BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    



                                                                  AB 2516
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          Date of Hearing:   May 19, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    AB 2516 (Hill) - As Amended:  April 27, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              JudiciaryVote:8 -  
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          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Department of Housing and Community  
          Development (HCD) to establish the Accessible Housing Task Force  
          to expand the amount of housing near public transit that is  
          accessible and habitable by people of all ages and disabilities.  
           In addition, this bill requires the task force to produce a  
          report of their findings and provide it to the Legislature by  
          June 30, 2012.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Workload associated with administering the task force and  
          overseeing its work on proposing revisions to the building code  
          would require approximately $250,000 per year for a minimum of  
          two years. The bill specifies that funding should be sought from  
          local, regional, federal and private resources, but it is  
          unclear what those resources would be and whether or not they  
          would be available.  Therefore, undertaking the requirements of  
          this bill would likely only be accomplished through a General  
          Fund appropriation. 

           COMMENTS  

           Rationale  . The intent of this bill is to ensure that the needs  
          of the elderly and disabled are taken into account as the state  
          develops policies surrounding the development of housing and  
          other public services near public transportation.  The author  
          argues that this bill is especially timely in light of the  
          enactment of SB 375 (Steinberg, Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008).   
          That legislation, in order to help the state meet its goal of  
          reducing greenhouse grass emissions and creating more efficient  








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          and sustainable communities, enacted a number of measures  
          designed to encourage higher density, mixed-use developments  
          near public transit lines.  



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081