Policy & Legislation
Deadline Whittles Bill Count
June 17, 2009
Of the 24 housing and homelessness bills on which we've taken a position or are watching closely, 12 met the June 5, 2009, deadline to move to their second house. Two others are exempt from the deadline, another one might be resurrected, and nine are in hibernation until next January.
The "healthy" bills are:
- AB 338 (Ma, transit villages) -- Senate Rules. Support.
- AB 494 (Caballero, farmworker homes) -- Senate Local Government. Support.
- AB 570 (Arambula, local housing trusts) -- Passed Senate Transportation and Housing on 6-9-09. Support.
- AB 702 (Salas, emergency shelters) -- Senate Rules. Support.
- AB 1084 (Adams, local fees) -- Senate Local Government hearing 6-17-09. Oppose unless amended.
- AB 1177 (Fong, Interagency Council) -- Senate Rules. Sponsor.
- AB 1364 (Evans, contracts) -- Senate Local Government. Support.
- SB 120 (Lowenthal, tenants) -- Assembly Judiciary hearing 6-23-09. Support.
- SB 290 (Leno, tenants) -- Assembly Judiciary hearing 6-23-09. Support.
- SB 326 (Strickland, housing elements) -- Assembly Rules. Neutral (formerly opposed).
- SB 450 (Lowenthal, national housing trust) -- Assembly Housing and Community Development. Support.
- SB 575 (Steinberg, housing elements) -- Assembly Rules. Concerned.
AB 650 (Hill, Prop 1C funds) popped up recently and is moving slowly through its first house. This bill appropriates $2.5 million from Proposition 1C's Infill Infrastructure Grant Program to the City of Half Moon Bay to help the city settle a lawsuit. Housing CA and the Department of Housing and Community Development killed a similar bill last year, SB 863 (Yee), citing the utter incompatibility of using bond funds to bail out a bad decision by the city.
SB 16 (Lowenthal, Low Income Housing Tax Credits) is on life support, with some of its contents amended into SB 622.
Lastly, nine bills are stuck in their first house, very likely until next January:
- AB 498 (Hayashi, apartments for veterans) -- Assembly Veterans Affairs. Support.
- AB 558 (Portantino, foster youth and housing elements) -- Assembly Housing and Community Development. Oppose.
- AB 1065 (Gilmore, tax credits for farmworker homes) -- Assembly Housing and Community Development. Support.
- ACA 9 (Huffman, local bonds) -- Assembly Revenue and Taxation. Support.
- SB 500 (Steinberg, state trust fund) -- Senate Rules. Spot bill.
- SB 518 (Lowenthal, parking fees) -- Inactive File. Support.
- SB 553 (Wiggins, payment of state claims) -- Senate Approps Suspense. Support.
- SB 595 (Cedillo, veterans bond) -- Senate Approps Suspense. Support.
- SB 812 (Ashburn, housing needs of people with development disabilities) -- Senate Approps Suspense. Support.
Information on all bills can be found on the Legislative Counsel's website.
Contact Julie Snyder, 916.447.0503 x102 or .
