• 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.