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recent actions on bills
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
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AB 602
(Grayson) -
Establishes standards for nexus fee studies; requires HCD to develop model standards.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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AB 816
(Chiu) -
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.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 28
(Caballero) -
Requires a cable franchise holder to meet specified milestones to deploy broadband service to rural, unserved, and underserved areas.
Amended.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 478
(Wiener) -
Prohibits cities and counties from imposing certain minimum lot size standards.
Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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AB 1322
(Bonta) -
Would allow a city council or board of supervisors to suspend provisions of a city charter or a local voter measure that the council or board believes conflicts with state housing laws.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 742
(Pan) -
Planning spot bill.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 6
(Caballero) -
Aauthorizes housing on commercial sites that include affordable units and comply with a skilled and trained workforce requirement.
Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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AB 1043
(Luz Rivas) -
Creates a "deeply low income" designation for households at or below 15% of AMI.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 617
(Wiener) -
Requires larger jurisdictions to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and instantaneously issues permits for a residential photovoltaic solar energy system and an energy storage system paired with a residential photovoltaic solar energy system, with some exceptions.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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AB 1360
(Santiago) -
Makes Project Roomkey for homeless persons with Covid permanent; requires localities to ensure that individuals housed pursuant to Project Roomkey or Project Homekey do not return to homelessness
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 12
(McGuire) -
Reduces RHNA allocation based on amount of land in very high fire risk areas; requires safety element to develop building hardening strategies.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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AB 1220
(Luz Rivas) -
Creates a state agency-level Office to End Homelessness to be the lead entity on coordinating efforts to end homelessness in California. This is a re-run of a bill that was vetoed by the Governor last year.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 649
(Cortese) -
Allows local governments to have a policy giving preference to lower-income households at risk of displacement in tax-credit funded affordable housing.
Passed Sen. Judiciary and sent to Floor. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
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SB 234
(Wiener) -
Creates the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program to create housing for youth under 26 who are experiencing homelessness.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 581
(Atkins) -
Requires a local planning agency include in its annual report whether the city or county is a party to a court action related to a violation of state housing law, and the disposition of that action.
Sen. Appropriations: Determined to have no significant state costs and sent to the Floor under Rule 28.8.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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AB 777
(McCarty) -
Transfers without charge two state-owned parcels to UC Davis, to provide housing for low or moderate income employees or students.
Asm. Accountability and Administrative Review: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
Asm. Accountability and Administrative Review View Bill
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AB 1405
(Wicks) -
Spot bill on the Consumers Legal Remedies Act.
Asm. Judiciary: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.)
Asm. Judiciary View Bill
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SB 555
(McGuire) -
Allows local governments to contract with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for purposes of registration, rate posting, collection, and transmission of revenues of any transient occupancy tax imposed on a short-term rental.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 633
(Limón) -
Requires a notice to guarantors of certain contracts negotiated in specified languages; requires the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to provide translations on its website that can be used to satisfy the requirement; revises other provisions of the current contract translation statute;
Sen. Appropriations: Determined to have no significant state costs and sent to the Floor under Rule 28.8.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 719
(Min) -
Establishes conditions for declaring land surplus at the former Marine base in Tustin, including housing for low- and very low-income families.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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AB 1139
(Lorena Gonzalez) -
Requires the PUC to ensure that the average effective CARE discount shall not be less than 40% or more than 45% of the revenues that would have been produced for the same billed usage by non-CARE customers; requires the PUC to allocate up to $300M per year for for assistance to residential customers who both participate in the CARE program and live in multifamily housing or in underserved communities to purchase renewable electrical generation equipment; makes numerous other changes.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 638
(Hertzberg) -
Spot bill on the the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.
Sen. Appropriations: Determined to have no significant state costs and sent to the Floor under Rule 28.8.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 678
(Rubio) -
Requires the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to set specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among unaccompanied women to coordinate a spectrum of funding, policy, and practice efforts related to unaccompanied women experiencing homelessness.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 490
(Caballero) -
Creates the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance program at HCD.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 708
(Melendez) -
Spot bill on Prop 1, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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SB 4
(Gonzalez) -
Makes various changes to the California Advanced Services Fund broadband program.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 546
(Wilk) -
Requires provision of lifeline smart phone and data service for current and former foster youth (ages 13 through 26).
Amended.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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AB 790
(Quirk-Silva) -
Extends protections in the Consumer Legal Remedies Act to PACE transactions.
Passed Asm. Judiciary and sent to Floor. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
Asm. Judiciary View Bill
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AB 1101
(Irwin) -
Modifies financial fiduciary requirements for HOA boards and agents.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.)
Asm. Judiciary View Bill
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AB 502
(Davies) -
Allows HOAs of any size to elect board members by acclamation if they number of candidates does not exceed the number of vacancies, under specified conditions.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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AB 978
(Quirk-Silva) -
Extends AB 1492's limitations on rent increases to mobilehomes.
Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.)
Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill
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SB 728
(Hertzberg) -
Makes changes to Density Bonus Law requirements related to for-sale units to ensure ongoing affordability and occupancy by lower- or moderate-income households.
Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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AB 1188
(Wicks) -
Requires cities to create and maintain a rental registry by 2021 covering all landlords who own or operate five or more units.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 290
(Skinner) -
Re-do of last year’s SB 1385. Makes a number of modifications to Density Bonus law, including adding one concession for student housing projects and allowing the use of the moderate-income density bonus in all for-sale developments rather than just in common-interest developments.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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AB 491
(Lorena Gonzalez) -
Prohibits developments with assisted units from having a separate entrance for the assisted units.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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AB 362
(Quirk-Silva) -
Establishes minimum health and safety standards for homeless shelters including maintenance, interior air quality, sleeping rooms, and laundries; allows for local or state enforcement; requires unannounced inspections at least every six months; provides for denial of funding for violations under specified conditions.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 616
(Rubio) -
Requires that housing developed on school district properties for employee housing be affordable.
Passed Sen. Education as proposed to be amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
Sen. Education View Bill
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AB 1061
(Lee) -
Requires mobilehome park owners who master meter water service to charge the same water rate to residents as they would pay if they were receiving service directly from the water utility provider.
Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill
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SB 32
(Cortese) -
Requires a city or county (including chartered) to amend the appropriate elements of its general plan to include goals, policies, objectives, targets, and feasible implementation strategies to decarbonize newly-constructed residential and commercial buildings.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 17
(Pan) -
Establishes a state Office of Racial Equity, with duties to include establishing methodologies, a system of measurement, and data needs for assessing how state statutes, regulations, and practices contribute to, uphold, or exacerbate racial disparities; requires each state agency, including the Business, Consumer Affairs, and Housing Agency, to adopt and implement a Racial Equity Framework and Racial Equity Action Plan.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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AB 71
(Luz Rivas) -
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.
Amended.
Second Reading View Bill
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SB 756
(Hueso) -
Defines low-income households as under 250% of the federal poverty level, for purposes of the PUC's home weatherization programs.
Sen. Appropriations: Determined to have no significant state costs and sent to the Floor under Rule 28.8.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
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SB 45
(Portantino) -
Places a $5B bond issue on the November 2022 ballot to finance projects for a wildfire prevention, safe drinking water, drought preparation, and flood protection program.
May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Sen. Appropriations View Bill
Monday, May 3, 2021
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AB 1329
(Nazarian) -
Revises procedures for establishing functional recovery standards following an earthquake; authorizes local jurisdictions to enact more restrictive recovery-based standards.
Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.)
Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill
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AB 602
(Grayson) -
Establishes standards for nexus fee studies; requires HCD to develop model standards.
Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill
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AB 816
(Chiu) -
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.
Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.)
Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill
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AB 1322
(Bonta) -
Would allow a city council or board of supervisors to suspend provisions of a city charter or a local voter measure that the council or board believes conflicts with state housing laws.
Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.)
Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill