(McCarty D)   Middle Class Fiscal Relief Act.

Summary: This measure, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, would impose a surcharge of 10% on the net income of all corporations that is over $1,000,000. The measure would authorize the Legislature to increase or decrease the surcharge by a 2/3 vote of each house, as provided. The measure would require the deposit of those revenues, less refunds, into the Middle Class Fiscal Relief Fund, which would be created by the measure. Revenues in the fund would be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes, including providing fiscal benefits to lower and middle-income Californians.

(Mayes R)   State infrastructure: funding: California Infrastructure Investment Fund.

Summary: Would amend the California Constitution to create the California Infrastructure Investment Fund in the State Treasury. The measure would require the Controller, beginning in the 2019–20 fiscal year, to transfer from the General Fund to the California Infrastructure Investment Fund in each fiscal year an amount equal to up to 2.5% of the estimated General Fund revenues for that fiscal year, as provided. The measure would require, for the 2019–20 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the amounts in the fund to be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified infrastructure investments, including the funding of deferred maintenance projects.

(Friedman D)   Zero-emissions buildings and sources of heat energy.

Summary: Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, by January 1, 2020, to develop a plan to achieve the goal that the emissions of greenhouse gases from the state’s residential and commercial building stock shall be reduced by at least 40% below 1990 levels by January 1, 2030. The bill would require this plan to include cost-effective strategies to reduce emissions from both new and existing residential and commercial buildings, as specified.

(Daly D)   Housing Accountability Act: project approval.

Summary: Would prohibit a housing development project from being found inconsistent, not in compliance, or not in conformity, with the applicable zoning ordinance, and would prohibit a local government from requiring a rezoning of the project site, if the existing zoning ordinance does not allow the maximum residential use, density, and intensity allocable on the site by the land use or housing element of the general plan.

(Bonta D)   Zero-emissions buildings and sources of heat energy.

Summary: Would require the Energy Commission to provide compliance incentive credit for measures that result in reduced emissions of greenhouse gases beyond those the commission has determined to be cost effective. The bill would require the Energy Commission, for the year 2022 and thereafter, to require new residential and nonresidential buildings to be electric-ready buildings, as defined, and to develop standards pursuant to which emissions of greenhouse gases associated with new residential and nonresidential buildings could be reduced in a cost-effective manner.

(Holden D)   Building standards: public restrooms: grab bars: ambulatory accessible toilet compartments.

Summary:  The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval or adoption. This bill would require the commission, in the next triennial adoption process of the California Building Standards Code, to adopt standards requiring newly constructed public restrooms to be equipped with grab bars.

(Ting D)   Accessory dwelling units.

Summary: Would require the local agency to ministerially approve an application for a building permit to create within a multifamily zone at least one accessory dwelling unit within an existing multifamily structure with at least 5 residential units if specified conditions are met. The bill would prohibit an application ministerially approved pursuant to this provision from having a limit on the number of accessory dwelling units created within the existing residential units or accessory structures or both. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

(Chiu D)   San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District: transit-oriented development.

Summary: Current law establishes the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) with various powers and duties and establishes a board of directors as the legislative body of the district. This bill would require the board to adopt new transit-oriented development (TOD) guidelines by a majority vote at a duly noticed public meeting that establish minimum local zoning requirements for BART-owned land that is located on contiguous parcels larger than 0.25 acres, within 1/2 mile of an existing or planned BART station entrance, in areas having representation on the BART board of directors.

(Gipson D)   Income taxes: credits: qualified developer: affordable housing.

Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws.This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2019, and before January 1, 2024, in an amount, determined by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, that is paid or incurred by a taxpayer to a qualified developer for the development of a qualified project, as defined, not to exceed an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 per year.

(Wood D)   Building standards: building permits: expiration.

Summary: A provision of the California Building Standards Law specifies that a local ordinance adding or modifying building standards for residential occupancies, published in the California Building Standards Code, applies only to an application for a building permit submitted after the effective date of the ordinance and to plans and specifications for, and the construction performed under, that permit, unless, the permit is subsequently deemed expired because the building or work authorized by the permit is not commenced within 180 days from the date of the permit, or the permittee has suspended or abandoned the work authorized by the permit at any time after the work is commenced. This bill would provide that a permit would remain valid if the work on the site authorized by that permit is commenced within 3 years after its issuance under specified circumstances.