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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

• 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

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

• SB 756 (Hueso) - Defines low-income households as under 250% of the federal poverty level, for purposes of the PUC's home weatherization programs.
  Passed Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications and sent to APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• SB 625 (Caballero) - Creates a state CDFI fund to provide grants and loans to CDFIs for a variety of activities in low-income communities.
  April 19 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 68 (Salas) - 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.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 634 (Carrillo) - Provides the local governments may require affordability covenants of 55 years or more on rental density bonus units; allows covenants of greater than 55 years on projects subject to specified other laws.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 438 (Laird) - Deems a loan agreement entered into between a redevelopment agency and the City of Atascadero between 1999 and 2003 to be enforceable obligations for the purposes of redevelopment dissolution.
  April 19 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1447 (Cooley) - Establishes a $1B Rural California Infrastructure Fund.
  Passed CX81 and sent to J.,E.D., & E. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.)
  CX81 View Bill

• SB 28 (Caballero) - Requires a cable franchise holder to meet specified milestones to deploy broadband service to rural, unserved, and underserved areas.
  Passed Sen. Governmental Organization as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Governmental Organization View Bill

• SB 708 (Melendez) - Spot bill on Prop 1, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014.
  Sen. Natural Resources and Water: Set for hearing April 27.
  Sen. Natural Resources and Water 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

• 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 742 (Pan) - Planning spot bill.
  Passed Sen. Public Safety and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Public Safety 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.
  Sen. Housing: Set for hearing April 29.
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• AB 115 (Bloom) - Re-run of AB 3107 from last year making housing with 20% lower-income units an allowable use in commercial zones.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• 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.
  Sen. Judiciary: Set for hearing May 4.
  Sen. Judiciary 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

• SB 100 (Hurtado) - Requires the State Department of Social Services to convene a working group to examine the extended foster care system, including housing issues.
  April 19 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  Asm. Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy View Bill

• AB 1405 (Wicks) - Spot bill on the Consumers Legal Remedies Act.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 1095 (Cooley) - Requires SGC to treat rental and ownership housing equally in the AHSC program.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1327 (Ting) - Requires the Dept. of Aging to include ADUs in its aging-in-place materails.
  Passed Asm. Aging and Long Term Care and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Aging and Long Term Care View Bill

• AB 721 (Bloom) - 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.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 1083 (Nazarian) - Establishes a pilot program for providing nursing services at senior citizen housing developments.
  Passed Asm. Aging and Long Term Care and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Aging and Long Term Care View Bill

• AB 258 (Villapudua) - 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..
  Amended.
  Second Reading 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.
  Amended.
  Second Reading 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 3 (Caballero) - Extends the provisions of AB 3088 through March 2021.
  Hearing canceled in Sen. Judiciary at the request of the author.
  Sen. Judiciary 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.
  Passed Asm. Revenue and Taxation and sent to H. & C.D. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.)
  Asm. Revenue and Taxation View Bill

Monday, April 19, 2021

• 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.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1143 (Berman) - Allows local governments to have a policy giving preference to lower-income households at risk of displacement in tax-credit-funded affordable housing.
  In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Engrossing View Bill

• SB 713 (Rubio) - Allows the Insurance Commissioner to approve investments by insurers in low- and moderate income and underserved communities under the California Organized Investment Network (COIN) program above the statutory limits; extend COIN through 2027..
  Sen. Appropriations: Determined to have no significant state costs and sent to the Floor under Rule 28.8.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1174 (Grayson) - Makes numerous changes to SB 35.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to L. GOV. (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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 274 (Wieckowski) - Requires a local agency with an internet website to email a copy of, or website link to, the agenda or a copy of all the documents constituting the agenda packet if the person requests that the items be delivered by email; If a local agency determines it to be technologically infeasible to send a copy of the documents or a link to a website that contains the documents by mail or by other electronic means, requires the legislative body to send the packet by mail.
  Sen. Appropriations: Determined to have no significant state costs and sent to the Floor under Rule 28.8.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 708 (Melendez) - Spot bill on Prop 1, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014.
  Amended.
  Sen. Natural Resources and Water 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. Housing and Community Development: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development 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. Energy, Utilities and Communications as proposed to be amended and sent to E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• AB 1329 (Nazarian) - Revises procedures for establishing functional recovery standards following an earthquake; authorizes local jurisdictions to enact more restrictive recovery-based standards.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 602 (Grayson) - Establishes standards for nexus fee studies; requires HCD to develop model standards.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• 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

• 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Communications and Conveyance 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 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Natural Resources View Bill

• SB 743 (Bradford) - Creates a grant program at the PUC to fund broadband, digital literacy, and computer equipment in affordable housing.
  Amended.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• AB 838 (Friedman) - Requires cities and counties to follow up on complaints from tenants about substandard buildings and potential lead hazards.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• 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.
  Amended.
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

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

• AB 512 (Holden) - Requires Caltrans, with certain exceptions, to offer to sell certain unimproved properties along the rescinded 710 freeway corridor at the original acquisition price paid by the department in the middle of the last century to a housing-related entity for affordable housing purposes.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 880 (Aguiar-Curry) - 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.
  Passed Asm. Housing and Community Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 977 (Gabriel) - Requires the reporting of health information to the state Homeless Management Information System by various grantees.
  Amended.
  Asm. Human Services View Bill