CLCA Legislative Report for Week Ending July 2, 2010
2009-2010 Session

AB 49	Feuer	Water conservation: urban and agricultural water management planning.		A-09/09/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/27/2010-To inactive file by unanimous consent.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	01/27/2010-A INACTIVE FILE
Summary:	Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to convene an independent technical panel to provide information to the department and the Legislature on new demand management measures, technologies, and approaches. "Demand management measures" means those water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse of available supplies. This bill would require the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020. The state would be required to make incremental progress towards this goal by reducing per capita water use by at least 10% on or before December 31, 2015. The bill would require each urban retail water supplier to develop urban water use targets and an interim urban water use target, in accordance with specified requirements. The bill would require agricultural water suppliers to implement efficient water management practices. The bill would require the department, in consultation with other state agencies, to develop a single standardized water use reporting form. The bill, with certain exceptions, would condition eligibility for certain water management grants or loans to urban water suppliers, beginning July 1, 2016, and agricultural water suppliers, beginning July 1, 2013, on the implementation of water conservation requirements established by the bill. The bill would repeal on July 1, 2016, an existing requirement that conditions eligibility for certain water management grants or loans to an urban water supplier on the implementation of certain water demand management measures. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 145	De Leon	Motor carriers: construction trucking services.		A-06/01/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/22/2010-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/16/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to regulate the safe operation of specified vehicles, including commercial motor vehicles and trailer and semitrailer commercial vehicle combinations owned and operated by motor carriers. Existing law also requires every motor carrier of property to comply with specified safety, permit, and liability insurance regulations and to pay the fees required by these provisions. This bill would apply this prohibition to a broker of construction trucking services, as defined , and would prohibit that broker from furnishing construction transportation services to any construction project unless it has secured a surety bond of not less than $15,000 that meets specified requirements. The bill would make a broker of construction trucking services who violates these provisions guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of up to $5,000 . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 300	Caballero	Subdivisions: water supply.		A-06/30/2009  html pdf
	Status:	07/07/2009-In committee: Set, first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	07/07/2009-S N.R. & W.
Summary:	The Subdivision Map Act prohibits approval of a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, or a development agreement for a subdivision of property of more than 500 dwelling units, except as specified, including the design of the subdivision or the type of improvement, unless the legislative body of a city or county or the designated advisory agency provides written verification from the applicable public water system that a sufficient water supply is available or, in addition, a specified finding is made by the local agency that sufficient water supplies are, or will be, available prior to completion of the project. This bill would require, until January 1, 2017, the public water system, or the local agency if there is no public water system, to review, verify for accuracy, and approve, as specified, the subdivider's water savings projections attributable to voluntary demand management measures, as defined. The public water system would be authorized to collect fees necessary to provide the additional analysis of the voluntary demand management measures. This bill would provide that a water supply assessment completed, as specified, satisfies the existing requirement of verifying sufficient water supply, unless the public water system receives specified new information . The public water system would be required to determine the projected water savings attributable to the voluntary demand management measures that will be incorporated into the subdivision. The projected water savings would be required to be calculated using specified data compiled or maintained by the public water system or the water savings projections adopted by the California Urban Water Conservation Council. If a project applicant proposes to use a new voluntary water demand management measure for which neither the California Urban Water Conservation Council nor the public water system has adopted an estimate or method to calculate the projected water savings of the proposed voluntary demand management measure, the projected water savings would be required to be made based on documented methodologies or calculations submitted in the record. Five years after the project has been fully developed, the public water system would be required to include within its next urban water management plan a report on the monitoring and compliance of voluntary water demand management measures and to determine , if practicable based on readily available information, whether they have resulted in the water savings necessary to achieve the agreed upon water demand offsets. The bill would also require the public water system to document the measured annual water use of the subdivision in comparison to the projected demand associated with the subdivision, and to calculate the water savings attributable to the voluntary mitigation measures financed by the Voluntary Water Demand Mitigation Fund for the subdivision. If the public water system bases its written verification of a sufficient water supply for the subdivision, in whole or in part, on the use of voluntary demand management measures within the subdivision, the written verification would be required to be conditioned on the maintenance and operation of the voluntary demand management measures, or measures that are at least as water efficient, as agreed to by the applicant and the public water system, and the recordation as a covenant running with the land for the lots within the subdivision. The bill would provide that by acceptance of a deed to a lot, each purchaser would acknowledge the obligation to comply with the voluntary demand measures for the lot as described in the covenant. These covenants would be authorized to be enforced pursuant to the existing authority of a public water system. The bill would further require a builder, prior to the close of escrow, to give a purchaser information that would be required to be included in a maintenance manual that informs the purchaser of the existence of the home's unique water saving devices, including specified information. The bill would also encourage the public water system to commit to carrying out the water conservation measures funded by the Voluntary Water Demand Mitigation Fund within 24 months of the sale of the last unit of the proposed subdivision. The bill would require the public water system to choose water conservation measures that are themost cost-effective means to yield water savings . The bill would authorize expenditures from the fund to be made within the subdivision or elsewhere within the service area of the public water supplier, at its discretion. Not less than 40% of the proceeds from the voluntary water demand mitigation fund would be required to be directed to water conservation programs in any disadvantaged community, unless the public water system makes a specified finding. By adding to the duties of the public water system, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 370	Eng	Unlicensed contractors.		C-10/11/2009  html pdf
	Status:	10/11/2009-Chaptered by the Secretary of State, Chapter Number 319, Statutes of 2009
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	1
Location:	10/11/2009-A CHAPTERED
Summary:	Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor without having a license and makes a first offense punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for no more than 6 months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or both. Existing law requires a court to impose upon a person who has been previously convicted of that offense a fine of 20% of the price of the contract, as specified, or $4,500, whichever is greater, and imprisonment in the county jail for at least 90 days, except as specified. Existing law specifies that a 3rd or subsequent conviction is punishable by a fine of not less than $4,500 nor more than the greater of $10,000 or 20% of the contract price or by imprisonment in the county jail, as specified, or both, and applies those penalty provisions to a person who is named on a revoked license and is held responsible for the act or omission resulting in the revocation. Existing law requires a court to order a defendant convicted of a crime under those provisions, or under provisions related to the offering or performance of repairs caused by a natural disaster, to pay restitution to the victim, as specified. This bill would make a first conviction punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment in a county jail for no more than 6 months, as specified, or both. The bill would require that the fine for a 2nd conviction be the greater of 20% of the contract price, 20% of the aggregate payments made to, or at the direction of, the unlicensed contractor, or $5,000. In addition, the bill would require that a 3rd or subsequent conviction be punishable by both a fine and imprisonment in a county jail, as specified, and would require that the fine be no less than $5,000 and no more than the greater of $10,000, 20% of the contract price, or 20% of the aggregate payments made to, or at the direction of, the unlicensed contractor. By requiring 3rd or subsequent convictions to be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Under the provisions described above, the bill would also provide that a person who used the services of an unlicensed contractor is a victim of crime and eligible for restitution for economic losses, regardless of whether that person had knowledge that the contractor was unlicensed. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 396	Fuentes	Works of improvement: liens.		A-05/14/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/31/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/2/2009)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	01/31/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	Existing law provides that all persons and laborers of every class, except for an original contractor, performing labor upon, bestowing skill or other necessary services on, furnishing materials or leasing equipment to be used or consumed in, or furnishing appliances, teams, or power contributing to, a public work of improvement may serve a stop notice upon the public entity responsible for the public work, as specified. Existing law imposes a duty on a public entity to withhold money or bonds due or to become due to the original contractor in an amount sufficient to answer the claim stated in the stop notice and to provide for the public entity' s reasonable cost of any litigation on the matter, as specified. This bill would qualify the requirement that the public entity withhold money or bonds sufficient to provide for reasonable litigation costs to make it applicable only if the original contractor fails to promptly accept a tender of defense of the public entity in the litigation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 410	De La Torre	Recycled water.		A-07/13/2009  html pdf
	Status:	10/26/2009-(Corrected October 26.) In committee: Held under submission.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	08/27/2009-S APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:	Under existing law, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative bond act approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $5,388,000,000, of which $1,000,000,000 is made available to the department for grants for projects that assist local public agencies to meet the long-term water needs of the state, to be allocated to the state's hydrologic regions in accordance with a prescribed schedule. This bill would require the department, in providing grants to those hydrologic regions, to give additional consideration to proposals for the preparation of salt and nutrient management plans consistent with the recycled water policy of the State Water Resources Control Board. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 474	Blumenfield	Contractual assessments: water efficiency improvements.		C-10/11/2009  html pdf
	Status:	10/11/2009-Chaptered by the Secretary of State, Chapter Number 444, Statutes of 2009
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	10/11/2009-A CHAPTERED
Summary:	Existing law authorizes the legislative body of any city, defined as a city, county, or city and county, to determine that it would be convenient and advantageous to designate an area within which authorized city officials and free and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments and make arrangements to finance public improvements to specified lots or parcels or to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property, as specified. Existing law requires the legislative body to make these determinations by adopting a resolution indicating its intention to do so and requires the resolution to include certain specified information. This bill would expand these provisions to authorize the legislative body of any public agency, as defined, to determine that it would be in the public interest to designate an area within which authorized city officials and free and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property, as specified. The bill would also, with respect to all of its provisions, modify its definitions and require a legislative body to perform additional record keeping duties and provide specified notice to any entity that provides energy or water within the boundaries of the area within which contractual assessments may be entered into. This bill would also require additional specified disclosures for a transfer of real property subject to a contractual assessment. The bill would declare the intent of the Legislature in regard to these provisions. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
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AB 479	Chesbro	Solid waste: diversion.		A-08/17/2009  html pdf
	Status:	08/27/2009-In committee: Held under submission.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	08/27/2009-S APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:	The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is administered by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, requires each city, county, and regional agency, if any, to develop a source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste management plan containing specified components, including a source reduction component, a recycling component, and a composting component. With certain exceptions, the source reduction and recycling element of that plan is required to divert 50% of all solid waste from landfill disposal or transformation by January 1, 2000, through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities. This bill would require the board, on January 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, to ensure that 75% of all solid waste generated is source reduced, recycled, and composted. The bill would prohibit the board from imposing any enforceable requirements against a local agency or a solid waste enterprise or that includes aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern to implement this 75% diversion level. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 482	Mendoza	Employment: credit reports.		A-04/08/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/29/2010-Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the state Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act define and regulate consumer credit reports and authorize the use of consumer credit reports for employment purposes, pursuant to specified requirements. The FCRA provides that it does not preempt state law, except as specifically provided or to the extent that state laws are inconsistent with its provisions. This bill would prohibit an employer, with the exception of certain financial institutions, from obtaining a consumer credit report for employment purposes unless the information is (1) substantially job-related, meaning that the position of the person for whom the report is sought has access to money, other assets, or confidential information, and (2) the position of the person for whom the report is sought is a position in the state Department of Justice, a managerial position, that of a sworn peace officer or other law enforcement position, or a position for which the information contained in the report is required to be disclosed by law or to be obtained by the employer. This bill contains other existing laws.
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AB 484	Eng	Franchise Tax Board: professional or occupational licenses.		A-04/20/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/15/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose
	Priority:	2
Location:	01/15/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	The Personal Income Tax Law and the Bank and Corporation Tax Law impose taxes on, or measured by, income. Existing law allows a tax return or return information filed under those laws to be disclosed in a judicial or administrative proceeding pertaining to tax administration under certain circumstances. Existing law requires every board, as defined under the Business and Professions Code, and the Department of Insurance to, upon request of the Franchise Tax Board, furnish to the Franchise Tax Board certain information with respect to every licensee. Existing law authorizes many of these boards to impose fees on its licensees to cover its costs in administering its respective provisions and in some cases these funds are deposited into continuously appropriated funds. This bill would require a state governmental licensing entity, as defined, issuing professional or occupational licenses, certificates, registrations, or permits to provide to the Franchise Tax Board the name and social security number or federal taxpayer identification number of each individual licensee of that entity. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board, if a licensee fails to pay taxes for which a notice of state tax lien has been recorded, as specified, to mail a preliminary notice of suspension to the licensee. The bill would provide that the license of a licensee who fails to satisfy the unpaid taxes by a certain date shall be automatically suspended, except as specified, would require the Franchise Tax Board to provide a notice of suspension to the applicable state governmental licensing entity and to mail a notice of suspension to the licensee, and would provide that the suspension be canceled upon compliance with the tax obligation. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to meet certain requirements and would make related changes. The bill would authorize a state governmental licensing entity, as specified, to impose a fee on a licensee with a suspended license in an amount necessary to cover its administrative costs. The bill would make implementation of its provisions contingent upon appropriation of funds for that purpose in the annual Budget Act.
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AB 569	Emmerson	Meal periods: exemptions.		A-06/16/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/24/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 23).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/24/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law prohibits, subject to certain exceptions, an employer from requiring an employee to work more than 5 hours per day without providing a meal period and, notwithstanding that provision, authorizes the Industrial Welfare Commission to adopt a working condition order permitting a meal period to commence after 6 hours of work if the order is consistent with the health and welfare of affected employees. This bill would exempt from these provisions employees in a construction occupation, commercial drivers in the transportation industry, employees in the security services industry employed as security officers , and employees of electrical and gas corporations or local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, if those employees are covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement containing specified terms, including meal period provisions. It would specify that its provisions do not affect the requirements for meal periods for certain other employees or employers.
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AB 765	Caballero	Income tax: credit: purchase: principal residence.		A-09/04/2009  html pdf
	Status:	09/11/2009-From THIRD READING: To INACTIVE FILE.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	09/11/2009-S THIRD READING
Summary:	The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes a credit against the taxes imposed by that law in an amount equal to the lesser of 5% of the purchase price or $10,000 in the case of the purchase of a qualified principal residence on and after March 1, 2009, and before March 1, 2010, but not to exceed an aggregate limitation of $100,000,000 for all credits allowable. Existing law requires a certification that the residence has never been occupied be provided to the Franchise Tax Board within one week of the sale of the qualified principal residence. This bill would limit the credit to taxpayers who purchased a qualified principal residence on and after March 1, 2009, and before July 3, 2009, and on and after the effective date of this bill and before March 1, 2010. This bill would also require the aggregate limitation of credits to be reduced by a specified amount per certification received by the Franchise Tax Board. This bill contains other related provisions.
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AB 969	Calderon, Charles	Recycled water.		I-02/26/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/15/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	01/15/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	Existing law, the Water Recycling Act of 1991, establishes a statewide goal to recycle a total of 700,000 acre-feet of water per year by the year 2000 and 1,000,000 acre-feet of water per year by the year 2010. The act requires, to the extent that specified funds are made available, the Department of Water Resources to identify and report to the Legislature on opportunities for increasing the use of recycled water and constraints and impediments to increasing the use of recycled water. The act requires the department to convene a task force, known as the 2002 Recycled Water Task Force, to advise the department in implementing the report requirement. Existing law requires the department and the task force to report to the Legislature no later than July 1, 2003. This bill would repeal the report and task force requirements. The bill would change the statewide goal for recycled water to an unspecified number of acre-feet of water per year by the year 2020. The bill also would make changes to findings and declarations under the act.
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AB 1000	Ma	Employment: paid sick days.		I-02/27/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/31/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/2/2009)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose
	Priority:	2
Location:	01/31/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	Existing law authorizes employers to provide their employees paid sick leave. This bill would provide that an employee who works in California for 7 or more days in a calendar year is entitled to paid sick days, as defined, which shall be accrued at a rate of no less than one hour for every 30 hours worked. An employee would be entitled to use accrued sick days beginning on the 90th calendar day of employment. The bill would require employers to provide paid sick days, upon the request of the employee, for diagnosis, care, or treatment of health conditions of the employee or an employee's family member, or for leave related to domestic violence or sexual assault. An employer would be prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against an employee who requests paid sick days. The bill would require employers to satisfy specified posting and notice and recordkeeping requirements. The bill would also make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions.
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AB 1074	Conway	Contractors: fraudulent license numbers.		I-02/27/2009  html pdf
	Status:	07/14/2009-In committee: Set, first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	1
Location:	07/14/2009-S PUB. S.
Summary:	Existing law provides that it is a crime if a person willfully and intentionally uses, with the intent to defraud, a contractor's license number that does not correspond to the number on a currently valid contractor's license held by that person. This bill would instead provide that it is a crime if a person willfully and intentionally uses, with the intent to defraud, any number that does not correspond to the number on a currently valid contractor's license held by that person. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 1119	Emmerson	Works of improvement: payments.		A-05/05/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/22/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/8/2009)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	1
Location:	01/22/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	Existing law requires an owner of a private work of improvement to release retention proceeds withheld from any payment within 45 days after the date of completion. Existing law requires a public entity to release retention proceeds withheld from any payment by the public entity within 60 days after the date of completion. Existing law requires an original contractor to pay any subcontractor within 10 days from the time that all or any portion of retention proceeds are received by the original contractor. Existing law requires an original contractor or subcontractor to pay any subcontractor within 10 days from the time of receipt of each progress payment, unless otherwise agreed to in writing. Existing law imposes a penalty of 2% on the amount due per month on funds that are improperly withheld in a contract dispute relating to public and private works of improvement, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to reconsider prompt payment statutes regarding public and private works of improvement to aid in their clarity and application . This bill contains other existing laws.
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AB 1288	Fong	Employment: hiring practices: electronic employment verification.		V-10/11/2009  html pdf
	Status:	10/11/2009-Vetoed by the Governor
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	10/11/2009-A VETOED
Summary:	The E-Verify Program of the United States Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the United States Social Security Administration, enables participating employers to use the program, on a voluntary basis, to verify that the employees they hire are authorized to work in the United States. The bill would prohibit the state, or a city, county, city and county, or special district, from requiring an employer other than one of those government entities to use an electronic employment verification system except when required by federal law or as a condition of receiving federal funds.
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AB 1409	John A. Perez	Public contracts: county highways: work authorizations.		A-06/02/2009  html pdf
	Status:	02/02/2010-Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1756.) In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 7/16/2009 hearing)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	07/15/2009-S T. & H.
Summary:	Existing law sets forth procedures pursuant to which work being done by contract on county highways may be done. Existing law specifies that in any county that has appointed a road commissioner, or in any county that has abolished the office of road commissioner, as prescribed, the board of supervisors of the county may authorize the road commissioner, or a registered civil engineer under the direction of the county director of transportation, to have any work upon county highways done under his or her supervision and direction. In this connection, existing law provides that the work on those contracts may be done by: (1) letting a contract covering both work and material, as provided; (2) purchasing the material and letting a contract for the performance of the work, as provided; or (3) purchasing the material and having the work done by day labor, in which case advertising for bids is not required. This bill would revise that provision authorizing the work on those county highway contracts to be done by (1) purchasing the material and having the work done by day labor, as defined, only after advertising and requesting bids, as provided, and the board passing a resolution making a specified finding; or (2) purchasing the material and having the work done by specified employees, as defined .
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AB 1523	Calderon, Charles	Sales and use taxes: exemption: fixed price contract.		A-05/26/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/31/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/8/2009)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	1
Location:	01/31/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	Existing law imposes a state sales and use tax on retailers and on the storage, use, or other consumption of tangible personal property in this state at the combined rate of 7 1/4 % of the gross receipts from the retail sale of tangible personal property in this state and of the sales price of tangible personal property purchased from any retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. This bill would, during the period of the imposition of a 1% sales and use tax increase commencing on April 1, 2009 , exclude from that 1% rate of tax, the gross receipts from certain sales and uses of tangible personal property that are subject to a fixed price pursuant to a contract entered into prior to April 1, 2009 . This bill contains other related provisions.
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AB 1693	Ma	Building standards: code adoption cycle.		I-01/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary:	The California Building Standards Law provides for the promulgation of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval or adoption. Existing law requires that the commission receive proposed building standards from state agencies for consideration in an annual code adoption cycle. This bill would modify the code adoption cycle and extend it to 18 months. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 1774	Saldana	Recycled water: state agency landscape irrigation.		A-05/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/22/2010-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support if Amended
	Priority:
Location:	06/10/2010-S N.R. & W.
Summary:	Existing law sets forth legislative findings and declarations stating that the use of potable domestic water for the irrigation of residential landscaping is a waste or unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available for that use, as determined by the State Water Resources Control Board. Existing law authorizes a public agency to require the use of recycled water for the irrigation of residential landscaping if recycled water is available for that use, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met. This bill would state legislative findings and declarations that the use of potable domestic water for the irrigation of landscaping generally is a waste or an unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available for that use, as determined by the board. The bill would authorize a public agency, including local public agencies, to require a state agency whose property is located within the jurisdiction of the public agency to use recycled water for landscape irrigation of the property of that state agency if certain requirements are met.
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AB 1793	Saldana	Common interest developments: artificial turf.		A-04/20/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/17/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/17/2010-S THIRD READING
Summary:	Existing law requires a local agency to adopt a specified updated model ordinance regarding water-efficient landscapes or a water-efficient landscape ordinance that is at least as effective in conserving water as the updated model ordinance. Existing law allows certain water providers to take specified actions regarding water conservation. This bill would provide that a provision of any of the governing documents of a common interest development would be void and unenforceable if it prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of prohibiting, the use of artificial turf or any other synthetic surface that resembles grass. This prohibition would not prohibit an association from applying landscape rules and regulations established in governing documents that establish design standards and quality standards for the installation of artificial turf, or any other synthetic surface that resembles grass, to the extent the rules and regulations do not prohibit the use of artificial turf or any other synthetic surface that resembles grass. This bill contains other existing laws.
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AB 1834	Solorio	Rainwater Capture Act of 2010.		A-05/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/28/2010-Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	1
Location:	06/28/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	(1) Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a regional water management group, as defined, to adopt an integrated regional water management plan that addresses specified matters. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2010, which would authorize a landowner to install, maintain, and operate, on the landowner's property, a rainwater capture system meeting specified requirements. The bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board to initiate a stakeholder process to develop recommendations for policies for state and local agencies to encourage and facilitate the installation and use of rainwater capture systems, as defined, for specified nonpotable uses, and capture of stormwater by public agencies. The bill would require the board to publish those recommendations on its Internet Web site by December 31, 2011. The bill would require the board, if the stakeholder process results in recommendations for building standards, to submit those recommendations to the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development by December 31, 2011, and would require the commission and the department to consider the recommendations for building standards for adoption in a specified update of the California Building Standards Code by July 1, 2013. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

AB 1853	Huffman	Public contracts: bid preferences: employee health care expenditures.		A-05/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 29).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose
	Priority:	1
Location:	06/30/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law imposes various requirements with respect to contracting by public entities. This bill would require a state agency awarding a public works contract to provide a 2% bid preference to a bidder or subcontractor meeting specified criteria related to providing employee health care coverage . This bill would require a bidder and its subcontractors to submit statements certifying that they qualify for the bid preference, would require the bidder and contractors to continue to make employee health care expenditures, as specified, and would impose civil penalties in connection therewith, as provided. This bill would become operative on January 1, 2012, and would not apply to contracts advertised for bid on or after January 1, 2017 .
Assignment:

AB 1973	Swanson	Income taxes: credits: qualified employees.		A-06/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	07/01/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	07/01/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, in the amount of $3,000 for each full-time employee hired by a qualified employer. Those laws define "qualified employer" as a taxpayer that employed 20 or fewer employees as of the last day of the preceding taxable year. This bill would, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, authorize a credit in the amount of $5,000 for each full-time employee who is either an ex-offender, or a person who has been unemployed for 12 or more consecutive months, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
Assignment:

AB 1975	Fong	Water charges and meters: multiunit structures.		A-06/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/29/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 29).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/29/2010-S RLS.
Summary:	The Water Measurement Law requires every water purveyor to require, as a condition of new water service on and after January 1, 1992, the installation of a water meter to measure water service. That law also requires urban water suppliers to install water meters on specified service connections, and to charge water users based on the actual volume of deliveries as measured by those water meters in accordance with a certain timetable. This bill , contingent upon adoption by the California Building Standards Commission of specified building standards, would require that architectural plans for individual dwelling units in certain multiunit structures, for which a building permit application is submitted on or after January 1, 2013, include, as a condition for the issuance of the building permit, the installation of either a water meter or a submeter, at the discretion of the water purveyor, with a specified exception, to measure water supplied to each individual dwelling unit. The bill would require the owner of the structure to ensure that a water submeter installed for these purposes complies with laws and regulations governing installation, certification, maintenance, billing, and testing of water submeters. The bill would prohibit a water purveyor from imposing specified fees related to the installation of water meters and submeters and would prohibit the owner of the structure, or an association managing the structure, from assessing or collecting fees related to the water meters and submeters, from the occupants of the structure . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

AB 2036	Berryhill, Bill	Public contracts: contract document distribution.		A-06/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/29/2010-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/29/2010-S RLS.
Summary:	Existing law imposes various requirements with respect to contracting by public agencies. This bill would require an officer, department, board, or commission, taking bids for the construction of a public work or improvement, to distribute contract documents, as specified, to a prospective bidder, subcontractor bidder, supplier, and contractor plan room service, as prescribed.
Assignment:

AB 2038	Eng	Franchise Tax Board: professional or occupational licenses.		A-04/27/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/04/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/28/2010)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose Unless Amended
	Priority:
Location:	06/04/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law impose taxes on, or measured by, income. Existing law allows a tax return or return information filed under those laws to be disclosed in a judicial or administrative proceeding pertaining to tax administration under certain circumstances. Existing law requires every board, as defined under the Business and Professions Code, and the Department of Insurance to, upon request of the Franchise Tax Board, furnish to the Franchise Tax Board certain information with respect to every licensee. This bill would , beginning January 1, 2012, and ending January 1, 2016, permit a state governmental licensing entity, that issues professional or occupational licenses, certificates, registrations, or permits, to suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue a license where the applicant or licensee has failed to pay income taxes, subject to specified procedures. This bill would also require those licensing entities to provide to the Franchise Tax Board the name and social security number or federal taxpayer identification number of each individual licensee of that entity. The bill would , beginning January 1, 2012, and ending January 1, 2016, require the Franchise Tax Board, if an individual licensee fails to pay taxes for which a notice of state tax lien has been recorded, as specified, when the specified licensing entities fail to make a decision regarding suspension or revocation of the license, to send a notice of suspension to the licensee. The bill would provide that the license of a licensee who fails to satisfy the unpaid taxes by a certain date shall be automatically suspended, except as specified, and would require the Franchise Tax Board to mail a notice of suspension to the applicable state governmental licensing entity and to the licensee, and would provide that the suspension be canceled upon compliance with the tax obligation. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to meet certain requirements and would make related changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

AB 2060	Calderon, Charles	Sales and use taxes: exemption: fixed price contract.		A-05/18/2010  html pdf
	Status:	07/01/2010-Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	1
Location:	07/01/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law imposes a state sales and use tax on retailers and on the storage, use, or other consumption of tangible personal property in this state at the combined rate of 81/4% of the gross receipts from the retail sale of tangible personal property in this state and of the sales price of tangible personal property purchased from any retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state that is stored, used, or otherwise consumed in this state. This bill would, for any increase in the state sales and use tax rate that occurs on or after the effective date of this bill, exclude from that increased rate of tax, the sale of, and the storage, use or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property that is subject to a fixed price contract under specified circumstances entered into prior to the operative date of the state sales and use tax rate increase, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.
Assignment:

AB 2075	Committee on Higher Education	Public contracts: California State University: bidding procedures.		A-03/24/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary:	Existing law authorizes the trustees of the California State University to enter into contracts for public works projects, as provided. Existing law requires the trustees, for certain contracts estimated to exceed the value of a minor capital outlay project, to obtain financial information from prospective bidders by means of a standard form questionnaire and financial statement. Existing law prohibits the trustees from furnishing proposal forms to any person who is required to submit and has not submitted a questionnaire and financial statement for prequalification at least 5 days prior to the date fixed for publicly opening sealed bids and been prequalified for at least one day prior to that date. This bill would revise that requirement by changing the time in which a person has to submit the questionnaire and financial statement for prequalification to 10 business days prior to the date fixed for publicly opening sealed bids and require any person to have been prequalified for at least one business day prior to that date .
Assignment:

AB 2130	Huber	Professions and vocations: sunset review.		A-06/22/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law establishes the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and, until January 1, 2012, requires the committee to hold public hearings at specified times and to evaluate whether a board or regulatory program has demonstrated a need for its continued existence. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that all existing and proposed state boards be subject to review every 4 years to evaluate and determine whether each has demonstrated a public need for its continued existence, as specified. This bill would abolish the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and make other conforming changes . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

AB 2137	Chesbro	Fertilizing material: labels.		A-06/07/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S THIRD READING
Summary:	Existing law generally regulates fertilizing materials, as defined, including the labeling of fertilizing materials. Existing law defines "label" and "labeling" for purposes of these provisions. This bill would, until January 1, 2014, provide that "label" and "labeling" do not include a certified laboratory analysis, as defined, showing the nutrient contents of compost, cocompost, or mulch, as defined, if the laboratory analysis documentation contains a specified statement and other information , as provided.
Assignment:

AB 2181	Hagman	State Contract Act: contracting by state agencies.		A-05/10/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/22/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/22/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	The State Contract Act requires projects that are not under the jurisdiction of specified departments to be under the charge and control of the Department of Transportation. This bill would instead have those projects under the charge and control of the Department of General Services. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

AB 2184	Arambula	Public contracts: local agency: alternative bidding procedures: notice.		E-06/30/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-A ENROLLED
Summary:	The Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act provides for alternative bidding procedures for public projects let by contract by a public agency when the public agency has voluntarily elected to become subject to the accounting procedures set forth in that law. That law sets forth publishing requirements for notices inviting formal bids to let contracts, including a requirement to mail the notice to all construction trade journals at least 30 calendar days before the date of opening the bids. This bill would also require the notice to be sent electronically, if available, by either facsimile or electronic mail to all construction trade journals, and would require notice to be sent at least 15 calendar days before the date of opening the bids.
Assignment:

AB 2216	Fuentes	Works of improvement.		A-05/11/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 29).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose Unless Amended
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S RLS.
Summary:	Existing law requires that, for private and public works of improvement, and in a public works contract, a prime contractor or subcontractor pay to any subcontractor, not later than 10 days after receipt of each progress payment, unless otherwise agreed to in writing, the respective amount allowed the contractor on account of the work performed by the subcontractors, to the extent of each contractor's interest therein, as prescribed. This bill would, instead, require that those amounts be paid not later than 7 days after receipt of each progress payment. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

AB 2305	Knight	Contractors: workers' compensation insurance coverage.		A-07/01/2010  html pdf
	Status:	07/01/2010-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	07/01/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law requires private employers to secure the payment of compensation by obtaining and maintaining workers' compensation insurance or to self-insure as an individual employer or as one employer in a group of employers. The Contractors' State License Law requires every licensed contractor to have on file at all times with the Contractors' State License Board a current and valid Certificate of Workers' Compensation Insurance or Certification of Self-Insurance, or a statement certifying that he or she has no employees and is not required to obtain or maintain workers' compensation insurance coverage. Existing law, until January 1, 2011, requires a contractor with a C-39 roofing classification to obtain and maintain workers' compensation insurance even if he or she has no employees. Failure to comply with this requirement results in the automatic suspension of the license. However, with respect to a license that was active on January 1, 2007, and included a C-39 roofing classification, existing law, until January 1, 2011, requires the registrar of contractors, in lieu of suspending the license, to remove the C-39 roofing classification from the license if the contractor does not have workers' compensation insurance coverage. This bill would extend the operation of those provisions until January 1, 2013 , with respect to a license that is active on January 1, 2011, with a C-39 roofing classification. The bill would require the suspension of any license that, after January 1, 2011, is active and has had the C-39 roofing classification removed, of the licensee is found by the registrar of contractors to have employees and to lack a valid Certificate of Workers' Compensation Insurance or Certification of Self-Insurance. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

AB 2332	Eng	Contractors: licenses.		I-02/19/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/29/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 28).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/29/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law provides that the board may refuse to issue, reinstate, reactivate, or renew a license or may suspend a license for the failure of a licensee to resolve all outstanding final liabilities, which include taxes, additions to tax, penalties, interest, and any fees that may be assessed by the board, the Department of Industrial Relations, the Employment Development Department, or the Franchise Tax Board. This bill would also authorize the board to take the actions specified above for a licensee's failure to resolve outstanding final liabilities assessed by the Board of Equalization.
Assignment:

AB 2340	Monning	Employee's right to bereavement leave.		A-05/06/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/24/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 23).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/24/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law provides employees with the right to take time off work without discharge or discrimination for a number of reasons. This bill would add the right to inquire about, request, and take time off for bereavement leave. The provisions of the bill would not apply to an employee who is covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement that provides for bereavement leave and other specified working conditions.
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AB 2364	Nava	Unemployment insurance: benefits: good cause to leave work.		I-02/19/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/24/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 23).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/24/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law provides for unemployment compensation benefits to eligible individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law authorizes any employer who is entitled to receive specified notice of an unemployment claim, to, within 10 days after mailing of the notice, submit to the Employment Development Department specified facts disclosing whether the claimant for benefits left the employer's employ voluntarily and with good cause under certain circumstances, including, among other things, that the claimant left the employer's employ to protect his or her children or himself or herself from domestic violence abuse. This bill would revise various provisions governing eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits to specify that a claimant is eligible for benefits where he or she left an employer's employ to protect his or her family from domestic violence abuse. By increasing the number of persons who may be eligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits, thereby providing for increased amounts payable from the Unemployment Insurance Fund, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

AB 2390	Buchanan	Public works projects: bidding practices: licenses and workers' compensation insurance.		A-06/23/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 29).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law requires a public entity, the University of California, and the California State University to specify for inclusion in any plans and notice prepared for a public project the classification of the contractor's license, which a contractor is required to possess at the time a contract is awarded. This bill would, instead, require the contractor to possess that license at the time the contractor makes a bid or offer to perform the work, and would also require a contractor to possess current workers' compensation insurance at that time. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 2409	Nestande	Urban water suppliers: water shortage contingency analysis.		E-06/23/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/23/2010-Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/23/2010-A ENROLLED
Summary:	Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires an urban water supplier, as defined, to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan for submission to the Department of Water Resources and other entities, in accordance with prescribed requirements. The act requires each urban water supplier to update its urban water management plan at least once every 5 years on or before December 31, in years ending in 5 and zero. The act requires an urban water management plan to include, among other things, an urban water shortage contingency analysis. The urban water shortage contingency analysis is required to include various elements relating to water supply availability during water shortages and interruptions. This bill, commencing with the urban water management plan update due on December 31, 2015, would require an urban water supplier, for purposes of developing a water shortage contingency analysis, to analyze and define water features that are artificially supplied with water, including ponds, lakes, waterfalls, and fountains, separately from swimming pools and spas, as defined.
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AB 2419	Cook	Contractors.		A-05/06/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S THIRD READING
Summary:	Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board. This bill would rename that law the Contractors State License Law and would rename the board the Contractors State License Board. The bill would rename specified classifications of contractors, and would make other technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes to related provisions.
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AB 2494	Blumenfield	Personal services contracts.		A-05/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 29).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law authorizes state agencies to use personal services contracts if specified standards are satisfied, including, among other things, the contract does not cause the displacement of civil service employees and the contract is awarded through a publicized, competitive bidding process. The State Personnel Board is required to review a proposed contract upon the request of an employee organization for compliance with those standards. This bill would require a state agency to immediately discontinue a contract disapproved by action of the board or its delegate unless ordered otherwise by the board or its delegate. The bill would prohibit the state agency from circumventing or disregarding the board's action by entering another contract for the same or similar services or to continue the services that were the subject of the contract that was disapproved. The bill would require the state agency to serve notice of the discontinuation of the contract to the vendor within 15 days from the board's final action, and to serve a copy of the notice on the board and the employee organization that filed the contract challenge. The bill would make a related statement of legislative findings.
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AB 2500	Hagman	Professions and vocations: licenses: military service.		A-06/22/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/29/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/29/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes a licensee or registrant who permitted his or her license to expire while serving in any branch of the armed services of the United States during a period of war, as defined, to, upon application, reinstate his or her license without examination or penalty if certain requirements are satisfied. This bill would instead authorize a licensee or registrant whose license expired while the licensee or registrant was on active duty as a member of the California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces to, upon application, reinstate his or her license without examination or penalty if those requirements are satisfied, unless the licensing agency determines that the applicant has not actively engaged in the practice of his or her profession while on active duty, as specified. The bill would make other conforming and technical changes.
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AB 2593	Bradford	Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule.		I-02/19/2010  html pdf
	Status:	05/07/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was INS. on 3/18/2010)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose
	Priority:	2
Location:	05/12/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. This bill would, instead, provide that for pharmacy services and drugs that are not otherwise covered by a Medicare fee schedule payment for facility services, the maximum reasonable fees shall be the lowest of the average wholesale price minus 17%, the federal upper limit, as defined, or the maximum allowable ingredient costs, as defined, plus a professional fee for dispensing that is no less than $7.25 per prescription. This bill contains other existing laws.
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AB 2627	Nielsen	State contracts: participation goals.		A-07/01/2010  html pdf
	Status:	07/01/2010-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on V.A.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	07/01/2010-S V. A.
Summary:	Existing law establishes participation goals for certain state contracts with minority business enterprises, women business enterprises, and disabled veteran business enterprises. These provisions, with respect to minority and women business enterprises, were held unconstitutional on the basis of not meeting equal protection requirements. The bill would also revise the requirements imposed on disabled veteran business enterprises to, among other changes, require a disabled veteran to have at least a 10% service-connected disability and require a disabled veteran business enterprise to submit specified income tax information to the Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Services. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 2630	Emmerson	Income tax: credits: full-time employees: hires.		A-05/18/2010  html pdf
	Status:	05/28/2010-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	05/28/2010-A APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:	The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, in the amount of $3,000 for each full-time employee hired by a qualified employer. Those laws define "qualified employer" as a taxpayer that employed 20 or fewer employees as of the last day of the preceding taxable year . This bill would, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, expand the definition of "qualified employer" to mean a taxpayer that employed 50 or fewer employees as of the last day of the preceding taxable year . This bill contains other related provisions.
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AB 2649	Torrico	Franchise Tax Board: professional or occupational licenses.		I-02/19/2010  html pdf
	Status:	04/23/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was B. & P. on 3/18/2010)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose
	Priority:	1
Location:	04/23/2010-A DEAD
Summary:	The Personal Income Tax Law and the Bank and Corporation Tax Law impose taxes on, or measured by, income. Existing law allows a tax return or return information filed under those laws to be disclosed in a judicial or administrative proceeding pertaining to tax administration under certain circumstances. Existing law requires every board, as defined under the Business and Professions Code, and the Department of Insurance to, upon request of the Franchise Tax Board, furnish to the Franchise Tax Board certain information with respect to every licensee. Existing law authorizes many of these boards to impose fees on its licensees to cover its costs in administering its respective provisions and in some cases these funds are deposited into continuously appropriated funds. This bill would require a state governmental licensing entity, as defined and excluding the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Contractor's State License Board, to provide to the Franchise Tax Board the name and social security number or federal taxpayer identification number of each individual licensee of that entity. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board, if a licensee fails to pay taxes for which a notice of state tax lien has been recorded, as specified, to mail a preliminary notice of suspension to the licensee. The bill would provide that the license of a licensee who fails to satisfy the unpaid taxes by a certain date shall be automatically suspended, except as specified, and would require the Franchise Tax Board to provide a notice of suspension to the applicable state governmental licensing entity and to mail a notice of suspension to the licensee, and would provide that the suspension be canceled upon compliance with the tax obligation. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to meet certain requirements and would make related changes. The bill would authorize a state governmental licensing entity, as specified, to impose a fee on a licensee with a suspended license in an amount necessary to cover its administrative costs. The bill would make implementation of its provisions contingent upon appropriation of funds for that purpose in the annual Budget Act.
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AB 2695	Hernandez	California Nursery Producers Commission.		A-06/10/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/28/2010-Do pass as amended.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/28/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law establishes various commissions to promote agricultural products from the state. This bill would create the California Nursery Producers Commission in state government with a prescribed membership, and would specify the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the commission. The commission would be authorized to carry out programs of outreach, education, promotion, marketing, and research relating to nursery products. The bill would authorize the commission to levy an annual assessment, not to exceed a specified amount, on producers of nursery products, and would authorize the expenditure of those funds for purposes of implementing and administering the bill's provisions, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 2696	Bass	California Workforce Investment Board: Green Collar Jobs Council.		A-06/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/28/2010-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/28/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law establishes the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB), and requires the board to establish a committee known as the Green Collar Jobs Council (GCJC), comprised of specified members, and requires the GCJC to perform certain functions and duties, including the development of a strategic initiative, relating to the training and development of a skilled workforce to meet the needs of California's emerging green economy. This bill would authorize the CWIB to accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods, or services from federal and state entities, philanthropic organizations, and other sources, to be used for purposes relating to the administration and implementation of the strategic initiative. The bill would require the GCJC to consult with appropriate state and local agencies to identify opportunities to coordinate the award of grant and green workforce training funds received by the state under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or any other funding sources. The bill would require the CWIB, on or before April 1, 2011, and annually each April 1 thereafter, to report to the Legislature on the status of GCJC activities, grants awarded, and the development and implementation of a green workforce strategic initiative.
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AB 2770	Monning	Employee wages and working hours: violators.		A-04/13/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/24/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 23).
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/24/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law requires private employers to perform certain activities with regard to employee wages, hours, and working conditions. This bill would require the Labor Commissioner or his or her designee from the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, in consultation with the Franchise Tax Board and the Economic and Employment Enforcement Coalition (EEEC), to develop and implement a set of standards that, if met by an employer, would trigger a recommendation for an audit or investigation by appropriate state tax authorities of employers in violation of statutes relating to employee wages, hours, and working conditions. After July 1, 2011, this bill would require the Labor Commissioner or the EEEC to take specified actions to facilitate audits and investigations of employers who meet the standards required by this bill. This bill also would state findings and declarations relating to the underground economy.
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AB 2776	Huffman	Transfers of water: agricultural use to municipal use.		A-06/28/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/29/2010-Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/29/2010-S APPR.
Summary:	Existing law authorizes the transfer or exchange of certain water or water rights upon approval by the State Water Resources Control Board of a petition to transfer the water or water rights. This bill would prohibit the department, with respect to a contractual entitlement to water from the State Water Project, and the state board, with respect to any other transfer of water or water rights, from approving the transfer of surface water or water rights, or a portion of a contractual entitlement to water from the State Water Project, from agricultural use to municipal use for a period of 20 years or more, unless the water user provides to the department or the state board, as applicable, a written evaluation of the economic, social, and environmental effects of the transfer upon the service area from which the water is to be transferred. The bill would prohibit a water user from replacing specified surface water that is transferred from agricultural use to municipal use with groundwater, unless the groundwater basin of the service area from which the water is to be transferred is monitored in accordance with specified requirements. The bill would require the department and the state board to charge specified fees to a water user that is subject to these provisions. This bill contains other existing laws.
Assignment:

AJR 37	De Leon	Immigration.		E-07/01/2010  html pdf
	Status:	07/01/2010-Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	07/01/2010-A ENROLLMENT
Summary:	This measure would specify principles for repairing the nation's broken immigration system and would urge Congress and the President of the United States to take a comprehensive and workable approach to improving the nation's immigration system using those principles.
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SB 60	Cedillo	Vehicles: driver's licenses.		A-05/28/2009  html pdf
	Status:	06/22/2009-Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/08/2009-A TRANS.
Summary:	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon proper application, to issue driver's licenses and identification cards. This bill would require the department, in the issuance of driver' s licenses and identification cards, to issue licenses and cards that are in compliance with specified requirements of the federal Real ID Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-13). This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 189	Lowenthal	Mechanics liens.		A-06/02/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/15/2010-A APPR.
Summary:	The California Constitution provides that mechanics, persons furnishing materials, artisans, and laborers of every class have a lien upon the property upon which they have bestowed labor or furnished material for the value of the labor done and material furnished. The California Constitution also requires the Legislature to provide, by law, for the speedy and efficient enforcement of those liens. This bill would revise and recast those statutory provisions and make both substantive and technical changes. The bill would also replace the terms "original contractor" and "materialman" with the terms "direct contractor" and "material supplier," respectively. The bill would specifically authorize the submission of notices by means of electronic communication with respect to mechanics liens. The bill would also set forth additional requirements governing the form of security for bonds and would set forth the security required for large projects with a contract price of greater than $1,000,000 for the owner of a less than fee interest in property or $5,000,000 for the owner of the fee interest in the property. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 258	Oropeza	Public contracts: school districts: bidding requirements.		A-06/10/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 29.)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-A APPR.
Summary:	Under existing law, the governing board of a school district may require each prospective bidder for certain contracts involving an expenditure of more than $50,000 to submit a standardized questionnaire and financial statement, including information relating to financial ability and experience in performing public works. Existing law further requires a school district requiring the above information to adopt and apply a uniform system of rating bidders on the basis of the completed questionnaires and financial statements, as specified. This bill would require the questionnaire and the uniform system of rating bidders described above to contain, at a minimum, substantially similar information, questions, and requirements as that of the standardized questionnaire and model guidelines for rating bidders developed by the Department of Industrial Relations for public entities, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 261	Dutton	Water use: water management plans.		A-07/13/2009  html pdf
	Status:	08/27/2009-Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	08/19/2009-A APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:	Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to convene an independent technical panel to provide information to the department and the Legislature on new demand management measures, technologies, and approaches. "Demand management measures" means those water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse of available supplies. Existing law requires urban water suppliers to prepare and adopt urban water management plans with specified components. This bill would require a retail urban water supplier, as defined, to develop and implement an urban water conservation plan, including prescribed components, or achieve high-efficiency water use, as defined. The bill would impose various requirements for the contents of these plans, and would require a retail urban water supplier to update its water conservation plan on a specified schedule. The retail urban water supplier or other specified entities acting on behalf of the retail urban water supplier , would be required to submit reports for purposes of determining progress towards achieving a prescribed water conservation goal. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 294	Negrete McLeod	Department of Consumer Affairs: regulatory boards.		A-06/16/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/22/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 22.)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	06/22/2010-A APPR.
Summary:	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts licensees by various boards, as defined, within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including the California Board of Occupational Therapy, the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California, and the Veterinary Medical Board. Existing law requires the committee and authorizes the Veterinary Medical Board to appoint an executive officer. Under existing law, those provisions regarding the California Board of Occupational Therapy will become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and will be repealed on January 1, 2014. Those provisions governing the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California and the Veterinary Medical Board will become inoperative on July 1, 2011, and will be repealed on January 1, 2012. Under this bill, the provisions relating to the California Board of Occupational Therapy would become inoperative and be repealed on January 1, 2014, and the provisions concerning the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California and the Veterinary Medical Board would become inoperative and be repealed on January 1, 2013. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

SB 381	Wright	Instruction: course of study.		A-07/16/2009  html pdf
	Status:	08/31/2009-Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 8/27/2009 hearing)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	08/27/2009-A APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:	Existing law prescribes the course of study a pupil is required to complete while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to adopt rules specifying additional coursework requirements. Existing law requires each school district maintaining any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer to all otherwise qualified pupils in those grades a course of study that provides an opportunity for those pupils to attain entry-level employment skills in business or industry upon graduation from high school. This bill would prohibit a school district from adopting a graduation requirement that commences with the 2010-11 school year and requires the completion of additional coursework to meet or exceed the requirements and prerequisites for admission to a 4-year California public university unless the district also requires the completion of a sequence of at least 3 career and technical education courses. However, this provision would not apply to a school district that, by June 30, 2009, has adopted graduation requirements that require the completion of all minimum coursework necessary to meet the requirements and prerequisites for admission to a 4-year California public university. This bill contains other related provisions.
Assignment:

SB 389	Negrete McLeod	Professions and vocations.		A-06/01/2009  html pdf
	Status:	07/07/2009-Set, first hearing. Failed passage in committee. Reconsideration granted.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	07/07/2009-A PUB. S.
Summary:	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes a board to suspend or revoke a license on various grounds, including, but not limited to, conviction of a crime, if the crime is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of the business or profession for which the license was issued. Existing law requires applicants to certain boards to provide a full set of fingerprints for the purpose of conducting criminal history record checks. This bill would make that fingerprinting requirement applicable to the Dental Board of California, the Dental Hygiene Committee of California, the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. The bill would require new applicants for a license and petitioners for reinstatement of a revoked, surrendered, or canceled license, to successfully complete a state and federal level criminal record information search. The bill would also require, commencing January 1, 2011, licensees who have not previously submitted fingerprints, or for whom a record of the submission of fingerprints no longer exists, to complete the process necessary for a state and federal level criminal offender record information search, as specified. The bill would require licensees applying for licens e renewal to certify compliance with that requirement, as specified, and would subject a licensee to disciplinary action for making a false certification. The bill would also require a licensee to, as a condition of renewal of the license, notify the board on the license renewal form if he or she , or any member of the personnel of record of the licensee, has been convicted, as defined, of a felony or misdemeanor since the last renewal, or if this is the licensee's first renewal, since the initial license was issued. The bill would provide that the Contractors' State License Board shall implement the provisions pertaining to renewal licenses on a specified schedule, after an appropriation is made for this purpose, utilizing its applicable fees.
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SB 392	Florez	Contractors: limited liability companies.		A-06/23/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/23/2010-Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/23/2010-A APPR.
Summary:	Existing law, the Beverly-Killea Limited Liability Company Act, authorizes a limited liability company to engage in any lawful business activity, except as specified, but prohibits construing the act to permit a limited liability company to render professional services, as defined. This bill would authorize a limited liability company to render services that may be lawfully rendered only pursuant to a license, certificate, or registration authorized by the Business and Professions Code if the provisions of that code authorize a limited liability company to hold that license, certificate, or registration. The bill would authorize the board, commencing no later than January 1, 2012 , to issue a contractor's license to a limited liability company and would authorize the responsible managing manager, responsible managing officer, responsible managing member, or responsible managing employee of the limited liability company to qualify for that license. The bill would also require, as a condition precedent to the issuance, reissuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal, or continued valid use of a limited liability company contractor's license, that the applicant or licensee file or have on file a surety bond in the sum of $100,000 for damages arising out of specified claims of employees. The bill would also require the limited liability company to maintain a policy or policies of insurance against liability imposed on or against it for damages arising out of claims, as specified, as a condition of licensure, and would require the licensed limited liability company to provide a notice concerning that insurance or security in certain contracts, as specified. The bill would provide for the personal liability of persons within the limited liability company in a certain instance, except as specified. The bill would also enact related, conforming provisions. Because the bill would impose various fees on limited liability companies that apply for and obtain a contractor's license, the bill would increase the amount of revenue deposited in the Contractors' License Fund, thereby making an appropriation. In addition, because a violation of specified provisions of the Contractors' State License Law by a limited liability company licensed pursuant to these provisions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 464	Strickland	Income and corporation taxes: credits: diesel particulate matter reduction.		I-02/26/2009  html pdf
	Status:	02/01/2010-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	02/01/2010-S DEAD
Summary:	The Personal Income Tax Law and the Bank and Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow a credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and before January 1, 2019, in an amount equal to 5% of the amount paid or incurred for qualified property, as defined, not to exceed $10,000, that is used to meet diesel particulate matter reduction requirements. This bill contains other related provisions.
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SB 477	Florez	Employment: heat illness prevention.		A-08/17/2009  html pdf
	Status:	06/24/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 23.)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose
	Priority:	3
Location:	06/24/2010-A APPR.
Summary:	Existing law permits the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board within the Department of Industrial Relations to adopt occupational health and safety standards to protect the welfare of employees, and existing regulations provide for the prevention of heat-related illness of employees, as prescribed. Under existing law, it is a misdemeanor for an employer to violate a safety standard if the violation has a substantial probability of resulting in death or serious physical harm. This bill would incorporate certain of these regulatory provisions into statute. The bill would additionally specify requirements for employers to provide employees access to shade when the temperature exceeds 85 degrees Fahrenheit and to implement designated high-heat procedures when the temperature equals or exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit. The bill would prohibit an employer from allowing an employee or a supervisor to engage in outdoor work without receiving training on specified topics and would require the employer to designate a person to ensure that emergency procedures are invoked when appropriate. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Assignment:

SB 515	Hancock	Career technical education.		A-06/30/2009  html pdf
	Status:	09/11/2009-Placed on inactive file on request of Assembly Member Torrico.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	09/11/2009-S INACTIVE FILE
Summary:	Existing law requires the governing board of each regional occupational center or program, on or before July 1, 2010, to ensure that at least 90% of all state-funded courses offered by the center or program, in occupational areas in which both the program or center and the community college offer instruction, are part of occupational course sequences that target comprehensive skills. Existing law additionally requires, as a condition of receiving federal funds provided under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1998, and to the extent permitted under federal law, that school districts, regional occupational centers or programs, and community college districts comply with specified requirements relating to the development of course sequences. This bill would additionally require, commencing with the 2012-13 fiscal year, as a condition of receiving federal funds provided under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1998, and to the extent permitted under federal law, that school districts, regional occupational centers or programs, and community college districts demonstrate that at least one-half of the course sequences offered are linked to high priority workforce needs in the career sectors identified by the Labor and Workforce Development Agency or the Labor Market Information Division of the Employment Development Department for the State of California , for the economic region established by the state where the regional occupational center or program, community college district, or school district is located , or for the county where the regional occupational center or program, community college district, or school district is located . The bill would encourage school districts, regional occupational centers or programs, and community college districts to work with local workforce investment boards and the Labor Market Information Division of the Employment Development Department in the identification of career sectors of high priority.
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SB 518	Lowenthal	Building standards: graywater.		A-06/21/2010  html pdf
	Status:	07/01/2010-Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	07/01/2010-A CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary:	The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. This bill would require the commission, as a part of the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2011, to adopt building standards for the construction, installation, and alteration of graywater systems for indoor and outdoor uses in nonresidential occupancies, in accordance with prescribed requirements. The bill would terminate the authority of the Department of Water Resources to adopt standards for graywater systems in nonresidential occupancies upon adoption of the standards by the commission. This bill contains other existing laws.
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SB 565	Pavley	Water resources.		A-05/20/2010  html pdf
	Status:	07/01/2010-From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 6.) (Heard in committee on June 29.)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	07/01/2010-A APPR.
Summary:	Existing law generally prohibits the state, or a county, city, district, or other political subdivision, or any public officer or body acting in its official capacity on behalf of any of those entities, from being required to pay any fee for the performance of an official service. Existing law exempts from this provision any fee or charge for official services required pursuant to specified provisions of law relating to water use or water quality. This bill would expand the exemption to other provisions relating to water use, including provisions that require the payment of fees to the State Water Resources Control Board (board) for official services relating to statements of water diversion and use. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 629	Liu	Private works of improvement: retention proceeds.		A-06/23/2009  html pdf
	Status:	09/10/2009-Placed on inactive file on request of Senator Liu.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	09/10/2009-S INACTIVE FILE
Summary:	Existing law generally regulates the terms and conditions of contracts for private works of improvement. Existing law requires that, within 45 days after the date of completion, as defined, retention proceeds withheld from any payment by the owner to the original contractor, or by the original contractor to any subcontractor, be released, except as specified. Existing law provides that, if a bona fide dispute exists between an original contractor and a subcontractor, the original contractor may withhold from the retention payment up to 150% of the disputed amount. This bill, applicable to contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2010, would prohibit retention proceeds withheld from any payment made by the owner to the original contractor from exceeding 5% of the amount of the payment otherwise due under the contract. The bill would prohibit the percentage of the retention proceeds withheld from any payment made by the original contractor to any subcontractor, or by a subcontractor to another subcontractor, from exceeding 5% of the amount of the payment otherwise due under the contract, or the percentage of each payment that may be withheld under the contract between the owner and the original contractor, whichever is less. This bill would require that with respect to a contract between an owner and an original contractor, between an original contractor and a subcontractor, or between 2 subcontractors, any retention proceeds withheld shall be released within 45 days after the party seeking payment serves a fully executed conditional waiver and release, as provided. The bill would provide that it does not prohibit the withholding of funds pursuant to the above provisions of law governing amounts in dispute. This bill would also provide that these provisions shall not apply if the owner or original contractor provides written notice to the original contractor or subcontractor, prior to or at the time that the bid is requested, that performance and payment bonds may be required.
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SB 638	Negrete McLeod	Regulatory boards: operations.		I-02/27/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/15/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose
	Priority:	2
Location:	01/15/2010-S DEAD
Summary:	Existing law creates various regulatory boards, as defined, within the Department of Consumer Affairs, with board members serving specified terms of office. Existing law generally makes the regulatory boards inoperative and repealed on specified dates, unless those dates are deleted or extended by subsequent legislation, and subjects these boards that are scheduled to become inoperative and repealed as well as other boards in state government, as specified, to review by the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection. Under existing law, that committee, following a specified procedure, recommends whether the board should be continued or its functions modified. Existing law requires the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to submit certain analyses and reports to the committee on specified dates and requires the committee to review those boards and hold hearings as specified, and to make certain evaluations and findings. This bill would abolish the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and would authorize the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to carry out its duties. The bill would terminate the terms of office of each board member or bureau chief within the department on unspecified dates and would authorize successor board members and bureau chiefs to be appointed, as specified. The bill would also subject interior design organizations, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and the Tax Education Council to review on unspecified dates. The bill would authorize the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to review the boards, bureaus, or entities that are scheduled to have their board membership or bureau chief so terminated or reviewed, as specified, and would authorize the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to investigate their operations and to hold specified public hearings. The bill would require a board, bureau, or entity, if their annual report contains certain information, to post it on its Internet Web site. The bill would make other conforming changes.
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SB 694	Correa	Public contracts: public works: competitive bidding: procedures.		A-05/18/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/23/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/23/2010-A THIRD READING
Summary:	Existing law allows a public agency to elect to be subject to the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act, which authorizes bidding procedures for public projects, as specified. The act establishes the California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission, which is charged with specified duties, including recommending for adoption by the Controller uniform construction cost accounting procedures for implementation by public agencies in the performance of, or in contracting for, construction on public projects. Under the act, each commission member serves without compensation, but is required to be reimbursed for travel and other expenses incurred, and the commission is authorized to accept grants from federal, state, or local public agencies, or private foundations or individuals, to assist it in carrying out its duties. This bill would extend the time to 8 business days to request a commission review, to 45 days for a commission review of a public agency project that is to be performed after rejection of all bids, and to 90 days for a commission review of work for which evidence was provided that the work has exceeded the force account limits or has been improperly classified as maintenance. This bill contains other existing laws.
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SB 773	Florez	Workers' compensation: disability benefits.		A-05/19/2009  html pdf
	Status:	01/22/2010-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/8/2009)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Oppose
	Priority:	2
Location:	01/22/2010-S DEAD
Summary:	Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, that generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, and in the course of, employment. Existing law provides certain methods for determining workers' compensation benefits payable to a worker or his or her dependents for purposes of temporary disability, permanent total disability, permanent partial disability, and in case of death. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would adjust the amount of permanent partial disability benefits paid to workers in order to ensure that the benefits are fair, adequate, and more favorably aligned when compared with permanent partial disability benefits paid to workers in other states. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 802	Leno	Works of improvement: progress payments: notice: retention proceeds.		V-10/11/2009  html pdf
	Status:	10/11/2009-Vetoed by the Governor
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Support
	Priority:	2
Location:	10/11/2009-S VETOED
Summary:	Existing law requires that, for private and public works of improvement, and in a public works contract, a prime contractor or subcontractor pay to any subcontractor, not later than 10 days after receipt of each progress payment, unless otherwise agreed to in writing, the respective amount allowed the contractor on account of the work performed by the subcontractors, to the extent of each contractor's interest therein, as prescribed. This bill would, instead, require that those amounts be paid not later than 7 days after receipt of each progress payment. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 879	Cox	Counties: cities: construction projects: alternative bidding procedures: design-build.		A-05/27/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/17/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in Committee on June 16.)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/17/2010-A APPR.
Summary:	Existing law authorizes counties to use alternative procedures, known as design-build, for bidding on construction projects in the county in excess of $2,500,000, in accordance with specified procedures. These procedures include a requirement for contracts awarded, as specified, that a county board of supervisors pay a fee into the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, which funds are continuously appropriated for the Department of Industrial Relations' enforcement of prevailing wage requirements on public works projects. Each county that elects to use the design-build method on a public works project is required to submit a report to the Legislative Analyst's Office before December 1, 2009, containing a description of each public works project procured through the design-build process and completed after November 1, 2004, and before November 1, 2009. Existing law also requires the Legislative Analyst, on or before January 1, 2010, to report to the Legislature on the use of the design-build method by counties. This bill would instead authorize counties to use these alternative procedures, known as design-build, for bidding on construction projects in the county in excess of $1,000,000, and would make various changes in the procedures required for the use of design-build by those counties, as specified. The bill would also revise those reporting provisions to require each county electing to use the design-build method on a public works project to submit to the Legislative Analyst's Office before December 1, 2014, a report containing a description of each public works project procured through the design-build process and completed after November 1, 2009, and before November 1, 2014. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 918	Pavley	Water recycling.		A-06/01/2010  html pdf
	Status:	06/30/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 29.)
	Lobbyist:	PDT	Position:	Watch
	Priority:
Location:	06/30/2010-A APPR.
Summary:	Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use for recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013 . The bill would require the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016 , if a specified expert panel convened pursuant to the bill finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health . The bill would require the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. The bill, from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2017, inclusive, would require funds generated by the imposition of specified liabilities for violations of water quality requirements to be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the department for purposes of developing and adopting the water recycling criteria .
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SB 972

Wolk