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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10.(Handout) 2024 Priority Legislative Tracking SheetCentral San 2024 Priority Legislative Tracking Sheet as of 3/6/24 10. (Handout) Green Shading - bill enacted, Gray Shading - bill is dead, White Shading - bill in progress, Red Shading - bill was vetoed Industry Position Date of Federal/ Author Legislation Also Known As Summary Organization(s) Recommended Board Board Notes State Priority Decision Direction by Staff List/Position 1 State Skinner SB 903 Environmental This bill would, beginning January 1, 2030, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or California Support 3/7/2024 health: product offering for sale a product that contains intentionally added PFAS unless the Department Association of safety: of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has made a determination that the use of PFAS in Sanitation perfluoroalkyl and the product is a currently unavoidable use, the prohibition is preempted by federal law, or Agencies (CASA): polyfluoroalkyl the product is used. The bill would specify the criteria and procedures for determining Sponsor substances. whether the use of PFAS in a product is a currently unavoidable use, for renewing that determination, and for revoking that determination. The bill would require DTSC to maintain on its internet website a list of each determination of currently unavoidable use, when each determination expires, and the products and uses that are exempt from the prohibition. The bill would impose a civil penalty for a violation of the prohibition. The bill would establish the PFAS Penalty Account and require all civil penalties received to be deposited into that account and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used for the administration and enforcement of these provisions, as specified. This bill would, by January 1, 2027, require DTSC to adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this bill including an assessment of an application fee. The bill would create the PFAS Oversight Fund and require all application fees to be deposited into the fund. The bill would require moneys in the account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used to cover the department's reasonable costs of administering this act. 2 State Allen SB 1143 Household Existing law authorizes a public agency, as defined, to operate a household hazardous National Support 3/7/2024 hazardous waste: waste collection facility under permit from DTSC. This bill would create a producer Stewardship Action producer responsibility program for products containing household hazardous waste and require a Council (NSAC): responsibility. producer responsibility organization (PRO) to provide a free and convenient collection Sponsor and management system for covered products. The bill would define "covered product" to mean a product containing household hazardous waste, except a product that is subject to another statewide extended producer responsibility program and pesticides. The bill would require a producer of a covered product to register with a PRO, which would be required to develop and implement a producer responsibility plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of covered products. The bill would require CalRecycle to adopt regulations to implement the program with an effective date no earlier than July 1, 2026. The bill would require a PRO, within 12 months of the effective date of the regulations, to submit a product responsibility plan to CalRecycle. The bill would require the plan to include specified elements, including a funding mechanism that provides sufficient funding to carry out the plan. The bill would require, within 6 months of receipt of the plan, CalRecycle to approve or disapprove the plan. The bill would require a PRO to implement its plan within 90 days of approval. The bill would require the plan to be fully funded in a manner that equitably distributes the plan's costs among participant producers that reflects sales volumes and the cost to manage the covered products that a producer produces. The bill would require the PRO to reimburse local jurisdictions for costs associated with providing a convenient collection system for covered products if the PRO's plan relies on local jurisdictions to collect or manage covered products. This bill would require the PRO provide an annual report to CalRecycle, and pay their administrative charges for the enforcement of the PRO and plans. Civil penalties would be collected for non- compliance. Central San 2024 Priority Legislative Tracking Sheet as of 3/6/24 Green Shading - bill enacted, Gray Shading - bill is dead, White Shading - bill in progress, Red Shading - bill was vetoed Industry Position Date of Federal/ Author Legislation Also Known As Summary Organization(s) Recommended Board Board Notes State Priority Decision Direction by Staff List/Position 3 State Haney AB 3073 Wastewater This bill would require the state board to create a program to test for illicit substances, CASA: Oppose Oppose Unless 3/7/2024 testing: illicit including, but not limited to, cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine, and morphine, in Unless Amended Amended substances wastewater, as provided. The bill would require local sanitation agencies to collect wastewater sample for testing by the state board. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state -mandated local program. The bill would require the state board to transmit the results of its wastewater testing to the State Department of Public Health for the department to post on its internet website. CONCERNS: As written, this bill may be overreaching and should be a voluntary pilot first. Local health departments could work directly with local POTWs to coordinate if they find value in the data, without the need for legislation. A voluntary program would be consistent with the District's and other agencies COVID sampling work. 4 State Wiener SB 937 Development This bill, among several other things: CSDA: Oppose Oppose 3/7/2024 projects: permits 1) Mitigation Fee Act Changes: makes all impact fees generally payable at the certificate and other of occupancy and deletes the current provision of payable at final inspection OR entitlements: fees certificate of occupancy and requires those fees to be the same as they would have been and charges. at the point of application. And makes other changes to this section including removing any requirements for the development proponent to post a bond for those fees not yet collected. (Author's Fact Sheet Attached) 2) Adds the Quimby Act (park land or money in lieu) by way of deleting an exception, bring the Quimby act into the requirements of the Fee Mitigation Act 3) Adds Connection and Capacity Charges to the Fee mitigation Act by way of cross references and additionally names, "... including, but not limited to, water districts and sanitation districts...." as local agencies subject to the Fee Mitigation Act 5 State Patterson AB 2729 Residential fees This measure seeks to remove the exceptions to the rule that Development Impact Fees CSDA: Oppose Oppose 3/7/2024 and charges. are to be paid at the point of final inspection or certificate of occupancy. By deleting the exceptions to default, the only time to collect impact fees would be at the point of final inspection or certificate of occupancy. The current exception that is being removed by AB 2729 is paraphrased here , "...a local agency determines that the fees or charges will be collected for public improvements or facilities for which an account has been established and funds appropriated and for which the local agency has adopted a proposed construction schedule or plan prior to final inspection or issuance of the certificate of occupancy or (B) the fees or charges are to reimburse the local agency for expenditures previously made.." This bill would repeal the current authorization for a local agency to require payment of development impact fees or charges prior to the date of final inspection or issuance of the certificate of occupancy, whichever occurs first, under certain conditions. Central San 2024 Priority Legislative Tracking Sheet as of 3/6/24 Green Shading - bill enacted, Gray Shading - bill is dead, White Shading - bill in progress, Red Shading - bill was vetoed Industry Position Date of Federal/ Author Legislation Also Known As Summary Organization(s) Recommended Board Board Notes State Priority Decision Direction by Staff List/Position 6 State Pacheco AB 2283 Public Records: This bill would require agencies to provide written notice to an employee within 48 hours Oppose 3/7/2024 employee of receipt of a California Public Records request that seeks to obtain: sensitive personnel information concerning the employee or a family member of the employee, including, but records: notice not limited to, --photographs of the employee or family member, the residential address of the employee or family member, or the medical history of the employee or family member; --information that could reasonably be considered to put the safety of the employee or a family member of the employee at risk; or --information would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, including personnel, medical, or similar files. The written notice that the agency would be required to furnish the employee with would be required to: --inform the employee of the specific records that were requested; --inform the employee of the purpose for which the specific records were requested, if known by the public agency; --inform the employee of who made the request; and --provide the employee with a means of contacting the public agency about the requested records.