Economic Development
World Trade and Tourism
Small Business
Labor Relations
Workers' Compensation
Unemployment Insurance
Financial Institutions
Miscellaneous
Economic Development
SB 43 (Alquist-D) Santa Clara stadium
Authorizes the City of Santa Clara and the Redevelopment Agency of Santa Clara as a joint powers agency, the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, to construct, operate, and maintain a stadium for use by a professional football team using a specified design-build authority.
Chapter 330, Statutes of 2009
(Liu-D) California Career Resource Network Program
Establishes the California Career Resource Network, an existing independent state agency, as a program within the California Department of Education.
Chapter 32, Statutes of 2009
SB 358 (Ducheny-D) Indian tribes: economic development
Creates, within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, the Native American Business Revolving Loan and Guarantee Program to fund non-gaming business projects for members of Indian tribes, and creates the Native American Business Finance Council to review applications for program funding.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 410 (Ducheny-D) California Workforce Investment Act: federal funding
Seeks to provide greater oversight over the spending of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, as well as to set clear legislative goals and priorities for the use of those funds relative to workforce readiness programs.
Vetoed
SB 444* (Ashburn-R) Income and corporation tax credits
Increases the amount of California's research expense credit from 15% to 20%, and increases the amount of California's alternative incremental credit from current state rates listed above to the recently increased federal rates (3%, 4%, and 5%).
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 445* (Ashburn-R) Income & corp. taxes: credit: manufacturer's investment
Allows a tax credit of 6% of the cost of qualified property placed in service in this state. The tax credit is based on costs paid for constructing, renovating, or acquiring property on or after 1/1/09.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 472* (Dutton-R) Income and corporation taxes: net capital gains: exclusion
Amends, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/12 and before 1/1/15, both the personal income tax and the corporate tax laws by allowing a 50% exclusion from gross income for any gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset held for more than three years.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 483* (Corbett-D) Corporation tax credit: automobile manufacturing
Allows, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, a qualified taxpayer a credit, not to exceed $10 million, for specified percentages of qualified expenditures. In general, the credit would be allowed to automobile manufacturers in this state that employ a specified number of qualified employees, as provided.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 568* (Hollingsworth-R) Income and corporation taxes: capital gains
Allows a taxpayer, under both the personal income and corporate tax laws, to elect to pay a 2% tax on any "net capital gain" as defined under federal law. The 2% tax is in lieu of any other tax that would otherwise be imposed on the net capital gain.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 599* (Negrete McLeod-D) Workforce development
Requires the successor agency to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education to transmit data on school performance to the California Postsecondary Education Commission, extends the California Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program of 2002, and authorizes local workforce investment boards to work directly with institutions of higher education and other training providers to design education and training programs for the purpose of distributing funds provided by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Chapter 642, Statutes of 2009
SB 612* (Runner-R) Income and corporation taxes: tax credit: employment
Provides, under both the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, a tax credit, in an amount as specified, to an employer for each qualified employee who has received unemployment benefits for a specified amount of time at the time the employer hires the qualified employee.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 675 (Steinberg-D) Energy job training
Enacts the Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Act of 2010, for the purpose of providing funds to qualifying entities for construction or reconfiguring facilities that prepare program participants (pupils) for employment related to clean technology, renewable energy or energy efficiency. Funds will be provided in the form of grants for $3 million for qualifying new education-related construction projects and $1.5 million for qualifying education-related modernization projects.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 682 (Padilla-D) Individuals with exceptional needs
Authorizes a county office of education (COE) or consortium of COEs to establish and administer, to the extent federal funds are available, a pilot program to provide combined academic and occupational training to secondary school pupils with autism spectrum disorders and other exceptional needs. Sunsets 1/1/15, and requires a COE or consortium of COEs that establishes a pilot program to submit an evaluation to the State Board of Education and the Legislature by 1/1/14, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 699* (Alquist-D) Sales and use taxes: exemption: sustainable development
Exempts from a specified portion of the Sales and Use Tax Law, for calendar years beginning on and after 1/1/11, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, sustainable development equipment investments of tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person and tangible personal property used primarily during the research and development process on qualified research.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 725 (Hancock-D) Regional occupational centers or programs
Authorizes regional occupational centers or programs, upon certification from the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to offer a California Apprenticeship Preparation Program, and establishes criteria for the establishment of those programs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 755 (Negrete McLeod-D) State contracts: participation goals
Establishes a statewide participation goal of not less than 1% for persons with developmental disabilities business enterprises to participate in contracts awarded by state agencies for goods and services. Requires, until 6/30/14, that each state agency awarding contracts take specified actions to encourage that participation.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 15XXX* (Calderon-D) Tax stimulus provisions: 2009-10 State Budget
Provides a temporary tax incentive to small businesses to hire full-time employees. Allows most multi-state businesses to apportion income to California using only their percentage of sales in California as an alternative to using the current apportionment methodology, which averages a business's proportion of sales, property, and payroll in California (with the sales factor double-weighted). Establishes a motion picture production tax credit.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
SB 32XXXX (Corbett-D) Enterprise zones: City of Fremont
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon application by the Fremont City Council, to designate one enterprise zone within the geographic area of the City of Fremont.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 49 (DeSaulnier-D) Federal economic recovery plan funds
States the Legislature's support for maximizing the creation of American jobs and the restoration of economic growth and opportunity by spending economic recovery funds on goods and services that create American jobs. States the Legislature's encouragement of all state entities to purchase goods and services produced in the United States with any economic recovery funds provided to the state.
(Held at Assembly Desk)
SCR 53 (Corbett-D) New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.
Urges the Legislature to take swift and decisive action to protect California workers and industries including doing everything in its power to keep the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., in California.
Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2009
AB 3 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness Initiative
Requires the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB), in consultation with the Green Collar Jobs Council, to establish a Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness Initiative, as specified. Requires the CWIB provide guidance to local workforce investment boards on how to establish comprehensive green collar job assessment, training, and placement programs that reflect the local and regional economies.
Vetoed
AB 177 (Price-D) CA Urban Communities Collaborative Initiative Act
Enacts, until 1/1/16, the California Urban Communities Collaborative Initiative Act of 2009. Establishes an Inter-Agency Initiative Workgroup, partnership, and local committees for designated project areas and assign these entities specified duties with respect to coordinating and improving government efforts for at-risk urban communities, and requires the workgroup to report annually to the Governor and Legislature on its activities.
(In Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 271 (Solorio-D) California YouthBuild Program: funding and designation
Conforms the California YouthBuild Program with the federal YouthBuild Transition Act which transfers administration of the YouthBuild Program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to the Department of Labor (DOL) by revising provisions in current law that make reference to HUD to instead refer to DOL.
Chapter 95, Statutes of 2009
AB 340* (Knight-R) Income taxes: credits: hiring credit
Allows a tax credit, under both the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, for each "qualified employee" employed by a "qualified employer", as specified. Defines "qualified employee" as an employee who is a California resident employed by the "qualified employer" on a "qualified job".
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 380 (De La Torre-D) CA Clean Energy Curriculum & Training Initiative of 2009
Enacts the California Clean Energy Curriculum and Training Initiative of 2009, as specified. Requires the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, by 7/1/10, to establish standardized courses of study covering components necessary to effectively and safely install, inspect, or repair clean energy systems, and to train others to do so, direct the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to convene the Electrical Industry Training Committee to develop a model solar curriculum, and create a program of outreach and assistance on creating clean energy training programs to schools, using the Division, the Employment Training Panel, and the California Workforce Investment Board.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 394 (Torrico-D) Sales and use taxes: exemption: automobile manufacturing
Exempts, from the Sales and Use Tax Law, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property, as specified, purchased for use by an automobile manufacturer located in Fremont, California, or purchased for use by a contractor who will use the property in performing a construction contract for the automobile manufacturer, as specified.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 507 (Arambula-IN) Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act
Requires projects selected for funding under the Infrastructure State Revolving Fund Program to be funded only if the project meets specified land use and economic development criteria.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 546* (Knight-R) Sales & use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment
Provides a state sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property purchased for use primarily in any stage of the manufacturing of solar photovoltaic panels. Provides that no exemption shall be allowed unless the purchaser furnishes the retailer with an exemption certificate, completed in accordance with any instruction or regulation issued by the Board of Equalization (BOE), and the retailer subsequently furnishes BOE with a copy. The exemption certificate shall contain the purchase price of the exempt machinery or equipment.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 699* (Portantino-D) Economic development
Updates the requirements for the development of a State Economic Development Strategy (ED Strategy) and requires it be submitted to the Legislature by 5/1/10. Modifies the content of the ED Strategy to reflect current economic best practices and key issues, including the role of innovation in the California economy and the need to attract more private capital to the state's border regions and other emerging domestic markets.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 700 (Krekorian-D) Creative Industries & Community Economic Revitalization Act
Provides that 20% of the state's General Fund sales and use tax revenues at the 4.75% rate, remitted by specified taxpayers, shall be deposited into a newly established Creative Industries and Community Economic Revitalization Fund (Fund) for specified purposes. Provides that the money in the Fund may be expended by the California Arts Council upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1047 (V. Manuel Perez-D) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
Establishes a local assistance program, within the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, to help small and rural communities obtain bond financing for infrastructure projects.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1139* (John Perez-D) Enterprise zones: income taxes
Revises tax credit eligibility, calculation, redemption and reporting of the hiring credit, under the income/corporation taxes for businesses located in enterprise zones.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1159* (V. Manuel Perez-D) Enterprise zones: income and corporation tax credits
Authorizes, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, a taxpayer engaged in a trade or business in enterprise zones to aggregate the value of sales and use tax credits attributable to the purchase, and placement in service, of machinery and machinery parts used for the production of renewable energy resources in all of the enterprise zones in which the taxpayer is engaged in a trade or business and apply the tax credit to tax liabilities attributable to activities within one or more enterprise zones, as provided.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1213 (Skinner-D) Employment of persons with disabilities
Adds the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a member of the California Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 1320 (Fong-D) Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative Program
Establishes the Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative Program, beginning 1/1/12, for the purpose of providing grants to employers and employees to be used to establish individual lifelong learning accounts, as defined, for the deposit of funds to be used for lifelong education and training.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1378 (V. Manuel Perez-D) CA Workforce Investment Board: veterans' workforce program
Establishes the Veterans' Workforce Program (Program), within the California Workforce Investment Board, for the purposes of providing a comprehensive workforce development program to assist veterans with the transition to civilian work. Specifies that the Program shall include outreach to the veterans community, assessments of job skills acquired during military service that may be used or adapted for civilian purposes, referrals to specific training opportunities and prospective jobs, and information on ways to finance training opportunities.
(In Assembly Job, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 1380 (Bass-D) Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank: board members
Expands the membership of the board of directors of the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank from five to seven members. Of the two additional members, one each is appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Rules Committee. The two new members serve as nonvoting members.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1394 (Bass-D) CA Workforce Investment Board: Green Collar Jobs Council
Makes changes to provisions governing the Green Collar Jobs Council that places additional requirements on the Council and creates a mechanism for the receipt of funds from specified state and federal resources.
Vetoed
AB 1410 (Bass-D) State Infrastructure Revolving Fund Program
Authorizes, pursuant to certain definitions, the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to expend account funds, provided to this state by the federal economic stimulus plan, for purposes of the federal Community Block Grant Fund Program to create credit enhancements or to provide loan guarantees or low-interest loans to offset the State Infrastructure Revolving Fund Program's transaction costs, or to supplement the program.
(In Assembly Job, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 1460 (Solorio-D) Economic development
Requires the California Economic Strategy Panel to prepare and submit a preliminary version of the California Economic Development Strategic Plan to the Governor and the Legislature prior to 1/1/11, and to prepare a final version of the plan within five months of the conclusion of required hearings by the Legislature on the preliminary version of the plan. Requires the development of the plan to be funded from private donations.
(In Assembly Job, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 1484* (Anderson-R) Income and corporation tax credits: research and development
Increases the credit for increasing research expenses to 20% of the excess of the qualified research expenses, and provides complete conformity to the alternative incremental credit provided under those federal income tax laws.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1557 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Federal funding: economic stimulus bill
States that it is the intent of the Legislature that state government serves as a facilitator in assisting Californians to access federal stimulus funds approved in 2008 and 2009. Expands existing disclosure requirements related to federal funding.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1558 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Economic development: general reorganization
Eliminates the duties of the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency with regard to the Office of the California Small Business Board and transfers the modified duties to a director and executive director of a renamed Economic and Employment Development Department, which will succeed to some of the duties of the existing Employment Development Department.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1565* (Ruskin-D) Income and corporation taxes: credits: research
Incrementally increases, under both the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law laws, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/11, the applicable percentage of the credit for qualified research expenditures from 15% to 20%. Also allows, under the Personal Income Tax Law, a credit for 24% of the basic research payments for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/11.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 79XXX (Blakeslee-R) California Environmental Protection Agency: rules
Requires, at or before the time a rule proposed for adoption is made available to the public at a public workshop or for purposes of public comment, the California Environmental Protection Agency, or a board, department, or office within the agency, to complete and place into the rulemaking record an economic analysis, as defined, of the rule.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 81XXX (Hall-D) Stadium complex: City of Industry
Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act activities associated with development and operation of a stadium complex in the City of Industry, as specified, and further exempts actions taken by the City of Industry from any legal requirements concerning a general plan, or consistency with a general plan, as specified.
Chapter 30, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 82XXX (Blakeslee-R) Economic development: projects
Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to designate one special enterprise zone within the City of Fremont consisting of a geographical area encompassing a facility that manufactures automobiles and to designate, until 1/1/10, an additional 10 special enterprise zones limited to one nonrenewable 15-year term.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
ACR 52 (Solorio-D) High technology
Recognizes California as the leading high technology center in the United States and declares that it shall remain the leading high technology center in the United States, and declares the second week of May, annually, as California High Technology Week.
Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2009
ACR 85 (Torrico-D) New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.
Urges the Legislature to take swift and decisive action to protect California workers and industries including utilizing its vested powers to keep the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. facility open.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2009
AJR 4 (Bass-D) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which will make supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and state and local fiscal stabilization.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
World Trade and Tourism
SCR 45 (Benoit-R) United States Travel Rally Day
Recognizes 5/12/09 as United States Travel Rally Day and calls upon Californians to observe this day by rallying to demonstrate the importance of travel and tourism to the economy.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2009
AB 1032 (Blumenfield-D) International relations: memorandum of understanding: Israel
Requires the Governor to establish a memorandum of understanding to formalize the relationship between California and Israel for the purpose of fostering technology and business development and education opportunities in solar energy and environmental technology industries.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1276 (Skinner-D) International trade
Prohibits any state official, including the Governor, from giving consent to the federal government to bind the state to provisions of international trade agreements, including procurement rules, without the explicit consent of the Legislature through a change in California law.
Vetoed
Small Business
SB 66* (Price-D) Small Business Expansion Fund
Repeals provisions in the Corporations Code that were approved in AB 12XXXX (Evans-D), Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session, the General Government trailer bill, that restrict the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program (SBLGP) at the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency from making any future loan guarantees. Repeals provisions that revert all funds from the SBLGP that are not needed to guarantee existing loans to the General Fund. Requires that $8.3 million be transferred by the Department of Finance to the General Fund from the Small Business Expansion Fund and/or Trust Fund in fiscal year 2009-10. This reversion is equal to the amount transferred in the 2009-10 Budget Act. Makes the bill inoperative and allows the SBLGP to continue providing loan guarantees upon availability of funds once the transfer of $8.3 million to the General Fund is complete.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2009
A similar bill is AB 184 (Block-D) which failed passage on the Senate Floor; reconsideration granted.
SB 356 (Wright-D) Regulations: small businesses
Revises the Administrative Procedures Act to require state agencies subject to the Act to make additional findings and determinations regarding the impact their regulations may have on small businesses, to consult with small businesses during the regulatory process and provide additional information, statements and justification for the adoption, amendment or repeal of regulations which may have an impact on small businesses.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 642 (Denham-R) Small business: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act
Increases the maximum amount of a contract to a certified small business, including a microbusiness and a disabled veteran business enterprise, without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements, from less than $100,000 to less than $250,000.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is AB 31 (Price-D), Chapter 212, Statutes of 2009.
SB 15XXX* (Calderon-D) Small business tax credit
Provides a temporary tax incentive to small businesses to hire full-time employees. For taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/09, allows a qualified employer to claim an income tax credit of $3,000 for each additional full-time employee hired by the employer during the taxable year. The credit will be subject to a cap, as specified.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
SCR 41 (Yee-D) California Microenterprise Development Month
Designates July 2009, and July of every year thereafter, as Microenterprise Development Month.
Resolution Chapter 59, Statutes of 2009
AB 31 (Price-D) Small Business Procurement and Contract Act
Increases the maximum amount of a contract for goods, services, or information technology to a certified small business (CSB) from $100,000 to $250,000 without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements. Requires the contractor, upon completion of a public contract for which a commitment to achieve CSB or disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE) participation goals was made, to report the actual percentage of CSB or DVBE participation that was achieved.
Chapter 212, Statutes of 2009
A similar bill is SB 642 (Denham-R) which is in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 165 (Carter-D) Microenterprises: economic development
Declares that it is a new state policy that the state will provide individuals with the opportunity to learn skills needed to pursue self-employment opportunities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 309 (Price-D) Public contracts: small business participation.
Requires all state agencies and departments to establish and achieve a 25% small business participation rate for state contracts and requires the Department of General Services to monitor progress in meeting this rate.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 864 (Price-D) Small businesses: racetrack improvement contracting
Requires at least 10% of the total amount of all state contracts for infrastructure improvements at any racetrack grounds in the state be let to small businesses or disabled veteran business enterprises.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 12XXXX* (Evans-D) Small Business Expansion Fund
Among other provisions, makes funds in the Small Business Expansion Fund and Trust Fund unavailable for new loans, loan guarantees, or other investments and allows the Department of Finance to transfer dollars from these funds to the General Fund that are not needed to guarantee existing loans.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
HR 18 (Price-D) Relative to small businesses
Recognizes the importance of small businesses to all Californians.
(Unassigned to a committee)
Labor Relations
SB 45 (Padilla-D) Public works: payment of prevailing wage: violations
Increases the penalty on contractors that willfully violate prevailing wage law, and thereby permanently removes such contractors from competition with law-abiding contractors.
Vetoed
SB 73 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Labor enforcement
Repeals and reinstates provisions of AB 12XXXX (Evans-D), Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session, creating the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund, funded by surcharges on employers, for support of the activities of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations. Sunsets in 2013.
Chapter 341, Statutes of 2009
SB 187 (Benoit-R) Employment: working hours
Allows for greater flexibility in the scheduling of individual worker's hours and to delete a requirement for overtime compensation. Allows an employee to request to work up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek, and relieves the employer of the obligation to pay overtime compensation under such a schedule.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 242 (Yee-D) Workplace: civil rights: language restrictions
Makes it a violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act to adopt or enforce a policy that requires, limits, or prohibits the use of any language in a business establishment, unless the language is justified by a business necessity and notification has been provided of the circumstances and the time when the language restriction is required to be observed, and of the consequences for its violation.
Vetoed
SB 284 (Cox-R) Safety in employment: ski resorts
Promotes safe operation of ski resort facilities and requires reporting of specified incidents resulting in fatalities.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
A similar bill is AB 990 (Jones-D) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 287 (Calderon-D) Meal periods
Grants employers greater flexibility to provide meal periods, expands the number of qualifying circumstances for creating on-duty meal period agreements, and exempts collective bargaining agreements from meal period law.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 380 (Dutton-R) Meal periods
Grants employers greater flexibility to provide meal periods, expands the number of qualifying circumstances for creating on-duty meal period agreements, exempts collective bargaining agreements from meal period law, and states these amendments are declarative of existing law, and will not be considered amendatory of existing law.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 404 (Benoit-R) Employment: information for employees
Clarifies that the employer may provide the wage information either on a detachable part of the payment made to the employee or on a separate page accompanying the payment of wages.
(In Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
SB 477 (Florez-D) Employment: heat illness prevention
Specifies 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. Prohibits an employer from allowing an employee or a supervisor to engage in outdoor work without receiving training on specified topics and requires the employer to designate a person to ensure that emergency procedures are invoked when appropriate.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 478 (Wolk-D) Employment safety: manlifts
Allows the owner or operator of an agricultural facility to designate a competent non-certified employee to perform routine maintenance of manlifts at agricultural facilities. Requires all elevator companies to disclose its status as certified qualified conveyance company prior to bidding on or contracting for services.
Chapter 196, Statutes of 2009
SB 665 (Cedillo-D) Employment: meal periods
Allows an employer of a registered security officer to provide on-duty meal periods if the officer is covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement containing specified terms or has a written on-duty meal period agreement with his or her employer containing specified terms.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 705 (Lowenthal-D) Employee rights: exhaustion of administrative remedies
Provides that the exhaustion of an employee's internal administrative remedies or judicial review of a decision of an administrative agency is not a precondition, and does not need to be judicially reviewed by a petition for a writ of mandate, for the filing of a civil action alleging a violation of a right that the Legislature determines to be based on a fundamental public policy of the state.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 789 (Steinberg-D) Labor representatives: elections
Creates a new election process for agricultural workers to select their representatives for collective bargaining. Extends existing prohibitions and penalties to employers engaged in unfair labor practices, with regard to a majority signup election.
Vetoed
SB 807 (Benoit-R) Employment: meal and rest periods
Extends the time period within which an employee can take a meal period, redefines the employer's responsibility for providing his/her employees a meal period, and decreases the statute of limitations for failing to provide a meal period.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 5XX (Cogdill-R) Employment: alternative workweek schedules
Provides flexibility for employers and employees on work schedule requirements. Specifies that the menu of alternative workweek schedule options may include a regular schedule for eight-hour days, and that the employee can move from one alternative workweek schedule to another on a weekly basis.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
SB 9XX (Padilla-D) Prevailing wage enforcement: public works
Provides for an alternative method of funding monitoring and enforcement of prevailing wage requirements. Provides for an exemption of prevailing wage requirements in the circumstances where a charter city is performing specified subsequent work on a water, sewer or storm drain system or similar system previously extended into a disadvantaged community in an unincorporated area.
Chapter 7, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
AB 141 (Tran-R) Employment: working hours
Permits an individual nonexempt employee to request an employee-selected flexible work schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek, and allows an employer to implement this schedule without any obligation to pay overtime compensation. Requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement of the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce this provision and adopt regulations.
(In Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 179* (Portantino-D) Wages: temporary workers
Permits employees of temporary services employers who provide specified health care services to be paid semi-monthly.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 227 (Cook-R) Labor standards: consultation unit
Requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to establish a specified consultation unit as specified, for the purpose of providing a full range of consulting services to any employer or employee.
(In Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 236 (Swanson-D) Employment: car washes
Extends the repeal date from 1/1/10 to 1/1/14 on the regulations of the employment practices of car washes and further defines the term "employer."
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2009
AB 335 (Fuentes-D) Employment contracts
Creates a rebuttable presumption that a choice of law or a choice of forum clause in an employment agreement that is a condition of employment is unconscionable, violates public policy, and is void, and to enumerate the factors that guides the court in determining whether the presumption has been rebutted by an employer seeking to enforce the choice of law or choice of forum clause.
Vetoed
AB 395 (Fuentes-D) Employment: apprenticeship programs
Authorizes an awarding body to assist the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations in the enforcement of prevailing wage laws that apply to apprenticeships, through the operation of the awarding body's approved labor compliance program.
Chapter 438, Statutes of 2009
AB 402 (Davis-D) Employment: entertainment work permits
Requires applicants for an Entertainment Work Permit for minors to pay a $50 fee, and directs the Labor Commissioner to collect and deposit the money into a special fund in the State Treasury for their use to administer and enforce Entertainment Work Permits for minors, as provided.
Vetoed
AB 485 (Carter-D) Civil Air Patrol: California Wing: employment leave
Creates the Civil Air Patrol Employment Protection Act, which requires an employer with more than 15 employees to provide not less than 10 days per calendar year of unpaid leave to an employee responding to an emergency operational mission of the California Wing of Civil Air Patrol, as specified.
Chapter 242, Statutes of 2009
AB 493 (Tran-R) Employment and Benefits Appeals Board
Abolishes the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, the California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board, and the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and transfers their duties to the Employment and Benefits Appeals Board, which this bill creates in the labor and Workforce Development Agency.
(Failed passage in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 514 (De Leon-D) Employment: lactation accommodation
Requires an employer to provide a 20-minute paid rest period for lactation purposes during each four-hour work period, immediately preceding or following the employee's rest period, and specifies that compliance with this requirement does not satisfy or affect an employer's separate obligation to provide a meal or rest period required by statute, an Industrial Welfare Commission order, or a collective bargaining agreement.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 527 (Fuentes-D) Employee complaints: proceedings: payroll records
Extends provisions of law applicable to falsification of payroll records for wage claims in the garment manufacturing industry to claims by any worker in any industry.
Vetoed
AB 569 (Emmerson-R) Meal periods: exemptions
Reestablishes the good faith effort to meet existing disabled veteran business enterprise goals by a state agency or department on any advertised contract by 7/28/09.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 677 (Solorio-D) Public works: prevailing wages
Expands the definition of public works, for the purpose of requiring the payment of prevailing rate of per diem wages, to include work performed under private contract in connection with the construction or maintenance of renewable energy generation capacity on property wholly or partially owned by a school or community college district or on public property specifically to serve a school or community college district.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 793 (Jones-D) Employment: discrimination
Clarifies when a cause of action accrues for the purpose of filing a claim of discrimination with respect to compensation. Establishes that a cause of action for discriminatory wages accrues (1) when the discriminatory pay decision was adopted, (2) when the plaintiff became subject to the discriminatory pay decision, or (3) when the plaintiff is affected by the discriminatory pay decision, including, among others, each payment of a discriminatory wage resulting in whole or in part from the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice.
Vetoed
AB 838 (Swanson-D) Occupational safety and health
Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, by 7/1/11, to adopt a standard for controlling the risk of occurrence of heat illness where employees work indoors.
Vetoed
AB 842 (Swanson-D) Employment
Revises existing law that requires employers to provide advance notice of a mass layoff, relocation or termination.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 849 (Swanson-D) Family and medical leave
Amends the California Family Rights Act by expanding permissible family and medical leave to cover care for an independent adult child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, domestic partner, or parent-in-law with a serious health condition.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 854 (Arambula-IN) Employment regulation and supervision: unpaid wages
Enacts specified requirements related to the application and renewal of licenses and/or registration by farm labor contractors and garment manufacturers.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2009
AB 943 (Mendoza-D) Employment: credit reports
Bans the use of consumer credit reports in employment, unless two criteria are met: (1) the information in the credit report must be substantially job-related, where the applicant or promotion candidate would have access to money, other assets, or confidential information, and (2) the position sought is either managerial, a sworn peace officer, a position in a city or county government, or the information is already required by law.
Vetoed
AB 946 (Salas-D) Employment: temporary service employee wages
Provides that the pay requirements would not apply to an employee of a temporary service employer who is assigned to a client for over 91 consecutive calendar days unless the temporary service employer pays the employee weekly.
(In Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 990 (Jones-D) Safety in employment: ski resorts
Requires ski resorts to prepare and file an annual safety report with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health and to report to the Division serious injuries or fatalities involving patrons at the ski resort.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is SB 284 (Cox-R) which is in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee.
AB 1000 (Ma-D) Employment: paid sick days
Requires employers to provide paid sick days for an employee who works for seven or more days in a calendar year.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1001 (Skinner-D) Employment: familial status protection
Adds "familial status" to the list of characteristics on which basis a person may not be discriminated against in employment.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1062 (Garrick-R) Design-build contracts: labor compliance program: exemptions
Revises the definition of "skilled labor force availability" for purposes of public design-build contracts from an approved apprenticeship program which has graduated apprentices in the preceding five years to a commitment to training the future construction workforce of California through apprenticeship, as specified. Requires the design-build entity to provide specified information about the state-approved apprenticeship program(s) from which it intends to request apprentices for use on a design-build contract.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1063 (Garrick-R) Design-build contracts: labor compliance program: exemptions
Revises the definition of "acceptable safety record" for purposes of public design-build contracts by deleting the provision that a bidder's "safety record" is deemed acceptable if the bidder is party to an alternative dispute resolution system.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1064 (Garrick-R) Design-build contracts: labor compliance program: exemptions
Deletes the labor compliance program exemption for specified public design-build projects where a collective bargaining agreement binds all of the contractors performing work on the project.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1288 (Fong-D) Employment: hiring practices
Enacts provisions of law related to the use of federal electronic employment verification systems by California employers for hiring purposes.
Vetoed
AB 1421 (Swanson-D) Employment: work hours
Provides that time spent in transit on a facility-provided conveyance from a remote employee parking location to and from the place at which an employee's presence is required by a private contract service employer shall be considered compensable when the employee is employed at an airport, amusement park, sports venue or entertainment venue, if the time spent in one-way transit is longer than 12 minutes and the employee is wearing a uniform or other insignia required by the employer.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1561 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Occupational safety and health: citation outcome analysis
Requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to collaborate with the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board to prepare an annual report summarizing the outcomes of citations to employers, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 1562 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Employment: garnishment of wages
Prohibits an employer from discharging an employee because their wages have been subjected to garnishment for the payment of five or fewer judgments at any one time.
Vetoed
AB 1563 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Employment: contracts or agreements for labor or services
Codifies an enforcement protocol for a provision of existing law dealing with financially-insufficient contracts for labor or services.
Vetoed
AB 5XX (Gaines-R) Employment: alternative workweek schedules
Provides flexibility for employers and employees on work schedule requirements. Specifies that the menu of alternative workweek schedule options may include a regular schedule for eight-hour days, and that the employee can move from one alternative workweek schedule to another on a weekly basis.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
AB 12XXXX* (Evans-D) Budget trailer bill: labor relations
Among other provisions, (1) permits the Employment Training Panel to accept and expend funds other than the Employment Training Tax, (2) specifies that the Employment Development Department must coordinate with the California Workforce Investment Board to ensure Green Collar Job funds are spent consistently with the green collar strategic initiative, (3) requires that Workforce Investment Funds designated for veterans must be distributed to entities focusing on veterans and who demonstrate the knowledge, experience and capacity to serve veterans, (4) permits the Department of Industrial Relations to be reimbursed for mediation services provided, and (5) creates the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund, funded by surcharges on employers, for support of the activities of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Sunsets in 2013.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
HR 20 (Eng-D) Employment discrimination
Expresses support of the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009, prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
(Adopted by the Assembly)
Workers' Compensation
SB 3 (Cedillo-D) Workers' compensation: permanent disability benefits
Specifies that current supplemental job displacement benefit provisions apply to workers whose injuries occurred on or after 1/1/04, and before 1/1/10. For injuries occurring on or after 1/1/10, provides for a supplemental job displacement benefit in the form of a voucher for up to $6,000 to cover various reeducation and skill enhancement expenses.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 145 (DeSaulnier-D) Workers' compensation
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of specified protected classes for purposes of apportioning permanent disability, and clarifies the law governing compensability where criminal violence is committed against an employee in the workplace.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 156 (Wright-D) Insurance: fraud prevention and detection
Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to convene meetings with representatives of insurers to discuss suspected or completed acts of insurance fraud.
(Held at Assembly Desk)
SB 186 (DeSaulnier-D) Workers' compensation: medical treatment
Removes the sunset date on the law that authorizes a worker to predesignate his/her personal treating physician as the treating physician in the event of a workplace injury.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2009
SB 313 (DeSaulnier-D) Workers' compensation: penalty assessments
Restructures the laws governing penalties to be assessed on employers that do not comply with the law mandating that every employer provide, either through insurance or an approved self-insurance program, workers' compensation benefits for its employees.
Chapter 640, Statutes of 2009
SB 403 (Benoit-R) Workers' compensation: lien claims
Prohibits a lien claim for expenses, incurred by or on behalf of the injured employee, for medical and hospital treatment from being filed more than one year from the date the health provider, or the health care provider's agent, was sent an explanation of benefits or explanation of review paying a bill pursuant to the official medical fee schedule, as specified, or a preferred provider organization agreement. Provides that this prohibition shall apply to all injuries, without regard to whether the injury occurs before, on, or after the operative date of 3/1/10.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 677 (Yee-D) Workers' compensation: exclusions: farming operations
Until 1/1/13, excludes any person employed by his/her parent, child, spouse, or registered domestic partner in a farming operation, as defined, from having to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment, if they meet certain conditions. Requires the owner(s) of the farming operation to submit specified information when registering with the Department of Industrial Relations for the exclusion.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 683 (Calderon-D) Workers' compensation: group self-insurers: audits
Requires each group self-insurer to annually file with the Director of the Office of Self Insured Plans an annual audit of the financial accounts and records of the group self-insurer by an independent, certified public accountant. No individual group self-insured members' audited financial or claim information will be included in this disclosure to the guarantee fund or be made available to the public.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
SB 764 (Negrete McLeod-D) Workers' compensation: health care organizations
Deletes the requirement that each application for certification as a workers' compensation health care organization to be accompanied by a fee, sufficient to cover the actual costs of processing the application. Deletes the Workers' Compensation Managed Care Fund's purpose of funding the cost of administering the certification process. Deletes the description of necessary information that must be reported by various plans, insurers, administrators, or other entities as determined by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation. Conforms provisions relating to services provided by health care organizations to those applicable to employers who have not entered into a contract with a health care organization for the provision of medical services.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 773 (Florez-D) Workers' compensation: disability benefits
Effective 1/1/10, increases the maximum average weekly wage that is allowed to be used for the purpose of calculating weekly disability benefit payments. Also, for injuries occurring on or after 1/1/10, increases the number of weeks of benefit payments to permanently disabled workers for specified percentages of permanent disability.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 128 (Coto-D) Workers' compensation: cancer presumption
Establishes a lifetime workers' compensation cancer presumption for public safety professionals (e.g., firefighters, police officers, highway patrol) with substantial years of service credit. Eliminates a five-year cap imposed following termination of employment, on a workers' compensation cancer presumption for tens of thousands of public safety personnel statewide.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 361 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Workers' compensation: treatment authorization
Precludes an employer from refusing to pay for workers' compensation medical treatment services if the employer has approved those services prior to the time the medical provider treated the claimant.
Chapter 436, Statutes of 2009
AB 483 (Buchanan-D) Workers' compensation: Internet Web sites
Requires the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau to establish an Internet Web site that identifies whether an employer is insured for workers' compensation.
Chapter 241, Statutes of 2009
AB 516 (Niello-R) Workers' compensation: temporary disability
Repeals the minimum level of temporary disability benefits which an injured worker can receive.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 586 (Huber-D) Workers' compensation: public employees: medical conditions
Extends injury presumptions of hernia, cancer, leukemia, heart trouble, pneumonia, blood borne infectious disease, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infection, tuberculosis, and meningitis to members of police departments at the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU). Extends the injury presumptions of hernia, blood borne infectious disease, or MRSA infection to members of fire departments at UC and CSU. Extends the injury presumptions of tuberculosis and meningitis to police departments of a district.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 615 (Niello-R) Workers' compensation
Deletes the existing definition of first aid and authorizes the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to adopt regulations to define various terms, as specified.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 664 (Skinner-D) Workers' compensation: hospital employees: presumption
Establishes several workers' compensation presumptions for more than 500,000 employees at hospitals statewide, including workers at private and nonprofit hospitals. Establishes a presumption that back or neck injuries and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) staph infections are job-related during and after a period of employment at a hospital, and requires specified workers' compensation benefits to be provided.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 801 (Duvall-R) Workers' compensation: individual identifiable information
Authorizes the Department of Insurance to access information from the Workers' Compensation Information System for purposes of investigating and prosecuting insurance fraud.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 879 (Hernandez-D) Workers' compensation: self-insurers: financial audits
Requires workers' compensation self-insurers to file an annual audited financial statement and an actuarial analysis with the Office of Self-Insurance Programs within the Department of Industrial Relations. Requires these financial records be made available to the public.
(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
AB 933 (Fong-D) Workers' compensation: utilization review
Requires that a physician who is conducting utilization review be licensed in California.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 948 (Logue-R) Workers' compensation
Provides that a mandatory notice to an injured worker relating to supplemental job displacement benefits can be delayed until such time as work restrictions are known, if these restrictions are not known at the time notice is currently required.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1093 (Yamada-D) Workers' compensation
Provides that a "personal relationship" or "personal connection" is not established, for purposes of determining a claim for workers' compensation benefits, based solely on a third-party aggressor's beliefs regarding race, religious creed, color, national origin, age, gender, disability, sex, or sexual orientation where the employee-victim is believed by the third party to be a member of one of the protected classes.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2009
AB 1117* (Fuentes-D) State Compensation Insurance Fund
Clarifies that a board member of the State Compensation Insurance Fund is not disqualified, by virtue of a conflict of interest, from considering issues before the board due to the fact that the board member is a policyholder or employee of a policyholder of the board.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2009
AB 1227 (Feuer-D) Workers' compensation: public employees: leaves of absence
Removes the restriction on a one-year leave of absence with full salary (4850 time) that provides that only specified safety employees who are members of certain pension plans are eligible.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2009
AB 1447 (John Perez-D) State Compensation Insurance Fund: audits
Clarifies that the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) is a state agency for purposes of the Bureau of State Audits and its audit, evaluation and investigatory jurisdiction. Requires all SCIF advertising to include a disclaimer indicating it is self-supported and not funded by the State of California.
Vetoed
AB 1499* (Evans-D) Horse racing: workers' compensation
Reauthorizes a fair to deduct an additional 0.5 percent of the total amount handled in exotic pari-mutuel pools of races for any breed, other than races solely for thoroughbreds, to defray workers' compensation insurance costs for trainers and owners who race at an applicable fair.
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2009
AB 1564 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Workers' compensation
Makes various changes to the workers' compensation system.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 12XXXX* (Evans-D) Disaster service workers: compensation
Establishes that when funds for compensation to disaster service workers are temporarily unavailable for disbursement, the State Compensation Insurance Fund may provide compensation to, and benefits for, eligible claimants who have injuries that have previously either been accepted or found to be compensable by the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. Payments made from the Fund must be reimbursed, as specified.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Unemployment Insurance
SB 222* (Ducheny-D) Unemployment compensation: wages
Increases to $21,000, from $7,000, the provision that excludes from the definition of "wages," for purposes of the Unemployment Insurance Law, remuneration in excess paid to an individual by an employer during any calendar year, with respect to employment.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 381 (Block-D) Unemployment compensation disability benefits
Allows community college districts to elect to provide state disability insurance coverage to academic employees who are permanent, part-time, or temporary, and, to management, confidential, and employees who are not part of a bargaining unit.
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2009
AB 384* (Ma-D) Unemployment compensation: disability benefits
Deletes the requirement for the Employment Development Department to include the imprinted statement on a check or pay order on payments of unemployment compensation and disability benefits.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 816 (Hagman-R) Unemployment insurance: Employment Training Fund
Repeals the express authority of the Legislature to appropriate funds from the Employment Training Fund to finance the local assistance portion of the welfare-to-work activities under the CalWORKS Program.
(Failed passage in Assembly Insurance Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 857 (Galgiani-D) Workforce development: one-stop career center systems
Requires the Employment Development Department, by 7/1/10, to provide in-person unemployment benefit assistance in at least one comprehensive state one-stop career center in each workforce area of the state. Requires that the unemployment benefit assistance services required to be provided at these centers be funded with existing monies available to the department for the administration of the unemployment compensation program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1298* (Coto-D) Unemployment Insurance Program
Provides that an individual is unemployed in any week of less than full-time work only if the wages payable to him/her with respect to the week, when reduced by the greater of $200 or 25% of wages payable, do not equal or exceed his/her weekly unemployment compensation benefit amount. Provides the payment of unemployment compensation to an individual in a weekly amount equal to his/her weekly benefit amount less the amount of wages in excess of the smaller of $200 or 25% of wages payable for that week.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1323 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Workforce development: one-stop career centers
Requires the Employment Development Department to ensure that information is posted at all one-stop centers regarding jobs created in this state as a result of economic stimulus funding provided to the state pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or from the proceeds from the sale of state infrastructure bonds.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1559 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Workforce development: summer youth job training
Requires the California Workforce Investment Board, in collaboration with local workforce investment boards, to establish the California Youth at Work Program, for the purposes of providing summer job training and work experience opportunities for youth in the state. Provides that it shall be the duty of the boards to facilitate the implementation of summer youth training programs through partnerships and effective collaboration.
Vetoed
AB 1560 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Professional employer organizations: regulation
Requires that an entity providing or advertising professional employer services be registered with the Employment Development Department.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1567 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Employment training panel: 3-year plan: training programs
Requires the Employment Training Panel's three-year plan to include employment training goals, objectives, and strategies that may be implemented supporting targeted populations in need of training, including military veterans.
Vetoed
AB 23XXX* (Coto-D) Unemployment insurance: extended benefits
Establishes eligibility for an additional 20 weeks of federally-funded extended unemployment insurance benefits.
Chapter 22, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 29XXX (Coto-D) Unemployment insurance
Establishes an "alternative base period" that allows recent earnings to count in determining eligibility for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, requires the Employment Development Department to send employers prompt information on the maximum UI payable to each claimant, and allows employers and UI claimants to participate in UI Appeals Board hearings by telephone.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
A similar bill was SB 3XXX (DeSaulnier-D) which died on the Senate Unfinished Business File.
Financial Institutions
SB 36* (Calderon-D) Real estate, finance lender & residential mortgage lender
Brings California Real Estate Law, Finance Lenders Law, and the Residential Mortgage Lending Act into compliance with the federal Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (the SAFE Act) by requiring those engaging in mortgage loan origination activities to obtain a license from the Department of Corporations after meeting specified requirements, or if a real estate licensee, obtain a license endorsement from the Department of Real Estate after meeting specified requirements.
Chapter 160, Statutes of 2009
An identical bill is AB 34 (Nava-D) which failed passage on the Senate Floor; reconsideration granted.
SB 94* (Calderon-D) Mortgage loans
Prohibits persons from charging advance fees to borrowers in connection with a loan modification, and requires those who wish to charge a fee for loan modification services to provide a notice to borrowers regarding other options available to the borrower.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2009
SB 127 (Calderon-D) Mortgages
Requires a mortgagee or trustee to make specified disclosures on an Internet Web site or in a 24-hour telephone recording at least once a week before the scheduled sale of a property. Requires a beneficiary to provide an opening bid to a trustee at least one week prior to the first scheduled sale date, and requires a trustee to provide a list of liens and encumbrances on a foreclosed property and to charge a reasonable fee for that information, as specified.
(In Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 204 (Benoit-R) Financial transactions: escrow agents
Clarifies that exchange facilitators may obtain fidelity bonds and errors and omissions insurance from an eligible surplus lines insurer that is on the list of such insurers maintained by the Insurance Commissioner. Requires the amount of any bond, deposit, or letter of credit held by an exchange facilitator to be reduced to the extent any payment is made (and thus clarify that the $1 million coverage is aggregate coverage, not per occurrence coverage).
Chapter 568, Statutes of 2009
SB 239 (Pavley-D) Mortgage fraud
Defines mortgage fraud as a separate form of fraud, in which the fraudulent acts involve loans secured by real property, and places mortgage fraud in a stand-alone section, with the same alternate felony/misdemeanor penalties as the general crime of fraud.
Chapter 174, Statutes of 2009
SB 306 (Calderon-D) Real property transactions
Enacts four separate provisions relating to real property transactions. Enacts technical and clarifying changes to SB 1137 (Perata-D, Corbett-D, Machado-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2008, which requires, among other things, that a lender or servicer contact a borrower at least 30 days prior to filing a Notice of Default (the first step in the non-judicial foreclosure process), and that tenants receive notice that their rental property is in foreclosure. Establishes a minimum time period in which a payoff demand statement must be valid and creates a short-pay demand agreement. Clarifies the coverage of the Escrow Agents' Fidelity Corporation. Requires that the notice of sale of real property be posted 20 days prior to the date of the sale.
Chapter 43, Statutes of 2009
SB 394 (Wyland-R) Financial institutions: charge disputes
Authorizes a depositor of a bank, or a member of a credit union, to dispute, or seek to correct, any charge imposed upon that person's account that the person claims is fraudulent, incorrect, or inappropriate at any time within one year after the charge is imposed.
(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 491* (Dutton-R) Capital access companies
Repeals and recast the provisions of the Capital Access Company Law. Requires the Commissioner of Corporations to administer and enforce the Capital Access Company Law. Establishes procedures for the licensure of applicants to operate as a capital access company, including requiring the Commissioner to determine whether an applicant meets specified requirements before issuing a license.
(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 633 (Wright-D) Mortgages: impound accounts
Creates two new exceptions to the law that prohibits persons from requiring an impound or trust account as a condition of a real property sales contract, or a mortgage or deed of trust on single-family, owner-occupied real property.
Chapter 57, Statutes of 2009
SB 7XX (Corbett-D) Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure
Enacts the California Foreclosure Prevention Act by providing a 90-day foreclosure delay on owner-occupied homes where the first loan was recorded between 1/1/03 and 1/1/08, unless the loan is serviced by a financial institution that has a comprehensive loan modification program.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
AB 33 (Nava-D) Financial services
Reorganizes, effective 7/1/11, the Departments of Financial Institutions and Corporations as divisions, under a newly-created Department of Financial Services, consolidates the Office of Real Estate Appraisals into the Department of Real Estate, and creates an Office of Financial and Real Estate Consumer Advocacy within the Department of Financial Services. Requires, effective 1/1/11, the preparation and submission of two comprehensive reports containing recommendations regarding how the consolidations and reorganizations described above should be implemented.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 34* (Nava-D) Real estate, finance lender & residential mortgage lender
Brings California's Real Estate Law, Finance Lenders Law, and Residential Mortgage Lending into compliance with the federal Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (know as the SAFE Act) by requiring the licensure of mortgage loan originators beginning 8/1/10.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
An identical bill is SB 36 (Calderon-D), Chapter 160, Statutes of 2009.
AB 260 (Lieu-D) Lending
Enacts various provisions with respect to higher-priced mortgage loans, as defined, that are originated on or after 7/1/10. Provides that a licensed person shall not make any false, deceptive, or misleading statement or representation, requires a mortgage broker to receive the same compensation for providing mortgage brokerage services whether paid by a lender, borrower, or a third party, and prohibits a mortgage broker from steering a borrower to accept a loan at higher cost.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2009
AB 329 (Feuer-D) Reverse mortgages
Amends California reverse mortgage law to strengthen existing counseling and cross-selling provisions and requires lenders to provide the borrower with a checklist prior to counseling that highlights the risks and alternatives to reverse mortgages.
Chapter 236, Statutes of 2009
AB 350 (Lieu-D) Debt management and settlement
Enacts the Debt Settlement Service Act for the purpose of licensing debt settlement service providers. The Act permits providers to charge a fee of 20% of the principal amount of debt, as specified, including a five percent setup fee, exempts a person or entity licensed as a debt settlement services provider from the Check Sellers, Bill Payers, and Proraters Law, as specified, requires a written financial analysis, and a good faith estimate on the length of time it will take to complete the program, prior to entering into an agreement with a consumer, provides that an agreement is void if the provider is not licensed, or charges a fee that is not authorized by the Act, and allows a consumer to bring a civil action, except as specified, against a provider who violates the Act and recover compensatory damages and reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 365 (Ammiano-D) Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act
Prohibits a financial institution, defined as a state regulated bank or credit union, from imposing a protection fee, as defined, when covering the payment on a transaction for which there are insufficient funds in a customer's account unless specified conditions are satisfied, including that the customer has provided specific written consent to an overdraft protection program or service that provides for the imposition of an overdraft protection fee.
(In Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 377 (Mendoza-D) Deferred deposit transactions
Increases the maximum value of a payday loan from $300 to $500 and permits a payday loan customer to rescind the transaction no later than the end of the next business day. Provides that a customer may elect to repay a loan using an extended repayment plan which includes at least four installments and specifies other related provisions. Requires payday loan lenders to pay a five-cent fee for each payday loan transaction to the Department of Corporations to be used for financial literacy education programs.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 401 (Ruskin-D) Financial institutions: finance lenders: exemptions
Eliminates the sunset date on a provision of the California Finance Lenders Law, which allows tax-exempt foundations and charities to make loans for charitable program-related purposes.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2009
AB 545 (Salas-D) Deferred deposit transactions
Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Corporations, by contract with a vendor or service provider or otherwise, to develop and implement a system that enables a licensee to receive specified information regarding a consumer's history with deferred deposit transactions. Authorizes the Commissioner to adopt rules to establish the system and for the retention, archiving, and deletion of the information entered into, or stored by, the system.
(In Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 550 (Lieu-D) California Financial Literacy Initiative
Establishes the financial literacy initiative in the State Controller's Office, and the California Financial Literacy Fund in the State Treasury. Authorizes the State Controller to deposit donations from entities with no direct financial interest in any financial products into the newly created fund, and requires money deposited into the fund to be made available upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 603 (Skinner-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
Seeks to ensure that rent-paying tenants living in a foreclosed rental property will not be evicted by the acquiring owner without cause for a period of at least 90 days from the time ownership was acquired through the foreclosure sale.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 919 (Nava-D) Mortgages: information and recordation
Requires a mortgage or deed of trust that is secured by residential real property to have an attached Residential Mortgage Participant Rider form that identifies by name any appraiser, lender, loan originator, and real estate broker who were involved in the origination of the mortgage or deed of trust and his/her professional license number, if any.
(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
AB 953 (Eng-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality
Provides an employee or an authorized agent of a financial institution and an employee or an authorized agent of an insurance company may access the residence address in a record of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 957* (Galgiani-D) Residential real estate transfers: title insurance
Prohibits a seller of residential real property from requiring a buyer to purchase title insurance or escrow services, in connection with the sale of a property, from a company chosen by the seller, as specified. Limits the provisions of the bill to properties improved by four or fewer dwelling units purchased at a foreclosure sale, and sunsets on 1/1/15.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2009
AB 1029 (Blumenfield-D) Mortgages: foreclosure: tax deferral program participants
Prohibits a mortgagee, trustee, or other person authorized to take sale, from filing a notice of default based on the failure to pay property taxes prior to 90 days after contacting the trustor or mortgagor, either in person or by telephone, to ascertain if the trustor or mortgagor was a participant in the property tax deferral program established pursuant to the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement Law.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1059 (Silva-R) Bankruptcy
Makes numerous technical changes to eliminate outdated and inaccurate references in California statutes relating to federal bankruptcy law.
Chapter 500, Statutes of 2009
AB 1075 (Nava-D) Financial institutions
Prohibits a state regulated bank or credit union that is a recipient of federal or state emergency economic assistance from using the money for specified purposes.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1156 (Nava-D) State and local surplus funds: investments
Provides that community banks and credit unions be given first priority for the investment of state surplus funds and the investment of surplus funds in certificates of deposit by local agencies.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1160 (Fong-D) Contracts: translation
Provides that if a loan or extension of credit secured by real property is negotiated in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean then the borrower must be provided a translation of the key terms of the transaction at least three days after initial application for the loan.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2009
AB 1268 (Gaines-R) Financial institutions
Reorganizes and consolidates provisions of the Financial Code administered by the Department of Financial Institutions (DFI), by moving the powers and authority of the Commissioner of DFI into one chapter of the Financial Code and consolidating other laws that are applicable to all of DFI's licensees into one body of law.
(Held at Senate Desk)
AB 1548 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Payment instruments
Defines the term "authorized delegate," for purposes of the Payment Instruments Law, to mean a person that a licensee designates to provide money transmission services on behalf of the licensee.
(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
AB 1566 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Banking: disclosures
Extends the sunset date on a provision of law which describes the information a depository institution is required to provide a customer, in lieu of a cancelled check, to allow that customer to reasonably identify the items paid from that customer's account.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2009
AB 1588* (Bass-D) Monitored Mortgage Workout Program
Establishes the Monitored Mortgage Workout Program that would be offered to all borrowers to provide them with an opportunity to explore options to avoid foreclosure. Requires that any notice of default of a residential real property sent to a borrower include a notice of the borrower's right to participate in the Program, as well as the documents that authorize the borrower to elect to participate in the Program.
(In Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2XX (Lieu-D) Lending
Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Real Estate to suspend or revoke the licenses of a real estate licensee or corporation, or to deny issuance of those licenses, upon a violation of specified federal lending laws or regulations.
(Unassigned to a committee)
AB 7XX (Lieu-D) Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure
Enacts the California Foreclosure Prevention Act, providing a 90-day foreclosure delay on owner-occupied homes where the first loan was recorded between 1/1/03 and 1/1/08, unless the loan is serviced by a financial institution that has a comprehensive loan modification program, as specified. Sunsets on 1/1/11.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
AJR 20 (Caballero-D) The federal Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act
Urges the Congress of the United States to enact H.R. 230 to provide all homeowners, including those in California, the opportunity to refinance their current home loans with a lower interest rate and to assist qualified home buyers with mortgage financing.
(In Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
HR 21 (Jones-D) Financial institution divestiture
Encourages the State of California and local governments to explore the potential divestiture of all financial interests in banking and other financial institutions that fail to cooperate with foreclosure prevention efforts that include temporary moratoriums on foreclosures, renegotiation of mortgage principles to reflect current values, and good faith negotiations with mortgagees.
(Unassigned to a committee)
Miscellaneous
SB 20 (Simitian-D) Personal information: privacy
Requires that a notice required under California's data security breach law must contain specified information and a copy of the notice must be sent to appropriate state agencies, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 107* (Walters-R) Sales and use taxes
Exempts mandatory gratuities charged to a nonprofit organization for the purchase of meals from sales and use taxes until 2014.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 109 (Calderon-D) Auctioneers: real estate
Revises the definition of auction to include real estate sales, and requires notification to an auction audience of all fees that will be levied as a condition of bidding, and an explanation of certain terms relating to the auction. Requires the return of deposits and fees in a specified time if the high bidder's offer is rejected or if the seller does not respond to the offer.
Vetoed
SB 189 (Lowenthal-D) Mechanics liens
Revises and recasts the statutory provisions related to mechanics liens and makes both substantive and technical changes. Replaces the terms "original contractor" and "materialman" with the terms "direct contractor" and "material supplier," respectively. Authorizes the submission of notices by means of electronic communication with respect to mechanics liens, and sets forth additional requirements governing the form of security for bonds and sets forth the security required for large projects with a contract price of greater than $1 million for the owner of a less than fee interest in property or $5 million for the owner of the fee interest in the property.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 202 (Harman-R) Private investigators: continuing education
Requires private investigators, as a condition of license renewal, to complete 12 hours of continuing education in privacy rights, professional ethics, recent legal developments, and other subjects related to the profession, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 241* (Runner-R) Retail food facilities
Establishes "single operating site mobile food facility" as a new category of mobile food facilities regulated under the California Retail Food Code, imposes various requirements on these facilities, revises standards applicable to mobile food facilities and satellite food facilities, and makes additional technical and nonsubstantive amendments to the California Retail Food Code.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2009
SB 258 (Oropeza-D) Contractors: public works
Establishes a public works certification requirement under an unnamed state certifying agency for licensed contractors and subcontractors who perform public works projects.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 260 (Wiggins-D) Petroleum products: motor oil
Increases the maximum fee paid to the Department of Food and Agriculture's (DFA's) Division of Measurement of Standards from $0.02 to $0.05 for each gallon of motor oil sold or purchased on or after 1/1/10, and provides that a fee of $0.03 for each gallon of motor oil sold or purchased may be applied by the Secretary of DFA prior to the adoption of regulations.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2009
SB 275 (Walters-R) Professional engineers
In addition to civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, establishes agricultural, chemical, control system, fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering as "practice acts" in California (as opposed to "title acts") and generally incorporates these nine additional practice act disciplines into the provisions relating to the three existing practice acts.
(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 308 (Harman-R) Professional fiduciaries: donative transfers
Refines the definition of "professional fiduciary" under the Professional Fiduciaries Act to include varying types of conservators and guardians and specifies how trusts and beneficiaries are counted for purposes of the definition. Excludes from the definition employees of public officers or agencies that are now specifically exempt from the requirements imposed on professional fiduciaries, when those employees are acting within the scope of their employment duties.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2009
SB 341 (DeSaulnier-D) Pharmaceuticals: adverse drug reactions
Requires the Department of Public Health to make every effort to enter into a contract with the University of California to establish a program to evaluate scientific literature related to the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs and to communicate that information to consumers and prescribers.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 355 (Romero-D) Economy hotels: police calls
Requires any person operating one or more economy hotels in California to post, on the Internet Web site operated by that person for the purpose of taking reservations for the hotel, the total number of calls for police service and the ratio of calls for police service per guest room during the most recent calendar year. Requires that the information be posted at the front desk of each economy hotel in a conspicuous location for public inspection, and requires an online travel company, as defined, doing business in California to obtain that information from an economy hotel in California and to post the information on its Internet Web site listing for the economy hotel.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 392 (Florez-D) Contractors: limited liability companies
Authorizes, notwithstanding the prohibition under the Limited Liability Company (LLC) Act against an LLC providing licensed services, the Contractors State License Board to issue a contractor's license to an LLC, if the LLC meets other requirements such as bonding, solvency, and liability insurance.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 405 (Cogdill-R) Contractors: fire sprinkler installation
Requires any commercial or residential fire sprinkler installation project performed by a Class C-16 fire protection contractor to be under the direct and immediate supervision of a commercial fire sprinkler supervisor or a residential fire sprinkler supervisor. Requires fire protection contractors to implement a fire sprinkler installation training program for their sprinkler fitters and supervisors with specified exemptions.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 424* (Padilla-D) Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors
Allows a licensed vehicle dealer to sell a new vehicle of a line-make for which the dealer does not hold a franchise if the vehicle was acquired in the ordinary course of business and certain conditions are met.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009
SB 436 (Aanestad-R) Contractors
Provides that a contractor furnishing a performance and payment bond need not include, as part of the contract, a notice stating that the owner or tenant has the right to require the contractor to have a performance and payment bond provided that the contractor gives the owner tangible evidence of the bond, as specified, and provides that a contractor furnishing a bond, bond equivalent, or joint control is exempt from certain typeface point size requirements, as long as the required notices and statements meet specified legibility and readability standards.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 446 (Walters-R) Shopping carts: electronic tags
States that shopping carts affixed with a specified electronic tag which are removed from the premises or parking area of a retail establishment and abandoned at a location other than the premises or parking area of the retail establishment, with the intent to deprive the owner or retailer possession of the cart, establishes a rebuttable presumption.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill is SB 480 (Padilla-D) which is in Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 453 (Padilla-D) Food safety
Requires an individual involved in the preparation, storage, or service of food to obtain a food handler card within 30 days after his/her hire date commencing 1/1/11. Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and implement standards for accrediting food handler certification organizations and guidelines for approved food handler courses by 6/1/10.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is SB 602 (Padilla-D) which is in Assembly Health Committee.
SB 475 (Padilla-D) Guide dogs for the blind
Sets the annual renewal fee limit for guide dog schools to no more than 0.005% of the school's annual expenses, requires the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind to establish the exact amount of the fee by regulation, and requires the renewal fee to be paid by April 30th of each year.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2009
SB 480 (Padilla-D) Shopping carts: electronic tags
Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a shopping cart or laundry cart with an electronic tag, contained below the surface, is the property of the person or business named in the tag, and not abandoned by that person or business.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill is SB 446 (Walters-R) which is in Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 491* (Dutton-R) Capital access companies
Repeals and recasts the provisions of the Capital Access Company Law. Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Corporations to administer and enforce the Capital Access Company Law. Establishes procedures for the licensure of applicants to operate as a capital access company, including requiring the Commissioner to determine whether an applicant meets specified requirements before issuing a license.
(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 507* (Cox-R) Gasoline stations: vapor recovery systems
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that does not meet certain requirements from undergoing an Enhance Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)
Similar bills are SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SB 546 (Lowenthal-D) Used oil
Raises the fee paid by lubricating oil manufacturers from $0.16 to $0.26 per gallon, increases the incentives paid for recycling used oil, increases the testing requirements for used oil transporters, and requires a life cycle analysis of used oil.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2009
SB 548 (Huff-R) California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program
Requires an awarding department, upon completion of an awarded contract for which a commitment to achieve disabled veteran business enterprise goal was made, to require the prime contractor that entered into a subcontract with a disabled veteran business enterprise to certify to the awarding department certain information pertaining to the contract, and that all payments under the contract have been made to the disabled veteran business enterprise.
Chapter 595, Statutes of 2009
SB 549 (Correa-D) Barbering and cosmetology
Authorizes the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology to collect gender, language and ethnicity data from new licensure applicants and renewal licenses, and requires that the information be posted on the Board's Internet Web site.
Vetoed
SB 550 (Florez-D) Public health: food product recall technology
Requires a grocery store or a general retail merchandise store with a grocery department to notify employees and customers of product recalls though their point of sale system, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 601 (Padilla-D) Retail tobacco licenses
Prohibits the Board of Equalization from issuing a new cigarette and tobacco products license for a retail location within 600 feet of a school, unless public convenience or necessity would be served by the issuance, as specified. Restricts the issuance of a new retail license to "traditional retail locations."
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 602 (Padilla-D) Food safety
Requires, commencing 1/1/11, a food handler, as defined, to obtain a food handler card within 30 days of his/her date of hire, and to maintain a valid food handler card for the duration of his/her employment as a food handler.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
A similar bill is SB 453 (Padilla-D) which is in Senate Appropriations Committee.
SB 603 (Padilla-D) Retail cigarette and tobacco sales
Establishes a $100 annual fee on each license issued by the Board of Equalization for the retail sale of cigarette and tobacco products. Establishes a statewide standard relative to the traditional retailers definition and proximity limitations.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 627 (Calderon-D) Catalytic converters: junk dealers and recyclers
Requires core recyclers, as defined, to comply with additional recordkeeping and identification procedures and new payment restrictions when purchasing catalytic converters.
Chapter 603, Statutes of 2009
SB 653 (Correa-D) Foreign limited liability companies: Indian tribes
Enables limited liability companies organized and operating under tribal law, to qualify to do intrastate business by registering a foreign limited liability company with the Secretary of State.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 657 (Steinberg-D) Human trafficking
Requires, beginning 1/1/11, retail sellers and manufacturers doing business in the state to develop, maintain, and implement policies related to their compliance with federal and state law regarding the eradication of slavery and human trafficking, as specified. Specifies that this provision will not apply to a retail seller or manufacturer having less than $2 million in annual sales.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 691 (Yee-D) Accountants
Requires an applicant for licensure as a certified public accountant (CPA) to acknowledge that certain specified pathways to licensure may not be substantially similar to other states', exempts certain CPA licensees from having to prove substantial equivalency with other states, as specified, and requires the California Board of Accountancy to verify and report on these efforts.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)
SB 741 (Maldonado-R) Proprietary security services
Revises and recasts the existing regulation of proprietary private security officers to require both proprietary private security officers and proprietary private security employers, as defined, to register with the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, and establishes training and enforcement provisions.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2009
SB 772 (Leno-D) Home furnishings: fire retardancy: juvenile products
Exempts strollers, infant carriers, bassinets, and nursing pillows from fire retardant requirements and regulations unless the Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation determines that a serious fire hazard exists, or if a product is regulated by federal law.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 819 (Yee-D) Professions and vocations
Expands the authorized functions that may be performed by nurse practitioners practicing under standard procedures, revises provisions of the Accountancy Act, and makes several non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive or technical changes to various provisions pertaining to the regulatory boards in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2009
SCR 38 (Wright-D) Gasoline stations: vapor recovery systems
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that does not meet certain requirements from undergoing an Enhance Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
Similar bills are SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SR 10 (Padilla-D) National Engineers Week
Recognizes the week of 2/15/09 through 2/21/09, inclusive, as National Engineers Week and acknowledges the services bestowed upon the citizens of California by engineers.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 11 (Benoit-R) National Surveyors Week
Recognizes the week of 3/15/09 through 3/21/09 as National Surveyors Week.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 11* (De Leon-D) Corporate reorganization: built-in losses
Specifies that Internal Revenue Service Notice 2008-83, 2008-42 I.R.B. 905, issued on 10/20/08, relating to the treatment of deductions under Section 382(h) of the Internal Revenue Code following an ownership change to a corporation that is a bank, shall not be applicable for purposes of taxes imposed under the bank and corporation with respect to any ownership change occurring at any time.
Chapter 401, Statutes of 2009
AB 85 (Tom Berryhill-R) Junk dealers and recyclers
Clarifies that an individual who sells nonferrous material to a junk dealer or recycler may collect payment for those materials either on or after the third business day after the date of sale. Clarifies that inspection of the seller's thumbprint, which junk dealers and recyclers are required to collect upon making a purchase, may only be performed by a peace officer in response to a criminal search warrant, where probable cause for the warrant is based on a theft involving the transaction for which the thumbprint was given.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2009
AB 87 (Davis-D) Single-use carryout bags: environmental effects
Prohibits, as of 7/1/10, grocery and convenience stores and pharmacies, as defined, from providing single-use carryout bags, to customers without charging a sales tax-free fee of 25 cents per bag (the Bag Pollution Cleanup Fee). Exempts, from the fee, customers participating in certain low-income assistance programs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 96* (Ruskin-D) Gasoline stations: underground storage tanks
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that does not meet certain requirements from undergoing an Enhance Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009
Similar bills are SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
AB 99 (De Leon-D) Secondhand dealers and coin dealers
Provides that a Matricula Consular, in addition to another item of identification bearing an address, can be a document which can verify the identification of a seller or pledger of property to a secondhand dealer or a coin dealer.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2009
AB 117 (Niello-R) Accountants
Requires the holder of an inactive certified public accountant license to disclose the inactive license status on all materials.
Chapter 409, Statutes of 2009
AB 124* (Galgiani-D) Cemeteries: temporary manager
Authorizes a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a temporary manager to manage the property and service prepaid interments of a private cemetery, if the court finds that a cemetery manager has ceased to perform his/her duties, and permits the court to authorize reasonable compensation to the temporary manager to be made from the income from the cemetery.
Chapter 83, Statutes of 2009
AB 138 (Hayashi-D) Accounting firms: peer review
Requires, until 1/1/14, California-licensed accounting firms to undergo a peer review of their accounting and auditing services every three years.
Chapter 312, Statutes of 2009
AB 158 (Mendoza-D) Secondhand dealers and coin dealers
Allows pawnbrokers and coin dealers to accept valid government identification cards or documents, such as a military identification card or a United States visa issued to a Mexican citizen, if the identification document is designed to not include a signature.
Chapter 86, Statutes of 2009
AB 161 (Adams-R) Corporations: notices and reports
Allows a corporation, where two or more shareholders have the same address on the books of the corporation, to send a single written notice or report to the address of the shareholders.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 224* (Portantino-D) Business
Extends, until 1/1/13, the sunset date of a provision of the Uniform Commercial Code which provides that a licensee in ordinary course of business takes its rights under a nonexclusive license free of a security interest in the intangible property created by the licensor and takes its leasehold interest free of a security interest in the goods created by the lessor. This is designed to assist the entertainment industry.
Chapter 315, Statutes of 2009
AB 255 (Anderson-R) Internet security: virtual globe technology
Prohibits an operator of a commercial Internet Web site or online service that makes a virtual globe browser available to members of the public from providing aerial or satellite photographs or imagery of places in this state that have been identified on the Internet Web site by the operator as a school, place of worship, or government or medical building or facility unless those photographs or images have been blurred.
(In Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media Committee)
AB 276 (Hayashi-D) Professional fiduciaries: licensing
Exempts certified public accountants and enrolled agents from licensure under the Professional Fiduciaries Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 285 (Tran-R) Corporations: electronic transmissions
Prohibits an electronic transmission by a corporation to an individual shareholder or member who is a natural person unless, in addition to current requirements for electronic transmissions, the consent given by the shareholder or member to receipt of an electronic transmission was preceded by or includes a clear written statement to the recipient of (1) a right to have the record provided or made available on paper or in nonelectronic form, (2) whether the consent applies only to that specific transmission, to specified categories of communications, or to all communications from the corporation, and (3) the procedures the recipient must use to withdraw consent.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 2009
AB 307* (Cook-R) Sex offenders: working with minors
Clarifies that the Penal Code section that prohibits registered sex offenders whose victim was a minor under 16 years of age from working in a position where he/she will be working directly and in an unaccompanied setting with minors includes providing goods or services to minors, as specified.
Chapter 430, Statutes of 2009
AB 323 (Yamada-D) Automobile tires
Requires auto body repair shops to display a sign about tire degradation and to provide a consumer disclosure notice on a tire's manufacture date.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 327* (Garrick-R) Minimum annual tax
Reduces the annual minimum franchise tax currently imposed on every corporation incorporated, qualified to transact business, or doing business in California from $800 to $100. Reduces the annual tax for a limited partnership, a limited liability company not classified as a corporation, a limited liability partnership, and a qualified Subchapter S subsidiary consistent with the reduction in corporate minimum franchise tax. Reduces the annual tax for regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, real estate mortgage investment conduits, and financial asset securitization investment trusts consistent with the reduction in corporate franchise tax.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 370 (Eng-D) Unlicensed contractors
Increases the maximum criminal fines for unlicensed contractors, requires a mandatory jail sentence for a third or subsequent conviction for unlicensed contracting, and clarifies that the enhanced penalties for persons with prior unlicensed activity convictions applies not only for performing work, but also for offering to perform or submitting a bid to perform contracting work.
Chapter 319, Statutes of 2009
AB 388 (Miller-R) Firefighting uniforms
Requires vendors of uniforms to verify that a person purchasing a uniform identifying a firefighting agency or department is an employee or authorized member of the agency or department identified on the uniform, as specified. Specifies that failure to do so will be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.
Chapter 100, Statutes of 2009
AB 396 (Fuentes-D) Works of improvement: liens
Limits the amount of retention proceeds that may be withheld from any progress payment, on any state or local government public works contract entered into after 1/1/10, to 5% of the progress payment. This limitation will apply to retention payments by any public entity to a general contractor, by the general contractor to its subcontractors, and to any subcontractors thereunder. Stipulates that the percentage of retention proceeds withheld in a contract between a general contractor and a subcontractor and in a contract between a subcontractor and another subcontractor shall not exceed the percentage retained by the public entity in its contract with the general contractor.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 424 (Torres-D) Mobile radio service: 911 services: disclosures
Requires any person providing commercial mobile radio service to disclose, orally and in writing as part of, and in the same language as, the sales communication, whether the service includes Phase I enhanced 911 service and Phase II enhanced 911 service as specified by the Federal Communications Commission.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 448 (Torres-D) Consumer affairs: financial education
Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to utilize existing resources to participate with the Financial Literacy and Education Commission to implement in California a financial literacy education campaign.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 450 (De La Torre-D) Oil refineries
Prohibits oil refineries from using water from any source of quality suitable for potable domestic use for nonpotable uses if recycled water is available that meets the requirements of the State Water Resources Control Board.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 457 (Monning-D) Mechanics lien
Requires a mechanics lienholder (generally a contractor, subcontractor, or material supplier) on a private work of improvement, after filing a compliant to foreclose on a mechanic's lien (also known as a claim of lien), to record in the proper county recorder's office a notice of pendency of the proceedings. Requires that a lienholder serve the property owner with the mechanic's lien and a Notice of Mechanic's Lien. Provides that failure to serve the mechanic's lien and Notice of Mechanic's Lien as prescribed in this bill renders the mechanic's lien unenforceable as a matter of law.
Chapter 109, Statutes of 2009
AB 490 (Smyth-R) Pet stores
Modifies the definition of pet store, and revises and clarifies the guidelines and requirements for a pet store operator or employee of a pet store to euthanize rodents and rabbits intended as food for another animal.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2009
AB 515 (Hagman-R) Collateral recovery: tow vehicles
Makes numerous revisions to the Collateral Recovery Act and Vehicle Code sections relating to the impound of vehicles, including limiting a repossession agency's liability for damages to a vehicle as a result of electrical failure, or specified illegal aftermarket parts; allowing impound of any tow vehicle used to violate the Act; narrowing the definition of lawful experience for qualified managers of repossession agencies; clarifying lighting requirements for towed vehicles; and modifying the requirement for multiple safety chains.
Chapter 322, Statutes of 2009
AB 524 (Bass-D) Privacy
Seeks to provide greater protection to the privacy interests of all Californians by amending existing law so that a person who sells, transmits, publishes, or broadcasts an image, recording, or physical impression of someone engaged in a personal or familial activity violates the state's "invasion of privacy" statute.
Chapter 449, Statutes of 2009
AB 623 (Emmerson-R) Architects: continuing education
Authorizes the Architects Board to establish comprehensive continuing education requirements if it determines, based upon empirical evidence, that continuing education is in the interest of public health safety and welfare and requires architects to complete that continuing education as a condition of license renewal.
Vetoed
AB 625 (Lieu-D) Novelty lighters
Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or offering for promotion an operable novelty lighter. Defines a novelty lighter as a mechanical or electrical device, operating on any type of fuel, that is typically used for lighting cigarettes, cigars, or pipes and meets specified criteria.
Vetoed
AB 645 (Niello-R) Professional engineers and land surveyors: licensing
Deletes the requirement that the license expiration date appear on engineering plans or on land surveying documents, revises references to "registered" engineers to refer instead to "licensed" engineers, and makes technical and conforming changes.
Chapter 368, Statutes of 2009
AB 655 (Emmerson-R) Self-service storage facilities
Makes various changes to the remedies and procedures of the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act for self-storage facility owners when occupants are delinquent in paying rent or other charges.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 658 (Hayashi-D) Air quality: dry cleaning: grants
Increases, to $20,000, the maximum grant amount available under a program developed by the Air Resources Board (ARB) to provide incentives for dry cleaners in the state that utilize perchloroethylene in their operations to transition to utilizing dry cleaning systems determined by the ARB to be nontoxic and nonsmog-forming.
In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 659* (Hayashi-D) Sales and use taxes: consumer: garment cleaner
Provides, until 1/1/13, that specified garment cleaning businesses shall be regarded as consumers, rather than retailers, of tangible personal property they sell, provided those sales do not exceed 0.5% of their total gross receipts for the preceding calendar year.
Vetoed
AB 660 (Torrico-D) Sprinkler fitters: licensing
Prohibits any person from installing or modifying a fire sprinkler system, a wet standpipe system, or an automatic fire extinguishing system without a certificate of registration issued by the State Fire Marshal.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 676* (Jeffries-R) Sales and use taxes: consumer
Provides that qualified destination management companies shall be regarded as consumers, rather than retailers, of tangible personal property they sell. Defines "destination management services" as the provision of four or more of the following services: transportation, entertainment, meals, recreational activities, tours, registration, and staffing.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 792 (Duvall-R) Business: mail solicitations
Revises last year's AB 2059 (Nunez-D), Chapter 738, Statutes of 2008, which requires that companies provide additional disclosures when mailing solicitations that request a consumer to consent to receive marketing information by telephone, by permitting a company to include a space on the solicitation for a consumer to provide his/her telephone number.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 797 (Ma-D) Accountants: discipline: Internet posting
Requires the Board of Accountancy to publish disciplinary decisions on its Internet Web site for a period of 10 years.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 805 (Fuentes-D) Vehicles: automobile dismantlers: license: applications
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to investigate thoroughly all the information contained in an application for a license submitted by an automobile dismantler.
Chapter 475, Statutes of 2009.
AB 880 (Niello-R) Manufactured housing: prefabricated panelized homes
Requires a person who constructs a "prefabricated panelized home" to obtain a contractor's license from the Contractors State License Board.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 904 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Local capital investment incentives
Expands the definition of a qualified manufacturing facility eligible for local capital investment incentive payments to include a facility operated by a business engaged in the manufacturing of parts or components related to the production of electricity using solar, wind, biomass, hydropower, or geothermal resources on or after 7/1/10.
Chapter 486, Statutes of 2009
AB 907 (Chesbro-D) California Oil Recycling Enhancement Act: rerefined oil
Makes a variety of changes to the statutes regulating used lubricating oil by reducing the number of used oil collectors that can apply for recycling incentives, and creates a new incentive for re-refined oil. Allows additional funding for local government oil recycling efforts, providing sufficient revenues are available.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 918 (Adams-R) Salvageable personal property: collection boxes
Requires the front of every unattended collection box to display the name, address, telephone number, and Internet Web site address of the collection box's owner and operator, plus a statement in two-inch type that the collection box is owned by either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization. Requires a collection box's owner to obtain written permission from the property owner or lessee or their authorized agent, certifying permission to place the box on the property.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 991 (Silva-R) Corporations: NASDAQ: national securities exchange
Updates numerous references to various stock exchanges, markets, and regulatory bodies in the California Corporations Code and makes related technical and conforming changes.
Chapter 131, Statutes of 2009
AB 1005 (Block-D) California Board of Accountancy
Requires the Board of Accountancy to publish on its Internet Web site documents related to disciplinary accusations, a live audio or video broadcast of public meetings, and the meeting minutes, as specified.
Chapter 378, Statutes of 2009
AB 1010 (Galgiani-D) Internet
Requires an Internet company to remove visual material that depicts the commission of a violent or serious felony, as specified, upon the written or electronic request of the victim, next of kin, member of the victim's immediate family, or a representative designated by the victim or victim's immediate family.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1021 (Emmerson-R) Food processing establishments: suspension
Permits authorized agents of the Department of Public Health who identify conditions likely to result in illness or injury at a food processing establishment to immediately suspend the license or registration of the food processing establishment and order the food processing establishment to close immediately pending an administrative hearing.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1074 (Conway-R) Contractors: fraudulent license numbers
Makes it a crime for a licensed or unlicensed person to willfully and intentionally use, with the intent to defraud, a number that does not correspond to the number on a currently valid contractor's license held by that person.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1094 (Conway-R) Disposal of personal information
Revises existing law requirements regarding the destruction of customer records by providing that businesses that dispose of, rather than destroy, the records by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information so that it is unreadable or undecipherable. Provides that a cause of action shall not lie against a business that comes into possession of abandoned records containing personal information and that disposes of those records as provided above. Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to create a safe harbor for a custodian of abandoned records who properly disposes of the records. Provides that a tenant shall be presumed to be the owner of records remaining on the premises after a tenancy or commercial tenancy has terminated if the property consists of records, as defined.
Chapter 134, Statutes of 2009
AB 1123 (Davis-D) Professions and vocations: process servers: registration
Requires a process server renewing a lapsed certificate of registration to submit a completed Request for Live Scan form confirming his/her fingerprint submission to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Chapter 137, Statutes of 2009
AB 1145 (Price-D) Architects: fees
Increases the maximum fee for renewal of an architect license from $200 to $400.
Chapter 385, Statutes of 2009
AB 1160 (Fong-D) Contracts: translation
Provides that if a loan, or extension of credit, secured by real property is negotiated in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean then the borrower must be provided a translation of the key terms of the transaction at least three days after initial application for the loan.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2009
AB 1186 (Blumenfield-D) Employee parking
Requires the lessor of a nonresidential building, located within an air basin designated as a nonattainment area, to list the parking costs as a separate line item in all lease agreements entered into or renewed on or after 1/1/11, if the tenants of the building are provided parking. Specifies that the provisions are only applicable if the lease involves a nonresidential building that has a maximum occupancy of 50 or more persons.
Vetoed
AB 1188* (Ruskin-D) Gasoline stations: vapor recovery systems
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that does not meet certain requirements from undergoing an Enhance Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009
Similar bills are SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
AB 1233 (Silva-R) Nonprofit and consumer cooperative corporations
Revises various provisions in the Corporations Code pertaining to the governance of nonprofit public benefit corporations, mutual benefit corporations, religious corporations, consumer cooperative corporations, and nonprofit unincorporated associations. The revisions involve directors and their titles, directors' elections and voting rights, quorum requirements, board committees and actions, third party rights, mergers and dissolutions, and private foundation restrictions.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2009
AB 1237 (Garrick-R) Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors
Makes it unlawful for a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch, after written demand, to fail to repurchase a noncompliant new motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle, or item of related merchandise originally purchased by a franchisee from the manufacturer or from another franchisee. Requires that the repurchase price be the original dealer cost charged by the manufacturer or distributor plus any charges made by the manufacturer or distributor for vehicle distribution or delivery and the cost of any dealer-installed original equipment.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1312 (Swanson-D) Defibrillators
Makes the current requirements for health studios to purchase, maintain, and train staff in the use of automatic external defibrillators applicable to amusement parks and golf courses. Revises the sunset date on this requirement from 7/1/12 to 7/1/14.
Vetoed
AB 1319 (Krekorian-D) Talent services
Prohibits advance fee talent services and revises provisions of existing law on fee-related talent services.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2009
AB 1357 (Coto-D) Pawnbrokers
Changes the maximum allowable rates that may be charged by pawnbrokers on loans over 90 days to 2.5% on the remaining unpaid balance (rather than the existing stair-step series of percentages that rise from 1% to 2.5% depending upon the size of the unpaid balance).
Vetoed
AB 1372 (Feuer-D) Food processing establishments
Requires certain food processing facilities to adopt and implement a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points plan, conduct regular testing of ingredient and product samples or specimens, and report any test result that is positive for poisonous or deleterious substances to the Department of Public Health within 24 hours.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1423 (Tom Berryhill-R) Commercial hunting clubs
Makes several changes to statutes relating to hunting and fishing. Revises several of the components of the Shared Habitat Alliance for Recreational Enhancement program, which encourages recreational access to private lands, and revises the permitting requirements for commercial hunting clubs, replacing the existing fee with a new fee schedule.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2009
AB 1446 (Feuer-D) Trade secrets: disclosure by public agencies
Establishes a procedure to be applied when a person or entity submits any record or information to a state agency that the person or entity has designated as a trade secret. Requires the person or entity to submit documentary support for that designation to the agency to which the record or information is submitted and, if the agency concurs in the designation, will provide that the record or information shall be exempt from disclosure, and provides that the fact that the record or information is exempt from disclosure shall be a public record subject to disclosure.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1491 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Corporations: boards of directors: diversity
Authorizes the Secretary of State to make available a list of distinguished women and minorities who are available to serve on corporate boards of directors to a person or entity that provides those services only if the registrant agrees.
(In Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 1496 (Skinner-D) Contractors: energy efficiency measures
Establishes civil penalties for unlicensed contractors who fail to comply with energy efficiency standards, strengthens the regulation of licensed contractors, and directs the Contractors State License Board to report specified information regarding the regulation of contractors to the Legislature.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1512 (Lieu-D) Food and drugs: sale
Prohibits a retailer from selling, or permitting to be sold, infant formula, baby food, and over-the-counter drugs beyond the expiration date indicated on the product's packaging and imposes a $10 fine per item per day in violation.
Vetoed
AB 1534 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Contractors: mortgage loans
Prohibits a home builder from directly, or through an affiliate, subsidiary, or partner of the home builder, originating a consumer loan for a home purchase that is sold by the home builder or an affiliate, subsidiary, or partner of the home builder. Defines "consumer loan" as a consumer credit transaction secured by real property that is located in this state and is used, or intended to be used or occupied, as the principal dwelling of the consumer. "Consumer loan" does not include a reverse mortgage, an open line of credit, a bridge loan, or a consumer credit transaction that is secured by rental property or second homes.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1546 (Assembly Revenue And Taxation Committee) Taxation: limited partnerships
Requires a canceled domestic limited partnership, which is seeking to revive its active status, to pay outstanding fees, file missing tax returns, and pay a service fee for any expedited revival requests. Makes several nonsubstantive, technical changes to the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, relating to the dependent exemption credit, underpayment penalties, and business income apportionment formulas.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2009
AB 12X (Evans-D) Independent contractors: withholding
Requires businesses and government entities to withhold 3% of payments for goods or services made to independent contractors.
Vetoed
AB 20XXXX (Audra Strickland-R) Electronic and appliance repair banners
Consolidates the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair and the Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation into a single bureau, named the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 3 | Cedillo-D Workers' compensation: permanent disability benefits | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 20 | Simitian-D Personal information: privacy | Miscellaneous |
| SB 36* | Calderon-D Real estate, finance lender & residential mortgage lender | Financial Institutions |
| SB 43 | Alquist-D Santa Clara stadium | Economic Development |
| SB 45 | Padilla-D Public works: payment of prevailing wage: violations | Labor Relations |
| SB 66* | Price-D Small Business Expansion Fund | Small Business |
| SB 73 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Labor enforcement | Labor Relations |
| SB 94* | Calderon-D Mortgage loans | Financial Institutions |
| SB 107* | Walters-R Sales and use taxes | Miscellaneous |
| SB 109 | Calderon-D Auctioneers: real estate | Miscellaneous |
| SB 123 | Liu-D California Career Resource Network Program | Economic Development |
| SB 127 | Calderon-D Mortgages | Financial Institutions |
| SB 145 | DeSaulnier-D Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 156 | Wright-D Insurance: fraud prevention and detection | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 186 | DeSaulnier-D Workers' compensation: medical treatment | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 187 | Benoit-R Employment: working hours | Labor Relations |
| SB 189 | Lowenthal-D Mechanics liens | Miscellaneous |
| SB 202 | Harman-R Private investigators: continuing education | Miscellaneous |
| SB 204 | Benoit-R Financial transactions: escrow agents | Financial Institutions |
| SB 222* | Ducheny-D Unemployment compensation: wages | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 239 | Pavley-D Mortgage fraud | Financial Institutions |
| SB 241* | Runner-R Retail food facilities | Miscellaneous |
| SB 242 | Yee-D Workplace: civil rights: language restrictions | Labor Relations |
| SB 258 | Oropeza-D Contractors: public works | Miscellaneous |
| SB 260 | Wiggins-D Petroleum products: motor oil | Miscellaneous |
| SB 275 | Walters-R Professional engineers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 284 | Cox-R Safety in employment: ski resorts | Labor Relations |
| SB 287 | Calderon-D Meal periods | Labor Relations |
| SB 306 | Calderon-D Real property transactions | Financial Institutions |
| SB 308 | Harman-R Professional fiduciaries: donative transfers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 313 | DeSaulnier-D Workers' compensation: penalty assessments | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 341 | DeSaulnier-D Pharmaceuticals: adverse drug reactions | Miscellaneous |
| SB 355 | Romero-D Economy hotels: police calls | Miscellaneous |
| SB 356 | Wright-D Regulations: small businesses | Small Business |
| SB 358 | Ducheny-D Indian tribes: economic development | Economic Development |
| SB 380 | Dutton-R Meal periods | Labor Relations |
| SB 392 | Florez-D Contractors: limited liability companies | Miscellaneous |
| SB 394 | Wyland-R Financial institutions: charge disputes | Financial Institutions |
| SB 403 | Benoit-R Workers' compensation: lien claims | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 404 | Benoit-R Employment: information for employees | Labor Relations |
| SB 405 | Cogdill-R Contractors: fire sprinkler installation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 410 | Ducheny-D California Workforce Investment Act: federal funding | Economic Development |
| SB 424* | Padilla-D Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors | Miscellaneous |
| SB 436 | Aanestad-R Contractors | Miscellaneous |
| SB 444* | Ashburn-R Income and corporation tax credits | Economic Development |
| SB 445* | Ashburn-R Income & corp. taxes: credit: manufacturer's investment | Economic Development |
| SB 446 | Walters-R Shopping carts: electronic tags | Miscellaneous |
| SB 453 | Padilla-D Food safety | Miscellaneous |
| SB 472* | Dutton-R Income and corporation taxes: net capital gains: exclusion | Economic Development |
| SB 475 | Padilla-D Guide dogs for the blind | Miscellaneous |
| SB 477 | Florez-D Employment: heat illness prevention | Labor Relations |
| SB 478 | Wolk-D Employment safety: manlifts | Labor Relations |
| SB 480 | Padilla-D Shopping carts: electronic tags | Miscellaneous |
| SB 483* | Corbett-D Corporation tax credit: automobile manufacturing | Economic Development |
| SB 491* | Dutton-R Capital access companies | Financial Institutions Miscellaneous |
| SB 507* | Cox-R Gasoline stations: vapor recovery systems | Miscellaneous |
| SB 546 | Lowenthal-D Used oil | Miscellaneous |
| SB 548 | Huff-R California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 549 | Correa-D Barbering and cosmetology | Miscellaneous |
| SB 550 | Florez-D Public health: food product recall technology | Miscellaneous |
| SB 568* | Hollingsworth-R Income and corporation taxes: capital gains | Economic Development |
| SB 599* | Negrete McLeod-D Workforce development | Economic Development |
| SB 601 | Padilla-D Retail tobacco licenses | Miscellaneous |
| SB 602 | Padilla-D Food safety | Miscellaneous |
| SB 603 | Padilla-D Retail cigarette and tobacco sales | Miscellaneous |
| SB 612* | Runner-R Income and corporation taxes: tax credit: employment | Economic Development |
| SB 627 | Calderon-D Catalytic converters: junk dealers and recyclers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 633 | Wright-D Mortgages: impound accounts | Financial Institutions |
| SB 642 | Denham-R Small business: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act | Small Business |
| SB 653 | Correa-D Foreign limited liability companies: Indian tribes | Miscellaneous |
| SB 657 | Steinberg-D Human trafficking | Miscellaneous |
| SB 665 | Cedillo-D Employment: meal periods | Labor Relations |
| SB 675 | Steinberg-D Energy job training | Economic Development |
| SB 677 | Yee-D Workers' compensation: exclusions: farming operations | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 682 | Padilla-D Individuals with exceptional needs | Economic Development |
| SB 683 | Calderon-D Workers' compensation: group self-insurers: audits | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 691 | Yee-D Accountants | Miscellaneous |
| SB 699* | Alquist-D Sales and use taxes: exemption: sustainable development | Economic Development |
| SB 705 | Lowenthal-D Employee rights: exhaustion of administrative remedies | Labor Relations |
| SB 725 | Hancock-D Regional occupational centers or programs | Economic Development |
| SB 741 | Maldonado-R Proprietary security services | Miscellaneous |
| SB 755 | Negrete McLeod-D State contracts: participation goals | Economic Development |
| SB 764 | Negrete McLeod-D Workers' compensation: health care organizations | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 772 | Leno-D Home furnishings: fire retardancy: juvenile products | Miscellaneous |
| SB 773 | Florez-D Workers' compensation: disability benefits | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 789 | Steinberg-D Labor representatives: elections | Labor Relations |
| SB 807 | Benoit-R Employment: meal and rest periods | Labor Relations |
| SB 819 | Yee-D Professions and vocations | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 38 | Wright-D Gasoline stations: vapor recovery systems | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 41 | Yee-D California Microenterprise Development Month | Small Business |
| SCR 45 | Benoit-R United States Travel Rally Day | World Trade and Tourism |
| SCR 49 | DeSaulnier-D Federal economic recovery plan funds | Economic Development |
| SCR 53 | Corbett-D New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. | Economic Development |
| SR 10 | Padilla-D National Engineers Week | Miscellaneous |
| SR 11 | Benoit-R National Surveyors Week | Miscellaneous |
| SB 5XX | Cogdill-R Employment: alternative workweek schedules | Labor Relations |
| SB 7XX | Corbett-D Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure | Financial Institutions |
| SB 9XX | Padilla-D Prevailing wage enforcement: public works | Labor Relations |
| SB 15XXX* | Calderon-D Tax stimulus provisions: 2009-10 State Budget | Economic Development Small Business |
| SB 32XXXX | Corbett-D Enterprise zones: City of Fremont | Economic Development |
| AB 3 | V. Manuel Perez-D Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness Initiative | Economic Development |
| AB 11* | De Leon-D Corporate reorganization: built-in losses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 31 | Price-D Small Business Procurement and Contract Act | Small Business |
| AB 33 | Nava-D Financial services | Financial Institutions |
| AB 34* | Nava-D Real estate, finance lender & residential mortgage lender | Financial Institutions |
| AB 85 | Tom Berryhill-R Junk dealers and recyclers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 87 | Davis-D Single-use carryout bags: environmental effects | Miscellaneous |
| AB 96* | Ruskin-D Gasoline stations: underground storage tanks | Miscellaneous |
| AB 99 | De Leon-D Secondhand dealers and coin dealers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 117 | Niello-R Accountants | Miscellaneous |
| AB 124* | Galgiani-D Cemeteries: temporary manager | Miscellaneous |
| AB 128 | Coto-D Workers' compensation: cancer presumption | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 138 | Hayashi-D Accounting firms: peer review | Miscellaneous |
| AB 141 | Tran-R Employment: working hours | Labor Relations |
| AB 158 | Mendoza-D Secondhand dealers and coin dealers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 161 | Adams-R Corporations: notices and reports | Miscellaneous |
| AB 165 | Carter-D Microenterprises: economic development | Small Business |
| AB 177 | Price-D CA Urban Communities Collaborative Initiative Act | Economic Development |
| AB 179* | Portantino-D Wages: temporary workers | Labor Relations |
| AB 224* | Portantino-D Business | Miscellaneous |
| AB 227 | Cook-R Labor standards: consultation unit | Labor Relations |
| AB 236 | Swanson-D Employment: car washes | Labor Relations |
| AB 255 | Anderson-R Internet security: virtual globe technology | Miscellaneous |
| AB 260 | Lieu-D Lending | Financial Institutions |
| AB 271 | Solorio-D California YouthBuild Program: funding and designation | Economic Development |
| AB 276 | Hayashi-D Professional fiduciaries: licensing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 285 | Tran-R Corporations: electronic transmissions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 307* | Cook-R Sex offenders: working with minors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 309 | Price-D Public contracts: small business participation. | Small Business |
| AB 323 | Yamada-D Automobile tires | Miscellaneous |
| AB 327* | Garrick-R Minimum annual tax | Miscellaneous |
| AB 329 | Feuer-D Reverse mortgages | Financial Institutions |
| AB 335 | Fuentes-D Employment contracts | Labor Relations |
| AB 340* | Knight-R Income taxes: credits: hiring credit | Economic Development |
| AB 350 | Lieu-D Debt management and settlement | Financial Institutions |
| AB 361 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Workers' compensation: treatment authorization | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 365 | Ammiano-D Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act | Financial Institutions |
| AB 370 | Eng-D Unlicensed contractors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 377 | Mendoza-D Deferred deposit transactions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 380 | De La Torre-D CA Clean Energy Curriculum & Training Initiative of 2009 | Economic Development |
| AB 381 | Block-D Unemployment compensation disability benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 384* | Ma-D Unemployment compensation: disability benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 388 | Miller-R Firefighting uniforms | Miscellaneous |
| AB 394 | Torrico-D Sales and use taxes: exemption: automobile manufacturing | Economic Development |
| AB 395 | Fuentes-D Employment: apprenticeship programs | Labor Relations |
| AB 396 | Fuentes-D Works of improvement: liens | Miscellaneous |
| AB 401 | Ruskin-D Financial institutions: finance lenders: exemptions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 402 | Davis-D Employment: entertainment work permits | Labor Relations |
| AB 424 | Torres-D Mobile radio service: 911 services: disclosures | Miscellaneous |
| AB 448 | Torres-D Consumer affairs: financial education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 450 | De La Torre-D Oil refineries | Miscellaneous |
| AB 457 | Monning-D Mechanics lien | Miscellaneous |
| AB 483 | Buchanan-D Workers' compensation: Internet Web sites | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 485 | Carter-D Civil Air Patrol: California Wing: employment leave | Labor Relations |
| AB 490 | Smyth-R Pet stores | Miscellaneous |
| AB 493 | Tran-R Employment and Benefits Appeals Board | Labor Relations |
| AB 507 | Arambula-IN Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act | Economic Development |
| AB 514 | De Leon-D Employment: lactation accommodation | Labor Relations |
| AB 515 | Hagman-R Collateral recovery: tow vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| AB 516 | Niello-R Workers' compensation: temporary disability | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 524 | Bass-D Privacy | Miscellaneous |
| AB 527 | Fuentes-D Employee complaints: proceedings: payroll records | Labor Relations |
| AB 545 | Salas-D Deferred deposit transactions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 546* | Knight-R Sales & use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment | Economic Development |
| AB 550 | Lieu-D California Financial Literacy Initiative | Financial Institutions |
| AB 569 | Emmerson-R Meal periods: exemptions | Labor Relations |
| AB 586 | Huber-D Workers' compensation: public employees: medical conditions | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 603 | Skinner-D Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure | Financial Institutions |
| AB 615 | Niello-R Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 623 | Emmerson-R Architects: continuing education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 625 | Lieu-D Novelty lighters | Miscellaneous |
| AB 645 | Niello-R Professional engineers and land surveyors: licensing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 655 | Emmerson-R Self-service storage facilities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 658 | Hayashi-D Air quality: dry cleaning: grants | Miscellaneous |
| AB 659* | Hayashi-D Sales and use taxes: consumer: garment cleaner | Miscellaneous |
| AB 660 | Torrico-D Sprinkler fitters: licensing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 664 | Skinner-D Workers' compensation: hospital employees: presumption | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 676* | Jeffries-R Sales and use taxes: consumer | Miscellaneous |
| AB 677 | Solorio-D Public works: prevailing wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 699* | Portantino-D Economic development | Economic Development |
| AB 700 | Krekorian-D Creative Industries & Community Economic Revitalization Act | Economic Development |
| AB 792 | Duvall-R Business: mail solicitations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 793 | Jones-D Employment: discrimination | Labor Relations |
| AB 797 | Ma-D Accountants: discipline: Internet posting | Miscellaneous |
| AB 801 | Duvall-R Workers' compensation: individual identifiable information | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 805 | Fuentes-D Vehicles: automobile dismantlers: license: applications | Miscellaneous |
| AB 816 | Hagman-R Unemployment insurance: Employment Training Fund | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 838 | Swanson-D Occupational safety and health | Labor Relations |
| AB 842 | Swanson-D Employment | Labor Relations |
| AB 849 | Swanson-D Family and medical leave | Labor Relations |
| AB 854 | Arambula-IN Employment regulation and supervision: unpaid wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 857 | Galgiani-D Workforce development: one-stop career center systems | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 864 | Price-D Small businesses: racetrack improvement contracting | Small Business |
| AB 879 | Hernandez-D Workers' compensation: self-insurers: financial audits | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 880 | Niello-R Manufactured housing: prefabricated panelized homes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 904 | V. Manuel Perez-D Local capital investment incentives | Miscellaneous |
| AB 907 | Chesbro-D California Oil Recycling Enhancement Act: rerefined oil | Miscellaneous |
| AB 918 | Adams-R Salvageable personal property: collection boxes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 919 | Nava-D Mortgages: information and recordation | Financial Institutions |
| AB 933 | Fong-D Workers' compensation: utilization review | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 943 | Mendoza-D Employment: credit reports | Labor Relations |
| AB 946 | Salas-D Employment: temporary service employee wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 948 | Logue-R Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 953 | Eng-D Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality | Financial Institutions |
| AB 957* | Galgiani-D Residential real estate transfers: title insurance | Financial Institutions |
| AB 990 | Jones-D Safety in employment: ski resorts | Labor Relations |
| AB 991 | Silva-R Corporations: NASDAQ: national securities exchange | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1000 | Ma-D Employment: paid sick days | Labor Relations |
| AB 1001 | Skinner-D Employment: familial status protection | Labor Relations |
| AB 1005 | Block-D California Board of Accountancy | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1010 | Galgiani-D Internet | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1021 | Emmerson-R Food processing establishments: suspension | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1029 | Blumenfield-D Mortgages: foreclosure: tax deferral program participants | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1032 | Blumenfield-D International relations: memorandum of understanding: Israel | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 1047 | V. Manuel Perez-D California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank | Economic Development |
| AB 1059 | Silva-R Bankruptcy | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1062 | Garrick-R Design-build contracts: labor compliance program: exemptions | Labor Relations |
| AB 1063 | Garrick-R Design-build contracts: labor compliance program: exemptions | Labor Relations |
| AB 1064 | Garrick-R Design-build contracts: labor compliance program: exemptions | Labor Relations |
| AB 1074 | Conway-R Contractors: fraudulent license numbers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1075 | Nava-D Financial institutions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1093 | Yamada-D Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1094 | Conway-R Disposal of personal information | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1117* | Fuentes-D State Compensation Insurance Fund | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1123 | Davis-D Professions and vocations: process servers: registration | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1139* | John Perez-D Enterprise zones: income taxes | Economic Development |
| AB 1145 | Price-D Architects: fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1156 | Nava-D State and local surplus funds: investments | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1159* | V. Manuel Perez-D Enterprise zones: income and corporation tax credits | Economic Development |
| AB 1160 | Fong-D Contracts: translation | Financial Institutions Miscellaneous |
| AB 1186 | Blumenfield-D Employee parking | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1188* | Ruskin-D Gasoline stations: vapor recovery systems | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1213 | Skinner-D Employment of persons with disabilities | Economic Development |
| AB 1227 | Feuer-D Workers' compensation: public employees: leaves of absence | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1233 | Silva-R Nonprofit and consumer cooperative corporations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1237 | Garrick-R Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1268 | Gaines-R Financial institutions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1276 | Skinner-D International trade | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 1288 | Fong-D Employment: hiring practices | Labor Relations |
| AB 1298* | Coto-D Unemployment Insurance Program | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1312 | Swanson-D Defibrillators | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1319 | Krekorian-D Talent services | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1320 | Fong-D Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative Program | Economic Development |
| AB 1323 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Workforce development: one-stop career centers | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1357 | Coto-D Pawnbrokers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1372 | Feuer-D Food processing establishments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1378 | V. Manuel Perez-D CA Workforce Investment Board: veterans' workforce program | Economic Development |
| AB 1380 | Bass-D Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank: board members | Economic Development |
| AB 1394 | Bass-D CA Workforce Investment Board: Green Collar Jobs Council | Economic Development |
| AB 1410 | Bass-D State Infrastructure Revolving Fund Program | Economic Development |
| AB 1421 | Swanson-D Employment: work hours | Labor Relations |
| AB 1423 | Tom Berryhill-R Commercial hunting clubs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1446 | Feuer-D Trade secrets: disclosure by public agencies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1447 | John Perez-D State Compensation Insurance Fund: audits | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1460 | Solorio-D Economic development | Economic Development |
| AB 1484* | Anderson-R Income and corporation tax credits: research and development | Economic Development |
| AB 1491 | V. Manuel Perez-D Corporations: boards of directors: diversity | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1496 | Skinner-D Contractors: energy efficiency measures | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1499* | Evans-D Horse racing: workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1512 | Lieu-D Food and drugs: sale | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1534 | V. Manuel Perez-D Contractors: mortgage loans | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1546 | Assembly Revenue And Taxation Committee Taxation: limited partnerships | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1548 | Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Payment instruments | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1557 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee Federal funding: economic stimulus bill | Economic Development |
| AB 1558 | V. Manuel Perez-D Economic development: general reorganization | Economic Development |
| AB 1559 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Workforce development: summer youth job training | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1560 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Professional employer organizations: regulation | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1561 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Occupational safety and health: citation outcome analysis | Labor Relations |
| AB 1562 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Employment: garnishment of wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 1563 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Employment: contracts or agreements for labor or services | Labor Relations |
| AB 1564 | Assembly Insurance Committee Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1565* | Ruskin-D Income and corporation taxes: credits: research | Economic Development |
| AB 1566 | Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Banking: disclosures | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1567 | Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee Employment training panel: 3-year plan: training programs | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1588* | Bass-D Monitored Mortgage Workout Program | Financial Institutions |
| ACR 52 | Solorio-D High technology | Economic Development |
| ACR 85 | Torrico-D New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. | Economic Development |
| AJR 4 | Bass-D American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | Economic Development |
| AJR 20 | Caballero-D The federal Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act | Financial Institutions |
| HR 18 | Price-D Relative to small businesses | Small Business |
| HR 20 | Eng-D Employment discrimination | Labor Relations |
| HR 21 | Jones-D Financial institution divestiture | Financial Institutions |
| AB 12X | Evans-D Independent contractors: withholding | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2XX | Lieu-D Lending | Financial Institutions |
| AB 5XX | Gaines-R Employment: alternative workweek schedules | Labor Relations |
| AB 7XX | Lieu-D Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure | Financial Institutions |
| AB 23XXX* | Coto-D Unemployment insurance: extended benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 29XXX | Coto-D Unemployment insurance | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 79XXX | Blakeslee-R California Environmental Protection Agency: rules | Economic Development |
| AB 81XXX | Hall-D Stadium complex: City of Industry | Economic Development |
| AB 82XXX | Blakeslee-R Economic development: projects | Economic Development |
| AB 12XXXX* | Evans-D Small Business Expansion Fund | Small Business Labor Relations Workers' Compensation |
| AB 20XXXX | Audra Strickland-R Electronic and appliance repair banners | Miscellaneous |