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| 2025-26 CALA Bill Chart |
| 3/13/2025 |
Assisted Living - RCFE
Residential care facilities for the elderly: emergency backup power source. |
Bill information
| Status: | 02/26/2025 - Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. |
| Summary: | Would, commencing January 1, 2027, require a residential care facility for the elderly to have an alternative source of power, as defined, to protect residents’ health and safety for no fewer than 72 hours during any type of power outage. The bill would impose specific compliance requirements based on whether the facility uses a generator as its alternative source of power, or batteries or a combination of batteries in tandem with a renewable electrical generation facility. The bill would require a facility to comply with these requirements and include information regarding the alternative source of power within the emergency and disaster plan beginning January 1, 2027. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/18/2025 text) |
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Emergency Preparedness
Residential care facilities for the elderly: emergency backup power source. |
Bill information
| Status: | 02/26/2025 - Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. |
| Summary: | Would, commencing January 1, 2027, require a residential care facility for the elderly to have an alternative source of power, as defined, to protect residents’ health and safety for no fewer than 72 hours during any type of power outage. The bill would impose specific compliance requirements based on whether the facility uses a generator as its alternative source of power, or batteries or a combination of batteries in tandem with a renewable electrical generation facility. The bill would require a facility to comply with these requirements and include information regarding the alternative source of power within the emergency and disaster plan beginning January 1, 2027. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/18/2025 text) |
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Landlord/Tenant
Residential rent: County of Los Angeles. |
Bill information
| Status: | 03/06/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| Summary: | The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, among other things, authorizes an owner of residential real property to establish initial and subsequent rental rates for a dwelling or unit that meets specified conditions, subject to certain exceptions. Current law, until January 1, 2030, prohibits an owner of residential real property from, over the course of any 12-month period, increasing the gross rental rate, as specified, for a dwelling or a unit more than 5% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, or 10%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for that dwelling or unit at any time during the 12 months before the effective date of the increase, subject to specified conditions. This bill, notwithstanding any other law, would prohibit an owner of residential real property from charging a rental rate for a dwelling or a unit that had a tenant in lawful possession of the residential real property on or before January 7, 2025, and is located in the County of Los Angeles in excess of the rental rate for the dwelling or unit charged on January 7, 2025, except as specified. The bill would remain in effect until March 1, 2026, and would be repealed as of that date. (Based on 03/05/2025 text) |
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Legal
Elders and dependent adults: abuse or neglect. |
Bill information
| Status: | 02/10/2025 - Referred to Com. on JUD. |
| Summary: | The Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act provides for the award of attorney’s fees and costs to, and the recovery of damages by, a plaintiff when it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant is liable for physical abuse or neglect, and the defendant has also been found guilty of recklessness, oppression, fraud, or malice in the commission of that abuse. This bill would authorize a court to apply a preponderance of the evidence standard to any claim brought against a residential care facility for the elderly or a skilled nursing facility, except as specified, for remedies sought pursuant to the above provisions, upon circumstances in which spoliation of evidence, as defined, has been committed by the defendant, as specified. (Based on 01/15/2025 text) |
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