| Oppose | AB 11 | Community Redevelopment Law of 2019. | Active | Chiu | Restores the use of redevelopment via tax increment financing and revenue bonds that don?t require voter approval. While HJTA does not necessarily oppose the restoration of redevelopment by local municipalities, property rights need to be protected. A proper finding of blight should be made before a redevelopment project area can be created. Any debt as a result of a project needs to be voter approved, and private property should not be taken for a private use. | Assembly Housing Committee |
| Oppose | AB 18 | Firearms: excise tax. | Active | Levine | Imposes a $25 excise tax on the purchase of a new firearm to fund competitive grants for the purpose of violence intervention and prevention. | Assembly Public Safety Committee |
| Support | AB 62 | State government: FI$Cal: transparency. | Active | Fong | Requires the entire state budget, including General Fund, special fund and federal fund expenditure data to be posted online in an easy to read format. | Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review |
| Support | AB 133 | Property tax postponement: eligibility: income level. | Active | Quirk-Silva | Increases the income limit of the Property Tax Postponement program, allowing more seniors to stay in their homes. | Assembly Appropriations |
| Oppose | AB 138 | California Community Health Fund. | Active | Bloom | Imposes a two-cent-per-fluid-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages at the distributor level, generating over $3 billion a year in new costs to citizen taxpayers. | Assembly Health Committee |
| Oppose | AB 142 | Lead-acid batteries. | Active | C. Garcia | Increases car battery taxes on both manufacturers and consumers by $1 and makes these taxes permanent. | Assembly Appropriations Committee |
| Oppose | AB 217 | Safe Drinking Water for All Act. | Active | E. Garcia | Establishes a drinking water tax of 50 cents/year on all public water connections in California. | Assembly Appropriations Committee |
| Support | AB 435 | High-speed rail bonds: water. | Active | Fong | Repurposes the remaining unallocated bond dollars for high-speed rail that voters have approved in Proposition 1A to instead fund various Central Valley water projects. | Assembly Transportation Committee |
| Oppose | AB 618 | Transactions and use taxes: City of Scotts Valley. | Active | M. Stone | Authorizes the City of Scotts Valley to increase their sales tax rate as high as 0.25 percent. | Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee |
| Oppose | AB 755 | California tire fee: Stormwater Permit Compliance Fund. | Active | Holden | Increases the California tire fee from $1.75 to $3.25 (an extra $13 for a new set of four tires) and directs the funds for stormwater compliance. | Assembly Environmental and Toxins Committee |
| Support | AB 777 | Property tax postponement. | Active | Patterson & Levine | Broadens the eligibility requirements for the senior Property Tax Postponement program, which helps keep seniors on fixed incomes in their homes. | Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee |
| Oppose | AB 857 | Public banks | Active | Chiu | Allows a local government to create a public bank using taxpayer dollars. | Assembly Banking Committee |
| Support | AB 885 | Property taxation: new construction: definition. | Active | Irwin | Makes it easier to rebuild a home on its original site following a natural disaster. | Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee |
| Support | AB 930 | California State University: executive compensation: campus budget quarterly reporting. | Active | Gloria | Prohibits compensation increases for high-ranking CSU officials, except under certain circumstances. | Assembly Higher Education Committee |
| Oppose | AB 1217 | Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures. | Active | Mullin | Expands onerous disclosure requirements for political television advertisements to now extend to issue ads. | Assembly Elections Committee |
| Support | AB 1306 | Political Reform Act of 1974: misuse of funds. | Active | C. Garcia | Expands the enforcement ability of the Fair Political Practices Commission to limit the spending of taxpayer dollars on political campaigns. | Assembly Elections Committee |
| Oppose | AB 1413 | Transportation: local transportation authorities: transactions and use taxes. | Active | Gloria | Authorizes the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) and the North County Transit District (NCTD) to impose additional sales taxes in unincorporated areas of San Diego. | Assembly Local Government Committee |
| Oppose | AB 1451 | Petition circulators. | Active | Low | Prohibits petition signatures from being gathered on a paid, per-signature basis. | Assembly Elections Committee |
| Oppose | AB 1468 | Opioid Prevention and Rehabilitation Act. | Active | McCarty | Imposes an up to $100 million tax on opioid distributors to fund opioid prevention programs. | Assembly Health Committee |
| Oppose | AB 1487 | San Francisco Bay area: housing development: financing | Active | Chiu | Creates a new government entity called the Housing Alliance for the Bay Area (HABA), which would have the authority to authorize new revenue proposals. | Assembly Housing Committee |
| Oppose | AB 1717 | Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Funding Program Act. | Active | Friedman | Allows for the creation of vertical housing districts using tax increment financing from cities, counties and other governmental taxing agencies that levy property taxes. HJTA believes that any long-term redevelopment entity needs to achieve two-thirds voter approval before either approving bonds or engaging in tax increment financing, an amendment not included in this bill. | Assembly Local Government Committee |
| Support | ACA 3 | Clean Water for All Act. | Active | Mathis | Sets aside two percent of the General Fund to be designated to state water agencies and be spent on water improvement projects, groundwater clean-up and recharge, and infrastructure programs. With a $17 billion surplus, funds should be spent on water infrastructure, especially since one million Californians currently don't have access to clean water. | Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee |
| Support | ACA 7 | Elections: initiatives and referenda. | Active | Kiley & Melendez | Removes the Legislature and the Attorney General from the process of providing ballot material content and transfers those duties to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO). Any hint of partisanship should be removed from ballot materials. | Assembly Rules Committee |
| Oppose | SB 47 | Initiative, referendum, and recall petitions: disclosures. | Active | Allen | Imposes additional and needless disclosure requirements on petition circulators. | Senate Public Safety Committee |
| Oppose | SB 128 | Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: bonds: issuance. | Active | Beall | Eliminates any voter approval requirement for EIFD bonds. HJTA believes that any long-term debt proposal that lasts 40 years (like for EIFD's) should require voter approval. | In Assembly |
| Oppose | SB 175 | Health care coverage: minimum essential coverage. | Active | Pan | Allows California to implement its own version of the federal Affordable Care Act requirement, which was eliminated as part of the federal tax reform package. | Senate Governance and Finance Committee |
| Oppose | SB 246 | Oil and gas severance tax. | Active | Wieckowski | Imposes a 10 percent natural gas and oil severance tax. | Senate Governance and Finance Committee |
| Support | SB 272 | Fire Protection District Law of 1987. | Active | Morrell | States that any large annexation should require a vote of the impacted property owners, including the taxes imposed on them. | Senate Governance and Finance Committee |
| Oppose | SB 378 | Taxation: estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. | Active | Wiener | If approved by voters statewide, would impose up to a 40 percent estate tax in California. | Senate Governance and Finance Committee |
| Support | SB 598 | Open Financial Statements Act. | Active | Moorlach | Changes technology requirements to make it easier for taxpayers to search within municipal financial reports. | Senate Governmental Organization Committee |
| Support | SB 646 | Local agency utility services: extension of utility services. | Active | Morrell | Eliminates ambiguity in the Mitigation Fee Act by codifying this statute to the constitutional provisions found in both Propositions 218 and 26. | Senate Governance and Finance Committee |
| Support | SB 669 | Water quality: Safe Drinking Water Fund. | Active | Caballero | Establishes a drinking water trust fund to make necessary infrastructure improvements for nearly one million Californians without access to clean water. | Senate Enviromental Quality Committee |
| Oppose | SB 732 | Transactions and use tax: South Coast Air Quality Management District. | Active | Allen | Authorizes the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to impose a sales tax of no more than one percent on Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and most San Bernardino county residents. | Senate Governance and Finance Committee |
| Oppose | SCA 3 | Property taxation: change in ownership: inheritance exclusion. | Active | Hill | Alters the intergenerational transfer provisions of Proposition 58 (1986) to allow for a parent-to-child transfer only in the event that the child claims the homeowner?s exemption and decides to make the home their primary residence within twelve months. | Senate Governance and Finance Committee |
