2022 Legislative Package

Rent Relief

• SB 843 (Glazer) Renters Tax Credit – Increases the credit to $500 for renters filing their taxes as individuals and $1,000 for joint filers. 

Wildfire Mitigation

• SB 936 (Glazer) Forestry Pilot Program – Creates a forestry training center in collaboration between CalFire, California Conservation Corps, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and would train former inmates in forestry and vegetation management. 
• SB 1012 (Glazer) Open Campfires - Requires state parks to follow local fire regulations relating to campfires, barbeques, and open fires. 

Education

• SB 924 (Glazer) School District Salaries – Directs school districts to submit compensation information to the State Controller for posting on the Controller’s website. 
• SB 1236 (Glazer) Student Board Members Voting Rights – Gives Student Board Members a full vote on school district boards in the state of California, entitled to the same rights and privileges as any other board member.

Health

• SB 1179 (Glazer) Electronic Transactions: Insurance – Allows all Medicare supplement enrollments to be completed with electronic signatures, by removing the prohibition of electronic signatures for plans regulated by the California Department of Insurance. 
• SB 1475 (Glazer) Blood Banks: Collection – Allows blood to be collected at blood drives with a registered nurse available through telehealth. 

Public Safety

• SB 981 (Glazer) Factual Innocence Follow up – Puts the same standards in place in the courts as they are now in the Victims Compensation Board.
• SB 1468 (Glazer) Wrongfully Convicted RAP Sheets – Ensures that exonerees obtain the full benefit of having their names cleared by requiring the Department of Justice to provide a “Certificate of Innocence” and by requiring the Department and county law enforcement agencies automatically annotate their RAP sheets to reflect the exonerees’ innocence and their wrongful convictions.

Other

• SB 911 (Glazer) News Organizations – Creates a pilot grant program to support local news coverage. 
• SB 1488 (Glazer) BART Inspector General – Aligns the powers of the BART Inspector general more closly with other inspector generals and auditors.  
• SJR 15 (Glazer) Port Chicago – Urges the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States to take action to restore honor to the sailors unjustly blamed for, and the sailors convicted of mutiny following, the disaster at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Concord, California, during World War II, and to rectify any mistreatment by the military of those sailors, including the full exoneration of those who were convicted at court-martial.

Elections

• SB 794 (Glazer) Excess Contributions - Permits a recipient to return the excess amount of a contribution over the limit without returning the entire contribution.
• SB 1439 (Glazer) Local Pay-To-Play – Expands the Levine Act to apply to local elected officials. The Levine Act prevents agency officers (including officers of local agencies, but excluding agencies whose officers are local elected officials) from receiving campaign contributions over $250 from a party who has a permit, license, or other entitlement pending before the officer and for 3 months after a decision has been made. This proposal would extend the Levine Act to apply to agencies with local elected officials (e.g. city councilmembers) and would extend the exclusion from 3 months to 12 months. 
• SB 1480 (Glazer) Electronic Ballot Return for Persons with Disabilities – Allows for the electronic return of a ballot by some people with disabilities. 

Coauthored Bills

• AB 988 (Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Gipson, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Ting) Mental health: 988 crisis hotline – States legislative intent to enact legislation to implement the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020, in compliance with rules adopted by the Federal Communication Commission, by July 16, 2022, designating "988" as a three-digit number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline (NSPL).  Status: Senate Governmental Organization
• AB 1613 (Irwin) Theft: jurisdiction – Expands the territorial jurisdiction in which the Attorney General can prosecute specified theft offenses and associated offenses connected together in their commission to the underlying theft offenses.
• AB 1664 (Gabriel) California State Nonprofit Security Grant Program – Extends the operation of and modifies the California Nonprofit Security Grant Program administered by the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES). 
• AB 2282 (Bauer-Kahan, Levine) Hate crimes: nooses, crosses, and swastikas – Equalizes the penalty for the crimes of hanging a noose, displaying a symbol of hate, including a Nazi swastika, and burning or desecrating religious symbols, on specified property, for the purpose of terrorizing, and expands and aligns the places where this conduct is prohibited for each offense.
• AB 2374 (Bauer-Kahan) Crimes against public health and safety: illegal dumping – Increases the maximum fines for illegal dumping for persons employing more than 10 full-time employees, and requires any person convicted of illegal dumping to remove or pay the cost of removing the waste matter they were convicted of illegally dumping.
• AB 2789 (Mullin) Design-Build Projects: Local Agencies – Eliminates the January 1, 2023, sunset date on the authority for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen) and the Santa Clara Valley Open-Space Authority (Open Space Authority) to use design-build contracting, thus making the authority permanent. This bill also authorizes the East Bay Regional Park District (East Bay Parks) to use design-build contracting.
• SB 970 (Eggman) Mental Health Services Act – Requires the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA) to establish the California Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Outcomes and Accountability Review (OAR), with a dedicated workgroup tasked with establishing three specified components to assist county mental health programs (CMHP) in improving MHSA funded programs.
• SCA 10 (Atkins, Rendon) Reproductive Freedom – Expresses that the state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives. This constitutional amendment states it is intended to further the right to privacy and the right to not be denied equal protection, as guaranteed by the California Constitution, and states that it does not narrow or limit the right to privacy or equal protection. 

2021 Legislative Package

2020 Legislative Package

• SB 634 (Glazer) Bottle Bill – This bill would reform California’s beverage container recycling program.
• SB 607 (Glazer) B&P Vehicle – This bill would make changes to the Barbering and Cosmetology Act.
• SB 621 (Glazer) CEQA Streamlining for Affordable Housing – This bill would expedite the judicial process for lawsuits challenging affordable housing projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by requiring courts to adjudicate such lawsuits within 270 days.
• SB 711 (Glazer) B&P Vehicle – This bill would make changes to the Cemetery and Funeral Act.
• SB 801 (Glazer & McGuire) Medical Baseline Customer Relief – This bill would require electrical corporations to provide backup electrical resources or financial assistance for backup electrical resources to any medical baseline customers impacted by a public safety power shutoff.
• SB 802 (Glazer) Emergency Backup Generators for Health Facilities – This bill would allow health facilities to operate emergency backup generators during public safety power shutoffs without having that usage count towards time limitations established by air districts.
• SB 925 (Glazer) Cell Tower Backup Power – This bill would require cell phone towers to have 72 hours of backup power.
• SB 1049 (Glazer) Short-term Rental Fine Increase – This bill would authorize a city to impose a fine of up to $5,000 for a violation of a short-term rental ordinance.
• SB 1074 (Glazer) Health Facilities Spot
• SB 1127 (Glazer) Increasing and Reforming the Renters Tax Credit – Specifics to be determined.
• SB 1147 (Glazer) Carnegie-Tesla – Specifics to be determined.
• SB 1187 (Glazer) Winegrower Tasting Rooms – This bill would allow Type 02 winegrowers to have up to two offsite tasting rooms.
• SB 1211 (Glazer) California Promise Program – This bill would require the participation rate for each school’s California Promise program to be a minimum of 5% of each incoming class. This bill would also require 70% of each incoming Promise program cohort to be low-income, first-gen, or URM.
• SB 1223 (Glazer) Mental Health Awareness License Plate – This bill would create a mental health awareness personalized license plate. The proceeds from the license plate would be deposited into the Mental Health Awareness Fund – also created by this bill – for use for mental health services in schools.
• SB 1232 (Glazer) CalWORKs Benefits for Students – This bill would allow full-time students to receive CalWORKs Benefits for up to four years.
• SB 1239 (Glazer) Pet Evacuations – This bill would reform the pet and livestock evacuation program per the UC Davis model.
• SB 1349 (Glazer) Contra Costa County  -- This bill permits Contra Costa County, and cities within Contra Costa County, additional legal flexibility to impose local transactions and use taxes.
• SB 1361 (Glazer) Ed Code Spot
• SB 1401 (Glazer) Funeral Home Pricing Transparency (potential vehicle) – This bill would require the general price list to be posted on a licensed funeral establishment’s website.
• SB 1431 (Glazer) B&P Vehicle – This bill would make changes to speed up the timeframe patients are reimbursed for overpayment.
• SB 1432 (Glazer) B&P Vehicle – This bill would make changes to how clinical lab incident forms are made available.
• SB 1461 (Glazer) Spot
• SB 1462 (Glazer) Board of Behavioral Sciences Sunset Review
• SB 1463 (Glazer) Physician Assistants Board Sunset Review
• SB 1464 (Glazer) Department of Real Estate Sunset Review
• SB 1465 (Glazer) Board of Barbering and Cosmetology Sunset Review
• SB 1466 (Glazer) Podiatric Medical Board Sunset Review
• SB 1467 (Glazer) Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education Sunset Review
• SCR 77 (Glazer) Ellen O. Tauscher Memorial Bore – This resolution would rename the fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel to the Ellen O. Tauscher Memorial Bore.