Importance: Highest AB 15 (Chiu) Landlord-Tenant Extends the tenant protection provisions on AB 3088 through the end of 2021 and makes some changes, including banning late fees on unpaid rent, limiting collection actions to small claims court, allowing tenants to specify how to apply rent payments, and prohibiting landlords from adding language to the declaration form tenants must submit in order to be protected. Status: Referred to H. & C.D. 01/11/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 16 (Chiu) Landlord-Tenant Placeholder bill for long-term solution to unpaid COVID rent. Status: Amended. 01/12/21 2 Importance: High AB 49 (Petrie-Norris) Housing Finance Eliminates CDLAC and transfers the duties to TCAC. Status: In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. 04/28/21 Location: Asm. Accountability and Administrative Review AB 71 (Luz Rivas) Homelessness Creates the Bring California Home fund to provide resources to address homelessness, to be funded by taxing global low-taxed income; requires the Department of Health Care Services to seek federal approval for a Medi-Cal benefit to fund prescribed services, including housing navigation and housing acquisition support services, for beneficiaries experiencing homelessness; authorizes the department to use up to 20% of the county-continuum allocation from the Bring California Home Fund to pay for the state’s federal medical assistance percentage associated with this benefit. Status: Amended. 05/24/21 Location: Second Reading AB 328 (Chiu) Homelessness Creates the Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program at HCD to provide grants to cities, counties, and continuums of care for housing interventions to allow people with recent histories of incarceration to exit homelessness and remain stably housed. The program would be funded from the savings created by the upcoming closure of several state prisons. Status: Hearing postponed in Asm. Appropriations by committee. 05/20/21 Location: Asm. Appropriations AB 357 (Kamlager) Land Use Spot bill related to affordable housing production. Status: Introduced. 02/01/21 AB 387 (Lee) Housing Finance Creates a state council to develop "social housing,", i.e. mixed-income rental and limited equity homeownership housing and mixed-use developments. Status: Referred to H. & C.D. 03/25/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 411 (Irwin) Homelessness Places a measure on the June 2022 ballot authorizing the issuance of $600 million in bonds for the Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention (VHHP) program. Status: Hearing postponed in Asm. Appropriations by committee. 05/20/21 Location: Asm. Appropriations AB 602 (Grayson) Housing Finance Establishes standards for nexus fee studies; requires HCD to develop model standards. Status: Referred to GOV. & F. and HOUSING. 06/09/21 Location: Sen. Governance and Finance AB 617 (Davies) Land Use Allows any jurisdiction the option of paying other jurisdictions to transfer all or a portion of their RHNA. Status: Referred to H. & C.D. and L. GOV. 02/25/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 678 (Grayson) Housing Finance Places various limits on residential development impact fees, including a cap of 12% of the area median home pricw. Status: Referred to L. GOV. and H. & C.D. 03/25/21 Location: Asm. Local Government AB 787 (Gabriel) Land Use Authorizes a city or county to meet all or part of its RHNA share for the applicable income category with units in an existing multifamily building that are converted to deed-restricted housing for very low, low-, or moderate-income households, by the acquisition of the unit or the imposition of affordability covenants and restrictions for the unit, if specified conditions are met. Status: Referred to HOUSING. 06/09/21 Location: Sen. Housing AB 816 (Chiu) Homelessness Requires the creation of a statewide plan for addressing homelessness and allows for legal action against jurisdictions who do not make progress towards meeting the plan’s goals. Status: Referred to HOUSING, HUMAN S. and JUD. 06/09/21 Location: Sen. Housing AB 832 (Bloom) Rent Stabilization Agencies Transfers all land use related plans and functions of the former City of Los Angeles redevelopment agency to the City of Los Angeles and makes related changes. Status: Amended. 05/10/21 Location: Second Reading AB 834 (Choi) Landlord-Tenant Creates a tax credit for property owners renting to tenants receiving housing assistance. Status: Referred to REV. & TAX. 02/25/21 Location: Asm. Revenue and Taxation AB 838 (Friedman) Codes & Enforcement Requires cities and counties to follow up on complaints from tenants about substandard buildings and potential lead hazards. Status: In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. 06/11/21 Location: Sen. Housing AB 854 (Lee) Landlord-Tenant Requires a owner seeking to withdraw a building from the rental market to own the property for at least 5 years before doing so; prohibits an owner who has withdrawn a property under the Act from using the Act to withdraw a property the owner acquired in the 10-year period following the withdrawal. Status: Amended. 03/18/21 AB 880 (Aguiar-Curry) Housing Finance Creates the Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program to provide funding to CDFIs to fund affordable housing production, preservation, and rehabilitation in the wake of natural disasters. Status: In committee: Held under submission. 05/20/21 Location: Asm. Appropriations AB 1188 (Wicks) Landlord-Tenant Requires cities to create and maintain a rental registry by 2021 covering all landlords who own or operate five or more units. Status: In committee: Held under submission. 05/20/21 Location: Asm. Appropriations 17 Importance: Medium AB 244 (Blanca Rubio) Housing Finance Requires TCAC, HCD, CalHFA, and CDLAC to complete an affordable housing cost study by 2028. Status: Referred to H. & C.D. 01/28/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 348 (Villapudua) Housing Finance Requires HCD to develop an annual summary report by March 15 every year that discloses the amount of state, federal, and private funding spent on the development of affordable housing within the state, each city, and each county in the preceding calendar year Status: Referred to H. & C.D. 02/12/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 374 (Seyarto) Homelessness Requires HCD's annual report to include an evaluation of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program. Status: Referred to H. & C.D. 02/12/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 413 (Ting) Homelessness Extends the Transitional Housing Placement-Plus program for youth ages 18-24 formerly in the foster youth or probation system by allocating additional state funds. Status: In committee: Held under submission. 05/20/21 Location: Asm. Appropriations AB 561 (Ting) Housing Finance Requires the Office of the Treasurer to work with CalHFA and HCD to create a financing product to assist homeowners in the creation of ADUs. Status: Referred to HOUSING. 06/09/21 Location: Sen. Housing AB 682 (Bloom) Land Use Requires cities to allow cohousing projects in areas zoned for multifamily residential. Status: Hearing postponed in Asm. Housing and Community Development by committee. 03/15/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 721 (Bloom) Land Use Makes recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or limits on the use of land that restrict the number or size of the residences that may be built on a property, or that restrict the number of people may reside on the property, unenforceable against the owner of an affordable housing development. Status: In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. 06/03/21 AB 724 (Ward) Codes & Enforcement Requires state departments and agencies to create a streamlined process for certain local governments to get access to funds related to homelessness Status: Referred to H. & C.D. 03/25/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 861 (Bennett) Mobilehomes Prohibits park management from renting or subleasing a mobilhome if the park rules prohibit renting or subleasing. Status: Hearing postponed in Sen. Judiciary by committee. 06/04/21 Location: Sen. Judiciary AB 874 (Quirk-Silva) Consumer & Utilities Requires the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authorityto develop a PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) default mitigation program. Status: In committee: Held under submission. 05/20/21 Location: Asm. Appropriations 10 Importance: Low AB 115 (Bloom) Land Use Re-run of AB 3107 from last year making housing with 20% lower-income units an allowable use in commercial zones. Status: In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. 04/28/21 Location: Asm. Local Government AB 258 (Villapudua) Homelessness Requires grantees receiving state funding to follow specified low-barrier practices for emergency shelters and transitional housing, to include Housing First practices and allowing pets.. Status: Hearing postponed in Asm. Appropriations by committee. 05/20/21 Location: Asm. Appropriations AB 672 (Cristina Garcia) Land Use Allows localities to rezone sites used as a golf course to also allow for residential and open space use with specified requirements, inclusing a set-aside of affordable houisng units; exempts the rezoning and related actions from CEQA. Status: Amended. 04/06/21 AB 795 (Patterson) Housing Finance Adds additional requirements to HCD's annual reporting requirements and requires the department to do on-site visits for CalHome recipients. Status: Referred to H. & C.D. 02/25/21 Location: Asm. Housing and Community Development AB 919 (Grayson) Other Reduces the statute of limitations for construction defects from 10 to 5 years for projects that use a skilled and trained workforce. Status: Amended. 04/13/21 5 Importance: Watch AB 59 (Gabriel) Land Use Revises timelines and notice requirements to challenge fee ordinances and assessments under the Mitigation Fee Act. Status: Referred to L. GOV. and H. & C.D. 01/11/21 Location: Asm. Local Government AB 68 (Salas) Land Use Requires HCD to establish a housing appeals committee by which an applicant for a conditional use permit or other discretionary approval for a housing development project could appeal the decision of a city or county to either deny the application or approve the application with conditions in a manner rendering it infeasible. Status: In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. 06/07/21 AB 215 (Chiu) Housing Finance Adds SB 330 to the list of laws HCD can enforce under AB 72; requires HCD to monitor progress between housing element revisions; imposes remedial requirements for jurisdictions not meeting specified criteria. Status: Referred to HOUSING. 06/09/21 Location: Sen. Housing 3