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The Law and Legislation Committee of the Sacramento City Council met on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 11:00 AM. The committee, chaired by Councilmember Caity Maple (District 5) and including Vice Chair Phil Pluckebaum (District 4), Roger Dickinson (District 2), and Rick Jennings (District 7), considered consent items, an ordinance on registered house plans, and a councilmember proposal on regulating e-bikes and similar devices.
Please call the roll. Welcome to the October 20th Lawn Legislation Committee. If you would please call the role established corn. Thank you, Councilmember Dickinson. Councilmember Jennings and Chair Pleckibon. If you're able, please rise and join me in the land acknowledgement and pledge of allegiance. To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains, Miwok, Patwinwintu peoples, and the people of the Walton 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 together today in the active practice of acknowledgment and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples' history, contribution, and lives. Thank you. And now pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible of liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Next we have the consent. Any public comment? Do you have one speaker on the consent calendar, Rob Youngren? Good morning, Council members and committee members. My name is Robbie Epgren. I am a uh e-bike program manager for Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates. I sit on the county's bicycle advisory committee. I'm a uh league certified instructor through the League of American Cyclists, and I have worked uh for the last three years on e-bikes, helping people who haven't ridden in 10, 20, 30 years get on a bike for the first time. Uh e-bikes have made getting around by active transportation a possibility uh that they didn't think was available to them. Uh clean, reliable, cost-effective transportation is what we need more of in the city of Sacramento. Uh the county coroner is still tracking uh deaths by car as a public health crisis. We need more safe uh more safety on our roads and less restriction of legal e-bike use. I have full agreement that emoto's are a problem. We have creative uh policy recommendations to make to help get emotos off the street. But uh this last year we've shot down about 10 bills at the California state legislature, uh, all looking to make radical changes to the three-class system, uh, like we saw in New Jersey, ended up uh with you know no e-bikes being able to be sold in New Jersey. Uh but we did get 1167 through uh bleaks here, which is the only bill that sought to uh change how we dealt with emoto's uh that goes into effect in January. So uh AB11 or 2346 from Wilson had a lot of age restrictions that we've uh led to uh protectural policing issues. Uh we got those provisions removed from it, and there's a long list of bills that never made it to the floor. So we encourage you to reach out to your local subject matter experts and uh wish you luck and crafting uh sensible policy. Thank you. We have two more items before we get to e-bikes. I just didn't want to break your flow. Um, we'll hold those comments for the the next item. I have a motion to have a second for consent. Motion and second, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed or abstain? Thank goodness, otherwise it wouldn't pass.