ASSEMBLY BILLS:
November 14, 2006
TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES:
From the perspective of the Assembly Committee on Local Government, the 2005-06 legislative session was relatively uneventful, though not without significant events. The overall volume of legislation was down. The Assembly's attention to local government issues seemed to have been distracted in 2005 by the Governor's special election and its attendant maneuverings and squabbles, and in 2006 by first the infrastructure bond package negotiations and then the impending election and massive turnover of membership due to term limits. The combination of the ongoing deficits in the State Budget and the aftereffects of the passage of Proposition 1A in 2004 meant that both the volume and scope of legislation pertaining to fiscal issues were markedly reduced. Issue areas such as affordable housing and Smart Growth were also less frequently before the Committee. Many bills passed out of the Committee but failed to make it either out of the Legislature or past the Governor's veto. In this context, particular note should be made of the fates of AB 1899 (Wolk), AB 2500 (Laird), and SB 1796 (Florez), attempts to restore a modicum of sanity to land use policy in flood-prone areas of the Central Valley that all passed out of this Committee but then died in the last days of the session.
Despite these factors, the Committee still dealt with a number of significant bills that were subsequently signed in 2005-06. As a result of the lifting of the moratorium on legislation authorizing the use of design-build contracting, a number of bills on the issue came before the Committee, four of which (AB 1511 (Evans), SB 287 (Cox), SB 535 (Runner), and AB 1329 (Wolk)) were chaptered. Among other bills heard by the Committee and subsequently signed, SB 53 (Kehoe) requires redevelopment agencies to specify how they intend to use eminent domain and make additional findings of blight if they extend their eminent domain timelines. The process of approving the siting of wireless communication facilities was streamlined by
SB 1627 (Kehoe). Indian tribal burial sites will receive at least a degree of increased respect and protection as a result of AB 2641 (Coto). AB 2951 (Goldberg) authorizes public agencies that provide public utility services to charge public agencies rates, charges, surcharges, or fees on the same basis as comparable nonpublic users. The Committee addressed issues of ethics and compensation for elected officials in AB 1234 (Salinas) and AB 11 (De La Torre). Anti-NIMBY Law was strengthened by SB 575 (Torlakson). Finally, a wide range of bills dealt with the governance and financing of California's myriad special districts.
The following report summarizes legislation referred to the Committee during the 2005-06 legislative session, and indicates its current status. The report is divided into five categories: land use and housing, local government finance, local powers and duties, open meetings and conflict of interest, and special districts.
ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
2005-06 LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY
(Bills marked with an asterisk (*) were amended and subsequently utilized as vehicles for other bill proposals, some of which stayed within the Committee's jurisdiction.)
LAND USE AND HOUSING
AB 14 (Harman) Property tax: subdivisions: separate assessments and valuations.
Prohibits an assessor from assigning any parcel numbers or preparing a separate assessment or separate valuation to divide any existing residential structure into a subdivision, until state and local requirements have been complied with.
Status: Chapter 281, Statutes of 2005
AB 266 (DeVore) Large family day care homes: permits.
Would prohibit cities and counties from requiring an up-front deposit for the review and processing of a conditional use permit for a large family day care home, limits the scope of that review, and requires a city or county to provide verification of fees charged for review and processing of applications. Status: In Assembly Committee on Local Government: Set, second hearing, failed passage. From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
AB 350 (Matthews) Jobs-housing opportunity zones. *
Would authorize cities and counties to create infrastructure financing districts in designated jobs-housing opportunity zones to finance public facilities in the five-county Inter-Regional Partnership area of Northern California. Status: Referred to Senate Committee on Local Government; amended and re-referred to committee (see section on Local Powers and Duties for summary of bill's new provisions).
AB 486 (Leslie) Urban open space and recreation.
Would allow urbanized counties, as defined, to compete along with cities and recreation and park districts in urbanized areas for the percentage of moneys available under the Roberti-Z'Berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation Program for grants on a project-by-project basis and on the basis of need for the acquisition or development of, or special major maintenance of, recreational lands and facilities, or for innovative recreation programs.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 549 (Salinas) Affordable housing.
Would establish a pilot program as an alternative means of determining whether a housing element substantially complies with these provisions by establishing an affordable housing requirement if specified conditions are met by a city, county, or city and county. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county that adopts an alterative production-based certification of its housing element to submit a certification of compliance to the department within 10 days of the adoption of the final draft and to meet other specified criteria, including an unspecified percentage of the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need for very low, low-, and moderate-income households, as specified. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development. From Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 623 (Gordon) Redevelopment: Los Angeles Air Force Base.
Would authorize the legislative bodies of communities located in Los Angeles County to adopt ordinances to expend their tax-increment moneys outside of their territorial jurisdiction to
implement the Los Angeles Air Force Base Retention Program through the formation of a separate joint powers entity, as specified. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 648 (Jones) Development projects: disclosure requirements.
Would require an applicant for a development permit to provide the identity of the persons or entities that will own, lease, or occupy the project, if that identity is known to the applicant at the time of the application.
Status: Vetoed
AB 691 (Hancock) Transit village plans.
Permits a city, county, or city and county to declare any specific plan or redevelopment plan adopted prior to January 1, 2006, that conforms to the requirements set forth in the Transit Village Development Planning Act of 1994 (TVDPA), as amended by AB 1320 (Dutra), Chapter 42, Statutes of 2004, a transit village plan (TVP) if that entity makes findings and declarations demonstrating the conformity of the existing plan to TVDPA, and takes action prior to December 31, 2006, to declare that the conforming plan constitutes its TVP.
Status: Chapter 309, Statutes of 2005
AB 712 (Canciamilla) Land use: density.
Would modify the circumstances that trigger the requirement that a local government make a housing density reduction finding.
Status: Vetoed
AB 797 (Wolk) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Authorizes an agricultural land conservation easement within the primary or secondary zone in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta be related to contract rescissions in any other portion of the secondary zone without respect to county boundary limitations and expands the Delta Protection Commission's membership from 19 to 23 members.
Status: Chapter 547, Statutes of 2006
AB 802 (Wolk) Land use: water supply.
Would require local governments to include flood management in the conservation element of their general plans. Status: From Senate Committee on Rules without further action.
AB 939 (Mullin) Redevelopment.
Would expand the area where an eligible housing development may be located to include within ½ mile of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District stations located within San Mateo County and within ½ mile of that portion of El Camino Real located within San Mateo County. Limits the maximum amount of pooled housing funds that may be used to purchase property to the equivalent of 80% of the appraised value of the property to be purchased.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Housing and Community Development and Local Government. From Committee on Housing and Community Development: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10 (c) of the Constitution.
AB 986 (Torrico) Transit-oriented development.
Would require the joint policy committee to prepare a plan identifying regional priority transit oriented development zones for the San Francisco Bay Area region. The report would be reviewed and approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the executive board of the Association of Bay Area Governments and submitted to the Legislature by
January 1, 2007. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Transportation. From Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1020 (Hancock) Planning: smart growth models.
Would require certain federally designated metropolitan planning organizations and certain state-designated regional transportation planning agencies to develop and implement improved
regional travel models incorporating smart growth concepts and to undertake other related planning activities, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department to provide all necessary financial assistance to these agencies. The bill would require all transportation models used by state or regional agencies to be usable on personal computers and to be made available to the public. The bill would enact other related provisions. Status: Vetoed
AB 1167 (Chu) Transit-oriented redevelopment project.
Would authorize the City of El Monte and the El Monte Community Redevelopment Agency to amend, on or after July 1, 2007, the Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown El Monte Redevelopment Project to allow it to carry out one or more transit oriented redevelopment projects and, with regard to those projects, to eliminate the time limit on the establishment of loans, advances, and indebtedness that can be outstanding at any one time, increase the amount of bonded indebtedness that may be outstanding at any one time and incurred specifically for that purpose, increase the amount of tax increment revenues that may be allocated and paid to the redevelopment agency to repay indebtedness incurred specifically for that purpose, or extend the time limit on the effectiveness of that redevelopment plan for up to an additional
10 years, as specified. The bill would define a "transit oriented redevelopment project" in terms of its geographical location and other requirements.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Housing and Community Development and Local Government. From Committee on Housing and Community Development: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1205 (Blakeslee) Development project fees: protests.
Would allow an individual to bring an "as applied" challenge to exactions imposed on a development project even though a "facial" challenge to the ordinance establishing the exactions was not filed. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1227 (Torrico) Housing: discrimination.
Would add "continuing care retirement community" to the definition of "residential development" for purposes of banning prohibition or discrimination against such communities for specified reasons by local agencies until January 1, 2009.
Status: Vetoed
AB 1233 (Jones) Housing element: regional housing need.
Requires that any portion of a local government's share of the regional housing need that remains unprovided for at the end of one planning period be carried over into, and provided for through zoning or rezoning in, the subsequent planning period.
Status: Chapter 614, Statutes of 2005
AB 1352 (Bogh) Redevelopment: transfer of funds.
Would allow two redevelopment agencies located within the same housing region to adopt a resolution for the purpose of pooling their low- and moderate-income housing funds for affordable housing uses. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development: From Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1367 (Evans) General plans: regional housing need.
Would prohibit a state, local, or regional agency, or any other governmental entity from enacting regulations applicable to a city or county's fair share of the regional housing need that are contrary to the land use determinations made in compliance with locally adopted land use
initiatives. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development: From Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1450 (Evans) Land use: density bonus.
Would require that units targeted for moderate-income households as part of a housing development receiving a density bonus be affordable at a rent that does not exceed 30% of 120% of the area's median income, and creates requirements for the continued affordability and resale of these units. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development: From Committee on Housing and Community Development: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1457 (Baca) State property: transfer restrictions: City of San Bernardino.
Authorizes the City of San Bernardino to transfer Seccombe Lake Park to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Bernardino in exchange for replacement park land elsewhere. Status: Chapter 852, Statutes of 2006
AB 1460 (Umberg) Subdivisions: release of performance security.
Creates time limits and procedures by which a local government must either notify a subdivider or contractor of any incomplete performance or unsatisfactory work or release the security given for faithful performance of the act or agreement.
Status: Chapter 411, Statutes of 2005
AB 1491 (Calderon) Redevelopment: low- and moderate-income housing.
Would authorize a city, incorporated to promote commerce and industry, located in the County of Los Angeles, and that has no residentially zoned land within its boundaries, to transfer the specified amount to a public entity located outside the same described city and to the housing authority or only to the authority if the additional conditions are met. The bill would also repeal the above described transfer of land requirement. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Housing and Community Development and Local Government. From Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1690 (Laird) Municipal services: University of California: Legislative Analyst.
Would require the Legislative Analyst's Office, in collaboration with other entities, to conduct a review of the planning processes used by the University of California.
Status: Vetoed
AB 1702 (Frommer) Housing: use by right.*
Would define the phrase "use by right" to mean use that does not require a conditional use permit or other discretionary permit for a planned unit development, except as specified.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development; amended and re-referred to Committee on Transportation by unanimous consent.
AB 1746 (Committee on Local Government) Local government reorganization.
Makes several minor and non-controversial changes to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000.
Status: Chapter 347, Statutes of 2005
AB 1864 (Matthews) Park lands: Fahrens Creek Park.
Authorizes the City of Merced to transfer up to three acres of land in Fahrens Creek Park to the Merced City School District to construct a new school, subject to the provisions of the Public Park Preservation Act of 1971.
Status: Chapter 558, Statutes of 2006
AB 1899 (Wolk) Land use: flood protection.
Would require, pursuant to the Deep Floodplain Resident Protection Act, that Central Valley cities and counties confirm 100-year flood protection and adopt a plan to achieve 200-year flood protection prior to approving tentative subdivision maps for residential developments in deep floodplains.
Status: From Senate Committee on Rules without further action.
AB 2140 (Hancock) General plans: safety element.
Authorizes a city, county, or a city and county to adopt a local hazard mitigation plan (HMP) with the safety element of its general plan, and creates incentives for local governments to adopt HMPs.
Status: Chapter 739, Statutes of 2006
AB 2157 (Chu) Redevelopment: El Monte.
Would allow the El Monte Redevelopment Agency to amend its redevelopment plan for the purposes of a transit oriented redevelopment project without making a finding of blight and without complying with any existing law provisions (except public notice requirements) with respect to amendments and time extensions. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Housing and Community Development and Local Government. From Committee on Housing and Community Development without further action.
AB 2158 (Evans) Regional housing needs.
Would add two new factors to the list included in the required methodology for distribution of existing and projected housing need within a region.
Status: Vetoed
AB 2197 (De Vore) Redevelopment: plans: tax-increment financing.
Would require the California Research Bureau of the California State Library to conduct a study and submit a report, by July 1, 2007, for distribution to the appropriate committees of the Legislature that contains details of any oversight, review, or approval authority that any state or local government outside of California has with respect to redevelopment agency plan adoptions, amendments, or mergers. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Housing and Community Development and Local Government. From Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 2223 (Salinas) Local government annexation.
Extends the sunset date on the requirement that a local agency formation commission (LAFCO) waive the protest hearing for annexations of unincorporated islands of 150 acres or less. The bill also extends the sunset on the requirement that a city and county meet regarding the city's sphere of influence update.
Status: Chapter 351, Statutes of 2006
AB 2252 (Strickland) Environmental impact report.
Would exempt a development project from preparing and completing a 2nd or an additional environmental impact report if the project complies with applicable zoning and land use
requirements, including the most recently adopted general plan of a city or county.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Natural Resources. From Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 2259 (Salinas) Local agency formation: extension of services.
Extends until January 1, 2013, the authority of a LAFCO to review and comment on the extension of services into previously unserved unincorporated territory and to review the creation of new service providers to extend urban-type development into previously unserved unincorporated territory.
Status: Chapter 460, Statutes of 2006
AB 2286 (Torrico) Infrastructure financing districts in housing opportunity zones.
Would state that, if the voters approve the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006 in November of this year, the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing shall adopt regulations to ensure that grants awarded from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account will result in increased housing production and proper planning and zoning for housing by local government entities.
Status: From Senate Committee on Rules without further action.
AB 2307 (Mullin) State mandates: housing element.
Would repeal the provision of the Planning and Zoning Law giving councils of government the ability to charge fees to local governments to cover costs of distributing regional housing need numbers, and extends housing element revision deadlines for specified councils of government.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 2324 (Canciamilla) Tidelands and submerged lands: City of Pittsburg: conveyance.
Repeals existing legislative grants to the City of Pittsburg, and enacts a new grant of tide and submerged lands, subject to specified conditions, in trust for public trust purposes.
Status: Chapter 275, Statutes of 2006
AB 2346 (Oropeza) Redevelopment: Los Angeles Harbor District.
Would provide for changes and additions to the Infrastructure Finance District Law to enable the City of Los Angeles' Harbor District to finance needed public infrastructure improvements to specified waterfront properties.
Status: Died on Senate Inactive File.
AB 2378 (Evans) Housing: density bonus.
Would require that a housing development applicant agree to, and the local government ensure, continued affordability of all moderate-income units that qualified the applicant for the award of a density bonus for 10 to 15 years, to be determined at the discretion of the local government, or a longer period of time if required by a financing program.
Status: In Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing: Set, second hearing, failed passage, reconsideration granted. From committee without further action.
AB 2403 (De Vore) Large family day care homes: permits.
Requires a local government to provide an applicant for a conditional use permit for a large family day care home with a written fee verification, and also to provide a list of required permits and fees to applicants for specified permits for these homes.
Status: Chapter 105, Statutes of 2006
AB 2464 (Saldana) Subdivision Map Act: condominium conversions: City of San Diego.
Would prohibit the City of San Diego from approving or denying a proposal to convert rental units to condominiums, when certain conditions apply, until studies relating to the environmental impact of the proposed project and the impact of the proposed project on affordable housing in the jurisdiction have been completed. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development. From Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 2468 (Salinas) Planning: housing element.
Would allow a jurisdiction to self-certify its housing element if it can accommodate 100%
of its need for housing for very low- and low-income households on sites zoned to permit multifamily residential use by right. Status: Died on Assembly Inactive File.
AB 2484 (Hancock) Housing development: density bonuses.
Would relieve local governments from the requirements of density bonus law for parcels zoned above specified densities. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development. From Committee on Housing and Community Development without further action.
AB 2500 (Laird) Project levee upgrade funds: local safety plans.
Would prohibit the state from providing funds for the upgrade of a Reclamation Board project levee unless the beneficiary city or county agrees to adopt a safety plan.
Status: From Senate Committee on Rules without further action.
AB 2503 (Mullin) Affordable housing.
Would authorize local governments to develop local affordable housing trust funds and dedicate local funds for this purpose, and would create a state matching program for affordable housing by allowing local governments to keep a portion of their property taxes that would have gone to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF).
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 2511 (Jones) Land use: housing.
Makes a number of changes to law relating to affordable housing.
Status: Chapter 888, Statutes of 2006
AB 2526 (Arambula) Affordable housing developments.
Would make various changes to housing law.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development. In Committee on Housing and Community Development: Set, first hearing, failed passage. From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
AB 2562 (Saldana) Condominium conversion: tenant notification.
Would create new tenant notification requirements that must be fulfilled prior to the approval of a final subdivision map for the conversion of residential rental property into condominiums, and makes other related changes to the Subdivision Map Act.
Status: In Assembly: read third time, refused passage.
AB 2572 (Emmerson) Housing element: colleges.
Adds the housing needs generated by the presence of a private university or a campus of the California State University or the University of California to the list of factors to be included in the methodology a council of governments (COG) or delegate subregion is required to develop for the distribution of existing and projected housing need to cities and counties within the region or subregion.
Status: Chapter 785, Statutes of 2006
AB 2577 (Wolk) Open space and agricultural land. *
Would declare the Legislature's intent to enact legislation that would provide new fiscal and tax incentives with regard to counties that preserve open space and agricultural land, as provided. Status: Referred to Assembly Committee on Local Government; amended and
re-referred to committee (please see section on Local Government Finance for summary of bill's new provisions).
AB 2634 (Lieber) Housing elements.
Requires that the analysis of population and employment trends and quantification of a city or county's existing and projected housing needs for all income levels in the housing element of its general plan shall include extremely low-income households, defined as those earning no more than 30% of the median income.
Status: Chapter 891, Statutes of 2006
AB 2641 (Coto) Native American grave sites.
Provides additional procedures to be followed after the discovery of Native American human remains on privately-owned land.
Status: Chapter 863, Statutes of 2006
AB 2699 (Emmerson) Development permits: mitigation.
Would enact the Habitat Mitigation Act of 2006, which requires an entity that agrees to accept responsibility for the preservation and maintenance of any land set aside for mitigation
purposes to create a management plan and conduct biological studies, as specified, and also requires the Department of Fish and Game to conduct annual audits to ensure that all endowment moneys are used for habitat management and preservation.
Status: Died on Assembly Inactive File.
AB 2746 (Blakeslee) Development permits: mitigation.
Allows a public agency to authorize a nonprofit organization to hold title to, monitor, and manage an interest in real property that the agency requires a property owner to transfer to the
agency to mitigate any adverse impact upon natural resources caused by permitting the development of a project or facility.
Status: Chapter 577, Statutes of 2006
AB 2751 (Wyland) Development project fees: use.
Prohibits a fee on a development project from including costs attributable to existing deficiencies in public facilities, but allows the fee to include costs attributable to increased demand on public facilities reasonably related to the development project.
Status: Chapter 194, Statutes of 2006
AB 2764 (Wyland) County property.
Permits a purchasing agent or other official delegated by a board of supervisors to obtain the use of real property by the county by license as well as lease, and extends the permissible maximum term of the lease or license from three years to five years.
Status: Chapter 109, Statutes of 2006
AB 2867 (Torrico) Subdivision Map Act.
Requires that any public notice required pursuant to the Planning and Zoning Law be provided to the owner of the affected property as determined by specified sources, and that notice of any such hearing also required by the Subdivision Map Act also be provided to persons who have given notice of retaining mineral rights.
Status: Chapter 363, Statutes of 2006
AB 2999 (Leno) Port of San Francisco. *
Would require the State Lands Commission, if requested by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, pursuant to the San Francisco Waterfront Special Area Plan, or the Port of San Francisco, to issue an advice letter concerning the compliance with the public trust doctrine and the port’s legislative grant of a proposed development within the jurisdiction of the port. Status: Re-referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations; amended, withdrawn from Committee on Appropriations and re-referred to Committee on Rules.
AB 3022 (Umberg) Flood control: safety element. *
Would require on or after January 1, 2008, as specified, that the safety element address flood management factors, that include, among other things, residential areas determined to be in a
100-year flood plain. By imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. Also require an express, written disclosure that any subdivided lands offered for sale or lease or any residential property that is transferred, as specified, contain a statement that the property is located within a 100-year flood plain.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Water, Parks and Wildlife; amended and re-referred to Committee on Business and Professions by unanimous consent.
AB 3035 (Laird) Fort Ord Reuse Authority Act: reuse plan. *
Would authorize the Fort Ord Reuse Authority Board to receive funds from the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank. Status: In Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Set, first hearing: referred to Appropriations suspense calendar.
AB 3042 (Evans) Regional housing.
Would provide a procedure by which a city or county may enter into an agreement to transfer a percentage of its share of the regional housing need to another city or county.
Status: From Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing without further action.
AB 3074 (Committee on Local Government) Local government: reorganization.
Makes several minor, non-controversial changes to the laws affecting local government organization and reorganization.
Status: Chapter 172, Statutes of 2006
ACA 35 (Nation) Tribal gaming.
Would prohibit the Governor from concluding a gaming compact with an Indian tribe unless that tribal gaming activity has been approved by the relevant local governing body or bodies and the voters of the county in which the tribal gaming activity is to be located, and would prohibit the Governor from concluding a gaming compact with an Indian tribe that was not located on Indian land in California on January 1, 2000, unless the tribal gaming activity has been approved by the relevant local governing body or bodies and the voters of the county in which the tribal gaming activity is to be located, and the tribe's primary geographic, social, and historical connections relate to that land.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Governmental Organization and Local Government. From Committee on Governmental Organization without further action.
AJR 7 (Huff) ZIP Codes.
Urges the United States Postmaster to create ZIP Codes that do not encompass more than one municipality.
Status: Res. Chapter 58, Statutes of 2005
SB 44 (Kehoe) General plans: air quality element. *
Would require all cities and counties to either add an air quality element to their general plans or amend the appropriate elements of their general plans to include data and analysis, comprehensive goals, policies, and feasible implementation strategies intended to contribute to and complement other local, regional, state, and federal strategies to improve air quality by specified dates. Status: Read third time, refused passage, reconsideration granted.
SB 49 (Machado) Land conservation contracts.
Requires the county assessor to review the current valuation of Williamson Act contracted land upon request of either the landowner or the Department of Conservation if the county assessor determines that additional information submitted by the requesting party may have a material effect on the valuation of the property. It also makes several other technical amendments to
SB 1820 (Machado), Chapter 794, Statutes of 2004.
Status: Chapter 245, Statutes of 2005
SB 53 (Kehoe) Redevelopment.
Would require redevelopment plans to contain a description of the agency's program to acquire real property by eminent domain, including prohibitions, if any, on the use of eminent
domain, and a time limit for the commencement of eminent domain proceedings.
Status: Chapter 591, Statutes of 2006
SB 169 (Migden) Historic preservation: Saint Brigid Church. *
Would exempt Saint Brigid Church in San Francisco from existing law prohibiting local governments from extending historical landmark status to noncommercial property owned by a religiously affiliated organization. Status: Placed on Assembly Inactive File.
SB 223 (Torlakson) Infill housing.
Would establish the Job-Center Housing Planning Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide revolving loans for the adoption of specific plans for infill development. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
SB 253 (Torlakson) Housing.
Makes a number of technical, non-controversial changes to statutes related to housing.
Status: Chapter 595, Statutes of 2005
SB 254 (Torlakson) Economic development. *
Would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to charge a fee in connection with the costs of administering provisions relating to the targeted tax area program and the Local Agency Military Base Recovery Act and would also require the department, until July 1, 2009, to also assess an enterprise zone, a manufacturing enhancement area, a targeted tax area, and a local agency military base recovery area (LAMBRA) the same fee of not more than $10, as specified above. The bill would also require the department to develop regulations for the issuance of these tax certificates and would also make other conforming and technical changes to these provisions. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy; amended and re-referred to Committee on Business and Professions.
SB 286 (Lowenthal) Local planning: housing.
Makes a number of technical, non-controversial changes to statutes related to housing.
Status: Chapter 890, Statutes of 2006
SB 326 (Dunn) Land use: housing elements.
Amends the conditions that require local approval, without conditional use permits, of housing development.
Status: Chapter 598, Statutes of 2005
SB 365 (Ducheny) Affordable housing. *
States that sections of the Planning and Zoning Law pertaining to multifamily residential development and provision of water to affordable housing developments apply to charter cities.
Status: Read third time, amended and re-referred to Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SB 409 (Kehoe) General plans: conservation element. *
Would require that the water resources portion of a general plan's conservation element be correlated with the land use element. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Water, Parks and Wildlife. In Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife: failed passage, reconsideration granted.
SB 435 (Hollingsworth) Housing: density bonuses
Makes clarifying and clean-up changes to density bonus law.
Status: Chapter 496, Statutes of 2005
SB 521 (Torlakson) Local planning: transit village plans. *
Would require a transit village plan to include a transit station and a parcel, at least 1/2 of which is within not more than 1/4 mile of the exterior boundary of the parcel on which the transit station is located. Defines an economic condition of blight for purposes of the Community Redevelopment Law to include the lack of high density development within a transit village development district and would specify requirements to be met by a local agency that relies on this condition to redevelop a project area that is also a transit village development district. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Housing and Community Development and Local Government; amended and re-referred to Committee on Housing and Community Development (see Local Government Finance for summary of bill's new provisions).
SB 575 (Torlakson) Housing development projects.
Makes substantial changes to the exemptions and enforcement provisions of the Anti-NIMBY ("not in my backyard") Law.
Status: Chapter 601, Statutes of 2005
SB 655 (Ortiz) Asbestos
Would establish the Asbestos Hazards Mapping Act and requires the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA) to convene an asbestos mitigation task force.
Status: Read third time, refused passage.
SB 674 (Perata) Oakland Army Base Public Trust Exchange Act.
Grants the state's sovereign interest in certain trust lands within the former Oakland Army Base (OAB), and in other lands comprising OAB redevelopment property, to the Oakland Base Reuse Authority.
Status: Chapter 664, Statutes of 2005
SB 926 (Florez) Sewage sludge management. *
Would authorize the Kern County Board of Supervisors to regulate or prohibit the importation of sewage sludge from another California county for land application purposes, with certain
exceptions. Status: Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Local Government Committee from Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials; amended and re-referred to Committee on Rules.
SB 927 (Lowenthal) General plans: transportation element. *
Would rename the circulation element in local general plans as the transportation element.
Status: From Consent Calendar, amended, to third reading.
SB 967 (Florez) Local agency formation.
Adds two permanent members to the Kern County LAFCO, one representing the City of Bakersfield and one representing the general public.
Status: Chapter 559, Statutes of 2005
SB 967 (Perata) Local planning: inspection warrants. *
Would additionally authorize local planning agency personnel to request a specified inspection warrant and would specify the purposes for which planning agency personnel may enter any property. Status: Read third time, amended and returned to third reading (see summary of bill's new provisions above).
SB 968 (Torlakson) Land use planning: general plans. *
Would change the name of the circulation element of a general plan to the transportation element. Status: In Assembly Committee on Local Government: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author; amended and re-referred to Committee on Rules.
SB 983 (Lowenthal) Subdivision Map Act.
Requires local agencies to review lot line adjustments for conformity with any existing specific plans, and raises the maximum penalties a subdivider of a condominium conversion who fails to give proper notice must pay to prospective tenants.
Status: Chapter 636, Statutes of 2006
SB 1026 (Perata) Housing element guidelines: general plans. *
Would repeal the section of law granting cities and counties a grace period to comply with the 1980 law placing the elements of the housing element into statute and grandfathering in communities who had adopted housing elements in conformance with the earlier guidelines. Status: Placed on Assembly Inactive File. From inactive file to third reading file, amended and re-referred to Committees on Judiciary, Housing and Community Development and Appropriations by unanimous consent.
SB 1052 (Kehoe) Subdivisions: appeals.
Allows a city council or county board of supervisors to hold a subdivision appeal hearing at its next regular meeting for which it can give proper public notice or within 60 days, whichever period is shorter.
Status: Chapter 247, Statutes of 2006
SB 1059 (Escutia) Electric transmission corridors.
Requires local governments to consider electric "transmission corridor zones," as defined, when making land use determinations, and to notify the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission of proposed development projects within transmission corridor zones under specified circumstances.
Status: Chapter 638, Statutes of 2006
SB 1100 (Perata) Local agency formation commissions. *
Would make changes to notification and review requirements related to LAFCOs.
Status: Placed on Assembly Inactive File. From inactive file to third reading file, amended and re-referred to Committee on Health pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
SB 1126 (Chesbro) Tidelands: City of Eureka.
Would provide that, until January 1, 2010, the tideland revenues paid by the City of Eureka to the state in lieu of all obligations incurred by Eureka in connection with the Humboldt Bay Fund be deposited by the state in a special subaccount of the Humboldt Bay Fund, to be used by Eureka to further its protection and enhancement of public trust lands while remaining under the control of the state.
Status: Vetoed
SB 1177 (Hollingsworth) Housing: density bonuses.
Would limit local agencies ability to require site conditions on development.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Housing and Community Development and Local Government. In Committee on Housing and Community Development: Set, first hearing, failed passage. From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
SB 1322 (Cedillo) Housing.
Would require cities and counties to include in the housing element of their general plan an analysis of the need for emergency shelters and also to accommodate the need for shelters on sites that are zoned to allow their use by right. Also would require all cities and counties to designate zones where special needs facilities may locate, either conditionally or by right, and protects such facilities under the Anti-NIMBY Law.
Status: Vetoed
SB 1360 (Kehoe) County records: conservation easement registry.
Requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency to establish a conservation easement registry, and makes changes to the form and process for recording conservation easements with a county.
Status: Chapter 531, Statutes of 2006
SB 1509 (Soto) Zoning regulations.
Would require the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to prepare a model zoning ordinance.
Status: Vetoed
SB 1523 (Alarcon) Development projects: superstore retailers.
Would require a city, county, or city and county to prepare an economic impact report prior to approving or disapproving a proposed development project that would permit the construction of a superstore retailer, as defined.
Status: Vetoed
SB 1627 (Kehoe) Wireless telecommunications facilities.
Requires local governments to administratively approve applications to place wireless communications equipment on structures where such equipment is already located if specified conditions have been met, and prohibits local governments from conditioning approval of applications for permits for wireless facilities in specified ways.
Status: Chapter 676, Statutes of 2006
SB 1676 (Ducheny) Subdivisions: final maps.
Would create uniformity in the amount of notice an owner is required to give tenants in a residential rental property being converted and sold as condominiums, community apartment projects, or stock cooperatives.
Status: In Assembly: Read third time. Refused passage.
SB 1701 (Migden) Tidelands/submerged lands: City and County of San Francisco:
central waterfront. Authorizes the State Lands Commission to exchange publicly owned tidelands at the Steckler Pacific Marina on Richardson Bay in Marin County on which houseboats are located for more, and more valuable, acreage of privately owned tidelands.
Status: Chapter 403, Statutes of 2006
SB 1842 (Migden) San Francisco sports stadium project validation.
Authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to bring an action in Superior Court at any time, whether before or after final authorization of a proposed sports stadium project, to determine the validity of any matter pertaining to the sports stadium project.
Status: Chapter 184, Statutes of 2006
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE
AB 27 (Mullin) Homicide trial costs. *
Would require claims for trial costs to be forwarded to the treasurer and auditor of the respective county on a monthly basis, and would require the treasurer of the county of origin to pay the amount of the recipient county's costs out of the general funds of the county of origin within 30 days of receiving the recipient county's claim for costs. The bill would further provide, after January 1, 2004, in the event the county of origin does not comply with the claim for costs within 180 days of its service upon the treasurer of the county of origin, the presiding judge may order the Controller to pay the recipient county and the court in which the trial took place, as specified. Status: Referred to Assembly Committee on Local Government; amended and re-referred to Committee on Judiciary by unanimous consent.
AB 117 (Cohn) Tax Equity Allocation formula: County of Santa Clara.
Repeals the 55% cap in Santa Clara County on tax equity allocation (TEA) funding for the county's four no/low-property-tax cities starting in the 2006-07 fiscal year.
Status: Chapter 342, Statutes of 2006
AB 250 (Matthews) Merced County: homicide trial costs.
Would require the state to reimburse the County of Merced for 100% of its costs incurred in the case of People v. Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera from a specified line item in the Budget Act.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 459 (Oropeza) Transfer of real property: disclosure of supplemental property taxes.
Requires the seller of residential property, or his or her agent, to deliver to the prospective purchaser a notice containing specified information about supplemental property tax assessments and tax bills. The same notice must be included in the notice of intention that is filed with the Department of Real Estate by a person who intends to offer subdivided lands for sale or lease.
Status: Chapter 392, Statutes of 2005
AB 500 (La Malfa) State mandates.
Would reduce the threshold below which state mandate claims cannot be made or paid from $1000 to $200. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 638 (Huff) Redevelopment.
Would base both parts of the calculation of the payment to the county ERAF that is to be paid by the Walnut Improvement Agency on the net tax increment apportioned to it. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 737 (Jerome Horton) Property tax revenue allocations: public utilities: qualified property.
Would require that all property tax assessed value of a public utility plant and associated equipment be allocated entirely to the county in which the facility is located, and that the revenues derived from the tax be allocated to the county and to school districts and cities within the county, as applicable. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 799 (Leno) Local vehicle license fee: San Francisco.
Would authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to impose, with voter approval, a local vehicle license fee on vehicles operated by residents of San Francisco.
Status: Vetoed
AB 919 (Bogh) Tax collector: property tax: sale of tax certificates.
Would revise the procedures for local agencies to sell tax certificates for tax-defaulted properties. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution..
AB 1033 (Daucher) Property tax revenue allocations.
Would increase the property tax allocations to certain county governments that received less than the statewide average percentage of property tax revenues allocated to each county for the 2002-03 fiscal year by transferring property tax revenues from the ERAF in each qualifying county. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1146 (Huff) Local government finance: ad valorem property tax revenues: negotiated transfers.
Would require the board of supervisors of each county to negotiate in good faith with the governing body of qualified cities within the county to transfer from the county treasury to those cities an amount equal to a portion of ad valorem property tax revenues apportioned to the county. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Revenue and Taxation. From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1208 (Yee) Vehicles: registration: local charge.
Would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to require by ordinance or resolution a fee to be paid at the time of registration or renewal of every vehicle registered to an address within San Francisco
Status: Vetoed
AB 1243 (Benoit) Local government finance.
Would require county auditors and treasurers to maintain property tax resource accounts containing revenues derived from the taxing of property on the secured roll and from the redemption of tax-defaulted property on a full-accrual basis. This bill would also require county auditors and treasurers, in recording prior year amounts received from the supplemental tax roll, to distinguish between delinquent and nondelinquent amounts, and to distribute these amounts in a specified manner. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1248 (Umberg) Criminal law: booking fees.
Would prohibit a county from charging a fee to other local agencies for booking and detention of an arrested person in the county jail, except in cases of arrest for specified nonfelonious offenses. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1259 (Daucher) Property tax revenue allocation.
Starting with the 2006-07 fiscal year, would require the county auditor to increase by a housing bonus amount the total amount of property tax revenue otherwise required to be allocated to a city or county that has exceeded 80% of its Regional Housing Needs Allocation and commensurately reduce the total amount of property tax revenue otherwise required to be allocated to all other local agencies in the county. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development. From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1467 (Laird) State mandates.
Would permit mandates to be identified in the Budget by the Commission on State Mandate's test claim number as an alternative to the mandate's implementing statute and chapter number.
Status: To Senate Inactive File.
AB 1497 (Baca) Government real property.
Declares that the use of specified property by the San Bernardino City Unified School District as recreational fields open to the public is in compliance with the purposes and intent of the terms of the quitclaim deed that transferred the property from the state to the City of San Bernardino Redevelopment Agency.
Status: Chapter 541, Statutes of 2005
AB 1590 (Lieber) Property tax revenue allocations: special districts.
Would reduce the 2005-06 shift of property tax revenues from special districts that perform both enterprise and non-enterprise functions to the ERAF in each county.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1596 (Emmerson) Property tax revenue allocations: enterprise special districts.
Would exempt the Yucaipa Valley Water District from the temporary shift of property tax revenues from multicounty special districts to the relevant ERAFs.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1599 (La Malfa) Homicide trial costs.
Would require the state to reimburse the counties of Siskiyou and Tehama for 100% of their costs incurred in specified trials, to be paid from a specified item in the Budget Act of 2005, and requires the State Controller's Office to reimburse all homicide trial costs incurred by a county in excess of a total of $250,000 for one or more homicide trials during a fiscal year for expenses incurred on or after July 1, 2006. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1602 (Laird) Local government finance.
Allows new cities and cities that annex inhabited territory to get a special population calculation for the purpose of the allocation of that portion of vehicle license fee revenues that are apportioned to cities on the basis of population.
Status: Chapter 556, Statutes of 2006
AB 1623 (Klehs) County transportation agencies: congestion management and environmental mitigation fees.
Would authorize the designated county transportation agencies in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, and Sacramento counties to impose an annual fee of up to $5 on motor vehicles registered within their respective jurisdictions for a program to manage traffic congestion and mitigate the environmental impacts of motor vehicles within the county.
Status: Vetoed
AB 1794 De Vore) Local government: investments.
Makes two changes to the laws governing local agency investments.
Status: Chapter 164, Statutes of 2006
AB 1798 (Berg) Disaster relief.
Adds the severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mud and debris flows that occurred in Northern California from December 17, 2005 to January 3, 2006, inclusive, to the list of disasters eligible for full state reimbursement of local agency costs under the Natural Disaster Assistance Act.
Status: Chapter 896, Statutes of 2006
AB 1960 (Leslie) Local government financing.
Would appropriate $200,000 from the General Fund for allocation to counties that do not contain any incorporated cities.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 1966 (Garcia) Capital investment incentive programs: powerplants.
Would add specified renewable energy facilities to the list of qualified manufacturing facilities under a capital investment incentive program.
Status: In Senate Committee on Local Government: Set, first hearing. Failed passage, reconsideration granted. From committee without further action.
AB 2011 (Vargas) Local agency investments.
Allows local agency funds to be invested in multiple certificates of deposit using a deposit placement service.
Status: Chapter 459, Statutes of 2005
AB 2114 (Umberg) Counties: booking fees.
Would reduce the fee a county may charge for booking and processing arrested persons to no more than 45% of the actual administrative costs. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 2164 (La Suer) Local law enforcement: supplemental services.
Permits Level I reserve peace officers to provide supplemental law enforcement services
if there are no regularly appointed full-time peace officers available.
Status: Chapter 87, Statutes of 2006
AB 2176 (Niello) State mandates.
Would require that, with respect to any statute that states that it does not impose a state-reimbursable mandate because the local agency or school district to which the statute applies has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments to pay for the mandated program
or increased level of service, the Legislature must specify upon whom the charge, fee, or assessment may be levied. Status: From Senate Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 2405 (Matthews) Homicide trial costs: Merced County.
Would require the state to reimburse the County of Merced for 100% of its costs incurred in the case of People v. Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera from an unspecified line item in the Budget Act.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 2444 (Klehs) Congestion management and motor vehicle environmental mitigation fees.
Would allow county transportation agencies in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area to impose registration fee surcharges of up to $5 per year to fund congestion management activities and would allow the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to impose registration fee surcharges of up to $5 per year to mitigate the environmental impacts of motor vehicles.
Status: Vetoed
AB 2577 (Wolk) Property tax revenue allocations: county equity amount.
Would establish an 11% floor for property tax allocations to county governments by transferring property tax revenues from ERAF in each county that received less than this minimum in fiscal year 2001-02 and has at least 60% of its land in Williamson Act contracts. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 2652 (Laird) Commission on State Mandates: claim reductions.
Provides for the consolidation of incorrect reduction claims filed with the Commission on State Mandates under specified circumstances.
Status: Chapter 168, Statutes of 2006
AB 2663 (Arambula) Public social services and health programs: funding.
Would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study of state allocations to counties for health and social services programs.
Status: From Senate Committee on Rules without further action.
AB 2670 (Aghazarian) Property taxation: regulated railway companies.
Changes the method of assessing regulated railway companies by creating a single countywide tax rate area within each county to which unitary assessed value is allocated and creates a modified situs-based system for allocating property tax revenues from certain new railroad facilities.
Status: Chapter 791, Statutes of 2006
AB 2682 (Daucher) Redevelopment: tax increment revenues.
Would require tax increment to be directed to the county upon expiration of a redevelopment agency if the county is a low wealth county. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 2735 (Nava) Disaster relief.
Adds the severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mud and debris flows that occurred in Northern California from December 17, 2005 to January 3, 2006, inclusive, to the list of disasters eligible for full state reimbursement of local agency costs under the Natural Disaster Assistance Act.
Status: Chapter 897, Statutes of 2006
AB 2846 (Daucher) State-mandated local programs: local educational agencies.
Would require the Commission on State Mandates to annually make a preliminary determination of whether a bill chaptered during the preceding year mandates a new program or higher level of service, and establishes an alternative option for reimbursement of local educational agency claims for the costs of state mandates.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 2873 (Wolk) County sales and use taxes: rate increase.
Would authorize a county to impose an additional .25% sales and use tax rate for a local transportation fund.
Status: From Senate Committee on Revenue and Taxation without further action.
AB 2951 (Goldberg) Capital facilities fees.
Authorizes public agencies that provide public utility services to charge public agencies rates, charges, surcharges, or fees on the same basis as comparable nonpublic users, except for "capital facilities fees," which a public agency utility must negotiate with schools, public higher education, and state agencies.
Status: Chapter 866, Statutes of 2006
AB 3039 (Houston) Disaster relief.
Would provide property tax relief in counties in which the Governor has declared a state of emergency. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
ACA 7 (Nation) Local governmental taxation: special taxes: voter approval.
Would lower the constitutional vote requirement for approval of a special tax of any sort from a two-thirds to a 55 percent majority. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
ACA 13 (Harman) Local government: assessments and fees or charges.
Would exempt assessments related to flood control, stormwater drainage, and surface water drainage from the voter approval requirements of Proposition 218. This bill would also change the current exemption for flood control assessments from certain notice, hearing, and majority
protest requirements from including any assessment that existed as of November 6, 1996, to including any that existed as of that date and any imposed after that date. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government without further action.
ACA 16 (Gordon) Taxation to supplement public safety funding: approval by electorate.
Would lower the vote threshold for approval of a special tax for the purpose of providing supplemental funding for sheriff, police, or fire protection services from a two-thirds to a
55 percent majority. Status: Died on Assembly Inactive File.
ACA 30 (Laird) Local government: flood control assessments.
Would provide that, for the purpose of levying a new assessment or increasing an existing assessment to maintain, operate, repair, relocate, or upgrade a flood control levee that was in existence before November 6, 1996, a majority protest exists if the ballots submitted in opposition represent a majority of the ballots that were mailed to affected property owners.
Status: Died on Assembly Inactive File.
SB 93 (Florez) Local government finance: Tulare County.
Would reduce the amount of interest owed by Tulare County on fees, fines, forfeitures, and penalties it failed to remit to the Trial Court Improvement Fund for fiscal years 1996-97 through 1999-2000. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
SB 121 (Committee on Local Government) First Validating Act of 2005.
Enacts the First Validating Act of 2005, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Status: Chapter 8, Statutes of 2005
SB 122 (Committee on Local Government) Second Validating Act of 2005.
Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2005, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Status: Chapter 169, Statutes of 2005
SB 123 (Committee on Local Government) Third Validating Act of 2005.
Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2005, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Status: Chapter 170, Statutes of 2005
SB 190 (Cedillo) State mandates. *
Would authorize the Department of Finance, the Controller, an affected state agency, a claimant, or an interested party to develop a reasonable reimbursement methodology for
reimbursing local agencies and school districts.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committee on Local Government; hearing postponed by committee; amended and re-referred to Committee on Health.
SB 268 (Campbell) Local government investment.
Allows counties to invest up to 25 percent of the total assets of their investments in the first tier securities of a single issuer for up to three days after acquisition and for only one issuer at a time and defines "first tier security" in the same manner as federal SEC Rule 2a-7.
Status: Chapter 131, Statutes of 2005
SB 308 (Simitian) Recording fees: Elder and Dependent Adult Financial Abuse Prevention Trust Fund.
Would authorize a county board of supervisors to impose a fee of up to $2 to be paid at the time of recording of real estate instruments to be placed in the Elder and Dependent Adult Financial Abuse Prevention Trust Fund and expended to fund programs to deter, investigate, and civilly prosecute the financial abuse of elders and dependent adults in the context of real estate transactions.
Status: Vetoed
SB 328 (Cedillo) Reimbursement of state-mandated local costs: Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
Would require the Commission on State Mandates to adopt a reasonable reimbursement methodology for the payment of claims filed by a local agency for costs incurred under the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, that all back claims for mandated costs incurred by a local agency prior to fiscal year (FY) 2005-06 shall be paid within 15 years, and that claims for costs incurred commencing with FY 2005-06 shall be paid within three years of the date the claim is filed. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
SB 457 (Kehoe) Disaster relief.
Adds the severe rainstorms, floods, mudslides, and other events that occurred in Southern California during December 2004, January 2005, February 2005, March 2005, and June 2005 (collectively, the Disasters) to the list of disasters eligible for full state reimbursement
of local property tax losses, full state reimbursement of local agency costs under the Disaster Assistance Act, and favorable net operating loss carryforward treatment.
Status: Chapter 622, Statutes of 2005
SB 485 (Migden) Local government finance.
Would clarify that allocations made from a county's ERAF to the county superintendents of schools for special education programs do not offset state aid made pursuant to other specified statutes.
Status: Vetoed
SB 486 (Migden) Local government finance.
Would clarify that allocations made from a county's ERAF to the county superintendents of schools for special education programs do not offset state aid made pursuant to other specified statutes.
Status: Vetoed
SB 490 (Lowenthal) Local government finance.
Prohibits, on or after January 1, 2007, an ERAF from selling or transferring, and a joint powers authority from obtaining, delinquent property tax revenues from a county ERAF.
Status: Chapter 366, Statutes of 2006
SB 521 (Torlakson) Recording fees: Contra Costa County.
Would allow Contra Costa County to increase real estate document recording fees to fund affordable housing development.
Status: Died on Assembly Inactive File.
SB 568 (Kehoe) Property tax revenue allocations.
Exempts non-enterprise healthcare districts from the 2005-06 ERAF shift.
Status: Chapter 602, Statutes of 2005
SB 680 (Simitian) Congestion management and transportation improvemenets: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
Would authorize the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to adopt an annual vehicle registration fee of up to $5 per vehicle for up to eight years to finance traffic and transportation improvements in Santa Clara County.
Status: Vetoed
SB 742 (Chesbro) Tidelands: City of Eureka.
Would end the obligation of the City of Eureka for a $750,000 state loan made in 1970 immediately following the June 30, 2005, payment to the State Controller.
Status: Vetoed
SB 846 (Aanestad) Charter school funding.
Would authorize a county treasurer to temporarily transfer funds to a charter school, if all of the charter schools' funds are in the county treasurer's custody and constitutional requirements are met. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
SB 987 (Migden) County transportation authorities.
Authorizes any of the nine Bay Area counties to spend a portion of its local transportation sales tax revenues in another county if that use is provided in the adopted county transportation expenditure plan.
Status: Chapter 83, Statutes of 2005
SB 1060 (Campbell) Local government finance: exchanging local sales and use tax allocations and ad valorem property tax allocations.
Authorizes local agencies to exchange property tax revenues for sales tax revenues.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Revenue and Taxation. From Committee on Local Government without further action.
SB 1121 (Committee on Local Government) First Validating Act of 2006.
Enacts the First Validating Act of 2006, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Status: Chapter 37, Statutes of 2006
SB 1122 (Committee on Local Government) Second Validating Act of 2006.
Enacts the First Validating Act of 2006, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Status: Chapter 174, Statutes of 2006
SB 1123 (Committee on Local Government) Third Validating Act of 2006.
Enacts the First Validating Act of 2006, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Status: Chapter 175, Statutes of 2006
SB 1317 (Torlakson) Property tax revenue allocations: public utilities: qualified property.
Creates a new formula for allocating unitary property tax revenues from certain new public utility facilities on a modified situs basis.
Status: Chapter 872, Statutes of 2006
SB 1611 (Simitian) Congestion management fees.
Would authorize a congestion management agency (CMA), or a county board of supervisors in a county without a CMA, to place on the ballot a majority vote measure to impose an annual vehicle registration fee of up to $25 on each motor vehicle registered in the county to pay for transportation-related projects and programs. Status: From Assembly Committee on Appropriations without further action.
SB 1796 (Florez) Flood protection.
Would require that the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, as defined, review local and regional land use plans for compliance with flood protection and public safety standards, and also review and, if called for, recommend revisions to flood control plans adopted by local public agencies; and prohibits allocation of funds to local public agencies for flood control projects unless specified conditions are met.
Status: Vetoed
LOCAL POWERS AND DUTIES
AB 11 (De La Torre) Local agency legislative bodies: compensation.
Specifies that a city council may not provide additional compensation, beyond the salary city council members currently receive, to any of its members unless that additional compensation is authorized by statute and limits the amount of compensation a commissioner may receive for serving on a community development commission.
Status: Chapter 178, Statutes of 2005
AB 174 (Salinas) Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency: eminent domain.
Extends the eminent domain authority of the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency outside the district's boundaries.
Status: Chapter 32, Statutes of 2005
AB 201 (Dymally) Los Angeles County Health Authority. *
Would authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to establish a health authority to provide or contract for the provision of health care benefits to eligible persons; and would make the authority responsible for oversight of local hospital services, ambulance medical services, public health services, and emergency medical services, and, pursuant to a resolution or ordinance of the board of supervisors, permit responsibility for oversight of school clinics, mental health services, and correctional health facilities, to the extent the county would provide those services.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Health and Local Government. From Committee on Health: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 245 (Berg) Trinity County Health Care District: election of board members.
Requires the first board of directors of a health care district formed in Trinity County to be elected to staggered terms.
Status: Chapter 18, Statutes of 2006
AB 245 (Walters) County design-build contracts. *
Authorizes Orange County to enter into design-build contracts until January 1, 2008, subject
to the same conditions and requirements currently applicable to design-build contracts in Alameda, Contra Costa, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and Tulare Counties.
Status: In Senate Committee on Local Government: hearing postponed by committee; amended and re-referred to committee (see summary of new provisions above).
AB 259 (Hancock) Solid waste: handling services: delinquent charges: liens.
Extends the ability of county boards of supervisors to utilize their delinquent charge and fee collection procedures on a property owner if the owner fails to pay a franchised solid waste hauler or a contractor for solid waste disposal for services.
Status: Chapter 564, Statutes of 2005
AB 350 (Houston) Fire protection district boards: contract bidding procedures.
Increases, from $10,000 to $25,000, the threshold at which fire protection districts with budgets under $1 million must award contracts for special services through competitive bidding.
Status: Chapter 261, Statutes of 2006
AB 372 (Nation) Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District. *
Would confer upon the board of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District the duty and power to plan, finance, and operate local and regional bus transit operations within the Counties of Sonoma and Marin.
Status: Referred to Committees on Transportation and Local Government; amended and re-referred to Committee on Transportation.
AB 504 (Harman) Real property electronic recording.
Would enact the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, which would specify standards for the electronic recording of real property documents and prescribe related duties of the Attorney General. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 792 (Ruskin) Regional park, park and open-space, and open-space districts.
Would provide that police appointed or employed by the board of directors of a district shall also have, within the district for which they are appointed or employed, those powers in or about property owned, operated, or managed by the district.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Public Safety. From Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 797 (Wolk) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Expands the duties of the Delta Protection Commission regarding the protection of agricultural, environmental, recreational, and historical resources in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and prohibits a local agency formation commission from approving a proposal in the primary zone of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that would allow specified facilities or services unless those facilities or services are consistent with the applicable resource management plan. This bill was subsequently amended to authorize an agricultural land conservation easement within the primary or secondary zone in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta be related to contract rescissions in any other portion of the secondary zone without respect to county boundary limitations and expands the Delta Protection Commission's membership from 19 to 23 members.
Status: Chapter 547, Statutes of 2006
AB 818 (Leslie) Local agencies.
Extends the sunset date to January 1, 2010, for the statutory mechanism for property tax sharing agreements between a county and city in the event of an annexation of unincorporated land.
Status: Chapter 189, Statutes of 2005
AB 981 (Negrete McLeod) Joint powers authority: Los Angeles.
Authorizes a private nonprofit corporation that conducts fairs and other events and exhibitions on land leased from the County of Los Angeles to enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency, for mutually beneficial uses of the public land.
Status: Chapter 122, Statutes of 2005
AB 997 (Cogdill) State regulatory agencies: fee notification.
Would require that whenever a state regulatory agency or department imposes a new fee or increases an existing fee charged to a county, it shall notify the affected counties by June 30 of each year, or within 30 days of the enactment of the State Budget, in which the fee is imposed or increased. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1013 (Garcia) Local elected officials: vacancy: appointment.
Would provide that the city council of a general law city shall fill the vacancy of an elective office within 30 days by appointment of the person who received the 3rd highest number of votes in the prior election of that office. If that person does not exist, cannot be appointed, or
will not accept the appointment, the council shall then call a special election to be held within 114 days. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Elections and Redistricting and Local Government. From Committee on Elections and Redistricting: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1234 (Salinas) Local agencies: compensation and ethics.
Clarifies the rules pertaining to compensation to members of a local government legislative body for attendance at authorized meetings and conferences; requires the establishment of guidelines for reimbursement of members of a local government legislative body for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties; and establishes provisions for ethics training for local government officials and designated employees.
Status: Chapter 700, Statutes of 2005
AB 1245 (Wolk) West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.
Expands the authority of the West Sacrament Area Flood Control Agency to accomplish the purposes and projects necessary to achieve and maintain at least a 200 year level of flood protection and, prior to January 1, 2009, authorizes the issuance of debt to finance these projects and thereafter continue to levy special assessments to repay that indebtedness.
Status: Chapter 553, Statutes of 2006
AB 1318 (Evans) County officers: public administrators.
Authorizes the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to provide, by ordinance, that the public administrator be appointed by the Board of Supervisors.
Status: Chapter 407, Statutes of 2005
AB 1329 (Wolk) Design-build contracting: cities.
Allows the cities in Solano and Yolo Counties to use the design-build contracting method until January 1, 2011.
Status: Chapter 228, Statutes of 2005
AB 1443 (Hancock) Local agency auditors.
Deletes the ability of an auditor of a county, special district, or city to order the personal papers and correspondence of any person providing assistance to the auditor to become public records if that person has requested in writing that the papers be kept private and confidential.
Status: Referred to Senate Committees on Local Government and Judiciary. From Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 1511 (Evans) Design-build contracting.
Authorizes six additional counties to enter into design-build contracts, extends the sunset of the authorization from 2006 to 2011, and makes specified changes to the conditions and requirements for design-build contracting by counties.
Status: Chapter 350, Statutes of 2005
AB 1519 (Emmerson) Government records: destruction.
Authorizes cities, counties, and special districts to destroy video monitoring recordings after 100 days. Status: In Senate Committee on Judiciary: Set, second hearing; failed passage, reconsideration granted. From committee without further action.
AB 1738 (Committee on Local Government) Electronic recordings: computer security auditors.
Requires that prior to any person being authorized to have access to an electronic recording delivery system, a Federal Bureau of Investigations fingerprint check must be done.
Status: Chapter 520, Statutes of 2005
AB 1747 (Wolk) Joint exercise of powers.
Allows the Tribal Council of the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians to enter a joint powers agreement with Yolo County and other specified agencies.
Status: Vetoed
AB 1769 (Committee on Public Employees, Retirement & Social Security)
Public pension funds: audits.*
Would exempt from public disclosure written advice from the administrator, chief executive officer, chief legal officer, or chief auditor of a public pension or retirement system concerning the need for the retirement board or investment board of a public pension or retirement system, or a committee composed exclusively of members of the board, to discuss in closed session internal operational security issues. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Public Employees, Retirement & Social Security and Local Government; amended and re-referred to Committee.
AB 1878 (Parra) Southern Joaquin Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council.
Would create the Southern San Joaquin Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council with specified powers and duties, and would specify the membership of the council to
consist of certain board members of councils of governments.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Transportation and Local Government. From Committee on Transportation without further action.
AB 1881 (Laird) Water Conservation and Landscaping Act.
Reauthorizes the Department of Water Resources to prepare a new and updated model local water efficient landscape ordinance for adoption by local governments.
Status: Chapter 559, Statutes of 2006
AB 1962 (Berg) Joint powers agreements: Yurok Indian Tribe.
Would authorize the Yurok Indian Tribe to enter into a joint powers agreement with relevant state and federal public agencies for the purposes of preservation and restoration of fisheries in the Klamath River Basin.
Status: Vetoed
AB 2018 (Saldana) Reclamation District No. 348: trustee elections.
Would increase the size of the board of trustees for Reclamation District No. 348.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 2091 (Berg) The Coast Life Support District Act: district powers.
Authorizes the Coast Life Support District to establish a fee structure that creates equity for services provided to both residents of the community and visitors of the area.
Status: Chapter 103, Statutes of 2006
AB 2137 (Niello) Sacramento Regional Transit District.
Creates a weighted voting system for the Sacramento Regional Transit District based on each voting entity's financial contribution, increases the compensation of the directors from $50 to $100 per meeting, and makes other various changes.
Status: Chapter 272, Statutes of 2006
AB 2230 (La Suer) San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.
Would change the make-up of the executive committee of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 2351 (Maze) Retirement elected public officer: service credit.
Prohibits a governing body of a city or county from granting, or paying the contributions for, service credit for an elected officer or member of the board of supervisors if that service has not actually been performed.
Status: Chapter 355, Statutes of 2006
AB 2406 (De La Torre) City council members: compensation study. *
Would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study on the subject of the compensation of city council members in California.
Status: Amended and re-referred to Senate Committee on Rules: from committee without further action.
AB 2470 (Ridley-Thomas) Health care master plan: Los Angeles County.
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, by ordinance, to develop a master plan for health care in the County, assemble a task force to develop a long-range planning and policy analysis, and requires specific issues to be addressed by the task force in the plan.
Status: Chapter 514, Statutes of 2006
AB 2715 (Sharon Runner) Government.
Permits the electronic transmission, filing, recording and indexing of notices of state tax liens, and expands the right to independent legal counsel for sheriffs and assessors.
Status: Chapter 423, Statutes of 2006
AB 2762 (Levine) Joint powers authorities: Indian tribes.
Would authorize 16 federally recognized Indian tribal entities to participate in the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), a joint powers authority, to vote as members of SCAG's General Assembly.
Status: Vetoed
AB 2804 (Salinas) Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District.
Requires the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District to reimburse board members for actual and necessary expenses and specifies that the district may pay compensation to board members for attending meetings.
Status: Chapter 425, Statutes of 2006
AB 2939 (Wolk) Sacramento-Yolo Port District.
Redraws the boundaries for the Sacramento-Yolo Port District and eliminates seats on the commission for the City of Sacramento and Sacramento County.
Status: Chapter 284, Statutes of 2006
SB 35 (Florez) California Children and Families Program.
Expands auditing requirements under the California Children and Families Act of 1998 (Proposition 10).
Status: Chapter 243, Statutes of 2005
SB 110 (Florez) Fresno County Transportation Authority.
Revises the Fresno County Transportation Improvement Act by deleting the specified wording requirement of a ballot proposition to extend the local transportation sales tax and providing instead that the actual wording of the proposition would be described in the local sales tax expenditure plan of the authority. This bill expands the Authority's membership from seven to nine, require a citizens' oversight committee and add conditions for amending the Authority's expenditure plan.
Status: Chapter 248, Statutes of 2005
SB 274 (Romero) Incompatible offices: elected and appointed positions.
Codifies common law regarding the prohibition of public officers holding incompatible offices.
Status: Chapter 254, Statutes of 2005
SB 282 (Maldonado) County offices.
Authorizes the Lassen and Monterey County Board of Supervisors to provide, by ordinance, that the public administrator be appointed by the board and increases the amount a county board of supervisors may appropriate to a County Service Area's revolving fund.
Status: Chapter 136, Statutes of 2005
SB 287 (Cox) Design-build contracting.
Authorizes 20 additional counties to enter into design-build contracts, extends the sunset of the authorization from 2006 to 2011, and makes specified changes to the conditions and requirements for design-build contracting by counties.
Status: Chapter 376, Statutes of 2005
SB 351 (Soto) Emergency services: derailment evacuation plans and training.
Would require the Office of Emergency Services, with the assistance of the Public Utilities Commission, to lead and coordinate a joint exercise simulating a train derailment within the County of San Bernardino in the 2008 calendar year.
Status: Vetoed
SB 511 (Hollingsworth) San Diego County Water Authority.
Requires the San Diego County Water Authority's controller to issue the required annual reports no later than 270 days after the fiscal year ends.
Status: Chapter 243, Statutes of 2006
SB 535 (Runner) Design-build contracts: City of Victorville.
Allows the City of Victorville to use the design-build contracting method for the construction of buildings until January 1, 2011.
Status: Chapter 244, Statutes of 2006
SB 557 (Battin) Utilities owned by municipal corporations: waste water treatment plants.
Would allow the City of Palm Springs to sell its wastewater treatment facility to the Desert Water Agency if the city council adopts a resolution finding that the public's interest and convenience require the sale.
Status: Vetoed
SB 671 (Cox) Plumas County Flood Control and Water Conservation District: board of directors.
Authorizes the Board of Directors of the Plumas County Flood Control and Water Conservation District to receive compensation for meeting attendance.
Status: Chapter 175, Statutes of 2005
SB 851 (Murray) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Would establish a consolidated system of procurement methods and procedures for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for purchasing and acquiring goods, equipment, materials, and services.
Status: Vetoed
SB 858 (Kehoe) San Diego County Water Authority. *
Would require the San Diego County Water Authority's controller to issue the required annual reports no later than 270 days after the fiscal year ends. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Water, Parks and Wildlife; amended and re-referred to Committee on Transportation.
SB 861 (Speier) Animals: dogs: spay, neuter, and breeding programs.
Allows cities and counties to pass specified breed-specific legislation for mandatory spaying and neutering and breeding restrictions.
Status: Chapter 668, Statutes of 2005
SB 959 (Kehoe) San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board.
Revises, consolidates and updates the authority of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, also known as the Metropolitan Transit System, consistent with the San Diego Regional Transportation Consolidation Act of 2002.
Status: Chapter 557, Statutes of 2005
SB 966 (Committee on Local Government) Local Government Omnibus Act of 2005.
Makes 17 minor, non-controversial changes to the state laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties.
Status: Chapter 158, Statutes of 2005
SB 1010 (Florez) Rail service: City of Shafter
Would authorize the City of Shafter to assign the functions of an intermodal rail facility to an intermodal rail commission.
Status: Vetoed
SB 1127 (Chesbro) County government. *
Would add Napa to the list of general law counties in which the board of supervisors may appoint a registrar of voters to discharge all duties vested by law in the county clerk that pertain to the election process. Status: From Consent Calendar to third reading; amended and re-referred to Assembly Committee on Rules.
SB 1196 (Committee on Local Government) Local Government Omnibus Act of 2006.
Makes 27 minor, non-controversial changes to the state laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties.
Status: Chapter 643, Statutes of 2006
SB 1198 (Florez) Local gambling.
Deletes increased wagering limits from the list of things considered an expansion of gambling under the Gambling Control Act of 1996.
Status: Chapter 181, Statutes of 2006
SB 1286 (Ducheny) Binational air pollution.
Would establish a binational council to address air quality issues for the air basin encompassing the cities of Calexico, California and Mexicali, Baja California, contingent on the execution of a memorandum of understanding between any California state agency, the County of Imperial, the State of Baja California, and the City of Mexicali.
Status: Vetoed
SB 1296 (Kehoe) San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency: governance.
Revises the composition of the San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency's governing board.
Status: Chapter 142, Statutes of 2006
OPEN MEETINGS & CONFLICT OF INTEREST
AB 194 (Dymally) Ralph M. Brown Act violations: remedy.
Would permit a district attorney or any interested person to commence an action to obtain a judicial determination that an action taken by a local legislative body is in violation of the Ralph M. Brown Act and reduces the time period that the district attorney or interested person has to make a written demand for cure or correction. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 463 (Tran) Local agencies: security information. *
Would permit a legislative body of a local agency to hold a closed session meeting with the Attorney General, district attorney, agency counsel, sheriff, or chief of police, or their respective deputies, or a security consultant or a security operations manager on matters posing a threat to private property or facilities that are open to the general public, including response strategies and preventative measures relating to that threat.
Status: In Senate Committee on Local Government: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author; amended and re-referred to committee.
AB 763 (Tran) Conflict of interests: juvenile justice coordinating councils.
Would clarify a conflict of interest provision relating to county juvenile justice coordinating councils. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1314 (Ridley-Thomas) Neighborhood councils: open meetings.
Would exempt subcommittees of the neighborhood councils in the City of Los Angeles from the 72-hour meeting notification requirement of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
Status: Died on Assembly Inactive File.
AB 1438 (Salinas) Local agencies: open meetings.
Exempts local health plans from the teleconferencing quorum requirement by allowing for the establishment of a quorum by members of the board participating via teleconference who are located outside the jurisdiction.
Status: Chapter 540, Statutes of 2005
AB 1448 (Saldana) Conflicts of interest.
Clarifies a conflict-of-interest provision relating to county multi-agency juvenile justice coordinating councils.
Status: Vetoed
AB 2171 (Berg) Conflicts of interest. *
Would specify that a county treasurer would not be deemed to be interested in a contract for purposes of conflict of interest with respect to being appointed as an administrator for a county board of retirement or both a county board of retirement and a county board of investment, if the county treasurer recuses himself or herself from participating in making the appointment and does not hold both offices simultaneously.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Elections and Redistricting and Local Government; amended and re-referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation.
AB 2746 (Blakeslee) District board of directors: conflict of interest: incompatible offices. *
Would provide that, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, it does not constitute a conflict of interest or an incompatible office for a member of the governing board of a
community services district which comprises all or part of a public cemetery district to also serve as a member of the board of trustees of the public cemetery district.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Judiciary; amended and re-referred to Committees on Local Government and Water, Parks and Wildlife (see section on Housing and Land Use for summary of bill's new provisions).
AB 2945 (Spitzer) Open meetings: multijurisdictional law enforcement agencies.
Extends to specified multijurisdictional law enforcement task forces the current exemption from the Open Meetings Act (Brown Act) available to a multijurisdictional drug law enforcement task force for the purpose of meeting in closed session regarding an ongoing investigation, and extend the current exemption for ongoing investigations to all criminal investigations.
Status: Chapter 427, Statutes of 2006
SB 1801 (Ducheny) Municipal hospitals: closed meetings.
Allows a city council, in a city where a municipal hospital is managed by an appointed board of trustees, to meet in a closed session held solely to consider reports involving trade secrets of the municipal hospital.
Status: Chapter 157, Statutes of 2006
SPECIAL DISTRICTS
AB 159 (Salinas) Irrigation districts: directors.
Removes the landownership requirement from the list of qualifications to serve as a director of an irrigation district if the district is required to submit an Urban Water Management Plan.
Status: Chapter 847, Statutes of 2006
AB 166 (Ridley-Thomas) Los Angeles County hospital authority.
Would authorize the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to establish an office of inspector general to conduct audits and investigations of the health system in Los Angeles and to establish a hospital authority for which the management or ownership of the county's medical centers can be transferred. Status: From Assembly Committee on Rules: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 245 (Berg) Trinity County Health Care District: election of board members.
Requires the first board of directors of a health care district formed in Trinity County to be elected to staggered terms.
Status: Chapter 18, Statutes of 2006
AB 286 (Matthews) Banta-Carbona Irrigation District.
Would authorize non-resident district landowners who live in San Joaquin County to serve on the board of directors for the Banta-Carbona Irrigation District.
Status: From Senate Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 350 (Houston) Fire protection district boards: contract bidding procedures.
Increases, from $10,000 to $25,000, the threshold at which fire protection districts with budgets under $1 million must award contracts for special services through competitive bidding.
Status: Chapter 261, Statutes of 2006
AB 372 (Nation) Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District. *
Would confer upon the Board of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District the duty and power to plan, finance, and operate local and regional bus transit operations within the Counties of Sonoma and Marin. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Transportation and Local Government; amended and re-referred to Committee on Transportation.
AB 796 (Wolk) Library districts.
Authorizes the governing body of a library district to select a name for the district that sufficiently distinguishes it from an existing school district.
Status: Chapter 27, Statutes of 2005
AB 991 (DeVore) Mosquito abatement and vector control districts.
Would reduce the size of the board of trustees for the Orange County Vector Control District.
Status: In Assembly Committee on Local Government: Set, second hearing. Failed Passage. From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
AB 1134 (Dymally) Water replenishment district: water replenishment assessment.
Would change the date from the first Tuesday in May to the third Tuesday in May by which a board of directors of a water replenishment district is required to complete a certain public hearing concerning the imposition of a water replenishment assessment following the
commencement of the hearing in April. Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1135 (Dymally) Water replenishment district: water replenishment assessment.
Would change the date from the second Tuesday in April to the third Tuesday in April by which the board of directors of a water replenishment district, is required to publish a notice that a public hearing will be held to determine to what extent those costs for the ensuing year will be paid for by means of imposing a water replenishment assessment.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1140 (Dymally) Water districts: landowner requirements.
Would require a person to be a resident of a water district in order to vote on elections in that district or serve on the board of that district. Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Elections and Redistricting. From Committee on Elections and Redistricting: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1238 (Plescia) North County Transit District.
Revises and recasts provisions in current law regarding the North San Diego County Transit Development Board by renaming the board as the North County Transit District, expanding its area of jurisdiction, and making other conforming changes.
Status: Chapter 150, Statutes of 2005
AB 1330 (Karnette) Redevelopment: Los Angeles Harbor District.
Would establish the Harbor District Development Authority in the City of Los Angeles; authorizes the City of Los Angeles to designate the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners as the redevelopment agency for the Harbor; and redefines blight to fit the conditions in the Los Angeles Harbor District. Status: In Assembly Committee on Local Government: Set first hearing. Failed passage; reconsideration granted. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1335 (Vargas) Business improvement and residential areas.
Would slightly modify the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1989 and make several changes to the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994. Status: In Senate Committee on Local Government: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 1335 (Vargas) Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972. *
Would rename and amend the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972.
Status: In Senate Committee on Local Government: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author; amended and re-referred to committee (see summary of new provisions above).
AB 1351 (Vargas) San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.
Would allow the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority to issue notes, commercial paper notes, or any other type of obligation allowable by law.
Status: Vetoed
AB 1421 (Laird) Water supply projects: Monterey Peninsula Water Management District. *
Would prioritize new water supply that would be developed within the boundaries of the
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District or provide to the water district for affordable housing. Status: In Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildlife: Set, second hearing, canceled by author; amended and re-referred to Committee on Rules.
AB 1552 (La Suer) San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency.
Would expand the governing board of the San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency by one additional supervisor to be appointed to the governing board, based on specified requirements for representation from both incorporated and unincorporated parts of the county.
Status: Referred to Assembly Committees on Transportation and Local Government. From Committee on Transportation: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 2015 (Lieu) Air quality: South Coast Air Quality Management District: board
membership.
Would add an additional seat on the board directors of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) for the City of Los Angeles, and makes clarifying provisions regarding which cities are represented by which geographical city selection committee.
Status: From Senate Committee on Appropriations without further action.
AB 2018 (Saldana) Reclamation District No. 348: trustee elections.
Would increase the size of the board of trustees for Reclamation District No. 348.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Local Government without further action.
AB 2091 (Berg) The Coast Life Support District Act: district powers.
Authorizes the Coast Life Support District to establish a fee structure that creates equity for services provided to both residents of the community and visitors of the area.
Status: Chapter 103, Statutes of 2006
AB 2137 (Niello) Sacramento Regional Transit District.
Creates a weighted voting system for the Sacramento Regional Transit District based on each voting entity's financial contribution, increases the compensation of the directors from $50 to $100 per meeting, and makes other various changes.
Status: Chapter 272, Statutes of 2006
AB 2236 (Ruskin) Los Trancos County Water District.
Removes the Los Trancos County Water District from the list of member entities of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency and the San Francisco Regional Water System Financing Authority.
Status: Chapter 88, Statutes of 2006
AB 2435 (Coto) Santa Clara Valley Water District.
Makes various changes to the Santa Clara Valley Water District's enabling act in order to bring it in line with other special districts of its type.
Status: Chapter 279, Statutes of 2006
AB 2463 (Houston) Reclamation districts: elections.
Would increase the size of the board of trustees for Reclamation District No. 348.
Status: In Assembly Committee on Local Government: Set, first hearing, failed passage. From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
AB 2580 (Walters) Orange County Sanitation District.
Would authorize the Orange County Sanitation District to enter into design-build contracts in excess of $10 million according to specified procedures.
Status: Action rescinded and record expunged whereby the bill was read third time and whereby a final roll call vote was taken.
AB 2619 (Daucher) Orange County Water District.
Makes various changes to the Orange County Water District's enabling act in order to bring it in line with the current practices.
Status: Chapter 218, Statutes of 2006
AB 2650 (Laird) Monterey Peninsula Airport District
Makes numerous changes to the Monterey Peninsula Airport District enabling statute to bring it in line with current processes and practices, and eliminates outdated references and outmoded statutory limitations.
Status: Chapter 359, Statutes of 2006
AB 2701 (Blakeslee) San Luis Obispo County.
Removes the power to construct and operate a wastewater collection and treatment system from the Los Osos Community Service District (District), then transfers this power to the County of San Luis Obispo (County) and authorizes the County to undertake any efforts necessary to construct and operate a wastewater collection and treatment system to meet the needs of the District.
Status: Chapter 360, Statutes of 2006
AB 2882 (De La Torre) Infrastructure financing districts.
Provides that, if a city that is a member of the Orangeline Development Authority (Authority) establishes an infrastructure financing district (IFD) for the purpose of providing funding for public transit facilities, that city may provide some or all of this funding to the Authority for the purposes of furthering public transit facilities within the Authority, including those facilities related to magnetic levitation.
Status: Chapter 197, Statutes of 2006
SB 53 (Kehoe) San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. *
Would make changes to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Act to update and clarify its governing provisions. Status: Referred to Assembly Committee on Local Government, amended and re-referred to committee (see section on Housing and Land Use for summary of bill's new provisions).
SB 92 (Dunn) Orange County Sanitation District design-build contracts.
Would authorize the Orange County Sanitation District to enter into design-build contracts in excess of $10 million according to specified procedures.
Status: Died on Assembly Inactive File.
SB 135 (Kehoe) Community services districts.
Repeals the current statute and enacts a new Community Services District Law.
Status: Chapter 249, Statutes of 2005
SB 351 (Soto) Property and business improvement districts. *
Would require that a petition to form a Property and Business Improvement District be signed by at least 50% of the number of the property owners or 50% of the number of the business owners in the proposed district who would also pay more than 50% of the proposed assessments. Status: In Assembly Committee on Local Government: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author; amended and re-referred to committee (see section on Local Powers and Duties for summary of bill's new provisions).
SB 376 (Soto) Three Valleys Municipal Water District: standby charge authority.
Authorizes the Three Valleys Municipal Water District to adopt an assessment including a schedule of annual adjustments, and to make those adjustments in the same manner as allowed for taxes, fees, and charges that are not considered increases under Proposition 218.
Status: Chapter 210, Statutes of 2005
SB 776 (Runner) Health care districts: mortgage insurance, loans, credit.
Allows a health care district to secure federally insured loans issued under the National Housing Act through specified financing mechanisms and to establish a line of credit secured by accounts receivable or other noncapital assets.
Status: Chapter 554, Statutes of 2005
SB 999 (Machado) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District: district board membership.
Would increase the size of the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District board from 11 members to 15 members increasing the number of city representatives from three to five, adding two public members with specified qualifications, and changes the appointment procedures for city representatives.
Status: In Assembly: read third time, refused passage.
SB 1009 (Florez) Water storage districts: election rolls.
Revises the procedures for water storage districts to adopt an alternative preliminary election roll and requires the district board to have a registered civil engineer prepare a preliminary election roll and assign votes on the basis of one per acre or the benefits derived by each parcel from being in, or receiving services from, the district.
Status: Chapter 275, Statutes of 2005
SB 1085 (Migden) Infrastructure financing districts: public trust lands.
Provides for changes and additions to the Infrastructure Finance District Law to enable the City and County of San Francisco to finance needed public infrastructure improvements to specified waterfront properties.
Status: Chapter 213, Statutes of 2005
SB 1092 (Maldonado) Community services districts: East Garrison.
Designates the Monterey County Board of Supervisors as the Board of Directors of the East Garrison Community Services District, until its conversion to a directly elected board of directors.
Status: Chapter 108, Statutes of 2005
SB 1169 (Cox) Municipal utility districts: purchases.
Repeals the January 1, 2007, sunset date in the statute that allows municipal utility districts to use a "best value at the lowest cost acquisition" process to award contracts of more than $50,000 for the purchase of supplies and materials, and makes the repeal permanent for those that used the process prior to January 1, 2006.
Status: Chapter 248, Statutes of 2006
SB 1432 (Lowenthal) Mello-Roos districts.
Would make numerous changes to the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982.
Status: Vetoed
SB 1618 (McClintock) Local agency contracts.
Allows the Ventura County Watershed Protection District to use negotiated contracts for emergency work without requiring the contractors to post bonds, corrects statutory references to the District's name, and corrects an obsolete cross-reference.
Status: Chapter 67, Statutes of 2006
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