ENVIRONMENT / CLEAN ENERGY
AB 2 (Solar Recycling): Will establish a convenient, safe, and environmentally sustainable system for the end-of-life management of solar photovoltaic panels. The program will focus on the reuse of eligible panels, the recovery of commercially valuable materials, and the minimization of potentially hazardous waste.
AB 1238 (Solar Alternative Management Standards): Will direct the Department of Toxic Substances Control to develop alternative management standards for the recycling of solar photovoltaic panels.
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
AB 1999 (Ratepayer Fixed Charge - Irwin, Ward et al): Will repeal a mandate for the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to create an income-based fixed-charge fee to be paid by residential ratepayers.
HOUSING
AB 1333 (Bulk Home Sales: Institutional Investors): Prohibits the bulk sale of two or more parcels of single-family homes to institutional investors. This would grant families and individuals the same opportunity to purchase homes, which would otherwise be sold directly to institutional investors in bulk transactions, without ever entering the market, once an occupancy permit is issued.
AB 1635 (Hillcrest DMV): Modifies current law relating to the Department of Motor Vehicles facility located in the Hillcrest neighborhood in the City of San Diego, to ensure that it be used for the development of affordable housing and maximize redevelopment potential on the site.
AB 2005 (CSU Low-Income Housing Tax Credit): Enables California State University (CSU) campuses to utilize the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit for the purpose of developing affordable housing for CSU faculty, staff, and students on CSU owned land.
AB 2353 (Property Taxation: Welfare Exemption): Will ensure non-profit affordable rental housing developers can access the existing welfare property tax exemption without floating unnecessary tax payments while their application is under review, reducing the cost of constructing affordable housing.
AB 2597 (Planning and Zoning: Revision of Housing Elements): Will ease time crunches in housing element adoption timelines for the state’s largest metropolitan planning organization – the Southern California Association of Governments – by creating two phases of housing element due dates for SCAG jurisdictions. This will foster better review and technical input opportunities for SCAG jurisdictions, the Department of Housing and Community Development, interested stakeholders, and the public by smoothing out the significant workload required when creating, reviewing, and adopting housing elements.
AB 2638 (Department of Housing and Community Development Loans): Will allow the sales and refinancing of Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) financed projects in order to deploy loan repayments into additional affordable housing opportunities. This bill will unlock millions of dollars in loan repayments for HCD to use to increase the stock of desperately needed affordable homes.
AB 2694 (Senior Housing): Expands the Density Bonus Law to include the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. This will ensure that we provide adequate affordable housing opportunities for our aging population.
AB 2893 (Recovery Residences): Creates a certification structure for recovery residences that will follow housing first policies. Allows for an intermediary option that provides more services than transitional housing, but is more flexible in treatment than sober-living facilities and clinical level treatment centers.
AB 2934 (Building Standards Updates): Will direct the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to create a working group to explore allowing “missing middle” developments between three and 10 units to be built under the requirements of the California Residential Code, rather than the California Building Code.
HOMELESSNESS
AB 1316 (Emergency Services: Psychiatric Emergency Medical Conditions - Irwin and Ward): Would ensure that Medi-Cal managed care plans reimburse hospitals for care and referrals provided after normal business hours to people experiencing a mental health crisis.
AJR 14 (Continuum of Care Formula): Requests that the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development revisit the formula used to allocate federal homelessness dollars to local Continuum of Care and housing authorities to more equitably support communities with the highest rates of homelessness.
INVESTMENTS
AB 2524 (ScholarShare Rollover Funds): Will allow individuals with money in a 529 education account to roll over the remaining funds into a Roth-IRA, resulting in higher confidence in long-term accessibility to funds, as well as more trust in investing in 529 accounts, resulting in increased contributions and savings to existing and new accounts.
COMMUNITY PROTECTIONS
AB 1979 (Doxing Victims Recourse Act): Will provide recourse for victims who have been harmed as a result of being doxed by allowing a victim to pursue civil action to receive restitution for the harms endured as a result of being doxed.
AB 3024 (The Stop Hate Littering Act): Will protect individuals from the distribution of hateful propaganda in the form of flyers, posters, or symbols with the intent to terrorize vulnerable communities. These forms of hateful propaganda have rapidly become the preferred tactic of hate groups because it maximizes personal impact, while allowing them to remain anonymous and avoid accountability.
EDUCATION
AB 1858 (School Shooter Drills): Standardizes the guidance for how school shooter drills are done at the K-12 education levels. This new guidance will add clarity, require parental notification, forbid simulated gunfire, and require age-appropriate practices.
AB 1884 (Department of Defense Excused Absences): Clarifies the definition of combat related excused absences for K-12 students of active-duty parents in the military. Smaller school districts will no longer struggle with the vague and antiquated definition currently in statute that poses an ADA funding risk to them.
AB 1955 (Pupil Health): School-based health services and school-based mental health services - increases local educational agencies participation in programs that offer reimbursement for school-based health and mental health services, helping schools draw down crucial funds to cover the cost of student health and mental health services.
TRANSPORTATION
AB 1904 (Transit Buses: Yield Right-of-Way Sign): Will allow all transit agencies to exercise the authority to affix flashing LED yield right-of-way signs to the left rear of their buses, reducing dwell times and facilitating reentry into traffic, provided the transit agency’s governing board approves a resolution on the matter.
AB 3093 (Adaptive Driving Beams): Will authorize every new passenger vehicle, motor truck, and bus manufactured or sold in the state to be equipped with headlamps with adaptive driving beam technology, which creates a safer nighttime driving environment for both the driver and other vehicles using the roads.
GOVERNMENT
AB 2489 (Equal Qualifications Contracting): Requires local governments mandate hiring qualification parity, such as education, experience, and background checks, when contracting out government jobs to private businesses.
AB 2832 (GO-Biz & CDFA International Procurement): Will enable the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to enter into contracting and procurement agreements for international affairs, making it more efficient to utilize existing Economic Development and Trade Promotion Accounts and specified grant funds for the benefit of supporting California exporters.