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Home My WebLink About2020-09-14 City Council Agendas (6) City of Palo Alto (ID # 11573) City Council Staff Report Report Type: Study Session Meeting Date: 9/14/2020 City of Palo Alto Page 1 Summary Title: Study session with state advocate Title: Study Session With the City's State Legislative Advocate Regarding Bills From the 2020 Legislative Session From: City Manager Lead Department: City Manager Recommendation Staff recommends that Council receive a verbal report from the City’s Sacramento- based advocate, Niccolo De Luca of Townsend Public Affairs, recapping this year’s legislative session. Background The state Legislature concluded its 2020 session on August 31, 2020. This year’s session was unlike any other, with a state plagued again by wildfires, calls for police reform, and with a pandemic causing the introduction of multiple bills, a shortened legislative session, and budget restrictions. Through it all, issues such as affordable housing, energy procurement, and public health remained, as noted in the attachment, a report on all the bills tracked by City staff. Bills noted as “Enrolled” have been approved by the Legislature, and as of the writing of this report are awaiting signature or veto by the Governor. Mr. De Luca will offer a legislative summary of this year and provide information about what the City might expect in the 2021 session. Environmental Review Acceptance of a verbal presentation does not meet the definition of a “project” under the California Environmental Quality Act and therefore, no environmental review is required. Attachments: • End of session report on all tracked bills CITY OF PALO ALTO Status Report Tuesday, September 01, 2020 ELECTRIC VEHICLES AB 326 (Muratsuchi D) Electric mobility manufacturers. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Creates a new electric mobility manufacturer vehicle membership program for Electric Vehicles allowing people to possess EVs for a certain length of time without actually owning or leasing them. EMERGENCY SERVICES AB 2213 (Limón D) Office of Emergency Services: planning guidance: telecommunications. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Requires Cal OES and California Volunteers to develop planning guidance to identify volunteers and donation management resources that could assist in responding to or recovering from disasters. Also requires Cal OES to publish and distribute the initial planning guidance, once developed, and update the Legislature on the status of the planning guidance in a written report submitted no later than May 1, 2022. The bill also authorizes a city to enter into an agreement to access the contact information of resident accountholders through the records of a public utility, which includes, among others, cell phone providers. SB 130 (Galgiani D) Fire prevention grants: cities in very high fire hazard severity zones: emergency fire siren warning system. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Dead Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Requires CalFire to establish a grant program for cities located in areas that have been designated as very high fire hazard severity zones for the purpose of installing emergency fire siren warning systems. ENERGY AB 1720 (Carrillo D) Energy: long-duration energy storage: procurement. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Would require the PUC, by January 4, 2021, to report to the Governor, the Independent System Operator, the Department of Water Resources, and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission on the specific types and amount of long-duration energy storage and in- service dates of that storage included in the integrated resource plans submitted by load-serving entities. AB 2178 (Levine D) Emergency services. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Under this bill, a planned deenergization event, such as a Public Safety Power Shutoff, could constitute a state of emergency and a local emergency. SB 350 (Hill D) The Golden State Energy Act. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: This bill is the Governor's plan B if PG&E doesn't meet it's safety obligations. It authorizes the creation of Golden State Energy, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, to acquire and operate PG&E.Page 1/9 of Golden State Energy, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, to acquire and operate PG&E. FINANCIAL/PENSION/TAXES AB 2231 (Kalra D) Public works. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Defines a public subsidy as de minimis for the purpose of paying the prevailing wage in private projects if it is both less than $600,000 and less than 2% of the total project cost for bids advertised or contracts awarded after July 1, 2021. If the subsidy is for a residential project consisting entirely of single family dwellings, the subsidy is de minimis so long as it is less than 2% of the total project cost. Defining "de minimis" for public works projects allows a developer, if they choose to seek and/or accept a public subsidy, to know if the Prevailing Wage Act applies to the project. AB 2707 (Holden D) Local government finance: COVID-19 Credit Facility. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Creates the COVID-19 Credit Facility, designed to support cashflow borrowing by local governments to better manage pressures created by the COVID-19 public health emergency. The facility would assist local governments of all sizes with the purchase of newly issued tax anticipation notes, tax and revenue anticipation notes, bond anticipation notes, and other short-term notes through the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission. The bill also would require the facility to establish methods by which cities with populations of fewer than 250,000 could access the Municipal Liquidity Facility established by the Federal Reserve System, as specified. ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: A potential constitutional amendment to lower the threshold needed to pass a sales or parcel tax from two-thirds to 55 percent, if the funds are used for infrastructure or affordable/supportive housing. (A heavy lift, constitutional amendments must first receive a 2/3 vote in each legislative house, then voters must ratify). Applies to any local measure imposing, extending, or increasing a sales and use tax, transactions and use tax, or parcel tax for the above purposes that is submitted at the same election as this measure. SB 952 (Nielsen R) Sales and use taxes: exemption: backup electrical generators: deenergization events. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Exempts from the state and local sales and use tax specified backup electrical resources used by local jurisdictions during deenergization events through 2025. SB 1431 (Glazer D) Property taxation: reassessment: disaster relief. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Allows disaster reassessments for property tax purposes for properties affected by COVID-19. SCA 6 (Dodd D) Gambling: sports wagering. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Would authorize regulated and taxed sports wagering, including online or mobile sports wagering, operated by horse race tracks and federally recognized Indian tribes, as specified. HOMELESSNESS Page 2/9 AB 1845 (Rivas, Luz D) Homelessness: Office to End Homelessness. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Establishes the Office to End Homelessness under the direction of the Secretary on Homelessness. Requires that the office serve the Governor as the lead entity for ending homelessness in California and would task the office with coordinating homeless programs, services, data, and policies between federal, state, and local agencies, among other responsibilities. Requires the office to exercise various powers and duties, including, among others, making recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature regarding new state policies, programs, and actions on homelessness. HOUSING AB 725 (Wicks D) General plans: housing element: moderate-income and above moderate-income housing: suburban and metropolitan jurisdictions. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Starting on January 1, 2022, the bill requires that at least 25% of a metropolitan jurisdiction’s share of the RHNA for moderate-income housing be allocated to sites with zoning that allows at least 4 units of housing, but no more than 100 units per acre of housing. At least 25% of a metropolitan jurisdiction’s share of the RHNA for above moderate-income housing must be allocated to sites with zoning that allows at least 4 units of housing. AB 2345 (Gonzalez D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: annual report: affordable housing. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Revises Density Bonus Law to increase the maximum allowable density and the number of concessions and incentives a developer can seek. AB 3040 (Chiu D) Local planning: regional housing need assessment. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Dead Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Authorizes cities and counties to receive a specified credit towards meeting their RHNA for moderate and above moderate-income housing if they identify sites in the housing element that contain a single family dwelling unit but allow four units as a use by right. AB 3352 (Friedman D) State Housing Law: enforcement response to complaints. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Dead Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Requires local governments to respond to tenant or resident complaints about lead hazards or substandard building violations and provide free copies of the inspection report and any citations to the tenant and other occupants of the building who may be affected. SB 795 (Beall D) Economic development: housing: workforce development: climate change infrastructure. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Dead Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Upon appropriation by the Legislature, this bill would have made available up to $2 billion annually for allocation to various existing housing, homelessness and pre-apprenticeship programs, and to two newly created infrastructure financing programs. SB 899 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Dead Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: This bill provides that housing is a use by right on land owned by a religious institution or nonprofit college, on or before January 1, 2020, if the development meets certain criteria. Page 3/9 SB 902 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing development: density. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Dead Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Would authorize a local government to pass an ordinance, notwithstanding any local restrictions on adopting zoning ordinances, to zone any parcel for up to 10 units of residential density per parcel, at a height specified by the local government in the ordinance, if the parcel is located in a transit-rich area, a jobs-rich area, or an urban infill site, as those terms are defined. In this regard, the bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the Office of Planning and Research, to determine jobs-rich areas and publish a map of those areas every 5 years, commencing January 1, 2022, based on specified criteria. SB 995 (Atkins D) Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011: housing projects. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Extends for four years the expedited CEQA administrative and judicial review procedure established by the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act for “environmental leadership development projects” (ELDP) and expands the Act’s eligibility to include smaller housing projects. SB 1085 (Skinner D) Density Bonus Law: qualifications for incentives or concessions: student housing for lower income students: moderate-income persons and families: local government constraints. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Enhances the existing Density Bonus Law by increasing the number of incentives provided to developers in exchange for providing more affordable units. The author notes: "SB 1085 improves and clarifies the density bonus statute to expand its use...to increase affordable housing production.” SB 1120 (Atkins D) Subdivisions: tentative maps. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Requires ministerial approval of duplexes and specified subdivision maps. SB 1138 (Wiener D) Housing element: emergency shelters: rezoning of sites. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Makes changes to housing element law with regards to where emergency shelters may be zoned. This bill also requires localities that fail to adopt a legally compliant housing element within 120 days of the statutory deadline complete a rezone program within one year instead of the current three-year requirement. SCA 1 (Allen D) Public housing projects. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition of a "low-rent housing project" until a majority of the qualified electors of the city or county in which the housing project is proposed approve the project by voting in favor at an election. This measure would repeal these provisions. Note: As a potential constitutional amendment, this bill must first receive a 2/3 vote in the legislature, then receive ratification by voters through a ballot. OTHER AB 2788 (Gloria D) Public utilities: cooperation with immigration authorities. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Page 4/9 Would prohibit an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or local publicly owned electric utility from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to any immigration authority a customer’s electrical or gas consumption data without a court-ordered subpoena or judicial warrant. SB 1206 (Gonzalez, Lena D) Local government: broadband infrastructure development project permit processing: microtrenching permit processing ordinance. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Authorizes a city or county to impose on an applicant for a permit for a broadband infrastructure development project a reasonable fee for costs associated with the submission, and the expedited review, processing, and approval of an application, including, but not limited to, personnel costs as necessary, if the applicant elects for the expedited review and processing and agrees to pay that fee. POLICE REFORM AB 66 (Gonzalez D) Police: use of force. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Would prohibit the use of kinetic energy projectiles or chemical agents, as defined, by any law enforcement agency to disperse any assembly, protest, demonstration, or other gathering of persons, except in compliance with specified standards set by the bill, and would prohibit their use solely due to a violation of an imposed curfew, verbal threat, or noncompliance with a law enforcement directive. The bill would prohibit the use of chloroacetophenone tear gas or 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile gas by law enforcement agencies to disperse any assembly, protest, demonstration, or other gathering of persons. AB 329 (Kamlager D) Victim compensation: use of excessive force by law enforcement. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides for the compensation of victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of these provisions, including “crime”, which includes any public offense wherever it may take place that would constitute a misdemeanor or felony. This bill would revise the definition of “crime” to include the use of excessive force by a law enforcement officer regardless of whether the law enforcement officer is arrested or charged with commission of a crime or public offense. AB 1022 (Holden D) Peace officers: use of force. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Dead Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Mandates law enforcement agency policies require officers immediately report potential excessive force, and to intercede when present and observing an officer using excessive force. AB 1196 (Gipson D) Peace officers: use of force. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Current law authorizes a peace officer to make an arrest pursuant to a warrant or based upon probable cause, as specified. Under current law, an arrest is made by the actual restraint of the person or by submission to the custody of the arresting officer. Current law authorizes a peace officer to use reasonable force to effect the arrest, to prevent escape, or to overcome resistance.This bill would prohibit a law enforcement agency from authorizing the use of a carotid restraint or a choke hold, as defined. AB 1299 (Salas D) Peace officers: employment. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Would require any agency that employs specified peace officers to provide a notification, as described, Page 5/9 to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training when a peace officer is terminated or, if an officer leaves the agency with a complaint, charge, or investigation of a serious nature, as defined, pending, would require the agency to complete the investigation as specified and notify the commission of its findings. The bill would require the commission to include this information in an officer’s profile and make that information available to specified parties including any law enforcement agency that is conducting a preemployment background investigation of the subject of the profile. The bill would also allow a peace officer to have this information removed from their profile if a court subsequently finds that an allegation of a serious nature was improperly found to be sustained, as specified. AB 1314 (McCarty D) Law enforcement use of force settlements and judgements: reporting. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Dead Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Requires municipalities to annually post on their websites specified information relating to use of force settlements and judgements, including: Amounts paid, broken down by individual settlement and judgment; premiums paid for insurance against use of force settlements or judgements; and information on municipal bonds used to finance such payments. AB 1506 (McCarty D) Police use of force. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Current law requires law enforcement agencies to report to the Department of Justice, as specified, any incident in which a peace officer is involved in a shooting or use of force that results in death or serious bodily injury. This bill would create a division within the Department of Justice to, upon the request of a law enforcement agency, review the use-of-force policy of the agency and make recommendations, as specified. AB 1599 (Cunningham R) Peace officers: investigations of misconduct. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Dead Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Requires law enforcement agencies, or an oversight agency, to complete initiated administrative investigations of officer misconduct related to specified uses of force, sexual assault, and dishonesty regardless of whether an officer leaves the employment of the agency. AB 1652 (Wicks D) Law enforcement agency policies: use of force: protests. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Would require each law enforcement agency to expand the agency’s use of force policy to include clear and specific guidelines under which officers may use “kettling” or “corralling,” as defined by the bill, and to prohibit officers from failing to wear, or intentionally acting to obscure or conceal information on, a badge while on duty. The bill would also require each agency’s policy to prohibit law enforcement officers from using force on individuals engaged in, or members of the press covering, a lawful assembly or protest, as specified, and would further require the policy to require that an officer who is found to have intentionally violated this policy be suspended, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. AB 1709 (Weber D) Law enforcement: use of force. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: *May not move* Would remove the specification that a peace officer making an arrest need not desist in their efforts because of resistance or threatened resistance from the person being arrested. The bill would also require a peace officer to attempt to control an incident through deescalation tactics, as defined, in an effort to reduce or avoid the need to use force, to render medical aid immediately or as soon as feasible, and to intervene to stop a violation of law or an excessive use of force by another peace officer. AB 2054 (Kamlager D) Emergency services: community response: grant program. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Page 6/9 Would, until January 1, 2024, enact the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems Act or the C.R.I.S.E.S. Act for the purpose of creating, implementing, and evaluating the C.R.I.S.E.S. Act Grant Pilot Program, which the act would establish. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to establish rules and regulations for the act with the goal of making grants to community organizations, over 3 years, for the purpose of expanding the participation of community organizations in emergency response for specified vulnerable populations. The bill would require that grantees receive a minimum award of $250,000 per year. SB 731 (Bradford D) Peace Officers: certification: civil rights. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: This bill seeks to increase peace officer accountability and create a means of decertifying officers who engage in serious misconduct. It would, with a specified exception, eliminate certain immunity provisions for peace officers or public entities who employ peace officers. The bill would also authorize specified persons to bring an action under the act for the death of a person. It would also disqualify a person from being employed as a peace officer if that person has been convicted of, or has been adjudicated in an administrative, military, or civil judicial process as having committed, a violation of certain specified crimes against public justice, including the falsification of records, bribery, or perjury. The bill would also make all records related to the revocation of a certificate a peace officer’s certification public, and would require that records of an investigation be retained for 30 years. SB 776 (Skinner D) Peace officers: release of records. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: This bill would make every incident involving use of force to make a member of the public comply with an officer, force that is unreasonable, or excessive force subject to disclosure. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AB 196 (Gonzalez D) Workers’ compensation: COVID-19: essential occupations and industries. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Would define “injury,” for certain employees who are employed in an occupation or industry deemed essential in the Governor’s Executive Order of March 19, 2020 (Executive Order N-33-20), except as specified, or who are subsequently deemed essential, to include coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that develops or manifests itself during a period of employment of those persons in the essential occupation or industry. The bill would apply to injuries occurring on or after March 1, 2020, would create a disputable presumption, as specified, that the injury arose out of and in the course of the employment, and would extend that presumption following termination of service for a period of 90 days, commencing with the last date actually worked. The bill would shorten the investigatory timeframe for denial or presumed acceptance of a claim to 30 days, rather than 90 days. AB 664 (Cooper D) Workers’ compensation: injury: COVID-19. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: This bill creates a rebuttable presumption for specified employees, such as local firefighting personnel and peace officers, diagnosed with a communicable disease, as specified. AB 685 (Reyes D) COVID-19: imminent hazard to employees: exposure: notification: serious violations. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Requires employers to provide written notice and instructions to employees who may have been exposed to COVID-19 at their worksite and enhances Cal/OSHA's ability to enforce health and safety standards to prevent workplace exposure to and spread of COVID-19. SB 275 (Pan D) Health Care and Essential Workers: personal protective equipment. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Page 7/9 Summary: Requires the state to establish stockpiles of personal protective equipment for healthcare and essential workers. "Essential workers" means, in part, government workers whose work with the public continues throughout a crisis. SB 1159 (Hill D) Workers’ compensation: COVID-19: critical workers. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Creates a rebuttable presumption that illness or death related to COVID-19 is an occupational injury and therefore, eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. SB 1173 (Durazo D) Public employment: labor relations: employee information. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: This bill requires PERB to levy a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 against public employers who PERB finds have violated a union’s right to specified employee contact information. It also requires PERB to award the prevailing party in an unfair practice charge alleging such a violation attorney’s fees and costs, as specified. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY SB 424 (Jackson D) Tobacco products: single-use and multiuse components. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Dead Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: To prevent litter and pollution from cigarette filters, this bill prohibits a person or entity from selling, giving, or in any way furnishing to a person of any age any single-use filters, plastic devices, electronic cigarettes, and vaporizer devices. SB 793 (Hill D) Flavored tobacco products. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Under this bill, a tobacco retailer, or any of the retailer’s agents or employees, shall not sell, offer for sale, or possess with the intent to sell or offer for sale, a flavored tobacco product. SB 865 (Hill D) Excavations: subsurface installations. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Makes a number of changes to the Dig Safe Act of 2016 including: requiring new subsurface installations be mapped using (GIS); renaming the California Underground Facilities Safe Excavation Board as the “Dig Safe Board”; and requiring an excavator to notify the Regional Notification Center within 48 hours of discovering or causing damage. SUSTAINABILITY AB 352 (Garcia, Eduardo D) Wildfire Prevention, Safe Drinking Water, Drought Preparation, and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2020. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Would enact the Wildfire Prevention, Safe Drinking Water, Drought Preparation, and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2020, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $3,920,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a wildlife prevention, safe drinking water, drought preparation, and flood protection program.The bill would provide for the submission of these provisions to the voters at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election.The bill would provide that its provisions are severable. Page 8/9 SB 45 (Allen D) Wildfire Prevention, Safe Drinking Water, Drought Preparation, and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2020. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Must be signed by June 25 to get on the ballot. This measure, if approved by voters, would finance projects through G.O. bonds to, among other things: reduce wildfire risk; create healthy forests and watersheds; reduce climate impacts on urban areas and vulnerable populations; protect water supply and water quality; reduce flood risk; and protect coastal lands and resources. WATER SB 668 (Rubio D) Fire hydrants: water suppliers: regulations. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Requires an urban water supplier like CPAU to review and revise its emergency response plan as required by federal law. (Safe Drinking Water Act, as it read on January 1, 2019. The law was last amended in 1996) WILDFIRE SB 1348 (Stern D) Fire prevention: vegetation management: public education: grants: defensible space: fire hazard severity zones: forest management. Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House Summary: Makes multiples changes in state law to enhance fire prevention efforts by Cal Fire, including, among other things, improved vegetation management. Total Measures: 53 Total Tracking Forms: 53 Page 9/9