Local agencies: domestic violence.

Existing law specifies the powers and duties common to cities, counties, and other public agencies. Existing law defines domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and abuse of an elder or dependent adult. This bill would prohibit a local agency, as defined, from requiring a landlord to terminate a tenancy or fail to renew a tenancy based upon an act against a tenant or a tenant's household member that constitutes domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and abuse of an elder or dependent adult or based upon the number of calls made by a person to the emergency telephone system relating to the tenant or a member of the tenant's household being a victim of an act constituting domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and abuse of an elder or dependent adult. The bill would also declare that the need to protect tenants referenced in this bill is a matter of statewide concern and not a municipal affair, and that, therefore, all cities, including charter cities, would be subject to the provisions of the bill.