June 24, 2026 · Local Gov · 365 words · 2 speakers · 2 segments
The Senate Committee on Local Government will come to order. Good morning and thank you for joining us for this meeting of the Senate Committee on Local Government. The Senate welcomes the public in person and we are holding our committee hearings in the O Street building. I ask that all members of the committee be present in room 2200 so we can establish our quorum and begin our hearing. We have nine bills on today's agenda, two of which are on consent. File item number 4, AB 2118, and file item number 8, AB 2728. We do not have a quorum, and we're waiting for presenters. to come. Okay, we're going to take a recess until we get an author to come. Let me begin Okay a local government committee will meet as a subcommittee because our quorum is not established and we have Ossummane Member Harapidian for aisle number 3 AB 258.
When you are ready, we are ready. Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair, and thank you to the staff again for their work on this bill. It's officially my favorite committee now because your analyses are so fun to read. And I want to thank the committee for the amendments. I will formally be accepting the amendments, which clarify that local enforcement agencies retain the authority to issue withhold certificates of occupancy and allow permitting inspection fees to exceed the 50% cap when a local enforcement agency provides documentation demonstrating why a higher fee is necessary. AB 2058 takes a practical step toward addressing California's housing shortage by modernizing rules for factory-built housing. Factory-built housing is built and fully inspected in state-regulated factories under HCD oversight before they ever reach a construction site, allowing for higher efficiency, faster delivery, and lower construction costs. However, current law still allows duplicative local inspections and full permitting fees for work that has already been completed and approved at the state level. The result of this is delay, redundancy, and added costs, precisely the barriers we should be removing. This bill brings the process in line with actual work being done, and it prevents unnecessary disassembling during inspections. It allows the use of local or third-party.