Existing law governs the hiring of residential dwelling units and establishes provisions for the renewal or termination of a hiring of residential real property for an unspecified term. Existing law requires that an owner of a residential dwelling generally give at least 60 days' notice prior to termination or, in the case of a tenant or resident that has resided in the dwelling for less than one year or if certain other conditions apply, 30 days' notice prior to termination. Existing law provides that a tenant of real property is guilty of unlawful detainer in certain circumstances, including that the tenant continues in possession of the property after the expiration of the term for which it is let to him or her, as provided. This bill would prohibit a landlord from terminating a tenancy, or seeking to recover possession from a tenant who continues in possession of property after the expiration of the term for which it is let, as described above, except for cause, as set forth with particularity in the notice. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to encourage or incentivize cities to enact just cause eviction ordinances in order to prevent unnecessary displacement of tenants. The bill would state that its provisions are in addition to, and do not supersede or preempt, any other state or local law regulating the grounds for eviction or the termination of a tenancy.
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The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones, requires the ordinance to designate areas within the local jurisdiction where accessory dwelling units may be permitted, and sets forth standards the ordinance is required to impose, including, among others, maximum unit size, parking, lot coverage, and height standards. The State Housing Law requires, with an exception for building standards adopted, amended or repealed by the State Fire Marshal, the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of building standards to the California Building Standards Commission, as specified, and adopt, amend, and repeal other rules and regulations for the protection of the public health, safety, and general welfare of the occupant and the public governing the erection, construction, enlargement, conversion, alteration, repair, moving, removal, demolition, occupancy, use, height, court, area, sanitation, ventilation and maintenance of all apartment houses and dwellings, and buildings and structures accessory thereto. This bill would revise and recast the above-described provisions regarding accessory dwelling units to authorize the ordinance adopted for the creation of accessory dwelling units to designate areas where accessory dwelling units are excluded for health and safety purposes based on clear findings supported by substantial evidence. The bill would limit the types of standards that a local agency may impose on accessory dwelling units, including parking, height, size, and setback requirements, and would revise certain standards as specified. The bill would include among the standards a requirement that the accessory dwelling unit comply with building standards in effect prior to the effective date of small home building standards that the bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to create, as specified, and submit to the California Building Standards Commission by January 1, 2020. The bill would require compliance with the latter building standards after their effective date. The bill would require a local agency that has not adopted an ordinance for accessory dwelling units to consider the permit ministerially without discretionary review or a hearing, and would deem an application approved if the local agency does not act on the submitted application within 60 days. The bill would prohibit an accessory dwelling unit on a single-family lot, when assessed as new construction, from triggering a reassessment of the value of the underlying land and structures. The bill would require a local agency, regardless of whether it has adopted an ordinance, to ministerially approve an application for a building permit to create one or more accessory dwelling units in specified circumstances. Existing law prohibits an accessory dwelling unit from being considered by a local agency, special district, or water corporation to be a new residential use for purposes of calculating connection fees or capacity charges for utilities. Existing law prohibits requirements for the installation of a new or separate utility connection between the accessory dwelling unit and the utility, except in instances where an accessory dwelling unit is subject to ministerial approval, as specified, and authorizes fees to be charged in those instances. This bill would instead prohibit an accessory dwelling unit from being considered by a local agency, special district, or water corporation to be a new residential use for purposes of calculating fees charged for new development, except in certain circumstances when a new or separate utility connection between the accessory dwelling unit and the utility may be required and except for certain fees charged by a school district that the bill would limit to $3,000 per accessory dwelling unit. Existing law requires a local agency to submit an ordinance adopted for the creation of accessory dwelling units to the department and authorizes the department to review and comment on the ordinance. This bill would authorize the department to submit written findings as to whether the ordinance complies with state law and to notify the Attorney General if the ordinance is in violation of state law. The bill would authorize the department to adopt guidelines to implement uniform standards or criteria to supplement or clarify the terms, references, and standards set forth in statute and would exempt the adoption of the guidelines from the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would also revise applicable definitions and make other conforming changes. Existing law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones. This bill would revise these provisions to among other things, require ministerial review of a permit and issuance at the permit within 60 days of application. By increasing the duties of local agencies with respect to land use regulations, 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 prevents a person committed to the custody of the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from being subject to prosecution for a nonfelony offense arising out of, among other things, the operation of a motor vehicle, that is pending against him or her at the time of commitment. Similarly, the driver's license of that person is prohibited from being suspended, revoked, or application therefor denied, as a result of a nonfelony offense pending against him or her at the time of commitment that occurred prior to the time of commitment, or as a result of a failure to appear notice received by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law requires Department of Motor Vehicles to remove from its records a failure to appear notice upon receipt of satisfactory evidence that a person was committed to custody. This bill would additionally extend the above immunity from prosecution and the prohibitions regarding suspending the person's driver's license to a person upon completion of a sentence of 7 days or longer in a county jail, work alternative program, or other alternative to incarceration as a condition of probation. The bill would make these protections applicable to an offense committed while the person is temporarily released from custody, or on parole or postrelease community supervision. The bill would make that person immune from prosecution for an outstanding infraction or failure to appear, from liability for any unpaid fine or assessments, and from having his or her driver's license affected, once the person has been incarcerated for a cumulative 30 or more days in jail in any consecutive 12-month period subsequent to the date of the violation. The bill would authorize an incarcerated, previously incarcerated, or previously convicted person to request the above-described relief directly through the department or the courts, and would prescribe the duties of the department and the courts in that regard.
Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and requires the Attorney General to furnish state summary criminal history information to specified entities and individuals, including an authorized entity for employment, licensing, or certification relative to community care facilities, residential care facilities, and other specified health facilities. Existing law requires the department to provide the requester with every conviction of an offense rendered against the applicant, except for a conviction for which relief was granted to a victim of human trafficking, as specified. This bill would prohibit the department from releasing, for these purposes, the record of convictions that were dismissed pursuant to specified provisions. Existing law requires the department to provide an agency, organization, or individual, including, but not limited to, a cable corporation, in-home supportive services recipient, or property security organization, requesting the information for specified employment purposes with every conviction for which registration as a sex offender is required and, except as specified, every conviction that occurred within 10 years of the date of the request or for which the person was incarcerated within 10 years of the request for information. This bill would require that only convictions from the prior 7 years or for which the person was incarcerated or on probation or parole within 7 years of the request be provided. Existing law requires, when state summary criminal history information is furnished as a result of specified requests, and the information is to be used for employment, licensing, or certification purposes, that the requester furnish the information to the person to whom the information relates if the information is a basis for an adverse employment, licensing, or certification decision. This bill would instead require the department to furnish a copy of the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) to the subject of the request and would require the department to allow the subject a reasonable opportunity of not less than five days to challenge the accuracy or completeness of any matter contained in the CORI prior to furnishing a report to a third party. The bill would require the department to make specified corrections prior to furnishing the information to the requester.
Under existing law, several agencies have prescribed responsibilities relating to homeless persons. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer California's Emergency Solutions Grants Program and make grants under the program to qualifying recipients to implement activities that address the needs of homeless individuals and families and assist them to regain stability in permanent housing as quickly as possible. This bill would establish the Local Homelessness Solutions Program and create the Local Homelessness Solutions Account for the purpose of providing funding to cities, as defined, to create innovative and immediate solutions to the problems caused by homelessness, as specified. The bill would appropriate an unspecified sum from the General Fund to the Local Homelessness Solutions Account and direct the Controller to apportion those funds to cities in proportion to each city's most recent homeless population, as specified. The bill would require cities to match any funds received from the program. The bill would authorize these funds to be expended for, among other things, shelter diversion, rapid rehousing, and permanent supportive housing.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of a local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents. This bill would require a local government to, if requested, grant a development proponent of a transit-rich housing project a transit-rich housing bonus if that development at the time of submittal meets specified planning standards, including complying with demolition permit requirements, complying with any local inclusionary housing ordinance or, if the local government has not adopted an inclusionary housing ordinance, agreeing to provide a specified percentage of awarded units as onsite affordable housing, preparing a relocation benefits and assistance plan, complying with any locally adopted objective zoning standards, complying with any locally adopted minimum unit mix requirements, and if the development includes specified types of parcels, agreeing to replace those units and to offer units at one of 2 specified affordable rates. The bill would define a transit-rich housing project as a residential development project the parcels of which are all within a 12 mile radius of a major transit stop or a 14 mile radius of a stop on a high-quality bus corridor. The bill would exempt an eligible applicant who receives a transit-rich housing bonus from various requirements, including maximum controls on residential density, maximum controls on floor area ratio that are lower than a specified amount, minimum automobile parking requirements except as provided, maximum height limitations that are less than a specified amount unless those increases would have a specific, adverse impact upon public health and safety, and zoning or design controls that have the effect of limiting additions onto existing structures or lots that comply with those maximum floor area ratios and height limitations. The bill would require an eligible applicant, which this bill would define to mean a development proponent who receives a transit-rich housing bonus, to provide each resident of the development with a recurring monthly transit pass with the applicable transit agency that provides service to the major transit stop or high quality transit corridor that qualified the applicant for the bonus at no cost to the residents. The bill would require an eligible applicant to provide benefits to eligible displaced persons who are displaced by the development, including requiring the applicant to offer a right to remain guarantee to those tenants, and to make payments to eligible displaced persons for moving and related expenses as well as for relocation benefits. The bill would also require an eligible applicant to submit a relocation benefit and assistance plan for approval to the applicable local government to that effect, and to provide specified information and assistance to eligible displaced persons. This bill would provide that the provisions described above become operative on January 1, 2021, in order to provide an opportunity for local governments to conduct studies and to adopt or update any ordinances as necessary. The bill would authorize a local government, no later than July 1, 2020, to apply to the Department of Housing and Community Development for a one-time one-year extension in order to delay the operation of those provisions with respect to parcels located within the jurisdictional boundaries of that local government until January 1, 2022. The bill would require the department to review any application submitted, and to grant it if the department makes specified findings. The bill would require the department to post on its Internet Web site the final decision of any application that the department granted to delay the operation of these provisions. This bill, commencing January 1, 2019, would provide that if a local government adopts any ordinance on or after January 1, 2018, that eliminates zoning designations or decreases residential zoning capacity within an existing zoning district, then any development proponent who submits an application for a transit-rich housing bonus on or after the operative date of these provisions as described above, will be deemed to be consistent with the requirements of these provisions if that development complies with zoning designations that were authorized on January 1, 2018. The bill would declare that its provisions address a matter of statewide concern and apply equally to all cities and counties in this state, including a charter city. By adding to the duties of local planning officials, 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.
(1) The Corporation Tax Law imposes taxes according to or measured by net income at a rate of 8.84%, or for financial institutions, at a rate of 10.84%, as specified. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2019, revise that rate for taxpayers that are publicly held corporations, as defined, and instead impose a tax rate from 8.84% to 13%, or for financial institutions, from 10.84% to 15%, based on the compensation ratio, as defined, of the corporation. This bill would increase the applicable tax rate by 50% for those taxpayers that have a specified decrease in full-time employees employed in the United States as compared to an increase in contracted and foreign full-time employees, as described. (2) Existing law establishes the California Competes Tax Credit Committee, which has specified duties in regard to tax credits for economic development. Existing law establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as "GO-Biz," to, among other duties, serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. The Corporation Tax Law allows various credits against the tax imposed by that law. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, would allow a credit to a qualified taxpayer, as defined, in an amount as provided in a written agreement between GO-Biz and the qualified taxpayer, agreed upon by the committee, and based on specified factors, including the number of jobs the qualified taxpayer will create or retain in the state and the amount of investment in the state by the qualified taxpayer. The bill would limit the total amount of the credit available to an amount equal to the amount of revenue generated by the application of the above-referenced tax rates on publicly held corporations. The bill would also impose various duties upon GO-Biz, including the adoption of regulations. (3) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. (4) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.