It's easier at this point in the legislative season to say which bills are dead than which ones have a chance. This is a quick rundown of bills we've been following, plus a few more. For descriptive notes on many of the bills' provisions see our prior discussion at http://www.cp-dr.com/articles/node-3498 and as linked from there.

  • Cap and Trade seems to be in high-level horse-trading mode. Only Jerry Brown, State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, and the legislative leadership know for sure how this one will end. The latest iteration of Steinberg's legislative proposal appeared June 3 in a Senate budget committee hearing at http://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/FullC/June032014SBFRCapandTradeAgenda.pdf. Comparison with the original April version, available at California Association of Councils of Government (CALCOG) site at http://www.calcog.org/index.aspx?nid=96, shows the Steinberg proposal has given some ground, dropping from 40% to 20% the portion of cap and trade proceeds that would go to "affordable housing and sustainable communities", and within that dropping the percentage for affordable housing from Steinberg's original 20% down to 10%. See http://www.cp-dr.com/articles/node-3494 for the main starting points of proposals in that area, which have been the subject of many hopes for transportation and housing funding this session. 
  • Bills that are now procedurally dead include:
    • SB 1132, fracking limits.
    • SB 1260, housing set-aside in post-redevelopment tax increment financing
    • AB 2175, renters' rebates
    • AB 2729, Infrastructure Financing Bank expansion
    • SB 391, raise funds for affordable housing with real estate recording fees
    • SB 1270, limits on surface mining
    • SB 1451, raising procedural bars for would-be CEQA litigants, is also done for this year, having failed to pass out of its house of origin. Next year's CEQA sequel has already begun: staffers with the State Senate Environmental Quality and Judiciary Committees are circulating a survey to "stakeholders" on the issue. It asks broad open-ended questions on how best to revise the CEQA environmental process and seeks responses before next September 1. The attached copy was provided by a recipient of the emailed letter.
  • The following remained live bills after the May 30 "house of origin" deadline:
    • SB 1439, Ellis Act restrictions, was turned down in the State Senate on the Wednesday before Friday's deadline but then won approval on reconsideration in a dramatic Thursday lobbying push. There's an insider blow-by-blow account by San Francisco's Randy Shaw at http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=12670.
    • AB 2372, limited Prop 13 reform on business reassessments, "was modified enough to gain support" by the CA Chamber of Commerce and passed into the Senate, per the Sacramento Bee at http://bit.ly/1kyv05I. See also SF's smart Socketsite blog at http://bit.ly/1hx4TNl.
    • SB 1021, limited parcel tax rate variability
    • AB 1537, change Marin County's status from "urban" to "suburban" to downzone default housing density from 30 to 20 units per acre. Lots of critical comment is around on this one, including Planetizen with links to Marin IJ coverage at http://www.planetizen.com/articles/node-69031 and a critique from attorney and climate/transit scholar Ethan Elkind suggesting the measure could be a corrosive precedent against the enforceability of housing elements: http://www.ethanelkind.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-californias-affordable-housing-requirements/
    • SB 968, public access to Martin's Beach; recent coverage in the San Mateo Daily Journal at http://bit.ly/Sr6k3Z .
    • SB 1424, City of Martinez tidelands transfer. See http://martinezgazette.com/archives/13910, and an exceptionally detailed legislative summary on history behind control of the Martinez marina via http://bit.ly/1kAWOqahttp://basecamp.com/
    • SB 2135, affordable housing priority for surplus public land.
    • AB 2104, overriding HOA landscaping rules to save water, shown at http://bit.ly/1knvkVP as calendared for a June 10 State Senate hearing.
    • SB 270, ban single-use carryout bags
    • AB 2493, post-Redevelopment release of $750 million in project funds to cities.
    • SB 1129, post-Redevelopment cleanup
    • AB 2280, re-create some elements of Redevelopment with a housing emphasis
    • AB 1404, allow and require San Francisco Redevelopment's successor agency to rebuild over 5000 affordable housing units lost to the city through "urban renewal" demolitions 1955-1975
    • AB 2292, expand infrastructure financing districts specifically for Oakland freight and ex-military sites that are already redevelopment targets.
    • AB 2549, local commission on Milpitas' post-Redevelopment funding losses.
    • AB 2417, for "purple pipe" distribution of recycled water
    • AB 1739/SB1168, groundwater management: see http://www.acwa.com/news/water-news/groundwater-bills-move-forward-legislature.
    • AB 2453, Paso Robles water district governance by a locally controversial "hybrid" board structure: see http://pasoroblesdailynews.com/state-assembly-passes-bill-permit-paso-robles-water-basin-district/21199/
    • SB 1077, pilot program imposing auto tax based on miles traveled
    • SB 69/AB 1521, restore Vehicle License Fee revenue for newly created municipalities such as Jurupa Valley.
    • AB 1513, Residential property: possession by declaration
    • AB 1999, state historic rehabilitation tax credit
    • AB 2145, new rules on community choice aggregation for clean electrical power: opponents' site with many municipal endorsers at http://www.no2145.org/; IBEW union argument in favor: http://bit.ly/1rIUTEB ; State legislative site, which links to recent floor analyses, at http://bit.ly/1p5rUqk
    • SB 1199, designate almost 37 miles of the Mokelumne River as "wild and scenic": http://on.news10.net/1iQE0ym Floor analyses available via http://bit.ly/1l3Dfq7 show long lists of endorsers for and against.