Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Michael Callagy, County Manager
Connie Juarez-Diroll, Legislative Officer
Subject: 2021 State and Federal Legislative Update #3
RECOMMENDATION:
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Accept this informational report on the 2021 State and Federal legislative sessions.
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BACKGROUND:
Over the past several weeks, policy committees in the California State Legislature have heard hundreds of bills. April 30th was the deadline for bills with a fiscal impact to pass their relevant policy committees and May 7th was the deadline for the remaining "non-fiscal" bills to pass out of policy committees. Later this month, bills will face the Appropriations Committee deadline where hundreds of bills will be considered based on their estimated price tag.
On April 28, 2021, President Joe Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress unveiling the American Families Plan, a $1.8 trillion package to fund Democratic priorities.
DISCUSSION:
2021 State Update
Legislative Update-Efforts seeking to make permanent Governor Newsom's March 2020 Executive Order accessibility changes to local legislative bodies public meetings are underway. AB 339 (Lee) would make several changes to the Brown Act, including requiring county boards of supervisors and city councils in jurisdictions over 250,000 people to provide access to public meetings via telephone or internet. The California State Association of Counties, the Urban Counties of California, and other local agencies associations advocated on behalf of local government agencies to narrow the scope of the bill. The original bill would have applied to all public boards, commissions, and agencies governed by the Brown Act, required live translation services, closed captioning, and two-way internet operability. Although the bill has been narrowed, debate remains over how and why the proposed public access requirements would only appl...
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