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Committee approves Sacramento's 2026 state and federal legislative platform
Summary
The committee unanimously approved a 2026 legislative platform that emphasizes maintaining housing and homelessness funding, expanding low-income housing tax credits and tracking multiple state funding opportunities; staff said HAP funding and historic tax credits are covered within housing priorities.
The Sacramento Law and Legislation Committee unanimously approved the city's 2026 state and federal legislative platform after presentations from the city's governmental-affairs director and the city's state lobbyist.
Consuelo Hernandez, the city's director of governmental affairs, reviewed federal highlights from 2025 and emphasized the importance of maintaining funding for critical programs. "The 1 big thing I will say in the federal level that happened was the passage of HR 1," Hernandez said, noting expansions of low-income housing tax credits and reauthorization of opportunity zones that affect Sacramento.
Ross Buckley, the city's state lobbyist, summarized a busy 2025 state session with 2,350 bills introduced and said two late-session matters dominated: redistricting and a cap-and-invest extension that was carried through the final days of session. Buckley highlighted budget wins that benefited Sacramento, including dollars for healthy-rivers and water-quality projects.
Committee members pressed staff to explicitly call out Housing Accelerator Program (HAP) funding and historic rehabilitation tax credits in the platform. Hernandez responded that the housing priorities section already covers "increasing funding for affordable housing and expansion of the low-income housing tax credit and other funding mechanisms." The committee agreed to include clarifying language before forwarding the platform.
A motion to approve the platform as discussed passed unanimously. Staff said they will provide the committee a list of two-year bills the city is tracking and continue to monitor state funding opportunities and grant deadlines.
