AB 2139 would aid disaster recovery efforts by authorizing local agencies, notwithstanding building standards updates, to continue to use template floor plans for a period of six years from the plan’s approval by the local agency. Read More
AB 2445 would require a party seeking judicial review of the decision made pursuant to CEQA to carry out or approve an affordable housing project to post a bond of $500,000 to cover the costs and damages to the affordable housing project incurred by the respondent or real party in…
AB 1249 would clarify California’s tax code to exclude all types of claimants from paying state taxes on compensation for damages received out of PG&E’s “Fire Victims Trust”. This would help ensure fire victims receive just compensation for the economic and non-economic damages caused by the fires. Read More
*Passed* AB 379 corrects an oversight in code that prevents the management of conservation lands by California Native American Tribes. The bill also authorizes the Wildlife Conservation Board to award grants or loans to California Native American Tribes for the purposes of fish and wildlife habitat restoration, enhancement, management, protection and…
*Passed* AB 850 extends the sunset date on a pilot program created by AB 2339 (2018) to encourage the voluntary consolidation of small municipal water systems (in the cities of El Monte, Montebello, and Willows into larger systems to improve water services for Californians. Read More