20250SB__054997AMD INTRODUCED 2025-02-20 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-06-23 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-06-11 2025 SB AMD Introduced by Senator Allen LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Allen

An act to amend Sections 33195.4 and 33195.6 of the Education Code, relating to heritage schools. heritage schools Heritage schools: enrollment and notice. Under existing law, a “heritage school” is a school that, among other things, offers world language education or tutoring and cultural education relating to a country other than the United States to children who are at least years and months of age and no older than years of age and who attend a public or private full-time day school.

Existing law exempts a heritage school from licensure by the State Department of Social Services as a child day care center, as specified. This bill would expand the definition of “heritage school” to also include a school that provides services to children younger than years and months of age who are enrolled in kindergarten, including transitional kindergarten, or any of grades to 12, inclusive.

Existing law requires a heritage school, upon a pupil’s enrollment in a heritage school, to provide a notice to the pupil’s parent or guardian stating that the heritage school is exempt from childcare licensure and that attendance at a heritage school does not satisfy California’s compulsory education.

This bill would require a heritage school, upon a pupil’s enrollment in a heritage school, to also provide notice that the State Department of Education has no regulatory authority over heritage schools and does not monitor heritage school operations or instruction. (1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county, defined to include a city and county, to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, as provided.

Existing law provides for the preparation of a proposed infrastructure financing plan, as provided, which takes effect upon adoption by the public financing authority of the district following a specified public hearing and protest procedure.

Existing law authorizes the infrastructure financing plan to provide for the division of taxes levied on taxable property in the area included within the district, as specified, and authorizes the public financing authority to issue bonds by adopting a resolution containing specified provisions, including a determination of the amount of tax revenue available or estimated to be available for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the bonds.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>Existing law, the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act, or NIFTI-2, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate tax revenues of that entity to the district, including revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes imposed in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, if certain conditions are met, including that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district. </xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would revise NIFTI-2 to instead authorize, for resolutions adopted under that act’s provisions on or after January 1, 2026, a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate property tax revenues, and to remove the authorization for adoption of a resolution that allocates revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes.

The bill would also repeal the condition that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Existing law authorizes certain local agencies to establish or form various planning and land use authorities for specified purposes, including, among others, infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic revitalization.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would authorize the County of Los Angeles to establish a Resilient Rebuilding Authority for the Los Angeles Wildfires to coordinate, accelerate, and streamline recovery in jurisdictions impacted by the January wildfires, and would authorize the county to empower the authority to engage in specified acts in order to support the rebuilding and protection of homes, businesses, utilities, and other public infrastructure, as provided.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles.</xhtml:p>"?> MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 33195.4 of the Education Code is amended to read: 33195.4. For purposes of this article, “heritage school” means a school that does all of the following: (

a) Only serves children years of age or younger who attend a public or private full-time day school and who meet either of the following requirements:

(1) Are at least years and months of age.

(2) Are enrolled in kindergarten, including transitional kindergarten, or grades to 12, inclusive. (a)</xhtml:p>"?> (

b) Specifies regular hours of operation. (b)</xhtml:p>"?> (

c) Offers education or academic tutoring, or both, in a world language. (c)</xhtml:p>"?> (

d) Offers education on the culture, traditions, or history of a country other than the United States. (d)</xhtml:p>"?> (

e) Offers culturally enriching activities, including, but not limited to, art, dancing, games, or singing, based on the culture or customs of a country other than the United States. (e)</xhtml:p>"?> (

f) Maintains membership in a state or national cultural or language association. (f)</xhtml:p>"?> (

g) Complies with relevant local government regulations, where applicable. (g)</xhtml:p>"?> (

h) Does not operate out of a residential home. (h)</xhtml:p>"?> (

i) Complies with the requirements of

Section and maintains in its possession a copy of the registration form electronically filed with the Superintendent. The heritage school shall make this form available upon request, including to the State Department of Social Services, to verify exemption from childcare licensure.

SEC.

Section 33195.6 of the Education Code is amended to read: 33195.6. (

a) A director of a heritage school shall undergo at least hours of health and safety training. The training shall include all of the following components:

(1) Pediatric first aid.

(2) Pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

(3) A preventive health practices course or courses that include instruction in the recognition, management, and prevention of infectious diseases, including immunizations, and prevention of childhood injuries.

(4) Training in pediatric first aid and CPR pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be provided by a program approved by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or the Emergency Medical Services Authority pursuant to

Section 1797.191 of the Health and Safety Code.

(5) Training in preventive health practices pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be provided by a training program approved by the Emergency Medical Services Authority.

(6) In addition to the training programs specified in paragraphs (4) and (5), training programs or courses in pediatric first aid, pediatric CPR, and preventive health practices offered or approved by an accredited postsecondary educational institution are considered to be approved sources of training that may be used to satisfy the training requirements of paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive.

(7) Persons who, prior to September 23, 2010, have completed a course or courses in preventive health practices as described in paragraph (3), and have a certificate of completion of a course or courses in preventive health practices, or certified copies of transcripts that identify the number of hours and the specific course or courses taken for training in preventive health practices, shall be deemed to have met the training requirement for preventive health practices pursuant to paragraph (3). (

b) All employees and volunteers of a heritage school shall be in good health, as verified by a health screening, including a test for tuberculosis, performed by, or under the supervision of, a licensed physician and surgeon. (

c) Pupils attending heritage schools shall have access to working sinks, toilets, and drinking water. (

d) No pupil attending a heritage school shall have access to medication or cleaning supplies, except as otherwise provided by law. (

e) A heritage school, as defined in

Section 33195.4, shall not be subject to licensure by the State Department of Social Services as a child day care center pursuant to

Chapter 3.4 (commencing with

Section 1596.70) or

Chapter 3.5 (commencing with

Section 1596.90) of Division of the Health and Safety Code. (

f) Upon a pupil’s enrollment in a heritage school, the heritage school shall provide a notice to the pupil’s parent or guardian stating that the heritage school is exempt from childcare licensure, that attendance at a heritage school does not satisfy California’s compulsory education requirements pursuant to

Section 48200, and that the department has no regulatory authority over heritage schools and does not monitor heritage school operations or instruction. <caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:GOV:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'TITLE'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'5.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'DIVISION'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'2.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'PART'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'1.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'CHAPTER'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'2.99.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'ARTICLE'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'3.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bcaml%3ANum%3D'53398.75.7.'%5D)" xlink:label="fractionType: LAW_SECTION" xlink:type="locator">Section 53398.75.7 of the <caml:DocName>Government Code</caml:DocName> is amended to read:</caml:ActionLine><caml:Fragment><caml:LawSection id="id_3522925D-6EDF-449C-A20B-DAC996380692"><caml:Num>53398.75.7.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_0FF34717-FAC5-41C4-89D2-42C7AA3E6D1D"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>(a)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>This

section shall be known and may be cited as the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act, or NIFTI-2.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(b)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>At any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan, a city, county, or city and county may adopt a resolution to allocate property tax revenues of that entity to the district, if all of the following apply:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The area to be financed with funds received pursuant to this

section is within one-half mile of a major transit stop, as defined in

Section 21064.3 of the Public Resources Code.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The infrastructure financing plan requires that at least percent of the total funds received by the district pursuant to this

section be used for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing, including the costs of predevelopment and land acquisition, for households with incomes below percent of area median income for rent or purchase.

Predevelopment costs include, but are not limited to, site control, engineering studies, architectural plans, application fees, legal services, permits, bonding, and site preparation.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(3)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The infrastructure financing plan requires that percent of the housing funds are used to develop housing affordable to and occupied by households with incomes below percent and greater than percent of area median income, and percent of the housing funds are used for either housing affordable to and occupied by households with incomes below percent of area median income or permanent supportive housing to help homeless persons get off the street.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(4)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The infrastructure financing plan gives first priority for occupancy of housing funded through this plan to income-qualified households displaced from the district through no fault of their own, and secondary priority for occupancy of housing funded through this program is given to households with a member or members employed within two miles of the district.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(5)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The infrastructure financing plan requires that at least percent of the total funds received by the district pursuant to this

section be used for investments in the capital costs of parks, urban forestry, or permanent greening improvements along boulevards, streets, or other public areas within a district, or active transportation capital projects that qualify under the Active Transportation Program (Chapter 8 (commencing with

Section 2380) of Division of the Streets and Highways Code), including pedestrian or bicycle facilities or supportive infrastructure, including connectivity to transit stations.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(c)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The remaining funds may be used for any of the following:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Multifamily affordable housing projects or mixed-use projects with affordable multifamily housing and ground floor commercial uses that support infill and compact development.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Transit capital projects, including transit stations and programs supporting transit ridership, including waterborne transit.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(3)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Transit-oriented development projects, including affordable housing and infrastructure at or near transit stations or connecting those developments to transit stations.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(4)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Capital projects that implement local complete streets programs.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(5)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Parking, including detached and decoupled parking structures that provide parking for residents, businesses, or visitors in lieu of onsite parking for proposed developments.

These parking structures should provide no more than one space for each residential unit. The ground floors in these parking structures should provide space for pedestrian-oriented commercial or public uses.

Revenues from parking may be used to implement transportation demand management programs to reduce automobile trips to and from the district.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(6)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Other projects or programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other criteria air pollutants by reducing automobile trips and vehicle miles traveled within a community.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(d)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The infrastructure financing plan shall ensure that the requirements of this

section are met every years.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(e)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>(1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Sections 53398.66 and 53398.67 shall not apply to the adoption of an enhanced infrastructure financing plan that includes the allocation of property tax revenues pursuant to this section.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>(A)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The public financing authority shall consider adoption of the enhanced infrastructure financing plan at three public hearings that shall take place at least days apart.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(B)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>At the first public hearing, the public financing authority shall hear all written and oral comments, but take no action.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(C)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>At the second public hearing, the public financing authority shall consider any additional written and oral comments and take action to modify or reject the enhanced infrastructure financing plan.

If the enhanced infrastructure financing plan is not rejected at the second public hearing, then the public financing authority shall conduct a protest proceeding at the third public hearing to consider whether the landowners and residents within the enhanced infrastructure financing plan area wish to present oral or written protests against the adoption of the enhanced infrastructure financing plan.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(3)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The draft enhanced infrastructure financing plan shall be made available to the public and to each landowner within the area at a meeting held at least days prior to the notice given for the first public hearing.

The purposes of the meeting shall be to allow the staff of the public financing authority to present the draft enhanced infrastructure financing plan, answer questions about the enhanced infrastructure financing plan, and consider comments about the enhanced infrastructure financing plan.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(4)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>(A)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Notice of the meeting required by paragraph (3) and the public hearings required by this paragraph shall be given in accordance with paragraph (11).

The notice shall do all of the following, as applicable:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(i)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Describe specifically the boundaries of the proposed area.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(ii)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Describe the purpose of the enhanced infrastructure financing plan.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(iii)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>State the day, hour, and place when and where any and all persons having any comments on the proposed enhanced infrastructure financing plan may appear to provide written or oral comments to the enhanced infrastructure financing district.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(iv)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Notice of the second public hearing shall include a

summary of the changes made to the enhanced infrastructure financing plan as a result of the oral and written testimony received at or before the public hearing and shall identify a location accessible to the public where the enhanced infrastructure financing plan proposed to be presented and adopted at the second public hearing can be reviewed.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(v)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Notice of the third public hearing to consider any written or oral protests shall contain a copy of the enhanced infrastructure financing plan adopted pursuant to paragraph (2), and shall inform the landowner and resident of their right to submit an oral or written protest before the close of the public hearing.

The protest may state that the landowner or resident objects to the public financing authority taking action to implement the enhanced infrastructure financing plan.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(B)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>At the third public hearing, the public financing authority shall consider all written and oral protests received prior to the close of the public hearing and shall terminate the proceedings or adopt the enhanced infrastructure financing plan subject to confirmation by the voters at an election called for that purpose.

The public financing authority shall terminate the proceedings if there is a majority protest. A majority protest exists if protests have been filed representing over percent of the combined number of landowners and residents in the area who are at least years of age. An election shall be called if between percent and percent of the combined number of landowners and residents in the area who are at least years of age file a protest.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(5)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>An election required pursuant to subparagraph (

B) of paragraph (4) shall be held within days of the public hearing and may be held by mail-in ballot. The public financing authority shall adopt, at a duly noticed public hearing, procedures for this election.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(6)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>If a majority of the landowners and residents vote against the enhanced infrastructure financing plan, then the public financing authority shall not take any further action to implement the proposed enhanced infrastructure financing plan.

The public financing authority shall not propose a new or revised enhanced infrastructure financing plan to the affected landowners and residents for at least one year following the date of an election in which the enhanced infrastructure financing plan was rejected.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(7)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>At the hour set in the notice required by paragraph (2), the public financing authority shall consider all written and oral comments.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(8)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>If less than percent of the combined number of landowners and residents in the area who are at least years of age file a protest, the public financing authority may adopt the enhanced infrastructure financing plan at the conclusion of the third public hearing by ordinance.

The ordinance adopting the enhanced infrastructure financing plan shall be subject to referendum as prescribed by law.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(9)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>For the purposes of this chapter, the enhanced infrastructure financing plan shall be the enhanced infrastructure financing plan adopted pursuant to this section.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(10)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The public financing authority shall consider and adopt an amendment or amendments to an enhanced infrastructure financing plan in accordance with the provisions of this section.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(11)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The public financing authority shall post notice of each meeting or public hearing required by this

section in an easily identifiable and accessible location on the enhanced infrastructure financing district’s internet website and shall mail a written notice of the meeting or public hearing to each landowner, each resident, and each taxing entity at least days prior to the meeting or public hearing.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(A)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Notice of the first public hearing shall also be published not less than once a week for four successive weeks prior to the first public hearing in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the area lies.

The notice shall state that the district will be used to finance public facilities or development, briefly describe the public facilities or development, briefly describe the proposed financial arrangements, including the proposed commitment of incremental property tax revenue, describe the boundaries of the proposed district, and state the day, hour, and place when and where any persons having any objections to the proposed infrastructure financing plan, or the regularity of any of the prior proceedings, may appear before the public financing authority and object to the adoption of the proposed plan by the public financing authority.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(B)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Notice of the second public hearing shall also be published not less than days prior to the second public hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the area lies.

The notice shall state that the district will be used to finance public facilities or development, briefly describe the public facilities or development, briefly describe the proposed financial arrangements, including the proposed commitment of incremental property tax revenue, describe the boundaries of the proposed district, and state the day, hour, and place when and where any persons having any objections to the proposed infrastructure financing plan, or the regularity of any of the prior proceedings, may appear before the public financing authority and object to the adoption of the proposed plan by the public financing authority.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(C)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Notice of the third public hearing shall also be published not less than days prior to the third public hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the area lies.

The notice shall state that the district will be used to finance public facilities or development, briefly describe the public facilities or development, briefly describe the proposed financial arrangements, including the proposed commitment of incremental property tax revenue, describe the boundaries of the proposed district, and state the day, hour, and place when and where any persons having any objections to the proposed infrastructure financing plan, or the regularity of any of the prior proceedings, may appear before the public financing authority and object to the adoption of the proposed plan by the public financing authority.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(f)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>(1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The public financing authority shall review the enhanced infrastructure financing plan at least annually and make any amendments that are necessary and appropriate in accordance with the procedures set forth in paragraph (5) and shall require the preparation of an annual independent financial audit paid for from revenues of the enhanced infrastructure financing district.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A public financing authority shall adopt an annual report on or before June of each year after holding a public hearing.

Written copies of the draft report shall be made available to the public days prior to the public hearing. The public financing authority shall cause the draft report to be posted in an easily identifiable and accessible location on the enhanced infrastructure financing district’s internet website and shall mail a written notice of the availability of the draft report on the internet website to each owner of land and each resident within the area covered by the enhanced infrastructure financing plan and to each taxing entity that has adopted a resolution pursuant to

Section 53398.68.

The notice shall be mailed by first-class mail, but may be addressed to “occupant.”</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(3)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The annual report shall contain all of the following:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(A)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A description of the projects undertaken in the fiscal year, including any rehabilitation of structures, and a comparison of the progress expected to be made on those projects compared to the actual progress.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(B)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A chart comparing the actual revenues and expenses, including administrative costs, of the public financing authority to the budgeted revenues and expenses.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(C)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The amount of property tax increment revenues received.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(D)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The amount of revenues expended for housing meeting the requirements of this section.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(E)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>An assessment of the status regarding completion of the enhanced infrastructure financing district’s projects.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(F)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The amount of revenues expended to assist private businesses.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(4)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>If the public financing authority fails to provide the annual report required by paragraph (1), the public financing authority shall not spend any funds received pursuant to a resolution adopted pursuant to this

section until the public financing authority has provided the report.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(5)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Every years, at the public hearing held pursuant to paragraph (2), the public financing authority shall conduct a protest proceeding to consider whether the landowners and residents within the enhanced infrastructure financing district wish to present oral or written protests against the enhanced infrastructure financing district.

Notice of this protest proceeding shall be included in the written notice of the hearing on the annual report and shall inform the landowner and resident of their right to submit an oral or written protest before the close of the public hearing. The protest may state that the landowner or resident objects to the public financing authority taking action to implement the enhanced infrastructure financing plan on and after the date of the election described in paragraph (6).

The public financing authority shall consider all written and oral protests received prior to the close of the public hearing.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(6)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>If there is a majority protest, the public financing authority shall not take any further action to implement the enhanced infrastructure financing plan on and after the date the existence of a majority protest is determined.

If between percent and percent of the landowners and residents file protests, then the public financing authority shall call an election of the landowners and residents in the area covered by the enhanced infrastructure financing plan, and shall not initiate or authorize any new projects until the election is held.

A majority protest exists if protests have been filed representing over percent of the combined number of landowners and residents at least years of age or older in the area.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(7)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>An election required pursuant to paragraph (6) shall be held within days of the public hearing and may be held by mail-in ballot.

The public financing authority shall adopt, at a duly noticed public hearing, procedures for holding this election.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(8)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>If a majority of the landowners and residents vote against the enhanced infrastructure financing plan, then the public financing authority shall not take any further action to implement the enhanced infrastructure financing plan on and after the date of the election held pursuant to paragraph (5).

This subdivision shall not prevent the public financing authority from taking any and all actions and appropriating and expending funds, including, but not limited to, any and all payments on bonded or contractual indebtedness, to carry out and complete projects for which expenditures of any kind had been made prior to the date of the election.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(g)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Notwithstanding

Section 53398.52, revenues collected and allocated for the purposes of this

section shall not be used for highway or highway interchange improvements.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(h)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The district shall require, by recorded covenants or restrictions, that affordable housing units financed pursuant to this

section remain permanently available at affordable housing costs to, and occupied by, very low income households, persons and families of low income, or persons and families of low or moderate income for the longest feasible time, but for not less than years for rental units and years for owner-occupied units.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(i)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A legislative body shall not adopt an ordinance terminating an enhanced infrastructure financing district created pursuant to this

section if the district has not complied with its affordable housing obligations.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(j)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Notwithstanding

Article 4 (commencing with

Section 53398.77), bonds issued by a district pursuant to this

section may be issued without voter approval.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(k)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Paragraph (1) of subdivision (

c) of

Section of the Labor Code shall not apply to projects financed by the enhanced infrastructure financing district.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(l)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The changes made to this

section by the act adding this subdivision shall apply to resolutions adopted on or after January 1, 2026.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection></caml:Fragment></caml:BillSection><caml:BillSection id="id_CFA8D68D-B7B6-4D29-8ED2-ADBE16D97162"><caml:Num>SEC. 2.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_ADDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:GOV:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'TITLE'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'6.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'DIVISION'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'9.'%5D)" xlink:label="fractionType: LAW_SPREAD||commencingWith: 62470" xlink:type="locator">Division 9 (commencing with

Section 62470) is added to Title of the <caml:DocName>Government Code</caml:DocName>, to read:</caml:ActionLine><caml:Fragment><caml:LawHeading id="id_51615F59-ACC4-4111-B92E-EDE9DB9E0DD5" type="DIVISION"><caml:Num>9.</caml:Num><caml:LawHeadingVersion id="id_4FCB4267-CD85-4D7C-B01A-358A00E47469"><caml:LawHeadingText>Resilient Rebuilding Authority for the Los Angeles Wildfires</caml:LawHeadingText></caml:LawHeadingVersion><caml:LawSection id="id_298F8A28-649A-4E6B-BC78-691BC4C2EC55"><caml:Num>62470.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_3A207AE6-1FE2-430F-9B0C-5413328BB007"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>The County of Los Angeles may establish a Resilient Rebuilding Authority for the Los Angeles Wildfires to coordinate, accelerate, and streamline recovery in all jurisdictions impacted by the January wildfires.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection><caml:LawSection id="id_91873A9A-C6DD-4C84-AFA3-62257FF6F02E"><caml:Num>62470.1.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_789C2DA5-1195-4909-84DA-410C2AEE5F82"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>The County of Los Angeles, in order to support the rebuilding and protection of homes, businesses, utilities, and other public infrastructure, may empower the authority, to the extent permitted by existing law, to engage in all of the following responsibilities:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(a)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Issue, receive, and administer funds, including, but not limited to, tax-increment financing, federal loans and grants, state loans and grants, and philanthropic grants, to support recovery.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(b)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Manage and coordinate rebuilding and related logistics between public and private reconstruction, including, but not limited to, private contractors, public and private utilities, and local governments.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(c)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Purchase lots at a fair price for land banking with first look sale options provided to returning residents and their families, and to create community amenities such as open space that promotes community-scale resiliency and insurability.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(d)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Work with builders to reconstruct properties designed and built to resilient construction standards, and that prioritize strategies for accelerated and cost-effective rebuilding.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(e)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Create economies of scale for acquiring equipment and materials to cost-effectively purchase critical construction materials in bulk.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(f)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Support the reconstruction workforce by partnering with trades, facilitating training and workforce development, and creating temporary workforce housing.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(g)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Enhance financing options for families and businesses that cannot afford to rebuild by deploying subsidized financing and grants in partnership with private lenders, community development finance institutions, private philanthropy, and nonprofit organizations.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(h)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Facilitate reconstruction of lost rental housing stock, including by promotion of accessory dwelling units, senior-serving housing, and replacement of affordable housing lost in the fires.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(i)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Carry out other activities that enhance neighborhood and property insurability and affordability, and promote a resilient and sustainable recovery.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(j)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Provide a meaningful mechanism for community engagement.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection></caml:LawHeading></caml:Fragment></caml:BillSection><caml:BillSection id="id_91F8AE2A-BB54-426D-AE6D-D43012AC84EA"><caml:Num>SEC. 3.</caml:Num><caml:Content><xhtml:p>The Legislature finds and declares, with respect to

Section of this act, that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of

Section of

Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances facing the County of Los Angeles due to the wildfires of January 2025.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:BillSection>"?>