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Thursday, April 15, 2021

• AB 14 (Aguiar-Curry) - Makes numerous changes to the California Advanced Services Fund for broadband access.
  Passed Asm. Communications and Conveyance and sent to L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Communications and Conveyance 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.
  Passed Sen. Governance and Finance and sent to APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• SB 563 (Allen) - Makes substantial revisions to the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act.
  Sen. Housing: Set for hearing April 29.
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 28 (Caballero) - Requires a cable franchise holder to meet specified milestones to deploy broadband service to rural, unserved, and underserved areas.
  Sen. Governmental Organization: Set for hearing April 20.
  Sen. Governmental Organization View Bill

• AB 339 (Lee) - Revises state and local open meeting requirements.
  Referred to L. GOV.
  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.
  Passed Sen. Governance and Finance and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• AB 602 (Grayson) - Establishes standards for nexus fee studies; requires HCD to develop model standards.
  Asm. Local Government: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to H. & C.D. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Local Government 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.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications: Set for hearing April 26.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications 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.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to GOV. & F. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Housing 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.
  Asm. Local Government: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to H. & C.D. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• SB 765 (Stern) - Allows in applicant for an ADU to request alternative rear and side yard setbacks based on topographical conditions if the existing local setback requirements would make an ADU infeasible.
  April 15 set for first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set.
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• AB 339 (Lee) - Revises state and local open meeting requirements.
  Amended.
  Asm. Local Government 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. Governance and Finance as proposed to be amended and sent to HOUSING. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• AB 1358 (Bonta) - Spot bill related to Housing First.
  Amended.
  Asm. Accountability and Administrative Review View Bill

• SB 478 (Wiener) - Prohibits cities and counties from imposing certain minimum lot size standards.
  Sen. Housing: Set for hearing April 29.
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 9 (Atkins) - Makes duplexes and lots splits on ministerial, similar to SB 1120 from 2020.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• AB 34 (Muratsuchi) - Places a $10B bond on the November 2022 ballot to finance the Broadband for All program, also created by the bill.
  Passed Asm. Communications and Conveyance and sent to P. & C.P. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Communications and Conveyance View Bill

• SB 392 (Archuleta) - Allows members of HOAs to receive association documents by email.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 392 (Archuleta) - Allows members of HOAs to receive association documents by email.
  Sen. Judiciary: Set for hearing April 27.
  Sen. Judiciary 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. Energy, Utilities and Communications as proposed to be amended and sent to HUMAN S. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications 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.
  Passed Sen. Housing as proposed to be amended and sent to JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 234 (Wiener) - Creates the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program to create housing for youth under 26 who are experiencing homelessness.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• AB 464 (Mullin) - Allows bond proceeds of enhanced infrastructure financing districts to be used for facilities in which nonprofit community organizations provide health, youth, homeless, and social services.
  Passed Asm. Local Government and sent to Floor. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• SB 4 (Gonzalez) - Makes various changes to the California Advanced Services Fund broadband program.
  Passed Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications as proposed to be amended and sent to JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• SB 106 (Umberg) - Spot bill on homelessness provisions in the MHSA.
  Sen. Health: Set for hearing April 28.
  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.
  Asm. Health View Bill

• SB 414 (Jones) - Changes timelines in the Subdivision Map Act.
  Passed Sen. Governance and Finance and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Governance and Finance 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.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing 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.
  Passed Asm. Agriculture and sent to E.M. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Agriculture View Bill

• SB 490 (Caballero) - Creates the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance program at HCD.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 621 (Eggman) - Makes hotel and motel conversions to housing a use by right if the project includes 10% affordable units; a locality may impose a larger set-aside..
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to GOV. & F. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing 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.
  Passed Sen. Housing and sent to APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• AB 1271 (Ting) - Makes various changes to provisions to use surplus land for affordable housing.
  Asm. Local Government: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• AB 638 (Quirk-Silva) - Involuntary commitment spot bill.
  Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  Second Reading View Bill

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

• AB 345 (Quirk-Silva) - Requires localities to allow deed-restricted ADUs developed by nonprofits to be sold separately.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 498 (Umberg) - Increases income level to qualify for assistance from legal services projects to 200% of federal poverty level; also makes eligible veterans receiving disability compensation.
  Passed Sen. Veterans Affairs and sent to Floor. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Veterans Affairs 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.
  Passed Sen. Judiciary as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

• AB 100 (Holden) - Establishes a performance standard for lead-free plumbing fixtures.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 976 (Luz Rivas) - Creates a Strategic Growth Council grant pilot program for eligible community-based organizations to provide a comprehensive suite of coordinated incentives and services to disadvantaged communities at the resident household level to provide economic savings, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, and improve resiliency to the impacts of climate change.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations 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.
  Hearing postponed in Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications by committee.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• AB 1297 (Holden) - Allows the state Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to finance certain housing developments.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 345 (Quirk-Silva) - Requires localities to allow deed-restricted ADUs developed by nonprofits to be sold separately.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Asm. Appropriations 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.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Communications and Conveyance View Bill

• AB 941 (Bennett) - Upon appropriation by the Legislature, requires the Dept. of CSD to establish a grant program for counties to establish farmworker resource centers that provide access to services related to, among other things, housing, health, education, and labor rights; grants contingent upon the county working with community based organizations to develop a center.
  Amended.
  Asm. Human Services View Bill

• AB 976 (Luz Rivas) - Creates a Strategic Growth Council grant pilot program for eligible community-based organizations to provide a comprehensive suite of coordinated incentives and services to disadvantaged communities at the resident household level to provide economic savings, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, and improve resiliency to the impacts of climate change.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
  Asm. 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.
  Second Reading 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.
  Passed Asm. Natural Resources and sent to H. & C.D. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.)
  Asm. Natural Resources View Bill

• AB 1500 (Eduardo Garcia) - Puts a $6.7B bond measure on the 2022 ballot, for various purposes including safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, and flood protection.
  Amended.
  Second Reading 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.
  Hearing postponed in Asm. Communications and Conveyance by committee.
  Asm. Communications and Conveyance View Bill

• AB 1098 (Daly) - Requests that UCLA do a study and recommend standards for recovery residences, also known as sober living homes.
  Passed Asm. Health and sent to APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Health View Bill