Okay, thank you.

I now call this meeting of the Sacramento City Council Law and Legislation Committee to order at 10.

Oh, I'm sorry, 1104 a.m.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Thank you, Councilmember Dickinson.

Councilmember Plucky Bomb will be absent today.

Councilmember Jennings.

And Chair Maple, I am here.

Please join me in the land acknowledgement and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Rise if you are able.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands to the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, Ballyon Plains Miwok, Putwin Winton peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contributions, and lives, can remain standing, salute and pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which of stands.

One nation under God and divisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

All right, I welcome everybody to law and legislation committee.

If for any members of the public who wish to address the committee on any of the items today, you please get a speaker slip from the back of the room, and then you can bring it up to the front desk.

Our wonderful team at the clerk's office here will take it from you.

Please submit your speaker slip before the item begins.

You will have two minutes to address the committee once called upon.

We ask, of course, that you abide by the rules of decorum, which can be found in the rules of procedure on our website and on copies in the back of the room.

With that, we will move on to the consent calendar.

Do we have any members who have any questions, comments, want to pull anything?

We have a motion, uh and a second.

And then do we have any public comment on the consent calendar?

I have no speakers on consent.

Okay, hearing none.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed or abstain?

That passes unanimously.

All right.

Moving swiftly along to our first item.

Very exciting.

Um, we have an update on our state legislative and administrative activities.

Maybe I'd pass it on over to you, Consuela.

Thank you.

I will make this quick.

I'm pleased to have Ross Buckley, our uh state lobbyist, contract lobbyist here to give us an update on all things over at the Capitol.

We also have Brian Sanders from DOU in case you have any water questions.

Okay, great.

Thank you, Ross.

We really appreciate you being here.

And I know it's really busy time at the Capitol, so thanks for making some time out of your day.

Hopefully, we can make it short and sweet.

But just wanted to make sure that we have an opportunity not only for the members of this committee, but also the public to hear about um what's going on at the capital, what the city cares about in context of the capital, and uh if there's anything that we can do to help you.

Good morning.

I appreciate that uh that welcome and uh thank you for inviting me to be here to give an update.

Uh I want to give a short summary of kind of topics I want to cover this morning.

Uh one, I want to talk about key legislative deadlines and kind of where we are in the legislative calendar.

Uh, two talk about uh some of the party bills that the city is working on and actively engaged in, uh, then transition to a budget conversation because a lot is happening in the state budget right now, and then finally kind of wrap up on uh regulatory action at CARP that's kind of going on that intersects all of those all of those issues.

Uh so first, where are we in the legislative calendar?

Uh this is actually kind of a critical week uh for the legislature because this is the all-important suspense committee hearings in the assembly and senate appropriations committee.

And the suspense calendar is when any bill costs a certain threshold of money to the state, it gets preferred on math through the suspense calendar.

Uh, it's often described as kind of a uh uh you know unique process, a black box of some sorts where it's not like unique or normal uh committee hearings where you know the chair really has a lot of authority and leadership has a lot of authority to hold or pass bills off the suspense calendar.

Um of the things that I will say is that this will be um, you know, uh given the where we are on the state budget backdrop and where we are in sort of uh spending, uh, you know, this is typically where most bills, if they're going to stop in the legislative process, they stop in the two uh suspense hearing appropriations.

Um given also that most bills have associated state costs, this is where you know a significant motion of bills are currently, where there's hundreds and hundreds of bills on both of the lists that they will hear on Thursday.

Uh once we get through that legislative uh deadline of the probes fiscal deadline, we will move to the House of Origin deadline, which all bills they're induced in the House uh need to be to the next House by the end of this month.

So really this marks the halfway point in the legislative process where uh once assembly bills get the Senate and Senate bills get to assembly, we'll kind of start the process over, you know, immediately in June and get through that policy committee hearings uh before they break in early July for their summer recess.

So that's kind of where we are in the legislative calendar and a broad overview of where things are headed.