Quick tag – Bills

SCA 2 (Allen) – Would place the repeal of Article 34 on a future ballot. This, featured
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.
SB 91 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) – Extends the moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent due to COVID-19 financial hardship, subject to numerous conditions, from January 31, 2021, to June 30, 2021; Contains an appropriation of federal funds and statutory changes necessary to implement a rental assistance program as part of the current (2020-2021) budget act. featured
SB 9 (Atkins) – Makes duplexes and lots splits on ministerial, similar to SB 1120 from 2020. Hold, featured
SB 89 (Skinner) – Creates several technical budget items for HCD to implement the $1.5 billion in federal rental assistance funds the state anticipates receiving.
SB 809 (Allen) – Authorizes a city or county to satisfy part of its requirement to identify zones suitable for residential development by adopting and implementing a multijurisdictional regional agreement, which would specify the jurisdiction that is contributing suitable land for residential development and the jurisdiction or jurisdictions that are contributing funding for that development.
SB 8 (Skinner) – Clean-up bill for SB 330. Changes include clarifying that the law applies to both ministerial and discretionary projects. featured
SB 791 (Cortese) – Upon appropriation, establishes the California Surplus Land Authority to facilitate development of housing on state and local surplus property. featured
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.
SB 743 (Bradford) – Creates a grant program at the PUC to fund broadband, digital literacy, and computer equipment in affordable housing.
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.
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.
SB 713 (Rubio) – Allows the Insurance Commissioner to approve investments by insurers in low- and moderate income and underserved communities under the California Organized Investment Network (COIN) program above the statutory limits; extend COIN through 2027..
SB 708 (Melendez) – Spot bill on Prop 1, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014.
SB 706 (Bates) – Triggers reassessment under Prop 13 if if 90% or more of the direct or indirect ownership interests in a legal entity are sold or transferred in a single transaction.
SB 7 (Atkins) – Allows infill housing projects with 15% affordable units to qualify for the AB 900 expedited CEQA process. featured
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. featured
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.
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. featured
SB 64 (Leyva) – Provides evictions protections for COVID-impacted residents in mobilehome parks during the pandemic; would take effect immediately and therefore requires a 2/3rds vote.
SB 625 (Caballero) – Creates a state CDFI fund to provide grants and loans to CDFIs for a variety of activities in low-income communities. client, featured
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..
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.
SB 616 (Rubio) – Requires that housing developed on school district properties for employee housing be affordable.
SB 6 (Caballero) – Aauthorizes housing on commercial sites that include affordable units and comply with a skilled and trained workforce requirement. featured
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.
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.
SB 563 (Allen) – Makes substantial revisions to the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act.
SB 559 (Hurtado) –
SB 552 (Hertzberg) – Establishes several processes to address drought planning for small water systems.
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.
SB 526 (Min) – Requires a community water system to remove or replace a complete lead user service line, if the community water system disturbs, removes, or replaces a portion of the line.
SB 51 (Durazo) – Establishes some new processes and procedures for the disposal of Caltrans-owned homes along the former 710 freeway extension in the City of Los Angeles. featured
SB 5 (Atkins) – Places a $6.5B housing bond on the November 2022 ballot; requires projects to use a "skilled" workforce. featured
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.
SB 490 (Caballero) – Creates the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance program at HCD. client, featured
SB 478 (Wiener) – Prohibits cities and counties from imposing certain minimum lot size standards.
SB 477 (Wiener) – Makes changes to housing element annual report requirements.
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.
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.
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.
SB 400 (Jones) – Requires schools to collaborate with other agencies that provide services for homeless children.
SB 381 (Portantino) – Revises procedures for disposal of surplus residential properties along the portion of the rescinded 710 Freeway corridor in South Pasadena.
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.
SB 351 (Caballero) –
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.
SB 330 (Durazo) – Establishes procedures and requirements for housing on community college campuses.
SB 323 (Caballero) – Applies the same judicial action procedure and timelines, as in the Mitigation Fee Act, to water or sewer service fees or charges, with exceptions.
SB 3 (Caballero) – Extends the provisions of AB 3088 through March 2021.
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.