AB 1952 would amend the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019 to exempt funding recipients from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act. With SB 35 (2017) the legislature already exempted many infill developments from CEQA, but the infrastructure to facilitate these developments is currently not exempt. By facilitating…

AB 2020 would, for counties that opt-in, create an alternate definition of “gravely disabled” which is used to evaluate the need to establish a Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act conservatorship. This would help ensure that individual suffering from serious mental illness, especially those who are incapable of understanding the negative impacts of…

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