Bills that threaten homeowners and small businesses are currently moving through the legislature!
The new Legislature is dominated by pro-tax politicians who have a two-thirds supermajority in Sacramento. Bills that undermine the taxpayer protections in Proposition 13 have been introduced and are being heard in committees. If approved, these bills could cost every property owner thousands of dollars annually.
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| HJTA Position | Bill Number | Topic | Status | Author | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | ACA 1 | Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Cecilia Aguiar-Curry | ACA 1 repeals one of the most important protections in Proposition 13 by lowering the existing two-thirds vote threshold for both local bonds and special taxes to 55 percent for a myriad of purposes. | Assembly |
| Oppose | ACA 11 | Taxes to fund health care coverage and cost control. | Active Bill - Pending Referral | Ash Kalra | At nearly $163 billion per year, this would be the largest tax increase in California history. The measure would also authorize the Legislature to increase tax rates by a majority vote of both houses of the Legislature. | Assembly |
| HJTA Position | Bill Number | Topic | Status | Author | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | AB 65 | California Universal Basic Income Program: Personal Income Tax | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Evan Low | Creates a California Universal Basic Income (UBI) Program in which some California residents would receive $1,000 per month. | Assembly |
| Oppose | AB 71 | Homelessness funding: Bring California Home Act. | Active Bill - In Floor Process | Luz Rivas | Imposes an estimated $2.4 billion-a-year tax increase on doing businesses in California for companies with annual profits of more than $5 million. | Assembly |
| Oppose | AB 84 | Employment: rehiring and retention: displaced workers | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Phil Ting | Beyond the inclusion of a $6 million appropriation from the Labor and Workforce Development Fund, a budget bill that has nothing to do with the budget. | Senate |
| Support | AB 91 | Taxation: corporations: minimum franchise tax: limited liability companies: annual tax: small businesses: microbusinesses. | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Suzette Martinez Valladares | Would reduce the $800 minimum franchise tax to $400 for small businesses and to $200 for micro businesses for five years. | Assembly |
| Support | AB 119 | County auditor: direct levies | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Rudy Salas | Would require county auditors, or other county officers designated by the county, to make that information publicly available on their websites. | Assembly |
| Support | AB 217 | Sales and use taxes: exemption: tax holiday: school supplies. | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Suzette Martinez Valladares | Creates a back-to-school sales tax holiday weekend in the summer of 2022, in which families would not pay sales tax on designated back-to-school items. | Assembly |
| Support | AB 243 | Personal income tax: deduction: medical expenses. | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Steven Choi | Would lower the percentage of adjusted gross income that taxpayers must exceed in order deduct their medical expenses from 7.5% to 4%. | Assembly |
| Support | AB 248 | Income taxes: credits: cleaning and sanitizing supplies: COVID-19. | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Steven Choi | Would create an income tax credit for business owners who purchase cleaning supplies needed to protect their employees and the public from COVID-19. | Assembly |
| Support | AB 324 | Income taxes: credits: attic vent closures. | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Steven Choi | Would provide a tax credit of up to $500 for the purchase and installation of attic vent closures. | Assembly |
| Support | AB 343 | California Public Records Act Ombudsperson | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Vince Fong | Creates a new ombudsman position within the office of the California State Auditor and brings additional transparency to the California Public Records Act (PRA) process. | Senate |
| Oppose | AB 386 | Public Employees Retirement Fund: investments: confidentiality | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Jim Cooper | Would shield from view records regarding internally managed private loans made directly through the California Public Employees Retirement Fund by exempting it from the California Public Records Act. | Senate |
| Support | AB 704 | Personal income taxes: deduction: qualified education loans. | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Chad Mayes | Would remove cap and allow student loan interest to be deducted annually for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028. | Assembly |
| Support if amended | AB 988 | Mental health: 988 crisis hotline | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Rebecca Bauer-Kahan | Establishes a 988 Crisis Hotline Center for mental health services. The program should be funded out of the General Fund instead of through surcharges. | Senate |
| Oppose | AB 1223 | Firearms and ammunition: excise tax | Active Bill - In Floor Process | Marc Levine | Imposes an excise tax of 10% on the sales price of a handgun, and 11% of the sales price of a long gun, rifle, “firearm precursor part,” or "ammunition" sold. | Assembly |
| Support | AB 1249 | Income taxes: gross income exclusions: wildfires. | Active Bill - In Committee Process | James Gallagher | Would clarify that victims of three of the most destructive fires in Californias history are exempt from state gross income tax for amounts received from the Fire Victims Trust. | Assembly |
| Oppose | AB 1400 | Guaranteed Health Care for All. | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Ash Kalra | While AB 1400 does not provide a funding mechanism, its companion measure, ACA 11, proposes tax increases that would nearly double state tax revenue. | Assembly |
| Oppose | ACA 1 | Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Cecilia Aguiar-Curry | ACA 1 repeals one of the most important protections in Proposition 13 by lowering the existing two-thirds vote threshold for both local bonds and special taxes to 55 percent for a myriad of purposes. | Assembly |
| Support | ACA 9 | Property taxation: transfers of principal residences | Active Bill - Pending Referral | Kevin Kiley | ACA 9 would restore the constitutional exclusion from reassessment when certain property is transferred between parents and children or grandparents and grandchildren. | Assembly |
| Oppose | ACA 11 | Taxes to fund health care coverage and cost control. | Active Bill - Pending Referral | Ash Kalra | At nearly $163 billion per year, this would be the largest tax increase in California history. The measure would also authorize the Legislature to increase tax rates by a statute passed by majority vote in the Legislature. | Assembly |
| Oppose | SB 663 | Recall petitions | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Josh Newman | Would give politicians who are the target of a recall access to the names and addresses of everyone who signed the petition. That access would be followed by 45-days to pressure signers into withdrawing their names. | Senate |
| Support | SB 668 | Property taxation: change in ownership: inheritance exclusion | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Patricia Bates | Gives families more time to plan for transfers of property by temporarily redefining the change-in-ownership inheritance exclusion made by Proposition 19 until February 16, 2023. | Senate |
| Support | SB 706 | Property taxation: change in ownership | Active Bill - In Committee Process | Patricia Bates | Change of ownership has sometimes been exploited in a manner inconsistent with Proposition 13. SB 706 states that if 90 percent of the ownership interest changes hands within any three-year period that the property will be reassessed. | Senate |
| Oppose | SCA 1 | Elections: referenda | Active Bill - In Floor Process | Bob Hertzberg | In a referendum, a “yes” vote approves the law and a “no” vote rejects it. SCA 1 would reverse this, so that a “yes” vote would reject the law and a “no” vote would mean “yes” to the law. | Senate |
| HJTA Position | Bill Number | Topic | Status | Author | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | AB 85 | Budget Act of 2020 | Approved by the Governor. | Phil Ting | Retroactively changes the Budget Act of 2020 to allow a diversion of $35 million in state and federal money to a partisan and politically-connected consulting firm. | Secretary of State |
| Support | AB 398 | Department of Motor Vehicles: records | Approved by the Governor. | Vince Fong | Would prohibit the Department of Motor Vehicles from selling information from its records while also ensuring that the department cannot issue charges that exceed a services cost. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | AB 428 | Local government: board of supervisors | Approved by the Governor. | Chad Mayes | Limits the ability of voters to impose term limits and set compensation levels for county supervisors. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | AB 1177 | California Public Banking Option Act | Approved by the Governor. | Miguel Santiago | Establishes a taxypayer-funded public bank to offer access to zero-fee, zero-penalty, federally insured transaction account and debit card services at no cost to account holders. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | SB 9 | Housing development: approvals | Approved by the Governor. | Toni Atkins | While owner-occupied homes in single-family zones will likely not see reassessment from SB9, there’s a possibility that tenant-occupied homes, and owner-occupied homes not in single-family zones, could face a challenge to the valuation when sold. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | SB 10 | Planning and zoning: housing development: density. | Approved by the Governor. | Scott Wiener | Authorizes a local government to adopt an ordinance to zone any parcel for up to 10 units if certain considerations are met and overrides HOA agreements and voter initiatives that prohibited or limited such development. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | SB 29 | Elections: vote by mail ballots | Approved by the Governor. | Tom Umberg | Should be amended to require the technology be employed to assist in the maintenance of accurate and current voter registration records. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | SB 85 | Budget Act of 2020 | Approved by the Governor. | Nancy Skinner | Retroactively changes the Budget Act of 2020 to allow a diversion of $35 million in state and federal money meant to help counties cover the costs of holding an election during a pandemic to a partisan and politically-connected consulting firm. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | SB 93 | Employment: rehiring and retention: displaced workers: COVID-19 pandemic | Approved by the Governor. | Nancy Skinner | Beyond the inclusion of a $6 million appropriation from the Labor and Workforce Development Fund, a budget bill that has nothing to do with the budget. | Secretary of State |
| Support | SB 219 | Property taxation: delinquent penalties and costs: cancellation: public health orders | Approved by the Governor. | Mike McGuire | Would authorize the auditor or the tax collector to cancel any penalty, costs, or other charges resulting from a missed property tax payment due to a documented hardship caused by the shelter-in-place order if certain considerations are met. | Secretary of State |
| Support | SB 274 | Local government meetings: agenda and documents | Approved by the Governor. | Bob Wieckowski | Would require local agencies to make agendas and all the documents constituting the agenda packet available by email at the request of a member of the public. | Secretary of State |
| Support | SB 303 | Property taxation: transfer of base year value: disaster relief | Approved by the Governor. | Andreas Borgeas | Extends the five-year time period under existing tax law to transfer base year value to a comparable property following a disaster by a further two years due to the hardships created by the COVID-19 pandemic and government-imposed lockdown. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | SB 323 | Local government: water or sewer service: legal actions | Approved by the Governor. | Anna Caballero | A direct attack on Proposition 218 and seeks to destroy the rights hard-won for taxpayers in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. City of La Habra. | Secretary of State |
| Oppose | SB 660 | Initiative, referendum, and recall petitions: compensation for signatures | Vetoed by the Governor. | Josh Newman | All SB 660 would do is drive up the cost of getting measures on the ballot. This favors wealthy and entrenched interests. | Senate |
| Support | SB 675 | Property taxation: monthly installment payments. | Vetoed by the Governor. | Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh | Authorizes a County Board of Supervisors, if they so choose, to allow property owners either over the age of 62, or those individuals on SSID regardless of age, to pay their property tax in monthly installments. | Senate |