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Friday, April 30, 2021

• SB 679 (Kamlager) - Establish the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, to increase affordable housing in Los Angeles County by providing for significantly enhanced funding and technical assistance at a regional level for renter protections, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 743 (Bradford) - Creates a grant program at the PUC to fund broadband, digital literacy, and computer equipment in affordable housing.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 241 (Umberg) - Allows witnesses in civil cases to appear via a live audio-video link, upon stipulation or upon a court granting a motion by a party.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 9 (Atkins) - Makes duplexes and lots splits on ministerial, similar to SB 1120 from 2020.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 546 (Wilk) - Requires provision of lifeline smart phone and data service for current and former foster youth (ages 13 through 26).
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 734 (Hueso) - Spot bill on former redevelopment provisions.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 10 (Wiener) - Allows local governments to rezone a parcel by right in infill or jobs-rich areas.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 10.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

Thursday, April 29, 2021

• AB 1358 (Bonta) - Spot bill related to Housing First.
  Passed Asm. Accountability and Administrative Review and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Accountability and Administrative Review View Bill

• AB 1522 (Levine) - Prohibits an insurer from canceling or refusing to renew a policy of residential (or other) property insurance based solely on the fact that the insured property is located in a high-risk wildfire area.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Insurance View Bill

• AB 1176 (Eduardo Garcia) - Requires the PUC to create the California Connect Program, to ensure that high-speed broadband service is available to every household in the state at affordable rates.
  Passed Asm. Communications and Conveyance and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.)
  Asm. Communications and Conveyance View Bill

• SB 478 (Wiener) - Prohibits cities and counties from imposing certain minimum lot size standards.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Housing 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.
  Asm. Local Government: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• SB 6 (Caballero) - Aauthorizes housing on commercial sites that include affordable units and comply with a skilled and trained workforce requirement.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing 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.
  Passed Sen. Environmental Quality as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.)
  Sen. Environmental Quality 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.
  Passed Sen. Housing as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• AB 1087 (Chiu) - Creates the Environmental Justice Community Resilience Hubs Program, which would require electrical utilities to make grants from specified allocations to community institutions and qualified housing developments for holistic community-driven building upgrade projects.
  Passed Asm. Natural Resources and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.)
  Asm. Natural Resources View Bill

• AB 1486 (Carrillo) - Exempts from CEQA the adoption of a housing element, revisions of a housing element, and amendments to other general plan elements to ensure consistency with the housing element or comply with legal requirements triggered by a housing element revision, amendment, or update; limits review of a housing element implementation project.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1425 (Gipson) - Allocates $25M per year in the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) to the Broadband Public Housing Account to provide connectivity to residents of publicly subsidized multiunit housing complexes.
  Passed Asm. Communications and Conveyance and sent to APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.)
  Asm. Communications and Conveyance View Bill

• AB 546 (Maienschein) - Requires the county welfare department to include in its report on a minor turning 18 and possibly leaving juvenile court jurisdiction, whether housing referrals or assistance have been successful at securing stable housing, and, if not, what different or additional services the department will provide to prevent the minor or nonminor from becoming homeless if jurisdiction is terminated.
  Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 850 (Gallagher) - Extends authority for the City of El Monte, the City of Montebello, and the City of Willows to consolidate water utilities.
  Passed Asm. Local Government and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• AB 742 (Calderon) - Extends tax return check box for contributions to the School Supplies for Homeless Children Fund through 2029.
  Passed Assembly Floor. Ordered to the Senate.
  Consent View Bill

• SB 791 (Cortese) - Upon appropriation, establishes the California Surplus Land Authority to facilitate development of housing on state and local surplus property.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to G.O. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 8 (Skinner) - Clean-up bill for SB 330. Changes include clarifying that the law applies to both ministerial and discretionary projects.
  Passed Sen. Housing as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 106 (Umberg) - Spot bill on homelessness provisions in the MHSA.
  Passed Sen. Health as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Health View Bill

• AB 1169 (Eduardo Garcia) - Extends certain reporting requirements on the Transcript Reimbursement Fund, which provides reimbursement for the cost of providing shorthand reporting services to low-income litigants in civil cases, to July 1, 2023.
  Amended.
  Second Reading 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.
  Passed Sen. Housing as proposed to be amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing 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.
  Asm. Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy 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.
  Passed Sen. Environmental Quality as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.)
  Sen. Environmental Quality View Bill

• AB 1271 (Ting) - Makes various changes to provisions to use surplus land for affordable housing.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1029 (Mullin) - Adds preservation of affordable housing through the extension of project-based rental assistance to the list of policies that HCD may consider as "prohousing policies."
  Passed Asm. Local Government and sent to APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• SB 13 (Dodd) - Extends pilot projects in Napa and San Bernardino counties to provide new or extended services outside jurisdictional boundaries and outside spheres of influence through 2026.
  Amended.
  Sen. Governance and Finance 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.
  Passed Assembly Floor. (Ayes 56. Noes 17.) Ordered to the Senate.
  Asm. Budget View Bill

• AB 215 (Chiu) - 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.
  Passed Asm. Local Government and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• SCA 2 (Allen) - Would place the repeal of Article 34 on a future ballot.
  Sen. Housing: Be adopted and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• 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.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 68 (Becker) - Spot bill on building decarbonization.
  Withdrawn from Sen. Judiciary
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

• AB 1304 (Santiago) - Makes changes to AB 686 related to the AFFH analysis in Housing Element law.
  Passed Asm. Local Government and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• AB 803 (Boerner Horvath) - Allows development of small lot single family housing in multifamily zones that do not meet minimum lot size requirements.
  Passed Asm. Local Government and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Local Government 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.
  In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  View Bill

• AB 1439 (Levine) - Requires residential property insurance to include a discount if the local jurisdiction where the property is located funds a local wildfire protection or mitigation program.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Insurance View Bill

• AB 411 (Irwin) - 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.
  Passed Asm. Veterans Affairs and sent to APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Veterans Affairs View Bill

• SB 7 (Atkins) - Allows infill housing projects with 15% affordable units to qualify for the AB 900 expedited CEQA process.
  Passed Asm. Natural Resources and sent to APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Natural Resources View Bill

• AB 1398 (Bloom) - Revises the penalities for failing to adopt a timely housing element similar to last year's SB 1138.
  Asm. Local Government: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• SB 776 (Gonzalez) - Expands application of the California Safe Drinking Water Act to small state water systems; allows to SWRCB to adopt emergency regulations regarding water analysis.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 1426 (Mathis) - Allows California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) broadband development assistance in areas where the existing broadband provider demonstrates it will deploy broadband or upgrade existing broadband service.
  Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 1017 (Quirk-Silva) - Requires local governments to inventory of public restrooms available to the homeless population to use during the COVID-19 state of emergency.
  Passed Asm. Local Government and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• AB 14 (Aguiar-Curry) - Makes numerous changes to the California Advanced Services Fund for broadband access.
  Passed Asm. Local Government and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.)
  Asm. Local Government 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.
  Passed Sen. Transportation as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Transportation View Bill

• SB 563 (Allen) - Makes substantial revisions to the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act.
  Passed Sen. Housing as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.)
  Sen. Housing 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.
  Asm. Local Government: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill