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The City Council's Legislative Subcommittee regularly reviews pending legislation affecting Carlsbad to ensure our city's interests are represented. The city takes a formal position on or sponsors certain legislation, based on the City Council's legislative platform.
AB 817 (Pacheco) Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.
City Position: Support
Would provide an exemption under the Ralph M. Brown Act allowing non-decision-making subsidiary legislative bodies to participate in two-way virtual teleconferencing without posting location.
AB 1774 (Dixon) Vehicles: electric bicycles
City Position: Support
Would prohibit the sale of a product or device that would modify the speed ability of an electric bicycle.
AB 1779 (Irwin) Theft: jurisdiction*
City Position: Support
Would authorize prosecutors to charge related incidents of organized retail theft and other related offenses in one filing in one county superior court, even if some of those offenses occurred in another or multiple other county jurisdictions.
AB 1794 (McCarty) Crimes: larceny
City Position: Support
Would allow for the aggregation of theft crimes across various locations and victims.
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer) Crimes: organized theft*
City Position: Support
Would extend the sunset on the crime of organized retail theft and the operation of the CHP property crimes task force until January 1, 2031.
AB 1886 (Alvarez) Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act*
City Position: Oppose
Would create a rebuttable presumption of validity for the Department of Housing and Community Development’s (HCD) findings when reviewing a planning agency’s draft housing element.
AB 2081 (Davies) Substance abuse: recovery and treatment programs*
City Position: Support
Would require the operator of a licensed recovery home to disclose to those seeking care that they can check the Department of Health Care Services website to confirm a facility's compliance with State licensing laws.
AB 2234 (Boerner) Vehicles: electric bicycles*
City Position: Sponsor
This bill, the San Diego Electric Bicycle Safety Pilot Program, would, until January 1, 2029, authorize a local authority within the County of San Diego, or the County of San Diego in unincorporated areas, to adopt an ordinance or resolution that would prohibit a person under 12 years of age from operating a class 1 or 2 electric bicycle.
AB 2236 (Bauer-Kahan) Solid waste: reusable grocery bags: standards: plastic film prohibition
City Position: Support
Would ban the use of plastic bags at checkout in stores and would revise the definition of “recycled paper bag” to require it be made from a minimum of 50% percent postconsumer recycled materials.
AB 2257 (Wilson) Local government: property-related water and sewer fees and assessments: remedies*
City Position: Support
Would prohibit a person or entity from bringing a judicial action or proceeding alleging noncompliance with the constitutional provisions for any new, increased, or extended fee or assessment unless that person or entity has timely submitted to the local agency a written objection to that fee or assessment that specifies the grounds for alleging noncompliance.
AB 2259 (Boerner) Transportation: bicycle safety handbook
City Position: Support
Would require the DMV to produce an electronic Bicycle Driver Safety Handbook.
AB 2557 (Ortega) Local agencies: contracts for special services and temporary help: performance reports
City Position: Oppose
Would require a city that solicits and enters into a contract for special services to post that contract and related documents on its website, and that each person who enters into a contract for special services with a local agency—or had entered into such a contract in the prior five years— shall submit quarterly performance reports every 180 days to the local agency and the agency’s employee organization.
AB 2560 (Alvarez) Density Bonus Law: California Coastal Act of 1976
City Position: Oppose
Would eliminate the California Coastal Act exemption from Density Bonus Law.
AB 2561 (McKinnor) Local public employees: vacant positions*
City Position: Oppose
Would require each public agency with bargaining unit vacancy rates exceeding 10% for more than 90 days within the past 180 days to meet and confer with a representative of the recognized employee organization to produce, publish, and implement a plan to fill all vacant positions within 180 days.
AB 2574 (Valencia) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment programs and facilities: disclosures*
City Position: Support
Would expand the State’s oversight ability to investigate the financial relationships between recovery residences, treatment facilities and certified programs.
AB 2684 (Bryan) Safety element: extreme heat*
City Position: Support
Would require a city, upon the next update of one or more of the elements included in the general plan on or after January 1, 2028, to review and update its safety element to address the hazard of extreme heat.
AB 2715 (Boerner) Ralph M. Brown Act: closed sessions*
City Position: Sponsor
Would authorize a legislative body to hold a closed session with law enforcement or security personnel on a threat to critical infrastructure controls or critical infrastructure information, relating to cybersecurity.
AB 2729 (Patterson) Residential fees and charges*
City Position: Oppose
Would remove the option for a local agency to collect fees before the final inspection or certificate of occupancy, unless it has a specific plan and funds already set aside for public improvements.
AB 2776 (Rodriguez) Recovery from disaster or emergency: funding priority
City Position: Support
Would provide California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) with the authority to prioritize infrastructure and housing recovery projects in communities that suffered population and business loss in a declared major federal disaster.
AB 2943 (Zbur and Rivas) Crimes: shoplifting*
City Position: Support
Contains multiple provisions pertaining to shoplifting, grand theft, criminal deprivation of a retail business opportunity, and theft-related probation and diversion.
AB 3093 (Ward) Land use: housing element: streamlined multifamily housing*
City Position: Oppose
Would require local governments to account for the housing needs of people experiencing homelessness or near homelessness in their housing elements.
AB 3209 (Berman) Crimes: theft: retail theft restraining orders*
City Position: Support
Would authorize a court to impose a Retail Crime Restraining Order for a theft offense, vandalism, or battery on an employee within the store.
AJR 12 (Alvarez) Tijuana River: cross-border pollution*
City Position: Support
Would urge the U.S. Congress and President Biden to fully fund the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Comprehensive Infrastructure Solution for the Tijuana River due to the ongoing impacts to public health, the environment, and the local economy caused by cross-border pollution and would urge President Biden to declare a national emergency due to those ongoing impacts.
SB 450 (Atkins) Housing development: approvals*
City Position: Oppose
Would expand provisions of SB 9 in the Coastal Zone, put cities on a 60-day shot clock for review, and limit cities’ ability to apply objective review standards to new housing developments. The bill was removed from the inactive file and substantially amended on Aug. 22, 2024.
SB 689 (Blakespear) Local coastal program: bicycle lane: amendment*
City Position: Support
Would streamline coastal permitting to convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane to a dedicated bike lane, transit lane, or pedestrian walkway by providing that these changes qualify to be processed as ‘de minimis’ local coastal program amendments.
SB 905 (Wiener) Crimes: theft from a vehicle*
City Position: Support
Would create a new crime of forced entry into a vehicle with intent to commit theft, and would address the problem of organized resale of goods stolen from cars, in that, individuals could be prosecuted for holding more than $950 of stolen goods intended for resale, whether those goods were stolen in one or multiple incidents, and whether the individual played the role of thief, middleman, or seller.
SB 937 (Wiener) Development projects: fees and charges*
City Position: Oppose
Would limit the ability of local governments to collect development impact mitigation fees on certain housing projects until either a certificate of occupancy is issued, or once construction commences for the projects the fees will be used for, but locks in those fees at rates in effect at time of permit issuance; thereby shifting financial and legal risk to local agencies. The bill was substantially amended on Aug. 23, 2024.
SB 1011 (Jones) Encampments: penalties
City Position: Support
Would prohibit camping on sidewalks if a homeless shelter is available to the person, within 500 feet of a school, on open space and at major transit stops.
SB 1037 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement*
City Position: Oppose
Would allow the Attorney General to take legal action against a city and seek fines up to $50,000 per month for failure to adopt a compliant housing element or if the city does not follow state laws that require ministerial approval of certain housing projects.
SB 1053 (Blakespear) Solid waste: reusable grocery bags: standards: plastic film prohibition*
City Position: Support
Would ban the use of plastic bags at checkout in stores and would revise the definition of “recycled paper bag” to require it be made from a minimum of 50% percent postconsumer recycled materials.
SB 1116 (Portantino) Unemployment insurance: trade disputes: eligibility for benefits
City Position: Oppose
Would provide employees who remain on strike for more than two weeks with unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, thus requiring employers to fund ongoing labor disputes.
SB 1214 (Nguyen) California Commission on the United States Semiquincentennial
City Position: Support
Would establish the California Commission on the United States Semiquincentennial and would require the Commission to plan and coordinate commemorations and observances of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution.
SB 1242 (Min) Crimes: fires*
City Position: Support
Would specify that for the crime of reckless arson, the fact that the offense was carried out within a merchant’s premises in order to facilitate organized retail theft shall be a factor in aggravation at sentencing.
SB 1271 (Min) Electric bicycles, powered mobility devices, and storage batteries*
City Position: Support
Would require personal mobility devices, such as e-bikes or electric scooters, powered by a lithium-ion battery sold in California to meet certain specified safety standards.
SB 1461 (Allen) State of emergency and local emergency: landslide
City Position: Support
Would include a landslide among those conditions constituting a state of emergency or local emergency.