City Council Subcommittee Agendas and Minutes

City Council Legislative Subcommittee Agenda 70 N. First Street, Campbell CA Monday, March 28, 2022, 2:00 pm NOTE: To protect our constituents, City officials, and City staff, the City requests all members of the public follow the guidance of the California Department of Health Services', and the County of Santa Clara Health Officer Order, to help control the spread of COVID-19. Additional information regarding COVID-19 is available on the City's website at www.campbellca.gov. This Special Meeting of the Legislative Subcommittee will be conducted in person as well as telecommunication and is compliant with provisions of the Brown Act. Those members of the public wishing to participate virtually can access the meeting at: https://campbellca-gov.zoom.us/j/86323684558?pwd=bVUyTmhRbTRWTlJ2alhYa21aalRWZz09 Meeting ID: 863 2368 4558 Dial by your location: 1 669 900 6833 Passcode: 177772 Members of the public may attend this meeting in person at Campbell City Hall. Public comment will also be accepted via email at ClerksOffice@campbellca.gov prior to the meeting. Please indicate in the subject line “FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.” Written comments received by 1:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting will be posted on the website and distributed to the Legislative Subcommittee before the meeting. A video recording will be available on the City YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CityofCampbell following the meeting. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE Monday, March 28, 2022, 2:00 p.m. Ralph Doetsch Conference Room – 70 N. First Street CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMMENT NEW BUSINESS 1. Review Legislative Subcommittee’s Calendar for 2022 2. Review Matrix of Bills ADJOURN ATTACHMENTS 2022 Tentative Legislative Calendar 2022 Legislation – Bills to Watch Pursuant to the Executive Order, and in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you need assistance to participate in the Legislative Subcommittee meeting, please contact Diana Johnson in the City Manager’s Office at 408-866-2125 or by e-mail dianaj@campbellca.gov  2022 TENTATIVE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE & THE OFFICE OF THE ASSEMBLY CHIEF CLERK Revised 10-21-2021 DEADLINES Jan. 1 Statutes take effect (Art. IV, Sec. 8(c)). JANUARY Jan. 3 Legislature reconvenes (J.R. 51(a)(4)). S M T W TH F S Jan. 10 Budget must be submitted by Governor (Art. IV, Sec. 12 (a)). 1 Jan. 14 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal Committees 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 fiscal bills introduced in their house in 2021 (J.R. 61(b)(1)). 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Jan. 17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Jan. 21 Last day for any committee to hear and report to the Floor bills introduced in their house in 2021 (J.R. 61(b)(2)). 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Jan. 21 Last day to submit bill requests to the Office of Legislative Counsel. 30 31 Jan. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in 2021 in their house (Art. IV, Sec. 10(c)), (J.R. 61(b)(3)). FEBRUARY S M T W TH F S 1 2 3 4 5 Feb. 18 Last day for bills to be introduced (J.R. 61(b)(4)), (J.R. 54(a)). 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Feb. 21 Presidents’ Day. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 MARCH S M T W TH F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 APRIL Apr. 1 Cesar Chavez Day observed S M T W TH F S Apr. 7 Spring Recess begins upon adjournment of this day’s session (J.R. 51(b)(1)). 1 2 Apr. 18 Legislature reconvenes from Spring Recess (J.R. 51(b)(1)). 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Apr. 29 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Committees fiscal bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61(b)(5)). 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 May 6 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to the floor non-fiscal 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61(b)(6)). MAY May 13 Last day for policy committees to meet prior to May 31 (J.R. 61(b)(7)). S M T W TH F S May 20 Last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the Floor bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61 (b)(8)). Last day for fiscal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 committees to meet prior to May 31 (J.R. 61 (b)(9)). 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 May 23-27 Floor Session only. No committee, other than conference or Rules, may meet for any purpose (J.R. 61(b)(10)). 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 May 27 Last day for bills to be passed out of the house of origin (J.R. 61(b)(11)). 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 May 30 Memorial Day. 29 30 31 May 31 Committee meetings may resume (J.R. 61(b)(12)). *Holiday schedule subject to final approval by the Rules Committee 1 of 2  2022 TENTATIVE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE & THE OFFICE OF THE ASSEMBLY CHIEF CLERK Revised 10-21-2021 JUNE S M T W TH F S 1 2 3 4 June 15 Budget Bill must be passed by midnight (Art. IV, Sec. 12 (c)). 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 June 30 Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the Nov. 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 General election ballot (Elec. Code Sec. 9040). 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 JULY S M T W TH F S 1 2 July 1 Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(13)). Summer Recess begins at the end of this day’s session if Budget Bill has 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 been passed (J.R. 51(b)(2)). 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 July 4 Independence Day. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 AUGUST Aug. 1 Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J.R. 51(b)(2)). S M T W TH F S Aug. 12 Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills to the Floor (J.R. 61(b)(14)). 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aug. 15 - 31 Floor Session only. No committees, other than conference 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and Rules, may meet for any purpose (J.R. 61(b)(15)). 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Aug. 25 Last day to amend bills on the Floor (J.R. 61(b)(16)). Aug. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills (Art. IV, Sec. 10(c)), (J.R. 61(b)(17)). 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Final Recess begins at end of this day’s session (J.R. 51(b)(3)). 28 29 30 31 IMPORTANT DATES OCCURRING DURING FINAL RECESS 2022 Sept. 30 Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature before Sept. 1 and in the Governor’s possession on or after Sept. 1 (Art. IV, Sec. 10(b)(2)). Nov. 8 General Election. Nov. 30 Adjournment Sine Die at midnight (Art. IV, Sec. 3(a)). Dec. 5 12 m. convening of the 2023-24 Regular Session (Art. IV, Sec. 3(a)). 2023 Jan. 1 Statutes take effect (Art. IV, Sec. 8(c)). 2 of 2  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SB 67 Becker Would establish a goal that 100% of electrical load be supplied by eligible 2 Year Bill of Interest Clean Energy: clean energy resources. California 24/7 Would establish the California 24/7 Clean Energy Standard Program, Clean Energy which would require that 85% of retail load annually and at least 60% of Standard retail load within certain subperiods by December 31, 2030, and 90% of Program retail load annually and at least 75% of retail load within certain subperiods by December 31, 2035, be supplied by eligible clean energy resources. Unfunded state mandated program. SB 379 Wiener Would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an 2 Year Bill of Interest: Residential online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and Held at Desk – 1/24/22 Solar Energy issues permits in real time for a solar energy system that is no larger than Systems: 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and an energy Permitting storage system paired with a solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating. The bill would require a city with a population of 50,000 or fewer that is not otherwise exempt to satisfy these requirements by September 30, 2024, while cities and counties with populations greater than 50,000 that are not otherwise exempt would be required to satisfy the requirements by September 30, 2023. State-mandated local program. No reimbursement. SB 54 Allen; Would establish the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, which 2 Year Bill of Interest: Plastic Stern; would prohibit producers of single-use, disposable packaging or single- Held at Desk - 1/24/22 Pollution Wiener use, disposable food service ware products from offering for sale, Producer selling, distributing, or importing in or into the state such packaging or Responsibility products that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2032, unless they are recyclable or compostable. 1 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SB 833 Dodd; Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and 2 Year Bill of Interest: Community Stern Development Commission to develop and implement a grant program for Re-referred to Com. on APPR. – Energy local governments to develop community energy resilience plans that 3/21/22 Resilience Act help achieve energy resilience objectives and state clean energy and air of 2022 quality goals. The bill would require a plan to identify critical facilities, facilities where the construction of microgrids or other distributed energy sources could meet local resilience needs, and potential funding sources for implementing projects in the plan, include a process for the expedited permit review of distributed energy resources by the local government, and demonstrate consistency with the city, county, or city and county general plan and other local government planning documents. As a condition of receiving grant funding, the bill would require a local government to submit its plan to the commission within 6 months of adopting the plan. SB 38 Wieckowski This bill would require beverage manufacturers in the state to form a 2 Year Bill of Interest: Beverage beverage container stewardship organization. The organization would be Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. Containers required to develop and submit to the Department of Resources – 2/14/22 Recycling and Recovery a plan, annual report, and budget for the recovery and recycling of empty beverage containers in the state. The bill would require the organization to establish a stewardship fee, to be paid by beverage manufacturer members of the organization, to assist in covering the costs of implementing the beverage container stewardship program. The bill would impose administrative civil penalties for a violation of these provisions. 2 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SB 884 McGuire Would require the CPUC to establish an expedited utility distribution and Position Pending Electricity. transmission infrastructure undergrounding program and would Expedited authorize a large electrical corporation to participate in the program. Utility Would also require a city approve applications for underground utilities Distribution within 150 days. SB 1393 Archuleta Would require a city, including a charter city, or county to submit an Position Pending Energy. application to, and receive approval from, the State Energy Resources Appliances. Conservation and Development Commission before the city or county Local could require that a fossil fuel-fired appliance be replaced with an electric Requirements appliance upon the alteration or retrofit of a residential or nonresidential building. SB 852 Dodd Would authorize a city, county, city and county, special district, or a Watch Climate combination of any of those entities to form a climate resilience district Resilience for the purposes of raising and allocating funding for eligible projects and Districts. the operating expenses of eligible projects. Eligible projects would include Formation. projects that address sea level rise, extreme heat, extreme cold, the risk Funding of wildfire, drought, and the risk of flooding. Mechanisms SB 1217 Allen & Would establish, until January 1, 2028, the State-Regional Collaborative Watch State-Regional Cortese for Climate, Equity, and Resilience to provide guidance, on or before Collaborative January 1, 2024, to the state board for approving new guidelines for for Climate, sustainable communities strategies. Would require, on or before Equity & December 31, 2025, the state board to update the guidelines for Resilience sustainable communities strategies to incorporate suggestions from the collaborative. 3 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 1985 Rivas Would seek to help cities with their SB 1383 (2016) procurement Co-Sponsor & Support Organic Waste. requirements. Would require CalRecycle to compile and maintain a list List. Available on its website organized by Zip Code, of information regarding persons Products and entities that produce and have organic waste products and update the list every 6 months. SB 1383 Lara Would provide $180 Million to help cities and counties implement SB Co-Author & Support Local 1383 (2016). Would supplement the $60 Million allocated for this Assistance purpose. Local government coalition led by Cal Cities. Grant Program Budget Ask SB 54 Allen Would create a vehicle for negotiations to reduce the amount of single- Support in Concept Plastic use plastics and make such products fully recyclable or compostable. Pollution Producer Responsibility Act AB 2247 Bloom Would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to work with Position Pending Perfluoroalkyl the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse to establish, on or before January & 1, 2024, a publicly accessible reporting platform to collect information Polyfluoroalkyl about perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and products Substances and or product components containing regulated PFAS being sold, offered for Products sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state. 4 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SB 891 Hertzberg Would make changes to the existing SB 205 (2019) business license Watch Business process to check regulated business’ stormwater compliance. The Licenses. measure would attempt to capture local government processes similar to Stormwater business licenses but are called by other names. Compliance Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position TRANSPORTATION AB 2120 Ward Bridge formula funding. Would ensure a fair and needs-based allocation Support Federal bridge formula funding program from the federal Infrastructure Funding in Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Includes bridges identified by locals based Local Bridges on their condition – fair or poor. SB 932 Portantino Would require cities to adopt significant bicycle, pedestrian, and traffic Oppose Circulation calming elements when they develop and revise their general plans. Element Unfunded state mandate. AB 2953 Salas Would require a local agency to use, to the extent feasible and cost Oppose Recycled effective, recycled materials in local streets and roads. Triggered based Material on annual revenues. Offers no flexibility in the identification of materials that are feasible and cost effective. More appropriate for highways – big projects. Not appropriate for local streets and roads which are smaller projects and would be more costly. 5 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position COMMUNITY SERVICES AB 1789 Bennett Would include a one-time $75 M appropriation (General Fund) and an Support Trails & annual $15 M appropriation for investments that would create, expand, Greenways and improve the natural surface trails networks throughout the state. Program AB 2346 Gabriel Would require the Natural Resources Agency to develop the Equitable Support Access Grants Program to provide financial and technical assistance to Outdoor local governments and nonprofit organizations to implement Recreation. community access projects that improve the use, equitable admittance, Equitable and engagement with the public in stewardship of outdoor recreation Access Grant areas or facilities located within the state. Program AB 1737 Holden Would implement new registration and inspection requirements for Watch & Concerns Letter Children’s children camps operating in cities. Requires cities to make announced Camps. Local and unannounced visits and make public any cited violations. Registration Requires background and sex-offender checks. and Inspections Would increase cost for camp programming. Unclear who is responsible for enforcing. AB 2465 Bonta Would create a competitive grant program to award funds to local Support Pupil educational agencies, library districts, and public libraries for the Instruction. purpose of providing a library card to every public-school pupil enrolled Literacy Grant in the local educational agency. Would require the Superintendent of Programs Public Instruction to encourage all residents to use California state libraries, regardless of immigration status, and the department to provide information on its internet website about legal assistance and guidance to undocumented pupils, immigrants, and their families. 6 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position COMMUNITY SERVICES SB 1047 Limon Would expand the range of childcare and early learning services that a Support Early Learning state preschool contracting agency may provide. Authorizes the and Care expansion of services through the State Preschool Program to children from 18 months to five years of age, and amend eligible requirements for certain childcare programs. AB 2547 Nazarian Would require the state to offer competitive grants to non-profit CBOs, Support Housing continuums of care, and public housing authorities to administer a Stabilization to housing subsidy program for older adults and people with disabilities Prevent & End that are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless. Homelessness Among Older Adults & People with Disabilities AB 2630 O’Donnell Requires each city and county that has used funds from any source to Watch Housing. assist in addressing homelessness to submit a report to the California California Interagency Council on Homelessness. Interagency Council. Homelessness. Report AB 2631 O’Donnell Would allow cities and counties to sue one another for a neighboring Watch Government jurisdiction’s failure to effectively address the impacts of homelessness Claims Act in another neighborhood being negatively impacted. 7 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position COMMUNITY SERVICES SB 1338 Umberg Establishes the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment Watch Community (CARE) Court Program to connect a person struggling with untreated Assistance, mental illness and substance use disorders with a court-ordered CARE Recovery, and Plan. Every county in the state would have to participate in this Empowerment program. Addresses most highly acute population. (CARE) Court Program SB 929 Eggman Expands the type of data collected by the Dept. Of Health Care Services Position Pending Community related to conservatorships, clinical outcomes, and services provided. Mental Health Services. Data Collection SB 1154 Eggman Would require the State Dept of Public Health to develop a real-time Position Pending Facilities for behavioral health bed registry. Mental Health or Substance Abuse Disorder Crises. Database 8 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS SB 1100 Cortese Would authorize the presiding member of the legislative body conducting Watch Open Meetings: a meeting to remove an individual for willfully interrupting the meeting. Orderly Would require removal to be preceded by a warning by the presiding Set for Hearing 4/5/22 Conduct member of the legislative body that the individual is disrupting the (Committee on JUD) proceedings, a request that the individual curtail their disruptive behavior or be subject to removal, and a reasonable opportunity to cease the disruptive behavior. Would similarly require a warning, a request that the individual curtail their disruptive behavior or be subject to removal, and a reasonable opportunity to cease the disruptive behavior before clearing a meeting room for willful interruptions by a group or groups. “Willfully interrupting” would mean intentionally engaging in behavior during a meeting of a legislative body that substantially impairs or renders infeasible the orderly conduct of the meeting in accordance with law and applicable rules, as specified. State-mandated program. No reimbursement. AB 1944 Lee; Garcia Would specify that if a member of a legislative body elects to Support in Concept Local teleconference from a location that is not public, the address does not Government: need to be identified in the notice and agenda or be accessible to the Referred to Com. on L. GOV. – Open and Public public when the legislative body has elected to allow members to 2/18/22 Meetings participate via teleconferencing. Would require all open and public meetings of a legislative body that elects to use teleconferencing to provide a video stream accessible to members of the public and an option for members of the public to address the body remotely during the public comment period through an audio-visual or call-in option. 9 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS SB 457 Portantino; Would require the boards of administration of the Public Employees’ 2 Year Bill of Interest: Public Wilk Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to provide Referred to Com. on L. GOV. – Employee employers that are school districts and cities that participate in the 5/28/21 Retirement systems an option to elect an investment portfolio that does not contain System: investment vehicles that are issued or owned by the government of the Investment Republic of Turkey. Portfolios: Divestment from Turkey AB 2449 B. Rubio Authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with Support Open Meetings: teleconferencing requirements if a quorum of the legislative body Local Agencies. members participate in person from a singular location that is clearly Teleconference identified on the agenda and is open to the public and is within the local agency’s jurisdiction. AB 2647 Levine Would clarify that materials distributed to a majority of a local legislative Sponsor & Support Local body less than 72 hours before a meeting can be posted online to satisfy Government. the requirements of the Brown Act. Open Meetings SB 1328 McGuire Would require CalPERS and the California State Teachers’ Retirement Watch Prohibited System pension funds to stop investing in companies with ties to the Investments & Russian and Belarusian governments - responding to Russia’s invasion of Contracts. Ukraine, aided by Belarus. Russia & Belarus 10 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS SB 1173 L. Gonzalez Would prohibit the boards of CalPERS and the California State Teachers’ Watch Public Retirement System from making new investments or renewing Retirement investments of retirement funds in fossil fuels. Would require the boards Systems. Fossil to liquidate such investments by July 1, 2027. Fuels SB 1044 Durazo Prohibits an employer, in the event of a state of emergency, from taking Oppose Employers. or threatening adverse action against any employee for refusing to report Natural to, or leaving a workplace within, the affected area because the employee Disasters. feels unsafe due to the emergency. Retaliation AB 1751 Daly Extends COVID-19 workers’ compensation presumption to Jan 1, 2025 Oppose Workers’ (from Jan 1, 2023). Compensation. COVID-19. Critical Workers SB 1127 Atkins Alters longstanding rules and timeframes for determining eligibility for Oppose Workers’ workers’ compensation claims. Reduces timelines for employers to make Compensation. a decision whether to accept claim. Provides for severe penalties for Liability failure to comply. Presumption AB 2808 O’Donnell This bill would prohibit the use of ranked choice voting, a method of Oppose Elections. voting that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, in Ranked Choice state and local elections. Voting. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. 11 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACA 1 Local Aguiar-Curry The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real Support government property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, financing: subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an In Committee – 4/22/21 affordable additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city, housing and county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax public to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, infrastructure: reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public voter approval infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, or city and county, as applicable, and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements. AB 1401 Friedman Would prohibit a local government from imposing a minimum 2 Year Bill of Interest: Residential and parking requirement, or enforcing a minimum parking requirement, Held Under Submission – 8/26/21 commercial on residential, commercial, or other development if the development: development is located on a parcel that is within ½ mile walking parking distance of public transit or located within a low-vehicle miles requirements traveled area, as defined. 12 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SB 5 Affordable Atkins, Authorizes Legislature to issue bonds in amount of $6.5 Billion. 2 Year Bill of Interest: Housing Bond Caballero, Proceeds from bonds would be directed toward affordable rental Returned to Secretary of State – Act McGuire, housing and homeownership programs. Unclear if the funds would 2/1/22 Rubio, be directed into existing programs that serve these populations or if Skinner, and new programs would be established. Wiener This bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 8, 2022, statewide general election in accordance with specified law. SB 6 Local Caballero, Would designate a housing development project, a parcel within a 2 Year Bill of Interest: Planning: Eggman, and commercial zone not adjacent to an industrial site, as an allowable Re-referred to Comm on H&CD – Housing: Rubio use on a neighborhood lot if it complies with various requirements, 8/23/21 Commercial one of which includes: the density for a housing development must Zones meet or exceed the density appropriate for lower income households according to the local jurisdiction. SB 15 Housing Portantino Would create an annual grant program to assist local government to 2 Year Bill of Interest: Development: rezone idle retail sites (big box or commercial shopping centers) for Held at Desk – 6/2/21 Incentives: The work force housing for lower- or moderate-income households with Rezoning of Idle 55-year affordability term for a rental and 45-year term for Retail Sites ownership. Would define idle as at least 80 percent of leased or rentable square footage not occupied for at least one year. Zoning would be by right. 13 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SB 765 Stern The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation of accessory 2 Year Bill of Interest: Accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not Returned to Secretary of State – dwelling units: adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval. Current law prohibits 2/1/22 setbacks a local agency’s accessory dwelling unit ordinance from imposing a setback requirement of more than 4 feet from the side and rear lot lines for an accessory dwelling unit that is not converted from an existing structure or a new structure constructed in the same location and to the same dimensions as an existing structure. This bill would remove the above-described prohibition on a local agency’s accessory dwelling unit ordinance and would instead provide that the rear and side yard setback requirements for accessory dwelling units may be set by the local agency. The bill would authorize an accessory dwelling unit applicant to submit a request to the local agency for an alternative rear and side yard setback requirement if the local agency’s setback requirements make the building of the accessory dwelling unit infeasible. AB 682 Bloom This bill would require that a density bonus be provided to a 2 Year Bill of Interest: Density Bonus. developer who agrees to construct a housing development that is a In Senate – 1/27/22 Cohousing cohousing building and will contain either 10% of the total square footage for lower income households, or 5% of the total square footage for very low-income households. The bill would prohibit the city and county from requiring any minimum unit size requirements or minimum bedroom requirements in conflict with the bill’s provisions, the project to provide private open space, or maximum limit on density with respect to a cohousing building eligible for a density bonus under these provisions. State-mandated. No reimbursement. 14 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 1551 Santiago Previously existing law, until January 1, 2022, required a city, county, 2 Year Bill of Interest: Development or city and county to grant a commercial developer a development In Senate – 1/27/22 Bonus. Multi- bonus when an applicant for approval of a commercial development Use Projects had entered into an agreement for partnered housing with an affordable housing developer to contribute affordable housing through a joint project or 2 separate projects encompassing affordable housing. This bill would re-enact provisions regarding the granting of development bonuses to certain projects. The bill would require a city or county to annually submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development information describing an approved commercial development bonus. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028. State-mandated. No reimbursement. AB 1401 Friedman Would prohibit a public agency in a county with a population of 2 Year Bill of Interest Parking 600,000 or more from imposing a minimum automobile parking Held Under Submission – 8/26/21 Requirements requirement on residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within 1/2 mile of public transit. Would prohibit a public agency in a city with a population of 75,000 or more located in a county with a population of less than 600,000 from imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement on residential, commercial, or other development if the project is located within 1/4 mile of public transit. Would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. No reimbursement. 15 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SB 15 Portantino Upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the 2 Year Bill of Interest: Idle Retail Sites Department of Housing and Community Development to administer Held At Desk – 6/2/21 Incentive a program to provide incentives in the form of grants to local Program governments that rezone idle sites used for a big box retailer or a commercial shopping center to instead allow the development of housing. Would require that the amount of the grant awarded to each eligible local government be equal to 7 times the average amount of annual sales and use tax revenue generated by each idle site identified in the local government’s application over the 7 years immediately preceding the date of the local government’s application and that the local government receive this amount in one lump sum following the date of the local government’s application. SB 513 Hertzberg This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community 2 Year Bill of Interest: Homeless Development, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, Held At Desk – 1/24/22 Shelters Grants to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 5% of the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for those purposes for its costs in administering the program. SB 897 Wieckowski Would make changes to existing law to require local governments Oppose Accessory to allow ADUs to be constructed with a height of up to 25 feet. Dwelling Units 16 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SB 1067 & Portantino & Would prohibit parking minimums or standards if development is Oppose AB 2097 Friedman within ½ mile of public transit. “Public Transit” includes entire bus Development lines (corridors) if they have 15 min headway. Parking Requirements SB 1369 Wieckowski Requires cities to use ministerial process to approve adaptive re-use Position Pending Adaptive Reuse. projects. Applies broadly to commercial, public or office building or By Right structure that has 25 percent occupancy which is converted into a housing development project. By right with no CEQA. SB 1466 Stern Would authorize state/local partnerships. $2 Billion annually to Sponsor & Support Affordable fund state approved affordable housing and infrastructure and Housing: economic development projects that also support state policies to Community reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand transit-oriented Development development (TOD), address poverty and revitalize neighborhoods. Investment Program AB 1748 Seyarto Would exempt specified city or county owned parcels from the Position Pending Surplus Lands Surplus Lands Act if land is zoned for a density of up to 30 Act residential units and is owned by a city or county that demonstrates adequate progress in meeting its share of regional housing need in its annual report, has constructed an adequate number of housing units to meet its share of regional housing need in the immediately preceding or current housing element cycle, or is designated as pro- housing by the department. 17 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 1945 Aguiar-Curry Would create the Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Support Affordable Development and Acquisition Program to fund the predevelopment Disaster expenses, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and Housing rehabilitation of property to develop or preserve affordable housing Revolving in the state’s declared disaster areas that have experienced damage Development and loss of homes occupied by or affecting lower income households. This bill would require community development financial institutions and Acquisition receiving awards through the program to issue short-term loans to Program nonprofit housing development corporations, tribally designated housing entities, and local government agencies to fund the cost of developing dwelling units and transitional housing, childcare, after school care, and social service facilities that are integrally linked to the dwelling units, as specified. State Mandated. No reimbursement. AB 2053 Lee Would enact the Social Housing Act and create California Housing Position Pending Social Housing Authority to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets. AB 2234 R. Rivas Would, no later than January 1, 2024, require public agencies to Position Pending allow post-entitlement phase permits to be applied for, completed, Planning. and stored through a publicly available process on its website. Until Housing. Post- the website is established, the public agency shall accept entitlement applications for permits and any related documentation by Phase Permit electronic mail. Unfunded mandate. 18 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 2295 Bloom Would require that a qualified housing development on land owned Position Pending by a local educational agency be an authorized use if the housing Local development complies with certain conditions. Among these educational conditions, the bill would require the housing development to agencies: consist of at least 10 units, be subject to a recorded deed restriction housing for at least 55 years requiring that at least 49% of the units have an development affordable rent for lower income households, as those terms are projects defined, and 100% of the units be rented by teachers and employees of the local educational agency, except as specified. The bill would prohibit a city or county from imposing any development standards on a housing development project under these provisions. The bill would exempt a housing development project subject to these provisions from various requirements regarding the disposal of surplus land. AB 2428 Ramos Would require a local agency that requires a qualified applicant to Oppose deposit fees for improvement into an escrow account as a condition Mitigation Fee for receiving a conditional use permit or equivalent development Act: fees for permit to expend the fees within 5 years of the deposit. The bill improvements: would require any fees not expended within this period to be timeline for returned to the qualified applicant. expenditure AB 2705 Quirk-Silva Would prohibit city from approving permit that would result in a Position Pending new residential project being located within a high fire zone unless Very High Fire the city finds that the residential development project will meet Hazard Severity new standards intended to address wildfire risks. Zones 19 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position PUBLIC SAFETY AB 1599 Kiley; The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act reduced the penalty for theft 2 Year Bill of Interest: Proposition 47: Gallagher; and possession of controlled substances, including concentrated Coauthors revised - 3/9/22 Repeal Patterson cannabis, established a procedure by which individuals convicted of those crimes prior to the passage of the act may petition for resentencing under the act, and created the crime of shoplifting. The act also required the Director of Finance to calculate the savings accruing to the state as a result of the implementation of the act and required the Controller to transfer that sum from the General Fund to the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund. This bill would repeal these changes except those related to reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis. Existing law makes it a crime for a caretaker of an elder or a dependent adult, or a person who is not a caretaker and who knows or reasonably should know that the victim is an elder or a dependent adult, to violate laws proscribing theft, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or identity theft with respect to the property or personal identifying information of that elder or dependent adult; and, makes a violation of those provisions punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would reduce the value threshold for a violation of those provisions to be punishable as a felony from $950 to $400. Existing law defines grand theft as the wrongful taking of money, labor, or property of a value exceeding $950, except as specified. Existing law also makes it grand theft where the money, labor, or real or personal property is taken by a servant, agent, or employee from their principal or employer and aggregates $950 or more in any consecutive 12-month period. This bill would reduce the value threshold for committing grand theft under those provisions from $950 to $400. 20 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position PUBLIC SAFETY AB 536 Rodriguez Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, creates, within the 2 Year Bill of Interest: Office of office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services, which is Held under submission – 8/26/21 Emergency responsible for addressing natural, technological, or man-made disasters Services: and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to Mutual Aid Gap prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of Analysis emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would require the office to prepare a gap analysis of the state’s mutual aid systems on a biennial basis, beginning on January 1, 2022. The bill would require the gap analysis to be prepared as specified and would require the gap analysis to be provided to specified committees of the Legislature no later than February 1, 2022, and by February 1 thereafter on a biennial basis. AB 1071 Rodriguez Would require Office of Emergency Services (OES) to biennially convene 2 Year Bill of Interest Officer of key personnel and agencies that have emergency management roles and Held under submission. – 8/26/21 Emergency responsibilities to participate in tabletop exercises in which the Services: participant’s emergency preparedness plans are discussed and evaluated Tabletop under various simulated catastrophic disaster situations, as specified. Exercises This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. AB 1670 Bryan This bill would create the Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration Support Criminal within the California Health and Human Services Agency to study Justice. alternatives to incarceration, alternative crisis response models, and the Commission on effects of family separation in the jail and state prison systems. Alternative Incarceration 21 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position PUBLIC SAFETY AB 2062 Salas This bill, upon appropriation of funds and until January 1, 2029, would Support Local Law require the Board of State and Community Corrections to establish a Enforcement grant program to provide $50,000,000 in grants to local law enforcement Hiring Grants agencies to incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities and to live in the communities that they are serving. The bill would require grant funds to be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work. AB 2398 Villapudua Would make the possession of a detached catalytic converter a crime, Support Catalytic punishable as misdemeanor or felony. Exception for person who has Converters certificate of title or registration. SB 1038 Bradford Existing law, until January 1, 2023, prohibits a law enforcement agency Oppose Law or law enforcement officer from installing, activating, or using any Enforcement: biometric surveillance (face recognition) system in connection with an Facial officer camera or data collected by an officer camera. Existing law allows Recognition a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief against a and Other law enforcement agency or officer who violates this prohibition. This bill would extend these provisions indefinitely. Biometric Surveillance 22 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position PUBLIC SAFETY SB 1186 Wiener Medical Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act – prohibits regulations Oppose Medicinal that unreasonably restrict, among other things, the operating hours or Cannabis the number of frequency of sales of medicinal cannabis businesses. Patients’ Right of Access Act SB 1326 Caballero Would allow the cross jurisdictional import and export to other states, of Watch Cannabis. cannabis and cannabis products, by authorizing the Governor to enter Interstate into an agreement to provide lawful interstate commerce. Agreements 23 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position REVENUE & TAXATION SB 555 Local McGuire Would authorize a local agency to enact an ordinance exclusively 2 Year Bill of Interest: Agencies: delegating its authority to collect any transient occupancy tax imposed Held in committee and under Transient by that local agency on short-term rentals to the California Department submission – 8/26/21 Occupancy of Tax and Fee Administration and to enter into a contract with the taxes: Online department for purposes of registration, rate posting, collection, and Short-Term transmission of revenues necessary to collect and administer any Rental transient occupancy tax imposed on a short-term rental as specified in Facilitator: this bill. Collection 24 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position REVENUE & TAXATION SB 830 Portantino Existing law establishes a public-school financing system that requires 2 Year Bill of Interest: Education state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and Re-referred to Com. on ED. – Finance: charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding 3/9/22 Supplemental formula that includes average daily attendance. Existing law requires the Education Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before February 20 of each Funding year, to make a first principal apportionment of funds and, on or before July 2 of each year, to make a 2nd principal apportionment of funds to each local educational agency. This bill would define “average daily membership” as the quotient of the aggregate enrollment days for all pupils in a school district, county office of education, or charter school, from transitional kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, divided by the total number of instructional days for the local educational agency in an academic year. The bill would require a local educational agency’s average daily membership to be calculated using data from the same fiscal year or years that the local educational agency used to calculate its average daily attendance for purposes of state apportionment. The bill, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, would require a local educational agency that submits enrollment data to the Superintendent and demonstrates a maintenance of effort to address chronic absenteeism, as provided, to receive as supplemental education funding the difference between what the local educational agency would have received under the local control funding formula based on average daily membership and what the local educational agency received under the local control funding formula based on average daily attendance for that fiscal year, as provided. The bill would require local educational agencies to use at least 30% of their supplemental education funding to either supplement or supplant existing local educational agency expenditures to address chronic absenteeism and habitual truancy. The bill would expressly state that funds to implement these provisions would be continuously appropriated in the annual Budget Act. 25 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position REVENUE & TAXATION AB 1702 Levine Would provide a sales and use tax exemption for face masks, respirators, Oppose Unless Amended COVID-19 and at home COVID-19 test kits. Prevention & Response Goods AB 1951 Grayson Would extend and expand the sales and use tax exemption for Position Pending Manufacturing manufacturing processing, refining, fabricating, and recycling until 2033. Exemptions AB 2622 Mullin Would extend, until 2033, the sales and use tax exemption provided to Support Zero Emission cities, counties, and transit agencies for zero emission transit buses. Bus Exemption AB 2328 Flora Would preempt explicit or implicit local prohibitions on “home Position Pending Local experience sharing units”. A home sharing unit would be defined as non- Ordinances. commercial property that is rented for no more than 18 continuous Home hours. Experience Sharing SB 1449 Caballero Would create an Unincorporated Area Annexation Incentive Grant Support in concept Annexation Program within the State Office of Planning and Research to support cities Incentive Grant with infrastructure needs within a new or future annexed areas. Program 26 3/25/22  2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League Position OTHER BILLS OF INTEREST AB 2538 R. Rivas Would require the California Office of Emergency Services to expand its Position Pending State Warning California State Warning Center to include targeted alerts for public Center. health dangers. Wildfire Smoke Notification AB 2645 Rodriguez Would require a county to integrate access and functional needs into its Position Pending Integration of emergency plan upon the next update to its emergency plan. Access and Functional Needs SB 513 Hertzberg Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development Support Homeless to create and administer a program to award grants to homeless shelters Shelter Grants: that allow pets to provide food, housing, and veterinarian services for pets Pets and that are owned by homeless individuals. Veterinarian Services 27 3/25/22