PDF Agenda for the May 12, 2021 Meeting

 

STATE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
11:00am – 1:00pm
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MEMBERS:
Mayor’s Office (Chair) -- Edward McCaffrey
Supervisor Dean Preston -- Jen Snyder
Supervisor Connie Chan -- Ian Fregosi
Assessor’s Office -- Holly Lung
City Attorney’s Office -- Mary Jane Winslow
Controller’s Office -- Dan Kaplan
Treasurer’s Office – Eric Manke
 

AGENDA

I. ROLL CALL

II. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES (Action Item). Discussion and possible action to approve the minutes from the meeting of April 14, 2021.

III. STATE LOBBYIST OVERVIEW AND UPDATE (Discussion Item). The City’s state lobbyist will present to the Committee an update on State legislative matters.

IV. PROPOSED LEGISLATION (Discussion and Action). Discussion and possible action item: the Committee with review and discuss state legislation affecting the City and County of San Francisco. Items are listed by Department, then by bill number.

Consent Agenda

All matters listed hereunder constitute a Consent Agenda, are considered to be routine by the State Legislation Committee and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the Committee. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the Committee so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item.

1. AB 221 (Santiago) Emergency food assistance.
Submitted by Human Services Agency
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would provide an emergency food assistance benefit to certain eligible low-income California residents, regardless of their immigration status, in the form of a one-time use, prepaid card preloaded with $600 for use at retailers that sell groceries.

2. AB 417 (McCarty) Rising Scholars Network: justice-involved students.
Submitted by Reentry Council
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would authorize the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to establish a program, named the Rising Scholars Network, to enter into agreements with up to 50 community colleges to provide additional funds for services in support of postsecondary education for formerly and currently incarcerated individuals.

3. AB 424 (Stone) Private Student Loan Collections Reform Act: collection actions.
Submitted by the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would protect private student loan borrowers from unsubstantiated lawsuits and collection on illegitimate debts. The bill requires private student loan lenders and debt collectors to comply with common sense evidentiary standards when bringing debt collection lawsuits against borrowers.

4. AB 695 (Arambula) Elder and dependent adults.
Submitted by Human Services Agency
Recommended Position: Support
This bill, along with a concomitant budget proposal, would greatly enhance Adult Protective Services (APS) programs to meet the growing needs of California’s aging population.

5. AB 1527 (Ting) Seton Medical Center: seismic safety.
Submitted by the Department of Public Health
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would allow the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to grant Seton Medical Center in Daly City a waiver of up to one year to comply with seismic retrofit requirements.

6. SB 240 (Eggman) Income tax: credits: food banks.
Submitted by Department of the Environment
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would allow for the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law to apply a tax credit for qualified taxpayers in an amount equal to 15% of the qualified value of fresh fruits or vegetables and specified raw agricultural products or processed foods donated to a food bank.

7. SB 354 (Skinner) Foster youth: relative placement.
Submitted by Human Services Agency
Recommended Position: Support as amended
This bill would ensure that any existing relationship between a prospective relative or non-relative extended family member (NREFM) caregiver and a child is considered in decisions regarding home approval and placement.

8. SB 551 (Stern) California Electric Vehicle Authority.
Submitted by Department of the Environment
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would establish a California Electric Vehicle Authority within the Governor’s office to serve as the state coordinator to accelerate transportation electrification and zero-emissions goods movement and remove barriers and friction among state and regional agencies, utilities, and local governments.

New Business

Film SF / Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Presenter: Susannah Robbins and Lisa Pagan

9. SB 255 (Portantino) Health insurance: employer associations: large group health insurance.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would authorize an association of employers to offer a large group health care service plan contract or large group health insurance policy consistent with the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) if certain requirements are met.

Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector
Presenter: Eric Manke and Amanda Fried

10. SB 555 (McGuire) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator: collection.
Recommended Position: Oppose unless amended
This legislation establishes a system by which local governments may require short-term rental platforms to collect local charges and contract with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) to collect those charges from the short-term rental platforms and remit them to the local governments.

Department of Public Health
Presenter: Max Gara

11. AB 1358 (Bonta) Support
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would require the California Department of Public Health to establish standards for the collection and disclosure of demographic information, including race/ethnicity, employment and language, by local health departments and health care providers, including vaccination sites.

12. SB 65 (Skinner) Maternal care and services.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would enact a comprehensive set of strategies, ranging from Medi-Cal coverage expansion to maternal care workforce improvements, to reduce pregnancy and postpartum death rates and infant mortality, especially for families of color.

Planning Department and Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development
Presenter: Sheila Nickolopoulos

13. SB 5 (Atkins) Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2022.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2022, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $6.5 billion.

14. SB 490 (Caballero) Housing acquisition and rehabilitation: technical assistance.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would create the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Program (HARTAP) at the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for the purpose of providing technical assistance to nonprofits, community land trusts, public housing authorities, housing cooperatives, resident associations, and local governments.

15. SCA 2 (Allen) Public housing projects.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would repeal Article 34, which prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition of a low-rent housing project, in any manner by any state public body until a majority of the qualified electors of the locality in which the the low-rent housing project is proposed approve the project by voting in favor at an election.

Planning Department
Presenter: Sheila Nickolopoulos

16. AB 561 (Ting) Help Homeowners Add New Housing Program: accessory dwelling unit financing.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would authorize the Treasurer, within six months of the effective date, to develop and administer the Help Homeowners Add New Housing Program, which would assist homeowners in qualifying for loans to construct Accessory Dwelling Units.

17. SB 9 (Atkins) Housing development: approvals.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would require a proposed housing development containing no more than two residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing if the proposed development meets certain requirements.

18. SB 10 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing development: density.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would authorize a local government to adopt an ordinance to zone any parcel for up to 10 units of residential density per parcel, at a height specified in the ordinance, if the parcel is in a transit-rich area, a jobs-rich area, or an urban infill site.

Department of the Environment
Presenter: Katie Chansler

19. AB 478 (Ting) Solid waste: thermoform plastic containers: postconsumer recycled plastic.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill sets minimum postconsumer recycled content standards for thermoform plastic containers (mostly take out clamshells and trays) to create a circular economy that will produce, collect, and post-consumer plastic thermoformed containers.

20. AB 1371 (Friedman) Recycling: plastic: packaging and carryout bags.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill will reduce the amount of plastic packaging by prohibiting e-commerce retailers from using single-use plastic packaging such as shipping envelopes, cushioning, void fill or polystyrene peanuts for shipping products and will increase recycling opportunities for consumers by requiring retailers to collect and recycle materials.

21. SB 54 (Allen) Solid waste: packaging and products.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill will prohibit producers of single-use, disposable packaging or foodware producers from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing in or into the state those products manufactured after January 1, 2032, unless it is recyclable or compostable.

22. SB 345 (Becker) Energy programs and projects: nonenergy benefits.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill will establish common definitions of nonenergy benefits and try to determine consistent values and methodologies for use in assigning priority access to authorized funds by distributed energy resource programs, including energy efficiency.

23. SB 726 (Gonzalez) Alternative fuel and vehicle technologies: Sustainable Transportation Strategy.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would require the state board and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in coordination with specified state agencies, to jointly develop a comprehensive transportation sustainability strategy, to be adopted by state agencies identified in the strategy.

Reentry Council
Presenter: Victoria Westbrook

24. AB 717 (Stone) Prisoners: identification cards.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide a California Identification card or driver’s license to every person released from state prison.

25. AB 990 (Santiago) Prisons: inmate visitation.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would increase access to visits and calls in California prisons.

26. AB 1007 (Cabrillo) Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would establish the Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program to provide compensation to women forcibly sterilized under California’s eugenic laws, as well as those sterilized without medical necessity or informed consent while incarcerated in state prison, county jail or a state or local mental health facility.

27. SB 262 (Hertzberg) Bail.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would require zero-dollar bail for most misdemeanor and felony offenses; require the Judicial Council to prepare, adopt, and annually revise a statewide bail schedule for the exempt offenses; and require the return of money or property paid to obtain bail, as specified.

28. SB 271 (Wiener) County sheriffs: eligibility requirements.
Recommended Position: Support
This bill would restore California’s long-standing eligibility criteria for candidates seeking the office of Sheriff.

V. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Members of the public may address the Committee on items of interest that are within the Committee’s subject matter jurisdiction and that do not appear on the agenda.

VI. ADJOURNMENT

 

 

Disability Access
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Know Your Rights Under the Sunshine Ordinance
The government’s duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils, and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people’s business. This ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people’s review. For information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact the Donna Hall at Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, San Francisco, CA 94102, by phone at 415-554-7724, by fax at 415-554-7854, or email the Sunshine Ordinance Taskforce Administrator at sotf@sfgov.org. Citizens may obtain a free copy of the Sunshine Ordinance by contacting the Task Force, or by printing Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, at www.sfgov.org/sunshine.htm.
 

Lobbyist Registration and Reporting Requirements
Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance (San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code Sec. 2.100 –2.160) to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the San Francisco Ethics Commission at 30 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 3900, San Francisco, CA 94102; telephone 415-581-2300, fax 415-581-2317, Internet website: www.sfgov.org/ethics.

Cell Phones and Pagers
The ringing and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the Chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices.

Public Comment
Public Comment will be taken on each item on the agenda before or during consideration of that item.

Document Review
Documents that may have been provided to members of the State Legislation Committee in connection with the items on the agenda include proposed state legislation, consultant reports, correspondence and reports from City departments, and public correspondence. These may be inspected by contacting Edward McCaffrey, Manager, State and Federal Affairs, Mayor’s Office at: (415) 554-6588.

Health Considerations
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