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Monday, May 3, 2021

• AB 500 (Ward) - Adds housing opportunities for persons of low and moderate income to the Coastal Act; requires local coastal plans to include ministerial approval of ADUs.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 561 (Ting) - 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.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 787 (Gabriel) - 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.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 965 (Levine) - Requires HCD and the Building Standards Commission to propose building standards for electric vehicle charging infrastructure at existing multifamily dwellings.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1043 (Luz Rivas) - Creates a "deeply low income" designation for households at or below 15% of AMI.
  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

• 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.
  View Bill

• 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.
  Passed Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.)
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• SB 223 (Dodd) - Extends current water cut-off protections for customers of public water systems with more than 200 customers to customers of all public water systems; prohibits these systems from discontinuing residential water service for nonpayment to a master-metered multifamily residence with at least 4 units or to a master-metered mobilehome park; requires these systems to waive fees for disconnection and reconnection of service for customers under 200% of the federal poverty level.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 778 (Becker) - Extends the prohibition on local owner-occupant requirements for ADUs from 2025 to 2028; revises number of allowable ADUs and other requirements in multifamily buildings.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• 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
  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

• 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.
  Passed Sen. Housing as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• 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.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 742 (Calderon) - Extends tax return check box for contributions to the School Supplies for Homeless Children Fund through 2029.
  In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Engrossing View Bill

• SB 791 (Cortese) - Upon appropriation, establishes the California Surplus Land Authority to facilitate development of housing on state and local surplus property.
  Withdrawn from Sen. Governmental Organization
  Sen. Governmental Organization View Bill

• 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.
  Asm. Utilities and Energy: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Utilities and Energy View Bill

• SB 8 (Skinner) - Clean-up bill for SB 330. Changes include clarifying that the law applies to both ministerial and discretionary projects.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 106 (Umberg) - Spot bill on homelessness provisions in the MHSA.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 1095 (Cooley) - Requires SGC to treat rental and ownership housing equally in the AHSC program.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1101 (Irwin) - Modifies financial fiduciary requirements for HOA boards and agents.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 591 (Becker) - Permits the establishment of an intergenerational housing development that includes senior citizens along with caregivers and transition age youths, under specified conditions.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 1492 (Bloom) - Requires HCD to map high-opportunity areas.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 319 (Melendez) - Revises requirements for audits under the the Mitigation Fee Act.
  Passed Senate Floor. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 874 (Quirk-Silva) - Requires the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authorityto develop a PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) default mitigation program.
  Passed Asm. Banking and Finance and sent to APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Banking and Finance View Bill

• AB 106 (Salas) - Establishes the Regions Rise Grant Program within GO-Biz to provide grants for inclusive, cross-jurisdictional, and innovative engagement processes that lead to inclusive strategies to address barriers and challenges confronting communities, with funding from a budget bill appropriation.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 33 (Cortese) - CEQA spot bill.
  Passed Senate Floor. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 222 (Dodd) - Establishes the Water Affordability Assistance Fund to provide water affordability assistance, for both drinking water and wastewater services, to low-income households; funding would be from separate appropriation.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• 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.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• 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.
  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

• AB 1423 (Daly) - Allows MHP funds to be used for construction financing or permanent financing.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 319 (Melendez) - Revises requirements for audits under the the Mitigation Fee Act.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  View Bill

• AB 1401 (Friedman) - Prohibits cities and counties from imposing parking minimum within 1/2 mile of transit or in a low Vehicle Miles Travelled area as determined by OPR.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 491 (Lorena Gonzalez) - Prohibits developments with assisted units from having a separate entrance for the assisted units.
  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

• 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.
  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

• SB 33 (Cortese) - CEQA spot bill.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  View Bill

• AB 1090 (Quirk-Silva) - Creates the Legislative Task Force on the California Master Plan on Homeownership to make recommendations on removing policy and regulatory barriers to homeownership.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• 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.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 92 (Skinner) - Makes technical and clarifying changes to eviction prevention provisions contained the already-enacted SB 91: Clarifies that local rent repayment plans can have repayment schedules through August 31, 2022; Clarifies the instances where the courts may reduce damages awarded for COVID-19 rental debt; Clarifies that most actions to collect COVID-19 rental debt are stayed until August 1, 2021 unless otherwise provided.
  Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 8.) Ordered to the Governor.
  Unfinished Business View Bill

• AB 1398 (Bloom) - Revises the penalities for failing to adopt a timely housing element similar to last year's SB 1138.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 1297 (Holden) - Allows the state Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to finance certain housing developments.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 381 (Portantino) - Revises procedures for disposal of surplus residential properties along the portion of the rescinded 710 Freeway corridor in South Pasadena.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 563 (Allen) - Makes substantial revisions to the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 1135 (Grayson) - Requires the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency (BCSH), HCD, CalHFA, and TCAC to jointly establish and operate a single, centralized housing funding allocation committee.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 950 (Ward) - Authorizes Caltrans to sell its excess property to cities and counties for affordable housing and exempts these transfers from CEQA.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 560 (Rubio) - Establishes the Climate Pollution Reduction in Homes Initiative, requiring the PUC to provide financial assistance to low-income households for the purchase of zero-carbon-emitting appliances and low-income weatherization projects to improve air quality and public health in low-income communities.
  Passed Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• AB 571 (Mayes) - Prohibits affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees, in-lieu fees, and public benefit fees, from being imposed on a housing development’s affordable units.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 339 (Lee) - Revises state and local open meeting requirements.
  Asm. Local Government: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

Friday, April 30, 2021

• SB 28 (Caballero) - Requires a cable franchise holder to meet specified milestones to deploy broadband service to rural, unserved, and underserved areas.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 552 (Hertzberg) - Establishes several processes to address drought planning for small water systems.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 31 (Cortese) - Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to identify and implement programs to promote existing and new building decarbonization.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 403 (Gonzalez) - Authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to roder consolidations of water system that fail to supply an adequate amount of safe drinking water; requires the Board to conduct outreach to customers of at-risk water systems.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill