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2 of 3 • Adaptability of the Legislative Framework: A benefit of the framework is the ability for staff to adapt when new legislation is brought forward. Staff tracks and takes positions on bills based on established guiding principles and focus areas, ensuring the City's best interests are consistently represented. • Framework Basis: The City's Legislative Framework is developed through Guiding Principles that represent adopted policies and plans. This ensures that the framework directly reflects the priorities and direction set by the City Council. Since the March 14 Subcommittee meeting, 6 additional bills have been brought to staff’s attention and are being tracked. 1. AB 1886 (Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act.) – This is a bill by Assembly Member David Alvarez which would clarify in statute that a housing element is substantially compliant with Housing Element Law, when both a local agency adopts the housing element and the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) or a court finds it in compliance, for purposes of specified provisions of the Housing Accountability Act (HAA). 2. AB 2560 (Density Bonus Law (DBL): California Coastal Act of 1976.) – A bill by Assembly Member David Alvarez which deletes the provision that states that nothing in Density Bonus Law supersedes or in any way alters or lessens the application of the Coastal Act of 1976 (the Coastal Act). In effect, the bill makes DBL applicable in the coastal zone. 3. AB 2943 (Crimes: shoplifting.) – A bill by Assembly Member Rick Chavez Zbur which enacts the California Retail Theft Reduction Act, which contains multiple provisions pertaining to shoplifting, grand theft, criminal deprivation of a retail business opportunity, and theft-related probation and diversion. 4. SB 1037 (Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement.) – A bill by Senator Scott Wiener which would require specific penalties to be imposed in any action brought by the Attorney General (AG) to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions, or to enforce any state law that requires a local government to ministerially approve, without discretionary review, any land use decision or permitting application for a housing development project. The bill would require that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when local land use decisions or actions are arbitrary, capricious, entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair. 5. SB 1164 (Property taxation: new construction exclusion: accessory dwelling units.) – This is a bill by Senator Josh Newman which would enact a new property tax construction exclusion of specified duration for the addition or construction of an accessory dwelling unit. 6. SB 1494 (Local agencies: Sales and Use Tax: retailers.) – This is a bill by Senator Steve Glazer which would prohibit a local agency from entering into, renewing, or