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Senate Appropriations

·  AB 14 (Aguiar-Curry) Communications: broadband services: California Advanced Services Fund ｜Cal Cities position: Support

·  AB 33 (Ting) Energy Conservation Assistance Act of 1979: energy storage systems and electric vehicle charging infrastructure: Native American tribes ｜Cal Cities position: Support

·  AB 43 (Friedman) Traffic safety ｜Cal Cities position: Support

·  AB 46 (Rivas, Luz) California Youth Empowerment Act ｜Cal Cities position: Support

·  AB 48 (Gonzalez, Lorena) Law enforcement: kinetic energy projectiles and chemical agents｜ Cities position: Oppose

·  AB 89 (Jones-Sawyer) Peace officers: minimum qualifications ｜ Cities position: Oppose

·  AB 215 (Chiu) Housing element: regional housing need: relative progress determination ｜ Cal Cities position: Oppose

·  AB 339 (Lee) Local government: open and public meetings ｜ Cal Cities position: Oppose

·  AB 500 (Ward) Local planning: coastal development: affordable housing ｜Cal Cities position: Oppose

·  AB 585 (Rivas, Luz) Climate change: Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program ｜Cal Cities position: Support

·  AB 602 (Grayson) Development fees: impact fee nexus study ｜Cal Cities position: Oppose Unless Amend                

·  AB 758 (Nazarian) Marks-Roos Local Bond Pooling Act of 1985: electric utilities: rate reduction bonds ｜Cal Cities position: Support

·  AB 816 (Chiu) Homelessness: Housing Trust Fund: housing projects ｜Cal Cities position: Oppose Unless Amend

·  AB 838 (Friedman) State Housing Law: enforcement response to complaints ｜Cal Cities position: Oppose Unless Amend

·  AB 897(Mullin) Office of Planning and Research: regional climate networks: regional climate adaptation and resilience action plans ｜Cal Cities position: Support

·  AB 1311 (Wood) Recycling: beverage containers ｜Cal Cities position: Support

·  AB 1401 (Friedman) Residential and commercial development: remodeling, renovations, and additions: parking requirements ｜ Cal Cities position: Oppose 

Priority Bill Summaries

Cal Cities strongly supports AB 14 (Aguiar-Curry), the subject of a broadband action alert. The measure would prioritize the deployment of broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved communities throughout California through the ongoing collection of the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) surcharge. The bill would also expand the definition of “unserved” to include areas with speeds slightly faster than dial-up, which is obsolete in an internet-driven economy.

Unfortunately, AB 48 (Gonzalez, Lorena) would severely limit the tools at a police officer’s disposal to protect public safety. The bill’s broad restrictions do not consider the dynamic and sometimes unruly nature of public demonstrations. Cal Cities opposes the measure as peace officers need non-lethal options for atypical situations that involve violence or significant risk to infrastructure.

Cal Cities also opposes AB 89 (Jones-Sawyer), which would increase a police officer candidate’s age from 18 to 25, unless they have obtained a college degree prior to being hired. The measure would narrow the pool of eligible candidates to unattainable levels for smaller agencies. Moreover, due to different rates of college enrollment and graduation, the requirements would also hinder the recruitment of officers of color.

AB 339 (Lee) would require city councils and boards of supervisors in jurisdictions with over 250,000 residents to provide in-person and a two-way telephonic option or a two-way internet-based service option for the public to attend their meetings. While this measure has been amended significantly from when it was introduced, it still contains fatal flaws that potentially hinder cities’ ability to be transparent and accessible. As such, Cal Cities opposes the bill.

Two housing-related bills are up for consideration. AB 215 (Chiu) would create a new, mid-cycle regional housing needs progress determination process that does not account for variation in local economies. Moreover, the measure would require cities with “low progress” in meeting those housing targets to consult with the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and adopt new pro-housing policies. Cal Cities opposes the bill, as it turns what was meant to be an incentive program into a mandatory requirement for some jurisdictions.

Finally, Cal Cities opposes AB 1401 (Friedman), as its definition of “public transit” would give developers and transit agencies — who are unaccountable to local voters — the power to determine parking requirements. Additionally, the bill could negatively impact the State’s Density Bonus Law by providing developers parking concessions without also requiring them to include affordable housing units in the project.  

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Current California AB (Assembly Bills) and SB (Senate Bills) for Review🥸

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Find current AB and SB of California. The Bills cover WIFI, housing, homelessness, and many more. Review and Click the tab for direct information from the State legislature.

AB 14

AB 14   (Aguiar-Curry D)   Communications: broadband services: California Advanced Services Fund.
Current law establishes the State Department of Education in state government, and vests the department with specified powers and duties relating to the state’s public school system. This bill would authorize local educational agencies to report to the department their pupils’ estimated needs for computing devices and internet connectivity adequate for at-home learning. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, to compile that information and to annually post that compiled information on the department’s internet website.
AB 17   (Cooper D)   Peace officers: disqualification from employment.
Would disqualify a person from being a peace officer if the person has been discharged from the military for committing an offense that would have been a felony if committed in California or if the person has been certified as a peace officer and has had that certification revoked by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
AB 34   (Muratsuchi D)   Broadband for All Act of 2022.
Would enact the Broadband for All Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to support the 2022 Broadband for All Program that would be administered by the department for purposes of providing financial assistance for projects to deploy broadband infrastructure and broadband internet access services.
AB 215   (Chiu D)   Housing element: regional housing need: relative progress determination.
the Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. This bill, starting with the 6th housing element revision, would require the department to determine the relative progress toward meeting regional housing needs of each jurisdiction and council of governments, as specified. The bill would require the department to make this determination based on the information contained in the annual reports submitted by each jurisdiction, as specified. The bill would require the department to make this determination for all housing and for lower-income housing by dividing the applicable entity’s progress toward meeting its share of the regional housing need by its prorated share of the regional housing need, as specified.
AB 377   (Rivas, Robert  D)   Water quality: impaired waters.
Would require, by January 1, 2023, the State Water Resources Control Board and regional boards to prioritize enforcement of all water quality standard violations that are causing or contributing to an exceedance of a water quality standard in surface water of the state. The bill would require the state board and regional boards, by January 1, 2025, to evaluate impaired state surface waters and report to the Legislature a plan to bring all water segments into attainment by January 1, 2050. The bill would require the state board and regional boards to update the report with a progress summary to the Legislature every 5 years. The bill would create the Waterway Recovery Account in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund and would make money in the Waterway Recovery Account available for the state board to expend, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to bring impaired water segments into attainment in accordance with the plan.
AB 500   (Ward D)   Local planning: coastal development: affordable housing.
Would require the California Coastal Commission to conduct and complete a study on or before January 1, 2023, that identifies recommendations for policy changes that advance affordable housing in the coastal zone. The bill would provide that the study may include recommendations regarding the commission’s authority related to the development of lower-income housing and recommendations regarding streamlining of local government and commission review of affordable housing projects.
AB 585   (Rivas, Luz D)   Climate change: Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program.
Would establish the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program for the purpose of coordinating state efforts and supporting local and regional efforts to mitigate the impacts of, and reduce the public health risks of, extreme heat and the urban heat island effect, and would require the Office of Planning and Research to administer the program through the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program.
AB 718   (Cunningham R)   Peace officers: investigations of misconduct.
Would require a law enforcement agency or oversight agency to complete its investigation into an allegation of the use of force resulting in death or great bodily injury, sexual assault, discharge of a firearm, or dishonesty relating to the reporting, investigation, or prosecution of a crime or misconduct by another peace officer or custodial officer, despite the peace officer’s or custodial officer’s voluntary separation from the employing agency. The bill would require the investigation to result in a finding that the allegation is either sustained, not sustained, unfounded or exonerated, as defined. The bill would also require an agency other than an officer’s employing agency that conducts an investigation of these allegations to disclose its findings with the employing agency no later than the conclusion of the investigation.
AB 816   (Chiu D)   Homelessness: Housing Trust Fund: housing projects.
Current federal law requires the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a Housing Trust Fund to provide grants to states to increase the supply of rental housing for extremely low and very low-income families, including homeless families, and homeownership for extremely low and very low-income families. Current law requires the department to collaborate with the California Housing Finance Agency to develop an allocation plan to demonstrate how the funds will be distributed, based on the priority housing needs identified in the state’s consolidated plan, and to convene a stakeholder process to inform the development of the plan. Current law requires the allocation plan and program guidelines to prioritize projects based on enumerated factors such as the extent to which project rents are affordable. The department is required to submit this plan to the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development and the Senate Transportation and Housing Committees 30 days after receipt of the federal funds. This bill would require the department to prioritize funding for projects that serve people experiencing homelessness, to the extent that a sufficient number of projects exist.
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SB 28   (Caballero D)   Rural Broadband and Digital Infrastructure Video Competition Reform Act of 2021.
Current law establishes in state government the Department of Technology and makes it responsible for approval and oversight of information technology projects. Current law requires the Director of General Services to compile and maintain an inventory of state-owned real property that may be available for lease to providers of wireless telecommunications services for location of wireless telecommunications facilities. This bill, the Rural Broadband and Digital Infrastructure Video Competition Reform Act of 2021, would similarly require the Department of Technology, in collaboration with other state agencies, to compile an inventory of state-owned resources, as defined, that may be available for use in the deployment of broadband networks in rural, unserved, and underserved communities, except as specified. The bill would require the department to collaborate on the development of standardized agreement provisions to enable those state-owned resources to be leased or licensed for that purpose.
SB 278   (Leyva D)   Public Employees’ Retirement System: disallowed compensation: benefit adjustments.
The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act. PEPRA, among other things, establishes new defined benefit formulas and caps on pensionable compensation. This bill would establish new procedures under PERL for cases in which PERS determines that the benefits of a member or annuitant are, or would be, based on disallowed compensation that conflicts with PEPRA and other specified laws and thus impermissible under PERL. The bill would also apply these procedures retroactively to determinations made on or after January 1, 2017, if an appeal has been filed and the employee member, survivor, or beneficiary has not exhausted their administrative or legal remedies. At the threshold, after determining that compensation for an employee member reported by the state, school employer, or a contracting agency is disallowed, the bill would require the applicable employer to discontinue the reporting of the disallowed compensation.
SB 344   (Hertzberg D)   Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services.
Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 5% of the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for those purposes for its costs in administering the program.
SB 556   (Dodd D)   Street light poles, traffic signal poles: small wireless facilities attachments.
Would prohibit a local government or local publicly owned electric utility from unreasonably denying the leasing or licensing of its street light poles or traffic signal poles to communications service providers for the purpose of placing small wireless facilities on those poles. The bill would require that street light poles and traffic signal poles be made available for the placement of small wireless facilities under fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory fees, as provided. The bill would authorize a local government or local publicly owned electric utility to condition access to its street light poles or traffic signal poles on reasonable terms and conditions, including reasonable aesthetic and safety standards.
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Ballot Harvesting

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What is Ballot Harvesting? What does it do to our vote? Who is practicing ballot harvesting? Why does ballot harvesting do to our local community? Is this practice ethical?

You will be surprised that a local pastor practices ballot harvesting in the Chino Area. This pastor pushes right extremist views and participated in the January 6, riot insurrection in Washington DC. Even to call the Pope the Anti-Christ and the President and Vice President socialist and communist. The pastor influences not only local city councils but, people, residents, the Chino school board, firefighters, PD, and other local religious pastors.

The pastor brags on YouTube and to his followers about his views and that he indeed participated in the riot insurrection on January 6 in Washington DC. This pastor is wanted by the FBI.

If you recognize this pastor report him to the FBI.

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His photo is number 70 and 153.

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Ballot collecting is the gathering and submitting of completed absentee or mail-in voter ballots by third-party individuals, volunteers, or workers, rather than submission by voters themselves directly to ballot collection sites.[1][2][3] It occurs in some areas of the U.S. where voting by mail is common, but some other states have laws restricting it.[1] Proponents of ballot collection promote it as enfranchising those who live in remote areas or lack ready access to transportation, are incapacitated, or are in hospital or jail. Critics of ballot collection highlight the possibility of increasing the potential for vote misappropriation or fraud. These critics sometimes use the term ballot harvesting to refer to the practice.[2]

California[edit]

California changed its rules before the 2018 midterm elections to allow people other than family members to collect and submit ballots. Last-minute submissions of votes in the election delayed results and some pundits and Republican politicians suggested that it influenced the outcome of several elections.[8][9]

While the Los Angeles Times editorial board rejected claims that any elections were affected by the new ballot harvesting law in the 2018 midterms, which is unsubstantiated, it did call for the law to be fixed or repealed, saying the law “does open the door to coercion and fraud.”[10] Republicans, in turn, are seeking to improve their own use of the practice, according to The Washington Post.[11]