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9A Page 1 0 'Bill List' Continued from Page 1... Oppose AB 64 (Krekorian) Energy: renewable energy resources - generation and transmission. Transfers the responsibility of locating renewable energy facilities between 5 megawatts and 50 megawatts from local governments to a new Energy Planning and Infrastructure Coordinating committee. SB 802 (Leno) Public contracts: retention proceeds. Removes the authority of public entities to decide the appropriate amount of retention. This bill would require that contract retention proceeds not exceed 5 percent of the payment of all contracts entered into after January 2010 between a public entity and an original contractor, between an original contractor and a subcontractor, and between all subcontractors. 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 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. AS 566 (Nava) Mobile home parks: conversion. This legislation states that a city may consider the level of support that exists within a community when approving or disapproving a mobile home park conversion to resident ownership. AS 566 is particularly important because conversions have different impacts on coach owners. For instance, conversions have the potential to reduce the number of affordable housing units. Due to this reality, the views of the community should be considered. AS 566 ensures that the level of support is considered before a conversion decision is made. 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 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. SCA 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. No Position ASx3 14 (Arambula) and AS x3 18 (Ducheny) Corrections. These measures implement various prison and corrections reforms, including: risk-based parole supervision. alternative custody for aged and infirmed prisoners, changing wobbler crimes to misdemeanors. rehabilitation program completion credits, updating property crime thresholds, and creating a sentencing commission. AS x3 18 is expected to include similar provisions. but removes the 2