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2024 State Legislative Summary Page 2 of 3 As for the legislative output of the 2024 session, of the 2,525 total bill vehicles introduced this year, nearly 1,000 were passed by the Legislature. The Governor vetoed 183 of those measures in total making his veto rate roughly 18%. The TPA team submitted an ‘End of Session Overview’ for the City team that detailed priority measures and key events from the 2024 legislative session, organized by issue area. The results of the November 2024 General Election are final and there are 24 new State Assembly seats and 12 new State Senate seats representing over 25% of each house. When the Legislature reconvenes in January 2025 for the start of the 2025-26 session, a wave of freshman legislators will bring new priorities, leadership styles, and political dynamics to Sacramento. Summary of 2024 State Legislative and Grants Highlights In 2024 TPA worked with the Mayor, City Council, Administration, and Department Heads to develop and advocate for City initiatives through various means, including: formal positions and direct efforts on priority legislative proposals, drafting language for legislative amendments, engaging in numerous meetings with Senate and Assembly offices, working directly with committee consultants, senior staff, and San Leandro’s elected leaders in Sacramento to help secure critical funding, work in support and opposition of legislative proposals, direct involvement in State Budget negotiations, extensive grant funding efforts, and other topics. More specifically the TPA team, in partnership with the City team, engaged in a number of advocacy efforts this session both legislatively and through budget. Please note the following state legislative highlights: 1. Effectively working with our State delegation, Mayor, and City Staff to stop the potential State claw-back of over $4 million dollars in critical funding for the Mulford Marina branch Library project. 2. Worked closely with staff to submit and secure $244,545 in grant funding for the city’s Extreme Heat Planning Grant through the ICARP Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program. 3. Successful advocacy for the protection of key budget accounts that were proposed to be cut such as the Regional Early Action Planning 2.0 program, Active Transportation Program, and Homeless, Housing Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program. 4. Successful advocacy on behalf of statewide bond proposals and the inclusion of funding for local agency projects in the $10 billion climate bond. 5. Successful advocacy efforts to support the organized retail theft package which was signed into law and provide local law enforcement agencies with additional tools to curb serial theft occurrences. 6. Opposition to legislative proposals that proposed costly mandates or the usurpation of local authority; successful advocacy to stop legislative efforts that would have restricted revenue collections, and other items. 7. Working with a coalition of libraries and advocates relating to SB 1383 implementation from CalRecycle; and 8. Providing analysis and recommendations on various state ballot measures. Other accomplishments during the 2024 Legislative Session include: • Ongoing daily and weekly legislative updates on bills, relevant statewide policy topics, and other matters of interest to ensure the City has up to date information and is directly involved in the decision-making process. • Detailed analysis of priority legislation. • Summary of the 2024 legislative session. • Summary of the 2024 November General Election. • Summary of the Retail Theft legislative package.