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Monday, May 24, 2021

• 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.
  Passed Senate Floor. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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• AB 502 (Davies) - Allows HOAs of any size to elect board members by acclamation if they number of candidates does not exceed the number of vacancies, under specified conditions.
  Passed Assembly Floor. Ordered to the Senate.
  Second Reading View Bill

• SB 756 (Hueso) - Defines low-income households as under 250% of the federal poverty level, for purposes of the PUC's home weatherization programs.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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• AB 1174 (Grayson) - Makes numerous changes to SB 35.
  Passed Assembly Floor. Ordered to the Senate.
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• 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.
  Amended.
  Second Reading 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.
  Second Reading View Bill

• 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.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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• 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.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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Thursday, May 20, 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.
  Asm. Appropriations: Passed as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 602 (Grayson) - Establishes standards for nexus fee studies; requires HCD to develop model standards.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 816 (Chiu) - Requires the creation of a statewide plan for addressing homelessness and allows for legal action against jurisdictions who do not make progress towards meeting the plan’s goals.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 381 (Portantino) - Revises procedures for disposal of surplus residential properties along the portion of the rescinded 710 Freeway corridor in South Pasadena.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  In committee: Held under submission.
  Asm. Appropriations 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.
  In committee: Held under submission.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 563 (Allen) - Makes substantial revisions to the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act.
  Held on Suspense File in Sen. Appropriations.
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 491 (Lorena Gonzalez) - Prohibits developments with assisted units from having a separate entrance for the assisted units.
  In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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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.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.)
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• SB 7 (Atkins) - Allows infill housing projects with 15% affordable units to qualify for the AB 900 expedited CEQA process.
  Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 19, Statutes of 2021.
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• AB 328 (Chiu) - Creates the Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program at HCD to provide grants to cities, counties, and continuums of care for housing interventions to allow people with recent histories of incarceration to exit homelessness and remain stably housed. The program would be funded from the savings created by the upcoming closure of several state prisons.
  Hearing postponed in Asm. Appropriations by committee.
  Asm. Appropriations 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.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 561 (Ting) - Requires the Office of the Treasurer to work with CalHFA and HCD to create a financing product to assist homeowners in the creation of ADUs.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.)
  Asm. Appropriations 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.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 661 (Newman) - Makes numerous changes to veterans home loan programs.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations and sent to Floor. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 403 (Gonzalez) - Authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to roder consolidations of water system that fail to supply an adequate amount of safe drinking water; requires the Board to conduct outreach to customers of at-risk water systems.
  Passed Senate Floor. (Ayes 27. Noes 7.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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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.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 742 (Pan) - Planning spot bill.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations and sent to Floor. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1515 (Santiago) - Spot bill related to affordable housing authorities.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.)
  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.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.)
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 977 (Gabriel) - Requires the reporting of health information to the state Homeless Management Information System by various grantees.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 552 (Hertzberg) - Establishes several processes to address drought planning for small water systems.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Sen. 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.
  Hearing postponed in Asm. Appropriations by committee.
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 478 (Wiener) - Prohibits cities and counties from imposing certain minimum lot size standards.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 1098 (Daly) - Requests that UCLA do a study and recommend standards for recovery residences, also known as sober living homes.
  In committee: Held under submission.
  Asm. Appropriations 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.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 403 (Gonzalez) - Authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to roder consolidations of water system that fail to supply an adequate amount of safe drinking water; requires the Board to conduct outreach to customers of at-risk water systems.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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• 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.
  Asm. Appropriations: Passed as proposed to be amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.)
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• SB 392 (Archuleta) - Allows members of HOAs to receive association documents by email.
  Referred to H. & C.D. and JUD.
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• AB 1443 (McCarty) - Requires counties to develop training for personnel making involuntary commitments.
  From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.)
  Asm. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 6 (Caballero) - Aauthorizes housing on commercial sites that include affordable units and comply with a skilled and trained workforce requirement.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations and sent to Floor. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.)
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• AB 850 (Gallagher) - Extends authority for the City of El Monte, the City of Montebello, and the City of Willows to consolidate water utilities.
  Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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• SB 743 (Bradford) - Creates a grant program at the PUC to fund broadband, digital literacy, and computer equipment in affordable housing.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations and sent to Floor. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  Passed Asm. Appropriations and sent to RLS. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.)
  Asm. Appropriations 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 Senate Floor. (Ayes 30. Noes 1.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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• AB 1360 (Santiago) - Makes Project Roomkey for homeless persons with Covid permanent; requires localities to ensure that individuals housed pursuant to Project Roomkey or Project Homekey do not return to homelessness
  In committee: Held under submission.
  Asm. Appropriations 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.
  In committee: Held under submission.
  Asm. Appropriations 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.
  Held on Suspense File in Sen. Appropriations.
  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.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations and sent to Floor. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
  Sen. Appropriations View Bill

• SB 9 (Atkins) - Makes duplexes and lots splits on ministerial, similar to SB 1120 from 2020.
  Passed Sen. Appropriations and sent to Floor. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.)
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  Held on Suspense File in Sen. Appropriations.
  Sen. Appropriations 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.
  In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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