Existing law, the Mobilehome Residency Law, prescribes various terms and conditions of tenancies in mobilehome parks. The law defines "mobilehome park" for these purposes to mean an area of land where 2 or more mobilehome sites are rented, or held out for rent, to accommodate mobilehomes used for human habitation. The law caps the amount by which management of a qualified mobilehome park may increase the gross rental rate for a tenancy over the course of any 12-month period. The cap is the lower of 5% of the lowest gross rental rate charge for a tenancy at any time during the preceding 12 months or 3% of that amount plus the percentage change in the cost of living. Under that law, a mobilehome park is subject to that cap if it is located within and governed by the jurisdictions of 2 or more incorporated cities. This bill would instead make any mobilehome park subject to that cap. The bill would make conforming changes related to these provisions.
Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of specified counties to, by ordinance, consolidate the duties of the offices of Auditor-Controller and Treasurer-Tax Collector into the elected office of Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector. This bill would additionally authorize the board of supervisors of the County of Amador to consolidate the duties of the offices of Auditor-Controller and Treasurer-Tax Collector into the elected office of Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector when a vacancy in either the office of Auditor-Controller or in the office of Treasurer-Tax Collector occurs. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Amador. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, or city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Under existing law, a part of the housing element is an assessment of housing needs, which includes the locality's share of the regional housing need. Under existing law, the appropriate council of governments, or for cities and counties without a council of governments, the Department of Housing and Community Development, adopts a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each locality in the region. Existing law authorizes a local government to conduct a review or appeal regarding allocation data provided by the department or the council of governments regarding, among other things, the locality's share of the regional housing need. This bill would require certain types of student housing quarters, as determined by the department, that are built within the jurisdiction of a local government, as defined, regardless of whether they have been issued a completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy, to count toward a local government's share of the locality's lower income regional housing needs allocation. The bill would require the department to count the certain types of student housing quarters reported pursuant to specified provisions toward the local government's regional housing needs allocation progress. The Planning and Zoning law requires the planning agency in each city and county, after the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to various entities that includes specified information. This bill would require the report to include the number of certain types of student housing quarters, as determined by the department, that are built within the jurisdiction regardless of whether they have been issued a completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy, as described above, thus far in the housing element cycle, and the income category, by area median income category, that each type of student housing quarters satisfies. By increasing the scope of data required to be reported in the annual report, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings and declarations related to its provisions. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026–27 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
The California Constitution includes a balanced budget provision that prohibits the Legislature from sending a budget bill to the Governor, and prohibits the Governor from signing a budget bill, if the total amount of General Fund appropriations and reserve deposits for the fiscal year exceed General Fund revenues for the fiscal year estimated as of the date of the budget bill's passage. The Constitution requires the Legislature to include that revenue estimate in the budget bill. The Constitution also requires the Legislature to pass a budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year. If that deadline is not met, the Members of the Legislature forfeit any salary or reimbursement for travel or living expenses from midnight on June 15 until the day that the budget bill is presented to the Governor. This measure would authorize the Controller, no later than 30 days after the date of the budget bill's passage, to determine that the budget bill violates the balanced budget provision. If the Controller makes that determination, the Members of the Legislature and the Governor would forfeit their salary and reimbursement for travel or living expenses from the day immediately following the date on which the Controller makes the determination until the date on which a budget bill is enacted.
(1) The California Constitution requires the Legislature to encourage, by all suitable means, the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement. The California Constitution also requires the Legislature to provide for a system of common schools by which a free school is kept up and supported in each district at least 6 months in every year. The California Constitution prohibits public money from being appropriated for the support of any sectarian or denominational school or any school not under the exclusive control of the officers of the public schools. This measure, notwithstanding the constitutional provisions referenced above or any other provision of the California Constitution, would authorize the state, and every agency or political subdivision of the state, to disburse funds pursuant to an agreement between the state and a parent or legal guardian of an eligible child for tuition and education-related expenses associated with attending a private school serving students in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, irrespective of religious affiliation, as provided by statute, and provide tax or other public benefits to private schools serving students in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, irrespective of religious affiliation, to further the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement. (2) The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, set forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts based on one of 3 tests in any given fiscal year, one of which is based on the percentage of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986–87, and 2 of which are based on, among other things, changes in enrollment. The California Constitution measures changes in enrollment by the percentage change in average daily attendance. The California Constitution generally prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the state and each local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of government for the prior fiscal year, adjusted for the change in the cost of living and the change in population, and prescribes procedures for making adjustments to the appropriations limit. The California Constitution defines the change in population of a school district or community college district as the percentage change in the average daily attendance of the school district or community college district from the preceding fiscal year, as determined by a method prescribed by the Legislature. For purposes of measuring changes in enrollment as they relate to computing the minimum amount of revenues the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts, and for purposes of measuring the change in population of a school district or community college district to determine the total annual appropriations limit for school districts and community college districts, this measure would define average daily attendance to include all children enrolled in public kindergarten schools, elementary schools, and secondary schools and all children who are eligible to enroll in public kindergarten schools, elementary schools, and secondary schools but have chosen to fund their kindergarten, elementary, or secondary education with a School Choice Flex Account or Special Education Flex Account, as provided. (3) The California Constitution generally prohibits the Legislature from enacting a statute to modify or change the manner in which ad valorem property tax revenues are allocated to local agencies, except as provided. This measure would authorize the Legislature, by statute, to require the allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues in the manner described in the School Choice Flex Account Act of 2025. (4) This measure would provide that its provisions are severable and would require the Attorney General to defend against any action challenging the validity of the measure, as provided.
This Senate Resolution (SR 57) symbolically acknowledges the 16th anniversary of California-Mexico Advocacy Day, an annual event organized by the Senate’s Select Committee on California-Mexico Cooperation. It recognizes the importance of California-Mexico economic ties - supporting over 500,000 California jobs through trade - and highlights the event’s role in discussing cross-border issues like public health and border commerce. The resolution has no policy impact; it simply formally recognizes the event through a symbolic Senate acknowledgment.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to propose a constitutional amendment that would require all states to adopt nonpartisan, independent redistricting commissions to draw congressional and legislative district lines.
The California Constitution establishes the Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is required to adjust the boundary lines of congressional, Senate, Assembly, and State Board of Equalization districts in each year ending in 1. If enacted by the Legislature and approved by the voters, ACA 8 of the 2025–26 Regular Session would adopt new congressional district boundaries that would remain in effect until the commission next adjusts the boundaries in 2031, if another state also adopts new congressional district boundaries between August 1, 2025, and January 1, 2031. If ACA 8 is enacted by the Legislature and approved by the voters, and a specified provision of that measure becomes operative, this measure would prohibit a Member of the Legislature who voted in favor of ACA 8 from being a candidate for congressional office in any congressional district adopted pursuant to ACA 8.
Under existing law, the executive branch of state government includes the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. This reorganization plan, as of July 1, 2026, would eliminate that agency and instead establish in state government the Business and Consumer Services Agency and the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, and would make conforming changes. The plan would provide that the California Housing and Homelessness Agency consists of specified departments. The plan would require the Secretary of California Housing and Homelessness to take various actions, including coordinating specified policies and programs, considering opportunities to align specified requirements and timelines, and coordinating with other departments and agencies, to achieve specified objectives. The plan would specify that the Business and Consumer Services Agency is headed by the Secretary of Business and Consumer Services, and require the California Housing and Homelessness Agency and the Business and Consumer Services Agency, as specified, to coordinate state policy, programs, and funding to help the state achieve its objectives related to housing, homelessness, and consumer protections and minimize service disruption due to the dissolution of the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, as provided. This reorganization plan, as of July 1, 2026, would establish the Housing Development and Finance Committee within the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, headed by an executive director, and, upon appropriation, require all multifamily affordable housing programs, as defined, to be administered by the committee, as specified. This reorganization plan would establish within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency a Housing Development and Finance Executive Committee for the purpose of centralizing affordable housing finance policymaking across state government. The plan would transfer the executive committee to the Housing Development Finance Committee effective July 1, 2026. The plan would require the executive committee to take various actions, including coordinating a cohesive and integrated housing finance system, overseeing the allocation of multifamily affordable housing programs, creating a consolidated application for multifamily affordable housing developers and a coordinated review process for the application of funds, and streamlining compliance monitoring of affordable multifamily rental housing developments, as specified. Existing law requires the Governor to establish the Interagency Council on Homelessness and requires the council to consist of specified members. Under existing law, there is an executive officer of the council who is under the direction of the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the council is required to be staffed by employees of the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. This reorganization plan would establish the California Interagency Council on Homelessness as an independent entity within the California Housing and Homelessness Agency and would rename the existing council as the California Interagency Executive Council on Homelessness and establish it within the California Interagency Council on Homelessness. This reorganization plan would authorize state agencies, departments, or entities to take actions prior to July 1, 2026, that are necessary to ensure that the provisions of the plan become operative on July 1, 2026, and are implemented in a timely fashion, as specified.
This measure would designate September 2, 2025, as Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) in the State of California in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
This measure would declare Monday, April 14, 2025, to Friday, April 25, 2025, inclusive, as High School Voter Education Weeks and would strongly encourage local educational agencies to dedicate at least one of those 2 weeks to educating pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, on the electoral process, as provided. The measure would encourage local educational agencies to provide digital and physical resources necessary to provide this instruction and would encourage the governing boards or bodies of local educational agencies to contract with third-party nonprofit organizations, as provided, to accomplish this instruction.
