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Reviewed:
AGENDA REPORT City Manager
Finance Director N/A
MEETING DATE: MARCH 3, 2020
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MATTHEW S. WEST, CITY MANAGER
SUBJECT: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
SUMMARY:
Staff has prepared a summary of state legislative activity.
RECOMMENDATION:
1. Receive and file the updated legislative matrix as of February 21.
2. Other actions at the pleasure of the City Council.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Not applicable.
DISCUSSION:
2020 Legislative Session
The Legislature was active in January, mostly considering measures that were introduced
in 2019. The deadline for 2-year bills to clear their house of origin was January 31.
Members of the Legislature are now focused on introducing new bills for the 2020 session.
As of February 21, over 1,500 new bills have been introduced in both houses, with many
more to come. Many of these are spot bills, with true language and intent to come at a
later date. The deadline for bill introduction is February 24.
Legislative Calendar
Below are the remaining key dates for the 2020 session:
- May 15: Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report fiscal bills to the floor
introduced in that house
- May 29: Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house
Agenda Report — Legislative Update
March 3, 2020
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- June 15: Budget must be passed by midnight
- June 25: Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the November ballot
- August 14: Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills
- August 31: Last day for each house to pass bills
- September 30: Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills
November 3 General Election Update
The following ballot measures have qualified for the general election:
- Replace Cash Bail with Risk Assessments Referendum: This measure is a
referendum on SB 10 (2018) that replaced cash bail with risk assessments.
- Criminal Sentencing, Parole, and DNA Collection Initiative (AKA Reducing Crime
and Keeping California Safe Act): Repeals early prisoner -release policies passed
under Proposition 47 (2014), Proposition 57 (2016) and AB 109 (2011). Also
converts certain crimes back to being felonies.
- Rental Affordability Act. Allows cities and counties to place rent control on
properties older than 15 years.
Legislative Matrix
Attached is an updated legislative tracking matrix as of February 21 that tracks bills of
interest as well as bills tracked by the League of California Cities (LOCC), the Association
of California Cities — Orange County (ACC -OC), the Municipal Water District of Orange
County (MWDOC) and other state and local associations. The matrix is sorted by bill
category.
Staff is available for any questions the Council may have.
Attachments:
- Legislative Tracking Matrix as of February 21
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
Sales and use taxes:
AB
exemption:
Christina
Finance
This bil would extend the sales tax exemption of menstrual hygiene products until Jan 1, 2027.
Senate - Rules
31
menstrual hygiene
Garcia (D)
products
AB
Sales and use taxes:
Finance
Gonzalez (D)
This bill would extend the sales tax exemption of diapers until Jan 1, 2027.
Senate - Rules
66
exemption: diapers
Local government
Authorizes a city, county, or city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to fund the
financing: affordable
ACA
Aguiar-Curry
construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or
housing and public
Finance
Assembly -Floor
5
1
(D)
permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes with 55% voter
infrastructure: voter
approval.
approval.
This bill, on and after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, would exempt from these taxes the gross
Sales and use taxes:
Assembly -
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receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, building materials and
1962
exemption: senior
Finance
Voepel (R)
supplies purchases by a qualified person for use by that qualified person in the construction of specified
Revenue &
housing
Taxation
senior housing developments.
Sales and use taxes:
This bill, on and after January 1, 2021, until January 1, 2023, would exempt from those taxes the gross
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exemption:
receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, emergency preparation items, as
Assembly -
Finance
Smith (D)
2379
emergency
defined, sold or purchased during the 3 -day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the Saturday before the last
Pending Referral
preparation items
Monday in June and ending at midnight on the last Monday in June.
Veterans Housing and
This bill would enact the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2019 to authorize the
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Homeless Prevention
Housing
Irwin (D)
issuance of bonds in an unspecified amount to provide additional funding for the VHHPA. The bill would
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Bond Act of 2019
provide for the handling and disposition of the funds in the same manner as the 2014 bond act.
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
General plans:
housing element:
above moderate -
AB
Would prohibit more than 25% of a jurisdiction's share of regional housing need for above moderate -income
income housing:
Housing
Wicks (D)
Senate - Rules
725
housing from being allocated to sites with zoning restricted to single-family development.
suburban and
metropolitan
jurisdictions
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, by June 30, 2019, to
Department of
complete a study to evaluate the reasonableness of local fees charged to new developments and requires the
Housing and
study to include findings and recommendations regarding potential amendments to the Mitigation Fee Act to
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Community
Housing
Grayson (D)
substantially reduce fees for residential development. This bill would require the department to post the
Senate - Rules
831
Development: study:
study on its internet website on or before March 1, 2020. The bill would also require the department, by
local fees: new
January 1, 2024, to issue a report to the Legislature on the progress of cities and counties in adopting the
developments
recommendations made in the study.
This bill would additionally prohibit a local agency from disapproving or conditioning a housing development
SB
Housing
project that is determined to be complete, as provided, and would make other related conforming changes.
Housing
Wiener (D)
Senate -Rules
592
Accountability Act
The bill would provide that the act applies to a housing development project regardless of whether the local
agency's review of the project is a ministerial or use by right decision, or a discretionary approval.
This bill would require a local agency to ministerially approve a request to reduce or eliminate any parking
Faith -based
requirements if the housing development project qualifies as a faith -based organization affiliated housing
organization affiliated
development project. This bill would prohibit a local agency from requiring the replacement of religious -use
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housing development
Housing
Wicks (D)
parking spaces proposed to be eliminated by a faith -based organization affiliated housing development
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1851
projects: parking
project, or from requiring the curing of any preexisting deficit of religious -use parking as a condition of
Government
requirements
approval. The bill would include findings that the changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide
concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
California
Environmental
This bill would, until January 1, 2029, exempt from environmental review under CEQA certain activities
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Quality Act:
approved by or carried out by a public agency in furtherance of providing emergency shelters, supportive
Assembly -
emergency shelters:
Housing
Santiago (D)
Natural
1907
housing, or affordable housing, as each is defined. The bill would require a lead agency that determines to
supportive and
carry out or approve an activity that is within this CEQA exemption to file a notice of exemption, as specified.
Resources
affordable housing:
exemption.
This bill would require the PUC, commencing with the next triennial edition of the California Building
Residential
Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2021, to adopt, approve, codify, and publish mandatory building
Assembly -
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structures: natural
Housing
Salas (D)
standards that require the installation of a seismic gas shutoff device in any newly constructed, rehabilitated,
Housing and
1923
gas shutoff devices
renovated, or reconstructed residential structure. The bill would require the department to propose those
Community
building standards and submit them to the commission pursuant to the State Housing Law.
Development
AB
Housing
Housing
Grayson (D)
This bill would require that a fee levied or imposed on a housing development project by a local agency be
Assembly - Local
1924
development: fees
proportionate to the square footage of the proposed unit or units.
Government
This bill would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a development to be subject
Planning and zoning:
to a streamlined, ministerial approval process provided that development meet specified objective planning
affordable housing:
standards, including that the development provide housing for persons and families of low or moderate
Assembly -
AB
streamlined,
Housing
Voepel (R)
income. The bill would require a local government to notify the development proponent in writing if the local
Housing and
1934
ministerial approval
government determines that the development conflicts with any of those objective standards within 30 days
Community
process.
of the application being submitted; otherwise, the development would be deemed to comply with those
Development
standards.
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
This bill would establish the Affordable Housing and Community Development Investment Program. The bill
would authorize a city, county, city and county, joint powers agency, enhanced infrastructure financing
district, affordable housing authority, community revitalization and investment authority, transit village
development district, or a combination of those entities, to apply to the Affordable Housing and Community
Development Investment Committee to participate in the program and would authorize the committee to
approve or deny plans for projects meeting specific criteria. The bill would also authorize certain local
agencies to establish an affordable housing and community development investment agency and authorize an
agency to apply for funding under the program and issue bonds, as provided, to carry out a project under the
Affordable Housing
program. The bill would require the committee to approve no more than $200,000,000 per year from July 1,
Senate -
SB
and Community
Housing
Beall (D)
2022, to June 30, 2027, and $250,000,000 per year from July 1, 2027, to June 30, 2031, in transfers from a
Governance &
795
Development
county's ERAF for applicants for plans approved pursuant to this program. The bill would require the
Finance
Investment Program
Affordable Housing and Community Development Investment Committee, upon approval of a plan and
subject to specified conditions, to issue an order directing the county auditor to transfer an amount of ad
valorem property tax revenue that is equal to the affordable housing and community development
investment amount approved by the committee, except as provided, from the county's ERAF. The bill would
require the city or county that created the district to, upon receipt, transfer those funds to the authority or
district in an amount equal to the affordable housing and community development investment amount for
that authority or district. The bill would authorize applicants to use approved amounts to incur debt or issue
bonds or other financing to support an approved project.
This bill would prohibit an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, from being considered to be a newly
Building standards:
constructed building for purposes of a specified provision of the California Energy Code, which is part of the
Assembly -
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energy design rating:
Housing
Voepel (R )
California Building Standards Code, regarding the energy design rating for newly constructed buildings that
Housing and
2044
accessory dwelling
are low-rise residential buildings. The bill would require the California Energy Commission to propose, and the
Community
units
California Building Standards Commission to adopt, approve, codify, and publish, building standards to
Development
implement this provision.
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City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
xisting law establishes the California Housing Finance Agency within the Department of Housing and
Community Development and prescribes the primary purpose of the agency as meeting the housing needs of
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Housing
Housing
Calderon (D)
persons and families of low or moderate income. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
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development: fees
legislation that would authorize the California Housing Finance Agency to loan money to developers for the
Pending Referral
purpose of building housing units, conditioned on loan terms and the payment of interest at commercial
market rates and full repayment of the loan.
The Housing Accountability Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, prohibits a local agency from
disapproving a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate -income households, or an
emergency shelter, or condition approval in a manner that renders the housing development project
Planning and Zoning
infeasible unless it makes prescribed written findings. The act defines a housing development project for
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Law: court orders:
these purposes to mean residential units, mixed-use developments consisting of residential and
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housing development
Housing
Wicks (D)
nonresidential uses with at least two-thirds of the square footage designated for residential use, and
Pending Referral
transitional housing or supportive housing. This bill would remove the option of a court, when issuing a final
projects
order or judgment in favor of a plaintiff challenging the validity of a general plan or mandatory element, to
suspend the authority of the city, county, or city and county to issue specified building permits, to grant
zoning changes or variances, and to grant subdivision map approvals, for housing development projects, as
defined in the Housing Accountability Act.
Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, generally governs housing and
home finance and makes legislative declarations regarding the urgency of affordable housing and defines
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Housing development
Maienschein
terms for purposes of the act. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this
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incentives
Housing
(D)
bill to include provisions that would incentivize local jurisdictions and developers to include capital assets,
Pending Referral
such as neighborhood parks, school facilities, and bicycle paths in the undertaking or approval of housing
developments.
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
This bill would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a development to split one or
more dwelling units within a multifamily housing development to create additional smaller dwelling units to
be subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, provided that development proponent reserves at
Splitting multifamily
least 10% of the proposed housing units for persons and families of low or moderate income. The bill would
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dwelling units:
require a local government to notify the development proponent in writing if the local government
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2470
streamlined
Housing
Kamlager (D)
determines that the development conflicts with any of those objective standards within 30 days of the
Pending Referral
ministerial approval
application being submitted; otherwise, the development is deemed to comply with those standards. This bill
would restrict a local government's authority to impose automobile parking standards for a development
subject to these provisions and would prohibit imposition of parking standards for a project that is located
within specified areas. The bill would prohibit a local government from imposing any standard requiring a
minimum or maximum unit size or any density restriction on a development subject to these provisions.
This bill would require the owner or agent of an owner of a mixed -income multifamily residential structure, as
defined, to ensure that occupants of the affordable housing units, as defined, within that structure are able to
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Housing: affordable
Housing
Gonzalez (D)
access the residential structure by the same common entrances to that structure as occupants of the market
Assembly -
2344
and market rate units
rate units and have access to any common areas in the structure. The bill would prohibit the owner or agent
Pending Referral
of an owner from isolating the affordable housing units within that structure to a specific floor or area within
the structure.
This bill would authorize an applicant to receive 3 incentives or concessions for projects that include at least
12% of the total units for very low income households. The bill would also authorize an applicant to receive 4
and 5 incentives or concessions, as applicable, for projects in which greater percentages of the total units are
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Planning and zoning:
for lower income households, very low income households, or for persons or families of moderate income in
Assembly
density bonuses:
Housing
Gonzalez (D)
a common interest development, as specified. This bill would include a maximum density bonus for a housing
2345
affordable housing
development in which 16% of the total units are for lower income households and would increase the
Pending Referral
maximum density bonus, to up to 50%, for construction of a housing development in which a greater
percentage than that described above of total units are for lower income households, very low income
households, and persons and families of moderate income, as specified.
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
Existing law requires the covenants, conditions, and restrictions or other documents or written policy of a
senior citizen housing development to permit temporary residency, as a guest of a senior citizen, by a person
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Senior citizen housing
Blanco Rubio
of less than 55 years of age for not less than 60 days in any year. This bill would additionally require the
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2503
developments
Housing
(D)
covenants, conditions, and restrictions or other documents or written policy of a senior citizen housing
Pending Referral
development to permit a qualifying resident, as defined, to share their dwelling unit with a qualified
roommate, as specified, pursuant to a lease or other written agreement with the qualified roommate.
This bill would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a development for the
conversion of a structure with a certificate of occupancy as a motel, hotel, or commercial use into multifamily
housing units to be subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, provided that development
proponent reserves at least 20% of the proposed housing units for persons and families of low or moderate
income. The bill would require a local government to notify the development proponent in writing if the local
Conversion of motels
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government determines that the development conflicts with any of those objective standards within 30 days
Assembly -
and hotels:
Housing
Eggman (D)
2580
of the application being submitted; otherwise, the development would be deemed to comply with those
Pending Referral
streamlining
standards. This bill would restrict a local government's authority to impose automobile parking standards for
a development subject to these provisions and would prohibit imposition of parking standards for a project
that is located within specified areas. The bill would prohibit a local government' from imposing any standard
requiring a minimum or maximum unit size or any density restriction on a development subject to these
provisions.
This bill would require each city or county, by January 1, 2023, to adopt a mobilehome park rent stabilization
ordinance, as defined, or to submit a justification in writing to the Department of Housing and Community
Development on a form developed by the department as to why the city or county will not adopt a
Mobilehome parks:
mobilehome park rent stabilization ordinance. By requiring cities and counties to adopt a rent stabilization
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local ordinances: rent
Assembly -
Housing
Low (D)
ordinance or justify not doing so, the bill would impose a state -mandated local program. This bill would
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stabilization
Pending Referral
require each city or county that adopts a mobilehome park rent stabilization ordinance pursuant to these
ordinances
provisions to submit the ordinance to the department within 30 days of adoption. The bill would require the
department to post each mobilehome park rent stabilization ordinance submitted pursuant to these
provisions on its internet website by January 1, 2024.
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
SB
416
Title
Employment:
workers'
compensation
Category
Labor &
Employment
Author
Hueso (D)
Short Summary
Current law designates illnesses and conditions that constitute a compensable injury for various employees,
such as California Highway Patrol members, firefighters, and certain peace officers. These injuries include, but
are not limited to, hernia, pneumonia, heart trouble, cancer, meningitis, and exposure to biochemical
substances, when the illness or condition develops or manifests itself during a period when the officer or
employee is in service of the employer, as specified. This bill would expand the coverage of the above
provisions relating to compensable injuries, to include all persons defined as peace officers under certain
provisions of law, except as specified.
Location
Assembly - Desk
LOCC
0
ACCOC
This bill would prescribe requirements relating to release time that would apply to all of the public employers
and employees subject to the acts described above and would generally repeal the provisions relating to
release time in those acts. The bill would require these public employers to grant a reasonable number of
employee representatives of the exclusive representative reasonable time off without loss of compensation
or other benefits for specified activities. This requirement would apply to activities to investigate and process
grievances or otherwise enforce a collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding; to
meet and confer or meet and negotiate with the public employer on matters within the scope of
representation, including preparation for the activities specified in these provisions; to testify or appear as
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Public employment:
Labor &
the designated representative of the exclusive representative in conferences, hearings, or other proceedings
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labor relations:
Employment
Bonta (D)
before the Public Employment Relations Board or similar bodies, as specified; to testify or appear as the
Pending Referral
release time
designated representative of the exclusive representative before the governing body of the public employer,
or a personnel, civil service, or merit commission, among others; and to serve as a representative of the
exclusive representative for new employee orientations. The bill would require the exclusive representative
to provide reasonable notice requesting an absence in this connection. The bill would specify that its
provisions prescribe minimum release time rights and would prescribe requirements regarding the relation of
its provisions to other labor agreements that address release time. The bill would prohibit the Public
Employment Relations Board from enforcing these provisions with regard to public transit workers that are
not otherwise subject to the board's jurisdiction.
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
The MMBA requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages,
hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee
organizations. Under the act, if the representatives of the public agency and the employee organization fail to
reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointment of a mediator and equally share the cost.
Local public
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Labor &
Existing law provides that after any applicable mediation and factfindprocedures have been exhausted,
Assembling y -
employee
Cooper (D)
2433
Employment
but no earlier than 10 days after the factfinders' written findings of fact and recommended terms of
Pending Referral
organizations
settlement have been submitted to the parties, a public agency that is not required to proceed to interest
arbitration may, after holding a hearing regarding the impasse, implement its last, best, and final offer. This
bill would revise the above-described timeframe to no earlier than 15 days after the factfinders' written
findings of fact and recommended terms of settlement have been submitted to the parties.
The Brown Act prohibits a majority of the members of a local body from using a series of communications of
Open meetings: local
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any kind to discuss, deliberate or take action on any item of business. This bill would provide that the
agencies: social
Misc
Mullin (D)
Senate -Rules
992
prohibition does not apply to the participation in an internet-based social media platform by a majority of the
media
members of the legislative body.
Members of the
Assembly -
ACA
This measure would extend the terms of Members of the Assembly from 2 to 4 years, commencing with the
Assembly: terms of
Misc
Chu (D)
Elections and
10
November 3, 2020, general election
office
Redistricting
This measure would abolish the State Board of Equalization and instead require the Legislature to create a
Assembly -
ACA
State tax agency
Misc
Nazarian (D)
state tax agency by statute for purposes of carrying out those powers, duties, and responsibilities previously
Revenue and
2
vested in the State Board of Equalization.
Taxation
City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
This bill would, among other things, prohibit a state or local agency from adopting any law or regulation that
bans the operation of an unmanned aircraft system. The bill would also authorize a local agency to adopt
regulations to enforce FAA regulations regarding the operation of unmanned aircraft systems and would
authorize local agencies to regulate the operation of unmanned aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems
Unmanned aircraft:
within their jurisdictions, as specified. The bill would also authorize a local agency to require an unmanned
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state and local
Misc
Irwin (D)
aircraft operator to provide proof of federal, state, or local registration to licensing or enforcement officials.
Senate - Rules
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1190
regulation:
The bill would include the operation of small unmanned aircraft systems within the definition of hazardous
limitations
recreational activity for purposes of public entity liability, and would authorize a local entity to designate a
recreational operating area for unmanned aircraft operation. The bill would immunize a local entity that
designates such a recreational are from liability for injury or damage associated with unmanned aircraft
operation, if specified signage is posted.
Would enact the Wildfire, Drought, and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2020, which, if approved by the voters,
would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,300,000,000 pursuant to the State General
Wildfire, Drought,
Obligation Bond Law to finance projects to restore fire damaged areas, reduce wildfire risk, create healthy
SB 45
and Flood Protection
Misc
Allen (D)
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forest and watersheds, reduce climate impacts on urban areas and vulnerable populations, protect water
Bond Act of 2020
supply and water quality, protect rivers, lakes, and streams, reduce flood risk, protect fish and wildlife from
climate impacts, improve climate resilience of agricultural lands, and protect coastal lands and resources.
This bill would enact the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, which would
require, before January 1, 2024, regulations that require covered entities, as defined, to source reduce, to
the maximum extent feasible, single -use packaging and priority single -use plastic productds and to ensure
that by 2030 all single -use packaging and priority single -use plastic products in the California market are
California Circular
recyclable or compostable. The bill would require those regulations to achieve, by 2030, a 75% reduction of
Economy and Plastic
SB 54
Misc
Allen (D)
the waste generated from single -use packaging, and a 75% reduction of the waste generated from priority
Assembly - Floor
S
Pollution Reduction
single -use plastic products, offered for sale or sold in the state through source reduction, recycling, or
Act
composting, and would establish a policy goal to achieve, by 2030, a 75% reduction of the waste generated
from all other single -use products offered for sale or sold in the state through source reduction, recycling, or
composting. The bill would require covered entities to annually report specified information to the
department
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City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
This bill would enact the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, which would
require, before January 1, 2024, regulations that require covered entities, as defined, to source reduce, to
the maximum extent feasible, single -use packaging and priority single -use plastic productds and to ensure
that by 2030 all single -use packaging and priority single -use plastic products in the California market are
California Circular
recyclable or compostable. The bill would require those regulations to achieve, by 2030, a 75% reduction of
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Economy and Plastic
Misc
Gonzalez (D)
the waste generated from single -use packaging, and a 75% reduction of the waste generated from priority
Senate - Floor
S
1080
Pollution Reduction
single -use plastic products, offered for sale or sold in the state through source reduction, recycling, or
Act
composting, and would establish a policy goal to achieve, by 2030, a 75% reduction of the waste generated
from all other single -use products offered for sale or sold in the state through source reduction, recycling, or
composting. The bill would require covered entities to annually report specified information to the
department
Under existing law, a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, as specified, is subject to a city or
county discretionary permit and is required to comply with specified criteria, but a collocation facility, which
is the placement or installation of wireless facilities, including antennas and related equipment, on or
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Land use: permitting:
immediately adjacent to that wireless telecommunications collocation facility, is a permitted use not subject
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wireless
Misc
Quirk (D)
to a city or county discretionary permit. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes. This bill would
Pending Referral
communications
revise the definition of "wireless telecommunications facility" to include, among other equipment and
network components listed, "emergency backup generators" to emergency power systems that are integral
to providing wireless telecommunications services.
Local Emergency
This measure would establish a Local Emergency Preparedness and Hazard Mitigation Fund with the purpose
AB
Preparedness and
Public Safety
Chu (D)
and intent of helping local jurisdictions to meet their emergency preparedness goals and boosting programs
Senate - Rules
S
291
Hazard Mitigation
throughout the state that remain underfunded or neglected.
Fund
This bill would require an electrical corporation, by July 1, 2021, to conduct a survey of its customers asking
each customer the language in which the customer prefers to receive direct communications from the
Deenergization:
Assembly -
AB
electrical corporation and to list any medical needs that would require accommodation during a
notification:
Public Safety
Chu (D)
Energy and
1916
deenergization event. The bill would require the electrical corporation to provide direct communications and
languages
updates regarding the intentional deenergization of the electrical corporation's distribution and transmission
Utilities
system to each affected customer in the preferred language of that customer.
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City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Bill
Title
Category
Author
Short Summary
Location
LOCC
ACCOC
This bill would require the PUC to adopt rules setting forth the circumstances under which a deenergization
event may be undertaken and continued iand the appropriate geographic range of a deenergization event.
Electrical
Following a deenergization event, the bill would require the PUC to determine whether the electrical
Assembly -
AB
corporations:
corporation complied with the rules and also determine if the entire duration and geographic range of the
Public Safety
Chu (D)
Energy and
1915
deenergization
deenergization event was reasonable. If the PUC determines that the electrical corporation failed to comply
Utilities
events
with the rules and the failure resulted in customers of the electrical corporation incurring losses, the bill
would require the PUC to order the electrical corporation to open an account from which to pay customers
for those losses.
This bill would make forcibly entering a vehicle with the intent to commit a theft therein a crime punishable
AB
Unlawful entry of a
Assembly -
Public Safety
Diep (R)
by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16
1921
vehicle
Public Safety
months, or 2 or 3 years.
Electrical
corporations:
5B
deenergization
This bill would require large utilities that shut off power for wildfire safety to reimburse costs, pay penalties
Public Safety
Wiener (D)
Assembly -Desk
378
events: procedures:
for shutting off power and provide more regular reporting to the state and local governments
allocation of costs:
reports.
Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop and
implement a course of instruction and training for specified peace officers on the topic of hate crimes.
Existing law requires that training to be implemented into the basic course and requires, as specified, all state
and local law enforcement agencies to provide the training to all peace officers they employ. This bill would
AB
Police officer training:
Public Safety
Gabriel (D)
require the basic course curriculum on the topic of hate crimes to include the viewing of a specified video
Assembly -
2236
hate crimes
Pending Referral
course developed by POST. The bill would also require POST to make the video available via the online
learning portal, and would require all peace officers to view the video no later than January 1, 2022. The bill
would require POST to develop and periodically update an interactive refresher course on hate crimes for in-
service peace officers, and require officers to take the course every 3 years.
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City of Tustin Legislative Tracking Matrix
As of February 21, 2020
S = Support O=Oppose Green/Red: COT Position
LOCC = League of CA Cities ACCOC = Assn. of CA Cities OC
Drinking water:
This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2022, to certify a methodology or
testing:
SB methodologies for testing drinking water, groundwater, and surface water for perfluoroalkyl and Senate -
perfluoroalkyl and Water Portantin (D)
1056 polyfluoroalkyl substances, as provided, and to accredit qualified laboratories in California to analyze Pending Referral
perfluoroalkyl
perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances pursuant to the adopted methodology or methodologies.
substances
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