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The state legislature has been BUSY this year. To help you stay on top of all the new bills, we’ve grouped them together into categories to help simplify your reviews. Next up in our series of legislative updates, here are all the bills proposed that impact insurance.

The state legislature has been BUSY this year. To help you stay on top of all the new bills, we’ve grouped them together into categories to help simplify your reviews. Next up in our series of legislative updates, here are all the bills proposed that impact property sales.

SB-996 would authorize mobile homes and manufactured homes to be classified as "real property" for the purposes of titling and taxation.

AB-2198 would require title insurers, underwriter title companies, and controlled escrow companies to display their rates both in physical form and electronically on their website.

UPDATE: This legislation was introduced on 2-13-26. It was approved by the Committee on Judiciary and routed to the Committee on Appropriations on 4-8-26. AB-1957 was introduced by Assembly member Pacheco on 2-13-26. This bill would modify requirements for trustee's sale of property under a power of sale for properties containing 1-4 residential units. Owner-occupants and eligible nonprofit corporations would not be defined as "eligible bidders" under this bill.

AB-1842 would require mortgage providers to offer forbearance of payments for properties that have become uninhabitable due to an emergency for a period of up to 12 months.

SB-974 would require the county assessor to determine if a person is eligible as a severely and permanently disabled complainant if requested by a certified special needs trust.

SB-911 would expand existing requirements for sellers to provide buyers with information about compliance with fire safety measures and local vegetation management ordinances.

The state legislature has been BUSY this year. To help you stay on top of all the new bills, we’ve grouped them together into categories to help simplify your reviews. This first summary relates to wildfire legislation.

This ordinance would make the graffiti abatement pilot program permanent. Public Works would be able to perform graffiti abatement on private properties at no cost to property owners, upon request.

This ordinance would reduce restrictions on Formula Retail uses to permit more retail uses throughout the city.

This ordinance would waive the inclusionary Housing fee outside of the Priority Equity Geographies SUD in exchange for owner's agreement to subject all units to rent control.

This ordinance modifies dates for permit expiration during plancheck and also during construction.

This ordinance would allow affordable housing projects to defer payment of administrative fees to the permit issuance.

This ordinance would allow Medical Cannabis Dispensaries to be converted to Cannabis Retail uses without conditional use or mandatory discretionary review.

This ordinance would require conditional use when a legacy business is replaced with another commercial use in most NCD / Commercial Districts and within the Chinatown Mixed Use District.

This ordinance would reduce mechanical requirements for projects within Article 38 air quality zones. This is part of the PermitSF initiative program.

This ordinance would eliminate local requirements for commercial lighting, rooftop mechanical penthouses, driveway/sidewalk load limits, and the Slope Protection Act. This is part of the PermitSF initiative program.

This ordinance would require buildings in San Francisco undergoing "major renovations" to convert to all-electric.

This ordinance would allow larger commercial uses within North Beach, Polk Street, Pacific Avenue, Castro, and RCD districts.

This ordinance would require project applicants to disclose the presence of any unauthorized dwelling units and would impose steep penalties to parties found to have submitted misleading plans.

This ordinance would create programs for financial support of small businesses impacted by the rezoning program.

This ordinance makes administrative corrections to the requirements for sale of Below Market Rate (BMR) units in San Francisco.

This ordinance would eliminate limitations on the number of unrelated people living together previously limited to 5 people.