While the Legislature is still in recess due to concerns around the COVID-19 virus, CSDA’s Legislative Representatives continue to work with legislative staff on pending legislation to work out amendments, express concerns, or offer support. Over the last week, while conducting these efforts, CSDA staff was informed that three priority oppose measures of CSDA are being “held” by their authors and will not be moving forward in 2020. Those bills are AB 2093 (Gloria), SB 931 (Wieckowski), and AB 2452 (Garcia). AB 2093 would have required all public agencies to maintain all emails, sent and received, that are related to the public’s business for two-years (whether they would be disclosable under the California Public Records Act or not). The next bill, SB 931, which originally would have required all public agencies, regardless of budget, staff size, or technical capabilities, to email out their agendas and agenda packets to anyone that requested it. SB 931 was amended in April to clarify those items would only need to be emailed when it is technologically feasible. The last bill CSDA was notified about not moving was AB 2452, which would have granted the California State Auditor the authority to audit associations representing public agencies. That would have been the first time the State Auditor would have been granted the authority to audit a private entity.
Though none of these bills will be moving forward in 2020, there is a chance they could be reintroduced in future years.