Bill Archive
2019-2020 Session

Increases the state low-income housing tax credit program by $500 million annually, to sunset in 2025.

Housing Finance

Authorizes localities to create affordable housing and infrastructure agencies, which would use tax increment financing; 30% of proceeds must go for affordable housing; schools and special districts required to be made whole, the schools through General Fund appropriations; unspecified dollar limit on appropriations.

Housing Finance

AB 14
(Luz Rivas)

Upon appropriation, allows HCD to fund housing through the MHP program for homeless youth (ages 18-24) and for homeless families with at least one member under age 18.

AB 16
(Luz Rivas)

Requires a local educational agency (LEA), including charter schools, ensure that the LEA identifies all homeless students and report the count to Dept. of Education; requires the Dept. of Ed. to maintain three additional state coordinator positions for homeless education, and requires the Dept. to fund three technical assistance centers.

Establishes a right to housing for children and families and requires various state departments and agencies to consider this right when revising programs and track certain performance outcomes.

Modifies Costa-Hawkins to allow local govs to control rents on single-family homes and condos, with an exception for smaller owners owning 10 or fewer units in a jurisdiction; also allows local government to stabilize rent on any multifamily unit more then 10 years old.

Landlord-Tenant

Requires existing buildings in very high fire zones, upon transfer, to meet enhanced fire hardening requirements; creates a loan program to retrofit existing buildings to meet the standards, with no appropriation; previous version allocated $1B for the loan program.

Codes & Enforcement

Alters planning and procedural requirements of the Mental Health Services Act.

Requires the state Dept. of Health Care Services to submit to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a request for renewal of the Assisted Living Waiver program with specified amendments, including increasing the number of authorized participants from 5,744 to 18,500.

AB 53
(Jones-Sawyer)

Establishes procedures for landlords to use when inquiring about a prospective tenant's past criminal history, including an opportunity to respond; prohibits rental housing discrimination based on an arrest without conviction, an expunged conviction, or activities dealt with in the juvenile justice system.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 58
(Luz Rivas)

Requires the state Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to include a representative from the state Dept of Education.

AB 67
(Luz Rivas)

Requires HCD to create a state homeless integrated data warehouse, including population data, access to services, and stated reasons for homelessness.

Makes numerous miscellaneous changes to accessory dwelling unit law, including providing for some ministerial approvals, and requiring local govs to allow junior accessory dwelling units.

Creates a state loan guarantee program to facilitate ADU construction.

Housing Finance

AB 79
(Budget Comm)

FY 20-21 human services budget trailer bill includes provisions to: permit a county to extend the services provided to former foster youth participating in the Transitional Housing Program-Plus; allow the rates paid in the Nonminor Dependent Transitional Housing Program to be supplemented with a housing supplement, based on fair market rent.

AB 83
(Budget comm)

Housing budget trailer bill: 1) Allocates $300 million from the National Mortgage Settlement for housing counseling services to homeowners or renters and provide mortgage assistance to households; 2) Allocates $31 million to Judicial Council for legal services to provide eviction defense or other tenant assistance; 3) Allows state properties to be exchanged for other properties suitable for affordable housing; 4) Revises the requirements for a unit to qualify for inclusion in a committed assistance program, including extending long-term affordability to at least 55 years; 5) Authorizes units in a motel or hotel converted to residential to count towards a jurisdiction's adequate sites; 6)Revises the definition of committed assistance; 7) Provides that the Special Occupancy Parks Act does not apply to a non-profit entity under temporary, permanent, or emergency use; 8) Creates a $300M Round 2 of Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) funding: $90 million to Continuums of Care, $130 million to each city with a population of 300,000 or more, and $80 million to counties; 9) Requires a HHAP program recipient to use at least 8 percent of the funds for homeless youth populations; 10) Requires HHAP funding to be expending using Housing First principles; 11)Requires a HHAP recipient to expend funds on evidence-based solutions that address and prevent homelessness, including rapid rehousing, rental subsidies and incentives to landlords, services coordination, and operating subsidies in new and existing affordable or supportive housing units, emergency shelters, and navigation centers; 12) Extends the deadline for a jurisdiction to encumber its SB 2 planning dollars to December 31, 2020, and expend those funds no later than 2023. 13) Extends until January 31, 2021, the time that a jurisdiction may request an allocation of funds for the Local Early Action Planning Grants; 14) Allows any remaining funds in the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund, the Rental Housing Construction Program, and the Family Housing Demonstration to be transferred to the General Fund, upon order of the Department of Finance; 15) Requires funds from the Coronavirus Relief Fund to provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness be disbursed through a new Project Room Key, in accordance with the Multifamily Housing Program, including grants to cities, counties, and other local public entities for acquisition or rehabilitation of motels or hotels, master leasing of properties,acquisition of apartments or homes, adult residential facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly, manufactured housing, purchase of affordability covenants, relocation costs for individuals who are being displaced as a result of rehabilitation, and operating subsidies; 16) Provides a CEQA exemption for Project Room Key projects, under certain conditions, including 55-year affordability covenants; 17) Revises housing tax credit requirements and procedures for CTCAC and CDLAC; 18) Revises requirements for recovery housing providers funding public funding; 19) Provides that funds appropriated to the Housing Navigator program are subject to the suspension if certain projections are not met for the General Fund.

Fiscal Year 2020-21 main budget bill.

AB 133
(Quirk-Silva)

Revises income limit for senior and disabled property tax postponement to $45,000 and reduces the interest rate from 7% to 55%"

AB 139
(Quirk-Silva)

Requires COGs to include housing needs of the homeless when developing allocations; revises housing element requirements for shelters.

AB 143
(Quirk-Silva)

Adds Alameda County, Orange County, all cities within those counties, and San Jose to the jurisdictions eligible special rules for homeless shelter construction and standards; extends the special rules to 2023.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 146
(Quirk-Silva)

Authorizes Caltrans to lease airspace for a nominal fee to cities and counties in Orange County and the Orange County Housing Trust.

AB 148
(Quirk-Silva)

Requires a sustainable communities strategy to identify areas within the region sufficient to house an 8-year projection of the emergency shelter needs for the region; requires a metropolitan planning organization to identify the region’s progress and determine whether the development will successfully meet the 8-year projection.

AB 168
(Aguiar-Curry)

Requires a pre-consultation process with a California Native American tribe prior to an SB 35 streamlined project approval on a site that is a tribal cultural resource site.

Extends for one year various provisions that allow mobilehome owners to clear title and back taxes owed, in particular when a former owner failed to properly transfer title or pay taxes.

Provides that for residential buildings repaired or replaced following a natural disaster before 2020, only photovoltaic requirements in place when the original structure was built are required, if the owner was below AMI and the house is not being enlarged.

Codes & Enforcement

Assembly edition of the main 2019-20 state budget bill.

Housing Finance

AB 191
(Patterson)

Exempts residential buildings being rebuilt after a natural disaster from meeting post-2006 energy efficiency standards; leaves to local discretion if sprinklers will be required.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 192
(Mathis)

Establishes the California Integrated Community Living Program in the state Department of Developmental Services, with support from HCD, to provide deferred payment loans for the construction of permanent supportive housing for current regional center clients (who are developmentally disabled).

Housing Finance

AB 195
(Patterson)

Requires HCD's annual reports to include specified information relating to grants, including the amount of the original awards to recipients, the portions not yet disbursed, and an estimate of how many individuals could benefit from the remaining balance.

Housing Finance

Makes a property owner or public agency participating in a lead paint abatement program immune from suits from paint manufacturers; an appellate court decision suggested that the manufacturers might be able to sue based on comparative negligence.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 234
(Nazarian)

Allows a 30% income tax credit for seismic retrofits, with a statewide cap of $12M per year on the credits.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 246
(Mathis)

Allows Caltrans to offer airspace at currently-used parcels to cities and counties at nominal rates for shelter, feeding, and park purposes.

AB 264
(Melendez)

Allows a 100% income tax credit for all development impact fees and connection fees for all single-family and multifamily housing.

Housing Finance

AB 282
(Voepel)

Allows a $1000 tax credit for purchasers newly-constructed units built between 2021 and 2025 who intend to owner-occupy; purchaser need not be a first-time homebuyer.

Housing Finance

Amended to another topic; prior version extended insurer community development investment reporting that expire in 2020 to 2024.

Housing Finance

AB 298
(Mathis)

Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) to conduct a study and evaluate the creation of a low-interest loan program for first responders.

AB 302
(Berman)

Requires community colleges with parking facilities to allow homeless students to park overnight.

MHSA spot bill.

Requires the state homeless council to develop and administer a grant program to support homeless young people, if an appropriation is made in the state budget.

AB 330
(Gabriel)

Increases funding for programs providing legal representation to low-income parties in civil matters involving critical issues affecting basic human needs, including housing, to be paid for by a $15 increase in certain court fees.

Landlord-Tenant

Requires that all used mobilehomes sold or rented have a smoke alarm installed in each sleeping room; requires park emergency plans to be available in specified languages other than English, via HCD translations.

AB 344
(Calderon)

Creates a matching grant program at the Dept. of Community Services & Development for local governments and CoCs to provide job training and services to homeless persons; funding must come from Budget Bill.

Requires HCD to study requiring a second means of exit in single-family dwellings.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 352
(Eduardo Garcia)

Requires state agencies administering competitive grant programs that allocate moneys from the GGRF to ensure there are at least three months between the first call for applications or proposals for grant funding and the due date of the application or proposal; allows San Diego and Imperial counties to count daytime populations for Transformative Climate Communities Program applications.

AB 386
(Eduardo Garcia)

Creates a program to fund weatherization and energy efficiency retrofitting for farmworker housing.

AB 393
(Nazarian)

Directs the Building Standards Commission to form a working group to consider the value of standards for rapid re-occupancy of buildings after an earthquake.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 394
(Obernolte)

Exempts from CEQA certain recommended mass egress fire safety measures for subdivisions with 30+ units.

AB 399
(Brough)

Increases the renters’ tax credit to $120 for single filers and $240 for others.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 411
(Mark Stone)

Allows the City of Santa Cruz to use remaining redevelopment bond proceeds for affordable housing, including redirecting up to 10% for moderate income housing; any removed units must be replaced.

Housing Finance

AB 429
(Nazarian)

Requires the state Seismic Safety Commission to develop a bidding process for a contractor to create an inventory of buildings potentially vulnerable buildings in an earthquake.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 430
(Gallagher)

Requires streamlined ministerial approval of housing and mixed-use projects in areas affected by the Camp Fire; projects would not be subject to review under CEQA.

Requires HCD to develop a unified application form for various HCD programs.

Housing Finance

Establishes the Move-In Loan Program at HCD, for grants for nonprofits for no-interest loans to households with up to 100% of AMI for the security deposit and first month’s rent; appropriation through the state budget process.

Landlord-Tenant

Extends CalFEHA anti-discrimination provisions to domestic violence survivors.

Extends 270-day review and other streamlined CEQA processes for housing projects in high housing cost areas with a maximum of 50 percent of the units designated as affordable, which is not defined.

AB 492
(Nazarian)

Revises the senior and disabled property tax assistance program by making all low-income households eligible, but reduces maximum income allowed to $30,000 instead of $35,500.

Spot bill on green building standards.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 509
(Lackey)

Spot bill on general plans.

AB 518
(Calderon)

Allows the State to sell a 32-acre parcel to the City of Norwalk at below market value if affordable housing is developed on the site.

Housing Finance

AB 519
(Voepel)

Recasts right of first refusal requirements for residents to purchase a park.

AB 531
(Friedman)

Enhances housing placement procedures for foster youth.

AB 539
(Limón)

Establishes interest rate cap on predatory loans with principal amounts between $2,500 to $10,000 at 36% per year plus the federal funds rate.

Consumer & Utilities

AB 548
(Rodriguez)

Requires the Brace and Bolt program to outreach and prioritize funding to low-income households, and provide added assistance to those households.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 553
(Melendez)

Redirects unused high speed rail bonds for HCD's MHP, subject to voter approval.

Housing Finance

AB 563
(Quirk-Silva)

Appropriates $16M for a 2-year pilot program to address homelessness and mental illness in northern Orange County, including a navigation center.

Revises the types of fees subject to the Mitigation Fee Act.

Makes sites within a state conservancy eligible for CEQA streamlining if the project develops affordable housing.

AB 587
(Friedman)

Authorizes localities to allow accessory dwelling units to be sold separately from the main residence, if the unit is developed by a nonprofit and has affordability restrictions.

AB 599
(Maienschein)

Defines affordable workforce housing for purposes of the Building Homes & Jobs Trust Fund (SB 2) as housing affordable to persons and families of low and moderate income.

Housing Finance

Spot bill on local zoning.

Authorizes leasing the West Los Angeles National Guard Armory to the County of Los Angeles for up to 25 years.

AB 670
(Friedman)

Prohibits common interest developments from banning accessory dwelling units, but allows reasonable restrictions that do not make costs prohibitive or effectively ban ADUs.

AB 671
(Friedman)

Requires housing elements to include a plan that incentivizes and promotes the creation of accessory dwelling units for rent to low and moderate income households.

Places the $600M Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act on the March 2022 ballot.

Requires, upon appropriation, the Dept. of Corrections to provide $5000 to any person exonerated of a crime and released, in order to secure housing, and on-going housing assistance for up to 4 years.

AB 705
(Mark Stone)

Strengthens the laws governing the closure of mobilehome parks to convert to another use.

Amended out: Provided a property tax abatement for units, with or without income restrictions.

Housing Finance

Requires landlords to submit specified information each year for each rental unit owned.

Landlord-Tenant

Requires zoning of up to 4-plexes for at least 25% of an urban or suburban jurisdiction's moderate and above moderate income RHNA.

Spot bill on financial assistance for tenants with rent-to-own options.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 728
(Santiago)

Expands goals and duties of homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel teams.

AB 738
(Mullin)

Allows cities in San Mateo county and the County itself to export RHNA requirements to other jurisdictions in the county under specified conditions.

AB 742
(Cervantes)

Establishes the state Office of Place-Based Economic Strategies, to liaison between local stakeholders and state programs, including No Place Like Home.

AB 747
(Levine)

Requires general plans to address evacuations.

AB 761
(Nazarian)

Allows the Adjutant General to make available throughout the year any armory to a county or city for the purpose of providing temporary shelter from hazardous weather conditions for homeless persons.

AB 777
(Patterson)

Adjusts interest rate on senior and disabled property tax postponements.

AB 791
(Gabriel)

Creates a new tax credit to incentivize the creation of affordable housing in Opportunity Zones.

Housing Finance

AB 816
(Quirk-Silva)

Establishes a state Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool program to provide funds to cities, counties, and continuums of care for evidence-based interventions to address homelessness.

Prohibits evictions for nonpayment of rent and foreclosures during the Covid state of emergency; gives tenants showing documentation of Covid financial hardship 12 months to make up unpaid rent.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 831
(Grayson)

Establishes procedures to modify project approvals that were ministerially approved; specifies how related public improvements are to be approved and constructed.

AB 832
(Gipson)

Creates a new state income tax credit for individuals who donate to nonprofits that build for-sale homes affordable to lower-income households.

Housing Finance

AB 847
(Grayson)

Creates an HCD grant program to offset transportation-related impact fees imposed on a qualifying housing development project by a local jurisdiction.

Housing Finance

AB 869
(Cunningham)

Requires DGS to make a final determination of surplus land status within 150 days of initial notification by an agency.

Housing Finance

Makes numerous changes to accessory dwelling unit law.

Requires cities and counties with populations over 330,000 to identify or create sites where homeless households living in their cars may park safely, to include bathroom facilities and on-site security.

Provides that an application for an Accessory Dwelling Unit is deemed approved if not acted upon within 60 days; requires ministerial approval for one ADU and one junior ADU on a lot.

AB 957
(Grayson)

Assembly Housing Committee's omnibus bill; makes a number of changes to the Housing for a Healthy California program and other state laws"

Housing Finance

AB 960
(Maienschein)

Expands the CalWORKs homeless assistance program by broadening eligibility, increasing the frequency of eligibility, and allowing more housing options.

AB 986
(Robert Rivas)

Enacts the Regional Economies and Equity in Agricultural Lands Act, with purposes including grants to assist in making agricultural lands accessible to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers; contingent on appropriation.

AB 1006
(Grayson)

Prohibits localities from imposing higher standards on manufactured housing than those found in the California Building Standards Code.

AB 1010
(Eduardo Garcia)

Expands HCD program eligibility to include Indian and tribal entities.

AB 1020
(Irwin)

Creates a state Housing Agency led by a cabinet-level Secretary of Housing, to include HCD, CalHFA, and the Dept. of Real Estate.

Housing Finance

Allows Medi-Cal funds to be used to transition from a long-term care facility to a residence in the community, subject to federal approval.

Housing Finance

Makes mandatory rather than optional the $40 attorney license surcharge to fund legal services.

Landlord-Tenant

Places a $500M bond measure before the voters to finance accessory dwelling units.

Housing Finance

AB 1084
(Mayes)

Allows the Yolo County and Indian Wells successor agencies to retain excess surplus in excess of $1M to fund reserve accounts.

Housing Finance

AB 1106
(Smith)

Extends LA County requirement for the recorder to mail any change of ownership documents, including foreclosure documents, to the affected residents, including tenants.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1110
(Friedman)

Requires 90 days notice for a rent increase of over 10% and 120 days notice for a rent increase over 15%.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1118
(Blanca Rubio)

Requires OPR to revise housing element guidelines to include needs of seniors.

AB 1177
(Frazier)

Deletes requirement for skilled and trained workforce for streamlined approvals.

AB 1187
(Jones-Sawyer)

Requires DMV to issue 90-day permits for vehicles in safe parking programs, even though past due fees and penalties are owed.

AB 1188
(Gabriel)

Allows tenants to take in a person who is homeless or at risk of homelessness with landlord consent; allows a landlord to increase the rent by an unspecified amount.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1197
(Santiago)

Exempts from CEQA projects approved or carried out by the City of Los Angeles for supportive housing funded by Measure HHH, and emergency shelters funded by the Homeless Emergency Aid Program.

AB 1199
(Petrie-Norris)

Requires a public hearing if the Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa is declared surplus and more than one agency wants to use the property.

AB 1201
(Boerner Horvath)

Spot bill on Unfair Practices Act.

Landlord-Tenant

Allows a tax credit of $500 per unit, up to 10 units, to a landlord renting a unit to a tenant being assisted by a nonprofit organization.

Landlord-Tenant

Removes sunset on laws regulating legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1232
(Gloria)

Requires the Department of Community Services and Development to impose rent restrictions and eviction protections for 10 years after an owner receives assistance under the Energy Efficiency Low-Income Weatherization Program; requires CSD to assess rents and evictions in low-income buildings after weatherization.

Landlord-Tenant

Expands permissible youth homelessness prevention services to include youth at risk of homelessness.

AB 1239
(Cunningham)

Allows HCD to reduce a locality's RHNA numbers by up to 25% if the locality adopts ordinances that facilitate development of ADUs and imposes specified restrictions on short-term rentals.

Generally prohibits a court from staying a housing project if an EIR has been certified.

AB 1250
(Gloria)

Limits certain dedications required of subdivisions of 10 or fewer units.

AB 1252
(Robert Rivas)

Authorizes advance payments under the Environmental Justice Small Grant Program; allows non-federally recognized tribes to participate.

AB 1255
(Robert Rivas)

Requires housing elements to identify publicly-owned surplus land and the Dept. of General Services to compile a database of the parcels.

AB 1275
(Santiago)

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish a three-year pilot project to include the County of Los Angeles and up to nine additional counties; counties would be required to establish teams to provide outreach services to individuals with a history of mental illness or substance use disorders who are unable to provide for urgently needed medical care and who are homeless or at risk of homelessness; no funding in the bill.

AB 1279
(Bloom)

Establishes land use incentives and zoning overrides to enable greater, denser housing development in high-resource areas that lack racial and economic diversity.

AB 1290
(Gloria)

Requires CalHFA to form a stakeholder group on improving application processes.

Housing Finance

AB 1295
(Quirk-Silva)

Requires the state Health and Human Services Agency to provide supportive housing for up to 200 persons at the former Fairview Development Center, until 2025.

AB 1315
(Boerner Horvath)

Requires localities to permit single-family housing of less than 1200 square feet in multifamily zones under certain conditions, provided that the number is units is at least as great as that allowed for multifamily.

AB 1317
(Brough)

Allows creation of tax-free homeownership savings accounts for low income taxpayers.

AB 1318
(Mullin)

Allows a school district disposing or leasing property to use the proceeds for school district employee housing.

Housing Finance

AB 1326
(Gloria)

Removes the sunset that retains the welfare exemption when a tenant's income goes over limit, not to exceed 140% of AMI.

Housing Finance

AB 1367
(Brough)

Spot bill to encourage development of live-work units.

Prohibits a locality from collecting a development fee for public improvements prior to the date of final inspection or issuance of the certificate of occupancy.

AB 1399
(Bloom)

Clarifies that there is one withdrawal date under the Ellis Act, that payment of damages does not extinguish a landlord's liability and responsibilities under the Act, and that if re-renting, all units must be offered for re-rent, with some exceptions.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1405
(Gloria)

Requires the Dept. of Corrections to contract for short-term housing for parolees, and for permanent housing for individuals exiting prison who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Provides that a tenant cannot be evicted due to unpaid rent accrued during the COVID-19 State of Emergency and for 90 days after, or until April 1, 2021, whichever is earlier; requires tenants to resume regular rent payments within 90 days of the end of the emergency or April 1, 2021, whichever is earlier; prohibits residential foreclosures with similar conditions.

Landlord-Tenant

Redirects certain redevelopment funds to paramedic services.

Housing Finance

Makes certain tax credit-funded properties owned by for profit entities eligible for the welfare exemption.

Housing Finance

AB 1481
(Bonta)

Requires just cause to evict a tenant in place for 6 months or more, divided into at-fault or not-at-fault situations; does not preempt stronger local just cause ordinances.

Landlord-Tenant

Establishes a yearly maximum rent increase for tenants in place of no more than the CPI increase plus 7 percent, or 10 percent, whichever is less and requires a statement of cause before an eviction can"

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1483
(Grayson)

Requires cities and counties to report and post comprehensive housing data to HCD and regional agencies.

AB 1484
(Grayson)

Requires localities to post information about development fees on their websites.

AB 1485
(Wicks)

Allows SB 35 streamlining in jurisdictions that have not met their above-moderate income RHNA, if 20% of the units are restricted to 120% of AMI or less; for moderate income units, rents would be required to be 20% below HUD's county fair market rent.

Makes comprehensive changes to statutes governing state and local surplus land to facilitate the development of affordable housing.

Housing Finance

Establishes the Housing Alliance for the Bay Area, to increase affordable housing by providing for enhanced funding and technical assistance for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production; governing board composed of members appointed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Association of Bay Area Governments, and the Governor; authorizes the board to raise revenue and allocate funds throughout the Bay Area; has minimum and maximum set-asides for tenant protections and housing preservation.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1497
(Holden)

Requires hosting platforms offering residential properties for sale or lease, including short term, to abide by state fair housing law.

AB 1502
(Santiago)

Spot bill on home loans.

AB 1515
(Friedman)

Prohibits a court from invalidating the approval of a development project when specified legal actions are taken pursuant to CEQA against an updated community plan for the area in which the project is located.

AB 1528
(Bigelow)

Prohibits a park resident from commencing an action based upon the park management’s alleged failure to adequately maintain the common facilities, or an alleged reduction of service, unless the resident and other residents affected have first utilized HCD's resolution process

AB 1534
(Wicks)

Requires each county to develop a homeless action plan.

Requires OPR to develop standards for the formation of Reinvestment in Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Equitable California (RISE) districts, designed to reduce transportation need and greenhouse gas emissions.

AB 1551
(Arambula)

Allows prepayment of PACE assessments without penalty; prohibits a contract without printed disclosures.

AB 1560
(Friedman)

Revises and expands definition of major transit stop for qualifying for CEQA exemption or abbreviated review.

AB 1561
(Cristina Garcia)

Requires localities to evaluate the impact of government actions on the cost of housing and associated impacts to minority communities.

AB 1562
(Burke)

Requires HCD to publish a guidebook outlining planning and developing housing to meet the need created by employment growth.

AB 1568
(McCarty)

Prohibits localities not meeting housing production goals from applying for state grants, unless the application is for constitutionally required transportation grants or would assist in meeting the production goals.; sponsored by CAA and CAR.

Appropriates $20M for mental health services for gravely disabled persons; redefines gravely disabled.

Housing Finance

AB 1579
(Gabriel)

Prohibits school districts from assessing impact fees on housing for college students.

Housing Finance

AB 1585
(Boerner Horvath)

Spot bill on accessory dwelling units.

AB 1590
(Blanca Rubio)

Provides a 3% or $5000 tax credit, whichever is less, to a low income first-time homebuyer purchasing a home in a disadvantaged community.

Housing Finance

AB 1596
(Env Safety & Tox Mat Comm)

Establishes standards and procedures to clean up properties contaminated with fentanyl; generally incorporates provisions into existing meth lab clean-up statutes.

Codes & Enforcement

Directs PUC to develop program for utilities to provide financial assistance to residential property owners for fire prevention, mitigation, and service interruptions.

Consumer & Utilities

AB 1628
(Robert Rivas)

Requires the Director of State Planning and Research and OPR to consult with the Attorney General and others on environmental justice programs.

AB 1629
(Robert Rivas)

Spot bill on low-income housing tax credits.

Housing Finance

AB 1648
(Levine)

Increases the rent levels allowed on school district employee housing located on district property to 200 percent of area median income.

Housing Finance

AB 1659
(Bloom)

Amended to another subject; prior version extended authority to operate as a local home financing agency to non-profits created and operated by cities; sponsored by the City of LA.

Housing Finance

AB 1673
(Salas)

Requires CEQA plaintiffs to disclose names of anyone contributing $1000 or more for costs of the case.

AB 1674
(Gloria)

Expressly authorizes the California School Finance Authority to issue revenue bonds for teacher, staff, or student housing.

Housing Finance

AB 1697
(Grayson)

Prohibits a landlord from evicting a month-to-month tenant in place for more than 10 months without just cause.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1701
(Cervantes)

Authorizes the state Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue bonds for development in conjunction with any newly-authorized redevelopment agencies.

Housing Finance

AB 1702
(Luz Rivas)

Increases staff for the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council.

AB 1703
(Bloom)

Requires most owners wishing to sell residential rental property to first offer the property to tenants and qualified organizations.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1706
(Quirk)

Provides specified financial incentives required to reach financial feasibility for a development in the 9-county San Francisco Bay area region with at least 20% of the units restricted to households making no more than 150% of the area median income; incentives include a CEQA exemption, a density bonus of 35%, a waiver of local parking requirements, and a waiver of green building standards and other physical building requirements.

AB 1711
(Santiago)

Requires localities with a homeless population of more than 4,500 in a 14-mile diameter area that is experiencing a disease outbreak to implement a variety of specified public health measures; creates a state fund to reimburse localities for 70% of the cost of the measures.

AB 1717
(Friedman)

Authorizes formation of Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Districts, to develop high-density housing near transit, with funding from tax increment, including the school share, and bond issues from CalHFA.

Housing Finance

AB 1730
(Gonzalez)

Alters the timing and process for the San Diego Association of Governments’ next regional transportation plan and sustainable communities strategy.

AB 1731
(Boerner Horvath)

Limits short term rentals in urban coastal San Diego county to 30 days per year unless the primary resident is in occupancy at least 270 days per year; requires online hosting platforms to collect and remit transient occupancy taxes.

Landlord-Tenant

Creates a property tax exemption for nonprofit-owned rental housing occupied by moderate-income households.

Housing Finance

AB 1741
(Medina)

Spot bill on housing near colleges.

Housing Finance

AB 1743
(Beall)

Creates state-level incentives for local agencies and school district to participate in financing affordable housing and infrastructure, with an aggregate statewide limit of $1B through 2029, and $2B thereafter.

Housing Finance

AB 1745
(Kalra)

Gives City of San José until 2025 to match match each resident of an emergency bridge housing community to an affordable housing unit.

AB 1749
(Boerner Horvath)

Spot bill on coastal development permits.

Requires a city or county to award a developer additional density, concessions and incentives, if 100% of the units in a development are restricted to lower-income households.

AB 1771
(Kamlager-Dove)

Spot bill on planning statute of limitations.

AB 1775
(Reyes)

Amended to another subject; prior version required cities and counties that contain a disadvantaged community to notify the AG before adopting or reviewing an environmental justice element or relevant provisions in other elements.

Requires Dept. of Health Care Services to adopt specified standards for recovery residences that receive state funding; permits specified entities to report suspected activity to DHCS.

AB 1783
(Robert Rivas)

Creates a process for ministerial approval of agricultural employee housing; establishes an application for certifying affordable housing organizations qualified to operate agricultural employee housing; prohibits state housing funding for H-2A workers.

AB 1786
(O'Donnell)

Spot bill on housing elements.

AB 1795
(Kamlager-Dove)

Provides further restrictions to access of names of tenants sued for eviction in an Ellis Act case.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1845
(Luz Rivas)

Establishes the Office to End Homelessness in the Governor's office with a Secretary of Housing Insecurity and Homelessness, to coordinate homelessness services, data, and policies between federal, local, and state agencies; moves the Homelessness Coordinating and Financing Council into that office.

AB 1846
(Salas)

Requires utilities to offer discounts or instant rebates for smart thermostats for households eligible for CARE rates.

Consumer & Utilities

AB 1851
(Wicks)

Allows a religious institution to develop an affordable housing project at a place of worship even if the development results in a reduction of up to 50% of the religious-use parking spaces avaialble; allows a local government to require one space per unit.

Imposes additional coverage requirements when an insured residence is damaged or destroyed during a declared state of emergency.

AB 1860
(Santiago)

Allows local governments to impose a sales tax to fund homelessness programs.

AB 1861
(Santiago)

Spot bill on involuntary commitments.

Eliminates the mortgage interest deduction on vacation properties and reduces the deduction on primary residences and directs the revenue to address homelessness.

AB 1907
(Santiago)

Exempts from CEQA certain activities approved by or carried out by a public agency for providing emergency shelters, supportive housing, or affordable housing.

Requires Caltrans to: establish a program to provide access to housing and services for homeless persons on Caltrans property, in coordination with homeless service agencies and county teams; use best efforts to relocate persons before removing an encampment; and requires Caltrans to offer property for lease for shelter or feeding under specified conditions.

AB 1923
(Salas)

Requires HCD to evaluate requiring automatic natural gas shutoffs in new construction..

Codes & Enforcement

AB 1924
(Grayson)

Requires that local development fees be proportional to the square footage of the development.

Housing Finance

AB 1934
(Voepel)

Creates a streamlined, ministerial approval process for multifamily housing in a public transit corridor, provided the development has at least one low or moderate income unit.

AB 1937
(Luz Rivas)

Requires schools to ensure that all homeless students are identified; requires the state Dept of Education to fund three technical assistance centers; similar to AB 16.

AB 1941
(Gallagher)

California Renewables Portfolio Standard: hydroelectric and nuclear generation and suspension.

AB 1946
(Santiago)

Spot bill on involuntary commitments.

AB 1962
(Voepel)

Exempts building materials used for senior housing from sales tax.

Housing Finance

AB 1971
(Voepel)

Reduces time to cancel a reverse mortgage residence sale.

AB 1979
(Friedman)

Expands placement options for independent foster youth, including non-minors.

AB 1996
(Gipson)

Provides that a nonminor dependent who is participating in a transitional independent living case plan, and who is not in an approved housing placement for more than two consecutive months during the period covered by the transitional independent living case plan as a result of a lack of available housing, shall remain eligible for AFDC-FC benefits.

AB 1997
(Nazarian)

Requires the Building Standards Commission to convene a working group to determine if a functionary recovery standard for rapid occupancy of housing and other buildings is warranted.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 2025
(Gipson)

Authorizes LA County to establish a pilot project to develop a Restorative Care Program to address interrelated needs of persons suffering from mental illness, substance use disorder, and homelessness.

AB 2041
(Megan Dahle)

Allows a 50% tax credit for wages paid to former foster youth or a person previously convicted of a felony.

AB 2044
(Voepel)

Provides that ADUs are not new construction for purposes of certain energy efficiency requirements.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 2058
(Gabriel)

Creates a 50% state tax credit (up to $1 million per transaction) against both state and federal capital gains otherwise owed by the seller of an existing building or mobilehome park if they sell to a nonprofit entity which will operate the property as affordable housing for low-income households for 55 years.

Housing Finance

AB 2060
(Holden)

Changes definition of "lead free" for plumbing fixtures to a performance standard and tightens requirements.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 2063
(Mullin)

Reduces percentage of units that must be occupied by low income households to qualify for welfare exemption from 90% to 50%; increases total exemption allowed to $100M, up from $20M.

Housing Finance

AB 2066
(Megan Dahle)

Exempts new units in areas with "significant" snowfall from photovoltaic requirements.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 2072
(Calderon)

Spot bill to allow CalHFA to make housing loans at market interest rates & with full repayment required.

Housing Finance

AB 2089
(Luz Rivas)

Establishes the Resilient Economies and Community Health Pilot Program, for eligible community-based organizations to provide a comprehensive set of coordinated incentives and services to disadvantaged communities.

AB 2093
(Gloria)

Requires a public agency, including one with jurisdiction over rent matters, to retain for at least 2 years every public record, as defined, that is transmitted by email, unless a longer period is required by another law.

Landlord-Tenant

Requires HCD's annual report to include an evaluation of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program.

Housing Finance

AB 2115
(Brough)

Establishes a 5-year pilot program in LA, Orange, & San Diego Counties for tax-exempt homeownership savings accounts.

AB 2137
(Wicks)

Limits a court's ability to suspend a locality's ability to issue specified building permits, to grant zoning changes or variances, and to grant subdivision map approvals, except for housing development projects.

AB 2148
(Quirk)

Requires the Strategic Growth Council to establish guidelines for the formation of regional climate adaptation planning groups.

AB 2163
(Robert Rivas)

Establishes a grant program for rural and disadvantaged communities to fund internet and emergency communications infrastructure; no appropriation is contained in the bill.

Establishes the structure of an insurance market action plan designed to make homeowners insurance more available in high-risk areas.

AB 2174
(Gallagher)

Authorizes Yuba and Sutter Counties to jointly establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team.

AB 2217
(Mathis)

Allows a 50% tax credit against cpaital gains tax for sale of vacant infill sites that are developed for houisng or mixed use.

Housing Finance

AB 2224
(Mayes)

Allows Indian Wells, La Quinta, and Yolo County redevelopment successor agencies to retain an increased amount of excess surplus funds. Repeals language requiring DWR, by January 1, 2020, to identify small water suppliers and rural communities that may be at risk of drought and water shortage vulnerability and make recommendations to address the risks.

Housing Finance

Requires that any use of automated decision systems or algorithms for business purposes, including tenant or homebuyer screening, to evaluate and test the system for bias, and report results.

Appropriates $250M from the General Fund to the Housing Urban-Suburban-and-Rural Parks Account.

Housing Finance

AB 2271
(Gabriel)

Requires Judicial Council to collect and tabulate detailed information on unlawful detainer cases; requires programs funded with certain state funding to serve clients regardless of immigration status.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2272
(Gabriel)

Spot bill for a statewide eviction defense program.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2275
(Nazarian)

Requires that cities or counties using armories for homeless shelters notify local law enforcement and request periodic patrols.

AB 2323
(Friedman)

Expands CEQA exemptions for housing and other specified projects by permitting community plans to serve as the basis for an exemption and eliminating exclusion of sites in a state conservancy from existing exemptions for affordable agricultural housing, affordable urban housing, and urban infill housing.

AB 2324
(Friedman)

Prohibits a person or entity from renting more than 15 ADUs.

Landlord-Tenant

Upon appropriation, requires the state Homelessness Council to conduct a needs and gaps analysis.

AB 2339
(Muratsuchi)

Requires LA, San Diego, and San Francisco counties to create a deferred entry of judgment program for defendants with a mental health or substance abuse disorder arrested for disorderly conduct, public nuisance, or trespassing; requires a mental health professional or social worker to work with the people arrested to address housing and services; requires the judge to require the defendant to participate in programs, chosen by the court and with the advice of the mental health professional or social worker, that are designed to provide assistance, shelter, and treatment for people with mental health or substance abuse disorders.

AB 2343
(Eggman)

Reduces objective criteria to justify ministerial disapproval of a shelter to only lack of onsite management or security.

AB 2344
(Gonzalez)

Requires that occupants of affordable units in a mixed-income building can use the same entrances as market rate occupants.

AB 2345
(Gonzalez)

Revises Density Bonus Law to increase the maximum allowable density, the number of concessions and incentives a developer may seek, and the method of calculating the number of allowable moderate income units.

AB 2351
(Waldron)

Allows a court to collaborate with nonprofits to develop programs to offer mental health and addiction treatment services to women charged with misdemeanors, which may include housing services.

AB 2353
(McCarty)

Upon appropriation, establishes a program for planning grants for community college affordable student housing.

Housing Finance

Allows a court to continue a foster care hearing when a child cannot be returned solely due to the lack of emergency shelter for the family

AB 2367
(Gonzalez)

Requires insurers to offer insurance if the home meets the standards for a fire-hardened home and otherwise meets the insurer's normal qualifications.

AB 2404
(Ramos)

Spot bill on 5150 involuntary commitment.

AB 2405
(Burke)

Declares that it is the policy of the state that every individual has the right to safe, decent, and affordable housing.

AB 2406
(Wicks)

Requires HCD to create an online rental registry of properties which received state or federal rental assistance provided in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency; previous version required the registry to include all units of landlords owning 5 or more units in the state.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2408
(Grayson)

Revises reverse mortgage required disclosures to include non-borrower spouses.

Permit Assistance Program: annual report.

AB 2434
(Quirk-Silva)

Requires counties receiving otherwise unrestricted state housing funding to use the proceeds roughly in proportion to supervisor districts, or if none, by population areas.

Housing Finance

AB 2436
(Bloom)

Mandates the inclusion of building code upgrade coverage in every policy of homeowners' insurance.

AB 2443
(Weber)

Makes deceptive or unfair practices by debt settlor services illegal.

Consumer & Utilities

AB 2444
(Gallagher)

CEQA spot bill.

AB 2463
(Wicks)

Prevents foreclosure on a judgment lien placed on a principal place of residence if the judgment was based on an unsecured consumer debt, with certain exceptions.

AB 2470
(Kamlager)

Allows streamlined ministerial approval (including CEQA) and parking requirement waivers for splitting multifamily dwelling units if 10 percent of the units will be affordable

AB 2471
(Maienschein)

Increases time seniors may rescind home contracts to 5 business days.

Consumer & Utilities

AB 2486
(Gabriel)

Spot bill on legal aid for immigrants.

Landlord-Tenant

Allows a landlord an income tax credit of $500 per unit (up to 4 units) for renting at below market to a tenant receiving rental assistance from a nonprofit.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2501
(Limón)

Provide legal rights for borrowers experiencing hardship due to the COVID-19 to receive forbearance on mortgages, auto loans, and payday loans; borrower remains obligated to repay the deferred principal and interest payments; requires lenders to work with borrowers to establish reasonable repayment terms for forborne payments.

Consumer & Utilities

AB 2503
(Blanca Rubio)

Expands eligibility to live in senior housing to specified qualifying roommates.

AB 2504
(Nazarian)

Seismic retrofitting spot bill.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 2506
(Irwin)

Creates a cabinet-level state Housing Agency.

Housing Finance

AB 2534
(Quirk-Silva)

Creates a task force to study impediments to home ownership.

AB 2536
(Obernolte)

CEQA spot bill.

Allows all cities and counties to declare a shelter crisis, thus allowing local alternate building and health & safety standards for shelters; adds safe parking sites as an eligible form of shelter; extends sunset to 2026.

AB 2561
(Limón)

Consumer loans.

AB 2563
(Bonta)

State Housing Law spot bill.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 2576
(Gloria)

Provides that MHSA funds subject to reversion are to be reallocated to other counties; requires that consideration be given to using the reallocated funds to provide services to individuals with mental illness who are also experiencing homelessness; requires each county to report annually to the Legislature the number of individuals who are experiencing homelessness who are receiving mental health services through MHSA funds.

Requires the Office of Planning and Research and the Strategic Growth Council to identify vulnerable populations using geographic, socioeconomic, public health, social determinants of health, environmental, and climate exposure criteria.

AB 2579
(Jones-Sawyer)

Spot bill to provide loans and grants to homeowners in disadvantaged communities for the purpose of home improvement and repair.'

AB 2580
(Eggman)

Creates streamlined ministerial approval process to convert hotels or motels to housing, if 20% of the units are for low or moderate income.

Legal document assistant and unlawful detainer assistant spot bill.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2586
(Berman)

Makes a local government immune from liability for ordinary negligence in a safe parking program; suspends the application of the Special Occupancy Parks Act, the Mobilehome Parks Act, the Mobilehome Residency Law, and the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law to the safe parking program.

AB 2587
(McCarty)

Planning spot bill.

AB 2589
(Maienschein)

Expands eligible recipients of No Place Like Home funding to include licensed adult residential facilities and licensed residential care facilities.

AB 2595
(Reyes)

Homeless Youth Act spot bill.

AB 2601
(Boerner Horvath)

Spot bill to create a pilot program in San Diego county to coordinate MediCal services.

Spot bill on accessory dwelling units.

Makes several changes to Density Bonus LAw.

AB 2629
(Mayes)

Requires various stakeholders to consult about spheres of influence for electrical service in the Coachella Valley.

Consumer & Utilities

AB 2652
(Petrie-Norris)

Requires HCD to develop an online portal for state laond and grant programs.

Housing Finance

Spot bill on personal information held by public agencies, including rent control agencies.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2662
(Blanca Rubio)

Requires the Tax Credit Allocation Committee to conduct a study of costs involved in affordable housing development; study to be made with existing funding or private contributions.

Housing Finance

AB 2666
(Boerner Horvath)

Allows sites that are zoned for multi-family housing to be subdivided into single-family lots, likely to be developed for moderate-and above-moderate income households.

AB 2679
(Gallagher)

Adds Butte County to the pilot program that created alternative procedures for conservatorships for persons with serious mental illness and substance use disorders.

Allows local governments to control space rents regardless on when the space was first rented by repealing state law prohibiting local rent regulation of spaces first offered for rent after 1989.

AB 2696
(Petrie-Norris)

Spot bill on housing elements.

AB 2718
(Limón)

Allows local homelessness teams to collaborate with others teams, including for services.

AB 2722
(McCarty)

Defers fees charged to housing developers by localities who have not met their RHNA numbers.

CEQA spot bill.

AB 2743
(McCarty)

California School Employee Housing Assistance Pilot Program.

Housing Finance

AB 2746
(Gabriel)

Requires that recipients of programs that address homelessness provide specified data.

AB 2755
(Levine)

Spot bill on the Teacher Housing Act of 2016.

Housing Finance

AB 2756
(Limón)

Improves the notice provided to policyholders when an insurer's offer to renew the policy involves a reduction in coverage, e.g., reduction in fire coverage; enacts provisions regarding upgraded building code coverage.

AB 2760
(Rodriguez)

Spot bill on Napa RHNA.

AB 2763
(Bloom)

Expands coverage of relocation assistance requirements imposed on public agencies to include properties assisted with Low Income Tax Credits.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2768
(Kalra)

Spot bill on planning.

AB 2774
(Jones-Sawyer)

Prohibits late rent fees over $50.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2778
(Eduardo Garcia)

Defines “Polanco agrihousing” as “employee housing,” except it is owned by a nonprofit entity and is financed with public funds.

AB 2782
(Mark Stone)

Removes a provision in state law that exempts mobilehome leases from a local rent control ordinance if the lease term is longer than one year; modifies the conditions that must be met when converting a mobilehome park to another use:1) extends the notice that parks must give to residents of a change of use hhearing to 60 days; 2) requires mobilehome parks to compensatea displaced resident for the in place market value of theirmobilehome if the residents cannot relocate to another mobilehome park; and 3) prohibits local authorities from approving a change in use unless it makes a finding about the effect of the change on any shortage of affordable housing within the local jurisdiction.

AB 2799
(Petrie-Norris)

Creates a 3% tax credit for landlord federal voucher payments.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 2812
(Eduardo Garcia)

Requires Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants, including for housing, to be dispersed through three unspecified categories that take into account population size and density; allows data for San Diego and Imperial counties to take daytime populations into account.

AB 2825
(Petrie-Norris)

Spot bill on surplus state property.

Housing Finance

Expands welfare property tax exclusion to moderate-income housing.

Housing Finance

AB 2834
(Gipson)

Codes/enforcement spot bill.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 2837
(Quirk-Silva)

Upon appropriation, authorizes development of a single application for affordable housing funding, through software development.

Housing Finance

Requires businesses with more than 200 employees to pay a local business license surcharge, with proceeds to go to local affordable housing development or rental assistance.

Housing Finance

AB 2845
(Limón)

Allows attorney fees and costs to be awarded to a park that prevails in a case under the Mobilehome Residency Law only if the case is frivolous.

AB 2848
(Santiago)

Spot bill on accountability for homelessness programs.

AB 2852
(Mullin)

Authorizes school district housing to be occupied by employees of other districts.

Housing Finance

Appropriates $750M for grants for supportive housing for homeless persons.

Upon appropriation, creates a state data warehouse for homelessness and households at risk of homelessness.

Upon appropriation, increase benefit levels for persons in the Transitional Housing Placement program.

AB 2884
(Berman)

Requires that 50% of any increase in California State Lottery Revenues be allocated to community college districts for housing and food assistance for community college students.

Housing Finance

AB 2895
(Quirk-Silva)

Limits yearly mobilehome park space rent increase to 5 per cent plus any increase in the Consumer Proce Index.

AB 2899
(Jones-Sawyer)

Authorizes subsequent involuntary mental health commitment for longer than 14 days after the initial 72-hour commitment.

Spot bill on CEQA.

AB 2907
(Gipson)

Spot bill on planning.

AB 2909
(Eggman)

Spot bill on homelessness services.

AB 2916
(Bloom)

Requires each city and county to adopt a homelessness plan of action.

Establishes the Community Development Tax Credit Program.

Housing Finance

AB 2923
(Gloria)

Spot bill on the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.

Clarifies that local agencies may keep parcels determined to be surplus.

Housing Finance

AB 2950
(Weber)

Requires HCD to develop model strategies for affordable housing cost reduction; findings include questionable figures about the cost to develop an affordable unit.

Housing Finance

AB 2955
(Robert Rivas)

Revises and enhances current farmland conservation programs to facilitate small owner-occupied farm and ranch ownership by low-income farmers and ranchers and farmers and ranchers of color.

AB 2960
(Gipson)

Allows the City of Los Angeles to permit the operation of a year-round emergency shelter that does not comply with state building standards for local fire and safety standards if the standards have been approved by the State Fire Marshal.

AB 2961
(Eduardo Garcia)

Spot bill on nuisances.

AB 2970
(Mayes)

Makes various changes to mobilehome, RV, and park laws, including nuisance provisions.

AB 2981
(Aguiar-Curry)

Spot bill on general plans.

Makes supportive housing a use by right in zones where emergency shelters are permitted; exempts from CEQA.

AB 2991
(Santiago)

Extends AB 900 streamlining for 2 years.

Spot bill on the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

AB 3008
(Petrie-Norris)

Spot bill on nuisances.

AB 3010
(Limón)

Creates an online database registry of deferred deposit transactions to prevent violations of the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law; requires lenders to record all tranactions in the database.

Consumer & Utilities

Improves policyholder rights with respect to wildfire insurance claims, and addresses other wildfire related issues.

AB 3020
(Gloria)

Directs penalties for claims brought by the City of San Diego under the Unfair Practices Act to the City.

Landlord-Tenant

Adds various categories of parks subject to inspection by HCD or a local inspection program.

AB 3033
(Kamlager)

Spot bill on Infrastructure and Revitalization Financing Districts.

Housing Finance

Allows cities and counties to receive a specified credit towards meeting their Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) for rezoning or permitting single-family neighborhoods to allow four units per parcel.

AB 3050
(Quirk-Silva)

Expands the property tax welfare exemption to include property intended for housing prior to construction.

Housing Finance

Requires identification of all persons contributing more than $1000 to the plaintiffs in a CEQA suit.

AB 3062
(Obernolte)

Removes sunset on meet-and-confer requirements for demurrers, motions to strike, and motions for judgment on the pleadings; extends meet and confer requirements to anti-SLAPP motions; removes sunsets on timeline to amend a pleading and number of amendments.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 3065
(Lackey)

Creates a partial tax credit for wages paid to homeless youth, foster youth, or former foster youth.

AB 3066
(Lackey)

Exempts religious institutions from ordinary negligence claims when providing homelessness services.

AB 3069
(Lackey)

Requires the Dept. of Human Resources to create a Limited Examination and Appointment Program homeless and foster youth pilot.

AB 3077
(Santiago)

Prohibits a landlord from giving a no-cause notice to quit or to withdraw a unit under the Eliis Act in order to sell the property to new owners who will hold title to the property as tenants in common.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 3085
(Limón)

Spot bill on housing in high fire risk areas.

Codes & Enforcement

Establishes a moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent due to COVID-19 financial hardship, subject to numerous conditions, until January 31, 2021.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 3101
(Blanca Rubio)

Cretes a California New Markets Tax Credit, in modified conformity with the federal New Markets Tax Credit.

Housing Finance

AB 3107
(Bloom)

Makes a housing development with at least 20% of the units restricted to low income households an allowable use in any commercial zone.

AB 3112
(Gloria)

Spot bill on housing elements.

AB 3122
(Santiago)

Requires housing elements to develop a plan to utiliize emergency shelters, temporary housing, and supportive housing for homeless persons, including identifying needs and sites.

AB 3125
(Grayson)

Spot bill on housing planning.

AB 3144
(Grayson)

Creates the Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program at HCD; upon appropriation it would provide grants to cities and counties for development impact fee waivers or reductions provided to qualified rental housing developments.

Housing Finance

AB 3145
(Grayson)

Prohibits a city or county from imposing fees or exactions on a proposed housing development in excess of 12 percent of the city’s or county’s median home price, unless approved by HCD.

Housing Finance

AB 3146
(Bonta)

Increases data to be submitted in a jurisdiction's annual housing report.

AB 3147
(Gabriel)

Removes the 120-day limit to challenge new or incresed local agency fees or service charges.

Housing Finance

Reduces impact or other fees, except those imposed by a school district, on an affordable houisng developments receiving a density bonus; fee reduction is 75% for VLI units, 50% for low, and 25% for moderate.

Housing Finance

AB 3149
(Gloria)

Amends notice requirements for various local permits.

AB 3153
(Robert Rivas)

Allows reduction, by up to 30%, the number of vehicle parking spaces required for housing developments if a specified minimum number of long-term bicycle parking spaces, car-shareparking spaces, or both are subsituted.

AB 3154
(Robert Rivas)

Authorizes intergenerational housing developments with specified percentages of seniors, caretakers, and foster youth or youth involved in the juvenile justice system..

AB 3155
(Robert Rivas)

Revises the SB 35 process by making housing projects of ten units or fewer streamlined and ministerial in all jurisdictions, regardless of whether or not that locality is meeting its regional housing needs: in jurisdictions that are meeting their regional housing need for above moderate-income housing but not very low-or low-income housing, reduces the amount of affordable housing required from 50 percent for lower income households to the percentage required in a local government’s inclusionary ordinance.

AB 3156
(Robert Rivas)

Requires the Coastal Commission to develop procedures to expedite approvals of affordable housing.

AB 3157
(Berman)

Requires that HCD's improved RHNA process includes measues to promote and streamline the developing of housing for low-income community college students.

AB 3171
(Ramos)

Spot bill on the Multifamily Housing Program.

Housing Finance

Allows HOAs to prohibit short-term rentals and limit rentals to 25% of the units, under specified conditions.

Spot bill bill on mental health involuntary treatment.

AB 3196
(Kiley)

Directs that 25 percent of the funds deposited into the No Place Like Home Fund each year be transferred for homelessness prevention measures.

Spot bill on foster youth and former foster youth.

AB 3205
(Salas)

Creates the Regions Rise Grant Program, to fund multidisciplinary regional responses to issues including land use and housing.

Housing Finance

AB 3207
(Gipson)

Authorizes community colleges to construct any time of student housing in addition to dormitories

Housing Finance

AB 3218
(Quirk-Silva)

Requires school employee training about homeless students.

AB 3234
(Gloria)

Exempts from the Subdivision Map Act and CEQA specified subdivisions meeting specified criteria; Map Act often governs condo conversions.

AB 3242
(Irwin)

Allows 5150 involuntary commitment proceedings to be held remotely through telehealth.

AB 3245
(Santiago)

Spot bill on the state Infrastructure Bank.

Housing Finance

AB 3254
(Limón)

Requires that co-signers of leases and certain contracts receive translated copies to review before they sign if they are negotiated primarily in the Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean languages.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 3260
(Wicks)

Allows tenants to maintain rental property insurance as selected by the landlord in lieu of a security deposit; allows deposits to be paid over a period of six months.

Landlord-Tenant

Creates the Office of the Housing and Homelessness Inspector General to provide greater accountability for state and local actions to address homelessness; imposes new requirements on local governments to develop actionable plans address homelessness.

AB 3274
(Santiago)

Spot bill on redevelopment.

AB 3279
(Friedman)

Revises CEQA procedures.

AB 3282
(Wicks)

Spot bill on local agency ordinances and resolutions.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 3286
(Bloom)

Spot bill on the Permit Streamlining Act.

AB 3288
(Patterson)

Requires the Dept. of General Services to expressly evaluate the needs of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs when determing if property is surplus.

Housing Finance

AB 3297
(Kiley)

Revises court procedures for CEQA housing cases.

AB 3300
(Santiago)

Upon appropriation, allocates $2B per year to cities, counties, conituums of care, and nonprofits to address homelessness.

AB 3308
(Gabriel)

Allows school districts to restrict occupancy of affordable housing on school district-owned land, funded with low income housing tax credits, to teachers and district employees.

Housing Finance

AB 3316
(Bloom)

Spot bill on the Building Standards Commission.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 3320
(Gloria)

Spot bill on RHNA.

AB 3325
(Brough)

Spot bill on CEQA.

AB 3335
(Friedman)

Expands definition of transit priority projects for purposes of CEQA exemption.

Spot bill on housing development approvals.

AB 3351
(Bloom)

Housing element spot bill.

AB 3352
(Friedman)

Prohibits local code enforcement from placing restrictions or preconditions before responding to habitability complaints.

Codes & Enforcement

AB 3358
(Bloom)

Spot bill on local affordable housing.

Housing Finance

ACA 1
(Aguiar-Curry)

Sets the percentage to pass a local bond or tax increase to finance affordable or supportive housing or infrastructure to 55 percent.

Housing Finance

Repeals Prop. 209 of 1996, which bars state preferences.

Amends the state constitution to declare that the fundamental human right to housing exists in the state.

ACA 22
(Melendez)

Prohibits courts from issuing injunctions against housing developments, either affordable or market, except for specified very narrow exceptions; prohibits Legislature from enacting CEQA exemptions other than for housing or infrastructure.

Creates a streamlined approval process for projects within 1/2 mile of a rail station in urban areas or cities in rural areas; also creates a streamlined approval process for duplexes and fourplexes on vacant, infill parcels; process not available in most cases if tenants were displaced.

Creates state-level incentives for local agencies and school districts to participate in financing affordable housing and infrastructure through sharing of tax increment, with an aggregate statewide cap of $200M, subject to legislative approval in each year's budget.

Housing Finance

Requires the state to create a database of surplus local agency lands identified in local housing elements.

Housing Finance

Revises process for sale of surplus Route 710 Caltrans properties in the El Sereno neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles; prior version made permanent provisions allowing low-income housing tax credits to be allocated to the partners in accordance with the partnership agreement.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 13
(Wieckowski)

Makes numerous changes in state law to facilitate development of accessory dwelling units (ADUs), including further restrictions on local requirements.

SB 15
(Portantino)

Allows cities, counties and JPAs to apply to the Dept. of Finance for allocation of property tax funds for affordable housing, infrastructure, or parks, with aggregate statewide limits of $200M per year and $1B total, and at least 20 percent of the projects -- but not the dollars -- reserved for projects in counties with under 200,000 population; funding loss to schools would be made up through General Fund appropriations.

Housing Finance

SB 18
(Skinner)

Makes permanent extended notice of termination requirements for tenants at foreclosed properties; former version provided tenant rent and legal assistance.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 25
(Caballero)

Extends the 270-day review and other expedited CEQA processes to certain projects that are funded by opportunity zone funds or public agencies and that meet certain standards, including those relating to the environment and inclusionary housing.

Alters procedures of last year's bill establishing special rules for conservatorships of persons with serious mental illness and substance use disorders in LA, SF, and San Diego counties.

Establishes a streamlined by right process for approval of navigation centers.

Waives density restrictions, certain height and FAR restrictions, and all parking requirements for housing projects within ½ mile of transit that include an unspecified percentage of affordable units, and waives density restrictions and parking requirements in excess of .5 space per unit for housing projects located within a “job-rich area” that include a unspecified percentage of affordable units.

SB 55
(Jackson)

Makes numerous changes to CEQA procedures for housing and shelter developments.

SB 73
(Mitchell)

Enacts the FY 2019-2020 state budget; Senate version.

Repeals the requirement for voters to approve bonds issued by an EIFD.

Housing Finance

SB 182
(Jackson)

Imposes fire hazard planning responsibilities on local governments and requires them to make specified findings on fire standards prior to permitting development in a very high fire hazard severity zone; allows RHNA allocation to be adjusted if sites can only be located in a zone.

SB 187
(Wieckowski)

Clarifies that mortgage debt collection practices are subject to the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

SB 189
(Monning)

Extends the life of the Fort Ord redevelopment agency by one year.

Housing Finance

Requires the State Fire Marshal to develop model defensible space standards, to include a timeline for abatement, citations, and cost recovery if the owner or landlord fails to correct a violation.

Codes & Enforcement

SB 191
(Morrell)

Housing element spot bill.

Extends the welfare exemption to properties owned by community land trusts that are intended for affordable housing.

Housing Finance

Authorizes Caltrans to lease, for a nominal amount, non-surplus property, including airspace under a freeway, to a local government for shelter or feeding purposes.

SB 215
(Morrell)

Housing element spot bill.

SB 218
(Bradford)

Allows localities to adopt local employment anti-discrimination ordinances.

Adds to CalFEHA law discrimination against military personnel and veterans.

SB 234
(Skinner)

Prohibits residential leases from prohibiting family day care centers; revises various land use requirements regarding centers.

Landlord-Tenant

Authorizes the County of Napa and the City of Napa to agree to allow one of those jurisdictions to report on its annual production report to the department those completed entitlements, building permits, and certificates of occupancy issued by the other jurisdiction for the development of housing if certain conditions are met.

SB 248
(Glazer)

Increases the renters tax credit to $220 for most single filers and $434 for joint filers; funding to be approved each year.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 249
(Nielsen)

Allows legislative bodies in Butte County to extend the life of subdivision maps by up to three years.

Provides a 50% capital gains tax exclusion on sales of mobilehome parks owned for at least 30 years and sold to localities, nonprofits, or resident associations who will keep the park operating.

SB 258
(Hertzberg)

Creates a grant program for shelters to provide services for pets of homeless persons; funding must come from yearly budget bills.

Provides standards for a park’s determination of whether it must accept a prospective mobilehome buyer based on ability to pay; provides mobilehome residents the opportunity to designate at least three companions in each calendar year with whom to share the mobilehome; gives residents of a park destroyed by a natural disaster a right to return.

SB 281
(Wiener)

Extends housing approvals for 18 months, unless they have already been extended.

Requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to transfer all funds from the Integrated Services for Mentally Ill Parolees program to the California Department of Housing and Development for the newly-created Supportive Housing Program for Persons on Parole, to provide permanent supportive housing and wraparound services to mentally ill parolees who are homeless or at risk of homelessness; transferred funds would be approximately $15M.

Through FY 2030-31, allows properties in which 50% of units are lower-income to receive a partial welfare exemption and properties in which 90% of units are lower-income to receive a full exemption.

Housing Finance

Requires common interest development boards to have balconies inspected.

Codes & Enforcement

SB 329
(Mitchell)

Prohibits discrimination against voucher holders and similar forms of housing assistance.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 330
(Skinner)

Enacts the “Housing Crisis Act of 2019”, making changes to local approval processes; modifies the Permit Streamlining Act; imposes restrictions on certain types of development standards; and creates separate building standards for occupied substandard buildings.

Requires the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to develop a strategic plan to address homelessness.

SB 351
(Hurtado)

Requires the SGC to consider applications for Transformative Climate Communities Program grants from unincorporated communities.

SB 365
(Durazo)

Amended out: Increased CalWorks immediate assistance definition to include rent due in 5 days and no way to pay.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 369
(Hertzberg)

Amended; prior version allowed local agencies to establish safe parking programs for homeless persons.

SB 384
(Morrell)

Provides for CEQA streamlining for housing projects of 50 or more units; increases capital gains exclusion for sellers of a personal residence if the buyer is a first -time homebuyer.

SB 450
(Umberg)

Exempts from CEQA conversions of hotels and motels to transitional or permanent supportive housing, as long as the number of units does not increase.

Requires insurers to provide a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights to mobilehome residents and tenants obtaining or renewing a policy.

SB 521
(Portantino)

Creates a tax credit for landlords renting to Section 8 voucher holders, at 3% of the voucher amount, subject to yearly appropriation.

Landlord-Tenant

As introduced, chartered the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank as a depository institution; amended to require a study.

Housing Finance

SB 529
(Durazo)

Enhances protections for tenants joining tenant associations by requiring cause for eviction of association members, and protections of members from harassment.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 532
(Portantino)

Allows successor redevelopment agencies to fund housing with remaining funds.

Housing Finance

SB 568
(Portantino)

Establishes the College-Focused Rapid Rehousing Program, providing housing options for homeless students services to support them, contingent on funding and participation by UC, CSU, and community colleges.

Housing Finance

Spot bill on Dept of Veterans Affairs surplus property.

Housing Finance

SB 611
(Caballero)

Establishes the Master Plan for Aging Housing and an associated task force, to recommend legislation to address senior housing supply and concerns.

Housing Finance

Allows armories to be transferred to local agencies if they remain unsold for 2 years; prior version would have established a pilot program in federal Promise Zones whereby landlords with 50 or more units report to credit reporting agencies that rent payment have been made.

SB 621
(Glazer)

Requires the state Judicial Council to adopt a court rule to resolve, if feasible, challenges to affordable housing projects brought under CEQA within 270 days; requires a court to make certain findings before staying or enjoining an affordable housing project.

SB 623
(Jackson)

Directs HCD to use American Community Surveys instead of the census to calculate senior housing set-asides.

Housing Finance

Removes the $1M minimum electric vehicle charging station insurance requirement for a tenant-installed station; unspecified amount of coverage must be maintained; certified stations installed by licensed electricians are exempt.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 640
(Moorlach)

Allows counties to use an alternate definition of gravely disabled for purposes of involuntary commitment.

SB 644
(Glazer)

Prohibits a landlord from charging a security deposit to an active duty military service member that is more than one month's rent for an unfurnished unit and two months' for a furnished unit; prohibits refusal to rent based on the lower deposit.

Landlord-Tenant

Prohibits a landlord or homeowners association from banning religious symbols on external doors or entryways.

SB 654
(Moorlach)

Spot bill on planning.

Exempts the City of Brisbane from some RHNA allocations if a certain brownfield project for at least 1800 units, with 15% affordable, continues to move forward.

Revises membership on the state Homeless Council by increasing membership to 20 by adding a formerly homeless college student, veteran, and parent.

SB 695
(Portantino)

Allows a city to count a unit of housing toward its RHNA obligation for very low income if occupants of the unit are participating in a home-sharing agreement and at least one occupant is an senior or disabled person of low or moderate income.

Spot bill on senior housing.

Housing Finance

SB 718
(Moorlach)

Spot bill on the disposition of the Fairview Developmental Center.

Housing Finance

Requires the Dept. of Veterans Affairs to establish a rental housing program, with an unspecified appropriation.

Housing Finance

SB 728
(Galgiani)

Establishes the Student Housing and Food Hardship program under which students attending a public postsecondary educational institution who are experiencing housing or food hardship could apply for emergency assistance; no appropriation.

SB 744
(Caballero)

Provides for CEQA streamlining and by right approval for certain supportive housing projects, including those funded under No Place Like Home.

Authorizes the creation of the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust Joint Powers Authority for cities within the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, to fund housing to assist the homeless and low-income households.

SB 770
(Galgiani)

Decreases equity required for eligibility for the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement program to 20 percent, or 40 percent if there is more than one loan secured by the property.

Upon appropriations, allocates $10 billion over five years to several existing housing, homelessness, and pre-apprenticeship programs, as well as creating two new infrastructure financing programs.

Housing Finance

SB 808
(Mitchell)

Fiscal Year 2020-21 main budget bill; Senate version.

Enhances fire insurance protections for both homeowners and commercial properties with regard to additional living expenses, time to collect replacement value, contents coverage, and relocation after a loss.

SB 899
(Wiener)

Allows faith institutions and nonprofit hospitals to build affordable housing on their property by right, if 100% of the units are affordable to and occupied by low income households; exempts such developments from CEQA; makes projects eligible for a density bonus.

SB 902
(Wiener)

Allows a local government to zone any parcel at up to 10 units per parcel, regardless of any other local provisions, including any enacted by initiative; provides a CEQA exception for the re-zoning.

SB 906
(Skinner)

Allows a local agency to delay enforcement of building standards in live-work units for up to 7 years, if the violations do not threaten health nor safety.

Codes & Enforcement

SB 908
(Wieckowski)

Enacts the Debt Collection Licensing Act, to provide for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of debt collectors and debt buyers.

Consumer & Utilities

Prohibits mobilehome parks from evicting residents who timely notify park management that they have been impacted by COVID-19; gives impacted residents at least a year to comply with demandsto repay outstanding rent, utilities or other charges, as well cure violations of park rules.

SB 931
(Wieckowski)

Requires a local legislative body, including one with jurisdiction over rent matters, to email a copy of an agenda or a copy of all the documents constituting an agenda packet if so requested.

Landlord-Tenant

Continuously appropriates $250M for homelessness grants, with amount based on point-in-time homeless census, and priorities for homeless youth and veterans.

Housing Finance

Grants the City of San Jose flexibility in meeting the no net loss in residential capacity requirements of SB 330.

SB 944
(McGuire)

Creates a 50% tax credit to homeowners for specified fire protection retrofits.

SB 950
(Jackson)

CEQA spot bill.

SB 995
(Atkins)

Extends through 2023 the expedited CEQA judicial review procedures established by the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act; creates a new exemption for projects where 15% of the units are affordable.

SB 999
(Umberg)

Eliminates exemption from local mobilehome from rent control for leases of more than 12 months; applies only to new leases; sunsets in 2025.

SB 1006
(Bates)

Spot bill on building standards.

Codes & Enforcement

SB 1008
(Leyva)

Requires the Dept. of Health Services to design, implement, and maintain an online lead information registry that enables the public to determine the lead inspection and abatement status for properties.

Codes & Enforcement

SB 1015
(Skinner)

Creates a state fund to award grants to local governments and nonprofits to provide rental assistance; no appropriation in the bill.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 1016
(Wieckowski)

Requires in any proceeding to establish a limited conservatorship, if the proposed limited conservatee has no attorney and no plans to retain one, the court shall appoint the public defender or private counsel.

SB 1017
(Portantino)

Requires that rental housing for school district employees funded by certain district programs be affordable.

Housing Finance

SB 1030
(Housing Comm)

Enacts various non-controversial and technical changes and corrections to housing statutes.

Housing Finance

SB 1037
(Archuleta)

Allows for a parent or legal guardian of a severely and permanently disabled child to transfer a property tax assessment to another residence.

Housing Finance

SB 1049
(Glazer)

Allows local governments to impose fines of up to $1500 for health or safety violations of a short-term rental ordinance and higher fines for subsequent violations.

Codes & Enforcement

Alters property tax valuation rules for new active solar energy systems.

Housing Finance

SB 1065
(Hertzberg)

Makes numerous changes to the CalWORKs homeless assistance benefit.

SB 1070
(Leyva)

Revises requirements for environmental justice elements.

SB 1072
(McGuire)

Requires short-term rental platforms to register with the Dept. of Tax and Fee Administration.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 1079
(Skinner)

Allows public entities and potential owner-occupiers to be offered a 45-day window to purchase foreclosed homes; increases fine for non-maintained foreclosed residential properties up to $5000/day, up from $1000; prohibits bundling of properties at foreclosure sales.

SB 1085
(Skinner)

Makes various changes to Density Bonus Law, including allowing bonus for moderate income rental units now available only for low income units.

SB 1086
(Umberg)

Establishes uniform requirements for substance abuse treatment facilities.

SB 1087
(Moorlach)

Substance abuse client testing for housing spot bill.

SB 1088
(Rubio)

Requires at least 12% of homelessness funds expended by local governments be used for homeless domestic violence survivors.

Housing Finance

SB 1106
(Lena Gonzalez)

Amends procedures for use of listening or transcription services for dear or hard of hearing persons in civil and criminal cases.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 1112
(Chang)

Appropriates $50M to fund to fund local codeployment teams for social worker and law enforcement crisis intervention with homeless persons.

SB 1117
(Monning)

Clarifies the types of entities covered by state laws on master meters, to include community choice aggregators, so that end users are charged at the rates they would have with an individual meter.

SB 1118
(Caballero)

Adds a criterion for Multifamily Housing Program priority of 25 percent of units for individuals with disabilities who receive regional center services or in-home supportive services.

Housing Finance

SB 1120
(Atkins)

Requires ministerial approval of lot splits into two parcels and duplexes, under certain conditions, including prohibitions of demolition or alteration of an existing housing unit of rent-restricted housing, housing that has been the subject of an Ellis Act eviction within the past 15 years, or housing that has been occupied by a tenant in the last three years, and require compliance with objective Subdivision Map Act requirements;.extends expiration date of specified subdivision tentative maps.

SB 1127
(Glazer)

Spot bill on the renters credit.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 1130
(Lena Gonzalez)

Makes various changes to the California Advanced Services Fund, which provides funding for internet infrastructure in disadvantaged and rural areas; housing nonprofits and PHAs are eligible recipients.

SB 1138
(Wiener)

Revises requirements in housing element law relating to identification of zones that permit shelters and penalties for not adopting a timely housing element; revises some housing element deadlines.

SB 1144
(Bates)

Allows the Dept. of Managed Care to forward substantiated complaints against recovery residences to other agencies for enforcement or abatement.

SB 1149
(Hueso)

Authorizes school districts to use available funds to establish attendance recovery programs for pupils who are foster youth, as defined, pupils who are homeless children or youth, as defined, and pupils with exceptional needs.

SB 1150
(Nielsen)

Allows HCD to issue forgivable loans to homeowners suffering loss in a disaster.

SB 1157
(Bradford)

Requires landlords renting assisted units to offer tenants the option of having their rental payments reported to at least one nationwide consumer reporting agency; a fee may be charged.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 1179
(Archuleta)

Allows increased distribution of property tax revenues to agencies in the Gateway Cities Council of Governments for infill residential projects in nonresidentially-zoned areas.

Housing Finance

SB 1189
(McGuire)

Create a new classification of licensed contractors, "residential remodeling contractors."

SB 1190
(Durazo)

Expands provisions allowing a domestic violence survivor to terminate a lease to include household and family members who were victims of a crime that caused physical injury, emotional injury and the threat of physical injury, or death.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 1199
(McGuire)

Creates the state Commission on Home Hardening to establish levels of fire retrofitting; authorizes insurance rates to be adjusted based on the level.

Codes & Enforcement

SB 1200
(Jones)

Creates a Dept. of Rehabilitation local grant program to divert homelessness cases from the criminal justice system to the mental health system.

SB 1201
(Jones)

Authorizes any state entity that has incorporated core components of Housing First to provide funding that does not comply with Housing First.

SB 1202
(Jones)

Requires the Dept. of Community Services and Development to establish a grant program for nonprofitsto create employment and job skill training opportunities for homeless individuals.

SB 1203
(Jones)

Upon appropriations, requires the Dept. of Justice to create a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to establish and operate homeless outreach teams.

SB 1204
(Jones)

Requires school districts to collaborate with other organizations that provide services to homeless youth.

SB 1212
(Rubio)

Alters membership on the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust board of directors.

Housing Finance

SB 1222
(Durazo)

Spot bill on homeowners' insurance.

SB 1224
(Dahle)

Spot bill on the Property Assessed Clean Energy program.

SB 1229
(Allen)

Spot bill on mental health services for homeless persons.

SB 1230
(Umberg)

Reestablishes insurer community development tax credits.

Housing Finance

SB 1250
(Moorlach)

Spot bill to repeal and replace the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.

SB 1251
(Moorlach)

Allows any county to adopt special conservatorship rules currently in effect in a pilot project in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco counties.

SB 1254
(Moorlach)

Spot bill to to establish a system for the appointment of guardians ad litem to represent homeless persons.

SB 1289
(Chang)

Exempts from CEQA a housing project on a previously developed parcel that is not a habitat and that can be served by existing utillities.

SB 1299
(Portantino)

Upon appropriation from the state General Fund, provides grants to local governments for production of moderate-income housing on idle commercial shopping centers.

Housing Finance

SB 1300
(Skinner)

Spot bill on RHNA.

SB 1302
(Morrell)

Prohibits and additional action against a housing project under CEQA if a trial court issues a peremptory writ of mandate.

SB 1317
(Archuleta)

Spot bill on surplus state property.

Housing Finance

SB 1322
(Rubio)

Spot bill on housing planning.

SB 1333
(Durazo)

Creates a tax credit for employers hiring homeless persons, limited to $10,000 per person hired, $30,000 per employer, and $30M in aggregate statewide credits per year..

Allows the same party inspecting a bacony to perform any needed repairs.

Codes & Enforcement

SB 1350
(Hurtado)

Allows the Office of Emergency Services Runaway Youth and Families in Crisis Project to serve clients for up to 20 days instead of 14.

SB 1355
(Durazo)

Authorizes community colleges to enter into various lease agreements to provide student houisng.

Housing Finance

SB 1359
(Rubio)

Requires the Dept. of Insurance to convene a stakeholder group on insurance in high fire risks areas.

SB 1360
(Caballero)

Spot bill on home purchase assistance.

SB 1364
(Lena Gonzalez)

Spot bill on regional planning.

SB 1370
(Galgiani)

Spot bill on local surplus property.

Housing Finance

SB 1376
(Galgiani)

Spot bill on affordable housing.

Housing Finance

SB 1385
(Caballero)

Enacts the Neighborhood Homes Act, establishing housing as an allowable use on any parcel zoned for office or retail uses; projects would be generally eligible for SB 35’s streamlined ministerial approval process if half of the existing space has been vacant for 3 years.

Spot bill on a homeless mental health treatment center in Riverside.

SB 1389
(Allen)

Renames Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts as Public Investment Authorities, and recasts numerous provisions governing EIFDs.

Housing Finance

SB 1400
(Umberg)

Submits a $500M bond measure to the voters for ADU construction.

Housing Finance

SB 1403
(Hueso)

Expands eligibility for the Energy Savings Assistance Program administered via the California’s four largest electric and gas investor-owned utilities.

Consumer & Utilities

SB 1410
(Caballero)

Allows but does not require landlords to enter into agreements with tenants for rent and eviction relief, with tax credits for lost rent.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 1431
(Glazer)

Allows for disaster reassessment for property tax purposes for properties affected by COVID-19, including multifamily residential.

Landlord-Tenant

SB 1435
(Durazo)

Requires opportunity zone funding tracking, reporting, and evaluation, including information about displacement.

Housing Finance

SB 1447
(Bradford)

Amended to another topic; prior version: Expands Homeowner Bill of Rights protections to homeowners who rent their properties out to tenants, as specified; re-enacts a provision of California’s advance fee ban that had been allowed to sunset; expands California’s foreclosure consultant law to cover actions taken to prevent foreclosure prior to a mortgage delinquency.

Repeals Article 34 of the state constitution, enacted in 1950, which requires voter approval for the development, construction, or acquisition of any "low-rent housing project.

SCA 8
(Archuleta)

Amends constitution to allow for a parent or legal guardian of a severely and permanently disabled child to transfer a property tax assessment to another residence.

Housing Finance