To: Board of Supervisors
From: Legislation Committee
Report Title: Adopt 2025-26 State and Federal Legislative Platforms and accept the 2024 Year-end Reports on state and federal programs, as recommended by the Legislation Committee.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. ADOPT the Proposed 2025-26 State and Federal Legislative Platforms for Contra Costa County. (Attachments A and B)
2. ACCEPT the 2024 Year-End Reports on the County's federal and state legislative advocacy efforts. (Attachments C and D)
3. DIRECT the County Administrator's Office to return to the Board of Supervisors, as necessary, to update the County's adopted 2025-26 Legislative Platforms to reflect intervening actions of the Board.
4. DIRECT the County Administrator's Office and Department staff to review proposed legislation that relates to the County's adopted legislative platforms and recommend appropriate positions on specific bills, ballot measures and regulations for consideration by the Board's Legislation Committee and/or the Board of Supervisors.
5. AUTHORIZE Board Members, the County's federal and state legislative representatives, and the County Administrator, or designee, to prepare and present information, position papers and testimony in support of the adopted 2025-26 Federal and State Legislative Platforms.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No direct fiscal impact is associated with the acceptance of the Year-End Reports and the adoption of the Legislative Platforms.
BACKGROUND:
In January of each year following conclusion of the State and Federal legislative sessions, the Board of Supervisors is provided with a Year-end Report that summarize the County's legislative advocacy activities for the prior calendar year. The 2024 State Advocacy Year-End Report was prepared by the County's state lobbyists, Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP. (Attachment C) and the 2024 Federal Advocacy Year-end Report was prepared by the ...
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