Services, to establish the Children's Crisis
Continuum Pilot Program for the purpose of developing treatment options that
are needed to support State's commitment to eliminate the placement of foster
youth with complex needs in out-of-state facilities.
STATUS:
04/27/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (15-0)
BOS: Support
AB 816 AUTHOR: Chiu [D]
TITLE: State and Local Agencies: Homelessness Plan
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to conduct, or
contract with an entity to conduct, a statewide needs and gaps analysis to,
among other things, identify state programs that provide housing or services to
persons experiencing homelessness and create a financial model that will assess
certain investment needs for the purpose of moving persons experiencing
homelessness into permanent housing.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
CSAC Oppose Unless Amended; haven't gotten bill back to where it was last
year, so starting with OUA and try to get back to where it had gotten last year.
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AB 844 AUTHOR: Grayson [D]
TITLE: Empowerment Zone for the Northern Waterfront Area
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 114
LOCATION: Assembly Consent Calendar - First Legislative Day
SUMMARY:
Authorizes establishment of a Green Empowerment Zone for the Northern
Waterfront area of the Counties of Contra Costa and Solano.
STATUS:
05/05/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
AB 875 AUTHOR: Wood [D]
TITLE: Medi-Cal: Demonstration Project
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop and implement a
mandatory process for county jails and county juvenile facilities to coordinate
with Medi-Cal managed care plans and Medi-Cal behavioral health delivery
systems to facilitate continued behavioral health treatment in the community
for inmates, as specified.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS with
author's amendments.
05/04/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
AB 903 AUTHOR: Frazier [D]
TITLE: Los Medanos Community Healthcare District
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/19/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 91
LOCATION: Assembly Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Requires the dissolution of the Los Medanos Community Healthcare District.
Requires the County of Contra Costa to be successor of all rights and
responsibilities of the district, and requires the county to develop and conduct
the Los Medanos Area Health Plan Grant Program focused on comprehensive
health-related services in the district's territory.
STATUS:
04/29/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
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Commentary001:
LOS sent; consistent with amended Platform.
AB 911
AUTHOR:
Nazarian [D]
TITLE: Long-Term Services and Supports Benefit Task Force
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Aging to establish a Long-Term Services and
Supports Benefit Task Force, or utilize an existing board, commission,
committee, or task force, to focus on LTSS benefit needs in the State.
STATUS:
04/15/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
AB 988 AUTHOR: Bauer-Kahan [D]
TITLE: Mental Health: Mobile Crisis Support Teams: 988 Crisis
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: yes
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes the 988 Crisis Hotline Center, using the digits 988 in compliance
with existing federal law and standards governing the National Suicide
Prevention Lifeline. Requires the Office of Emergency Services to take specified
actions to implement the hotline system, including hiring a director with
specified experience and designating a 988 crisis hotline center or centers to
provide crisis intervention services and crisis care coordination to individuals
accessing the 988.
STATUS:
04/29/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Coauthors revised.
Commentary001:
Sponsored bill
Commentary002:
CSAC has support if amended; need to figure out details. CBDHA in the lead.
AB 1041 AUTHOR: Wicks [D]
TITLE: Leave Issues
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/22/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Expands the population that an employee can take leave to care for to include
any other individual related by blood or whose close association with the
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employee is a designated person.
STATUS:
04/26/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Suspend Assembly Rule 96.
04/26/2021 Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
CSAC and coalition opposes
AB 1051 AUTHOR: Bennett [D]
TITLE: Medi-Cal: Mental Health Services: Foster Youth
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes those provisions for presumptive transfer inapplicable to a foster youth
or probation-involved youth placed in a group home community treatment
facility, group home, or a short-term residential therapeutic program outside of
their county of original jurisdiction, as specified.
STATUS:
04/20/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (15-0)
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
AB 1119 AUTHOR: Wicks [D]
TITLE: Employment Discrimination
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/21/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), which
protects the right to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination
because of prescribed characteristics. Expands the protected characteristics to
include family responsibilities, defined to mean the obligations of an employee
to provide direct and ongoing care for a minor child or a care recipient. Defines
additional terms for this purpose.
STATUS:
04/21/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
AB 1163 AUTHOR: Nazarian [D]
TITLE: Local Government: Taxation: Prohibition: Groceries
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee
SUMMARY:
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Repeals the prohibition on the imposition, increase, levy and collection, or
enforcement by a local agency of any tax, fee, or other assessment on
groceries, including the requirement that the Department of Tax and Fee
Administration cease administering a local sales and use tax.
STATUS:
03/04/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION.
Commentary001:
Sent LOS. Consistent with Platform.
AB 1176 AUTHOR: Garcia E [D]
TITLE: Communications: Universal Broadband Service: Fund
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/19/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes the California Connect Fund in the State Treasury, subject to the
conditions and restrictions applicable to the existing universal service funds.
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop, implement, and administer
the California Connect Program to ensure that high-speed broadband service is
available to every household in the state at affordable rates.
STATUS:
04/28/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on COMMUNICATIONS AND
CONVEYANCE: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
(8-3)
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
AB 1179 AUTHOR: Carrillo [D]
TITLE: Employer Provided Benefit: Backup Childcare
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires an employer to provide an employee who works in California for the
same employer for 30 or more days within a year from the commencement of
employment, with up to 60 hours of paid backup childcare benefits, to be
accrued and used as provided. Defines backup childcare as childcare provided
by a qualified backup childcare provider to the employee's child when the
employee's regular childcare provider cannot be utilized.
STATUS:
05/05/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
Commentary001:
CSAC Opposes with coalition letter
AB 1204
AUTHOR:
Wicks [D]
TITLE: Hospital Equity Reporting
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FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/15/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Adds racial and ethnic groups experiencing disparate health outcomes and
socially disadvantaged groups to the definition of vulnerable populations for
community benefits reporting purposes. Requires a hospital or medical group to
prepare and annually submit an equity report to OSHPD not later than 150 days
after its fiscal year ends. Requires an equity report to include, among other
things, analyses of access to care and employment disparities and plans for
addressing those disparities.
STATUS:
05/05/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
AB 1205 AUTHOR: Frazier [D]
TITLE: State Air Resources Board: Elections
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Natural Resources Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires a certain composition of the Air Resources Board.
STATUS:
03/18/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES.
03/18/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES with
author's amendments.
03/18/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES.
AB 1214 AUTHOR: Waldron [R]
TITLE: Medi-Cal Eligibility
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/29/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes an individual who is incarcerated in a state prison or county jail eligible
for the Medi-Cal program for 30 days before the date they are released from
that correctional facility.
STATUS:
04/29/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
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AB 1225 AUTHOR: Waldron [R]
TITLE: Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/14/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Enacts the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act. Requires that a woman
incarcerated in a state prison receive trauma-informed care and prohibits an
incarcerated woman from being placed in solitary confinement for purposes of
medical observation.
STATUS:
05/05/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To
Suspense File.
AB 1233 AUTHOR: Waldron [R]
TITLE: State Prisons: Construction and Renovation
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/25/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Public Safety Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes the Prison Oversight Commission and requires the commission to
develop guidelines for the construction of new prisons and renovation of existing
prisons.
STATUS:
03/25/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
03/25/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY with
author's amendments.
03/25/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
AB 1242 AUTHOR: Bauer-Kahan [D]
TITLE: Alcoholic Beverages: Bona Fide Public Eating Place
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/28/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a bona fide public eating place holding an on-sale general license or
a bona fide eating place holding an on-sale license for beer and wine to exercise
additional off-sale rights and privileges, subject to specified requirements.
Repeals this authorization 2 years after the end of the state of emergency
proclaimed by the Governor on March 4, 2020, in response to the Coronavirus
pandemic.
STATUS:
04/28/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
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Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
AB 1291 AUTHOR: Frazier [D]
TITLE: State Bodies: Open Meetings
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Requires a state body, when it limits time for public comment, to provide at
least twice the allotted time to a member of the public who utilizes translating
technology to address the state body.
STATUS:
04/29/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY.
*****To SENATE. (77-0)
AB 1302 AUTHOR: Quirk [D]
TITLE: Commercial Cannabis Billboards: Placement Restrictions
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Prohibits a licensee from advertising or marketing on a billboard or similar
advertising device located within a 15-mile radius of the California border on an
Interstate Highway or on a State Highway which crosses the California border.
STATUS:
04/27/2021 From ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONS: Do pass to Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS. (16-2)
AB 1304 AUTHOR: Santiago [D]
TITLE: Affirmatively Further Fair Housing: Housing Element
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/05/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 25
LOCATION: Assembly Second Reading File
SUMMARY:
Clarifies that a local agency has a mandatory duty to comply with the obligation
requiring a public agency to administer its programs and activities relating to
housing and community development in a manner to affirmatively further fair
housing, and to not take any action that is materially inconsistent with this
obligation. Requires that the schedule of actions analyze and identify racial
integration and segregation patterns and trends within the jurisdiction.
STATUS:
05/06/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
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AB 1416 AUTHOR: Santiago [D]
TITLE: Elections: Ballot Label
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/22/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Elections Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the ballot label for statewide measures, and, at the option of a county,
the ballot label or similar description on the ballot of county, city, district, and
school district measures, to include a listing of nonprofit organizations,
businesses, or individuals taken from the signers of ballot arguments printed in
the voter information guide that support and oppose the measure or from the
signers of the rebuttal arguments to the arguments that support and oppose the
measure, as specified.
STATUS:
04/29/2021 In ASSEMBLY Committee on ELECTIONS: Not heard.
Commentary001:
Supv. Mitchoff requests addition to May Leg Com agenda
AB 1447 AUTHOR: Cooley [D]
TITLE: Rural California Infrastructure Act
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/03/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes the Economic Development Bank, or I-Bank, to establish the Rural
California Infrastructure Program for the purpose of making competitive grant
awards to eligible local agencies for rural infrastructure projects, as prescribed.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
ACA 1 AUTHOR: Aguiar-Curry [D]
TITLE: Local Government Financing: Affordable Housing
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Local Government Committee
SUMMARY:
Creates an additional exception to the 1% ad valorem tax rate limit on real
property that would authorize a city, 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
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housing, or permanent supportive housing, if the proposition proposing the tax
is approved by 55% of the voters of the city or county, and the proposition
includes accountability requirements.
STATUS:
04/22/2021 To ASSEMBLY Committees on LOCAL GOVERNMENT and
APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
Library Commission to vote in March about supporting and requesting support
letter
AJR 4 AUTHOR: Garcia [D]
TITLE: Basel Convention: Ratification
INTRODUCED: 01/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Environmental Quality Committee
SUMMARY:
Declares California to be in favor of the United States ratification of the Basel
Convention at the earliest opportunity and would request the Biden
Administration to accomplish this ratification as a matter of urgency.
STATUS:
04/28/2021 Re-referred to SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY.
Commentary001:
LOS sent.
SB 4 AUTHOR: Gonzalez [D]
TITLE: Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program: Surcharge
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: yes
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/19/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development to
coordinate with other relevant state and local agencies and national
organizations to explore ways to facilitate streamlining of local land use
approvals and construction permit processes for projects related to broadband
infrastructure deployment and connectivity. Revises requirements for the deaf
and disabled telecommunications program to require the Public Utilities
Commission to administer a certain surcharge.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 Withdrawn from SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
05/03/2021 Re-referred to SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
SB 8 AUTHOR: Skinner [D]
TITLE: Housing Crisis Act
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
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INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 05/03/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Limits the requirement to provide relocation benefits and a right of first refusal
to only the occupants of protected units that are persons or families of low or
moderate income, as defined. Specifies that the requirement to provide
relocation benefits and a right of first refusal does not apply to an occupant of a
short-term rental that is rented for a period of fewer than 30 days.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
SB 9 AUTHOR: Atkins [D]
TITLE: Housing Development: Approvals
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/27/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: 05/10/2021 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Requires a proposed housing development containing two residential units
within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without
discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets
certain requirements that the proposed housing development would not require
demolition or alteration of housing that is subject to a recorded covenant,
ordinance, or law that restricts rents to levels affordable to persons and families
of moderate or low income.
STATUS:
04/27/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary002:
Cal Cities recommends Oppose Unless Amended.
Commentary003:
CSAC support if amended; fire zone concerns; clarification of authority in
unincorporated areas.
SB 10 AUTHOR: Wiener [D]
TITLE: Planning and Zoning: Housing Development: Density
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/27/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: 05/10/2021 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a local government to pass an ordinance to zone any parcel for up to
10 units of residential density per parcel, at a height specified in the ordinance,
if the parcel is located in a transit-rich area, a jobs-rich area, or an urban infill
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site, as those terms are defined. Requires the Department of Housing and
Community Development to determine jobs-rich areas and publish a map of
those areas on a certain frequency.
STATUS:
04/27/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
SB 16 AUTHOR: Skinner [D]
TITLE: Peace Officers: Release of Records
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/15/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes every incident involving use of force to make a member of the public
comply with an officer, force that is unreasonable, or excessive force subject to
disclosure. Requires records relating to sustained findings of unlawful arrests
and unlawful searches to be subject to disclosure.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary001:
CSAC says take a look at
SB 17 AUTHOR: Pan [D]
TITLE: Office Of Racial Equity
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/15/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes in state government an Office of Racial Equity, an independent
public entity not affiliated with an agency or department, that shall be governed
by a Racial Equity Advisory and Accountability Council. Requires the Governor to
direct the Secretary of each state agency to adopt and implement the Racial
Equity Framework through each agencies' Racial Equity Action Plan, which
would be adopted by each state agency and integrated into the agency's
strategic plan.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
SB 20 AUTHOR: Dodd [D]
TITLE: Student Nutrition: Eligibility for CalFresh Benefits
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 03/17/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
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LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Student Aid Commission, to the extent that it possesses pertinent
information, to provide written notice to students who qualify for a waiver of the
community college enrollment fee that they qualify, or may qualify, for benefits
under the CalFresh program.
STATUS:
04/05/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
BOS: Watch
SB 28 AUTHOR: Caballero [D]
TITLE: Rural Broadband and Digital Infrastructure
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: 05/10/2021 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Creates the Rural Broadband and Digital Infrastructure Video Competition
Reform Act. Requires the Department of Technology to compile an inventory of
state-owned resources that may be available for use in the deployment of
broadband networks in rural, unserved, and underserved communities. Prohibits
a video service franchise holder from denying access to service to any group of
potential residential subscribers regardless of income.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS with author's
amendments.
05/04/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
Geoff watching. Members frustrated with ISBs.
SB 55 AUTHOR: Stern [D]
TITLE: Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone: Development
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/05/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Governance and Finance Committee
SUMMARY:
Prohibits the creation or approval of a new development, as defined, in a very
high fire hazard severity zone or a state responsibility area unless there is
substantial evidence that the local agency has adopted a comprehensive,
necessary, and appropriate wildfire prevention and community hardening
strategy to mitigate significant risks of loss, injury, or death, as specified.
STATUS:
04/15/2021 In SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE:
Heard, remains in Committee.
Commentary001:
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two-year bill
SB 73 AUTHOR: Wiener [D]
TITLE: Probation: Eligibility: Crimes Controlled Substances
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/10/2020
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Deletes various crimes relating to controlled substances, including, but not
limited to, possessing or agreeing to sell or transport opiates or opium
derivatives, from those prohibitions against granting probation or a suspended
sentence. Authorizes the remaining prohibitions on probation to be waived by a
court in the interests of justice.
STATUS:
04/12/2021 In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To
ASSEMBLY. (25-10)
Commentary001:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Jail-time-for-nonviolent-drug-crime
s-in-15804570.php
SB 90 AUTHOR: Stern [D]
TITLE: Elections: Ballot Label
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/16/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/19/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the ballot label for statewide measures to include a listing of the
signers of ballot arguments printed in the state voter information guide that
support and oppose the measure or the signers of the rebuttal arguments to the
arguments that support and oppose the measure. Requires the signers of the
ballot arguments to submit the lists of supporters and opponents to the
Secretary of State and requires the Secretary of State to provide those lists to
county elections officials as part of the label.
STATUS:
04/26/2021 In SENATE Committee on ELECTIONS AND
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: Not heard.
Commentary001:
Supv. Mitchoff requested add to Leg Com for May
SB 91 AUTHOR: Budget and Fiscal Review Cmt
TITLE: COVID-19 Relief: Tenancy: Federal Rental Assistance
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/16/2020
ENACTED: 01/29/2021
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
CHAPTER: 2021-002
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SUMMARY:
Extends the imposition of additional damages, if a tenant has provided a
declaration of COVID-19 financial distress, on a landlord who violates the
prohibition from interrupting or terminating utility service furnished to a tenant
with the intent to terminate the occupancy of the tenant. Relates to the
evaluation of tenants using an alleged COVID-19 rental debt. Extends the
prohibition from bringing an action for unlawful detainer based on a cause of
action other than nonpayment of COVID-19 rent.
STATUS:
01/29/2021 Signed by GOVERNOR.
01/29/2021 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2021-002
SB 99 AUTHOR: Dodd [D]
TITLE: Community Energy Resilience Act of 2021
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 12/28/2020
LAST AMEND: 04/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission to develop and implement a grant program for local governments
to develop community energy resilience plans and expedite permit review of
distributed energy resources.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
SB 107 AUTHOR: Wiener [D]
TITLE: CalFresh
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/05/2021
LAST AMEND: 02/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 11
LOCATION: Senate Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Requires the State Department of Social Services, in order to increase client
access and retention within CalFresh, to participate in the Elderly Simplified
Application Project, a demonstration project operated by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. Requires the department to develop a
CalFresh user-centered application for seniors 60 years of age or older and for
people with disabilities who are eligible to be enrolled in the Elderly Simplified
Application Project.
STATUS:
03/23/2021 In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Commentary001:
Sending LOS; consistent with Platform.
BOS: Support
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SB 110 AUTHOR: Wiener [D]
TITLE: Substance Use Disorder Services: Contingency Management
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/06/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/15/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: 05/10/2021 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Expands substance use disorder services to include contingency management
services, as specified, subject to utilization controls. Requires the Department of
Health Care Services to issue guidance and training to providers on their use of
contingency management services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries who access
substance use disorder services under any Medi-Cal delivery system, including
the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery
system.
STATUS:
04/21/2021 From SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (10-0)
SB 219 AUTHOR: McGuire [D]
TITLE: Property Tax: Delinquent Penalty Cost: Health Orders
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: yes
INTRODUCED: 01/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Authorizes the auditor or the tax collector to cancel any penalty, costs, or other
charges resulting from tax delinquency upon a finding that failure to make a
timely payment is due to a documented hardship, as determined by the tax
collector, arising from a shelter-in-place order, as defined, if the principal
payment for the proper amount of tax due is paid no later than June 30 of the
fiscal year in which the payment first became delinquent.
STATUS:
03/25/2021 In SENATE. Read third time, urgency clause adopted.
Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY. (38-0)
Commentary001:
Send to Bob and Rusty
SB 222 AUTHOR: Dodd [D]
TITLE: Water Rate Assistance Program
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/03/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes the Water Rate Assistance Fund in the State Treasury to help
provide water affordability assistance, for both drinking water and wastewater
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services, to low-income ratepayers and ratepayers experiencing economic
hardship in California.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
https://thentherescalifornia.libsyn.com/senator-bill-dodd-sb-222-sb-223-water-
equity-accessibility
BOS: Watch
SB 223 AUTHOR: Dodd [D]
TITLE: Discontinuation of Residential Water Service
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/03/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Revises the conditions under which urban and community water systems and
very small community water systems are prohibited from discontinuing
residential service for nonpayment. Prohibits these systems from discontinuing
residential service for nonpayment during a state or local emergency.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
https://thentherescalifornia.libsyn.com/senator-bill-dodd-sb-222-sb-223-water-
equity-accessibility
SB 234 AUTHOR: Wiener [D]
TITLE: Transition Aged Youth Housing Program
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/26/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program for the purpose of
creating housing for transition aged youth under 26 years of age, who have
been removed from their homes, are experiencing homelessness
unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian, or are under the jurisdiction of a
court, as specified, and would require the Homeless Coordinating and Financing
Council to develop, implement, and administer the program.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
SB 261 AUTHOR: Allen [D]
TITLE: Regional Transportation Plans: Sustainable Communities
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
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INTRODUCED: 01/27/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Transportation Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires that the sustainable communities strategy be developed to additionally
achieve greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the automobile and light
truck sector for 2045 and 2050 and vehicle miles traveled reduction targets for
2035, 2045, and 2050 established by the State Air Resources Board.
STATUS:
03/15/2021 From SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY:
Do pass to Committee on TRANSPORTATION. (5-2)
Commentary001:
CSAC opposes with UCC, RCRC
SB 270 AUTHOR: Durazo [D]
TITLE: Public Employment: Labor Relations: Employee Data
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/28/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/15/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes an exclusive representative to file a charge of an unfair labor
practice with the Public Employment Relations Board, as specified, alleging a
violation of the specified requirements only if specified conditions are met,
including that the exclusive representative gives written notice of the alleged
violation and that the public employer fails to cure the violation, as specified.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
SB 271 AUTHOR: Wiener [D]
TITLE: County Sheriffs: Eligibility Requirements
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/28/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Governance and Finance Committee
HEARING: 05/06/2021
SUMMARY:
Repeals specified eligibility requirements for county sheriffs. Allows all eligible
voters to run for the office of Sheriff.
STATUS:
03/16/2021 From SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Do pass to
Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE. (4-1)
SB 278 AUTHOR: Leyva [D]
TITLE: PERS: Disallowed Compensation: Benefit Adjustments
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 01/29/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/23/2021
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DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes new procedures under Public Employees' Retirement Law for cases
in which Public Employees' Retirement System determines that the benefits of a
member or annuitant are, or would be, based on disallowed compensation that
conflicts with State Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 and other
specified laws and thus impermissible under Public Employees' Retirement Law.
STATUS:
04/19/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary001:
CSAC and coalition opposes
SB 286 AUTHOR: Min [D]
TITLE: Elections: County Officers: Consolidation
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/01/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to existing Law that requires a candidate for a nonpartisan office who at
a primary election receives votes on a majority of all the ballots cast for
candidates for that office to be elected to that office. Exempts from that
requirement candidates for county nonpartisan offices, including a county office
in a charter county, but not including a charter city and county.
STATUS:
02/22/2021 In SENATE. Article IV. Section 8(a) of the Constitution
dispensed with.
02/22/2021 In SENATE. Joint Rule 55 suspended.
Commentary001:
CSAC and UCC oppose
SB 395 AUTHOR: Caballero [D]
TITLE: Healthy Outcomes and Prevention Education Act: Tax
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/11/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/03/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes the Health Careers Opportunity Grant Program under the
administration of the Health Professions Education Foundation for the purpose
of improving access by underrepresented students from disadvantaged
backgrounds to health profession programs offered by the state's public
postsecondary education institutions. Imposes an additional tax for the privilege
of selling electronic cigarettes at retail of an unspecified percentage of the gross
receipts from the sale of electronic cigarettes.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
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Commentary001:
CSAC supports in concept; lots to be worked out.
SB 410 AUTHOR: Leyva [D]
TITLE: Department of Industrial Relations
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/12/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/03/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 33
LOCATION: Senate Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Exempts any occupational safety and health standard and order from the
standardized regulatory impact analysis requirement.
STATUS:
05/05/2021 In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Commentary001:
CSAC opposes with coalition
SB 443 AUTHOR: Hertzberg [D]
TITLE: Elections: Redistricting
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/27/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: 05/10/2021 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Requires initiative and referendum measures to appear in the order in which
they qualify for the ballot.
STATUS:
04/27/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
CSAC to oppose
SB 465 AUTHOR: Eggman [D]
TITLE: Mental Health
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/26/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: 05/10/2021 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Makes substantial impairment in the required areas or being at risk of removal
from the home or having been removed from the home separate criteria for
determining serious emotional disturbance. Makes an appropriation by
expanding the target population for which continuously appropriated MHSA
moneys may be spent.
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STATUS:
04/26/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
SB 493 AUTHOR: Bradford [D]
TITLE: Local Government Financing: Juvenile Justice
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/23/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires no less than 95% of the funds allocated under these provisions to be
distributed to community-based organizations and other public agencies or
departments that are not law enforcement entities, as specified, and prohibits
this portion of the funds from being used for law enforcement activities or
personnel.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary002:
CSAC OPPOSED
SB 504 AUTHOR: Becker [D]
TITLE: Elections: Voter Registration
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires a county elections official to make conditional voter registration
available to military and overseas voters via a certified remote accessible vote
by mail system.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
SB 515 AUTHOR: Pan [D]
TITLE: Long-Term Services and Supports Benefit Task Force
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Human Services Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Aging to establish an Long-Term Services and
Supports Benefit Task Force, or utilize an existing board, commission,
committee, or task force, to focus on LTSS benefit needs in the State.
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STATUS:
04/20/2021 In SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES: Not heard.
Commentary001:
CSAC supports
SB 516 AUTHOR: Eggman [D]
TITLE: Certification for Intensive Treatment: Review Hearing
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/08/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 37
LOCATION: Senate Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Authorizes the evidence considered in the certification review hearing for
specified intensive treatment of a person placed on a 72-hour hold to include
information on the persons medical condition and how that condition bears on
certifying the person as a danger to themselves or to others or as gravely
disabled. Requires that if the person needs continuing medical treatment after
the termination of the involuntary detention, they must be informed that
continuing medical treatment is recommended.
STATUS:
05/05/2021 In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Commentary001:
CBHDA has Oppose
SB 555 AUTHOR: McGuire [D]
TITLE: Local Agencies: Transient Occupancy Taxes: Online
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/12/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county,
including a charter city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance
exclusively delegating its authority to collect any transient occupancy tax
imposed by that local agency on short-term rentals to the California Department
of Tax and Fee Administration and to enter into a contract with the department
for purposes of registration, rate posting, collection, and transmission of
revenues.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
SB 556 AUTHOR: Dodd [D]
TITLE: Street Light Poles, Traffic Signal Poles, Utility Poles
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
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DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: 05/10/2021 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Prohibits a local government or local publicly owned electric utility from
unreasonably denying the leasing or licensing of its street light poles or traffic
signal poles to communications service providers for the purpose of placing
small wireless facilities on those poles.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS with author's
amendments.
05/04/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
CSAC has concerns; no formal position yet.
SB 557 AUTHOR: Wieckowski [D]
TITLE: Hazardous Waste: Treated Wood Waste
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Defines the term treated wood and would require treated wood waste, as
defined, to be disposed of in either a class I hazardous waste landfill or in a
composite-lined portion of a solid waste landfill unit that meets specified
requirements.
STATUS:
04/19/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
SB 586 AUTHOR: Bradford [D]
TITLE: Criminal Fees
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Repeals the authority to collect most of these criminal fees, among others.
Makes the unpaid balance of most court-imposed costs unenforceable and
uncollectible and would require any portion of a judgment imposing those costs
to be vacated.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary002:
CSAC/RCRC/UCC sent concerns letter
SB 594 AUTHOR: Glazer [D]
TITLE: Elections: Local Redistricting
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
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URGENCY CLAUSE: yes
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/03/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Governance and Finance Committee
HEARING: 05/06/2021
SUMMARY:
Clarifies that adopting district boundaries for certain purposes means the
passage of an ordinance or resolution specifying those boundaries. Authorizes,
expressly, a county board of supervisors to adopt supervisorial district
boundaries by ordinance or resolution. Clarifies that a superior court's order
adopting district boundaries is immediately effective and has the same force
and effect as an enacted ordinance or resolution of the legislative body.
STATUS:
05/03/2021 From SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE
with author's amendments.
05/03/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE.
SB 606 AUTHOR: Gonzalez [D]
TITLE: Workplace Safety Violations: Employer Retaliation
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/08/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Creates a rebuttable presumption that a violation committed by an employer
that has multiple worksites is enterprise-wide in certain circumstances.
Authorizes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to issue a citation if
the employer fails to rebut such presumption. Requires each employee exposed
to the violation to be considered a separate violation for the issuance of fines
and penalties. Establishes that an employer's actions are presumed retaliatory
in certain situations.
STATUS:
04/19/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary001:
CSAC Opposes
SB 612 AUTHOR: Portantino [D]
TITLE: Electrical Corporations and Other Load-serving Entities
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires an electrical corporation to annually offer, for the following year, an
allocation of each product, as defined, arising from legacy resources, as defined,
to its bundled customers and to other load-serving entities, defined to include
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electric service providers and community choice aggregators, serving
departing-load customers, as defined, who bear cost responsibility for those
resources.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
BOS: Support
SB 617 AUTHOR: Wiener [D]
TITLE: Residential Solar Energy Systems: Permitting
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires every city and county to implement an online, automated permitting
platform that verifies code compliance and instantaneously issues permits for a
solar energy system and an energy storage system meeting certain
requirements paired with a solar energy system, as specified. Requires a city or
county to amend a certain ordinance to authorize a residential solar energy
system and an energy storage system to use the platform. Prescribes a
compliance schedule for satisfying these requirements.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Commentary001:
Supv. Mitchoff requests adding to May Leg Com agenda
SB 619 AUTHOR: Laird [D]
TITLE: Organic Waste: Reduction Regulations
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021
LAST AMEND: 04/13/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to only impose a
penalty on a local jurisdiction, and requires a penalty to only accrue, for a
violation of the regulations if the local jurisdiction did not make a reasonable
effort, as determined by the department, to comply with the regulations.
STATUS:
04/29/2021 From SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY:
Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (7-0)
Commentary002:
Not an active position for CSAC
SB 712 AUTHOR: Hueso [D]
TITLE: Local Government: California Tribes
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
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INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/04/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: 05/10/2021 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Encourages state and local governments to work cooperatively with tribes in
their fee-to-trust applications for purposes of regaining ancestral lands, and to
support tribes in their nongaming fee-to-trust applications. Prohibits local
governments from adopting or enforcing a resolution or ordinance that would
prevent the local government from conducting a fair evaluation of a fee-to-trust
application by a federally recognized tribe based on the merits of the
application.
STATUS:
05/04/2021 From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS with author's
amendments.
05/04/2021 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred
to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
SB 749 AUTHOR: Glazer [D]
TITLE: Mental Health Program Oversight: County Reporting
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission
to create a comprehensive tracking program for county spending on mental and
behavioral health programs and services, as specified, including funding
sources, funding utilization, and outcome data at the program, service, and
statewide levels.
STATUS:
04/19/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
SB 782 AUTHOR: Glazer [D]
TITLE: Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 05/05/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 2
LOCATION: Senate Second Reading File
SUMMARY:
Authorizes the filing of a petition to obtain assisted outpatient treatment under
the existing petition procedures, for a conservatee or former conservatee, as
specified, who would benefit from assisted outpatient treatment to reduce the
risk of deteriorating mental health while living independently.
STATUS:
05/06/2021 In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
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SB 784 AUTHOR: Glazer [D]
TITLE: State Government: Emergency Services: Nonprofit Service
FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
LAST AMEND: 03/16/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a nonprofit entity that provides services pursuant to a contract with
the state, during a state of war emergency or a state of emergency, to adjust
the method in which it provides those services so long as the purpose of the
contract is served. Requires the nonprofit entity to notify all departments from
which it receives funding of a closure or of an impacted program, including
whether a closure is location specific or due to executive order.
STATUS:
04/22/2021 In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To
ASSEMBLY. (38-0)
SB 788 AUTHOR: Bradford [D]
TITLE: Workers' Compensation: Risk Factors
FISCAL COMMITTEE: no
URGENCY CLAUSE: no
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Prohibits consideration of race, religious creed, color, national origin, age,
gender, marital status, sex, sexual identity, sexual orientation, or genetic
characteristics to determine the approximate percentage of the permanent
disability caused by other factors. Expresses the Legislature's intent to eliminate
bias and discrimination in the workers' compensation system.
STATUS:
04/19/2021 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense
File.
Commentary001:
CSAC supports if amended
SCR 17 AUTHOR: Leyva [D]
TITLE: Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
INTRODUCED: 02/24/2021
ENACTED: 04/30/2021
DISPOSITION: Adopted
LOCATION: Chaptered
CHAPTER: 2021-21
SUMMARY:
Declares March 21, 2021, as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination.
STATUS:
04/30/2021 Chaptered by Secretary of State.
Copyright (c) 2021 State Net. All rights reserved.
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LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 5.
Meeting Date:05/10/2021
Subject:SB 10 (Wiener) Planning and Zoning: Housing Development: Density
Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,
Department:County Administrator
Referral No.: 2021-15
Referral Name: SB 10 (Wiener)
Presenter: L. DeLaney Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057
Referral History:
At the April 12, 2021 meeting of the Legislation Committee, Vice Chair Mitchoff requested that
SB 10 (Wiener) be returned to the Committee for reconsideration.
Referral Update:
SB 10: The bill text can be found here.
Author:Scott D. Wiener (D-011)
Coauthor Caballero (D), Atkins (D), Rivas R (D)
Title:Planning and Zoning: Housing Development: Density
Fiscal
Committee:
yes
Urgency
Clause:
no
Introduced:12/07/2020
Last
Amend:
04/27/2021
Disposition:Pending
Committee:Senate Appropriations Committee
Hearing:05/10/2021 10:00 am, John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
Summary:Authorizes a local government to pass an ordinance to zone any parcel for up to
10 units of residential density per parcel, at a height specified in the ordinance, if
the parcel is located in a transit-rich area, a jobs-rich area, or an urban infill site,
as those terms are defined. Requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to determine jobs-rich areas and publish a map of those areas on a
certain frequency.
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2021 CA S 10: Bill Analysis - 04/20/2021 - Senate Governance and Finance Committee
SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE
Senator Mike McGuire, Chair
2021 - 2022 Regular
Bill No: SB 10 Hearing Date: 4/22/21 Author: Wiener Tax Levy: No Version: 4/13/21 Amended
Fiscal: Yes Consultant: Favorini-Csorba
Planning and zoning: housing development: density
Allows a local legislative body to upzone specified parcels for up to 10 units per parcel.
Background
Planning and approving new housing is mainly a local responsibility. The California Constitution
allows cities and counties to "make and enforce within its limits, all local, police, sanitary and
other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws." It is from this fundamental
power (commonly called the police power) that cities and counties derive their authority to
regulate behavior to preserve the health, safety, and welfare of the public--including land use
authority.
Planning and Zoning Law. State law provides additional powers and duties for cities and counties
regarding land use. The Planning and Zoning Law requires every county and city to adopt a
general plan that sets out planned uses for all of the area covered by the plan. A general plan must
include specified mandatory "elements," including a housing element that establishes the
locations and densities of housing, among other requirements. Cities' and counties' major land use
decisions--including most zoning ordinances and other aspects of development permitting--must
be consistent with their general plans. The Planning and Zoning Law also establishes a planning
agency in each city and county, which may be a separate planning commission, administrative
body, or the legislative body of the city or county itself. Cities and counties must provide a path
to appeal a decision to the planning commission and/or the city council or county board of
supervisors.
Zoning and approval processes. Local governments use their police power to enact zoning
ordinances that establish the types of land uses that are allowed or authorized in an area. Zoning
often identifies a primary use for parcels in the area, as well as other uses that are allowed if they
meet conditions imposed by the local government. Zoning ordinances also contain provisions to
physically shape development and impose other requirements, such as setting maximum heights
and densities for housing units, minimum numbers of required parking spaces, setbacks, and lot
coverage ratios. These ordinances can also include conditions on development to address
aesthetics, community impacts, or other particular site-specific considerations.
Some housing projects can be permitted by city or county planning staff "ministerially" or
without further approval from elected officials. Projects reviewed ministerially require only an
administrative review designed to ensure they are consistent with existing general plan and
zoning rules, as well as meet standards for building quality, health, and safety. Most large
housing projects are not allowed ministerial review. Instead, these projects are vetted through both
public hearings and administrative review, including design review and appeals processes.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires public agencies to analyze and,
where feasible, mitigate significant effects on the environment from a proposed "project." Most
zoning ordinances are considered "projects" under CEQA, and most individual housing
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development projects that require discretionary review and approval are also subject to CEQA.
CEQA does not apply to projects permitted ministerially.
Local initiative power. The California Constitution also provides that all political power is
inherent in the people, and that the initiative is the power of electors to propose statutes and
amendments to the Constitution and to adopt or reject them. Statewide initiatives require majority
voter approval (Article II, Section 10). The Constitution also allows initiative and referendum
powers to be exercised by the electors of each city or county under procedures developed by the
Legislature. Charter cities and charter counties may adopt alternative procedures for initiatives.
HOAs. The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act governs the management and
operation of common interest developments (CIDs). CIDs (often colloquially referred to as
Homeowners Associations, or HOAs, after the entity that governs them) are self-governing forms
of real estate in which each homeowner has an exclusive ownership in a unit and a shared stake in
common areas and amenities. HOAs come in a wide variety of physical formats: condominium
complexes, apartment buildings, and neighborhoods of detached, single-family residences, for
example. The owners of the separate properties within the common interest development are the
members of it. Each member is subject to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions that govern
the development, as well as annual assessments that pay for communal expenses. Units within
common housing developments currently account for approximately a quarter of the state's overall
housing stock, meaning that the laws governing such development have a large impact on the
population.
In addition to the requirements of the Act, each CID is governed according to the recorded
declarations, bylaws, and operating rules of the association, collectively referred to as the
governing documents. HOAs often impose restrictions on the use of property within the CID,
ranging from aesthetic requirements to structural modifications and beyond. However, the Act
voids any governing documents and covenants that effectively prohibit or unreasonably restrict
various types of activities or improvements, including accessory dwelling units, electric vehicle
charging stations, solar panels, and others. However, HOAs can impose reasonable restrictions on
these types of improvements that don't make it too difficult to construct them.
California's housing challenges. California faces a severe housing shortage. In its most recent
statewide housing assessment, HCD estimated that California needs to build an additional
100,000 units per year above recent averages of 80,000 units per year to meet the projected need
for housing in the state. Prior to the onset of COVID-19, California was building approximately
100,000 to 115,000 units a year in recent years, but many analysts expect homebuilding activity
to drop.
A variety of causes have contributed to the state's lack of housing production. Recent reports by
the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) and others point to local approval processes as a major
factor. They argue that local governments control most of the decisions about where, when, and
how to build new housing, and those governments are quick to respond to vocal community
members who may not want new neighbors. The building industry also points to CEQA review,
and housing advocates note a lack of a dedicated source of funds for affordable housing.
This shortage has driven up housing prices and resulted in overcrowding within existing homes.
According to a January 2020 report by the Public Policy Institute of California, "the share of
Californians with excessive housing costs is quite high: 38 percent of mortgaged homeowners and
55 percent of renters spend more than 30 percent of their total household income on housing,
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compared with 28 percent and 50 percent nationwide.... California's rate of overcrowding--the
share of housing units with more than one resident per room--was 8.3 percent in 2018, well above
the national rate of 3.4 percent. Overcrowding is especially high for rental units: at 13.4 percent, it
is more than twice the national rate and the highest in the nation."
COVID-19 effect on housing. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated California's
housing challenges. According to the California Association of Realtors' January 2021 home sales
and price report, the median home price in California jumped by almost 22 percent from January
2020 to January 2021, in part due to reluctance of sellers to list homes during the pandemic. At the
same time, as many Californians became unemployed due to the pandemic, more individuals at
risk of homelessness have fallen into homelessness. The Legislative Analyst's Office notes in a
January 2021 post, "Even before the pandemic, the high cost of housing in California placed
renter households in a precarious position, particularly the 1.5 million low-income households
who pay at least half of their income in rent. A pandemic-induced job loss adds further financial
stress to these households. Due to the composition of the industries and occupations most affected
by public health restrictions and declining economic activity, renter households have faced higher
rates of job loss during the pandemic because job losses have been concentrated among
lower-wage workers who are much more likely to rent than higher-wage workers."
The author wants to increase the number of units that can be permitted in residential areas.
Proposed Law
Senate Bill 10 allows a local government to adopt an ordinance to zone a parcel for up to 10 units
of residential density per parcel if the parcel is located in any of the following areas:
* A transit-rich area, defined to be a parcel within one-half mile of a major transit stop or a parcel
on a high-quality bus corridor that meets certain conditions for the frequency of service;
* A jobs-rich area, which is an area identified by the Department of Housing and Community
Development (HCD) as being both associated with positive educational and economic outcomes
for households of all incomes and close to jobs, as defined. HCD must develop a map of jobs-rich
areas by January 1, 2023 based off specified existing maps developed by HCD, and updated them
every five years; or
* An urban infill site, meaning a site that is a legal parcel that:
* Is located in an urbanized area or urban cluster, as defined by the United States Census Bureau,
or in a city where any part of the city is an urbanized area or urban cluster;
* Has at least 75 percent of its perimeter adjoining parcels that are developed with urban uses; and
* Has a general plan or zoning designation for residential use or mixed use.
SB 10 grants this authority to local legislative bodies regardless of any local restrictions on
adopting zoning ordinances enacted by the jurisdiction, and provides that an ordinance,
resolution, or other local regulation, including general plan amendments, to effectuate the bill is
not a project for the purposes of CEQA.
SB 10 also voids any covenant, restriction, or condition affecting the sale of any interest in a CID,
and any provision of a CID governing document, that effectively prohibits or unreasonably
restricts a use or density authorized by an ordinance adopted under the bill. The bill says that it
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restricts a use or density authorized by an ordinance adopted under the bill. The bill says that it
doesn't apply to restrictions that do not make infeasible a development authorized by an SB 10
ordinance.
SB 10 doesn't apply to parcels located within a High Fire Hazard Severity Zone or Very High Fire
Hazard Severity Zone (VHFHSZ), but does apply to parcels if they have been excluded from
those zones by a local agency or if the site has adopted mitigation measures required by the
building code or state law.
To use SB 10's authority, a local legislative body must comply with the following requirements:
* The zoning ordinance must include a declaration that it is adopted using the authority in this bill.
* The zoning ordinance must clearly demarcate the areas that are zoned using the authority in this
bill.
* The legislative body must make a finding that the increased density authorized by the ordinance
is consistent with the city or county's obligation to affirmatively further fair housing under
existing law.
Additionally, a legislative body that upzones a parcel using SB 10 cannot subsequently reduce the
density on the parcel.
SB 10 defines its terms and includes findings and declarations to support its purposes.
State Revenue Impact
No estimate.
Comments
1. Purpose of the bill. According to the author, "California's massive housing shortage is driving
people into poverty and homelessness and threatening our environment, economy, and diversity.
SB 10 provides cities with a powerful, fast, and effective tool to allow light-touch density exactly
where it should be: near jobs, near public transportation, and in existing urbanized areas.
Specifically, SB 10 allows cities, if they choose, to rezone these non-sprawl location for up to
ten-unit buildings in a streamlined way without CEQA. Given that cities face significantly
increased housing production goals under the revised Regional Housing Needs Assessment
(RHNA) and are required by the state Housing Element Law to complete rezonings to
accommodate these goals, SB 10 is a powerful new tool for cities to use in their comprehensive
planning efforts. SB 10 will help ease California's housing crisis, spurred by a statewide shortage
of 3.5 million homes, and move the state away from a sprawl-based housing policy and toward a
more sustainable, equitable, and effective housing policy."
2. Local officials know best? In 1911, California voters amended the Constitution to provide
voters the power to enact initiatives and referenda. The voter initiative is a 'reserved power;' it is
not a right granted to them, but a power reserved by them. As such, the power of initiative is
integral to California's political process. One common way the initiative power is used is to adopt
urban growth boundaries or other growth management ordinances. Voters adopt these measures
for a variety of reasons, some more noble than others. For example, some are adopted out of
environmental concerns, such as preventing sprawl or reducing pressure to convert agricultural
land to urban uses, while others are intended to block new neighbors from moving in. SB 10
allows local officials to adopt zoning that allows up to 10 units on a parcel, even if local voters
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allows local officials to adopt zoning that allows up to 10 units on a parcel, even if local voters
have said they don't want it. In the same vein, SB 10 also voids some CID restrictions and
governing documents, which are contracts willingly entered into by individuals. Should
politicians be able to override the preferences of local voters and of homeowners that willingly
enter into contracts that restrict the use of their property?
3. Who speaks for the trees? Although the current prevailing wisdom in land use scholarship is
that local governments are not permissive enough towards new housing, it wasn't that long ago
that city and county officials were assumed to be too willing to permit development--and trash
the environment in doing so. SB 10 allows city councils and boards of supervisors to override
local growth management ordinances that were put in place in part to rein in past abuses. In fact,
the bill goes further by exempting local agencies from complying with CEQA as they adopt
zoning ordinances, meaning they won't be compelled to analyze the environmental impacts of
their decisions. If a local government adopts an SB 10 ordinance that allows ministerial approval
of projects, local officials could permit development that receives no environmental review at any
level. With that said, SB 10 is limited to areas that are either jobs-rich, transit-rich, or infill, so
residential development is likely to have been contemplated for these areas. Will local officials
use SB 10 in ways that undermine other state priorities in order to build housing?
4. Location, location, location. SB 10 allows local governments to upzone in some areas of the
state that Californians have traditionally considered to be worthy of protection. In particular:
* California voters adopted the Coastal Act of 1976, which regulates development in the coastal
zone to protect coastal resources and ensure coastal access. SB 10 applies to parcels in the coastal
zone. However, SB 10 provides a safeguard by stating that nothing in the bill can be construed to
supersede or in any way alter or lessen the effect or application of the Coastal Act.
* SB 10 borrows from an existing prohibition on developing in the Very High Fire Hazard
Severity Zone (VHFHSZ). However, that prohibition allows development if the project meets
state fire mitigation requirements, so SB 10's provisions are not a blanket ban on the use of the
bill's authority in these areas.
* SB 10's transit-rich and jobs-rich provisions apply to both infill and greenfield parcels, as long
as they meet the other requirements in the bill.
Some previous legislation in the housing production space, such as SB 50 (Wiener, 2019),
excluded these areas from some parts of the bill. On the other hand, SB 50 allowed for much
larger developments that have the potential for larger impacts in these areas. Furthermore,
automatically excluding parcels in these areas at the state level would reduce the overall housing
production that is likely to result from the bill. Finally, the authority in SB 10 is voluntarily
exercised by local officials, who may be best positioned to evaluate any potential harms of
upzoning in their own jurisdictions. The Committee may wish to consider the manner in which
SB 10 balances the need for housing production against concerns about sensitive areas.
5. Let's get technical. SB 10 prohibits the use of the bill in the VHFHSZ, but allows it to be used
in those areas under certain conditions, including if the local agency has excluded an area from
the VHFHSZ. However, the Legislature repealed the ability of locals to remove areas from the
VHFHSZ in 2018 (SB 1260, Jackson). The Committee may wish to amend SB 10 to strike the
provision that refers to this repealed ability, as follows:
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* On page 4, line 18, strike, "parcels excluded from the specified hazard zones" and strike line 19.
6. Charter city. The California Constitution allows cities that adopt charters to control their own
"municipal affairs." In all other matters, charter cities must follow the general, statewide laws.
Because the Constitution doesn't define "municipal affairs," the courts determine whether a topic
is a municipal affair or whether it's an issue of statewide concern. SB 10 says that its statutory
provisions apply to charter cities. To support this assertion, the bill includes a legislative finding
that it ensuring access to affordable housing is a matter of statewide concern.
7. Incoming! The Senate Housing Committee approved SB 10 at its March 18th meeting on a vote
of 7-1. The Senate Governance and Finance Committee is hearing SB 10 as the committee of
second reference. The Senate Rules Committee also ordered a third referral of SB 10 to the Senate
Environmental Quality Committee. However, due to the ongoing health and safety risks of the
COVID-19 virus, the referral to Environmental Quality was rescinded.
8. Related legislation. SB 902 (Wiener, 2020) was substantially similar to SB 10. SB 902 was
referred to the Senate Governance and Finance Committee, but that referral was rescinded due to
the COVID-19 pandemic. SB 902 died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 10 is part of the Senate's housing package, along with the following bills:
* SB 5 (Atkins), which authorizes the issuance of $6.5 billion in general obligation bonds
intended to finance housing-related programs that serve the homeless and extremely low income
and very low income Californians. SB 5 is currently pending in the Senate Housing Committee
and is double-referred to the Senate Governance and Finance Committee.
* SB 6 (Caballero), which enacts, until January 1, 2029, the Neighborhood Homes Act, to
establish housing as an allowable use on any parcel zoned for office or retail uses. The Senate
Governance and Finance Committee approved SB 6 at its March 11th hearing on a vote of 5-0.
SB 6 is set for hearing on April 29th in the Senate Housing Committee.
* SB 7 (Atkins), which reenacts the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental
Leadership Act of 2011 (AB 900, Buchanan) to allow for streamlined judicial review of large
projects that meet high environmental and labor standards. SB 7 also allows a housing project
with at least 15% of its units affordable to lower income households and a minimum investment
of $15 million and that meets other criteria to use the same streamlining provisions. SB 7 is
currently pending in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
* SB 8 (Skinner), which extends the sunset on the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 by five years, to
January 1, 2030, and makes other changes. The Senate Governance and Finance Committee
approved SB 8 at its March 25th hearing on a vote of 5-0. SB 8 is set for hearing on April 29th in
the Senate Housing Committee.
* SB 9 (Atkins), which requires ministerial approval of duplexes and specified parcel maps. SB 9
is also scheduled to be heard at the Committee's April 22nd hearing.
Support and Opposition
(4/19/21)
Support: Libby Schaaf- Mayor, City of Oakland; Zach Hilton-City Council Member, City of
Gilroy; AARP; Abundant Housing LA; American Planning Association, California Chapter;
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Gilroy; AARP; Abundant Housing LA; American Planning Association, California Chapter;
Association of Bay Area Governments; Bay Area Council; Bridge Housing Corporation;
Calchamber; California Apartment Association; California Association of Realtors; California
Community Builders; California Rental Housing Association; California Yimby; Cbia; Chan
Zuckerberg Initiative; Circulate San Diego; Council of Infill Builders; East Bay for Everyone;
Facebook, INC.; Generation Housing; Greenbelt Alliance; Habitat for Humanity California;
Housing Action Coalition; Long Beach Yimby; Los Angeles Business Council; Metropolitan
Transportation Commission; Monterey; County of; Mountain View Yimby; Non-profit Housing
Association of Northern California; North Bay Leadership Council; Northern Neighbors;
Peninsula for Everyone; People for Housing - Orange County; San Fernando Valley Yimby; San
Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association; San Francisco Bay Area Rapid
Transit District; Santa Barbara Women's Political Committee; Santa Cruz Yimby; Silicon Valley
Community Foundation; South Bay Yimby; South Pasadena Residents for Responsible Growth;
Southwest California Legislative Council; Streets for People Bay Area; Sv@home; Techequity
Collaborative; The Two Hundred; United Way of Greater Los Angeles; Urban Environmentalists;
Valley Industry and Commerce Association; Yimby Action; Yimby Democrats of San Diego
County; Zillow Group
Opposition: A Better Way Forward to House California; Adams Hill Neighborhood Association;
Aids Healthcare Foundation; Alameda Citizens Task Force; Berkeley Associated Neighbors
Against Non-affordable Housing; Brentwood Homeowners Association; Burton Valley
Neighborhoods Group; California Alliance of Local Electeds; California Cities for Local Control;
California Labor Federation, Afl-cio; California Land Title Association; California State
Association of Electrical Workers;
California State Pipe Trades Council; Citizens Preserving Venice; City of Agoura Hills; City of
Beverly Hills; City of Cupertino; City of El Segundo; City of Hidden Hills; City of Lafayette;
City of Lomita; City of Orange; City of Rancho Palos Verdes; City of Redondo Beach; City of
San Dimas; City of Santa Monica;
City of Torrance; City of Yorba Linda; Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods; College
Terrace Residents Association; Commitee to Save the Hollywoodland Specific Plan; Comstock
Hills Homeowners Association; Cow Hollow Association; D4ward; Durand Ridge United;
Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations; Hidden Hill Community Association; Hills 2000
Friends of The Hills; Hollywood Knolls Community Club; Hollywoodland Homeowners
Association, United Neighborhoods; IBEW Local Union 569; International Union of Elevator
Constructors; LA Brea Hancock Homeowners Association; Lafayette Homeowner's Council;
Lakewood Village Neighborhood Association; Latino Alliance for Community Engagement;
Linda Vista-annandale Association; Los Feliz Improvement Association; Miracle Mile
Residential Association; Mission Street Neighbors; Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance
Trees Committee; New Livable California Dba Livable California; Noma; Northeast Neighbors
of Santa Monica; Pacific Palisades Community Council; Palo Alto; City of; Pleasanton; City of;
Resident Information Resource of Santa Monica; Riviera Homeowners Association; Santa
Monica Coalition for A Livable City; Save Lafayette; Seaside Neighborhood Association;
Shadow Hills Property Owners Association; Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association; Sierra
Club; South Bay Cities Council of Governments; South Shores Community Association;
Southwood Homeowners Association; Southwood Riviera Neighborhood Association; State
Building and Construction Trades Council of Ca; Sunnyvale United Neighbors; Sunset-parkside
Education and Action Committee; Sustainable Tamalmonte; Sutro Ave Block Club; Telegraph
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Education and Action Committee; Sustainable Tamalmonte; Sutro Ave Block Club; Telegraph
Hill Dwellers; Temecula Valley Neighborhood Coalition; Verdugo Woodlands West
Homeowners Association; West Pasadena Residents' Association; West Torrance Homeowners
Association; Western States Council Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation; Westside
Regional Alliance of Councils; Westwood Highlands Homeowners Association; Westwood Hills
Property Owners Association; Westwood Homeowners Association; Westwood South of Santa
Monica Blvd. Homeowners Association; Wilshire Montana Neighborhood Coalition; Windsor
Square Association; 19 Individuals
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position on SB 10 (Wiener) and
directing staff on its placement on a Board agenda.
Attachments
No file(s) attached.
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LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 6.
Meeting Date:05/10/2021
Subject:SB 617 (Weiner): Residential Solar Energy Systems: Permitting
Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,
Department:County Administrator
Referral No.: 2021-16
Referral Name: SB 617 (Weiner)
Presenter: L. DeLaney Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057
Referral History:
Supervisor Mitchoff referred this bill to the Legislation Committee for consideration.
Referral Update:
SB 617
Author:Scott D. Wiener (D-011)
Coauthor Newman (D), Stern (D), Rivas R (D), Becker (D), Chiu (D)
Title:Residential Solar Energy Systems: Permitting
Fiscal
Committee:
yes
Urgency
Clause:
no
Introduced:02/18/2021
Last
Amend:
05/04/2021
Disposition:Pending
Location:Senate Appropriations Committee
Summary:Requires every city and county to implement an online, automated permitting
platform that verifies code compliance and instantaneously issues permits for a
solar energy system and an energy storage system meeting certain requirements
paired with a solar energy system, as specified. Requires a city or county to
amend a certain ordinance to authorize a residential solar energy system and an
energy storage system to use the platform. Prescribes a compliance schedule for
satisfying these requirements.
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2021 CA S 617: Bill Analysis - 04/24/2021 - Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications
Committee
SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS
Senator Ben Hueso, Chair
2021 - 2022 Regular
Bill No: SB 617 Hearing Date: 4/26/2021 Author: Wiener Version: 4/19/2021 Amended
Urgency: No Fiscal: Yes Consultant: Nidia Bautista SUBJECT: Residential solar energy systems:
permitting
DIGEST: This bill requires cities, counties, and city and county, as specified, to implement an
online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real
time to a licensed contractor for a solar energy system, as specified. This bill also authorizes the
California Energy Commission (CEC) to provide technical assistance and grant funding to cities
and counties to comply with the requirements for the online platform.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1) Establishes the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has regulatory authority over
public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. (Article XII of the California
Constitution).
2) Decisions of the CPUC adopted the California Solar Initiative, which is administered by
electrical corporations and subject to the CPUC's supervision. (CPUC D. 06-01-024)
3) Requires the CPUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission (California Energy Commission (CEC)) to undertake certain steps in implementing
the California Solar Initiative (CSI). Specifies that the financial components of the CSI include,
among other programs, programs for the installation of solar energy systems on new construction,
which collectively are known as the New Solar Homes Partnership Program. Requires the
program, which is administered by the CEC, to be funded by charges in the amount of
$400,000,000 collected from customers of the state's three largest electrical corporations - Pacific
Gas & Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas and Electric
Company (SDG&E). If specified moneys are exhausted, existing law authorizes the CPUC to
require each of those electrical corporations to continue the program pursuant to guidelines
established by the CEC for the program until the $400,000,000 monetary limit is reached. If the
CPUC requires the continuation of the program, existing law requires any funding made available
to be encumbered no later than June 1, 2018, and disbursed no later than December 31, 2021.
Existing law makes the provisions of the program inoperative on June 1, 2018. (Public Utilities
Section 2851)
This bill:
1) Requires every city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that
verifies code compliance and instantaneously issues permits for a solar energy system that is no
larger than 38.4 kilowatts (kW) alternating current nameplate rating and an energy storage
system paired with a solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kW alternating current
nameplate rating, as specified.
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nameplate rating, as specified.
2) Requires a city or county to amend a certain ordinance to authorize a residential solar energy
system and an energy storage system to use the online, automated permitting platform.
3) Prescribes a compliance schedule for satisfying these requirements, which would exempt a
county with a population of less than 150,000 and all cities within a county with a population of
less than 150,000.
4) Requires a city with a population of 50,000 or less that is not otherwise exempt to satisfy these
requirements by September 30, 2023, while cities and counties with populations greater than
50,000 that are not otherwise exempt would be required to satisfy the requirements by September
30, 2022.
5) Requires a city, county, or a fire department, district, or authority to report to the CEC when it
is in compliance with specified requirements, in addition to other information. By increasing the
duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
6) Prohibits the provision of specified funding sources to cities and counties not in compliance
with certain provisions relating to solar energy systems and fees charged for their installation or if
they are not in compliance with provisions of this bill.
7) Authorizes the CEC to provide technical assistance and grant funding to cities and counties in
order to support the above-described requirements.
8) Requires the CEC to develop grant guidelines and other requirements, as specified, by May 1,
2022, and make applications available no later than June 1, 2022. This bill would require the
CPUC to require PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E to repurpose $20,000,000 supporting the New Solar
Homes Partnership Program, as specified, to providing technical assistance and grant funding and
to pay the CEC's program costs, as specified.
9) Requires the CEC to set guidelines for cities and counties to report to the CEC on the number
of permits issued for solar energy systems and an energy storage system paired with a solar
energy system and the relevant characteristics of those systems.
10) Provides that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for
creating a new crime or infraction. However, this bill provides that if the Commission on State
Mandates determines that this act contains other costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
local agencies for those costs shall be made pursuant to statute.
Background
Solar energy systems. The cost of installing solar energy systems--devices or structural design
features that collect, store, and distribute solar energy for heating, cooling, and electricity
generation--has dropped dramatically over the past decade, from $7.53/watt for a residential
photovoltaic (PV) system in 2010 to $2.71/watt in 2020, according to National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) benchmarks for these systems. Initial cost reductions were largely due to
cheaper solar panels. However, in recent years, this trend has continued because of reductions in
"soft costs," such as sales taxes, supply chain costs, installer and developer profit, indirect
corporate costs, transaction and financing costs, customer acquisition, permitting, and other
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non-hardware costs. Although soft costs have been declining, they have not dropped as much as
hard costs, so are increasing as a share of the system's total cost. According to NREL, soft costs
comprised about 64 percent of the total system price for residential solar PV systems in 2020.
Solar energy system permitting. Although exact procedures vary by location, the procedure for
approving a solar energy system permit is similar to the procedure for approving a building
permit. Typically, the solar installation company or customer submits an electrical diagram and
roof layout plan to the city or county building department. If the plan is approved, the installer or
customer pays a permit fee and starts the installation project.
AB 2188 (Muratsuchi, Chapter 521, Statutes of 2014). In 2014, the Legislature required local
governments to streamline their permitting processes for certain solar systems. AB 2188 requires
every city and county, including charter cities, to adopt an ordinance that creates an expedited,
streamlined permitting process for small residential rooftop solar energy systems. For purposes of
AB 2188, solar systems are those that are sized no larger than 10 kW for PV systems and 30 kW
for thermal systems, and that are installed on a single family or duplex family dwelling, and meet
other conditions. AB 2188 requires each city and county to develop a checklist of all requirements
that allow rooftop solar energy systems to be eligible for expedited review, and requires them to
approve all complete applications that meet the requirements of the checklist.
AB 2188 also limits local governments to administrative--nondiscretionary--review of solar
energy system permits. Local governments cannot review permits based on standards other than
health or safety, so they cannot require design review. The permitting process must generally
conform to procedures identified in the "Solar Guidebook" developed by the Office of Planning
and Research, with modifications allowed only due to unique climactic, geological, seismological,
or topographical conditions. Under AB 2188, only one inspection may be required for small
residential rooftop solar energy systems that qualify for expedited review.
AB 546 (Chiu, Chapter 380, Statutes of 2017). In addition to the AB 2188, state law, pursuant AB
546, required cities and counties to make all documentation and forms associated with the
permitting of advanced energy storage, such as battery systems, available online. The city or
county must also allow for electronic submittal and signatures of a permit application, much as is
required for solar energy system permitting.
According to data collected by NREL, the median time to approval in California is four days,
although NREL also notes that delays can add weeks or months to the process.
About New Solar Homes Partnership (NSHP) program. Launched in January 2007, the program
is the CEC's component of the CSI and is limited to new home construction in investor-owned
utility (IOU) service territories. The program provides financial incentives for homeowners,
builders, and developers to include solar energy systems on new, energy-efficient homes. The
NSHP program goal under the CSI is to incentivize the installation of 360 MW solar capacity
within 10 years with a $400 million funding cap. Roughly $282 million was funded from Public
Goods Charge (also collected from ratepayers), the CPUC authorized an additional $111 million,
if needed, to be collected from ratepayers of the state's three largest electric IOUs to meet the
goals of the program. Based on payments and active reservations to date, NSHP is on track to
meet this program goal. Final determination of program accomplishment will be determined after
all reservations have been processed which have a current statutory deadline of December 2021.
SolarAPP. SolarAPP is an online platform for rapid permitting of solar energy systems and
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associated battery storage that can check an application for code compliance and instantly issue
an approval or denial. The NREL developed the SolarAPP software in collaboration with the
other entities, including: International Code Council, which develops the code behind the
California Residential and Building Codes; the National Fire Protection Association, which
develops the code behind the California Electrical Code; UL, which develops some of the
standards for the equipment that make up a solar energy system (e.g., solar modules); and the
International Association of Electrical Inspectors. SolarAPP integrates with certain popular
planning programs, but can also be operated as a standalone application. This software is
provided for free to local jurisdictions; applicants pay an administrative fee to defray the costs. In
November 2020, the City of Pleasant Hill was the first city in the nation to issue a permit for a
solar energy system using SolarAPP.
SB 617. This bill includes two main provisions:
(1)Relevant to Committee on Governance & Finance: this bill requires the use of automated
permitting platforms and options for residential building permit issuance by a local agency for the
installation of rooftop solar on residential structures. This bill prescribes a compliance schedule
for each city or county to satisfy the requirement.
Specifically, this bill:
* Exempts a county with a population of less than 150,000, and all cities within such a county
(largely Sierra Mountains and Northern California counties).
* Requires a city with population of 50,000 or less to comply no later than September 30, 2023.
* Requires a city, county, or city and county with population of greater than 50,000 to comply by
no later than September 30, 2022.
(2) Relevant to this committee: this bill authorizes the CEC to develop a grant program by May
2022 to provide technical assistance and grant funding to cities and counties to support the
above-described requirements. The program would require PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E to
repurpose $20 million collected from ratepayers to support the NSHP Program to pay the CEC's
program administrative costs and grant funding awarded. This bill requires local governments to
report annually to the CEC on the number of permits issued for solar energy systems and energy
storage systems paired with solar energy systems. This bill would also prohibit a city, county, and
city or county that is not in compliance with AB 2188, AB 1414, and the requirements of this bill
for the automated solar permitting system from receiving funds from a state-sponsored or
state-administered solar or energy storage grant or loan program.
Repurposing electric ratepayer funds? Although an exact amount of NSHP balance is not, yet,
available, current estimates by the CEC are that roughly $70 million may remain in the electric
IOU accounts for NSHP by the encumbrance date of the program, December 31, 2021. Per the
CPUC decision authorizing the collection of $111 million from the ratepayers of the state's three
largest electric IOUs, any NSHP funds collected by the IOUs, but not encumbered by June 1,
2018 or spent by December 31, 2021 shall be returned to ratepayers. (page 31 of Decision
16-06-006). This bill intends to "repurpose" $20 million of the funds for the technical assistance
and grant funding that the CEC may provide to local governments. However, these funds are not
sitting in a state treasury account. As such, it is unclear whether the Legislature can "repurpose"
the funds without some additional legal maneuvering, perhaps including a refund to ratepayers
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and a new direction to the CPUC to require a collection of $20 million. Legal maneuverings aside,
the application of these funds which were collected from electric ratepayers from three of the
state's electric utilities would also require that those funds be applied to ratepayers in the given
service territories from which they were collected. As a result, those funds should not apply to
entities outside those service boundaries, including cities served by electric publicly owned
utilities, such as Sacramento, Los Angeles, Riverside, etc. However, as currently crafted in this
bill, the CEC would provide technical assistance and grant funding to presumably any city or
county in the state, regardless of the electric utility service territory. Given the intent of the author
and sponsors, it would seem more appropriate, and perhaps, more expedient, to have funds
appropriated from the state General Fund via an appropriation by the Legislature. Funds from the
General Fund would be available to all cities and counties in the state and not require additional
legal complications as could be the case with the use of electric ratepayer funds residing in
accounts held by electric utilities. Therefore, the author and committee may wish to amend this
bill to delete provisions related to NSHP funds and instead require the CEC to establish the
technical assistance and grant funding upon appropriation by the Legislature.
Timelines. As currently drafted, this bill would require the CEC to develop grant guidelines by
May 1, 2022 and make applications available no later than June 1, 2022. It would be wise to move
the application availability to beyond July 1, 2022, in order to ensure the CEC has been
appropriated the funding from the Legislature for the budget cycle. The author and committee
may wish to move the date from June 1 to July 1, 2022 for the grant application availability.
Additionally, a representative from the California League of Cities (League), in conversation with
committee staff, has expressed concerns about the compliance schedule proposed by this bill.
Should this bill move forward the author may wish to engage the League regarding a feasible
timeframe for the many cities encompassed by the compliance schedule proposed in this bill.
Mandate. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local governments for the
costs of new or expanded state mandated local programs. Because SB 617 adds to the duties of
local planning officials and expands the definition of a crime, Legislative Counsel says that this
bill imposes a new state mandate. SB 617 disclaims the state's responsibility for providing
reimbursement because the costs are due to expanding a crime, but says that if the Commission on
State Mandates determines that there are other mandated costs, reimbursement must be made
pursuant to existing statutory requirements.
Need for technical amendments. The author and committee may wish to amend this bill to correct
references to subdivision (e) in this bill, which as of the most recent amendments should now be
subdivision (d).
Prior/Related Legislation
AB 2188 (Muratsuchi, Chapter 521, Statutes of 2014) required, on or before September 30, 2015,
every city and county to adopt an ordinance, in consultation with fire and utility officials, as
specified, to streamline and expedite the permitting process for small, residential, rooftop, solar
energy systems.
AB 546 (Chiu, Chapter 380, Statutes of 2017) required cities and counties to post online the
materials required for permitting of energy storage systems.
AB 1414 (Friedman, Chapter 849, Statutes of 2017), until January 1, 2025, lowered the cap on
local government permit fees for rooftop solar energy systems and extends the cap to cover solar
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thermal systems.
SB 1222 (Leno, Chapter 614, Statutes of 2012) capped local government building permit fees for
residential and commercial rooftop solar energy systems.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: Yes
SUPPORT:
Environment California, Co-Sponsor
SPUR, Co-Sponsor
Mayor Pro Tem Gabriel Quinto, El Cerrito
Mayor Dianne Martinez, Emeryville
Mayor Michael Vargas, Perris
Mayor Kevin Wilk, Walnut Creek
Mayor Tom Butt, Richmond
Supervisor Ahsha Safai, San Francisco
Councilmember Dan Kalb, Oakland
Councilmember Alison Hicks, Mountain View
Councilmember James Coleman, South San Francisco
Director Steve Palmisano of Public Works, Watsonville
350 Humboldt
ACR Solar
Advanced Energy Economy
All Valley Solar, Inc.
Alternative Energy Systems Inc.
Aurora
Aztec Solar
Bay Area Council
California Solar & Storage Association
Center for Sustainable Energy
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Elders Climate Action, NorCal Chapter
Elders Climate Action, SoCal Chapter
Elizares Solar Consulting
Energy Toolbase
Environmental Defense Fund
First Response Solar
GRID Alternatives
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
Housing Action Coalition
Local Government Commission
Local Solar for All
McCalmont Engineering
Mosaic
Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund
Omnidian, Inc.
Planet Plan Sets
Pure Power Solutions
Sierra Club California
Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action
Solar and Fire Education
Solar Energy Industries Association
Solar Rights Alliance
Solar Sense PV, Inc.
Solar United Neighbors
Solar Works
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SolarCraft
Spectrum Energy Development Inc.
Summit Technology Group
SunEarth
Sunrun
SunPower Corporation
Symmetric Energy
Taylor Energy
TerraVerde Energy
Tesla
The Climate Center
Tigo Energy
Town of Windsor
Treepublic Solar
Vote Solar
An Individual
OPPOSITION:
California Building Officials
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 6 International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers Local Union 18 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union
234 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 302 International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers Local Union 440 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local
Union 441 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 465 International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 569 International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers Local Union 1245 National Electrical Contractors Association
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT: According to the author:
SB 617 requires jurisdictions of a certain size to implement an automated online solar permitting
system, as well as offering remote building inspections for residential rooftop solar systems.
Further, SB 617 establishes a program at the California Energy Commission to offer assistance to
local jurisdictions in their implementation of an online permitting system and remote inspections.
Although the costs of solar hardware have decreased by 80% in the past 15 years, the 'soft' costs
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associated with permitting are still a massive barrier. Beyond the cost, the unnecessary delays
associated with solar permitting result in 10% of applicants rescinding their application prior to
approval. This is a major hindrance to California's clean energy goals, as current models suggest
that the state will need to triple solar and wind capacity in order to meet 100% renewable energy
by 2045. In order to address this delay and the costs associated with permitting, SB 617 will
require that an online automated permitting system be utilized.
ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION: In opposition to this bill, the California Building Officials
(CALBO) who represent members who enforce building standard requirements, express concerns
about the need for a new mandate and lack of flexibility by this bill. CALBO further states they
were active participants with AB 2188 development. However, they have "... observed local
government has continued to struggle with the implementation of the bill [AB 2188]. According
to Berkeley Lab's July 2019 report on this law, only 71% of California's local entities have
complied. This is a concern to CALBO, as we recognize and urge our local jurisdictions to adhere
to the regulation and believes enforcement of existing regulations is preferable over the new
requirements outlined in SB 617."
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
CONSIDER recommending a position to the Board of Supervisors on SB 617 and direct staff on
its placement on a Board agenda.
Attachments
No file(s) attached.
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LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 7.
Meeting Date:05/10/2021
Subject:SB 90 (Stern) and AB 1416 (Santiago): Ballot Disclose Act
Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,
Department:County Administrator
Referral No.: 2021-17
Referral Name: SB 90 (Stern)
Presenter: L. DeLaney Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057
Referral History:
SB 90 and AB 1416, companion bills, were referred to the Legislation Committee by Supervisor
Mitchoff.
Referral Update:
SB 90: The text of the bill can be found here.
Author:Henry I. Stern (D-027)
Coauthor Umberg (D), Dodd (D), Santiago (D)
Title:Elections: Ballot Label
Fiscal
Committee:
yes
Urgency
Clause:
no
Introduced:12/16/2020
Last
Amend:
04/19/2021
Disposition:Pending
Location:Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee
Summary:Requires the ballot label for statewide measures to include a listing of the signers
of ballot arguments printed in the state voter information guide that support and
oppose the measure or the signers of the rebuttal arguments to the arguments that
support and oppose the measure. Requires the signers of the ballot arguments to
submit the lists of supporters and opponents to the Secretary of State and requires
the Secretary of State to provide those lists to county elections officials as part of
the label.
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AB 1416 is a parallel, companion bill in the Assembly.
The press release for SB 90 is as follows:
After a Lengthy & Costly November 2020 Ballot, Stern’s SB 90 Aims to Put More Information at the
Fingertips of Voters
December 17, 2020
For Immediate Release: December 17th, 2020 Contact: Faith Colburn at
faith.colburn@sen.ca.gov
SACRAMENTO – Following the most expensive ballot proposition cycle in California history,
Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angles) has introduced SB 90 to help voters know who the main
supporters and opponents of initiative measures are at the exact moment they’re filling out their
ballot. “The initiatives we vote on in California can be dense, and easily misunderstood,
especially when large dollar campaigns are at play behind the scenes,” said Stern. “We want to
take voters behind the scenes on their ballot and offer them a way to follow the money right at the
point of voting. Knowing who supports and opposes an initiative tells you a lot about it, for better
or for worse. So rather than force voters to navigate the misinformation on social media and the
internet, we think this information belongs in the ballot itself.” According to a report in the Los
Angeles Times, a record $785 million was poured into efforts to support and oppose the 12
initiative measures that were on the November 2020 ballot. A poll conducted of 661 likely
California voters before the November 2020 election showed nearly four in five voters (79%)
want to know who supports and opposes ballot measures, but those same voters aren't confident
they know this information or can find it easily. These results hold across the political spectrum,
with 84% of Democrats, 80% of Republicans, and 70% of Independents saying knowing who a
measure’s supporters and opponents are is “very important” or “somewhat important” to know.
The same poll found 75% of likely voters favor ”adding to the ballot a short list of the supporters
and opponents of each ballot proposition” – precisely what SB 90 proposes to do. Under SB 90,
the ballot given to each voter will list the main supporters and opponents to each statewide ballot
measure, though the list of each cannot exceed 15 words. SB 90 is similar to SB 636 (Stern) of
2019. That bill, which was supported by the California Clean Money Campaign, the California
League of Conservation Voters, Consumer Watchdog, and Courage California among others,
passed the Senate on a bi-partisan 31-5 vote but was held in the Assembly. “One of the most
important pieces of information for voters about ballot measures is which organizations support
or oppose them, because voters know that organizations they trust have had the opportunity to
study their ramifications in ways the voters themselves usually haven't,” said Trent Lange,
President of the California Clean Money Campaign, sponsor of SB 90. “That's why we're so
thrilled Senator Stern is introducing the Ballot DISCLOSE Act to provide that crucial information
to voters when and where it matters most — on the ballot itself.” The bill will be assigned to the
Senate Elections & Constitutional Amendments Committee and will be heard sometime in
February or March.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position on SB 90 (Stern) and AB 1416
(Santiago) and directing staff on its placement on a Board agenda.
Attachments
No file(s) attached.
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LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 8.
Meeting Date:05/10/2021
Subject:Update from Washington, D.C. and Status of Community Project Funding
Requests
Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,
Department:County Administrator
Referral No.: 2021-18
Referral Name: Federal Legislation of Interest
Presenter: L. DeLaney Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057
Referral History:
The Legislation Committee regularly receives reports on federal legislation adn provides direction
to staff and the County's federal advocates from Alcalde & Fay, as needed.
Referral Update:
For the past several weeks, County staff and its federal advocates from Alcalde & Fay have been
working diligently to respond to the opportunity from our congressional delegation to submit
projects for Community Project Funding consideration. Under Democratic leadership, the U.S.
House of Representatives has reinstated community-directed funding (sometimes known as
“earmarks”) in the upcoming appropriations bills. For the first time in 10 years, we will have the
opportunity to request that specific projects be funded that will benefit our community. This
funding, now known as Community Project Funding, is more limited, but has great potential.
Additionally, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has provided an opportunity for
Members of Congress to submit requests for Highway and Transit Project Designations as part of
the surface transportation reauthorization expected to advance later this year. This process will
allow our congressional delegation to advocate for specific community needs for highway and
transit projects and deliver much-needed federal resources.
A summary of the projects submitted to the County's congressional delegation and status of those
requests in included in Attachment A.
The following is an update from CSAC's federal advocate, prepared April 29, 2021.
President Biden Addresses Joint Session of Congress; Outlines American Families Plan On
April 28, President Joe Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress. The
primetime event was significantly scaled back in attendance, with less than a fifth of the
chamber’s total seating filled as a precaution against COVID-19. In addition to laying out his
vision for the country, Biden outlined his proposal for a second longer-term economic plan – the
American Families Plan. Unlike the American Jobs Plan, which is focused on infrastructure, this
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effort addresses childcare, paid family leave, and other social welfare issues. In all, the American
Families Plan includes $1.8 trillion in investments and tax credits for families and children over
the next decade. Of that funding, $800 billion would be made available in tax credits, $511 billion
would be reserved for education, $225 billion would go toward child care, $225 billion would
help provide paid leave, and $45 billion would be for expanded nutrition benefits. To pay for the
measure, President Biden would increase taxes on the wealthiest one percent of Americans.
Among other things, his plan would restore the top personal income tax rate to 39.6 percent (up
from 37 percent) for those earning more than $400,000 a year. It also would tax capital gains at
the same rate for people earning $1 million or more and end a capital gains tax break on
inheritances, as well as the “carried interest” tax break utilized by fund managers. According to
the administration, these tax code changes would raise $1.5 trillion over the next ten years and
would be fully paid for over 15 years. To follow is a brief summary of the American Families
Plan. Universal Pre-School –President Biden is requesting $200 billion to provide free universal
pre-school for all three- and four-year-olds. The plan would be in partnership with states and
would focus on high-need areas. It should be noted that the proposal would provide that
employees participating in pre-school and Head Start programs would receive a minimum wage
of $15 per hour. Free Community College – The plan includes $109 billion to provide two years
of free community college to all Americans, including “Dreamers.” Pell Grants – President Biden
is requesting over $80 billion in federal funding to increase the maximum Pell Grant award by
approximately $1,400. The plan also allows Dreamers to access Pell Grants. School Completion
and Retention Programs – The administration’s plan proposes $62 billion for a grant program that
would invest in completion and retention activities at colleges and universities, particularly those
that serve high numbers of low-income students. Historically Black Colleges and Universities
–The American Families Plan would provide two years of subsidized tuition at Historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and other
Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). It also would provide funding to expand existing
institutional aid grants to HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs, which can be used to create or expand
educational programs in high-demand fields. Teachers – President Biden is calling on Congress to
invest $9 billion to address teacher shortages, improve teacher preparation, and strengthen
pipelines for teachers of color. Of this funding, $2.8 billion would go toward Grow Your Own
programs and paid teacher residencies, $2 billion would be reserved for mentorship programs,
$1.6 billion would be used for teachers to become certified in high-demand areas, $900 billion to
develop special education teachers, and $400 million for teacher preparation programs at HBCUs,
TCUs, and MSIs. The proposal would also double scholarships (up to $8,000/year) for future
teachers pursuing their degrees. Child Care – The proposal would provide direct support to
families to ensure that low- and middle-income families spend no more than seven percent of
their income on child care, and that the child care they access is of high-quality. The plan also
would ensure that child care workers receive a minimum wage of $15 an hour. Nutrition
Programs – The American Families Plan would invest $45 billion to expand nutrition benefits for
low-income children by increasing access to the summer meals program and expanding free
school meals for children in high-poverty school districts. The plan also would make individuals
convicted of drug offenses eligible for SNAP benefits after their incarceration. Tax Credits – The
White House proposal would extend key tax cuts included in the American Rescue Plan Act
(ARPA) that benefit lower- and middle-income workers and families, including the Child Tax
Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit. It also
would extend the expanded health insurance tax credits that were included in ARPA. Paid Family
and Medical Leave – The proposal calls for the creation of a national paid family and medical
leave program. Pursuant to the administration’s plan, leave could be used to care for a new child,
deal with a personal or family illness, bereavement, or another serious reason. The $225 billion
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deal with a personal or family illness, bereavement, or another serious reason. The $225 billion
investment would guarantee up to 12 weeks of paid leave by the tenth year of the program (and
three days for bereavement annually to begin in the first year). Workers would be eligible for up
to $4,000 a month. At a minimum, employees would receive at least two-thirds of their average
weekly wages. In addition, the proposal calls on Congress to approve legislation (HR 2465; S
1195) that would require certain employers to allow their employees to accrue seven days of paid
sick leave annually. Senate Set to Approve Bipartisan Water Infrastructure Legislation
Later today, the Senate is expected to approve bipartisan legislation – the Drinking Water and
Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 – that would invest more than $35 billion in water
infrastructure projects across the country with a “focus on upgrading aging infrastructure,
addressing the threat of climate change, investing in new technologies, and providing assistance
to marginalized communities.” The measure (S 914) would reauthorize both the Drinking Water
State Revolving Fund (SRF) and the Clean Water SRF. These programs provide financial aid to
local drinking water systems and to state clean water programs, as well as loan financing and
assistance for communities for a range of water infrastructure projects. Pursuant to S 914, both
programs would be reauthorized at $2.4 billion in fiscal year 2022, gradually increasing that
amount to $3.25 billion in fiscal years 2025 and 2026 for a total of $14.7 billion. The bill also
would increase the minimum percentage of Drinking Water SRF dollars that must go to
disadvantaged communities. Finally, the legislation would reauthorize the Water Infrastructure
Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) through 2026 at the current funding level of $50 million per
year. House Ways and Means Committee Introduces Legislation Supporting Families This
week, House Ways and Means Committee Democrats unveiled a draft measure – Building an
Economy for Families Act – that would make permanent a number of provisions in ARPA,
including permanently extending the increases to the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax
Credit, and the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit. In addition, the draft measure contains a
national paid family and medical leave initiative similar to the plan included in the American
Families Act. The legislation also includes additional investments in child care, including $200
million annually to increase child care slots in shortage areas, as well as funding increases for
child care subsidies and infrastructure.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
ACCEPT the report and provide direction to staff and the County's federal lobbyists, as needed.
Attachments
Attachment A: Earmark Results To Date
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Summary of Contra Costa County Congressional Earmarks
Rep. DeSaulnier (D-11) Submissions for Appropriations Committee's CPF
Request Results
1 Contra Costa Crisis Services Hub $1,000,000 Submitted by D-11
2 Mobile Crisis Response Team Expansion $1,061,552 Submitted by D-11
3 Collaborative Care Implementation $900,000 Submitted by D-11
4 Market Avenue Complete Street $2,200,000 Not submitted
5 Morgan Territory Rd. Bridge Replacement MP 5.0 $1,500,000 Not submitted
6 Marsh Creek Rd. Bridge Replacements #143 & #145 $1,000,000 Not submitted
7 Byron Airport Utility Program $1,800,000 Not submitted
8 Buchanan Field Terminal Building $2,000,000 Not submitted
9 Buchanan Field Air Traffic Control Tower $12,700,000 Not submitted
10 Just Transition Economic Revitalization Plan $750,000 Submitted by D-11
11 Veterans Memorial Building Improvements $700,000 Submitted by D-11
Harmful Algal Blooms: PROGRAM REQUEST Submitted by D-11
Rep. DeSaulnier (D-11) Submissions for T&I Committee, bill reauthorization
1 Market Avenue Complete Street $2,170,000 Submitted by D-11
2 CCC Mobility for All $2,000,000 Submitted by D-11
3 Appian Way Pedestrian Crossing Enhancements $2,000,000 Submitted by D-11
4 Morgan Territory Rd. Bridge Replacement MP 5.0 $1,500,000 Not submitted
5 Morgan Territory Rd. Bridge Replacement MP 5.2 $1,500,000 Not submitted
6 Marsh Creek Rd. Bridge Replacements #143 & #145 $1,000,000 Not submitted
7 Vasco Road Safety Improvements Phase II $4,000,000 Not submitted
Rep. Thompson (D-5) Submissions for Appropriations Committee's CPF
1 Contra Costa Crisis Services Hub $2,810,742 Not submitted
2 Mobile Crisis Response Team Expansion $1,061,552 Not submitted
3 Collaborative Care Implementation $900,000 Submitted by D-5
4 Veterans Memorial Building Improvements $100,000 Not submitted
5 Contra Costa Mobility for All $1,000,000 Not submitted
6 Carquinez Middle School Trail $2,500,000 Not submitted
Rep. Thompson (D-5) Submissions for T&I Committee, bill reauthorization
1 Carquinez Middle School Trail $2,500,000 Submitted by D-5
2 San Pablo Avenue Complete Streets $7,800,000 Submitted by D-5
3 Contra Costa Mobility for All $1,000,000 Submitted by D-5
Rep. McNerney (D-9) Submissions for Appropriations Committee's CPF
1 Contra Costa Crisis Services Hub $2,810,742 Not submitted
2 Mobile Crisis Response Team Expansion $1,061,552 Not submitted
3 Collaborative Care Implementation $900,000 Not submitted
4 Veterans Memorial Building Improvements $300,000 Submitted by D-9
Rep. McNerney (D-9) Submissions for T&I Committee, bill reauthorization
1 Vasco Road Phase II $3,905,000 Submitted by D-9
Rep. Swalwell (D-15) Submissions for Appropriations Committee's CPF
1 Contra Costa Crisis Services Hub $2,810,742 Not submitted
2 Mobile Crisis Response Team Expansion $1,061,552 Not submitted
3 Collaborative Care Implementation $900,000 Not submitted
Rep. Swalwell (D-15) T&I Committee Reauthorization Submissions
1 Norris Canyon Road Safety Improvements $3,000,000 Submitted by D-15
Attachment A
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