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1:00 PM
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
2255 Contra Costa Blvd., Suite 202, Pleasant Hill
3361 Walnut Boulevard, Suite 140, Brentwood, CA 94513
AGENDA
Legislation Committee
Supervisor Diane Burgis, Chair
Supervisor Ken Carlson, Vice Chair
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Legislation Committee AGENDA September 23, 2024
The public may attend this meeting in person at either above location in Pleasant Hill or
Brentwood. The public may also attend this meeting remotely via Zoom or call-in; see the
information above.
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 two (2) minutes).
3.RECEIVE and APPROVE the Meeting Minutes for the August 12, 2024 meeting
of the Legislation Committee, with any necessary corrections .
24-3000
Draft Meeting Minutes 08.12.24Attachments:
4.RECEIVE a report on federal matters of interest to the County and provide
direction and/or input as needed.
24-3001
Federal Update 09.23.24--Attachment AAttachments:
5.RECEIVE a report on the end of the 2024 State Legislative Session and the start
of the Special Session and provide direction and /or input as needed.
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Attachment A: Contra Costa County Legislative Advocacy Program
Attachment B: CAPH Priority Bill File
Attachment C: Bills of Interest 09.18.24
Attachment D: CSAC End of Session Bills of Interest
Attachment E: Special Session Report
Attachments:
6.RECEIVE the report on the development of the 2025-26 Contra Costa County
Legislative Platforms and the Proposed Engagement Activities during the 2025-26
session; provide direction and/or input as needed.
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Legislation Committee AGENDA September 23, 2024
7.The next meeting is currently scheduled for December 9, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. (Note, the October
28 and November 25 meetings have been canceled.)
8.Adjourn
General Information
This meeting provides reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities planning to attend the
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 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. Staff
reports related to items on the agenda are also accessible on line at www.co.contra-costa.ca.us.
HOW TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT:
Persons who wish to address the Committee during public comment on matters within the jurisdiction
of the Committee that are not on the agenda, or who wish to comment with respect to an item on the
agenda, may comment in person, via Zoom, or via call-in. Those participating in person should offer
comments when invited by the Committee Chair. Those participating via Zoom should indicate they
wish to speak by using the “raise your hand” feature in the Zoom app. Those calling in should indicate
they wish to speak by pushing *9 on their phones.
Public comments generally will be limited to two (2) minutes per speaker. In the interest of facilitating
the business of the Board Committee, the total amount of time that a member of the public may use in
addressing the Board Committee on all agenda items is 10 minutes. Your patience is appreciated.
Public comments may also be submitted to Committee staff before the meeting by email or by
voicemail. Comments submitted by email or voicemail will be included in the record of the meeting but
will not be read or played aloud during the meeting.
For Additional Information Contact: Lara DeLaney, staff to the Committee, at (925) 655-2057 or
lara.delaney@cao.cccounty.us
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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Staff Report
1025 ESCOBAR STREET
MARTINEZ, CA 94553
File #:24-3000 Agenda Date:9/23/2024 Agenda #:3.
LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: September 23, 2024
Subject:Meeting Minutes for the Legislation Committee Meeting of 8/12/24
Submitted For: Legislation Committee
Department: County Administrator’s Office
Referral No: 2024-01
Referral Name: Meeting Minutes
Presenter: L. DeLaney
Contact: (925) 655-2057
Referral History:
The 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 for the Committee’s consideration is the draft Meeting Minutes for the August 12, 2024 meeting of
the Legislation Committee.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE and APPROVE the Meeting Minutes, as presented.
Fiscal Impact (if any): None.
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Meeting Minutes - Draft
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY Legislation
Committee
Supervisor Diane Burgis, Chair
Supervisor Ken Carlson, Vice Chair
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Hill | 3361 Walnut Boulevard, Suite 140,
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Monday, August 12, 2024
1.Introductions
Chair Burgis convened the meeting at 3:00 p.m. from her office. Vice Chair Carlson was in
attendance from his office. No members of the public joined the meeting from either Supervisor's
office. In attendance via Zoom were the following:
Lara DeLaney, staff to the Committee
Monica Nino, Contra Costa County Administrator
Carol Mascali, Field Representative, D-1
Jim Davenport, Thorn Run Partners
Rhonda Smith, Assistant to the Health Services Director
L. Raygoza, Contra Costa County EHSD
Patricia Perez, Contra Costa County EHSD
Paul Schlesinger, Thorn Run Partners
Peter Myers, Office of Supervisor Burgis
Dr. William Walker, CC Health (ret.)
Geoff Neill, Nielsen Merksamer
Timothy Ewell, Chief Assistant County Administrator
Michelle Rubalcava, Nielsen Merksamer
Alejandra Sanchez, Office of Supervisor Carlson
Adam Nguyen, County Finance Director
Emlyn Struthers, Deputy County Administrator
Diane Burgis and Ken CarlsonPresent:
2.Public comment on any item under the jurisdiction of the Committee and not on this agenda
(speakers may be limited to two (2) minutes).
No public comment was made.
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Legislation Committee Meeting Minutes - Draft August 12, 2024
3.RECEIVE and APPROVE the Meeting Minutes for the May 20, 2024
meeting of the Legislation Committee, with any necessary corrections .
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Attachments:Draft Meeting Minutes 05.20.24
The Minutes of the May 20, 2024 meeting of the Legislation Committee were approved
as presented. No public comment was made.
This item was approved.
4.RECEIVE a report on federal matters of interest to the County and provide
direction and/or input as needed.
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Attachments:Attachment A: Federal Update 08.12.24
The County's federal lobbyist, Jim Davenport, provided an update on Congress' schedule
for the remainder of the year and an update on the status of the Appropriations bills . He
suggested that a Continuing Resolution would be needed to be passed by Congress . He
also discussed the County's interests in the appropriations process and indicated we may
not have final outcomes until early next year . Paul Schlesinger also offered insights into
how political matters could affect the timeline, in response to Vice Chair Carlson's
inquiry about the election's impact on the Continuing Resolution process . No public
comment was made.
This item was received.
5.RECEIVE a report from Chief Assistant County Administrator Tim Ewell
on the status of the County's federal FEMA (Federal Emergency
Management Agency) COVID-19 claims for Public Assistance.
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Attachments:Attachment A--Contra Costa FEMA Projects Overview_7.25.24
Tim Ewell, Chief Assistant County Administrator, requested that this item be continued
to a later date. No public comment was made.
This item was continued.
6.RECEIVE a report on the FY 24-25 State Budget and the 2024 bills of
interest to the County and provide direction and /or input, as needed.
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Attachments:Attachment A: CSAC Summer Recess Legislative Webinar
Attachment B: Bills of Interest 08.01.24
The County's state lobbyists, Michelle Rubalcava and Geoff Neill, provided an update on
the Legislature's calendar, noting the Suspense Calendar would be heard this week, and
an update on the state revenue picture . Geoff also provided an update on two important
bills of interest to the County, AB 2557 related to contracting and AB 2561 related to
employee vacancies. He also noted that AB 1168, related to EMS, may be coming back
prior to the August 31, 2024 midnight deadline. He provided updates on SB 1013 related
to property tax assistance for descendants of enslaved persons, which was held in Senate
Appropriations, and SB 1050 related to racially motivated eminent domain . Geoff also
provided an updated on the County's advocacy efforts related to SB 1057, reporting on
the meeting Probation Chief Ehmen Krause and he had with staff of Assemblymember
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Legislation Committee Meeting Minutes - Draft August 12, 2024
Wicks. No public comment was made.
This item was received.
7.CONSIDER recommending a position to the Board of Supervisors on
statewide ballot measures including Proposition 35, the Managed Care
Organization Tax Authorization Initiative, recommended by CC Health .
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Attachments:Attachment A--CSAC November 24 Ballot Measures Summary
Staff and the County's lobbyists provided a brief summary of the measures on the
November 5, 2024 ballot. Dr. William Walker provided input regarding the financial
impact on public hospitals from Proposition 35. County Administrator Monica Nino
inquired with the lobbyists about the Governor's recent Executive Order on
encampments and the letter sent to counties about implementation of SB 43. Michelle
Rubalcava and Geoff Neill offered their assessments about the motivations . No public
comments were made.
The Committee recommends the Board of Supervisors adopt a position of "Support"
on Propositions 4, 5 and 35 on their Sept. 10, 2024 agenda.
8.The next meeting is currently scheduled for Monday, September 23, 2024 at 1:00 p.m.
9.Adjourn
Chair Burgis adjourned the meeting at 3:43 p.m.
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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Staff Report
1025 ESCOBAR STREET
MARTINEZ, CA 94553
File #:24-3001 Agenda Date:9/23/2024 Agenda #:4.
LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: September 23, 2024
Subject:Federal Legislation of Interest to Contra Costa County
Submitted For: Legislation Committee
Department: County Administrator’s Office
Referral No:2024-04
Referral Name: Federal Update
Presenter: P. Schlesinger and J. Davenport, Thorn Run Partners
Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057
Referral History:
The Legislation Committee of the Board regularly receives reports on federal legislation and budget matters of
interest to the County and provides direction and/or input to staff and the County’s lobbyists, as necessary.
Referral Update:
See Attachment A.
The County’s federal lobbyists will be present via Zoom to provide an updated report to the Committee.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE the report and provide direction/input as needed.
Fiscal Impact (if any): None.
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The TRP Tip Sheet September 18, 2024
Featuring a daily Capitol Hill update, news clips from our Washington insiders, and
links to our trove of federal policy resources.
QUICK TAKES
— HOUSE GOP'S SIX-MONTH CR NOT EXPECTED TO PASS TODAY. Lawmakers have less than two weeks until the Sept. 30 government funding deadline.
— SENATORS PRESS FOR ACTION ON DISASTER RELIEF. 10 senators on both sides of the aisle are requesting additional funds for key disaster relief programs.
— SENATE FINANCE HOLDS HEARING ON IRA HEALTH POLICIES. Click here to read TRP's hearing summary.
— STATE OF PLAY ON THE 2024 ELECTION. For more on the state of the 2024 election, click here to view our latest Special Report.
— JOHNSON OPEN TO KEEPING SOME IRA TAX INCENTIVES. House Republicans increasingly recognize that scrapping the renewable energy tax credits codified in the 2022 law could prove politically unpopular.
— TRP CONGRESSIONAL RETIREMENT TRACKER. Click to view TRP's congressional retirement tracker.
CAPITOL HILL UPDATE
— HOUSE GOP'S SIX-MONTH CR NOT EXPECTED TO PASS TODAY. House lawmakers will hold a final up-or-down vote on Republican leadership's six-month continuing resolution (CR) during today's session, but it is likely that this vote will fail. The six-month stopgap, which includes language requiring voters to show proof of citizenship, faces opposition from nearly all Democrats —with the exception of Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) — as well as several GOP lawmakers. Assuming the House CR does not pass, the Senate is reportedly preparing to move first on a bill to keep the government funded past the 2024 general election into December. However, several key details on a bipartisan CR still need to be ironed out, including the length of the stopgap, and supplemental funding riders for the Secret Service, disaster relief, and potentially more. Lawmakers have 13 days until the Sept. 30 government funding deadline.
WHAT WE'RE TRACKING
Attachment A
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NEW TODAY...
— SENATORS PRESS FOR ACTION ON DISASTER RELIEF. A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sens. Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), wrote a letter to Senate leadership requesting additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) and the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program.
— OVERSIGHT LEADERS RELEASE ONDCP REAUTHORIZATION. House Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) introduced legislation to reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
— SENATE FINANCE HOLDS HEARING ON IRA HEALTH POLICIES. On Sept. 17, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to examine implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) health care policies. Click here to read TRP's hearing summary.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS...
— TRP SPECIAL REPORT: HOW THE 2024 ELECTION COULD SHAPE POLICYMAKING. TRP has pulled together a series of Special Reports to provide an overview of how the outcome of the 2024 presidential election could shape federal policy.
• Energy. Click to view the election scenarios outlook and the candidate policy comparison documents.
• Technology. Click to view the election scenarios outlook and the candidate policy comparison documents.
• Financial Services. Click to view the election scenarios outlook and the candidate policy comparison documents.
• Health. Click to view the election scenarios outlook and the candidate policy comparison documents.
— SENATE FINANCE HOLDS HEARING ON 2025 TAX POLICY DEBATE. On Sept. 12, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to discuss next year's tax policy debate, as well as strategies to address tax avoidance. Click here to read TRP's hearing summary.
—WH ANNOUNCES POLICY ACTIONS ON DE MINIMIS, SECTION 301 TARIFFS. The White House announced a series of trade policy actions pertaining to the de minimis threshold for low-value shipments, as well as finalizing a slate of tariffs in the Section 301 investigation of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation. These announcements include:
• A forthcoming Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would exclude from the de minimis exemption all shipments containing products covered by tariffs imposed under Sections 201 or 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, or Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962;
• A forthcoming NPRM that will propose additional data collection requirements for low-value shipments; and
• A final rule from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requiring importers of consumer products to file Certificates of Compliance (CoC) electronically with CBP and CPSC at the time of entry, including for de minimis shipments.
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— BANKING COMMITTEE REPUBLICANS UNVEIL HOUSING PACKAGE. Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-SC) unveiled a legislative package that seeks to reform several areas of federal housing policy. Notable proposals contained within the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act include:
• Directing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to update Regulation Z and increase flexibilities for loan originator compensation to encourage the origination of small-dollar mortgages under $70,000.
• Requiring the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to prioritize awarding of competitive grants relating to the construction or preservation of housing to recipients located in or that primarily serve communities designated as Opportunity Zones.
• Eliminating the cap on the number of public housing units that may be converted under the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) to allow for other forms of federal assistance and provide opportunities for private investment, among other policies.
— HOUSE REPUBLICANS REQUEST INFO ON DRUG SUPPLY CHAIN. A group of House Republicans — including Reps. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), Blake Moore (R-UT), August Pfluger (R-TX), and Mark Green (R-TN) — issued a request for information (RFI) to solicit feedback on strengthening and enhancing domestic medical supply chains.
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NACo Steering Committee Appointments for
2024-2025
September 12, 2024
All California counties are active members of NACo with a county designee for purposes of
general assembly voting. As a NACo member, you have the opportunity to represent California
and CSAC on one of NACo’s 10 Policy Steering Committees. Your involvement is crucial and
can help ensure California has a strong voice on federal policy issues and legislation that
supports local decision-making, prevents unfunded mandates, and provides direct federal
investments in county priorities.
New Application Process for 2024-2025 Term
Anyone interested in serving as a member of a NACo Steering Committee in 2024-25 must
apply via here. This includes members currently serving on a committee (excluding Presidential
Appointments) and those interested in being added to a committee. We understand that many
members have already received welcome letters from NACo, but you will need to re-apply if you
wish to continue serving on a Steering Committee. Please complete your application by
Wednesday, September 25. Beginning next year, NACo will implement a new process whereby
individuals must re-apply annually for Steering Committee membership.
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Steering Committee Responsibilities and Time Commitment
NACo Steering Committees have monthly virtual meetings and two in-person meetings per year
at the Legislative Conference in Washington, DC, and the Annual Conference in the summer.
Steering Committee members hear presentations, learn best practices, and engage in critical
discussions with federal policy leaders and county leaders nationwide. At in-person meetings,
committees consider and vote on policy resolutions and platform changes that guide NACo’s
federal advocacy efforts. California members serve as CSAC representatives and are asked to
convey the CSAC recommended positions while voting on policy resolutions. For more
information on Steering Committees, please review NACo’s Get Involved Brochure.
Steering Committee Roster
Please note that CSAC is provided with eight appointments for each committee, and the
Committee and Subcommittee Chair and Vice Chair roles do not count towards that total as
those are NACo presidential appointments. You may only serve on one Steering Committee per
year. Members who have received a presidential appointment for a policy steering committee
cannot serve as voting members of another policy steering committee. You may, however, serve
on other non-policy steering committees such as caucuses, task forces, and ad hoc committees.
View the current Steering Committee Roster for California.
Other NACo Committee Membership
In addition to Policy Steering Committees, NACo has many other Standing Committees, Task
Forces, Advisory Boards and Caucuses. If you are interested in serving on one of these
committees, please email NACo at committee@naco.org.
Please note that by submitting your Steering Committee nomination form, you are applying to
represent California as a member of a NACo Steering Committee. This process is managed by
CSAC and is separate from the Presidential Appointment application process. Presidential
Appointments are for Chairs or Vice-Chairs of Steering Committees or other NACo leadership
roles. These appointments are managed by NACo and have closed for the 2024-25 term.
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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Staff Report
1025 ESCOBAR STREET
MARTINEZ, CA 94553
File #:24-3002 Agenda Date:9/23/2024 Agenda #:5.
LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: September 23, 2024
Subject:2024 Legislative Session End-of-Session Wrap-Up and 2024 Special Session
Submitted For: Legislation Committee
Department: County Administrator’s Office
Referral No: 2024-03
Referral Name:
Presenter: Geoff Neill and Michelle Rubalcava, Nielsen Merksamer
Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057
Referral History:
The Legislation Committee regularly receives reports on state legislation of interest to the County and provides
direction and/or input as necessary. The County’s state lobbyists will be in attendance at the meeting (via
Zoom) to provide the Committee with an update to this report.
Referral Update:
The 2023-2024 Legislative Session was statutorily required to conclude by midnight on Saturday, August 31.
More than 1,300 bills were acted on before the conclusion of the second year of the two-year session.
Governor Newsom has until Monday, September 30 to sign or veto legislation. The County maintains
committed to our positions and has made requests to the Governor to sign or veto legislation, consistent with
these positions.
The California State Association of Counties (CSAC) reported that “Late-breaking additions to the legislative
landscape included reform of the CARE Act program, land use requirements related to warehouses, budget
“trailer bills” to amend the 2024 Budget Act, and more. With time running short and many critical issues still
on the table, it was widely reported that Governor Newsom was considering declaring a special legislative
session to discuss oil and gas policy. With the rejection of the Governor’s oil refinery bill (SB 950, Skinner),
the threat to convene a special session materialized on August 31, with mixed reception from legislative
leadership and overall chagrin from many weary legislative staffers.”
For more information about the Special Session, see Attachment E.
Attachment A: 2023-24 Legislative Advocacy Program for Contra Costa County
Attachment B: California Association of Public Hospitals (CAPH) Priority Bill Update
Attachment C: Master List of CCC Bills of Interest
Attachment D: CSAC End of Session Bills of Interest
Attachment E: Special Session Memo from Nielsen Merksamer
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):RECEIVE the report and provide direction and/or input as necessary.
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File #:24-3002 Agenda Date:9/23/2024 Agenda #:5.
Fiscal Impact (if any): None.
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2023-2024 Legislative Advocacy Program
Results of Bills the County Supported or Opposed
As of September 17, 2024
AB 817 (Pacheco) Authorizes a subsidiary body to use certain alternative
teleconferencing provisions. Would also require at least one staff member of the local
agency to be present at a designated primary physical meeting location during the
meeting and require the local agency to post the agenda at the primary physical
meeting location.
County Position: Support
Status: Failed Passage in Senate Local Government
AB 884 (Low) Requires, following a presidential election, the Secretary of State to
determine the number of residents of voting age in each county and precinct who are
members of a single language minority group and who lack skills in English to vote
without assistance. Provides that existing law requires an elections official to provide a
Spanish translation of a candidate written statement. Provides that a speaker with
experience in providing certified translations of legal documents may provide the
translation.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Governor’s Desk
AB 1168 (Bennett) Provides that the Emergency Medical Services System and the
Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act authorizes each county to develop
an EMS program and designate a local EMS agency. Provides that existing law requires
a county to enter into a written agreement with a city or fire district for prehospital EMS.
Sets various conditions for a joint powers agreement, including requiring uniform
operational procedures for prehospital EMS throughout the EMS area or subarea
covered by the agreement.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Governor’s Desk
AB 1238 (Ward) Adds consumer-owned solar photovoltaic modules to the definition of
covered electronic devices, thereby subjecting such modules to the Electronic Waste
Recycling Act of 2003. Would also require a consumer or a service provider serving the
consumer, including a developer or installer of a consumer-owned solar photovoltaic
system, to pay a consumer-owned solar photovoltaic module recycling fee in an amount
determined by CalRecycle upon the purchase of new consumer-owned solar
photovoltaic modules. Appropriates funds.
County Position: Support
Status: Died In Senate Rules
Attachment A
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AB 1465 (Wicks) Provides that existing law establishes maximum civil penalties for a
person who violates air pollution laws from nonvehicular sources. Allows specified civil
penalties to be multiplied by a factor of not more than a specified number if the violation
results from an emission from a stationary source required by federal law to be included
in an operating permit program established pursuant to specified provisions of the
federal Clean Air Act, and the emission contains or includes one or more air
contaminants.
County Position: Support
Status: Governor’s Desk
AB 1999 (Irwin) Provides that under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission may
authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule on an income-graduated basis. Would
prohibit modifications to the amount of the income-graduated fixed charge from
exceeding changes in inflation. Would also require the Commission to adopt any
modification to an existing fixed charge for the collection of a reasonable portion of the
fixed costs of providing electrical service to residential customers in a stand-alone
proceeding.
County Position: Support
Status: Held on Senate Appropriations Suspense
AB 2075 (Alvarez) Enacts the Resident Access Protection Act to provide a resident of a
long-term care facility with the right to in-person, onsite access to a visitor or a health
care and social services provider during a public health emergency. Authorizes a State
or local government order to deny resident access to visitors and health care and social
services providers for up to a specified number of days during a public health
emergency and authorizes an extension of that order.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Held on Senate Appropriations Suspense
AB 2132 (Low) Requires a Medi-Cal managed care plan to ensure access to care for
latent tuberculosis infection and active tuberculosis disease and coordination with local
health department tuberculosis control programs for plan enrollees with active
tuberculosis disease. Requires a patient who is 18 years of age or older receiving health
care services in a facility, clinic, center, office, or other setting, where primary care
services are provided, to be offered tuberculosis screening.
County Position: Support
Status: Governor’s Desk
AB 2489 (Ward) Requires a county board of supervisors or a representative, at least 10
months before beginning a procurement process to contract with persons for special
services that are currently, or were previously, performed by employees of the county
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represented by an employee organization, to notify, in writing, the exclusive employee
representative of the workforce affected.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Held on Assembly Appropriations Suspense
AB 2557 (Ortega) Requires each board of supervisors that solicits for and enters into a
specified contract for special services to post that contract and any related documents
on its website. Requires each contract to include the objectives, desirables, and goals of
the contract. Requires, before beginning a procurement process to contract for
functions, duties, responsibilities, or services, the board to give reasonable written
notice to the exclusive employee representative of the workforce affected by the
contract.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Held on Senate Appropriations Suspense
AB 2561 (McKinnor) Provides that the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act requires the governing
body of a public agency to meet and confer regarding conditions of employment with
representatives of recognized employee organizations. Requires a public agency to
present the status of vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts at a public hearing
at least once per fiscal year. Entitles the organization to present at the hearing.
Requires the agency, upon request of the organization, to include specified information
during the hearing.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Governor’s Desk
AB 2882 (McCarty) Provides that existing law authorizes each county to establish a
Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund for a community corrections
program to be implemented by probation and advised by a local Community Corrections
Partnership. Adds a representative of a community-based organization with experience
in successfully providing behavioral health treatment services to persons who have
been convicted of a criminal offense, and a representative of a Medi-Cal managed care
plan, to the partnership.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Held on Senate Appropriations Suspense
AB 3233 (Addis) Provides that existing law requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor
to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells and the
operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and facilities attendant
to oil and gas production. Authorizes a local entity to limit or prohibit oil and gas
operations or development in its jurisdiction, notwithstanding any other law or any notice
of intention, supplemental notice, well stimulation treatment permit, or similar
authorization.
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County Position: Support
Status: Governor’s Desk
SB 964 (Seyarto) Relates to the sale to certain entities of a property that has been tax
defaulted for 5 years or more in an applicable county. Authorizes a property or property
interest to be offered for sale under provisions authorizing a sale to certain entities that
has not been offered for sale under certain provisions if the State Board of Equalization
conducts a property valuation that shows that the property or property interest is worth
less than the amount of the defaulted debt.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Held on Senate Appropriations Suspense
SB 1013 (Bradford) Establishes the Property Tax Assistance for Descendants of
Enslaved Persons Program for purposes of making, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, moneys available to persons who meet specified criteria for purposes of
providing financial assistance equal to the total amount of property taxes paid on a
residential dwelling, or a specified amount, whichever is less, and as subject to
specified limitations.
County Position: Support
Status: Held on Senate Appropriations Suspense
SB 1057 (Menjivar) Provides that existing law requires a juvenile justice coordinating
council to consist of certain members. Requires each county juvenile justice
coordinating council to, at a minimum, consist of at least a specified percent community
representatives with the remainder of the seats allocated in a specified manner.
County Position: Oppose
Status: Held on Assembly Appropriations Suspense
SB 1159 (Dodd) Relates to categorical exemptions to the requirements of the California
Environmental Quality Act. Requires the Office of Planning and Research to evaluate,
and the Secretary of the Natural Resources to consider, the inclusion of roadside
projects no more than a specified number of road miles from a municipality or census-
designated place that are undertaken solely for the purpose of wildfire risk reduction in
the classes of projects subject to a categorical exemption.
County Position: Support
Status: Held on Assembly Appropriations Suspense
SB 1245 (Ochoa Bogh) Defines licensed health care professional for specified
purposes to mean any person who engages in acts that are the subject of licensure or
regulation under specified provisions of the Business and Professions Code or under
any initiative act referred to in those specified provisions.
County Position: Support
Status: Held on Senate Appropriations Suspense
Attachment A
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SB 1432 (Caballero) Provides that existing law requires that, by January 1, 3030,
owners of certain hospitals must either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care
use all hospital buildings that are not in compliance with seismic safety building
standards or seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings. Authorizes a
hospital owner or operator to submit an application, by specified dates, to the
Department of Health Care Access and Information for additional extensions to the
compliance deadline.
County Position: Support
Status: Vetoed by Governor
Attachment A
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Bill Number Author Title Follow/Pr
iority CAPH Staff Status CAPH Comments
AB 869 Wood D Hospitals: seismic safety
compliance.
Current law requires, no later than January 1, 2030, owners of all acute care
inpatient hospitals to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care
use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with specified
seismic safety standards or to seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient
hospital buildings so that they are in substantial compliance with those
seismic safety standards. Current law requires the Department of Health
Care Access and Information to issue a written notice upon compliance with
those requirements. This bill would authorize a Distressed Hospital Loan
Program recipient, a small hospital, a rural hospital, a critical access
hospital, or a health care district hospital, as defined, and except as
specified, to seek approval from the Department of Health Care Access and
Information for a delay to the January 1, 2030, compliance deadline
described above by up to 3 years. The bill would require hospitals seeking a
delay to submit a seismic compliance plan, as specified, and, if necessary, a
Nonstructural Performance Category-5 evaluation report. The bill would also
require the hospital and department to identify least 2 major milestones
relating to the seismic compliance plan that will be used as the basis for
determining whether a hospital is making adequate progress toward meeting
the subject hospital’s seismic compliance deadline. The bill would subject
the submitted seismic compliance plans to departmental review for
reasonableness and require the hospital seeking the delay to submit any
documentation requested by the department to assist its review. The bill
would require the department to approve or deny a seismic compliance plan
and any delay to the seismic compliance deadline within 120 days.
2 Katie
9/10/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4:30
p.m.
This bill is supported by the
Association of CA Healthcare
Districts. CHA has a support if
amended position, stating that a
solution is still needed for the many
communities whose hospitals are not
accounted for in this bill. CAPH is
watching this bill.
AB 1577 Low D
General acute care
hospitals: clinical
placements: nursing.
Current law establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the
Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the
practice of nursing. Current law provides for the licensure and regulation of
health facilities and clinics, as defined, by the State Department of Public
Health. This bill would require a health facility or clinic, upon the request of a
California community college or California State University with an approved
school of nursing or approved nursing program, to meet with the California
community college or California State University and work in good faith to
meet the needs of the prelicensure nursing clinical placement needs of the
California community college or California State University program,
including adding additional clinical placement slots to accommodate the
nursing program. The bill would require the health facility or clinic, following
that meeting, to inform the department if it cannot provide additional
placement slots, as specified, no later than the following January 30, and
annually on or before each January 30 thereafter. The bill would require the
health facility or clinic to inform the department as to the reason it cannot
meet the needs of the California community college or California State
University for each type of clinical rotation requested, such as obstetrics and
pediatrics, among others. The bill would subject the health facility or clinic to
an administrative penalty not to exceed $1,000 for failure to provide the
information, as required.
2 Andrea M.
9/11/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
September Priority Bill Update
Attachment B
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AB 1895 Weber D Public health: maternity
ward closures.
Under current law, a general acute care hospital is required to provide
certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia,
laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Current law authorizes
a general acute care hospital to provide various special or supplemental
services if certain conditions are met. Current regulations define a
supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient service that is
not required to be provided by law or regulation. Current law requires a
health facility to provide 90 days of public notice, with specified
requirements, of the proposed closure or elimination of a supplemental
service, such as maternity services. This bill would require an acute care
hospital that offers maternity services, when those services are at risk of
closure, as defined, in the next 12 months to provide specified information to
the Department of Health Care Access and Information as well as the State
Department of Public Health, including, but not limited to, the number of
medical staff and employees working in the maternity ward and the
hospital’s prior and projected performance on financial metrics. The bill
would require this information be kept confidential to the extent permitted by
law. The bill would require, within 6 months of receiving this notice from the
hospital, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, in
conjunction with the State Department of Public Health, to conduct a
community impact assessment to determine the 3 closest hospitals offering
maternity services in the geographic area and their distance from the at-risk
facility. The bill would require the hospital to provide public notice of the
potential closure, including the results of the community impact assessment,
and other specified information on the hospital’s internet website 90 days in
advance of the proposed closure.
2 Haleigh, Katie
9/11/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
This bill would require a hospital that
provides perinatal services and that
expects challenges in the next 6
months that may result in a reduction
or loss of those services, to report
certain information to HCAI. The bill
directs HCAI to confidentially share
this information with other state
agencies and to conduct a community
impact assessment. The assessment
would be posted publicly by the
hospital if the hospital plans to close
its perinatal unit and the hospital
would be required to accept public
comment. CHA has a follow position
on this bill. CAPH is closely watching
this bill and a related one (SB 1300).
AB 1902 Alanis R Prescription drug labels:
accessibility.
Current law prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a prescription except in a
container that meets the requirements of state and federal law and is
correctly labeled with prescribed information. Current law requires a
dispenser, upon request, to provide translated directions for use, as
prescribed. Current law authorizes a dispenser to use translations made
available by the board pursuant to specified regulations of the board and
provides that a dispenser is not required to provide translated directions for
use beyond the languages that the board has made available or beyond the
directions that the board has made available in translated form. Current law
authorizes a dispenser to provide their own translated directions for use to
comply with these provisions and prohibits the provisions from being
construed to prohibit a dispenser from providing translated directions for use
in languages beyond those that the board has made available or beyond the
directions that the board has made available in translated form. This bill
would also expressly require a dispenser to provide translated directions for
use in the languages the California State Board of Pharmacy has made
available.
2 Haleigh
8/28/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
This bill is sponsored by the California
Council of the Blind. CAPH is in
support of this bill given its potential
to improve health equity.
Attachment B
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AB 1975 Bonta D
Medi-Cal: medically
supportive food and nutrition
interventions.
Current law, subject to implementation of the California Advancing and
Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative, authorizes a Medi-Cal managed care
plan to elect to cover community supports approved by the department as
cost effective and medically appropriate in a comprehensive risk contract
that are in lieu of applicable Medi-Cal state plan services. Under existing
law, community supports that the State Department of Health Care Services
is authorized to approve include, among other things, medically supportive
food and nutrition services, including medically tailored meals. This bill
would make medically supportive food and nutrition interventions, as
defined, a covered benefit under the Medi-Cal program, through both the fee-
for-service and managed care delivery systems, effective July 1, 2026,
subject to federal approval and the issuance of final guidance by the
department. The bill would require those interventions to be covered if
determined to be medically necessary by a health care provider or health
care plan, as specified. The bill would require the provision of interventions
for 12 weeks, or longer if deemed medically necessary. The bill would
require a Medi-Cal managed care plan to offer at least 3 of 6 listed
interventions, with certain conditions for a 7th intervention.
2 Amanda
9/11/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 2104 Soria D
Community colleges:
Baccalaureate Degree in
Nursing Pilot Program.
Would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to
develop a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that authorizes
select community college districts to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
degree. The bill would limit the pilot program to 15 community college
districts statewide and would require the chancellor to identify eligible
community college districts based on specified criteria. The bill would
require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to conduct an evaluation of the pilot
program to determine the effectiveness of the program and the need to
continue or expand the program. The bill would repeal these provisions as of
January 1, 2031.
2 Andrea M.
9/12/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m
AB 2115 Haney D Controlled substances:
clinics.
Under current law, specified clinics, including surgical clinics, may purchase
drugs at wholesale for administration or dispensing to the clinic’s patients.
Current law requires these clinics to maintain certain records and to obtain a
license from the board. Current law prohibits specified substances from
being dispensed by a nonprofit or free clinic, as defined. This bill would
authorize a nonprofit or free clinic to dispense a narcotic drug for the
purpose of relieving acute withdrawal symptoms while arrangements are
being made for referral for treatment, as described, and would require the
clinic dispensing the narcotic to be subject to specified labeling and
recordkeeping requirements. Because the bill would specify additional
requirements under the Pharmacy Law, a violation of which would be a
crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
2 Haleigh
9/12/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
This bill is sponsored by the San
Francisco Department of Public
Health. CAPH is in support of this bill.
AB 2157 Bonta D
City of Alameda Health Care
District: certificates of
participation: lien.
The Local Health Care District Law authorizes health care districts in the
state to provide for various forms of financing for the purpose of carrying out
their duties under the law, including financing secured by public revenues.
This bill would require that all obligations of the City of Alameda Health Care
District in connection with specified certificates of participation be secured
by a statutory lien on all of the revenues generated from certain dedicated
parcel taxes, according to specified criteria. This bill would make legislative
findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City
of Alameda Health Care District.
2 Katie
7/18/24 Chaptered
by Secretary of
State - Chapter 148,
Statutes of 2024
Attachment B
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AB 2250 Weber D
Social determinants of
health: screening and
outreach.
Current law requires health care service plans and health insurers to include
coverage for screening for various conditions and circumstances, including
adverse childhood experiences. Current law provides for the Medi-Cal
program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and
under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services.
The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid
program provisions. This bill would require a health care service plan
contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after
January 1, 2027, to include coverage for screenings for social determinants
of health, as defined. The bill would require providers to use specified tools
or protocols when documenting patient responses to questions asked in
these screenings. The bill would require a health care service plan or health
insurer to provide physicians who provide primary care services with
adequate access to peer support specialists, lay health workers, social
workers, or community health workers in counties where the plan or insurer
has enrollees or insureds, as specified. The bill would authorize the
respective departments to adopt guidance to implement its provisions.
2 Amanda
/31/24 Read third
time. Passed.
Ordered to the
Assembly. (Ayes 32.
Noes 4.). In
Assembly.
Concurrence in
Senate amendments
pending. Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling.
While members support the
opportunity to be paid for Social
Determinants of Health (SDOH)
Screening, they raised concerns
about the requirement to use
specified standardized tools for
reporting screening results. With
member input, CAPH proposed
revised language to CPCA, the bill co-
sponsor, that would instead require
reporting via existing ICD-10 codes
for social needs. The proposed
language regarding coding was
added but the requirement to use
specified screening tools was not
removed.
AB 2271 Ortega D St. Rose Hospital
This bill would have HCAI forgive two loans- a California Health Facility
Construction Loan Insurance Law loan and a Distressed Hospital Loan
Program established.
2 Katie
9/11/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 2297 Friedman D
Hospital and Emergency
Physician Fair Pricing
Policies.
Current law requires a hospital to maintain a written charity care policy and a
discount payment policy for uninsured patients or patients with high medical
costs who are at or below 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Current
law requires the written policy regarding discount payments to also include a
statement that an emergency physician who provides emergency medical
services in a hospital that provides emergency care is also required by law
to provide discounts to uninsured patients or patients with high medical
costs who are at or below 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Current
law authorizes an emergency physician to choose to grant eligibility for a
discount payment policy to patients with incomes over 350% of the federal
poverty level. Existing law defines “high medical costs” for these purposes to
mean, among other things, specified annual out-of-pocket costs incurred by
the individual at the hospital or a hospital that provided emergency care.
This bill would authorize an emergency physician to choose to grant
eligibility for a discount payment policy to patients with incomes over 400%
of the federal poverty level.
2 Liz
9/11/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
This bill revises the Hospital Fair
Pricing Policies by prohibiting debt
collectors from garnishing wages and
placing a lien on, or selling a patient's
property to collect debt for unpaid
hospital or emergency physician bills.
It also clarifies that hospitals must
review eligibility for financial
assistance at any time and prohibits
hospitals from considering a patient's
monetary assets when determining
eligibility for discount payments. This
bill is supported by the WCLP (co-
sponsors), AFL-CIO, SEIU and Health
Access. CHA is working to address
concerns pertaining to Medicare,
asset consideration, and application
rerquirements pertaining to Medi-Cal
and discounted care. The University
of California has raised similiar
concerns. CHA negotiated
amendments with HCAI, the sponsor,
and author's office.
Attachment B
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AB 2561 McKinnor D Local public employees:
vacant positions.
Would require each public agency with bargaining unit vacancy rates
exceeding 10% for more than 90 days within the past 180 days to meet and
confer with a representative of the recognized employee organization to
produce, publish, and implement a plan consisting of specified components
to fill all vacant positions within the subsequent 180 days. The bill would
require the public agency to present this plan during a public hearing to the
governing legislative body and to publish the plan on its internet website for
public review for at least one year. By imposing new duties on local public
agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill
would also include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a
matter of statewide concern.
1 Malavika
8/31/24 Read third
time. Passed.
Ordered to the
Assembly. (Ayes 27.
Noes 10.). In
Assembly.
Concurrence in
Senate amendments
pending. Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling.
CAPH took an oppose position along
with CSAC, CHEAC and others in
coalition. Latest amendments make it
less onerous on our members,
however would still require annual
public hearings once a year, and has
additional criteria if the job vacancies
within a single bargaining unit exceed
20%.
AB 2703 Aguiar-Curry D
Federally qualified health
centers and rural health
clinics: psychological
associates.
Current law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to seek
any necessary federal approvals and issue appropriate guidance to allow a
federally qualified health center (FQHC) or a rural health clinic (RHC) to bill,
under a supervising licensed behavioral health practitioner, for an encounter
between an FQHC or RHC patient and an associate clinical social worker or
associate marriage and family therapist when certain conditions are met,
including, among others, that the FQHC or RHC is otherwise authorized to
bill for services provided by the supervising practitioner as a separate visit.
This bill would add a psychological associate to those provisions, requiring
the department to seek any necessary federal approvals and issue
appropriate guidance to allow an FQHC or RHC to bill for an encounter
between a patient and a psychological associate under those conditions.
The bill would make conforming changes with regard to supervision by a
licensed psychologist as required by the Board of Psychology.
2 Haleigh
9/12/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
This bill is sponsored by CPCA. CAPH is
in support of it. It was amended coming
out of the Appropriations Committee to
remove the requirement that FQHCs that
do not provide marriage and family
therapy (MFT) services, but later elect to
add them and bill them as a seperate visit,
to file for a scope change. It would still
preserve the addition of MFT services as
an optional triggering event.
AB 2975 Gipson D
Occupational safety and
health standards: workplace
violence prevention plan.
The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 imposes safety
responsibilities on employers and employees, including the requirement that
an employer establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury
prevention program, and makes specified violations of these provisions a
crime. Current law also requires the Occupational Safety and Health
Standards Board to adopt standards developed by the Division of
Occupational Safety and Health that require specified types of hospitals to
adopt a workplace violence prevention plan as part of the hospital’s injury
and illness prevention plan to protect health care workers and other facility
personnel from aggressive and violent behavior. This bill would require the
standards board, by March 1, 2025, to amend the standards to include a
requirement that a hospital maintain metal detectors at specific entrances of
a hospital, a requirement that a hospital assign appropriate security
personnel who meet training standards, a requirement that the hospital have
reasonable protocols for alternative search and screening for patients,
family, or visitors who refuse to undergo metal detector screening, and a
requirement that a hospital adopt reasonable protocols for storage of patient,
family, or visitor property that might be used as a weapon.
2 Malavika
9/11/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
CAPH had initially taken an oppose
position on this bill, given concerns
around placement of weapons
detection system, storage and
confiscation of weapons and the
aggressive timeline for
implementation. However, given
amendments that addressed many of
our concerns, we moved to a neutral
position on this bill.
AB 3059 Weber D Human milk.
Current law licenses and regulates tissue banks and generally makes a
violation of the requirements applicable to tissue banks a crime. Existing law
exempts a “mothers’ milk bank,” as defined, from paying a licensing fee to
be a tissue bank. This bill would specify that a general acute care hospital is
not required to have a license to operate a tissue bank to store or distribute
pasteurized human milk that was obtained from a mothers’ milk bank.
2 Haleigh
9/6/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
CAPH is in support of this bill; it is
sponsored by the University of
California.
Attachment B
24
AB 3129 Wood D Health care system
consolidation.
Current law requires a nonprofit corporation that operates or controls a
health facility or other facility that provides similar health care to provide
written notice to, and to obtain the written consent of, the Attorney General
prior to entering into any agreement or transaction to sell, transfer, lease,
exchange, option, convey, or otherwise dispose of the asset, or to transfer
control, responsibility, or governance of the asset or operation, to a for-profit
corporation or entity, to a mutual benefit corporation or entity, or to a
nonprofit corporation, as specified. This bill would require a private equity
group or a hedge fund, as defined, to provide written notice to, and obtain
the written consent of, the Attorney General prior to a change of control or an
acquisition between the private equity group or hedge fund and a health care
facility or provider group, as those terms are defined, except as specified.
The bill would require the notice to be submitted at the same time that any
other state or federal agency is notified pursuant to state or federal law, and
otherwise at least 90 days before the change in control or acquisition. The
bill would authorize the Attorney General to extend that 90-day period under
certain circumstances.
2 Haleigh
8/31/24 Read third
time. Passed.
Ordered to the
Assembly. (Ayes 21.
Noes 11.). In
Assembly.
Concurrence in
Senate amendments
pending. Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling.
CAPH had taken an oppose position on
this bill after amendments surfaced that
would have significantly expanded the
types of transactions that would be subject
to Attorney General oversight an
approval. After significant advocacy from
the hospital industry, the bill was
amended coming out of the
Appropriations Committee to largely
exclude hospitals. The bill was also
amended to exempt certain transactions
by the University of California and
counties. CAPH removed its opposition to
the bill in the final days of session.
AB 3161 Bonta D
Health and care facilities:
patient safety and
antidiscrimination.
(1)Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by
the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a
crime.This bill would require the department to include a section for
complaints involving specified health facilities to collect information about
outlined demographic factors of affected patients. The bill would require the
department to include a section on the Complaint Against a Health Care
Facility/Provider form on the department’s internet website, and provide
means for complaints submitted via mail, fax, or by telephone, for complaints
involving specified health facilities. The bill would require the department to
inform complainants that the information collected is voluntary, is to ensure
patients receive the best care possible, and will not affect the department’s
investigation. The bill would require that complainants shall be provided the
option to refer the complaint to the Civil Rights Department, and the
department will provide the complaint to the Civil Rights Department only
when requested to do so by the complainant. The bill would require the
department to develop an outreach program to provide patients, consumers,
and members of the public with specified information regarding the
complaint process.
2 Malavika
9/6/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
If signed by the Governor, starting in
Jan 1, 2026, health facilities will be
required to file biannual patient safety
plans with State Department of Public
Health
Attachment B
25
SB 819 Eggman D Medi-Cal: certification.
Current law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and
regulate clinics. Current aw exempts from those licensing provisions certain
clinics that are directly conducted, maintained, or operated by federal, state,
or local governmental entities, as specified. Current law also exempts from
those licensing provisions a clinic that is operated by a primary care
community or free clinic, that is operated on separate premises from the
licensed clinic, and that is only open for limited services of no more than 40
hours per week. Current law sets forth various procedures, including the
submission of an application package, for providers to enroll in the Medi-Cal
program. Under current law, an applicant or provider that is a government-
run license-exempt clinic as described above is required to comply with
those Medi-Cal enrollment procedures. Under current law, an applicant or
provider that is operated on separate premises and is license exempt,
including an intermittent site or mobile health care unit that is operated by a
licensed primary care clinic that provides all staffing, protocols, equipment,
supplies, and billing services, is not required to enroll in the Medi-Cal
program as a separate provider or comply with the above-described
enrollment procedures, if the licensed primary care clinic has notified the
department of its separate locations, premises, intermittent sites, or mobile
health care units. This bill would additionally exempt from the Medi-Cal
enrollment procedures an intermittent site or mobile health care unit that is
operated by the above-described government-run license-exempt clinic if
that clinic has notified the department of its separate locations, premises,
sites, or units.
1 Haleigh
9/11/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3 p.m.
This bill would clarify existing law that
license-exempt clinics can operate
intermittent sites or mobile health
care units, without enrolling them in
the Medi-Cal program as separate
providers, which is the same standard
for licensed community clinics. CAPH
had taken a support position on this
bill. In the final days of session
however, the bill was amended to also
condition streamlined Medi-Cal
enrollment on a requirement that
license-exempt mobile clinics operate
as intermittent sites with only limited
hours. CAPH has concerns that this
requirement could create ambiguities
in the law around Medi-Cal enrollment
for license-exempt clinics and could
restrict mobile clinics from operating
at full capacity. CAPH submitted a
letter of concern to the Governor and
is engaging with DHCS. We will seek a
technical fix to correct this next year.
SB 895 Roth D
Community colleges:
Baccalaureate Degree in
Nursing Pilot Program.
This bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges
to develop a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that authorizes
select community college districts to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
degree. The bill would limit the pilot program to 15 community college
districts statewide and would require the chancellor to identify eligible
community college districts based on specified criteria. The bill would
require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to conduct an evaluation of the pilot
program to determine the effectiveness of the program and the need to
continue or expand the program. The bill would repeal these provisions as of
January 1, 2031.
2 Andrea M.
9/9/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3 p.m.
Attachment B
26
SB 1120 Becker D Health care coverage:
utilization review.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975,
provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the
Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act
a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the
Department of Insurance. Existing law generally authorizes a health care
service plan or health insurer to use prior authorization and other utilization
review or utilization management functions, under which a licensed
physician or a licensed health care professional who is competent to
evaluate specific clinical issues may approve, modify, delay, or deny
requests for health care services based on medical necessity. Existing law
requires a health care service plan or health insurer, including those plans or
insurers that delegate utilization review or utilization management functions
to medical groups, independent practice associations, or to other contracting
providers, to comply with specified requirements and limitations on their
utilization review or utilization management functions. Existing law
authorizes the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care or the
Insurance Commissioner to assess an administrative penalty to a health
care service plan or health insurer, as applicable, for failure to comply with
those requirements. This bill would require a health care service plan or
health insurer to ensure that a licensed physician supervises the use of
artificial intelligence decision making tools when those tools are used to
inform decisions to approve, modify, or deny requests by providers for
authorization prior to, or concurrent with, the provision of health care
services to enrollees or insureds. The bill would require algorithms, artificial
intelligence, and other software tools used for utilization review or utilization
management decisions to comply with specified requirements, including that
they be fairly and equitably applied. Because a willful violation of these
provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
2 Katie
9/11/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3 p.m.
Establishes requirements on health
plans and insurers applicable to their
use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for
utilization review decisions, including,
requiring health plans and insurers to
ensure that a licensed physician
supervises the use of AI decision-
making tools when those tools are
used to inform decisions to approve,
modify, or deny requests for
authorization prior to, or concurrent
with, the provision of health care
services to enrollees and insureds.
This bill is sponsored by CMA and
supported by CHA and others. CAPH
is watching this bill.
SB 1220 Limon D Public benefits contracts:
phone operator jobs
This bill would instead require any state agency authorized to provide or
enter into contracts relating to public benefit programs, or any local
government agency authorized to provide or enter into contracts relating to
public benefit programs funded by state funds, as specified, to provide
services through, or contract for services provided by, a call center that
directly serves callers with services performed solely with and by workers
employed in California.
1 Haleigh
9/10/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
This bill is sponsored by SEIU and the
California Labor Federation. CAPH had
concerns with it due to potential impacts
on public health care systems' operations.
In coordinatation with the Association of
California Health Care Districts, we
expressed our concerns to the bill's
sponsors and proposed amendments.
Unfortunately, the sponsors did not take
all of our language and we still have
concerns with the bill. Consequently,
CAPH submitted a veto request to the
Governor.
Attachment B
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SB 1300 Cortese D
Health facility closure: public
notice: inpatient psychiatric
and maternity services.
Current law requires the State Department of Public Health to license,
regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified, including general acute
care hospitals. Under current law, a general acute care hospital is required
to provide certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical,
anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Current
law authorizes a general acute care hospital to provide various special or
supplemental services if certain conditions are met. Current regulations
define a supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient
service that is not required to be provided by law or regulation. Current law
requires a health facility to provide 90 days of public notice of the proposed
closure or elimination of a supplemental service, and 120 days of public
notice of the proposed closure or elimination of an acute psychiatric hospital.
This bill would change the notice period required before proposed closure or
elimination of the supplemental service of inpatient psychiatric service or
maternity service from 90 days to 120 days. By changing the definition of a
crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
2 Haleigh, Katie
9/3/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3 p.m.
The law already requires a 90 day
notice if eliminating any supplemental
service. The bill extends that to 120
days if its for inpatient psych or
maternity services. It also adds a
requireThe law already requires a 90
day notice if eliminating any
supplemental service. The bill
extends that to 120 days if its for
inpatient psych or maternity services.
It also adds a requirement for an
impact analysis by the hospital and
requires a hearing by the facility (that
hearing is already required for PHS
that are closing). The bill also
requires the board of supervisors of
the county in which the facility is
located to be notified of the hearing.
CAPH is closely watching this bill and
a related one (AB 1895) ment for an
impact analysis by the hospital and
encourages a hearing by the BOS
(that hearing is already required for
PHS that are closing). CAPH is
closely watching this bill and a related
one (AB 1895).
SB 1382 Glazer D Community and rural health
clinics: building standards.
Current law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information,
formerly the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in
consultation with the Community Clinics Advisory Committee, to prescribe
minimum construction standards of adequacy and safety for clinics, as
specified, in the California Building Standards Code. This bill would prohibit
construction standards for the community clinics or rural health clinics, as
defined, established by the department and established or applied by a city
or county from being more restrictive than comparable construction
standards established or otherwise applied to clinics exempt from licensure
under specified provisions.
1 Haleigh
9/10/24 Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 4 p.m.
This bill is sponsored by CPCA. CAPH
monitored this bill closely. We had
concerns that it could have created
unintended consequences for public
health care systems' non-hospital clinics.
The bill was amended at the end of
session to remove its references to license-
exempt clinics (which include public
health care system clinics) and instead tie
private community clinic building
standards to federal standards. CAPH no
longer has concerns with this bill.
Attachment B
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SB 1432 Caballero D Health facilities: seismic
standards.
The Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983
establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Office of Health Care Access and
Information, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain
hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. Current law requires that,
by January 1, 2030, owners of these hospitals must either demolish, replace,
or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings that are not in
compliance with these standards or seismically retrofit all acute care
inpatient hospital buildings so they are in substantial compliance with these
standards, unless subject to an abeyance. This bill would authorize a
hospital owner or operator to submit an application, by specified dates, to
the department for additional extensions to the compliance deadline. The bill
would require the department to grant or deny an extension of the deadline
for substantial compliance with seismic safety regulations or standards up to
January 1, 2035.
1 Katie 9/12/24 Vetoed by
the Governor
This bill would extend the deadline for
hospitals to meet seismic safety
requirements by an additional 8
years. It would require hospitals to
submit a master plan regarding
seismic compliance to HCAI. It also
would require hospitals to submit a
Patient Alternate Care Sites and
Transfer Plan to HCAI, by no later
than January 1, 2026, to address
continued care for the hospital’s
patients following a seismic event
through alternate care sites on the
hospital campus and other health
care facilities. The bill would require
HCAI to provide a report to the
Legislature. The report must include
the cost of retrofitting and any impact
on affordbality to consumers and
purchasers. CAPH has taken a
support position
Attachment B
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2024 Contra Costa County Bills of Interest Attachment C
BILL TITLE AUTHOR SUMMARY LAST STATUS POSITION
1 AB 817 Open Meetings: Teleconferencing: Subsidiary Body Pacheco (D)
Authorizes a subsidiary body to use certain alternative teleconferencing
provisions. Requires at least one staff member of the local agency to be
present at a designated primary physical meeting location during the
meeting. Requires the local agency to post the agenda at the primary
physical meeting location. Requires the members of the subsidiary body
to visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is
publicly accessible via the internet or other online platform.
06/05/2024: In SENATE Committee
on LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
Reconsideration granted.
Neutral
2 AB 884 Elections: Language Accessibility Low (D)
Requires, following a presidential election, the Secretary of State to
determine the number of residents of voting age in each county and
precinct who are members of a single language minority group and who
lack skills in English to vote without assistance. Provides that existing law
requires an elections official to provide a Spanish translation of a
candidate written statement. Provides that a speaker with experience in
providing certified translations of legal documents may provide the
translation.
09/11/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.Oppose Unless Amended
3 AB 1168 Emergency Medical Services (EMS): Prehospital EMS Bennett (D)
Provides that the Emergency Medical Services System and the
Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act authorizes each
county to develop an EMS program and designate a local EMS agency.
Provides that existing law requires a county to enter into a written
agreement with a city or fire district for prehospital EMS. Sets various
conditions for a joint powers agreement, including requiring uniform
operational procedures for prehospital EMS throughout the EMS area or
subarea covered by the agreement.
09/05/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.Oppose
4 AB 1338 Medi-Cal: Community Supports Petrie-Norris (D)
Relates to the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal initiative.
Provides that under existing law, community supports that the State
Department of Health Care Services is authorized to approve include,
among other things, housing transition navigation services, recuperative
care, respite, day habilitation programs, and medically supportive food
and nutrition services. Adds fitness, physical activity, or recreational
sports programs, activities, or memberships to the list of community
supports.
02/01/2024: From Committee: Filed
with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint
Rule 56.
5 AB 1413 Housing Accountability Act: Disapprovals: CEQA Ting (D)
Provides that the Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency
from disapproving a housing development project unless it makes certain
written findings, and requires the local agency to file a specified notice
with the county clerk for each county in which the project will be located.
Requires the local agency to post the notice on the agency's website and
provide a copy to specified persons. Requires the agency to consider all
objections, comments, evidence, and concerns submitted about the
project.
09/11/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
6 AB 1465 Nonvehicular Air Pollution: Civil Penalties Wicks (D)
Provides that existing law establishes maximum civil penalties for a
person who violates air pollution laws from nonvehicular sources. Allows
specified civil penalties to be multiplied by a factor of not more than a
specified number if the violation results from an emission from a
stationary source required by federal law to be included in an operating
permit program established pursuant to specified provisions of the
federal Clean Air Act, and the emission contains or includes one or more
air contaminants.
09/12/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
7 AB 1820 Housing Development Projects: Applications: Fees Schiavo (D)
Provides that existing law requires a city or county to deem an applicant
for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary
application upon providing specified information. Requires, for
development fees imposed by an agency other than a city, county, or city
and county, the development proponent to request the fee schedule from
the agency that imposes the fee and requires the agency that imposes
the fee to provide the fee schedule to the development proponent
without delay.
09/03/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
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2024 Contra Costa County Bills of Interest Attachment C
8 AB 1840 Home Purchase Assistance Program: Eligibility Arambula (D)
Specifies that an applicant who meets all other requirements for a loan
under the program, including, but not limited to, any requirements
imposed on the agency in administering the program by specified
entities, and who is otherwise eligible under applicable federal and state
law, shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant's immigration
status. Expands the persons eligible to receive moneys from a
continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
09/06/2024: Vetoed by GOVERNOR.
9 AB 1957 Public Contracts: Best Value Construction Contracting Wilson (D)
Provides that existing law establishes a pilot program to allow the
Counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Monterey, Riverside, San Bernardino,
San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Yuba to select a bidder
on the basis of best value for construction projects in excess of a
specified amount. Authorizes any county of the State to utilize this
program and extends the operation of provisions until specified date.
Requires the board of supervisors of a participating county to submit a
specified report.
07/02/2024: Chaptered by Secretary
of State. Chapter No. 2024-058
10 AB 1961 End Hunger in California Act of 2024 Wicks (D)
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with
specified entities, to appoint and convene the End Hunger in California
Master Plan Task Force to make recommendations for future
comprehensive strategies aimed at addressing access to healthy and
culturally relevant food for all Californians. Requires the Department of
Food and Agriculture to serve as the lead agency for developing the End
Hunger in California Master Plan and to assist the task force in carrying
out its duties.
09/12/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
11 AB 1970 Mental Health: Black Mental Health Navigator Jackson (D)
Requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to
develop criteria for a specialty certificate program and specialized
training requirements for a Black Mental Health Navigator Certification.
Requires the department to collect and regularly publish data, not less
than annually, including, but not limited to, the number of individuals
certified and the number of individuals who are actively employed in a
community health worker role. Makes these provisions subject to an
appropriation.
08/15/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
12 AB 1999 Electricity: Fixed Charges Irwin (D)
Provides that under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission may
authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule on an income-graduated
basis. Prohibits modifications to the amount of the income-graduated
fixed charge from exceeding changes in inflation. Requires the
commission to adopt any modification to an existing fixed charge for the
collection of a reasonable portion of the fixed costs of providing electrical
service to residential customers in a stand-alone proceeding.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Failed passage.
Support
13 AB 2075 Resident Access Protection Act Alvarez (D)
Enacts the Resident Access Protection Act to provide a resident of a long-
term care facility with the right to in-person, onsite access to a visitor or a
health care and social services provider during a public health
emergency. Authorizes a State or local government order to deny resident
access to visitors and health care and social services providers for up to a
specified number of days during a public health emergency and
authorizes an extension of that order.
08/15/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Oppose
14 AB 2089 Local Government: Collection of Demographic Data Holden (D)
Requires a city, county, or city and county, when collecting demographic
data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of employees of the city, county,
or city and county, to include the additional collection categories and
tabulations for specified Black or African American groups.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
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2024 Contra Costa County Bills of Interest Attachment C
15 AB 2132 Health Care Services: Tuberculosis Low (D)
Requires a Medi-Cal managed care plan to ensure access to care for
latent tuberculosis infection and active tuberculosis disease and
coordination with local health department tuberculosis control programs
for plan enrollees with active tuberculosis disease. Requires a patient
who is a specified years of age or older receiving health care services in a
facility, clinic, center, office, or other setting, where primary care services
are provided, to be offered tuberculosis screening.
09/10/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.Support
16 AB 2200 Guaranteed Health Care for All Kalra (D)
Provides for the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act. Creates
the California 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. Provides that CalCare would be a health care service plan subject
to the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975. Appropriates
funds.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
17 AB 2236 Solid Waste: Recycled Paper Bags: Standards: Carryout Bauer-Kahan (D)
Provides that existing law prohibits a store from providing a single-use
carryout bag to a customer at the point of sale, with specified exceptions,
including an exemption for bags used to contain unwrapped food.
Recasts the definition of a single-use carryout bag to a carryout bag, and
revises the definition to mean a bag made of plastic, paper, or other
material that is provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale for
the purpose of carrying purchased goods and that is not a recycled paper
bag.
08/29/2024: In ASSEMBLY.
Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
18 AB 2263 The California Guaranteed Income Statewide Feasibility Friedman (D)
Provides for the California Guaranteed Income Statewide Feasibility
Study Act. Requires the Department of Social Services to contract with
one or more entities, subject to certain requirements, for the provision of
a Guaranteed Income Statewide Feasibility Study to provide
recommendations on the feasibility of a statewide Guaranteed Income
Program. Requires certain departments to disclose necessary data to the
department. Requires the study to include a steering committee
composed of various stakeholders.
09/13/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
19 AB 2265 Animals: Euthanasia McCarty (D)
Provides that existing law imposes various requirements relating to
animals on public animal control agencies and public animal shelters.
Defines Hayden's Law to mean several of those provisions relating to
animals. Requires a public animal control agency or public animal shelter
that seeks to adopt a policy, practice, or protocol that raises the potential
for conflict with Hayden's Law to first give notice to the city or county
body that funds the agency or shelter.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
20 AB 2284 County Employees' Retirement: Compensation Grayson (D)
Relates to the County Employees Retirement Law and the California
Public Employees' Pension Reform Act. Authorizes a retirement system to
define grade to mean a number of employees considered together
because they share similarities in job duties, schedules, unit recruitment
requirements, work location, collective bargaining unit or other logical
work-related group or class. Specifies that these provisions shall not
become operative in a county until the board of supervisors makes the
provisions applicable.
09/05/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
21 AB 2302 Open Meetings: Local Agencies: Teleconferences Addis (D)
Relates to existing law which imposes prescribed restrictions on remote
participation by a member of a legislative body of a local agency under
alternative teleconferencing provisions. Revises the limits, instead
prohibiting such participation for more than a specified number of
meetings per year, based on how frequently the legislative body regularly
meets.
08/27/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
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2024 Contra Costa County Bills of Interest Attachment C
22 AB 2330 Endangered Species: Incidental Take: Wildfire Holden (D)
Provides that under the California Endangered Species Act, the
Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species
by certain entities. Authorizes a city, county, special district, or other
local agency to submit to the department a wildfire preparedness plan.
Requires the plan to include a brief description of planned wildfire
preparedness activities, the approximate dates for the activities, and a
description of the candidate, endangered, and threatened species within
the plan area.
09/11/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
23 AB 2404 State and Local Public Employees: Labor Relations Lee (D)
Provides that it is not unlawful or a cause for discipline or other adverse
action against a public employee for that public employee to refuse to
enter property that is the site of a primary strike, perform work for a
public employer involved in a primary strike, or go through or work behind
a primary strike line. Prohibits a public employer from directing a public
employee to take those actions. Authorizes recognized employee
organization to inform employees of and encourage them to exercise
these rights.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
24 AB 2421 Employer-Employee Relations: Confidential Communication Low (D)
Prohibits local public agency employer, a State employer, a judicial
employer, a public school employer, a higher education employer, or
certain districts from questioning any employee or employee
representative regarding communications made in confidence between
an employee and a representative. Provides that such communications
would not be confidential if the representative was a witness or party to
any of the events forming the basis of a potential administrative
disciplinary or criminal investigation.
08/15/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
25 AB 2474 Retirement: County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 Lackey (R)
Relates to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. Authorizes the
Board of Retirement for the County of Los Angeles to have the monthly
warrant, check, or electronic fund transfer for the retirement allowance
or benefit be delivered to a prepaid account in accordance with certain
procedures. Defines account of the retired member or survivor of a
deceased retired member to include an account held in a living trust or
an income-only trust.
07/15/2024: Chaptered by Secretary
of State. Chapter No. 2024-108
26 AB 2489 Local Agencies: Contracts for Special Services Ward (D)
Requires a county board of supervisors or a representative, at least a
specified number of months before beginning a procurement process to
contract with persons for special services that are currently, or were
previously, performed by employees of the county represented by an
employee organization, to notify, in writing, the exclusive employee
representative of the workforce affected. Provides that this notice
requirement does not apply in the event of an emergency.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
Oppose
27 AB 2502 Public Contracts: Emergencies Rivas (D)
Defines an emergency as an immediate action to prevent or mitigate the
loss or impairment of life, health, property, or essential public services
caused by the impacts of homelessness.
03/04/2024: To ASSEMBLY
Committee on LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.
28 AB 2557 Local Agencies: Contracts for Special Services Ortega (D)
Requires each board of supervisors that solicits for and enters into a
specified contract for special services to post that contract and any
related documents on its website. Requires each contract to include the
objectives, desirables, and goals of the contract. Requires, before
beginning a procurement process to contract for functions, duties,
responsibilities, or services, the board to give reasonable written notice
to the exclusive employee representative of the workforce affected by the
contract.
08/15/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Oppose
29 AB 2561 Local Public Employees: Vacant Positions McKinnor (D)
Provides that the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act requires the governing body of
a public agency to meet and confer regarding conditions of employment
with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Requires a
public agency to present the status of vacancies and recruitment and
retention efforts at a public hearing at least once per fiscal year. Entitles
the organization to present at the hearing. Requires the agency, upon
request of the organization, to include specified information during the
hearing.
09/13/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.Oppose
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30 AB 2631 Local Agencies: Ethics Training Fong M (D)
Requires the Fair Political Practices Commission, in consultation with the
Attorney General, to create, maintain, and make available to local agency
officials an ethics training course.
08/26/2024: Chaptered by Secretary
of State. Chapter No. 2024-201
31 AB 2672 California Alternate Rates for Energy Program Petrie-Norris (D)
Requires that the California Alternate Rates for Energy Program include a
public housing authority owned or administered Homekey housing
facilities where the residents of the facility substantially meet the CARE
Program's income eligibility requirements, as determined by the Public
Utilities Commission, and the account is in the name of Homekey, a
nonprofit funded by Homekey, or the public housing authority that owns
or administers the facility. Allows electrical and gas corporations to offer
discounts.
09/11/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
32 AB 2710 Peace Officers: Active Shooter Incidents Lackey (R)
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to
convene a panel of law enforcement experts to report to the Legislature
and the commission, by specified date, specified topics related to active
shooter incidents, including successful trainings and response protocols
that have been demonstrated in active shooter incidents and the use of
school resource officers on campus for threat prevention, detection, and
assessment.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
33 AB 2751 Employer Communications During Nonworking Hours Haney (D)
Requires a public or private employer to establish a workplace policy that
provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from
the employer during nonworking hours, with certain exceptions. Defines
the right to disconnect. Requires nonworking hours to be established by
written agreement between an employer and employee. Authorizes an
employee to file a complaint of a pattern of violation of the bill's
provisions with the Labor Commissioner, punishable by a specified civil
penalty.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
34 AB 2871 Overdose Fatality Review Teams Maienschein (D)
Authorizes a county or regional group of counties to establish an
interagency overdose fatality review team to assist local agencies in
identifying and reviewing overdose fatalities, facilitate communication
among various persons and agencies involved in such fatalities, and
integrate local overdose prevention efforts through strategic planning,
data dissemination, and community collaboration. Authorizes the team
to be comprised of, among others, forensic pathology experts, coroners
and medical examiners.
09/05/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
35 AB 2882 California Community Corrections Performance Incentives McCarty (D)
Provides that existing law authorizes each county to establish a
Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund for a community
corrections program to be implemented by probation and advised by a
local Community Corrections Partnership. Adds a representative of a
community-based organization with experience in successfully providing
behavioral health treatment services to persons who have been
convicted of a criminal offense, and a representative of a Medi-Cal
managed care plan, to the partnership.
08/15/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Oppose
36 AB 2946 District Discretionary Funds: County of Orange Valencia (D)
Prohibits an Orange County Board of Supervisors member from awarding
district discretionary funds to a community organization or a nonprofit
organization unless the Board of Supervisors approves, by a majority
vote, that award.
09/14/2024: Chaptered by Secretary
of State. Chapter No. 2024-249
37 AB 2973 Emergency Services Hart (D)
Authorizes a county board of supervisors or a local emergency medical
services agency to provide or support the provision of EMS to persons
located within the county. Requires a county board of supervisors or a
local EMS agency to adopt a written policy setting forth specified
requirements for an emergency ambulance services provider in order to
enter into a contract with a provider for emergency ambulance services.
04/15/2024: In ASSEMBLY. Read
second time and amended. Re-
referred to Committee on HEALTH.
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38 AB 2975 Occupational Safety and Health Standards: Workplace Gipson (D)
Provides that existing law requires the Occupational Safety and Health
Standards Board to adopt standards developed by the Division of
Occupational Safety and Health that require certain types of hospitals to
adopt a workplace violence prevention plan. Requires that the standards
include a requirement that a hospital post, within reasonable proximity of
any public entrances where weapons detection devices are utilized, a
notice notifying the public that the hospital conducts screenings for
weapons on entry.
09/11/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
39 AB 3222 Drug Court Success Incentives Pilot Program Wilson (D)
Authorizes the superior courts in the Counties of Sacramento, San Diego,
Contra Costa, and Solano to conduct a pilot program to provide specific
supportive services to adult defendants who participate in the county's
drug court. Requires the Judicial Council to administer the program and
authorizes the council to establish guidelines and reporting requirements
for the participating drug courts.
05/16/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
40 AB 3233 Oil and Gas: Operations: Restrictions: Local Authority Addis (D)
Provides that existing law requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to
supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of
wells and the operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of
tanks and facilities attendant to oil and gas production. Authorizes a local
entity to limit or prohibit oil and gas operations or development in its
jurisdiction, notwithstanding any other law or any notice of intention,
supplemental notice, well stimulation treatment permit, or similar
authorization.
09/16/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.Support
41 AB 3264 Energy: Cost Framework: Residential Rates: Demand-Side Petrie-Norris (D)
Requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to
develop a framework for assessing, tracking, and analyzing total annual
energy costs paid by residential households in the State. Authorizes the
PUC to use the framework for purposes of evaluating any request by an
electrical corporation and gas corporation to track new spending eligible
for recovery or to adjust a revenue requirement.
09/16/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.Oppose
42 SB 42 Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE)Umberg (D)
Provides that the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment
Act authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a
voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement
services to provide behavioral health care to adults who are experiencing
a qualifying severe mental illness. Requires, commencing on the
specified date, the court provide ongoing notice throughout the CARE
proceedings unless the court determines that it likely would be
detrimental to the respondent.
09/11/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
43 SB 294 Health Care Coverage: Independent Medical Review Wiener (D)
Requires a health care service plan or disability insurer that provides
coverage for mental health or substance use disorders to treat a
modification, delay, or denial issued in response to an authorization
request for coverage of treatment for a mental health or substance use
disorder for an insured up to a specified age as if the modification, delay,
or denial is also a grievance submitted by the enrollee or insured. Extends
the date of the bill commencing. Relates to the authority of Director.
08/15/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
44 SB 402 Involuntary Commitment Wahab (D)
Authorizes a person to be taken into custody by a licensed mental health
professional. Requires a licensed mental health professional who is not
direct staff of, or contracted by, a county to complete a specified training
prior to exercising that authority and would prohibit those licensed
mental health professionals from transporting a person taken into
custody unless specifically authorized by the county to do so.
08/15/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
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45 SB 898 Criminal Procedure: Sexual Assault Resentencing Skinner (D)
Authorizes a court to consider if the defendant has been a victim of
sexual abuse or violence at any time during their incarceration when
determining whether to resentence the defendant to a term of
imprisonment with the possibility of parole. Authorizes a defendant to file
a petition for relief and makes that defendant entitled to a response from
the court, if, among other things, the defendant is currently committed to
the custody of the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation.
08/23/2024: In ASSEMBLY. Read
third time and amended. To third
reading.
46 SB 937 Development Projects: Fees and Charges Wiener (D)
Prohibits, for designated residential development projects, a local
agency from requiring payment of certain utility fees or charges on the
residential development for the construction of public improvements or
facilities until the date the first certificate of occupancy or first temporary
certificate of occupancy is issued. Authorizes a developer to guarantee
payment of certain fees or charges by posting a performance bond or a
letter of credit from a federally insured, recognized depository institution.
09/04/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
47 SB 964 Property Tax: Tax-Defaulted Property Sales Seyarto (R)
Relates to the sale to certain entities of a property that has been tax
defaulted for 5 years or more in an applicable county. Authorizes a
property or property interest to be offered for sale under provisions
authorizing a sale to certain entities that has not been offered for sale
under certain provisions if the State Board of Equalization conducts a
property valuation that shows that the property or property interest is
worth less than the amount of the defaulted debt.
05/16/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Oppose
48 SB 1011 Encampments: Penalties Jones (R)
Prohibits a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using,
maintaining, or placing personal property upon a street or sidewalk if a
homeless shelter, as defined, is available to the person.
04/16/2024: In SENATE Committee
on PUBLIC SAFETY: Reconsideration
granted.
49 SB 1013 Taxation: Property Tax Assistance Bradford (D)
Establishes the Property Tax Assistance for Descendants of Enslaved
Persons Program for purposes of making, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, moneys available to persons who meet specified criteria for
purposes of providing financial assistance equal to the total amount of
property taxes paid on a residential dwelling, or a specified amount,
whichever is less, and as subject to specified limitations.
05/16/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Support
50 SB 1017 Available Facilities for Inpatient Treatment Eggman (D)
Requires the Department of Health Care Services, with the Department
of Public Health and the Department of Social Services, and by conferring
with specified stakeholders, to develop a solution to collect, aggregate,
and display information about beds in specified types of facilities,
including licensed community care facilities and licensed residential
alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, identify the
availability of inpatient and residential mental health or substance use
treatment.
05/16/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
51 SB 1031 San Francisco Bay Area: Local Revenue Measure Wiener (D)
Authorizes the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to raise and
allocate new revenue and incur and issue bonds and other indebtedness.
Authorizes the commission to impose a retail transactions and use tax, a
regional payroll tax, a parcel tax, and a regional vehicle registration
surcharge in all or a subset of the 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay
area, with specified exceptions, in accordance with applicable
constitutional requirements.
05/24/2024: In SENATE. Read third
time. Passed SENATE. *****To
ASSEMBLY.
52 SB 1032 Housing Finance: Portfolio Restructuring Padilla (D)
Provides that existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and
Community Development to monitor and fund various multifamily
housing loans. Requires that projects receiving loan forgiveness meet
specified requirements, including that the projects maintain the same
number of affordable units at the same affordable housing cost as
provided in the project's regulatory agreement, except as specified.
08/15/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
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53 SB 1034 California Public Records Act: State of Emergency Seyarto (R)
Revises the unusual circumstances under which the time limit may be
extended to include the need to search for, collect, and appropriately
examine records during a state of emergency, as defined, proclaimed by
the Governor in the jurisdiction where the agency is located when the
state of emergency currently affects, due to the state of emergency, the
agency's ability to timely respond to requests due to staffing shortages or
closure of facilities where the requested records are located, except as
specified.
07/18/2024: Chaptered by Secretary
of State. Chapter No. 2024-161
54 SB 1050 California American Freedmen Affairs Agency Bradford (D)
Requires the Office of Legal Affairs to review, investigate, and make
certain determinations regarding applications from persons who claim
they are the dispossessed owner of property taken as a result of racially
motivated eminent domain. Authorizes, upon a rejection of the
determination of the Office of Legal Affairs by the State or local agency
that took property by racially motivated eminent domain, the
dispossessed owner to bring an action to challenge the taking or the
amount of compensation.
09/09/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
55 SB 1057 Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council Menjivar (D)
Provides that existing law requires a juvenile justice coordinating council
to consist of certain members. Requires each county juvenile justice
coordinating council to, at a minimum, consist of at least a specified
percent community representatives with the remainder of the seats
allocated in a specified manner.
08/15/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
Oppose
56 SB 1060 Property Insurance Underwriting: Risk Models Becker (D)
Authorizes, if a property insurer uses risk models for underwriting
purposes, the models to account for wildfire risk reduction associated
with hazardous fuel reduction, home hardening, defensible space, and
fire prevention activities. Requires an insurer using risk models for
underwriting purposes to report to the Department of Insurance the
extent to which models used for underwriting purposes account for
specified categories of risk mitigation, and other specified information.
06/26/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on INSURANCE: Not
heard.
57 SB 1072 Local Government: Proposition 218: Remedies Padilla (D)
Provides for procedures and parameters for local compliance with the
requirements of the State Constitution for assessments and property-
related fees. Requires a local agency, if a court determines that a fee or
charge for a property-related service violates the provisions of the State
Constitution relating to fees and charges, to credit the amount of the fee
or charge attributable to the violation against the amount required to
provide the service, unless a refund is explicitly provided for by statute.
09/09/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
58 SB 1082 Augmented Residential Care Facilities Eggman (D)
Requires the Department of Health Care Services, jointly with the County
Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, to implement a
certification program to provide augmented services to adults with
serious mental illness in homelike community settings. Requires those
settings to be licensed by the Department of Social Services as an
augmented residential care facility. Requires an ARCF to, among other
requirements, conform with specified provisions of the State Community
Care Facilities Act.
05/16/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
59 SB 1124 Deceptive Practices: Service Members and Veterans Menjivar (D)
Expands the definition of public social services to also include other
veterans benefits. Expands the definition of an unreasonable fee to
include a fee charged with respect to federal veterans benefits that
exceeds the amount that could be charged for those services by an
attorney or claims agent accredited by the United States Department of
Veterans Affairs.
05/16/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
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60 SB 1159 Environmental Quality Act: Roadside Wildfire Risk Dodd (D)
Relates to categorical exemptions to the requirements of the California
Environmental Quality Act. Requires the Office of Planning and Research
to evaluate, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources to consider, the
inclusion of roadside projects no more than a specified number of road
miles from a municipality or census-designated place that are
undertaken solely for the purpose of wildfire risk reduction in the classes
of projects subject to a categorical exemption.
08/15/2024: In ASSEMBLY
Committee on APPROPRIATIONS:
Held in committee.
Support
61 SB 1245 In-Home Supportive Services: Health Professional Ochoa Bogh (R)
Defines licensed health care professional for specified purposes to mean
any person who engages in acts that are the subject of licensure or
regulation under specified provisions of the Business and Professions
Code or under any initiative act referred to in those specified provisions.
05/16/2024: In SENATE Committee
on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Support
62 SB 1254 CalFresh: Enrollment of Incarcerated Individuals Becker (D)
Requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a CalFresh
workgroup. Requires the State Department of Social Services to partner
with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and county jails to
allow for preenrollment of otherwise eligible applicants for the Calfresh
Program to ensure that an applicant's benefits may begin before the
reentry of the applicant into the community from the State prison or
county jail.
09/09/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
63 SB 1317 Inmates: Psychiatric Medication: Informed Consent Wahab (D)
Requires any county that, between specified dates, administers
involuntary medication to any inmate awaiting arraignment, trial, or
sentencing, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, as
specified. Requires any involuntary treatment to be consistent with the
standard of care. Permits the county to demonstrate a documented
attempt to locate an available bed by submitting a declaration under
penalty of perjury.
09/04/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
64 SB 1400 Criminal Procedure: Competence to Stand Trial Stern (D)
Provides that existing law requires, in the case of a misdemeanor charge
in which the defendant is found incompetent, the court to either dismiss
the case or hold a hearing to determine if the defendant is eligible for
diversion. Requires, if the defendant is accepted into assisted outpatient
treatment, has a petition for the establishment of a conservatorship filed,
or is accepted into the Community Assistance, Recovery, and
Empowerment Program, the court to dismiss the charges at specified
timeframes.
09/12/2024: *****To GOVERNOR.
65 SB 1432 Health Facilities: Seismic Standards Caballero (D)
Provides that existing law requires that, by the specified date, owners of
certain hospitals must either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute
care use all hospital buildings that are not in compliance with seismic
safety building standards or seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient
hospital buildings. Authorizes a hospital owner or operator to submit an
application, by specified dates, to the Department of Health Care Access
and Information for additional extensions to the compliance deadline.
09/12/2024: Vetoed by GOVERNOR.Support
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CSAC End-of-Session Bills of Interest
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Awaiting Governor’s Action
AB 2432 (Gabriel) California Victims of Crime Act
POSITION: Support
Enrolled on 08/29/24, and awaiting the Governor’s signature, this bill would establish the
California Crime Victims Fund (CVF) and would authorizes courts to impose additional fines
on corporations convicted of a misdemeanor or felony, known as the corporate white-collar
criminal enhancement, with the fines deposited into the California Crime Victims
Fund. CSAC supports AB 2432 as it strengthens existing services for crime victims, as well
as to help ensure that victim advocates, district attorneys, and other providers have
additional resources to conduct critical services.
SB 1400 (Stern) Criminal procedure: competence to stand
POSITION: Oppose Unless Amended
This measure would require hearings for misdemeanor incompetent to stand trial (IST)
defendants, and amongst other provisions, would make considerable changes to
the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act. County concerns to
SB 1400 largely relate to the late-breaking and significant changes to the bill without any
county engagement on the proposed new data collection and reporting requirements under
the CARE Act. The amendments directly impact county behavioral health agencies by
requiring that they report specified data elements for both active and former CARE
participants, which creates potentially invasive tracking, alongside increased pressure to
county administrative functions. Notably, some of the added requirements are not Medi-Cal
reimbursable activities and some of the data counties do not have access to. Given that the
bill was substantially amended during final week of session, with no notice given or input
sought from counties, further amendments were not possible. CSAC was part of a coalition
including UCC, RCRC, and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association (CBHDA) in
opposition to SB 1400.
Signed by the Governor
SB 1144 (Skinner) Marketplaces: online marketplaces
POSITION: Support
This bill will expand existing definitions to apply to a wider range of sellers and consumers
and would ensure that online marketplaces create both a policy that prohibits the sale of
stolen goods and a mechanism in which individuals may report the sale of stolen
goods. CSAC supports SB 1144 in that it would increase protections for online retailers to
mitigate the impacts of retail theft via increasing transparency for consumers and expanding
law enforcement response capacity. SB 1144 is a part of the legislature’s bipartisan retail
theft bill package, signed into law by Governor Newsom on August 16, 2024.
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AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Awaiting Governor’s Action
SB 366 (Caballero) The California Water Plan: long-term supply targets
POSITION: Support
Sponsored by CSAC, this bill would update the California Water Plan and require the
Department of Water Resources to develop a long-term water supply planning target for
2050. This bill was approved by both Legislative houses and is currently awaiting
Governor’s action.
SB 1101 (Limon) Fire prevention: prescribed fire: state contracts: maps
POSITION: Support
This bill would require CAL FIRE to use spatial planning tools and comprehensive mapping
(“potential operational delineations”) as a tool for strategic wildfire response. This bill was
approved by both Legislative houses and is currently awaiting Governor’s action.
AB 2902 (Wood) Solid waste: reduction and recycling
POSITION: Support
One of CSAC’s top Legislative Priorities in 2024 was addressing the issues that counties
face in their efforts to meet the state’s SB 1383 organic waste diversion goals. This bill
would extend the existing rural exemption for counties with less than 70,000 residents until
January 1, 2037. This bill passed both Legislative houses and is currently awaiting
Governor’s action.
AB 3323 (Addis) Oil and gas: operations: restrictions: local authority
POSITION: Support
This bill would enhance local control over land use and zoning issues, with regards to oil
and gas operations. Counties have a vested interest in maintaining their clear authority to
govern oil and gas-related land uses throughout their jurisdictions and this bill would clarify
in statute that these local powers apply to the regulation of oil and gas production facilities.
This bill passed both Legislative houses and is currently awaiting Governor’s action.
Held in Appropriations
SB 610 (Wiener) Fire prevention: wildfire mitigation area: defensible space: State Fire
Marshal
POSITION: Concern
This bill would have shifted fire mapping from the Board of Forestry to the State Fire
Marshall, and creates a new wildfire mitigation area designation to replace fire hazard
severity zones. CSAC held concerns with this bill and proactively advocated for changes in
the language if it moved forward. The bill was held in Assembly Appropriations.
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AB 2560 (Alvarez) Density Bonus Law: California Coastal Act of 1976
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would have required, amongst other things, for local governments in the coastal
zone to amend local coastal programs to comply with both the Density Bonus Law and the
California Coastal Act. The bill was held in Senate Appropriations.
AB 2223 (Aguiar-Curry) Cannabis: industrial hemp
POSITION: Support
This bill was intended to address the proliferation of intoxicating hemp products being sold
outside the licensed cannabis market by creating a regulatory framework within the
Department of Cannabis Control. There was controversy over provisions that would have
allowed for the integration of non-intoxicating hemp byproducts (like CBD) into cannabis
products, and as a result bill was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Failed to Meet Deadline
SB 620 (McGuire) Low-impact camping areas
POSITION: Support
The two-year bill would have defined and created standards for “low-impact camping areas”
with an opt-in clause for counties. The bill made it through both houses before narrowly
missing the end of session deadline and, therefore, dying in the Legislature.
GOVERNMENT FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
Awaiting Governor’s Action
AB 2561 (McKinnor) – Local public agencies: vacant positions.
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would impose an expensive reimbursable state mandate on thousands of public
agencies, requiring every local agency to hold annual public hearings in front of their
legislative body regardless of their vacancy rates or size and requires that labor unions
have the opportunity to present at the hearing. For agencies that experience a vacancy rate
of 20% within a bargaining unit, the bill requires the agency to report on the total number of
vacancies within the bargaining unit, the total number of applicants for the vacant positions,
the average number of days to complete the hiring process, and opportunities to improve
compensation and other working conditions.
AB 884 (Low) – Elections: language accessibility.
POSITION: Oppose Unless Amended
This bill would create a new state-mandated local program by requiring county elections
officials to provide specified elections materials in additional languages and provide
additional language services. The law was amended late in the session to delay its
implementation until January 1, 2028.
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AB 2715 (Boerner) – Ralph M. Brown Act: closed sessions.
POSITION: Support
This bill would authorize local agencies’ governing bodies to convene a closed session to
consider or evaluate matters related to cybersecurity.
AB 3025 (Valencia) – County employees’ retirement: disallowed compensation:
benefit adjustments.
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would place a significant financial burden on county retirement system member
agencies by requiring agencies, including counties, cities, and special districts, to pay
substantial penalties to employees who have been found to have disallowed compensation,
as determined by the so-called Alameda decision ((Alameda County Deputy Sheriff’s
Association v. Alameda County Employees’ Retirement Association (2020) ). Employers are
required to reimburse pension systems for any overpayment made to retired members (or
their survivors and beneficiaries), pay the retired member 20% of their “lost” pension
income, and, for active members, requires the system to reimburse the member for any
overpayments.
SB 399 (Wahab) – Employer communications: intimidation.
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would prohibit an employer from subjecting, or threatening to subject, an employee
to any adverse action because the employee declines to attend an employer-sponsored
meeting about political or religious matters. The bill passed out of the floor with a promise to
fix the bill next year to address concerns expressed by local government associations.
Signed by the Governor
SB 1034 (Seyarto) – California Public Records Act: state of emergency.
POSITION: Support
This bill amends the definition of “unusual circumstances” in the California Public Records
Act (CPRA) to include the need to respond to a CPRA request during an emergency. The
Governor signed the measure on July 18 (Chapter 161, Statutes of 2024).
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Awaiting Governor’s Action
AB 1168 (Bennett) Emergency medical services (EMS): prehospital EMS
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would overturn extensive legal action to give the City of Oxnard Section .201 rights,
fragmenting the EMS system in Ventura County and opening the door for other jurisdictions
to follow suit when unsuccessful in the courts. Counties are required by the EMS Act to
create a local EMS system that is timely, safe, and equitable for all residents. To do so,
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counties honor .201 authorities and contract with both public and private agencies to ensure
coverage of underserved areas regardless of the challenges inherent in providing uniform
services throughout geographically diverse areas. AB 1168 overturns years of case law and
agreements between cities and a county regarding the provision of emergency services,
creates major uncertainty for counties who are the responsible local government entity for
providing equitable emergency medical services for all of their residents, and could
ultimately lead to fragmented and inequitable EMS statewide. Along with UCC and RCRC,
CSAC submitted a Request for Veto letter to the Governor on AB 1168.
AB 2496 (Pellerin) Foster family agencies and noncustodial adoption agencies
POSITION: NO POSITION
This bill would give the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) the authority to
streamline the process of transferring resource family home approval from a Foster Family
Agency (FFA) that closes to the county or another FFA, prohibit the use of certain types of
indemnification contracts between counties and FFAs for two years, and establish a
process to find a solution to the lack of liability insurance options for FFAs. The author
brought forward this measure in response to an announcement made earlier this year by
the Nonprofit Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC), which insures about 90 percent of
FFAs in the state, that they would no longer renew insurance coverage for FFAs. CSAC
opposed a previous version of this bill. However, after good faith negotiations with the
author and sponsors of the measure, AB 2496 was amended to include a two-year sunset
provision on the indemnification prohibition and add the language to streamline the transfer
of resource family home approval. As a result, CSAC joined RCRC and UCC in dropping
our opposition to AB 2496 prior to its passage in the Legislature.
SB 37 (Caballero) Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Housing Stability Act
POSITION: Support
This bill would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, establish the Older Adults and Adults
with Disabilities Housing Stability Pilot Program. This pilot program would offer competitive
grants in up to five geographic regions or counties to administer housing subsidies for older
adults and adults with disabilities who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of
homelessness. SB 37 aligns with CSAC’s AT HOME plan (Accountability, Transparency,
Housing, Outreach, Mitigation, & Economic Opportunity) and will provide a critical tool to
housing and preventing new entrances into homelessness among California’s aging and
dependent adult populations. CSAC submitted a Request for Signature letter to the
Governor on SB 37.
SB 1238 (Eggman) Health Facilities
POSITION: No Position
This bill would expand the definition of a “designated facility” or “facility designated by the
county for evaluation and treatment” for the purposes of an involuntary hold under the
Lanterman-Petric-Short (LPS) Act to include additional facilities. This measure has been
referred to as a “clean-up” measure to SB 43 (Chapter 637, Statutes of 2023), which
expanded the definition of “gravely disabled” to also include a condition in which a person is
unable to provide for their personal safety, medical care, and basic needs as a result of a
severe substance use disorder (SUD), or a co-occurring Mental Health (MH)/SUD. Although
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CSAC does not have an official position, counties actively engaged with the Administration
and the Legislature on this measure.
SB 1249 (Roth) Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act
POSITION: Support in Concept
This measure would move forward several recommendations of the California Department
of Aging (CDA) CA 2030 Steering Committee to create a future-ready aging network in
California. Specifically, SB 1249 would establish a CDA-led stakeholder process to identify
core programs and services, develop objectives and performance measurements for those
core programs and services, develop a consumer engagement plan, and update the
intrastate funding formula for area agencies on aging (AAAs). In addition, it would require
CDA to work with stakeholders to establish criteria for applying for a AAA designation and
removing a AAA designation. Following the rulemaking process for that criteria, a county
would be able to submit a letter of intent to be considered for designation.
HOUSING, LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION
Awaiting Governor’s Action
AB 98 (Carrillo) Planning and zoning: logistics use: truck routes
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would limit local governments from approving warehouses on existing or rezoned
industrial sites within 900 feet of homes, hospitals, schools and public recreational areas
with only a few exemptions. The bill also requires local governments to extensively update
the Circulation Element within their General Plan (GP), which requires updates to truck
routes, signage, parking and idling. This bill also states that if local governments do not
update the GP Circulation Element, the Attorney General can fine the county $50,000 every
6 months.
AB 653 (Reyes) Public housing authorities: reports
POSITION: Support
This bill would require all public housing authorities to report specified data, including their
monthly success rates at the first of each month, to the Department of the Housing and
Community Development (HCD) beginning on July 1, 2025, and annually thereafter.
Additionally, the bill would require HCD to convene a group of housing authorities to discuss
factors that impact success rates and recommendations for state and local intervention and
require HCD, in consultation with participants in the Housing Choice Voucher program and
other stakeholders to publicly publish a report with recommendations for state and local
interventions to improve success rates.
AB 1886 (Alvarez) Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing
Accountability Act
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would specify that a Housing Element or amendment to a Housing Element is not
considered substantially compliant with Housing Element Law until a local agency has
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adopted a Housing Element that the Department of Housing and Community Development
(HCD) has determined is in substantial compliance with Housing Element Law. CSAC
opposed the bill along with CalCities and the Rural County Representatives of California
(RCRC) because it essentially turns its back to a fundamental provision of Housing Element
Law – that a city and county may disagree with HCD; explain why its Housing Element is in
substantial compliance with the law; and then adopt that Housing Element, which is
thereafter considered “in substantial compliance with Housing Element Law.”
AB 1893 (Wicks) Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals: required local
findings
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would specify that a local government may not disapprove a ”Builder’s Remedy
project” if the local government’s Housing Element was not in substantial compliance with
the Housing Accountability Act (HAA) on the date the Builder’s Remedy project application
was deemed complete.
SB 768 (Caballero) California Environmental Quality Act: Department of Housing and
Community Development: vehicle miles traveled: study
POSITION: Support
This bill would task the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), in
consultation with local governments and other interested parties to conduct a study on how
vehicle miles traveled (VMT) is used as a metric for measuring transportation impacts of
housing projects pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
SB 937 (Wiener) Development projects: permits: fees and charges
*This bill amends the Mitigation Fee Act
POSITION: Oppose
This bill would governor the collection of development related fees that pay for the costs to
install infrastructure necessary to build new homes and other developments in livable,
equitable, and thriving communities. The bill restricts the timely funding of vital infrastructure
and services necessary to build new homes in livable, equitable, and thriving communities.
The bill would, among other things, for certain developments, defer development related
fees until the certificate of occupancy or its equivalent, while drastically limiting exceptions
to this rule.
SB 1395 (Becker) Shelter crisis: Low Barrier Navigation Center: use by right: building
standards
POSITION: Support
This bill would extend the sunset on authorized emergency housing under the Shelter Crisis
Act (SCA) to January 1, 2036 and specifically, allows actions related to contracting for
services for a homeless shelter under the SCA to be exempt from the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), eliminates the sunset for by-right approval of low barrier
navigation centers and exempts from CEQA certain actions by local agencies related to low
barrier navigation centers, and clarifies that state programs subject to “Housing First”
includes programs that fund emergency shelters and interim housing.
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Signed by the Governor
AB 1957 (Wilson) Public contracts: best value construction contracting for counties
POSITION: Support
This bill will extend best value contracting to allow all counties to attract a more qualified
and stronger contractor bidding pool, reduce bad actors during the contractor selection
process, and increase the percentage of skilled craftworkers on county construction projects
while reducing the otherwise contentious relationships fostered under the traditional low-bid
process; this bill gives counties the ability to select the contractor with skill sets directly
applicable to the requirements of the project.
AB 3057 (Wilson) California environmental Quality Act: exemption: junior accessory
dwelling units ordinances
POSITION: Support
This bill will extend the current exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA), which already apply to standard Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), to include
JADUs. By simplifying the process for constructing JADUs, this bill makes it easier, faster,
and more affordable for families to create additional living spaces within their homes.
SB 1361 (Blakespear) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: local
agencies: contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness
POSITION: Support
This bill will exempt actions taken by counties and cities to approve a contract for providing
services for people experiencing homelessness from CEQA requirements.
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TO: Legislation Committee Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors
FROM: Michelle Rubalcava Geoff Neill
DATE: September 18, 2024
RE: The Second 2023-24 Extraordinary Session
Governor Newsom called the Legislature into extraordinary session on August 31, the last day of the 2023-24 regular session, as it became clear that the Legislature would not be passing SB 950 (Skinner), related to maintaining fuel supply from refineries during planned maintenance. The proclamation lists two substantive purposes for the special session: (1) authorizing the CEC to adopt regulations to require refineries to demonstrate resupply plans and arrangements adequate to address losses in production due to maintenance before planned maintenance can be scheduled and permitted, while also accounting for protecting the health and safety of refinery employees and the public, (2) authorizing the CEC to impose minimum inventory supply requirements on refiners to keep transportation fuel supply stable. Within minutes of the proclamation, the Assembly gaveled the special session in and then continued with their last-day-of-session business. Senate President pro Tem Mike McGuire also reacted quickly, but differently, releasing a statement that the Senate would not be convening the special session and had been willing to pass the bills in question for months. There does not seem to be an example in California history of a house of the Legislature not convening in special session called by the Governor. This was one of several divisions that became visible between the Senate, Assembly, and Governor in August and September. Notably, while the Governor has signed a few dozen Assembly bills this month, he has not yet
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RE: The Second 2023-24 Extraordinary Session September 18, 2024 Page 2 of 2 signed any Senate bills, as of September 18. He has until the end of the month to do so. The Assembly has scheduled informational hearings for September 18 and 19, a bill hearing for September 26, and floor session for October 1, the day after the deadline for the Governor to sign or veto bills. The Speaker has created the Assembly Committee on Petroleum and Gasoline Supply for the session, chaired by Assembly Member Cottie Petrie-Norris. The California Constitution says the Governor “may cause the Legislature to assemble in special session” on “extraordinary occasions.” During a special session, the Legislature may pass bills “only on subjects specified in the proclamation” and they go into effect 91 days after being signed, except urgency bills, which go into effect immediately. Assembly Members have introduced eight bills in the special session so far. ABX2-1 (Hart) is the bill that the Governor envisioned when he called the special session and directly addresses the issues in the proclamation. ABX2-2 through ABX2-7 are authored by Assembly Republicans and address the following topics: suspending the gas tax, changing gas specifications to more closely match with those in other states, temporarily disallowing the CARB from amending the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulation is, ending the use of GHG funds for high-speed rail, streamlined CEQA for petroleum storage projects, and creating a website detailing how California gas prices, including gas taxes, compare to other states. ABX2-8 (Gibson) would delay regulations related to at-berth emissions for tanker vessels carrying petroleum crude or petroleum products. Only ABX2-1 is currently scheduled to be heard at the committee hearing on September 26.
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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Staff Report
1025 ESCOBAR STREET
MARTINEZ, CA 94553
File #:24-3003 Agenda Date:9/23/2024 Agenda #:6.
LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: September 23, 2024
Subject:Development of the 2025-26 Contra Costa County State and Federal Legislative Platforms and
Proposed Engagement Activities
Submitted For: Legislation Committee
Department: County Administrator’s Office
Referral No:
Referral Name:
Presenter: E. Struthers
Contact: L. DeLaney, 925-655-2057
Referral History:
The Legislation Committee regularly reviews and provides input on the development of the County’s State and
Federal Legislative Platforms.
In 2020, the County shifted its State and Federal Legislative Platforms from one to two-year documents
running concurrently with the legislative and congressional sessions.
With the start of new sessions anticipated in January 2025, the County Administrator's Office, which is
responsible for coordinating the development of the Platforms, launched the Platform development process for
the 2025-2026 session in September 2024. With the anticipated retirement of the County’s Legislative
Coordinator, Lara DeLaney, the County Administrator’s Office has selected Deputy County Administrator
Emlyn Struthers to succeed Ms. DeLaney and provide these legislative services, including providing staff
support to the Board’s Legislation Committee.
Referral Update:
Every two years, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors adopts a State and a Federal Legislative
Platform. The Legislative Platforms establishes the policy statements, principles, and priorities of the Contra
Costa County Board of Supervisors. The Legislative Platforms alert our legislative and congressional partners
of the greatest needs of our residents and where we need additional help. The Platforms also provide general
direction to County departments and agencies, legislative advocates, delegation members, and the public of the
County’s positions on key policy matters that would impact the way the County does business.
Throughout the legislative session, the County will review and take positions on various policy, regulatory, and
budgetary proposals. When a position is consistent with existing County policies, as adopted in the Platform,
the County Administrator’s Office or department staff will prepare an official County position letter for
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signature by the Board Chair.
The current Legislative Platforms (links below) were developed for the 2023-2024 Legislative Session, which
has concluded-- although a Special Session has been called by Governor Newsom. In preparation for the
upcoming 2025-2026 Legislative Session, which begins in January, the County Administrator’s Office is
meeting with key stakeholders and soliciting input to develop new platforms.
Overview of 2025-2026 Legislative Platform Development Timeline
·September-October 2024: CAO Staff are holding more than two dozen meetings with Board Members,
legislative and congressional delegation members, department heads and department legislative/policy
staff, and the County’s state and federal lobbyists to review and receive feedback on the County’s
Legislative Platforms.
·October-November 2024: CAO Staff will incorporate proposed recommendations and changes into
draft 2025-2026 Legislative Platforms.
·December 2024: Legislation Committee will receive, discuss, and as appropriate, recommend adoption
of the draft Legislative Platforms to the Board of Supervisors.
·January 2025: Board of Supervisors will consider and adopt the 2025-2026 Legislative Platforms.
The County Administrator’s Office Legislative team is coordinating more than two dozen meetings with the
offices of elected officials, department heads and legislative staff to kick-off the development of the Contra
Costa County 2025-2026 Legislative Platforms. Staff will also present to advisory bodies and community-based
organizations, upon request, to receive input on the draft platforms and educate interested parties on the
process.
Platform development meetings began in mid-September and will continue through November. In these
meetings, departments are requested to review the existing Platforms in the context of current and future
opportunities and challenges and in consideration of platforms developed by their professional associations.
Staff will also solicit federal community project funding request project ideas. Staff will incorporate the various
recommendations and priorities into new draft Platforms to be presented for discussion at the Legislation
Committee’s December meeting, scheduled for Dec. 9 at 2:30 p.m. (Note date and time change.) The
Legislation Committee will then transmit the draft Platforms with any additional proposed changes to the Board
of Supervisors for their consideration and adoption by January of 2025.
Proposed Outreach and Engagement during the Upcoming Legislative Session
Staff and the County’s lobbyists are working to build upon the outreach efforts related to the Platform
development to help enhance advocacy and engagement throughout the upcoming session.
Examples of proposed engagement activities during the upcoming 2025-2026 legislative session include:
·Convening quarterly “District Director Roundtables”
·Offering “Virtual Lobbyist Office Hours” to Department Heads/ Key Staff
·Supporting the Delta Counties Coalition (DCC) efforts
·Supporting Supervisorial engagement in key policy working groups with CSAC and NACo, such as the
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California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Insurance Working Group
·Participating in County Caucus meetings held regularly with CSAC staff, legislative coordinators, and
County advocates
·Participating in Urban Counties of California (UCC) Key Staff meetings and UCC Board Meetings
·Attending CSAC and National Association of Counties (NACo) legislative conferences
·Developing tracking mechanisms to provide greater transparency & engagement.
By continuing to engage with legislative staff, professional organizations, and department staff throughout the
legislative session, the County can respond in a timely, effective manner to issues that pertain to our adopted
legislative platforms.
Attachment(s):
·2023-2024 State Legislative Platform <https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/81997/2023-24-
Adopted-State-Platform--As-amended-020624>
·2023-2024 Federal Legislative Platform <https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/82741/2023-
24-Adopted-Federal-Platform--as-amended-020624->
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE the report and provide direction and/or input as needed.
Fiscal Impact (if any): None
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