Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to propose the establishment of an enhanced infrastructure financing district, in accordance with specified procedures, to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for persons of low and moderate income for rent or purchase. This bill would authorize the legislative body of a city or county to propose the establishment of an affordable housing financing authority by adopting a resolution of intention to form a district that complies with specified requirements. The bill would limit the activities of a district established pursuant to these provisions to financing the development of affordable housing, as defined, within its territorial boundaries, infrastructure to support that housing, and specified related costs. The bill would require the legislative body of the city or county proposing the establishment of a district to serve as the governing board of the district. The bill would require the city or county engineer, or other appropriate official designated by the governing board of the district, to prepare an affordable housing financing plan, as provided. The bill would authorize the affordable housing financing plan to include a provision for the division of taxes, except as provided. The bill would require a district to spend at least 80% of its funding derived from the division of taxes on affordable housing and would prohibit the district from spending more than 20% of those funds on affordable housing-related infrastructure. This bill would authorize an affordable housing finance district to enter into a contract with the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) that includes specified provisions, including a provision requiring the district to remit the entirety of the amount allocated to it by a division of taxes to CalHFA and that CalHFA will transfer that amount to the custody of the Treasurer for deposit in the Affordable Housing Tax Increment Pooling Trust Fund (trust fund) , which this bill would create and continuously appropriate to CalHFA. The bill would require CalHFA to issue revenue bonds, in accordance with specified procedures, secured by moneys in the trust fund and allocate the proceeds of those bonds to districts with which it has a contract in proportion to the amount remitted by each district. The bill would specify that moneys in the trust fund are nonstate moneys and are instead the property of, and held in trust on behalf of, the districts that contract with CalHFA under these provisions. The bill would require that a district use the proceeds of revenue bonds allocated to it pursuant to these provisions for those purposes enumerated in the affordable housing financing plan. This bill would also establish the Affordable Housing Financing Fund and make the moneys in that fund available to CalHFA upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would also create the Tax Increment Pooling Loss Reserve Account (loss reserve account) . The bill, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, would require the Controller to transfer moneys from the loss reserve account to the trust fund in any fiscal year in which CalHFA notifies the Joint Legislative Budget Committee that there are insufficient moneys in the trust fund to pay the debt service on the revenue bonds, as described above. The bill would make various conforming changes to other laws relating to state moneys and the division of taxes by local agencies to issue revenue bonds. By adding to the duties of county auditors with respect to the allocation of property tax revenues, 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.
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Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, at least once every 3 years, to conduct an assessment of the needs of low-income electricity and gas ratepayers to evaluate low-income program implementation and the effectiveness of weatherization services and energy efficiency measures in low-income households. This bill instead would require the commission to conduct the assessment biennially.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission, to prepare, and update biennially, a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required for the state to meet its goals of putting at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030, and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, as specified. This bill would instead establish a goal of putting at least 8,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030 for purposes of the statewide assessment and would require the Energy Commission to also assess the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required for the state to meet the goal of ensuring 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in California are zero-emission vehicles by 2035, and evaluate the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needs of specified use cases to ensure an equitable deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Existing law requires the Energy Commission to develop and adopt an investment plan to determine priorities and opportunities for the Clean Transportation Program. As part of the development of the investment plan, existing law requires the Energy Commission, in consultation with the state board, to assess whether electric vehicle charging station infrastructure is disproportionately deployed by population density, geographical area, or population income level, including whether direct current fast charging stations are disproportionately distributed and whether access to these charging stations is disproportionately available, as specified. This bill would require the Energy Commission to also assess whether Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations are disproportionately distributed, whether drivers whose homes are located in rural or urban communities have disproportionate access to charging station infrastructure, whether homes have equal access to electrical panel capacity sufficient to support at-home charging, and whether charging station infrastructure necessary to fulfill the requirements of the California Clean Miles Standard and Incentive Program has been disproportionately distributed.
Existing law establishes, among various other programs intended to address homelessness in this state, the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 4 rounds, which are to be administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness. Existing law requires $1,000,000,000 be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in the 2022–23 fiscal year for implementing round 4 of the program, and requires all round 4 program funds be expended by June 30, 2027, or revert to, and be paid and deposited in, the General Fund. This bill would instead require all round 4 program funds be expended by July 1, 2027, and would make conforming changes.
Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law establishes various incentive programs that are administered or funded by the state board to provide financial assistance for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles by individuals, including, among others, the Clean Cars 4 All Program. This bill would require the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to ensure that beginning January 1, 2025, an additional incentive, to be known as a "superuser incentive," is awarded under a zero-emission vehicle incentive program that is administered or funded by the state board to a gasoline superuser, as defined, who otherwise qualifies for an incentive under the zero-emission vehicle incentive program. The bill would require the state board to set the amount of the superuser incentive at a level that maximizes the displacement of gasoline and the reduction of emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases per dollar spent. The bill would require specified information to be provided by an applicant for the additional incentive under penalty of perjury. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2025, to develop and implement a strategy to, among other things, identify the drivers who are gasoline superusers and are low or moderate income and expedite the replacement of the vehicles of those drivers, as specified. The bill would require the state board to submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2025, and every 2 years thereafter, regarding the zero-emission vehicle incentive programs administered or funded by the state board. 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 requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the overall effectiveness of any additional funding appropriated by the Legislature after July 1, 2019, in improving peace officer training. Existing law requires the report to include the number of peace officers trained, the training provided, and the description of the training, as specified. This bill would require the report to also include when the training was made available and how frequently it was offered.
Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. Existing law establishes a schedule of basic rates to be paid for the care and supervision of each foster child, administered by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law also establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP) , which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who have a kinship guardianship, and the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC) , which provides payments to approved relative caregivers who are caring for children and nonminor dependents who are ineligible for AFDC-FC payments. Existing law requires a monthly basic rate to be paid for a nonminor dependent placed in a licensed foster family home or with a resource family, or placed in an approved home of a relative or approved home of a nonrelative extended family member, or placed in a supervised independent living placement, as specified. This bill, commencing July 1, 2025, and subject to an appropriation, would create a housing supplement to the basic rate paid for a nonminor dependent placed in a supervised independent living placement, as specified. The bill would require the department to work with the County Welfare Directors Association of California and the Statewide Automated Welfare System (CalSAWS) to develop and implement the necessary system changes to implement the housing supplement. The bill would require the monthly housing supplement payment to be made to the nonminor dependent in one lump sum and prorated based on the number of days in a month the dependent is in a placement. The bill would prohibit an overpayment from being collected on this housing supplement. The bill would require the department to calculate this housing supplement by November 1 of each year and inform county welfare agencies, by means of all-county letters or similar written instructions, by July 1 of the following year of the amount of the supplement. The bill would require the department to report by county, the amount paid to nonminor dependents placed in supervised independent living placements, as specified. Because counties would administer these extended benefits, 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.
Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for temporary food facilities, and defines a temporary food facility to mean a food facility approved by an enforcement officer to operate at a fixed location for the duration of a community event, as specified. Existing law defines a community event as an event conducted for not more than 25 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a 90-day period and that is of a civic, political, public, or educational nature, including state and county fairs, city festivals, circuses, and other public gathering events approved by the local enforcement agency. Existing law prohibits a temporary food facility from being open for business without a valid permit. Existing law requires an enforcement agency to issue a permit when investigation has determined a proposed facility meets the specifications of approved plans or conforms to the requirements of the California Retail Food Code. Existing law provides that a permit is only valid for the person, location, type of food sales, or distribution activity and, unless suspended or revoked for cause, for the time period indicated. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is a misdemeanor. This bill would include in the definition of a community event a farmers' market or night market conducted for not more than 90 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a 12-month period. The bill would require a permit issued for a temporary food facility that operates at a farmers' market or night market to be valid for all locations of that community event. The bill would designate a permit issued pursuant to these provisions as a farmers' market or night market temporary food facility permit. By creating a new type of permit to be issued, thereby imposing duties on local enforcement agencies, and by changing the definition of 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities, as provided. Existing law defines load-serving entity as an electrical corporation, electric service provider, or community choice aggregator. Existing law requires the commission to calculate and publish annually on its internet website, in a new report or as part of another report, the percentage of each load-serving entity's local and system resource adequacy requirements from the previous calendar year that was met with capacity from eligible renewable energy resources, other zero-carbon resources, or energy storage resources. This bill instead would require the commission to calculate and publish this information biannually.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to identify the existing and projected housing needs of all economic segments of the community. Existing federal law requires a continuum of care, a group organized under the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, to develop a plan that includes planning for and conducting, at least biennially, a point-in-time count of homeless persons within the geographic area. Existing law requires that information from the point-in-time count be used to, among other things, allocate funding for the Homeless Emergency Aid program and Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program. This bill would require a city, county, and city and county, within 60 days after the local continuum of care releases the results of a point-in-time count for a city, county, or city and county's jurisdiction, to, among other things, agendize the point-in-time count results at a meeting of the city, county, or city and county and present the steps the city, county, or city and county is taking to prevent and end homelessness, including, but not limited to, consideration of specified actions. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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, 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.