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This is the busiest time of year for the legislative calendar. There is a whole slew of bills we are working on your behalf apart from those discussed above. For a slightly more in depth look on bills we are tracking, read more below. Please follow the link to each piece of legislation that piques your interest, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
AB 1001 (Garcia) – Environment: mitigation measures for air quality impacts: environmental justice. OPPOSE
Requires facilities applying for a new or modified permit to prepare a duplicative environmental impact report, as well as requires Air Districts to pass new rules that would apply to a greatly expanded list of facilities. Unfortunately, this new permitting scheme and expansion of regulatory rules just passed a few years ago will greatly impact local businesses in certain areas at the expense of others.
AB 1710 (Lee) Residential and outdoor light-emitting diodes (LED) fixtures. OPPOSE
AB 1710 states the legislator’s intent to enact legislation relating to the regulation of residential and outdoor LED fixtures that create artificial light pollution at night, which “causes harmful environmental and public health effects.”
AB 1738 (Boerner Horvath) Building standards: installation of electric vehicle charging stations: existing buildings. OPPOSE
Mandates fully functioning EV charging stations be installed in existing apartments, hotels and motels, schools, and commercial buildings. Goes far beyond the EV standards adopted in December 2021.
AB 1771 (Ward) The California Housing Speculation Act: income taxes: capital gains: sale or exchange of qualified asset: housing. OPPOSE
AB 1771 would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, impose a 25 percent tax on that portion of a qualified taxpayer’s net capital gain from the sale or exchange of residential real property. Apartment buildings would be exempt if at least 15 percent of the units on the property are affordable.
AB 1858 (Quirk-Silva) Substandard Buildings. OPPOSE
AB 1858 extends existing inspections and code enforcement to any buildings used for human habitation, regardless of zoning, and creates tenant protections when buildings are deemed unsafe - asking for an amendment to make clear this only applies to buildings where an owner has a written agreement for a tenant to live in the building (exempting properties with unauthorized tenant use).
AB 1951 (Grayson) Sales and use tax: exemptions: manufacturing.
Provides a state and local sales tax exemption for the purchase of manufacturing equipment. This exemption would transform the current, narrowly applied exemption, which has failed to effectively impact manufacturing investments and growth. Redeveloping the current exemption will encourage long-term capital investments and a push for new production which will fuel the manufacturing industry and mitigate substantial operating expenses.
AB 2065 (Rubio) Income taxes: net operating losses: businesses. SUPPORT
Restores the net operating loss (NOL) for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023. This bill would allow a business to apply their NOLs retroactively to 2020 and/or 2021 and recoup taxes paid in those years.
AB 2164 (Lee) Disability access: funding. SUPPORT
Extends the $4 fee on business licenses that goes to the Certified Access Specialist (CASp) program which benefits both small businesses and customers by providing financial assistance to ensure facilities are accessible and will protect from frivolous ADA litigation.
AB 2438 (Friedman) Transportation funding: alignment with state plans and greenhouse gas emissions reduction standards. OPPOSE
Based on the premise that California must do more to get people out of their personal vehicles and into alternative modes of transportation, this bill attempts to leverage existing and already insufficient funding that is primarily intended to maintain, rehabilitate, and make safer our state highways, local streets and roads, bridges, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities for climate purposes.
AB 2462 (Valladeres) Neighborhood electric vehicles: County of Los Angeles: Westside Planned Communities. SUPPORT
To allow Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Signs in Westside Planned Communities.
AB 2811 (Bennett) California Building Standards Commission: recycled water: nonpotable water systems. OPPOSE
This bill should be amended to direct the BSC to revisit the AB 2282 mandate and consider whether or not interior dual plumbing should be required in those areas already served by municipal recycled water or will be in the next ten years. Additionally, the bill needs to provide BSC with a CEQA exemption for this development and possible adoption process, otherwise the BSC will have to spend upwards of $750K to do an unnecessary analysis.
SB 1044 (Durazo) Employers: state of emergency or emergency condition: retaliation. OPPOSE

Allows employees to leave work or refuse to show up to work if the employee subjectively feels unsafe regardless of existing health and safety standards or whether the employer has provided health and safety protections and subjects employers to costly Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) lawsuits if they dispute the employee’s decision or need to have another employee take over any job duties. SB 1044 gives such broad discretion to employees that if they walk away from a completely safe workplace, the employer could do little in response without risking litigation.
SB 1292 (Stern) Land use: development restriction: fire hazard severity zones. OPPOSE
Fire zone law that will stop building of any type in 80% of the state.
SB 1393 (Archuleta) Energy: appliances: local requirements. SUPPORT
Requires local governments to consider important cost and technological feasibility before requiring residential and commercial property owners to switch out their gas appliances with electric appliances.
SB 1410 (Caballero) California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impacts. SUPPORT
Modifies the Vehicle Miles Travelled (VMT) regulation to be applied only in Urbanized Transit Priority Areas to help the state meet its ambitious climate goals while not penalizing much needed new housing and job centers.
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