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2018 Legislative Outcome

On March 21, 2017, City Council adopted the 2017 Legislative Guiding Principles and Priorities, which serves as a guiding document for staff and City Council to follow when responding to legislative issues. In the current 2018 Legislative cycle, the City has taken a position on 6 individual bills in the state legislature and 1 bill in the federal legislature. A summary of these bills, the City’s position, and the outcome is provided in the table below.

Bill	Author	Title and Brief Summary	City Position	Outcome
AB 2923	Chiu	San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District: transit-oriented development: this bill will give Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) land use authority over BART owned land within one –half mile of an existing or planned BART station. BART will also be required to adopt transit-oriented development (TOD) zoning standards on specified parcels of land it owns, and therefore will require affected cities and counties to update zoning to be consistent with BART’s zoning standards within two years.	Oppose	Passed- Chaptered by the Secretary of State.
AB 2681	Nazarian	Seismic safety: potentially vulnerable buildings: this bill would require each building department, of a city or county, to create an inventory of potentially vulnerable buildings within its jurisdiction, based on age and other publicly available information. This inventory would then be submitted to the Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) for review of compliance standards.	Oppose	Vetoed by the Governor.
AB 827	Wiener	Planning and zoning: transit-rich housing bonus: this bill would require a local government to, if requested, grant a development proponent of a transit-rich housing project a transit-rich housing bonus if that development at the time of submittal meets specified planning standards, including complying with demolition permit requirements, complying with any local inclusionary housing ordinance requirements, ordinance or, if the local government has not adopted an inclusionary housing ordinance.	Oppose	Did not pass through the Senate - Transportation and Housing Committee.
SB 989	Wieckowski	State highways: relinquishment- Route 84: this bill will allow the state to relinquish to the City of Fremont about three miles of Route 84 between Interstate 880 and Mission Boulevard.	Support	Passed- Chaptered by the Secretary of State.
AB 1477	Stern	Low- Emissions Building Market Development Act: this bill would create two market development strategies by providing incentives for voluntary leadership by developers and building owners to achieve deep Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reductions in buildings, encouraging early adoption and paving the way for mass adoption.	Support	Passed- Chaptered by the Secretary of State.
S. 3157 (federal)	Thune	To streamline siting processes for small cell deployment: this bill would impose a timeline c between 60 and 90 days for state, local and tribal governments to decide on wireless companies’ requests to install small-cell infrastructure, critical for 5G. If a government takes too long to consider an application, it would be automatically approved.	Oppose	Currently being reviewed at Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
SB 237	Hertzberg	Electricity: direct transactions:This bill would require the commission to adopt and implement a 2nd phase-in period for expanding direct transactions over a period of not more than 3 years, so that by the end of the 3-year period all nonresidential end-use customers may acquire electric service from other providers in each electrical corporation’s distribution service territory.	Oppose	Passed- Chaptered by the Secretary of State.