FLOOR SESSION AGENDA - Regular Session:Check-in Session - 9:00 a.m.

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.

SB 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.

SB 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.

SB 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.

SB 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.

SB 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.