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Thursday, April 22, 2021

• SB 11 (Rubio) - Requires the Insurance Commissioner to convene a stakeholder group to identify ways to measure and incorporate various fire damage mitigation strategies into the homeowners’ insurance ratemaking process.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  View Bill

• SB 233 (Umberg) -
  Passed Senate Floor. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  Consent View Bill

• AB 977 (Gabriel) - Requires the reporting of health information to the state Homeless Management Information System by various grantees.
  Passed Asm. Human Services and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Human Services View Bill

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

• SB 323 (Caballero) - Applies the same judicial action procedure and timelines, as in the Mitigation Fee Act, to water or sewer service fees or charges, with exceptions.
  Passed Sen. Judiciary and sent to Floor. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Judiciary 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. Judiciary and sent to HOUSING. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

• SB 234 (Wiener) - Creates the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program to create housing for youth under 26 who are experiencing homelessness.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1085 (Bigelow) - Adjusts ERAF allocation for Madera County.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 414 (Jones) - Changes timelines in the Subdivision Map Act.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• 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: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• 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: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1103 (Megan Dahle) - Authorizes a county to adopt a pass program to allow ag workers and employers into areas otherwise closed due to a natural disaster.
  CX81: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  CX81 View Bill

• AB 1377 (McCarty) - Creates a revolving loan fund to assist UC, CSU, and community colleges in producing affordable student housing.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
  Asm. 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).
  Passed Sen. Human Services and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Human Services View Bill

• 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.
  Passed Sen. Judiciary and sent to APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

• SB 490 (Caballero) - Creates the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance program at HCD.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  Sen. Environmental Quality: Set for hearing April 29.
  Sen. Environmental Quality View Bill

• 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.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1492 (Bloom) - Requires HCD to map high-opportunity areas.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 413 (Ting) - 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.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 638 (Hertzberg) - Spot bill on the the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• 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.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 27 (Luz Rivas) - Requires schools to survey and report on homeless and unaccompanied students.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 4 (Gonzalez) - Makes various changes to the California Advanced Services Fund broadband program.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1428 (Quirk) - Removes the ability of a water district that provides primarily agricultural services with only incidental residential uses to self-certify that it is providing water for residential use for drinking water that achieves the equivalent level of public health protection provided by applicable primary drinking water regulations.
  Passed Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials and sent to APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials View Bill

• AB 328 (Chiu) - 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.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 978 (Quirk-Silva) - Extends AB 1492's limitations on rent increases to mobilehomes.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 413 (Ting) - 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.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• 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.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• 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.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1085 (Bigelow) - Adjusts ERAF allocation for Madera County.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• 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.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1207 (Luz Rivas) - Spot bill on the COVID-19 Small Landlord and Homeowner Relief Act of 2020.
  Asm. Health: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Health View Bill

• 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: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• 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.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 861 (Bennett) - Prohibits park management from renting or subleasing a mobilhome if the park rules prohibit renting or subleasing.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 28 (Caballero) - Requires a cable franchise holder to meet specified milestones to deploy broadband service to rural, unserved, and underserved areas.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 743 (Bradford) - Creates a grant program at the PUC to fund broadband, digital literacy, and computer equipment in affordable housing.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications: Set for hearing April 26.
  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.
  Sen. Environmental Quality: Set for hearing April 29.
  Sen. Environmental Quality View Bill

• AB 621 (Robert Rivas) - CEQA spot bill.
  Amended.
  Asm. Natural Resources View Bill

• SB 742 (Pan) - Planning spot bill.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing May 3.
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Natural Resources View Bill

• AB 1377 (McCarty) - Creates a revolving loan fund to assist UC, CSU, and community colleges in producing affordable student housing.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 27 (Luz Rivas) - Requires schools to survey and report on homeless and unaccompanied students.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 742 (Calderon) - Extends tax return check box for contributions to the School Supplies for Homeless Children Fund through 2029.
  Passed Asm. Appropriations and sent to Floor. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.)
  Asm. 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.
  Passed Sen. Judiciary as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

• SB 238 (Melendez) - Adds "political affiliation" as a protected class for housing and employment under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.
  Failed in Sen. Judiciary. (Ayes 2. Noes 9.) Reconsideration granted.
  Sen. Judiciary 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development 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
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 328 (Chiu) - 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.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill