Agda Pkt 2026.07.27 Joint SA PFA

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1127 11TH STREET, SUITE 300, SACRAMENTO, CA 95814 • 916.974.9270 • PUBLICPOLICYGROUP.COM PAGE 6 Claim CPPG verification Effectively bans citywide-elected mayors Concerning but not banned. No office is banned, but mixed structures lose insulation and a court could order a fully districted remedy. Cities could be violated for not allowing noncitizen voting Speculative and weak. Protected class remains race, color, and language-minority groups; we advise against raising it. Every 2021 and 2031 map becomes litigable Substantially accurate. Districting plans are themselves a method of election, and amended Section 21130 expressly requires CVRA 2026 compliance. POTENTIAL LEGAL CONFLICTS • FAIR MAPS Act. Court-ordered remedies run notwithstanding any other law, so a remedial map may depart from the FAIR MAPS ranked criteria, now written into amended Section 21130, that bound the City when it drew its own map. The bill creates a regime where a compliant map can be displaced by a noncompliant one. • Federal constitutional questions. After Callais, race-conscious remedial map-drawing faces tighter equal-protection limits; a state statute compelling courts to order race-conscious remedies will be tested against that ceiling. The bill's state-law-only declaration in 14029(f) is an anti-removal device; a description of it as a bar on federal challenges is inaccurate, and any defendant may still raise federal constitutional defenses. • Privilege and separation of powers (largely resolved). The earlier version's broad bar on legislative, executive, and deliberative privilege drew the strongest separation-of-powers objection. The July 2 amendments removed it and, in 14029(k), affirmatively preserved legislative-deliberation protections. This concern is now largely addressed, though the liberal- construction command and the no-deference remedy rule remain. • Voting-system certification gap. Because a court may order a share-based or other alternative method of election, but the Secretary of State is not required to certify systems for such methods until December 31, 2028 (new Article 1.5), a remedy could be ordered before certified equipment and procedures exist, creating an implementation and cost gap for the affected city. TIMING AND LOCATION OF THE BILL The bill passed out of the Assembly Elections Committee on July 1 and was referred to the committee on Appropriations. The bill has not been calendared for an Appropriations hearing, but it will be heard after the legislature returns from recess on August 3 but before August 14 to continue advancing through the legislature. If the bill passes out of Appropriations, it will then be heard on the 7.D. - Page 12 of 17 300