FLOOR SESSION AGENDA - Regular Session: 2:00 p.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 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.

SB 863, as it passed the Senate, authorized the Legislature to specify that a constitutional amendment, bond measure, or other legislative measure submitted to the people will appear on the ballot at an election other than the first statewide election occurring at least 131 days after the adoption of the proposal by the Legislature if the election specified in the proposal would occur at least 131 days after adoption of the proposal by the Legislature.

The Assembly amendments instead authorize the Legislature to make the specification described above in the text of a measure that proposes an amendment or revision of the Constitution.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 905, as it passed the Senate, made it a crime for a person to unlawfully possess property that was acquired through one or more acts of theft from a vehicle, unlawful entry of a vehicle, burglary of a locked vehicle, or vehicle tampering, if the property is not possessed for personal use and the person has the intent to sell or exchange the property, or the intent to act with another person to sell or exchange the property, and the value of the possessed property exceeds $950. The bill, as it passed the Senate, for the purpose of determining the value, allowed the aggregation of the value of illegally obtained property possessed by the person within a not yet specified period of time.

The Assembly amendments specify that the value of illegally obtained property possessed by the person within the past 2 years can be aggregated to determine the value for purposes of a violation. The Assembly amendments also add and remove coauthors.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 982, as it passed the Senate, extended the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely.

The Assembly amendments did not make any substantive changes.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 1058, as it passed the Senate, expanded certain workers’ compensation benefits to certain park rangers for provisions such as a leave of absence without loss of salary for certain injuries or illnesses, and taking a leave of absence in lieu of temporary disability payments or maintenance allowance payments.

The Assembly amendments make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions and add a coauthor.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 1106, as it passed the Senate, imposed additional duties on conservators, including a requirement to provide notice if the conservator proposes to remove the conservatee from their current residence.

The Assembly amendments name the bill the Kasem-Nichols-Rooney Law.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1144, as it passed the Senate, required an online marketplace to disclose to consumers whether a high-volume third-party seller has complied with a requirement to disclose and certify to the online marketplace certain identification, contact, and payment information of a seller. SB 1144, as it passed the Senate, required an online marketplace to alert local, regional, or state law enforcement agencies in California if it reasonably believes that a third-party seller is selling or attempting to sell stolen goods to a California resident.

The Assembly amendments remove the requirement that an online marketplace disclose to consumers whether a high-volume third-party seller has complied with the specified requirement described above. The Assembly amendments require an online marketplace to alert local, regional, or state law enforcement agencies in California if it knows or should know that a third-party seller is selling or attempting to sell stolen goods to a California resident, as specified. The Assembly amendments also require an online marketplace to provide a mechanism on the online marketplace that allows the online marketplace and law enforcement to communicate in a timely and confidential manner and ensure timely replies to law enforcement requests. The Assembly amendments require an online marketplace to maintain internal written policies, systems, and staff to monitor listings in order to affirmatively prevent and detect organized retail crime. The Assembly amendments make the provisions of SB 1144 operative on July 1, 2025.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1242, as it passed the Senate made the fact that the offense was carried out within a merchant’s premises in order to facilitate organized retail theft a factor in aggravation for the crime of unlawfully causing a fire.

The Assembly amendments made no substantive changes.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 1352, as it passed the Senate, required a continuing care retirement community, at the time or before the resident signs a continuing care contract and at any time when the resident is proposed to be moved to a different level of care, to provide the resident with the residents bill of rights, the rights for residential care facilities for the elderly, and, if the facility provides for skilled nursing services, the rights for skilled nursing facility patients.

The Assembly amendments, instead, require a resident to be provided only with the applicable bill of rights, as described.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1399, as it passed the Senate, exempted from a real property “transfer fee,” as defined, private transfer fee covenants created pursuant to an agreement entered into before January 1, 2019, applicable to land identified in the agreement, and the agreement was in settlement of litigation or approved by a government agency or body.

The Assembly amendments add new conditions to the above-described exemption, including a requirement that the agreement was recorded in each county in which the land identified in the agreement is located and specifies the development area in which the covenant shall apply to any parcel to be created within that development area.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1410, as it passed the Senate, required the Instructional Quality Commission, when the mathematics curriculum framework is next revised, to consider including that pupils in grade 8 be offered the opportunity to take an Algebra I or Mathematics I course aligned to the content standards adopted by the State Board of Education.

The Assembly amendments make nonsubstantive changes and add coauthors.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 1416, as it passed the Senate, created sentencing enhancements for selling, exchanging, or returning for value any property acquired through one or more acts of shoplifting, theft, or burglary from a retail business, if the property value exceeds specified amounts.

The Assembly amendments repeal those enhancements on January 1, 2030.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1429, as it passed the Senate, added snowstorms to the list of emergencies for which certain provisions apply for determining state apportionments based on average daily attendance for a school district, county office of education, or charter school that has its average daily attendance materially decreased due to an emergency, as provided.

The Assembly amendments additionally add snowstorms to the list of emergencies for which specified provisions apply for determining state apportionments to a school district, county office of education, or charter school that was prevented, due to an emergency, from maintaining its schools for a certain number of days, as provided. The Assembly amendments also add coauthors.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1512, as it passed the Senate, prohibited rental payments paid by the persons occupying the units in specified housing projects, except as provided, from exceeding specified amounts, as specified.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of the bill and instead amend provisions that, taken together, constitute a housing omnibus bill. Among other things, the Assembly amendments revise criteria used to define “rural area” for purposes of federal low-income housing tax credits to exclude specified areas regarding an incorporated city and an unincorporated city, as prescribed, and make various technical changes.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.