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Friday, April 9, 2021

• SB 740 (Borgeas) - Makes various changes to the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) broadband development program, including requiring that the surcharges in existing law continue until $330M is collected
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications: Set for hearing April 26.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications 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. Governance and Finance: Set for hearing April 15.
  Sen. Governance and Finance 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. Energy, Utilities and Communications: Set for hearing April 19.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• SB 676 (Bates) - Authorizes a defendant in an unlawful detainer action to file a motion to strike on or before the day fixed for the defendant’s appearance; authorizes a party in an unlawful detainer action to file a motion for summary adjudication in the same manner as a motion for summary judgment.
  Sen. Judiciary: Set for hearing April 27.
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

Thursday, April 8, 2021

• AB 780 (Ting) - Authorizes a school district to render a city or county zoning ordinance inapplicable if the proposed use of property by the school district is to offer school district employee housing under specified conditions.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Local Government 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.
  Passed Asm. Human Services and sent to JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Human Services View Bill

• AB 213 (Committee on Budget) - Spot budget trailer bill.
  Amended.
  Sen. Budget and Fiscal Review View Bill

• SB 638 (Hertzberg) - Spot bill on the the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.
  Amended.
  Second Reading 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.
  Passed Sen. Governance and Finance as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• SB 740 (Borgeas) - Makes various changes to the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) broadband development program, including requiring that the surcharges in existing law continue until $330M is collected
  Amended.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Utilities and Energy View Bill

• AB 687 (Seyarto) - Authorizes the creation of the Western Riverside County Housing Finance Trust, a joint powers authority.
  Passed Assembly Floor. Ordered to the Senate.
  Consent 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.
  Passed Asm. Human Services and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Human Services View Bill

• SB 68 (Becker) - Spot bill on building decarbonization.
  Amended.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• AB 790 (Quirk-Silva) - Extends protections in the Consumer Legal Remedies Act to PACE transactions.
  Passed Asm. Privacy and Consumer Protection and sent to JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Privacy and Consumer Protection View Bill

• SB 33 (Cortese) - CEQA spot bill.
  Sen. Appropriations: Set for hearing April 19.
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Budget View Bill

• AB 687 (Seyarto) - Authorizes the creation of the Western Riverside County Housing Finance Trust, a joint powers authority.
  In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Engrossing View Bill

• SB 319 (Melendez) - Revises requirements for audits under the the Mitigation Fee Act.
  Passed Sen. Governance and Finance and sent to Floor. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Governance and Finance 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.
  Amended.
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• SB 400 (Jones) - Requires schools to collaborate with other agencies that provide services for homeless children.
  Passed Senate Floor. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  Consent View Bill

• SB 7 (Atkins) - Allows infill housing projects with 15% affordable units to qualify for the AB 900 expedited CEQA process.
  Referred to NAT. RES.
  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.
  Amended.
  Sen. Governance and Finance 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.
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• SB 400 (Jones) - Requires schools to collaborate with other agencies that provide services for homeless children.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  View Bill

• SB 478 (Wiener) - Prohibits cities and counties from imposing certain minimum lot size standards.
  Passed Sen. Governance and Finance as proposed to be amended and sent to HOUSING. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• AB 1487 (Gabriel) - Upon appropriation, creates a grant program at the State Bar Legal Services Trust Fund Commission for legal services organizations for eviction defense and education.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 79 (Ting) - Creates several technical budget items for HCD to implement the $1.5 billion in federal rental assistance funds the state anticipates receiving.
  Amended.
  Sen. Budget and Fiscal Review View Bill

• SB 676 (Bates) - Authorizes a defendant in an unlawful detainer action to file a motion to strike on or before the day fixed for the defendant’s appearance; authorizes a party in an unlawful detainer action to file a motion for summary adjudication in the same manner as a motion for summary judgment.
  Hearing canceled in Sen. Judiciary at the request of the author.
  Sen. Judiciary 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. Governance and Finance as proposed to be amended and sent to E., U. & C. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• 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.
  Passed Sen. Insurance as proposed to be amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Insurance View Bill

• AB 565 (Lackey) - Requires the Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship to study and report on issues related to the participation of homeless youth and foster youth in apprenticeships.
  Passed Asm. Labor and Employment and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Labor and Employment 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.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 85 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) - Amends the current year state budget (which ends June 30, 2021) to include provisions for $24M from the General Fund for the Housing the Harvest program to provide housing support to farmworkers that need to isolate due to COVID-19 exposure, and approximately $10M in assistance for UC, CSU, and community college homeless students.
  Amended.
  Asm. Budget View Bill

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

• 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. Natural Resources 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.
  Sen. Judiciary: Set for hearing April 20.
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

• SB 233 (Umberg) -
  Passed Sen. Judiciary and sent to Floor. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

• SB 638 (Hertzberg) - Spot bill on the the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.
  Passed Sen. Banking and Financial Institutions as proposed to be amended and sent to JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Banking and Financial Institutions View Bill

• AB 747 (Mathis) - Appropriates $20M to the Tule River Indian Tribe-City of Porterville joint powers authority for a water treatment facility.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials View Bill

• AB 638 (Quirk-Silva) - Involuntary commitment spot bill.
  Passed Asm. Health and sent to APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Health View Bill

• SB 33 (Cortese) - CEQA spot bill.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SCA 2 (Allen) - Would place the repeal of Article 34 on a future ballot.
  Referred to HOUSING, E. & C.A., and APPR.
  View Bill

• AB 100 (Holden) - Establishes a performance standard for lead-free plumbing fixtures.
  Passed Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials and sent to APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials 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.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1250 (Calderon) - Authorizes a water or sewer system corporation to file an application and obtain approval from the commission through an order authorizing the water or sewer system corporation to consolidate with a public water system or state small water system.
  Passed Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials and sent to U. & E. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials View Bill

• AB 1487 (Gabriel) - Upon appropriation, creates a grant program at the State Bar Legal Services Trust Fund Commission for legal services organizations for eviction defense and education.
  Asm. Judiciary: Passed as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.)
  Asm. Judiciary 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: Set for hearing April 19.
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Human Services 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. Business, Professions and Economic Development as proposed to be amended and sent to JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Business, Professions and Economic Development View Bill

• AB 736 (Mathis) - Spot bill on SWRCB drinking water requirements.
  In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials View Bill