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Friday, March 5, 2021
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SB 6
(Caballero) -
Aauthorizes housing on commercial sites that include affordable units and comply with a skilled and trained workforce requirement.
Sen. Governance and Finance: Set for hearing March 11.
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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.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
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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.
Referred to C. & C.
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AB 1061
(Lee) -
Requires mobilehome park owners who master meter water service to charge the same water rate to residents as they would pay if they were receiving service directly from the water utility provider.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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AB 946
(Lee) -
Eliminates the mortgage interest deduction on vacation properties.
Referred to REV. & TAX.
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AB 1329
(Nazarian) -
Revises procedures for establishing functional recovery standards following an earthquake; authorizes local jurisdictions to enact more restrictive recovery-based standards.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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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.
Referred to U. & E. and NAT. RES.
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AB 1068
(Santiago) -
Requires HCD to create a model plan for the use of alternative forms of developing affordable housing for the purpose of substantially reducing the cost of a unit, including adaptive reuse of existing buildings, modular housing, and cross-subsidization that results in at least 50 percent of all units being affordable to persons who are extremely low and very low income.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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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.
Referred to REV. & TAX. and H. & C.D.
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AB 977
(Gabriel) -
Requires the reporting of health information to the state Homeless Management Information System by various grantees.
Referred to H. & C.D. and HUM. S.
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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..
Referral to Com. on E.Q. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus.
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AB 1295
(Muratsuchi) -
Prohibits a city or county from entering into a residential development agreement for property located in a "very high fire risk area," as defined in the bill, and would apply to charter cities.
Referred to L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
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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.
Referred to B. & P.
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AB 1043
(Luz Rivas) -
Creates a "deeply low income" designation for households at or below 15% of AMI.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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AB 965
(Levine) -
Requires HCD and the Building Standards Commission to propose building standards for electric vehicle charging infrastructure at existing multifamily dwellings.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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AB 1277
(Blanca Rubio) -
Creates an expedited judicial review process for CEQA for student housing projects.
Referred to NAT. RES. and JUD.
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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.
Referred to AGRI. and E.M.
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AB 1111
(Berman) -
Requires that in making recommendations for changes to the 7th RHNA cycle methodology, HCD promote and streamlining the development of housing for low-income community college students.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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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.
Referred to U. & E.
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AB 1327
(Ting) -
Requires the Dept. of Aging to include ADUs in its aging-in-place materails.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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SB 355
(Becker) -
Adds to the categories of litigants eligible for court fee waivers persons: earning under 80% of Area Median Income; receiving unemployment compensation; WIC program patricipants; receiving the EITC.
Sen. Judiciary: Set for hearing March 16.
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AB 1095
(Cooley) -
Requires SGC to treat rental and ownership housing equally in the AHSC program.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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AB 1101
(Irwin) -
Modifies financial fiduciary requirements for HOA boards and agents.
Referred to H. & C.D. and JUD.
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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.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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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.
Referred to H. & C.D. and JUD.
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AB 1078
(Patterson) -
Extends exemption for the installation of photovoltaic systems until January 1, 2024, and extends the exemption to residential buildings damaged or destroyed as a result of the 2020 fires.
Referred to NAT. RES.
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AB 1029
(Mullin) -
Adds preservation of affordable housing through the extension of project-based rental assistance to the list of policies that HCD may consider as "prohousing policies."
Referred to H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
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AB 1304
(Santiago) -
Makes changes to AB 686 related to the AFFH analysis in Housing Element law.
Referred to H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
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AB 1313
(Bigelow) -
Exempts all businesses, including landlords, from Covid-19 liability unless grossly negligent or willful.
Referred to JUD.
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SB 60
(Glazer) -
Raises amounts of fines that may be imposed on short-term rentals for ordinance violations.
Amended.
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AB 1083
(Nazarian) -
Establishes a pilot program for providing nursing services at senior citizen housing developments.
Referred to AGING & L.T.C.
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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.
Referred to NAT. RES.
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AB 1372
(Muratsuchi) -
Requires cities and counties to provide temporary shelter to people experiencing homelessness.
Referred to H. & C.D. and JUD.
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AB 1206
(Bennett) -
Allows certain limited equity cooperatives to access the welfare exemption.
Referred to REV. & TAX. and H. & C.D.
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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.
Referral to Com. on HUMAN S. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus.
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AB 1297
(Holden) -
Allows the state Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to finance certain housing developments.
Referred to J.,E.D., & E. and H. & C.D.
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AB 1088
(Mayes) -
Establishes the California Procurement Authority, to provide electricity as a last resort if a utility is unable to do so or ceases to operate.
Referred to U. & E. and NAT. RES.
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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.
Referred to L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
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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.
Referred to E.S. & T.M. and U. & E.
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AB 978
(Quirk-Silva) -
Extends AB 1492's limitations on rent increases to mobilehomes.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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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.
Referred to H. & C.D.
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AB 1136
(Luz Rivas) -
Authorizes the state Commissioner of Financial Protection order a PACE solicitor to pay ancillary relief, including damages and restitution, for violations of the law.
Referred to B. & F.
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AB 1017
(Quirk-Silva) -
Requires local governments to inventory of public restrooms available to the homeless population to use during the COVID-19 state of emergency.
Referred to L. GOV.
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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.
Referred to HUM. S.
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AB 1258
(Nguyen) -
Subjects RHNA allocation plans to judicial review.
Referred to H. & C.D. and JUD.
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