City Council Subcommittee Agendas and Minutes

City Council Legislative Subcommittee Agenda 70 N. First Street, Campbell CA Monday, May 8, 2023, 4:00 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/87526409384?pwd=LzhNN216OENFWjFhL2NFNVVFcHRiZz09 Meeting ID: 875 2640 9384 Passcode: 449791 Dial by your location: 669 900 6833 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 12:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting will be posted on the website and distributed to the Legislative Subcommittee before the meeting. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE Monday, May 8, 2023, 4:00 pm Ralph Doetsch Conference Room – 70 N. First Street CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMMENT NEW BUSINESS • Legislative Updates o Updates from California State Assemblymember Berman’s Office o Updates from California State Senator Cortese’s Office • Matrix of Bills for Legislative Calendar Year 2023 OLD BUSINESS ADJOURN 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  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES AB 742 Jackson Would prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement Oppose Oppose Law Enforcement: to apprehend a person, and any use of a police canine for crowd control. Police Canines Would prohibit law enforcement agencies from authorizing any use or training of a police canine that is inconsistent with this measure. Referred to suspense file 4/26/23 AB 1469 Kalra Would expand the District Act to allow Valley Water’s purpose to include Pending Valley Water – assisting unsheltered people living within their jurisdiction in consultation Assisting with cities, the County of Santa Clara, and the state, to provide housing or Unsheltered improved outcomes for unsheltered individuals. This change would allow People Valley Water to offer land for transitional housing and other facilities. In addition, this bill would allow Valley Water more flexibility to access Ordered to third revenue from an existing 1% ad valorem property tax to fund outreach, reading counseling, transitional housing, or other services that unsheltered people 5/1/23 deserve and are often required under federal case law. 1 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES SB 43 Eggman (Repeat bill that failed last year.) Support Behavioral Health Would update California's 1967 conservatorship law by expanding definition of “gravely disabled” to include a condition in which a person, Set for hearing due to a mental health disorder or a substance use disorder, or both, is at 5/8/23 substantial risk of serious harm, or is currently experiencing serious harm to their physical or mental health. Under this bill, for purposes of an expert witness in any proceeding relating to the appointment or reappointment of a conservator pursuant to the above-described provisions, the statements of specified health practitioners or a licensed clinical social worker included in the medical record would not be hearsay. The bill would authorize the court to grant a reasonable continuance if an expert witness in a proceeding relied on the medical record and the medical record has not been provided to the parties or their counsel. SB 329 Dodd This bill would increase the maximum amount of salary, based upon the Support Support Cities: City Council population of the city, that may be approved by an ordinance passed by Members: the city council. The bill would authorize the salary of council members to Compensation be increased beyond the specified maximums to an amount not exceeding the greater of either 5% for each calendar year from the In Assembly. Held operative date of the last adjustment of the salary in effect when the at Desk ordinance or amendment is enacted, or an amount equal to inflation 5/1/23 since January 1, 2024, based upon the California Consumer Price Index, which shall not exceed 10% for each calendar year. The bill would require the city council to consider the adoption of an ordinance to increase council member compensation in open session during at least 2 regular meetings of the city council. 2 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES SB 363 Eggman (Repeat bill that failed last year.) Support Facilities for Would establish a real-time, internet-based dashboard to collect, Inpatient and aggregate, and display information about available beds in psychiatric and Residential substance abuse facilities. The bill would require the database to include Mental Health a minimum of specific information, including the contact information for and Substance a facility’s designated employee, the types of diagnoses or treatments for Use Disorder: which the bed is appropriate, and the target populations served at the Database facility, and have the capacity to, among other things, enable searches to identify beds that are appropriate for individuals in need of inpatient or Placed on APPR residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment. suspense file 4/24/23 Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 2 Ward Would require a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic panels sold or offered Pending Recycling: Solar for sale in this state, or its agent, to develop an end-of-life management Photovoltaic plan for the management and recycling of the solar photovoltaic panels it Modules manufactured and the component materials. The bill would specify the required contents of an end-life management plan and would require the Re-referred to department to provide guidelines for developing an end-life management APPR Comm. plan. 4/27/23 3 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 50 Wood Would require a public utility to furnish and maintain timely service, Pending Public Utilities: instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities. The bill would require the Timely Service: commission, on or before January 1, 2025, to determine the criteria for Timely Electrical timely service for electric customers that meets specified requirements. Interconnection Until the commission determines that criteria, the bill would require each large electrical corporation, among other things to take all practical Re-referred to measures to deliver electric service within 90 days of issuing a written APPR. Comm. commitment to serve for customers seeking a new connection, and within 5/2/23 30 days of issuing a written commitment to serve for customers seeking upgrades to an existing connection. If a large electrical corporation fails to deliver service to a customer by the date communicated on a written commitment to serve, the bill would require the impacted customer to be entitled to a utility bill credit. AB 460 Bauer-Kahan This bill would authorize the board to issue, on its own motion or upon the Pending State Water petition of an interested party, an interim relief order to a diverter or user Board Authority: of water in adjudicative proceedings to apply or enforce specified Interim Relief provisions of law related to water rights and quality. The bill would provide that a person or entity that violates any interim relief order issued by the Re-referred to board would be liable to the board for a civil penalty in an amount not to APPR Comm. exceed the sum of $10,000 for each day in which a violation occurs and 4/27/23 $5,000 for each acre-foot of water diverted in violation of the interim relief order. The bill would require these funds to be deposited in the Water Rights Fund. 4 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 573 E. Garcia Would require the department’s regulations to allow a local jurisdiction, Support Organic Waste: until December 1, 2039, in procuring recovered organic waste products to meeting meet the target procurement requirements, to use California-derived recovered recovered organic waste that the local jurisdiction sends for processing at organic waste a facility or operation outside of the state that meets certain conditions, as product provided. procurement Referred to suspense file 5/3/23 AB 698 Essayli Would prohibit state agencies and local governments directly or indirectly Pending Energy: Gas prohibiting the use of gas stoves in residential and nonresidential buildings. Stoves Hearing postponed by U & E. Comm. 4/11/23 5 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 863 Aguiar-Curry Would increase the per day penalty for violations of carpet stewardship Support Carpet laws to $10,000 per day or $50,000 per day if violation is intentional. Recycling: Would provide that if a carpet stewardship organization violates a Carpet provision of the carpet stewardship law three times, they become ineligible Stewardship to act and the successor rules will apply. Would require a carpet Organizations: stewardship organization, as part of its carpet stewardship plan, from the Fines: assessments received for carpets sold for use in California, to expend at Succession: least 95% on activities to carry out the carpet stewardship plan within Procedure California, and at least 10% for grants to apprenticeship programs for training apprentice and journey-level carpet installers in proper carpet Referred to recycling practices, including the installation and removal techniques that suspense file maximize the recyclability of carpet. The bill would authorize the 4/26/23 department, if it determines that a carpet stewardship organization or manufacturer has not complied with one or more of the requirements of the carpet stewardship laws, to adopt regulations that establish requirements for carpet stewardship organizations or manufacturers to take specific actions to bring those entities into compliance with those laws. 6 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 1000 Reyes Would prohibit a local agency from approving the development or Oppose Qualifying expansion of any qualifying logistics use, as defined, within 1,000 feet of Logistics Use sensitive receptors, as defined, except as provided. The bill would Projects authorize a local agency to approve the development or expansion of a qualifying logistics use greater than 750 feet from a sensitive receptor and Failed passage. within 1,000 feet of a sensitive receptor only if the local agency takes Reconsideration certain actions, including, among other things, conducting a cumulative granted analysis of the air quality impacts of the warehouse development project. 4/27/23 The bill would require a local agency, upon receipt of an application for a warehouse development project, to take certain actions, including posting information on its internet website that is easily accessible and easily understandable by the public. AB 1132 Friedman Existing law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may Pending Solar Energy charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Existing law Systems: Permit repeals these provisions on January 1, 2025. This bill would extend repeal Fees date to January 1, 2034, and impose a state-mandated local program. To RLS Comm. for assignment 4/27/23 7 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 1526 Asm. Nat (Placeholder bill) Support Public Resources Resources This bill would require a producer responsibility plan to include arrangements with processors or recyclers to ensure that covered Re-referred to materials that are not collected through a curbside collection program or APPR Comm. other local collection program are collected and recycled at a viable 4/25/23 responsible end market. The bill would require the producer responsibility plan to include a mechanism and schedule for transferring specified fee proceeds to local jurisdictions. The bill would make technical amendments and other revisions to certain components of the act. The act defines “covered material” to include, among others, wraps or wrappers and bags sold to food service establishments. This bill would include as “covered material” wraps or wrappers and bags used in the packaging of food offered for sale or provided to customers by food service establishments. AB 1567 E. Garcia Would collectively propose $20 billion in bonds for safe drinking water, Pending SB 638 Eggman wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, and extreme SB 867 Allen heat mitigation. Climate Bonds Re-referred to APPR Comm. 4/27/23 8 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 1572 Friedman Would prohibit the use of potable water for irrigation of nonfunction turf Oppose Unless Potable Water: on specified properties. Notably, Amended Non-functional • All commercial, industrial, municipal, and institutional properties Turf by Jan 1, 2027 • All multifamily residential properties by 1/1/28 Re-referred to • All affordable multifamily housing or municipal by 1/1/29 APPR Comm. 4/24/23 SB 69 Cortese CEQA requires a state agency or a local agency that approves or determines Oppose Unless CEQA Document to carry out a project subject to CEQA to file a notice of determination with Amended Requests the Office of Planning and Research or the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located. CEQA authorizes a state agency or a local Placed on APPR agency that determines that a project is not subject to CEQA to file a notice suspense file of exemption with the office or the county clerk of each county in which 4/24/23 the project will be located. The bill would require the county clerk to post the notice in both the office and on the internet website of the county clerk within 24 hours of receipt. The bill would also require a public agency to provide both the notice and any subsequent amended, corrected, or revised notice in response to a written request for the notice, regardless of the delivery method. SB 272 Laird Would require local governments in coastal areas to implement sea level Pending Sea Level Rise rise planning and adaptation by 2034. Would also require the California Planning Coastal Commission and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to establish guidelines for the preparation of Set for hearing that planning and adaptation by December 2024. 5/8/23 9 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SB 560 Laird Would establish a stewardship program for gas cylinder products, as Pending Solid Waste: defined, and would authorize producers of those products to establish one Gas Cylinders: more producer stewardship organization for that purpose. The bill would Stewardship require each producer or producer stewardship organization to submit a Program gas cylinder stewardship plan to the department that details, among other things, convenient and accessible opportunities for the recovery of gas Set for hearing cylinders used by consumers. The bill would prohibit gas cylinder producers 5/8/23 that are not participating in a department-approved stewardship plan from supplying, selling, or offering for sale gas cylinders in the state. The bill would impose recordkeeping and reporting requirements on producers and producer stewardship organizations with department-approved stewardship plans and would require those producers to pay all administrative and operational costs associated with establishing and implementing the stewardship plan in which it participates, including the cost of collection, transportation, recycling, and the safe and proper management of recovered gas cylinders. The bill would require the department to set, review, and revise necessary convenience and performance standards and ensure appropriate data metrics for the gas cylinder stewardship program. 10 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SB 615 Allen & Min Would make a vehicle or battery manufacturer responsible for collecting a Pending Electric Vehicle stranded battery and repurposing the battery, if possible, but would Traction require the manufacturer to ensure the battery is recycled if it cannot be Batteries reused. The bill would require, by January 1, 2025, a battery supplier, as described, to be responsible for the development of a core exchange Set for hearing program for replacing a battery, module, or cell removed from a vehicle. 5/8/23 The bill would also require a battery supplier to annually submit a report to the Department of Toxic Substances Control, as provided. The bill would require a qualified facility, as defined, buying removed batteries to submit a report containing specified information to the department and would require specified entities that remove a battery from a vehicle that is still in service to participate in the core exchange program. The bill would make a secondary user that purchases a battery that was removed from a vehicle responsible for ensuring the battery is sent to a qualified facility at the end of the battery’s useful life and reporting specified information to the department. SB 707 Newman Would require textile producers to establish a stewardship program for the Pending Responsible collection and recycling of a covered textile product. This bill would define Textile Recovery a “covered product” to include any apparel, textile, or textile article that is Act of 2023 unsuitable for reuse by a consumer in its current state or condition, except as specified. Set for hearing 5/8/23 11 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS AB 6 Friedman (Placeholder bills.) Pending AB 7 Would prioritize transportation funding that significantly contribute Transportation towards the goals outlined in a region’s sustainable communities’ strategy. Planning: Would require that the state board, after January 1, 2024, and not later Regional than September 30, 2026, to establish additional targets for 2035 and Transportation 2045, respectively. This bill would require a metropolitan planning Plans organization, at least 60 days before starting that public participation process, to submit that description of the technical methodology to the Re-referred to state board for approval. The bill would require a metropolitan planning APPR. Comm. organization to work with the state board until the state board concludes 4/25/23 that the technical methodology operates accurately and approves its use. AB 241 Reyes (Placeholder bills.) Pending SB 84 Gonzalez Would expand the purpose of the program to include developing and Clean deploying innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and Transportation vehicle types to help reduce criteria air pollutants and air toxins. The bill Program: Air would no longer require the commission to provide certain project Quality preferences. The bill would provide that the goals of the program shall be Improvement to advance the state’s clean transportation, equity, air quality, and climate Program: emission policies and would require the commission to ensure program Funding investments support specified requirements. The bill would require the commission, on and after January 1, 2025, to expend at least 50% of the Re-referred to moneys appropriated to the program on programs and projects that APPR Comm. directly benefit or serve residents of disadvantaged and low-income 4/25/23 communities and low-income Californians and would require at least 50% of funding for tangible location-based investments to be expended in disadvantaged and low-income communities. 12 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS AB 316 Aguiar-Curry Would prohibit the operation of an autonomous vehicle with a gross Support Transportation: vehicle weight of 10,000 pounds or more on public roads for testing Autonomous purposes, transporting goods, or transporting passengers without a human Vehicles safety operator physically present in the autonomous vehicle at the time of operation. Would require the Department of Motor Vehicles, by January Read second 1, 2029, or 5 years after commencement of testing, whichever occurs later, time and and upon appropriation by the Legislature, to submit a report to the amended appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature evaluating the 4/24/23 performance of autonomous vehicle technology and its impact on public safety and employment in the transportation sector for autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Department of Transportation, the State Air Resources Board, and other relevant state agencies to provide additional information needed to research the report. AB 334 Rubio Would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified Support Public Contracts: requirements, is not an officer for purposes of being subject to the Conflicts of prohibition on being financially interested in a contract. Interests To Consent Calendar 5/3/23 13 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS AB 400 Rubio Would remove the Jan 1, 2025, sunset for local agencies to use design build Support Public Contracts: on specified projects thereby making the authority permanent. Design Build Re-referred to APPR Comm. 5/2/23 AB 415 Rodriguez Would establish a grant program, on or before January 1, 2025, to provide Support Emergency fairgrounds with grant funding for the purpose of building and upgrading Fairgrounds communication and internet infrastructure on fairgrounds. Communications Re-referred to APPR Comm. 4/19/23 AB 735 Berman Would establish the High Road Utility Careers program to be administered Support Workforce by the California Workforce Development Board to connect existing Development: resources with young individuals interested in careers in the utility sector Utility Careers and ensure a continued reliable workforce for California utilities. Re-referred to APPR Comm. 4/27/23 14 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS AB 744 Carrillo Would authorize the California Transportation Commission to establish Support Transportation best practices for use of data in transportation planning and to identify Planning data elements that should be made available to state and local agencies for transportation planning. Referred to suspense file 5/3/23 AB 1504 McCarthy Would provide that the provisions described above do not apply to Oppose Planning: applications to install an electric vehicle charging station or hydrogen- Electric Vehicle fueling station in a public right-of-way. The bill would require local agencies Charging to complete a plan for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in the public right-of-way that includes, but is not limited to, a permitting Re-referred to process. In developing the plan and permitting process, the bill would APPR Comm. require local agencies to take specified actions. The bill, except as specified, 4/25/23 would require local agencies with populations of 250,000 or more to comply with these provisions by January 1, 2027, and local agencies with populations of fewer than 250,000 residents to comply with these provisions by January 1, 2029. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. 15 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS AB 1637 Irwin This bill, no later than January 1, 2025, would require a local agency, as Pending Local defined, that maintains an internet website for use by the public to ensure Government: that the internet website utilizes a “.gov” top-level domain or a “.ca.gov” Internet second-level domain, and would require a local agency that maintains an Websites and internet website that is noncompliant with that requirement to redirect Email Addresses that internet website to a domain name that does utilize a “.gov” or “.ca.gov” domain. This bill, no later than January 1, 2025, would also Re-referred to require a local agency that maintains public email addresses to ensure that APPR Comm. each email address provided to its employees utilizes a “.gov” domain 5/1/23 name or a “.ca.gov” domain name. By adding to the duties of local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. SB 30 Umberg Would require the department, in coordination with the Governor’s Office Pending Transportation: of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the State Energy Zero-Emission Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to develop and Vehicle Signage design light-duty zero-emission vehicle charging and fueling station signage to be placed along state highways based on charger or fueling type Set for hearing and vehicle compatibility, to increase consumer confidence in locating 5/8/23 electric vehicle chargers and hydrogen fueling stations. The bill would authorize the department to adopt and regulations for these purposes. SB 706 Caballero Would authorize all cities to use the progressive design-build process for Support Public Contracts: other projects in addition to water-related projects and would extend Progressive these provisions until January 1, 2030. The bill would change the required Design Build reporting date to no later than December 31, 2028. In Assembly. Held at Desk 4/27/23 16 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position COMMUNITY SERVICES AB 24 Haney Would require a person or entity that owns, manages, or is responsible Support Emergency for a designated facility, defined as a bar, as defined, gas station, public Response: library, or residential hotel, as defined, in a county that is experiencing an Opioid opioid overdose crisis, as defined, to acquire and post an opioid Antagonist Kits antagonist kit, which includes an instructional poster and opioid antagonist nasal spray, in areas that are readily accessible only by Re-referred to employees, including, but not limited to, a break room, and to restock the APPR Comm. opioid antagonist kit after each use or upon expiration of the opioid 4/27/23 antagonist nasal spray contained in the opioid antagonist kit. AB 33 Bains Would establish the Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Support Fentanyl Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse, including, Addiction & among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of Overdoes fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public Prevention Task awareness of fentanyl abuse. Force Re-referred to APPR Comm. 5/3/23 AB 67 Muratsuchi (Repeat bill that failed last year.) Support Homeless Would create a pilot program for unhoused defendants to participate Courts Pilot diversion programs that would provide housing, mental health services, Program substance abuse treatment and more. Referred to suspense file 4/19/23 17 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position COMMUNITY SERVICES AB 262 Holden Would require the State Department of Social Services to convene and Support Children’s consult with a stakeholder group on children’s camp safety. This bill Camps: Safety would require the department by June 1, 2025, to issue its and Regulation recommendations, as informed by the stakeholder group, in a report to the Legislature. The bill would require the recommendations to address, Re-referred to among other things, a definition for a children’s camp, child supervision APPR Comm. requirements, requirements for camp licensure and regulation, and the 4/26/23 government agency or agencies necessary to establish and enforce rules and regulations relating to children’s camps. AB 550 Schiavo This bill would require a city, county, and city and county, within 60 days Pending Homelessness: after the local continuum of care releases the results of a point-in-time Point-in-Time count for a city, county, or city and county’s jurisdiction, to, among other Count Results things, agendize the point-in-time count results at a meeting of the city, county, or city and county and present the steps the city, county, or city Referred to and county is taking to prevent and end homelessness, including, but not suspense file limited to, consideration of specified actions. By imposing new duties on 5/3/23 local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 18 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position COMMUNITY SERVICES AB 799 L. Rivas Would specify that the purpose of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Pending Homeless, Prevention (HHAP) program is to provide ongoing grant funds to support Housing, regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address Assistance, & their immediate homelessness challenges informed by best-practices and Prevention to solve homelessness using evidence-based or, where no evidence exists, Program. a data-informed and promising framework, as provided. The bill would Homelessness require the council, in collaboration with continuums of care, counties, Accountability and big cities, as defined and other stakeholders, to establish and Act regularly update a financing plan to solve homelessness by the year 2035, and to establish and update statewide performance metrics by updating Re-referred to the Statewide Action Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness in APPR Comm. California, no later than January 1, 2025. 4/27/23 AB 963 Schiavo Would establish the End the Foster Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline Support The End of the Program within the I-Bank to guarantee qualified loans made by financial Foster Care-to- institutions to qualified nonprofit and for-profit businesses for the Homelessness construction, acquisition, and renovation of housing for current and Pipeline Act former foster youth between 18 and 25 years of age and who qualify for specified programs. Re-referred to APPR Comm. 5/1/23 19 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position COMMUNITY SERVICES AB 1215 Carrillo (Repeat bill that failed last year.) Support Pets Assistance Would require the department to develop and administer the Pets with Support Assistance With Support Grant Program (PAWS), to award grants to Grant Program: qualified homeless shelters and qualified domestic violence shelters, as Homeless defined. Shelters: Domestic Violence Shelters: Pets Referred to suspense file. 4/19/23 AB 1321 Bonta Would create a competitive grant program to implement a Support California comprehensive, integrated continuum of cradle-to-career solutions at the Coordinated neighborhood level. The bill would define “cradle-to-career” to mean a Neighborhood system of integrated services that begins before birth and leads to and Community appropriate postsecondary success, including academic, occupational, Services Grant and independent living, that benefits the individual and community as a Program whole. Referred to suspense file 5/3/23 20 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position COMMUNITY SERVICES SB 19 Seyarto Would establish the Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force to undertake various Support Anti-Fentanyl duties relating to fentanyl abuse including, among others, collecting and Abuse Task organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California Force and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse. Placed on APPR suspense file 4/10/23 SB 37 Caballero (Repeat bill that failed last year.) Support Older Adults Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development and Adults with to offer competitive grants to nonprofit community-based organizations, Disabilities continuums of care, public housing authorities, and area agencies on Housing aging to administer a housing subsidy program for older adults and adults Stability Act with disabilities who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, as defined. Set for hearing 5/8/23 21 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS AB 37 Bonta (Took to policy committee last time and League supported.) Support Political Reform Would authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to Act of 1974: pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and Campaign Funds: monitoring a home or office electronic security system, and for the Security Expenses reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family and staff of a candidate or elected officer, Ordered to third if those costs are reasonably related to the candidate or elected officer’s reading status as a candidate or elected officer. 4/27/23 AB 453 Cervantes Would require a public hearing concerning district-based elections that is Pending District-based consolidated with a meeting of the governing body include other Elections substantive agenda items, to begin at a fixed time. To RLS Comm. for assignment 4/27/23 AB 504 Reyes (Gut and amend bill.) Oppose State and Local Would allow local public employees to refuse to enter property that is the Public site of a primary labor dispute, perform work for an employer involved in Employees: Labor a primary labor dispute, or go through or work behind a primary picket line. Relations: Would prohibit an employer from directing an employee to take those Disputes actions. Referred to suspense file 5/3/23 22 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS AB 557 Hart Extends AB 361 renewal period to 45 days. Allows cities to meet remotely Support Open Meetings: during proclaimed states of emergency under modified Brown Act Local Agencies: requirements. Would also provide greater flexibility. Teleconferences Ordered to third reading 5/1/23 AB 597 Rodriguez Existing law provides, until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local Oppose Workers’ firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes post- Compensation: traumatic stress that develops or manifests during a period in which the First Responders: injured person is in the service of the department or unit. Existing law Post-traumatic requires the compensation awarded pursuant to this provision to include Stress full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability indemnity, and death benefits. For injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2024, this bill would Referred to Ins. make that provision applicable to emergency medical technicians and Comm 2/27/23 paramedics, as defined. 23 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS AB 730 Lowenthal Would require a city to promptly provide an employee with written notice Pending California Public of a request to disclose a record related to personnel, medical, or similar Records Act: information of that employee. Would also require the agency, before Public Agency disclosing, to provide not less than 21 days’ written notice to the employee Employees: of its intent to disclose. Notice Requirements: Personnel and Medical Information Referred to Jud. Comm 3/13/23 AB 764 Bryan & Would require counties, county boards of education, cities, school districts, Pending Local Cervantes community college districts, and special districts, if the governing body of Redistricting these local governments is elected by districts, to comply with uniform requirements related to redistricting. The bill would require local Re-referred to governments to adopt district boundaries following the decision to APPR Comm. establish district-based elections and following each federal decennial 4/27/23 census. This bill would require all public hearings held by an advisory or hybrid redistricting commission to comply with the same requirements applicable to hearings held by the districting body. This bill would impose requirements relating to workshops and public hearings upon local jurisdictions, districting bodies, and advisory and hybrid redistricting commissions. 24 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS AB 817 Pacheco Would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use alternative Support Open Meetings; teleconferencing provisions similar to the emergency provisions Teleconferencing: indefinitely and without regard to a state of emergency. In order to use Subsidiary Body teleconferencing pursuant to this act, the bill would require the legislative body that established the subsidiary body by charter, ordinance, Hearing resolution, or other formal action to make specified findings by majority postponed by vote before the subsidiary body uses teleconferencing for the first time and committee every 12 months thereafter. 4/25/23 AB 1248 Bryan Would require independent redistricting commissions for cities over Pending Local 300,000 in population. Redistricting: Independent Redistricting Commissions Re-referred to APPR Comm. 4/27/23 AB 1484 Zbur Would require temporary employees to be automatically included in the Oppose Temporary Public same bargaining unit as the permanent employees upon the request of the Employees recognized employee organization. The bill would require complaints alleging a violation of its provisions to be processed as unfair practice Referred to charges under the act. suspense file 5/3/23 25 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS SB 251 Newman Prohibits an elected officer from employment by another elected officers Oppose Political Reform with the same constituency, except if elected office first began their Act of 1974: employment by the other officer with the same constituency on or before Elected Officers: December 31, 2023. Conflict of Interest Reconsideration granted after failed hearing 4/19/23 SB 252 Gonzalez (Reintroduction of SB 1173 that failed last year.) Oppose Public Would directs CalPERS to divest from fossil fuels by 2030. Retirement: Fossil Fuels Placed on APPR suspense file 5/1/23 SB 399 Wahab Would prohibit an employer from requiring its employees to attend an Pending Employer employer-sponsored meeting or participate in any communications with Communications: the employer, the purpose of which is to communicate the employer’s Intimidation opinion about religious matters, political matters. Re-referred to APPR Comm. 5/2/23 26 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS SB 751 Padilla Would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from entering an exclusive Pending Franchise franchise agreement for services on or after January 1, 2024, or an Agreements: agreement amended on or after that date, that contains a force majeure Labor Impasse provision that can be triggered by a labor impasse. Do pass as amended 5/3/23 SB 769 Gonzalez Would require local officials to have two hours of fiscal training every two Pending Local years. The bill would exempt a local agency official from the training Government: requirements if they comply with specified criteria under existing law Fiscal and relating to eligibility for appointment or election to, and continuing Financial education for, the office of county treasurer, county tax collector, or Training county treasurer-tax collector. Placed on APPR suspense file 5/1/23 27 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 519 Schiavo Would require the above-described entities to jointly convene an Support Affordable Affordable Housing Finance Workgroup to develop a consolidated Housing: Finance application for housing developers to use to obtain grants, loans, tax Workgroup credits, tax exempt bonds, credit enhancement, and other types of financing for building affordable housing, and develop a coordinated Re-referred to review process for the application. The bill would require the workgroup APPR Comm. to include representatives of the above-described entities, nonprofit and 4/27/23 for-profit affordable housing developers, and local and tribal governments. The bill would require the workgroup to identify specified information, including a timeline for developing a single consolidated application able to be coordinated for review between the reviewing entities. On or before, July 1, 2026, the bill would require the workgroup to report recommendations on implementing a coordinated review process to the above-described entities, the Legislature, and certain committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the workgroup to develop the consolidated application and coordinated review process on the date identified in the timeline. AB 1490 Lee Would require a city or county to approve a development proposal for a Oppose unless Affordable multifamily housing development project that is an adaptive reuse Amended Housing project and that meets specified affordability and site requirements, Development including that 100% of the units be made available for lower income Projects: households, 50% of which shall be made available to very low-income Adaptive Reuse households. • Approve all entitlement and permits within 60 days for 150 or Re-referred to fewer housing units and within 90 days for more than 150 APPR Comm. housing units 5/2/23 • No maximum density requirements • No minimum floor area ratio • No additional parking requirements 28 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 1532 Haney Would make an office conversion project a use by right in all areas of a Oppose Office Conversion city regardless of zoning. Would exempt these projects from impact fees Projects that are not directly related to the conversion of an office building into residential dwelling units. Additionally, a city would be required to allow Referred to H & the developer to pay applicable impact fees over a 10-year period. CD. and Nat. Res. Comm 3/23/23 AB 1630 Garcia Would enact The Student Housing Crisis Act of 2023 and: Oppose unless Housing • Require a city to classify student housing as a permitted use on all Amended Development real property within 1,000 feet of a university campus, as defined, Approvals: for zoning purposes. Student Housing • Require a proposed student housing project to be considered Projects ministerially, without discretionary review or a hearing. • Prohibit a local agency from imposing or enforcing on a student Referred to H & or faculty and staff housing project subject to ministerial CD. Comm consideration certain restrictions, including a minimum 3/22/23 automobile parking requirement. AB 1657 Wicks Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which if adopted, Pending The Affordable would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10 billion to the Housing Bond Act State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these of 2024 bonds would be used to finance programs to fund rental housing and homeownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Re-referred to Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. APPR Comm. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. 4/27/23 29 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACA 1 Aguiar- Would authorize a local government to impose, extend, or increase a Pending Local Curry sales and use tax or transactions and use tax for the purposes of funding Government the construction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, Financing: affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing if the proposition Affordable proposing that tax is approved by 55% of its voters voting on the Housing and proposition. Public Infrastructure: Voter Approval May be heard in committee January 5 as of 12/6/22 ACA 10 Haney Would declare the state recognizes the fundamental human right to Pending Fundamental adequate housing for everyone in California. Would make it the shared Human Right to obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill Housing this right by all appropriate means. Referred to H. & C.D. Comm. 4/20/23 30 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SB 4 Wiener (Repeat bill that failed last year.) Pending Planning and Would require that a housing development project be a use by right on Zoning: Higher any land owned by an independent institution of a higher education or Education religious institution on or before January 1, 2024. Institutions and Religious Institutions Re-referred to APPR Comm. 4/27/23 SB 423 Wiener Would modify and expand SB 35 (from 2017) provision that allow certain Oppose Streamlined multifamily housing developments to take advantage of a streamlined, Housing ministerial approval process. Specifically, this measure would: Approvals: • Remove the 2026 sunset and makes statutes permanent Multifamily • Apply SB 35 provisions to the Coastal Zone Housing • Allow the state to approve housing developments on property Developments they own or lease • Prohibit a city from enforcing its inclusionary housing ordinance if Re-referred to the income limits are higher than those in SB 35 APPR Comm. 4/27/23 31 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SB 834 Portantino Would enact the California Family Home Construction and Pending Housing: Family Homeownership Bond Act of 2023, which, if adopted, would authorize Home the issuance of bonds in the amount of $25 billion pursuant to the State Construction and General Obligation Bond Law to finance the California Family Home Ownership Construction and Homeownership Program. Re-referred to APPR Comm. 5/2/23 Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position PUBLIC SAFETY AB 40 Rodriguez Would require EMS authority to develop an electronic signature for use Support Emergency between the ER department medical personnel at a receiving facility and Medical Services the transporting ER medical personnel that captures the points in time when the hospital receives notification of ambulance arrival and when Re-referred to transfer of care is executed for documentation of ambulance patient APPR. Comm. offload time and would require every local EMS agency to develop a 4/24/23 standard not to exceed 30 minutes, 90% of the time, for ambulance patient offload time. 32 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position PUBLIC SAFETY AB 367 Maienschein Would add sentence enhancement of 3 to 5 years on a person who inflicts Support Controlled great bodily injury when they sell, furnish, administer, or give away Substances: fentanyl or an analog of fentanyl and the person to whom the substance Enhancements was sold, furnished, administered, or given suffers injury or death. This provision does not apply to juvenile offenders. In Committee. Reconsideration granted 4/27/23 AB 642 Ting Would require any law enforcement agency that uses facial recognition Oppose Law Enforcement technology (FRT) to have a written policy governing the use of that Agencies: Facial technology and would require any FRT system used to meet certain Recognition national standards and would limit the use of FRT to use as an investigative Technology aid. Would specifically prohibit the use of any FRT-generated match from being the sole basis for probable cause in an arrest, search, or warrant and Re-referred to would also require an agency using FRT to post their written policy and an APPR Comm. annual summary of FRT usage on their internet website. 5/2/23 AB 1034 Wilson Would prohibit a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from Oppose Law installing, activating, or using any biometric surveillance system in Enforcement: connection with an officer camera or data collected by an officer camera Facial and would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or Recognition and declaratory relief against a law enforcement agency or officer who violates Other Biometric that prohibition. Would sunset on January 1, 2034. Surveillance Ordered to third reading 5/2/23 33 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position PUBLIC SAFETY AB 1166 Bains Would provide that a person who, in good faith and not for compensation, Support Liability for renders emergency treatment at the scene of an opioid overdose or Opioid suspected opioid overdose by administering opioid antagonist, as defined, Antagonist is not liable for civil damages resulting from an act or omission, except as Administration specified. Referred to JUD Comm. 5/3/23 AB 1708 Muratsuchi, Would amend Proposition 47 to increase accountability for repeat Support Theft Cervantes, offenders as well as access to participate in rehabilitation services. Would Gipson, Low, refine the definition of shoplifting and would specifically exclude certain Coauthors Petrie- offenses from prosecution as shoplifting, including, among others, the revised Norris, theft of a firearm or vehicle, identity theft, and credit card fraud. 4/19/23 Rubio, Villapudua, and Essayli SB 44 Umberg Would require the court to advise a person who is convicted of, or who Support Controlled pleads guilty or no contest to specific crimes involving controlled Substances substances of the danger of selling or administering illicit drugs and counterfeit pills and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the Failed passage in defendant can be charged with homicide. committee 4/26/23 34 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position PUBLIC SAFETY SB 402 Wahab Would require 911 or other service center calls for service relating to Oppose Emergency mental health or homelessness to be dispatched to fire district or Services Limiting department personnel, EMS personnel, mental health personnel, or Police Response nonsworn unarmed police personnel and NOT to police officers. Referred to Health and G.O. Comms 2/22/23 SB 719 Becker (Re-run of measure from last year.) Oppose Law Enforcement Would require a law enforcement agency to ensure public access to the Agencies: Radio radio communications of that agency. Would also require those law Communication enforcement agencies to ensure that any criminal justice information or personally identifiable information obtained through CLETS is not Placed on APPR broadcast in a manner that is accessible to the public. suspense file 4/24/23 SB 796 Alvarado- This bill would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime Oppose Threats: Schools Gil, Rubio that is reasonably likely to result in death or great bodily injury to any and Places of person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with Worship specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to be in sustained fear for their own safety Set for hearing or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony 5/8/23 punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of a misdemeanor. 35 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position REVENUE & TAXATION AB 52 Grayson Would allow, for a taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and Pending Income Tax before January 1, 2029, a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer in an Credit: Sales and amount equal to the amount of tax reimbursement paid during the Use Taxes Paid: taxable year for sales tax on gross receipts that would be exempt from Manufacturing taxation under the Sales and Use Tax Law pursuant to the sales and use Equipment: tax exemption described above but for the provision that prohibits that Research and exemption from applying with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, Development or district pursuant to, or in accordance with, the Bradley-Burns Uniform Equipment Local Sales and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the Sales and Use Re-referred to Tax Law, and sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions APPR Comm. of the California Constitution. 5/2/23 AB 84 Ward Expands eligibility for exemptions from property taxes for affordable Oppose Property Tax: rental housing (“welfare exemptions”). Would expand this partial Welfare exemption to property acquired, rehabilitated, developed, or operated, or Exemption: any combination of these factors, with financing from qualified 501(c)(3) Affordable bonds. Housing Read second time and amended 5/3/23 AB 362 Lee Would require the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration Pending Real Property to conduct a study on the efficacy of a statewide land value taxation Taxation system as an alternative to the current appraisal methods utilized for real property taxation. Would require the study to be provided to the Set for Hearing Legislature by January 1, 2025. 4/11/23 36 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position REVENUE & TAXATION AB 972 Maienschein Would require the Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with Support Local Assistance the League of California Cities, to convene a statewide, cross-agency Local Grant Program Assistance and Grant Program Streamlining Workgroup, no later than April Streamlining 30, 2024, to centralize local assistance and develop a coordinated system Workgroup to manage available state and federal funding to deliver the maximum number of projects as efficiently as possible. The bill would require the Re-referred to Office of Planning and Research to appoint the workgroup members. APPR Comm. 4/27/23 AB 1203 Bains, Would exempt from the California sales and use tax the gross receipts for Pending Sales and Use Cervantes the sale of breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, Taxes: Breast breast pump kits, and breast pads. This exemption would apply on or after Pumps and April 1, 2024, and ends April 1, 2029. Related Supplies Re-referred to APPR Comm. 5/2/23 AB 1249 Ta Exempt from sales and use taxes the gross receipts from the sale of Pending Sales and Use qualified school supplies for the two-day period beginning at 12:01 am on Taxes: Exemption: the third Saturday of July annually and ending at 11:59 p.m. on the School Supplies following day. From 1/1/24 through 1/1/29. Held under submission 5/1/23 37 5/4/23  2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch Bill Sponsor(s) Summary League City Position Position REVENUE & TAXATION AB 1492 Alvarez Would provide, for property tax lien dates occurring on or after January 1, Pending Property 2024, that property is exempt from taxation and is within the welfare Taxation: exemption if that property is owned and operated by a nonprofit Affordable corporation, as described, that is organized and operated for the specific Housing Cost and primary purpose of building or rehabilitating residential units for sale or rent at an affordable cost and if at least one residential unit on the Re-referred to property is subject to an agreement that requires the unit to be made Rev. and Tax available at an affordable cost to buyers or renters and is recorded with Comms. 3/27/23 the appropriate local agency. SB 532 Wiener This bill would exempt from this requirement a measure that imposes or Pending Ballot Measures: increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of Local Taxes bonds. If the proposed measure imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate, or authorizes the issuance of bonds, this bill would require Set for hearing that the ballot include in the statement of the measure to be voted on an 5/8/23 estimate of the amount of money to be raised annually and the rate and the duration of the tax to be levied. This statement, which may contain bullet points, would not count toward any word limit that applies to the statement of the measure. 38 5/4/23