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Monday, April 5, 2021

• SB 477 (Wiener) - Makes changes to housing element annual report requirements.
  April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 838 (Friedman) - Requires cities and counties to follow up on complaints from tenants about substandard buildings and potential lead hazards.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 330 (Durazo) - Establishes procedures and requirements for housing on community college campuses.
  April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1199 (Gipson) - Imposes an 25% excise tax on landlords who rent 10 or more single family homes or 25 or more multifamily properties with 5 or more units, to be used to fund a variety of activities to benefit low-income renters.
  Amended.
  Asm. Revenue and Taxation View Bill

• AB 27 (Luz Rivas) - Requires schools to survey and report on homeless and unaccompanied students.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 234 (Wiener) - Creates the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program to create housing for youth under 26 who are experiencing homelessness.
  Hearing postponed in Sen. Housing by committee.
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 791 (Cortese) - Upon appropriation, establishes the California Surplus Land Authority to facilitate development of housing on state and local surplus property.
  Hearing postponed in Sen. Housing by committee.
  Sen. Housing 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;
  Amended.
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

• SB 661 (Newman) - Makes numerous changes to veterans home loan programs.
  April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 106 (Umberg) - Spot bill on homelessness provisions in the MHSA.
  Hearing canceled in Sen. Health at the request of the author.
  Sen. Health View Bill

• AB 1466 (McCarty) - Requires a title insurance company involved in any transfer of real property that provides a copy of a deed or other written instrument relating to title to real property, to identify whether any of the documents contain an unlawfully restrictive covenant, and if identified, requires the title insurance company to record a modification document; makes other changes to facilitate recording of modification documents.
  Amended.
  Asm. Judiciary View Bill

• SB 490 (Caballero) - Creates the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance program at HCD.
  Hearing postponed in Sen. Housing by committee.
  Sen. Housing 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.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• SB 394 (Hueso) - Revises provisions for lifeline telephone service so that more than one person sharing a residence is eligible for lifeline service, if they are not part of the same household unit.
  Passed Senate Floor. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  Second Reading 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..
  Amended.
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 394 (Hueso) - Revises provisions for lifeline telephone service so that more than one person sharing a residence is eligible for lifeline service, if they are not part of the same household unit.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  View Bill

• AB 1410 (Rodriguez) - Prohibits HOAs from restricting rentals by owners, other than short-term rentals.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• SB 55 (Stern) - Prohibits development in very high fire hazard severity zones unless the locality has implemented comprehensive fire mitigation measures; allows an additional density bonus is the project is not located in a fire-risk area.
  Amended.
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• AB 687 (Seyarto) - Authorizes the creation of the Western Riverside County Housing Finance Trust, a joint powers authority.
  Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  Second Reading 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.
  Amended.
  Second Reading View Bill

• AB 100 (Holden) - Establishes a performance standard for lead-free plumbing fixtures.
  Amended.
  Asm. Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials View Bill

• SB 563 (Allen) - Makes substantial revisions to the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act.
  Amended.
  Sen. Governance and Finance View Bill

• AB 1401 (Friedman) - Prohibits cities and counties from imposing parking minimum within 1/2 mile of transit or in a low Vehicle Miles Travelled area as determined by OPR.
  Amended.
  Asm. Local Government View Bill

• SB 344 (Hertzberg) - Requires HCD to administer a program to award grants to homeless shelters for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness.
  April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1188 (Wicks) - Requires cities to create and maintain a rental registry by 2021 covering all landlords who own or operate five or more units.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development View Bill

• AB 1304 (Santiago) - Makes changes to AB 686 related to the AFFH analysis in Housing Element law.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development 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.
  Passed Sen. Business, Professions and Economic Development and sent to APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Business, Professions and Economic Development View Bill

• SB 400 (Jones) - Requires schools to collaborate with other agencies that provide services for homeless children.
  Sen. Appropriations: Determined to have no significant state costs and sent to the Floor under Rule 28.8.
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications View Bill

• AB 1085 (Bigelow) - Adjusts ERAF allocation for Madera County.
  Amended.
  Asm. Local Government 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.
  Amended.
  Second Reading 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 616 (Rubio) - Requires that housing developed on school district properties for employee housing be affordable.
  Withdrawn from Sen. Housing
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 743 (Bradford) - Creates a grant program at the PUC to fund broadband, digital literacy, and computer equipment in affordable housing.
  Hearing canceled in Sen. Housing at the request of the author.
  Sen. Housing 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. Housing View Bill

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

• 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.
  Amended.
  Asm. Housing and Community Development 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;
  Hearing canceled in Sen. Judiciary at the request of the author.
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

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

Monday, March 29, 2021

• AB 27 (Luz Rivas) - Requires schools to survey and report on homeless and unaccompanied students.
  Asm. Education: Passed as proposed to be amended and sent to APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Education 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.
  Hearing canceled in Sen. Judiciary at the request of the author.
  Sen. Judiciary View Bill

Friday, March 26, 2021

• SB 234 (Wiener) - Creates the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program to create housing for youth under 26 who are experiencing homelessness.
  Sen. Housing: Set for hearing April 29.
  Sen. Housing View Bill

• SB 6 (Caballero) - Aauthorizes housing on commercial sites that include affordable units and comply with a skilled and trained workforce requirement.
  Sen. Housing: Set for hearing April 29.
  Sen. Housing View Bill

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

• AB 638 (Quirk-Silva) - Involuntary commitment spot bill.
  Amended.
  Asm. Health View Bill

• SB 68 (Becker) - Spot bill on building decarbonization.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications: Set for hearing April 19.
  Sen. Energy, Utilities and Communications 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.
  Sen. Housing: Set for hearing April 29.
  Sen. Housing 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 6.
  Sen. Judiciary 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 19.
  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.
  Sen. Housing: Set for hearing April 15.
  Sen. Housing View Bill