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8A Page 15 Support AB 18 (Knight) local government: city councils. Extends the appointment period to fill a city council vacancy from 30 days to 60 days. AB 83 (Feuer) Torts: personal liability Immunity. Expands Good Samaritan protections for volunteer law enforcement, fire, and medical personnel for medical and non-medical acts of emergency care. AB 210 (Hayashi) Green building standards. Clarifies the ability of a local government to adopt green building standards which are more stringent than those adopted by the State and published in the State Building Standards code. AB 262 (Bass) American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan: energy activities, programs, or projects. Revises state law to ensure that federal funds may be allocated according to the specifications of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). AB 469 (Eng) Sales and use taxes: qualified use tax payment. Improves the collection of use tax revenues owed to the state and local governments by consumers and businesses through clarifications made to state income tax return forms. AB 715 (Caballero) City ordinances: publishing and posting requirements. Authorizes a city, within 15 days after the passage of an ordinance, to post the ordinance on its official Web site and to mail notice of passage of the ordinance to those who have filed a written request for mailed notices in lieu of publishing the ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation. AB 726 (Nielsen) Transportation capital Improvement projects. Includes "local road rehabilitation" among the list of eligible types of projects that may receive STIP funding, subject to regional discretion pursuant to current law. ACA 9 (Huffman) local government bonds: special taxes: voter approval. Proposes a constitutional amendment to be submitted before the state's voters to allow them to decide if it was appropriate to adjust voter thresholds for local infrastructure bonds or a special tax to a 55 percent super majority. SB 93 (Kehoe) Redevelopment: funding construction of public facilities. Restricts the funding of public facilities outside a redevelopment project area. In order to fund public facilities outside of, or not contiguous to, a project area the legislative body would have to make speCified findings and these findings would be subject to legal challenges. The revised amendments, however, make no substantive changes in redevelopment agency authority to fund public facilities inside or contiguous to a redevelopment project area. SB 268 (Harman) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities: licensing. Assures that state licensed drug and alcohol facilities comply with local zoning codes. It asks applicants to certify that they are consistent with local zoning codes and then asks the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs to verify that statement. In addition, it assures that state licensed facilities conform to fire codes. SB 415 (Oropeza) Alcoholic beverages: licenses: local government review. Provides local agencies with more reasonable standards by which they may review alcoholic beverage license applications. Specifically, this measure provides that any of the notified local authorities may request the time extension. and that the review would be extended from 20 days to 30 days. seA 18 (liu) local government: property-related fees. This measure would include fees for storm water management programs to those exemptions already included in Proposition 218. In doing so, it would make it easier for cities to fund and comply with new and increasingly stringent storm water quality permit requirements adopted by the regional water quality control boards. 7