Cities are directly accountable to their communities. Local control allows community members a direct voice in choosing programs and services that best fit their needs. CCCA supports and defends the rights of local governments to protect their ability to contract services, acting locally and effectively for their communities. As such, CCCA has taken up a number of positions on bills circulating through the State Legislature.
Contract Cities prioritizes policy positions on legislative items based on their impact on local control member city concerns, CCCA’s annual Legislative Platform, and Guiding Principles and Procedures.
For inquiries regarding any of CCCA’s legislative positions, please contact Jorge Morales at jorge@contractcities.org.
Legislative Postions
wdt_ID | Bill | Summary | Status |
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2 | Additional Documents: Letters of Opposition Summary: AB 436 This bill would remove the authorization for a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by |
Oppose | |
4 | AB 742 (Jackson) - Law Enforcement: Police Canines (Corey Jackson) |
Additional Documents: Letters of Opposition Summary: Existing law authorizes a peace officer to use reasonable force to effect the arrest, to prevent escape, or to overcome resistance of an individual. Existing law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy on the use of force. This bill would prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend |
Oppose |
5 | SB 602 (Archuleta) Letter of Agency: Graffiti and Public Nuisance (Bob Archuleta)
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Additional Documents: Letter of Support Summary: Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to commit the crime of trespass upon being requested to leave by a peace officer at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession and upon being informed by the peace officer that they are acting at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession. Existing law requires a separate request to the peace officer on each occasion when the peace officer’s assistance in dealing with a trespass is requested, except that a single request for peace officer assistance may be made for a period not to exceed 12 months. Existing law requires the requester to inform the law enforcement agency to which the request was made when the assistance is no longer desired before the 12-month period expires. Existing law also authorizes a single request for a peace officer’s assistance to be made for a period of time not to exceed 30 days and identified by specific dates when there is a fire hazard or the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession is absent from the property. Under existing law, a request for assistance expires when ownership of the property changes or upon a change in the person in lawful possession. |
Support |
6 | Additional Documents: Letters of Opposition Summary: Would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, provided that all of the units are provided at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development. |
Oppose | |
7 | SB 55 (Umberg) - Vehicles: Catalytic Converters (Thomas Umberg) |
Additional Documents: Letter of Support Summary: Existing law licenses and regulates motor vehicle dealers and retailers. Existing law prohibits a motor vehicle dealer or retailer from selling any motor vehicle that is not in compliance with the requirements enumerated in the Vehicle Code. This bill would prohibit a dealer or retailer from selling a new motor vehicle equipped with a catalytic converter unless the catalytic converter has been engraved or etched with the vehicle identification number of the vehicle to which it is attached. A violation of this provision would be punishable as an infraction. |
Support |
9 | AB 74 (Muratsuchi) - Vehicles: street takeovers, sideshows, and racing |
Summary: Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or an exhibition of speed on a highway, or to aid or abet therein. Commencing July 1, 2025, a court may suspend a person’s driver’s license for 90 days to 6 months for an exhibition of speed, or aiding and abetting an exhibition of speed, if the violation occurred as part of a sideshow. Existing law defines “sideshow” as 2 or more persons blocking or impeding traffic on a highway for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, or reckless driving for spectators. |
Watch |
10 | SB 20 - (Rubio) - Joint Powers Agreements: Regional Housing Trusts |
Additional Documents: Letter of Support Summary: The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law authorizes the agreement to set forth the manner by which the joint powers authority will be governed. That act specifically authorizes the creation of the Orange County Housing Finance Trust and the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust, both joint powers authorities, for the purposes of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their respective regions, as specified. This bill would authorize 2 or more cities, by entering into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, to create a regional housing trust for the purposes of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their jurisdictions. The bill would require a regional housing trust created pursuant to these provisions to be governed by a board of directors consisting of a minimum of 9 directors. The bill would authorize a regional housing trust to fund the planning and construction of housing, receive public and private financing and funds, and authorize and 6 issue bonds. The bill would require the joint powers agreement establishing the regional housing trust to incorporate specified annual financial reporting and auditing requirements. |
Support |
11 | SB 58 (Weiner) - Controlled Substances: Decriminalization of Certain Hallucinogenic Substances |
Additional Documents: Letters of Opposition Summary: The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substances on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age. Current law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion. This bill would make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline, for personal use or facilitated or supported use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. |
Oppose |
38 | Additional Documents: Letters of Support Summary: SB 44 The bill would require the court to read the advisory statement in a case in which the defendant exchanged a controlled substance containing fentanyl or its analogs for anything else of value. The bill would require the advisory statement to be included in a plea form, if used, and specified on the record. The bill would require that the fact the advisory was given be recorded in the abstract of conviction and would prohibit the advisement from being used as evidence in the prosecution of a minor in juvenile court. Existing law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, import, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This bill, Alexandra’s Law, would require the court to advise a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes, of the danger of selling or administering illicit drugs and counterfeit pills and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the defendant can be charged with homicide. |
Support | |
39 | AB 550 - (Schiavo), Pilar - Homelessness: Public Hearings (Pilar Schiavo) |
Summary: Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors, by ordinance, to cause a validated census of the county or any district therein to be taken in years other than those in which a census is taken by the United States that enumerates all the inhabitants of the county or district. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to identify the existing and projected housing needs of all economic segments of the community. This bill would require a city, county, and city and county, on or before January 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, to conduct a point-in-time count of homeless persons within that jurisdiction and, on or before January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to hold a public hearing to present the data gathered and discuss plans to solve issues related to homelessness in that jurisdiction. The bill would require the city, county, and city and county to, at least 30 days before the public hearing, publish the results of the data gathered on that jurisdiction’s internet website and, within 6 months after the public hearing, to develop a plan to reduce homelessness within that jurisdiction. By requiring local agencies to conduct a point-in-time count of homeless persons and develop a plan to reduce homelessness, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. |
Watch |
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