2023-2024 Legislation

SB 27: University of California: vendors
This bill would make it unlawful for any vendor to accept payment from the university in accordance to a contract for prescribed services if the vendor is performing services or supplying the university with employees to perform services who are paid less than the higher of the total compensation rate specified in the vendor’s contract (i.e., with the university or as required by university policy). The bill would require a vendor to provide those employees with prescribed written notice relating to compensation. The bill would require a vendor, twice yearly, to provide basic payroll information to the university and members of any joint labor-management committee.

SB 150: Construction: workforce development: public contracts
An act that requires the Department of Transportation to work in partnership with the California Workforce Development Board to aggregate $50 million of federal funds to be allocated over 4 years to support California’s high road construction careers program.

SB 479: Termination of tenancy: no-fault just cause: natural person
This bill would require the Department of Transportation to work in partnership with the California Workforce Development Board to support California’s high road construction careers program. The bill would require the department to reserve a minimum aggregate total of $50,000,000 of federal funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to be allocated over 4 years to support the program.

SB 525: Minimum wages: Health care workers
This bill establishes 5 separate minimum wages for covered health care employees, depending on nature of employer:

Covered health care facility employer with >10,000 full-time employees
hospitals with a high governmental payor mix
specified clinics
all other covered health care facility employers to raise minimum wage to
$21 (June 1, 2024), $23 (June 1, 2026), and $25 (June 1, 2027)
licensed skilled nursing facility

SB 567: Termination of tenancy: no-fault just causes: gross rental rate increases
This bill would, with respect to the no-fault just clause (i.e., eviction based on intent to occupy), require that the owner (or spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents) occupy the residential real property for a minimum of 12 continuous months as the primary residence. Would also, with respect to the no-fault just clause (i.e., withdrawal of residential real property from rental market) require rental units be withdrawn from the rental market. Would also require owners (who displaces a tenant) to substantially remodel or demolish a unit. Would also make owners liable for civil action lawsuits if they violate new rules. Provisions are effective April 1, 2024.

SB 710: Sale of excess state highway property: State Highway Route 710
Terminus
This bill would require the Department of Transportation to establish a Terminus Regional Planning Task Force to a) meet quarterly and b) submit a report to the legislature on issues (i.e., traffic and land use) relating to State Route 710 Terminus (refers to Route 710 Terminus in the City of Alhambra) adjacent areas (i.e., any jurisdiction of the County of Los Angeles bounded by North Eastern Street to the west; Huntington Drive, west of the intersection of Huntington Drive and West Main Street, and West Main Street, east of that intersection, on the north; South Fremont Avenue on the east; and Route 10 on the south). These revisions would be rescinded on January 1, 2027.

SB 723: Employment: rehiring and retention: displaced workers
This bill would redefine “laid-off employee” to mean a) any employee who was employed by the employer for 6 months or more and b) whose most recent separation from active employment by the employer occurred on or after March 4, 2020 (i.e., and was due to a reason related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including a public health directive, government shutdown order, lack of business, reduction in force, or other economic nondisciplinary reason due to the COVID-19 pandemic).