City Council Subcommittee Agendas and Minutes

City Council Legislative Subcommittee Agenda 70 N. First Street, Campbell CA Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 4:00 pm 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/89786740463?pwd=XBLP49w18ILOWjttZCGXlAaBa3Mo8x.1 Meeting ID: 897 8674 0463 Passcode: 626296 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 prior to the meeting will be posted on the website and distributed to the Legislative Subcommittee before the meeting. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 4:00 pm Ralph Doetsch Conference Room – 70 N. First Street CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMMENT NEW BUSINESS • 2025 Legislation – Bills to Watch (Matrix Attached) 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  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES TBD. TBD. 1 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AB 262 Caloza Would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to Support California provide financial assistance to local agencies, community-based organizations, and Individual individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. Assistance Act Referred to E.M. Comm. 2/10/2025 AB 854 Petrie- Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to adopt Environmental Norris permit streamlining guidance for projects that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Quality: Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Permit Streamlining May be heard in committee on March 22. SB 350 Durazo Would establish the Water Rate Assistance Program. As part of the program, SB 350 Water Rate would establish the Water Rate Assistance Fund in the State Treasury to provide Assistance water affordability assistance, for both drinking water and wastewater services, to Program low-income residential ratepayers, as specified. Set for hearing on March 19. 2 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SB 454 McNerney Would propose the development of a polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) Mitigation Support State Water Fund to help clean up manmade PFAS contamination in water supplies and Resources wastewater. Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program Set for hearing on April 2. SB 613 Stern Would require the state board, no later than December 31, 2026, to establish a Methane certification standard for petroleum and natural gas producing low methane Emissions: emissions. SB 613 would require the state board to encourage petroleum and Petroleum and natural gas procurement on behalf of the state to shift to certified petroleum and Natural Gas natural gas producing low methane emissions. SB 613 would also require the state Producing Low board, the Public Utilities Commission, and other relevant agencies to timely Methane consider programs, or changes to existing programs. Emissions Set for hearing on April 2. 3 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS AB 33 Aguiar- Would prohibit the delivery of commercial goods, as defined, directly to a residence Autonomous Curry or to a business for its use or retail sale, through the operation of autonomous Vehicles vehicles without a human operator, on any highway within the State of California. Re-referred to TRANS. Comm. 3/5/2025 AB 544 Davies Would require an electric bicycle, during all hours, to be equipped with a red reflector Electric Bicycles: or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from Required a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of Equipment headlamps on a motor vehicle. Re-referred to TRANS. Comm. 3/6/2025 SB 74 Seyarto Would establish the "Gap Fund,” managed by the Office of Land Use and Climate Support Office of Land Innovation (LCI), which will offer grants for the remaining 20 percent of project costs Use and Climate to cities and local agencies. To be eligible, the project must be 80 percent financed Innovation: with 10 percent coming from local funds; “Gap Fund” grants can be used once per Infrastructure project and the infrastructure projects should be shovel ready. Gap Funding First hearing canceled by author. 3/13/2025 4 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS SB 496 Hurtado Would create an appeals advisory committee made up of state agencies, industry Support Advanced Clean experts, fleets, and local governments to review denied petitions for exemption and Fleets extension to the California Air Resource Board (CARB) Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) Regulation: regulation. Appeals Advisory Committee: Exemptions Set for hearing on April 2. SB 695 Cortese Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would amend Support California the act to invest in infrastructure projects that are of regional importance in Disaster California to make them more resilient to the impacts of climate change and to avoid Assistance Act infrastructure failure. Referred to RLS. Comm. 3/5/2025 SB 720 Ashby Would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to establish an Automated automated traffic enforcement system program to use those systems to detect a Traffic violation of a traffic control signal, if the system meets specified requirements. SB Enforcement 720 would require a violation of a traffic control signal that is recorded by an System Programs automated traffic enforcement system to be subject only to a $100 civil penalty, as specified. Referred to TRANS. and JUD. Comms. 3/12/2025 5 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position COMMUNITY SERVICES AB 617 McKinnor Would require the No Wrong Door System (a collaborative effort that supports the Aging and Disability state’s efforts to streamline access to long-term services and support options for Resource older adults and individuals with disabilities) to serve seniors and individuals with Connection disabilities, as specified, and would require, no later than December 31, 2027, the Program: No Wrong system to also establish a statewide respite referral registry to connect consumers Door System enrolled in the Medi-Cal program with culturally competent, prescreened respite providers, and create and implement a consumer-directed employer program to Referred to Aging & assist in the provision of the statewide respite referral system. L.T.C. Comms. 3/3/2025 AB 1069 Bains Would, as part of disaster planning and response, require that an area agency on Older Adults: aging or an Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) program have access Emergency Shelters to an emergency shelter, as defined, established for evacuation purposes during an active event, in order to ensure that older adults and persons with disabilities Referred to Aging & receive continuous services and necessary support. L.T.C., and E.M. Comms. 3/10/2025 AB 1476 Wallis Existing law requires that nutrition projects serving the needs of individuals 60 Meal Program: years of age or older and their spouses provide at least one hot meal per day for 5 Senior Citizens or more days per week, as specified. AB 1476 would instead require that the projects provide those meals either served hot or made available for to-go pickup Referred to Aging & for reheating at home by eligible individuals. L.T.C. Comm. 3/13/2025 6 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position COMMUNITY SERVICES SB 456 Ashby Would exempt muralists from having to obtain a contractor’s license through the Support Contractors: California State Licensing Board before being commissioned for public and private Exemptions: art projects. Muralists Referred to B. P. & E.D. Comms. 2/26/2025 SB 569 Blakespear Would increase communication between the Department of Transportation and Support Homeless local governments to address encampments on state property. Encampment Collaboration Act Referred to TRANS. Comm. 3/05/2025 7 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS AB 370 Carrillo Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under Support California Public unusual circumstances, and defines “unusual circumstances” to include, among Records Act: other things, the need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine records Cyberattacks during a state of emergency when the state of emergency currently affects the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests due to staffing shortages or closure of Referred to APPR. facilities, as provided. AB 370 would revise the definition of unusual circumstances Comm. as it applies to a state of emergency to require the state of emergency, in addition 3/13/2025 to currently affecting the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests as described above, to instead require the state of emergency to directly affect the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests. AB 1370 Patterson Would prohibit Members of the Legislature from entering into, or requesting that Political Reform another party enter into, a nondisclosure agreement relating to the drafting, Act of 1974: negotiation, or discussion of proposed legislation. AB 1370 would also make any Nondisclosure nondisclosure agreement relating to the drafting, negotiation, or discussion of Agreements proposed legislation entered into after the effective date of this bill void and unenforceable. Read first time. 2/24/2025 ACR 44 Pacheco Would proclaim the week of April 20, 2025 to April 26, 2025, to be California Cities California Cities Week, and would encourage all Californians to be involved in their communities and Week be civically engaged with their local government. Referred to RLS. Comm. 3/3/2025 8 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS SB 239 Arreguin Would allow public members of non-decision-making advisory bodies to meet Support Open Meetings: remotely without posting their location or making that location available to the Teleconferencing: public. Subsidiary Body Referred to L. GOV. and JUD. Comms. 2/14/2025 SB 332 Wahab Would require the Energy Commission, in coordination with the public advisor and Investor-Owned the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), on or before March 31, 2026, to issue a Utilities request for proposals for a team to develop a study to (1) conduct a historical energy Accountability Act justice assessment of the investor-owned utility’s (IOU) operations and impacts, (2) complete a comparative analysis of the benefits and challenges of transitioning the May be acted IOUs to a successor entity in order to identify a recommended model, and, (3) if the upon on or after study finds that it is in the best long-term interests of the people and ecologies of March 15. California to transition away from an investor-owned utility model, create a justice- centered implementation plan for managing the transition. 9 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 11 Lee Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Watch Housing Elements: Housing Authority as an independent state body, the mission of which Per staff’s Prohousing would be to ensure that social housing developments that are recommendation. Designation produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment Referred to H. & C.D. targets and preserving affordable housing. AB 11 would prescribe a Comm. definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing 2/3/2025 owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority. AB 36 Soria Would instead require Housing & Community Development (HCD) to Support Housing Elements: designate jurisdictions as pro-housing pursuant to permanent Per staff’s Prohousing regulations adopted by HCD to implement these provisions, as recommendation. Designation specified. Beginning with the 7th housing element cycle, AB 36 would require HCD to use materials from a jurisdiction’s housing element Referred to H. & C.D. submission when determining whether the jurisdiction qualifies as and L. GOV. Comms. pro-housing. AB 36 would also prohibit HCD from requiring 2/3/2025 jurisdictions with populations less than 100,000 persons to renew their pro-housing designation before the next housing element cycle, as provided. 10 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 559 Berman Would include in the definition of “home improvement” construction, Support Professions and erection, installation, replacement, or improvement of accessory Per staff’s Vocations: dwelling units on residentially zoned property. AB 559 would also recommendation. Contractors: Home make a licensee, or an unlicensed person, who requests or accepts a Improvement downpayment or progress payment for work or services not Contracts: Prohibited performed, or for materials or equipment not supplied, that results in Business Practices financial loss to a consumer in an amount greater than 10% of the contract price, subject to revocation of their license and a civil penalty Referred to B., P. and of at least $10,000 in the case of a licensee, or, if the person is JUD. Comms. unlicensed, subject to a citation and assessment of a civil penalty of at 3/3/2025 least $10,000. AB 610 Alvarez Would require local governments to include a governmental Oppose Housing Element: constraints disclosure statement in their housing elements, identifying Per staff’s Governmental existing and potential constraints on housing development. It also recommendation. Constraints: would prohibit the adoption of new or more stringent governmental Disclosure Statement constraints during the planning period unless they were included in the disclosure statement and prior commitments to eliminate or Referred to H. & C.D. mitigate constraints have been fulfilled. and L. GOV. Comms. 3/3/2025 AB 726 Farias Would permit a local agency to include in its annual report the Support Watch Planning and Zoning: number of units of existing deed-restricted affordable housing within a Per staff’s Annual Report: specified affordability threshold that are at least 15 years old and have recommendation. Rehabilitated Units been substantially rehabilitated with at least sixty thousand dollars per unit in funds awarded from the city or county, as specified. AB 726 Referred to H. & C.D. would prohibit any of the units included in the annual report from and L. GOV. Comms. being considered when determining affordability requirements for the 3/3/2025 purposes of eligibility for streamlined approvals, as specified. 11 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 750 Quirk-Silva Would require a city or county to additionally perform an annual Oppose Homeless Shelters: inspection of every homeless shelter located in its jurisdiction. AB 750 Per staff’s Safety Regulations would authorize the above-described inspection or annual inspection recommendation. to be announced or unannounced. AB 750 would require homeless Referred to H. & C.D. shelters to prominently display notice of an occupant’s rights, the and JUD. Comms. process for reporting a complaint alleging a homeless shelter is 3/3/2025 substandard, and prescribed information, including specified contact information. AB 750 would require the homeless shelter to provide the same notice in writing to new occupants upon intake. AB 906 Gonzalez Would require jurisdictions to demonstrate that it has accommodated Oppose Planning and Zoning: a meaningful portion of its share of the regional housing need for Per staff’s Housing Elements lower income households on sites located in higher income, racially recommendation. exclusive areas to the extent that those areas exist within the Referred to H. & C.D. jurisdiction. AB 906 would also require the local government to rezone and L. GOV. Comms. the sites within specified time periods, as described above, if the 3/10/2025 inventory of sites does not affirmatively further fair housing. AB 1061 Quirk-Silva AB 1061 clarifies that urban lot splits and housing developments must Support Housing be approved ministerially unless they involve demolishing or altering Per staff’s Developments: Urban designated historic properties, thereby reducing local discretion in recommendation. Lot Splits: Historical blocking eligible development. Resources Referred to H. & C.D. and L. GOV. Comms. 3/10/2025 12 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 1154 Carrillo Would additionally prohibit a local agency from imposing any Watch Accessory Dwelling parking standards if the accessory dwelling unit is 500 square feet Per staff’s Units: Junior or smaller. AB 1154 would also include that an owner-occupancy recommendation. Accessory Dwelling requirement would apply only if the junior accessory dwelling unit Units has shared sanitation facilities with the existing structure. Referred to H. & C.D. and L. GOV. Comms. 3/10/2025 AB 1206 Harabedian Would require each local agency, by January 1, 2026, to develop a Oppose Single Family and program for the preapproval of single-family and multifamily Per staff’s Multifamily Housing residential housing plans, whereby the local agency accepts single- recommendation. Units: Preapproved family and multifamily plan submissions for preapproval and approves Plans or denies the preapproval applications, as specified. AB 1206 would authorize a local agency to charge a fee to an applicant for the Referred to H. & C.D. preapproval of a single-family or multifamily residential housing plan, and L. GOV. Comms. as specified. AB 1206 would require the local agency to post 3/13/2025 preapproved single-family or multifamily residential housing plans and the contact information of the applicant on the local agency’s internet website. AB 1206 would require a local agency to either approve or deny an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit within 30 days that utilizes either a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit plan preapproved within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle or a plan that is identical to a plan used in an application for a single- family or multifamily residential housing unit approved by the local agency within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle. 13 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AB 1359 Ahrens AB 1359 expresses the intent to authorize "housing forward Support Planning and Zoning: jurisdictions “defined as cities or counties designated as prohousing Per staff’s Permitted Use: and meeting or exceeding their regional housing needs allocation—to recommendation. Housing Forward impose certain conditions on development projects. Jurisdictions Read first time. 2/24/2025 SB 92 Blakespear Existing law defines “housing development” to mean a development Support Housing project for 5 or more residential units, including mixed-use Per staff’s Development: developments, as specified. SB 92 would define “mixed-used recommendation. Density Bonuses: developments” to mean mixed-used developments consisting of Mixed-Use residential and nonresidential uses that meet specified conditions. Developments Amended and re- referred to HOUSING. Comm. 3/10/2025 14 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SB 381 Wahab Would enact the Fair Rental Act of 2025. SB 381 would prohibit a Support Residential rental landlord or their agent from charging certain fees, including, any fee Per staff’s properties: fees that is not specified in the rental agreement, a processing fee, recommendation. including a convenience fee or a check cashing fee, for the payment of Referred to JUD. and rent or any other fees or deposits, or a fee for a tenant to own a APPR. Comms. household pet. SB 381 would also prohibit a landlord or their agent 2/26/2025 from charging a late fee for the late payment of rent that is more than 2% of the monthly rental rate and would prohibit the late fee from being charged unless the rent is overdue by 7 days or more. Under SB 381, if a landlord or their agent charges and collects a fee from a tenant that is not authorized by law, the landlord or their agent would be liable to the tenant in a civil action for the cost of the fee, plus 5% interest compounded daily from the date the fee was collected. SB 417 Cabaldon Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if Support Affordable Housing adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of Per staff’s Bond Act of 2026 $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. recommendation. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance May be acted upon programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership on or after March 21. programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. 15 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SB 607 Wiener Proposes reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Support California aiming to streamline environmental reviews for infill projects by Per staff’s Environmental limiting the scope of environmental impact reports to specific issues recommendation. Quality Act: that disqualify projects from categorical exemptions. Categorical Exemptions: Infill Projects Set for hearing on April 2. 16 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position PUBLIC SAFETY AB 271 Hoover Would make looting by the means of a 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft Watch Crimes: Looting punishable as a felony. AB 271 would define a petty theft committed during Per staff’s and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency as recommendation. May be heard looting and make it punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for one year in committee. or as a felony. 1/22/2025 AB 382 Berman Would establish a prima facie speed limit of 20 miles per hour in a school zone, Support Watch Pedestrian as defined, subject to specified conditions, including, among others, when a Per staff’s Safety: School school speed limit sign states “children are present” and children are present, recommendation. Zones: Speed as defined, and when a school speed limit sign states specific hours, as Limits specified. Re-referred to TRANS. Comm. 2/25/2025 AB 486 Lackey Current law prohibits a person from engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor Watch Vehicles: vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an off-street parking facility. Per staff’s Sideshows and Upon conviction, current law punishes the person by imprisonment in a county recommendation. Street jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than $500, or by both that Takeovers fine and imprisonment. AB 486 would clarify that, for purposes of those prohibitions, aiding or abetting includes, but is not limited to, organizing, Referred to facilitating, encouraging, promoting, or instigating a violation as part of a PUB. S. Comm. sideshow. 2/24/2025 17 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position PUBLIC SAFETY AB 1115 Castillo Would authorize a local government to designate one or more existing Watch Peace Officers: employees specializing in counseling or mental health services as a law Per staff’s Mental Health enforcement mental health liaison to facilitate mental health support for peace recommendation. Liaisons officers who serve the local jurisdiction. Referred to PUB. S. Comm. 3/10/2025 18 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position REVENUE & TAXATION AB 21 Demaio Would declare the intent of Legislature to enact a constitutional amendment Taxpayer to limit the ability of state and local governments to raise taxes, restore a 2/3 Protection Act of vote requirement on local special tax increases, impose voter approval 2025 requirements on specific categories of new taxes, and regulate the titles on state and local ballot measures relating to tax increases. Referred to REV. and TAX. Comm. 3/3/2025 AB 317 Jackson Would exempt from CEQA, and defer property tax payments until it is sold, California First leased or rented, for the new construction of a single-family dwelling that is Time Homeowner 1,500 square feet or less and with no more than three bedrooms. Dream Act Referred to REV. and TAX. Comm. 3/3/2025 AB 330 Rogers The Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act, effective until Local Prepaid January 1, 2026, suspends the authority of cities, counties, or city and county Mobile Telephony governments to impose a utility user tax on prepaid communications Services Collection services and charges related to prepaid mobile telephony services. Instead, Act these taxes and charges are applied at specified rates under local ordinances from January 1, 2016, to January 1, 2026. AB 330 would mandate that these Hearing canceled local charges be collected from prepaid consumers by sellers at the time of at request of sale. Current law requires that all local charges be collected and paid to the author. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, deposited into the 3/10/2025 Local Charges for Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Fund, and then transmitted to the respective city, county, or city and county. AB 330 proposes to extend the operation of the act until January 1, 2031. 19 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position REVENUE & TAXATION AB 353 Boerner Existing law, the Digital Equity Bill of Rights, establishes the principle that all Communications: residents of the state should have access to broadband that meets specific Broadband requirements and ensures equal access to broadband internet service within Internet Service a provider’s service area. AB 353 would state the Legislature’s intent to enact Providers: legislation requiring broadband internet service providers to offer affordable Affordable Home home internet to California residents. Internet May be heard in committee. 3/2/2025 AB 838 Ta Would extend the renter’s credit to spouses filing joint returns, heads of Taxation: Renter’s household, and surviving spouses if adjusted gross income is $150,000, as Credit adjusted, or less, and for other individuals if adjusted gross income is $75,000, as adjusted, or less beginning January 1 of the taxable year it is Referred to REV. authorized and for four taxable years after. AB 838 would also increase the and TAX. Comm. credit amount for those years to $2,000 for spouses filing joint returns, heads 3/3/2025 of households, and surviving spouses and $1,000 for other individuals. 20 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position REVENUE & TAXATION SB 23 Valladares Would fully exempt from taxation, property owned by, and that constitutes Property Taxation: the principal place of residence of, a veteran, the veteran’s spouse, or the Exemption: veteran and the veteran’s spouse jointly, if the veteran is 100% disabled, and Disabled Veteran would provide an Homeowners unmarried surviving spouse a property exemption in the same amount that they would have been entitled to if the veteran was alive. Re-referred to M. and V.A. Comms. 3/12/2025 SB 296 Boerner Would exempt from taxation, as provided, property owned by, and that Property Taxation: constitutes the principal place of residence of, a veteran, the veteran’s Exemption: spouse, or the veteran and the veteran’s spouse jointly, if the veteran is 100% Disabled Veteran disabled. SB 296 provide an unmarried surviving spouse a property Homeowners exemption in the same amount that they would have been entitled to if the veteran was alive and if certain conditions are met. Referred to REV. and TAX., and M. and V.A. Comms. 2/19/2025 SB 346 Durazo Would, if a local agency chooses to opt-in, require short-term rental Support Support Local Agencies: platforms, upon request, to provide the Assessor Parcel Number (APN) of a Per staff’s Transient listing to a local agency, require the publishing of the local license number recommendation. Occupancy Taxes: and Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Certification on the short-term rental Short-Term Rental listing, and would authorize audit authority to local agencies on TOT when Facilitator. collected and remitted by a short-term rental platform. Set for March 19 hearing. 21 Revised 3/19/2025  2025 Legislative Bills Update March 19, 2025 Bill Author(s) Summary League City Position Position REVENUE & TAXATION SB 566 Grove Would increase the homeowners’ exemption, for certain homeowners, from Real Property Tax: $7,000 to $50,000 of the full value of a dwelling and would increase this Personal Income credit for a qualified renter to $550 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of Tax Law: household, and Homeowners’ surviving spouses, if adjusted gross income is $50,000 or less, and to an Exemption: amount equal to $275 for other individuals if adjusted gross income is Renter’s Credit $25,000 or less. Referred to REV. and TAX. Comms. 3/5/2025 22 Revised 3/19/2025