Low population, geography, and distance present California’s rural counties with unique challenges in providing county services. Consequently, requirements imposed by the state on county operations can have a significant or disproportionate impact on rural counties. Given the many functions of counties, RCRC strives to inform and educate policymakers about how these responsibilities will be executed in RCRC member counties.
Under the broad umbrella of county operations RCRC advocates on a wide variety of issues including the Brown Act, public records, public contracts, county finance, taxes, mandates, elections, PERS/pension, cannabis, labor, and workers compensation.
Many of the functions passed on to counties are ultimately overseen and administered by each county’s Board of Supervisors. Actions and discussions of the Boards of Supervisors must be conducted under the Brown Act/Open Meeting Law to ensure public participation. Most documents associated with counties are subject to public disclosure under the Public Records Act.
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Advocacy Letters
COUNTY OPERATIONS - 2025-2026 Legislative Session
AB 259
AB 339
AB 340
- March 12, 2025 - Letter to Author
- March 12, 2024 - Letter to Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement
AB 370
AB 418
AB 465
AB 518
AB 538
- March 12, 2025 - Letter to Author
- March 12, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Labor & Employment Committee
- April 18, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 614
- March 18, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- May 5, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- May 15, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 632
- March 27, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Local Government Committee
- April 22, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
AB 692
- March 26, 2025 - Letter to Author
- March 26, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Labor and Employment Committee
AB 964
AB 978
- March 23, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Transportation Committee
- April 4, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Transportation Committee
AB 1109
AB 1022
AB 1198
- March 26, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Labor and Employment Committee
- April 24, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 1293
AB 1331
- April 15, 2025 - Letter to Author
- April 15, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Privacy & Consumer Protection Committee
AB 1337
- March 24, 2025 - Letter to Author
- March 24, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Committee on Privacy & Consumer Protection
AB 1383
AB 1430
AB 1441
- April 22, 2025 - letter to Assembly Local Government Committee
- May 7, 2025 - Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- June 27, 2025 - Letter to Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee
SB 239
- March 11, 2025 - Letter to Author
- March 27, 2025 - Letter to Senate Local Government Committee
- May 7, 2025 - Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
- May 13, 2025 - Senate Floor Alert
SB 346
SB 359
SB 378
SB 464
- April 16, 2025 - Letter to Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee
- April 22, 2025 - Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 555
SB 632
SB 707
- March 27, 2025 - Letter to Senate Local Government Committee
- April 15, 2025 - Letter to Author
- April 15, 2025 - Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 777
SB 832
COUNTY OPERATIONS - 2023-2024 Legislative Session
AB 491
- May 22, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Local Government Committee
- June 3, 2024 – Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
AB 595
- April 4, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- April 20, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 884
AB 1168
- March 29, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Health Committee
- May 9, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- June 19, 2023 – Letter to Senate Health Committee
- August 1, 2023 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
- June 3, 2024 – Letter to Author
AB 1637
- April 4, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Local Government Committee
- May 10, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- May 25, 2023 – Assembly Floor Alert
AB 1713
AB 1785
AB 1957
AB 2421
- March 28, 2024 - Letter to Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee
- April 23, 2024 - Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- May 22, 2024 - Floor Alert: California State Assembly
- June 7, 2024 - Letter to Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee
- June 18, 2024 - Letter to Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee
- June 25, 2024 - Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
- July 22, 2024 - Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 2455
- April 2, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- April 15, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Public Employment & Retirement Committee
- June 5, 2024 – Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
- August 5, 2024 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 2489
AB 2557
- April 12, 2024 – Letter to Author
- April 16, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- May 20, 2024 – Assembly Floor Alert
- June 4, 2024 – Letter to Senate Local Government Committee
AB 2591
- April 10, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Local Government Committee
- May 2, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 2946
SB 584
- June 19, 2023 – Letter to Author
- June 22, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee
SB 964
- April 19, 2024 – Letter to Author
- April 19, 2024 – Letter to Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee
- April 30, 2024 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
SB 1034
- March 18, 2024 – Letter to Author
- March 26, 2024 – Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
- May 29 2024 – Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- June 12, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- July 12, 2024 – Request for Signature
Brown Act
AB 557
- June 1, 2023 – Letter to Senate Governance and Finance Committee
- June 20, 2023 – Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
- September 12, 2024 – Request for Signature
AB 817
- March 17, 2023 – Letter to Author
- January 5, 2024 – Letter to Author
- January 22, 2024 – Letter to Author
AB 2715
Cannabis
AB 687
- April 17, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- April 26, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 1111
- March 29, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- April 21, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- June 19, 2023 – Letter to Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee
- August 4, 2023 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 1448
- March 29, 2023 – Letter to Author
- April 3, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- April 27, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- May 30, 2023 – Assembly Floor Alert
- June 19, 2023 – Letter to Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee
- July 6, 2023 – Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
- August 4, 2023 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
- September 5, 2023 – Senate Floor Alert
- September 13, 2023 – Assembly Floor Alert
- September 14, 2023 – Request for Signature
AB 1616
- April 4, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Committee on Business and Professions
- April 26, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- June 19, 2023 – Letter to Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee
- July 3, 2023 – Letter to Senate Public Safety Committee
AB 1719
AB 2223
AB 2643
- April 15, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee
- June 5, 2024 – Letter to Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
SB 508
- May 19, 2023 – Letter to Author
- June 13, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- July 3, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Natural Resources Committee
- August 4, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 753
- March 30, 2023 – Letter to Senate Public Safety Committee
- April 14, 2023 – Letter to Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
- April 27, 2023 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
- June 20, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Public Safety Committee
SB 820
- April 10, 2023 – Letter to Senate Committee on Business Professions and Economic Development
- April 18, 2023 – Letter to Senate Public Safety Committee
- April 27, 2023 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
- January 12, 2024 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
- January 29, 2024 – Floor Alert to Senate
- May 24, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- June 13, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Committee on Public Safety
SB 1064
- April 15, 2024 – Letter to Senate Business, Professions, & Economic Development Committee
- April 29, 2024 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
- May 21, 2024 – Senate Floor Alert
- June 11, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- August 1, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
Elections
AB 764
- April 12, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Elections Committee
- April 30, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- June 22, 2023 – Letter to Senate Elections Committee
- September 7, 2023 – Letter to Author
AB 1248
- April 12, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Elections Committee
- April 30, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- June 14, 2023 – Letter to Senate Elections & Constitutional Amendments Committee
- September 6, 2023 – Senate Floor Alert
- September 14, 2023 – Request for Veto
SB 878, 879, and 880 (Validating Acts of 2023)
SB 1515, 1516 and 1517 (Validating Acts of 2024)
Employment
AB 2283
SB 399
- June 21, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Labor & Employment Committee
- June 28, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- June 18, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 1058
- April 10, 2024 – Letter to Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee
- June 5, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Insurance Committee
- June 11, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Insurance Committee
Labor
AB 504
- April 7, 2023 – Letter to Author
- April 14, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- May 8, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- May 30, 2023 – Assembly Floor Alert
- July 3, 2023 – Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
- August 17, 2023 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
- September 11, 2023 – Senate Floor Alert
- September 11, 2023 – Senate Floor Alert by Public Employers
- September 20, 2023 – Request for Veto
AB 1484
- April 24, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- May 30, 2023 – Assembly Floor Alert
- June 21, 2023 – Letter to Senate Labor Committee
- August 7, 2023 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
- September 11, 2023 – Senate Floor Alert
AB 2404
- April 2, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Public Employment & Retirement Committee
- April 16, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- April 24, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 2421
- March 28, 2024 – Letter to Author
- April 23, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- May 22, 2024 – Assembly Floor Alert
- June 7, 2024 – Letter to Senate Labor, Public Employment & Retirement Committee
- June 18, 2024 – Letter to Senate Labor Committee
AB 2561
- April 5, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee
- April 25, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- July 25, 2024 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 2751
SB 428
SB 553
- June 21, 2023 – Letter to Author
- June 21, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Labor Committee
- June 28, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee
- August 9, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- September 6, 2023 – Assembly Floor Alert
- September 13, 2023 – Request for Veto
SB 799
- August 24, 2023 – Letter to Author
- August 24, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Insurance Committee
- September 5, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- September 11, 2023 – Senate Floor Alert
- September 14, 2023 – Senate Floor Alert
- September 14, 2023 – Request for Veto
SB 1116
- March 27, 2024 – Letter to Author
- March 27, 2024 – Letter to Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee
- May 20, 2024 – Senate Floor Alert
- June 4, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Insurance Committee
- June 7, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Insurance Committee
PERS/Pension
AB 1020
AB 3025
SB 252
- March 17, 2023 – Letter to Author
- March 17, 2023 – Letter to Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee
- April 12, 2023 – Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
- May 22, 2023 – Senate Floor Alert
- June 12, 2024 – Letter to Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee
Worker’s Compensation
AB 1156
SB 623
- May 24, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Insurance Committee
- August 16, 2023 – Letter to Assembly Appropriations Committee
- September 18, 2023 – Request for Veto
SB 636
Background
Tools and Resources
Brown Act/Open Meeting Law (2003)
Cal Cities Publication
Summary of the Public Employees’ Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA)
Department of Cannabis Control
BIA Publication - Fee-to-Trust Process
California State Controller Guides and Manuals
Meyers-Milias-Brown Act - PERB
County Elections Offices/Map
Guide to State Mandates
POLICY LEADS
Sarah Dukett
Senior Policy Advocate