Los Angeles County Division

*Nonmember city

The Division is guided by an executive committee under the leadership of a Division President. Elected city officials and professional city staff attend Division meetings and events throughout the year to share what they are doing and advocate for their interests in Sacramento. Division members also participate in the development of Cal Cities policy through representation on the Cal Cities Board of Directors and Policy Committees.

Division Officers

• Commission on Alcohol & Other Drugs
• Commission on Local Governmental Services
• Countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee
• Emergency Medical Services Commission
• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority Technical Advisory Committee
• Solid Waste Management Committee/Integrated Waste Management Task Force

2023-24 Legislative Platform

The Los Angeles County Division (Division) recognizes the need for an active and timely county, state, and federal advocacy program to protect the interest of cities throughout Los Angeles County. As a subunit of the League of California Cities (Cal Cities), the Division relies on Cal Cities’ Summary of Existing Policy and Guiding Principles as the primary tool for a focused advocacy strategy for the Division’s Board of Directors and staff.

The Division’s Legislative Platform is intended to help direct staff, in consultation with the Division President and Vice President, to act on a time-sensitive issue when the Division’s Executive board is unable to meet. The Legislative Platform is not exhaustive of all issue areas of relevance to the Division and is not intended to supplant the deliberative role and actions of the Division’s Legislative Committee.

2024 Public Safety Policy Principles

The Division’s Board of Directors, building on the Division’s 2024 Strategic Priority to “Support legislation, policies, funding and other resources that would improve public safety and address law enforcement challenges,” adopted policy principles related to organized retail theft. These principles will enable the Division to respond to the flood of bills from the Legislature and Governor on organized retail theft and other public safety matters.

Retail theft 

Fentanyl

Reforms related to conditions that negatively impact community safety and law enforcement public safety efforts

2024 Budget Requests

Support $3 billion in ongoing funding to increase housing supply and reduce homelessness.

2024 Ballot Measures

Oppose The Taxpayer Deception Act, Initiative No. 21-0042A1. Limits voters’ input, adopts new and stricter rules for raising taxes and fees, and makes it more difficult to hold state and local law violators accountable. 

Support Proposition 36: The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act (23-0017). Allows felony charges and increases sentences for certain drug and theft crimes. More information at VoteYesProp36.com.

Support LA County Measure E: Fire Protection District Tax Measure. Levies a 6 cent per square foot charge on certain parcel improvements. If approved by voters, this measure is expected to generate $152 million annually to hire/train firefighters/paramedics, upgrade/replace aging firefighter safety equipment, fire engines, helicopters, facilities, life-saving rescue tools, and 911 communications technology. More information at LACountyFireSafety.com.

2024 State Legislation

Governance, Transparency and Labor Relations

Support AB 817 (Pacheco) Local government: open meetings, as amended 5/29/24. Provides a narrow exemption under the Ralph M. Brown Act for non-decision-making legislative bodies currently governed by Act, such as advisory bodies and commissions, to participate in two-way virtual teleconferencing without posting physical location of members.
Status: Dead

Oppose AB 2557 (Ortega) Local agencies: contracts for special services and temporary help: performance reports.  Imposes a variety of reporting requirements on private companies and nonprofit entities that contract with local government entities to perform services that were, in the prior five years, performed by local government employees represented by an employee organization.
Status: Dead

Housing and Homelessness

Oppose SB 1037 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement, as amended 6/13/24.  Allows the Attorney General to take legal action against a city and seek fines up to $50K a month for failure to adopt a compliant housing element or if the city does not follow state laws that require ministerial approval of certain housing projects.
Status:  Signed & Chaptered

Oppose AB 1886 (Alvarez) Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act, as amended 6/11/24. Current allows cities to “self-certify” their housing element or take the issue to court and have a judge make the final determination of substantial compliance. AB 1886 eliminates self-certification for the purpose of what it means to have a housing element “in substantial compliance with the law.”
Status: Signed & Chaptered

Oppose Unless Amended AB 1893 (Wicks) Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals: required local findings. Amends the Housing Accountability Act (HAA) to revise the standards a housing development project must meet in order to qualify for the “Builder’s Remedy,” which authorizes projects to bypass local development standards in jurisdictions that fail to adopt a substantially compliant housing element.  This bill also expands the scope of actions that constitute disapproval of a housing development project by a local government. 
Status: Signed & Chaptered

Oppose Unless Amended AB 3068 (Haney) Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives. Changes the process for adaptive reuse projects by deeming them a use by right in all zones, subject to a ministerial review process, and exempting them from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Status: Vetoed

Oppose Unless Amended AB 3093 (Ward) Land use: housing element: streamlined multifamily housing, as amended 6/17/24. Requires local governments to account for the housing needs of people experiencing homelessness in their housing elements without funding to develop the plan, implement strategies, or support the construction of affordable housing.
Status: Signed & Chaptered

Support AB 2485 (Carrillo, J) Regional housing need: determination. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to publish data sources, analyses, and methodology before finalizing regional housing need determinations, and to assemble an advisory panel for subsequent revisions, ensuring transparency and expert consultation in the process.
Status: Dead

Public Safety

Support SB 21 (Umberg) Controlled Substances, as amended 5/02/24. Requires a court to provide a written advisory to a person convicted of selling fentanyl notifying the person of the danger of selling or administering illicit drugs and counterfeit pills and of the potential future criminal liability if another person dies as a result of that person’s actions.  It will also require that a fentanyl-related defendant be referred to drug court or drug treatment programs. 
Status: Dead

Support SB 905 (Wiener) Crimes: theft from a vehicle, as amended 6/20/24. Makes forcible entry into a vehicle with the intent to commit theft or a felony a crime punishable by up to one year in a county jail. Further this bill would make the possession of stolen property with the intent to resell that property a crime punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony if the value of the property is higher than $950therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years.
Status: Signed & Chaptered

Support SB 1262 (Archuleta) Crimes.  Supervised release, as amended 5/16/24. Seeks reforms to supervised release protocols and ensures that the Board of Parole has a full picture of a potential parolee’s history.
Status: Dead

Support SB 1416 (Newman) Sentencing enhancements: sale, exchange, or return of stolen property, as amended 6/20/24. Creates a sentencing enhancement for selling, exchanging, returning for value, or attempting any of those actions with property that was acquired through one or more acts of theft from a retail business.
Status: Signed & Chaptered

Oppose AB 1725 (McCarty) Law enforcement settlements and judgements: reporting, as amended 6/5/24. Requires cities and counties to post financial details about law enforcement use-of-force settlements and judgments on their internet websites, including how much each settlement cost and how the state and municipalities will pay for each settlement.
Status: Dead

Support AB 1960 (Rivas.R) Sentencing enhancements: property loss, as amended 6/20/24. Creates sentencing enhancements for taking, damaging, or destroying property during the commission of a felony.
Status: Signed & Chaptered

Support AB 1990 (Carrillo) Criminal procedure: arrests: shoplifting, as amended 4/16/24. Allows police officers to make warrantless arrests for misdemeanor shoplifting offenses not committed in the presence of law enforcement.
Status: Dead

Support AB 2045 (Hoover) Controlled substances: fentanyl trafficking penalties. Authorizes a sentencing enhancement for a defendant convicted of using, inducing, or employing a minor to transport or possess fentanyl, where the defendant knew the substance in question contained fentanyl.
Status: Dead

Support AB 2309 (Muratsuchi/Pacheco) City attorney: state law: misdemeanor (As amended 6/19/24). Allows city attorneys to prosecute any misdemeanor committed within their city provided that their city council passes an ordinance granting prosecutorial authority to the city attorney.
Status: Dead

Support AB 2336 (Villapudua) Controlled substances: armed possession: fentanyl.  Makes it a felony for a person to be in possession of a substance containing fentanyl while armed with a loaded and operable firearm. This felony is punishable by a state prison term of two, three, or four years.
Status: Dead

Support if Amended AB 2943 (Zbur) Crimes Shoplifting. As amended 6/20/24. Enacts the California Retail Theft Reduction Act, which contains multiple provisions pertaining to shoplifting, grand theft, criminal deprivation of a retail business opportunity, and theft-related probation and diversion.
Status: Signed & Chaptered

Support AB 3171 (Soria) Controlled substances: fentanyl. As amended 4/30/24. Increases the penalties for offenses involving more than 28.35 grams of fentanyl or a fentanyl analog.
Status: Dead

Transportation, Communications and Public Works

Support AB 761 (Friedman) Local finance: enhanced infrastructure financing districts. As amended 5/21/24. Extends the statutory period of available Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts (EIFD) tax increment from 45 years to 75 years for districts created to fund zero-emission transit projects in Los Angeles County with federal financing through Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loans. 
Status: Signed & Chaptered

Support AB 1869 (McKinnor) Outdoor Advertising Displays: City of Hawthorne. Allows the City of Hawthorne to promote city services, businesses and community activities through digital advertising displays or “municipal message centers” operating within its city boundaries as “on-premises” displays. 
Status: Dead

Oppose AB 2997 (McKinnor) Telephone corporations: carriers of last resort: tariffs, as amended 6/10/24. Allows a Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) to relieve itself of those responsibilities upon written notification to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) without providing a replacement service with the same affordability and reliability standards.
Status: Dead

2024 Federal Legislation

Support H.R. 1201 (Napolitano) Increasing Behavioral Treatment Act. Removes the Institutions for Mental Disease Medicaid restrictions which currently prohibit a psychiatric hospital or other residential family with more than 16 beds from receiving federal reimbursement for services provided to adults within that facility. In Los Angeles County, this exclusion has inadvertently limited facility capacity and contributed to a shortage of mental health beds. 

Oppose H.R. 6859 (Kamlager-Dove) Gabrielino/Tongva Nation Recognition Act of 2023. Circumvents the current Federal Tribal Recognition process, bypassing the requirement for the Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to review impacts to local governments and eliminates opportunities for local jurisdictions to provide comments on any positive or negative public safety, environmental or other impacts to their communities.

2024 Regulatory

Request to reject AT&T application to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to withdraw its Eligible Telecommunications Carrier Designation and relief from its Carrier of Last Resort Obligation (COLR).
Status: CPUC Proposal Rejecting ATTs Request to Withdraw as Carrier of Last Resort

Updated 6/24/24

Senator Ben Allen (District 24)
111 Penn St., Suite 101
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: (310) 414-8190

Senator Bob Archuleta (District 30)
12501 Imperial Hwy., Suite 110
Norwalk, CA 90650
Phone: (562) 406-1001

Senator Steven Bradford (District 35)
One Manchester Boulevard, Suite 600
Inglewood, CA 90301
Phone: (310) 412-6120

Senator Maria Elena Durazo (District 26)
1808 West Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Phone: (213) 483-9300

Senator Lena A. Gonzalez (District 33)
3939 Atlantic Ave., Suite 107
Long Beach, CA 90807
Phone: (562) 256-7921

Senator Caroline Menjivar (District 20)
6150 Van Nuys Blvd., Suite 400
Van Nuys, CA 91401
Phone: (818) 901-5588

Senator Josh Newman (District 29)
203 N. Harbor Blvd.
Fullerton, CA 92832
Phone: (714) 525-2342

Senator Janet Nguyen (District 36)
301 Main St., Suite 212
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Phone: (714) 374-4000

Senator Anthony Portantino (District 25)
601 E. Glenoaks Blvd., Suite 210
Glendale, CA 91207
Phone: (818) 409-0400

Senator Susan Rubio (District 22)
100 S. Vincent Ave., Suite 401
West Covina, CA 91790
Phone: (626) 430-2499

Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (District 28)
700 Exposition Park Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90037
Phone: (213) 745-6656

Senator Henry Stern (District 27)
5016 N. Parkway Calabasas, Suite 222
Calabasas, CA 91302
Phone: (818) 876-3352

Senator Thomas Umberg (District 34)
1000 E. Santa Ana Blvd., Suite 220B
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: (714) 558-3785

Senator Scott Wilk (District 21)
848 W. Lancaster Blvd., Suite 101
Lancaster, CA 93534
Phone: (661) 729-6232

Assembly Member Isaac Bryan (District 55)
5601 W. Slauson Ave., Suite 200
Culver City, CA 90230
Phone: (310) 641-5410

Assembly Member Lisa Calderon (District 56)
13181 Crossroads Parkway, Suite 160
City of Industry, CA 91746
Phone: (562) 695-5852

Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo (District 52)
1910 W. Sunset Blvd., Suite 810
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Phone: (213) 483-5252

Assembly Member Mike Fong (District 49)
1255 Corporate Center Dr., Suite 216
Monterey Park, CA 91754
Phone: (323) 264-4949 

Assembly Member Laura Friedman (District 44)
300 E. Magnolia Blvd., Suite 504
Burbank, CA 91502
Phone: (818) 558-3043

Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel (District 46)
16501 Ventura Blvd., Suite 620
Encino, CA 91436
Phone: (818) 380-2460

Assembly Member Mike A. Gipson (District 65)
879 W. 190th St., Suite 920
Gardena, CA 90248
Phone: (310) 324-6408

Assembly Member Chris Holden (District 41)
600 N. Rosemead Blvd., Suite 117
Pasadena, CA 91107
Phone: (626) 351-1917

Assembly Member Jacqui Irwin (District 42)
223 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 412
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Phone: (805) 370-0542

Assembly Member Reginald B. Jones-Sawyer (District 57)
700 Exposition Park Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90037
Phone: (213) 744-2111

Assembly Member Josh Lowenthal (District 69)
5000 E. Spring Street, Suite 550
 Long Beach, CA 90815
Phone: (562) 429-0470

Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (District 61)
One W. Manchester Boulevard, Suite 601
Inglewood, CA 90301
Phone: (310) 412-6400

Assembly Member Al Muratsuchi (District 66)
3424 W. Carson St., Suite 450
Torrance, CA 90503
Phone: (310) 375-0691

Assembly Member Blanca Pacheco (District 64)
8255 Firestone Blvd., Suite 203
Downey, CA 90241
Phone: (562) 861-5803

Assembly Member Sharon Quirk-Silva (District 67)
4 Centerpointe Dr., Suite 120
La Palma, CA 90623
Phone: (714) 521-6713

Assembly Member Anthony Rendon (District 62)
4909 Lakewood Blvd., Suite 400
Lakewood, CA 90712
Phone: (562) 529-3250

Assembly Member Luz Rivas (District 43)
9300 Laurel Canyon Blvd., First Floor
Arleta, CA 91331
Phone (818) 504-3911

Assembly Member Freddie Rodriguez (District 53)
13160 7th St.
Chino, CA 91710
Phone: (909) 902-9606

Assembly Member Blanca E. Rubio (District 48)
100 N. Barranca St., Suite 895
West Covina, CA 91791
Phone: (626) 960-4457

Assembly Member Miguel Santiago (District 54)
320 West 4th St., Suite 1050
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: (213) 620-4646

Assembly Member Pilar Schiavo (District 40)
27441 Tourney Rd., Suite 240
Santa Clarita, CA 91355
Phone: (661) 286-1565

Assembly Member Rick Chavez Zbur (District 51)
1445 North Stanley Ave., 3rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: (323) 436-5184

The Division's Board of Directors meet every year to review the previous year’s accomplishments and adopt strategic goals for the following year.

The Board of Directors identified 2025 Division Strategic Priorities

• Educate city officials and support legislation, policies, funding and other resources that would improve public safety and law enforcement challenges.
• Support adequate state funding and other resources to increase the required supply of affordable housing and needed local infrastructure.
• Advocate for continuous, direct and equitable distribution of funding and other resources to address homelessness.

• Support legislation and policies that protect and preserve local decision-making authority over land use, housing, and other matters traditionally reserved for cities. Oppose unfunded mandates and seek funding for prior unfunded mandates.

The Board of Directors also identified Long Range Operational Priorities:

• Outreach to federal, state and county representatives, specifically newly-elected and those officials in leadership.
• Encourage Los Angeles County Division city officials to apply for Cal Cities’ leadership positions and other related committee appointments to reflect the region’s population and influence.
• Provide educational and training opportunities for Los Angeles County Division city officials on effective legislative outreach and advocacy.
• Communicate and share value of Cal Cities and Division resources.