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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBOARD STANDING COMMITTEES - 09122022 - Legislation Cte Agenda PktLEGISLATION COMMITTEE September 12, 2022 1:00 P.M. To slow the spread of COVID-19, in lieu of a public gathering, the meeting will be accessible via Zoom to all members of the public as permitted by Government Code section 54953(e). Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://cccounty-us.zoom.us/j/3501763799 Or Telephone: 1-888-278-0254 (US Toll Free) Conference code: 219464 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 July 11, 2022 meeting of the Legislation Committee, with any necessary corrections. 4.ACCEPT the report on matters related to the FY 2022-23 State Budget and Legislation of Interest to the County, and provide direction to staff and the County's lobbyists, as needed. 5.ACCEPT the report on federal legislation of interest and provide direction to staff and the County's federal lobbyist, as needed. 6.CONSIDER providing direction or input to staff on the development of the County's 2023-24 State and Federal Legislative Platforms. 7.The next meeting is currently scheduled for October 10, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. 8.Adjourn The Legislation Committee will provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities planning to attend Legislation Committee meetings. Contact the staff person listed below at least 72 hours before the meeting. Any disclosable public records related to an open session item on a regular meeting agenda and distributed by the County to a majority of members of the Legislation Committee less than 96 hours prior to that meeting are available for public inspection at 1025 Escobar St., 4th Floor, Martinez, during normal business hours. Public comment may be submitted via electronic mail on agenda items at least one full work day prior to the published meeting time. For Additional Information Contact: Lara DeLaney, Committee Staff Phone (925) 655-2057, Fax (925) 655-2066 lara.delaney@cao.cccounty.us Page 1 of 39 LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 3. Meeting Date:09/12/2022   Subject:Record of Action for Legislation Committee Meeting Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,  Department:County Administrator Referral No.: 2022-01   Referral Name: 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 discussions made in the meetings. Referral Update: Attached for the Committee's consideration is the draft Record of Action for its July 11, 2022 meeting. Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s): Staff recommends approval of the Record of Action for the July 11, 2022 meeting. Attachments DRAFT Record of Action Page 2 of 39 D R A F T LEGISLATION COMMITTEE RECORD OF ACTION FOR July 11, 2022   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; Teresa Gerringer, Chief of Staff, District III; Monica Nino, County Administrator; Michele DiMaggio, Health Services staff; Jocelyn Stortz, Director of Environmental Health, Health Services; John Kopchik, Director, Department of Conservation and Development; Kristian Lucas, Health Services staff; Collen Awad, Field Representative, District IV; Tamina Alon, Policy & Planning Director, EHSD; Gayle Israel, Chief of Staff, District II  Attendees:James Gross, Michelle Rubalcava, Rachael Blucher; Tim Leong; Paul Schlesinger, Greg Burns, Jim Davenport; Mark MacDonald                   1.Introductions    Chair Burgis convened the meeting at 1:01 p.m., introducing 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.Staff recommends approval of the Record of Action for the April 11, 2022 meeting.      The Record of Action for the April 11, 2022 meeting was approved as presented.    AYE: Chair Diane Burgis   Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff  4.ACCEPT the report on the State Budget and bills of interest and provide direction and/or input to staff and the County's state lobbyists, as needed.       Staff and the County's state advocates provided a recap of the written report. Vice Chair Mitchoff inquired Page 3 of 39  Staff and the County's state advocates provided a recap of the written report. Vice Chair Mitchoff inquired about AB 1608 (Gipson) and when the bill would potentially take effect. She recommended that the County continue to watch the bill and indicated her preference for an elected Coroner. A caller spoke to AB 1608 and indicated the Coroner needed to have a medical background. The caller also expressed their position on bills AB 2677, AB 2627, and AB 2647.    AYE: Chair Diane Burgis   Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff  5.CONSIDER making a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors to not allow for Microenterprise Home Kitchens to operate in Contra Costa County or DIRECT staff to return with additional information related to implementation in counties that have opted in at a specific date.       The Director of Environmental Health, Jocelyn Stortz, provided a recap of the written staff report and reiterated the main concern about food borne illnesses. She indicated that some cities have local ordinances related to Home Kitchen Operations but most do not. However, for the Bay Area counties, there have been few complaints about these operations so far. Nevertheless, the concerns of staff have not changed, and it is her recommendation that Micro Enterprise Home Kitchen Operations not be established in Contra Costa County. Chair Burgis noted her concerns are with protecting consumers and enforcing safety mechanisms that restaurants are required to utilize. Vice Chair Mitchoff agreed that it was certainly not a good time to explore permitting this, especially when a virulent strain of COVID-19 was still permeating the county. A public caller noted it was irresponsible for the Governor to have signed the original bill, and she was glad the County was not going to opt-in. Vice Chair Mitchoff requested the referral of this item be closed out.    AYE: Chair Diane Burgis   Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff  6.CONSIDER recommending a position on AB 2627 (Bauer-Kahan) to the Board of Supervisors.      Staff provided a brief recap of the bill, AB 2627. Chair Burgis expressed appreciation for the spirit of the bill and its exploration; she also emphasized the need to ensure protection of personal information. A representative of the Community College District, Tim Leong, explained the history of the bill and the need it was trying to address. Mark MacDonald of MGI Advocacy addressed issues of privacy concerns, noting they have worked with the ACLU, veterans groups, and foster youth groups in the crafting the the bill. He noted the District has existing data sharing agreements for K-12 students and adequately secures that data; he also indicated the bill isn't a mandate but allows for the data sharing agreement to be developed. A public caller noted they were against the bill and were concerned about hackers. Vice Chair Mitchoff recognized a need for greater information sharing but indicated she could not support the bill, noting a recent data breach in the Department. She commended the College District for providing affordable educational opportunities for everyone, including those who could potentially transfer to a UC school, which Chair Burgis echoed. Chair Burgis suggested the creation of a "think tank" to develop ideas on how to reach the population of potential college district students and volunteered to assist. The Committee advised staff to continue to watch the bill.    AYE: Chair Diane Burgis   Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff  7.ACCEPT the report on federal legislation and provide direction and/or input, as needed.      Paul Schlesinger, the County's federal advocate, provided a recap of the status of the County's federal community benefit projects, noting that the funding bills with our earmark projects have passed two House committees, and there was talk of a a "minibus" to consolidate 4 or 5 of the appropriations bills which may move forward after the August recess. A continuing resolution was also a potential at this point. Paul also briefed the Committee on the Harmful Algal Blooms demonstration program, noting the Delta Counties Coalition members were eligible for program funding up to $5 million though a project needed to be identified. Paul's colleagues, Jim Page 4 of 39 funding up to $5 million though a project needed to be identified. Paul's colleagues, Jim Davenport and Greg Burns, provided additional information about federal activity, including additional negotiations on the Build Back Better bill and a gun violence package. Chair Burgis requested additional information on the Harmful Algal Bloom funding and how Contra Costa could access it. She expressed disappointment with the County's lack of progress in utilizing the funding. Paul reported that implementation guidance from the Army Corps of Engineers had been issued, and funding opportunities should emerge soon. Chair Burgis requested additional information to be ready for the funding release. A public caller commented on the drug pricing proposal being contemplated in the negotiations with Senator Manchin, indicating concerns with drug rationing and turning the country toward communism.    AYE: Chair Diane Burgis   Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff  8.The next meeting is currently scheduled for August 8, 2022 at 1:00 p.m.    The scheduled meeting of August 8 was subsequently cancelled.   9.Adjourn      For Additional Information Contact:  Lara DeLaney, Committee Staff Phone (925) 335-1097, Fax (925) 646-1353 lara.delaney@cao.cccounty.us Page 5 of 39 LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 4. Meeting Date:09/12/2022   Subject:FY 2022-23 State Budget and State Bills of Interest Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,  Department:County Administrator Referral No.: 2022-02   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 regularly receives reports on the State Budget and legislation of interest to the County. Referral Update: 2021-22 Session Comes to a Close The Legislature has wrapped up its work for the year and for the 2021-22 session. The session will formally end sine die (not scheduled to meet again until the day set by the Constitution for its next session to convene) on November 30. Governor Newsom has until September 30 to sign or veto the bills that have reached his desk. The newly constituted houses – after November elections that will bring major changes to the composition of the Legislature – will meet on December 5 for organizational purposes and to kick off the 2023-24 legislative session. Members will begin legislative activities in earnest in January 2023.  Final Update on Hot Bills To the Governor The following bills passed both houses of the Legislature and have moved to the Governor’s desk for his consideration. SB 1338 (Umberg and Eggman) – Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program SB 1338 would create an opportunity in a civil court setting for developing an individualized care plan for persons with qualifying mental health conditions. Read the Governor’s statement following the Legislature’s final passage of the measure  here. AB 32 (Aguiar-Curry) – Telehealth This bill would make various changes to Medi-Cal telehealth policy, including permitting DHCS to allow new patients to be established with providers using audio-only synchronous and other modalities, and permits exceptions from requirements to ensure beneficiary choice of modalities. AB 240 (Rodriguez) – Local Health Department Workforce Assessment AB 240 would require the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) 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. AB 759 (McCarty) – Elections of county officers AB 759 would require elections for county sheriffs and district attorneys to be held during the presidential primary and specifically affirms that DAs and sheriffs elected in 2022 will serve six-year terms, with the next elections for those offices taking place at the 2028 presidential primary. Other provisions in AB 759 would permit a board of supervisors to determine by ordinance to hold elections for the selection of any other county officer at the presidential primary, as well. Page 6 of 39 AB 988 (Bauer-Kahan) Mental health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline  This measure, co-sponsored by Contra Costa County, implements a statewide 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline as required by federal law. As recently amended, the bill requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a state 988 advisory group consisting of various participants, including county representatives, to advise the Agency on a set of recommendations to support a five-year implementation plan for a comprehensive 988 system. Recent amendments also require health plans and insurers to cover medically necessary treatment, as specified, provided by call centers and mobile crisis teams. To support ongoing costs, the measure establishes a new surcharge initially set at $0.08 per access line per month, and beginning January 1, 2025, at an amount specified by formula to be capped at $0.30 per access line per month. AB 1663 (Maienschein) – Protective proceedings AB 1663 would revise various procedures in the probate conservatorship process. The bill would require the petition for conservatorship to include alternatives to conservatorship considered by the petitioner or proposed conservator and reasons why those alternatives are not suitable. The bill would also establish a supported decision-making process and a process for entering into a supported decision-making agreement for adults with disabilities, as defined. AB 1686 (Bryan) – Child Welfare Agencies: Enforcement AB 1686 establishes a presumption that, when a child is in foster care, requiring the parent or guardian to pay child support for the child is likely to impose a barrier to the family’s efforts to reunify. AB 1744 (Levine) – Probation and mandatory supervision: flash incarceration This bill would extend authorization for the use of flash incarceration for individuals on probation or mandatory supervision until January 1, 2028. AB 1744 would allow for the continued ability to use flash incarceration as a graduated response for individuals on felony probation and mandatory supervision that was previously authorized via AB 597 (Levine), Chapter 44, Statutes of 2019, and SB 266 (Block), Chapter 706, Statutes of 2016. Further, AB 1744 would maintain current requirements in statute to allow an individual to decline flash incarceration and request a court revocation hearing as well as includes notification for example to the court and public defender upon imposition of flash incarceration. Graduated responses such as flash, allow for violations of court-ordered conditions to be addressed in a way that balances safety considerations while maintaining continuity and engagement in rehabilitative services and supports. CSAC supports AB 1744. AB 1951 (Grayson) – Sales and use tax: exemptions: manufacturing AB 1951 would expand – for a five-year period – the existing partial sales and use tax exemption for manufacturing and research and development to a full exemption, incorporating the local components of the sales and use tax. AB 2306 (Berman) – Foster Care: Independent Living Program AB 2306 would expand and modernize the Independent Living Program (ILP) to include current and former foster youth up to 22 years of age, and, subject to an appropriation and federal approval, up to age 23, and expands the services for which counties can provide stipends to assist youth with specified independent living needs to include former foster youth up to 25 years of age, as specified. AB 2449 (Rubio) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences This bill, until January 1, 2026, would authorize members of a legislative body of a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with the teleconferencing requirements that each teleconference location be identified in the notice and agenda and that each teleconference location be accessible to the public if at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the local agency’s jurisdiction. Under this exception, the bill would authorize a member to participate remotely under specified circumstances, including participating remotely for just cause or due to emergency circumstances. The emergency circumstances basis for remote participation would be contingent on a request to, and action by, the legislative body. This bill would also impose prescribed requirements for this exception relating to notice, agendas, the means and manner of access, and procedures for disruptions, among other changes. CSAC remains neutral on this measure.  SB 846 (Dodd and Cunningham) – Extension of Diablo Canyon Powerplant Operations. SB 846 would require the California Public Utilities Commission to set new retirement dates for the Diablo Canyon powerplant not to exceed five years for each unit. Further, the bill establishes the intent of the Legislature to make available to the Department of Water Resources no more than $1.4 billion for the purpose of loaning funds to facilitate the extension of the operating period of the Diablo Canyon power plant. SB 929 (Eggman) – Community Mental Health Services: Data Collection SB 929 would expand DHCS’ existing responsibility to collect and publish information about involuntary detentions under the Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act to include additional information, such as clinical outcomes, services provided, and Page 7 of 39 availability of treatment beds, and requires DHCS to convene a stakeholder group with specified membership to make recommendations on the methods to be used for efficiently providing the department with this information. SB 964 (Wiener) – Behavioral Health SB 964 would require the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) to commission consultants to prepare a report for the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2024, that provides a landscape analysis of the current behavioral health workforce and the state’s behavioral health workforce needs, and to make recommendations on how to address the state’s behavioral health workforce shortage. SB 966 (Limón) – Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics: Visits SB 966 would authorize federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs) to include face-to-face service provided by an associate clinical social worker (ACSW) or associate marriage and family therapist (AMFT) in the definition of a “visit,” and prohibits the DHCS from requiring an FQHC or RHC to process the addition of services by an ACSW or AMFT as a change in scope of service. SB 970 (Eggman) – Mental Health Services Act SB 970 would establish, in the California Health and Human Services Agency, the California Mental Health Services Act Outcomes and Accountability Review (MHSAOAR), with a dedicated workgroup tasked with assisting county mental health programs improve MHSA-funded activities. SB 1054 (Ochoa Bogh) – Public Social Services: Records: Confidentiality: Multidisciplinary Personnel Teams SB 1054 would specify that confidentiality provisions relating to applications and records concerning any form of public social services includes protective services provided through public social services agencies. This bill also authorizes employees of a county’s adult protective services agency (APS) or a county’s child welfare agency to disclose information with each other for the purpose of multidisciplinary teamwork in the prevention, intervention, management, or treatment of child abuse or neglect or the abuse or neglect of an elder or dependent adult, and makes technical and conforming changes. SB 1090 (Hurtado) – Family Urgent Response System SB 1090 would expand the definition of "current or former foster youth" for purposes of accessing the Family Urgent Response System (FURS) to include youth who have exited foster care for any reason, including, but not limited to, emancipation, a child or youth who is the subject of a voluntary placement agreement, a child or youth who is placed in foster care and is the subject of a petition filed pursuant to reports of abuse and neglect, and a child or youth placed in California pursuant to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. SB 1131 (Newman) – Address confidentiality: public entity employees and contractors SB 1131 would establish an address confidentiality program for public entity employees and contractors, and includes additional protections for election workers and reproductive health care providers. SB 1131 contains an urgency clause. SB 1186 (Wiener) – Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act SB 1186 would enact the Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act, which would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting or enforcing any regulation that prohibits the retail sale by delivery within the local jurisdiction of medicinal cannabis, as specified. SB 1143 (Roth) – Acute Psychiatric Hospital Loan Fund SB 1143 would establish the California Acute Care Psychiatric Hospital Loan Fund to provide zero-interest loans to qualifying county applicants for the purpose of constructing or renovating acute care psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric health facilities, or renovating or expanding general acute care hospitals in order to add or expand an inpatient psychiatric unit. SB 1449 (Caballero) – Office of Planning and Research: grant program: annexation of unincorporated areas SB 1449 would require the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to establish, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Unincorporated Area Annexation Incentive Program to fund projects related to the proposed or completed annexation of an unincorporated area into the city. SB 1186 (Wiener) Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act This bill was written with the intent of improving access to medical cannabis, however, CSAC has serious concerns about the preservation of local control. The language would require all jurisdictions to allow for delivery sales of medicinal cannabis and prohibit regulations that would impose “unreasonable restrictions” on the sale of medicinal cannabis. Recent amendments provide exemptions for jurisdictions that allow cannabis retails as of January 1, 2022. CSAC opposes this measure. Page 8 of 39 Bills authored by Senator Skinner that are on the Governor's desk include: SB 301 Online Marketplaces: Retail Theft: As more and more goods are bought online, organized retail theft also uses the internet to sell stolen goods. SB 301 helps protect against stolen goods being sold on web marketplaces. SB 641 CalFresh for College Students Act: Federal law creates a lot of red tape for low-income college students to obtain food through CalFresh. SB 641 removes many application barriers so college students don't go hungry. SB 905 Carbon Removal (Joint Author): SB 905 jumpstarts the use of carbon capture while safeguarding our environment and public health. SB 960 Expanding Eligibility for Peace Officers: SB 960 removes the rule that prevents CA law enforcement from hiring noncitizens who have full legal work authorization and meet all other requirements to serve as peace officers. SB 1063 Flexibility for Energy Innovation: Heat waves and drought stress CA's electricity and water supplies. But new technology and appliance standards can reduce water and electricity demand. SB 1063 allows new efficiency rules to take effect more quickly. SB 1075 Green Hydrogen : Long-haul trucking, air travel and port operations are challenging to decarbonize. SB 1075 boosts CA's use of green hydrogen, a multi-faceted renewable energy source that can also safeguard good-paying jobs. The state budget also includes $100 million to speed up CA's transition to hydrogen. SB 1083 Helping Families Avoid Homelessness: SB 1083 will help low-income families avoid homelessness by providing more support and cutting red tape to homelessness prevention services. SB 1142 Expanding Access to Abortion Services (Joint Author): SB 1142 creates an internet website for reproductive and abortion services in CA. The state budget also includes $20M to expand access to abortion services for residents and those who seek abortion care here. SB 1200 Relieving Legal Debt: Families burdened with debt are vulnerable to court judgments that require a 10% interest rate, on top of interest already accrued. SB 1200 caps interest on legal judgments at 5% for consumer and medical debt under a specified amount and prevents these judgments from being renewed indefinitely. SB 1206 HFCs : Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the coolants commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners, are a powerful climate pollutant. Although HFCs are short-lived in the atmosphere, they are thousands of times more damaging than CO2. SB 1206 accelerates the move to less harmful HFCs and alternatives. Bills authored by Assemblymember Wicks for the Governor's consideration and signature include:  AB 2011 - The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act. This bill will pair new opportunities to build 100% affordable housing and mixed-income housing on underutilized commercial sites with requirements that developers meet a range of responsible wage and training standards. AB 2334 - Double Density Bonus for Affordable Housing. This bill will provide density bonuses to location-efficient, 100% affordable housing developments. It will increase the sites available for higher-density affordable housing developments to include areas with low vehicle travel — helping California address both our climate crisis and housing crisis. AB 2244 - Reduction of Parking Requirements for Religious Institutions. This bill will reduce parking requirements for newly built religious institutions to instead allow for construction of housing developments on that space. It was signed into law by Governor Newsom on July 19. AB 1041 - Leave for Chosen Families. This bill will allow Californians to take time off to care for a designated “chosen” family member, taking into account the diversity of families in our state, especially those in the LGBTQ+ Page 9 of 39 community. AB 1965 - California Anti-Hunger Response and Employment Training (CARET) Act. This bill ensures that Californians who rely on  CalFresh won’t be punished by harmful federal time limits when unemployed. It will support people who lose CalFresh eligibility by providing benefits to ensure access to food and by allowing them to continue to access CalFresh Employment & Training programs. No one looking for a job should be forced to go hungry. AB 2223 - Decriminalization of Abortion and Pregnancy Loss. This bill will ensure that no one will ever again be prosecuted or imprisoned for ending a pregnancy or suffering a miscarriage or stillbirth in California. AB 2199 - The Birthing Justice for California Families Pilot Project . This bill will advance birth equity by funding doulas who work with communities that suffer from high rates of negative birth outcomes, including people in jails and those who are not eligible for Medi-Cal. It will establish a three-year pilot program to provide grants to fund organizations who provide doula care to these communities. Bills that Died AB 1608 (Gipson) – Deconsolidation of Coroner-Sheriff Functions AB 1608 would have repealed boards of supervisors’ authority to consolidate, by ordinance, the duties of county sheriff and coroner offices. The measure also specified that if those offices were consolidated prior to January 1, 2023, they would have to be separated effective upon the conclusion of the term for the person elected or appointed to the consolidated offices on or before January 1, 2023. Under the provisions of AB 1608, 48 counties would be required to separate the sheriff and coroner functions by January 2027. The bill was taken up in the Senate on August 30 and failed to secure sufficient votes for passage (13 ayes, 14 noes, and 13 abstentions); the bill was moved to the inactive file on August 31. AB 1881 (Santiago) – Animal welfare: Dog and Cat Bill of Rights AB 1881 would have required each public animal control agency, shelter, or rescue group to provide a notice related to essential needs and care for dogs and cats and establishes penalties for non-compliance. AB 2402 (Rubio) – Medi-Cal: Continuous Eligibility AB 2402 would have established continuous Medi-Cal eligibility for children ages 0-5. This was included in the 2022-23 state budget. AB 2402 was moved to the Senate Inactive File on August 30 and never came up for a vote. AB 2493 (Chen): County employees’ retirement: disallowed compensation: benefit adjustments and calculations AB 2493 would have made changes to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (’37 Act or CERL) regarding pension calculation adjustments arising from erroneous inclusion of disallowed compensation, including requiring participating county employers to do the following: (1) reimburse their respective retirement system for pension overpayments made to peace officer and firefighter retirees arising from erroneous employer reporting of disallowed compensation and (2) pay affected retirees a lump sum amount equal to 20 percent of the present value of a retiree’s “lost” pension going forward due to the system’s recalculation of the retiree’s benefit to exclude the disallowed compensation. SB 17 (Pan) – Racial Equity Commission SB 17 would have established the Racial Equity Commission as division within the Office of Planning and Research. The bill was moved to the Assembly Inactive File on August 31. SB 262 (Hertzberg) – Bail Reform SB 262, which had been placed on the Assembly inactive file last September, was revived in the last weeks of the session and substantively amended. In its revised form, the bill would have required a court to order the return of money or property paid to a bail bond company when the action or proceeding against an arrestee is dismissed or when no charges are filed within 60 days of arrest. Additionally, the measure would have prohibited the imposition of costs relating to conditions of release on a person released on bail or their own recognizance. The bill did not gain passage off the Assembly floor in the closing hours of session. SB 866 (Wiener) – Minors: Vaccine Consent SB 866 would have allowed a minor 15 years of age or older to consent to receive a federally approved vaccine without parental consent. Senator Wiener acknowledged in a press statement he did not have the votes. SB 1014 (Hertzberg) – Enhanced Clinically Integrated Program for Federally Qualified Health Centers SB 1014 would have required DHCS to authorize a new and voluntary supplemental payment program known as the Enhanced Clinically Integrated Program (ECIP) for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), or, pursuant to DHCS' discretion, another type of payment program that DHCS determines will best meet the clinical and financial goals of ECIP and is permissible under federal law. SB 1014 was moved to the Assembly Inactive File on August 30 and never came up for a vote. Page 10 of 39 SB 1178 (Bradford) – Elimination of Proposition 47 Records Relief Sunset SB 1178 would have permitted otherwise eligible individuals to petition a court to seek resentencing and records reclassification for old felonies beyond the current sunset date of November 4, 2022. It failed to secure the requisite 2/3 vote in the Assembly on the last night of session. Chaptered AB 2374 (Bauer-Kahan) – Crimes Against Public Health and Safety: Dumping Governor Newsom signed AB 2374 into law this week. This bill was sponsored by Contra Costa County. The measure increases the maximum fine for the dumping of commercial quantities of waste by a business that employs more than 10 employees from $3,000 to $5,000 for the first conviction, from $6,000 to $10,000 for the second conviction, and from $10,000 to $20,000 for the third and any subsequent convictions. The law requires a court, when imposing a fine, to consider the defendant's ability to pay. SB 872 (Dodd) – Pharmacies: Mobile Units Governor Newsom signed SB 872 (Chapter 220, Statutes of 2022) into law on August 29. The measure authorizes a county or a city and county to operate a licensed mobile unit to provide prescription medication to individuals within the county’s jurisdiction and specifies certain criteria that a mobile unit must meet. SB 1100 (Cortese) Open meetings: orderly conduct This bill, which was co-sponsored by CSAC, authorizes the presiding member of a legislative body conducting a meeting, or their designee, to remove an individual for actually disrupting the meeting, and defines “disrupting” for these purposes. This important change to the Brown Act will help local agencies ensure that public meetings are safe and accessible to all members of the public. This bill was signed by the Governor on August 22. AB 2645 (Rodriguez) – Local Emergency Plans: Integration of Access is now law. The bill directs that counties integrate emergency evacuation and transportation plans to account for local community resilience centers. Those centers are defined as: “a hydration station, cooling center, clean air center, respite center, community evacuation and emergency response center, or similar facility established to mitigate the public health impacts of extreme heat and other emergency situations exacerbated by climate change, such as wildfire, power outages, or flooding, on local populations.” Budget Bill, Jr. / Health Omnibus Trailer Bill AB 179 (Ting) – Amendments to Budget Act of 2022 (Budget Bill Jr.) / AB 204 (Committee on Budget) Health omnibus trailer bill Monkeypox (MPX) Funding: AB 179 includes a total of $41.5 million ($25.7 million for state operations and $15.8 million for local assistance) to the Department of Public Health (DPH) for purposes related to the MPX state of emergency proclaimed on August 1. Legislative intent language specifies that the Director of DPH consult with local health jurisdictions on how to most effectively distribute MPX vaccines, tests, outreach and education, and treatments, to communities most at risk, including marginalized and disadvantaged communities. The bill authorizes funding to be transferred up to specified amounts between state operations and local assistance needs at DPH’s request, subject to Department of Finance approval and Joint Legislative Budget Committee notification. CARE Court: AB 179 appropriates $57 million General Fund to DHCS for allocation to counties to support initial planning and implementation costs for the CARE Act, as detailed in the summary of SB 1338 above.[JO1]  AB 179 reduces the $64.7 million in one-time funding initially provided in the Budget to state departments and the Judicial Council by a net $33.7 million to account for a phased implementation approach, with $31 million remaining for CARE Act implementation costs incurred by state departments and the courts, contingent on enactment of statutory changes codifying the program. Healthcare Workforce - Clinic Workforce Stabilization Retention Payments: AB 179 includes $70 million to implement a clinic workforce stabilization retention payment program to provide funds to eligible qualified clinics, including but not limited to federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs), to provide retention payments to clinic employees. AB 204, the Health omnibus trailer bill, specifies retention payments of up to $1,000 per eligible clinic employee to support the public purposes of providing stability in the California qualified clinic workforce and retaining qualified health care Page 11 of 39 workers. The retention payment program would only be implemented to the extent DHCS determines that federal financial participation under the Medi-Cal program is not jeopardized. AB 207 (Committee on Budget) – Human services omnibus This human services trailer bill contains several provisions significant to counties. First, this bill outlines the requirements of the $150 million for family finding, engagement, and support that was included in the 2022-23 budget to assist counties in identifying permanent connections for foster children and youth. The funding will be distributed through an allocation schedule and counties that elect to receive the funding will be required to provide a local match for 50% of the funding. Further, it specifies the type of services and supports that counties can provide with this funding. For the child support pass through, AB 207 includes statutory changes to implement a full pass through for formerly assisted families, a proposal that was included in the Governor’s January budget. It also outlines legislative intent to implement and provide a General Fund augmentation for a full pass through for currently assisted families starting January 1, 2025. Finally, this trailer bill contains a positive change related to the methodology for the state to fund the CalWORKs single allocation and CalFresh county administration. For each program, the state will be required to revisit the funding methodology every three years to account for the increased county costs to operate the programs. The County's Master List of Bills of Interest is Attachment A. Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s): ACCEPT the report on the State Budget and bills of interest and provide direction and/or input to staff and the County's state lobbyists, as needed. Attachments Attachment A: Master List of Bills of Interest Page 12 of 39 1 Master File of Bills of Interest To Contra Costa County 09.08.22 AB 32 AUTHOR: Aguiar-Curry [D] TITLE: Telehealth FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 12/07/2020 LAST AMEND: 08/24/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: Enrolled SUMMARY: Authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to authorize a federally qualified health center or rural health clinic to establish a new patient relationship using an audio-only synchronous interaction when the visit is related to sensitive services, as defined, and authorize an FQHC or RHC to establish a new patient relationship using an audio-only synchronous interaction when the patient requests an audio-only modality or attests they do not have access to video. STATUS: 09/03/2022 Enrolled. Commentary001: Sent LOS in 2021 ATTACHMENTS: AB 32 (Aguiar-Curry) CCC Support to Assembly Health - As Amended 2-12-21 AB 205 AUTHOR: Budget Cmt TITLE: Energy FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/08/2021 ENACTED: 06/30/2022 DISPOSITION: Enacted LOCATION: Chaptered CHAPTER: 2022-061 SUMMARY: Establishes, upon appropriation, the 2022 California Arrearage Payment Program (2022 CAPP) within the Department of Community Services and Development. Requires the department to release program notices and post program notices related to 2022 CAPP administration on its public-facing internet website. Requires the department to make available an online application for utility applicants to request 2022 CAPP funding for residential customers. STATUS: 06/30/2022 Signed by GOVERNOR. 06/30/2022 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2022-061 John Kopchik: Requested and sent Floor Alert to oppose; consistent with Platform. ATTACHMENTS: AB 205 and SB 122--FLOOR ALERT Attachment A Page 13 of 39 2 AB 503 AUTHOR: Stone [D] TITLE: Wards: Probation FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/09/2021 LAST AMEND: 08/04/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: Enrolled SUMMARY: Limits the period of time a ward may remain on probation, except that a court may extend the probation period for a period not to exceed increments of a certain time after a noticed hearing and upon proof by a preponderance of the evidence that it is in the ward's best interest. Requires the probation agency to submit a report to the court detailing the basis for any request to extend probation at the noticed hearing. STATUS: 09/03/2022 Enrolled. AB 703 AUTHOR: Rubio [D] TITLE: Open Meetings: Local Agencies: Teleconferences FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/12/2021 LAST AMEND: 04/29/2021 DISPOSITION: Failed LOCATION: ASSEMBLY SUMMARY: Removes the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act particular to teleconferencing and allows for teleconferencing subject to existing provisions regarding the posting of notice of an agenda and the ability of the public to observe the meeting and provide public comment. STATUS: 02/03/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. BOS: Watch AB 988 AUTHOR: Bauer-Kahan [D] TITLE: Mental Health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Hotline FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: yes INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021 LAST AMEND: 08/18/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to create, no later than specified date, a set of recommendations to support a 5 year implementation plan for a comprehensive 988 system. Requires that agency to convene a state 988 advisory group, as described, for purposes of advising the agency on the set of recommendations. Requires the agency to report annually, on or before specified date, beginning on specified date, and until certain date, to the Legislature on the status of 988 implementation. Attachment A Page 14 of 39 3 STATUS: 08/31/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. ATTACHMENTS: Sponsor letter AB 1034 AUTHOR: Bloom [D] TITLE: Cannabis: Noncannabis Food and Beverage Products FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/18/2021 LAST AMEND: 03/04/2021 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee SUMMARY: Relates to the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. Authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. Authorizes a local jurisdiction to allow for the preparation or sale of noncannabis food or beverage products, as specified, by a licensed retailer or microbusiness in the area where the consumption of cannabis is allowed subject to specified restrictions. STATUS: 07/14/2021 In SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Not heard. AB 1400 AUTHOR: Kalra [D] TITLE: Guaranteed Health Care for All FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021 LAST AMEND: 01/24/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed LOCATION: ASSEMBLY SUMMARY: Relates to Guaranteed Health Care for All Act. Creates the Guaranteed Health Care for All program, or CalCare, to provide comprehensive universal single payer health care coverage and a health care cost control system for the benefit of all residents of the state. Requires the board, on or before a specified date, to conduct and deliver a fiscal analysis to determine whether or not CalCare may be implemented and whether revenue is more likely than not to pay for program costs, as specified. STATUS: 02/03/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. AB 1502 AUTHOR: Muratsuchi [D] TITLE: Freestanding Skilled Nursing Facilities FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes Attachment A Page 15 of 39 4 URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021 LAST AMEND: 06/27/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Prohibits a person or an applicant for licensure from acquiring, operating, establishing, managing, conducting, or maintaining a freestanding skilled nursing facility without first obtaining a license from the department for that purpose. Applies the licensure requirement to a change of ownership or a change in management of such a facility. Specifies the requirements to apply for a license beginning on specified date. STATUS: 08/31/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. ACOA: Sent LOS ATTACHMENTS: ACOA Letter of Support for AB 1502 AB 1599 AUTHOR: Kiley [R] TITLE: Proposition 47: Repeal FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/03/2022 LAST AMEND: 03/01/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Public Safety Committee SUMMARY: Repeals the changes and additions made by Proposition 47, except those related to reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis. Reduces the value threshold for a violation of those provisions to be punishable as a felony from specified amount to specified amount. Reduces the value threshold for committing grand theft under those provisions from specified amount to specified amount. Provides for the submission of this measure to the voters for approval at the next statewide general election. STATUS: 04/26/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Failed passage. AB 1608 AUTHOR: Gipson [D] TITLE: County Officers: Consolidation of Offices FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/04/2022 LAST AMEND: 06/30/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned FILE: 34 LOCATION: Senate Third Reading File SUMMARY: Requires the board of supervisors of a county where the offices of sheriff and coroner were consolidated before specified date, to separate those offices, in which case the separation would become effective upon the conclusion of the Attachment A Page 16 of 39 5 term of the person elected or appointed, on or before specified date, to the consolidated offices of sheriff and coroner. STATUS: 08/30/2022 In SENATE. Read third time. Failed to pass SENATE. (13-14) 08/30/2022 In SENATE. Motion to reconsider. 08/30/2022 In SENATE. Reconsideration granted. AB 1657 AUTHOR: Nguyen J [R] TITLE: Oil Spills: Reporting: Waters of the State FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/14/2022 LAST AMEND: 04/28/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee SUMMARY: Defines ”threatened discharge of oil in waters of the state" to mean a discharge by an offshore facility, as defined, including an offshore pipeline, located where an oil spill may impact state waters. Requires an offshore facility to be presumed to be located where an oil spill may impact state waters if certain circumstances apply, including that any portion of an offshore pipeline that services the offshore facility transports oil to, from, or through state waters. STATUS: 06/28/2022 In SENATE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER: Reconsideration granted. AB 1663 AUTHOR: Maienschein [D] TITLE: Protective Proceedings FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/19/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/22/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: Enrolled SUMMARY: Relates to the Guardianship-Conservatorship Law. Provides that existing law authorizes the Director of Developmental Services to have specified conservatorship duties performed through a regional center, or an agency or individual designated by the regional center, as specified. Requires the directors to develop guidelines to mitigate conflicts that may arise when a regional center is acting as designee while at the same time providing service coordination activities to the same person. STATUS: 09/02/2022 Enrolled. Attachment A Page 17 of 39 6 AB 1737 AUTHOR: Holden [D] TITLE: Children's Camps: Safety FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/31/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/11/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned FILE: A-27 LOCATION: Assembly Inactive File SUMMARY: Requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the specified state entities and stakeholders, to provide a report to the Legislature, on or before a specified date, that includes information regarding topics related to the health and safety of children attending children' s camps and recommendations for developing and issuing requirements for the regulatory oversight of children' s camps. STATUS: 08/24/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. 08/24/2022 In ASSEMBLY. To Inactive File. AB 1750 AUTHOR: Davies [R] TITLE: Controlled Substances: Treatment FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/01/2022 LAST AMEND: 03/17/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee SUMMARY: Allows the court to order the defendant, and a juvenile court to order a minor, to complete a controlled substance education or treatment program, as specified, if available. Requires the county drug program administrator and representatives of the court and county probation department, with input from substance use treatment providers, to design and implement an approval and renewal process for controlled substance education and treatment programs. STATUS: 05/19/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee. AB 1774 AUTHOR: Seyarto [R] TITLE: California Environmental Quality Act: Water Conveyance FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/03/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Natural Resources Committee SUMMARY: Requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules of court applicable to actions or proceedings brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the certification or adoption of an environmental impact report for water conveyance or storage projects, or the granting of project approvals, including any appeals to the court of appeal or the Supreme Court, to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 270 days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court. Attachment A Page 18 of 39 7 STATUS: 02/10/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on NATURAL RESOURCES and JUDICIARY. AB 1778 AUTHOR: Garcia [D] TITLE: State Transportation Funding: Freeway Projects FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/03/2022 LAST AMEND: 06/20/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Transportation Committee SUMMARY: Requires the department to consult the Healthy Places Index as a condition of using state funds or personnel time to fund or permit freeway projects. Requires the department to analyze housing and environmental indicators through the index, as provided, and would prohibit any state funds or personnel time from being used to fund or permit freeway projects in areas that fall within the zero to specified percentile on the housing and environmental indicators analyzed through the index, as provided. STATUS: 06/28/2022 In SENATE Committee on TRANSPORTATION: Failed passage. AB 1897 AUTHOR: Boerner Horvath [D] TITLE: Solid Waste: Reporting, Packaging, and Plastic FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/09/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/25/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned FILE: 120 LOCATION: Assembly Unfinished Business - Concurrence in Senate Amendments SUMMARY: Relates to the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act. Prohibits a producer from selling, offering for sale, importing, or distributing covered materials in the state unless the producer is approved to participate in the producer responsibility plan of a producer responsibility organization (PRO), as prescribed, for the source reduction, collection, processing, and recycling of covered material, except as provided. STATUS: 08/30/2022 Re-referred to SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY and APPROPRIATIONS. 08/30/2022 From SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (7-0) 08/31/2022 In SENATE. Ordered to third reading. 08/31/2022 In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY for concurrence. (40-0) Commentary001: Co-sponsor with BAAQMD. Sending LOS. ATTACHMENTS: AB 1897 (Wicks) Nonvehicular Air Pollution Control. Refineries--SUPPORT to Sen Env Qual Attachment A Page 19 of 39 8 AB 1944 AUTHOR: Lee [D] TITLE: Local Government: Open and Public Meetings FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/10/2022 LAST AMEND: 05/25/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Governance and Finance Committee SUMMARY: Requires the agenda to identify any member of the legislative body that will participate in the meeting remotely. Requires an updated agenda reflecting all of the members participating in the meeting remotely to be posted, if a member of the legislative body elects to participate in the meeting remotely after the agenda is posted. STATUS: 06/22/2022 In SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE: Not heard. AB 1951 AUTHOR: Grayson [D] TITLE: Sales and Use Tax: Exemptions: Manufacturing FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/10/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/01/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Relates to exemption from certain on taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in the generation or production, as defined, or storage and distribution, as defined, of electric power. Provides that this bill would make this a full exemption for purchases not exceeding specified amount. STATUS: 09/07/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. BOS: Sent OPPOSE letter AB 1972 AUTHOR: Ward [D] TITLE: Grand Juries FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/10/2022 LAST AMEND: 05/19/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee SUMMARY: Requires that fee to be equal to 70 percent of the county median daily income for each day's attendance. Requires a separate list to be published in a newspaper. Provides the Judicial Council with the list and aggregate data of Attachment A Page 20 of 39 9 specified prospective and impaneled jurors containing the person's gender, age, race or ethnicity, and residential ZIP Code or supervisorial district of the respective counties, as well as the name of the judge who selected each person. STATUS: 08/11/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee. AB 2011 AUTHOR: Wicks [D] TITLE: Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022 FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/14/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/25/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Creates the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, which authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, and would make the development a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes. STATUS: 09/06/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. AB 2077 AUTHOR: Calderon [D] TITLE: Medi-Cal: Monthly Maintenance Amount FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/14/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/11/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Increases the monthly maintenance amount for a medically needy person in a medical institution or nursing facility for personal and incidental needs from $35 to $80, commencing on a specified date, or on the date that any necessary federal approvals are obtained, whichever is later. STATUS: 09/04/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. ACOA: Sending LOS AB 2094 AUTHOR: Rivas R [D] TITLE: General Plan: Annual Report: Extremely Low-Income FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/14/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/24/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor Attachment A Page 21 of 39 10 LOCATION: Enrolled SUMMARY: Requires a city or county's annual report to include the locality's progress in meeting the housing needs of extremely low income households, as specified. STATUS: 09/02/2022 Enrolled. AB 2179 AUTHOR: Grayson [D] TITLE: COVID 19 Relief: Tenancy FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: yes INTRODUCED: 02/15/2022 ENACTED: 03/31/2022 DISPOSITION: Enacted LOCATION: Chaptered CHAPTER: 2022-013 SUMMARY: Provides that any extension, expansion, renewal, reenactment, or new adoption of a measure by the specified local authorities. Extends the date for which the requirements and limitations described above relating to coronavirus rental debt repayment periods are determined to a specified date. Prohibits any provision by the specified local authorities permitting a tenant to repay coronavirus rental debt beyond a specified date. STATUS: 03/31/2022 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2022-013 AB 2186 AUTHOR: Grayson [D] TITLE: Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/15/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/01/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee SUMMARY: Establishes the Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program, to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, for the purpose of reimbursing cities, counties, and cities and counties for development impact fee reductions provided to qualified housing developments. Requires a public entity that receives grant funds under the program to use those funds solely for those purposes for which the development impact fee that was reduced or deferred would have been used. STATUS: 08/11/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee. AB 2295 AUTHOR: Bloom [D] TITLE: Local Educational Agencies: Housing Development Project FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/25/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor Attachment A Page 22 of 39 11 LOCATION: Enrolled SUMMARY: Deems a housing development project an allowable use on any real property owned by a local educational agency, as defined, if the housing development satisfies certain conditions, including other local objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards, as described. STATUS: 09/02/2022 Enrolled. BOS: BOS approved an OUA letter and then removed Opposition after amendment. AB 2325 AUTHOR: Rivas [D] TITLE: Coordinated Homelessness Response FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2022 LAST AMEND: 04/25/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee SUMMARY: Places the Interagency Council on Homelessness under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Interagency Council on Homelessness, which the bill would establish within the Governor's office, under the control of a director, on or before a specified date. Requires the Governor to appoint a director of the office to perform specified duties and responsibilities in connection with overseeing the work of the office. Includes coordinating homelessness programs, services, data, and policies. STATUS: 05/19/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. 05/19/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee. AB 2357 AUTHOR: Ting [D] TITLE: Surplus Land FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2022 LAST AMEND: 04/05/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Governance and Finance Committee SUMMARY: Relates to exempt surplus land and certain legal restrictions that would make housing prohibited. Requires that those legal restrictions be documented and verified in writing by the relevant agencies that have authority relating to the restrictions. STATUS: 06/15/2022 In SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE: Not heard. Attachment A Page 23 of 39 12 AB 2374 AUTHOR: Bauer-Kahan [D] TITLE: Crimes Against Public Health and Safety: Dumping FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2022 LAST AMEND: 04/07/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Increases the maximum fine for the dumping of commercial quantities of waste by a business that employs more than 10 employees from $3,000 to $5,000 for the first conviction, from $6,000 to $10,000 for the second conviction, and from $10,000 to $20,000 for the third and any subsequent convictions. Requires a court, when imposing a fine, to consider the defendant's ability to pay, as specified. STATUS: 08/23/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. Commentary001: Our sponsored bill BOS: Support ATTACHMENTS: AB 2374 (Bauer-Kahan) Illegal Dumping--SUPPORT to Asm PS AB 2374 (Bauer-Kahan) Illegal Dumping--SUPPORT to Sen PS AB 2449 AUTHOR: Rubio [D] TITLE: Open Meetings: Local Agencies: Teleconferences FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/17/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/08/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Relates to law that authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with specified teleconferencing requirements in specified circumstances when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health. Revises and recasts those teleconferencing provisions and, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with certain teleconferencing requirements. STATUS: 09/06/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. AB 2493 AUTHOR: Chen [R] TITLE: County Employees' Retirement Disallowed Compensation FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/17/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/17/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned FILE: 131 LOCATION: Assembly Unfinished Business - Concurrence in Senate Amendments Attachment A Page 24 of 39 13 SUMMARY: Requires a retirement system established under the County Employees Retirement Law, upon determining that the compensation reported for a sworn peace officer or firefighter is disallowed compensation, to require the employer, as defined, to discontinue reporting the disallowed compensation. STATUS: 08/31/2022 In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY for concurrence. (40-0) AB 2560 AUTHOR: Bonta M [D] TITLE: Housing: Blighted and Other Property FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/17/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/01/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee SUMMARY: Requires a qualified jurisdiction, as defined, to develop, by specified date, and execute a plan to collaborate with social equity investors, as described. Requires a qualified jurisdiction to compile, by specified date, a list of properties meeting certain conditions in the prior 3 years and a list of properties that the qualified jurisdiction considers blighted properties, as defined. STATUS: 08/11/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee. Commentary001: Sent Oppose Unless Amended letter 06.24.22 ATTACHMENTS: AB 2560 (Bonta) Housing--Blighted and Tax Defaulted Property--OPPOSE unless Amended AB 2627 AUTHOR: Bauer-Kahan [D] TITLE: Electronically Collected Personal Information FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/18/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/11/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Authorizes a local agency, at the request of the governing board of a California Community College district, to enter into a memorandum of understanding that would allow the agency and the district to share electronically collected personal information about users, unless the user has not provided informed written consent for that disclosure, for purposes of facilitating outreach to, and enrollment of, individuals in the California Community Colleges system and notifying the user of all available support. STATUS: 09/01/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. AB 2647 AUTHOR: Levine [D] TITLE: Local Government: Open Meetings FISCAL COMMITTEE: no Attachment A Page 25 of 39 14 URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/18/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/04/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Requires a local agency to make certain writings distributed to the members of the governing board available for public inspection at a public office or location that the agency designates and list the address of the office or location on the agenda for all meetings of the legislative body of the agency unless the local agency meets certain requirements, including the local agency immediately posts the writings on the local agency's internet website in a position and manner that makes it clear. STATUS: 08/29/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. CSAC: GFA Policy Committee Update AB 2677 AUTHOR: Gabriel [D] TITLE: Information Practices Act of 1977 FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/18/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/23/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: Enrolled SUMMARY: Relates to law that provides that the intentional disclosure of medical, psychiatric, or psychological information in violation of the Information Practices Act, that is not permitted by law, is punishable as a misdemeanor if the wrongful disclosure results in economic loss or personal injury to the individual to whom the information pertains. Provides that this bill would, for a violation to be punishable as a misdemeanor, require that the disclosure be known or should be known to be in violation. STATUS: 09/05/2022 Enrolled. SB 300 AUTHOR: Cortese [D] TITLE: Crimes: Murder: Punishment FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: yes INTRODUCED: 02/03/2021 LAST AMEND: 05/12/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Inactive File SUMMARY: Repeals a specified provision requiring punishment by death or imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole for a person convicted of murder in the first degree who is not the actual killer, but acted with reckless indifference for human life as a major participant in certain specified violent felonies. STATUS: 08/29/2022 In ASSEMBLY. To Inactive File. Attachment A Page 26 of 39 15 SB 443 AUTHOR: Hertzberg [D] TITLE: Emergency Medical Services (EMS): Prehospital EMS FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2021 LAST AMEND: 06/16/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Health Committee SUMMARY: Requires a city or fire district that contracted for or provided, as of specified date, prehospital emergency medical services, to be deemed to retain its authority regarding, and administration of, the prehospital emergency medical services under specified circumstances. STATUS: 06/28/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Not heard. Marshall Bennett: Joined coalition and CSAC to oppose. Chief Broschard not in agreement. BOS: Oppose ATTACHMENTS: Oppose letter SB 717 AUTHOR: Dodd [D] TITLE: Department of Technology: Broadband Communications FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/19/2021 LAST AMEND: 08/22/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: Enrolled SUMMARY: Requires the Department of Technology, on or before specified date, with input from relevant state agencies and stakeholders, to conduct, complete, and submit a report to specified legislative committees that reviews and identifies barriers to, and opportunities for, investment in, and efficient building of, broadband access points on private and government-owned structures and property, private and public lands and buildings, and public rights of way. STATUS: 09/07/2022 Enrolled. SB 842 AUTHOR: Dodd [D] TITLE: Health Care: Assistive Technology FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/11/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/25/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: Enrolled SUMMARY: Requires the Department of Rehabilitation to establish a comprehensive 3-year device reutilization pilot program in the Counties of Contra Costa, Napa, Solano, and Yolo to facilitate the reuse and redistribution of assistive technology, Attachment A Page 27 of 39 16 including durable medical equipment. STATUS: 09/07/2022 Enrolled. ACOA: Sending LOS SB 843 AUTHOR: Glazer [D] TITLE: Taxation: Renters' Credit FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/11/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/15/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Inactive File SUMMARY: Requires the Franchise Tax Board to prepare a written report by specified date, on the number of taxpayers claiming the credit, and the average credit amount on returns claiming the credit. STATUS: 08/30/2022 In ASSEMBLY. To Inactive File. BOS: Sent LOS consistent with Platform SB 852 AUTHOR: Dodd [D] TITLE: Climate Resilience Districts: Formation: Funding FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/18/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/08/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Authorizes a city, county, city and county, special district, or a combination of any of those entities to form a climate resilience district, as defined, for the purposes of raising and allocating funding for eligible projects and the operating expenses of eligible projects. STATUS: 08/23/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. SB 869 AUTHOR: Leyva [D] TITLE: Housing: Mobilehome Parks: Recreational Vehicle Parks FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/24/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/23/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, by specified date, to adopt regulations to require at least one person per mobilehome park or recreational vehicle park employed or acting under contract as an onsite manager or assistant manager, or otherwise acting in an onsite or offsite managerial capacity or role, on behalf of a mobilehome park or recreational Attachment A Page 28 of 39 17 vehicle park to receive training, as specified. Requires the training to be at least a specified number of hours. STATUS: 09/06/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. Leg Com: Leg Com concurred with Platform consistency. LOS sent. ATTACHMENTS: SB 869 (Leyva-Dodd) Mobilehome Parks- manager training-- SUPPORT to Sen Housing SB 871 AUTHOR: Pan [D] TITLE: Public Health: Immunizations FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/24/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Health Committee SUMMARY: Prohibits the governing authority of a school or other institution from unconditionally admitting any person as a pupil of any public or private elementary or secondary school, childcare center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center, unless prior to their admission to that institution they have been fully immunized against COVID-19. Removes the personal belief exemption from any additional immunization requirements deemed appropriate by the Department of Public Health. STATUS: 02/24/2022 In SENATE. Rescinds referral to Committee on JUDICIARY due to limitations concerning COVID-19 virus. SB 872 AUTHOR: Dodd [D] TITLE: Pharmacies: Mobile Units FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 01/24/2022 ENACTED: 08/29/2022 DISPOSITION: Enacted LOCATION: Chaptered CHAPTER: 2022-220 SUMMARY: Authorizes a county, city and county, or special hospital authority, as defined, to operate a mobile unit as an extension of a pharmacy license held by the county, city and county, or special hospital authority to provide prescription medication within its jurisdiction to specified individuals, including those individuals without fixed addresses. STATUS: 08/29/2022 Signed by GOVERNOR. 08/29/2022 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2022-220 SB 904 AUTHOR: Bates [R] TITLE: Controlled Substances: Treatment FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/01/2022 LAST AMEND: 05/19/2022 Attachment A Page 29 of 39 18 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee SUMMARY: Allows the court to order the defendant, and a juvenile court to order a minor, to complete a controlled substance education or treatment program, as specified, if available. Requires the court or probation department to refer defendants to controlled substance education or treatment programs that adhere to specified standards. STATUS: 08/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee. SB 972 AUTHOR: Gonzalez [D] TITLE: California Retail Food Code FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/10/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/18/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Authorizes a cottage food operation or microenterprise home kitchen operation to serve as a commissary or mobile support unit for up to 2 compact mobile food operations if the cottage food operation or microenterprise home kitchen operation permit includes an endorsement from the local enforcement agency that the cottage food operation or microenterprise home kitchen operation is capable of supporting the preparation and storage of the food being sold from the compact mobile food operation. STATUS: 09/06/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. SB 989 AUTHOR: Hertzberg [D] TITLE: Property Taxation: Taxable Value Transfers: Disclosure FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: yes INTRODUCED: 02/14/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/15/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To enrollment SUMMARY: Require counties with a population of over 4,000,000, as determined by the 2020 federal census, to comply with the bill's requirements. Authorizes all other counties to comply with the bill's requirements if the county's board of supervisors, after consultation with the county assessor, county treasurer, and county tax collector, adopts a resolution to implement the requirements. STATUS: 08/31/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Read third time, urgency clause adopted. Passed ASSEMBLY. ******To SENATE for concurrence. (80-0) 08/31/2022 In SENATE. Urgency clause adopted. SENATE concurred in ASSEMBLY amendments. To enrollment. (37-0) Monica Nino: Sent an Oppose letter. Attachment A Page 30 of 39 19 BOS: Oppose ATTACHMENTS: Oppose letter SB 1097 AUTHOR: Pan [D] TITLE: Cannabis and Cannabis Products: Labeling FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2022 LAST AMEND: 06/22/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned FILE: A-30 LOCATION: Assembly Inactive File SUMMARY: Requires the Department of Cannabis Control on or before specified date, to adopt regulations to require cannabis and cannabis product labels and inserts to include a clear and prominent warning regarding the risks that cannabis use may contribute to mental health problems, in addition to existing labeling requirements. STATUS: 08/24/2022 In ASSEMBLY. To Inactive File. SB 1100 AUTHOR: Cortese [D] TITLE: Open Meetings: Orderly Conduct FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2022 ENACTED: 08/22/2022 DISPOSITION: Enacted LOCATION: Chaptered CHAPTER: 2022-171 SUMMARY: Authorizes the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for disrupting the meeting. Requires removal to be preceded by a warning to the individual by the presiding member of the legislative body or their designee that the individual's behavior is disrupting the meeting and that the individual's failure to cease their behavior may result in their removal. STATUS: 08/22/2022 Signed by GOVERNOR. 08/22/2022 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2022-171 SB 1133 AUTHOR: Archuleta [D] TITLE: Price Gouging: State of Emergency FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2022 LAST AMEND: 06/29/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee SUMMARY: Requires an extension of those prohibitions, if it would apply to rental housing and the state of emergency has been in effect for over a year or more, to include findings that it is necessary to prevent excessive and unjustified Attachment A Page 31 of 39 20 increases in rental prices. Requires the Office of Emergency Services to post on its internet website all proclamations of a state of emergency and declarations of local emergency. STATUS: 08/11/2022 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee. SB 1140 AUTHOR: Umberg [D] TITLE: Public Social Services: Electronic Benefits Transfer FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/16/2022 LAST AMEND: 03/08/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Prohibits a recipient of electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system, administered by the State Department of Social Services, from incurring any loss of electronic benefits stolen in a specified manner, thereby codifying the existing regulation as specified. STATUS: 08/26/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. SB 1178 AUTHOR: Bradford [D] TITLE: Criminal Procedure: Sentencing FISCAL COMMITTEE: no URGENCY CLAUSE: yes INTRODUCED: 02/17/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Inactive File SUMMARY: Amends Proposition 47 to remove that deadline for the filing of a specified petition or apply to have the sentence reduced in accordance with the the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. STATUS: 08/31/2022 In ASSEMBLY. Urgency clause failed adoption. (36-21) UCC: UCC supports SB 1229 AUTHOR: McGuire [D] TITLE: Mental Health Workforce Grant Program FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/17/2022 LAST AMEND: 04/28/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee SUMMARY: Requires the Student Aid Commission to administer the Mental Health Workforce Grant Program, which would be established by the bill, to increase the number of mental health professionals serving children and youth. Prescribes eligibility requirements for the grants, including that a grant recipient be enrolled on or after specified date, in an eligible postgraduate or credential Attachment A Page 32 of 39 21 program at a University of California or California State University campus, or an independent institution of higher education. STATUS: 06/02/2022 To ASSEMBLY Committees on HIGHER EDUCATION and HEALTH. SB 1253 AUTHOR: Melendez [R] TITLE: Infrastructure Plan: Flood Control: Delta Levees FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/17/2022 ENACTED: 08/26/2022 DISPOSITION: Enacted LOCATION: Chaptered CHAPTER: 2022-195 SUMMARY: Require the plan to set out infrastructure priorities relating to specified flood prevention and maintenance projects. STATUS: 08/26/2022 Signed by GOVERNOR. 08/26/2022 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2022-195 SB 1338 AUTHOR: Umberg [D] TITLE: CARE Court Program FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/18/2022 LAST AMEND: 08/25/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To Governor SUMMARY: Provides that this bill, contingent upon the State Department of Health Care Services developing an allocation to provide financial assistance to counties, would enact the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act. Requires the Counties of Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne and the City and County of San Francisco to implement the CARE Court Program commencing October 1, 2023, and the remaining counties to commence no later than December 1, 2024. STATUS: 09/02/2022 Enrolled. 09/02/2022 *****To GOVERNOR. Commentary002: Sent comment letter but no position on bill ATTACHMENTS: CCC Comments on CARE Court Proposal 03.25.22b CCC Priorities for CARE Court 04.28.22 SB 1338 (Umberg & Eggman) CARE Court--Concerns from CCC 06.13.22 SB 1342 AUTHOR: Bates [R] TITLE: Aging Multidisciplinary Personnel Teams FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/18/2022 Attachment A Page 33 of 39 22 LAST AMEND: 06/23/2022 DISPOSITION: To Governor LOCATION: To enrollment SUMMARY: Authorizes an area agency on aging or a county, or both, to establish an aging multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of older adults to services and to allow provider agencies to share confidential information, as specified, for the purpose of coordinating services. Requires the sharing of information permitted under these provisions to be governed by protocols developed by each area agency on aging or county. STATUS: 08/31/2022 In SENATE. SENATE concurred in ASSEMBLY amendments. To enrollment. (40-0) Commentary001: LOS requested. Consistent with Platform. ATTACHMENTS: SB 1342 (Bates) Older Adult Care Coordination--SUPPORT to Sen Hum Srv SB 1404 AUTHOR: Stern [D] TITLE: Environmental Quality Act: Oak Woodlands FISCAL COMMITTEE: yes URGENCY CLAUSE: no INTRODUCED: 02/18/2022 LAST AMEND: 04/27/2022 DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned LOCATION: Senate Appropriations Committee SUMMARY: Requires a lead agency to determine whether a project within its jurisdiction may result in a conversion of oak woodlands, as defined, that will have a significant effect on the environment and to require certain oak woodlands mitigation alternatives, and would make conforming changes. Provides that the removal of 3 or more oak trees within an oak woodland located within areas mapped by state or local agencies as areas critical to habitat linkage, natural resources protection. STATUS: 05/19/2022 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee. Copyright (c) 2022 State Net. All rights reserved. Attachment A Page 34 of 39 LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 5. Meeting Date:09/12/2022   Subject:Federal Legislation of Interest Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,  Department:County Administrator Referral No.: 2022-09   Referral Name: Federal Legislation of Interest  Presenter: L. DeLaney and Thorn Run Partners Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057 Referral History: The Legislation Committee regularly receives reports on federal legislation and provides direction to staff and the County's federal advocates. Referral Update: Congress Eyes Mid December for New Government Funding Date Congressional leaders have signaled that a forthcoming continuing resolution (CR) would likely punt the government funding deadline past the midterm elections and into mid December. According to reports out of Capitol Hill, House leadership could file the stopgap funding measure by the end of the week — or over the weekend — with the goal of passing it at some point next week. While details of the bill have yet to be announced, the CR could serve as a vehicle to address various expiring programs, including the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Maternal, Infant, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, and reauthorization of several user fee agreements for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, partisan disagreements over the White House's $47.1 billion emergency supplemental funding request could limit the scope of the bill and possibly delay the timing of its introduction. Thorn Run Partners' (TRP) Analyses of the Inflation Reduction Act TRP has published a series of reports that provide descriptions of various policies within the IRA. Stay tuned for additional updates as we closely monitor implementation of the reconciliation legislation.  Timeline: Implementation of IRA Hydrogen, Biogas, Solar, and Energy Storage Local Government Grant Provisions Key Clean Energy and Climate Policies Health Care Policies Medicare Part D Redesign Timeline: Implementation of Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Policies White House Pledges "Stability" Vouchers for Homeless and At-Risk People New housing vouchers build on efforts by the Biden administration to focus on unsheltered and rural homelessness and drive aid to people suffering domestic violence. With rents and evictions on the rise nationwide, the specter of homelessness haunts a growing number of U.S. families. A new federal fund aims to bolster those who are most vulnerable, and at the same time, get local authorities talking to each other. On Aug. 24, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development detailed a new category of housing vouchers for people who sleep outdoors or in their cars, or face severe risk of homelessness. These “stability” vouchers will provide Page 35 of 39 permanent supportive housing for unsheltered families. The communities who are first in line for the $43 million stability voucher fund are those who can demonstrate that their public housing agencies and homeless authorities are working together to coordinate relief. Please find the full Article here USDA Announces $400 Million in Funding Available to Create USDA Regional Food Business Centers Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on Sept. 7 the availability of approximately $400 million to provide essential local and regional food systems coordination, technical assistance, and capacity building services through USDA’s new Regional Food Business Centers. “The USDA Regional Food Business Centers will be a new, critical asset as we continue our work to strengthen and enhance local and regional food systems across the nation,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “Regional Food Business Centers will serve as USDA’s cornerstone in the development of the local and regional supply chains, building on lessons learned during the pandemic, providing technical assistance, and creating new market opportunities in areas where the need is greatest.” USDA will fund at least six regional centers, to include a national tribal center and at least one center serving each of three targeted areas: Colonias (counties on the US/Mexico border), persistent poverty or other communities of high need/limited resources areas of the Delta and the Southeast, and high need areas of Appalachia as well as centers in other regions of the country. The Regional Food Business Centers will provide coordination, technical assistance, and capacity building to help farmers, ranchers, and other food businesses access new markets and navigate federal, state and local resources, thereby closing the gaps or barriers to success. The Regional Food Business Centers will assist small and mid-sized producers and food and farm businesses with the goal of creating a more resilient, diverse, and competitive food system. “USDA is committed to supporting smaller producers, processors, and distributors to diversify economic opportunities in underserved communities,” said USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt. “The USDA Regional Food Business Centers will decrease barriers and improve supply chain linkages for producers, processors and distributors and strengthen regional food systems networks and partnerships in response to hardships and vulnerabilities exposed by recent national emergencies, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic.” The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published a Request for Applications (RFA) for this program. AMS is soliciting applications from organizations across the nation to develop the Regional Food Business Centers that will be geographically based, serving regional needs. Applicants must define the regions that their proposed Regional Food Business Center will serve, specifying high-needs priority areas within that region. USDA intends to serve each of the following priority areas by establishing at least one Regional Food Business Center in:  National Tribal Center Colonias (counties on the US/ Mexico border) Persistent poverty or other communities of high need/limited resources areas of the Delta and the Southeast High need areas of Appalachia USDA also intends to make awards to Regional Food Business Centers that serve other areas of the country beyond those explicitly listed above. The Regional Food Business Centers serving these high-need priority areas will identify farm to market linkages across its proposed geographic area to reach a variety of markets. Further guidance for applications is available in the RFA. All applications to lead a Regional Food Business Center must come from a partnership consisting of three or more eligible entities representing at least two of the eligible entity types. Eligible entities include producer networks or associations, food councils, tribal governments, state agencies or regional authorities, institutions of higher education, nonprofit corporations, economic development corporations, and partnerships between one or more eligible entities. Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s): ACCEPT the report on federal legislation and provide direction and/or input to County staff and the County's federal advocates, as needed. Page 36 of 39 Attachments No file(s) attached. Page 37 of 39 LEGISLATION COMMITTEE 6. Meeting Date:09/12/2022   Subject:2023-24 State and Federal Legislative Platform Development Submitted For: LEGISLATION COMMITTEE,  Department:County Administrator Referral No.: 2022-14   Referral Name: Legislative Platforms  Presenter: L. DeLaney Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057 Referral History: The Legislation Committee is regularly involved in the development of the County's State and Federal Legislative Platforms, with the Committee recommending approval of final draft documents to the Board of Supervisors. Referral Update: In 2020, the County shifted its State and Federal Legislative Platforms from one to two-year documents running concurrently to the legislative and congressional sessions. With the start of new sessions anticipated in January 2023, the County Administrator's Office, which is responsible for coordinating the development of the Platforms, is looking to launch the Platform development process for 2023-24.  Draft State and Federal Legislative Platforms for 2023-24 are expected to be presented to the Legislation Committee at your November and/or December meetings and to the Board of Supervisors for adoption in January 2023. The Platform development process has typically included the following steps: 1. County Department Heads and/or senior staff will be invited, on an individual basis, to meetings with our federal and state lobbyists, their CAO analyst, and the CAO Legislative Coordinator in late September or early October to discuss the department’s legislative and regulatory priorities, sponsored bill proposals, and policy interests. 2. Department Heads and their senior staff are requested to solicit input from any Board-established advisory bodies for which they provide staff support. They are also requested to provide the legislative priorities and principles of the professional associations to which they belong. 3. Legislative staff from various departments and Board offices are invited to participate in a “Platform and Advocacy Taskforce," to provide input on the structure, content, and utilization of the Platform. 4. Policy positions, when included in the Platform, are requested to be refashioned to “principles.” This is intended to streamline the documents, moving away from program, project, or legislation-specific policy statements and toward more general principles. Principles are more basic than policy and objectives and are meant to govern both. 5. The Legislative Coordinator, the "Platform and Advocacy Taskforce," and the County's state and federal lobbyists will discuss and consider the prioritization of advocacy needs and development of sponsored bill proposals.  6. Draft Platforms are presented to the Legislation Committee for consideration in November and/or December, prior to recommendation of adoption to the Board in January 2023. The Legislation Committee is requested to provide input on the Platform development process, sponsored bill proposals, or leigslative priorities for 2023-24. Page 38 of 39 Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s): PROVIDE input on the Platform development process, sponsored bill proposals, or leigslative priorities for 2023-24. Attachments No file(s) attached. Page 39 of 39