FLOOR SESSION AGENDA - Regular Session:Check-in Session - 9:00 a.m.
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SENATE BILLS—SECOND READING FILE
ASSEMBLY BILLS—SECOND READING FILE
GOVERNOR’S VETOES
To the Members of the California State Senate:
I am returning Senate Bill 301 without my signature.
This bill would require the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to establish the Zero-Emission Aftermarket Conversion Project (ZACP) to provide an applicant with a financial rebate for converting a gasoline- or diesel-fueled vehicle into a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV).
California is showing the world what's possible - fostering innovation and creating space for an industry to flourish as the sale of ZEVs reach record highs, with over 1.8 million ZEVs now on California's roads. The state continues to invest billions of dollars in ZEV deployment and supporting infrastructure to achieve our ambitious climate and clean air goals.
While I share the author's desire to further accelerate the state's transition to ZEVs, this bill creates a new program at a time when the state faces a $44.9 billion shortfall for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Additionally, there is no funding currently identified or available in the state budget to support this new program.
For these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.
Sincerely,
Gavin Newsom
2024Jun. 14Shall Senate Bill 301 become a law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor? (Must be considered pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5.)
GOVERNOR’S APPOINTMENTS
From Com. on RLS. with the recommendation: Be confirmed.
136DAVID HOCHSCHILD,Member,California Energy Commission(Ayes 5. Noes 0.)Final date the Senate may act on confirmation: January 05, 2025.Vote required: 212024Jun. 26From Com. on RLS. with the recommendation: Be confirmed.137MARY E. LESLIE,Member,Independent System Operator Governing Board(Ayes 5. Noes 0.)Final date the Senate may act on confirmation: December 30, 2024.Vote required: 212024Jul. 3From Com. on RLS. with the recommendation: Be confirmed.138CLIFFORD L. RECHTSCHAFFEN, J.D.,Member,Air Resources Board(Ayes 4. Noes 0.)Final date the Senate may act on confirmation: October 10, 2024.Vote required: 212024Jul. 3From Com. on RLS. with the recommendation: Be confirmed.139JEFFERY MARINO,Director,Office of Data and Innovation(Ayes 5. Noes 0.)Final date the Senate may act on confirmation: January 16, 2025.Vote required: 212024Jul. 3From Com. on RLS. with the recommendation: Be confirmed.UNFINISHED BUSINESS –
SB 382, as it passed the Senate, required, on or after January 1, 2026, a seller of a single-family residential property to deliver a specified disclosure statement to the prospective buyer regarding the electrical systems of the property.
The Assembly amendments add an exception to that requirement, and additionally require a seller of a single-family residential property to disclose, in writing, the existence of any state or local requirements relating to the future replacement of existing gas-powered appliances that are being transferred with the property, as specified.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—37.NOES—0.)2024Jun. 20In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.141S.B.No. 674 —Gonzalez et al.An act relating to air pollution.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 674, as it passed the Senate, required the installation of a refinery-related community air monitoring system and a fence-line monitoring system for each refinery, as defined, on or before January 1, 2026. SB 674 required the owner or operator of a refinery, within 24 hours of a fence-line monitoring system detecting an exceedance of a specified threshold of any measured pollutant, to initiate a root cause analysis and to report the findings of that analysis and the corrective action performed by the refinery within 5 days of the exceedance.
The Assembly amendments instead require the installation of a refinery-related community air monitoring system and a fence-line monitoring system for each covered facility, as defined, on or before January 1, 2028. The Assembly amendments require the appropriate air pollution control district or air quality management district to provide notice to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature regarding the district’s progress toward meeting that deadline. The Assembly amendments require the owner or operator of a covered facility to initiate the root cause analysis and report the findings of the analysis and the corrective action within 14 days of the exceedance of the pollutant threshold.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—31.NOES—6.)2024Jul. 1In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.142S.B.No. 675 —Limón et al.An act relating to fire prevention.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 675, as it passed the Senate, required the Range Management Advisory Committee, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the University of California Cooperative Extension Livestock and Natural Resources Advisors and Specialists, to develop guidance for local or regional prescribed grazing plans. SB 675, as it passed the Senate, required the guidance to include specified things, including best practices for identifying and selecting priority areas for prescribed grazing.
The Assembly amendments additionally require the committee to consult with fire ecologists with expertise in the full range of California’s vegetation communities when developing the guidance. The Assembly amendments require the guidance to include best practices for use of prescribed grazing for reducing wildfire risk in and near fire-threatened communities, as provided. The Assembly amendments also make nonsubstantive changes.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—40.NOES—0.)2024Jul. 1In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.143S.B.No. 739 —Ashby.An act relating to public contracts, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 739, as it passed the Senate, amended the Charter Schools Act of 1992 to require all charter schools whose term expires on or before January 1, 2024, and June 30, 2027, to have their term extended by one additional year.
The Assembly amendments delete the above provisions and, instead, authorize the City of Elk Grove, with the approval of the city council, to utilize construction manager at-risk construction contracts for a zoo project, subject to certain requirements. The Assembly amendments also make legislative findings as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Elk Grove and declare that the bill’s provisions would take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—28.NOES—0.)2024Jun. 25In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.Jun. 27Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Jul. 3From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)144S.B.No. 1063 —Grove.An act relating to pupil safety.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 1063, as it passed the Senate, required a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards, which existing law requires to have printed on either side the telephone numbers for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the National Domestic Violence Hotline, to additionally have printed on either side of those cards, commencing July 1, 2025, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for mental health resources on the internet website of the county in which the school is located. SB 1063, as it passed the Senate, authorized the above-described schools to replace any required information on the pupil identification cards, in whole or in part, with quick response (QR) codes that link to the information being replaced.
The Assembly amendments remove these provisions and instead, among other things, require the above-described schools to, commencing July 1, 2025, print on either side of the pupil identification cards the telephone number for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline instead of for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and also authorize these schools to print on either side of those cards a QR code that links to the mental health resources on the internet website of the county in which the school is located.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—39.NOES—0.)2024Aug. 5In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.145S.B.No. 1514 —Committee on Local Government (Senators Durazo (Chair)) et al.An act relating to local government.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 1514, as it passed the Senate, revised the definition of “exempt surplus land” to replace requirements for land use for ownership housing in specified restrictions on the definition of surplus land with requirements for an affordable sales price or an affordable rent for 45 years for ownership housing.
The Assembly amendments also provide that, in the context of defining exempt surplus land, required affordability periods for rental housing, ownership housing, rental or ownership housing located on tribal trust lands, and owner-occupied units apply unless a local ordinance or a federal, state, or local grant, tax credit, or other project financing requires a longer period of affordability, as specified.
The Assembly amendments specify that when attesting to a digital signature, a county clerk or a city clerk may presume that the signature is genuine and attributable to the signatory if the digital signature complies with specified requirements. The Assembly amendments include the County of Sonoma among those counties in which the board of supervisors is authorized to appoint a registrar of voters. The Assembly amendments make a clarifying change to provisions that authorize a public cemetery district that has annual revenues greater than $500,000 to withdraw its funds from the control of the county treasurer and to deposit its funds in the county treasury of the principal county or the State Treasury, as specified. The Assembly amendments also make a nonsubstantive change to correct an erroneous citation relating to accessory dwelling units.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—39.NOES—0.)2024Aug. 5In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.