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Legislative Update

Legislative Session 2019-2020 was historic, dramatic and unlike any we have ever experienced in the past. Amid a global pandemic, leadership had to quickly enact regulations for virtual voting, proxy voting and a shortened session due to concerns about coronavirus. California Lawmakers worked to vote on the hundreds of bills before them prior to the midnight deadline on August 31, 2020. The Governor then was tasked with acting on bills that were sent to his desk by his deadline of September 30, 2020. The 2021-2022 Legislative session has already hit the ground running, promising that this legislative year will bring numerous bills that will dramatically affect the business community.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce worked diligently throughout the entire 2019-2020 session to ensure lawmakers heard from the business community during these times of peril. Through the combined advocacy efforts of our staff and member companies, we were able to elevate the voice of business and ensure critical bills were not passed which would harm recovery and have a negative effect on businesses which are already struggling to survive.

One of our largest victories was the veto of AB 3216 (Kalra) which would have required employers in specific industries (including the hospitality and retail industry) to offer to recall employees previously laid off and allow a generous response time before offering to another former employee. We thank Governor Newsom for vetoing this bill. Employers are struggling to survive during these unprecedented times and need flexibility and control over their hiring practices. SB 939 (Wiener) did not pass the legislature. The Hollywood Chamber strongly opposed this bill as it would have placed an eviction moratorium on commercial leases in addition to allowing tenants to renegotiate their lease terms or terminate their lease without any penalty. We are incredibly disappointed in the Governor for signing AB 1383 (Jackson) into law which will now require a mandatory 12-week leave of absence on any employer with five or more employees, allow a private right-of-action, and will overwhelmingly hurt small businesses. Under previous law, employers with 50 or less employees were not subject to paid family leave requirements but now must comply with the full 12-week leave policy.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is committed to working with our members and our Board of Directors to ensure we are advocating on critical policies which will enhance the economic prosperity of Hollywood and our region. Through our policy work, we can ensure the voice of business has a seat at the table and fair policies are adopted with all stakeholders in mind. Thank you to all our members that engaged throughout the advocacy process including attending meetings, voicing business concerns, and sending letters through our action alerts; with your support, our legislators received over 3,000 advocacy emails. Here is a full list of bills the Hollywood Chamber advocated on:

CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATIVE BILLS 2019-2020

Bills the Hollywood Chamber Supported that were sent to the Governor’s Desk:

•SB 1065 (Hertzberg) CalWORKs: homeless assistance

Bills the Hollywood Chamber Opposed that Died:

•SB 939 (Wiener) Emergencies: COVID-19: commercial tenancies: evictions.

Bills the Hollywood Chamber Was Monitoring that were sent to the Governor’s Desk:

•SB 757 (Allen and Atkins) California Environmental Quality

Act: environmntal leadership projects: fixed guideway

Bills the Hollywood Chamber Supported that died:

• AB 2058 (Gabriel) Income taxes: credits: low-income housing. • AB 2323 (Friedman and Chiu) California Environmental

Quality Act: exemptions. • AB 3269 (Chiu) State and local agencies: homelessness plan. • AB 3279 (Friedman) California Environmental Quality

Act: administrative and judicial procedures. • SB 25 (Caballero) California Environmental Quality Act: projects funded by qualified opportunity zone funds or other public funds. • SB 50 (Wiener, Caballero, Hueso, Moorlach, Skinner)

Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval: incentives. • SB 902 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing development: density. • SB 995 (Atkins, Caballero, Rubio Wiener) Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through

Environmental

Leadership Act of 2011: housing projects. • SB 1085 (Skinner) Density Bonus Law: qualifications for incentives or concessions: student housing for lower income students: moderate-income persons and families: local government constraints. • SB 1385 (Caballero) Local planning: housing: commercial zones. • SB 1299 (Portantino) Housing development: incentives: rezoning of idle retail sites.

Bills the Hollywood Chamber Opposed that were sent to the Governor’s Desk:

• AB 3216 (Kalra and Gonzalez) Unemployment: rehiring and retention: state of emergency. • SB 1383 (Jackson) Unlawful employment practice: family leave.

Bills the Hollywood Chamber monitored that died:

• AB 4 (Arambula) Medi-Cal: eligibility. • AB 56 (Garcia) Electricity: procurement by the California

Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation

Financing Authority. • AB 196 (Gonzalez) Workers compensation: COVID-19: essential occupations and industries. • AB 288 (Cunningham) Consumer privacy: social media companies. • AB 348 (Choi) Personal income tax: credit: qualified teacher: school supplies. • AB 398 (Gonzalez) COVID-19 Local Government and

School Recovery and Relief Act. • AB 455 (Kiley) Ex parte orders: connected devices. • AB 459 (Kiley) State government: Artificial Intelligence in State Government Services Commission: report. • AB 545 (Low) Cannabis: Bureau of Cannabis Control. • AB 564 (Gallagher) Mail ballot elections: vacancies: congressional or legislative offices. • AB 654 (Rubio) Public records: utility customers: disclosure of personal information. • AB 725 (Wicks) General plans: housing element: moderate-income and above moderate-income housing: suburban and metropolitan jurisdictions. • AB 890 (Wood) Nurse practitioners: scope of practice: practice without standardized procedures. • AB 950 (Levine) Consumer privacy protection. • AB 1008 (Salas) Transportation network companies: participating drivers: investigative consumer reports. • AB 1163 (Eggman) Consumer warranty protection: express warranties. • AB 1242 (Gonzalez) Information security. • AB 1316 (Gallagher) Internet: social media or search engine service: censorship. • AB 1330 (Kiley) Personal information: privacy: breach. • AB 1366 (Daly) Office of Emergency Services: coordination of communications. • AB 1465 (Bloom) Cannabis: consumption cafe/lounge license. • AB 1566 (Chau) California Cyber Range Pilot Project. • AB 1568 (McCarty) Housing law compliance: prohibition on applying for state grants. • AB 1665 (Chau) Athletic trainers. • AB 1758 (Chau) Consumer privacy. • AB 1760 (Wicks) California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. • AB 1839 (Bonda et al) Economic, environmental, and social recovery: California COVID-19 Recovery Deal. • AB 1857 (Chen) Emergency services: contracts. • AB 1861 (Santiago) Mental health: involuntary commitment. • AB 1907 (Santiago) California Environmental Quality Act: emergency shelters: supportive and affordable housing: exemption. • AB 1946 (Santiago and Friedman) Mental health services: involuntary detention. • AB 2701 (Murastuchi) Public elementary and secondary schools: schoolsite councils. • AB 3300 (Santiago) Homelessness: California Access to Housing and Services Act. • SB 299 (Jackson) Personal information: minors: internet website: connected devices. • SB 458 (Durazo) Public health: pesticide: chlorpyrifos. • SB 640 (Moorlach) Mental health services: gravely disabled persons. • SB 752 (Stern) The California Master Plan on Tech Equity. • SB 1120 (Atkins) Subdivisions: tentative maps. • SCA 1 (Allen and Wiener) Public housing projects. • SB 1410 (Caballero) COVID-19 emergency: tenancies.