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an a weighted average of 0.25% lead
specified levees or facilities, including,
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the San Joaquin River, their tributaries, and
f, or upon any land susceptible to overflow
ng machines owned or operated by a state entity, as
public contracts by various state agencies. Existing law
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ysically or visually obstructing any levee along a river or
mandated local program. The bill would authorize the board
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uire the Department of General Services to adopt regulations for ntains the levee or facility, to inspect and remove any physical or
Water
water for human consumption. The act defines “lead free” for purposes of manufacturing,
trol plan, from being cut or altered without permission of the board. Existing law makes a violation of
cified contracts are produced by sweatshop labor, forced labor, convict labor, indentured labor under
Existing law governs the bidding and awarding ofimposes requirements on contractors awarded various public contracts, including, among others, certifying that no equipment, materials,
supplies, apparel, garments, or accessories provided under spepenal sanction, abusive forms of child labor, or exploitation of children in sweatshop labor.This bill, beginning January
1, 2022, would require all washidefined, to include a microfiber filter, and would require state entities to install a microfiber filter on any washing machines owned or operated by
the state entity before January 1, 2022. The bill, begJanuary 1, 2022, would require every contract entered into, renewed, or extended by a state entity for laundry services to require
the washing machines used to contain microfiber filters or to have filters installed on all drain lines, and would reqthese purposes before January 1, 2022. This bill contains other
existing laws. Existing law establishes the Central Valley Flood Protection Board and authorizes the board to engage in various flood control activities along the Sacramento River,related
areas. Existing law requires every plan of reclamation, flood control, drainage, improvement, dredging, or work, that includes or contemplates the construction, enlargement, revetment,
or alteration ofany levee, embankment, canal, or other excavation in the bed of or along or near the banks of the Sacramento or San Joaquin Rivers or any of their tributaries or connected
therewith, upon any land adjacent thereto, within any of the overflow basins thereotherefrom, to be approved by the board before construction is commenced. Existing law prohibits a
levee along a river or bypass at any of those specified places, or any levee forming part of any adopted flood conthe latter provisions a misdemeanor.This bill would instead prohibit
a person from concealing, defacing, destroying, modifying, cutting, altering, or phbypass at any of those specified places, any levee forming part of any flood control plan, or any
other facility of the State Plan of Flood Control, including, but not limited to, any and all assoway, without permission of the board. By expanding the behavior that would be punishable
as a misdemeanor, the bill would impose a stateor its designee, or a local agency that maivisual obstructions placed or alterations made on any of the abovebut not limited to, any and
all associated rights of way. The bill would authodefined, to enforce those provisions punishable by a misdemeanor in any place in the state to which the peace officer’s authority extends.This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer
provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to proprohibits, with certain exceptions, the use of any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux that is not
lead free in the installation or repair of any public water system or any plumbing in a facility providingindustrial processing, or conveying or dispensing water for human consumption
to mean not more than 0.2% lead when used with respect to solder and flux and not more thwhen used with respect to the wetted surfaces of pipes and pipe fittings, plumbing fittings,
and fixtures.This bill would additionally define “lead free,” for purposes of manufacturing, industrial
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AB 1952Stone, MarkState entities: contracts: washing machines: microfiber filters.AB 1958CooperState Plan of Flood Control: AB 2060HoldenDrinking water: pipes and fittings: lead
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ordinance, any violation of
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eft, as defined, subject to an administrative
g the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, adopting
ld repeal these provisions.
ould authorize the state board to delegate partial responsibility for
and water shortage vulnerability and notify counties and groundwater
g or dispensing water for human consumption, to mean not more than one
would authorize the state board to approve the application for delegation if the state
se to request that a local officer supervise the remedial action. Existing law authorizes a
rst violation, and $500 for each additional violation of the same ordinance within one year of
ter provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but
elegation agreement, primary responsibility for the act’s administration and enforcement within a county
processing, or conveyinmicrogram of lead under certain tests and meeting a specified certification when used with respect to enduse devices.Existing law authorizes the legislative body
of a city or a county to make, byan ordinance subject to an administrative fine or penalty and limits the maximum fine or penalty amounts for infractions, to $100 for the first violation,
$200 for a 2nd violation of the same ordinance within one year of the fithe first violation. This bill would authorize the legislative body of a city or a county to make, by ordinance,
any violation of an ordinance regarding water thfine or penalty in excess of the limitations above, as specified.Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State
Water Resources Control Board to adminisnot limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water,
enforcinimplementing regulations, and conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of water in private domestic water supplies. The act authorizes the state board to
delegate, through a local primacy dto a local health officer, as specified. The act requires that a local primacy delegation remain in effect until specified conditions occur.This bill
wthe act’s administration and enforcement by means of a local primacy delegation agreement. The bill would authorize the state board, for counties that have not been delegated primary
resJanuary 1, 2021, to offer an opportunity for the county to apply for partial or primary responsibility if the state board determines that it needs assistance in performing administrative
and enforcement activities, as specified. The bill board determines that the local health officer is able to sufficiently perform the administrative and enforcement activities and would
specify that a local primacy agencdesignated public water systems as is granted to the state board by the act.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing
law makes legislative findings and declarations regarding drought planning for small water suppliers and rural communities, and requires the Department of Water Resources, in consthe
State Water Resources Control Board and other relevant state and local agencies and stakeholders, to use available data to identify, no later than January 1, 2020, small water suppliers
and rural communities that may be at risk of droughtsustainability agencies of those suppliers or communities. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board,
to propose to the Governor and the Legislature, by recommendations and guidance relating to the development and implementation of countywide drought and water shortage contingency plans
to address the planning needs of small water suppliers and rural communities, as provided. This bill wouExisting law, whenever a release of waste occurs and remedial action is required,
authorizes a responsible party for the relealocal officer to agree to supervise the remedial action if the local officer determines that certain conditions
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AB 2095CooperWater theft: enhanced penaltiesAB 2296QuirkState Water Resources Control primacy delegation: funding stabilization program.AB 2322FriedmanSmall water suppliers and rural
communities: drought and water shortage planning: repeal.AB 2333Quirk
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ional water quality control board
days after which any remedial action
propriate or necessary, on issues relating to the
t standards or limitations necessary to implement
action to be carried out only pursuant to a remedial
the department to fund culturally competent training
ntal farming program that provides incentives to
being of ecosystems, air quality, and wildlife and their habitat.
approaches to foster collaboration with permittees to implement
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gional water quality control board at least 10 working days before entering
l action only if the release is not being overseen by the department or a
cation to the department and the regional water quality control board, as provided.
national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program. Existing law requires the state
imposing new duties on local officers, the bill would impose a state
nvironmental Farming (panel), as prescribed, to advise the secretary on the implementation of the
have been met. Existing law authorizes that remedialaction agreement, that includes specified elements, entered into by the local officer and the responsible party, and authorizes the
local officer to withdraw from the agreement, after giving the responsadequate notice, at any time after making any of specified findings. Existing law requires a local officer to provide
written notification, that includes specified information, to the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the appropriate reinto a remedial action agreement with a responsible party.
Existing law authorizes a local officer to provide a responsible party with a letter or other document that describes theoccurred and the remedial action taken and certifies that the
cleanup goals embodied in the remedial action agreement were accomplished.This bill would authorize a responsible party to request the local officer to oversee the remediaregional water
quality control board and would authorize the local officer to agree to oversee the remedial action only if the local officer demonstrates to the department or the regthat the same
conditions referenced above have been met. The bill would revise the requirements for a remedial action agreement and would impose other requirements relating to recordkeeping, public
notification, and notifiThe bill would authorize the department or the regional water quality control board to assume regulatory oversight of a release after notification to the local
officer, 30 agreement would no longer be valid. The bill would require, instead of authorize, a local officer to provide the responsible party with a document that makes the same descriptions
and certifications described above. By program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federalboard or the regional boards to
issue waste discharge requirements that ensure compliance with the federal Clean Water Act and apply any more stringent effluenwater quality control plans, or for the protection of
beneficial uses, or to prevent nuisance.This bill would require the state board, by July 1, 2021, to establish financial capability assessment guidelinemunicipal separate storm sewer
system permittees that are adequate and consistent when considering the costs to local jurisdictions. The bill would require the state board and the regional boards to continue using
available regulatory tools and otherpermit requirements in light of the costs of implementation.Existing law, the Cannella Environmental Farming Act of 1995, requires the Department
of Food and Agriculture to establish and oversee an environmefarmers whose practices promote the wellThe act requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to convene the Scientific
Advisory Panel on EHealthy Soils Program and the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program, as described, and to assist federal, state, and local government agencies, as apimpact
of agricultural practices on air, water, and wildlife habitat, as specified.This bill would require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature of additional funds, to administer
the State Efficiency and Enhancement Program (grant program) to provide grants to agricultural operations to implement irrigation systems that reduce greenhouse gases and energy use
and increase water use efficiency, as prescribed. The bill would also require
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Waste: releases: remedial action: local oversight.AB 2364Rubio, BlancaMunicipal separate storm sewer systems: financial capability analysis.AB 2482Stone, MarkAgriculture: environmentalprograms
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water standards.
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river, stream, or lake,
hen establishing or
ing from the project if the project
aters Restoration Account in the
tion to consist of a 3
California Environmental Protection
requires the state board to adopt drinking water standards for
ant program, as specified. The bill prohibits members of the
t is in excess of a maximum contaminant level, a notification level, or a
ed by the department to protect fish and wildlife resources.This bill would
ordinate and facilitate the restoration and conservation of the watersheds supplying
law authorizes those agencies to jointly develop and propose to the relevant policy
s Control Board. The bill would create an advisory body within the administration to
the landowner or by a design, construction, operation, or maintenance activity performed by
on irrigation and nutrient management, authorize the department to contract with qualified third parties to measure grant program outcomes, and require the department to adopt guidelines
for the grant prThe bill would require the secretary to convene, by April 1, 2021, an ad hoc technical advisory committee of the panel and require the committee to make, by July 1,
2022, recommendations to the panel and secretary regarding certain aspects of the grcommittee from applying for grants from the grant program while they serve on the committee.This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law prohibits an entity from substantially diverting or obstructing the natural flow of, or substantially changing
or using any material from the bed, channel, or bank of, any or from depositing certain material where it may pass into any river, stream, or lake, without first notifying the Department
of Fish and Wildlife of that project, and entering into a lake or streambed alteration agreement if requirexempt a landowner who voluntarily allows land to be used for such a project
to restore fish and wildlife habitat from civil liability for property damage or personal injury resultis funded, at least in part, by a state or federal agency that promotes or encourages
riparian habitat restoration, unless the property damage or personal injury is caused by willful, intentional, or reckless conduct of the landowner.This bill contains other existing
laws. The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities
for the regulation and control of drinking water in the state. The actcontaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria and requires any person who owns a public water system
to ensure that the system, among other things, complies with those drinking The act requires a public water system to provide prescribed notices within 30 days after it is first informed
of a confirmed detection of a contaminant found in drinking water delivered by the public water system for human consumption tharesponse level established by the state board. This bill
would require the state board to comply with specified public notice and comment and peer review procedures, as prescribed, wrevising notification or response levels.Existing law authorizes
the Natural Resources Agency and the Agency to jointly develop and submit to the Legislature a specified plan for forest and watershed restoration investments in the drainages that
supply the Oroville, Shasta, and Trinity Reservoirs, as prescribed. Existingcommittees of the Legislature a pilot project for the coordinated, multiagency permitting of specified watershed
restoration activities. Existing law establishes the HeadwGeneral Fund and makes the moneys in the account available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for those forest and watershed
restoration purposes.This bill would establish the Watershed Restoration Administration to cothe Oroville, Shasta, and Trinity Reservoirs and to provide grant funding from the Headwaters
Restoration Account for those purposes. The bill would require the administradecisionmaking body made up of the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection, or the director’s designee;
the Director of Fish and Wildlife, or the director’s designee; and a representative appointed by the State Water Resourcefacilitate interagency coordination and advise on project selection,
as provided.This bill contains other related provisions.
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AB 2518WoodVoluntary stream restoration landowner liability.AB 2560QuirkWater quality: notification and response levels: procedures.AB 2693BloomWatershed Restoration Administration:
Oroville, Shasta, and Trinity Reservoirs.
shortage
permit to
eport, the plan and
essed to prevent and end
he Homeless Coordinating and
posed appropriation. Existing law
vel of flood protection, an emergency
ant effect on the environment, or to adopt a
ed application, or if the undisputed facts support the
Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water
lements. The bill would require a small water supplier with 15
prone areas, and an identification of current and future flood
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and water management.
rmits and licenses to appropriate water. Existing law requires an application
ncluding representatives from specified state agencies and departments, and a
ns to file a written protest with regard to an application to appropriate water and requires the
future weirs, bypasses, and other appurtenances.
Existing law requires the Governor to create the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be
acchomelessness in California and to serve as a statewide facilitator, coordinator, and policy development resource on ending homelessness in California. Existing law requires the Governor
to appoint up to 19 members of the council, iformerly homeless person and a formerly homeless youth who both live in California.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would require tFinancing Council to include representatives from state environmental agencies for purposes of identifying the strengths and needs of underserved
communities by determining the connection between the challenges of homelessness Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights program pursuant
to which the board grants pefor a permit to appropriate water to include, among other things, sufficient information to demonstrate a reasonable likelihood that unappropriated water
is available for the prorequires the board to issue and deliver a notice of an application as soon as practicable after the receipt of an application for a permit to appropriate water
that conforms to the law. Existing law allows interested persoprotestant to set forth the objections to the application. Existing law declares that no hearing is necessary to issue
a permit in connection with an unprotestissuance of the permit and there is no disputed issue of material fact, unless the board elects to hold a hearing. This bill, if the board has
not rendered a final determination on an application for aappropriate water within 30 years from the date the application was filed, would require the board to issue a new notice and
provide an opportunity for protests before rendering a final determination, with specified exceptions.Existing law authorizes a local agency to prepare a local plan of flood protection
and prescribes that a plan include, among other components, a strategy to meet the urban leresponse and evacuation plan for floodcorridors.This bill would require a local plan of flood
protection to also include an identification of current and Existing law, the Urban Water Managementsupplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare
and adopt an urban water management plan. The act requires an urban water management plan to include a water contingency plan, as provided. This bill would require a small water supplier,
as defined, with 1,000 to 2,999 service connections, inclusive, to prepare and adopt a small water supplier water shortage contingency plan that consists of specified eto 999 service
connections, inclusive, to take specified actions related to water shortage planning and response. The bill would require small water suppliers to provide to the public, and to rspecified
water shortage planning information, as prescribed.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead
agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have
a significnegative declaration or mitigated negative declaration, as specified, if it finds that the project will not have
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AB 2767LimónHomeless Coordinating and Financing Council: water management.SB 797WilkWater resources: permit to appropriate: application procedure.SB 946PanLocal Flood Protection Planning
Act: local floprotection plans.SB 971HertzbergSmall water supplier and countywide water shortage contingency planning.SB 974HurtadoCalifornia Environmental
mandated
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agreements with
regional water quality
r the bill to comply with the
and demonstration programs
concern in drinking water that
rovisions and other existing
he State Water Resources Control Board
s a school that serves one or more
of contaminant, the frequency and method of sampling
d dry weather runoff, and to levy taxes, fees, and charges consistent
Quality Control Act. Existing law requires regulated municipalities and
afe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board
for the program, among other functions. The bill would require the program
ll would also define various terms for purposes of this exemption. Because a
ontains other related provisions and other existing laws.
ified date and then maintain an ongoing, dedicated program called the Constituents
mandated local program.This bill contains other related p
Cologne Water
Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000. To the extent this requirement
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gories of projects, as prescribed.This bill would exempt from CEQA certain projects that benefit a
pendable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and adopting
that effect. CEQA includes exemptions from its environmental review requirements for numerous catesmall community water system that primarily serves one or more disadvantaged communities,
or that benefit a nontransient noncommunity water system that servedisadvantaged communities, by improving the small community water system’s or nontransient noncommunity water system’s
water quality, water supply, or water supply reliability, or by encouraging water conservation. The bilead agency would be required to determine whether a project qualifies for this
exemption, this bill would impose a statelaws. Existing law, the California Sto administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. The state
board’s duties include, but are not limited to, conducting research, studies,relating to the provision of a dependable and safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act, and adopting and enforcing regulations.This bill would require the state board to establish by an unspecof Emerging Concern Program to support and conduct research
to develop information and, if necessary, provide recommendations to the state board on constituents of emerging may pose risks to public health. The bill would require the state board
to establish the Stakeholder Advisory Group and the Science Advisory Panel, both as prescribed, to assist in the gathering and development of informationto provide opportunities for
public participation, including conducting stakeholder meetings and workshops to solicit relevant information and feedback for development and implemenprogram.This bill contains other
related provisions. Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
by municipalities and industries in accordance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program and the Porterindustries to obtain a stormwater permit. This bill
would establish municipal wastewater agencies and would authorize a municipal wastewater agency, among other things, to enter into entities responsible for stormwater management for
the purpose of managing stormwater and dry weather runoff, to acquire, construct, expand, operate, maintain, and provide facilities for specified purposes relating to managing stormwater
anwith the municipal wastewater agency’s existing authority in order to fund projects undertaken pursuant to the bill. The bill would require the exercise of any new authority granted
undeCortesewould impose new duties on local agency formation commissions, the bill would impose a statelocal program.This bill cExisting law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act,
requires tto administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration
programs relating to the provision of a deimplementing regulations. The implementing regulations are required to include, but are not limited to, the monitoring of contaminants, including
the type and testing, and the reporting of results.This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1,
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Quality Act: small community water system: exemption.SB 996PortantinoState Water Resources Control Board: Constituents of Emerging Concern Program.SB 1052HertzbergWater quality: municipal
wastewater agencies.SB 1056PortantinoDrinking water: testing: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
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authorize a water or
pecified water
the water resources of the
include in the plan update, instead of a
ines regarding impacts of climate change
rces and dams in the state.This bill would
other existing laws.
the Public Utilities Commission authorizing it to do so or, for
requires an urban retail water supplier to adopt one of specified
would require the commission to approve or deny the application within 8 months,
water use, a standard that complies with the urban retail water supplier’s own
unspecified number of terms of unspecified length. The bill would require the board to
new water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling, desalination,
w establishes the Department of Water Resources within the Natural Resources Agency and
2022, to certify a methodology or methodologies for testing drinking water, groundwater, and surwater for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as provided, and to accredit
qualified laboratories in California to analyze perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances pursuant to the adopted methodology or methodologies.This bill containsThe Public Utilities
Act prohibits, with certain exemptions, any public utility from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering specified property necessary or useful
in the performance of the public utility’s duties to the public without first, for qualified transactions valued above $5,000,000, securing an order fromqualified transactions valued
at $5,000,000 or less, filing an advice letter and obtaining approval from the commission.This bill, the Consolidation for Safe Drinking Water Act of 2020, wouldsewer system corporation
to file an application and obtain approval from the commission through an order authorizing the water or sewer system corporation to consolidate with a public water system or state
small water system. The billexcept as provided.This bill contains other existing laws. Existing laprescribes the jurisdiction and various general administrative authorities and duties
of the department regarding, among other things, matters pertaining to water resourequire the department to convene a Water and Climate Science Advisory Board to consist of an unspecified
number of members with certain qualifications, appointed by an unspecified method, serving no more than an meet an unspecified number of times per year. The bill would require the department
to consult with the board when initiating, reviewing, or expanding policies or guidelon water resources. The bill would require the department to establish an internal process for department
review of and comment on the work of the board, which shall be made publicly available.Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan for the
orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use ofstate, which is known as The California Water Plan. Existing law requires the department to include
a discussion of various strategies in the plan update, including, but not limited to, strategies relating to the development of conjunctive use, water transfers, and alternative pricing
policies that may be pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state.This bill would require the department todiscussion of various strategies, a discussion of various strategies
for increasing regional water resilience. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes.Existing law requires the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use in
California by December 31, 2020. Existing law requires each urban retail water supplier to develop urban water utargets and an interim urban water use target, as specified, and states
the intent of the Legislature that the urban water use targets cumulatively result in a 20% reduction from the baseline daily per capita water use by December 31, 2020. Existing lawmethods
for determining its urban water use target, including estimating the per capita daily water use using the sum of 55 gallons per capita daily for indoor residential water use and a sefficiency
standard for landscape irrigation use.This bill would revise that method of estimating the per capita daily water use to require an urban retail water supplier to use, instead of 55
gallons per capita daily for indoor residential criteria for indoor residential water use.
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SB 1096CaballeroWater and sewer system corporations: consolidation of service.SB 1101CaballeroWater and Climate Science Advisory Board.SB 1188SternThe California Water Plan.SB 1217DahleUrban
water use targets: indoor residential water use.
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combination of those services,
ently fail to provide an adequate supply
icy adopted by the state board and that is either
risk water system, as defined, upon receipt of a petition that
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er system if a public water system or state small water system serving a disadvantaged
to consider ordering consolidation.This bill would authorize the state board to order consolidation
risk water system.
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Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on theauthorizes the state board to contract with, or provide a grant
to, an administrator to provide administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services, or any to a designated water system to assist with the provision of an adequate
supply of affordable, safe drinking water. The act authorizes the state board to order consolidation with, or extension of service from, a receiving watcommunity consistently fails
to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water or if a disadvantaged community is substantially reliant on domestic wells that consistof safe drinking water. The act requires
the state board, no later than July 1, 2020, to develop and adopt a policy that provides a process by which members of a disadvantaged community may petition the state board between
a receiving water system and an atsubstantially conforms to the aboveapproved by the water system’s governing body or signed by at least 30% of the households served by the water system.
For purposes of that provision, the bill would authorize the state board to contract wittechnical assistance provider or appoint an administrator to provide information to a community
regarding the petition process, to assist with the preparation of a petition, or to evaluate whether a water system is an at
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Water Bond
approved by the voters as Proposition 68 at the June 5, 2018, statewide direct primary election,
The California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,000,000,000 pursuant to
the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a drought, water, parks, climate,program.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact a bond measure that would address
climate risks to the State of California.
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AB 3256Garcia, EduardoClimate risks: bond measure.
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the plastic
permit element
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ate that is labeled with the term
n the CUPA or its participating agencies,
d to implement the unified program, and
cility permit, or an element of a unified
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nue operating that facility or function of the facility to
ant with these labeling requirements, and whether a plastic product
ng law prohibits the sale of a plastic product that is labeled as
Solid Waste/Recycling
law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous
a state or local agency that has a written agreement with a CUPA, and is approved by the
ent that the UPA is authorized to enforce or implement, to issue an administrative enforcement
ritten notice from the UPA to the permittee to make those payments by a specified date, to suspend or
Existing law prohibits a person from selling a plastic product in the st“compostable,” “home compostable,” or “marine degradable” unless, at the time of sale, the plastic product meets
the applicable ASTM standard specification or the Vincotte OK Compost HOME certification, as provided. Existi“biodegradable,” “degradable,” or “decomposable,” and prohibits implying
that a plastic product will break down, fragment, biodegrade, or decompose in a landfill or other environment, unlessproduct meets one of several specified standards relating to environmental
marketing claims. This bill would authorize the Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery to issue guidelines for determining whether a plastic product is not compliis designed,
pigmented, or advertised in a manner that is misleading to consumers. The bill would authorize the director to adopt a specified standard for biodegradable mulch film plastic authorize
the sale of commercial agricultural mulch film, as defined, labeled with the term “soil biodegradable” only if the commercial agricultural mulch film meets, and the director adopts,
that specified standard. The bill would authorize the adopt regulations for plastic product labeling to ensure that plastic products labeled “compostable,” “home compostable,” or “marine
degradable” are clearly distinguishable upon quick inspection by consumersolid waste processing facilities. The bill would update the name of a specified certification for home compost
and the name of the organization that developed that certification and would make other conforming changes.This bill contains other relate(1)Existingwaste and hazardous materials management
regulatory program, known as the unified program. Existing law requires every county to apply to the secretary to be certifieauthorizes a city or local agency that meets specified requirements
to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program, as a certified unified program agency, or CUPA. Existing law authorizes secretary, to implement or enforce
one or more of the unified program elements as a participating agency. Existing law defines “unified program agency,” or UPA, to meaas provided. Existing law authorizes the UPA, if
the UPA determines that a person has committed, or is committing, a violation of any law, regulation, permit, information request, order, variance, or other requiremorder requiring
that the violation be corrected and imposing an administrative penalty. Existing law authorizes a UPA to suspend or revoke any unified program faprogram facility permit, for not paying
the permit fee or a fine or penalty associated with the permit in accordance with specified procedures. Existing law authorizes a UPA, if a permittee does not comply with a wrevoke
the permit or permit element. Existing law requires the permittee, if the permit or permit element is suspended or revoked, to immediately discontiwhich the permit element applies until
the permit is reinstated, or reissued. This bill would revise those requirements to explicitly require noncompliance with a written notice before a permit or may be suspended or revoked,
and would additionally authorize the UPA to withhold issuance of the permit or permit element if a unified program facility does not comply with a written notice.
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AB 2287EggmanSolid waste: plastic products: certification.AB 2298CarrilloHazardous waste.
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information on
s state and certain
uld revise that alternative
those byproducts originate from a
mandated local program. The bill
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very stating that the dealer has met specified
overnmental agency to determine, among other
information to the department on the disposal tonnages
the byproducts originate from agricultural or industrial sources.
o be deposited in that account. Existing law makes funds in the account
mpliance with the conditions for byproducts. The bill would reauthorize a
that is greater than $100. To the extent that these provisions expand the scope of existing
e zone where no recycling location has been established, or within a convenience zone that is
fornia Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources
unty, city, district, or local governmental agency from subjecting the hauling of certain byproducts from
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors’ State License Board (board). Under existing law, a willful or deliberate disregard by a licensed
contractor of varioustate building, labor, and safety laws constitutes a cause for disciplinary action by the board. This bill would add illegal dumping to the list of violations that
constitute a cause for disciplinary action against a contractor by the board.The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires dealers within a conveniencunserved
for 60 days and not exempt from convenience zone requirements, to alternatively (1) submit an affidavit to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recostandards for empty beverage
container redemption or (2) pay $100 per day to the department, for deposit in the continuously appropriated California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, until a recycling locatiois
established or until the dealer meets the standards for redemption specified in the affidavit provisions. Existing law creates the Penalty Account in the fund and requires all civil
penalties and fines collected by the department pursuant to the act tavailable to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the act. A violation of the
act or a regulation adopted pursuant to the act is a crime. This bill worequirement to instead require those dealers to submit that affidavit to the department unconditionally. The
bill would make a dealer who does not submit that affidavit liable for a civil penalty of an unspecified amount per daycrimes relating to beverage containers, the bill would impose
a statewould also repeal an obsolete provision.The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally
regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. The act requires a disposal facility operator to submit that are disposed of at the disposal facility.This bill would
require that information to be submitted to the department quarterly and would additionally require a disposal facility operator to submit the disposal tonnages that are applied to
the land as green material.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The CaliRecycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling
of solid waste. The act authorizes each county, city, district, or other local gthings, whether solid waste handling services are provided for by means of a nonexclusive, partially
exclusive, or wholly exclusive franchise, contract, license, permit, or otherwise. Existing law prohibits a cothe processing of food or beverages to an exclusive franchise, contract,
license, or permit if the byproducts meet certain conditions, including that Existing law defines “industrial source” for these purposes to include, among others, entities required
to be registered for the manufacture, packing, or holding of any processed food in thientities exempt from that registration.This bill would provide that these provisions do not limit
the authority of a county, city, district, or local government agency to establish reasonable requirements for the purpose of verifying cocounty, city, district, or local government
to subject the hauling of byproducts from the processing of food or beverages to an exclusive franchise, contract, license, or permit, if supermarket, grocer, restaurant, or other retail
food establishment.
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AB 2368QuirkContractors: discipline: illegal dumping.AB 2562HoldenCalifornia Beverage Container RLitter Reduction Act: empty beverage container redemption.AB 2680AguiarSolid waste: green
material: land applAB 2959CalderonSolid waste: byproducts from the processing of food or beverages.
defined.
the secure
back of a used
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ducts for the purpose
s for reuse, recycling, or
as specified. A violation of these
d durable plastic bags, available to
post on its internet website the
store recycling program established by the
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cified threshold pursuant to an acute aquatic
an at
tion of hazardous wastes and extremely hazardous
person sales in this state to accept at the retail
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specified civil penalties.This bill contains other related
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ill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
nd plastic shipping envelopes. The bill would require an online retailer
displayed on the bag, and required the placement of a plastic carryout bag
t no cost to the customer. The bill would commence all of these requirements on
y of the type or brand that the retailer sold or previously sold at no cost to the
store recycling program that provides customers the opportunity to return clean plastic
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ilable to stores, as specified. A violation of these requirements was subject to specified civil
Store Recycling Program law, required, among other things, an operator of a
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mandated local program. The bill would authorize the department to adopt predisposal management
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iolation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime.This bill would exclude from classification as a
The hazardous waste control laws regulate the handling and management of hazardous materials and hazardous waste. Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to
develop and adopt by regulation criteria and guidelines for the identificawastes, as provided. Existing law exempts certain kinds of waste, including, among other things, wood waste,
as defined, from regulation under the hazardous waste control laws under specified conditions. A vhazardous waste green waste, as defined, that would be classified as hazardous solely
because a representative sample of the green waste is below a spetoxicity test described in a specified regulation. The bill would require that green waste to be disposed of in a permitted
class I, II, or III disposal unit or in a compostable materials handling operation, asBecause disposal of green waste in violation of this requirement would be a crime, the bill would
impose a statestandards for that green waste.This bThe Atestablish an atcarryout bags to that store. The law required a plastic carryout bag provided by a store to have specified information
printed orcollection bin in each store that is visible and easily accessible to the consumer. The law also required the operator of a store to make reusable bags, defined to include
specifiecustomers, for purchase. The law required a manufacturer of plastic carryout bags to develop educational materials to encourage the reducing, reusing, and recycling of plastic
carryout bags and to make the materials avapenalties. The law repealed these provisions on January 1, 2020.This bill would reestablish the operation of those requirements and would
additionally require operator of a store to provide an opportunity for a customer of the store to return to the store clean durable plastic bags, as specified. The bill would require
an online retailer that provides lockers for pickup of purchased products at a store to provide a collection bin at the store near the lockers that is visible, easily accessible to
the consumer, and clearly marked as available for the purpose of collecting and recycling plastic packaging athat has a physical retail establishment with inestablishment plastic packaging
and plastic shipping envelopes of its purchased proof collecting and recycling, at no cost to the customer. The bill would require an online retailer to pickup at the time of delivery
of purchased products, plastic packaging and shipping envelopes from previously delivered products, aJanuary 1, 2023, and would require the operators and retailers to collect, transport,
and recycle the collected plastic bags, plastic packaging, and plastic shipping envelopes,requirements would be subject to the aboveprovisions. Existing law, the Rechargeable Battery
Recycling Act of 2006, requires a retailer, as defined, to have in place a system for the acceptance and collection of used rechargeable batterieproper disposal. Existing law requires
the system for the acceptance and collection of used rechargeable batteries to include, at a minimum, specified elements, including, among others, the takerechargeable batterconsumer.
Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, by each July 1, to survey, as specified, battery handling or battery recycling facilities, and to
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waste: Rechargeable BaRecycling Act.
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ate to achieve,
ion and recycling
ing techniques that reduce
ctions and phased timelines
r an infraction. Because a violation of
mandated local program.This bill contains
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used rechargeable batteries, defined to include lithium
local street and road system. Existing law requires the Department of
ment of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state
Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department
e or recyclable materials. The bill would require a violation of that prohibition
state board, to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government, and local
back of a used rechargeable battery at no cost to the consumer.This bill would prohibit a
viously posted information of the estimated amount, by weight, of each type of
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tion has made a good faith effort to implement its organic waste reduction program and whether
estimated amount, by weight, of each type of rechargeable batteries returned for recycling during the previous calendar year. This bill would authorize the department to include on its
internet website the prior years’ prerechargeable batteries returned for recycling.Existing law, the California of Resources Recycling and Recovery, establishes an integrated waste
management program. The act requires each city to submit to the county in which the city is located a source reductelement containing specified components, including a composting component.This
bill would make a nonsubstantive change to language concerning implementation of the composting component.The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act of 2006 requires every retailer, as
defined, to have in place a system for the acceptance and collection ofbatteries, for reuse, recycling, or proper disposal. The act requires the system for the acceptance and collection
of used rechargeable batteries to include, at a minimum, specified elements, incothers, the takeperson from knowingly disposing of a lithiumthe collection of solid wastto be charged
as a misdemeanor if the violation resulted in a fire that damaged property, as specified, but would otherwise allow a violation to be charged as a misdemeanor othis prohibition would
be a crime, the bill would impose a stateother related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to complete, approve, and implement a
comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of shortamong other things, a reduction in the statewide emissions of methane by 40%. Existing law requires methane emissions reduction goals
to include specified targets to reduce the landfill disposal of organics. Existing law requires the Departboard, to adopt regulations that achieve those targets for reducing organic
waste in landfills that may include, among other things, different levels of requirements for local jurisdibased upon their progress in meeting the organic waste reduction goals, and
penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance. Existing law requires, no later than July 1, 2020, the department, in consultation with thegovernments have made in achieving
the specified targets for reducing organic waste in landfills. This bill would require the department, in determining whether or notpenalty on a local jurisdiction pursuant to those
provisions, or in determining the amount of any penalties imposed pursuant to those provisions, to consider specified information, including whether a local jurisdicany of specified
factors affected the local jurisdiction’s ability to implement its organic waste reduction program or otherwise comply with those provisions, asExisting law creates the Road Maintenance
and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway system and theTransportation and cities and counties receiving funds under the program, to the extent
possible and cost effective, and where feasible, to use advanced technologies and material recyclthe cost of maintaining and rehabilitating the streets and highways and that exhibit
reduced levels of greenhouse gas emissions through material choice and construction method.This bill would delete the
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SB 857BatesSolid waste: integrated waste management plans: composting component.SB 1156ArchuletaLithiumillegal disposal: penalties.SB 1191DahleOrganic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions:
noncompliance and penalties.SB 1227SkinnerRoad Rehabilitation Program.
ecycled materials at or above the
ent imposed on the department and those cities and counties to use advanced
condition in that requiremtechnologies and material recycling techniques to the extent possible. The bill would require those cities and counties to apply standard specifications that
allow for the use of rlevel allowed in the department’s most recently published standard specifications for recycled base and subbase materials, returned plastic concrete, reclaimed
aggregate in minor concrete, and reclaimed asphalt pavement.
Position
and requires the
fund. Existing law requires
the Road Maintenance and
n the county, the bill would
vailable for the program to be
iation, maritime, railroad, and other
Summary
pon public streets and highways, over and above the cost of collection and
of county roads. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of each
tem and the local street and road system. Existing law provides for the deposit of
Transportation
various duties of Caltrans, including, among others, coordinating and assisting,
by law.This bill would expand the purposes for which a county may spend moneys
uld require the board of supervisors to consult with cities located in the county to
ystem or for the State Highway Operation and Protection Program and 50% for
rts to advise on revisions to the Highway Design Manual.This bill contains other related provisions
Existing law creates the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway sysvarious funds, including revenues from certain fuel taxes
and vehicle fees, for the program in the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account. Existing law requires funds aallocated for various specified purposes and requires the remaining
funds available for the program to be continuously appropriated 50% for allocation to the Department of Transportation for maintenance of the state highway sapportionment to cities
and counties by the Controller pursuant to a specified formula.This bill would continuously appropriate interest earnings derived from revenues deposited inRehabilitation Account to
the department for maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program.Article XIX of the California Constitution requires
revenues from state excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel for use in motor vehicles uany refunds authorized by law, to be used for various street and highway purposes and for certain
mass transit guideway purposes. Existing law creates the Highway Users Tax Account Controller to distribute by formula a portion of gasoline and diesel excise tax revenues in the Highway
Users Tax Account to cities based on their population and to counties based on their number of registered vehicles and maintained milescounty to establish a road fund to receive those
moneys distributed from the Highway Users Tax Account and authorizes the board to deposit other moneys available for roads in its roada county to expend moneys deposited its road fund
exclusively for county roads for the transportation purposes authorized by Article XIX of the California Constitution or for other public street and highway purposes as provideddeposited
into its road fund to include any street or road within the county. If a county expends moneys received from the Highway Users Tax Account for streets and roads withirequire the county
to use those funds equitably throughout the county to identify and improve streets and roads that have the highest need. Before a county expends moneys received from the Highway Users
Tax Account, the bill woidentify opportunities for collaborative transportation projects to improve local streets and roads. By
Existing law creates the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) within the Transportation Agency. Existing law provides upon request of the various public and private transportation
entities in strengthening their development and operation of balanced integrated mass transportation, highway, avtransportation facilities and services in support of statewide and regional
goals. This bill would require, beginning June 1, 2022, and every 6 months thereafter, Caltrans to convene a committee of external design expeand other existing laws.
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f revenue collected from the sale, Commission. The Road Repair and
ersee the development and
would impose a statequality transit corridor if, among other
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rate information return to a penalty of
uires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
id or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial
subject to sales and use tax to file, on or before the last day
transit stop or high
stop reporting interface available to the public through an internet
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relieved of the penalties for failing to file a return.This bill would require an
evelopment and implementation status of each transportation program or
ms, including, among others, to the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program,
nd the person’s control, notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care and the absence
ersonal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this
ative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency
requiring counties to consult with cities in this manner, the bill program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) reqcause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect
on the environment or to adopt a negto prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would
avoevidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA provides for limited CEQA review or exempts from its requirements transit priority
projects meeting certarequirements, including the requirement that the project be within 1/2 mile of a major transit stop or highquality transit corridor included in a regional transportation
plan. CEQA specifies that a project is considered to be within 1/2 mile of a majorthings, all parcels within the project have no more than 25% of their area farther than 1/2 mile from
the stop or corridor. This bill, for a transit priority project to meet the requirements fowould increase that percentage to 50%.Existing sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers
measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible pstate of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. Existing
law requires a seller or personof the month following each quarterly period, a return for the preceding quarterly period. Existing law provides that if the California Department of
Tax and Fee Administration (the departmenperson’s failure to make a timely return or payment is due to reasonable cause and circumstances beyond the person’s control, and occurred notwithstanding
the exercise of ordinary care and the absence of willful neglect, the person shall beaviation fuel retailer to provide a quarterly information return, as specified, and would subject
a retailer who fails to file that information return or who files an inaccu$5,000. The bill would exempt from those penalties a person who fails to file a return or provides information
or files an inaccurate return, if that person’s failure is due to reasonable cause and circumstances beyoof willful neglect. The bill would require the department to collect and disseminate,
as specified, information from those information returns and calculate the amount ostorage, use, or consumption of aviation fuel in the state. This bill would also require the department
to report corresponding tax revenue information to local tax entities.Existing law establishes in state government the Transportation Agency, which includes various departments and
state entities, including the California Transportation Accountability Act of 2017 establishes a comprehensive transportation funding program by increasing fuel taxes and imposing certain
vehicle fees. The act allocates revenues from those sources to various transportation prograwhich the act created to address deferred maintenance on the state highway system and the
local street and road system. This bill would require the Transportation Agency to ovimplementation of a comprehensive onewebsite maintained by the agency. The bill would require the
interface to provide timely fiscal information regarding the dproject funded, at least in part, by revenues from the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.
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s and highways and that exhibit reduced levels of
y published standard specifications for recycled base and
eel skid, as described, and from operating on the highway a
ke a safe and complete stop. By revising the definition of a crime, the bill would
mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
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ation and cities and counties receiving funds under the program, to the extent possible and cost
nologies and material recycling techniques to the extent possible. The bill would require those cities
The Vehicle Code regulates the safe operation of bicycles on highways and roadways. Existing law prohibits a person from operating a bicycle on a roadway unless it is equipped with a
brake that will enable the operator to make one braked whbicycle equipped with handlebars raised in a specified manner or a bicycle that is of a size that prevents the operator from
safely stopping the bicycle, as specified. A violation of the Vehicle Cregulating the operation of a bicycle is an infraction.This bill would delete those prohibitions and would instead
prohibit a person from operating a bicycle on a roadway unless it is equipped with a brake that will enable the operator to maimpose a statelaws. Existing law creates the Road Maintenance
and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway system and the local street and road system. Existing law requires the Department of Transporteffective,
and where feasible, to use advanced technologies and material recycling techniques that reduce the cost of maintaining and rehabilitating the streetgreenhouse gas emissions through
material choice and construction method.This bill would delete the condition in that requirement imposed on the department and those cities and counties to use advanced techand counties
to apply standard specifications that allow for the use of recycled materials at or above the level allowed in the department’s most recentlsubbase materials, returned plastic concrete,
reclaimed aggregate in minor concrete, and reclaimed asphalt pavement.
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emission fuels, zero
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s emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region. Existing law requires the
law requires each transportation planning agency to adopt and submit to the California
emission vehicle readiness plan, as specified. By imposing new requirements on local
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requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt a regional lable funds, to provide technical assistance and support for the development of petroleum
existing laws.
Existing law transportation plan directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires the regional transportation plan to include, if
thealso a metropolitan planning organization, a sustainable communities strategy, which is designed to achieve certain targets for 2020 and 2035 established by the State Air Resources
Board for the reduction of greenhouse gasustainable communities strategy to, among other things, identify a transportation network to service the transportation needs of the region.
After adopting a sustainablrequires a metropolitan planning organization to submit the strategy to the state board for review to determine whether the strategy, if implemented, would
achieve the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. ExistingTransportation Commission and the Department of Transportation an updated regional transportation plan every 4 or 5 years,
as specified. This bill would require each suinclude a zeroagencies, the bill would impose a stateand other Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission, within the limits of avaidiesel fuels that are as clean or cleaner than alternative clean fuels and clean diesel engines.This bill would instead require the commission,
within the limits of aand support for the development of zeroemission fuel transportation technologies.
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wetlands, as specified, to the additional
ry 31, 2022, except as specified. The act
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approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt
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-ave a significant environmental impact. Because a lead agency would be required to
ted groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater
or medium
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ndated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Actas highsubject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinabasins designated
as highplan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by Januaprescribes that plans contain certain required contents and requires that plans contain, where appropriate and in
collaboration with the appropriate local agencies, additional analyses or components, including, amoabandonment and well destruction program, well construction policies, and impacts
on groundwater dependent ecosystems.This bill would add impacts to managed analyses or components that a plan is required to contain when appropriate. By requiring local agencies that
are groundwater sustainability agencies to include this in their plans, this bill would impose a statemaThe California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined,
to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that the agency proposes to carry out or a negative declaration if the
agency finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would require the lead agency, for a groundwater recharge project on agricultural lanmanagement actions required by
a groundwater sustainability plan, to prepare a negative declaration or a mitigated negative declaration if there is substantial evidence in the record that a project or a revised project
would not hdetermine whether there is substantial evidence in the record that a project would not have a significant environmental impact, this bill would impose a staterelated provisions
and other existing laws. Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all staand associated property, and sets forth the powers and duties
of the department with respect to the operation, maintenance, and improvement of state highways. Existing law requires the department to discontinue further waterfeasible, and eliminate
any dependency on imported water for landscaping as soon as practicable.This bill would require the department to eliminate the use of potable groundwater from groundwater basinsubject
to critical conditions of overdraft for purposes of landscaping and cleaning highways except when a district director determines not doing so would threaten public health or safety.
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groundwater recharge projects.AB 2953GrayState highways: landscaping and cleaning: groundwater.
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and submit to the California
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re and adopt a regional
t household level to provide
ncourage sustainable land use planning,
that assesses the health and condition of the state
on or before December 31, 2022, and for the update to
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ater than December 31, 2025.
Climate Change
nning organization, a sustainable communities strategy, which is designed to
ave the program be administered by the council as a grant pilot program for eligible
an planning organization to submit the strategy to the state board for review to
and funding programs of state agencies that may be coordinated to improve air and water
based organizations, as defined, to provide a comprehensive suite of coordinated incentives
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Existing law establishes various environmental and economic policies.This bCalifornia Green New Deal Council with a specified membership appointed by the Governor. The bill would require
the California Green New Deal Council to submit a specified report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2022. The biExisting law vests the Department of Transportation with full
possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the California Transportation Commission, to prepare a robust asset management
planhighway system and with which the department is able to determine the most effective way to apply the state’s limited resources.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation thestablish a new program to fund climate change adaptation planning for transportation impacts, data collection, modeling, and training. The bill would require
the department, in consultation with the commission, to update the asset management planalso address the forecasted transportation infrastructure impacts of climate change. The bill
would require both the 3rd update to the California Transportation Plan, which is due in 2025, and the StraCouncil’s report to include a forecast of the transportation impacts of climate
change and measures to address those impacts.This bill contains other existing laws. Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council in state government consisting of various
state agency heads and 3 public members. Existing law requires the council, among other things, to identify and review activitiesquality, improve natural resource protection, increase
the availability of affordable housing, improve transportation, meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, eand revitalize urban and community centers in a sustainable manner.This
bill would establish the Environmental and Justice Empowerment Outreach Pilot Program from January 1, 2021, through January 1, 2025, and would hcommunityand services to disadvantaged
communities, as defined, at the resideneconomic savings, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, and improve resiliency to the impacts of climate change. The bill would require
the council to submit specified reports to the Legislature on the program no lExisting law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepatransportation plan directed at
achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires the regional transportation plan to include, if the transportation planning agency is also
a metropolitan plaachieve certain targets for 2020 and 2035 established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks
in the regiosustainable communities strategy to, among other things, identify a transportation network to service the transportation needs of the region. After adopting a sustainable
communities strategy, existing law requires a metropolitdetermine whether the strategy, if implemented, would achieve the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Existing law requires
each transportation planning agency to adopt
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tal zone, as defined. The act requires the
dentification, assessment, minimization, and
the update, existing law requires the agency to
toward achieving carbon neutrality, and to ensure that
2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the
ing the maximum technologically feasible and cost
feasible and consistent with their statutory authorities,
nce plans and to establish community resilience centers to
mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions
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ire the commission to take into account the effects of sea level rise in coastal resource planning and
Transportation Commission and the Department of Transportation an updated regional transportation plan every 4 or 5 years, as specified. This bill would require each sustainable communities
strategy to also include a zeroagencies, the bill would impose a stateand other existing laws. Existing law requires the Natural Resources Agency every 3 years to update the Safeguarding
California Plan, the state’s climate adaptation strategy. As part ofcoordinate with other state agencies to identify a lead agency or group of agencies to lead adaptation efforts in
each sector. Existing law requires state agencies to work to maximize specified objectives. Tbill would include, as objectives to be maximized, building resilient communities by developing
projects that incorporate, to the maximum extent feasible, cool surface materials and investing in communities to develop communitymitigate impacts of local climate risks.The California
Global Warming Solutions Act of state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse
gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewidegreenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at
least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieveffective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update
the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. This bill would declare the policy of the state to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible,no later than 2045, and to achieve and
maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter. The bill would require the state board to work with relevant state agencies to develop a framework for implementation and
accounting that tracks progressupdates to the scoping plan identify and recommend measures to achieve carbon neutrality. The bill would require a specified plan prepared by the state
board and other specified agencies to include setargets consistent with achieving carbon neutrality, and would impose other requirements on state agencies relating to working toward
carbon neutrality.(1)Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, establishes the California Coastal Commission and provides for planning and regulation of development in the coascommission,
within 90 days after January 1, 1977, to adopt, after public hearing, procedures for the preparation, submission, approval, appeal, certification, and amendment of a local coastal program,
including a coastal programs, as provided. This bill would also include, as part of the procedures the commission is required to adopt, recommendations and guidelines for the imitigation
of sea level rise within each local coastal program, as provided. The bill would delete the timeframe specified above by which the commission is required to adopt these procedures.
The bill would requmanagement policies and activities, as provided. In addition, the bill would require state and regional agencies to identify, assess, and, to the extent minimize
and mitigate the impacts of sea level rise. To the extent that a regional agency is a local public agency, this bill would impose a stateand other existing laws.
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to eligible climate catalyst projects, as
specific liability projections that assess
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ate adaptation strategies to adapt to the impacts of
aptation and Resiliency Program, administered by the
Conservation and Development Commission to develop
he entity implementing the program to notify the
ation with partner public agencies designated by the office.
mate Innovation Grant Program, to be administered by the
to purchase threatened coastal properties for leasing purposes.
varied emissions scenarios for the years 2025, 2030, 2050, and 2100.
Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act, authorizes the
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ed by climate change. The bill would repeal the program on January 1, 2031.This bill contains other
achievement of the state’s statutory energy goals and that may result in a portfolio of projects that are
Existing law, the BergesonCalifornia Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, governed by a board of directors, to make loans, issue bonds, and provide other assistance for variouamong
other things. The activities of the bank under these provisions are funded from the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Fund, which is continuously appropriated
for these purposes. This birequire the bank, in consultation with specified agencies to administer the Climate Catalyst Revolving Fund, which the bill would establish to provide financial
assistancedefined.This bill contains other related provisions. Existing law establishes the Integrated Climate AdOffice of Planning and Research, to coordinate regional and local efforts
with state climate adaptation strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change, as specified.This bill would state the intentLegislature to enact legislation that would protect
the public and coastal resources from the threat of sea level rise and increased storm surge brought forth by climate change and that would create a revolving loan fund to allow local
governments Existing law requires the Director of State Planning and Research to establish the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program under the administration of the Office
of Planning and Research to coordinate regional and local efforts with state climclimate change. Existing law requires the office, in coordination with appropriate entities, to establish
a clearinghouse for climate adaptation information for use by state, regional, and local entitieswould require the office to develop the California Climate Change Assessment, in coordination
with the Natural Resources Agency, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the Strategic Growth Council, and in consultThe bill would require the office
to conduct the assessment every 2 years and to publish the assessment in October of each oddimpacts and risks of climate change and identify potential solutions to inform legislative
policy, as provided. The bill would require the assessment to include sectorthe impacts of climate change underExisting law requires the State Energy Resources and implement the Electric
Program Investment Charge program for the purpose of awarding funds to projects that may lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers that prevent thestrategically
focused and sufficiently narrow to make advancement on the most significant technological challenges. This bill would establish the CliStrategic Growth Council or another entity identified
by the council that it determines to have the appropriate skills necessary to successfully implement this program. The bill would establish the CInnovation Fund, a special fund, in
the State Treasury and would continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund to the council for purposes of the program. Once the Climate Innovation Fund accrues $2,000,000, the bill
would require the council or tFranchise Tax Board and would require the program to award grants for the development and research of new innovations and technologies that either reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases or address impacts causrelated provisions and other existing laws.
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Change Assessment.SB 1329WilkClimate change: Climate Innovation Grant Program: voluntary tax contributions.
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eduction targets
emissions of greenhouse gases. The state
e by 40%, hydrofluorocarbon gases by
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a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system.
ch, when integrated with the transportation network, and other
are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Existing law requires the State
the state by no later than December 31, 2045, as specified. The bill would require the state
lived climate pollutants to achieve a reduction in methan
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The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of board is required to
approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse
gas emissionsAir Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short40%, and anthropogenic black carbon by 50% below 2013 levels
by 2030, as specified. This bill would require the state board, no later than July 1, 2021, to adopt a comprehensive strategy to achieve carbon neutrality in board, before adopting
the comprehensive strategy, to conduct at least 3 public workshops in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency and incorporate peerwould require the state board to update the
comprehensive strategy at least once every 5 years. The bill would require the state board to deliver a copy of the comprehensive strategy and any update to the apprstatutory authority
to effectuate the goals of the comprehensive strategy. Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt a regional transportation plan directed at
achieving Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board, no later than September 30, 2010, to provide each affected region with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the
automobile and light trfor 2020 and 2035, respectively. Existing law requires each regional transportation plan to include, among other things, a sustainable communities strategy that,
among other things, sets forth a forecasted development pattern for the region, whitransportation measures and policies, will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and
light trucks to achieve, if there is a feasible way to do so, those greenhouse gas emission rapproved by the state board. This bill would also require the state board to provide, no
later than December 31, 2022, each affected region with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the automobile and light truck sector for 2045 a2035, 2045, and 2050, and to release,
no later than September 30, 2022, a draft of those targets, as specified.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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pecified types of services described
Law, and the law governing the taxation of
ants of this state and bonds or warrants of any
ed amount in the housing successor’s Low and
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ousing successor as a housing asset of the former
these securities.
agencies and community development agencies as of February 1,
mer redevelopment agency. Existing law requires the housing successor to
and monitoring costs relating to ensuring the long
ate moneys designated as surplus and determined to be available for that purpose by the Pooled
uring the housing successor’s preceding 8 fiscal years, whichever is greater.This bill contains
unds, within 3 fiscal years, for the development of affordable housing, or to enter into an agreement
ould expand the definition of “excess surplus” to also include, for an entity operating as a housing
miums of an insurer, as defined, doing business in this state at specified rates. The Personal Income
Existing law dissolved redevelopment2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other
things, make payments due for enforceable obligto perform duties required by any enforceable obligation. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that created a
former redevelopment agency to elect to retain the housing assets and functions previously performed by the formaintain any funds transferred to it, together with any funds generated
from housing assets in a separate Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund to be used in accordance with applprovisions of the Community Redevelopment Law, except as specified. Existing
law requires the housing successor to expend funds received from the successor agency to meet its enforceable obligations, and for specified administrative subject to affordability
restrictions. The housing successor may then expend a specified amount per fiscal year for homeless prevention and rapid rehousing services, including sin that provision, and must use
all funds remaining thereafter for the development of affordable housing, as specified. If a housing successor has an excess surplus, the housing successor is required to encumber those
fto transfer the funds for transit priority projects, as specified. Existing law defines the term “excess surplus” for these purposes to mean an unencumberModerate Income Housing Asset
Fund that exceeds the greater of $1,000,000 or the aggregate amount deposited into the fund during the housing successor’s preceding 4 fiscal years, whichever is greater.This bill wsuccessor
in the City of Indian Wells, the City of La Quinta, or the County of Yolo that owns and operates affordable housing that was transferred to the hredevelopment agency, an unencumbered
amount in the housing successor’s Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund that exceeds the greater of $1,000,000 or the aggregate amount deposited into the account dother related
provisions. Existing law requires the Treasurer to invest, or deposit in banks and savings and loan associations, specified stMoney Investment Board. Existing law prescribes eligible
securities for the investment of surplus moneys under these provisions, including bonds, notes, and warrcounty, city, or specified types of districts of this state.This bill would expand
the scope of securities eligible for investment under these provisions to include loans issued by the California InfrastructuEconomic Development Bank for the financing of infrastructure
projects by local agencies. The bill, by January 1, 2022, would require the Treasurer to target an investment of 1% of the average daily balance of the Pooled Money Investment Account
in Existing state constitutional law governing insurance taxation imposes an annual tax on the gross preTax Law and the Corporation Tax Law impose taxes upon taxable income for the
taxable year, as specified. The Personal Income Tax Law, the Corporation Tax insurers allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a lowtax credit allocated
by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee.This bill would allow a credit
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AB MayesRedevelopment: housing successor: Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund.AB 2480LimónState funds: investment: California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank loans.AB
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the amount of each qualified investment
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redit allowed pursuant to these provisions
ost allowance and loan repayments, as
es. The state Personal Income Tax Law and
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fiscal year thereafter, the administrative cost allowance, defined as the maximum
controller in the preceding fiscal year for payment of enforceable obligations, reduced by ver, that a successor agency’s administrative cost allowance shall not exceed 50% of the
-pment Property Tax Trust Fund the department authorized to pay enforceable obligations in
fied conformity with the federal New Markets Tax Credit, for taxable years beginning on or
oversight board
y reductions made, as provided. The bill, however, would set a minimum of $250,000 for the
t Program established by this bill, not to exceed $20,000,000, if the aggregate amount of
he bill would require GO
the taxes imposed under the Personal Income Tax Law, the Corporation Tax Law, and the law
against governing the taxation of insurers (CDC tax credit) for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, in an amount equal to the applicable credit percentage ofmade by
the taxpayer during the taxable year to an eligible community development corporation that is certified by the Treasurer to receive an allocation of tax credit pursuant to the Community
Development Tax Crediqualified investments made by the taxpayer in the taxable year is at least $100,000. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing
law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and designates successor agencies to act as successor entities to the dissolved redevelopment agenciesagencies to, among
other things, continue making payments due for enforceable obligations and wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Existing law provides that, commencing July
1, 2016, and for eachamount of administrative costs that may be paid to a successor agency from the Redevelopment Tax Trust Fund in a fiscal year, is up to 3% of the actual property
tax distribucounty auditorthe successor agency’s administrative cost allowance, and loan repayments, as provided. Existing law provides, howetotal Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund
distributed to pay enforceable obligations in the preceding fiscal year, reduced by the successor agency’s administrative cprovided. Existing law requires the Department of Finance
to make a determination of the enforceable obligations and the amounts and funding sources of the enforceable obligations by April 15 of each year, based on an successor agency.This
bill would change the formula for calculating a successor agency’s administrative cost allowance by providing that, for the period covering January 1, 20each fiscal year thereafter,
the administrative cost allowance shall be up to 3% of the actual property tax the department authorized in the preceding fiscal year for payment of approved enforceable obligations,
prior to anadministrative cost allowance in any fiscal year, unless this amount is reduced by the oversight board or by agreement between the successor agency and the departmennotwithstanding
those provisions, for the period covering January 1, 2021, until June 30, 2021, and for each fiscal year thereafter, a successor agency’s annual administrative costs shall not exceed
50% of the total Redevelothe preceding fiscal year, prior to any reductions made, as provided.Existing federal law allows a New Markets Tax Credit to a taxpayer holding a qualified
equity investment in an amount equal to the applicable percentage of the amount paid to the qualified community development entity for investment in lowthe Corporation Tax Law allow
various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws.This bill would allow a California New Markets Tax Credit under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in modiafter
January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, in a specified amount for investments in lowcommunities. The bill would limit the total annual amount of cto $100,000,000 per calendar year.
The bill would impose specified duties on the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GOcredit. T
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corporation taxes: credits: California New Markets Tax Credit.
tion of the
e purpose of enabling regions to
velopment district, or a combination
ct under the program. Among other
d (ERAF) in that county for allocation to
elated provisions.
By requiring the applicant and the department to
ent Fund, and use the revenue, upon annual
Biz to serve as the Governor’s lead entity for
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formulas and procedures, and generally requires that
sector regional strategies to address key regional issues
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requirements by requiring, for purposes of determining property tax
Biz to administer these credits for those taxable years.This bill contains
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criteria. The bill would also authorize certain local agencies to establish an affordable
Development Investment Committee. The bill would authorize a city, county, city and
egy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private
agency, one local business, and one nonprofit organization, that spans a geographic area that
eys are appropriated to GO
local jurisdictions in accordance with specified formulas and procedures, subject to certain
the allocation of the credit, to be deposited in the California New Markets Tax Credit Account established by the bill within the California Economic Developmappropriation by the Legislature,
to defray the cost of applying to and administering the credits, as specified. The bill would authorize the allocation for these credits only for those taxable years for which monother
related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law, the Economic Revitalization Act, estEconomic Development, also known as “GOunder the control of a director. The act requires
GOeconomic stratsector investment, and economic growth.This bill would establish the Regions Rise Grant Program within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development for
thcollaborate and create interdisciplinary and crossand challenges. The bill would define “region” for these purposes as a group consisting of at least one governmentincludes an area
in at least 2 different counties, and is comprised of an area that experiences common community issues and challenges.This bill contains other rExisting property tax law requires the
county auditor, in each fiscal year, to allocate property tax revenue tomodifications. Existing law requires an annual reallocation of property tax revenue from local agencies in each
county to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Funspecified educational entities.This bill would establish in state government the Affordable Housing and Community Development Investment
Program, which would be administered by the Affordable Housing and Community county, joint powers agency, enhanced infrastructure financing district, affordable housing authority, community
revitalization and investment authority, transit village deof those entities, to apply to the Affordable Housing and Community Development Investment Committee to participate in the
program and would authorize the committee to approve or deny plans for projects meeting specifichousing and community development investment agency and authorize an agency to apply
for funding under the program and issue bonds, as provided, to carry out a projethings, the bill would require that an applicant certify that a skilled and trained workforce, as defined,
will be used to complete the project if the plan is approved, except as specified. The bill would also require the Department of Housing and Community Development to certify to the
committee whether the housing element of the applicant, if applicable, is in substantial compliance with specified law and whether any rezoning of sites required by law have been completed.
make these certifications, the bill would expand the scope of the crime of perjury.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing property tax law requires
the county auditor, in each fiscal year, to allocate property tax revenue to local jurisdictions in accordance with specified each jurisdiction be allocated an amount equal to the total
of the amount of revenue allocated to that jurisdiction in the prior fiscal year, subject to certain modifications, and that jurisdiction’s porannual tax increment, as defined. Existing
property tax law also reduces the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenue that would otherwise be annually allocated to the county, cities, and special districts pursuant to these
general allocation
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Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act, authorizes the
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Governor’s office to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and
n eligible recipient, defined as a community development financial institution that
e a direct and substantial benefit to lower income households. This bill contains other
entation Fund in that county for allocation to school districts, community college districts,
bill would enact the California Climate Technology and Infrastructure Financing Act to
22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the
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revenue allocations in each county for the 1992tax revenue deemed allocated in the prior fiscal year to the county, cities, and in accordance with certain formulas. Existing property
tax law requires that the revenues not allocated to the county, cities, and special districts as a result of these reductions be transferred to the Educational Revenue Augmand the county
office of education. This bill would establish a pilot program, pursuant to which, for the 2021would increase the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required
to be allocated to specified cities within the county by the residential infill development amount, as defined, ato commensurately decrease the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue
that is otherwise required to be allocated to the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund and, if necessary, the amount of those revenue otherwise required to be allocated to infill
development amount be equal to the total amount of ad valorem property revenue attributable to the application of the property tax rate limited by the California Constitution to each
qualdevelopment project, as defined, within the city, subject to certain limitations.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (1)Existing law establishes
the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, known as “GOthe marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic
growth. Existing federal law establishes the Capital Magnefund available to the United States Secretary of the Treasury to carry out a competitive grant program to attract private capital
for, and increase investment in, certain affordable housing and economic development projects financial institutions or nonprofit organizations that meet specified criteria.This bill
would establish the Community Development Financial Institutions Grant Program, administeof providing grants to qualified community development financial institutions. The bill would
establish the Community Development Financial Institutions Grant Fund and, upon appropriation, require GOto award a grant to ameets specified criteria under the program, as provided.
The bill would require, among other things, that an eligible recipient provide matching funds on a dollarprivate, nongovernmental sources. The bill would specify authorized uses of
grant funds, including providing loans, grants, equity investments, or technical assistance within lowpurposes that havrelated provisions and other existing laws. Existing law, the
BergesonCalifornia Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, governed by a board of directors, to make loans, issue bonds, and provide other assistance for varamong other things.
The activities of the bank under these provisions are funded from the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Fund, which is continuously appropriated for these purposes.
Thisrequire the bank, in consultation with specified agencies to administer the Climate Catalyst Revolving Fund, which the bill would establish to provide financial assistadefined.This
bill contains other related provisions. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allows various credits against the taximposed by those laws, including (1) in modified
conformity to a credit allowed by federal income tax
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it, as specified. The bill
e investments and to post some of that information on
s, including the number of jobs the taxpayer will create or
ined, and, for purposes of the Corporation Tax Law, 24% of
Office of Business and Economic Development to develop content
ally, representatives from various programs and agencies across the
se Tax Law and the Transactions and Use Tax Law.This bill contains other
r consumption in this state, in lieu of claiming the research and development
laws, a credit under both laws in an amount equal to 15% of the excess of qualified research expenses for the taxable year over the base amount, as defthe basic research payments, as
defined, (research and development income tax credit) and (2) a credit against the taxes imposed under those laws for each taxable year beginning on and after Januarand before January
1, 2030, in an amount provided in a written agreement between the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development and the taxpayer, approved by the California Competes Tax Credit
Committee, and based on specified factorretain in the state and the amount of investment in the state by the taxpayer (Cal Competes income tax credit).This bill would permit a qualified
person who has paid qualified sales tax reimbursemretailer on the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or has paid qualified use tax on the storage, use,
or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or otheincome tax credit or the Cal Competes income tax credit under the
Personal Income Tax Law or the Corporation Tax Law, to file a claim for a refund equal to the amount of the credwould define qualified sales tax reimbursement and qualified use tax
to include state sales and use taxes and those local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to, or in accordance with, the BradleyUniform Local Sales and Urelated provisions and other
existing laws. Existing law authorizes the Governor’son its internet website or through other mediums to be used for public dissemination, through outreach activities, in order to provide
information and resources to inform the general public aband other geographically targeted economic development programs, including California promise zones and California opportunity
zones. Existing law requires the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to convene, at least annustate and from various federal programs and agencies for the purpose
of discussing how California can leverage promise zones and opportunity zones to meet state and local community and ecodevelopment needs.This bill, until January 1, 2026, would require
the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, in cooperation with the Office of Planning and Research, to track specified information regarding California opportunity
zonthe Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development’s internet website. The bill, to assist the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development in this regard, would
require, until January2026, the manager of an opportunity zone fund to submit specified information about the fund and any real estate investments to the Governor’s Office of Business
and Economic Development, as provided.This bill contains other related provisions.
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Act of 1992. Among other things, the program
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ose of surveillance, case management, investigation,
Based Paint
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ating to hazard evaluations for public and residential buildings to be provided to the
wn in California to report specified information to the department for each analysis on every person
herwise maintains the confidentiality of the information, as specified. Existing law requires the State
Existing law requires a laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis on a specimen of human blood dratested. Existing law requires that all information reported be confidential, except
that the department is authorized to share the information for the purpenvironmental assessment, environmental remediation, or abatement with the local health department, environmental
health agency, or building department, so long as the entity receiving the information otDepartment of Public Health to implement and administer a program to meet the requirements of
the federal Residential Leadrequires the department to establish certification requirements for persons conducting leadconstruction work, abatement, or lead hazard evaluation. Existing
regulations require specified information reldepartment. This bill would add to the information that a laboratory is required to provide the Mediidentification number, or other equivalent
medical identificatiowould require, if the person tested is a minor, that the laboratory include the person’s contact information and a unique identifier, in a form to be determined
by the department, as specified.
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AB 2422GraysonLead testing.
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each type
n itemization of
aid parking penalties
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sharing spaces provid
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developer agrees to construct a specified percentage of
income, or moderate
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Parking
other conditions, the agency provides a payment plan option for indigent
regulation, to provide, if requested, an eligible applicant of a residential
d provisions and other existing laws.
roposes a housing development within the jurisdictional boundaries of that city or county with a density
Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that pbonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing
units, or for the donation of land within the development, if the units for very low income, lowother requirements. Existing law provides for the calculation of the amount of density
bonus for of housing development that qualifies under these provisions. This bill would require a local jurisdiction, as defined, notwithstanding any local ordinance, general plan element,
specific plan, charter, or other local law, policy, resolution, or development with a parking credit that exempts the project from minimum parking requirements based on the number of
nonrequired bicycle parking spaces or carconditions, as specified.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law authorizes an agency that processes
unpaid parking penalties and related service fees to collect those penalties and fees pursuant to one of 3 specified options, including filing aunpaid penalties with the Department
of Motor Vehicles for the department to collect the penalties along with the registration of the vehicle. Existing law prohibits the agency from filing that itemization with the department
unless, amongpersons that, at a minimum, allows payment of unpaid parking penalties and related service fees in monthly installments for total amounts due that are $300 or less and
pays those unpand fees within 18 months, as specified.This bill would increase the total amount that can be paid in installments to $750, and extend the time in which those penalties
and fees can be paid to 30 months.This bill contains other relate
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AB 3153Rivas, RobertParking and zoning: parking credits.AB 3277JonesParking penalties: collection.
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priorities
t retail except
iding specified
based testing and disease investigation. Existing law
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ipate in the program by submitting a spending plan to be
nd revenues. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to
Public Health
Existing law prohibits, except as specified, the sale of a hypodermic needle or syringe aupon the proscription of a physician, dentist, veterinarian, podiatrist, or naturopathic doctor.This
bill would repeal that provision.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to allocate funds to
local health jurisdictions for sexually transmitted disease prevention and control activities in accordance with specified and activities that include, among others, communitysuspends
this program on December 31, 2021, unless the May Revision required to be released by May 14, 2021, projects specified General Fuconsider alternative solutions to restore this program,
should the suspension take effect.This bill would establish a statewide program to direct and support local health departments in provservices to individuals experiencing reinfections
of syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea, including assessing the health and social needs of those individuals. The bill would authorize a local health department to apply for funding
to particapproved by the department and would specifically prohibit the department from providing funding unless the department approves the local health department’s spending plan.This
bill contains other reprovisions.
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t the laboratory include the person’s contact information
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tion requirements for persons conducting lead
foreign country, or their residency in a high
l remediation, or abatement with the local health department,
specified individuals.
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st recent federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention screening guidelines.
rtment. This bill would add to the information that a laboratory is required to provide the Medi
(1)Existing law, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991, ePoisoning Prevention Program (Program), which is administered by the State Department of Public Health. Existing
law requires the department to adopt regulations establishing a standard of care, at least as stringent as the moExisting law provides that the standard of care shall require a child
who is determined to be at risk for lead poisoning to be screened. Existing law requires the regulationrisk factors, including a child’s time spent in a home, school, or building built
before 1978. Existing law requires the department to develop the regulations, in consultation with specified individuals, includinmedical experts, and environmental experts, and to
develop the regulations by July 1, 2019. This bill would add several risk factors to be considered as part of the standard of care specified in regulations, including a child’s residency
in or visit to aand would require the department to develop, by January 1, 2021, the regulations on the additional risk factors, in consultation with the aboveExisting law requires
a laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis on a specimen of human blood drawn in California to report specified information to the department for each analysis on evetested. Existing
law requires that all information reported be confidential, except that the department is authorized to share the information for the purpose of surveillance, case management, investigation,
environmental assessment, environmentaenvironmental health agency, or building department, so long as the entity receiving the information otherwise maintains the confidentiality of
the information, as specified. Existing law requirDepartment of Public Health to implement and administer a program to meet the requirements of the federal Residential Leadrequires
the department to establish certificaconstruction work, abatement, or lead hazard evaluation. Existing regulations require specified information relating to hazard evaluations for public
and residential buildings to be provided to the depaidentification number, or other equivalent medical identification number of the person tested. The bill would require, if the person
tested is a minor, thaand a unique identifier, in a form to be determined by the department, as specified.
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tity to provide a written notice to the
es as may be necessary to standardize
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The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal to request from
Airports
sary to bring their equipment into conformity with standard requirements. This bill,
specified civil penalty. The bill would require the seller and the purchaser to retain the notice on file
Existing law authorizes the State Fire Marshal to make such changall existing fire protective equipment throughout the state and requires the State Fire Marshal to notify industrial
establishments and property owners having equipment for fire protective purposes of the changes necescommencing January 1, 2022, would require any person, including a manufacturer,
as defined, that sells firefighter personal protective equipment to any person or public enpurchaser at the time of sale if the firefighter personal protective equipment contains perfluoroalkyl
and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and would provide that a violation of this requirement is punishable by a for at least 3 years and to furnish the notice and associated sales
documentation to the State Fire Marshal within 60 days upon request, as provided. a manufacturer a certificate of compliance that certifies that the manufacturer is in compliance with
these provisions.This bill contains other related provisions.
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1975
ld impose
and defines it to
nsumption in this state.
his bill contains other related
includes elevated solar structures, including
ate of ad valorem tax on real property to 1% of
er legal entity in which another corporation,
al year. Under existing property tax law, this
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re whose primary purpose is to provide for the collection, storage, and distribution
shings with a lease of the living quarters in which they are to be used.This bill
mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
on until there is a subsequent change in ownership.This bill would provide that a subsequent
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Existing law creates the right to receive sunlight, which is referred to as a solar easement, mean the right of receiving sunlight across real property of another for any solar energy
system. Existing law defines a “solar energy system” for this purpose to include a structural design feature of a building, including a design featuof solar energy for electricity generation,
space heating or cooling, or for water heating.This bill would specify that a design feature, for the purpose described above, carport and shade structures that support solar collectors
or other solar energy devices.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a use tax on the storage, use, or other consumption
in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other coThat law specifies that a “sale” and “purchase” includes, among other things, a lease
of tangible personal property in any manner or by any means whatsoever, for consideration, except a lease of, among other things, household furniwould additionally exclude, from the
definitions of “sale” and “purchase,” a lease of solar equipment used for purposes of complying with specified state building standards.Tprovisions and other existing laws. The California
Constitution generally limits the maximum rthe full cash value of the property and defines “full cash value” for these purposes as the appraised value of real property when purchased,
newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred after the assessment. Pursuant to constitutional authorization, existing property tax law excludes from the definition of “newly
constructed” for these purposes the construction or addition of any active solar energy system, as defined, through the 2023exclusion remains in effect only until there is a subsequent
change in ownership, but an active solar energy system that qualifies for the exclusion before January 1, 2025, will continue to receive the exclusichange in ownership for these purposes
does not include a change in ownership of the real property of a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or othpartnership, limited liability company, other legal entity,
or any other person obtains a controlling interest, as specified. By adding to the duties of county assessors in applying this exclusion, the bill woua state
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s been integrated into the vehicle. This bill
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Autonomous Vehicles
not inside of the vehicle. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Existing law authorizes the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle being
operated if specified requirements are met. Existing law defines an “autonomous vehicle” for this purpose as any vehicle equipped with autonomous technology, as defined, that hawould
expand the definition of the term “autonomous vehicle” to also include a remotely operated vehicle, defined as a specified type of vehicle that is capable of being operated by a driver
or operator that is
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by county waterworks
cribe how the local
250,000, the cap is 10% of
general prevailing rate of per
racts exceeding that amount but
r the control of, the local agency, and
hholding more than 5% of the contract price for
lic work is performed” and instead define the term in
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uld be adjusted annually to reflect the percentage change in the California
y Public Construction Act, regulates contracting by local agencies,
of any change order, varying with the value of the original contract. The act,
Public Works
tem and the local street and road system. Existing law provides for the deposit of
exceeding $210,000. This bill would require that the existing caps be adjusted
isting law limits this authority by requiring progress payments on the contract to not
lic work is done, in cases in which the state awards the contract, and as the limits of the
d, the local agency finds that satisfactory progress is being made.This bill would eliminate the
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as defined, to presagency makes payment on a contract with the local agency for the creation, construction, alteration,
repair, or improvement of any public structure, building, road, or other improvement of any kind that will exceed a total of $5,000. Exbe made in excess of 95% of the percentage of
actual work completed plus a like percentage of the value of material delivered on the ground or stored subject to, or undeunused. Existing law also requires the local agency to not
withhold less than 5% of the contract price until final completion and acceptance of the project, unless, at any time after 50% of the work has been completeabove described limitations
on a local agency’s authority to prescribe payments on these contracts. The bill would, however, prohibit the local agency from witcontracts for the creation, construction, alteration,
repair, or improvement of any public structure, building, road, or other improvement of any kind that will exceed $5,000 in total costs.Existing law requires that workers employed on
public works, as defined, costing over $1,000 be paid not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, and not less than the diem wages for holiday and overtime work, for
work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is performed. Existing law defines “locality in which public work is performed” as the county in which the pubpolitical
subdivision on whose behalf the contract is awarded, in other cases.This bill would eliminate this distinction in the definition of “locality in which puball cases as meaning the county
in which the public work is done.Existing law, the Local Agencincluding counties and special districts. The act includes specific provisions for contracting by counties, contracting
for county highways and county bridges and subways, and contracting districts. Other existing law regulates contracting by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District (LACFCD). Those
specific provisions include change order authorization for contracts, as prescribed, and impose caps on the extra costfor a county, imposes a $5,000 cap when the total amount of the
original contract does not exceed $50,000. For any original contract that exceeds $50,000, but does not exceed $the amount of the original contract. For contracts whose original cost
exceeds $250,000, the cap is $25,000 plus 5% of the amount of the original contract cost in excess of $250,000, and prohibits a change or alteration cost fromannually to reflect the
percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index. The bill would modify the cap applicable to contracts exceeding $250,000 to apply only to contnot exceeding $25,000,000. The
bill would add a new change order cap of $500,000 for contracts whose original cost exceeds $25,000,000 and of $1,000,000 for contracts whose original cost exceeds $50,000,000, both
of which woConsumer Price Index. Existing law creates the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway sys
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mprove streets and
ket for an area of
the Road Maintenance and
vailable for the program to be
on and arising between an operator of
te and time of the excavation, to locate and field mark, within
for various street and highway purposes and for certain mass
those moneys distributed from the Highway Users Tax Account
onstitutes a cause for disciplinary action by the board. This bill
ude any street or road within the county. If a county expends moneys
s liability for failure to comply with these processes.This bill would require a
ystem or for the State Highway Operation and Protection Program and 50% for
der offers of settlement exchanged between the parties, as specified, for purposes of determining an
requires an excavator planning to conduct an excavation to delineate the area to be excavated before
various funds, including revenues from certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees, for the program in the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account. Existing law requires funds aallocated
for various specified purposes and requires the remaining funds available for the program to be continuously appropriated 50% for allocation to the Department of Transportation for
maintenance of the state highway sapportionment to cities and counties by the Controller pursuant to a specified formula.This bill would continuously appropriate interest earnings derived
from revenues deposited inRehabilitation Account to the department for maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program.Existing
law requires every operator of a subsurface installation, except the Department of Transportation, to become a member of, participate in, and share in the costs of, a regional notification
center. Existing law notifying the appropriate regional notification center of the planned excavation, as provided. Existing law requires an operator, before the legal start dathe area
delineated for excavation, its subsurface installations. Existing law, commencing July 1, 2020, establishes a process for an excavator to request and obtain a continual excavation ticcontinual
excavation, as defined, that is valid for one year from the date of issuance and eligible for renewal. Existing law requires this process to include onsite meetings to develop a mutually
agreedplan. Existing law prescribecourt to award attorney’s fees and costs, including expert witness fees, to a prevailing party in a civil action or arbitration for specified damages
arising from the excavatia subsurface installation and an excavator. The bill would apply certain procedures relating to offers to compromise to these civil actions and arbitrations.
The bill would also authorize a court or arbitrator to consiattorney’s fees and costs, including expert witness fees, award.Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of
contractors by the Contractors’ State License Board (board). Under existing law, a willful or deliberate disregard by a licensed contractor of various state building, labor, and safety
laws cwould add illegal dumping to the list of violations that constitute a cause for disciplinary action against a contractor by the board.Article XIX of the California Constitution
requires revenues from state excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel for use in motor vehicles upon public streets and highways, over and above the cost of collection and any refunds
authorized by law, to be usedtransit guideway purposes. Existing law creates the Highway Users Tax Account and requires the Controller to distribute by formula a portion of gasoline
and diesel excise tax revenues in the HigUsers Tax Account to cities based on their population and to counties based on their number of registered vehicles and maintained miles of county
roads. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of each county to establish a road fund to receive and authorizes the board to deposit other moneys available for roads in its
road fund. Existing law requires a county to expend moneys deposited its road fund exclusively for county roads for the purposes authorized by Article XIX of the California Constitution
or for other public street and highway purposes as provided by law.This bill would expand the purposes for which a county may spend moneys deposited into its road fund to inclreceived
from the Highway Users Tax Account for streets and roads within the county, the bill would require the county to use those funds equitably throughout the county to identify and i
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urpose of managing stormwater and dry weather
ents for the discharge of stormwater by municipalities
organization Act of 2000. To the extent this requirement
aborative transportation projects to improve local streets and roads. By
Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law requires regulated municipalities and
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roads that have the highest need. Before a county expends moneys received from the Highway Users Tax Account, the bill would require the board of supervisors to consult with cities located
in the county to identify opportunities for collrequiring counties to consult with cities in this manner, the bill would impose a stateprogram.This bill contains other related provisions
and other existing laws. Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requiremand industries
in accordance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program and the Porterindustries to obtain a stormwater permit. This bill would establish municipal wastewater
agencies and would authorize a municipal wastewater agency, among other things, to enter into agreements with entities responsible for stormwater management for the prunoff, to acquire,
construct, expand, operate, maintain, and provide facilities for specified purposes relating to managing stormwater and dry weather runoff, and to levy taxes, fees, and charges consistent
withe bill. The bill would require the exercise of any new authority granted under the bill to comply with the Cortesewould impose new duties on local agency formation commissions,
the bill would impose a statelocal program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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install an
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emission vehicles.
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ission to update the assessment at least
nd Development Commission (Energy
regulatory authority over public utilities,
to be incomplete, as specified. The bill
quire the applicant to apply for a use permit if the
for a use permit.This bill contains other related
uly 1, 2011, to adopt rules that address certain related
Summary
Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015, requires the PUC,
0. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to
EV Charging
ecific, adverse impact.This bill would require an application to install an electric
in hybrid and electric vehicles and, by J
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an electric vehicle charging station through the issuance of a building permit or similar
esources Board (state board), electrical corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, to evaluate
application through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit, and the
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) hasincluding electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), the State Air Rpolicies to develop infrastructure sufficient to overcome any barriers to the widespread deployment
and use of plugissues. Existing law requires the PUC, in cooperation with the Energy Commission, the state board, air quality management districts, air pollution control districts,
electrical and gas corporations, vehicle industry, to evaluate and implement policies to promote the development of equipment and infrastructure needed to facilitate the use of electric
power and natural gas to fuel lowExisting law, enacted as part of thein consultation with the Energy Commission and state board, to direct electrical corporations to file applications
for programs and investments to accelerate widespread transportation eledependence on petroleum, meet air quality standards, achieve the goals set forth in the Charge Ahead California
Initiative, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and to 80% below 1990 levels by 205reform the electric vehicle charging infrastructure approval
process employed by the Public Utilities Commission to help ensure that by 2030, California will safely install enouports to meet the demand for charging infrastructure through public
and private investment.Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to administratively approve an application to install nondiscretionary permit subject to a limited review
by the building official of that city, county, or city and county. Existing law allows the building official to reofficial finds that the station could have a specific, adverse impact
upon the public health or safety, and prohibits the city, county, or city and county from denying the application for a use permit toelectric vehicle charging station unless it makes
written findings that the proposed installation would have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety, and there is no feasible method to satisfactorily mitigate or
avoid the spvehicle charging station to be deemed complete if, 5 business days after the application was submitted, the city, county, or city and county has not deemed the applicationwould
require an application to install an electric vehicle charging station to be deemed approved if, 15 business days after the application was submitted, the city, county, or city and
county has not approved thebuilding official has not made findings that the proposed installation could have an adverse impact, as described above, and required the applicant to apply
provisions and other existing laws. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation aCommission), working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission
(PUC), to prepare a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric emission vehicles on California roads by 2030, and
of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Existing law require the Energy Comm
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AB 2145TingTransportation electrification: vehicle charging stations.AB 2168McCartyPlanning and zoning: electric vehicle charging stations: permit application: approval.SB HertzbergElectric
vehicle charging master plan.
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gical development of electric vehicles and infrastructure. The bill would require the Energy
mission vehicles by 2030.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
once every 2 years.This bill would require the Energy Commission, as a part of each update to the assessment, to conduct an assessment of certain factors and how those factors will affect
the market for and technoloCommission to convene the EV Infrastructure Council, which the bill would establish, to develop an Electric Vehicle Charging Master Plan, as specified. The
bill wono less than 250,000 publicly available electric vehicle charging station plugs by 2025 and would require the commission to develop an electric vehicle charging station deployment
goal to support 5 million zeroe