HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 5a. 2024 State Legislative Briefing Item 5a
Department: Administration
Cost Center: 1001
For Agenda of: 2/25/2025
Placement: Business
Estimated Time: 45 minutes
FROM: Greg Hermann, Deputy City Manager
Prepared By: Natalie Harnett, Policy and Project Manager
SUBJECT: 2024 STATE LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING
RECOMMENDATION
1. Receive and file a report on the 2024 State Legislative Briefing which summarizes the
adopted laws from the 2023-24 regular session of the California State Legislature
(December 2023 through October 2024); and
2. Appoint an ad-hoc committee of the City Council to review the current legislative
platform and suggest changes for the 2025-26 legislative session.
POLICY CONTEXT
According to Section 3.9 of the Council Policies and Procedures Manual, the City
implements a proactive legislative program aimed at strengthening local governance,
advancing City objectives, and opposing state and federal legislative actions that could
undermine local authority or reduce traditional revenue sources. At the conclusion of each
legislative cycle, staff compile a legislative briefing designed to enhance understanding
of new State laws affecting the City and to inform the community and Council about
significant legislative trends. This briefing also supports updates to the Legislative
Platform for the upcoming Legislative Calendar Year. The City Council adopted the
current Legislative Platform on April 2, 2024.
REPORT-IN-BRIEF
The 2024 State Legislative Briefing provides an in-depth overview of significant legislative
changes affecting the City of San Luis Obispo, highlighting new laws passed during the
2023-24 California legislative session. Key bills covered in the briefing include measures
that impact housing, environmental quality, homelessness, and local governance. Among
these, AB 3012 mandates local agencies to provide a fee estimate tool on their websites
by 2032, allowing the public to estimate fees for proposed housing developments.
Additionally, AB 3093 requires cities to incorporate the housing needs of individuals
experiencing homelessness into their next housing element cycle, necessitating updates
to San Luis Obispo's housing plans.
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The briefing also addresses new requirements related to local land use and zoning, such
as SB 1123, which mandates ministerial approval of subdivisions for up to 10 housing
units without discretionary review, and SB 1211, which requires local agencies to approve
up to eight Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) on multi-family lots. Furthermore,
environmental laws like AB 98 require cities to update circulation elements by 2028 to
accommodate increased truck traffic, potentially impacting local transportation planning.
The report also covers the expansion of housing and homelessness programs, such as
SB 1361, which exempts homelessness services from CEQA, easing the process of
implementing these critical services.
In addition to summarizing these legislative changes, the briefing recommends the
appointment of an ad-hoc committee to review and recommend updates the City's
Legislative Platform for the 2025-26 Legislative cycle. This review would ensure the City
remains proactive in adapting to legislative shifts and continues to effectively add ress
challenges presented in our community. The Council can choose to appoint a committee
to guide this process or direct staff to make changes and ask staff to return in April with
a draft updated platform. The entire Council will ultimately review and approve the draft
legislative report in April 2025.
DISCUSSION
Background
During the 2023-24 session of the California State Legislature, lawmakers proposed over
2,200 bills and resolutions to establish new laws, repeal existing ones, or amend current
statutes. Of the approximately 1,200 bills that reached Governor Newsom’s desk, 189
were vetoed. While most of the enacted bills took effect on January 1, 2025, certain
urgency measures became effective immediately upon being signed into law.
Each year, thousands of bills are introduced that could impact local governments. To stay
informed, City staff utilizes legislative tools provided by the League of California Cities
(Cal Cities). This year, Cal Cities published the 2024 Legislative Report, which offers a
comprehensive overview of bills signed into law by the Governor and their potential
implications for cities across California. City staff has reviewed the report and prepared
this item to highlight key legislative changes for the City Council, focusing on the newly
adopted laws that will affect the City of San Luis Obispo.
This report includes a summary of state laws that will impact the City, linking them to the
City’s initiatives, departmental operations, and Council priorities. It also references the
Cal Cities 2024 Legislative Report (Attachment A) for further details on the highlighted
legislation. Each section of this report includes a table that references page numbers in
Attachment A for additional information. While this report is not intended to cover every
introduced or signed bill, the attached Cal Cities report provides comprehensive
information on all legislative actions from the session.
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Budget and Trailer Bills
The Budget Act of 2024 tackled California's $47 billion deficit, a result of re venue volatility
and missed forecasts, underscoring the state's reliance on personal income taxes and
susceptibility to stock market fluctuations. The final budget agreement in June allocated
$293 billion in total spending, addressing the deficit through program cuts, new revenue
sources, and tapping into state reserves. It adopted important budget reforms aimed at
mitigating future fiscal volatility including expanding the Rainy Day Fund from 10% to 20%
of the state budget and creating a "Projected Surplus Temporary Holding Account" to
manage surplus revenues until confirmed. These measures sought to strengthen the
state's financial resilience while addressing immediate challenges.
Despite some sacrifices, the budget safeguarded key education, healthcare, public
safety, and social services investments. For example, environmental programs
experienced $2.3 billion in cuts and shifts but retained a $29 billion commitment over
seven years. State operations returned $762.5 million to the General Fund by eliminating
many vacant positions. The State transportation program faced $771 million in cuts,
affecting mainly the Active Transportation Program and port projects. Housing and
homelessness programs saw a $1.4 billion reduction in unspent funds but received $1
billion for Homeless Housing Assistance and $500 million for the Low-Income Housing
Tax Credit Program. Public safety reductions totaled $359 million, impacting prison
capacity, trial court operations, and emergency services. Healthcare reforms included a
revised Managed Care Organization (MCO) tax package projected to generate $2.8
billion in 2024-25. Despite budget cuts, some programs saw additional allocations
including $199 million for fire response improvements and $94 million for flood prevention.
Community Services, Behavioral Health, and Homelessness
Children, Childcare, and Youth Programs
AB 262 establishes a stakeholder workgroup, led by the Department of Social Services,
to develop recommendations for improving safety and regulations for child ren’s camps.
While these recommendations could eventually impact the City’s program standards, the
workgroup will include representatives from local governments to ensure their interests
are considered.
Behavioral Health and Community Wellness
The most notable development was Proposition 1, passed in March 2024, which aims
to modernize the Mental Health Services Act and allocate $6.38 billion in bonds for
behavioral health treatment beds and supportive housing units. The Behavioral Health
Services Act is intended to prioritize equitable access to services for individuals with
significant mental health needs. The BHSA also aims to increase transparency and
accountability at the local level, which will impact both the County and the City. The
Behavioral Health Bond includes a $1.5 billion funding allocation for counties and cities .
However, it also reallocates some funding from existing County mental health, drug, and
alcohol treatment funds to the state. This shift is intended to enhance housing and
personalized support services but has raised concerns about potential reductions in
county-level mental health services.
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Supporting measures were also enacted to enhance integrity and transparency in alcohol
and drug recovery services. AB 2574 expands the State Department of Health Care
Services' (DHCS) oversight and reporting requirements for sober living homes, while AB
2081 requires licensed recovery homes to inform individuals seeking care that they can
verify a facility's compliance with state licensing laws online.
Homelessness
AB 2081 requires licensed substance abuse recovery or treatment facilities to include a
disclosure on their website and on intake paperwork that agency certification information
is available on the DHCS website, including probationary status, temporary suspensions,
and any law violation notices that have been issued. This legislation creates additional
transparency and accountability measures for local agencies.
AB 2574 mandates that organizations operating certified alcohol or drug abuse recovery
programs or licensed treatment facilities disclose to the DHCS any ownership or financial
interests in unlicensed recovery residences, commonly known as sober living homes.
This requirement applies regardless of the zoning desi gnation of where the unlicensed
facility is located. There have been cases where a licensed facility provides services to
the residents of a sober living home but does not include the sober living home in the
facility’s licensure. The law aims to enhance transparency to ensure that if a recovery
residence is operated as a business with a licensed treatment facility, it is regulated like
a business, not a residential home.
SB 1361 exempts local agencies’ efforts to provide homelessness services from the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), aiming to accelerate program
implementation by reducing administrative burdens for cities addressing homelessness.
Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB 262 (Holden) Children’s Camps: Safety and Regulation 12
AB 2081 (Davies) Substance Abuse: Recovery and Treatment Programs 10,118
AB 2574 (Valencia) Alcoholism or Drug Abuse Recovery or Treatment
Programs and Facilities: Disclosures
11,119
SB 1361
(Blakespear)
California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Local
Agencies: Contract for Providing Services for People
Experiencing Homelessness.
16,23
Environmental Quality
AB 98, listed under "Environmental Quality," relates to both land use and air quality.
Introduced late in the legislative session following months of closed-door negotiations,
the bill was signed by the Governor despite opposition from nearly 700 local leaders,
business groups, and environmental organizations. In summary, the bill requires cities to
update their circulation elements by 2028 to accommodate increased truck traffic,
particularly in areas near logistics centers or major truck routes. Cities must ensure truck
routes avoid residential neighborhoods and sensitive environments. Noncompliance
could result in fines of $50,000 every six months imposed by the Attorney General.
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Additional details on AB 98 and its implications for cities can be found in the attached
report, Appendix Section (page 121). While the full impact on the City remains unclear,
compliance will necessitate updates to the Land Use and Circulation Element.
Additionally, the City will need to install more truck route signage, which will involve both
financial and staff resources.
California legislators proposed a swathe of amendments to the state’s SB 1383 organics
recycling law this legislative session. AB 2346 expands the kinds of facilities that count
toward jurisdictions’ organic materials procurement targets by allowing compost from
community composting and on-site composting operations to count toward a jurisdiction’s
procurement target. To further advance the development of composting infrastructure,
SB 1046 would require CalRecycle to develop a program environmental impact report by
January 2027 that streamlines the process for local jurisdictions to develop and site small
and medium compost facilities. Neither of these bills will affect the City of San Luis Obispo
since the City is meeting its SB 1383 procurement target through the San Luis Obispo
County Integrated Waste Management Authority's Compost Rebate Program from
compost generated from the Kompogas anaerobic digestion facility, but it will help other
local jurisdictions meet their targets.
AB 1053 strengthens the state’s existing restrictions on retailers offering single -use
carryout bags at the point of sale by refining some definitions that allowed loopholes.
Grocery stores, retail outlets, convenience shops, and most other retailers will need to
stop offering both single-use plastic bags and thicker reusable plastic bags at the point of
sale, not including plastic bags offered for produce and bulk purchase. Consumers who
do not bring their own carryout bags may purchase one for no less than 10 cents, which
will be required to be made from at least 50 percent postconsumer recycled materials.
SB 1280 will require one pound propane cylinders, often used for lanterns and cooking
stoves, to be refillable or reusable starting January 1, 2028. These bills will impact
residents’ behaviors but there will be no fiscal impact to the City.
SB 867 enacted the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness,
and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, which was approved by the voters in the November 2024
statewide general election. The passage of Prop 4 authorizes the state to issue
approximately $10 billion in bonds to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire
prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean energy,
and workforce development programs.
AB 1889, also known as the Room to Roam Act, introduces new requirements for
conservation planning in general plans. Starting January 1, 2028, cities will need to
update the conservation elements of their general plans during the next scheduled update
to address wildlife movement and habitat connectivity. The City will need to evaluate how
development projects and other barriers may disrupt wildlife and work towards developing
programs to mitigate negative impact on wildlife connectivity. This will be a significant
planning work effort for the City that will require additional resources. The City’s existing
Conservation and Open Space Element (2006) includes mapping and policies to address
wildlife migration corridors; nevertheless, the City will assess and follow the updated
general plan element guidance that is issued for this update.
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Proposition 4, also known as the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought
Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 is a legislatively referred bond act (SB
867) that allows California to issue $10 billion in bonds to fund climate -related projects,
including safe drinking water ($3.8 billion), wildfire prevention and extreme heat mitigation
($1.95 billion), preservation of natural lands and parks ($1.9 billion), coastal protection
($1.2 billion), green energy infrastructure ($850 million), and sustainable agriculture ($300
million). Initial program resources are expected to be available as early as July 2026.
Energy and climate change remain key focal points for the legislature and Calif ornia’s
regulatory agencies. The 2025 legislative and rulemaking session is expected to address
crucial issues, including electricity affordability, renewable energy, and climate adaptation
and resilience. The City actively engages in these discussions through its membership in
the Local Government Sustainable Energy Coalition, which participates in proceedings
before the Public Utilities Commission, and Green Cities California, which directly
advocates in regulatory matters before entities such as the Air Resources Board,
California Energy Commission, and State Building Standards Commission.
Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB 98 (J Carillo
and Reyes) Planning and Zoning: Logistics Use: Truck Routes 50,120
AB 2346 (Lee) Organic Waste Reduction Regulations: Procurement of
Recovered Organic Waste Products. 30
AB 1053
(Blakespear)
Solid Waste: Recycled Paper Bags: Standards: Carryout Bag
Prohibition. 32
SB 1046 (Laird)
Organic Waste Reduction: Program Environmental Impact
Report: Small and Medium Compostable Material Handling
Facilities or Operations.
32
SB 1280 Waste Management: Propane Cylinders: Reusable or
Refillable. 32
SB 867 (Allen) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought
Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024. 24
AB 1889
(Friedman) Conservation Element: Wildlife and Habitat Connectivity. 51
Housing Community and Economic Development
Housing and Housing Elements
Each year brings a wave of legislation intended to drive housing construction, yet often
bring consequences of restricting local land use authority and enacting punitive measures
for non-compliance. In 2024, there was heightened attention on cities' housing plans and
the controversial "builder's remedy” – a state housing element law that allows developers
to bypass certain local zoning and planning restrictions when a city or jurisdiction is out
of compliance with state housing requirements.
AB 3093 mandates that local governments incorporate the housing needs of individuals
experiencing homelessness into their housing elements. As part of the next Housing
Element Update (7th Cycle) the City of San Luis Obispo will need to address the newly
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established income categories. Guidance from the California Department of Housing and
Community Development (HCD), expected by December 31, 2026, will provide tools and
sample programs to support compliance. However, the City will need to plan for the
resources to thoroughly evaluate and implement these recommendations as part of the
Housing Element update process.
In addition to AB 3093, the Governor has signed nine significant bills that collectively
reduce local control over the approval of new housing projects:
AB 1886 gives the California Department of Housing and Community Development
(HCD) the authority to determine whether a housing element complies with state
requirements, eliminating the ability of local governments to self -certify their housing
elements.
AB 1893 prohibits local agencies from denying housing development projects that
qualify as builder’s remedy, mixed-income, or low-income, if the city lacks a certified
housing element. Additionally, it expands the list of actions that would constitute a
“denial” of a housing project and therefore trigger a State Law violation.
SB 1037 imposes fines of up to $50,000 per month on cities that fail to maintain a
certified housing element or fail to timely approve eligible housing projects through
ministerial processes.
AB 2023 sets a higher legal standard for local agencies to contest the HCD's
determination that a local government lacks a certified housing element. As a result,
the City will need to ensure its housing element meets these elevated standards and
deadlines.
SB 450 removes the ability of local governments to deny a housing project under SB
9 (2021) based on objective standards applied to the specific project. The City will
need to continue to apply its streamlined approval process for housing projects under
SB 9, as this legislation limits the City's ability to deny projects based on detailed
objective standards. The City will also need to ensure it can meet the 60 -day review
timeline for such applications.
AB 2243 expands the by-right zoning provisions from AB 2011 (2022) to include
specific sites, such as regional malls up to 100 acres, areas near freeways (with air -
filtration requirements), and certain high-rise districts. This bill aims to simplify housing
development by easing the approval process and limiting local review of housing
proposals. The City will need to ensure that its zoning and approval processes align
with these ministerial requirements.
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SB 1123 updates SB 684 (2023) to require local agencies to approve the subdivision
of vacant single-family parcels for up to 10 housing units ministerially, without
discretionary review. It also mandates ministerial approval of housing units on vacant,
single-family zoned properties beginning July 1 , 2025. The City will need to ensure
that its zoning and approval processes align with these ministerial requirements
SB 1211 requires local agencies to ministerially approve up to eight detached
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) on an existing multifamily dwelling lot, provided that
the number of ADUs does not exceed the number of existing dwelling units on the lot.
Additionally, it prohibits local agencies from requiring the replacement of uncovered
parking spaces that are demolished to construct an ADU. Staff is currently working
on processing zoning ordinance amendments to address the requirements in both SB
1123 and SB 1211.
Other Zoning/Land Use
AB 2085 requires the City to ministerially approve community clinics offering reproductive
health services if the site is in a zone where office, retail, parking, or healthcare uses are
permitted.
AB 2904 amends the notification requirements for zoning ordinance changes. Under this
new law, cities must now provide at least 20 days' advance notice to affected p roperty
owners before holding public hearings on proposed zoning amendments, an increase
from the previous 10-day requirement. From the City's perspective, this change
necessitates adjustments to Planning Commission workflows, including earlier
preparation and distribution of hearing notices. While this extended timeline allows
property owners more time to prepare and engage, it also requires cities to allocate
additional resources and planning to ensure compliance with the new deadlines .
Permit Fees
AB 1820 requires local agencies to provide a preliminary estimate of fees and exactions
within 30 business days to any development proponent requesting an estimate during the
preliminary application process, although the estimate is non-binding and for
informational purposes. It also requires agencies to post current fee schedules and
relevant fee studies on their websites, which the City already does.
SB 937 requires local agencies to defer the payment of mitigation fees for certain
affordable housing projects until the certificate of occupancy or final inspection is granted.
It also sets conditions for when a developer can qualify for fee deferral, including breaking
ground on the affordable housing project within five years. The City will need to track and
implement these deferral processes in compliance with the bill’s timelines and take them
into consideration during financial planning.
AB 3012 mandates local agencies to provide a fee estimate tool on their websites,
enabling the public to estimate fees for proposed housing developments. The City is not
required to comply with this until 2032. However, implementing this change will
necessitate early planning to address logistics, technical needs, and integration onto the
City’s website.
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Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB3093 (Ward) Land Use: Housing Element. 16, 25,
AB 1886 (Alvarez) Housing Element Law: Substantial Compliance:
Housing Accountability Act. 51
AB 1893 (Wicks) Housing Accountability Act: Housing Disapprovals:
Required Local Findings. 51
AB 2023 (Quick-Silva) Housing Element: Inventory of Land: Substantial
Compliance: Rebuttable Presumptions. 52
SB 1037 (Wiener) Planning and Zoning: Housing Element Enforcement 57
AB 2085 (Bauer- Kahan) Planning and Zoning: Permitted Use: Community
Clinic 52
AB 2904 (Quirk-Silva) Zoning Ordinances: Notice 55
AB 2243 (Wicks) Housing Development Projects: Objective Standards:
Affordability and Site Criteria. 52
SB 450 (Atkins) Housing Development: Approvals 56
SB 1123 (Caballero) Planning and Zoning: Subdivisions: Ministerial Review 57
SB 1211 (Skinner) Accessory Dwelling Units: Ministerial Approval 59
AB 1820 (Schiavo) Housing Development Projects: Applications Fees
and Exactions 63
SB 937 (Wiener) Development Projects: Fees and Charges 64
AB 3012 (Garyson) Development Fees: Fee Schedule Template: Fee
Estimation Tool 64
Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations
Employee Relations
AB 2561 is a highlighted bill requiring local public agencies to report on the status of job
vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts at least once per fiscal year during a
public hearing. If job vacancies within a single bargaining unit reach or exceed 20% of the
total authorized full-time positions, the public agency must provide additional specified
information during the hearing. The City will comply with this requirement and has
scheduled a public hearing on the Council agenda for March 4, 2025. The current vacancy
rate is less than 20%, so it will not be subject to some of the additional reporting
requirements outlined in the bill.
Government Operations
AB 2631 focuses on enhancing ethics training for local agency officials, something that
the City already requires its local officials to do. While it this bill will not change City
operations, it will formally codify the Fair Political Practices Commission’s ethics training
program in statute, thus making it a permanent program and ensuring local officials
continue to have free and convenient access to this resource.
Political Reform Act
SB 1181 and 1243 both amend the Political Reform Act of 1974, specifically the “Levine
Act” which governs campaign contributions to agency officers involved in proceedings
related to licenses, permits, or other entitlements for use. The most notable change is
that it increases the contribution limit from $250 to $500. It also makes changes to
increase the amount of time allowed to fix contribution mistakes and provides clearer
guidelines on how contributions are counted.
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AB 2041 expands the permitted uses of campaign funds toward personal and family
security expenses, up to $10,000.
Public Meetings and Public Records
Several important bills have been enacted to enhance public meeting practices and public
records laws to address current challenges more effectively. AB 2715 clarifies that local
agencies can hold closed-session meetings to discuss cybersecurity issues. AB 2302
updates the rules for how many meetings a member of a legislative body can attend
remotely during emergencies without having to disclose or publicize their teleconference
location. Instead of a fixed 20% limit for all legislative bodies, the limit is now based on
the typical number of regular meetings the body holds each month. Lastly, SB 1034 grants
local agencies an extended response time of up to 14 days for public records requests
received during governor-declared states of emergency. This extension allows cities to
focus on urgent priorities during periods of limited resources.
AB 2715 amends the Brown Act to permit a legislative body of a local agency to hold
closed sessions with law enforcement and security personnel regarding cybersecurity
matters relating to critical infrastructure controls and information. This includes discussion
of matters posing a threat to the security of public buildings, a threat to the security of
essential public services, including water, drinking water, wastewater treatment, natural
gas service, and electric service, a threat to the public’s right of access to public services
or public facilities, or a threat to critical infrastructure controls or critical infrastructure
information relating to cybersecurity.
Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB 2561 (McKinnor) Local Public Employees: Vacant Positions 41
AB 2041 (Bonta, Mia) Political Reform Act of 1974: Campaign Funds:
Security Expenses 44
SB 1181 (Glazer) Campaign Contributions: Agency Officers 45
SB 1243 (Dodd) Campaign Contributions: Agency Officers 46
AB 2302 (Addis) Open Meetings: Local Agencies: Teleconferences 48
AB 2715 (Boerner) Ralph M. Brown Act: Closed Sessions. 48
AB 2631 (Fong, Mike) Local Agencies: Ethics Training 43
SB 1034 (Seyarto) California Public Records Act: State of Emergency 48
AB 2715 (Boerner) Ralph M. Brown Act: Closed Sessions 48
Public Safety
Cannabis
Several bills were passed as part of California's efforts to support the Cannabis industry's
growth while ensuring public safety and compliance. SB 1064 creates a new license type
allowing cannabis businesses to conduct multiple activities—such as cultivation,
distribution, and retail—under one license at the same location. Although cannabis
businesses would be able to hold a “combined activities” state license authorizing two or
more commercial cannabis activities at the same premises under one combined license,
there is no impact to the City. Cannabis operators are required to obtain both a
Commercial Cannabis Operator Permit with the City, as well as Use Permit as required
by the City’s Zoning Regulations.
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AB 1775 permits local jurisdictions to authorize licensed cannabis retailers or
microbusinesses to prepare or sell non-cannabis food and beverages in areas designated
for cannabis consumption (“consumption lounge”). It also allows these businesses to sell
tickets for live musical performances in such spaces. While the City of San Luis Obispo
currently does not permit consumption lounges, this bill would need to be considered in
any future discussions on the topic.
Civil Rights
AB 3024 was passed to address increasing concerns about harassment and intimidation
of private property occupants, particularly due to a rise in the distribution of hateful flyers,
posters, or symbols targeting protected communities. The bill expands the definition of
“intimidation by threat of violence” under the Ralph Civil Rights Act to include
unauthorized material distribution on private property with the intent to terrorize its owner
or occupant. By incorporating these provisions into the Ralph Civil Rights Act, individuals
affected by hate littering on their property would have the ability to seek damages from
the responsible party; however, it would still not be classified as a criminal offense.
Retail Theft
In 2024, the Legislature and the Governor made addressing retail theft a priority after the
unintended consequences of Prop 47 became clear in 2023 when the Public Policy
Institute of California (PPIC) reported that commercial burglary hit its highest rate since
2008. Attachment A includes an Appendix Section (page 111) dedicated to the retail theft
package, but a high-level summary of the measures that were passed by the Legislator
include:
AB 1779 (Irwin): Theft: Jurisdiction: Allows district attorneys to consolidate theft-
related charges across counties if all jurisdictions agree.
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer): Organized Retail Theft: Permanently removes the
sunset date for the organized retail theft statute and the Regional Property Crimes
Task Force.
AB 1960 (Rivas, Robert): Sentencing Enhancements for Property Loss :
Introduces sentencing enhancements for felonies involving property damage or
loss exceeding specified amounts.
AB 1972 (Alanis): Regional Property Crimes Task Force: Includes cargo theft
as a property crime for consideration by the Regional Property Crimes Task Force.
AB 2943 (Zbur and Rivas): Retail Theft: Creates a new retail theft crime
category, allows arrests without witnessing the crime, prohibits nuisance actions
against retailers for reporting crime, and provides diversion programs and extends
probation periods for offenders.
AB 3209 (Berman): Retail Theft Restraining Orders: Authorizes courts to issue
restraining orders for retail theft and related crimes and permits legal
representatives of retail establishments to petition for such orders.
SB 905 (Wiener): Theft from Vehicles: Makes forcibly entering a vehicle with
intent to steal punishable by up to three years in county jail.
SB 982 (Wahab): Organized Retail Theft: Removes the sunset date for the
organized retail theft statute.
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SB 1144 (Skinner): Online Marketplaces: Expands requirements for online
marketplaces to verify third-party sellers and mandates policies to prevent and
report the sale of stolen goods, effective July 1, 2025.
SB 1242 (Min): Fires in Retail Theft: Adds sentencing aggravation for setting
fires within retail premises during organized theft.
SB 1416 (Newman): Sentencing for Stolen Property Sales: Creates a
sentencing enhancement of 1–4 years for selling or exchanging stolen goods if the
value exceeds certain amounts.
Bill # and Author Title Page #
SB 1064 (Laird) Cannabis: Operator and Separate Premises License
Types: Excessive Concentration of Licenses 75
AB 1775 (Haney) Cannabis: Retail Preparation, Sale, and Consumption
of Noncannabis Food and Beverage Products 74
AB 1779 (Irwin) Theft: Jurisdiction 89,115
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer) Crimes: Organized Theft 89,115
AB 1960 (Rivas, Robert)* Sentencing Enhancements: Property Loss 89,115
AB 1972 (Alanis) Regional Property Crimes Task Force 89,116
AB 2943 (Zbur) Crimes: Shoplifting 89,116
AB 3209 (Berman) Crimes: Theft: Retail Theft Restraining Orders 89,116
SB 905 (Wiener) Crimes: Theft from a Vehicle 89,116
SB 982 (Wahab) Crimes: Organized Theft 90,116
SB 1144 (Skinner) Marketplaces: Online Marketplaces 90,116
SB 1242 (Min) Crimes: Fire 90,116
SB 1416 (Newman) Sentencing Enhancements: Sale, Exchange, or Return
of Stolen Property 90,117
AB 3024 (Ward) Civil rights 91
Revenue and Taxation
Few major revenue and taxation bills were passed in 2024. The most notable
development was the failure of the California Business Roundtable's (CBRT) initiative to
make it to the ballot. Cal Cities worked alongside the Legislature and Governor to
successfully block the Taxpayer Deception Act, a proposed ballot measure that would
have significantly restricted the City's ability to levy taxes, fees, and other charges needed
to fund services. The California Supreme Court ruled that the initiative constituted a
constitutional revision and therefore could not appear on the November ballot.
Several measures were enacted to address property taxation, refunds, and
delinquencies, but their impact on the City is minimal. AB 2854, a Bradley-Burns sales
tax law, requires local jurisdictions to publicly post any agreements they have with private
retailers resulting in the direct or indirect payment, transfer, diversion or rebate of Bradley-
Burns local tax revenues to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration
(CDTFA). While the City currently has no such agreements, it will need to comply with
this requirement if any are established in the future. SB 1059, a cannabis tax measure,
standardizes tax calculations by prohibiting local jurisdictions from including state
cannabis taxes in the definition of “gross receipts” when calculating local cannabis
business taxes or fees. The City’s process for assessing gross receipts already excludes
state taxes, so this bill will have no impact on the City’s procedures or revenue collection.
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Lastly, AB 2257 is a bill that changes the administrative process for objections to property-
related water or sewer fee charges (Prop 218). In summary, it requires individuals or
entities to submit written objections to local agencies before pursuing legal action and the
local agencies must then respond in writing. Court challenges are limited to the
administrative record, promoting dispute resolution at the local level with the goal of
enhancing transparency, and streamlining legal proceedings.
Bill # and Author Title Page #
AB 2854 (Irwin) Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law 95
SB 1059 (Bradford) Cannabis: Local Taxation: Gross Receipts 95
AB 2257 (Wilson) Local Government: Property-related Water and Sewer
Fees and Assessments: Remedies 95
Transportation, Communications, and Public Works
AB 1777 would, commencing July 1, 2026, require manufacturers of autonomous
vehicles that operate without a human operator physically present in the vehicle to comply
with certain requirements, including, among other things, to maintain a dedicated
emergency response telephone line that is available for emergency response officials, as
defined, and to equip each autonomous vehicle with a two -way voice communication
device that enables emergency response officials that are near the vehicle to
communicate effectively with a remote human operator.
To support the state’s efforts to expand EV charging infrastructure and eliminate barriers
to EV adoption, AB 2427 requires the State’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development
Office to create a model permitting checklist, zoning ordinances, and best practices for
local governments to streamline the permitting process for curbside EV charging stations.
Smaller cities, such as San Luis Obispo, must implement these provisions by January
2029.
Another bill supporting the state's zero-emission vehicle adoption goals is SB 1418, which
requires cities to adopt an ordinance establishing an expedited, streamlined permitting
process for hydrogen-fueling stations. While the ordinance must align with the state’s
guidebooks, it can be tailored to San Luis Obispo’s unique climate, geolo gy, and local
conditions in consultation with the City’s fire department. The City of San Luis Obispo
must comply with the provisions of this measure by September 2028.
SB 1216 would prohibit any agencies from installing shared bicycle lane markings
(“sharrows”) on any roadway where bicycle travel is permitted that has a posted speed
limit greater than 30 mph. The City generally does not propose Class III bikeways (shared
auto/bike lanes) or shared lane markings on high -speed roadways. Currently, there are
no known instances of shared lane markings on streets with speed limits exceeding 30
mph, except in cases where they are used to facilitate transitions between a curbside bike
lane and a channelized bike lane positioned to the left of a dedicated right -turn lane, in
accordance with current design standards. If SB 1216 is approved and the California
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices is updated accordingly, the City will
discontinue the use of shared lane markings in these environments as part of fut ure
roadway restriping projects.
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AB 3177 imposes various requirements with respect to imposition of impact fees and land
dedication requirements for housing developments. For example, this bill prohibits local
agencies from requiring land dedications for h ousing developments for the purposes of
roadway widening to mitigate traffic, with exceptions for cases where road widening is
required to address safety impacts, for sidewalk and utility improvements, or where the
development is both (a) located outside of a transit priority area and (b) includes a linear
street frontage of 500 feet or more. No current locations in San Luis Obispo meet the
formal designation of a “transit priority area”, but this could change in the future if bus
transit frequencies are increased significantly. This bill also requires agencies that impose
transportation impact fees to adjust fee rates (or at least the portion of fees directly related
to mitigating vehicle traffic impacts) for housing developments that satisfy all of the
following criteria: (a) located within a transit priority area, (b) located within one-half mile
of convenience retail uses, and (c) provides the minimum number of parking spaces
required by the local ordinance, or no more than one space for 0-2 bedroom units or two
spaces for 3+ bedroom units, whichever is less.
Artificial Intelligence
Although not covered in the Cal Cities Legislative Briefing, five newly passed bills are set
to shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) by promoting transparency, accountability,
and ethical standards in its development and use.
SB 896 enhances public awareness by requiring notifications and human contact
options when generative AI is utilized.
AB 1008 extends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to cover AI-stored
personal and neural data, ensuring privacy protections keep pace with advancing
technology.
SB 942 mandates provenance disclosures and identification tools for AI-generated
content in systems with over 1 million users, addressing concerns about
misinformation and authenticity.
AB 2885 refines legal definitions of AI to mitigate risks associated with digital
content forgery and deepfakes.
AB 2013 strengthens transparency by requiring developers to disclose high-level
summaries of datasets used to train AI models, fostering trust and accountability.
Collectively, these bills play a crucial role in AI governance, balancing innovation with
public interest. As AI evolves, additional legislation is likely to emerge. These laws provide
a framework that City can adopt to develop its own AI policies.
Bill # and Author Title Page #
SB 1418 (Archuletta) Hydrogen-fueling Stations: Administrative Approval 104
AB 2427 (McCarty) Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Permitting: Curbside
Charging 100
AB 1777 (Ting) Autonomous Vehicles 99
SB 1216
(Blakespear) Transportation Projects: Class III Bikeways: Prohibition 103
AB 3177(W. Carrillo) Mitigation Fee Act: Land Dedications: Mitigating
Vehicular Traffic Impacts. 64
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Looking Forward to 2025
Next year will bring a new two-year legislative session, over 30 new lawmakers, and two
special elections. At the federal level, significant policy shifts under the current
administration could lead to major changes in funding structures and potential budget
cuts, which may impact service delivery at the local level.
While it is clear that the Governor and legislative leaders will respond to these changes
in Washington, the impact on state politics remains un certain. Regardless, California will
face numerous challenges in the coming year, including a projected $2 billion budget
shortfall for FY 2025-26, a structural deficit of over $20 billion in the coming years,
insufficient electric vehicle infrastructure, ongoing property insurance issues, and the
persistent challenges of high building costs, climate change, disaster preparedness, and
homelessness.
Cal Cities recently adopted their 2025 Advocacy Priorities (Attachment B) which will help
guide the City’s legislative platform. Unsurprisingly, the four top priorities align well with
the City’s Major City Goals:
1. Protect local revenues and expand economic development tools.
2. Strengthen climate change resilience and disaster preparedness.
3. Strengthen and modernize critical infrastructure.
4. Secure investments to prevent and reduce homelessness and increase the supply
of affordable housing.
Legislative Platform
The City’s Legislative Platform states the City’s position on the issues it faces at the
County, State, and Federal levels. The Legislative Platform conveys to legislators,
policymakers, and the public where the Council stands on important policy positions . A
legislative platform also provides a mechanism for staff and council to “be on the same
page” and better coordinate execution of Council’s policies.
The Legislative Platform allows the City to respond quickly in support of or opposition to
issues included in the platform that could impact the City and to reach out to legislators
or regulators to share the City’s stance on an issue. The City’s Legislative platform is
reviewed and amended every year in conjunction with the opening of a new legislative
year. This enables the platform to evolve and adapt to the changing needs of the City.
Ad -Hoc Committee Process
In recent years, Council has appointed an ad-hoc committee to review and make changes
to the Legislative Platform in addition to recommendations from staff. The Committee is
made up of no more than two Council Members to ensure compliance with the Brown Act.
The Committee addresses a specific issue or task. In this case, the Committee would be
established to review the Legislative Platform and make recommendations to the full
Council. Once the task is completed, the committee disbands. The draft updated 2025-
26 Legislative Platform is scheduled to go to Council on April 1, 2025 for adoption.
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This meeting is the opportunity for Council to appoint the ad -hoc committee. If Council
does not wish to form an ad hoc committee at this time, staff would propose updates and
bring a draft legislative platform back to Council for review and direction.
Previous Council or Advisory Body Action
The last Legislative Briefing before City Council occurred on January 9, 2024. The City
Council annually reviews its Legislative Platform, which was last reviewed and approved
at the April 2, 2024 City Council meeting.
Public Engagement
This is an educational item for the benefit of City Council, so no outside public
engagement was completed. Public comment can be provided to the City Council through
written correspondence prior to the meeting and through public testimony at the meeting.
CONCURRENCE
In preparing the 2024 Legislative Briefing to City Council, input was solicited from all City
Departments. This report includes an overview of critical bills and the impacts they have
on departments and Major City Goal work efforts.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) does not apply to the recommended
action in this report because the action does not constitute a “Project” under CEQA
Guidelines Sec. 15378.
FISCAL IMPACT
Budgeted: N/A Budget Year: 2024-25
Funding Identified: No
Fiscal Analysis:
Funding
Sources
Total Budget
Available
Current
Funding
Request
Remaining
Balance
Annual
Ongoing
Cost
General Fund N/A N/A N/A N/A
State
Federal
Fees
Other:
Total N/A N/A N/A N/A
The action before Council does not have a fiscal impact. As noted in the report, there are
several areas where State legislation may impact City work efforts or service delivery.
These changes could impact the City’s budget and , if so, those impacts will be identified
at the point at which new processes are implemented and incorporated into the
appropriated budget and paid for through the department budget that leads the effort.
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ALTERNATIVES
1. Council could decide not to create an ad-hoc committee and instead direct staff
to make recommended updates. In this alternative, staff would incorporate
recommendations from Cal Cities and other relevant sources to update the legislative
platform. The draft 2025-26 Legislative Platform would then be presented to the
Council for approval in April 2025.
2. Council could decide not to create an ad-hoc committee and continue with the
current legislative platform. This is not recommended as there may be changes in
policy landscape that are not addressed in the current platform.
3. Council could decide not to adopt a legislative platform. This is not recommended
as the legislative platform allows for the City to move quickly to address legislative
issues as they arrive. Without the platform the City would not be able to write letters
or reach out to legislators on key issues without requesting review and approval of the
letters by Council each time. This would limit the impact that the City might have on
pending legislation due to the time constraints on fast-moving bills and issues.
Adopting a legislative platform is considered a best practice.
ATTACHMENTS
A – 2024 Legislative Report Published by The League of California Cities
B – League of California Cities 2025 Advocacy Priorities
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2024 Legislative Report
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Glossary of Terms ........................................................................................................ iii
2024 Legislative Year in Review .................................................................................. 1
I. Budget and Trailer Bills ......................................................................................... 4
A. 2024 Budget Act ................................................................................................... 4
B. Budget Trailer Bills ............................................................................................... 4
II. Community Services .............................................................................................. 9
A. Aging and Seniors ................................................................................................ 9
B. Animal Services .................................................................................................... 9
C. Behavioral Health and Community Wellness ...................................................... 10
D. Children, Childcare, and Youth Programs .......................................................... 12
E. Homelessness .................................................................................................... 15
F. Overdose Prevention .......................................................................................... 17
G. Parks and Recreation ......................................................................................... 18
H. Tobacco .............................................................................................................. 19
III. Environmental Quality .......................................................................................... 20
A. Air Quality ........................................................................................................... 20
B. California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA ...................................................... 21
C. Climate Change .................................................................................................. 23
D. Coastal ............................................................................................................... 24
E. Energy and Utilities ............................................................................................. 25
F. Forestry and Fire ................................................................................................ 27
G. Hazardous Materials ........................................................................................... 28
H. Oil and Gas......................................................................................................... 30
I. Solid Waste and Recycling ................................................................................. 30
J. Water .................................................................................................................. 33
IV. Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations ............................................. 37
A. Elections and Redistricting ................................................................................. 37
B. Employee Relations ............................................................................................ 40
C. Government Operations ..................................................................................... 42
D. Political Reform Act of 1974 ............................................................................... 44
E. Public Employee Retirement System ................................................................. 47
F. Public Meetings and Public Records .................................................................. 47
V. Housing, Community, and Economic Development .......................................... 50
A. Land Use/Planning ............................................................................................. 50
B. Accessory Dwelling Units ................................................................................... 58
C. Mobile Homes ..................................................................................................... 59
D. Housing and Housing Finance............................................................................ 60
E. Development Fees ............................................................................................. 63
F. Housing Regulations .......................................................................................... 65
G. Common Interest Developments ........................................................................ 66
H. Landlord-Tenant ................................................................................................. 67
I. Community and Economic Development ............................................................ 68
J. Regional ............................................................................................................. 69
K. Miscellaneous ..................................................................................................... 71
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VI. Public Safety ......................................................................................................... 72
A. Alcoholic Beverages ........................................................................................... 72
B. Cannabis ............................................................................................................ 74
C. Crime and Sentencing ........................................................................................ 75
D. Emergency Services and Preparedness ............................................................ 82
E. Firearms ............................................................................................................. 84
F. Fire Services ....................................................................................................... 87
G. Law Enforcement ................................................................................................ 88
H. Retail Theft ......................................................................................................... 89
I. Victim’s Rights .................................................................................................... 90
J. Miscellaneous ..................................................................................................... 91
VII. Revenue and Taxation .......................................................................................... 93
A. Property Tax ....................................................................................................... 93
B. Sales and Use Tax ............................................................................................. 94
C. Miscellaneous ..................................................................................................... 95
VIII. Transportation, Communications, and Public Works ....................................... 97
A. Contracting and Public Works ............................................................................ 97
B. Infrastructure ...................................................................................................... 97
C. Telecommunication and Broadband ................................................................... 98
D. Transportation .................................................................................................... 99
Appendix A - Additional Resources
The Budget Act of 2024 ........................................................................................ 107
Homelessness Budget Advocacy ......................................................................... 110
Retail Theft Legislative Package........................................................................... 112
Recovery Housing Legislative Advocacy .............................................................. 118
The Warehouse Bill – AB 98 (J. Carrillo and Reyes) ............................................ 120
Appendix B - Additional Resources
Legislative Staff .................................................................................................... 128
Regional Public Affairs Managers ......................................................................... 129
10 Tips for Cities Lobbying the California Legislature ........................................... 130
Effective Letter-Writing Techniques ...................................................................... 131
Index of Chaptered Bills ....................................................................................... 133
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Glossary of Terms
ABC Alcoholic Beverage Control
ADU Accessory Dwelling Units
AED Automated External Defibrillator
BCDC San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
CAL FIRE California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
CalHFA California Housing Finance Agency
CalPERS California Public Employees Retirements System
CalRecycle California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
CalSTRS California State Teachers Retirement System
CARB California Air Resources Board
CARE Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment
CCAP College and Career Access Pathways
CCC California Coastal Commission
CDCR California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
CDE California Department of Education
CDFW California Department of Fish and Wildlife
CDSS California Department of Social Services
CEC California Energy Commission
CEQA California Environmental Quality Act
CESA California Endangered Species Act
CHP California Highway Patrol
CNC Computer Numerical Control
CSM Commission on State Mandates
DCC Department of Cannabis Control
DHCS Department of Health Care Services
DMV Department of Motor Vehicles
DOJ Department of Justice
DOT Department of Transportation
DPH Department of Public Health
DPR Department of Pesticide Regulation
DTSC California Department of Toxic Substances Control
DWR California Department of Water Resources
EMS Emergency Medical Services
EMSA Emergency Medical Services Authority
FAIR Fair Access to Insurance Requirements
GO-Biz Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
GSA Groundwater Sustainability Agency
HCD Department of Housing and Community Development
HHAP Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention
MAUCRSA Medicinal and Adult Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act
MCO Managed Care Organization
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
OPR Office of Planning and Research
PERB Public Employment Relations Board
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POST Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
PRA Political Reform Act
PREP Political Reform Education Program
Privacy Agency California Privacy Protection Agency
PTSI Post-Traumatic Stress Injury
PUC Public Utilities Commission
SDWA California Safe Drinking Water Act
SOS Secretary of State
SUD Substance Use Disorder
SWRCB State Water Resources Control Board
VBM Voice by Mail
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LEGISLATIVE YEAR IN REVIEW
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Lawmakers kicked off the second half of a two-year session in January just like they
have done in prior years by trying to push through hundreds of stalled bills. But with just
28 days to complete the job, most bills never received a committee hearing and failed to
advance. Undeterred by the demise of so many measures, lawmakers introduced nearly
2,200 new bills by the end of February.
Cal Cities pursued a proactive legislative agenda, teaming up with legislators to
introduce 13 bills focused on wildfire mitigation, sober living facilities, the Brown Act,
public safety, and Advanced Clean Fleets. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed four of those
sponsored measures, along with many other bills supported by Cal Cities. Of the
roughly 1,200 bills that landed on his desk, he vetoed 189 — a slightly higher veto rate
than last year.
What made the 2024 legislative session stand out more than most is that many
lawmakers and the Governor drastically miscalculated voter sentiment on the need to
crack down on retail theft, move individuals out of illegal encampments, and the
sluggish economy highlighted by continued inflation, high gas and home prices, and a
persistent state budget deficit. Simply put, voters were fed up and demanded action.
Big budget wins amid a state budget deficit
Crafting a balanced budget was especially difficult in 2024, given the $38 billion shortfall
and resistance to cutting core programs. Lawmakers and the Governor relied on
borrowing, delays, deferrals, shifts, reserve spending, and reductions to close the gap.
Thanks to the strong advocacy of Cal Cities and local leaders, the final budget restored
hundreds of millions of dollars for essential housing programs, including the Multifamily
Housing Program, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, and the Regional Early Action
Program.
Additionally, Cal Cities helped secure $1 billion for the Homeless Housing, Assistance,
and Prevention program, marking the sixth consecutive year of funding for this critical
program. The budget also included $250 million for the Encampment Resolution Grant
Program.
Three-pronged advocacy efforts protect local revenues
Cal Cities is the only local government organization in California that advocates in the
courts, at the ballot box, and in the Legislature. Protecting local revenues is an essential
part of this three-pronged approach.
Cal Cities joined forces with the Legislature and the Governor to block the Taxpayer
Deception Act, a ballot measure backed by the state’s wealthiest corporations. The
California Supreme Court ruled that the initiative amounted to a revision of the state
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constitution and should not appear on the November ballot. This was a significant win
for cities, as it could have decimated essential services and created expensive, frivolous
litigation at the expense of Californians.
In the Legislature, Cal Cities defeated several bills that would have harmed local
revenues, such as measure that would have prohibited cities from entering into sales
tax rebate agreements with retailers and eventually voided all existing agreements. Cal
Cities also stopped a bill that would have exempted new accessory dwelling units from
property tax assessments for up to two years, resulting in a significant loss of property
tax.
In another major victory, Cal Cities defeated AB 2489 (Ward) and AB 2557 (Ortega).
Both measures would have slowed down local governments' core functions by limiting
how they contract out services and adding new onerous reporting requirements.
Moving the needle on public safety
With an uptick in retail theft, smash-and-grab robberies, and continued fentanyl use,
lawmakers were forced to put aside their ideological beliefs and address widespread
concerns. Legislative leaders reluctantly pushed a 10-bill package supported by Cal
Cities that will crack down on retail theft, fencing operations, cargo theft, and related
tactics, such as breaking into a vehicle to commit theft.
Some stakeholders, including retailers and district attorneys, felt the package didn’t go
far enough. They put forth Proposition 36 to further deter repeat retail theft and redirect
some offenders towards drug treatment rather than incarceration. Cal Cities supported
the ballot measure, which voters approved overwhelmingly in November.
An unabated onslaught of new housing bills
No year is complete without dozens of bills seeking to limit local land use authority out
of the mistaken belief and facts to the contrary that sticks alone rather than proven
incentives can spur housing construction. This year, there was a greater focus on cities'
housing plans and the so-called "builder's remedy."
The Governor signed three significant bills: AB 1886 (Alvarez) allows the California
Department of Housing and Community Development to determine housing element
compliance unless a court says otherwise. AB 1893 (Wicks) attempts to place
guardrails on builder's remedy projects but prohibits objective standards in some cases.
The draconian SB 1037 (Wiener) subjects cities that do not have a certified housing
element or do not ministerially approve affordable housing to $50,000 monthly fines.
Cal Cities did defeat several misguided bills, including one that would have forced cities
to approve all office-to-residential conversions and exempted them from specific fees.
This could have led to a proliferation of housing in areas never planned for residential
development.
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A jam job for the ages
After months of closed-door negotiations, Asm. Juan Carrillo and Asm. Eloise Reyes
introduced AB 98 in the final days of the legislative session. The Governor signed the
measure, despite receiving nearly 700 opposition letters from local leaders, business
groups, and environmental organizations.
AB 98 will place stringent requirements on warehouses and logistic use centers and
force cities to update their circulation elements. The Attorney General can fine cities
$50,000 every six months if their circulation elements are not updated to address these
new requirements.
Looking ahead
While cities did not get everything we wanted this session, 2024 was still a strong year
of advocacy filled with major legal and legislative victories. Through strong participation
and engagement from local officials, Cal Cities will be equally prepared to tackle the
many challenges ahead.
Next year will usher in a new two-year session, over 30 new lawmakers, and two
legislative special elections. Cal Cities has developed a game plan to engage new
legislators and their staff. But next year also marks big changes at the federal level as
well.
It’s clear that the Governor and legislative leaders will react to the seismic changes
coming to D.C., but how that will impact state politics is less clear. Regardless,
California faces numerous challenges in the new year, including a projected $2 billion
budget shortfall in FY 2025-26, with an operating structural deficit of over $20 billion
over the next few years, insufficient electric vehicle infrastructure, and continued
property insurance woes, along with the now sadly typical challenge of high building
costs, climate change, disaster preparedness, and homelessness.
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BUDGET AND TRAILER BILLS
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I. Budget and Trailer Bills
A. 2024 Budget Act
AB 106 (Gabriel) Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.
Chapter 9, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
AB 107 (Gabriel) Budget Act of 2024.
Chapter 22, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
AB 157 (Gabriel) Budget Act of 2024.
Chapter 994, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
AB 158 (Gabriel) Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.
Chapter 996, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
AB 180 (Gabriel) Budget Act of 2024.
Chapter 995, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
SB 108 (Wiener) Budget Act of 2024.
Chapter 35, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
SB 109 (Wiener) Budget Act of 2023.
Chapter 36, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
B. Budget Trailer Bills
AB 160 (Cmte. on Budget) Medi-Cal Managed Care Organization Provider Tax.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure expands the Managed Care Organization tax per Medi-Cal enrollees in
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health plans that have between 1.25 million and 4 million total enrollees, effective 2024-
2026.
AB 161 (Cmte. on Budget) Human Services.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Human Services trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory
changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
AB 162 (Cmte. on Budget) Developmental Services.
Chapter 47, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Developmental Services trailer bill, which makes numerous
statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
AB 166 (Cmte. on Budget) Housing.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
AB 168 (Cmte. on Budget) Public Safety.
Chapter 49, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Public Safety trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory
changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
AB 169 (Cmte. on Budget) Public Safety Juvenile Justice Trailer Bill.
Chapter 50, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Public Safety Juvenile Justice trailer bill, which makes
numerous statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
AB 170 (Cmte. on Budget) Courts.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Courts trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory changes
related to the Budget Act of 2024.
AB 171 (Cmte. on Budget) Employment.
Chapter 52, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Employment trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory
changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
AB 173 (Cmte. on Budget) Transportation Budget Trailer Bill.
Chapter 53, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure requires the Department of Transportation to report to the Legislature
annually on or before Oct. 1, beginning in 2025 and ceasing in 2036, regarding the
zero-emission vehicles that the department purchases, owns, or leases. The Governor’s
budget includes $279,050,000 from the State Highway Account for two years to
continue replacing its aging fleet and installing zero-emission vehicle (ZEV)
infrastructure. Of this amount, $250,000,000 is to replace the equipment, $22,500,000 is
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for contractors to install ZEV infrastructure, and $6,550,000 is for 50 positions to support
these efforts.
AB 176 (Cmte. on Budget) Education Finance: Education Omnibus Trailer Bill.
Chapter 998, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Education omnibus trailer bill, which makes numerous
statutory changes related to preschool, TK-12, and higher education related to the
Budget Act of 2024.
AB 177 (Cmte. on Budget) Health.
Chapter 999, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure, among other things, authorizes the Department of Public Health and the
Department of Health Care Services to create a bed data reporting system and
mandate certain providers to report their bed capacity and utilization to the system.
AB 178 (Cmte. on Budget) Public Resources Trailer Bill.
Chapter 1000, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Public Resources trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory
changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
AB 179 (Cmte. on Budget) State Government.
Chapter 997, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 State Government trailer bill, which makes numerous
statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
AB 181 (Cmte. on Budget) State Employment: State Bargaining Units:
Agreements: Compensation and Benefits.
Chapter 1001, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes statutory changes to ratify and implement memoranda of
understanding between Bargaining Units 5, 8, and 10 and the state, as well as General
Salary Increase adjustments for judges and the California Association of Highway
Patrolmen.
AB 218 (Cmte. on Budget) Oil And Gas: Trailer Bill.
Chapter 1002, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure provides funding to implement SB 1137 (Gonzalez) Chapter 365, Statutes
of 2022 and delays various implementation deadlines.
SB 136 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Medi-Cal: Managed Care
Organization Provider Tax. (Urgency)
Chapter 6, Statutes of 2024
This measure modifies the tiered tax amounts for the Managed Care Organization
Provider Tax.
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SB 153 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Education Finance: Education
Omnibus Budget Trailer Bill. (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Education omnibus trailer bill, which makes necessary
changes to enact the TK-12 related statutory provisions of the Budget Act of 2024.
SB 154 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Education Finance: Proposition 98:
Suspension.
Chapter 27, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure suspends the Proposition 98 minimum funding guarantee for school
districts and community colleges in 2023-2024 fiscal year. The minimum funding
guarantee would have equaled $98,484,249,000.
SB 155 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Higher Education Budget Trailer Bill.
Chapter 71, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Higher Education trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory
changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
SB 156 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Public Resources: Omnibus Budget
Trailer Bill.
Chapter 72, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Public Resources omnibus trailer bill, which makes numerous
statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
SB 159 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Health.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is the 2024 Health omnibus trailer bill, which makes numerous statutory
changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
SB 163 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Early Learning and Childcare.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is a trailer bill that makes numerous statutory changes to early care and
education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2024.
SB 164 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) State Government.
Chapter 41, Statute of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure is a general government trailer bill that makes numerous statutory
changes related to the Budget Act of 2024.
SB 167 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Taxation.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure, the Taxation trailer bill, makes numerous statutory changes related to the
Budget Act of 2024, including capping the business tax credit, suspending and
eliminating various tax exemptions and deductions, and making the Administrative
Procedure Act inapplicable pursuant to a legal ruling of counsel issued by the California
Department of Tax and Fee Administration.
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SB 174 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Public Resources: California
Environmental Quality Act: Exemptions: Native Fish And Wildlife: Capitol Annex.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure exempts the work performed under the State Capitol Building Annex Act
(Act) from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), appropriates $700 million to
fund projects under the Act, and extends the sunset for the CEQA exemption for climate
and biodiversity projects to 2030.
SB 175 (Cmte. on Budget and Fiscal Review) Taxation.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes changes to when the Net Operating Loss deduction can be
claimed, as well as technical changes to the fee program of the California Tire
Recycling Act.
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II. Community Services
A. Aging and Seniors
*AB 2207 (Reyes) State Boards and Commissions: Representatives of Older
Adults.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires older adults to be represented on different California state
councils, boards, and advisory committees. This includes the Alzheimer’s Disease and
Related Disorders Advisory Committee, the California Workforce Development Board,
and the California Behavioral Health Planning Council.
AB 2620 (Bains) California Commission on Aging.
Chapter 334, Statutes of 2024
This measure reduces the number of members on the California Commission on Aging
from 25 to 18, clarifies the commission is an advisory commission, and reduces the
annual meetings from six to four.
SB 1249 (Roth) Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act.
Chapter 337, Statutes of 2024
This measure updates the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act to reform functions
relating to area agencies on aging (AAA). This includes requiring the California
Department of Aging (CDA) to work with all AAAs to develop objectives, key results,
and performance measurement methodology for core programs and services. This
measure also requires the CDA to submit a plan to the Legislature that includes updates
to AAA designations and corresponding changes to the statewide planning and
service maps.
SB 1406 (Allen) Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly: Resident Services.
Chapter 340, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds to the list of rights for residents of a residential care facility for the
elderly the right to request, refuse, or discontinue a service. This measure also requires
a facility to provide written notice to residents regarding an increase in the rate of fees
90 days in advance and requires the notice to include the reasons for the rate increase.
B. Animal Services
AB 1988 (Muratsuchi) Stray Animals: Availability for Adoption or Release.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes puppies or kittens relinquished by their owners to a public or
private animal shelter to be immediately available to a nonprofit, animal rescue, or
animal adoption organization.
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AB 2232 (Maienschein) Accessibility to Emergency Information and Services:
Emergency Shelters: Persons with Pets.
Chapter 14, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires that whenever a city or county designates any number of
emergency warming centers during the next update to its emergency plan, it must also,
to the extent practicable, designate at least one warming center that can accommodate
people with pets.
ACR 86 (Kalra) Animals: Overpopulation: Spay and Neutering Services.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2024
This measure encourages state and local municipalities to develop and fund high-
volume spay and neuter clinics across the state to provide sterilization services. This
measure also encourages other actions relating to pets, including actions to control
animal breeding and encourage spaying and neutering.
C. Behavioral Health and Community Wellness
AB 1147 (Addis) Disability Equity, Transparency, and Accountability Act of 2024.
Chapter 902, Statutes of 2024
This measure enacts the Disability Equity, Transparency, and Accountability Act of 2024
to provide increased oversight of the regional centers the State Department of
Developmental Services contracts with to deliver services and care to individuals with
intellectual and developmental disabilities. Specifically, this measure prohibits regional
center employees from accepting gifts over $15 per year from certain entities, prohibits
regional center senior staff from hiring relatives, and makes regional centers subject to
the California Public Records Act.
AB 1282 (Lowenthal) Mental Health: Impacts of Social Media.
Chapter 807, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Department of Public Health, in consultation with
the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, to report to
relevant policy committees of the Legislature by Dec. 31, 2026, on a statewide strategy
to understand, communicate, and mitigate mental health risks associated with the use
of social media by children and youth.
*AB 2081 (Davies) Substance Abuse: Recovery and Treatment Programs.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the operator of a licensed recovery home to disclose to those
seeking care that they can check the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)
website to confirm a facility’s compliance with state licensing laws. (Cal Cities has
prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.)
AB 2154 (Berman) Mental Health: Involuntary Treatment.
Chapter 635, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires health facilities to provide a family member of any person
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involuntarily detained for assessment, evaluation, or treatment under the Lanterman-
Petris-Short Act with a copy of the DHCS’s patients' rights handbook. If the handbook
has been provided to a family member, the facility must also offer the patient a copy.
AB 2556 (Jackson) Behavioral Health and Wellness Screenings: Notice.
Chapter 200, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a health plan or insurer, except as specified, to provide annual
notices to enrollees or insureds regarding the benefits of behavioral health and wellness
screenings for children and adolescents 8 to 18 years of age.
*AB 2574 (Valencia) Alcoholism or Drug Abuse Recovery or Treatment Programs
and Facilities: Disclosures.
Chapter 410, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands reporting requirements for licensed recovery home operators to
enhance the DHCS’s oversight of sober living homes that are operating as an integral
part of a licensed drug treatment facility located elsewhere in the community. (Cal Cities
has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this
document.)
AB 3229 (Lee) California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project: Report.
Chapter 916, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to submit a report to the
Legislature by July 1, 2025, regarding the transition of the California Fruit and Vegetable
Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Pilot Project to a supplemental benefits program that
is fully state managed, without grantee intermediaries, and including the results of an
evaluation of the pilot projects.
SB 1184 (Eggman) Mental Health: Involuntary Treatment: Antipsychotic
Medication.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the administration of antipsychotic medication to a person who
is involuntarily detained for evaluation and treatment for the total duration of their
treatment.
SB 1238 (Eggman) Health Facilities.
Chapter 644, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the types of facilities counties can designate to perform
evaluations and treat individuals on involuntary holds. This includes authorizing
psychiatric health facilities and mental health rehabilitation centers to admit people
diagnosed only with severe substance use disorders upon approval by DHCS.
SB 1320 (Wahab) Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a health plan or insurer to establish a process to reimburse
providers for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services that are
integrated with primary care services and provided under a contract or policy issued,
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amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2025. This measure allows the reimbursement
process to be based on federal rules or guidance issued for the Medicare program.
D. Children, Childcare, and Youth Programs
AB 51 (Bonta) Early Childcare and Education: California State Preschool
Program.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to provide
prospective state preschool program contractors an opportunity to establish a trained
workforce and administrative systems, assemble early learning resources, develop
guidance related to serving both private pay and subsidized students, and advance a
plan for outreach, capacity building, training, and technical assistance.
*AB 262 (Holden) Children’s Camps: Safety and Regulation.
Chapter 341, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Department of Social Services (DSS) to establish
and lead a stakeholder workgroup to gather information and provide recommendations
to the Legislature regarding the development of subsequent legislation for children’s
camps. The workgroup must include representatives from local city, county, and special
district parks departments.
AB 1113 (McCarty) California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System:
Expanded Learning Opportunity Programs.
Chapter 1003, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the CDE, beginning in the 2025-26 school year, to collect data
on students enrolled in expanded learning programs and ensure the collection of this
data is integrated with existing local educational agency (LEA) reporting requirements
for the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. This measure also
requires the CDE to identify and reduce data reporting redundancies and provide
guidance and recommendations to LEAs in collecting student data, including student
participation in expanded learning programs.
AB 1808 (S. Nguyen) Childcare and Development Services: Eligibility.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes a 24-month eligibility period for all income-eligible families
within the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program,
aligning it with other subsidized childcare programs.
AB 1907 (Pellerin) California Child and Family Service Review System: Child and
Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment.
Chapter 944, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Child and Family Services Review System to
include data from the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessment tool and
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authorizes it to include other behavioral health data that is readily available to the DSS
and determined by the department to be relevant.
AB 1939 (Maienschein) Pupil Attendance: County and Local School Attendance
Review Boards: Pupil Consultation.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires each county and local school attendance review board to consult
with a diverse group of students from the schools they serve at least once a year to help
the board better understand and propose interventions for any attendance or behavioral
issues that students may be facing.
AB 2317 (Nguyen, Stephanie) Child Day Care Facilities: Anaphylactic Policy.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the DSS, in consultation with the CDE and the Emergency
Medical Services Authority, to establish an anaphylactic policy that sets forth guidelines
and procedures recommended for child day care personnel on or before July 1, 2027.
This measure also authorizes a child day care facility to implement the anaphylactic
policy on and after Jan. 1, 2028, and would require a child day care facility that adopts
the anaphylactic policy to notify parents and guardians of the policy upon their child’s
enrollment.
AB 2343 (Schiavo) CalWORKs: Childcare Programs.
Chapter 958, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that nothing prohibits an administrator of an alternative payment
program or agency administering CalWORKs Stage One or Stage Two programs from
utilizing funds for administrative and support services to provide families at risk of
homelessness or escaping domestic abuse a referral pathway to secure stable
childcare placement.
AB 2423 (Mathis) Developmental Services: Rates.
Chapter 904, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires State Department of Developmental Services (DDS) to review
and update the rate models included in the rate study for developmental services
providers annually starting in July 2025. This measure also requires DDS to post the
updated rate models on its website by Jan. 1 of the following year.
AB 2477 (Zbur) Foster Care: Independent Living.
Chapter 237, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies current laws that cap savings while a youth is in extended foster
care. Specifically, this measure allows a nonminor dependent who re-enters foster care
and is ineligible for federal financial participation to receive aid in the form of state Aid to
Families with Dependent Children — Foster Care.
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AB 2664 (Bryan) Foster Youth.
Chapter 412, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies the dates a child will be deemed to have entered foster care to
establish timelines for reunification services.
AB 2723 (Irwin) The California Cradle-to-Career Data System Act.
Chapter 736, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes various technical and clarifying changes to the statutes pertaining
to the Cradle-to-Career Data System. It includes, among other changes, dissolving the
California Cradle-to-Career Data System Workgroup, which is responsible for assessing
and recommending system improvements.
AB 2830 (Rivas, Robert) Foster Care: Relative Placement: Approval Process.
Chapter 417, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires DSS to adopt a simplified approval process for relatives to
become foster care providers in alignment with federal regulations by Jan. 1, 2027. It
also requires DSS to track and report data on the implementation of the new process no
later than 18 months after implementation. This measure sunsets these reporting and
tracking provisions on June 30, 2030, and would repeal them as of Jan. 1, 2031.
AB 2866 (Pellerin) Pool Safety: State Department of Social Services Regulated
Facilities.
Chapter 745, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a licensed childcare facility with a swimming pool on the
premises to have at least two safety features as identified in the Swimming Pool Safety
Act. This measure also requires DSS to adopt regulations to implement drowning
prevention safety standards for other bodies of water located at day care facilities
regulated by the department by Jan. 1, 2027.
AB 3223 (Wilson) Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program.
Chapter 850, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds to the definition of “pupil in foster care,” used in determining
eligibility for the Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program, a child who is the subject
of a juvenile court petition and has been identified by a county child welfare agency, a
probation department, or an Indian tribe as being at imminent risk of removal and
placement into foster care.
SB 242 (Skinner) California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment
(HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program.
Chapter 1010, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits funds deposited and accrued in a California Hope, Opportunity,
Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children trust fund account from being
considered as income or assets when determining eligibility and benefit amount for any
means-tested program until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers the funds from the
HOPE trust fund account.
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SB 691 (Portantino) Pupil Attendance: Truancy Notifications.
Chapter 863, Statutes of 2024
This measure, starting July 1, 2025, would require an LEA to notify a pupil’s parent or
guardian if that pupil is classified as truant. The notification also needs to include
additional information, such as mental health and supportive services, available to the
pupil and the family and the fact that school personnel are available to meet with the
pupil and family to develop strategies to support the pupil’s attendance at school.
SB 1112 (Menjivar) Childcare: Alternative Payment Programs.
Chapter 1016, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the administrative costs reimbursement rate for alternative
payment programs include costs associated with disseminating information on
developmental screenings.
E. Homelessness
AB 535 (Schiavo) Veterans’ Aid and Welfare: Housing.
Chapter 918, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure ensures that veterans’ disability benefits are not counted as income when
determining eligibility for supportive, affordable, and transitional housing under the
Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act (Proposition 41, 2014). This measure
also modifies the definition of “secondary tenant” to conform to this change.
AB 653 (Reyes) Public Housing Authorities: Reports.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires public housing authorities to report their monthly housing
voucher leasing success rates, current payment standards, average inspection wait
times for initial lease-up, and voucher search times to the Department of Housing and
Community Development (HCD) starting on July 1, 2025. This measure also requires
the HCD to convene a group to discuss the factors that impact success rates and
recommendations for state and local intervention, with a report to be published by July
1, 2026.
AB 799 (Rivas, Luz) Interagency Council on Homelessness: Funding: State
Programs.
Chapter 263, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH)
to develop a strategic funding guide and a calendar of new or existing funding
opportunities. This measure also requires Cal ICH to collect fiscal and outcome data
from grantees or entities operating state programs that are required to enter data
elements on individuals and families it serves for state homelessness programs by Feb.
1, 2027, and annually thereafter. This data must be aggregated and made publicly
available on or before June 1, 2027, and annually thereafter.
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AB 2137 (Quirk-Silva) Homeless and Foster Youth.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a foster youth services coordinating program to provide
tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services if the foster youth services coordinator
cannot secure those services through the school district and if those services are
established as needed by the foster youth educational services coordinator.
AB 2802 (Maienschein) Transitional Housing Placement Providers.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires counties, when operating the Transitional Housing Placement
program, to allow providers and participants to make matches to allow for gender
flexibility. This measure also updates the minimum requirements for regulations
governing transitional housing placement providers to allow participants to share units
and bedrooms with siblings and co-parents regardless of gender identity.
*AB 3093 (Ward) Land Use: Housing Element.
Chapter 282, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to account for the housing needs of people
experiencing homelessness in their housing elements by adding two new income
categories to the Regional Housing Needs Assessment framework for the seventh
cycle: acutely low income and extremely low income. This measure also requires HCD
to prepare guidance by Dec. 31, 2026, that provides sample analyses and programs for
local governments to use in meeting the obligations of this measure.
This measure also requires when HCD reviews housing elements for compliance and
requires a rezoning of the inventory of sites, the local jurisdiction should complete any
necessary local coastal program amendments during the housing element planning
period if the rezone sites are located within the coastal zone. The amendment could
include an updated zoning ordinance or zoning district map with the California Coastal
Commission’s de minimis review process.
AJR 9 (McKinnor) Housing and Homelessness.
Chapter 178, Statutes of 2024
This measure requests that Congress pass, and the president sign, the Housing Crisis
Response Act of 2023 (H.R. 4233), the Ending Homelessness Act of 2023 (H.R. 4232),
and the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023 (H.R. 4231).
*SB 1361 (Blakespear) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Local
Agencies: Contract for Providing Services for People Experiencing
Homelessness.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that local agencies’ actions to provide services for people
experiencing homelessness are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.
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F. Overdose Prevention
AB 1841 (Weber) Student Safety: Opioid Overdose Reversal Medication: Student
Housing Facilities.
Chapter 942, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires health centers on the campuses of the California Community
Colleges and California State Universities to provide two doses of opioid overdose
reversal medication to each housing facility and sorority and fraternity housing on
campus and establishes opioid overdose reversal medication training and notification
requirements for students, residential advisors, and house managers on these
campuses.
*AB 1976 (Haney) Occupational Safety and Health Standards: First Aid Materials:
Opioid Antagonists.
Chapter 689, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, within the
Department of Industrial Relations, to submit a draft rulemaking proposal to require first
aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid
antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration by Dec. 1,
2027. This measure also requires the division, in drafting the rulemaking proposal, to
consider and provide guidance to employers on proper storage of the opioid antagonist
in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. The Occupational Safety and Health
Standards Board must consider adopting these regulations by Dec. 1, 2028.
AB 1996 (Alanis) Opioid Antagonists: Stadiums, Concert Venues, and
Amusement Parks: Overdose Training.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires every stadium, concert venue, and amusement park to ensure
that naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonists on-site are easily accessible
and that emergency responders on the premises know its location.
AB 2136 (Jones-Sawyer) Controlled Substances: Analyzing and Testing.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2024
This measure excludes from the definition of drug paraphernalia equipment any
equipment used for testing a substance for the presence of contaminants, toxic
substances, hazardous compounds, or other adulterants. This measure allows specified
entities to provide controlled substance checking services and prohibits arrest and
criminal prosecution of person providing those services.
AB 2871 (Maienschein) Overdose Fatality Review Teams.
Chapter 639, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes counties to establish overdose fatality review teams to assist
local agencies in identifying and reviewing overdose fatalities, facilitate communication
among the people and agencies involved in overdose fatalities, and integrate local
overdose prevention efforts through strategic planning, data dissemination, and
community collaboration. This measure also requires information gathered by an
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overdose fatality review team to be used by the county to develop education,
prevention, and intervention strategies to improve coordination of treatment services
and prevent future overdose deaths.
AB 2995 (Jackson) Public Health: Alcohol and Drug Programs.
Chapter 847, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises various terms, including alcohol and other drug abuse programs,
alcohol abusers, drug abusers, and inebriates, in existing law to instead use person-first
terminology to remove stigmatization.
AB 2998 (McKinnor) Opioid Overdose Reversal Medications: Pupil
Administration.
Chapter 974, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local educational agency (LEA) from barring a pupil 12 years
of age or older, while on a school site or participating in school activities, from carrying
or administering a naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray or any other opioid overdose
reversal medication. This measure also exempts students, LEAs, or employees who
administer opioid overdose reversal medication from liability in a civil action or criminal
prosecution for their acts or omissions, unless the acts or omissions constitute gross
negligence or willful misconduct.
SB 1385 (Roth) Medi-Cal: Community Health Workers: Supervising Providers.
Chapter 164, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires Medi-Cal managed care plans, by July 1, 2025, to adopt policies
and procedures to effectuate a billing pathway for supervising providers to claim for the
provision of community health worker services to enrollees during emergency
department visits. This creates a sustainable source of funding to support navigator
positions in California’s emergency rooms, pairing patients suffering from substance use
issues with a navigator who guides them to recourses and care, even after their hospital
stay.
G. Parks and Recreation
*AB 1825 (Muratsuchi) California Freedom to Read Act.
Chapter 941, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires public library jurisdictions that receive state funding to adopt a
written and publicly available collection development policy by Jan. 1, 2026. The policy
must be sent to the State Librarian, who can also provide technical assistance in its
development. This measure also prohibits the governing board or body of a public
library from proscribing or prohibiting the circulation of any materials because of the
topic addressed by the materials or because of the views, ideas, or opinions contained
in those materials.
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AB 2440 (Reyes) 30x30 Goal: Partnering State Agencies: Department of Parks and
Recreation.
Chapter 716, Statutes of 2024
This measure incorporates the Department of Parks and Recreation, among other state
agencies managing state-owned lands, into the state’s goal to conserve 30% of lands
and coastal waters by 2030 and requires an update on progress toward expanding
access to nature for all Californians.
AB 2939 (Rendon) Parks: Counties and Cities: Interpretive Services.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the use of local parks by a nonprofit or Native American tribe to
provide interpretative services to 30 or fewer park visitors at a time to be considered an
allowable public use of the local park. This measure requires cities and counties to treat
this use of the local park in the same manner as the general public’s use of the local
park.
H. Tobacco
AB 3218 (Wood) Unflavored Tobacco List.
Chapter 849, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires every manufacturer or importer of tobacco products to submit to
the Attorney General a list of all brand styles of tobacco products they manufacture or
import for sale or distribution in California. This measure also requires the Attorney
General to establish and maintain on the Attorney General’s website a list of tobacco
product brand styles that lack a characterizing flavor, called the Unflavored Tobacco
List, by no later than Dec. 31, 2025. Retail sale of any tobacco product not on the
Unflavored Tobacco List is prohibited. The Attorney General can seek injunctive relief
and a civil penalty of up to $50,000 against any manufacturer or importer who falsely
certifies that a brand style determined to have a characteristic flavor lacks a
characteristic flavor.
SB 1230 (Rubio) Strengthen Tobacco Oversight Programs (STOP) and Seize
Illegal Tobacco Products Act.
Chapter 462, Statutes of 2024
This measure enacts the Strengthen Tobacco Oversight Programs and Seize Illegal
Tobacco Products Act, authorizing employees of the California Department of Tax and
Fee Administration to seize and destroy flavored tobacco products discovered during
inspections of locations where tobacco products are sold or stored. This measure also
increases the civil penalties for retailers who sell illegal tobacco products and tobacco
products to people under 21 years old.
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III. Environmental Quality
A. Air Quality
*AB 98 (J. Carrillo and Reyes) Planning and Zoning: Logistics Use: Truck Routes.
Chapter 931, Statutes of 2024
This measure, beginning Jan. 1, 2026, prescribes statewide 21st-century warehouse
design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use
developments within 900 feet of a sensitive receptor, including standards for building
design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and
signage. It also requires any new logistics use development shall be sited on roadways
that meet specific conditions. This measure exempts from those design and build
standards certain existing logistics use developments, proposed expansions of a
logistics use development, and property currently in a local entitlement process to
become a logistics use. It requires a facility operator, prior to the issuance of a
certificate of occupancy, to establish and submit for approval by a city, county, or city
and county a truck routing plan to and from the state highway system based on the
latest truck route map of the city, county, or city and county. It also requires a facility
operator to enforce the plan.
This measure requires all cities, counties, or a city and county to update their circulation
elements by Jan. 1, 2028, to identify and establish specific travel routes for the transport
of goods, materials, or freight for storage, transfer, or redistribution to safely
accommodate additional truck traffic and avoid residential areas and sensitive receptors
and maximize the use of interstate or state divided highways as preferred routes for
truck routes. This measure requires a city or county to make truck routes publicly
available in geographic information system (GIS) format and share GIS maps of the
truck routes with warehouse operators, fleet operators, and truck drivers. This measure
requires the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino and the Cities of Chino, Colton,
Fontana, Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley, Ontario, Perris, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands,
Rialto, Riverside, and San Bernardino to complete the required circulation element
update by Jan. 1, 2026. This measure authorizes the Attorney General to impose a fine
against a jurisdiction that is in violation of up to $50,000 every six months if the required
circulation element update has not been made. This measure includes additional
replacement housing standards and air-quality monitoring requirements. Cal Cities has
prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.
AB 1465 (Wicks) Nonvehicular Air Pollution: Civil Penalties.
Chapter 300, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows civil penalties brought against a person discharging nonvehicular
sources air contaminants to be multiplied by a factor of not more than three if the
violation results from an emission from a stationary source required by federal law to be
included in an operating permit program established pursuant to specified provisions of
the federal Clean Air Act, and the emission contains or includes one or more air
contaminants. This measure requires, in assessing penalties, that health impacts,
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community disruptions, the timeliness and accuracy of the notifications from the violator,
and other circumstances related to the violation be considered.
AB 2522 (Carrillo, Wendy) Air Districts: Governing Boards: Compensation.
Chapter 406, Statutes of 2024
This measure raises the limits of the compensation for each member of the board of the
South Coast Air Quality Management District to receive up to $200 for each day, or
portion thereof, but not to exceed $2,000 per month.
AB 2900 (Soria) Small Agricultural Truck Fleet Assistance Program.
Chapter 746, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Air Resources Board (CARB), in order to minimize
the impact of the energy transition on the supply chains in the critical agricultural sector
and ensure that disadvantaged communities equitably share in the benefits of and
investments in emission reductions, to establish the Small Agricultural Truck Fleet
Assistance Program or to use an existing program to provide dedicated technical
assistance to owner-operators or owners of small fleets to support the transition to
cleaner emission-compliant trucks.
SB 1158 (Archuleta) Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment
Program.
Chapter 459, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the deadline for the period of liquidation under the Carl Moyer
Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program to local air districts to June 30 of
the sixth calendar year following the date of disbursement.
B. California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
AB 2091 (Grayson) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Public
Access: Nonmotorized Recreation.
Chapter 377, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) to post notice of and hold a public meeting to consider and solicit public input
on the change in use under consideration before making a determination to approve or
carry out the change in use to allow public access by a park district or the Great
Redwood Trail Agency. It also requires the lead agency, if the lead agency determines
that a change in use is not subject to CEQA and determines to approve or carry out the
activity, to file a notice with the State Clearinghouse in the Office of Planning and
Research and with the county clerk of the county in which the land is located. By
imposing duties on public agencies related to the exemption, this measure creates a
state-mandated local program. This measure repeals these provisions on Jan. 1, 2030,
and makes additional legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a
special statute for the Great Redwood Trail Agency.
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AB 2199 (Berman) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Residential
or Mixed-use Housing Projects.
Chapter 271, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the operation of a CEQA exemption until Jan. 1, 2032, for
residential or mixed-use housing projects located in unincorporated areas of a county
that meet certain requirements.
AB 2503 (Lee) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Passenger Rail
Projects.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands a CEQA exemption to include a public project or increase of
passenger rail service that will be exclusively used by zero-emission trains located
entirely within existing rail rights-of-way or existing highway rights-of-way. Because this
measure increases the duties of the county clerk, it imposes a state-mandated local
program.
AB 3007 (Hoover) California Environmental Quality Act: Record Of Environmental
Documents: Format.
Chapter 583, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the county clerk of each county and the Office of Planning and
Research to maintain a record electronically and authorizes the county clerk of each
county and the office to maintain the record on paper for all environmental documents
for project applicants and public agencies subject to CEQA that need to provide a filing
fee to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
AB 3265 (Bryan) California Environmental Quality Act: Environmental Leadership
Media Campus Projects: Judicial Streamlining.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes streamlined procedures for the administrative and judicial
review of the environmental review and approvals granted for an environmental
leadership media campus project, defined as a construction or renovation project on a
film and television media campus in the County of Los Angeles. This measure requires
a city within the County of Los Angeles that is the lead agency for an environmental
leadership media campus project that meets the conditions to certify the project for the
streamlined judicial review. It also requires the Judicial Council, on or before July 1,
2025, to adopt rules of court establishing procedures requiring actions or proceedings
seeking judicial review of the certification of an environmental impact report for an
environmental leadership media campus project or the granting of any project approval,
including any appeals to the court of appeal or the Supreme Court to be resolved, to the
extent feasible, within 365 calendar days of the filing of the certified record of
proceedings with the court. This measure requires the environmental leadership media
campus project to meet specific labor requirements.
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SB 1342 (Atkins) California Environmental Quality Act: Infrastructure Projects:
County of San Diego.
Chapter 794, Statutes of 2024
This measure includes the San Vicente Energy Storage Facility project proposed by the
San Diego County Water Authority and a project for the repair, rehabilitation, or
replacement of the South Bay Sewage Treatment Plant in the County of San Diego
operated by the International Boundary and Water Commission as infrastructure
projects, thereby providing streamlining benefits certified by the Governor.
*SB 1361 (Blakespear) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Local
Agencies: Contract for Providing Services for People Experiencing
Homelessness.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that local agencies’ actions to provide services for people
experiencing homelessness are exempt from CEQA.
C. Climate Change
*AB 1889 (Friedman) Conservation Element: Wildlife and Habitat Connectivity.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to include a wildlife connectivity element in their
next general plan update after Jan. 1, 2028, within their conservation element. The local
jurisdiction must consider how development will impact wildlife movement using relevant
data and consult with appropriate state agencies to achieve this.
AB 2684 (Bryan) Safety Element: Extreme Heat.
Chapter 1009, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to update and include in their general plans
after January 1, 2028, how to address the hazard of extreme heat. It also requires local
agencies, upon the next revision of their housing element or local hazard mitigation plan
after January 1, 2028, to identify new information related to extreme heat hazards
applicable to the local jurisdiction that was unavailable during the previous revision of
the safety element.
SB 1136 (Stern) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Report.
Chapter 184, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires CARB’s annual informational report on the reported emissions of
greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants to the Joint Legislative
Committee on Climate Change Policies to cover topics related to the California Global
Warming Solutions Act Scoping Plan.
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*SB 867 (Allen) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness,
and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024.
Chapter 83, Statute of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure enacts the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought
Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters at the
November 2024 statewide general election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in
the amount of approximately $10 billion to finance projects for safe drinking water,
wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean
energy, and workforce development programs.
D. Coastal
AB 1881 (Davies) California Coastal Commission: Scientific Panel Expertise:
Coastal Erosion.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2024
This measure includes persons with expertise and training in the topic of coastal
erosion, among other scientific backgrounds, to be considered when composing a
scientific panel that the California Coastal Commission (Commission) may form to
review technical documents and reports, provide advice, and make recommendations to
the Commission.
*AB 3093 (Ward) Land Use: Housing Element.
Chapter 282, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to account for the housing needs of people
experiencing homelessness in their housing elements by adding two new income
categories to the Regional Housing Needs Assessment framework for the seventh
cycle: acutely low income and extremely low income. This measure also requires the
Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to prepare guidance by
Dec. 31, 2026, that provides sample analyses and programs for local governments to
use in meeting the obligations of this measure.
This measure also requires when the HCD reviews housing elements for compliance
and requires a rezoning of the inventory of sites, the local jurisdiction should complete
any necessary local coastal program amendments during the housing element planning
period if the rezone sites are located within the coastal zone. The amendment could
include an updated zoning ordinance or zoning district map as part of the California
Coastal Commission’s de minimis review process.
*SB 689 (Blakespear) Local Coastal Program: Bicycle Lane: Amendment.
Chapter 445, Statues of 2024
This measure provides that an application by a local government to convert an existing
motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane, dedicated transit lane, or a
pedestrian walkway shall not require a traffic study for the processing of either a coastal
development permit or an amendment to a local coastal program by the California
Coastal Commission. This measure would also require that the amendment of an
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application be processed in accordance with the procedures applicable to de minimis
local coastal program amendments if the executive director of the commission makes
specified determinations.
SB 1077 (Blakespear) Coastal Resources: Local Coastal Program: Amendments:
Accessory and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2024
In coordination with the HCD, this measure requires the Commission to develop and
provide guidance for local governments to clarify and simplify the permitting process for
accessory dwelling units (ADU) and junior accessory dwelling units (JADU) in the
coastal zone and give guidance to update Local Coastal Programs accordingly by July
1, 2026. This measure also requires at least one public workshop to receive and
consider public comments on the draft guidance provided by the respective state
agencies.
E. Energy and Utilities
AB 1921 (Papan) Energy: Renewable Electrical Generation Facilities: Definition.
Chapter 556, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises the definition of “renewable electrical generation facility” to include
a facility that uses fuel cells or linear generators using fuels, among other facility uses,
such as biomass, solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, small hydroelectric
generation of 30 megawatts or fewer, digester gas, municipal solid waste conversion,
landfill gas, ocean wave, ocean thermal, or tidal current, and any additions or
enhancements to the facility using that technology.
AB 2109 (Carrillo, Juan) Electricity: Surcharge Exemption: Industrial Process
Heat Recovery.
Chapter 700, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that the enhancement or increased efficiency of equipment
occurring in the normal course of business includes industrial process heat recovery
technology that meets specific requirements. This measure prohibits non-bypassable or
departing load surcharges from applying to a reduction in kilowatt hours of electricity
that an electrical corporation customer consumes from the electrical grid in a metered
interval due to industrial process heat recovery technology, up to a cap established by
the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). This measure requires the CPUC to
minimize the cost impacts to all nonparticipating customers that are directly attributable
to the non-bypassable or departing load charges of customers using industrial process
heat recovery technology.
AB 2661 (Soria) Electricity: Westlands Water District.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Westlands Water District (District) to use the electricity for
the District’s own purposes, and this measure authorizes the District to sell surplus
electricity to a public or private entity engaged in the distribution or sale of electricity.
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This measure authorizes the District to construct, operate, and maintain energy storage
systems and electric transmission lines, and to construct, operate, and maintain works,
facilities, improvements, and property necessary or convenient for the operation of the
energy storage system and electric transmission lines within the boundaries of the
District. It also requires the District to report the amount of income and the purposes for
expenditure of that income from these electricity facilities in a report. This measure
requires the District to establish a community benefits agreement plan for an electrical
infrastructure development plan and related transmission and other electrical projects.
AB 2750 (Gallagher) Electricity: Procurement: Generation from Biomass.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the procurement deadline from Dec. 1, 2023, to July 1, 2025 for
electrical corporations to collectively procure their proportionate share of 125 megawatts
of cumulative rated generating capacity from bioenergy projects that began before June
1, 2013, and that use certain feedstocks.
AB 2779 (Petrie-Norris) Independent System Operator: Transmission Planning.
Chapter 741, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Independent System Operator, upon approval of
each transmission plan, to report to the CPUC and to the relevant policy committees of
each house of the Legislature any new use of any grid-enhancing technology that is
deemed reasonable by the California Independent System Operator in that plan and the
cost and efficiency savings of the deployment of that grid-enhancing technology.
AB 3264 (Petrie-Norris) Energy: Cost Framework: Residential Rates: Demand-side
Management Programs Report: Electrical Transmission Grid Study.
Chapter 762, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the CPUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission (CEC), to develop a framework for
assessing, tracking, and analyzing total annual energy costs paid by residential
households in California. This measure authorizes the CPUC to use the framework for
purposes of evaluating any request by an electrical corporation and gas corporation to
track new spending eligible for recovery or to adjust a revenue requirement. This
measure requires the CPUC to submit a report to the Legislature containing the
framework. It also requires large electrical corporations and large gas corporations by
Jan. 1, 2026, and each year thereafter to publish on their internet websites and provide
to the CPUC a visual representation of cost categories included in residential electric or
gas rates for the succeeding calendar year.
SB 1006 (Padilla) Electricity: Transmission Capacity: Reconductoring and Grid-
enhancing Technologies.
Chapter 597, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires each transmission utility on or before Jan. 1, 2026, and every
two years thereafter to prepare a study of the feasibility of projects using grid-enhancing
technologies to achieve increased capacity to connect new renewable energy and zero-
carbon resources. This measure requires each transmission utility on or before Jan. 1,
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2026, and at least every four years thereafter to prepare a study of which its
transmission lines can be reconductored with advanced conductors to achieve
increased capacity to connect new renewable energy and zero-carbon resources. This
measure, upon completion of those studies, requires each transmission utility to submit
the studies to the California Independent System Operator and requires each
transmission utility to request that the California Independent System Operator review
the results of the studies as part of the annual transmission planning process for
economic, reliability, and policy goals. This measure requires the transmission utilities to
make their studies publicly available upon submission to the California Independent
System Operator.
SB 1130 (Bradford) Electricity: Family Electric Rate Assistance Program.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands eligibility for the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA)
program by eliminating the requirement that a household consist of three or more
persons. This measure requires the CPUC by March 1, 2025, and each year thereafter
to require the state’s three largest electrical corporations to report on their efforts to
enroll customers in the FERA program. This measure requires the CPUC by June 1,
2025, and each year thereafter to review each electrical corporation’s report to ensure it
has made reasonable efforts to enroll eligible households in the FERA program
commensurate with the proportion of households the CPUC determines to be eligible
within the electrical corporation’s service territory.
F. Forestry and Fire
AB 2276 (Wood) Forestry: Timber Harvesting Plans: Exemptions.
Chapter 388, Statutes of 2024
This measure consolidates the Small Timberland Owner Exemption and the Forest Fire
Prevention Exemption under a new exemption called the Forest Resilience Exemption
for efforts related to vegetative management and defensible space, revises the
standards and criteria for qualifying for that exemption, and sunsets the new exemption
on Jan. 1, 2031.
SB 310 (Dodd) Prescribed Fire: Civil Liability: Cultural Burns.
Chapter 666, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of a burn boss to include a person qualified
through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and limits the tribal approval condition
to the approval of the governing body of a California Native American tribe in relation to
prescribed burns and the certification program developed by the State Fire Marshal.
SB 675 (Limón) Prescribed Grazing: Local Assistance Grant Program: Wildfire
and Forest Resilience Task Force.
Chapter 772, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires on or before July 1, 2025 the Range Management Advisory
Committee appointed by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to consult and
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develop guidance for local or regional prescribed grazing plans. This measure requires
the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and the
Department of Conservation to consider and incorporate this guidance in grant
programs.
SB 1101 (Limón) Fire Prevention: Prescribed Fire: State Contracts: Maps.
Chapter 778, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a contract entered into by CAL FIRE for the purpose of providing
logistical support for large-scale prescribed fire operations to be an exception to the
state agency requirement to secure at least three competitive bids or proposals for each
contract.
G. Hazardous Materials
AB 347 (Ting) Household Product Safety: Toxic Substances: Testing And
Enforcement.
Chapter 932, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), on or
before Jan. 1, 2029, to adopt regulations for the enforcement of the prohibitions on the
use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in juvenile products, textile
articles, and food packaging, and, on and after July 1, 2030, to enforce and ensure
compliance with those provisions and regulations. This measure requires manufacturers
of these products, on or before July 1, 2029, to register with DTSC, to pay a registration
fee to DTSC, and to provide a statement of compliance certifying compliance with the
applicable prohibitions on the use of PFAS to DTSC. It also authorizes DTSC to test
products and to rely on third-party testing to determine compliance with prohibitions on
the use of PFAS. This measure requires DTSC to issue a notice of violation for a
product in violation of the prohibitions on the use of PFAS.
AB 1864 (Connolly) Pesticides: Agricultural Use Near Schoolsites: Notification
and Reporting.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to require a
separate site identification number for the portion of an agricultural field that lies within
1/4 mile of a school site. This measure requires DPR, for permit applications for
agricultural use of pesticides designated as restricted materials, notices of intent for use
of a pesticide designated as a restricted material, and pesticide use reporting forms and
procedures as they pertain to an agricultural field of which any portion lies within 1/4
mile of a school site, to require reporting on the anticipated or specific method of
applying the pesticide and certain information relating to the dates and times of the
pesticide application. This measure also requires the DPR director, in evaluating a
county’s pesticide use enforcement program, to evaluate the county’s effectiveness in
enforcing specified laws and regulations regarding applying pesticides near school
sites.
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AB 1963 (Friedman) Pesticides: Paraquat Dichloride.
Chapter 688, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires DPR, on or before Jan. 1, 2029, to complete a reevaluation of
paraquat dichloride pesticide and make the determination to retain, cancel, or suspend
its registration or to place new appropriate restrictions on the use of pesticide products
containing the active ingredient paraquat dichloride.
AB 2515 (Papan) Menstrual Products: Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl
Substances (PFAS).
Chapter 1008, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits any person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering
for sale in the state any menstrual products that contain regulated PFAS. This measure
requires DTSC to adopt regulations on or before Jan. 1, 2029 for the purposes of
implementing, interpreting, and enforcing the regulations. This measure requires DTSC
to publish on its internet website on or before Jan. 1, 2027, a list of accepted testing
methods for testing for regulated PFAS in menstrual products. This measure requires a
manufacturer of menstrual products to register with DTSC on or before July 1, 2029.
This measure requires DTSC to issue a notice of violation, including that DTSC
determines that a violation of the regulations has occurred or DTSC receives a report of
an alleged violation and verifies the alleged report through its own independent testing,
verification, or inspection. It also makes a violation of these provisions punishable by
administrative or civil penalties and authorizes the Attorney General, on behalf of DTSC
or on behalf of the people of the state at the request of DTSC, to bring an action to
enforce these provisions. This measure creates and requires all moneys collected from
penalties to be deposited in the T.A.M.P.O.N. Act Fund.
AB 2552 (Friedman) Pesticides: Anticoagulant Rodenticides.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits the use of a first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide, defined
as a pesticide product containing the active ingredients diphacinone, chlorophacinone,
or warfarin, in a wildlife habitat area.
SB 1266 (Limón) Product Safety: Bisphenol.
Chapter 790, Statutes of 2024
This measure, on and after Jan. 1, 2026, applies prohibitions and requirements to any
juvenile’s feeding product or juvenile’s sucking or teething product that contains any
form of bisphenol at a detectable level above the practical quantitation limit, as
determined by DTSC. This measure authorizes DTSC to establish standards for juvenile
products that are more protective of public health, sensitive populations, or the
environment and authorizes DTSC or the Attorney General to enforce these prohibitions
and requirements. This measure prohibits manufacturers from replacing any form of
bisphenol with any chemical identified by DTSC as a Candidate Chemical.
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H. Oil and Gas
AB 1866 (Hart) Oil and Gas: Idle Wells.
Chapter 548, Statutes of 2024
This measure increases the fees for idle wells and additionally imposes fees for each
idle well that has been idle for less than three years.
AB 3233 (Addis) Oil and Gas: Operations: Restrictions: Local Authority.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a local entity to limit or prohibit oil and gas operations or
development by ordinance in its jurisdiction, notwithstanding any other law or any notice
of intention, supplemental notice, well stimulation treatment permit, or similar
authorization issued by the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or district deputy.
I. Solid Waste and Recycling
AB 863 (Aguiar-Curry) Carpet Recycling: Producer Responsibility Organizations:
Fines: Succession: Training.
Chapter 675, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a carpet stewardship organization to include nonvoting board
members and requires the carpet stewardship organization to pay the travel costs and
other expenses for those nonvoting members to participate in all board meetings. This
measure requires a carpet stewardship organization to be responsible for, and make
decisions regarding, a carpet stewardship plan. It also prohibits a carpet stewardship
organization from delegating any responsibility of its board of directors or any decision-
making responsibility to a person who is not a member of its board of directors. This
measure requires a carpet stewardship organization to allocate 8% of the assessments
it collects for grants to apprenticeship programs and authorizes the California
Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to audit a carpet
stewardship organization and a manufacturer annually.
*AB 2346 (Lee) Organic Waste Reduction Regulations: Procurement of Recovered
Organic Waste Products.
Chapter 712, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes local jurisdictions to count toward their procurement targets
compost produced and procured from certain compost operations, investments, and
expenditures. This measure authorizes a local jurisdiction to determine a local per
capita procurement target using information from a local waste characterization study.
This measure also authorizes a local jurisdiction to satisfy its annual procurement
obligations by procuring a quantity of recovered organic waste products that meets or
exceeds a five-year procurement target.
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AB 2511 (Berman) Beverage Container Recycling: Market Development
Payments.
Chapter 405, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the inoperative date of the market development payment
program under the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act to
July 1, 2027, subject to the availability of funds from the California Beverage Container
Recycling Fund, and repeals the program as of Jan. 1, 2028.
*AB 2902 (Wood) Solid Waste: Reduction and Recycling.
Chapter 421, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the rural jurisdiction exemption until Jan. 1, 2037, as part of
CalRecycle’s Organic Waste Regulations. This measure requires CalRecycle to adopt
regulations to establish a process to renew the exemption after that date for periods of
up to five years. This measure declares that the free provision or granting of incentive
payments for use of compost or mulch by a jurisdiction constitutes a public purpose
resulting in the public benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing soil
productivity and water retention, and facilitating diversion of organic waste, and shall not
be construed to be gifts of public funds.
SB 551 (Portantino) Beverage Containers: Recycling.
Chapter 983, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes certain beverage manufacturers to submit a consolidated
report with other beverage manufacturers, in lieu of individual reports, that identifies the
postconsumer recycled plastic content for beverage containers and the amounts of
virgin plastic and postconsumer recycled plastic used in beverage containers, as
required consistent with the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter
Reduction Act. This measure requires the consolidated report to be submitted under
penalty of perjury and pursuant to standardized forms prescribed by CalRecycle.
SB 707 (Newman) Responsible Textile Recovery Act Of 2024.
Chapter 864, Statutes of 2024
This measure enacts a stewardship program known as the Responsible Textile
Recovery Act of 2024, which requires a producer of apparel or textile articles to form
and join a producer responsibility organization (PRO). This measure requires the PRO
to be approved by CalRecycle. This measure requires CalRecycle to adopt regulations
to implement the program no earlier than July 1, 2028. This measure also requires the
PRO to submit to CalRecycle for approval or disapproval a complete plan for the
collection, transportation, repair, sorting, and recycling, and the safe and proper
management of apparel and textile articles in the state. Upon approval of a plan or
commencing on July 1, 2030, whichever is earlier, this measure makes a producer
subject to civil penalties unless the producer is a participant of a PRO, and all apparel
and textiles are accounted for in the plan. This measure requires the PRO to review the
plan at least every five years after approval. This measure also requires a PRO to
submit an annual report to CalRecycle. This measure imposes a state-mandated local
program.
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*SB 1046 (Laird) Organic Waste Reduction: Program Environmental Impact
Report: Small and Medium Compostable Material Handling Facilities or
Operations.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires CalRecycle to prepare and certify by Jan. 1, 2027, a program
environmental impact report under CEQA that streamlines the process where local
jurisdictions can develop and site small and medium compostable material handling
facilities or operations for processing organic material.
SB 1053 (Blakespear) Solid Waste: Recycled Paper Bags: Standards: Carryout
Bag Prohibition.
Chapter 453, Statutes of 2024
This measure recasts and revises the definition of a “single-use carryout bag” to a
“carryout bag,” which means a bag made of plastic, paper, or other material that is
provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale for the purpose of carrying
purchased goods and that is not a recycled paper bag. This measure prohibits a store
from providing, distributing, or selling a carryout bag at the point of sale. This measure
also creates a carryout bag exception to include a bag provided to a customer before
the customer reaches the point of sale that is designed to protect a purchased item from
damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag or to contain an
unwrapped food item. This measure revises the definition of “recycled paper bag” and
requires it be made from a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and
after Jan. 1, 2028, without exception. This measure requires a store to make available
for purchase at the point of sale a “recycled paper bag” but shall not sell it for less than
10 cents in order to ensure that the cost of providing a recycled paper bag is not
subsidized by a consumer who does not require that bag.
*SB 1143 (Allen) Paint Products: Stewardship Program.
Chapter 989, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises and recasts the architectural paint recovery program as the paint
product recovery program. This measure expands the scope of the stewardship
program from architectural paint to paint products, and thereby subjects paint products
to the requirements of the program. It also defines “paint product” to mean architectural
coatings, aerosol coating products, nonindustrial coatings, and coating-related products.
This measure would exempt aerosol coating products, coating-related products, and
nonindustrial coatings added to the stewardship program from the requirements of the
program until Jan. 1, 2028, or the approved stewardship plan’s implementation date for
those products, whichever occurs sooner. This measure requires a manufacturer,
individually or through a stewardship organization, to review its plan at least every five
years after approval by CalRecycle and determine whether amendments to the plan are
necessary.
*SB 1280 (Laird) Waste Management: Propane Cylinders: Reusable or Refillable.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2024
This measure, on and after Jan. 1, 2028, prohibits the sale or offer for sale of propane
cylinders other than those propane cylinders that are reusable or refillable. This
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measure requires CalRecycle to adopt regulations to implement these provisions with
an effective date of Jan. 1, 2028.
J. Water
AB 460 (Bauer-Kahan) State Water Resources Control Board: Water Rights and
Usage: Civil Penalties.
Chapter 342, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to adjust for
inflation, by Jan. 1 of each year, beginning in 2026, in the amounts of civil and
administrative liabilities or penalties imposed by the SWRCB or in water right actions
brought at the request of the SWRCB.
AB 805 (Arambula) Sewer Service: Disadvantaged Communities.
Chapter 505, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the SWRCB, until Jan. 1, 2029, and after it makes a finding or
findings by resolution, to require a designated sewer system to contract with an
administrator designated or approved by the SWRCB for administrative, technical,
operational, legal, or managerial services to assist another designated sewer system
with the delivery of adequate sewer service.
AB 1827 (Papan) Local Government: Fees and Charges: Water: Higher
Consumptive Water Parcels.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides that the fees or charges for property-related water service
imposed or increased may include the incrementally higher costs of water service due
to specified factors, including the higher water usage demand of parcels.
AB 2318 (Papan) State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account:
Receipts and Expenditures: Report.
Chapter 957, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the SWRCB, no later than Jan. 1 of each year, to post on its
internet website a report describing the receipts and expenditures of the State Water
Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account. This measure requires the SWRCB to
provide the initial report no later than Jan. 1, 2026, and to include data for the period
from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2025, in that report.
AB 2454 (Lee) Drinking Water: Rental Property: Domestic Well Testing.
Chapter 506, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires an owner of a domestic well that serves a rental property within
the boundaries of a testing program to participate in the testing program. It also requires
the SWRCB to post information regarding applicable testing programs on its internet
website. This measure requires the owner of a domestic well that serves a rental
property to ensure that the test results, and information on how to read and understand
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the test results, are provided to current residents of the rental property within 10 days of
receiving the test results.
AB 2501 (Alvarez) Water Quality Control Plans: Donations and Grants.
Chapter 833, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the SWRCB, on behalf of itself or a regional board, to accept
moneys from donations, grants, or contributions or through contractual agreements from
public agencies for the purpose of planning, permitting, or providing technical support
for projects of public benefit within the SWRCB’s or regional board’s jurisdiction. This
measure requires all funds received to be deposited, and separately accounted for, in
the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account for expenditure in
accordance with the terms of the donation, grant, contribution, or contractual
agreement. This measure requires the SWRCB to provide notice before accepting those
moneys. Because the funds deposited would be a new source of funds in the
continuously appropriated State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account within
the continuously appropriated State Water Quality Control Fund, this measure makes
an appropriation.
AB 2599 (Cmte. on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials) Water: Public
Beaches: Discontinuation of Residential Water Service.
Chapter 411, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides that a local health officer who is required to test waters adjacent
to all public beaches for microbiological contaminants may rely on data from test results
from other parties only if that data meets the same quality requirements that apply to
local agencies pursuant to state regulations and standards. This measure requires that
test results used by the local health officer be made available to the public.
AB 2875 (Friedman) Wetlands: State Policy.
Chapter 579, Statutes of 2024
This measure declares that it is the policy of the state to ensure no net loss and long-
term gain in the quantity, quality, and permanence of wetlands acreage and values in
California.
AB 2962 (Papan) Wholesale Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act.
Chapter 203, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the repeal date of the Wholesale Regional Water System
Security and Reliability Act for the City and County of San Francisco from Jan. 1, 2026
to Jan. 1, 2036.
AB 3090 (Maienschein) Drinking Water Standards: Emergency Notification Plan.
Chapter 68, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes and encourages a public water system, when updating an
emergency notification plan, to provide notification to water users by means of other
communications technology, including, but not limited to, text messages, email, or social
media.
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*AJR 12 (Alvarez) Tijuana River: Cross-border Pollution.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2024
This measure urges the United States Congress and President Joseph R. Biden to fully
fund the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Comprehensive
Infrastructure Solution for the Tijuana River due to the ongoing impacts to public health,
the environment, and the local economy caused by cross-border pollution and would
urge President Joseph R. Biden to declare a national emergency due to those ongoing
impacts.
SB 583 (Padilla) Salton Sea Conservancy.
Chapter 771, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes the Salton Sea Conservancy within the Natural Resources
Agency for purposes related to the Salton Sea region, including to operate, maintain,
and manage projects, as they are completed, to fulfill the state’s obligations to acquire,
hold, and manage land and property rights, including easements and water rights, within
the Salton Sea Region after restoration or mitigation projects are built. This measure
requires the Salton Sea Conservancy to be governed by a board of directors composed
of designated membership by Jan. 1, 2026. It also creates the Salton Sea Conservancy
Fund and would state that the Legislature intends to support the fund through
authorized proceeds from the sale of bonds and allocations from the Salton Sea Lithium
Fund. This measure makes its provisions operative only if the Safe Drinking Water,
Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 is approved
by the voters at the Nov. 5, 2024, statewide general election.
SB 597 (Glazer) Building Standards: Rainwater Catchment Systems.
Chapter 861, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)
to review current building standards, conduct research, and develop recommendations
regarding building standards for the installation of rainwater catchment systems for non-
potable uses in newly constructed residential dwellings and authorizes HCD to propose
related building standards to the California Building Standards Commission for
consideration. This measure authorizes HCD to expend moneys from the Building
Standards Administration Special Revolving Fund for the above-described purposes
upon appropriation by the Legislature.
*SB 1072 (Padilla) Local Government: Proposition 218: Remedies.
Chapter 323, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a local agency, if a court determines that a fee or charge for a
property-related service violates the California Constitution relating to fees and charges
(including Proposition 218), to credit the amount of the fee or charge attributable to the
violation against the amount of the revenues required to provide the property-related
service, unless a refund is explicitly provided for by statute.
SB 1147 (Portantino) Drinking Water: Microplastics Levels.
Chapter 881, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
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(OEHHA) to study the health effects of microplastics in drinking and bottled water to
evaluate toxicity characteristics and levels of microplastics in water that are not
anticipated to cause or contribute to adverse health effects or to identify data gaps that
would need to be addressed to establish those levels. This measure requires OEHHA to
provide biennial status updates and post a final report on its internet website and
authorizes the SWRCB, after taking into consideration the findings of the report, to
request that OEHHA prepare and publish a public health goal for microplastics in
drinking water.
SB 1188 (Laird) Drinking Water: Technical, Managerial, and Financial Standards.
Chapter 507, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the SWRCB to develop and adopt minimum standards in
accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act related to the technical, managerial,
and financial capacity of community water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people or
three, 300 service connections and non-transient, non-community water systems that
serve K–12 schools. This measure requires community water systems serving fewer
than 10,000 people or 3,300 service connections and non-transient, non-community
water systems that serve K-12 schools to demonstrate compliance with those
standards. This measure requires new community water systems serving fewer than
10,000 persons or 3,300 service connections and non-transient, noncommunity water
systems that serve K-12 schools to demonstrate, as part of a permit application,
compliance with the minimum technical, managerial, and financial standards.
SB 1226 (Cortese) Hunting: Navigable Waters.
Chapter 186, Statutes of 2024
This measure restricts the application of land temporarily inundated by water flowing
outside the established banks of a waterway to non-navigable waters. This measure
states that these provisions do not restrict the public’s right to use navigable waters for
hunting, fishing, or other public purposes under the California Constitution.
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IV. Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations
A. Elections and Redistricting
AB 453 (Cervantes) District-based Elections.
Chapter 195, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a political subdivision that is changing from at-large to district-
based elections to set a fixed time to discuss the matter at all required public hearings.
AB 1784 (Pellerin) Primary Elections: Candidate Withdrawals.
Chapter 355, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that state law prohibits a person from running for more than one
office at a primary election. This measure also allows a person who has filed to be a
candidate at a primary election, other than a candidate for statewide office, to withdraw
that candidacy until the filing deadline for that office. A candidate’s paperwork to
withdraw a candidacy after filing nomination documents must include an
acknowledgment that the candidate understands that they will not receive a refund of
any filing fees that the candidate already paid.
AB 2127 (Berman) Voter Registration: California New Motor Voter Program.
Chapter 378, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends, from Jan. 1, 2025, to Jan. 1, 2030, the California New Motor
Voter (CNMV) taskforce established by the Secretary of State (SOS) to advise the SOS
and the Department of Motor Vehicles on the effective implementation of the CNMV
program.
AB 2582 (Pellerin) Elections Omnibus Bill.
Chapter 109, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several changes to the voter registration and candidate paperwork
filing processes, including the following:
• Repeals the provisions of law that contain specific voter registration procedures
for new citizens and new residents who want to vote in an election 15 or fewer
days after registering to vote.
• Repeals, as of Jan. 1, 2027, a requirement for an elections official to preserve
the list of new resident voters for 22 months.
• Deletes the requirement that a candidate for municipal office file an affidavit of
nominee form and replaces it with a requirement to file a declaration of candidacy
form substantially similar to the declaration of candidacy forms used for state and
county candidates.
• Requires the SOS to establish uniform forms for candidates for municipal office
to use when filing their nomination and declaration of candidacy documents, and
requires candidates to use those new forms.
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AB 2642 (Berman) Elections: Intimidation.
Chapter 533, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure prohibits a person from intimidating, threatening, or coercing, or
attempting to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for engaging in election-
related activities, and authorizes an aggrieved person, an officer holding an election or
conducting a canvass, or the Attorney General to file a civil action to enforce those
prohibitions. It also creates a presumption that a person who openly carries a firearm or
imitation firearm while interacting with or observing specified election-related activities is
presumed to have engaged in prohibited intimidation.
AB 2655 (Berman) Defending Democracy From Deepfake Deception Act of 2024.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires large online platforms to remove materially deceptive and
digitally modified or created content related to elections, or to label that content, during
periods before and after an election, if the content is reported to the platform. This
measure is limited to content related to elections in California, and to candidates for
President and Vice President, statewide office, Board of Equalization, state Legislature,
and United States House of Representatives. The provisions of the measure begin six
months before an election in California.
AB 2839 (Pellerin) Elections: Deceptive Media in Advertisements.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure prohibits the distribution of campaign advertisements and other election
communications that contain media that has been digitally altered in a deceptive way.
This measure also allows a court to issue injunctive relief prohibiting the distribution of
such content, and to award general or special damages against a person who
distributed the content. The prohibition shall apply within 120 days of an election in
California.
AB 2951 (Cervantes) Voter Registration: Cancellation.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 2024
This measure permits a county elections official, during the period of Jan. 1, 2025,
through June 30, 2025, when the official sends a required notice that a voter’s
registration is being canceled due to the death of the voter, to send that notice within 15
days either before or after the cancellation of the registration. A county elections official
must, beginning July 1, 2025, send these notices between 15 and 30 days before
canceling a person’s registration due to the death of the voter. This measure also
requires the SOS to update the Legislature monthly on its progress in making changes
to allow for these notices to be sent prior to the cancellation of a voter’s registration.
*AB 3184 (Berman) Elections: Signature Verification Statements, Unsigned Ballot
Identification Statements, and Reports of Ballot Rejections.
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure requires that voters be given until the 26th day after this year’s
presidential general election to resolve issues with their vote by mail (VBM) ballots. It
deletes a provision of existing law that requires the SOS to publish a report on the
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SOS’s website for local elections that contains the number of rejected VBM ballots and
the reasons for those rejections. For the Nov. 5, 2024, presidential general election,
county elections officials may not certify the results of the election prior to the 28th
calendar day following the election. A county elections official must accept a completed
signature verification statement, unsigned identification envelope statement, or
combined signature verification and unsigned identification envelope statement until 5
p.m. on the 26th calendar day following the election.
AB 3197 (Lackey) Elections.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a county elections official to require the use of a standardized form
for all elections petitions and papers circulated in the county related to elections for local
government. This measure allows a county elections official that conducts an election
for another local agency to permit candidates in that election to submit candidates’
statements for the purpose of electronic distribution.
AB 3284 (Committee on Elections) Elections Omnibus Bill.
Chapter 854, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes minor and technical changes to the elections code.
SB 1174 (Min) Elections: Voter Identification.
Chapter 990, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local government from enacting or enforcing any charter
provision, ordinance, or regulation requiring a person to present identification for the
purpose of voting or submitting a ballot at any polling place, vote center, or other
location where ballots are cast or submitted, unless required by state or federal law.
SB 1328 (Bradford) Elections.
Chapter 605, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the SOS to impose additional conditions of approval for
electronic poll books, ballot manufacturers and finishers, ballot on demand systems,
voting systems, and remote accessible vote-by-mail systems. This measure updates
existing election record retention, preservation, and destruction requirements to provide
clear guidance for electronic voting data. It also expands and clarifies an existing felony
related to voting technology security.
SB 1450 (Allen) Elections.
Chapter 480, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes various changes to the California Voter’s Choice Act, including
reestablishing a taskforce that included certain individuals to review all-mailed ballot or
vote center elections and to provide comments and recommendations to the Legislature
within six months of each all-mailed ballot election or vote center election.
SB 1493 (Blakespear) Elections.
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2024
This measure reduces, from two or more copies to one copy, the number of state voter
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information guides the SOS must mail to certain individuals and institutions, such as
elected officials and public libraries. Upon request, the SOS must furnish additional
copies of the guide to those individuals and institutions.
SCA 1 (Newman) Elections: Recall of State Officers.
Chapter 204, Statutes of 2024
This measure is a constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters, will eliminate
the successor election for a recalled state officer and will provide, in the event an officer
is removed in a recall election, that the office will remain vacant until it is filled in
accordance with existing law. This constitutional amendment also repeals the
prohibition against the officer subject to the recall from being a candidate to fill the office
in a special election but prohibits the appointment of the officer subject to the recall
election to fill the vacancy.
B. Employee Relations
AB 1941 (Quirk-Silva) Local Public Employee Organizations.
Chapter 57, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes peace officer unions to charge a nonunion member peace
officer for the reasonable costs of the union’s representation in a discipline, grievance,
arbitration, or administration hearing.
AB 2011 (Bauer-Kahan) Unlawful Employment Practices: Small Employer Family
Leave Mediation Program: Reproductive Loss Leave.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds claims for violations of reproductive leave loss provisions to
coverage under the small employer family leave mediation pilot program and makes the
pilot permanent.
AB 2123 (Papan) Disability Compensation: Paid Family Leave.
Chapter 949, Statutes of 2024
This measure deletes the authorization for an employer to require an employee to take
two weeks of vacation leave before accessing benefits under California’s Paid Family
Leave program. Provisions of this measure only apply to a disability commencing on or
after Jan. 1, 2025.
AB 2499 (Schiavo) Employment: Unlawful Discrimination and Paid Sick Days:
Victims of Violence.
Chapter 967, Statutes of 2024
This measure entitles an employee of an employer with 25 or more employees who is a
victim, or who has a family member who is a victim, of a crime to job-protected leave to
attend to their or their family member’s needs and ensure their safety. This measure
additionally permits both an employee victim and an employee who has a family
member who is a victim to use sick leave for time off to obtain victim services. The total
leave taken may be capped at 12 weeks. This measure requires the Civil Rights
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Department to develop and post, on or before July 1, 2025, a form that an employer
may use to comply with the measure.
*AB 2561 (McKinnor) Local Public Employees: Vacant Positions.
Chapter 409, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a local public agency to present the status of vacancies and
recruitment and retention efforts at a public hearing at least once per fiscal year and
entitles the recognized employee organization to present at the hearing. If the number
of job vacancies within a single bargaining unit meets or exceeds 20% of the total
number of authorized full-time positions, this measure requires the public agency, upon
request of the recognized employee organization, to include specified information during
the public hearing.
AB 2705 (Ortega) Labor Commissioner.
Chapter 242, Statutes of 2024
This measure states that, for a violation of public works law, the statute of limitations
(SOL) for the Labor Commissioner (LC) to sue a bonding company shall be the same as
the 18-month SOL for the LC to issue a civil wage and penalty assessment to the
contractor or subcontractor on that project, or both.
AB 2738 (Rivas, Luz) Labor Code: Alternative Enforcement: Occupational Safety.
Chapter 969, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the training certification requirements of entertainment
events’ employees may be alternatively enforced by a public prosecutor and adds a
public events venue or a contracting entity to the entities that may be assessed a
penalty for violating these requirements. The measure subjects the contract to a
provision of the California Public Records Act that makes any executed contract for the
purchase of goods or services by a state or local agency, including the price and terms
of payment, a public record subject to disclosure under that act.
*SB 399 (Wahab) Employer Communications: Intimidation.
Chapter 670, Statutes of 2024
This measure enacts the California Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act to
prohibit an employer from subjecting, or threatening to subject, an employee to
discharge, discrimination, retaliation, or any other adverse action because the employee
declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or affirmatively declines to
participate in, receive, or listen to any communications with the employer or its agents
or representatives, the purpose of which is to communicate the employer’s opinion
about religious or political matters.
SB 1090 (Durazo) Unemployment Insurance: Disability and Paid Family Leave:
Claim Administration.
Chapter 876, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes workers to file a claim for State Disability Insurance or Paid
Family Leave benefits up to 30 days in advance of the first compensable day of
disability and requires the Employment Development Department to issue
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payment on those claims within 14 days of receipt (per existing law) or as soon as
eligibility begins for the claimant, whichever is later.
SB 1100 (Portantino) Discrimination: Driver’s License.
Chapter 877, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to include a
statement in various employment materials that an applicant must have a driver’s
license unless the employer reasonably expects the duties of the position to require
driving and the employer reasonably believes that satisfying that job function using an
alternative form of transportation would not be comparable in travel time or cost to the
employer.
SB 1137 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Discrimination Claims: Combination of
Characteristics.
Chapter 779, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the provisions of the Education
Code prohibiting discrimination in public education, and the California Fair Employment
and Housing Act prohibit discrimination on the basis not just of individual protected traits
but also on the basis of the combination of two or more protected traits.
C. Government Operations
AB 1976 (Haney) Occupational Safety and Health Standards: First Aid Materials:
Opioid Antagonists.
Chapter 689, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, before
Dec. 1, 2027, to submit a draft rulemaking proposal to revise standards to require first
aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid
antagonist to reverse opioid overdose and instructions for using the opioid antagonist.
The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall consider for adoption these
revised standards on or before Dec. 1, 2028.
This measure also requires the division, in drafting the rulemaking proposal, to consider,
and provide guidance to employers on, proper storage of the opioid antagonist in
accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.
AB 2299 (Flora) Labor Commissioner: Whistleblower Protections: Model List of
Rights and Responsibilities.
Chapter 105, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the LC to develop a model list of employees’ rights and
responsibilities under existing whistleblower laws for employer use to meet existing
posting requirements.
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AB 2455 (Gabriel) Whistleblower Protection: State and Local Government
Procedures.
Chapter 568, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands and modernizes California's whistleblower protection laws by
doing the following:
• Requiring an independent investigator to provide a confidential report detailing
the facts supporting a conclusion that an employee engaged or participated in
improper governmental activities to the Assembly and Senate Budget
Committees and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee.
• Requiring the State Auditor to provide an investigative report regarding a finding
that a state agency or employee may have engaged or participated in an
improper governmental activity to the Assembly and Senate Budget Committees
and Joint Legislative Audit Committee.
• Authorizing a city, county, or city and county auditor or controller who is elected
to office to maintain a whistleblower hotline to receive calls from persons who
have information regarding improper governmental activity.
• Authorizing a city, county, or city and county auditor or controller to identify a
designee within the office responsible for maintenance of the whistleblower
hotline.
*AB 2631 (Fong, Mike) Local Agencies: Ethics Training.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), in consultation
with the Attorney General, to create, maintain, and make available to local agency
officials an ethics training course.
AB 3190 (Haney) Public Works.
Chapter 759, Statutes of 2024
This measure subjects to public works law, beginning on Jan. 1, 2026, and ending on
Jan. 1, 2031, certain affordable housing projects by adding certain low-income housing
tax credits to the definition of “paid for in whole or in part out of public funds,” and
provides that specified projects built pursuant to certain low-income housing tax credits
with a state agency, redevelopment agency, successor agency to a redevelopment
agency when acting in that capacity, or a local housing authority are subject to public
works requirements.
SB 1162 (Cortese) Public Contracts: Employment Compliance Reports:
Apprenticeship Programs.
Chapter 882, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a contractor, bidder, or other entity to include the full name of,
and identify the apprenticeship program name, location, and graduation date of, all
workers in existing monthly compliance reports made to the public entity or other
awarding body for projects with a skilled and trained workforce requirement. This
measure also requires the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to, on or before July 1,
2025, create and maintain a public online database to verify that a worker graduated
from a California apprenticeship program.
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SB 1340 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Discrimination.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes local entities to enforce the employment components of
California’s state civil rights laws.
D. Political Reform Act of 1974
AB 1170 (Valencia) Political Reform Act of 1974: Filing Requirements.
Chapter 211, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires public officials and candidates who file their original statements
of economic interests (SEIs) with the FPPC, to file those SEIs using the FPPC's
electronic filing system. This measure permits a filing officer to retain a report or
statement filed in a paper format as a copy on microfilm or other space-saving material
or as an electronic copy without a two-year waiting period.
AB 2001 (Gallagher) Political Reform Act of 1974.
Chapter 97, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several technical and clarifying changes to the Political Reform
Act (PRA). This measure:
• Clarifies:
o When campaign finance document filings are made late, the local agency
must post them online within 72 hours of receiving them.
o If an agency receives a filing it was not supposed to receive (e.g., the
candidate filed the document with the wrong agency), that agency is not
required to post the filing but must notify the filer of the error.
o The online posting requirements apply regardless of whether the filing was
made electronically, on paper, by email, or via fax.
• Ensures the two Government Code section 84504.2s are identical relative to the
typeface used in the print ads and the prohibition on using text and images not
required by law.
• Removes “preparing campaign finance disclosure statements” from the definition
of “campaign expenditures” as it relates to the limits on what candidates for
certain offices who accept voluntary expenditure limits can spend money on.
• Corrects an erroneous code reference by stating certain social media ads are not
required to comply with certain disclosure requirements in two specific
circumstances.
• Clarifies the deadline for bringing civil enforcement actions for alleged violations
of the PRA under certain circumstances.
*AB 2041 (Bonta) Political Reform Act of 1974: Campaign Funds: Security
Expenses.
Chapter 372, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes campaign funds to be used for costs related to security
expenses, as defined, to protect a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family or
staff of a candidate or elected officer. This measure permits a maximum of $10,000 of
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campaign funds to be expended for these purposes by a candidate or elected officer
during their lifetime.
AB 2355 (Carrillo, Wendy) Political Reform Act of 1974: Political Advertisements:
Artificial Intelligence.
Chapter 260, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires any political advertisement, that is published or distributed by a
political committee, to include a disclaimer if content in the ad was generated or
substantially altered using artificial intelligence.
AB 2803 (Valencia) Campaign Expenditures: Criminal Convictions: Fees and
Costs.
Chapter 576, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a candidate or elected officer from using campaign funds to pay
or reimburse a fine, penalty, judgment, settlement, or legal expenses related to the
candidate’s or elected officer’s conviction of a felony involving fraud or certain public
trust crimes.
SB 1027 (Menjivar) Political Reform Act of 1974: Disclosures.
Chapter 180, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a campaign committee to redact the bank account number on
a copy of a statement of organization filed with a local filing officer, and requires the
SOS to redact the bank account number on a statement of organization filed with the
SOS before making the statement available to the public in any form.
SB 1111 (Min) Public officers: Contracts: Financial Interest.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 2024
This measure, on or after Jan. 1, 2026, expands the definition of remote interest to
include the financial interests of a public officer if their child is an officer or director of, or
has an ownership of 10% interest or more in, a party to a contract entered into by the
body or board of which the officer is a member.
*SB 1181 (Glazer) Campaign Contributions: Agency Officers.
Chapter 785, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes various changes to the Levine Act that restricts campaign
contributions to agency officials from entities with business before the agency involving
a license, permit, or other entitlement for use.
Specifically, this measure:
• Exempts the following types of proceedings from those that are covered by the
Levine Act:
o The periodic review or renewal of development agreements unless there
is a material modification or amendment proposed to the agreement.
o Periodic reviews or renewal of competitively bid contracts unless there are
material modifications or amendments proposed to the agreement that are
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valued at more than 10% of the value of the contract or $50,000,
whichever is less.
o Modification of or amendments to contracts that are otherwise exempt,
other than competitively bid contracts.
• Provides that the Levine Act’s restrictions do not apply to a city attorney or
county counsel who is providing legal advice to their agency, and who does not
have the authority to make a final decision in the proceeding.
• Extends the period of time during which an officer may return a contribution that
would otherwise require disqualification under the Levine Act, and thus be
permitted to participate in the relevant proceeding, such that the officer can
return a contribution as late as 30 days from the time the officer makes any
decision in the proceeding.
• Codifies regulations adopted by the FPPC that specify when a person is and is
not an “agent” for the purposes of the Levine Act.
*SB 1243 (Dodd) Campaign Contributions: Agency Officers.
Chapter 1017, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes various changes to the Levine Act that restrict campaign
contributions to agency-elected officials from entities with business before the agency
involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use, including raising the threshold
for campaign contributions regulated by the Levine Act from $250 to $500. This
measure also extends the period during which an officer may cure a violation to within
30 days of accepting, soliciting, or directing the contribution, whichever is latest. This
measure specifies that a person is not a “participant” for the purposes of these
provisions if their financial interest in a decision will result solely from an increase or
decrease in membership dues. The measure also:
• Exempts the following types of proceedings from the types of actions that are
subject to the Levine Act’s restrictions:
o Contracts between two or more governmental agencies.
o Contracts where neither party receives financial compensation.
o Contracts valued under $50,000.
o The periodic review or renewal of development agreements, unless a
material modification or amendment is proposed to the agreement.
• Provides, for the purposes of the Levine Act, that contributions of an agent shall
not be aggregated with contributions from a party or a participant.
• Prohibits an agent to a party or a participant from making a contribution in any
amount to an officer during the proceeding and for 12 months following the date
of the final decision.
• Provides that if a court strikes down the prohibition on contributions by an agent,
the provision providing that agent contributions shall not be aggregated shall be
inoperative.
• Provides that the Levine Act’s restrictions do not apply to an elected officer if the
officer or the body of which they are a member does not have the authority to
make any decision or recommendation in the proceeding.
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SB 948 (Limón) Political Reform Act of 1974: Contribution Limitations.
Chapter 125, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that a candidate who receives campaign contributions for an
election but does not file to run in the primary election, or who wins an election outright
in the primary election without the need for a general election, can transfer campaign
funds raised for the general election to a committee for a subsequent election. This
measure also requires the transferred contributions to be attributed to specific
contributors and subject to any relevant contribution limits.
E. Public Employee Retirement System
AB 1246 (Nguyen) Public Employees’ Retirement: Public Employees’ Retirement
System Optional Settlements.
Chapter 350, Statutes of 2024
This measure, commencing Jan. 1, 2026, permits a member who elected to receive a
specified optional settlement at retirement, if the member’s former spouse was named
as beneficiary and a legal judgment awards only a portion of the interest in the
retirement system to the retired member, to elect to add their new spouse as the
beneficiary of the member’s interest, subject to meeting certain conditions.
AB 2770 (Committee on Public Employment and Retirement) Public Employees’
Retirement.
Chapter 117, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes technical, non-substantive amendments to clean up and clarify
specified portions of the Education and Government Codes regulating the California
State Teachers’ Retirement System, the California Public Employees’ Retirement
System, and the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (37 Act or CERL)
retirement systems.
AB 3025 (Valencia) County Employees’ Retirement: Disallowed Compensation:
Benefit Adjustments.
Chapter 427, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes certain processes and procedures in the County Employees'
Retirement Law (CERL), administered by CERL systems, relating to compensation
earnable, disallowed compensation, and the recovery of overpayments.
F. Public Meetings and Public Records
*AB 1785 (Pacheco) California Public Records Act.
Chapter 551, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a state or local agency from publicly posting the home address,
telephone number, or both the name and assessor parcel number associated with the
home address of any elected or appointed official on the internet without first obtaining
the written permission of that individual.
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*AB 2302 (Addis) Open Meetings: Local Agencies: Teleconferences.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises and recasts the number of meetings that a member of a
legislative body may attend remotely for “just cause” and “emergency circumstances”
without noticing their teleconference location or making that location public. Rather than
specifying 20% of meetings per year, this measure limits the number of meetings as
follows:
• Two meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or
less.
• Five meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets twice per month.
• Seven meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets three or more
times per month.
This measure also changes the definition of a “meeting” for purposes of counting how
many times a member uses their teleconference flexibility to include any number of
meetings of a legislative body that begin on the same calendar day.
*AB 2715 (Boerner) Ralph M. Brown Act: Closed Sessions.
Chapter 243, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that a legislative body can discuss a threat to critical
infrastructure controls or critical infrastructure information relating to cybersecurity
during a closed session.
AB 2738 (Rivas, Luz) Labor Code: Alternative Enforcement: Occupational Safety.
Chapter 969, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the training certification requirements of entertainment
events employees may be alternatively enforced by a public prosecutor and adds a
public events venue or a contracting entity to the entities that may be assessed a
penalty for violating these requirements. This measure subjects the contract to a
provision of the California Public Records Act that makes any executed contract for the
purchase of goods or services by a state or local agency, including the price and terms
of payment, a public record subject to disclosure under that act.
SB 400 (Wahab) Peace Officers: Confidentiality of Records.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the confidentiality provision under the California Public
Records Act does not prohibit an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or
custodial officer from disclosing the termination for cause of that officer.
*SB 1034 (Seyarto) California Public Records Act: State of Emergency.
Chapter 161, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds an additional unusual circumstance under which the initial response
time to a public records request may be extended to include the need to search for,
collect, and appropriately examine records during a state of emergency proclaimed by
the Governor in the jurisdiction where the agency is located. This measure takes effect
when the state of emergency currently affects, due to the state of emergency, the
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agency’s ability to provide a timely response to requests due to staffing shortages or
closure of facilities where the request records are located, and it specifies that this
provision only applies to records not created during and applying to the state of
emergency.
SB 1441 (Allen) Examination of Petitions: Time Limitations and Reimbursement of
Costs.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises rules relating to the process for a county to examine an election
petition for insufficiency to help ensure that examinations are completed in a timely
manner and are not a financial burden to county election offices. A proponent must
conclude an examination of an election petition for insufficiency no later than 60 days
from the date the examination commenced. This measure also requires costs incurred
by the county elections official past the fifth business day of the examination to be paid
by the proponent.
C. Workers’ Compensation
AB 1870 (Ortega) Notice to Employees: Legal Services.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires employers to include information concerning an employee’s right
to consult a licensed attorney in their workers’ compensation employee rights notice.
AB 2337 (Dixon) Workers’ Compensation: Electronic Signatures.
Chapter 392, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the use of electronic signatures in proceedings before the
Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.
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V. Housing, Community, and Economic Development
A. Land Use/Planning
*AB 98 (J. Carrillo and Reyes) Planning and Zoning: Logistics Use: Truck Routes.
Chapter 931, Statutes of 2024
This measure, beginning Jan. 1, 2026, prescribes statewide 21st-century warehouse
design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use
developments within 900 feet of a sensitive receptor, including standards for building
design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and
signage. It also requires any new logistics use development shall be sited on roadways
that meet specific conditions. This measure exempts from those design and build
standards certain existing logistics use developments, proposed expansions of a
logistics use development, and property currently in a local entitlement process to
become a logistics use development. It requires a facility operator, prior to the issuance
of a certificate of occupancy, to establish and submit for approval by a city, county, or
city and county a truck routing plan to and from the state highway system based on the
latest truck route map of the city, county, or city and county. It also requires a facility
operator to enforce the plan.
This measure requires all cities, counties, or a city and county to update their circulation
elements by Jan. 1, 2028, to identify and establish specific travel routes for the transport
of goods, materials, or freight for storage, transfer, or redistribution to safely
accommodate additional truck traffic and avoid residential areas and sensitive receptors
and maximize the use of interstate or state divided highways as preferred routes for
truck routes. This measure requires a city or county to make truck routes publicly
available in geographic information system (GIS) format and share GIS maps of the
truck routes with warehouse operators, fleet operators, and truck drivers. This measure
requires the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino and the Cities of Chino, Colton,
Fontana, Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley, Ontario, Perris, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands,
Rialto, Riverside, and San Bernardino to complete the required circulation element
update by Jan. 1, 2026. This measure authorizes the Attorney General to impose a fine
against a jurisdiction that is in violation of up to $50,000 every six months if the required
circulation element update has not been made. This measure includes additional
replacement housing standards and air quality monitoring requirements. Cal Cities has
prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this document.
AB 1801 (Jackson) Supportive Housing: Administrative Office Space.
Chapter 683, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands what types of supportive housing developments must be
ministerially approved by the local agency to include administrative office spaces
utilized by a nonprofit organization to provide on-site supportive services at a supportive
housing development. This measure reduces the area of the development dedicated to
administrative office space from 50% to 25% of the total floor area. This measure
additionally specifies that a supportive housing development with more than 20 units
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may provide 3% of the total floor area to provide on-site supportive services limited to
tenant use, such as community rooms, case management offices, computer rooms, and
community kitchens, instead of 3% of the total nonresidential floor area.
*AB 1886 (Alvarez) Housing Element Law: Substantial Compliance: Housing
Accountability Act.
Chapter 267, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that a local agency’s housing element is certified only when the
Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) or a court of competent
jurisdictions determines a local agency has met the requirements of the housing
element law. It eliminates the ability of local governments to “self-certify” their housing
elements. It allows the builder’s remedy to begin as soon as HCD has determined a city
is out of compliance with state law and the local agency has missed its statutory
deadline to have a certified housing element.
*AB 1889 (Friedman) Conservation Element: Wildlife and Habitat Connectivity.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to include a wildlife connectivity element in their
next general plan update after Jan. 1, 2028, within their conservation element. The local
jurisdiction must consider how development will impact wildlife movement using relevant
data and consult with appropriate state agencies to achieve this.
*AB 1893 (Wicks) Housing Accountability Act: Housing Disapprovals: Required
Local Findings.
Chapter 268, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local agencies from denying a housing development project if it
is a builder’s remedy, mixed-income, or low-income project, if the city does not have a
certified housing element. This measure also prohibits a local agency from using
objective standards that make a project infeasible or from taking any vote or
administrative action that causes an unnecessary delay or a needless increase in the
cost of the proposed development project. The administrative actions include a local
agency determining an application for a housing development project is incomplete or
requires more than two resubmittals of the application by the applicant unless the local
agency can make a finding that it is not an effective disapproval of the project. Finally,
this measure allows a builder’s remedy project to continue if it was submitted before a
local agency has gotten certified by HCD that they have an approved housing element,
even if the local agency gets certified later.
This measure creates a new definition for housing for mixed-income households to
include any project that proposes the following:
• 7% of the units are meant for highly low-income households.
• 10% of the units are meant for low-income households.
• 13% of the units are dedicated to lower-income households.
• A project with 10 units or fewer on a site smaller than one acre and with a
minimum density of at least 10 units per acre.
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•A project where 100% of the units are dedicated to highly low-income, very low-
income, and low-income households that have an affordable housing cost and
will remain affordable for 55 years.
*AB 2023 (Quirk-Silva) Housing Element: Inventory of Land: Substantial
Compliance: Rebuttable Presumptions.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a higher legal standard for local agencies to challenge the HCD’s
finding that a local government does not have a certified housing element in a court of
law. This measure additionally requires local agencies that do not meet their statutory
deadline for housing elements to complete all site rezoning within one year of their
statutory deadline. Local agencies that submit their housing element 90 days before
their statutory deadline to get a certified housing element by HCD will have three years
and 90 days to complete all rezonings. Finally, any amendments to a local agency’s
housing element in response to the HCD’s findings must go back to HCD for 90 days of
review by HCD and 30 days of public comment, no matter how technical or minor the
proposed amendments to the housing element are.
*AB 2085 (Bauer-Kahan) Planning and Zoning: Permitted Use: Community Clinic.
Chapter 820, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to ministerially approve a community clinic
providing reproductive health services if the site is in a zone where office, retail, parking,
or health care is permitted. This measure requires a local agency to approve or deny a
project application for a community clinic within 60 days of submittal. If a local agency
denies the project application, the jurisdiction must provide written documentation of the
standard or standards that the project conflicts with. Finally, this measure allows the
Attorney General to sue a local agency if it is not following the law.
AB 2117 (Joe Patterson) Development Permit Expirations: Actions or
Proceedings.
Chapter 270, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the timeline for reviewing a variance, conditional use permit, or
other development permit by pausing its expiration when a legal action, court, or
proceeding is taking place to determine whether a project can or cannot be approved.
*AB 2243 (Wicks) Housing Development Projects: Objective Standards:
Affordability and Site Criteria.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends by-right zoning requirements established by AB 2011 (2022) to
regional mall sites up to 100 acres, sites located 500 feet from a freeway so long as
they meet specific air-filtration requirements, and sites within existing high-rise districts
not along a commercial corridor. This measure also clarifies that the affordability
requirements only apply to proposed base units and that any units proposed through the
Density Bonus Law do not count. Finally, this measure sets new timelines for local
agencies to determine if a proposed project meets the following objective planning
standards:
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•60 days after a project proposal is submitted if the project has 150 units or less.
•90 days if the project contains more than 150 units.
•30 days to review a resubmittal in response to the local agency’s findings that a
project does not meet objective planning standards.
AB 2371 (J. Carrillo) Electrified Security Fences.
Chapter 235, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure prohibits local agencies from banning electrified security fences if they
are legally authorized to be used for a commercial purpose that stores, parks, services,
sells, or rents vehicles, vessels, equipment, materials, freight, or utility infrastructure
within an outdoor lot or yard that is not in any existing residential or hospitality zone.
This measure allows local governments to require an administrative permit for approval
if the electrified fence is proposed within a residential zone, abuts a residential property,
or is within 300 feet of a public park, childcare facility, recreation center, community
center, or school facility.
AB 2580 (Wicks) Historical Resources.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to provide information in their annual progress
report regarding new historic designations in the jurisdiction within the last year and the
status of any housing development projects proposed for newly designated historic
sites.
*AB 2597 (Ward) Planning and Zoning: Revision of Housing Element: Regional
Housing Need Allocation Appeals: Southern California Association of
Governments.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes numerous changes to the Regional Housing Need Allocation
(RHNA) process, including:
•Reducing the timeline for local governments to appeal the RHNA numbers from
45 to 30 days.
•Requiring the Council of Governments (COG) to submit proposed RHNA plans to
HCD and to set a date for a public hearing to adopt the final RHNA numbers
within 45 days of a public hearing to consider all appeals filed.
•Reducing the time HCD must determine whether the COG’s final adopted RHNA
plan is consistent with existing and projected housing needs for the region from
30 to 15 days.
•Allowing a COG to reduce the RHNA appellate timeline if there is a minimum of
10 days to appeal the proposed RHNA numbers.
Finally, this measure provides jurisdictions within the Southern California Association of
Governments an additional six months to complete their housing element revisions. It
removes the requirement that a city must have a compliant housing element to access
the extra six months.
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*AB 2632 (Wilson) Planning and Zoning: Thrift Retail Stores.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local governments from treating thrift retail stores differently than
nonthrift retail stores in local zoning codes and development standards. However, local
governments can still enforce reasonable local rules or ordinances for the following:
•Requirements that the delivery of goods or donations is conducted within a
specific area on the premises of the thrift retail store.
•Requirements that donations can only be accepted during business hours.
•Requirements that employees of the thrift retail store operate the donation
process and that the donations of goods from the public are collected and
received by thrift store employees.
•Limitations on the square footage or percentage of the thrift retail store premises
where collecting and receiving donations are allowed.
•Requirements about equipment operation associated with the collection, receipt,
processing, or disposal of used and donated goods.
•Enforcement of health and safety standards, including standards related to the
ingress and egress of the shopping center and the enforcement of illegal
dumping.
AB 2667 (Santiago) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Housing Element:
Reporting.
Chapter 277, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies in the seventh RHNA cycle to make a draft of
their site inventory available to HCD and the public at least 90 days before the housing
element's initial adoption and at least seven days before any subsequent adoption
submittal if the site inventory has changed. It additionally requires HCD to develop a
standardized reporting format for fair housing programs. This measure requires local
agencies to report in their annual reports the number of units approved in the previous
year for acutely low, extremely low, very-low, lower, moderate, and above-moderate-
income households within an opportunity area. Finally, this measure requires local
agencies to make publicly available online its inventory of sites and notify individuals
and organizations that have expressed an interest in the issue by email.
AB 2684 (Bryan) Safety Element: Extreme Heat.
Chapter 1009, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to update and include in their general plans
after Jan. 1, 2028, how to address the hazard of extreme heat. It also requires local
agencies, upon the next revision of their housing element or local hazard mitigation plan
after Jan. 1, 2028, to identify new information related to extreme heat hazards
applicable to the local jurisdiction that was unavailable during the previous revision of
the safety element.
AB 2694 (Ward) Density Bonus Law: Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that a residential care facility for the elderly qualifies as a senior
citizen housing development project under the Density Bonus Law.
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AB 2904 (Quirk-Silva) Zoning Ordinances: Notice.
Chapter 747, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to give the public 20 days’ notice of a
planning commission hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance or amendment to a
zoning ordinance.
AB 2926 (Kalra) Planning and Zoning: Assisted Housing Developments: Notice of
Expiration of Affordability Restrictions.
Chapter 281, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires an owner of an assisted housing development project in which at
least 5% of the units are subject to affordability restrictions that are expiring to either sell
the property to a qualified preservation buyer at fair market value or re-restrict the
development of affordable housing for at least another 30 years. This measure removes
the property owner’s option to hold on to the property for five years and adds new
streamlined, affordable housing projects such as AB 2011 (2022) and SB 4 (2023) to
the list of projects that qualify for the Preservation Notice Law.
*AB 3093 (Ward) Land Use: Housing Element.
Chapter 282, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to account for the housing needs of people
experiencing homelessness in their housing elements by adding two new income
categories to the RHNA framework for the seventh cycle: acutely low income and
extremely low income. This measure also requires the HCD to prepare guidance by
Dec. 31, 2026, that provides sample analyses and programs for local governments to
use in meeting the obligations of this measure.
This measure also requires when the HCD reviews housing elements for compliance
and requires a rezoning of the inventory of sites, the local jurisdiction should complete
any necessary local coastal program amendments during the housing element planning
period if the rezone sites are located within the coastal zone. The amendment could
include an updated zoning ordinance or zoning district map as part of the California
Coastal Commission’s de minimis review process.
AB 3116 (Garcia) Housing Development: Density Bonuses: Student Housing
Developments.
Chapter 432, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a new definition of student housing development projects that
qualify for the Density Bonus Law (DBL). These newly defined developments contain
units with two or more bedspaces that have a shared or private bathroom, have access
to a shared or private living room and laundry facilities, and have access to a shared or
private kitchen. This measure also specifies that if at least 23% of the total student
housing units have lower-income students, the developer qualifies for two incentives or
concessions under the DBL.
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AB 3122 (Kalra) Streamlined Housing Approvals: Objective Planning Standards
and Subdivision Applications.
Chapter 754, Statutes of 2024
This measure reduces the affordable housing threshold that local agencies can apply
recently adopted objective planning standards when an SB 423 (2023) project is
modified post-entitlement and revises certain aspects of the streamlined ministerial
process established by the previous law. The following changes were made in this
measure:
•Clarifies that an SB 423 project application subject to the Subdivision Map Act is
exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and all local
objective standards if the project receives Low-Income Housing Tax Credits or is
in specific infill areas.
•Establishes a lower affordability threshold to include 20% of the total units before
calculating any density bonus, with at least 9% affordable to households earning
up to 50% of area median income (AMI) and the rest affordable to households
earning up to 80% AMI, for SB 423 projects submitted before Jan. 1, 2019, that
include at least 500 units of housing.
•Clarifies that all references to units affordable to very low-income households
that earn 0-50% of AMI include acutely low-income households (that earn 0-15%
of AMI) and extremely low-income households (that earn 15-30% of AMI).
•Establishes a 30-day timeline for local governments to review revisions made to
address written feedback from the local government submitted by the developer.
SB 7 (Blakespear) Regional Housing Need: Determination.
Chapter 238, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local agency from filing an objection to the Reginal Housing
Need Determination (RHND) in regions where HCD is required to act as the COG to
distribute the RHND. This measure reduces the time the COG must distribute the draft
allocation from 90 to 45 days.
SB 347 (Newman) Subdivision Map Act: Exemption: Hydrogen Fueling Stations
and Electric Vehicle Charging Stations.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2024
This measure exempts leases or easements for electric-vehicle charging stations and
hydrogen-fueling stations from the Subdivision Map Act if the project is subject to
discretionary action by the local government.
*SB 450 (Atkins) Housing Development: Approvals.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2024
This measure removes the ability of local governments to deny a SB 9 (2021) project for
objective standards on the specific project. Instead, it specifies that objective standards
must only apply to the underlying zone on which the main lot is located. This measure
also prohibits local agencies from denying an SB 9 project if the proposed project would
impact the physical environment. Finally, this measure requires local agencies to
approve or reject a project application within 60 days from the date the local agency
receives a completed application or is deemed approved.
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*SB 1037 (Wiener) Planning and Zoning: Housing Element: Enforcement.
Chapter 293, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows the Attorney General to fine local jurisdictions up to $50,000 a
month for not having a certified housing element, for not ministerially approving an
affordable housing project required by state law, or for any local agency act or omission
that is “arbitrary, capricious, entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to
established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair.” These fines can only occur
after a court has ruled the city has violated the law. Finally, this measure will fine
jurisdictions $50,000 a month until their housing element is certified by the HCD if the
city does not get a housing element approved by the state within 120 days of a court
ruling that a city does not have a compliant housing element.
SB 1048 (Jones) Planning and Zoning: Local Planning: Site Plans.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides clean-up language regarding site plans that local agencies share
or post online. This measure removes the requirement that a site plan include
topographic lines, drainage, lighting, distance between buildings, and ground sign
locations.
*SB 1123 (Caballero) Planning and Zoning: Subdivisions: Ministerial Review.
Chapter 294, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to ministerially approve the subdivision of a parcel
map for up to 10 housing units and to allow the ministerial approval of any housing units
on-site that are in vacant, single-family zoned sites beginning July 1, 2025. Additional
projects that qualify include:
• Multifamily housing on lots of no more than five acres.
• Single-family housing on lots of no more than 1.5 acres.
• Subdivided parcels that are no smaller than 1,200 square feet.
• Housing units subject to ministerial approval as a tenancy in common.
SB 1514 (Cmte. on Local Government) Local Government Omnibus Act Of 2024.
Chapter 494, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several minor and noncontroversial changes to land use law
regarding the Surplus Land Act (SLA) and the delayed enforcement of code violations
for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU). The following changes were made:
• The SLA had two non-substantive drafting errors to streamline the process for
SLA compliance for local agencies and to reduce uncertainty. This measure
corrects that problem. In addition, there was an incorrect cross-reference to a
nonexistent section of law, which was fixed in this measure.
• Current law allows the owner of an ADU to request a delay in enforcement of any
violation of building standards for five years. The law section contains an
incorrect cross-reference to the definition of an ADU, which required a
reorganization of ADU law, and this measure corrects the cross-reference.
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B. Accessory Dwelling Units
AB 2533 (J. Carrillo) Accessory Dwelling Units: Junior Accessory Dwelling Units:
Unpermitted Developments.
Chapter 834, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local agency from denying a permit for an unpermitted ADU or
Junior Accessory Dwelling Units (JADU) constructed before Jan. 1, 2020, unless the
local agency finds that correcting the violation is necessary to comply with conditions
that would otherwise deem the building substandard. In addition, this measure requires
local agencies to inform the public about the new law through public information
resources, including developing permit checklists showing how a building is deemed
substandard, providing information about this measure on the local agency’s website,
and informing homeowners before submitting a permit application that they may obtain
a third-party code inspection from a licensed contractor. Finally, this measure prohibits
the local agency from requiring a homeowner to pay impact fees or capacity charges on
the unpermitted ADU unless utility infrastructure is necessary not to make the project a
substandard building.
AB 3057 (Wilson) California Environmental Quality Act: Exemption: Junior
Accessory Dwelling Units Ordinances.
Chapter 210, Statutes of 2024
This measure exempts from CEQA any ordinance adopted by a local city or county that
permits the creation of JADUs in single-family residential zones.
SB 477 (Cmte. on Housing) Accessory Dwelling Units.
Chapter 7, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes numerous noncontroversial and technical changes to sections of
laws related to housing. Among these housing-related changes are the following:
• Moves several sections of the Government Code relating to ADUs into a single
chapter.
• Reorganizes sections of housing law related to ADUs and JADUs.
• Integrates changes passed by the Legislature in 2023 and signed into law by the
Governor and updates cross-references impacted by recasting these sections.
SB 1077 (Blakespear) Coastal Resources: Local Coastal Program: Amendments:
Accessory and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2024
In coordination with the HCD, this measure requires the California Coastal Commission
to develop and provide guidance for local governments to clarify and simplify the
permitting process for ADUs and JADUs in the coastal zone and give guidance to
update Local Coastal Programs accordingly by July 1, 2026. This measure also requires
at least one public workshop to receive and consider public comments on the draft
guidance provided by the respective state agencies.
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*SB 1211 (Skinner) Land Use: Accessory Dwelling Units: Ministerial Approval.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to ministerially approve up to eight detached units
on an existing multifamily dwelling lot, so long as the number of ADUs does not exceed
the number of existing dwelling units on the lot. This measure also prohibits local
agencies from requiring the replacement of uncovered parking spaces that are
demolished to construct an ADU.
C. Mobile Homes
AB 661 (Joe Patterson) Utility Services: Electronic Communication.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows mobile home park management to provide tenants with advanced
notice of interruptions to utility services by electronic communication if the tenant gives
their voluntary, written consent to management.
AB 2247 (Wallis) Mobilehome Parks Act: Enforcement: Notice of Violations:
Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization (MORE) Program: Annual
Fee.
Chapter 387, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the sunset date of the Mobilehome Parks Act (MPA) from Jan. 1,
2025, by five years, until Jan. 1, 2030. This measure also adds loans from the
Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization Program to the list of potential
funding sources for mobile home park owners who receive a notice of violation by an
enforcement agency.
AB 2304 (Lee) Unlawful Detainer: Case Records.
Chapter 711, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires court clerks to provide records about unlawful detainer cases
involving the termination of mobile home tenancies if the public requests them.
AB 2373 (Rendon) Mobilehomes: Tenancies.
Chapter 395, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a mobile home park owner from terminating a tenancy due to
nonpayment of rent, utility charges, reasonable incidental charges, or a change in the
park’s use unless the park has a valid permit to operate issued by the enforcement
agency and follows the MPA.
AB 2387 (Pellerin) Mobilehome Parks: Additional Lots: Exemption from Additional
Fees or Charges.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local enforcement agencies from requiring a conditional use
permit, zoning variance, or other zoning approval for up to 10% of additional lots in a
mobile home park. Additionally, it excludes the new lots from any business tax, local
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registration fee, use permit fee, or other fee that does not apply to the existing lots in the
park.
AB 2399 (Rendon) Mobilehome Park Residences: Rental Agreements:
Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires mobile homeowners to provide and include annually a notice
about the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program to the tenants of a mobile
home park.
SB 1190 (Laird) Mobilehomes: Solar Energy Systems.
Chapter 162, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits mobile home park owners from banning or restricting solar
energy systems on the mobile home site, lot, or space and makes any previous
regulations void and unenforceable.
SB 1408 (Roth) Mobilehome Parks: Vehicle Removal.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits management from removing vehicles from a homeowner or
resident’s driveway, parking space, or space provided by management for parking
vehicles if the vehicle is used for work, employment, or advertising trades and services
unless the vehicle extends into the park roadway or poses a significant danger to public
health and safety.
D. Housing and Housing Finance
AB 846 (Bonta) Housing Programs: Rent Increases.
Chapter 674, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) to adopt
regulations by June 30, 2025, to establish a limit on annual rent increases in existing
properties that were allowed a low-income housing tax credit and to assess the rent
increase limit annually. In addition, this measure prohibits rental housing developments
that dedicate 80% of units to lower-income households from exceeding the rent
prescribed by deed restrictions or regulatory agreements required for public financing or
public financial assistance for the rental housing development if the project additionally
receives federal or state low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt private activity
bonds or general obligation bonds, or any local, state, or federal loans or grants.
AB 1053 (Gabriel) Housing Programs: Multifamily Housing Programs:
Expenditure of Loan Proceeds.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows local agencies that use loans under the Multifamily Housing
Program, Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program, Affordable Housing and
Sustainable Communities Program, or any additional multifamily-housing lending
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program to choose to use the loans in the programs to finance construction, create
permanent financing for housing.
AB 1413 (Ting) Housing Accountability Act: Disapprovals: California
Environmental Quality Act.
Chapter 265, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to post within five working days of receiving a
notice from a project applicant that the local agency failed to determine a Housing
Accountability Act project is exempt from CEQA and to post the notice on their internet
website and to interested stakeholders. This measure also requires local agencies to
consider all objections, comments, evidence, and concerns submitted about the project
and may not decide on the project objections until 60 days after the notice is given.
AB 1782 (Ta) Redevelopment: Successor Agencies: Low and Moderate Income
Housing Asset Fund.
Chapter 85, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows local agencies acting as housing successors to spend up to
$500,000 a year, plus any percentage change in the cost of living, on homeless
prevention and rehousing services.
AB 1878 (Garcia) Housing Programs: Tribal Housing Program.
Chapter 266, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates the Tribal Housing Grant Program Fund Advisory Committee to
provide funding to promote housing development on tribal lands. This measure prohibits
HCD from requiring a tribe eligible to receive state funding to waive tribal sovereign
immunity to access state or federal funds.
AB 2005 (Ward) California State University: Faculty and Employee Housing.
Chapter 558, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the California State University (CSU) system to establish and
implement programs that address the housing needs of CSU faculty or employees who
face challenges securing affordable housing. This measure allows CSU to restrict
occupancy of a proposed affordable housing project funded through affordable housing
funds or tax credits and located on CSU land to be strictly occupied by CSU faculty or
employees.
AB 2240 (Arambula) Farm Labor Centers: Migratory Agricultural Workers.
Chapter 523, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires HCD by Jan. 1, 2027, to submit a report to the Assembly and
Senate Housing Committees that analyzes the feasibility and impact of transitioning
housing units at Office of Migrant Services (OMS) centers to year-round availability. The
measure additionally requires HCD after completion of the report to identify available
excess sites near OMS centers to prioritize locations for the development of permanent
farmworker housing on those sites in coordination with the Department of General
Services and Department of Food and Agriculture.
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AB 2424 (Schiavo) Mortgages: Foreclosure.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds new procedural requirements to the foreclosure process, including
notification requirements intended to help borrowers find assistance in navigating the
process, additional time before a foreclosure auction commences for borrowers who
attempt to sell their property, and a minimum sales price in relation to fair market value
for the initial foreclosure auction.
AB 2835 (Gabriel) Motels and Hotels: Publicly Funded Shelter Programs.
Chapter 209, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of transient lodging to include bed-and-breakfasts.
It also allows a shelter program operator to terminate a participant’s enrollment if the
participant physically harms hotel guests. Finally, this measure removes the sunset date
on tenancy rules governing occupancy in interim homelessness programs.
AB 2967 (Ting) Teacher Housing Act of 2016: Nonprofit Organization Employees.
Chapter 748, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the Teacher Housing Act of 2016, which allows school districts
and developers that receive local and state funds or tax credits designated for
affordable rental housing to restrict occupancy in the development project to teachers
and school district employees if the project is located on land owned by school districts,
to include some nonprofit employees. The nonprofit employees must work for a
nonprofit organization that operates early childhood, prekindergarten, school age
childcare, classrooms, programs, or expanded learning classrooms and programs on
school district property that receives funding from the State Department of Education,
the federal Head Start Program, or other public financing programs targeted to children
from families of low and moderate incomes.
SB 440 (Skinner) Regional Housing Finance Authorities.
Chapter 767, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes two or more local governments to establish a regional housing
authority (RHA) to raise, administer, allocate funding, or provide technical assistance for
affordable housing development at the regional level. The RHA can create funding
streams to promote affordable housing development and preserve the infrastructure
necessary for those projects. It additionally allows the RHA to set the land use and
development parameters for affordable housing properties, including the request for
proposal criteria and selection process for a development partner.
SB 1187 (McGuire) Housing Programs: Tribal Housing Reconstitution and
Resiliency Act.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a new tribal housing program, the Tribal Housing Grant Program
within the Department of Housing and Community Development, to construct and
rehabilitate housing on federally recognized Indian reservations or rancherias. The
measure authorizes the funds in the program to be used for providing housing and
housing-related program services for affordable housing, cover housing and community
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development costs, provide management services for affordable housing, or cover
administration costs.
SB 1395 (Becker) Shelter Crisis: Low Barrier Navigation Center: Use by Right:
Building Standards.
Chapter 297, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the sunset date of the Shelter Crisis Act from Jan. 1, 2026, to 1,
2036. It also deletes the sunset date, indefinitely requiring the ministerial approval of
Low Barrier Navigation Centers (LBNC). It revises the definition to clarify that LBNCs
may be non-congregate and relocatable. Finally, this measure exempts from CEQA any
of the following actions by a local agency:
• Facilitating the land lease owned by the local agency for an LBNC.
• Activities associated with the lease for an LBNC.
• Providing financial assistance to LBNCs.
• Constructing or operating an LBNC.
• Entering a contract to provide services to an LBNC.
SB 1512 (Cmte. on Housing) Housing Omnibus.
Chapter 493, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes noncontroversial changes to sections of law relating to housing.
The changes include:
• Replacing a cross-reference to the Tax Credit Allocation Committee with a cross-
reference to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to correctly identify
the state entity that can allocate mortgage credit certificates consistent with
federal law.
• Corrects a cross-reference in the Insurance Code from the “Senate Committee
on Housing and Transportation” to the “Senate Committee on Housing.”
• Restores language that was deleted from the definition of “rural area” by AB 129
(2023) for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit so that an incorporated city
having a population of 40,000 or fewer, as identified in the most recent Report
E-1 published by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance,
is not also in an area located within a census block designated as an urban area
by the United States Census Bureau in the most recent decennial census.
E. Development Fees
*AB 1820 (Schiavo) Housing Development Projects: Applications: Fees and
Exactions.
Chapter 358, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to provide a preliminary fee and exaction estimate
to any development proponent requesting an estimate of project fees within 30 business
days of a request during the preliminary application process. This measure specifies
that the estimate is for informational purposes only and is not legally binding.
Additionally, this measure requires local agencies to post current fee schedules and an
archive of relevant fee studies on their internet websites. Finally, this measure requires
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local agencies 30 days after final approval of a project to provide a total sum of fees and
exactions to the developer.
AB 2430 (Alvarez) Planning and Zoning: Density Bonuses: Monitoring Fees.
Chapter 273, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local governments from charging a monitoring fee to ensure
affordability requirements under the Density Bonus Law (DBL) for a 100% affordable
housing development project. This measure additionally specifies that beginning in
2025, the local government will no longer be able to charge these fees for any project
that currently requires them.
AB 2553 (Friedman) Housing Development: Major Transit Stops: Vehicular Traffic
Impact Fees.
Chapter 275, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local governments to set lower traffic impact mitigation fees for
transit-oriented developments, including if a proposed housing development project will
be developed in an area expected to have a completed transit stop within one year from
the scheduled completion and occupancy of the housing project. This measure also
expands the definition of a major transit stop according to the Mitigation Fee Act and
CEQA to include a transit stop with a service interval of 20 minutes instead of 15
minutes.
AB 3012 (Grayson) Development Fees: Fee Schedule Template: Fee Estimate
Tool.
Chapter 752, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to make a fee estimate tool available on their
internet website that the public can use to estimate fees and exactions for a proposed
housing development by specific deadlines. Cities with a population of 500,000 or more
must comply by July 1, 2031, while cities with a population of 500,000 or fewer must
comply by July 1, 2032.
AB 3177 (W. Carrillo) Mitigation Fee Act: Land Dedications: Mitigating Vehicular
Traffic Impacts.
Chapter 436, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits local agencies from imposing land dedication requirements on
new housing developments for spot widening in Transit Priority Areas or within 1/2 mile
of a planned major transit stop that will be completed before or within one year of the
housing development's completion and occupancy.
*SB 937 (Wiener) Development Projects: Fees And Charges.
Chapter 290, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to defer the payment of mitigation fees until the
certificate of occupancy or final inspection occurs for specific affordable housing
projects. This measure also requires a developer to break ground on the affordable
housing project in five years to qualify for fee deferral and limits when a local agency
can collect fees earlier than a certificate of occupancy.
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The following projects qualify for the fee deferral:
• A project will provide 100% affordable units exclusive of manager’s units.
• Low Barrier Navigation Centers.
• AB 2011 (2023) projects.
• The project is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process.
• The project is a DBL project.
• A project that has 10 units or fewer.
Local agencies can collect fees earlier for the following reasons:
• The fees or charges will reimburse the local agency for expenditures previously
made by the local government.
• Public improvements or facilities related to providing water service to the
residential development.
• Public improvements or facilities related to providing sewer or wastewater
services to the residential project.
• Public improvements or facilities for providing fire, public safety, and emergency
services to the residential development.
• Roads, sidewalks, or other public improvements or facilities that provide
transportation for people serving the development.
• Construction or rehabilitation of school facilities if the school district has a five-
year plan.
Finally, this measure allows developers to choose to post a performance bond or letter
of credit on the proposed projects. However, if they fail to do so, local agencies can put
a lien on the land for unpaid fees or charges.
SB 1210 (Skinner) New Housing Construction: Electrical, Gas, Sewer, and Water
Service: Service Connection Information.
Chapter 787, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires electrical, gas, sewer, and water service utilities to post
estimated fees and timeframes for new service connections for new housing
construction projects on their website on or before Jan. 1, 2026. A utility with fewer than
4,000 service connections that does not establish or maintain an internet website due to
hardship is exempted from this measure so long as the utility annually adopts a
resolution that includes detailed findings on why there is an undue hardship.
F. Housing Regulations
AB 2114 (Irwin) Building Standards: Exterior Elevated Elements: Inspection.
Chapter 100, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure allows a licensed civil engineer to inspect balconies in multiunit buildings
located in common interest developments.
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AB 2579 (Quirk-Silva) Inspections: Exterior Elevated Elements.
Chapter 835, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides a 12-month extension for inspections to begin for balconies in
multifamily dwelling units from Jan. 1, 2025, to Jan. 1, 2026.
AB 2729 (Joe Patterson) Development Projects: Permits and Other Entitlements.
Chapter 737, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends by an additional 18 months any housing entitlements proposed
before Jan. 1, 2024, that will expire on Dec. 31, 2025. In addition, this measure
specifies that the expiration date of an entitlement will be tolled during any time the
entitlement is subject to a legal challenge.
SB 382 (Becker) Single-family Residential Property: Disclosures.
Chapter 443, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires sellers of single-family residential properties after Jan. 1, 2026,
to provide disclosures to prospective buyers that it would be advisable to get an
inspection of the home’s electrical systems and list the various safety risks or concerns
due to substandard, recalled, or faulty wiring and limited electrical capacity. In addition,
the measure requires the property seller to disclose any state or local requirements
relating to the future replacement of existing gas-powered appliances if they are aware
of those upcoming regulations.
SB 1465 (Archuleta) State Building Standards.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2024
This measure updates the definition of substandard buildings to include conditions that
endanger nearby residents or the public regardless of the zoning designation or
approved use of the building if it significantly impacts public health and safety. This
measure prohibits a local enforcement agency from commencing court proceedings to
abate the violation by repair if the building owner declares under the penalty of perjury
that the occupant is illegally occupying the building, the owner has filed and is
prosecuting an unlawful detainer action against the occupant or the occupant is being
removed under criminal trespass laws, or the enforcement agency determines the
substandard building or portion of the building poses no risk to tenants, nearby
residents, or the public.
G. Common Interest Developments
AB 2159 (Maienschein) Common Interest Developments: Association
Governance: Elections.
Chapter 383, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows common interest development (CID) associations to conduct
elections using electronic secret ballots. Members can change their voting method up to
90 days before the election. CIDs must also notify members 30 days before the election
if the election will use an electronic secret ballot.
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AB 2460 (Ta) Common Interest Developments: Association Governance: Member
Election.
Chapter 401, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a CID to provide a general notice for a reconvened meeting at
least 15 days before the meeting if a quorum was not reached at the initial meeting.
SB 900 (Umberg) Common Interest Developments: Repair and Maintenance.
Chapter 288, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a homeowners association (HOA) to make repairs and
replacements necessary to restore interrupted gas, heat, water, or electrical services in
common areas even if the matter extends to individual units, unless there is an
emergency declaration. This measure also requires repairs to be completed within 14
days of a problem occurring, allows the HOA to borrow funds or levy emergency
assessments if reserves are insufficient, and allows the board to expedite repairs if
necessary for public health and safety.
H. Landlord-Tenant
AB 2493 (Pellerin) Tenancy: Application Screening Fee.
Chapter 966, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a landlord from charging an application fee for a tenant if the
landlord knows, or should have known, a unit is available or will be available to rent
within a reasonable time. In addition, this measure limits when a landlord can charge an
application fee for limited circumstances.
AB 2801 (Friedman) Tenancy: Security Deposits.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits landlords from using security deposits for repairs or cleanings
not identified in the itemized statement after a tenant vacates a rental unit and from
using security deposits to pay for professional carpet cleaning or other professional
cleaning services unless it is reasonably necessary to return the premises to their
original condition before tenancy. This measure additionally requires landlords to
provide an itemized statement to the tenant for repairs or cleanings. It requires
photographs of the unit immediately before the tenancy is initiated and after possession
is returned to the landlord before completing repairs or cleanings.
AB 2898 (W. Carrillo) Unbundled Parking: Exemptions: Housing Choice Vouchers.
Chapter 420, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a landlord from requiring a separate lease for a parking space if
the tenant receives a federal Housing Choice Voucher or a federal Veterans Affairs
Supportive Housing voucher.
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SB 393 (Glazer) Civil Actions: Housing Development Projects.
Chapter 285, Statutes of 2024
This measure increases the legal barrier that a defendant must meet when challenging
the development of specific low or moderate-income housing projects through CEQA by
requiring the defendant to show that the action is without merit. This measure
additionally requires the plaintiff to show that posting a bond would create an undue
economic hardship for them and allows the court to decline to impose a bond on the
plaintiff if this is the case.
SB 479 (Durazo) Termination of Tenancy: No-fault Just Cause: Natural Person.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure makes a noncontroversial and technical change to the definitions of a
“natural person” in SB 567 (2023). This measure clarifies that a natural person who can
qualify for owner move-in provisions of the no-fault cause eviction in the Tenant
Protection Act of 2019 by stating that a beneficial owner of a limited liability company or
partnership can utilize these provisions if they have at least 25% ownership interest in
the property.
SB 924 (Bradford) Tenancy: Credit Reporting: Lower Income Households.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2024
This measure removes the July 1, 2025, sunset date, requiring any landlord of an
assisted housing development to offer each tenant on a lease the option of having the
tenant’s rental payment information reported to at least one nationwide consumer
reporting agency. This measure additionally allows a landlord to provide the offer of rent
reporting to the tenant by mail or email after agreement from the tenant.
SB 1051 (Eggman) Victims of Abuse or Violence: Lock Changes.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of a protected tenant for lock changes after a
tenant gives the landlord a copy of a court order or police report regarding abuse or
violence to include an immediate family or household member of a tenant. This
measure requires a landlord to replace the lock at their own expense for tenants who
are victims of abuse or violence within 24 hours of receiving a court order or police
report from the tenant that they are victims of abuse or violence.
I. Community and Economic Development
AB 2213 (B. Rubio) Redevelopment: Oversight Boards.
Chapter 63, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires Redevelopment Oversight Boards territories to align with district
boundaries as determined by the Citizens Redistricting Commission rather than fixed
boundaries established in July 2018. This measure also specifies that if a successor
agency spans more than one district, the county board of supervisors must determine
the oversight boards by July 15, 2025, and then follow any future redistricting
adjustments.
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AB 2832 (Ward) Economic Development: International Trade and Investment.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes funds from the California Agricultural Export Account for
additional activities to promote the sale of California’s agricultural products in foreign
markets and expands the current authority for the Governor’s Office of Business and
Economic Development (GO-Biz) to promote international trade and investments. This
measure also allows the California Department of Food and Agriculture and GO-Biz to
enter contracts exempt from specific state laws to promote California agricultural
exports and expand GO-Biz’s international trade and investment authority.
AB 2873 (Garcia) Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative: Grants.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a grant applicant for the Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative
(BBEI) to avoid partnering with a local workforce development board or community-
based organization if they can demonstrate that securing a partner entity was
impossible before the application deadline closed. This measure additionally reserves
up to 15% of all BBEI funds to go toward applicants that meet the abovementioned
exception.
AB 2922 (Garcia) Economic Development: Capital Investment Incentive Programs.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure reinstates the Capital Investment Incentive Program until Jan. 1, 2035, to
promote economic development in local communities by providing incentives to
qualified manufacturing facilities with an assessed value exceeding $25 million in job
creation for the local community.
J. Regional
AB 2712 (Friedman) Preferential Parking Privileges: Transit-oriented
Development.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits the City of Los Angeles from granting preferential parking
permits to residents of new developments exempt from minimum parking requirements
under existing law.
AB 3035 (Pellerin) Farmworker Housing.
Chapter 524, Statutes of 2024
This measure for the Counties of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz expands the streamlined,
ministerial approval process for farmworker housing to include agricultural housing
developments that are 150 units or fewer and within 15 miles of an area designated as
farmland or grazing by the Department of Conservation and is not a site or adjoined to a
site where more than one-third of the square footage is dedicated to industrial use.
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SB 572 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Surplus State Real Property: Community Land
Trusts.
Chapter 770, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the Department of General Services to sell approximately
59,200 square feet of property off Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles by Jan. 1, 2030,
for the purposes of redeveloping the property as an affordable housing or mixed-use
housing project. If the property is not sold by Jan. 1, 2030, the property can be disposed
of through the current process for the disposal of surplus property.
SB 951 (Wiener) California Coastal Act of 1976: Coastal Zone: Coastal
Development.
Chapter 775, Statutes of 2024
This measure exempts a local government that is both a city and county from Coastal
Commission appeals after the city and county has gotten its local coastal program
approved and certified by the Coastal Commission.
SB 958 (Dodd) Surplus State Property: County of Napa.
Chapter 988, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the Department of General Services to sell or exchange at fair
market value Camp Coombs to the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park
and Open Space District by Jan. 1, 2026.
SB 1336 (Archuleta) Department of General Services: State Property: Metropolitan
State Hospital.
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2024
This measure will allow the Department of General Services to lease seven buildings at
the Metropolitan State Hospital in the City of Norwalk to a nonprofit or local government
for up to 65 years to provide care, resources, and housing for individuals with behavioral
health needs, under terms deemed suitable by the director.
SB 1357 (Wahab) Housing Authority of the County of Alameda.
Chapter 795, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the County of Alameda Housing Authority to, by Jan. 1, 2026,
conduct an evaluation and review of its internet website to ensure the website is easily
accessible and navigable for those who are non-English speakers. By March 31, 2025,
this measure also requires the authority to publish Housing Choice Voucher program
waitlist data on its website. Finally, this measure requires the development of an annual
report, beginning on Sept. 30, 2025, to publish data on its website the efficacy of its
programs, data about the properties the authority manages, and employment within the
housing authority.
SB 1500 (Durazo) Housing: Federal Waiver: Income Eligibility.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2024
This measure for the City and County of Los Angeles prohibits the Tax Credit Allocation
Committee and the HCD from taking negative actions against affordable housing
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developments that violate income limit requirements unless the following conditions
have been met:
• The owner has cured the noncompliance within 24 months of discovering the
violation.
• The local housing authority and the continuum of care (COC) have posted on
their website plans describing how the housing authority and the COC will
coordinate moving tenants that do not meet income requirements into affordable
housing that the tenant is eligible for within 24 months of discovering the
violation.
K. Miscellaneous
AB 2786 (Bonta) Certified Mobile Farmers’ Markets.
Chapter 915, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a new definition of a certified mobile farmers’ market to include a
food facility that moves to various California agricultural product point-of-sale locations
operated by a California producer, a local agency, or a nonprofit association that sells or
distributes agricultural products directly to communities. This newly defined operator
must meet specific regulations, including:
• Having a valid certified producer’s certificate.
• Providing an itemized list of products purchased to include the producer’s
identity, the producer’s address, and the product’s identity and quantity.
• Complying with all labeling and identification requirements for shell eggs and
processed foods.
• Ensuring all products are organic and clearly labeled or having a sign identifying
the products as organic.
• Registering annually with the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
• Providing a schedule of point-of-sale locations and expected sales intervals.
• Receiving all required permitting for mobile food facilities.
SB 1340 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Discrimination.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes local agencies to enforce the employment components of
California’s state civil rights law.
SB 1382 (Glazer) Community and Rural Health Clinics: Building Standards.
Chapter 796, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires construction standards for community clinics or rural health
clinics to comply with safety and accessibility standards required for the clinic's physical
environment to ensure participation in the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Additionally, this measure removed a previous restriction that prevented local building
standards for clinics from being more stringent than those applied to other licensed
clinics.
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VI. Public Safety
A. Alcoholic Beverages
AB 1940 (Villapudua) Alcoholic Beverages: Beer Returns.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows, with Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) approval, a
wholesaler or manufacturer to accept the return of a seasonal brand of beer from a
retail licensee if the beer is exchanged for a quantity of beer of similar quality but of
another manufacturer if the original manufacturer has ceased doing business.
AB 2069 (Gallagher) Sale of Soju and Shochu.
Chapter 306, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides that any on-sale licensee authorized to sell wine may also sell
domestically produced soju and shochu.
AB 2094 (Flora) Alcoholic Beverage Control: Public Community College
Stadiums: City of Bakersfield.
Chapter 213, Statutes of 2024
This measure adds an exception to the current prohibition of the sale of alcoholic
beverages near schools and allows alcoholic beverages that are acquired, possessed,
or used during events at a public community college stadium with a capacity of 19,000
or more people in the City of Bakersfield. This measure would define events for this
purpose to mean sporting events or concerts sponsored by a public community college
or other events sponsored by noncollege groups.
AB 2174 (Aguiar-Curry) Alcoholic Beverages: Beer Caterer’s Permit.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2024.
This measure authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer to apply for a beer caterer’s
permit for the sale of up to 124 gallons of beer manufactured by or for the licensee per
catering event for consumption at specified locations and events, including, among
others, conventions, sporting events, and trade exhibits.
AB 2177 (McKinnor) Winegrowers: Spirits of Wine.
Chapter 61, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a winegrower to sell the spirits of wine that the winegrower
produces to any licensee who manufactures distilled spirits.
AB 2359 (Ting) Alcoholic Beverage Control: Neighborhood-restricted Special On-
sale General Licenses.
Chapter 393, Statutes of 2024
This measure increases the total number of new licenses authorized for neighborhood-
restricted licenses from 30 to 40 and increases the total authorized number of licenses
for each neighborhood from five to 10 licenses for the City and County of San
Francisco.
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AB 2375 (Lowenthal) Alcoholic Beverages: On-sale General Public Premises:
Drink Lids.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires an applicant for a new permanent general premises license
(Type 48) and the holder of an existing Type 48 license to, upon request, provide a lid
with a customer’s drink. It also requires a licensee to post a related notice containing
specified language in a prominent and conspicuous location.
AB 2378 (Calderon) Alcoholic Beverage Control: Licensing Exemption:
Apprenticeship Program for Bartending or Mixology.
Chapter 309, Statutes of 2024.
This measure allows for the service of alcoholic beverages without a license or permit
by an apprenticeship program for bartending or mixology, if certain requirements are
met.
AB 2389 (Lowenthal) Alcoholic Beverages: On-sale General - Eating Place and
On-sale General Public Premises: Drug Reporting.
Chapter 310, Statutes of 2024.
This measure requires an applicant for a new permanent Type 48 license or the holder
of an existing Type 48 license to contact and provide specified information to law
enforcement or emergency medical services when they are notified by a customer that
the customer or another customer believes they have been a victim of drink spiking.
AB 2402 (Lowenthal) Drink Spiking.
Chapter 829, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires, on or before Jan. 1, 2027, the Responsible Beverage Service
training courses provided by the ABC to include best practices on how to prevent or
protect a person from drink spiking and best practices if the person believes they have,
or someone they know has, been drugged as a result of drink spiking.
AB 2589 (Patterson, Joe) Alcoholic Beverages: Additional Licenses: County of El
Dorado and County of Placer.
Chapter 312, Statutes of 2024.
This measure authorizes the ABC to issue, except as specified, up to a total of 10
additional new original on-sale general licenses for bona fide public eating places, up to
four in the first year the bill takes effect, in the County of El Dorado and in the County of
Placer, to premises where the operation of a bona fide public eating place is located in a
retail center.
AB 3206 (McKinnor) Alcoholic Beverages: Hours of Sale: Arenas in the City of
Inglewood.
Chapter 977, Statutes of 2024
This bill would, until Jan. 1, 2030, authorize alcoholic beverage sales to occur between
2 a.m. and 4 a.m. within the Intuit Dome in the City of Englewood.
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AB 3285 (Cmte. on Governmental Organization) Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Chapter 230, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several technical changes to various code sections related to the
ABC.
SB 1224 (Ochoa Bogh) Alcoholic Beverage Control: On-sale General License:
County of Riverside.
Chapter 132, Statutes of 2024
This measure exempts land owned by the County of Riverside and the Riverside
Fairgrounds from the requirement that licensed on-site premises must operate as a
bona fide eating place in order to serve alcoholic beverages.
SB 1371 (Bradford) Alcoholic Beverage Control: Proof of Age.
Chapter 606, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes the use of biometric systems as a form of age verification of
patrons a legal defense for any criminal prosecution against the vendors for selling
alcohol to underaged patrons.
B. Cannabis
AB 1775 (Haney) Cannabis: Retail Preparation, Sale, and Consumption of
Noncannabis Food and Beverage Products.
Chapter 1004, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a local jurisdiction to allow for the preparation or sale of non-
cannabis food or beverage products by a licensed retailer or microbusiness in the area
where the consumption of cannabis is allowed. This measure also allows a licensed
retailer to sell tickets for live musical or other performances on the premises of a
licensed retailer or microbusiness in the area where the consumption of cannabis is
allowed. This measure would not apply to industrial hemp products.
*AB 2643 (Wood) Cannabis Cultivation: Environmental Remediation.
Chapter 839, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to conduct a study to create
a framework for cannabis-site restoration projects with the goal of providing guidance
for the cleanup, remediation, and restoration of environmental damage caused by
cannabis cultivation, and to complete the study by Jan. 1, 2027.
AB 2841 (Waldron) Controlled Substances: Research Advisory Panel: Meetings.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the Research Advisory Panel to hold closed sessions for the
purpose of discussing, reviewing, and approving research projects that contain sensitive
and confidential information, including trade secrets, intellectual property, or proprietary
information in its possession.
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*SB 1064 (Laird) Cannabis: Operator and Separate Premises License Types:
Excessive Concentration of Licenses.
Chapter 875, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises the Medical and Adult Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act
licensing scheme for commercial cannabis activities by adding a combined activities
license classification. It also defines “combined activities license” as a state license that
authorizes two or more commercial cannabis activities at the same premises, with the
exception of laboratory testing.
SB 1109 (Bradford) Cannabis: Demographic Information of License Applicants.
Chapter 878, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) to collect and
consolidate the demographic information about every license applicant, and requires the
DCC to publish the aggregate demographic data that it collects on its internet website.
SB 1498 (Ashby) Cannabis and Industrial Hemp: Advertising: Civil Action.
Chapter 899, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the Attorney General, a city attorney, a district attorney, or
county counsel to bring a civil action in superior court to redress a violation of specified
advertising prohibitions for cannabis and industrial hemp products.
C. Crime and Sentencing
AB 1831 (Berman) Crimes: Child Pornography.
Chapter 926, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the scope of what constitutes child pornography to include
material that is digitally altered or artificially generated that depicts a person under the
age of 18 years old engaged in or simulating sexual conduct.
AB 1874 (Sanchez) Crimes: Disorderly Conduct.
Chapter 554, Statutes of 2024
This measure increases the punishment for a second or subsequent offense, or if the
victim is a minor, for those who surreptitiously film, photograph, or record a person who
is in a state of undress. The punishment would increase to be punishable as a felony
with a term of incarceration ranging from one year to three years in county jail and a fine
of up to $2,000.
AB 1892 (Flora) Interception of Electronic Communications.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the current authorization that allows judges, until Jan. 1, 2030, to
authorize an order for the interception of wire or electronic communications if there is
probable cause the individual who will be surveilled is committing, is about to commit, or
has committed specific crimes. This measure expands this order for the interception of
electronic communication to include the distribution of obscene material depicting
persons under the age of 18 years old.
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AB 1962 (Berman) Crimes: Disorderly Conduct.
Chapter 367, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of disorderly conduct to include the distribution of
images or film or other material captured of a person obtained through the surreptitious
filming, photographing, or recording of that person without their consent.
AB 1978 (Sanchez) Vehicles: Speed Contests.
Chapter 501, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes peace officers to seize and impound vehicles without being
required to take the driver of the vehicle into custody if the driver was using their vehicle
to obstruct or barricade a roadway or parking lot to facilitate and aid a speed contest.
AB 1979 (Ward) Doxing Victims Recourse Act.
Chapter 557, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a private course of action for civil remedies against a person who
doxes another person with the intent to intimidate or cause unwanted contact, injury, or
harassment by a third party, prompting reasonable fear for that person’s safety. This
measure creates a civil pathway for victims to seek remedy for both economic and
noneconomic damages caused by the person who doxed them.
AB 2018 (Rodriguez) Controlled Substances: Fenfluramine.
Chapter 98, Statutes of 2024
This measure removes the substance fenfluramine from the list of Schedule IV narcotics
in the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act and from the list of controlled
substances.
AB 2021 (Bauer-Kahan) Crimes: Selling or Furnishing Tobacco or Related
Products and Paraphernalia to Underage Persons.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a fine for businesses, retailers, firms, or wholesalers who sell
tobacco or tobacco products to those under the age of 21 years old. The fine for the first
offense is set at $500, for the second offense at $1,000, and $5,000 for any subsequent
offense.
AB 2024 (Pacheco) Domestic Violence: Restraining Orders.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits the rejection of a protective order if the order has been
submitted on the specified mandatory Judicial Council form, contains all the required
documentation to issue an order, and clearly identifies both parties.
AB 2049 (Pacheco) Motions for Summary Judgment: Filing Deadlines.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises the deadlines for a motion for summary judgment or summary
adjudication. This measure lengthens the timeline to file a motion for summary judgment
or summary adjudication from 75 days prior to the hearing to 81 days. The opposition
must then respond to the motion at least 20 days prior to the hearing, revised from 14
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days prior to the hearing. Lastly, those initiating the motion must file a reply 11 days
prior to the hearing.
AB 2099 (Bauer-Kahan) Crimes: Reproductive Health Services.
Chapter 821, Statutes of 2024
This measure increases the punishments for violating the California Freedom of Access
to Clinic and Church Entrances Act to either a misdemeanor or felony. The offense
punishable as either a misdemeanor or felony will be the posting of images and
information of a reproductive care facility or the personal information of the patients,
providers, or individuals associated with the facility with the intent that another person
will use this information to commit a crime involving a threat of or acts of violence. If the
crime initiated by this information about the facility or associated individuals results in
great bodily injury, the offense will be punished as a felony.
AB 2111 (Wallis) License Plates: Obstruction or Alteration.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a person from altering their license plate in any way that is
meant to evade the visual or electronic capture of the license plate, regardless of who is
capturing the license plate details.
AB 2115 (Haney) Controlled Substances: Clinics.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes medical practitioners at a nonprofit or free clinic to prescribe
and supply no more than a three-day supply of a Schedule 2 narcotic for the purpose of
relieving withdrawal symptoms while arrangements for referral for greater treatment are
made. The clinic supplying these narcotics will be required to comply with specific
reporting, labeling, and recordkeeping as well as the establishment of policies and
procedures surrounding the supply and use of the narcotic.
AB 2215 (Bryan) Criminal Procedure: Arrests.
Chapter 954, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes an arresting peace officer to release an individual from
custody without bringing that individual before a judge if that individual is, subsequent to
being arrested, delivered to a public health or social services facility that provides
specified services and the facility agrees to take them for treatment. This arrest is
classified as a detention on that individual’s record.
AB 2295 (Addis) Crimes: Commencement of Prosecution.
Chapter 825, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that if prosecution for a felony sex offense was committed when
the victim was under the age of 18 years old and did not commence by the victim’s 40th
birthday, the prosecuting agency may provide victim assistance, including support in
pursuing restorative justice.
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AB 2308 (Davies) Domestic Violence: Protective Orders.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the available maximum a court can issue a protective restraining
order that prohibits all types of contact with the victim by the subject for specified
domestic violence offenses from 10 years to 15 years. The issuing court is also required
to provide written notice, 15 days prior to a hearing, to all parties involved if the
prosecuting attorney, victim, or defendant request to amend or terminate the order by
request.
AB 2483 (Ting) Postconviction Proceedings.
Chapter 964, Statutes of 2024
This measure sets a uniform standard for handling postconviction proceedings for
defendants eligible for resentencing. This measure requires the presiding judges of
each county superior court to convene a meeting with the district attorney, the public
defenders, and other entities the judge deems necessary to be included to develop a
fair and efficient plan for handling postconviction proceedings.
AB 2521 (Waldron) Criminal Procedure: Confidentiality and DNA Testing.
Chapter 153, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends access to the confidential request made by an indigent defendant
in a capital murder case to have the court fund investigators, experts, and any other
necessary preparation for the defense include the prosecuting attorney agency. Further,
this measure requires both the district attorney and Attorney General in both capital and
noncapital cases to come into agreement with each other and the defendant on which
laboratory will conduct the forensic DNA testing granted by the court, if the defendant is
a convicted felon serving a prison term.
AB 2536 (Hoover) Vehicles: Local Registration Fees.
Chapter 16, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of vehicle theft to include the theft of parts or
components of the vehicle, making these crimes eligible for funding programs to deter,
investigate, and prosecute vehicle theft crimes funded by county-imposed vehicle
registration fees.
AB 2730 (Lackey) Sexual Assault: Medical Evidentiary Examinations.
Chapter 113, Statutes of 2024
This measure removes the requirement for qualified health-care professionals that are
physician assistants, nurses, and nurse practitioners to consult with a physician during
the examination and treatment of sexual assault victims. This measure also includes
licensed and certified nurse-midwives working with a physician as a qualified health-
care professional eligible to conduct these examinations and treatments.
AB 2807 (Villapudua) Vehicles: Sideshows and Street Takeovers.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies in law that a “sideshow” is another term for what is defined as a
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“street takeover,” aligning different regional terminology for the offense of engaging in
motor vehicle exhibition of speed on highways or aiding such exhibitions.
AB 2984 (Gipson) Fleeing the Scene of an Accident.
Chapter 750, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the statute of limitations for the crime of fleeing the scene of an
accident and leaving the state to avoid prosecution. This measure allows the statute of
limitations to be tolled up to three years during any time the person is out of the state.
AB 2985 (Hart) Courts: Mental Health Advisement.
Chapter 204, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the court to provide jurors serving on a jury in a criminal case or
an alleged violent felony proceeding information on mental health services.
AB 3085 (Gipson) Vehicles: Removal and Impoundment.
Chapter 504, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands offenses for which a peace officer is allowed to seize and
impound a vehicle for up to 30 days pursuant to a warrant or order from a judge. This
measure allows law enforcement to impound vehicles of those engaged in or aiding and
abetting vehicle speed contests on a highway or in off-street parking lots.
AB 3235 (Bryan) Fingerprint Rollers and Custodians of Records.
Chapter 254, Statutes of 2024
This measure gives the Department of Justice (DOJ) discretion to determine if a felony
conviction, an arrest pending conviction, or a conviction for an offense related to the
qualifications of a fingerprint roller or custodian of records is a basis to refuse
certification or revoke certification for both positions.
SB 268 (Alvarado-Gil) Crimes: Serious and Violent Felonies.
Chapter 855, Statutes of 2024
This measure designates the crime of the rape of an intoxicated person in which the
defendant drugged the victim with the intent to commit the sexual assault as a violent
felony. This would make the offense eligible for sentencing enhancements and a strike
under California’s Three Strikes Law.
SB 285 (Allen) Criminal Procedure: Sentencing.
Chapter 979, Statutes of 2024
This measure, beginning Jan. 1, 2025, provides that any individual sentenced to death
or life without parole who has been convicted of a sexually violent crime and has not
had their sentence reviewed by the sentencing court is ineligible to call for a recall and
resentencing.
SB 442 (Limón) Sexual Battery.
Chapter 981, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the definition of sexual battery to include a person causing
another person to, against their will, touch an intimate part of that person or a third
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person. This offense is punishable as either a misdemeanor that carries up to a year of
incarceration in county jail or a felony that carries two to four years of incarceration.
SB 554 (Cortese) Restraining Orders.
Chapter 652, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the allowable jurisdictions for an individual seeking a protective
restraining order to the county superior court the offense took place in, the county the
defendant resides in, or the county the victim either resides in or is temporarily located
in. This measure also allows for nonresidents of the state to file for protective orders in
these jurisdictions.
SB 690 (Rubio) Domestic Violence.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the statute of limitations for the prosecution of domestic violence
from five years from when the crimes occurred up to seven years.
SB 764 (Padilla) Minors: Online Platforms.
Chapter 611, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides monetary protection to minors engaged in the work of vlogging
and online content creation by requiring a trust preserving the minor’s gross earnings to
be established as a condition of the engagement in content creation. This measure
requires the vlogger to provide a written statement, under penalty of perjury,
establishing the existence of the trust account and to maintain records of compensation
generated by the material the minor(s) appeared in and the amount deposited into the
trust accounts.
SB 908 (Cortese) Fentanyl: Child Deaths.
Chapter 867, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to identify
trends in fentanyl-related deaths in children aged zero to 5 years old and develop
guidelines to distribute on how to protect against and prevent fentanyl-related deaths in
children. This measure also requires CDPH to publish a report by Jan. 1, 2026, and
continue to do so annually, on its findings and distribute these findings and guidelines to
local health departments. This measure has a sunset date of Jan. 1, 2029.
SB 926 (Wahab) Crimes: Distribution of Intimate Images.
Chapter 289, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a new crime for a person who is 18 years or older to intentionally
create and distribute, or cause the creation and distribution of any photograph, digital or
electronic image, computer-generated image, or artificially generated images depicting
any sexual conducts or acts. This crime is considered disorderly conduct and subject to
punishment as a misdemeanor offense.
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SB 976 (Skinner) Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act.
Chapter 321, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits operators of internet websites, apps, and other online services
from specific behaviors that are detrimental to minors using these services. This
measure prohibits the use of addictive feeds to a minor by operators of these services,
unless the provider does not know the user is a minor. This measure requires that by
Jan. 1, 2027, providers must obtain or reasonably determine the user to either not be a
minor or have obtained the minor’s parental consent. It also prohibits providers from
sending minors notifications during school hours.
SB 981 (Wahab) Sexually Explicit Digital Images.
Chapter 292, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires social media platforms to immediately remove from public
viewing any reported instances of “sexually explicit digital identity theft” when sexually
explicit material has been created or altered to depict intimate body parts of a person
who did not consent to the creation or posting of such material or use of their likeness
for the material.
SB 989 (Ashby) Domestic Violence: Deaths.
Chapter 654, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several changes to existing law regarding the investigation and
handling of deaths related to domestic violence or of a person who has a history of
domestic violence victimization. This measure allows for family members of the
deceased victim to obtain photographs or videos taken by the coroner through written
authorization for use in a potential civil action against the suspect. If any individual is
suspected of committing suicide but has a history of domestic violence victimization, the
coroner must investigate the case and may consult with forensic pathologists.
SB 1025 (Eggman) Pretrial Diversion for Veterans.
Chapter 924, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the existing law to include certain felony offenses as eligible for
the Military Pretrial Diversion Program if it can be shown the defendant’s condition, as a
result of their military service, was an influencing factor in the commission of the
offense. All felony charges except murder, manslaughter, or sexual offense are eligible
for the pretrial diversion program.
SB 1323 (Menjivar) Criminal Procedure: Competence to Stand Trial.
Chapter 646, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises the process for determining if a defendant is mentally competent
to stand trial. Rather than the court holding a hearing to determine the defendant’s
mental competency for trial, this measure allows an evaluation by one or two licensed
psychologists or psychiatrists and requires them to submit a report to the court on the
defendant’s mental cognition. The court, if neither prosecution nor defense objects, may
use this report in its determination on whether the defendant is mentally competent to
stand trial.
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SB 1381 (Wahab) Crimes: Child Pornography.
Chapter 929, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the scope of the definition of child pornography to include matter
that is digitally altered or generated by artificial intelligence to depict an individual under
the age of 18 years old engaged in sexual conduct.
SB 1386 (Caballero) Evidence: Sexual Assault.
Chapter 993, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends existing protection under the Rape Shield’s Law in criminal
sexual harassment, sexual assault, or sexual battery proceedings to civil sexual
harassment, sexual assault, or sexual battery proceedings. Specifically, this measure
prevents the defendant from using the plaintiff’s previous sexual history or conduct, or
any other opinion evidence, to challenge the plaintiff’s credibility on consent or injury.
SB 1400 (Stern) Criminal Procedure: Competence to Stand Trial.
Chapter 647, Statutes of 2024
This measure removes the ability of the court to dismiss a defendant’s misdemeanor
charge and requires the court to hold a hearing to determine the defendant’s eligibility
for diversion and treatment programs. If the defendant is determined to be ineligible for
these programs, the court is required to determine if the defendant will be enrolled in the
Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) program, placed in
outpatient treatment, or placed under conservatorship, or if the defendant’s treatment
plan will be modified.
SB 1414 (Grove) Crimes: Solicitation of a Minor.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2024
This measure increases the punishment for the crime of soliciting a minor under the age
of 16 years old or of soliciting a minor under the age of 18 years old who is a victim of
human trafficking. This measure raises this offense from a misdemeanor to being
eligible for sentencing as either a misdemeanor or a felony. This offense is now
punishable by one year in a county jail and a $10,000 fine as a misdemeanor or 16
months to three years and a $10,000 fine as a felony. A second or subsequent violation
is punishable as a felony.
D. Emergency Services and Preparedness
AB 977 (Rodriguez) Emergency Departments: Assault and Battery.
Chapter 937, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes an assault or battery committed against a physician, nurse, or
other health-care worker of a hospital engaged in providing services within the
emergency department punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one
year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
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AB 1316 (Irwin) Emergency Services: Psychiatric Emergency Medical Conditions.
Chapter 632, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises the definition of “psychiatric emergency medical condition” to
make that definition applicable regardless of whether the patient is voluntary, or is
involuntarily detained for assessment, evaluation, and crisis intervention, or placement
for evaluation and treatment.
AB 1843 (Rodriguez) Emergency Ambulance Employees.
Chapter 943, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires an emergency ambulance provider to offer to all emergency
ambulance employees, upon the employee’s request, peer support services to provide
peer representatives who are available to come to the aid of their fellow employees on a
broad range of emotional or professional issues.
AB 1863 (Ramos) California Emergency Services Act: Notification Systems:
Feather Alert.
Chapter 659, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES), in
consultation with specified groups including tribal nations, to develop policies and
procedures providing instruction for law enforcement agencies and other entities on how
to proceed when a missing person has been reported.
AB 2225 (Rodriguez) Discovery: Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Person or
Personnel Review Committees.
Chapter 329, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the protection of organized committees of health-care
professionals from having their quality assurance review meetings and conversations
recorded and used as evidence in legal proceedings to prehospital emergency services
providers.
AB 2348 (Ramos) California Emergency Services Act: Notification Systems:
Feather Alert.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires CalOES, in consultation with specified groups including tribal
nations, to develop policies and procedures providing instruction specifying how a law
enforcement agency and certain entities involved in emergency warnings are required
to proceed after a missing person has been reported to a law enforcement agency. This
measure requires those policies and procedures to include procedures for the transfer
of information regarding the missing person and the circumstances surrounding the
missing person’s disappearance.
AB 2645 (Lackey) Electronic Toll Collection Systems: Information Sharing: Law
Enforcement.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a transportation agency that employs an electronic toll
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collection system to provide the date, time, and location of a vehicle license plate read
captured by the system to a peace officer in response to an emergency alert.
AB 2859 (Patterson, Jim) Emergency Medical Technicians: Peer Support.
Chapter 744, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes an emergency medical services provider to establish a peer
support and crisis referral program to provide a network of peer representatives
available to aid fellow employees on emotional or professional issues.
AB 2968 (Connolly) School Safety and Fire Prevention: Fire Hazard Severity
Zones: Comprehensive School Safety Plans: Communication and Evacuation
Plans.
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the disaster procedures in the comprehensive school safety
plans to include the establishment of a procedure to identify appropriate refuge shelter
for all pupils and staff for use in the event of an evacuation order, and to notify the
operational area having jurisdiction of the refuge.
SB 990 (Padilla) Office of Emergency Services: State Emergency Plan: LGBTQ+
Individuals.
This measure requires CalOES no later than Jan. 1, 2029, and every five years
thereafter, to update the State Emergency Plan to include proposed policies and best
practices for local government and nongovernmental entities to equitably serve lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and plus communities during an
emergency or natural disaster.
E. Firearms
AB 1982 (Mathis) Firearm Safety Certificate: Exemptions.
Chapter 146, Statutes of 2024
This measure would include a Veteran Health Identification Card issued by the
Department of Veteran Affairs as appropriate documentation to prove an individual
qualifies for the exemptions to possess a firearm safety certificate in order to purchase
or possess a firearm.
AB 2629 (Haney) Firearms: Prohibited Persons.
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the current prohibition of possessing or purchasing firearms by
those who have been found mentally incompetent to stand trial to include those found
mentally incompetent to stand trial in post-release community supervision or parole
revocation hearings.
AB 2739 (Maienschein) Firearms.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2024
This measure would expand the violation for illegally carrying or concealing a handgun,
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and its consequential eligibility for forfeiture and destruction, to any firearm. Any firearm
illegally concealed or openly carried, whether loaded or unloaded, will be deemed a
nuisance and is subject to forfeiture and destruction, as handguns are under current
law.
AB 2759 (Petrie-Norris) Domestic Violence Protective Orders: Possession of A
Firearm.
Chapter 535, Statutes of 2024
This measure revises the current exemption in existing law concerning the
relinquishment of possessed firearms and ammunition for those served with protective
orders, as well as barring those individuals from the purchase of further firearms or
ammunition. The exemption now allows the court to permit sworn peace officers to carry
specific firearms or ammunition on and off duty as a condition of employment and/or a
matter of personal safety if they are deemed not to be an additional threat and have
been psychologically evaluated by domestic violence specialists.
AB 2822 (Gabriel) Domestic Violence.
Chapter 536, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires that a law enforcement agency’s domestic violence incident
report form used by officers responding to domestic violence calls include space for
documenting the presence and removal of any deadly weapons from the location of the
domestic violence incident.
AB 2842 (Papan) Firearms.
Chapter 537, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires any law enforcement agency that contracts with a third party for
gun-buyback programs to ensure the destruction of the firearms procured through such
a program and prohibits the sale of any part or attachment from those procured firearms
to be resold by the third party. This measure allows for an exemption to the required
destruction of these firearms if they are donated to a museum or historical society.
AB 2907 (Zbur) Firearms: Restrained Persons.
Chapter 538, Statutes of 2024
This measure would expand upon the existing prohibition of purchase or possession of
firearms and ammunition by those subject to a protective or restraining order to those
who are subject to specific protective orders issued in domestic violence convictions.
This measure also requires law enforcement officers responding to domestic violence
calls to question the arrestee, victim, and all related parties about the presence and
location of any deadly weapon and to confiscate any weapon discovered during a lawful
search.
AB 2917 (Zbur) Firearms: Restraining Orders.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the criteria for which a gun violence restraining order can be
issued, barring those who are subject to the order from purchasing or possessing a
firearm or ammunition for a period of one to five years. This measure expands the
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reviewable criteria to include consideration of recent threats or acts of violence directed
toward another group or location, a past history of such threats or acts, politically
motivated threats or acts, stalking, and animal cruelty, all as determinates for the
extension of protective orders.
AB 3064 (Maienschein) Firearms.
Chapter 540, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the DOJ, beginning on Jan. 1, 2026, to charge manufacturers
of firearm-safety devices a fee for processing and listing of new devices on the roster of
the DOJ-approved devices for sale within the state. The DOJ is also authorized to
charge manufacturers and importers of already rostered devices an annual fee to cover
the costs of prototype storage.
AB 3072 (Petrie-Norris) Child Custody: Ex Parte Orders.
Chapter 317, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the court to consider a parent’s access, possession, or purchase
of a firearm illegally as a demonstration of immediate harm to the child when
determining granting or modifying a child custody order on an ex parte basis.
AB 3083 (Lackey) Domestic Violence: Protective Orders: Background Checks.
Chapter 541, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires all courts in the state to conduct a search, in compliance with the
Domestic Violence Prevention Act, through the DOJ’s Automated Firearms Systems to
determine if the subject of a protective order has firearms registered to them.
SB 53 (Portantino) Firearms: Storage.
Chapter 542, Statutes of 2024
This measure, beginning Jan. 1, 2026, requires all owners of firearms in the state to
have their firearms securely stored when not in use by its lawful owner. This measure
specifies that a firearm is considered securely stored when either stored in a locked
safety device or has a certified safety device affixed to the firearm. A violation of this
measure would result in an infraction for its first two offenses and would become a
misdemeanor upon a third and subsequent violations.
SB 758 (Umberg) Firearms.
Chapter 543, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the offense of acquiring a firearm with the intent to transfer that
firearm to a minor or to evade firearm transfer requirements to include firearms that
have been imported into the state with this intent.
SB 899 (Skinner) Protective Orders: Firearms.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires courts, beginning Jan. 1, 2026, when issuing protective orders to
provide those subject to the order with information alerting them that they must
relinquish firearms and ammunition in their possession. This measure also requires that
courts are required to review the case to ensure the subject of the protective order has
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compiled with the relinquishment requirement and requires any violation of
relinquishment to be reported to the prosecuting attorney.
SB 902 (Roth) Firearms: Public Safety.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the 10-year prohibition of purchasing, receiving, possessing, or
having control of any firearms for those convicted of certain misdemeanors. Beginning
Jan. 1, 2025, any person convicted of maliciously and intentionally maiming, mutilating,
torturing, wounding, or killing a living animal will be included in the 10-year firearm
prohibition.
SB 965 (Min) Firearms.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the DOJ to provide additional information in its annual report
summarizing and analyzing the number of firearms that have been lost, stolen,
recovered, or used in the commission of a crime. New information to be provided
includes the DOJ’s staffing level available to conduct inspection of firearm and
ammunition vendors, the total number of inspections conducted, the information
gathered, a list of violations from inspection, and their resolutions.
SB 1002 (Blakespear) Firearms: Prohibited Persons.
Chapter 526, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a prohibition on the possession or purchase of ammunition for
individuals who are subject to mental-illness-related firearm prohibitions and requires
those subject to these prohibitions to relinquish all firearms and ammunition in their
possession.
SB 1019 (Blakespear) Firearms: Destruction.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies the method of destruction to be employed by law enforcement
agencies of firearms they are required to destroy. This measure requires these firearms
to be destroyed by entirely smelting, shredding, crushing, or cutting all parts of the
firearms, including attachments. Law enforcement agencies are required to develop and
post on their websites written policies about the destruction of firearms.
F. Fire Services
SB 504 (Dodd) Wildfires: Defensible Space: Grant Programs: Local Governments.
Chapter 982, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes minor changes and updates to the defensible space requirements
for State Responsibility Areas and Local Responsibility Areas. This measure also
makes changes to the Fire Prevention Grants program at the Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection, including allowing public education and outreach programs to
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include new technologies and game elements to enhance and accelerate the education
of property owners.
G. Law Enforcement
AB 2541 (Bains) Peace Officer Training: Wandering.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2024
This bill measure requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
(POST), in consultation with specified subject matter experts and on or before Jan. 1,
2026, to develop guidelines addressing wandering associated with Alzheimer’s disease,
autism, and dementia.
AB 2546 (Rendon) Law Enforcement and State Agencies: Military Equipment:
Funding, Acquisition, and Use.
Chapter 408, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies the definition of military equipment and replaces references to
specific trade names with a general description of the devices for the purpose of
procurement of military equipment by law enforcement.
AB 2621 (Gabriel) Law Enforcement Training.
Chapter 532, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires POST to include instruction on identifying when a gun violence
restraining order is necessary to prevent a hate crime and the process for getting such a
protective order. This training will be added to the current existing requirement for POST
instruction on indicators of hate crimes, responses to hate crime waves, and methods of
handling incidents.
AB 2695 (Ramos) Law Enforcement: Criminal Statistics.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires data reported by law enforcement and the DOJ to disaggregate
the data collected based on whether the incidents took place in Indian country.
SB 400 (Wahab) Peace Officers: Confidentiality of Records.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the confidentiality provision under the California Public
Records Act does not prohibit an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or
custodial officer from disclosing the termination for cause of that officer.
SB 918 (Umberg) Law Enforcement Contact Process: Search Warrants.
Chapter 985, Statutes of 2024
This measure would require a social media platform to maintain a law enforcement
contact process that, among other things, makes available a staffed hotline for law
enforcement personnel for purposes of receiving, and responding to, requests for
information. This measure also requires a social media platform to comply with a search
warrant within 72 hours if the subject of the search warrant is information associated
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with an account on the social media platform and that information is controlled by a user
of the social media platform. This measure would not apply to a social media platform
with fewer than 1 million discrete monthly users and would make its provisions operative
on July 1, 2025.
H. Retail Theft
*AB 1779 (Irwin) Theft: Jurisdiction.
Chapter 165, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
*AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer) Crimes: Organized Theft.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
*AB 1960 (Rivas, Robert) Sentencing Enhancements: Property Loss.
Chapter 220, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
*AB 1972 (Alanis) Regional Property Crimes Task Force.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency).
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
*AB 2943 (Zbur) Crimes: Shoplifting.
Chapter 168, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
*AB 3209 (Berman) Crimes: Theft: Retail Theft Restraining Orders.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
*SB 905 (Wiener) Crimes: Theft From a Vehicle.
Chapter 170, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this
document.
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*SB 982 (Wahab) Crimes: Organized Theft.
Chapter 171, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this
document.
*SB 1144 (Skinner) Marketplaces: Online Marketplaces.
Chapter 172, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this
document.
*SB 1242 (Min) Crimes: Fires.
Chapter 173, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of this
document.
*SB 1416 (Newman) Sentencing Enhancements: Sale, Exchange, or Return of
Stolen Property.
Chapter 174, Statutes of 2024
Cal Cities has prepared a comprehensive summary of this measure in Appendix A of
this document.
I. Victim’s Rights
AB 1186 (Bonta) Restitution Fines.
Chapter 805, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides that the outstanding balance of any restitution fines, including
any collection fees, are unenforceable and uncollectible 10 years after the date of
imposition of an order for a restitution fine.
AB 2432 (Gabriel) California Victims of Crime Act.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes the California Crime Victims Funds within the State Treasury
and authorizes the money deposited in the account to be appropriated by the California
Office of Emergency Services to support victims of crime. This measure also provides
that corporations convicted of misdemeanor or felony offenses may be made to pay
additional fines as a white-collar crime enhancement that will be equal to either two
times the value taken or lost,75% of which will be deposited into the California Crime
Victims Funds account.
SB 379 (Umberg) Victim Services: Restorative Justice.
Chapter 980, Statutes of 2024
This bill requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to
establish and maintain an Accountability Letter Bank program, with the goal of providing
a voluntary opportunity for incarcerated persons to be accountable for the harm they
have caused and to express remorse to those they have harmed. This measure allows
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victims, survivors, and next of kin to receive a letter of accountability from an
incarcerated person when, and if, they choose to receive a letter that is addressed to
them.
J. Miscellaneous
AB 628 (Wilson) Prisons: Employment of Inmates.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2024
This measure, contingent upon the passage and approval by the voters of a
constitutional amendment that prohibits all involuntary servitude (Proposition 6),
requires the CDCR to develop a voluntary work program and to prescribe rules and
regulations regarding work and programming assignments for CDCR inmates. These
regulations include the wages for work assignments and requires wages for work
assignments in county and city jail programs to be set by local ordinance.
AB 2020 (Bonta) Survivors of Human Trafficking Support Act.
Chapter 615, Statutes of 2024.
This measure requires POST to, by no later than June 1, 2026, develop guidelines for
interacting with survivors of human trafficking. This measure requires each law
enforcement agency to, by no later than Dec. 1, 2026, adopt a written policy for
interacting with survivors of human trafficking based on the guidelines developed by
POST.
AB 2481 (Lowenthal) Social Media-related Threats: Reporting.
Chapter 832, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a social media platform to disclose all social media-related threat
reporting procedures for certain verified reporters in the social media platform’s terms of
service. This measure defines “social media-related threat” to mean content posted on a
social media platform that promotes, incites, facilitates, or perpetrates any of certain
things, including cyberbullying, suicide, and drug trafficking.
*AB 3024 (Ward) Civil Rights.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2024, Urgency
This measure expands the definition of “intimidation by threat of violence” under the
Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976 to also include terrorizing the owner or occupant of
private property with the distribution of materials on the private property, without
authorization, with the purpose of terrorizing the owner or occupant of that private
property. This measure prohibits speech alone as the basis of an action, unless there is
a showing that the speech itself threatens violence against a specific person or group of
persons, and because of the speech, violence will be committed against them or their
property.
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AB 3138 (Wilson) License Plates and Registration Cards: Alternative Devices.
Chapter 756, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows any vehicle, beginning on Jan. 1, 2027, to be offered an alternative
device to a license plate or registration card that includes vehicle location technology.
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VII. Revenue and Taxation
A. Property Tax
AB 1819 (Waldron) Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts: Public Capital
Facilities: Wildfires.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows certain enhanced infrastructure financing districts to finance
specified firefighting equipment if the district is at least partially in a high or very high fire
hazard severity zone.
AB 1868 (Friedman) Property Taxation: Assessments: Affordable Housing.
Chapter 553, Statutes of 2024
This measure would, for purposes of valuing property by a county assessor, establish a
rebuttable assumption that, at the time of purchase, the assessor shall not include in the
taxable value the value of the deed of trust on certain affordability-restricted properties
utilizing the community land trust model.
AB 1879 (Gipson) Property Taxation: Filing.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a taxpayer to use an electronic signature instead of a manual,
facsimile, or other signature for a State Board of Equalization (BOE) form if a county
assessor has authorized that form to be submitted via the use of electronic media. This
measure also requires a county assessor to accept the electronic signature and
provides that a compliant electronic signature has the same legal effect as other
signatures of the taxpayer. Finally, this measure authorizes an assessor to accept the
filing of all BOE forms via electronic media, not just property statements.
*AB 2353 (Ward) Property Taxation: Welfare Exemption: Delinquent Payments:
Interest and Penalties.
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides that property owners developing affordable rental housing who
qualify for the property tax welfare exemption are not liable for penalties and interest on
delinquent property taxes under certain circumstances.
AB 2488 (Ting) Downtown Revitalization and Economic Recovery Financing
Districts: City and County of San Francisco.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows the City and County of San Francisco to create a Downtown
Revitalization and Economic Recovery Financing District to finance commercial-to-
residential conversion projects using incremental property tax revenues.
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AB 2897 (Connolly) Property Tax: Welfare Exemption: Community Land Trusts.
Chapter 580, Statutes of 2024
This measure changes the definition of a community land trust for purposes of property
tax assessment.
*AB 3134 (Chen) Property Taxation: Refunds.
Chapter 922, Statutes of 2024
This measure modifies the process for issuing certain property tax refunds by increasing
from $5,000 to $10,000 the threshold for automatic refunds under specified
circumstances, allowing certain refunds to be paid without the taxpayer filing a claim,
and establishing time limits for refunds.
AB 3277 (Cmte. on Local Government) Local Agency Formation Commission:
Districts: Property Tax.
Chapter 70, Statutes of 2024
This measure specifies that if a proposal includes the formation of a district, a local
agency formation commission only needs to determine the amount of property tax
revenue to be exchanged by an affected agency if the applicant is seeking a share of
the property tax.
AB 3288 (Cmte. on Revenue and Taxation) Property Taxation: Tax-defaulted
Property Sales: Objections and Excess Proceeds.
Chapter 123, Statutes of 2024
This measure modifies the date by which a taxing agency may object to a tax sale and
specifies mailing procedures for interested parties filing claims for excess proceeds of a
tax sale.
*SB 1140 (Caballero) Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes numerous changes to enhanced infrastructure financing district
(EIFD) law, with the primary being a reduction in the number of EIFD formation
meetings from four to three. This measure also specifies that an eligible project for
climate resiliency districts includes a project that intends to improve air quality.
B. Sales and Use Tax
AB 2555 (Quirk-Silva) Sales and Use Tax: Exemption: Medicinal Cannabis:
Donations.
Chapter 920, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure extends the use tax exemption for medicinal cannabis or medicinal
cannabis products donated by a licensed cannabis retailer to a medicinal cannabis
patient until Jan. 1, 2030.
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*AB 2854 (Irwin) Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law.
Chapter 842, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires local agencies to publish to their websites and provide to the
California Department of Tax and Fee Administration specified information regarding
agreements between the local agency and a private retailer that result in the direct or
indirect payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns sales and use tax
revenues.
AB 3259 (Wilson) Transactions and Use Taxes: City Of Campbell: City of Pinole:
County of Solano.
Chapter 852, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure authorizes the City of Campbell, the City of Pinole, the County of Solano,
or any city in the County of Solano, by ordinance or by citizens’ initiative, to impose a
transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, at a rate of no more than
0.5% that, in combination with other transactions and use taxes, would exceed the
combined rate limit of 2%, if certain requirements are met.
*SB 1059 (Bradford) Cannabis: Local Taxation: Gross Receipts.
Chapter 874, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a local jurisdiction, for the purposes of any local cannabis
business tax or fee levied on a licensed cannabis retailer, from including in the definition
of “gross receipts” the amount of any specified state-authorized taxes.
C. Miscellaneous
*AB 2257 (Wilson) Local Government: Property-related Water and Sewer Fees and
Assessments: Remedies.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2024
This measure provides that if a local agency complies with specified exhaustion of
remedies procedures for purposes of a fee of assessment adopted according to
Proposition 218, then a person or entity that has not submitted a written objection to that
local agency in a timely manner is prohibited from bringing a judicial action or
proceeding alleging noncompliance with the constitutional provisions of Proposition 218,
and the court’s review is limited to a record of proceedings containing specified
documents.
*AB 2618 (Chen) Surplus Funds: Investment.
Chapter 239, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends, until Jan. 1, 2031, the authority for a local agency to invest up to
50% (rather than 30%) of its surplus funds in deposits at a commercial bank, savings
bank, savings and loan association, or credit union under specified conditions.
AB 2813 (Aguiar-Curry) Government Investment Act.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure clarifies the technical implementation provisions of ACA 1, clarifies terms
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and project eligibility, and specifies local transparency requirements. This is a
companion measure to ACA 1/Proposition 5, which will only take effect if approved by
voters.
SB 549 (Newman) Gaming: Tribal Nations Access to Justice Act.
Chapter 860, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes a California Indian tribe to bring an action in superior court
against a cardroom and third-party providers seeking a declaration as to whether a
controlled game operated by a cardroom and banked by a third-party provider
constitutes a banking card game that violates state law. Any action pursuant to this
measure must be filed no later than April 1, 2025, in the Superior Court of California,
County of Sacramento.
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COMMUNICATIONS, AND PUBLIC
WORKS
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VIII. Transportation, Communications, and Public Works
A. Contracting and Public Works
SB 1303 (Caballero) Public Works.
Chapter 991, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires a private labor compliance entity to disclose potential conflicts of
interest to a body awarding a public works contract. If conflict exists, the entity is
prohibited from entering into a contract with an awarding body. Additionally, this
measure requires a private labor compliance entity to take certain steps before and after
withholding funds from a contractor or subcontractor who violates public works law.
These violations include providing a venue for a contractor or subcontractor to respond
to alleged violations. Finally, this measure requires a private labor compliance entity
seeking to withhold funds from a public works contractor or subcontractor on behalf of
an awarding body to, within 20 days of a written request for review by the contractor or
subcontractor, provide a venue for a public works contractor or subcontractor to review
and respond to evidence of alleged violations.
B. Infrastructure
AB 2368 (Petrie-Norris) System Reliability and Outages.
Chapter 713, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to
amend its tariff, as deemed necessary and subject to approval by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, to be consistent with the efficient use and reliable operation of
the transmission grid. This measure also requires the California Public Utilities
Commission (CPUC) to assess if there is sufficient capacity available for procurement in
the short term and midterm when establishing resource adequacy requirements. The
short-term and midterm periods are defined as the period between two and five years in
the future. All load-serving entities must meet these requirements. Finally, this measure
requires the CAISO, if it finds that the primary cause of a major outage that affects at
least 10% of customers of the local distribution service is the insufficient procurement of
generation resources, to post the finding and recommendations for the procurement of
necessary resources on its internet website and share the finding and recommendations
with the CPUC, the State Energy Resources Conservation and California Energy
Commission (CEC), and the Legislature.
SB 778 (Ochoa Bogh) Excavations: Subsurface Installations.
Chapter 447, Statues of 2024
This measure revises the procedures under the Dig Safe Act, requiring an excavator
planning to conduct an excavation to notify the regional notification center of their intent
before beginning excavation. It also outlines the steps an excavator must follow should
a ticket expire. This measure requires the excavator to inform the regional notification
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center of their intent to use a vacuum excavation device when obtaining a ticket. Also,
this measure prohibits, unless an emergency exists, an excavator from beginning an
excavation until all operators of subsurface installations listed on the ticket have fulfilled
their obligations and limits the legal start date and time if all operators have fulfilled their
obligations.
SB 1221 (Min) Gas Corporations: Ceasing Service: Priority Neighborhood
Decarbonization Zones.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2024
This measure authorizes 30 pilot projects where cost-effective decarbonization of
priority neighborhoods meeting specified criteria can be implemented, if the CPUC
determines adequate substitute energy is available, among other requirements. This
measure also requires specified mapping of the natural gas utility distribution system
and requires the identification of priority decarbonization neighborhood zones. It also
authorizes gas corporations to cease providing service within the 30 pilot projects,
among other provisions. The CPUC is required, on or before Jan. 1, 2026, to designate
priority neighborhood decarbonization zones considering, among other things, the
concentration of gas distribution line replacement projects identified in the maps. This
measure sunsets on Jan. 1, 2031.
SB 1420 (Caballero) Hydrogen Production Facilities: Certification and
Environmental Review.
Chapter 608, Statutes of 2024
This measure excludes from the definition of “energy infrastructure project” for purposes
of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) streamlining benefits eligible
renewable energy resources under the California Renewables Portfolio Standard
Program that combust, rather than use, biomass fuels. This measure would include
hydrogen production facilities and associated on-site storage and processing facilities
that do not derive hydrogen from a fossil fuel feedstock and that receive funding from
specified state and federal programs within the definition of “energy infrastructure
project.” CEQA requires preparation of specified documentation before a public agency
approves or carries out certain projects. Current law authorizes the Governor to certify
energy infrastructure projects meeting specified requirements for streamlining benefits
related to CEQA. Current law defines “energy infrastructure project” for these purposes
to include eligible renewable energy resources under the California Renewables
Portfolio Standard Program, excluding resources that use biomass fuels. Current law
expressly excludes from that definition of “energy infrastructure project” any project
using hydrogen.
C. Telecommunication and Broadband
SB 1152 (Limón) State Fire Marshal: Fire Safety: Regulations: Lithium-based
Battery Systems: Telecommunications Infrastructure.
Chapter 781, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the State Fire Marshal, before the next triennial edition of the
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California Building Standards Code adopted after Jan. 1, 2025, to propose to the
commission updates to the fire standards relating to requirements for lithium-based
battery systems. This measure also would require these updates to address the specific
environments in which communications utilities are to deploy the lithium-based battery
systems in order to meet specified requirements relating to backup electricity for
telecommunications infrastructure.
D. Transportation
AB 1774 (Dixon) Vehicles: Electric Bicycles.
Chapter 55, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a person from selling a product or device that can modify the
speed capability of an electric bicycle such that it no longer meets the definition of an
electric bicycle. Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully
operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts and requires electric
bicycles to comply with specified equipment and manufacturing requirements. Current
law prohibits a person from tampering with or modifying an electric bicycle to change
the speed capability of the bicycle, unless they appropriately replace the label indicating
the classification required.
*AB 1777 (Ting) Autonomous Vehicles.
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2024
This measure would, commencing July 1, 2026, require manufacturers of autonomous
vehicles that operate without a human operator physically present in the vehicle, except
as provided to comply with certain requirements, including, among other things, to
maintain a dedicated emergency response telephone line that is available for
emergency response officials, as defined, and to equip each autonomous vehicle with a
two-way voice communication device that enables emergency response officials that
are near the vehicle to communicate effectively with a remote human operator. This
measure would authorize an emergency response official to issue an emergency
geofencing message, as defined, to a manufacturer and would require a manufacturer
to direct its fleet to leave or avoid the area identified within two minutes of receiving an
emergency geofencing message.
AB 1953 (Villapudua) Vehicles: Weight Limits.
Chapter 219, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that the power unit of a near-zero-emission or zero-emission
vehicle is authorized to exceed the allowable gross weight limits by up to a maximum of
2,000 pounds. Current state law, to the extent expressly authorized by federal law,
authorizes a near-zero-emission vehicle or a zero-emission vehicle, as defined, to
exceed the weight limits on the power unit by up to 2,000 pounds. This measure would
also clarify that the maximum gross vehicle weight for a near-zero-emission vehicle or a
zero-emission vehicle is 82,000 pounds.
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AB 2037 (Papan) Weights and Measures: Electric Vehicle Chargers.
Chapter 692, Statutes of 2024
This measure would, beginning Jan. 1, 2026, authorize a county sealer to test and verify
as correct any electric vehicle charger operated by a public agency that is located in the
county in which the sealer has jurisdiction. This measure would require a county sealer,
upon testing and finding that an electric vehicle charger operated by a public agency is
incorrect to cause it to be marked with the words “out of order” and require the charger
to be repaired or corrected. This measure would authorize a county board of
supervisors to charge an annual registration fee for the cost of inspecting and testing an
electric vehicle charger operated by a public agency.
AB 2086 (Schiavo) Transportation Funding: California Transportation Plan: Public
Dashboard.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to include in their
California Transportation Plan a financial element that summarizes the full cost of plan
implementation through the first 10 years of the planning period and includes a
summary of available revenues through the planning period and an analysis of what is
feasible within the plan if constrained by a realistic projection of available revenues.
Updated every five years, a copy of the plan will be sent to the Governor and the
Legislature as a long-range planning document that incorporates various elements and
is consistent with specified expressions of legislative intent.
AB 2130 (Santiago) Parking Violations.
Chapter 379, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the options available to a person contesting the results of the
initial review of an administrative hearing process in the enforcement and processing of
parking violations and penalties to have a choice of a hearing by mail, in person, or, if
offered by the issuing agency, by telephone or electronic means.
AB 2186 (Wallis) Vehicles: Impoundment.
Chapter 502, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands the list of offenses — engaging in a motor vehicle speed
contest, reckless driving, and exhibition of speed on a highway — for which a person
may be arrested and the person’s vehicle seized to include exhibition of speed in an off-
street parking facility.
*AB 2427 (McCarty) Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Permitting: Curbside
Charging.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the division Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development Office
within the Governor’s Office of Business (GO-Biz) to develop a model permitting
checklist, model zoning ordinances, and best practices for permit costs and permit
review timelines to help local governments permit curbside charging stations as part of
GO-Biz’s development of the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook or
any subsequent updates. This measure would also require GO-Biz to consult with local
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governments, electric vehicle service providers, and utilities while developing the above-
described materials. Also, this measure requires a local agency that determines that
there are no appropriate approved locations within the public right-of-way for installation
of an electric vehicle charging station to publish that information on a publicly accessible
internet website maintained by the local agency.
AB 2453 (Villapudua) Weights and Measures: Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits, until Jan. 1, 2028, requiring electric vehicle supply equipment
(EVSE) to be retested or placed in service by a service agency or sealer, under the
general supervision of the Department of Food and Agriculture, if the EVSE has
previously been placed in service by a service agency or sealer, before the EVSE is
used after receiving maintenance.
AB 2669 (Ting) Toll Bridges: Tolls.
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits a toll from being imposed on the passage of a pedestrian, a
bicycle, or a personal mobility device over any bridge on which tolls are imposed on
motor vehicles that is under the jurisdiction of a district or any state-owned bridge or any
bridge that is part of the state highway system pursuant to a franchise agreement. This
measure provides that the prohibition on tolls shall not apply if the bridge was under
construction on or after Jan. 1, 2025, and if the tolls are used to fund the cost of
constructing the bridge.
AB 2678 (Wallis) Vehicles: High-occupancy Vehicle Lanes.
Chapter 414, Statutes of 2024
This measure extends the repeal date of provisions authorizing ultra-low emission
vehicles, super-ultra-low emission vehicles, advanced-technology partial-zero-emission
vehicles, and transitional zero-emission vehicles with a Clean Air Vehicle decal issued
by Department of Motor Vehicles to drive in High Occupancy Vehicle lanes to Jan. 1,
2027, if permitted by federal law (the federal authorization currently expires on Sept. 30,
2025).
AB 2780 (McKinnor) Carrier of Passengers Act Of 2024.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2024
This measure establishes the Carrier of Passengers Act of 2024, which would require
certain carriers of passengers to notify and coordinate with local jurisdictions regarding
the disembarkation of 10 or more passengers who are likely to seek emergency shelter.
This measure also makes those carriers liable for civil actions and penalties in violation
of this measure’s provisions. This measure prohibits a governing body from sharing or
disclosing with any immigration authority any information shared or received pursuant to
this measure without a court-ordered subpoena or judicial warrant. This measure also
requires a governing body that elects to designate a specific location for disembarkation
to post notice of that location on the governing body’s internet website and requires the
carrier of passengers to check the internet website before embarkation. Finally, this
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measure authorizes the Attorney General, a district attorney, or a city attorney to bring
an enforcement action.
AB 2879 (Lackey) High-speed Rail Authority: Contracting.
Chapter 248, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which is composed of
11 members who oversee the planning, construction, and operation of the high-speed
rail system in the state, to appoint an executive director to administer the affairs of the
authority as directed by the authority. The measure, notwithstanding the authority’s
ability to delegate power to the executive director, further requires any contract change
order with a value greater than $100 million to be approved by the authority.
*SB 689 (Blakespear) Local Coastal Program: Bicycle Lane: Amendment.
Chapter 445, Statues of 2024
This measure provides that an application by a local government to convert an existing
motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane, dedicated transit lane, or a
pedestrian walkway shall not require a traffic study for the processing of either a coastal
development permit or an amendment to a local coastal program by the California
Coastal Commission. This measure would also require that the amendment of an
application be processed in accordance with the procedures applicable to de minimis
local coastal program amendments if the executive director of the commission makes
specified determinations.
SB 708 (Jones) Vehicles: Off-highway Motor Vehicles: Off-highway Motorcycles:
Sanctioned Event Permit.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to create, beginning
Jan. 1, 2026, a “sanctioned event permit” that allows a California resident, upon
payment of a fee, to operate certain off-road motorcycles at sanctioned events. The
permit will be valid for the calendar year issued for off-highway vehicle recreational
special events and must be displayed on the left side of an off-road motorcycle and
visible for inspection at sanctioned events.
SB 768 (Caballero) California Environmental Quality Act: Department of Housing
and Community Development: Vehicle Miles Traveled: Study.
Chapter 773, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in
consultation with local governments and other interested parties, by Jan. 1, 2028, and
subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, to conduct and post on
its internet website a study on how vehicle miles traveled is used as a metric for
measuring transportation impacts of housing projects pursuant to CEQA. This measure
would require the study to include, among other things, an analysis of the differences in
the availability and feasibility of mitigation measures to housing projects for vehicle
miles traveled in rural, suburban, urban, and low-vehicle-miles-traveled areas. This
measure would repeal those provisions on Jan. 1, 2029.
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SB 960 (Wiener) Transportation: Planning: Complete Streets Facilities: Transit
Priority Facilities.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires Caltrans to develop and adopt transit priority policy and
guidelines and to commit to specific four-year targets to incorporate complete streets
facilities in the State Highway Operations and Protection Program (SHOPP). This
includes on entrances and exits that interact with local streets, that are proportional
toward the existing 10-year targets of the relevant State Highway System Management
Plan (SHSMP). Specific requirements of Caltrans include, but are not limited to:
• The extent feasible by 2027, the SHSMP to include specific quantifiable
accomplishments, goals, objectives, costs, and performance measures for transit
priority facilities.
• Include a description of complete streets facilities, including the number, extent,
cost, and type, in the plain language performance report of the SHOPP.
• Beginning with the 2028 SHOPP, to provide and improve transit priority facilities
in locations with current or future transit priority needs. These improvements
must be consistent with their most recent guidance and plans, to the extent
feasible and appropriate.
• Consult with public agencies and representatives from local complete streets
advisory committees and other local stakeholders for projects funded by the
SHOPP.
• On or before Jan. 1, 2027, develop and adopt a process for project intake,
evaluation, and encroachment permit review for complete streets facilities.
• Annually report to the California Transportation Commission information about
project applications pursuant to this process, including the number of applications
submitted, permits issued, and days required to process each application.
SB 1098 (Blakespear) Passenger and Freight Rail: Lossan Rail Corridor.
Chapter 777, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the Secretary of Transportation to provide guidance and
recommendations to, and coordination between, stakeholders to ensure the
performance of the LOSSAN Rail Corridor, the intercity passenger rail corridor between
San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Luis Obispo. This measure also requires the
Secretary of Transportation, with technical and subject matter assistance from the
Secretary for Environmental Protection and the Secretary of the Natural Resources
Agency, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the LOSSAN Rail Corridor that
includes specific information no later than two years after an appropriation is made by
the Legislature for purposes of this report.
SB 1216 (Blakespear) Transportation Projects: Class III Bikeways: Prohibition.
Chapter 788, Statutes of 2024
This measure prohibits any agency responsible for the development or operation of
bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing or restriping a
sharrow on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 mph. This measure
also prohibits the Active Transportation Program from funding projects that create a
Class III bikeway on a highway with a design speed greater than 25 mph. The measure
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requires Caltrans to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the use of sharrows
and Class III bikeways on state and local highways by July 1, 2026, including applicable
safety considerations for and the number of sharrows and Class III bikeways on state
and local highways.
SB 1271 (Min) Electric Bicycles, Powered Mobility Devices, and Storage Batteries.
Chapter 791, Statutes of 2024
This measure clarifies that an electric bicycle is a bicycle equipped with fully operable
pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power. This measure
also clarifies the definitions of a “class 1 electric bicycle” and a “class 3 electric bicycle,”
with the class 1 electric bicycle defined as equipped with a motor that provides
assistance only when the rider is pedaling and ceases to provide assistance when the
bicycle reaches the speed of 20 mph, and a class 3 electric bicycle defined as equipped
with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and ceases to
provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 mph. This measure would
prohibit specified vehicles from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as
electric bicycles.
*SB 1418 (Archuleta) Hydrogen-fueling Stations: Expedited Review.
Chapter 607, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires every local agency to adopt an ordinance that creates an
expedited, streamlined permitting process for hydrogen-fueling stations, in consultation
with the local fire department or district and the utility director, if the local agency
operates a utility. This requirement applies only to the hydrogen-fueling stations that are
eligible for nondiscretionary permitting under existing law. In developing this ordinance,
a local agency must refer to the recommendations contained in the permitting
guidebooks produced by GO-Biz, and may modify them based on unique climate,
geological, seismological, or topographical conditions. In developing the expedited
permitting process, local jurisdictions must adopt a checklist of all requirements with
which hydrogen-fueling stations must comply to be eligible for expedited review. Once
the local agency verifies that the application meets the requirements of the checklist, it
must approve the permit. If the application is incomplete, the local agency must notify
the applicant of all deficiencies in the application and any additional information required
to be eligible for the expedited permit. The checklist must be published on the local
agency’s website and must allow for electronic submittal of an application and
associated documentation with an electronic signature. This measure requires a city,
county, or city and county with a population of 250,000 or more residents to comply with
these provisions on or before Sept. 30, 2025, and a city, county, or city and county with
a population of fewer than 250,000 residents to comply with these provisions by Sept.
30, 2028.
SB 1488 (Durazo) Outdoor Advertising Displays: Exemptions.
Chapter 897, Statutes of 2024
This measure reduces the minimum duration (one year to 120 days) of a sponsorship
marketing plan for outdoor advertising displays at stadiums and arenas and requires
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Caltrans to include among its priorities support for the placement of advertising displays
at arenas when renegotiating an agreement with the Federal Highway Administration.
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RESOURCES
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The Budget Act of 2024
Background
Fresh off the heels of addressing a $31 billion deficit in 2023, California faced another
year of financial difficulties in 2024. Clocking in at approximately $47 billion dollars, the
2024 budget deficit was primarily due to revenue volatility and revenue forecast misses
from prior fiscal years. California has a progressive tax system, which relies heavily on
personal income taxes from high-income residents, making it extremely vulnerable to
stock market fluctuations.
In January, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a $291.5 billion budget proposal that
addressed a nearly $38 billion deficit via reductions, borrowing, delays, deferrals, shifts,
and drawing upon $13.1 billion of the state’s reserves. At the time, this deficit projection
was at odds with the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office projection of a $73 billion
deficit. This difference was primarily technical and hinged on how education funding
should be characterized.
To quickly tackle a portion of the budget deficit, the Governor and Legislature struck an
early action budget agreement that addressed nearly $17 billion of the deficit. The goal
of the early action was to address a sizable piece of the deficit immediately, to allow
final budget negotiations later in the year to focus on closing the remaining gap.
The Governor later released his May Revision, which proposed a $288 billion budget
and addressed a deficit that had increased to approximately $27.6 billion, a near $7
billion increase from what remained after the early action budget agreement. The
Governor noted that the deficit increase was due to revenue volatility because of
California’s tax system, with those revenues coming in below forecasts. The May
Revision also anticipated a near $30 billion deficit for 2025-26 fiscal year.
Soon after in June, Gov. Newsom, Senate Pro Tem Mark McGuire, and Assembly
Speaker Robert Rivas announced an agreed upon 2024-25 state budget plan, which
included total spending of approximately $293 billion, of which $211.5 was from the
General Fund. This agreement addressed the remaining $28 billion budget deficit,
primarily by $16 billion of program reductions and $13.6 billion in new revenue. The
remainder of the deficit is addressed via a combination of tapping into the state’s
reserves ($6 billion), fund shifts, delays, and deferrals. Notably, the budget maintains
the Rainy Day Fund at $22 billion, a fund that is an essential tool in dealing with the
state’s volatile tax revenues. The budget is also balanced through the 2025-26 fiscal
year.
Finally, the Legislature and Governor agreed to a suite of responsible budgeting reforms
to help prevent future significant budget shortfalls. These include increasing the size of
the Rainy Day Fund from 10% of the state budget to 20%, excluding deposits into the
Rainy Day Fund from the Gann Limit, and creating a new “Projected Surplus Temporary
Holding Account,” where a portion of any projected surplus will be deposited and held
until a future year once it is clear whether the projected surplus actually materializes.
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The totality of the budget agreement is contained within AB 106 (Gabriel), AB 107
(Gabriel), SB 108 (Wiener), SB 109 (Wiener), AB 157 (Gabriel), AB 158 (Gabriel), and
AB 180 (Gabriel), along with dozens of budget trailer bills.
Budget Package Overview
Despite a $47 billion deficit, the budget preserves investments in programs that are
essential to millions of Californians. It protects investments in education, health care,
public safety, and social service programs. Notable appropriations and reductions
include the following:
Resources and Environment
Changes to Climate-Related Budget Packages
• Numerous changes to one-time and temporary funding agreed to in previous
budgets for climate, resources, and environmental programs via reducing
program support by shifting planned future funding from the General Fund to the
Green House Gas Reduction Fund.
• $2.3 billion in budget reductions and shifts to environmental programs.
• Overall, maintains $29 billion across a seven-year window.
Fire Response and Other
• $199 million for a shift to a 66-hour workweek for the California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection.
• $94 million for flood prevention.
• $65 million for Salton Sea projects.
State Operations
Reduction to State Positions
• $762.5 million reverted to the General Fund via reverting vacant positions.
Health
MCO Tax Package
• Generates $2.8 billion in 2024-25 (and $7.1 billion through 2026-27) by
increasing the tax rate on health plan enrollment in Medi-Cal.
• Offsets General Fund spending ($3.5 billion through 2024-25 and $7.7 billion
through 2026-27) by reducing how much tax revenue is used for augmentations.
• Changes which Medi-Cal services and health programs receive augmentations
and delays the start of certain funding increases to 2026.
• Collectively provides a budgetary solution of $6.3 billion in 2024-25 and
approximately $15 billion through 2026-27.
Transportation
Multiyear Transportation Infrastructure Package
• Cuts $400 million from the Active Transportation Program, $200 million planned
for grade separation projects, and $75 million from the Highways-to-Boulevards
pilot project.
• Reduces projects at the Port of Oakland by $96 million.
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Housing and Homelessness
One-Time Funding for Housing and Homelessness
• Reduces one-time unspent funding for several housing programs by $1.4 billion.
Notable reductions include:
o $400 million to the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation
Program.
o $235 million to the Infill Infrastructure Program.
o $153 million to the CalHome Program.
New One-Time Investments
• $1 billion for a sixth round of local funding for the Homeless Housing, Assistance
and Prevention program.
• $150 million for the Encampment Resolution Program.
• Additional $500 million for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program.
Public Safety
Various Reductions
• $169 million to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via
prison capacity reductions.
• $97 million in ongoing reductions to trial court operations funding.
• $93 million in one-time reductions to the Governor’s Office of Emergency
Services.
Reserves
• The budget package includes $5 billion from the Budget Stabilization Account
and $900 million from the Safety Net Reserve.
• The state ends 2024-25 with $21 billion in reserves.
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Homelessness Budget Advocacy
Cal Cities Advocacy
This year, Cal Cities continued to urge the Legislature and Governor's Office to invest
$3 billion in ongoing funding for cities to increase the supply of affordable housing and
reduce homelessness. This request aligned with Cal Cities 2024 Advocacy Priorities,
which focused on securing funding to address the housing and homelessness crisis.
To inform this budget request, Cal Cities conducted a survey, which showed
that while cities are accelerating their efforts to prevent and reduce homelessness and
boost affordable housing in their communities, the demand for housing and services is
outpacing their efforts, straining capacity, and draining resources. The study found that
85% of cities have implemented programs to prevent and reduce homelessness. Over
90% of those cities worry about their ability to continue to provide these services long-
term. About one in three cities expects a budget deficit next year. Cal Cities staff shared
this survey with the media and meetings with lawmakers to make the case for ongoing
funding for these critical issues.
Additionally, for the second year in a row, Cal Cities joined a broad coalition of local
governments, homeless service providers, housing advocates, and business leaders in
calling on legislative budget committees to provide ongoing funding to address
homelessness. While this group of stakeholders do not always see eye to eye, all
stakeholders in this space agreed that ongoing funding paired with reasonable
accountability metrics would significantly address homelessness in our state.
Final Budget Agreement
Budget negotiations were turbulent this year, with the Legislature and the Governor at
odds over funding key programs — including the state’s flagship homelessness services
program. Cal Cities advocated tirelessly to maintain funding for key programs and a
commitment to ongoing funding in the budget. Ultimately, the budget included $1 billion
for the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program, coupled
with new accountability requirements. While these investments are sorely needed, the
lack of ongoing funding will only exacerbate the state’s growing housing and
homelessness crisis.
Below are the major investments in this year’s budget related to homelessness:
• $1 billion for the sixth round of the HHAP Grant Program. This comes with new
accountability requirements, including a new enforcement unit, more frequent
reporting requirements, and a greater emphasis on permanent housing solutions.
• $250 million ($150 million in 2024-25 and $100 million in 2025-26) for the
Encampment Resolution Grant Program.
Budget trailer bill language, AB 166 (Cmte. on Budget), implements several
accountability requirements for local governments to access state homelessness funds.
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AB 166 (Cmte. on Budget) Housing.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure provides the framework for the distribution, use, and oversight of $1
billion in funding for the sixth round of the HHAP Program. HHAP provides flexible
support to locals to assist them in addressing homelessness. Specifically, this measure:
• Transfers the grant management authority from the California Interagency
Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) to the Housing and Community
Development Department (HCD).
• Authorizes the Housing and Homelessness Accountability, Results, and
Partnership Unit at the HCD to monitor HHAP grantees’ expenditures, track
outcomes, work with underperforming grantees on corrective action plans, and
enforce compliance.
• Requires housing element compliance as a condition for cities and counties to
receive the second half of their round six HHAP awards.
• Prioritizes homelessness prevention, permanent housing, and operational
support for existing interim housing over uses of HHAP funds that do not directly
provide housing.
• Increases the threshold for satisfactory improvement on system performance
measures, which, if unmet, triggers corrective action.
• Includes additional and more frequent reporting requirements.
This measure also includes the appropriation, management, and enhanced reporting
requirements for the Encampment Resolution Funding Program. Specifically, this
measure:
• Appropriates $150 million to the Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF)
Program.
• Imposes more detailed and more frequent outcome reporting requirements on
ERF Program grantees.
• Enhances program oversight by transferring grant management authority from
Cal ICH to the HCD.
• Empowers the newly formed Housing and Homelessness Accountability, Results,
and Partnership Unit at the HCD to enforce grantee compliance with the terms of
the program.
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Retail Theft Legislative Package
Retail Theft Legislative Package
In 2024, the Legislature and the Governor made addressing retail theft a priority by
introducing and eventually signing a package of bills. But this effort was not without
significant changes and pivots by the Legislature, due to the attempt to stop Proposition
36 from being placed on the ballot.
Background
In 2014, Proposition 47, which reduced many felonies to misdemeanors, was passed by
the voters. This proposition was intended to reduce the state prison population in order
to correct severe overcrowding and to address a federal court order that mandated the
state solve both overcrowding and substandard conditions in its prisons.
Since the passage of Proposition 47, however, there have been some unintended
consequences, such as the increase in property crime, shoplifting, commercial burglary,
and the underreporting of crime due to the lack of enforcement.
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) reported that commercial burglary is at
the highest rate since 2008.1 In fact, according to the PPIC, commercial burglary
increased statewide since 2020, especially in larger counties, which saw an increase of
13% in 14 of the 15 largest counties.
This resulted in a perfect storm in 2023 after a series of smash and grabs in Los
Angeles and the unwillingness of the Assembly Public Safety Committee to pass
legislation on sexual trafficking by Sen. Shannon Grove. These events led to public
outrage and political changes by the new Legislative Leadership in 2023 to address the
retail crime, shoplifting, and concerns by voters over the lack of accountability and
enforcement.
Specifically, last August, Speaker Robert Rivas indicated there was significant work to
be done on retail theft and that he wanted to address the increase in smash and grabs
and shoplifting. This resulted in the creation of the Select Committee on Retail Theft
chaired by Asm. Rick Zbur. In addition, Speaker Rivas made changes to the makeup of
the Assembly Public Safety Committee and replaced the former chair, Asm. Reggie
Jones Sawyer, with Asm. Kevin McCarty.
Retail Theft Coalition
On Jan. 29, 2024, Cal Cities and a diverse group of business, labor, law enforcement,
and local government organizations sent a letter to the Legislature and the Governor
1 Person, Magnus Lofstrom, and Brandon Martin. “Retail Theft and Robbery Rates Have
Risen across California.” Public Policy Institute of California, September 7, 2023.
https://www.ppic.org/blog/retail-theft-and-robbery-rates-have-risen-across-
california/.
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announcing the coalition and the intention to work on three critical areas to address
retail theft: Prevention, Intervention, and Supervision. The purpose of the coalition was
to ensure that meaningful and comprehensive reform is achieved this year.
The Coalition sent a letter to all members of the Legislature and the Governor outlining
the three pillars of changes needed. The coalition also met with several members of the
Legislature and outlined some of the issues that needed to be addressed in any final
package.
Assembly Select Committee on Retail Theft
Assembly Speaker Rivas created a new Select Committee on Retail Theft, which was
chaired by Asm. Zbur. This committee met twice: on Dec. 19 in Sacramento and on
Feb. 9 in West Hollywood. During these hearings, the committee heard an overview of
the retail theft issue that included presentations by the Public Policy Institute of
California, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the California Retailers Association, and the
District Attorneys Association.
At these hearings, several members of the committee noted the need to address repeat
offenders and emphasized accountability on the part of these offenders. Cal Cities staff
testified at both hearings, noting that addressing retail theft is a top priority and
expressed support for addressing repeat offenders.
Little Hoover Commission Hearings
In 2023, the Little Hoover Commission was asked to do a report on retail theft by the
former chair (Reggie Jones-Sawyer) and the current vice-chair of the Assembly Public
Safety Committee.
In order to produce this report, the Little Hoover Commission has held a total of three
hearings. At the Dec. 14, 2023, hearing, Gabe Quinto, Cal Cities second vice president,
provided testimony regarding Cal Cities’ priorities and the impact retail theft has had on
communities.
The Little Hoover Commission released its report in July 2024 and made these final
recommendations:
• The California Department of Justice should collect detailed data that includes,
but is not limited to, the circumstances surrounding a crime, law enforcement’s
response to the crime, demographic data about the people arrested and, if
applicable, charged with the crime, whether and what charges the prosecutors
file, the final disposition of the case, and the offender’s rehabilitation, reentry, and
recidivism.
• To better understand the complexities involved in the causes and effects of retail
crime to develop evidence-based solutions, the State of California should fund
studies on preventative measures, commercial victimization, the economic
impact of retail theft, drivers of public perception, and the fencing of stolen goods.
This research should be conducted by the University of California, the California
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State University, the California Community Colleges, independent universities, or
other nonpartisan research institutions.
Legislative Package
At the beginning of the legislative session, there were over 50 measures addressing the
issue of retail theft or shoplifting. After the appropriations suspense file deadline in May,
the Legislature had limited the number of bills to about 20.
On June 3, 2024, the Assembly speaker and the Senate pro tem announced a package
of bills to address retail theft, which included several bills that Cal Cities supported.
However, during June, due to the pending ballot measure on retail theft and fentanyl
(Proposition 36), the Legislature and the Governor made several changes to the
package (click here for the chart of actions). Here are some of the key actions that took
place on the legislative package:
Date Action Notes
June 3, 2024 Leaders of both houses
announce legislative
package of 14 bills.
This includes two fentanyl bills and
12 retail theft bills.
June 10,
2024
Democratic leaders hold a
press conference on
proposed amendments to
the package.
Amendments include urgency
clauses and inoperability clauses.
June 11,
2024
DAs’ measure qualifies for
the November ballot.
June 13,
2024
Cal Cities sends letter
opposing inoperability
clause.
June 17,
2024
Senate Appropriations
hearing on the Assembly
bills; AB 1794 (McCarty)
pulled from the package.
June 17,
2024
Negotiations between the
Governor’s Office and
DA’s stall on their ballot
measure.
June 26,
2024
Cal Cities shifts position to
neutral due to inoperability
clause.
June 30,
2024
Inoperability clause
removed from all bills. Cal
Cities returns to support
position on the package.
Legislature was unable to obtain
votes to pass the package with the
amendments.
June 30,
2024
Governor announces
counter measure (SB
SB 1381 was heard in policy
committee and had significant
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1381) to the DAs’ ballot
measure.
opposition from a wide range of
stakeholders.
July 2, 2024 Governor pulls counter
measure.
July 3, 2024 Legislature adjourns for
summer recess without
passing the retail theft
package.
July 3, 2024 Secretary of State assigns
DAs’ measure as
Proposition 36.
July 12,
2024
Cal Cities Board votes to
support Proposition 36.
Aug. 12,
2024
Both houses pass the
revised Legislative
Package of 10 measures.
Cal Cities in support of most of these
bills since the inoperability clause
was removed.
Aug. 16,
2024
Governor signs 10-bill
package.
Sept. 12,
2024
Governor signs AB 1960 –
final bill in the retail theft
package.
Bill Package:
The final legislative bill package was signed by the Governor on Aug. 12, 2024. Below
is a summary of the measures that were passed by the Legislature:
AB 1779 (Irwin) Theft: Jurisdiction.
Chapter 165, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows district attorneys to aggregate theft, organized theft, or receipt of
stolen property charges across multiple counties, if all jurisdictions agree to the
consolidation. This measure requires the court to conduct a hearing on the issue of
consolidation and for the prosecution to provide written evidence that all district
attorneys in counties with jurisdiction agree to the venue.
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer) Crimes: Organized Theft.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2024
This measure repeals the sunset date on the organized retail theft statute and the
Regional Property Crimes Task Force.
AB 1960 (Rivas, Robert) Sentencing Enhancements: Property Loss.
Chapter 220, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows for sentencing enhancements for taking, damaging, or destroying
property in the commission of a felony when the losses exceed specified dollar
amounts.
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AB 1972 (Alanis) Regional Property Crimes Task Force.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2024 (Urgency)
This measure specifies that cargo theft is a property crime for consideration by the
Regional Property Crimes Task Force.
AB 2943 (Zbur and Rivas) Theft.
Chapter 168, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes several changes to retail theft and shoplifting statutes by creating
a new crime for retail theft, allowing police to arrest without witnessing the crime,
prohibiting a nuisance action against a retailer for reporting crime, providing diversion
programs, and increasing the time under probation.
Cal Cities Position: Support if amended.
AB 3209 (Berman) Crimes: Theft: Retail Theft Restraining Orders.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2024
This measure allows a court to issue a restraining order when sentencing an individual
for shoplifting, theft from a retail establishment, organized retail theft, vandalism of a
retail establishment, or assault or battery of an employee of a retail establishment. This
measure also allows a prosecuting attorney, city attorney, county counsel, or attorney
representing a retail establishment to petition for a restraining order for an individual
who has been arrested.
SB 905 (Wiener) Crimes: Theft from a Vehicle.
Chapter 170, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes forcibly entering a vehicle with the intent to commit a theft or a
felony is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed
one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or two or three years.
SB 982 (Wahab) Crimes: Organized Theft.
Chapter 171, Statutes of 2024
This measure repeals the sunset date on the organized retail theft statute.
SB 1144 (Skinner) Marketplaces: Online Marketplaces.
Chapter 172, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands existing requirements for online marketplaces to collect certain
information from high-volume third-party sellers on internet platforms and allows district
attorneys, city attorneys, and county counsels to enforce the requirements. This
measure also requires an online marketplace to establish and maintain a policy
prohibiting the sale of stolen goods and requires an online marketplace to alert local,
regional, or state law enforcement of the attempt to sell stolen goods. This measure
would be operative on July 1, 2025.
SB 1242 (Min) Crimes: Fires.
Chapter 173, Statutes of 2024
This measure makes setting a fire within a merchant’s premises to facilitate organized
retail theft an aggravating factor in the sentencing of the offender.
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SB 1416 (Newman) Sentencing Enhancements: Sale, Exchange, or Return of
Stolen Property.
Chapter 174, Statutes of 2024
This measure creates a new sentencing enhancement of between one and four years
for selling, exchanging, or returning for value any property acquired through one or
more acts of shoplifting, theft, or burglary from a retail business if the property value
exceeds specified amounts.
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Recovery Housing Legislative Advocacy
Recovery Housing Legislative Advocacy
Background
In December 2023, the League of California Cities Board of Directors voted to support
Proposition 1, which passed off the March 2024 ballot. Proposition 1 modernized the
Mental Health Services Act for the first time in nearly two decades. The ballot measure
also included a $6.38 billion bond for over 11,000 new treatment beds and housing units
for people with the most acute behavioral health needs who are homeless or at risk of
homelessness.
Cal Cities’ support of Proposition 1 aligned with existing policy. In 2022, the Cal Cities
Board of Directors adopted a new policy that allowed the organization to advocate for
better behavioral health services statewide. Additionally, Cal Cities’ 2024 Advocacy
Priorities included securing increased funding and resources to prevent homelessness
and reduce homelessness.
In addition to supporting Proposition 1 on the ballot, the Cal Cities Board of Directors
directed staff to pursue legislation to address concerns about the overconcentration of
recovery housing facilities in residential areas. This was in response to concerns that
Proposition 1 funding could be used for residential recovery housing facilities,
exacerbating existing overconcentration issues in certain parts of the state.
The Orange County Register has documented many of these overconcentration issues
in a 2017 series titled Rehab Riviera and in the years since. Specifically, the five biggest
counties in Southern California — most notably Orange County — have nearly eight
times as many facilities as the five biggest counties in Northern California.
Cal Cities has over a decade of history advocating for reforms to address concerns
about residential care facilities. Cal Cities' existing policy supports better review and
regulation and a minimum distance of 300 feet between facilities. This advocacy
included Cal Cites sponsoring two bills in 2016 in response to an annual conference
resolution brought forward by the City of Malibu in 2015. Unfortunately, the Legislature
and the Governor have taken little to no action to move legislation that protects
residents and holds bad actors accountable.
Recovery Housing Bill Package
In response to the board’s directive, Cal Cities staff facilitated several group discussions
with cities across the state to collect feedback and develop legislative solutions. As a
result, Cal Cities sponsored four bills this session to ensure drug and alcohol recovery
facilities follow state regulations and provide high-quality treatment.
Two of these measures were signed by the Governor, including:
AB 2081 (Davies) Substance Abuse: Recovery and Treatment Programs.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2024
This measure requires the operator of a licensed recovery home to disclose to those
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seeking care that they can check the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)
website to confirm a facility’s compliance with state licensing laws.
AB 2574 (Valencia) Alcoholism or Drug Abuse Recovery or Treatment Programs
and Facilities: Disclosures.
Chapter 410, Statutes of 2024
This measure expands reporting requirements for licensed recovery home operators to
enhance the DHCS’s oversight of sober living homes that are operating as an integral
part of a licensed drug treatment facility located elsewhere in the community.
Unfortunately, two other measures in the bill package died earlier in the year. These
include:
SB 913 (Umberg) Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Facilities.
This measure would have augmented state licensing efforts by requiring the DHCS to
adopt a process that allows cities to request approval to conduct site visits and enforce
compliance with existing state licensing laws.
AB 2121 (Dixon) Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Licensing.
This measure would have required DHCS to notify cities when a license is
approved within their jurisdiction and implement 300-foot distance requirements
consistent with those for other group homes.
Looking ahead, Asm. Diane Dixon requested an audit of facilities licensed and regulated
by DHCS last year. Cal Cities anticipates the state will release the audit’s results in the
coming months. This data should provide critical information on the state’s efforts to
regulate these facilities and drive future attempts at reform.
Media Engagement
As part of the advocacy to advance this bill package, Cal Cities actively engaged the
media, resulting in over 100 media mentions on the bills since they were introduced at
the start of the year. Cal Cities also coordinated an op-ed co-authored by Asm. Laurie
Davies and Cal Cities Orange County Division’s Immediate Past President and La
Palma Mayor Marshall Goodman on the need for urgent legislative action to improve
patient safety in recovery housing residences. Other key media engagements included
press releases on AB 2574 and SB 913, as well as coverage in The OC Register.
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The Warehouse Bill – AB 98 (J. Carrillo and Reyes)
At the end of the legislative session in 2024, the Legislature and the Governor
prioritized the passage of a warehouse bill related to land use and air quality – AB 98 (J.
Carrillo, Reyes).
Background
At the start of 2024, the Assembly Local Government Committee held AB 1000 (Reyes).
AB 1000 was a statewide bill introduced in 2023 that would impose standards on
warehouses and logistics use facilities, including a 1,000-foot setback from the property
line to sensitive receptors in an effort to lessen air quality impacts. AB 1748 (Ramos)
was also introduced in 2023 as a second statewide bill that would impose less stringent
standards to counter AB 1000. AB 1000 was narrowed to apply only to San Bernardino
and Riverside Counties in January 2024 in an attempt to keep the bill moving forward.
But the League of California Cities, among other business and industry organizations,
maintained its opposed position, and AB 1000 died. However, at the end of January
2024, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas called for a legislative working group to be
formed to discuss the issue further before the legislation was reintroduced. The working
group ended up being comprised of a limited number of stakeholders, including a
business representative and an environmental advocate, who negotiated the extent of
AB 98. In August 2024, several labor organizations were brought in to back the bill as
the main supporters. It was then introduced on Aug. 28, 2024 – in the final three days of
the legislative session.
Cal Cities’ Policies and Advocacy
Cal Cities’ Existing Policy and Guiding Principles include the following policy:
“Cal Cities opposes air quality legislation that restricts the land use authority of
cities.”
Cal Cities formed a group of city members to discuss AB 1000 and AB 1748 over the
fall of 2023, in anticipation of the continuation of these bills in 2024. Cal Cities met with
its members on a regular basis throughout 2024, as Cal Cities staff received information
and updates about the potential of a legislative vehicle. Cal Cities met nearly every
month with Assembly Local Government Committee Chair Juan Carrillo’s office and
committee consultants or Assembly Speaker Rivas’ policy office to receive updates
about the discussions they were having after being told that Cal Cities could not have a
seat as one of the stakeholders in the legislative working group.
When notified that legislation would be forthcoming, Cal Cities engaged its members to
mobilize and strongly oppose AB 98. The bill was introduced for the first time on Oct.
28, 2024 – three days before the end of the legislative session, which applied the 72-
hour in-print rule. This rule requires that any measure heard on the floor must be in print
for 72 hours with no amendments. Since AB 98 was a gut-and-amend bill and
introduced on the 72-hour in-print deadline, there was no opportunity to amend the bill
before the end of the legislative session. As the bill moved through the Senate and
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Assembly floor, members committed to clean up legislation in 2025 to be able to
address some major concerns that were raised by the organizations in opposition.
AB 98 Legislation
AB 98 requires specific standards that warehouses and logistics use facilities must
meet. It also sets forth a required circulation element update for all cities and counties to
complete, otherwise the Attorney General may fine a local jurisdiction $50,000 every six
months. The information below describes these requirements included in AB 98.
AB 98 defines two tiers for the specific standards for warehouse and logistics use
facilities, including 21st Century Warehouse Design and Tier 1 – 21st Century
Warehouse Design, that will apply to new or expanded logistics use facilities beginning
Jan. 1, 2026.
21st Century Warehouse Design
A logistics use that meets all of the following is considered a 21st Century Warehouse
Design:
• Complies with or exceeds all requirements of the most current building energy
efficiency standards, including, but not limited to, the following requirements
related to:
o Photovoltaic system installation and associated battery storage.
o Cool roofing.
o Medium- and heavy-duty vehicle charging readiness.
o Light-duty electric vehicle charging readiness and installed charging
stations.
• Has skylights in at least 1% of the roof area, or equivalent LED efficient lighting.
• Provides conduits and electrical hookups at all loading bays serving cold storage.
Idling or use of auxiliary truck engine power to power climate control equipment
shall be prohibited if the truck is capable of plugging in at the loading bay.
• Ensures that any heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning is high efficiency.
• Ensures that all classes of forklifts used on-site, pursuant to State Air Resources
Board’s Zero-Emission Forklifts regulation, as drafted, shall be zero emission by
Jan. 1, 2030, to the extent operationally feasible, commercially off-the-shelf
available, and adequate power available on-site. If not, the cleanest technology
commercially available shall be used, and cost shall not be a factor in
determining operational feasibility pursuant to this subparagraph.
• Ensures that equipment used on-site utilizing small off-road engines shall be
zero-emission, to the extent operationally feasible, commercially off-the shelf
available, and adequate power available on site. If not, the cleanest technology
commercially available shall be used and cost shall not be a factor in determining
operational feasibility pursuant to this subparagraph. Should any equipment used
on-site utilizing small off-road engines be contracted out, the logistics use facility
shall preferentially contract for services utilizing zero-emission, small off-road
engines.
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Tier 1 – 21st Century Warehouse Design
A logistics use that meets all of the 21st Century Warehouse Design conditions plus the
following is considered a Tier 1 – 21st Century Warehouse Design:
• Photovoltaic system installation and associated battery storage. For purposes of
the photovoltaic system installation requirement, all warehouse square footage
should be considered conditioned space.
• Has a microgrid-ready switchgear system capable of supporting distributed
energy resources.
• Is advanced smart metering ready.
• Has a minimum of 50% of all passenger vehicle parking spaces preinstalled with
conduit and all necessary physical infrastructure to support future charging of
electric vehicles.
• Has a minimum of 10% of all passenger vehicle parking spaces installed with
electric vehicle charging stations.
• Ensures that all classes of forklifts used on-site, pursuant to State Air Resources
Board’s Zero-Emission Forklifts regulation, as drafted, shall be zero-emission by
Jan. 1, 2028, to the extent operationally feasible, commercially off-the-shelf
available, and adequate power available on-site.
New or Expanded Logistics Use Developments
There are four types of sites defined in the bill where new or expanded logistics use
development must meet specific siting requirements, including:
• Commencing Jan. 1, 2026, any proposed new or expanded logistics use
development that is less than 250,000 square feet, has a loading bay within 900
feet of a sensitive receptor, and is utilizing a site zoned for industrial use shall
comply with all of the following:
o Orients truck loading bays on the opposite side of the logistics use
development away from sensitive receptors to the extent feasible.
o Locates truck entry, exit, and internal circulation away from sensitive
receptors. Heavy-duty diesel truck drive aisles shall be prohibited from being
used on sides of the building that are directly adjacent to a sensitive receptor
property line.
o Includes buffering and screening to mitigate for light and noise.
o Complies with or exceeds all requirements of the most current building energy
efficiency standards, including, but not limited to, the following requirements
related to: (A) photovoltaic system installation and associated battery storage,
(B) cool roofing, (C) medium- and heavy-duty vehicle charging readiness, and
(D) light-duty electric vehicle charging readiness and installed charging
stations.
o Provides conduits at loading bays equal to one truck per every loading bay
serving cold storage. Idling or use of auxiliary truck engine power to power
climate control equipment shall be prohibited if the truck is capable of
plugging in at the loading bay.
o Ensures that any heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning is high efficiency.
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o Has a separate entrance for heavy-duty trucks accessible via a truck route,
arterial road, major thoroughfare, or a local road that predominantly serves
commercial-oriented uses.
• Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, any proposed new or expanded logistics use
development that is 250,000 square feet or more, has a loading bay within 900
feet of a sensitive receptor, and is using a site zoned for industrial use shall meet
all of the following:
o Tier 1 – 21st Century Warehouse Design elements.
o Orients truck loading bays on opposite side from the sensitive receptors to the
extent feasible.
o Locates truck loading bays a minimum of 300 feet from the property line of
the nearest sensitive receptor to the nearest truck loading bay opening using
a direct straight-line method.
o Has a separate entrance for heavy-duty trucks accessible via a truck route,
arterial road, major thoroughfare, or a local road that predominantly serves
commercial-oriented uses.
o Locates truck entry, exit, and internal circulation away from sensitive
receptors.
o Prohibits heavy-duty diesel truck drive aisles from being used on sides of the
building that are directly adjacent to a sensitive receptor property line.
o Includes buffering and screening to mitigate for light and noise (see below).
• Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, any proposed new or expanded logistics use
development where the loading bay is within 900 feet of a sensitive receptor and
on land that is not zoned industrial, whether developed or undeveloped, or land
that needs to be rezoned, shall meet all of the following:
o If the logistics use development is 250,000 square feet or more it shall include
all Tier 1 – 21st century warehouse design elements.
o If the logistics use development is less than 250,000 square feet, it shall
include all 21st century warehouse design elements.
o Orients truck loading bays on the opposite side of the logistics use
development away from sensitive receptors to the extent feasible.
o Locates truck loading bays a minimum of 500 feet from the property line of
the nearest sensitive receptor to the nearest truck loading bay opening using
a direct straight-line method.
o Has a separate entrance for heavy-duty trucks accessible via a truck route,
arterial road, major thoroughfare, or a local road that predominantly serves
commercial-oriented uses.
o Locates truck entry, exit, and internal circulation away from sensitive
receptors.
o Prohibits heavy-duty diesel truck drive aisles from being used on sides of the
building that are directly adjacent to a sensitive receptor property line.
o Includes buffering and screening to mitigate for light and noise (see below).
• Commencing Jan. 1, 2026, any proposed new or expanded logistics use
development that is on land that is not zoned industrial, whether developed or
undeveloped, or land that needs to be rezoned and is located in the warehouse
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concentration region (see Key Definitions below) shall comply with all of the
following:
o If the logistics use development is 250,000 square feet or more, it shall
include all Tier 1 – 21st Century Warehouse Design elements.
o If the logistics use development is less than 250,000 square feet, it shall
include all 21st Century Warehouse Design elements.
o Orients truck loading bays on the opposite side of the logistics use
development away from sensitive receptors to the extent feasible.
o Locates truck loading bays a minimum of 500 feet from the property line of
the nearest sensitive receptor to the nearest truck loading bay opening using
a direct straight-line method.
o Has a separate entrance for heavy-duty trucks accessible via a truck route,
arterial road, major thoroughfare, or a local road that predominantly serves
commercial-oriented uses.
o Locates truck entry, exit, and internal circulation away from sensitive
receptors.
o Prohibits heavy-duty diesel truck drive aisles from being used on sides of the
building that are directly adjacent to a sensitive receptor property line.
o Includes buffering and screening to mitigate for light and noise (see below).
Light and Noise Buffers
Light and noise buffers referenced above require any new logistics use facility within
900 feet of a sensitive receptor to have a buffer as follows:
• If the logistics use development is on existing industrial sites, the buffer shall be
50 feet in width measured from the property line of all adjacent sensitive
receptors.
• If the logistics use development is a rezoned industrial site, the buffer shall be
100 feet in width measured from the property line of all adjacent sensitive
receptors.
Buffer areas shall include a solid decorative wall, landscaped berm and wall, or
landscaped berm 10 feet or more in height; drought-tolerant natural ground landscaping
with proper irrigation; and solid-screen buffering trees. Trees shall be used as part of a
solid-screen buffering treatment and planted in two rows along the length of the property
line adjacent to the sensitive receptor. Trees used for this purpose shall be evergreen,
drought tolerant to the extent feasible, composed of species with low-biogenic
emissions, of a minimum 36-inch box size at planting, and spaced at no greater
distance than 40 feet on center. Palm trees shall not be used.
Circulation Element Update
On or before Jan. 1, 2028, a city, county, or city and county shall update its circulation
element to include truck routes. On or before Jan. 1, 2026, all cities and counties in the
warehouse concentration region shall update their circulation element to include truck
routes. AB 98 requires a county or city to update its circulation element to do all of the
following:
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• Identify and establish specific travel routes for the transport of goods, materials,
or freight for storage, transfer, or redistribution to safely accommodate additional
truck traffic and avoid residential areas and sensitive receptors.
• Maximize the use of interstate or state divided highways as preferred routes for
truck routes. The county or city shall also maximize use of arterial roads, major
thoroughfares, and predominantly commercially oriented local streets when state
or interstate highways are not utilized. Truck routes shall comply with the
following:
o Major or minor collector streets and roads that predominantly serve
commercially oriented uses shall be used for truck routes only when strictly
necessary to reach existing industrial zones.
o Trucks shall be routed via transportation arteries that minimize exposure to
sensitive receptors.
• On and after the required deadlines stated above in this section, all proposed
development of a logistics use development less than 250,000 square feet and
on existing industrial sites shall be accessible via arterial roads, major
thoroughfares, or roads that predominantly serve commercially oriented uses.
• Local roads shall be considered to predominantly serve commercial uses if more
than 50% of the properties fronting the road within 1,000 feet are designated for
commercial or industrial use according to the local zoning ordinance.
• The county or city may consult with the Department of Transportation and the
California Freight Advisory Committee for technical assistance.
• The county or city shall provide for posting of conspicuous signage to identify
truck routes and additional signage for truck parking and appropriate idling facility
locations.
• The county or city shall make truck routes publicly available in geographic
information system (GIS) format and share GIS maps of the truck routes with
warehouse operators, fleet operators, and truck drivers.
The city or county shall provide opportunities for the involvement of citizens, California
Native American tribes, public agencies, public utility companies, and civic, educational,
and other community groups through public hearings and any other means the planning
agency deems appropriate. The city or county shall make a diligent effort to achieve
public participation of all economic segments of the community in the development of
the changes required.
The Attorney General may enforce this paragraph and may impose a fine against a
jurisdiction that is in violation of this paragraph of up to $50,000 every six months
if the required updates have not been made.
Upon appropriation by the Legislature, any fines collected shall be distributed by the
Attorney General and returned to the local air quality management district in which the
fine was imposed and be used for the district’s efforts to improve air quality.
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Housing Provisions
AB 98 requires that a city, county, or city and county shall not approve development of a
logistics use that does not meet or exceed the standards outlined in the bill. This
provision should not be construed to restrict the existing authority of a city, county, or
city and county to deny a logistics use facility altogether. A city, county, or city and
county shall condition approval of a logistics use on the following:
• Two-to-one replacement of any demolished housing unit that was occupied
within the last 10 years, unless the housing unit was declared substandard by a
building official prior to purchase by the developer. For each housing unit
demolished, regardless of market value of the unit, two units of affordable
housing for persons and families of low or moderate income that are deed-
restricted shall be built within the jurisdiction. Funds from any fee imposed for the
replacement of demolished housing units shall be placed in a housing-specific
set-aside account and shall be used for housing within three years of collection.
• If residential dwellings are affected through purchase, the developer shall be
required to provide any displaced tenant with an amount equivalent to 12 months’
rent at the current rate.
Air Quality Monitoring Requirements
AB 98 requires, subject to an appropriation for this express purpose, the South Coast
Air Quality Management District (District), beginning Jan. 1, 2026 and ending Jan. 1,
2032, to deploy mobile air monitoring systems within the Counties of Riverside and San
Bernardino to collect air pollution measurements in communities that are near
operational logistics use developments. The District is required to use the data collected
to conduct an air-modeling analysis to evaluate the impact of air pollution on sensitive
receptors from logistics use development operations in the Counties of Riverside and
San Bernardino, including relative pollution concentrations from logistics use
developments at varying distances from sensitive receptors. The District is required to
submit its findings to the Legislature on or before Jan. 1, 2033. On or before Jan. 1,
2028, the District shall submit an interim report to evaluate the impact of air pollution on
sensitive receptors from logistics use development operations in the Counties of
Riverside and San Bernardino, including relative pollution concentrations from logistics
use developments at varying distances from sensitive receptors. This report shall be
used to assess the effectiveness of setbacks on public health. The District is required to
establish a process for receiving community input on how any penalties assessed and
collected for violations of the Warehouse Indirect Source Rule are spent. The District is
required to ensure a wide range of community groups are included in the process and
that groups represent the geographic areas where there are high numbers of
warehouse facilities.
Additional Key Definitions
The following are key definitions included in AB 98:
“Expansion of an existing logistics use” means the expansion of an existing logistics use
by 20% or more of the existing square footage. Office space shall not be included as
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part of the existing square footage or in the square footage for the 20% expansion
threshold.
“Logistics use” means a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or
stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not
predominantly serve retail customers for on-site purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are
primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products.
“Logistics use” does not include any of the following:
• Facilities where food or household goods are sold directly to consumers and are
accessible to the public.
• A building primarily served by rail to move cargo, goods, or products.
• A Strategic Intermodal Facility, which means a project that satisfies all of the
following requirements:
o Logistics facilities, including warehousing and transloading facilities, served
by rail.
o Intermodal freight transport services.
o All facility structures and related rail operations are located within a single site
footprint.
“Sensitive receptor” means one or more of the following:
• A residence, including, but not limited to, a private home, apartment,
condominium unit, group home, dormitory unit, or retirement home.
• A school, including, but not limited to, a preschool, prekindergarten, or school
maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1-12, inclusive.
• A day care facility, including, but not limited to, in-home day care.
• Publicly owned parks, playgrounds, and recreational areas or facilities primarily
used by children, unless the development of the park and recreation areas are
included as a condition of approval for the development of a logistics use.
• Nursing homes, long-term care facilities, hospices, convalescent facilities, or
similar live-in housing.
• Hospitals, as defined in Section 128700 of the Health and Safety Code.
“Warehouse concentration region” includes the Counties of Riverside and San
Bernadino and the Cities of Chino, Colton, Fontana, Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley,
Ontario, Perris, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Rialto, Riverside, and San Bernadino.
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RESOURCES
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Legislative Staff
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Legislative Staff
Jason Rhine, Director of Legislative Affairs
jrhine@calcities.org
Meg Desmond, Associate Manager, Legislative Administration
mdesmond@calcities.org
Caroline Grinder, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Community Services
cgrinder@calcities.org
Melissa Sparks-Kranz, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Environmental Quality
msparkskranz@calcities.org
Johnnie Pina, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations
jpina@calcities.org
Brady Guertin, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist,
Housing, Community, and Economic Development
bguertin@calcities.org
Jolena Voorhis, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Public Safety
jvoorhis@calcities.org
Ben Triffo, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Revenue and Taxation
btriffo@calcities.org
Damon Conklin, Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist
Transportation, Communications, and Public Works
dconklin@calcities.org
Waleed Hojeij, Policy and Legislative Affairs Analyst
whojeij@calcities.org
Betsy Montiel, Policy and Legislative Affairs Analyst
bmontiel@calcities.org
Zach Cefalu, Policy and Legislative Affairs Analyst
zcefalu@calcities.org
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Regional Public Affairs Managers
Director of Public Affairs
Kristine Guerrero
Cell: (626) 716-0076
kguerrero@calcities.org
Central Valley
Stephen Qualls
Cell: (209) 614-0118
squalls@calcities.org
Channel Counties
David Mullinax
Cell: (805) 797-3530
dmullinax@calcities.org
Desert Mountain; Inland
Empire
Laura Varela
Cell: (909) 275-4110
lvarela@calcities.org
East Bay
Samantha Caygill
Cell: (916) 402-7258
scaygill@calcities.org
Peninsula
Montana Cruz
Cell: (415) 298-4940
mcruz@calcities.org
Los Angeles County
Jennifer Quan
Cell: (626) 786-5142
jquan@calcities.org
Nicolas Cabeza
Cell:(562) 322-1861
ncabeza@calcities.org
Jeff Kiernan
Cell: (310) 630-7505
jkiernan@calcities.org
Monterey Bay
Deanna Sessums
Cell: (831) 915-8293
dsessums@calcities.org
North Bay
Nancy Hall Bennett
Cell: (415) 302-2032
nbennett@calcities.org
Orange County
Connor Medina
Cell: (949) 421-9898
cmedina@calcities.org
Redwood Empire
Sara Sanders
Office: (916) 658-8243
Cell: (916) 548-9030
sanders@calcities.org
Riverside County
Jesse Ramirez
Cell: (951) 808-2448
jramirez@calcities.org
Sacramento Valley
Charles Anderson
Cell: (916) 798-2231
canderson@calcities.org
San Diego County;
Imperial County
Catherine Hill
Office: (619) 295-8282
Cell: (619) 733-1751
chill@calcities.org
South San Joaquin
Valley
Rajveer Rakkar
Cell: (559) 214-1849
rrakkar@calcities.org
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10 Tips for Cities Lobbying the California Legislature
League of California Cities 2024 Legislative Report
10 Tips for Cities Lobbying the California Legislature
1. Become engaged in the state level political process by appointing a legislative
liaison within your city to track key legislation and work with your regional public
affairs manager. Visit the Cal Cities regional division webpage to locate contact
information for your regional public affairs manager.
2. Use Cal Cities as a resource. Visit the Cal Cities advocacy page to access Cal
Cities priority bills, city sample support and opposition letters, legislative
contacts, and use our online bill search feature to track bills’ progress.
3. Read and subscribe to the Cal Cities Advocate, Cal Cities’ weekly newsletter, to
stay current on important legislation and stories.
4. Develop relationships with your Senate and Assembly representatives as well as
their Capitol and district office staff. Make sure to look up who your local state
elected official is.
5. Get to know members of your local press and educate them on legislative issues
affecting your city.
6. Understand how state decisions impact your city’s budget by attending Cal
Cities educational conferences, policy committee meetings, and regional division
events.
7. Build networks and collaborate with other stakeholders in your community,
including non-profits, businesses, and your county counterparts on key
legislative issues.
8. Organize an internal process within your city for developing and proposing
changes to both state and federal laws that will help your city.
9. Adopt local policies on legislation that enable your city to react quickly to the
legislative process and respond to Cal Cities action alerts.
10. Write letters on legislation featured in the Cal Cities Advocate. City sample
support and opposition letters can be found using the Cal Cities bill search
feature and entering the bill number or bill author.
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Appendix B – Cal Cities Resources 131
Effective Letter Writing Techniques
League of California Cities 2024 Legislative Report
Effective Letter-Writing Techniques
1. Include the bill number, title, and your position in the subject line. Never bury
the bill number and the action you want the legislator to take in the body of the letter.
2. One bill per letter. Legislators file letters according to the bill number.
3. State the facts. Describe the impact the bill would have on your city. Use “real
world” facts; legislators like to know how a bill would specifically affect cities in their
districts. Cal Cities often provides a sample letter that includes space to describe
local impacts. Take the time to provide such examples. This part of the letter is the
most valuable to the legislator.
4. Think about the message. Letters may be targeted to specific legislators or entire
committees. Think about who you want to act on the bill and message accordingly. If
you are writing in support of transportation funding, emphasizing how the project will
reduce greenhouse gases might be important to one legislator, while highlighting
how the project could encourage additional development and jobs might be
important to another. Both messages are correct, but your effectiveness will be in
selecting the right message.
5. Check for amendments. Always check the Cal Cities bill search page to make sure
you are addressing issues in the latest draft. Bills are often significantly amended,
and the issue you are writing about may have changed or have been deleted
altogether by the time you send your letter.
6. Send follow-up letters to the appropriate legislative committees as a bill
moves along. You can often use your original letter with some modifications. Visit
the Cal Cities bill search webpage to track the bill’s location. In addition, the Cal
Cities Advocate features stories on key legislation.
7. Provide a contact. At the close of the letter, provide a contact person in case there
are questions about the city’s position.
8. Know the committees on which your legislator serves. A legislator is likely to
pay more attention to the bill positions of their constituents especially when it comes
before his or her committee. At the committee level, this is even more important
because your legislator has greater ability at this point in the legislative process to
have the bill amended.
9. Copy the right people. Email a copy of the letter to your local state senator,
assembly member, your Cal Cities regional public affairs manager, and Cal Cities.
10. Submit your letter to the California legislature position letter portal. The portal
automatically sends letters to the author’s office and the committee(s) of jurisdiction.
Please visit the legislative portal to create an account and upload the letter.
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Effective Letter Writing Techniques
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Index of Chaptered Bills
AB 51 ................................................. 12
AB 98 ........................................... 20, 50
AB 106 ................................................. 4
AB 107 ................................................. 4
AB 157 ................................................. 4
AB 158 ................................................. 4
AB 160 ................................................. 4
AB 161 ................................................. 5
AB 162 ................................................. 5
AB 166 ................................................. 5
AB 168 ................................................. 5
AB 169 ................................................. 5
AB 170 ................................................. 5
AB 171 ................................................. 5
AB 173 ................................................. 5
AB 176 ................................................. 6
AB 177 ................................................. 6
AB 178 ................................................. 6
AB 179 ................................................. 6
AB 180 ................................................. 4
AB 181 ................................................. 6
AB 218 ................................................. 6
AB 262 ............................................... 12
AB 347 ............................................... 28
AB 453 ............................................... 37
AB 460 ............................................... 33
AB 535 ............................................... 15
AB 628 ............................................... 91
AB 653 ............................................... 15
AB 661 ............................................... 59
AB 799 ............................................... 15
AB 805 ............................................... 33
AB 846 ............................................... 60
AB 863 ............................................... 30
AB 977 ............................................... 82
AB 1053 ............................................. 60
AB 1113 ............................................. 12
AB 1147 ............................................. 10
AB 1170 ............................................. 44
AB 1186 ............................................. 90
AB 1246 ............................................. 47
AB 1282 ............................................. 10
AB 1316 ............................................. 83
AB 1413 ............................................. 61
AB 1465 ............................................. 20
AB 1774 ............................................. 99
AB 1775 ............................................. 74
AB 1777 ............................................. 99
AB 1779 ............................................. 89
AB 1782 ............................................. 61
AB 1784 ............................................. 37
AB 1785 ............................................. 47
AB 1801 ............................................. 50
AB 1802 ............................................. 89
AB 1808 ............................................. 12
AB 1819 ............................................. 93
AB 1820 ............................................. 63
AB 1825 ............................................. 18
AB 1827 ............................................. 33
AB 1831 ............................................. 75
AB 1841 ............................................. 17
AB 1843 ............................................. 83
AB 1863 ............................................. 83
AB 1864 ............................................. 28
AB 1866 ............................................. 30
AB 1868 ............................................. 93
AB 1870 ............................................. 49
AB 1874 ............................................. 75
AB 1878 ............................................. 61
AB 1879 ............................................. 93
AB 1881 ............................................. 24
AB 1886 ............................................. 51
AB 1889 ....................................... 23, 51
AB 1892 ............................................. 75
AB 1893 ............................................. 51
AB 1907 ............................................. 12
AB 1921 ............................................. 25
AB 1939 ............................................. 13
AB 1940 ............................................. 72
AB 1941 ............................................. 40
AB 1953 ............................................. 99
AB 1960 ............................................. 89
AB 1962 ............................................. 76
AB 1963 ............................................. 29
AB 1972 ............................................. 89
AB 1976 ....................................... 17, 42
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AB 1978 ............................................. 76
AB 1979 ............................................. 76
AB 1982 ............................................. 84
AB 1988 ............................................... 9
AB 1996 ............................................. 17
AB 2001 ............................................. 44
AB 2005 ............................................. 61
AB 2011 ............................................. 40
AB 2018 ............................................. 76
AB 2020 ............................................. 91
AB 2021 ............................................. 76
AB 2023 ............................................. 52
AB 2024 ............................................. 76
AB 2037 ........................................... 100
AB 2041 ............................................. 44
AB 2049 ............................................. 76
AB 2069 ............................................. 72
AB 2081 ............................................. 10
AB 2085 ............................................. 52
AB 2086 ........................................... 100
AB 2091 ............................................. 21
AB 2094 ............................................. 72
AB 2099 ............................................. 77
AB 2109 ............................................. 25
AB 2111 ............................................. 77
AB 2114 ............................................. 65
AB 2115 ............................................. 77
AB 2117 ............................................. 52
AB 2123 ............................................. 40
AB 2127 ............................................. 37
AB 2130 ........................................... 100
AB 2136 ............................................. 17
AB 2137 ............................................. 16
AB 2154 ............................................. 10
AB 2159 ............................................. 66
AB 2174 ............................................. 72
AB 2177 ............................................. 72
AB 2186 ........................................... 100
AB 2199 ............................................. 22
AB 2207 ............................................... 9
AB 2213 ............................................. 68
AB 2215 ............................................. 77
AB 2225 ............................................. 83
AB 2232 ............................................. 10
AB 2240 ............................................. 61
AB 2243 ............................................. 52
AB 2247 ............................................. 59
AB 2257 ............................................. 95
AB 2276 ............................................. 27
AB 2295 ............................................. 77
AB 2299 ............................................. 42
AB 2302 ............................................. 48
AB 2304 ............................................. 59
AB 2308 ............................................. 78
AB 2317 ............................................. 13
AB 2318 ............................................. 33
AB 2337 ............................................. 49
AB 2343 ............................................. 13
AB 2346 ............................................. 30
AB 2348 ............................................. 83
AB 2353 ............................................. 93
AB 2355 ............................................. 45
AB 2359 ............................................. 72
AB 2368 ............................................. 97
AB 2371 ............................................. 53
AB 2373 ............................................. 59
AB 2375 ............................................. 73
AB 2378 ............................................. 73
AB 2387 ............................................. 59
AB 2389 ............................................. 73
AB 2399 ............................................. 60
AB 2402 ............................................. 73
AB 2423 ............................................. 13
AB 2424 ............................................. 62
AB 2427 ........................................... 100
AB 2430 ............................................. 64
AB 2432 ............................................. 90
AB 2440 ............................................. 19
AB 2453 ........................................... 101
AB 2454 ............................................. 33
AB 2455 ............................................. 43
AB 2460 ............................................. 67
AB 2477 ............................................. 13
AB 2481 ............................................. 91
AB 2483 ............................................. 78
AB 2488 ............................................. 93
AB 2493 ............................................. 67
AB 2499 ............................................. 40
AB 2501 ............................................. 34
AB 2503 ............................................. 22
AB 2511 ............................................. 31
AB 2515 ............................................. 29
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AB 2521 ............................................. 78
AB 2522 ............................................. 21
AB 2533 ............................................. 58
AB 2536 ............................................. 78
AB 2541 ............................................. 88
AB 2546 ............................................. 88
AB 2552 ............................................. 29
AB 2553 ............................................. 64
AB 2555 ............................................. 94
AB 2556 ............................................. 11
AB 2561 ............................................. 41
AB 2574 ............................................. 11
AB 2579 ............................................. 66
AB 2580 ............................................. 53
AB 2582 ............................................. 37
AB 2589 ............................................. 73
AB 2597 ............................................. 53
AB 2599 ............................................. 34
AB 2618 ............................................. 95
AB 2620 ............................................... 9
AB 2621 ............................................. 88
AB 2629 ............................................. 84
AB 2631 ............................................. 43
AB 2632 ............................................. 54
AB 2642 ............................................. 38
AB 2643 ............................................. 74
AB 2645 ............................................. 83
AB 2655 ............................................. 38
AB 2661 ............................................. 25
AB 2664 ............................................. 14
AB 2667 ............................................. 54
AB 2669 ........................................... 101
AB 2678 ........................................... 101
AB 2684 ....................................... 23, 54
AB 2694 ............................................. 54
AB 2695 ............................................. 88
AB 2705 ............................................. 41
AB 2712 ............................................. 69
AB 2715 ............................................. 48
AB 2723 ............................................. 14
AB 2729 ............................................. 66
AB 2730 ............................................. 78
AB 2738 ....................................... 41, 48
AB 2739 ............................................. 84
AB 2750 ............................................. 26
AB 2759 ............................................. 85
AB 2770 ............................................. 47
AB 2779 ............................................. 26
AB 2780 ........................................... 101
AB 2786 ............................................. 71
AB 2801 ............................................. 67
AB 2802 ............................................. 16
AB 2803 ............................................. 45
AB 2807 ............................................. 78
AB 2813 ............................................. 95
AB 2822 ............................................. 85
AB 2830 ............................................. 14
AB 2832 ............................................. 69
AB 2835 ............................................. 62
AB 2839 ............................................. 38
AB 2841 ............................................. 74
AB 2842 ............................................. 85
AB 2854 ............................................. 95
AB 2859 ............................................. 84
AB 2866 ............................................. 14
AB 2871 ............................................. 17
AB 2873 ............................................. 69
AB 2875 ............................................. 34
AB 2879 ........................................... 102
AB 2897 ............................................. 94
AB 2898 ............................................. 67
AB 2900 ............................................. 21
AB 2902 ............................................. 31
AB 2904 ............................................. 55
AB 2907 ............................................. 85
AB 2917 ............................................. 85
AB 2922 ............................................. 69
AB 2926 ............................................. 55
AB 2939 ............................................. 19
AB 2943 ............................................. 89
AB 2951 ............................................. 38
AB 2962 ............................................. 34
AB 2967 ............................................. 62
AB 2968 ............................................. 84
AB 2984 ............................................. 79
AB 2985 ............................................. 79
AB 2995 ............................................. 18
AB 2998 ............................................. 18
AB 3007 ............................................. 22
AB 3012 ............................................. 64
AB 3024 ............................................. 91
AB 3025 ............................................. 47
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AB 3035 ............................................. 69
AB 3057 ............................................. 58
AB 3064 ............................................. 86
AB 3072 ............................................. 86
AB 3083 ............................................. 86
AB 3085 ............................................. 79
AB 3090 ............................................. 34
AB 3093 ................................. 16, 24, 55
AB 3116 ............................................. 55
AB 3122 ............................................. 56
AB 3134 ............................................. 94
AB 3138 ............................................. 92
AB 3177 ............................................. 64
AB 3184 ............................................. 38
AB 3190 ............................................. 43
AB 3197 ............................................. 39
AB 3206 ............................................. 73
AB 3209 ............................................. 89
AB 3218 ............................................. 19
AB 3223 ............................................. 14
AB 3229 ............................................. 11
AB 3233 ............................................. 30
AB 3235 ............................................. 79
AB 3259 ............................................. 95
AB 3264 ............................................. 26
AB 3265 ............................................. 22
AB 3277 ............................................. 94
AB 3284 ............................................. 39
AB 3285 ............................................. 74
AB 3288 ............................................. 94
ACR 86 .............................................. 10
AJR 9 ................................................. 16
AJR 12 ............................................... 35
SB 7 ................................................... 56
SB 53 ................................................. 86
SB 108 ................................................. 4
SB 109 ................................................. 4
SB 136 ................................................. 6
SB 153 ................................................. 7
SB 154 ................................................. 7
SB 155 ................................................. 7
SB 156 ................................................. 7
SB 159 ................................................. 7
SB 163 ................................................. 7
SB 164 ................................................. 7
SB 167 ................................................. 7
SB 174 ................................................. 8
SB 175 ................................................. 8
SB 242 ............................................... 14
SB 268 ............................................... 79
SB 285 ............................................... 79
SB 310 ............................................... 27
SB 347 ............................................... 56
SB 379 ............................................... 90
SB 382 ............................................... 66
SB 393 ............................................... 68
SB 399 ............................................... 41
SB 400 ......................................... 48, 88
SB 440 ............................................... 62
SB 442 ............................................... 79
SB 450 ............................................... 56
SB 477 ............................................... 58
SB 479 ............................................... 68
SB 504 ............................................... 87
SB 549 ............................................... 96
SB 551 ............................................... 31
SB 554 ............................................... 80
SB 572 ............................................... 70
SB 583 ............................................... 35
SB 597 ............................................... 35
SB 675 ............................................... 27
SB 689 ....................................... 24, 102
SB 690 ............................................... 80
SB 691 ............................................... 15
SB 707 ............................................... 31
SB 708 ............................................. 102
SB 758 ............................................... 86
SB 764 ............................................... 80
SB 768 ............................................. 102
SB 778 ............................................... 97
SB 867 ............................................... 24
SB 899 ............................................... 86
SB 900 ............................................... 67
SB 902 ............................................... 87
SB 905 ............................................... 89
SB 908 ............................................... 80
SB 918 ............................................... 88
SB 924 ............................................... 68
SB 926 ............................................... 80
SB 937 ............................................... 64
SB 948 ............................................... 47
SB 951 ............................................... 70
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SB 958 ............................................... 70
SB 960 ............................................. 103
SB 965 ............................................... 87
SB 976 ............................................... 81
SB 981 ............................................... 81
SB 982 ............................................... 90
SB 989 ............................................... 81
SB 990 ............................................... 84
SB 1002 ............................................. 87
SB 1006 ............................................. 26
SB 1019 ............................................. 87
SB 1025 ............................................. 81
SB 1027 ............................................. 45
SB 1034 ............................................. 48
SB 1037 ............................................. 57
SB 1046 ............................................. 32
SB 1048 ............................................. 57
SB 1051 ............................................. 68
SB 1053 ............................................. 32
SB 1059 ............................................. 95
SB 1064 ............................................. 75
SB 1072 ............................................. 35
SB 1077 ....................................... 25, 58
SB 1090 ............................................. 41
SB 1098 ........................................... 103
SB 1100 ............................................. 42
SB 1101 ............................................. 28
SB 1109 ............................................. 75
SB 1111 ............................................. 45
SB 1112 ............................................. 15
SB 1123 ............................................. 57
SB 1130 ............................................. 27
SB 1136 ............................................. 23
SB 1137 ............................................. 42
SB 1140 ............................................. 94
SB 1143 ............................................. 32
SB 1144 ............................................. 90
SB 1147 ............................................. 35
SB 1152 ............................................. 98
SB 1158 ............................................. 21
SB 1162 ............................................. 43
SB 1174 ............................................. 39
SB 1181 ............................................. 45
SB 1184 ............................................. 11
SB 1187 ............................................. 62
SB 1188 ............................................. 36
SB 1190 ............................................. 60
SB 1210 ............................................. 65
SB 1211 ............................................. 59
SB 1216 ........................................... 103
SB 1221 ............................................. 98
SB 1224 ............................................. 74
SB 1226 ............................................. 36
SB 1230 ............................................. 19
SB 1238 ............................................. 11
SB 1242 ............................................. 90
SB 1243 ............................................. 46
SB 1249 ............................................... 9
SB 1266 ............................................. 29
SB 1271 ........................................... 104
SB 1280 ............................................. 32
SB 1303 ............................................. 97
SB 1320 ............................................. 11
SB 1323 ............................................. 81
SB 1328 ............................................. 39
SB 1336 ............................................. 70
SB 1340 ....................................... 44, 71
SB 1342 ............................................. 23
SB 1357 ............................................. 70
SB 1361 ....................................... 16, 23
SB 1371 ............................................. 74
SB 1381 ............................................. 82
SB 1382 ............................................. 71
SB 1385 ............................................. 18
SB 1386 ............................................. 82
SB 1395 ............................................. 63
SB 1400 ............................................. 82
SB 1406 ............................................... 9
SB 1408 ............................................. 60
SB 1414 ............................................. 82
SB 1416 ............................................. 90
SB 1418 ........................................... 104
SB 1420 ............................................. 98
SB 1441 ............................................. 49
SB 1450 ............................................. 39
SB 1465 ............................................. 66
SB 1488 ........................................... 104
SB 1493 ............................................. 39
SB 1498 ............................................. 75
SB 1500 ............................................. 70
SB 1512 ............................................. 63
SB 1514 ............................................. 57
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SCA 1 ................................................. 40
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League of California Cities 2025 Advocacy Priorities
1. Protect local revenues and expand economic development tools. Safeguard and
modernize revenue streams for local priorities. Pursue new economic development
opportunities that bolster local economies and cultivate a strong local workforce,
including expanded workforce recruitment and retention tools.
2. Strengthen climate change resiliency and disaster preparedness. Support city efforts
to prepare, prevent, and adapt to natural disasters and the impacts of climate
change, including wildfires, drought, sea level rise, and other extreme weather
events. Increase transparency and access to insurance policies, especially following
a natural disaster.
3. Strengthen and modernize critical infrastructure. Dedicate new resources and
protect existing funding to maintain and improve essential infrastructure, including
bridges, roads, broadband, and the state’s water supply and energy grid.
4. Secure investments to prevent and reduce homelessness and increase the supply of
affordable housing. Secure dedicated funding to bolster cities’ long-term planning
efforts to support unhoused residents and accelerate the construction of affordable
housing. Strengthen state and regional partnerships to expand access to
wraparound services and improve the housing element planning process. Ensure
cities have the flexibility and decision-making authority to meet their community and
state housing goals and reduce homelessness.
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1
2024 Legislative Briefing
February 25, 2025
2
Recommendations
1.Receive and file a report on the 2024 State Legislative Briefing
which summarizes the adopted laws from the 2023-24 regular
session of the California State Legislature (December 2023
through October 2024); and
2.Appoint an ad-hoc committee of the City Council to review the
current legislative platform and suggest changes for the 2025-
26 legislative session.
3
City Legislative Program
1.Identifies the City’s positions on major issues
2.Is a living document that the Council reviews yearly
3.Allows the City to respond to legislative/ regulatory issues
quickly
4
Bills that Passed the Legislature in 2024
84%
16%
Bills Signed into Law Bills Vetoed
5
State Budget Overview
2024-25 budget faced a $47 Billion Deficit.
2025-26 budget proposal is balanced
Budget proposal focused on:
•Leaner government operations
•Education and school programs
•Economic growth and jobs
•Public Safety
•Increased accountability for homelessness
spending
•Wildfire and forest resilience
6
Community Services, Behavioral Health, and Homelessness
•Prop 1 - Behavioral Health Transformation
and MHSA
•AB 2574 & AB 2081 – Changes to DHCS
oversight
•SB 1361 – CEQA exemptions for
homelessness services program
7
Environmental Quality
1.AB 98 – Truck Routes and LUCE Update
2.Solid Waste and Recycling Bills
3.Prop 4 & SB 867 - Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought
Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024
4.AB 1889 – “Room to roam” act introduces new requirements for
conservation planning in general plans
8
Housing, Community, and Economic Development
1.AB 3093 – Incorporation of homelessness into
housing element
2.Handful of bills related to local control of new
housing projects. Most notably AB 1886 and AB
1893
3.SB 1123 & SB 1211 – Subdivisions and
ministerial approval
4.AB 1820 & AB 3012 – Permit fees and fee
estimations
9
Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations
1.AB 2561 – Vacancy rates and new reporting requirements
2.SB 1181 & 1243 - Political reform act – Increased contribution limits
and permitted use of campaign funds
3.AB 2715, AB 2302 & SB 1032 – Expanded usage for closed session
meeting and adjustments during declared emergencies
10
Public Safety
1.Retail theft package – updated theft statutes, sentencing
enhancements, continued task forces, and restraining orders
2.SB 1064 and AB 1775 – Expanded cannabis licenses
3.AB 3024 – addressing distribution of hate flyers, posters, or symbols
targeting protected communities.
11
Revenue and Taxation
1.California Supreme Court ruled that the Taxpayer Deception Act
constituted a constitutional revision and therefore could not appear on
the November ballot.
2.AB 2854 – Sales Tax Agreements
3.SB 1059 – Cannabis assessments for business taxes
4.AB 2257 – Water and sewer fee objections
12
Transportation, Communications, and Public Works
1.AB 1777 – New autonomous vehicles safety requirements
2.AB 2427 & SB 1418 - Streamlined permitting for EV charging and
hydrogen-fueling stations
3.SB 1216 – Prohibits shared bike lanes on high-speed roadway
4.AB 3177 – Prohibits certain land dedication requirements for housing
developments in Transit Priority Areas
5.Artificial Intelligence – governance and transparency
13
Cal Cities 2025 Priorities
1.Protect local revenues and expand economic development
tools.
2.Strengthen climate change resiliency and disaster
preparedness.
3.Strengthen and modernize critical infrastructure.
4.Secure investments to prevent and reduce homelessness and
increase the supply of affordable housing.
14
Legislative Platform Update - 2025
Review existing platform:
What has changed over the last year
New emergent priorities
Staff recommendations and review by appointed ad-hoc committee (if applicable)
Present updated legislative platform for Council adoption in April 2025
15
Recommendations
1.Receive and file a report on the 2024 State Legislative Briefing
which summarizes the adopted laws from the 2023-24 regular
session of the California State Legislature (December 2023
through October 2024); and
2.Appoint an ad-hoc committee of the City Council to review the
current legislative platform and suggest changes for the 2025-
26 legislative session.