Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.
Finance/Infrastructure
SB 1 (Steinberg-D) Sustainable Communities Investment Authority
Allows a local government to establish a Sustainable Communities Investment Authority and direct tax increment revenues to that Authority in order to address blight by supporting development in transit priority project areas, small walkable communities, and clean energy manufacturing sites.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 16* (Gaines-R) County costs: non-homicide criminal trials
Allows a county that is responsible for the defense costs of a trial or hearing of a person charged with a non-homicide crime to apply to the State Controller for reimbursement of the costs incurred by the county in excess of the amount of money derived by the county from a tax of 0.0125 of 1% of the full value of property assessed for purposes of taxation within the county. Applies only to trials beginning on or after 1/1/12 for which the Attorney General is handling the prosecution of a non-homicide crime.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 33 (Wolk-D) Infrastructure financing districts: voter approval
Eliminates the voter approval requirement for a city or county to create an infrastructure financing district and expands the types of projects that may be financed by a district.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 56* (Roth-D) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation
Reallocates vehicle license fees to recently incorporated cities and cities that have annexed inhabited territory.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 69 (Roth-D) Local government finance: vehicle license fee adjustments
Establishes a vehicle license adjustment amount for a city incorporating after 1/1/04, and on or before 1/1/12.
Vetoed
SB 409 (Emmerson-R) Disaster recovery project areas: enforceable obligations
Defines loans provided by cities or counties to a redevelopment agency pursuant to a written agreement entered into before 1/1/11, for specified public improvements in a disaster recovery project area, as an enforceable obligation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 431 (Price-D) CA Socioeconomic Development Pods Program
Creates the California Socioeconomic Development Pods Program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz). Directs GO-Biz to designate blighted areas, as defined, suited for the program to leverage assets to provide stimulation and incentives for industry, economic development organizations, business groups, and social innovation funders. Requires GO-Biz to oversee, coordinate, and assist each pod.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 446 (Cannella-R) Property tax revenue allocations: County of San Benito
Deems correct the property tax apportionment factors applied in allocating property tax revenues in the County of San Benito for each fiscal year through 2000-01. Requires, for the 2001-02 fiscal year, the San Benito County Auditor to make property tax allocation adjustments identified in the State Controller's audit, pursuant to limits and repayment schedules identified in existing law. Requires that property tax apportionment factors applied in subsequent fiscal years be based upon factors for prior fiscal years that have been fully corrected and adjusted.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 614 (Wolk-D) Local government: infrastructure financing
Allows a local agency, until 1/1/25, to use tax increment financing in a newly formed or reorganized district to fund infrastructure improvements in disadvantaged unincorporated communities.
Chapter 784, Statutes of 2014
SB 628 (Beall-D) Enhanced infrastructure financing districts
Allows local agencies to create enhanced infrastructure financing districts to finance specified infrastructure projects and facilities.
Chapter 785, Statutes of 2014
SB 629 (Beall-D) Tax equity allocation formula: County of Santa Clara
Repeals the statutory requirement that the Santa Clara County Auditor must reduce the amount of property tax revenues allocated to specified cities and increase the amount of property tax revenues allocated to the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund by a defined amount.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 663* (Lara-D) Local government: redevelopment: revenues from property tax
Requires, for 2014-15 and each year thereafter, voter-approved pension property tax revenues to be allocated to the fund of the city or county whose voters approved the tax, rather than the revenues being allocated to the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund pursuant to the redevelopment agency dissolution process.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 827 (Liu-D) Local government: Los Angeles County: notice of recordation
Extends, from 1/1/15, to 1/1/20, the authority of the Los Angeles County Recorder to notify affected parties, including occupants of the property, when a notice of default or notice of sale has been recorded on a property. The Recorder may collect a fee of up to $7 in order to cover the cost of notifying the parties and providing information about housing assistance and counseling.
Chapter 65, Statutes of 2014
SB 1037 (Hernandez-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Requires the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to update its expenditure plan and Long-Range Transportation Plan before placing another transactions and use tax measure before the voters.
Chapter 196, Statutes of 2014
SB 1086* (De León-D) Bonds: safe neighborhood parks/rivers/coastal protection
Proposes a future state parks and resources bond that will be titled "The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Rivers, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2014," which authorizes the sale of an unspecified amount of bonds for parks, state conservancies, coastal and ocean programs, urban forestry, river parkways and urban rivers, and other resource protection and restoration efforts.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1129 (Steinberg-D) Redevelopment: successor agencies to redevelopment agencies
Amends several statutes governing redevelopment agencies' (RDAs) dissolution. Makes several changes to the statutes governing the dissolution of RDAs. Authorizes an RDA successor agency to use the proceeds of bonds issued in 2011 for the purposes for which the bonds were sold, if those purposes are consistent with a specified sustainable communities strategy; deems an agreement entered into by an RDA prior to 6/30/11, that commits funds to state highway infrastructure improvements as an enforceable obligation; and revises the process for disposal of former RDA properties through a long-range property management plan by eliminating a requirement for compensation agreements governing the distribution of property proceeds.
Vetoed
SB 1183 (DeSaulnier-D) Bicycle infrastructure: vehicle registration fees
Authorizes, until 1/1/25, local governments to impose vehicle registration surcharges for the purpose of funding local bicycle infrastructure improvements and maintenance, and requires any local agency that imposes the surcharge to report to the Legislature, as specified.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2014
SB 1347 (Anderson-R) Public contracts: school districts: charter schools
Requires a school district or charter school to annually post on its Internet Web site a list of any contracts for the construction of a public works or improvement involving an expenditure of more than $15,000 that was awarded in the prior calendar year, and requires the list to contain specified information.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1413 (Wyland-R) State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees
Extends the time period that property owners have to pay the fire prevention fee from 30 to 60 days. Extends the time period for property owners to request redetermination from the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection from 30 to 60 days.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1433 (Hill-D) Local Agency Public Construction Act: transit design-build
Extends the sunset date on statutory authority for transit operators to use design-build procurement for transit projects from 1/1/15 to 1/1/17.
Chapter 929, Statutes of 2014
SCA 4 (Liu-D) Local government transportation projects: special taxes
Reduces the voter threshold from two-thirds to 55% for passage of local sales taxes dedicated to transportation purposes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCA 7 (Wolk-D) Local government financing: public libraries: voter approval
Authorize cities, counties, or special districts to impose a special tax by a 55% vote of the voters in the district or county, under specified circumstances, to fund public library facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCA 8 (Corbett-D) Local government: special taxes
Provides that the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax by a local government for the purpose of providing funding for transportation projects requires the approval of 55% of its voters voting on the proposition, if the proposition proposing the tax includes certain requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCA 9 (Corbett-D) Local government: economic development: special taxes
Provides that the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax by a local government for the purpose of providing funding for community and economic development projects, as specified, requires the approval of 55% of its voters voting on the proposition, if the proposition proposing the tax contains specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCA 11 (Hancock-D) Local government: special taxes: voter approval
Lowers the vote threshold for local agencies imposing, extending, or increasing any special tax from two-thirds to 55% provided certain requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 155 (Alejo-D) Monterey County Water Resources Agency: design-build
Allows Monterey County Water Resources Agency, notwithstanding any other law, to award a design-build contract for the combined design and construction of a project to connect Lake San Antonio and Lake Nacimiento with an underground tunnel or pipeline for the purpose of maximizing water storage, supply, and groundwater recharge at the lakes, and within the Salinas River Groundwater Basin and the Salinas Valley proper.
Chapter 865, Statutes of 2014
AB 229 (John A. Pérez-D) Infrastructure and revitalization financing
Creates infrastructure and revitalization financing districts, modeled after infrastructure financing districts in existing law. Authorizes a military base reuse authority to form a district, and allows these districts to finance a broader range of projects and facilities to clean-up and develop former military bases.
Chapter 775, Statutes of 2014
AB 243 (Dickinson-D) Infrastructure and revitalization financing
Creates infrastructure and revitalization financing districts, modeled after infrastructure financing districts in existing law, broadens the range of projects and facilities they can finance, lowers the voter approval threshold necessary to form a district and issue bonds to 55%, and extends the life of districts to 40 years.
(Died at Senate Desk)
AB 294 (Holden-D) Local-State Joint Investment Partnership Pilot Program
Creates the Local-State Joint Investment Partnership Pilot Program to allow local government entities, upon approval by the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, to reallocate specified Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund payments in order to fund public works projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 416 (Gordon-D) Air Resources Board: Local Emission Reduction Program
Requires the Air Resources Board to establish the Local Emission Reduction Program to provide grants and other financial assistance to eligible local government recipients for the purposes of developing and implementing greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 453 (Mullin-D) Sustainable communities
Makes local agency formation commissions eligible for financial assistance from Proposition 84 for planning purposes and requires the commissions to consider greenhouse gas emissions associated with development when reviewing proposals for a change of organization.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 471* (Atkins-D) Local government: redevelopment: successor agencies
Allows infrastructure financing districts to include portions of former redevelopment project areas and amends several statutes governing redevelopment agencies dissolution.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2014
AB 561 (Ting-D) Taxation: documentary transfer tax
Requires a city, county, or city and county that imposes a documentary transfer tax to submit information to the Board of Equalization annually regarding the imposition of the documentary transfer tax and requires the Board to compile the information into a publicly available report.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 582* (Levine-D) Palm Drive Health Care District
Requires that the Palm Drive Health Care District's (PDHCD's) obligations in connection with certificates of participation (COPs) executed and delivered, or revenue bonds issued, by or on behalf of PDHCD between 1/1/05 and 12/31/14, must be secured by a statutory lien on all of the revenues generated from parcel taxes approved by voters in 2004. Specifies that COPs executed and delivered or revenue bonds issued before 2035 to refund the PDHCD's revenue bonds or COPs must be secured by a statutory lien on all of the revenues generated from parcel taxes approved by voters in 2004.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2014
AB 621 (Wagner-R) Local government: bonds
Prohibits a local agency from entering into a financial advisory, legal advisory, underwriting, or other similar relationship with an individual or firm, with respect to a new bond issue that requires voter approval on or after 1/1/14, if that individual or firm provided, or will provide, bond campaign services to the bond campaign.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 677 (Fox-D) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation
Modifies the amount in the property tax revenues in the form of a vehicle license fee adjustment reduction and transfer provisions for the 2013-14 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, by providing for a vehicle license fee adjustment amount calculated on the basis of changes in assessed valuation. Modifies these reduction and transfer provisions, for the 2013-14 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, by providing for a vehicle license fee adjustment amount for certain cities incorporating after a specified date, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 741* (Brown-D) Local government finance: tax equity allocation formula
Increases the allocation of property tax revenues under a new Tax Equity Allocation formula, as specified, for qualifying cities commencing with the 2012-13 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 745 (Levine-D) Regional park and open-space districts: contracts
Increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum value of non-construction contracts which any park or open space district may enter into without a formal bid process.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2014
AB 774 (Donnelly-R) County service areas: zone dissolution
Provides that a board of supervisors may raise revenues, as specified, whenever the amount of revenue available to the county service area (CSA) is inadequate to meet the costs of operating and maintaining the services and facilities for public streets that the CSA provides. Eliminates responsibility and liability for counties, CSAs and CSA zones for street services when a CSA or zone is dissolved or divested of authority, and when a board of supervisors is unable to raise revenues.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 777* (Muratsuchi-D) Taxes: exemption: space flight property
Exempts from property tax, beginning 1/1/14 to 1/1/24, qualified property, as defined, for use in space flight.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2014
AB 881 (Chesbro-D) Local taxation: County of Sonoma
Authorizes the County of Sonoma and any city within the County to impose a transactions and use tax for general purposes, and the County and any city or special district within the County to impose a transactions and use tax for a specific purpose or purposes, which may include the support of transportation and road maintenance programs and library services, that will, in combination with other specified taxes, exceed the combined rate limit by 0.75%, if certain requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 892 (Daly-D) Parcel taxes
Requires the Board of Equalization to report annually to the Governor on the imposition of each locally assessed parcel tax, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 941 (Rendon-D) State Controller: local government issues
Expands the State Controller's authority to address local government financial or administrative issues through audits, investigations and technical assistance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 981 (Bloom-D) Redevelopment dissolution
Allows successor agencies greater flexibility for bond obligation proceeds issued between 1/1/11 and 6/28/11.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1002 (Bloom-D) Vehicles: registration fee: sustainable communities
Increases the tax on vehicle registrations by $6. After deducting administrative costs incurred, 50% of revenue generated shall be appropriated to cities and counties on a per capita basis for planning and implementation of projects consistent with the purposes of a sustainable communities strategies and approved sustainable communities plans, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1012 (Gomez-D) County tax bill: property tax assistance and postponement
Suspends a county's obligation to send out a notice, and the Franchise Tax Board's obligation to prepare the notice, regarding the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement program and the Gonsalves-Deukmejian-Petris Senior Citizens Property Tax Assistance Law program.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1052 (Quirk-D) Community facilities: district formation
Changes the date by which a governing body of a formed community facilities district is required to provide certification to the board of supervisors on or before July 16 of each year rather than July 15 of each year.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1053* (Cooley-D) Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District: return of money
Allows the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District to return money improperly collected from some district taxpayers from 2005 through 2012.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2014
AB 1080 (Alejo-D) Community Revitalization and Investment Authorities
Authorizes local entities, either individually or collaboratively and excluding schools and successor agencies, to form a Community Revitalization and Investment Authority. Requires participating entities to agree to direct property tax increment revenues to the Authority to invest in improvements in specified project areas that are characterized by low household income, high unemployment and crime, and deteriorated public infrastructure and structures.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1188 (Bradford-D) Fire protection: general obligation bonds
Authorizes a fire protection district board, if 55% of the voters approve, to adopt resolutions to incur indebtedness in the form of general obligation bonds to fund specified public safety buildings, facilities, and equipment pursuant to ACA 3 (Campos, 2013), which died in Assembly Local Government Committee.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 1193 (Ting-D) Local governments: bikeways
Requires the Department of Transportation to develop minimum safety design criteria for cycle tracks and authorizes local governments to deviate from the Departments' design criteria for bikeways under specified conditions.
Chapter 495, Statutes of 2014
AB 1225 (Maienschein-R) State and local fund allocations
Authorizes a county or city and county receiving specified funds to reallocate up to 10% of the amount deposited each fiscal year in the local health account, or local social services account, or both, to the local mental health account, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1237 (Garcia-D) Local government finance
Establishes the Committee on City Accounting Procedures, specifies the membership of the Committee, requires the State Controller, in consultation with the Committee, to prescribe uniform accounting and reporting procedures for cities, and establishes the City Budget Act.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1320 (Bloom-D) Redevelopment: allocation of property tax
Allows schools to continue to receive property taxes, equal to the amount they would have received in passthrough payments if redevelopment agencies still existed, and does not count those property taxes toward the Proposition 98 funding formula.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1324 (Skinner-D) City of El Cerrito: transactions and use taxes
Allows the City of El Cerrito to adopt an ordinance proposing the imposition of a transactions and use tax that exceeds the 2% statutory limitation.
Chapter 795, Statutes of 2014
AB 1330 (John A. Pérez-D) Public comment: translator
Prohibits, if a local legislative body limits the time for public comment, the body from counting the time used by a translator to translate comments from a non-English speaker in determining whether the speaker has exceeded his/her time limit unless simultaneous translation equipment is used to allow the body to hear the translated public testimony simultaneously.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1333 (Roger Hernández-D) Local government: contracts
Requires the legislative body of the city, county, or district, on or before the annual date by which a contract or memorandum of understanding may be rescinded, to adopt a resolution that either exercises, or declines to exercise, the option to rescind the contract or memorandum of understanding.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 1399* (Medina-D) Community development: New Markets Tax Credit
Creates the New Markets Tax Credit Program, administered through the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development and the California Competes Tax Credit Allocation Committee, for the purpose of allocating tax credits in tax years 2015 through 2019, to a qualified community development entity for the purpose of stimulating economic development and hastens California's economic recovery. Authorizes the Committee to allocate up to $40 million in tax credits annually to qualified community development entities for a total allocation of $200 million.
Vetoed
AB 1450* (Garcia-D) Local government: revenues from property tax override rates
For the 2014-15 fiscal year and following years, prohibits a county auditor from allocating revenues from an extraordinary property tax rate approved by voters to pay for pension programs to a Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund. Requires a county auditor to pay those revenues into the fund of the city or county whose voters approved the tax.
Vetoed
AB 1521* (Fox-D) Local government finance: vehicle license fee adjustments
Modifies the amount of property tax in lieu of vehicle license fees allocated to counties and cities to include changes in the assessed valuation within annexed areas.
Vetoed
AB 1528 (Olsen-R) Public parks: City of Escalon: property sale
Authorizes the City of Escalon to sell, at fair market value, a specified property known as the Robert Cabral Regional Park, which was acquired by the City with state bond funds but unable to be developed for local park purposes, so that the City may use the proceeds from that sale for the development of another park within the City limits.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1582 (Mullin-D) Redevelopment: successor agencies: postcompliance provisions
Requires, from a loan agreement entered into between a redevelopment agency and the city, county, or city and county that created the redevelopment agency, the interest rate on the amount of principal calculated from the loan origination date, and any increase thereto that remains unpaid as of the date of oversight board approval of the loan as an enforceable obligation, to be subject to an adjusted interest rate, as prescribed.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1661 (Bonta-D) Healthy Options for Everyone Incentive Zone
Establishes the Healthy Options for Everyone (HOPE) Act of 2014 to authorize the creation of HOPE Incentive Zones designed to increase the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables, and other grown foods. Authorizes the city or county establishing a HOPE Incentive Zone to enact an ordinance to create incentives for businesses with at least 80% of their activity consisting of retail sales of canned food, dry goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, and fresh meats, fish, and poultry to conduct business within the zone.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1883 (Skinner-D) Public improvements: contractual assessments
Allows a public agency to transfer voluntary contractual assessments, if bonds have not been issued, and makes several other changes to the statutes governing voluntary contractual assessments.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2014
AB 1933 (Levine-D) Local government: investments
Expands the list of financial instruments in which local agencies may invest surplus funds to include United States dollar denominated senior unsecured unsubordinated obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Finance Corporation, or Inter-American Development Bank.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2014
AB 1954 (Harkey-R) Fire prevention fee
Allows a feepayer to appeal, to the Board of Equalization, a decision of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection regarding the applicability of the fire prevention fee charged for structures within a state responsibility area.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1963* (Atkins-D) Redevelopment successor agency
Extends, from 1/1/15, until 1/1/16, the date by which a redevelopment successor agency must obtain the Department of Finance approval of a long-range property management plan.
Chapter 146, Statutes of 2014
AB 1970 (Gordon-D) Community Investment and Innovation Program
Requires the Strategic Growth Council to administer the Community Investment and Innovation Program to provide grants and other financial assistance to eligible local government recipients for the purposes of developing and implementing greenhouse gas emission reduction projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1979 (Nazarian-D) School facilities: California School Finance Authority
Repeals provisions that authorize a public credit provider to require a school district, charter school, California community college (CCC) district, or county office of education to use a specified process for repayment through the interception of revenue limit apportionments, CCC general apportionments, or charter school block grant apportionments. Modifies provisions that outline conditions to be met by a school district, charter school, county office of education, or CCC district electing to guarantee or provide for payment of bonds and related obligations through the intercept repayment mechanism under the California School Finance Authority Act.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2014
AB 2040 (Garcia-D) Elected officials, officers, and employees: compensation
Requires local agency financial transaction reports to include information about the annual compensation of the local agency's elected officials, officers, and employees; requires local agencies to post this information on their Internet Web sites; and requires the State Controller to compile, publish, and make this information publicly available on the Controller's Web site.
Chapter 894, Statutes of 2014
AB 2046 (Gomez-D) Joint exercise of powers: financing
Authorizes a joint powers authority to issue bonds and enter into loan agreements for the financing or refinancing of a private project located outside of the state under specified conditions, until 1/1/21.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2109 (Daly-D) State Controller: locally assessed parcel taxes
Allows a joint powers authority, notwithstanding any other law, to issue bonds and enter into a loan agreement to finance or refinance a project that is situated in another state, including working capital related to that project, if, among other provisions, the city, county, or other public body with land use planning authority over the project, or the state in which the project is situated, approves, by resolution, order, or other official action, the authority's bond issuance and the project's financing. Specifies that this approval requirement does not apply to the issuance of refunding bonds if the city, county, public body, or state approved a prior financing or refinancing of the project.
Chapter 781, Statutes of 2014
AB 2149 (Atkins-D) Local Agency Public Construction Act
Exempts from the provisions of the Local Agency Public Construction Act that apply to counties, a contract entered into by the County of San Diego with a private entity for the delivery of a regional communications system and any related infrastructure to be used by public safety agencies and emergency responders located in the Counties of Imperial and San Diego.
Chapter 45, Statutes of 2014
AB 2151 (Wagner-R) Counties: search or rescue: costs
Allows counties to seek reimbursement from residents age 16 or older for search and rescue costs, under specified circumstances.
Vetoed
AB 2170 (Mullin-D) Joint powers authorities: common powers
Specifies that the common powers that public agencies may jointly exercise pursuant to a joint powers agreement include the authority to levy a fee, assessment, or a tax.
Chapter 386, Statutes of 2014
AB 2188 (Muratsuchi-D) Solar energy: permits
Requires, on or before 9/30/15, every city and county to adopt an ordinance, in consultation with fire and utility officials, as specified, to streamline and expedite the permitting process for small residential rooftop solar energy systems.
Chapter 521, Statutes of 2014
AB 2211 (Ting-D) Counties: database: general ad valorem property tax revenues
Requires each county to make available to taxpayers on its Internet Web site a graph visualization of how general ad valorem property tax revenues are allocated countywide at a summarized jurisdictional level that includes, but is not limited to, the county, cities, independent special districts, school districts, and redevelopment successor agencies.
Vetoed
AB 2231* (Gordon-D) Property tax postponement
Reinstates the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement program to provide property tax deferment to seniors and disabled persons. Allows counties to enact an ordinance to delay tax sales for properties formerly funded by the program that may be eligible for the reenacted program.
Chapter 703, Statutes of 2014
AB 2235* (Buchanan-D) Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
Establishes the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014 to provide for the issuance of $4.3 billion in general obligation bonds for construction and modernization of education facilities, to take effect only if approved by voters. Requires the State Allocation Board to assign priority for funding to applicant school districts that demonstrate participation in a community-based effort to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services by engaging in public and private partnerships with local public entities and other nonprofit or private community partners, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2274 (Gordon-D) California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission
Enacts several changes to California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission's authorizing statute to assist in its monitoring of state and local debt issues.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 2014
AB 2280 (Alejo-D) Community Revitalization and Investment Authorities
Allows local governments to establish a Community Revitalization and Investment Authority in a disadvantaged community to fund specified activities and allows the Authority to collect tax increment.
Vetoed
AB 2292 (Bonta-D) Infrastructure financing districts: broadband
Adds public capital facilities or projects that include broadband to the types of facilities that an infrastructure financing district can finance.
Chapter 783, Statutes of 2014
AB 2298 (Rodriguez-D) Local agency funds
Authorizes depository institutions that hold local agency deposits to submit specified weekly reports to the Department of Business Oversight via email or other electronic means.
Chapter 214, Statutes of 2014
AB 2343 (Gatto-D) Stray animals: pounds and shelters: adoption
Authorize a city, county, city and county, or joint powers authority to elect to receive specified state block grant funding provided under the annual Budget Act, and administered by the Department of Public Health, if the city, county, city and county, or joint powers authority complies with specified procedures for securing funds, and uses any funds received for specified purposes relating to the provision of mandated care for impounded animals in shelters. Provides that the grant funding shall constitute the constitutionally required reimbursement for the provision of that mandated care and requires a city, county, city and county, or joint powers authority that elects not to apply for that block grant funding to hold a public hearing, during which it shall be required to make a finding regarding its decision not to apply for that funding.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2373 (Roger Hernández-D) Probation officers: funding
Requires every county to provide its probation officers with the resources probation officers need to properly discharge their responsibilities or provide notification that it does not have the resources available to do so.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2389* (Fox-D) Local government: capital investment incentive programs
Modifies the current capital investment incentive program for local governments and allows a tax credit under the Corporation Tax Law to a qualified taxpayer in an amount equal to 17.5% of qualified wages paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year to qualified full-time employees.
Chapter 116, Statutes of 2014
AB 2393 (Levine-D) Vehicle registration fees
Authorizes counties to impose either a $1 or $2 vehicle registration surcharge to fund fingerprint identification systems.
Chapter 292, Statutes of 2014
AB 2395 (Lowenthal-D) Oxnard Harbor District: infrastructure projects: funding
Allows the Oxnard Harbor District, aside from the $1 million borrowing limit for land acquisition as specified in existing law, to borrow money by issuance of promissory notes, or execute conditional sales contracts to purchase personal property, in an amount or of a value not exceeding $10 million at any one time, for the purposes of acquiring land for and constructing or operating any work, project, or facility authorized by existing law, or for the making of improvement or the purchase of or maintenance of the equipment.
Chapter 293, Statutes of 2014
AB 2447 (Cooley-D) Public contracts: Sacramento Regional Transit District
Raises the bid threshold, from $5,000 to $25,000, over which the Sacramento Regional Transit District must award construction contracts for transit works or transit facilities to the lowest responsible bidder.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2480 (Yamada-D) Local government finance: cities: annexations
Requires the State Controller to pay to each city that incorporated before 8/5/04, an amount equal to an amount determined by a specified formula beginning on 1/10/15, and on the 10th of each month thereafter.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2493 (Bloom-D) Redevelopment dissolution: housing projects: bond proceeds
Allows redevelopment successor agencies and housing successors to commit remaining proceeds from redevelopment bonds issued between 1/1/11 and 6/28/11, for previously planned projects that are consistent with a region's sustainable communities strategy.
Vetoed
AB 2551 (Wilk-R) Local ballot measures: bond issues
Requires local agencies, when submitting bond measures for voter approval, to include in sample ballot materials information on the estimated total debt service, including the principal and interest, which will be required to be repaid if all the bonds are issued and sold.
Chapter 908, Statutes of 2014
AB 2589 (Bloom-D) County ordinance: weights and measures: annual registration
Allows counties to charge an annual registration fee to businesses that handle more than 10,000 packages or containers per year to recover costs of weighing and measuring packages, containers, or amounts of commodities sold, or in the process of delivery.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2597 (Ting-D) Property Assessed Clean Energy program: financing
Modifies the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority's underwriting standard for the Property Assessed Clean Energy program by providing that financing cannot exceed 15% for the first $700,000 of the value of the property and 10% for the remaining value of the property.
Chapter 614, Statutes of 2014
AB 2618 (John A. Pérez-D) Property and business improvement areas: benefit assessments
Amends the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 to conform several of its provisions to constitutional requirements established by Proposition 218 of 1996.
Chapter 240, Statutes of 2014
AB 2647 (Wagner-R) Redevelopment: El Toro Project Area
Clarifies property tax revenues attributable to the El Toro Project Area for the former Lake Forest Redevelopment Agency in light of the dissolution of redevelopment. Requires the Orange County Auditor-Controller to allocate property tax revenues attributable to the El Toro Project Area between the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund established for the former Orange County Development Agency and the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund established for the former Lake Forest Redevelopment Agency, as provided.
Chapter 826, Statutes of 2014
AB 2676 (Rendon-D) State Controller: local government issues
Expands the State Controller's authority to address local government financial or administrative issues through audits and investigations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2722 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to expand small business contract preference provisions to professional services involving private architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, land surveying, or construction management.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
ACA 3 (Campos-D) Local government financing: public safety services
Authorizes the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax by a city, county, or special district for the purpose of providing supplemental funding for certain fire, emergency response, police, or sheriff services, upon the approval of 55% of the voters voting on the proposition, and prohibits the revenues derived from such a tax from being expended to supplant any other funding source for the provision of these services. Double-jointed with AB 1188 (Bradford) which died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
ACA 8 (Blumenfield-D) Local government financing: voter approval
Allows a city, county, city and county, or special district, as defined, to incur bonded indebtedness in order to fund specified public improvements and facilities, with 55% voter approval of that city, county, city and county, or special district.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
ACR 60 (Morrell-R) Proposition 13: enactment: 35th anniversary
Commemorates 6/6/13 as the 35th anniversary of the approval of Proposition 13 of the "People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation" by California voters.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Housing
SB 133 (DeSaulnier-D) Redevelopment: housing
Makes various reforms to the activities of redevelopment agencies in fulfilling the requirements to increase, preserve and improve low- and moderate-income housing.
Vetoed
SB 391* (DeSaulnier-D) California Homes and Jobs Act of 2013
Establishes the California Homes and Jobs Act of 2013 to provide funding for affordable housing.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 499 (Wyland-R) Property taxation: assessment: affordable housing
Adds onto the list of items that assessors must consider when valuing property, a recorded contract with a tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation that has as its primary purpose, the advancement of affordable housing. Requires the nonprofit to be organized as a charity and fund affordable housing with recorded contracts restricting the use of the land for at least 30 years.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 944 (Torres-D) Surplus state property
Prohibits the Lanterman Developmental Center (LDC), which has been declared surplus state property, from being pre-zoned, zoned, or re-zoned unless the change is requested or approved by the Department of General Services. Requires a local agency or affordable housing developer that wishes to be considered a priority buyer for the LDC property to demonstrate to the Department that the property, or a portion thereof, will be used for the development of projects that create sustainable jobs of benefit to the area and region where the LDC property is located.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2014
SB 1033 (Torres-D) Land use: local planning: housing elements
Updates housing element law references to redevelopment housing funds with a reference to housing successor agency funds.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1203 (Jackson-D) Property taxation: welfare exemption: rental housing
Provides that, notwithstanding any other law, on or after 1/1/15, a local government shall not enter into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement with a property owner of a low-income housing project. Double-jointed to AB 1760 (Chau, Chapter 671, Statutes of 2014).
Chapter 693, Statutes of 2014
SB 1404 (Leno-D) San Francisco redevelopment: successor agencies: housing
Allows San Francisco's successor agency to receive former tax increment revenues and issue debt to pay for specified affordable housing activities.
Vetoed
SCR 25 (Wyland-R) Proposition 13: enactment: 35th anniversary
Contains several statements regarding property tax rates, assessment practices, taxpayer benefits, as well as taxpayer support for Proposition 13 and potential changes and alternatives. States the Legislature's reaffirmation of its support for Proposition 13 and the benefit it provides to individual homeowners and the state's overall economy.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 1537 (Levine-D) General plan housing element: regional housing need
Redefines, for purposes of the Bay Area housing element cycle that runs from 7/1/14 to 12/31/23, Marin County and the cities under 100,000 population within the County as suburban for purposes of the default densities, which means that sites within those jurisdictions are deemed appropriate for low-income housing at 20 units per acre instead of 30 units per acre. Double-jointed with AB 1690 (Gordon, Chapter 883, Statutes of 2014).
Chapter 875, Statutes of 2014
AB 1690 (Gordon-D) Local planning: housing elements
Allows a city or county to accommodate their very low and low-income housing needs on sites designated for mixed uses if those sites allow 100% residential use; and requires that residential use occupy 50% of the total floor area of a mixed-use project. Double-jointed with AB 1537 (Levine, Chapter 875, Statutes of 2014).
Chapter 883, Statutes of 2014
AB 1760 (Chau-D) Property taxation: welfare exemption: rental housing
Prohibits a local government from entering into a payment in lieu of tax agreement with a property owner of a low-income housing project eligible for the welfare exemption from property tax on or after 1/1/15. Double-jointed to SB 1203 (Jackson, Chapter 693, Statutes of 2014).
Chapter 671, Statutes of 2014
AB 1793 (Chau-D) Redevelopment housing successor: report
Requires a housing successor to include in its annual report an inventory of homeownership units assisted by the former redevelopment agency or the housing successor.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2014
AB 2097* (Morrell-R) Taxation: homeowners' exemption and renters' credit
Increases, beginning with the homeowner's lien date for the 2015-16 fiscal year, the homeowners' exemption from $7,000 to $20,000 of the full value of a dwelling. Requires, for the 2016-17 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, the county assessor to adjust the amount of the homeowners' exemption by the percentage change, for the first three quarters of the prior calendar year, in the House Price Index for California, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2135 (Ting-D) Surplus land: affordable housing
Requires that surplus local government land sold under preference for affordable housing provide at least 25% of the units at affordable housing cost to low-income households, and requires that such land sold outside the preference system for residential use provide at least 15% of the units at affordable housing cost to low-income households.
Chapter 677, Statutes of 2014
AB 2175 (Daly-D) Renter's Tax Assistance Act
Establishes the Renter's Tax Assistance Act to provide assistance payments to eligible individuals who rent their principal residences.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2192 (Melendez-R) Housing: building permits
Establishes a pilot project in three unspecified local agencies in which a building permit may be issued upon submission of plans prepared by an architect and reviewed by another unaffiliated architect for single-family dwellings not more than two stories and basement in height; multiple dwellings containing no more than four dwelling units of not more than two stories and basement in height; garages or other structure appurtenant to buildings as described, not more than two stories and basement in height; and agricultural and ranch buildings, unless the building official having jurisdiction deems that an undue risk to the public health, safety, or welfare exists.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 2222 (Nazarian-D) Housing density bonus
Makes an applicant ineligible for a density bonus if the proposed housing development will displace units that are affordable to, or occupied by, lower income households.
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2014
AB 2405 (Ammiano-D) Landlord tenant: Ellis Act
Allows a county board of supervisors, by the adoption of a resolution or by a majority vote of the electors within the county, to compel the owner of any residential real property to offer, or continue to offer, accommodations in the property for rent or lease, in spite of existing law (Ellis Act), if a public entity finds that prohibition contained in existing law decreases the total number of affordable rental units within a jurisdiction.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2493 (Bloom-D) Redevelopment dissolution: housing projects: bond proceeds
Allows redevelopment successor agencies and housing successors to commit remaining proceeds from redevelopment bonds issued between 1/1/11 and 6/28/11 for previously planned projects that are consistent with a region's sustainable communities strategy.
Vetoed
Land Use
SB 26 (Correa-D) Orange County Water District: land use
Requires the Orange County Water District, in the development of property it owns that is within the boundaries of a city, to give notice of its intent to that city, and hold a public hearing in certain instances.
Chapter 829, Statutes of 2014
SB 829* (Galgiani-D) Local government: City of Escalon: sale of property
Allows the City of Escalon to sell specified parcels of land, under certain conditions, which were acquired with state bond funds.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2014
SB 1353 (Nielsen-R) Local government: Williamson Act
Repeals the 1/1/16 sunset date in statutes that allow counties to increase the assessed values of Williamson Act land, and divert the resulting property tax revenues to counties.
Chapter 322, Statutes of 2014
SB 1424 (Wolk-D) State property: tidelands transfer: City of Martinez
Grants, in trust, the state's tide and submerged lands located at the Martinez Marina to the City of Martinez subject to the public trust doctrine and other terms, as specified.
Chapter 628, Statutes of 2014
AB 188* (Ammiano-D) Property taxation: change in ownership
Revises the circumstances under which a "change in ownership" of real property owned by a legal entity is deemed to have occurred.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 667 (Roger Hernández-D) Land use: development project review: superstores
Requires a local agency to do an economic impact report prior to permitting the construction or alteration of a superstore in an economic assistance area, as defined; and requires the local agency to make a finding that the superstore will not adversely affect the economic welfare of the impact area, based on that report.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 750 (Garcia-D) Economic development: cities
Authorizes a city to dispose of real property, or provide compensation to a private entity, if the legislative body of the city is presented with, or presents, substantial evidence that the disposition of the property or provision of compensation will stimulate job creation and economic development within the boundaries of the city. Requires the amount of private benefit provided not outweigh the amount of public benefit received through the disposition of the property or the provision of compensation.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1799 (Gordon-D) Land use: mitigation lands
Exempts a governmental entity or special district from the requirement to provide an endowment for long-term stewardship of mitigation lands if the entity provides evidence that it possesses an investment-grade credit rating and provides a resolution or contractual agreement to enforce the mitigation requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1922 (Gomez-D) Greenway Development and Sustainment Act
Authorizes a non-profit formed for the purpose of promoting the development of a greenway to hold conservation easements. Authorizes local agencies, as part of the open space elements of its general plan, to include one or more greenways in its planning documents and decisions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1943 (Chesbro-D) Tidelands: City of Eureka
Revises the statutory obligation for the City of Eureka to remit certain funds to the state related to tidelands and submerged lands located in Humboldt Bay that were granted to the City of Eureka in the 1970s.
Chapter 891, Statutes of 2014
AB 1961 (Eggman-D) Land use: planning: sustainable farmland strategy
Requires counties to develop a sustainable farmland strategy.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2135 (Ting-D) Surplus land: affordable housing
Requires that surplus local government land sold under preference for affordable housing provide at least 25% of the units at affordable housing cost to low-income households, and requires that such land sold outside the preference system for residential use provide at least 15% of the units at affordable housing cost to low-income households.
Chapter 677, Statutes of 2014
AB 2241 (Eggman-D) Local government: agricultural land
Until 1/1/20, changes the rescission fee charged by a city or county when land under the Williamson Act contract or land designated as a farmland security zone enters into a solar-use easement, to 10% of the fair market value of the property.
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2014
AB 2561 (Bradford-D) Personal agriculture: restrictions
Establishes conditions under which residents of common-interest developments and tenants in rental housing may engage in personal agriculture.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2014
Water
SB 26 (Correa-D) Orange County Water District: land use
Requires the Orange County Water District, in the development of property it owns that is within the boundaries of a city, to give notice of its intent to that city, and hold a public hearing in certain instances.
Chapter 829, Statutes of 2014
SB 750 (Wolk-D) Building standards: water meters: multiunit structures
Requires, as of 1/1/15, that individual water meters, also called submeters, be installed on all new multifamily residential units or mixed commercial and multifamily units and requires that landlords bill residents for the increment of water they use. Does not prohibit a water purveyor, city, county, or other local agency from adopting and implementing its own submetering program as long as the program is at least as stringent as specified requirements.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 772* (Roth-D) Drinking water: County Water Company of Riverside
Exempts the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District and the Eastern Municipal Water District from liability for injuries or damages arising out of the delivery of water to County Water Company of Riverside customers, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 848* (Wolk-D) Safe drinking water: bonds
Replaces the $11.14 billion water bond that is currently on the November 2014 ballot with a new $7.5 billion general obligation bond titled "The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Water Supply Act of 2014," and seeks voter approval to make unappropriated bond funds from specific water bonds, which were authorized in 2000 and earlier, eligible for appropriation for water supply projects.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 920 (Galgiani-D) Flood protection: planning and zoning
Amends the definition of "adequate progress" on levee improvements by replacing the requirement that critical features must be under construction with a requirement that critical features are either being planned and designed or under construction. Includes in the definition the requirement that local agencies complete a levee safety plan and include information on its determination of adequate progress in an annual report to the Central Valley Flood Control Board.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
SB 936 (Monning-D) Monterey Peninsula Water Management District: utilities
Authorizes the California Public Utilities Commission to allow the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District and other financing entities to issue water rate relief bonds to finance water supply infrastructure.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2014
SB 988 (Jackson-D) Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency
Allows Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency to inspect any groundwater extraction facility within the Agency's boundaries with the consent of the facility operator or, if consent is refused, with an inspection warrant duly issued pursuant to the specific statutes in the Code of Civil Procedure.
Chapter 121, Statutes of 2014
SB 1345 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Natural resources
Extends the sunset date of the Wholesale Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act from 2015 until 2022; and makes technical and clarifying changes to the Public Resources and Water Codes.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2014
AB 155 (Alejo-D) Monterey County Water Resources Agency: design-build
Allows the Monterey County Water Resources Agency to use a design-build process solely to award contracts to construct a pipeline or tunnel connecting two lakes owned and operated by the Agency.
Chapter 865, Statutes of 2014
AB 418* (Mullin-D) Stormwater management programs: San Mateo County
Allows the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County to impose a special tax or property-related fee to fund stormwater management programs.
(Died at Senate Desk)
AB 715 (Dickinson-D) Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency: assessments
Specifies how the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency can make changes to assessment amounts, district boundaries, and other aspects of its benefit assessments.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2014
AB 1331 (Rendon-D) Clean, Safe, and Reliable Drinking Water Act of 2014
Enacts the Clean, Safe, and Reliable Drinking Water Act of 2014, which authorizes the issuance of $8.2 billion in bonds upon approval of the voters in the November 2014 election; and creates the Clean, Safe, and Reliable Drinking Water Fund, into which the state deposits bond proceeds for the Legislature to appropriate, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1527 (Perea-D) Public water systems
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to provide incentives for the consolidation of public water systems based upon a service review developed by a local agency formation commission.
Vetoed
AB 1636 (Brown-D) Water conservation
Prohibits a city or county, during a drought emergency declared by the Governor, from enforcing a law or ordinance requiring a resident to water his/her lawn. Provides that a requirement imposed by a governmental entity or a public utility to limit, restrict, or conserve water during a drought emergency declared by the Governor does not constitute a diminution of rent or value of a premise or property.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
A similar bill is AB 2100 (Campos, Chapter 164, Statutes of 2014).
AB 1728 (Garcia-D) Local water boards: elections
Makes all officials who are elected to local water boards subject to existing provisions of state law limiting contributions to officials from entities with business before the agency, as defined, involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use.
Vetoed
AB 2100* (Campos-D) Drought: yard maintenance
Prohibits a common-interest development from imposing a fine or assessment against an owner for reducing or eliminating watering of vegetation or lawns during a declared drought.
Chapter 164, Statutes of 2014
A similar bill was AB 1636 (Brown) which died in Assembly Local Government Committee.
AB 2108 (Eggman-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley: flood management
Makes a number of changes to the statutes relating to flood management in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 2189 (Garcia-D) Water replenishment districts: replenishment assessment
Makes a number of changes to the Water Replenishment District of Southern California's Act as to how the replenishment assessment is calculated and imposed.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2259 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Water replenishment: assessments
Creates a 180-day statute of limitation for challenging the adoption of a replenishment assessment by a water replenishment district, and specifies that an action challenging the adoption of a replenishment assessment shall be brought as a validation action or as a writ of review, mandate, or prohibition.
Chapter 736, Statutes of 2014
AB 2403 (Rendon-D) Local government: Proposition 218: water
Clarifies that the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act's current definition of "water" includes improvements for producing, storing, supplying, treating, or distributing of water from any source.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2014
AB 2420 (Nazarian-D) Well stimulation treatments: local prohibition
Allows a city or county to adopt and enforce a local ordinance prohibiting well stimulation treatments.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2434* (Gomez-D) Local water agency: income taxes: exclusion
Excludes from gross income, under both the personal income tax and corporation tax laws, amounts received as a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive issued by a local water agency for participation in a turf removal water conservation program.
Chapter 738, Statutes of 2014
AB 2443 (Rendon-D) Water Recycling Act of 1991: mutual water companies
Allows specified agencies to provide recycled water service in the territory of mutual water companies without providing compensation. Exempts a political subdivision, such as a water district, that constructs facilities to provide or extend recycled water services to the territory of the mutual water company from the service duplication law which requires payment of compensation to privately owned water utilities by a political subdivision that provides duplicate water service in the same service area.
Chapter 817, Statutes of 2014
AB 2446 (Waldron-R) San Luis Rey Municipal Water District: standby charges
Removes the sunset clause on the San Luis Rey Municipal Water District's ability to impose a standby fee of up to $30 per acre, thereby making that provision permanent.
Chapter 818, Statutes of 2014
AB 2451 (Daly-D) Weights and measures: water submeters
Authorizes the installation of a water submeter that was inspected, tested, and sealed by a sealer of another county; authorizes a county to establish and collect fees to cover the actual costs of inspecting, testing, and certifying water submeters; requires a sealer to mark a water submeter that is found to be incorrect, with the words "Out of Order;" and allows the submeter to be returned to the manufacturer under certain conditions.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2014
AB 2453 (Achadjian-R) Paso Robles Basin Water District
Authorizes, until 1/1/19, the formation, governing board structure and powers of the Paso Robles Basin Water District (District) in San Luis Obispo County, with the District's boundaries to be established by the San Luis Obispo County Local Agency Formation Commission. Authorizes the District to develop, adopt, and implement a groundwater management plan to control extractions from the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin aquifers, as specified; and authorizes the District to impose groundwater extraction charges, to establish extraction allocations, and to impose extraction surcharges to, among other things, discourage the use of groundwater beyond the extraction allocation.
Chapter 350, Statutes of 2014
AB 2712 (Daly-D) Orange County Water District
Establishes a process for groundwater cleanup for the Orange County Water District.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
Miscellaneous
SB 9 (Price-D) State government: social innovation and entrepreneurship
Establishes the Office of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development within the Office of the Governor to establish partnerships with government agencies, private investors, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit service providers to facilitate the use of social impact bonds to address social services needs.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
SB 450 (Galgiani-D) Unattended collection boxes
Requires a city or county that has adopted a local ordinance regulating or permitting the placement of unattended collection boxes, which includes a provision that authorizes the city or county to remove a collection box that is in violation of the ordinance, to impose a charge on the collection box's owner or operator for the reasonable costs of its removal and storage, if the county or city removes the collection box pursuant to the local ordinance.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
SB 673 (DeSaulnier-D) County employees' retirement: Contra Costa County
Makes the Contra Costa County retirement system (System) an independent, public employer district within the Country Costa County Employees' Retirement Association and the statutory employer for System employees. Provides that System employees are eligible for Country Costa County Employees' Retirement Association membership.
Chapter 244, Statutes of 2014
SB 674 (Corbett-D) Residential infill projects: exemption
Revises the residential infill exemption by increasing the amount of allowable neighborhood-serving goods, services, or retail uses from 15% of the total project floor area to 25% of the total building square footage.
Chapter 549, Statutes of 2014
SB 803 (DeSaulnier-D) Local government: counties: consolidation of offices
Allows Contra Costa County supervisors to adopt an ordinance to convert the public administrator's office from an elected to an appointed position. Adds Contra Costa County to the list of counties that may appoint the same person to the offices of public administrator and public guardian and separate the consolidated offices of district attorney and public administrator.
Chapter 113, Statutes of 2014
SB 946 (Huff-R) Community facilities: Orange County Sanitation District
Modifies the composition of the Orange County Sanitation District board of directors, by removing the current representation of the one member from the Yorba Linda city council and replacing the representation with one member of the Yorba Linda Water District's governing board.
Chapter 171, Statutes of 2014
SB 1155 (Lieu-D) Geological hazards: approval of projects
Revises standards for local agencies issuing building permits on projects near earthquake faults.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1230* (Senate Governance And Finance Committee) First Validating Act of 2014
Enacts the First Validating Act of 2014, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, and bonds of state and local agencies.
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2014
SB 1231* (Senate Governance And Finance Committee) Second Validating Act of 2014
Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2014, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, and bonds of state and local agencies.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2014
SB 1232 (Senate Governance And Finance Committee) Third Validating Act of 2014
Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2014, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, and bonds of state and local agencies.
Chapter 225, Statutes of 2014
SB 1262 (Correa-D) Local ordinances: medical marijuana
Establishes within the Department of Consumer Affairs a Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation to license dispensing facilities, cultivation sites, and manufacturers that, among other things, provide, process, and grow medical marijuana, as specified, subject to local ordinances. Requires every city, county, or city and county that permits medical marijuana dispensing or cultivation to submit to the Bureau a list of approved entities providing medical marijuana within that jurisdiction. Requires the Bureau to adopt regulations for the implementation and enforcement of these provisions, specifically relating to procedures for licensing, fees for licenses, and sanitation. Authorizes a city, county, or city and county to administer and enforce these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1291 (Nielsen-R) Public cemetery districts: Halcumb Cemetery District
Allows the Halcumb Cemetery District to inter in the ground or a columbarium up to 40 people per calendar year who are neither residents nor property taxpayers in any cemetery district and who do not otherwise qualify for interment under the state law governing public cemetery districts' interment of eligible nonresidents, if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 276, Statutes of 2014
SB 1352 (Hancock-D) Alameda Health System
Replaces outdated statutory references to the Alameda County Medical Center with references to the Alameda Health System.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2014
SB 1376* (Gaines-R) County jail inmates: involuntary transfer
Authorizes the sheriff of a county to contract with any state, county, or private jail or prison system in the United States for the confinement of inmates on behalf of the county and to transfer inmates to those facilities, with or without the inmate's permission. Authorizes the county to submit an invoice, and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to pay, for the actual cost of housing and transportation of transferred inmates.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1415 (Hill-D) Bay Area Air Quality Management District: advisory council
Makes various changes to the Bay Area Air Quality Management Advisory Council membership.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2014
SB 1462 (Senate Governance And Finance Committee) Local government: omnibus bill
Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2014 and proposes a number of minor, noncontroversial changes to state laws governing local governments' powers and duties.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2014
AB 22 (Blumenfield-D) Sidewalks: repairs
Prohibits cities and counties from repealing an ordinance that requires them to repair or reconstruct streets, sidewalks, or driveways that have been damaged as a result of tree growth unless the repeal is ratified by the local electorate.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 59 (Bonta-D) Claims
Replaces certain terms used to describe the laws relating to the presentment of claims against local public entities with the terms enactment and resolution, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 185 (Roger Hernández-D) Open and public meetings: televised meetings
Provides that an audio or video recording of an open and public meeting made at the direction of a local agency may be erased or destroyed two years after the recording. Requires a local agency that collects a franchise fee from the holder of a state franchise that provides public, educational, and governmental access channels to televise the open and public meetings of its legislative body and planning commission unless doing so results in a financial hardship, as defined, in which case the local agency is required to broadcast the meetings via an audio-visual electronic medium or an audio medium, as specified. Authorizes the use of the franchise fees to televise the open and public meetings of the local agency and to cover the necessary expenses for implementing the televising of the local agency's open and public meetings.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 192 (Hagman-R) Zoning violation: hotel operation
Provides that, in spite of existing law, any person who violates the zoning ordinance of a city, county, or city and county by operating a hotel in an area zoned for residences is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500, and not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment of not less than 30 days nor exceeding six months, or by both fine and imprisonment.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 194 (Campos-D) Open meetings: public criticism and comment
Amends the Ralph M. Brown Act on the right to give public comment during regular open meetings and special meetings, and clarifies that the legislative body of a local agency shall not prevent public criticism or comments, as defined.
Vetoed
AB 232 (Ting-D) Firearms: local buyback program
Establishes the Gun Buyback Program in the Department of Justice, which consists of local buyback programs administered by police or sheriff departments, that will be funded up to 50% by funds administered by the Department. Provides that the local programs will purchase firearms and, except as specified, destroy the firearms, as prescribed.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 338 (Chávez-R) State property: surplus
Authorizes the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation, with the approval of the Director of the Department of General Services, to enter into an agreement with the City of Carlsbad for the exchange of specified parcels of real property subject to certain conditions.
(Died in Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee)
AB 345 (Pan-D) Counties: coroners
Eliminates the authority of county coroners to determine whether a death is the result of a criminal act for purposes of imposing a charge for keeping and holding the deceased and, instead, grants this authority to the law enforcement agency investigating the death.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 371 (Salas-D) Sewage sludge: Kern County
Requires that the State Water Resources Control Board require the testing of sewage sludge or other biological solids applied on properties in Kern County.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 431 (Mullin-D) County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
Revises various provisions of the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 to explicitly conform with federal law. Authorizes a retirement system to apply specified earnings to designated health benefits if federal requirements are met, and allows a board of retirement to authorize payment of those benefits with county advance reserves. Specifies that, if a county establishes a Post-Employment Benefits Trust Account as a part of its retirement fund, the Account shall be used exclusively to provide health benefits for retired members, their spouses, and dependents. Requires a county that elects to provide optional long-term care or vision benefits, to comply with applicable federal law and regulation, including maintaining separate trust funds for those benefits.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 668 (Gray-D) Economic disaster area
Requires a county or city and county that is designated an economic disaster area to receive priority consideration when the state is making a determination on where to expend state funds with respect to any state contract or award, public works project, bond-financed project, acquisition of real estate, or capital project.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 678 (Gordon-D) Health care districts: community health needs assessment
Directs a health care district that has transferred assets to a corporation to conduct a community needs assessment every five years and provide opportunity for public involvement and input. Requires a local agency formation commission to prepare a written statement of its determinations regarding any community health assessment prepared by a health care district in a local agency formation commission's municipal service review.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 913 (Chau-D) Brown Act: charter schools
Requires that charter schools be subject to a variety of the same open meeting, conflict of interest, and disclosure laws as school districts, including the Ralph M. Brown Act and the Political Reform Act of 1974.
Vetoed
AB 975 (Wieckowski-D) Health facilities community benefits
Revises California's nonprofit community benefits requirements to include multispecialty clinics and narrows the activities that constitute community benefits, and creates a definition of charity care. Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to develop a standardized methodology for calculating community benefits, calculate the value of community benefits for submitting entities, and to issue civil penalties for noncompliance with filing requirements.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1079 (Bradford-D) Economic development: energy management area and plans
Provides a framework for a local government to designate an energy management area for which it may develop an energy management plan, in collaboration with an electrical or gas corporation, to assist with either the stimulation of development or local manufacturing.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1147 (Gomez-D) Local ordinances: massage therapy
Deletes the preemption of ordinances and local land use authority for "certified-only" massage establishments and reinforces local massage ordinances within the Massage Therapy Act.
Chapter 406, Statutes of 2014
AB 1175 (Bocanegra-D) Los Angeles County: agricultural inspector associates
Prohibits the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture from entering into cooperative agreements with Los Angeles County for year-round agricultural inspector services unless not less than 75% of the agricultural inspector associates are afforded protections as permanent employees under the county's civil service or personnel system.
Chapter 588, Statutes of 2014
AB 1327 (Gorell-R) Unmanned aircraft systems
Establishes parameters for the use of unmanned aircraft systems by state and local government agencies, including law enforcement agencies.
Vetoed
AB 1383 (Roger Hernández-D) District-based municipal elections
Permits the legislative body of a city to provide by ordinance, without submitting the ordinance to the voters of the city for approval, the election of members of the legislative body by district if the voters of the city previously rejected such an ordinance, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1440 (Campos-D) Elections: district boundaries: public hearing
Requires political subdivisions that change from an at-large method of election to a district-based election to hold public hearings, and requires special districts to hold a public hearing before adjusting the boundaries of a division.
Chapter 873, Statutes of 2014
AB 1448 (Mullin-D) Local government: elected officials: lifetime healthcare
Prohibits the legislative or governing body of a city, county, city and county, school board, special district, or any other entity of local government from granting lifetime healthcare benefits to an elected official who serves part time, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1593 (Dahle-R) Public cemetery districts: Auburn Public Cemetery District
Authorizes the Auburn Public Cemetery District in Placer County to use their cemeteries for up to a total of 400 interments each, not to exceed 40 interments each per calendar year, to inter nonresidents and non-property taxpayers, if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1759 (Rendon-D) California Coastal Commission: appointments
Specifies, for purposes of the provisions governing California Coastal Commission appointments, that a "city council member" may also include a locally elected mayor of a charter city.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1774 (Waldron-R) General plan: proposed public works
Authorizes the submission of the list of proposed public works projects one month prior to the start of the fiscal year and authorizes, instead of requires, the agency receiving the list to prepare a coordinated program of proposed public works for the ensuing fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1795 (Alejo-D) Cities: city council: vacancy
Allows a resigning city council member, in a city that elects city council members by or from districts, to cast a vote on the appointment of a successor if his/her resignation will go into effect upon the appointment of a successor. Specifies that, in the case of the office of city council member, the office becomes vacant upon the delivery of a letter of resignation by the resigning council member to the city clerk, and the letter may specify an effective date.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2014
AB 1862 (Melendez-R) County board of supervisors: vacancy: appointment
Allows a quorum of a county board of supervisors, within 90 days after the date of a vacancy on the board, to appoint an individual to fill the vacancy. Requires the Governor to appoint an individual to fill the vacancy if a quorum of the board of supervisors does not appoint an individual within 90 days after the date of the vacancy.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 1881 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Public employee relations: Los Angeles
Sets standards for appointing members to the Los Angeles City Employee Relations Board and the Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission.
Vetoed
AB 1888 (Ting-D) Documentary transfer tax: county recorders
Deletes the requirement that county recorders must, upon request, show the amount of documentary transfer tax due on a paper separate from the document subject to the tax.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2014
AB 1941 (Holden-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Provides that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board of directors consists of an unspecified number of members, including an unspecified number of public members appointed by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles and an unspecified number of members appointed from other cities in the county.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1948 (Mullin-D) Counties: officers: qualification for office
Makes mandatory specified qualifications for the office of county treasurer, county tax collector, or county treasurer-tax collector that are currently at the discretion of county boards of supervisors, and expands these qualifications to the office of consolidated director of finance, director of finance, or any office consolidated with the office of treasurer or tax collector.
Vetoed
AB 1965 (Yamada-D) Outdoor dining facilities: pet dogs
Permits pet dogs under control of a person to be in outdoor dining areas at food facilities under specified conditions and clarifies that local governing bodies may prohibit that conduct by ordinance.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2014
AB 1980 (Roger Hernández-D) Public safety services
Prohibits the legislative body of a general law city from eliminating its entire police or fire protection department except by an ordinance that is approved by a majority of the voters voting on the issue at a local election.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1988 (Chávez-R) North County Transit District: flexible procurement process
Revises and recasts the North County Transit District's authority to enter into contracts that the District determines are in its best interest by requiring the board of directors of the District to establish and use a specified flexible procurement process to maximize the efficient use of public funds. Authorizes the board of directors to use any procurement method authorized for state or local agencies under state or federal law, including, but not limited to, a competitive negotiation process, and requires the board of directors to maintain acquisition and contracting guidelines and comply with those guidelines in the procurement of all goods and services.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1995 (Levine-D) Community service districts
Authorizes the Bel Marin Keys Community Services District to enforce all or part of the covenants, conditions, and restrictions for a tract within the District, and to assume the duties of an architectural control committee for that tract, as provided.
Chapter 289, Statutes of 2014
AB 2021 (Gordon-D) San Mateo County Transit District
Provides that the San Mateo Transit District may continue operating an existing, previously approved labor compliance program to monitor and enforce prevailing wage requirements on any construction manager/general contractor project under certain circumstances.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2117 (Achadjian-R) Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority
Adds the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors to the existing statutory dissolution process of the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority, now known as CenCal Health.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2014
AB 2156 (Achadjian-R) Local agency formation commissions: studies
Adds joint powers agencies and joint powers authorities to the list of entities local agency formation commissions may request information from for purposes of conducting studies.
Chapter 21, Statutes of 2014
AB 2159 (Ammiano-D) Electrical corporations: community choice aggregation
Allows the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to elect to enter into a joint powers agreement to implement a community choice aggregation program, allows another public agency to be the community choice aggregator for San Francisco, expands over-the-fence transactions, and requires an electrical corporation to provide electrical consumption data to community choice aggregators.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2181 (Bloom-D) Building standards: seismic retrofit
Authorizes each city, city and county, or county to require that owners evaluate the earthquake hazard of soft story residential buildings and older concrete residential buildings, and includes concrete residential buildings that were constructed prior to the adoption of local building codes that ensure ductility, as specified, as potentially hazardous if an earthquake occurs. Authorizes a city, city and county, or county to employ seismic evaluation of older concrete residential buildings to address individual seismically hazardous buildings without regard to how the buildings came to the attention of its officials.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2194* (Mullin-D) Elections: statewide recounts
Requires, until 7/1/15, the Secretary of State to order an automatic manual recount of all votes cast for a statewide office or state ballot measure if the difference in the number of votes received is less than or equal to 0.1%.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2206 (Gomez-D) Public records: local agencies: exception to disclosure
Exempts from the California Public Records Act disclosure of the records of residence or mailing address of any person described as a peace officer, if that person or his/her recognized collective bargaining representative has requested confidentiality of that information to a local agency, and that local agency chooses to maintain a program that redacts that information or makes that information confidential.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2215 (Maienschein-R) Veterans: recorded documents
Provides that a military veteran, or a family member or legal representative of a veteran authorized to receive a certified copy of a military discharge document, may request recordation in any county in this state of any military discharge document, including a veteran's service form DD214, provided that the county recorder requires the person requesting the recordation to sign a form.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2014
AB 2234 (Ting-D) Surveys: assessment procedures: cities and counties
Makes specified changes to the survey requirements applicable to the Board of Equalization in determining the adequacy of procedures and practices employed by county assessors in their valuation of property.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2355 (Levine-D) Local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials
Requires every local agency responsible for any street or highway to either adopt the Department of Transportation's standards for recycled road construction materials or discuss why it is not adopting these standards.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 2014
AB 2381 (Bonilla-D) Private parking facilities
Authorizes cities or counties to allow owners or operators of publicly available private parking lots to regulate unauthorized parking.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 2412 (Atkins-D) Cities: community benefit districts
Authorizes a local agency in the County of San Diego to form a community benefit district by complying with specified procedures and requirements, to be operated by a nonprofit management company, and to levy an assessment for the funding of certain improvements and activities within the district.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2415 (Ting-D) Property tax agents
Enacts a registration process for property tax agents, prohibits property tax agents from engaging in specified activities, and provides enforcement mechanisms for property tax agents engaging in barred acts. Preempts and supersedes any local ordinance regarding the registration of an individual who communicates directly or indirectly with any county official for the purpose of influencing official action regarding a property tax assessment, but counties can enact an ordinance providing reporting requirements for campaign contributions for property tax agents.
Vetoed
AB 2455 (Williams-D) Santa Rita Hills Community Services District
Allows, until 1/1/35, the Santa Rita Hills Community Services District's board of directors to consist of three members instead of five.
Chapter 505, Statutes of 2014
AB 2511 (Bradford-D) Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: citizens' oversight
Establishes in the County of Los Angeles a permanent citizens' oversight committee for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2546 (Salas-D) Kern County Hospital Authority
Authorizes the Kern County Board of Supervisors to establish the Kern County Hospital Authority to manage, administer, and control the Kern Medical Center and for the operation of additional programs, facilities, care organizations, physical practice plans, and delivery systems that may be affiliated or consolidated with the medical center.
Chapter 613, Statutes of 2014
AB 2549 (Ridley-Thomas-D) City of Milpitas: gambling: moratorium
Authorizes the City of Milpitas, upon approval of the electors, to authorize controlled gambling within that city subject to specified conditions, including, among others, that controlled gambling may only be conducted by a gambling establishment licensed by the California Gambling Control Commission and operating in the County of Santa Clara on or before 1/1/13, that elects to change its location to the City of Milpitas from another location in the County of Santa Clara.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2568 (Bloom-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Decreases, from three to one year, the amount of time before a member, alternate member, or employee of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority may accept employment with a company, vendor, or business entity that was awarded a contract as the result of their participation, if that participation took place within one year prior to their exit from the Authority.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2715 (Roger Hernández-D) District-based municipal elections
Modifies requirements for general law cities to change from at-large to districts elections, and mandates that some cities make this change.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2719 (Bonta-D) Mobile retail and pop-up operations: local ordinance
Directs the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with local agencies, to establish a model local ordinance regulating mobile retail operations, with guidelines for the regulation of temporary or pop-up retail operations.
Vetoed
AB 2762 (Assembly Local Government Committee) Local government
Makes several non-controversial changes to the laws affecting local government organization and reorganization.
Chapter 112, Statutes of 2014
ACR 110 (Fox-D) Health Care District Month
Proclaims the month of May 2014 as Health Care District Month in California and recognizes the essential role that health care districts have in the State of California.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2014
Index (in Measure Order)
Go to TopNote: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.
| Measure and Reference | Author | Measure Title |
|---|---|---|
| SB 1 - Finance/Infrastructure | Steinberg-D | Sustainable Communities Investment Authority |
| SB 9 - Miscellaneous | Price-D | State government: social innovation and entrepreneurship |
| SB 16* - Finance/Infrastructure | Gaines-R | County costs: non-homicide criminal trials |
| SB 26 - Land Use | Correa-D | Orange County Water District: land use |
| SB 26 - Water | Correa-D | Orange County Water District: land use |
| SB 33 - Finance/Infrastructure | Wolk-D | Infrastructure financing districts: voter approval |
| SB 56* - Finance/Infrastructure | Roth-D | Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation |
| SB 69 - Finance/Infrastructure | Roth-D | Local government finance: vehicle license fee adjustments |
| SB 133 - Housing | DeSaulnier-D | Redevelopment: housing |
| SB 391* - Housing | DeSaulnier-D | California Homes and Jobs Act of 2013 |
| SB 409 - Finance/Infrastructure | Emmerson-R | Disaster recovery project areas: enforceable obligations |
| SB 431 - Finance/Infrastructure | Price-D | CA Socioeconomic Development Pods Program |
| SB 446 - Finance/Infrastructure | Cannella-R | Property tax revenue allocations: County of San Benito |
| SB 450 - Miscellaneous | Galgiani-D | Unattended collection boxes |
| SB 499 - Housing | Wyland-R | Property taxation: assessment: affordable housing |
| SB 614 - Finance/Infrastructure | Wolk-D | Local government: infrastructure financing |
| SB 628 - Finance/Infrastructure | Beall-D | Enhanced infrastructure financing districts |
| SB 629 - Finance/Infrastructure | Beall-D | Tax equity allocation formula: County of Santa Clara |
| SB 663* - Finance/Infrastructure | Lara-D | Local government: redevelopment: revenues from property tax |
| SB 673 - Miscellaneous | DeSaulnier-D | County employees' retirement: Contra Costa County |
| SB 674 - Miscellaneous | Corbett-D | Residential infill projects: exemption |
| SB 750 - Water | Wolk-D | Building standards: water meters: multiunit structures |
| SB 772* - Water | Roth-D | Drinking water: County Water Company of Riverside |
| SB 803 - Miscellaneous | DeSaulnier-D | Local government: counties: consolidation of offices |
| SB 827 - Finance/Infrastructure | Liu-D | Local government: Los Angeles County: notice of recordation |
| SB 829* - Land Use | Galgiani-D | Local government: City of Escalon: sale of property |
| SB 848* - Water | Wolk-D | Safe drinking water: bonds |
| SB 920 - Water | Galgiani-D | Flood protection: planning and zoning |
| SB 936 - Water | Monning-D | Monterey Peninsula Water Management District: utilities |
| SB 944 - Housing | Torres-D | Surplus state property |
| SB 946 - Miscellaneous | Huff-R | Community facilities: Orange County Sanitation District |
| SB 988 - Water | Jackson-D | Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency |
| SB 1033 - Housing | Torres-D | Land use: local planning: housing elements |
| SB 1037 - Finance/Infrastructure | Hernandez-D | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
| SB 1086* - Finance/Infrastructure | De León-D | Bonds: safe neighborhood parks/rivers/coastal protection |
| SB 1129 - Finance/Infrastructure | Steinberg-D | Redevelopment: successor agencies to redevelopment agencies |
| SB 1155 - Miscellaneous | Lieu-D | Geological hazards: approval of projects |
| SB 1183 - Finance/Infrastructure | DeSaulnier-D | Bicycle infrastructure: vehicle registration fees |
| SB 1203 - Housing | Jackson-D | Property taxation: welfare exemption: rental housing |
| SB 1230* - Miscellaneous | Senate Governance And Finance Committee | First Validating Act of 2014 |
| SB 1231* - Miscellaneous | Senate Governance And Finance Committee | Second Validating Act of 2014 |
| SB 1232 - Miscellaneous | Senate Governance And Finance Committee | Third Validating Act of 2014 |
| SB 1262 - Miscellaneous | Correa-D | Local ordinances: medical marijuana |
| SB 1291 - Miscellaneous | Nielsen-R | Public cemetery districts: Halcumb Cemetery District |
| SB 1345 - Water | Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee | Natural resources |
| SB 1347 - Finance/Infrastructure | Anderson-R | Public contracts: school districts: charter schools |
| SB 1352 - Miscellaneous | Hancock-D | Alameda Health System |
| SB 1353 - Land Use | Nielsen-R | Local government: Williamson Act |
| SB 1376* - Miscellaneous | Gaines-R | County jail inmates: involuntary transfer |
| SB 1404 - Housing | Leno-D | San Francisco redevelopment: successor agencies: housing |
| SB 1413 - Finance/Infrastructure | Wyland-R | State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees |
| SB 1415 - Miscellaneous | Hill-D | Bay Area Air Quality Management District: advisory council |
| SB 1424 - Land Use | Wolk-D | State property: tidelands transfer: City of Martinez |
| SB 1433 - Finance/Infrastructure | Hill-D | Local Agency Public Construction Act: transit design-build |
| SB 1462 - Miscellaneous | Senate Governance And Finance Committee | Local government: omnibus bill |
| SCA 4 - Finance/Infrastructure | Liu-D | Local government transportation projects: special taxes |
| SCA 7 - Finance/Infrastructure | Wolk-D | Local government financing: public libraries: voter approval |
| SCA 8 - Finance/Infrastructure | Corbett-D | Local government: special taxes |
| SCA 9 - Finance/Infrastructure | Corbett-D | Local government: economic development: special taxes |
| SCA 11 - Finance/Infrastructure | Hancock-D | Local government: special taxes: voter approval |
| SCR 25 - Housing | Wyland-R | Proposition 13: enactment: 35th anniversary |
| AB 22 - Miscellaneous | Blumenfield-D | Sidewalks: repairs |
| AB 59 - Miscellaneous | Bonta-D | Claims |
| AB 155 - Finance/Infrastructure | Alejo-D | Monterey County Water Resources Agency: design-build |
| AB 155 - Water | Alejo-D | Monterey County Water Resources Agency: design-build |
| AB 185 - Miscellaneous | Roger Hernández-D | Open and public meetings: televised meetings |
| AB 188* - Land Use | Ammiano-D | Property taxation: change in ownership |
| AB 192 - Miscellaneous | Hagman-R | Zoning violation: hotel operation |
| AB 194 - Miscellaneous | Campos-D | Open meetings: public criticism and comment |
| AB 229 - Finance/Infrastructure | John A. Pérez-D | Infrastructure and revitalization financing |
| AB 232 - Miscellaneous | Ting-D | Firearms: local buyback program |
| AB 243 - Finance/Infrastructure | Dickinson-D | Infrastructure and revitalization financing |
| AB 294 - Finance/Infrastructure | Holden-D | Local-State Joint Investment Partnership Pilot Program |
| AB 338 - Miscellaneous | Chávez-R | State property: surplus |
| AB 345 - Miscellaneous | Pan-D | Counties: coroners |
| AB 371 - Miscellaneous | Salas-D | Sewage sludge: Kern County |
| AB 416 - Finance/Infrastructure | Gordon-D | Air Resources Board: Local Emission Reduction Program |
| AB 418* - Water | Mullin-D | Stormwater management programs: San Mateo County |
| AB 431 - Miscellaneous | Mullin-D | County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 |
| AB 453 - Finance/Infrastructure | Mullin-D | Sustainable communities |
| AB 471* - Finance/Infrastructure | Atkins-D | Local government: redevelopment: successor agencies |
| AB 561 - Finance/Infrastructure | Ting-D | Taxation: documentary transfer tax |
| AB 582* - Finance/Infrastructure | Levine-D | Palm Drive Health Care District |
| AB 621 - Finance/Infrastructure | Wagner-R | Local government: bonds |
| AB 667 - Land Use | Roger Hernández-D | Land use: development project review: superstores |
| AB 668 - Miscellaneous | Gray-D | Economic disaster area |
| AB 677 - Finance/Infrastructure | Fox-D | Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation |
| AB 678 - Miscellaneous | Gordon-D | Health care districts: community health needs assessment |
| AB 715 - Water | Dickinson-D | Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency: assessments |
| AB 741* - Finance/Infrastructure | Brown-D | Local government finance: tax equity allocation formula |
| AB 745 - Finance/Infrastructure | Levine-D | Regional park and open-space districts: contracts |
| AB 750 - Land Use | Garcia-D | Economic development: cities |
| AB 774 - Finance/Infrastructure | Donnelly-R | County service areas: zone dissolution |
| AB 777* - Finance/Infrastructure | Muratsuchi-D | Taxes: exemption: space flight property |
| AB 881 - Finance/Infrastructure | Chesbro-D | Local taxation: County of Sonoma |
| AB 892 - Finance/Infrastructure | Daly-D | Parcel taxes |
| AB 913 - Miscellaneous | Chau-D | Brown Act: charter schools |
| AB 941 - Finance/Infrastructure | Rendon-D | State Controller: local government issues |
| AB 975 - Miscellaneous | Wieckowski-D | Health facilities community benefits |
| AB 981 - Finance/Infrastructure | Bloom-D | Redevelopment dissolution |
| AB 1002 - Finance/Infrastructure | Bloom-D | Vehicles: registration fee: sustainable communities |
| AB 1012 - Finance/Infrastructure | Gomez-D | County tax bill: property tax assistance and postponement |
| AB 1052 - Finance/Infrastructure | Quirk-D | Community facilities: district formation |
| AB 1053* - Finance/Infrastructure | Cooley-D | Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District: return of money |
| AB 1079 - Miscellaneous | Bradford-D | Economic development: energy management area and plans |
| AB 1080 - Finance/Infrastructure | Alejo-D | Community Revitalization and Investment Authorities |
| AB 1147 - Miscellaneous | Gomez-D | Local ordinances: massage therapy |
| AB 1175 - Miscellaneous | Bocanegra-D | Los Angeles County: agricultural inspector associates |
| AB 1188 - Finance/Infrastructure | Bradford-D | Fire protection: general obligation bonds |
| AB 1193 - Finance/Infrastructure | Ting-D | Local governments: bikeways |
| AB 1225 - Finance/Infrastructure | Maienschein-R | State and local fund allocations |
| AB 1237 - Finance/Infrastructure | Garcia-D | Local government finance |
| AB 1320 - Finance/Infrastructure | Bloom-D | Redevelopment: allocation of property tax |
| AB 1324 - Finance/Infrastructure | Skinner-D | City of El Cerrito: transactions and use taxes |
| AB 1327 - Miscellaneous | Gorell-R | Unmanned aircraft systems |
| AB 1330 - Finance/Infrastructure | John A. Pérez-D | Public comment: translator |
| AB 1331 - Water | Rendon-D | Clean, Safe, and Reliable Drinking Water Act of 2014 |
| AB 1333 - Finance/Infrastructure | Roger Hernández-D | Local government: contracts |
| AB 1383 - Miscellaneous | Roger Hernández-D | District-based municipal elections |
| AB 1399* - Finance/Infrastructure | Medina-D | Community development: New Markets Tax Credit |
| AB 1440 - Miscellaneous | Campos-D | Elections: district boundaries: public hearing |
| AB 1448 - Miscellaneous | Mullin-D | Local government: elected officials: lifetime healthcare |
| AB 1450* - Finance/Infrastructure | Garcia-D | Local government: revenues from property tax override rates |
| AB 1521* - Finance/Infrastructure | Fox-D | Local government finance: vehicle license fee adjustments |
| AB 1527 - Water | Perea-D | Public water systems |
| AB 1528 - Finance/Infrastructure | Olsen-R | Public parks: City of Escalon: property sale |
| AB 1537 - Housing | Levine-D | General plan housing element: regional housing need |
| AB 1582 - Finance/Infrastructure | Mullin-D | Redevelopment: successor agencies: postcompliance provisions |
| AB 1593 - Miscellaneous | Dahle-R | Public cemetery districts: Auburn Public Cemetery District |
| AB 1636 - Water | Brown-D | Water conservation |
| AB 1661 - Finance/Infrastructure | Bonta-D | Healthy Options for Everyone Incentive Zone |
| AB 1690 - Housing | Gordon-D | Local planning: housing elements |
| AB 1728 - Water | Garcia-D | Local water boards: elections |
| AB 1759 - Miscellaneous | Rendon-D | California Coastal Commission: appointments |
| AB 1760 - Housing | Chau-D | Property taxation: welfare exemption: rental housing |
| AB 1774 - Miscellaneous | Waldron-R | General plan: proposed public works |
| AB 1793 - Housing | Chau-D | Redevelopment housing successor: report |
| AB 1795 - Miscellaneous | Alejo-D | Cities: city council: vacancy |
| AB 1799 - Land Use | Gordon-D | Land use: mitigation lands |
| AB 1862 - Miscellaneous | Melendez-R | County board of supervisors: vacancy: appointment |
| AB 1881 - Miscellaneous | Jones-Sawyer-D | Public employee relations: Los Angeles |
| AB 1883 - Finance/Infrastructure | Skinner-D | Public improvements: contractual assessments |
| AB 1888 - Miscellaneous | Ting-D | Documentary transfer tax: county recorders |
| AB 1922 - Land Use | Gomez-D | Greenway Development and Sustainment Act |
| AB 1933 - Finance/Infrastructure | Levine-D | Local government: investments |
| AB 1941 - Miscellaneous | Holden-D | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
| AB 1943 - Land Use | Chesbro-D | Tidelands: City of Eureka |
| AB 1948 - Miscellaneous | Mullin-D | Counties: officers: qualification for office |
| AB 1954 - Finance/Infrastructure | Harkey-R | Fire prevention fee |
| AB 1961 - Land Use | Eggman-D | Land use: planning: sustainable farmland strategy |
| AB 1963* - Finance/Infrastructure | Atkins-D | Redevelopment successor agency |
| AB 1965 - Miscellaneous | Yamada-D | Outdoor dining facilities: pet dogs |
| AB 1970 - Finance/Infrastructure | Gordon-D | Community Investment and Innovation Program |
| AB 1979 - Finance/Infrastructure | Nazarian-D | School facilities: California School Finance Authority |
| AB 1980 - Miscellaneous | Roger Hernández-D | Public safety services |
| AB 1988 - Miscellaneous | Chávez-R | North County Transit District: flexible procurement process |
| AB 1995 - Miscellaneous | Levine-D | Community service districts |
| AB 2021 - Miscellaneous | Gordon-D | San Mateo County Transit District |
| AB 2040 - Finance/Infrastructure | Garcia-D | Elected officials, officers, and employees: compensation |
| AB 2046 - Finance/Infrastructure | Gomez-D | Joint exercise of powers: financing |
| AB 2097* - Housing | Morrell-R | Taxation: homeowners' exemption and renters' credit |
| AB 2100* - Water | Campos-D | Drought: yard maintenance |
| AB 2108 - Water | Eggman-D | Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley: flood management |
| AB 2109 - Finance/Infrastructure | Daly-D | State Controller: locally assessed parcel taxes |
| AB 2117 - Miscellaneous | Achadjian-R | Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority |
| AB 2135 - Housing | Ting-D | Surplus land: affordable housing |
| AB 2135 - Land Use | Ting-D | Surplus land: affordable housing |
| AB 2149 - Finance/Infrastructure | Atkins-D | Local Agency Public Construction Act |
| AB 2151 - Finance/Infrastructure | Wagner-R | Counties: search or rescue: costs |
| AB 2156 - Miscellaneous | Achadjian-R | Local agency formation commissions: studies |
| AB 2159 - Miscellaneous | Ammiano-D | Electrical corporations: community choice aggregation |
| AB 2170 - Finance/Infrastructure | Mullin-D | Joint powers authorities: common powers |
| AB 2175 - Housing | Daly-D | Renter's Tax Assistance Act |
| AB 2181 - Miscellaneous | Bloom-D | Building standards: seismic retrofit |
| AB 2188 - Finance/Infrastructure | Muratsuchi-D | Solar energy: permits |
| AB 2189 - Water | Garcia-D | Water replenishment districts: replenishment assessment |
| AB 2192 - Housing | Melendez-R | Housing: building permits |
| AB 2194* - Miscellaneous | Mullin-D | Elections: statewide recounts |
| AB 2206 - Miscellaneous | Gomez-D | Public records: local agencies: exception to disclosure |
| AB 2211 - Finance/Infrastructure | Ting-D | Counties: database: general ad valorem property tax revenues |
| AB 2215 - Miscellaneous | Maienschein-R | Veterans: recorded documents |
| AB 2222 - Housing | Nazarian-D | Housing density bonus |
| AB 2231* - Finance/Infrastructure | Gordon-D | Property tax postponement |
| AB 2234 - Miscellaneous | Ting-D | Surveys: assessment procedures: cities and counties |
| AB 2235* - Finance/Infrastructure | Buchanan-D | Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act |
| AB 2241 - Land Use | Eggman-D | Local government: agricultural land |
| AB 2259 - Water | Ridley-Thomas-D | Water replenishment: assessments |
| AB 2274 - Finance/Infrastructure | Gordon-D | California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission |
| AB 2280 - Finance/Infrastructure | Alejo-D | Community Revitalization and Investment Authorities |
| AB 2292 - Finance/Infrastructure | Bonta-D | Infrastructure financing districts: broadband |
| AB 2298 - Finance/Infrastructure | Rodriguez-D | Local agency funds |
| AB 2343 - Finance/Infrastructure | Gatto-D | Stray animals: pounds and shelters: adoption |
| AB 2355 - Miscellaneous | Levine-D | Local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials |
| AB 2373 - Finance/Infrastructure | Roger Hernández-D | Probation officers: funding |
| AB 2381 - Miscellaneous | Bonilla-D | Private parking facilities |
| AB 2389* - Finance/Infrastructure | Fox-D | Local government: capital investment incentive programs |
| AB 2393 - Finance/Infrastructure | Levine-D | Vehicle registration fees |
| AB 2395 - Finance/Infrastructure | Lowenthal-D | Oxnard Harbor District: infrastructure projects: funding |
| AB 2403 - Water | Rendon-D | Local government: Proposition 218: water |
| AB 2405 - Housing | Ammiano-D | Landlord tenant: Ellis Act |
| AB 2412 - Miscellaneous | Atkins-D | Cities: community benefit districts |
| AB 2415 - Miscellaneous | Ting-D | Property tax agents |
| AB 2420 - Water | Nazarian-D | Well stimulation treatments: local prohibition |
| AB 2434* - Water | Gomez-D | Local water agency: income taxes: exclusion |
| AB 2443 - Water | Rendon-D | Water Recycling Act of 1991: mutual water companies |
| AB 2446 - Water | Waldron-R | San Luis Rey Municipal Water District: standby charges |
| AB 2447 - Finance/Infrastructure | Cooley-D | Public contracts: Sacramento Regional Transit District |
| AB 2451 - Water | Daly-D | Weights and measures: water submeters |
| AB 2453 - Water | Achadjian-R | Paso Robles Basin Water District |
| AB 2455 - Miscellaneous | Williams-D | Santa Rita Hills Community Services District |
| AB 2480 - Finance/Infrastructure | Yamada-D | Local government finance: cities: annexations |
| AB 2493 - Finance/Infrastructure | Bloom-D | Redevelopment dissolution: housing projects: bond proceeds |
| AB 2493 - Housing | Bloom-D | Redevelopment dissolution: housing projects: bond proceeds |
| AB 2511 - Miscellaneous | Bradford-D | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: citizens' oversight |
| AB 2546 - Miscellaneous | Salas-D | Kern County Hospital Authority |
| AB 2549 - Miscellaneous | Ridley-Thomas-D | City of Milpitas: gambling: moratorium |
| AB 2551 - Finance/Infrastructure | Wilk-R | Local ballot measures: bond issues |
| AB 2561 - Land Use | Bradford-D | Personal agriculture: restrictions |
| AB 2568 - Miscellaneous | Bloom-D | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
| AB 2589 - Finance/Infrastructure | Bloom-D | County ordinance: weights and measures: annual registration |
| AB 2597 - Finance/Infrastructure | Ting-D | Property Assessed Clean Energy program: financing |
| AB 2618 - Finance/Infrastructure | John A. Pérez-D | Property and business improvement areas: benefit assessments |
| AB 2647 - Finance/Infrastructure | Wagner-R | Redevelopment: El Toro Project Area |
| AB 2676 - Finance/Infrastructure | Rendon-D | State Controller: local government issues |
| AB 2712 - Water | Daly-D | Orange County Water District |
| AB 2715 - Miscellaneous | Roger Hernández-D | District-based municipal elections |
| AB 2719 - Miscellaneous | Bonta-D | Mobile retail and pop-up operations: local ordinance |
| AB 2722 - Finance/Infrastructure | Ridley-Thomas-D | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
| AB 2762 - Miscellaneous | Assembly Local Government Committee | Local government |
| ACA 3 - Finance/Infrastructure | Campos-D | Local government financing: public safety services |
| ACA 8 - Finance/Infrastructure | Blumenfield-D | Local government financing: voter approval |
| ACR 60 - Finance/Infrastructure | Morrell-R | Proposition 13: enactment: 35th anniversary |
| ACR 110 - Miscellaneous | Fox-D | Health Care District Month |