Legislative Matrix – 10.14.25
Existing Positions
| Subject | |
| AB 339 (Ortega D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements. | AB 339 was approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee with amendments that scale back the scope of the bill. As amended, the bill would require a public agency to provide 45 days’ notice to a recognized employee organization regarding contracts for services that are within the scope of work of job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization. The amendments also remove the requirements to meet and confer and exempt public works projects. |
| AB 394 (Wilson D) Crimes: public transportation providers. | This measure would expand existing law regarding battery of a transit operator or transit passenger to also include an employee or contractor of a public transit provider. This bill also expands the workplace violence restraining order provisions to expressly permit a judge, at their discretion, to issue a TRO or restraining order that prohibits the subject of the order from the entirety of the public transit system. |
| AB 810 (Irwin D) Local government: internet websites and email addresses. | Existing law requires all cities and counties to transition to using a “.gov” or “.ca.gov” domain name for all websites and email addresses by January 1, 2029. AB 810 (Irwin) was amended to expand this requirement to include special districts, school districts, joint powers authorities, or other political subdivisions to also comply with this requirement by January 1, 2029. At the Assembly Local Government Committee hearing the author agreed to additional amendments. The changes remove school districts from the bill, and would require special districts, JPAs, and other political subdivisions to transition to the new domain names by January 1, 2031. |
| AB 1070 (Ward D) Transit districts: governing boards: compensation: nonvoting members | The author pulled AB 1070 from the Assembly Local Government Committee agenda, making it a two-year bill. This proposal would require ALL transit governing board members to demonstrate that they use public transit in order to be compensated for serving on the transit board. In addition, the bill would require the addition of 2 non-voting members to governing boards. The seats would be reserved for a representative of transit user groups, and a seat represented by the labor organization representing the majority of employees. Both non-voting members would have two alternates each. The nonvoting members may be excluded from any discussions regarding labor negotiations. |
| AB 1207 (Irwin D) Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism. | As signed into law AB 1207 extends cap-and-trade regulation through 2045, and renames the program the California Cap & Invest Program. Among the numerous changes made by the bill, AB 1207 also requires CARB to ensure that emissions from covered sources decline with the 2030 and 2045 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets; and the bill maintains existing offsets limits, but requires offsets to be exchanged for allowances under the emissions cap, and changes to how the revenues received by electrical corporations are used. |
| AB 1237 (McKinnor D) Counties of Los Angeles and Santa Clara: sporting events: ticket charge: public transit. | As introduced, AB 1237 proposed to require tickets sold to attend a FIFA World Cup game or an event during the 2028 Olympic Games to incorporate a transit pass for the day of the event. AB 1237 was recently amended to propose a broader application. As amended, the bill would require a ticket seller for an event at a venue with a capacity of 1,000 or more people to offer the consumer the option to purchase an all-day transit pass for the day of the event. The bill includes broadly written language that allows the ticket seller or the transit operator to charge a fee to cover the cost of implementing this service. While the intentions of this bill are good, it is unclear how the funds would flow, or how the transit pass would be redeemed, or used if the customer must transfer between transit operators. |
| AB 1250 (Papan D) Transit operators: paratransit: recertification of eligibility. | AB 1250 was gutted and amended on April 10th. to prohibit a transit operator from requiring an individual who is eligible for paratransit services and whose condition is not expected to improve from having to recertify their eligibility. AB 1250 was amended on June 30th to address concerns expressed by transit operators. With these amendments the California Transit Association now supports the bill. As amended, the bill requires transit operators, by June 1, 2027, to use a streamlined recertification process, for persons who have previously been determined to be eligible for paratransit service to have their eligibility reviewed. The streamlined recertification process must utilize a telephone interview, mail-in form, or online survey and may only collect the following information: Physical address;Mailing address, if different from physical address;Emergency contact;Phone number;Updated mobility devices;Status of disability, with identification of any worsening of the person’s disability, any additional disability, any changes to the person’s functional abilities, and any changes to the person’s use of an assistive device. |
| SB 63 (Wiener D) San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: transportation funding. | SB 63 was amended to authorize a 14-year sales tax to fund regional public transportation operations that will be placed on the November 2026 ballot in the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara. The bill also outlines maintenance of effort requires, a financial review of the transit operators, and accountability provisions. Governor Newsom issued a signing letter for SB 63 and other local transit funding measures. In the letter he stressed,”…the transit systems supported by these bills bear the responsibility of showing how the additional revenues, if approved by the voters, will produce tangible outcomes and measurable results.” |
| SB 71 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects. | SB 71 was amended to extend, not repeal the sunset date on existing law that exempts certain transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects from CEQA. The new sunset date is set for January 1, 2040. Specifically, this bill Expands these exemptions to include, among others, Tier 4 or cleaner locomotives in specified areas, shuttles and ferries and projects outside of urbanized areas or clusters.Retains a January 1, 2032, sunset for transportation projects using near-zero emission, natural gas, or low- nitrogen oxide (NOx) technology. |
| SB 239 (Arreguín D) Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body. | The provisions in SB 239 will be added to SB 707, which is a comprehensive overhaul of Brwon Act provisions related to remote participation. SB 239 proposed to allow certain types of advisory or subsidiary bodies to meet using remote/teleconference participation if specified conditions are met. SB 239 would not apply to a subsidiary body that has subject matter jurisdiction over police oversight, elections, or budgets. |
| SB 359 (Niello R) Use Fuel Tax Law: Diesel Fuel Tax Law: exempt bus operation. | SB 359 was approved by the Assembly Committee on Revenue & Taxation. Existing law currently exempts city transit operators transit districts and transit authorities from the 18-cent state excise tax. SB 359 would add county operated transit service to this exemption. |
| SB 419 (Caballero D) Hydrogen fuel. | SB 419 would exempt from the state sales tax the sale of hydrogen used as transportation fuel. While the Governor lauded the intent of this measure to incentivize zero emission vehicles, his veto message pointed to the state deficit and precarious fiscal outlook as the reason he could not sign it into law. |
| SB 445 (Wiener D) High-speed rail: third-party agreements, permits, and approvals: regulations. | SB 445 was gutted and amended to apply only to the California High Speed Rail Authority. Similar to the prior versions of the bill, SB 445 would authorize the CHSRA to develop and adopt regulations for governing third-party permits and approvals that are necessary to deliver the project. |
| SB 496 (Hurtado D) Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: appeals advisory committee: exemptions. | SB 496 would create the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee (Committee), and stipulate that: The Committee is composed of 20-28 members, represented specified groups, agencies, and areas of expertise;The Committee meet monthly to hear any appeals from fleets whose requests for ACF exemptions or time extensions were rejected by CARB;Each appeal has certain accompanying information posted on CARB’s website; and,CARB must, within 60 days after the Committee makes a recommendation regarding an appeal, consider the recommendation at a public CARB board meeting. |
| SB 752 (Richardson D) Sales and use taxes: exemptions: California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project: transit buses. | This bill would extend by two years the sunset date on the existing state sales tax exemption on the purchase of zero emission transit buses. The current exemption is set to expire on January 1, 2026. This bill would push it back to January 1, 2028 |
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