Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and sets forth its powers and duties, including the administration of various housing programs, including the State Rental Assistance Program, which allocates federally provided funds as block grants to provide rental assistance to eligible households, as provided. This bill would establish the California Rent Relief Program, which would be administered by the department. The bill would require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to make block grant allocations to grantees to provide rental assistance to eligible households. This bill would require grantees, as defined, to contract with nonprofit corporations to distribute block grant funds. The bill would require a grantee to agree to use its block grant funds consistent with the bill's provisions. The bill would authorize the department to require the grantee to pay back the block grant funds that are spent in a manner inconsistent with the bill's provisions, and would authorize the department to reallocate those funds for these purposes. This bill would, for the duration of the program, require the department to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee every 6 months on the programmatic performance metrics for block grant funds. The bill would require grantees to provide information necessary for the department to comply with these reporting requirements.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Existing law requires ministerial approval of ADUs, as specified, if the local agency does not adopt an ordinance governing ADUs. Under existing law, a local agency is also required to ministerially approve an application for a building permit within a residential or mixed-use zone to create any of specified variations of ADUs. Existing law also authorizes a local agency to provide for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units (JADUs) in single-family residential zones, as specified. This bill would authorize a local agency to adopt an ordinance that allows the local agency to inspect an ADU or JADU to ensure that the unit is used for dwelling purposes consistent with specified requirements.
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer's personal information. Existing law prohibits a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, in the case of a consumer at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age, or the consumer's parent or guardian, in the case of a consumer who is less than 13 years of age, has affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the consumer's personal information. Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, prohibits a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children from collecting, selling, sharing, or retaining any personal information that is not necessary to provide an online service, product, or feature with which a child is actively and knowingly engaged, or as specified, unless the business can demonstrate a compelling reason that the collecting, selling, sharing, or retaining of the personal information is in the best interests of children likely to access the online service, product, or feature. This bill would prohibit a social media platform or video game from collecting the personal information of a minor unless otherwise required by law to do so. The bill would define "minor" to mean a person who is no more than 18 years of age.
Existing law creates various transit districts with specified powers and duties related to providing public transit services. This bill would require the state, to the extent feasible, to prioritize using advertising space offered by a public transit operator over other advertising space for a public awareness campaign, as specified.
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. Existing law requires the housing element to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints to meeting those needs. Existing law requires the assessment and inventory to include, among other things, documentation of projections and a quantification of the locality's existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, as defined, and the locality's share of the regional housing need, as specified. Existing law requires each planning agency, after the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, to, among other things, provide an annual report to specified entities that includes specified information, including the progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would require each planning agency, in their above-described annual report, to include the number of rental housing units and for-sale units that have been completed, as evidenced by the project's certificate of occupancy, pursuant to the above-described assessment and inventory. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law authorizes a clean needle and syringe exchange project in any city, county, or city and county upon the action of a county board of supervisors and the local health officer or health commission of that county, or upon the action of the city council, the mayor, and the local health officer of a city with a health department, or upon the action of the city council and the mayor of a city without a health department. Existing law also authorizes the State Department of Public Health to authorize certain entities to apply to the department to provide hypodermic needle and syringe exchange services in any location where the department determines that the conditions exist for the rapid spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) , viral hepatitis, or any other potentially deadly or disabling infections that are spread through the sharing of used hypodermic needles and syringes. Existing law requires the department to authorize the entity after consultation with the local health officer and local law enforcement leadership, and authorizes the department to reauthorize the program in consultation with the local health officer and local law enforcement leadership. This bill would instead authorize a clean needle and syringe exchange project in any city, county, or city and county that chooses to participate. The bill would instead require the department to authorize the entities to apply to the department after the approval from the participating city, county, or city and county, and would instead authorize the department to reauthorize the program with the approval of the participating city, county, or city and county. The bill would prohibit the department from authorizing a clean needle and syringe exchange project without the approval of the city, county, or city and county. Existing law requires the department to, at least 45 days before approval of an entity's application, provide for a period of public comment and to, among other things, send a written and an email notice to the local health officer of the affected jurisdiction. Existing law requires the department to provide a biennial report to the local health officer based on the reports from service providers that are within the jurisdiction of the local health officer and that are authorized by the department to provide hypodermic needle and syringe exchange services. This bill would instead require the department to send a written and an email notice to the affected city, county, or city and county. The bill would require the department to provide the biennial report to the city, county, or city and county.
Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of the failure or inability of their parent or guardian to adequately supervise or protect the child. Existing law authorizes a peace officer, probation officer, or social worker, without a warrant, to take a minor into temporary custody for various reasons, including when the child has been declared a dependent of the juvenile court or there is reasonable cause to believe the minor comes within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Existing law permits a social worker or the juvenile court to authorize the performance of medical, surgical, dental, or other remedial care needed by a child who is in temporary custody, who is a dependent of the juvenile court and placed under the supervision of a social worker, or for whom a dependency petition has been filed after notifying the parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of the child. This bill would additionally permit, in the absence of a standing court order, a social worker to authorize a noninvasive initial medical, dental, and mental health screening of a child in temporary custody. The bill would require the social worker to make reasonable attempts to notify the parent that the child will be undergoing a screening and to provide the parent with a reasonable opportunity to object. The bill would provide that if the parent objects, the screening may be conducted only upon the order of the court. The bill would also add mental health care, as defined, to the medical and dental care that may be authorized for a child who is in temporary custody, who is a dependent of the juvenile court and placed under the supervision of a social worker, or for whom a dependency petition has been filed.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law deems a housing development project an allowable use on any real property owned by a local educational agency if the housing development satisfies specified conditions, including, among others, consisting of at least 10 housing units, 100% of the units are rented by local educational agency employees, local public employees, and general members of the public pursuant to a specified priority, and a majority of the units are deed restricted for lower income or moderate-income households, as specified. This bill, the Affordable Housing on K–12 Lands Act of 2024, would deem a housing development project a use by right, as defined, if certain criteria are satisfied, including that the development is located on land owned by a local educational agency and the height of the development does not exceed the height limit allowed on the parcel by the city or county or 35 feet, whichever is higher. The bill would require that the units of the housing development be made available to employees of the local educational agency, employees of directly adjacent local educational agencies, local public employees, unhoused students, and members of the general public according to the housing needs of the local educational agency. The bill would require that at least 30% of the units of the development project's total units, exclusive of a manager's unit or units, be for lower income households and 20% for persons and families of low and moderate income, as specified. This bill would require a development proponent to certify to the local government that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require the Labor Commissioner to enforce the obligation to pay prevailing wages. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify that the requirements to pay prevailing wages, use a workforce participating in an apprenticeship, or provide health care expenditures do not apply to a project that consists of 10 or fewer units and is not otherwise a public work. This bill would require the development to meet objective planning standards, would authorize the development to include specified ancillary uses, and would require the development to provide specified off-street parking, except as specified. This bill would subject the local government to certain requirements, timelines for project approval, and limitations, including that a local government would be prohibited from imposing any requirement that applies to a project solely or partially on the basis that the project is eligible to receive streamlined, ministerial review pursuant to these provisions. The bill, if the local government determines that the proposed development is in conflict with any of the objective planning standards, would require the local government to provide the development proponent written documentation of which standard or standards the development conflicts with, and an explanation for the reason or reasons the development conflicts with that standard or standards, within the specified timeframes based on the number of housing units in the development. The 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 it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects. This bill, by establishing the streamlined, ministerial review process described above, would exempt the approval of adaptive reuse projects subject to those processes from CEQA. 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. Existing law, prior to the sale, lease, or rental of any excess real property, requires the governing board of each school district to appoint a school district advisory committee to advise the governing board of the school district in the development of districtwide policies and procedures governing the use or disposition of school buildings or space in school buildings which is not needed for school purposes. Notwithstanding that law, existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to elect not to appoint a school district advisory committee in the sale, lease, or rental of excess real property to be used for teacher or school district employee housing. This bill would also authorize the governing board of a school district to elect not to appoint a school district advisory committee in the sale, lease, or rental of excess real property to be used for a housing development subject to the use by right process described above. By requiring a local government to implement the above-described use by right process, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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 specified reasons.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including water corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. This bill would require rates charged by a water corporation for water service on Santa Catalina Island to be affordable. Because the provisions of the bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of a commission action implementing the bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.
Existing law, the Mobilehome Residency Law, prescribes various terms and conditions of tenancies in mobilehome parks. Existing law defines "tenancy" for these purposes as the right of a homeowner to use a site within a mobilehome park on which to locate, maintain, and occupy a mobilehome for human habitation, including the use of the services and facilities of the park. Existing law, until January 1, 2030, prohibits, with certain exceptions, the management of a mobilehome park from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy in a qualified mobilehome park more than 3% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, as defined, or 5%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for a tenancy at any time during the 12 months prior to the effective date of the increase, subject to specified conditions. Existing law defines "qualified mobilehome park" for these purposes as a mobilehome park that is located within and governed by the jurisdictions of 2 or more incorporated cities. This bill would enact the Mobilehome Affordability Act. The bill would prohibit the management of a mobilehome park from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy for a mobilehome space more than 3% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, as defined, or 5%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for a tenancy at any time during the 12 months prior to the effective date of the increase, as specified. The bill would prohibit management from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy in more than 2 increments over a 12-month period, after the tenant maintains the tenancy over a 12-month period. Notwithstanding these provisions, the bill would authorize management to increase the rental rate by 5% after a transfer of a mobilehome park, as specified. This bill would specify that these provisions apply to rent increases for mobilehome spaces occurring on or after January 1, 2024. The bill would provide that in the event that management increased the rent by more than the amount specified above between January 1, 2024, and January 1, 2025, then the applicable rent on January 1, 2025, is the rent as of January 1, 2024, plus the maximum permissible increase, and that management is not liable to the homeowner for any corresponding rent overpayment. The bill would void any waiver of the rights provided under these provisions. The bill would exempt specified mobilehome spaces from these provisions. The bill would not apply to a mobilehome park when a local government has adopted an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure before January 1, 2025, that establishes a maximum amount that may be charged by management for rent or otherwise regulates the rental rate for a mobilehome tenancy in that mobilehome park. The bill would provide that its provisions shall not impair, alter, or change any rental term or obligation contained in a rental agreement in effect between management and a resident as of January 1, 2025, and which was entered into or became effective before January 1, 2024, except as described.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or any extension of a line, plant, or system, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require its construction. Southern California Edison Company has submitted an application to the commission for that certificate for the proposed Riverside Transmission Reliability Project (RTRP) in the County of Riverside. This bill would require the commission, as part of the proceeding on that application, to suspend the implementation of a commission decision regarding the project, as described, until a supplemental environmental impact report has been prepared and submitted for the commission's consideration to address updated information on the wildfire risk associated with the construction and operation of the RTRP, as specified. The bill would require the supplemental environmental impact report to reconsider the feasibility and environmental impacts of alternatives to the adopted RTRP route and to consider the social and economic impact on the communities adjacent to the RTRP route. The bill would require the commission to consider the environmental impacts of the RTRP in determining whether to certify the new supplemental environmental impact report, and to accept testimony from affected communities and stakeholders on the feasibility and cost of the RTRP and any other feasible alternatives as part of its determination of whether the project is in the public interest.
Existing law makes it a crime to solicit or encourage a minor to commit specified crimes relating to controlled substances, to hire or employ a minor to transport or sell controlled substances, or to sell or give controlled substances to minors. Existing law makes a person who is 18 years of age or older who violates these provisions with respect to heroin, cocaine, or cocaine base on the grounds of specified buildings, including, among others, playgrounds and childcare facilities, subject to punishment with an additional enhancement in the state prison of one year. This bill would make that enhancement also apply to a violation of those provisions with respect to fentanyl if the person had knowledge that the specific controlled substance they possessed was fentanyl. By expanding the scope of crimes and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.
