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Economic Development
SB 71* (Padilla-D) Economic development: environmental technology project
Expands the range of projects which may be approved for a sales tax exclusion to include equipment used to manufacture products that produce energy from alternative sources such as solar, wind and biomass.
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2010
SB 358 (Ducheny-D) Economic development: Indian tribes
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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%).
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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 for automobile manufacturers in this state that employ a specified number of qualified employees, as provided.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 675 (Steinberg-D) Energy job training
Establishes the Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Program by creating a grant program for California Partnership Academies that focus on clean technology and renewable energy businesses, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 682 (Padilla-D) Occupational training: 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 879 (Cox-R) Counties: cities: construction projects: alternative bidding
Extends the sunset for the use of design-build by counties from 1/1/11, to 7/1/14, and aligns the design-build statutes for cities and counties. Requires each county that uses the design-build method on a public works project to submit to the Legislative Analyst's Office before 9/1/13, a report containing a description of each public works project procured through the design-build process and completed after 11/1/09, and before 8/1/13.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2010
SB 939* (Aanestad-R) Income and corporation tax credits: Oroville enterprise zone
Allows taxpayers that derive enterprise zone hiring credits under the Personal Income Tax Law or the Corporation Tax Law to sell the credit to an unrelated party. The taxpayer must report the sale to the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) with all required information regarding the purchase and sale of the credit, including the social security number or other taxpayer identification number of the unrelated party acquiring the credit, and the sale price or other consideration received for the credit. Taxpayers may only sell the credit once, and cannot claim on its return any sold tax credit. Should the taxpayer generating the credit and the firm acquiring the credit both claim the same credit, FTB may disallow the credit of either taxpayer, but only if the statute of limitations still apply, which is generally four years.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 954 (Harman-R) Jobs Protection Act: legislative oversight
Enacts the Jobs Protection Act. Renames the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection as the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer or Business Protection, and creates a new legislative procedure with regard to any bill, as defined, that may have a statewide economic impact affecting business. Requires the Assembly Rules Committee and the Senate Rules Committee to refer any bill that may have a statewide economic impact affecting business, as specified, to the Joint Committee for the preparation of an economic impact analysis and a hearing and approval.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 964 (Alquist-D) Workforce development program: high-speed rail
Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority and the Employment Development Department to collaboratively prepare a labor market assessment of the workforce needs associated with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the high-speed train system.
Vetoed
SB 974* (Steinberg-D) Income and corporations tax: hiring and career credits
Establishes a new Career Pathways Investment Credit, administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to qualifying business entities that partner with local education agency programs to develop and support career pathway programs, as specified. Funding for the credit is provided by eliminating a portion of an existing enterprise zone hiring credit.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
SB 985* (Dutton-R) Income tax credits: education and training
Allows, for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/10, a credit in an amount equal to 50% of the amount of costs paid or incurred in connection with additional education and training for purposes of career advancement or retention, as specified.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1053* (Runner-R) Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment
Partially exempts from the sales and use taxes, on or after 1/1/11, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for use in the manufacturing process or for use in research and development, as specified or to maintain, repair, measure, or test that property, and also partially exempts from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1056* (Denham-R) Income taxes: hiring credit: veterans
Allows, under both the Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law, for taxable years beginning on and after 1/1/10, a credit in an amount equal to 25% of the wages, not exceeding $6,000, paid to each "qualified veteran", as defined, by the taxpayer during the taxable year.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1073* (Ashburn-R) Income taxes: renewable energy
Increases the percentage of increased qualified research expenses included in the research credit from 15 percent to 20 percent for "green technology and renewable energy research and development", as defined, beginning 1/1/10. Provides that this increased credit is allowed only against the taxes imposed for tax years beginning on or after 1/1/14. This means that taxpayers can earn this credit starting in the 2010 tax year, but cannot claim the credit until tax years starting in 2014.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1074* (Ashburn-R) Manufacturer's investment credit: qualified renewable energy
Allows a credit of 6% of the qualified cost paid by a qualified taxpayer for qualified property placed in service in California, beginning 1/1/10. The language for the proposed credit is substantially similar to the prior Manufacturer's investment credit law. Specifies that any credit allowable for the taxpayer's taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, and before 1/1/14, shall be allowed as a credit against the "net tax" for the taxpayer's first taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/14.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1084 (Liu-D) California Economic Security Task Force
Creates an Economic Security Task Force (Task Force) and requires it to develop recommendations for reducing poverty and increasing economic security among Californians. Requires the Task Force to submit to the Governor and the Legislature an interim report by 4/1/12, and a final report by 4/1/13. Requires the report to include a detailed review of current rates of economic security for each county in California and that it include recommendations that could be implemented beginning in 2012, to maximize the effectiveness of state programs and services in order to move 50% of California with incomes below the federal poverty level toward or above the California Family or Elder Economic Security Standard Index thresholds by 2020.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1197* (Calderon-D) Taxes: credits: qualified motion picture production
Deletes the prohibition on the allocation of any credits for a qualified motion picture production from a fiscal year other than the fiscal year in which the credit was originally applied for or the immediately succeeding fiscal year.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1239* (Wyland-R) Income and corporation taxes: sales and use taxes
Provides, beginning 1/1/11, a state sales and use tax exemption for purchases of qualifying tangible personal property by persons engaged in "manufacturing", as defined. Increases, under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, the credit for increasing qualified research expenses from 15% to 20%, and increase the state's Alternative Incremental Research Credit percentages to equal the federal percentages in effect on 1/1/05. Thus, the former federal percentages of 2.65%, 3.20%, and 3.75%, would apply for state purposes. Enacts a new tax credit for taxpayers for hiring a qualified employee beginning in the 2010 tax year. Taxpayers inside or outside a geographically targeted economic development area may claim the credit.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1259 (DeSaulnier-D) Economic Development and Job Creation Agency
Creates the Economic Development and Job Creation Agency (Agency) in state government, and provides for the appointment of the Secretary of Economic Development and Job Creation who would serve as executive officer. Requires the Secretary to develop a reorganization plan and to propose a structure for the Agency. This Agency would be required to perform duties relating to economic development and job creation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1472 (Leno-D) Shared work program
Requires the Employment Development Department to develop and implement an outreach plan to inform employers in California of the shared work program.
Vetoed
SB 32X4 (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.
(Died 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.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SJR 29 (Wright-D) Aerospace industry: C-17 production
Urges the Congress, the President of the United States, and the Department of Defense to take immediate and necessary actions to protect national security by ensuring continuation of C-17 production to meet future domestic and international airlift needs and to preserve the crown jewel of the American industrial base.
Resolution Chapter 138, Statutes of 2010
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".
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 699* (Portantino-D) Economic development
Updates the requirements for the development of a State Economic Development Strategy and requires it be submitted to the Legislature by 5/1/10. Modifies the content of the State Economic Development 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 810 (Caballero-D) Sales and use tax exemption: manufacturing equipment
Exempts from a specified portion of the sales and use taxes, for calendar years beginning on or after 1/1/11, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, sustainable development equipment investments of tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used in manufacturing or other processes, as specified, and "tangible personal property" purchased by a "qualified person" and used "primarily" during the research and development "process" for "qualified research", as defined.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 970 (Block-D) Economic development: local government
Establishes the University Park and Research Center Educational and Technological Tax Credit Program. Under that program, a taxpayer would be granted a credit, as specified, for a period of no more than seven years, against the taxpayer's state corporation tax or state personal income tax liability, on the amount invested in businesses or educational institutions within, or with the intent to locate within, the University Park and Research Center, during the taxable year. Establishes the University Park and Research Educational and Technological Fund (Fund), authorizes the City of Chula Vista to collect private moneys for deposit in the Fund and allocates any moneys in the Fund to make loans to, or donations for, businesses or educational institutions within, or with the intent to locate within, the University Park and Research Center.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 978 (V. Manuel Perez-D) State Chief Information Officer: duties
Requires the State Chief Information Officer to collaborate with the Department of Consumer Affairs (Department) to acquire a new, integrated, enterprise wide enforcement and licensing system that will replace the current system used by the Department.
(Died in Senate 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy 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.
(Died 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.
Vetoed
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1378* (V. Manuel Perez-D) CA Workforce Investment Board: veterans' workforce program
Deletes an existing requirement that an entity or its subcontractors demonstrate that the majority of the entity's federal Workforce Investment Act resources are dedicated to serving the needs of veterans and their families, and instead requires these entities to demonstrate the ability to create, utilize, and participate in local partnerships, including those with local workforce investment boards, educational agencies, training organizations, and other key stakeholders to leverage resources and provide a full array of workforce services for serving the needs of veterans and their families.
(Died in Senate Rules 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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Job, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
AB 1420 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Economic development: research
Requests the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) and the California Spaceport Authority (CSA) to seek funding to expand their assessment of the state's innovation infrastructure capacity including university research facilities, private research parks, manufacturers and incubators. Authorizes the CCST and the CSA to collaborate with public and private colleges and universities, corporations with research capacity, economic development organizations, investment and finance professionals, and the California Community Colleges.
(Died in Senate Rules 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1554 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy Committee) Economic development: omnibus bill
Resets the date and frequency for the Department of Housing and Community Development to report to the Legislature on the effect of the enterprise zone program, makes other technical changes to economic development area statutes, and provides for a 15-year recapture provision for farmworker housing tax credits.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1558* (V. Manuel Perez-D) Economic development: general reorganization
Revises provisions of existing law relating to the preparation of the California Economic Development Strategic Plan, which this bill renames the California Economic and Workforce Development Strategy, and requires that strategy to be updated every five years rather than biennially. Requires the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, with the assistance of the California Economic Strategy Panel and the California Workforce Investment Board, to prepare a preliminary strategy by 7/1/11.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1565* (Buchanan-D) Income and corporation taxes: credits: research
Provides a 20% research and development tax credit for alternative energy and advanced transportation technology costs in newly designated research and development tax credit areas located within an "innovation hub" or "city", as defined.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1657 (De La Torre-D) Enterprise zones: City of Downey
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon application by the Downey City Council, to designate one enterprise zone within the geographic area of the City of Downey.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
AB 1719* (Harkey-R) Sales and use taxes: exemption: business equipment
Exempts, until 1/1/17, from sales and use taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state, of "tangible personal property", as defined, purchased for use by a "qualified person", as defined, primarily in any stage of manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of property, in research and development, to maintain, repair, measure, or test specified property, and for use by a contractor purchasing that property as an agent or for the contractor's own account and subsequent resale for use in a construction contract, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1777 (Portantino-D) Creative Industry and Community Economic Revitalization Act
Requires that approximately 16% of revenues attributable to General Fund sales and use taxes currently derived from certain art-related sales be diverted to a newly created special fund, the Creative Industries and Community Economic Revitalization Fund (Fund). Specifies that revenues received by the Fund can, upon annual appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated by the California Arts Council for purposes specified in current law, such as encouraging art awareness, promoting the employment of artists, providing for the exhibition of art works in public buildings, and awarding prizes or direct grants to individuals or organizations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1791 (Monning-D) Fort Ord Reuse Development Plan: project area territory
Exempts specified territory in a redevelopment project area within Fort Ord from the state law that prohibits redevelopment officials from providing direct assistance to the development of five acres or more which had not been developed for urban uses and which will generate sales tax revenues. For territory to qualify, the Fort Ord Reuse Authority's Final Base Reuse Plan, as the plan existed on 1/1/10, must designate the territory as either (1) a planned development mixed-use district, (2) a business park with light industrial, office, and research and development mixed uses, or (3) as regional retail space.
Vetoed
AB 1812* (Silva-R) Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment
Exempts from sales and use taxes tangible personal property (TPP) purchased by a "qualified person" for use primarily in the manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of property, and TPP purchased by a contractor for use in the performance of a construction contract for a "qualified person" who will use the TPP as an integral part of the manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling process, or as a storage facility for use in connection with the manufacturing process.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1827 (Arambula-IN) Workforce development: one-stop career centers
Requires the Employment Development Department (EDD), commencing by 1/1/11, to provide unemployment insurance benefits assistance in at least one comprehensive one-stop career center in each "workforce area", as defined. Requires that the unemployment benefit assistance services required to be provided at these one-stop career centers be funded with existing moneys available to EDD for the administration of the unemployment compensation program. Sunsets on 12/31/14.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1833 (Logue-R) Regulations: economic impact analysis
Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Air Resources Board to complete an economic impact analysis prior to adopting, amending, or repealing an administrative regulation. Requires the analysis to include (1) the projected cost of the action to the General Fund, (2) the projected total economic impact of the action, including the cost to small business and the estimated number of jobs to be lost as a result of the action, (3) a description of all feasible regulatory alternatives and a cost-benefit analysis of each alternative, and (4) a summary of the written criticisms of the proposed action received a reasonable time prior to the publication of the written analysis, including letters, memoranda, reports, and written allegations, of which the agency has knowledge, that the action is discriminatory, unfair, unclear, inconsistent with statue, or beyond their authority to enact.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1903 (Fong-D) California Workforce and Economic Information Program
Requires the services currently provided by the existing labor market information system within the Employment Development Department (EDD) to include a comprehensive search engine that includes, but is not limited to, a database of public higher education career technical education programs, career assessment tools, and a job search database. Requires the search engine be made available to job seekers who apply online with EDD for unemployment compensation benefits.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2004 (Beall-D) Job creation, work incentive, and work subsidy programs
Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to create a civic works employment program to be funded with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - Emergency Contingency Funds (ECF). Specifically, requires DSS to "launch" a civic works employment program in at least five counties, within four weeks of any federal extension of TANF-ECF. Requires DSS to work collaboratively with county governments to identify local and state infrastructure projects that can be completed by persons participating in a TANF-ECF wage subsidy program, and requires DSS to issue any necessary all county letters or other instructions to clarify eligibility criteria and provide a framework for a wage subsidy program using TANF-ECF, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2126* (Garrick-R) Minimum annual tax: exemptions: corporations
Allows new small businesses to pay no minimum tax in their first year and a $100 minimum tax in their second through ninth year. Specifically, applies to corporations, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships with gross receipts of less than $1 million. These entities are currently subject to an annual $800 minimum tax (though corporations are exempt their first year). Applies to taxable years beginning 2011 through 2015.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2211* (Fuentes-D) Work-based learning
Authorizes school districts to provide instruction by means of work-based learning, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in conjunction with specified education stakeholders, to develop principles and guidelines for the establishment of work-based learning programs, and encourages school districts to submit specified information relating to work-based learning to the California Department of Education, as specified.
Chapter 254, Statutes of 2010
AB 2278* (Anderson-R) Income and corporation tax credits: research and development
Increases the credit for research expenses to 20% of the excess of the qualified research expenses, provides complete conformity to the alternative simplified credit provided under those federal income tax laws, and eliminates the conformity to the alternative incremental credit.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2299 (Blakeslee-R) Economic development: Air Resources Board rules
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to complete and place into the rulemaking record a related impacts analysis for a proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a major regulation that will have an adverse economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $10 million, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2349 (Fong-D) Workforce development: Youth at Work Program
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, work-based learning and work experience opportunities for youth in the state, and specifies that a local workforce investment board is to award grants or contracts to eligible providers of youth activities, in a manner consistent with other funding sources and to identify eligible providers in a manner consistent with federal law.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2355 (Smyth-R) Public works: design-build
Repeals the design-build project limit for the Department of General Services (DGS) and requires DGS to submit to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee by 1/1/15, a report describing each design-build public works project completed after 1/1/10, and before 12/1/14. Sunsets the reporting requirements 1/1/19.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 2393 (Ammiano-D) California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009
Provides, for the purposes of determining job placement rates for an occupation or job for which the Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) has approved a certified apprenticeship program, that "graduates employed in the field" shall mean "graduates who are gainfully employed for not less than 60 days within six months of graduation in a position with job duties meeting all of the criteria of the apprenticeable occupation or job set forth by DAS." Requires a remedy that could have been ordered to redress a violation of the former Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 to remain available for certain actions that were commenced after 6/30/07, and before 1/1/10.
Vetoed
AB 2428 (Buchanan-D) Economic development: Green Technology Zone Pilot Program
Establishes the Green Technology Zone Pilot Program (program). Authorizes the City of Elk Grove and the City of Livermore, respectively, to participate in the program, and establishes various incentives for economic development within a designated green technology zone, including, among others, a tax credit for the purchase of qualified property, as defined, a tax credit for the employment of a "qualified employee", as defined, a 5% preference in specified solicitations for bids on contracts for goods by California-based companies located within a green technology zone, and the authority for state and local agencies to lease land to a business in a green technology zone at a price below fair market value, if that lease serves a public purpose.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2437 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Economic development
Establishes the California Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2010 to authorize the California Industrial Development Financing Advisory Commission (Commission) to make loans or lines of credit available to companies, directly through a contract with a participating financial institution, for the purposes of acquiring, constructing, or rehabilitating facilities or portions thereof, including, but not limited to, equipment and furnishings, all to the mutual benefit of the people of the state and to protect their health, welfare, and safety. Authorizes the Commission to establish the California Manufacturing Competitiveness Loan and Loan Guarantee Program (Program) for the purposes of attracting, retaining, and expanding large manufacturing facilities and other companies in the state, and requires the Commission to establish guidelines for the implementation of the Program, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2476 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Enterprise zones: targeted employment area
Changes the definition of a "targeted employment area" in an enterprise zone after 1/1/11 to include an area within a city or county that is composed solely of those census block groups designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development as having at least 61% of its residents living at low- or moderate -income levels.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2518 (V. Manuel Perez-D) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
Establishes a local assistance program within the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to assist small and rural communities in obtaining bond financing for infrastructure projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2525* (Blumenfield-D) Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment
Exempts from sales and use taxes, on or after 1/1/11, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for use in the manufacturing process of clean energy technology, as specified, and tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes. Specifies that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes, transactions and use taxes, and state sales and use taxes imposed for the purpose of funding the Local Revenue Fund, the Local Public Safety Fund, and the Fiscal Recovery Fund.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2531 (Fuentes-D) Economic development: redevelopment
Gives redevelopment agencies additional authority to provide loans, loan guarantees and other financial assistance to businesses, assist nonprofits and public agencies to establish small business incubators, and clarifies the City of Los Angeles' authority to apply for and administer federal funding for economic development.
Vetoed
AB 2577 (Knight-R) Employment: taxes and contributions: aerospace industry
Exempts employers from withholding taxes for remuneration paid to nonresidents of California who are employed in the aerospace industry on a temporary basis.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2579 (Evans-D) Infrastructure Financing and Development Commission
Establishes the Infrastructure Financing and Development Commission, which is charged with developing and recommending a plan to the Governor and Legislature that provides for financing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure necessary to meet the needs of Californians up until 2050.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2585 (Bradford-D) State Contract Act: project notification requirements
Requires a notice of a public works project to be given to the local business association or chamber of commerce in the county in which the project is located, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 2617* (Tran-R) Income taxes: credit: new jobs
Allows, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/10, a credit against personal income and corporate taxes in an amount equal to 15% of the wages paid or incurred during the taxable year to a qualified taxpayer commencing to do business on or after 2010, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2628 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Workforce development: Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness
Requires the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB), by 7/1/11, in consultation with the Green Collar Jobs Council, to establish a Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness Initiative (Initiative) to ensure green collar career placement and advancement opportunities within California's renewable energy generation, manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, and operation sectors that is targeted towards specified populations. Requires that the Initiative 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, as prescribed.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2630* (Emmerson-R) Income tax: credits: full-time employees: hires
Authorizes, beginning in 2011, businesses with up to 50 employees to claim the $3,000 employer hiring credit authorized last year for businesses with up to 20 employees. Retains the existing $400 million cap on the total amount of credits that may be awarded.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2640* (Arambula-IN) Income taxes: credits: sales tax on qualified property
Repeals the personal income tax exclusion for employer-subsidized parking and establishes an allocated income tax credit for manufacturers' purchases of equipment and other property subject to the sales tax.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2671* (Cook-R) Taxes: corporations: LLCs minimum franchise tax: exemption
Exempts certain corporations and limited liability companies owned solely by a deployed member of the United States Armed Forces from the $800 annual tax and minimum franchise tax applicable to taxable years beginning before 1/1/18.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2010
AB 2696 (Bass-D) California Workforce Investment Board: green collar jobs
Authorizes the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB) to accept any revenues, monies, grants, goods, or services from federal and state entities, philanthropic organizations, and other sources, to be used for purposes relating to the administration and implementation of the strategic initiative. Authorizes the Employment Development Department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to expend those monies and revenues for purposes of the strategic initiative and the award of grants. Requires the Green Collar Jobs Council (GCJC) to consult with appropriate state and local agencies to identify opportunities to coordinate the award of grant and green workforce training funds received by the state under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or any other funding sources. Requires the CWIB, on or before 4/1/11, and annually each April 1 thereafter, to report to the Legislature on the status of GCJC activities, grants awarded, and the development and implementation of a green workforce strategic initiative.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2010
AB 2726 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Employment Development Department: one-stop career centers
Allows apprenticeship programs approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to be counted as job placement, and directs the state and local workforce investment boards to ensure that programs and services funded by the California Workforce Investment Act work in coordination with apprenticeship programs.
Vetoed
AB 2734 (John Perez-D) Office of Economic Development
Establishes the Office of Economic Development within the Governor's Office for the purpose of serving as the lead entity for economic strategy and marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth.
Vetoed
AB 2798 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy Committee) Economic development
Makes technical changes and defines certain terms as it relates to the state's economic development and emerging domestic markets.
Chapter 613, Statutes of 2010
ACR 83 (Logue-R) Employment: improving economic opportunities
Encourages state government to make the retention of private sector employment and the creation of new employment opportunities its highest priority, and declares the Legislature's leading role in restoring the business climate in the state to encourage economic growth.
(Died being unassigned to a committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AJR 23 (De Leon-D) Economic crisis
Urges the Congress of the United States and the federal Administration to work with the Governor and the Legislature of the State of California to, among other things, provide federal loan guarantees, flexibility with respect to certain programs, and certain funding levels for vital programs, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
World Trade and Tourism
SB 1175 (Price-D) California Travel and Tourism Commission: trade promotion
Requires the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to direct the California Travel and Tourism Commission (Commission) to conduct a review of its principal mission and core competencies in order to determine if the Commission should include trade promotion in its strategic marketing plan or other future plans of the Commission, as specified. Requires the Secretary to direct the Commission to report its findings to the Legislature no later than 12/31/13.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1460 (Solorio-D) State government: international relations
Makes technical changes to the codes relating to international trade and foreign investment. Specifically, reorganizes the Government Code by shifting the placement of the Office of California-Mexico Affairs from a general title of state government to a more specific title on foreign relations.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 2443 (V. Manuel Perez-D) State government: international relations
Requires the state point of contact to provide specified legislative committees with copies of any official position taken or comments that any entity within the executive branch of state government provided to the United States Trade Representative relating to a pending trade agreement, and authorizes the establishment of Sister State relationships for the purpose of promoting economic growth and trade and investment opportunities.
Vetoed
AB 2687 (Bradford-D) Income taxes: credit: trade infrastructure investment
Establishes a trade infrastructure investment tax credit equal to up to 5% of qualifying capital expenditures to upgrade or expand port facilities. Provides that in order to qualify, the investment must be at least $5 million. Establishes an import-export cargo tax credit of up to $5 per ton of additional imported or exported cargo (excluding liquid cargo) moving through California public ports. The credit, which is applied to the year-to-year increase in cargo tonnage, is available to entities involved in the import or export of bulk cargo or containerized cargo (excluding petroleum and other liquids) to or from cargo facilities located within California. Makes both credits subject to certification by the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) that the revenues generated by the investments or additional trade will be greater than the value of the credits. Makes both credits subject to the Legislature approving a cap by 1/1/12, and provides that if the cumulative value of the credits greater than the cap, FTB shall reduce them proportionally.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2799 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy Committee) International relations
Recodifies and reorganizes existing law which authorizes any "public corporation," as defined, and specified private corporations to apply for the privilege of establishing, operating, and maintaining a foreign trade zone in accordance with federal law. Provides that any public or private corporation whose application is granted pursuant to federal law is authorized to establish, operate, and maintain a foreign trade zone, subject to specified conditions, and existing law which establishes the Office of California-Mexico Affairs to serve as a clearinghouse for information and assistance to other state agencies involved with Mexico, and to develop favorable relations with Mexico.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AJR 27 (Torrico-D) Colombia-United States free trade agreement
Memorializes Congress that the California Legislature opposes the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, which was signed on 11/22/06, and is currently being reviewed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
(Resolution Chapter 145, Statutes of 2010)
Small Business
SB 356 (Wright-D) Small businesses: regulations
Authorizes a state agency that is considering proposed regulations to consult with parties who would be subject to the proposed regulations instead of only interested parties. Requires a state agency, if it does not or is unable to consult with parties subject to the proposed regulation, to inform the Office of the Small Business Advocate and the Department of Finance in writing of its decision and the reasons for not consulting the impacted businesses, as specified. Requires a state agency, when submitting an initial statement of reasons for proposed regulations to the Office of Administrative Law, to describe their reasons for rejecting each specific alternative.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 1108 (Price-D) Small business participation: public contracts
Requires all state agencies and departments to establish and achieve a 25% small business participation rate for state contracts and authorizes the Department of General Services to monitor progress in meeting this rate.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SCR 59 (Cedillo-D) Small business: public contracts
Urges all state and local government agencies, departments, offices, and other entities responsible for the allocation and disbursement of federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for public contracts and infrastructure projects in the state, to the extent permitted under state and federal law, to ensure that Latino-owned and minority-owned small businesses receive an equal share of the available federal stimulus funds.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SR 47 (Price-D) Small business jobs and credit act
Urges the United States Congress to expedite the process of passing the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010 (House Resolution [H.R.] 5297) due to the present state of the economy and need for a good economic stimulus, and urges President Barack Obama to sign H.R. 5297 at the earliest possible date.
Adopted by the Senate
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 177 (Ruskin-D) Small businesses and disabled veteran businesses: contracts
Increases and conforms penalties for persons who falsely engage in activities relating to the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act, including small businesses, microbusinesses, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises.
Chapter 342, Statutes of 2010
AB 309 (Price-D) Small business participation: public contracts
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 864 (Price-D) Small businesses: racetrack improvement contracting
Requires at least 10 percent 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1106* (Fuentes-D) Small business development corporations
Permits the California Energy Commission to contract with small business financial development corporations to expend Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program funds.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2010
AB 1632* (Assembly Budget Committee) Small business development: budget trailer bill
Transfers $32.4 million from the General Fund to support four small business and jobs programs that exist in current law.
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 872 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee) which died on the Assembly Third Reading File.
AB 1918 (Davis-D) Small business: public utilities procurement
Requires each wireless telecommunications service provider with annual revenues exceeding $25 million to submit annually to the Public Utilities Commission a plan, consistent with those already submitted by electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations, to increase procurement from women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises.
Chapter 456, Statutes of 2010
AB 1977 (Cook-R) Department of Industrial Relations: Ombudsman
Authorizes the Department of Industrial Relations to appoint an Ombudsman for Small Business, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2196 (Smyth-R) Small business advocate: report on costly regulations
Requires the Office of Small Business Advocate (OSBA) to commission a study of the costs of specific state regulations on small businesses, and identify the 10 costliest regulations on small businesses. Requires OSBA to convene a small business advisory committee (SBAC) to provide advice on the study. The SBAC shall include representatives from small business associations representing a cross section of the small business community. Requires the report to be submitted no later than 10/1/11, with recommendations to the Department of Finance, the Legislature and specific policy committees.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
AB 2249 (Ruskin-D) Small business or disabled veteran businesses
Requires an applicant or certified firm, during the process of certifying and determining the eligibility of a small business or a disabled veteran business enterprise, to submit to a written declaration, under penalty of perjury, that all information submitted, including the additional information for disabled veteran business enterprises, is true and correct, and authorizes the Department of General Services to require, in certain cases, the owner of the enterprise or small business, the applicant, or the certified firm to complete and submit to a specified federal tax form requesting a transcript of a tax return.
Chapter 383, Statutes of 2010
AB 2328 (Niello-R) Small business owner: Air Resources Board
Requires that at least one member of the Air Resources Board be a current or past owner of a small business.
(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2692 (Tran-R) California Small Business Board
Requires the California Small Business Board (Board) to focus on the impact of licensing and permitting regulations on small businesses. Requires the Board report a summary of its findings and recommendations to the Governor, Small Business Advocate, and the Legislature on 7/1/11, 7/1/12, and 12/31/12. Requires the report to include sufficient detail for the Governor and the Legislature to take concrete steps to streamline and mitigate the impacts of the state's current regulations in order to better support small businesses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2708 (Bill Berryhill-R) Small business: state contracts: procurement practices
Prohibits the Director of the Department of General Services and the directors of other state departments or offices that enter into contracts from engaging in bundling of contracts. Requires the director or any agency, department, board, or commission to provide for the participation of subcontractors that are small businesses and microbusinesses in awarding contracts for goods and services by directly contracting with a small business or microbusiness.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
AB 2714 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Office of Small Business Advocate
Transfers the Office of Small Business Advocate from the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 101 (Furutani-D) Buy California Small Business First Month
Proclaims May 2010 as Buy California Small Business First Month to raise awareness that when California consumers, businesses, colleges, universities, and governmental agencies choose to first support California small businesses when making purchasing decisions, a wave of positive economic impacts occurs within the state and local economies.
Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2010
HR 18 (Price-D) Small businesses
Recognizes the importance of small businesses to all Californians.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
Labor Relations
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.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 990 (Jones-D) which died 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.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 380 (Dutton-R) Meal periods
Revises the statutory requirements for the provision of meal periods to specify that the requirements apply only to employees subject to a meal period provisions of an order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, as identified.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
SB 477 (Florez-D) Employment: heat illness prevention
Codifies and significantly expands existing regulatory requirements related to the prevention of heat illness of employees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 903 (Wright-D) Penalty collections: limitations
Extends the time period for collection actions that can be brought by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement from one year to three years.
Vetoed
SB 908 (Wyland-R) Meal and rest periods: exceptions
Exempts employers in the armored car industry from meal period requirements and statutory wage restitution for failing to provide meal periods.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 909 (Wright-D) Employment: consumer reporting agencies: disclosures
Requires a person (i.e., a prospective employer) who procures an investigative consumer report for employment purposes to disclose to the consumer (i.e., an applicant) the Internet Web site of the investigative consumer reporting agency. Requires the agency to conspicuously post on its Internet Web site its privacy policy, including information on whether reports are prepared or processed outside of the United States or its territories.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2010
SB 989* (Hollingsworth-R) Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004
Requires an employee requesting court approval of the settlement of a civil action brought under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act to serve a copy of the court's final approval order and settlement agreement to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency within 20 days after the order is made and the settlement is final.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 990* (Dutton-R) Employment: meal periods
Revises the statutory requirements for the provision of meal periods to specify that the requirements apply only to employees subject to the meal period provisions of an order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, as identified.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1121 (Florez-D) Overtime wages: agricultural workers
Withdraws the exemption on agricultural workers from overtime and meal period requirements.
Vetoed
SB 1180 (Dutton-R) Right to work: labor organizations
Prohibits a person from requiring an employee, as a condition of obtaining or continuing employment, to contribute financial support to a labor organization. Permits an employee or potential employee to seek injunctive relief or monetary damages, or both, for violations or threatened violations of these provisions. Exempts employees covered by federal law from these provisions.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1230 (DeSaulnier-D) Employment: posting requirements
Requires employers to post information related to human trafficking, including the phone number to two toll-free anti-human trafficking hotlines that provide services in support of the elimination of human trafficking.
Vetoed
SB 1267 (Aanestad-R) Labor violations: penalties: exceptions
Establishes an avenue where employers meeting specified criteria can receive a waiver of penalties assessed for violations of specified labor laws.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1304 (DeSaulnier-D) Employment: leave and benefits
Requires private employers to permit employees to take paid leaves of absence, similar to those currently available to public employees, for the purposes of organ and bone marrow donations, and prohibits retaliation against employees who take this leave. Authorizes an employee to bring a civil action to enforce the provisions of this bill.
Chapter 646, Statutes of 2010
SB 1335 (Cox-R) Employment: working hours
Allows for greater flexibility in the scheduling of individual worker's hours and deletes a requirement for overtime compensation if an alternative workweek schedule has been agreed upon.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1370 (Ducheny-D) Employment contract requirements
Requires that all employees who are paid by commission be provided with a written contract on the terms and conditions of employment.
Vetoed
SB 1397 (Corbett-D) Apprenticeship oversight
Provides that no two representatives of the six representatives from employee organizations on the California Apprenticeship Council may be from the same national or international labor organization. Requires specified information to be submitted to the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) when an apprenticeship program applies to create a new program or expand an existing program. Requires the Chief of DAS to disapprove the application where the new requirements are not met or are deemed inadequate, as specified, and set forth a process for an applicant to amend its application. Eliminates the requirement in existing law that DAS randomly audit approved apprenticeship programs during each five-year period, and instead establishes new requirements for audits.
Vetoed
SB 1474 (Steinberg-D) Agricultural labor representatives: elections
Requires the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to certify a labor organization for purposes of collective bargaining if a representation election has been set aside for employer misconduct, as specified.
Vetoed
SJR 30 (Kehoe-D) Deferred compensation plans
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to create parity among all workers by presenting 457(b) plan participants with savings choices similar to those given to participants planning for retirement under the Economic Growth and Tax Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the federal government's Thrift Savings Plan.
Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 179* (Portantino-D) Wages: temporary workers
Provides that hospice employees, home health employees, and home care employers must be considered to have timely paid employee wages if the employee is paid semi-monthly, if they provide certain services.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations 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.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 482 (Mendoza-D) Employment: credit reports
Prohibits an employer, with the exception of certain financial institutions, from obtaining a consumer credit report for employment purposes unless the information is (1) substantially job-related, meaning that the person for whom the report is sought has access to money, other assets, or trade secrets or other confidential information, and (2) the position of the person for whom the report is sought is a position in the Department of Justice, a managerial position, that of a sworn peace officer or other law enforcement position, or a position for which the information contained in the report is required to be disclosed by law or to obtained by the employer.
Vetoed
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 2010
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.
Vetoed
AB 842 (Swanson-D) Employment
Revises existing law that requires employers to provide advance notice of a mass layoff, relocation or termination.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 284 (Cox-R) which died in Assembly being unassigned to a 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection 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.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection 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.
(Died In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
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.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1591 (Yamada-D) Wages: prohibited forms of payment
Specifies that the use of payroll cards for the payment of wages must be voluntary.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1814 (Buchanan-D) Discrimination in employment
Provides that the age discrimination prohibitions of the Fair Employment and Housing Act do not prohibit an employer from providing health benefits or health care reimbursement plans to retired persons that are altered, reduced, or eliminated when the person becomes eligible for Medicare health benefits.
Chapter 130, Statutes of 2010
AB 1881 (Monning-D) Recovery of wages: liquidated damages
Increases the amount of liquidated damages that may be awarded to an employee to twice the amount of the wages unlawfully unpaid, plus interest.
Vetoed
AB 1977 (Cook-R) Department of Industrial Relations: Ombudsman
Authorizes the Department of Industrial Relations to appoint an Ombudsman for Small Business, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2032 (Davis-D) Employment: entertainment work permits
Levies a fee to fund the administration of permits for minors in the entertainment industry, as well as to fund enforcement of working conditions for minors in the entertainment industry.
Vetoed
AB 2135 (De La Torre-D) Home delivery entities: registration
Requires the Labor Commissioner to regulate the use of home delivery contractors, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2187 (Arambula-IN) Employment: payment of wages
Increases criminal penalties for employers who willfully fail to pay wages due to an employee who resigns or is discharged.
Vetoed
AB 2242 (Davis-D) Talent agencies: employment inquiries
Requires an application for a talent agency license to contain a signature from the applicant attesting they are familiar with the legally permissible inquiries that an employer may make of employees and applicants for employment. Allows the Department of Industrial Relations to make available on its Internet Web site or to provide the most current information regarding legally permissible inquiries by an employer, published by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, available to applicants of talent agency licenses, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2340 (Monning-D) Employee's right to bereavement leave
Adds to employee rights, the right to inquire about, request, and take up to three days off for bereavement leave. Does not apply to an employee who is covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement that provides for bereavement leave and other specified working conditions.
Vetoed
AB 2424 (Niello-R) Employment: payment of wages
Extends the time for payment of wages to discharged employees from immediately to within 24 hours, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2468 (De Leon-D) Workplace designation: lactation accommodation
Allows a business to use the designation "Breast-Feeding Mother Friendly Worksite" in its promotional materials if the Labor Commissioner determines the employer breast-feeding policy meets specified criteria and requires the Labor Commissioner to post a listing of businesses with this designation on its Web site.
Vetoed
AB 2727 (Bradford-D) Employment applicant information: criminal history
Prohibits an employer from denying an application for employment based on the individual's prior conviction for a criminal offense, unless the employer determines that (1) there is a direct relationship between the criminal offense and the employment sought, or (2) the granting of employment would involve an unreasonable risk to property or the safety of welfare of specific persons or the general public.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2770 (Monning-D) Employee wages and working hours: violators
Establishes a pilot program to investigate employment and payment practices within the swimming pool and spa construction industry.
Vetoed
AB 2771 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Wage statement: violations
Deletes the reference of a repealed statute in Labor Code Section 226.6.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2772 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Labor Commissioner: appeals
Clarifies that an employer wishing to appeal a Labor Commissioner decision with the superior court must first post a bond in the amount of the judgment rendered in the administrative hearing.
Chapter 102, Statutes of 2010
AB 2773 (Swanson-D) Fair employment: civil action
Exempts civil actions brought pursuant to the Fair Employment and Housing Act from the statute that provides discretion to judges to determine costs, in a case other than a limited civil case, if the prevailing party recovers a judgment that could have been rendered in a limited civil case.
Vetoed
AB 2774 (Swanson-D) Occupational safety and health
Establishes a rebuttable presumption as to when an employer commits a serious violation of the provision requiring an employer to provide employees with a safe workplace, as specified, and establishes new procedures and standards for an investigation and the determination by the division of a serious violation by an employer which causes harm or exposes an employee to the risk of harm.
Chapter 692, Statutes of 2010
ACR 155 (Skinner-D) Equal Pay for Women Day
Proclaims 4/20/10, as Equal Pay for Women Day in California.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AJR 45 (Fong-D) Lifelong Learning Accounts
Urges the federal government to create and fund programs that encourage lifelong learning, such as Lifelong Learning Accounts, within California.
Resolution Chapter 166, Statutes of 2010
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 re-education and skill enhancement expenses.
(Died 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.
Vetoed
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.
Chapter 305, Statues of 2010
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.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations 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. Provides that 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1213 (Cedillo-D) Electronic access to claims information
Requires the Division of Workers' Compensation within the Department of Industrial Relations to provide a party to a claim with single sign-on portal, real time electronic programmatic access, at no charge, to the party's data contained within the Electronic Adjudication Management System.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1254 (Leno-D) Contractors: workers' compensation insurance coverage
Authorizes the registrar of the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) to issue a stop order to any unlicensed or licensed contractor who as an employer who has failed to secure workers' compensation insurance coverage for his/her employees, establishes procedures to request a hearing to protest a stop order, and authorizes the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs to designate 12 persons as peace officers for assignment to the special investigations unit of CSLB.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2010
SB 1407 (Senate Banking, Finance And Insurance Committee) Insurance: State Compensation Insurance Fund: investments
Provides that the State Compensation Insurance Fund may invest its excess funds in a manner similar to private insurance carriers, subject to specified exceptions.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 493 (Tran-R) Employment and Benefits Appeals Board
Eliminates the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, and the California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board, and transfers their duties to a new board.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 516 (Niello-R) Workers' compensation: temporary disability
Repeals the minimum level of temporary disability benefits which an injured worker can receive.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 586* (Ma-D) Workers' compensation: San Francisco peace officers
Corrects an inadvertent drafting error that excluded San Francisco deputy sheriffs, probation officers, institutional police, and certain members of the district attorney's office from receiving workers' compensation benefits for work-related injuries or illnesses.
Chapter 74, Statues of 2010
AB 615 (Niello-R) Workers' compensation: definitions
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.
(Died 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 MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) staph infections are job-related during and after a period of employment at a hospital, and requires specified workers' compensation benefits to be provided.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
Vetoed
AB 948 (Logue-R) Workers' compensation: mandatory notice
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.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1564 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Workers' compensation
Makes various changes to the workers' compensation system.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1603 (Solorio-D) Workers' compensation: temporary partial disability
Requires that an employee be deemed to be temporarily partially disabled during the period when the employee's disability is permanent and stationary, no more than 60 days have elapsed after the date the employee was informed that his/her disability is permanent and stationary, the employer has not offered the employee regular, modified, or alternative work, and the employer has not informed the employee that it will not offer the employee regular, modified, or alternative work.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1696 (Bill Berryhill-R) Workers compensation: death benefits
Extends workers' compensation death benefits until the youngest child reaches age 19 if the parent served in specified law enforcement and firefighting services, and was killed on duty.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2010
AB 1897 (Jones-D) State Compensation Insurance Fund
Repeals provisions established by AB 12 X4 (Evans-D), Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session. Specifically, repeals the authority of the Director of the Department of Finance to sell a portion of the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF). Also requires Governor's appointees to the board of SCIF to be subject to Senate confirmation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1994 (Skinner-D) Workers' compensation: hospital employees
Provides that back or neck injuries, MRSA, H1N1, and other blood-borne infectious diseases are presumed to be job related if suffered or contracted by a hospital employee.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2247 (Niello-R) Workers' compensation: local inmates
Revises the workers' compensation benefits that may be received by a city or county jail inmate who is injured on a work assignment. Provides that an inmate of a city or county jail, industrial farm, or road camp shall be entitled to the workers' compensation benefits for an injury or death arising during the course of assigned employment, subject to specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2253 (Coto-D) Workers' compensation: cancer presumption
Provides that an existing presumption for a work-related injury shall be extended to specified firefighters and police officers following termination of service for a period of three months for each year of service but not to exceed 120 months in any circumstance, commencing with the last day actually worked in the specified capacity.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2010
AB 2269 (Adams-R) Workers' compensation: injury presumption: heart trouble
Expands a workers' compensation presumption for peace officers working at Department of Developmental Services' Developmental Centers and Department of Mental Health psychiatric hospitals.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2279 (Evans-D) Surplus state property: County of Napa
Authorizes the Department of General Services to sell or exchange specified property to the County of Napa.
Chapter 595, Statutes of 2010
AB 2305 (Knight-R) Workers' compensation insurance coverage: contractors
Extends the sunset date, from 1/1/11 to 1/1/13, on the law requiring a contractor with a C-39 roofing classification to obtain and maintain workers compensation insurance, even if it has no employees. Extends the parallel sunset date requiring insurance companies to perform an annual payroll audit of C-39 contractors, and the Department of Insurance to annually compile information on C-39 contractors. Requires the suspension of any license that, after 1/1/11, is active and has had the C-39 roofing classification removed, if the licensee is found by the registrar of contractors to have employees and to lack a valid Certificate of Workers' Compensation Insurance or Certification of Self-Insurance. Requires the report given annually to the Insurance Commissioner regarding statistical data on those holding C-39 licenses, as reported by the appropriate state entity, be given to the Legislature, as specified.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2010
AB 2396 (Solorio-D) Workers' compensation insurance: rating organizations
Requires a designated statistical agent to conduct public meetings, as provided, would specify records of the designated statistical agent that are public, and would specify information that the designated statistical agent is not required to make available to the public.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2397 (Solorio-D) Workers' compensation: public employees: leaves of absence
Provides that the employees and the employer through the collective bargaining process may mutually agree to extend the leave of absence, under specified provisions, beyond the one-year period of disability, but that the extension may only be for a maximum of one additional year.
Vetoed
AB 2490 (Jones-D) Workers' compensation insurance
Requires, as between an employer, whose principal place of business is in California, and a worker's compensation insurer, any agreement concerning dispute resolution, other than settlement agreements, to conform to the following: (1) be filed with the insurance rating organization and be provided to the employer contemporaneously with any written quote that offers to provide insurance coverage, (2) contain a choice of law provision that identifies California as the law to be used to resolve any disputes that arise in California, (3) contain a forum selection clause identifying California as the proper venue for any proceeding regarding a dispute that arises in California, (4) allow, prior to inception of the policy, employers and workers' compensation insurance companies, negotiate and agree to a choice of law or a forum other than California.
Vetoed
AB 2593 (Bradford-D) Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule
De-links the pharmacy reimbursement rates in the workers' compensation system from the MediCal fee schedule. Specifically, (1) specifies that the reimbursement for pharmacy services in the workers' compensation system shall be the lowest of the average wholesale price minus 17%, the federal upper limit, or the maximum allowable ingredient costs, (2) provides that, in addition to the reimbursement rate specified above, there shall be a professional fee for dispensing the medications of at least $7.25 per prescription, (3) provides that the "federal upper limit" and the maximum allowable ingredient costs shall have the same meaning as in specified provisions of the MediCal law.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2625 (Villines-R) Workers' compensation
Adds the State of California in its capacity as an employer to the list of employers that can, upon compliance with a series of procedural steps, opt out of the existing workers' compensation adjudication system.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2749 (Logue-R) Workers' compensation: lien claims
Requires employers or employers' insurance carriers to include a benefit notice with any objection to a bill for medical services or an explanation of benefits that advises the provider of those services or benefits of the above-described deadline for filing lien claims and the consequences of failing to meet that deadline.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2779* (Solorio-D) Workers' compensation: compounded drugs
Requires that compounded medications can only be reimbursed through the workers' compensation system if they are medically necessary and that the cost of the ingredient does not exceed the Medi-Cal fee schedule.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2780* (Solorio-D) Workers' compensation: individually identifiable information
Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services to review individually identifiable information relating to a Medi-Cal claim in order to determine if this claim was actually a result of an 'on-the job injury' that should have been paid by a workers' compensation insurer rather than the Medi-Cal program.
Chapter 611, Statutes of 2010
AB 2781 (Assembly Insurance Committee) California Insurance Guarantee Association
Permits the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) to issue bonds for an additional two years beyond the current sunset date to 1/1/13, but would not change the total amount of bonds that CIGA could issue.
Chapter 140, Statues of 2010
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.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 968 (Negrete McLeod-D) Unemployment insurance: training and retraining benefits
Makes changes to the current eligibility and determination requirements necessary for approval to participate in the California Training Benefits program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1211 (Romero-D) Unemployment insurance: elected officials
Requires the Employment Development Department (EDD) to determine an individual has been overpaid unemployment insurance benefits if those benefits are based on employment income from serving as an elected official. Authorizes EDD to file a related civil action for recovery of unemployment insurance benefit overpayments and requires EDD to adopt related regulations by 7/1/11.
Chapter 222, Statutes of 2010
SB 1244 (Walters-R) Employment taxes and contributions
Conforms the Unemployment Insurance Code to federal regulations on limited liability companies (LLCs) so LLCs may offset federal unemployment insurance tax costs.
Chapter 522, Statutes of 2010
SB 1438 (DeSaulnier-D) Unemployment insurance
Authorizes the Employment Development Department (EDD) to temporarily suspend unemployment insurance regulations that slow the disbursement of unemployment insurance benefits. Requires EDD and the Bureau of State Audits to publish a study of unemployment insurance regulations that includes a list of regulations to be suspended and to present the findings of the study and the list of regulations to the relevant legislative committees. Authorizes the Legislature to extend, by statute, the suspension of any or all of the suspended regulations.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1495 (Senate Labor And Industrial Relations Committee) Unemployment insurance: use of information for tax purposes
Authorize the Director of the Employment Development Department to release specified employment tax information, in his/her possession to the Board of Equalization, that will assist in the administration of tax programs.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
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.
(Died 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 California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1320 (Fong-D) Workforce development: Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative
Creates, 1/1/12, a Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative Program for the purpose of providing grants to employers and employees to be used to establish individual lifelong learning accounts for the deposit to be used by those employees and employers for the purposes related to lifelong education and training. Requires the Employment Development Department to establish a grant program and report on the effectiveness of the program. Provides that the program shall only be implemented if the Director of the Department of Finance makes a written determination that there are sufficient funds from non General Fund sources available for the purposes of the bill.
(Died in Senate Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1804 (Hagman-R) Employment Training Fund
Prohibits the Employment Training Fund from being used for employment training in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program and instead requires that any money used for this purpose be considered a loan to be paid back to the Fund within three years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1827 (Arambula-IN) Workforce development: one-stop career centers
Requires the Employment Development Department (EDD), commencing by 7/1/11, to provide unemployment insurance benefits assistance in at least one comprehensive one-stop career center in each "workforce area," as defined. Requires that the unemployment benefit assistance services required to be provided at these one-stop career centers be funded with existing moneys available to EDD for the administration of the unemployment compensation program. Sunsets the provisions on 12/31/14.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1903 (Fong-D) California Workforce and Economic Information Program
Requires that the labor market information system within the Employment Development Department provide a comprehensive search engine and online database for job seekers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2030 (Yamada-D) Unemployment: Self-Employment Assistance Program
Establishes the Self-Employment Assistance Program and requires unemployment insurance benefits be paid to eligible individuals who are pursuing training related to self-employment. Under current law, these benefits are not paid to individuals participating in this type of training. Requires the Program weekly benefits to be equal to current law unemployment insurance benefits. Limits the number of Program unemployment insurance beneficiaries to 5% of the total statewide unemployment insurance beneficiaries.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2055 (De La Torre-D) Unemployment insurance: benefits
Permits the Employment Development Department to award unemployment insurance benefits to a person for whom a registered domestic partnership is imminent, and must move due to a partner's relocation.
Chapter 590, Statutes of 2010
AB 2058 (Block-D) Unemployment insurance: retraining benefits
Modifies the requirement for participation in the state's retraining benefits program in order to allow unemployed individuals to receive unemployment insurance benefits while enrolled in a training program on a full-time basis.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2010
AB 2188* (Bradford-D) Unemployment compensation: disability benefits
Allows the Employment Development Department to contract with a vendor to deliver disability insurance benefits through direct deposit and debit card.
Chapter 378, Statutes of 2010
AB 2364 (Nava-D) Unemployment insurance: benefits
Permits the Employment Development Department (EDD) to award unemployment insurance benefits to workers who leave their jobs to protect family members from domestic violence. Requires EDD, when making a computation regarding the maximum amount of benefits payable to promptly notify the claimant of the method of computation. Reduces the time for revision from three years to one year for any unclaimed warrant drawn from specified accounts. Repeals the statutory reference to leisure sharing program.
Chapter 678, Statutes of 2010
AB 2433 (Ruskin-D) Unemployment insurance: use of information for tax purposes
Authorizes the Employment Development Department to share employment tax information to assist in the administration of tax programs. Specifies the sharing of tax information must be limited to the exchange of information permitted by federal law.
Chapter 139, Statutes of 2010
AB 2511 (Skinner-D) Unemployment benefits: deferred deposit transactions
Prohibits a deferred deposit transaction from being made to a person receiving unemployment benefits unless the interest charged for the deferred deposit transaction does not exceed a 36% annual percentage rate.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2538 (Niello-R) Unemployment insurance: notices
Allows the Employment Development Department (EDD) to serve Notices of Levy either electronically or via first class mail, authorizes prosecution of criminal acts involving EDD to occur in the county where the offense occurs, and deletes references to Labor Code sections that no longer exist.
Chapter 392, Statutes 0f 2010
AB 2570 (Ma-D) Unemployment insurance: professional employer organizations
On and after 1/1/12, for purposes of all unemployment insurance laws of this state, provides that a "professional employer organization," as defined, shall be deemed to be an employing unit for covered employees under a "professional employer agreement," as defined. Requires the Employment Development Department to administer the provisions of the bill, as specified. Imposes various requirements on professional employer organization and clients, and also provides for assessment, fines, and disciplinary actions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2577 (Knight-R) Employment: taxes and contributions: aerospace industry
Exempts employers from withholding taxes for remuneration paid to nonresidents of California who are employed in the aerospace industry on a temporary basis.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2726 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Employment Development Department: apprenticeship programs
Allows apprenticeship programs approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to be counted as job placement and directs the state and local Workforce Investment Boards to ensure that programs and services funded by the California Workforce Investment Act work in coordination with apprenticeship programs.
Vetoed
AB 2748 (Furutani-D) Unemployment insurance: retraining benefits
Specifies that it is the policy of the state to assist unemployed individuals by providing retraining benefits available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AB 2778 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Unemployment insurance: voluntary plans
Authorizes, through 12/21/14, the Director of the Employment Development Department to approve a single voluntary plan of disability insurance for multiple small employers.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2010
AJR 45 (Fong-D) Lifelong Learning Accounts
Urges the federal government to create and fund programs that encourage lifelong learning, such as Lifelong Learning Accounts, within California.
Resolution Chapter 166, Statutes of 2010
Financial Institutions
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.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 401 (Wolk-D) Mortgage debt
Among other provisions, extends through 2012, provisions allowing taxpayers to exclude from income the amount of mortgage debt on their principal residence that has been discharged by a lender (for example, through a "short sale"). Increases the amount of debt that can be excluded from $250,000 to $500,000.
Chapter 14, Statutes of 2010
SB 491* (Dutton-R) Capital access companies
Repeals and recasts 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.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 660 (Wolk-D) Reverse mortgages
Provides that any lender, broker, person or entity who recommends the purchase of a reverse mortgage owes the borrower a duty of honesty, good faith, and fair dealing. Prohibits the dividing of the reverse mortgage transaction into separate parts in order to evade application of the requirements, including but not limited to, using the proceeds of the reverse mortgage to fund an annuity, insurance, or investment product within one year from origination of the reverse mortgage.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 931 (Ducheny-D) Mortgages: deficiency judgments
Requires the holder of a first mortgage or deed of trust that is secured by residential real property to accept, as full payment, the proceeds of a short sale to which it agrees in writing, and obligates that note holder to fully discharge the remaining amount of the borrower's indebtedness on the deed of trust or mortgage following the sale.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2010
SB 1000 (Correa-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: portable appraisals
Allows for the portability of appraisals between loan applications for mortgages on owner-occupied, residential real property, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 1137 (Senate Banking, Finance And Insurance Committee) Mortgage lending
Provides an exception to last year's increase in the minimum net worth requirements for real estate brokers that facilitate, but do not make, mortgage loans. Such brokers are required to maintain a net worth of at least $50,000 instead of the $250,000 minimum for other brokers. Makes explicit the regulatory authority of the Department of Real Estate to take enforcement actions for non-compliance with federal law.
Chapter 287, Statutes of 2010
SB 1146 (Florez-D) Finance lenders
Establishes the Pilot Program for Affordable Credit Building Opportunities that would allow licensees under the California Finance Lender Law to participate in the pilot program involving unsecured consumer loans less than $2,500 until 1/1/15.
Chapter 640, Statutes of 2010
SB 1178 (Corbett-D) Real property: deficiency judgments
Reforms deficiency judgment law to protect the many homeowners who accepted lender offers to refinance their mortgages. Specifically, provides that longstanding deficiency judgment protections for a loan used to pay all or part of the purchase price of real property or an estate for years includes subsequent loans, mortgages, or deeds of trust that refinance or modify the original loan to the extent that the subsequent loan was used to pay debt incurred to purchase the real property.
Vetoed
SB 1221 (Calderon-D) Mortgages: notice of sale
Allows a trustee to notice the sale of a property in non-judicial foreclosure approximately five days earlier by allowing a Notice of Sale to be given 85 days, instead of three months, after the filing of a Notice of Default.
Chapter 180, Statutes of 2010
SB 1223 (Calderon-D) Escrow agents
Requires, with regard to an auction sale of real property that has been the subject of a foreclosure sale, an escrow agent to give back all deposits and fees to a bidder once the escrow agent receives escrow instructions from the auctioneer or auction company directing the return of such funds. Applies to all escrow agents, including those required to be licensed pursuant to the Escrow Law and those granted exemptions from licensure under the Escrow Law. Requires the surety or sureties of a bond established by an escrow agent to give notice to the Insurance Commissioner and to Fidelity Corporation of any release, substitution, cancellation, withdrawal, or nonrenewal of a bond.
Vetoed
SB 1275 (Leno-D) Mortgages: foreclosures
Imposes new requirements on loan servicers seeking to foreclose on loans secured by owner-occupied residences, and provides for remedies to borrowers in cases where the servicer fails to adhere to notification and related requirements associated with the foreclosure process.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 1344 (Kehoe-D) Depository institutions: local agency investments
Deletes the sunset date on a provision of law that allows local agencies to invest up to 30% of their surplus funds in certificates of deposit at depository institutions, in such a way that the full amount of each local agency deposit is federally-insured.
Chapter 112, Statutes of 2010
SB 1363 (Runner-R) Escrow agents
Requires an officer, director, trustee, or escrow manager of an escrow agent who has access to money or negotiable securities of the licensee and certain other persons to complete a course in escrow management conducted by the Commissioner of Corporations, within 12 months following their receipt of a Fidelity Corporation Certificate, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 1427 (Price-D) Foreclosures: property maintenance
Provides that prior to imposing a fine or penalty for failure to maintain a vacant foreclosed property that is subject to a notice of default, or that has been purchased at a foreclosure sale or acquired through foreclosure under a mortgage or deed of trust, a governmental entity shall provide the owner of that property with a notice of violation and an opportunity to correct the violation. Provides that an assessment or lien to recover the costs of nuisance abatement measures taken by a governmental entity with regard to a property that is subject to a notice of default, or that has been purchased at a foreclosure sale or acquired through foreclosure under a mortgage or deed of trust, shall not exceed the actual and reasonable costs of nuisance abatement.
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2010
AB 230* (Charles Calderon-D) Banking: Internet transactions: verification
Requires a business that provides banking or other financial services over the Internet to implement and maintain reasonable policies and procedures for authenticating and verifying the legitimacy of a consumer transaction over the Internet, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 350 (Lieu-D) Debt management and settlement
Enacts the Debt Settlement Service Act for the purpose of licensing debt settlement service providers. Prohibits the offering of debt settlement services unless that provider is licensed by the Department of Corporations, as specified. Exempts a person or entity licensed as a debt settlement services provider from the Check Sellers, Bill Payers, and Proraters Law, as specified, provides specific requirements that a provider must comply with in offering debt settlement services, including the preparation of 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, and provides that an agreement is void if the provider is not licensed by the Act.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 365 (Ammiano-D) Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act
Prohibits a financial institution, defined as a state and federally 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 448 (Torres-D) 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 953 (Eng-D) Financial institution employees: access to records
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.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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 Financial Institutions 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.
Chapter 532, Statutes of 2010
AB 1373 (Skinner-D) Grant deed copy services
Restricts the activities of grant deed copy services by prohibiting misleading representations about the necessity of obtaining a copy of a grant deed or that the copy service is a governmental entity or affiliated with such an entity, and requiring specific disclosures that informs homeowners that they may obtain a copy of their grant deed directly from the county recorder.
Chapter 533, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 1639 (Nava-D) Facilitated Mortgage Workout Program
Establishes a facilitated Mortgage Workout Program for borrowers facing foreclosure whereby a borrower could request to participate in conciliation sessions with their lender to examine mortgage loan modification options or foreclosure alternatives.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2024 (Blumenfield-D) Loan modification
Provides that any lender or servicer that rejects a loan modification request shall respond to the borrower making the request within seven days via certified mail with the specific reasons why the request was rejected. Requires that the response must comply with certain language translation requirements.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2043 (Torrico-D) Mortgage assistance: redevelopment funds
Creates a five-year program to allow a redevelopment agency to issue subordinate loans using the non-low- and moderate-income housing funds for qualified homeowners to prevent foreclosure inside or outside a project area.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2189 (Ma-D) Loan modification agreements
Requires, beginning on 7/1/10, or 90 days after issuance of a form, as provided, whichever occurs later, a supervised financial organization, as defined, that negotiates specified contracts or agreements primarily in the languages of Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean in the course of entering into a contract or agreement for a loan modification, to deliver, prior to the execution of loan modification, and no later than three business days after receiving the written application, a specified form in that language summarizing the terms of the loan modification, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2236 (Monning-D) Mortgages: notices to the borrower
Requires a mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or an authorized agent of that person, to include on all notices informing a borrower that he or she has either failed to make a required minimum payment or failed to make a payment when due, the name and the contact information, including the address and telephone number, of the mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent who has the authority pursuant to state and federal law to modify the terms and conditions of the borrower's loan.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2257 (Nava-D) Financial services
Establishes a new Department of Financial Services (DFS) in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, designates the chief officer of DFS as the Commissioner of Financial Services, transfers the powers, duties, purposes, jurisdiction, responsibilities, and functions of the Department of Corporations and Department of Financial Institutions to two new divisions under the DFS, the Division of Corporations and the Division of Financial Institutions, designates the Commissioner of Corporations and the Commissioner of Financial Institutions as the directors of the Division of Corporations and the Division of Financial Institutions, respectively, establishes a new Office of Financial and Real Estate Consumer Advocacy within the DFS, and transfers authority over real estate appraisers to the Department of Real Estate under the Real Estate Law.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2288 (Blakeslee-R) Issuers of securities: real estate brokers: hard money
Requires an issuer engaging in hard money lending to maintain records for three years of copies of all listings, deposit receipts, canceled checks, trust records, and other documents executed by him/her or obtained by him/her in connection with any transactions as required. Establishes a contractual agreement with person whom the issuer sells a limited or general partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership trust, joint venture, unincorporated association, or similar organization formed and operated for the primary purpose of investing in mortgage loans, and maintains a surety bond requirement with specific criteria.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2291 (Fletcher-R) Mortgages: impound accounts
Includes insurance proceeds received by the lender for payment for repairs or rebuilding of the property after a catastrophic loss to existing law requiring financial institutions that make specified mortgage loans to pay at least 2% interest on amounts received in advance for payment of taxes and assessments on the property, insurance, or other purposes related to the property.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2325 (Lieu-D) Mortgage foreclosure consultants: loan audits
Adds the audit of any obligation secured by a lien on a residence in foreclosure to the definition of services that a foreclosure consultant performs, thus, adding individuals who perform forensic loan audits to the foreclosure consultant law, as specified.
Chapter 596, Statutes of 2010
AB 2347 (Feuer-D) Mortgage defaults: secondary public financing
Permits a public entity to postpone a foreclosure by up to 60 days if the property at issue contains five or more multifamily units and the public entity is a party to a regulatory agreement or a recorded deed restriction for the property, as specified.
Chapter 597, Statutes of 2010
AB 2457 (Salas-D) California Financial Literacy Fund
Establishes the California Financial Literacy Fund (CFLF) in the State Treasury, administered by the Controller, to support partnerships with the financial services community and other stakeholders, to improve Californians' financial literacy, and authorizes the Controller to accept private donations from entities with no direct financial interest in any financial products, for deposit into the CFLF and makes those funds available, subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
Vetoed
AB 2511 (Skinner-D) Deferred deposit transactions
Prohibits a deferred deposit transaction (DDT) from being made to a person receiving unemployment benefits unless the interest charged for the DDT does not exceed a 36% annual percentage rate.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2581 (Bradford-D) Banking development districts
Establishes a Banking Development District Program within the Department of Financial Institutions, which would encourage the establishment of bank or credit union branches and/or new bank services in specially designated geographic locations where there is a need for banking services.
Vetoed
AB 2678 (Fuentes-D) Mortgages: Notice of sale
Makes changes related to a notice of sale during the foreclosure process. Prohibits a mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent from giving notice of sale if the mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent is currently in negotiations to modify the existing loan.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2789 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Money transmission
Consolidates the Transmission of Money Abroad Law, Travelers Checks Act, and the Payment Instruments Law into a single Money Transmission Act, administered by the Department of Financial Institutions.
Chapter 612, Statutes of 2010
AB 2X2 (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.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
ACR 147 (Lieu-D) Financial Aid and Literacy Month
Declares April 2010 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy. Encourages public and private organizations and institutions to provide opportunities for financial literacy education for all Californians and to collaborate with members of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, the California JumpStart Coalition, and others as they provide outreach and education.
(Died on Senate Floor)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
Miscellaneous
SB 107* (Walters-R) Nonprofit organizations: sales and use tax exemption
Exempts mandatory gratuities charged to a nonprofit organization for the purchase of meals from sales and use taxes until 2014.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 189 (Lowenthal-D) Mechanics liens
Recodifies, reorganizes, and clarifies the mechanics lien statute; modernizes terminology and eliminates inconsistencies in language; makes provisions more readable and easier to use; enacts separate provisions for private and public works; modernizes and streamlines existing notice requirements; revises and recasts provisions relating to liens for design professionals; requires certain bonds to be obtained from licensed sureties; improves and clarifies statutory forms relating to waivers and releases; allows notices under the mechanics lien statute to be given electronically; adds procedural detail relating to a summary lien release; and becomes operative 7/1/12.
Chapter 697, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 294 (Negrete McLeod-D) Professions and vocations: regulation
Changes the sunset review dates on various boards, bureaus, and program within the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 695, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 374 (Calderon-D) Personal trainers
Establishes educational and training requirements for personal trainers and after 1/1/12, prohibits a person from calling themselves a "personal trainer" unless they meet the requirements. Requires a personal trainer to have a bachelor's degree in exercise science or a closely related field, or be certified by an accredited organization. Exempts individuals who only provide training in a particular discipline such as yoga or pilates, and establishes administrative fines for violations of these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1043 (Calderon-D) which died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.
SB 392 (Florez-D) Contractors: limited liability companies
Allows a limited liability company (LLC) to render contractors services that are "professional services" otherwise prohibited by the Beverly-Killea Limited Liability Company, by authorizing the issuance of a contractor's license to the company under the Business and Professions Code. Provides that a contractor-LLC obtain and maintain a $1 million insurance policy or place on deposit or escrow $1 million plus an additional $100,000 per licensee in excess of five employed by the LLC, up to $5 million in total insurance, escrow, or deposit, and provides, if the LLC is suspended, each member of the LLC who is licensed as a contractor will be liable for up to $1 million in damages occurring as a result of the licensed activities of the LLC during the suspension.
Chapter 698, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill is SB 480 (Padilla-D) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 453 (Padilla-D) Preparers of food
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is SB 602 (Padilla-D), Chapter 309, Statutes of 2010.
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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill is SB 446 (Walters-R) which died 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.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1155 (Dutton-R), Chapter 516, Statutes of 2009.
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 Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
Similar bills were SCR 38 (Wright-D) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SB 600* (Padilla-D) Cigarette and tobacco products taxes
Imposes an additional excise tax of $1.50 per package of 20 cigarettes, adjusted annually by the Consumer Price Index, and indirectly increases the tax on other tobacco products. Imposes a one-time "floor stock tax" on the cigarettes held or stored by dealers and wholesalers.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
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."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 602* (Padilla-D) Preparers of food
Requires a food handler, as defined, to obtain a food handler card within 30 days after his/her hire date at a food facility, with specified exceptions, beginning 6/1/11, and mandates at least one of the accredited food safety certification examinations required under current law to be offered online.
Chapter 309, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 453 (Padilla-D) which died 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.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 875 (Price-D) Qualified securities offerings: exemption
Exempts from qualification offerings or sales of securities using a general solicitation or general advertising, provided the transaction meets specified requirements, including a requirement that the sales are made to accredited investors.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 980 (Huff-R) Business licensing: Business Master License Center
Creates under the State and Consumer Services Agency the Business Master License Center that will develop and administer a "one-stop" master license system and serve as a clearinghouse for information on businesses throughout this state.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1004 (Huff-R) Vehicle licensed dealers and salespersons: credit scores
Allows a vehicle dealer to post copies of occupational licenses, rather than the original licenses, for the dealer and the salespersons the dealer employs. Allows a vehicle salesperson to work for multiple dealerships, provided that those dealerships share a common controlling ownership, and requires a motor vehicle dealer, for each credit report he/she obtains for use in connection with a consumer's credit application, to provide that consumer a summary of the information, as specified.
Chapter 483, Statutes of 2010
SB 1008* (Padilla-D) Engineering/land surveying: limited liability partnerships
Authorizes engineers and land surveyors to operate within their scope of licensure, and to conduct business as a limited liability partnership (LLP) similar to that of architects, certified public accountants and attorneys, and to be designated as a registered LLP or a foreign LLP.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2010
SB 1017 (Huff-R) Sale of goods: breach: damages
Provides that a seller of goods is only liable for consequential damages to a buyer in an action for breach of warranty alleging that a product is defective if the seller (1) is the manufacturer of the product, (2) exercised substantial control over that aspect or aspects of the design, testing, manufacture, packaging, or labeling of the product, (3) altered or modified the product and that action was a substantial factor in causing the harm, or (4) had actual or constructive knowledge of the defect, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1043 (Calderon-D) Personal trainers
Defines the term "personal trainer", establishes educational and training requirements for personal trainers, and prohibits individuals from calling themselves personal trainers unless they meet those requirements.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
A similar bill was SB 374 (Calderon-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 1098 (Corbett-D) Athlete agents
Enacts the Uniform Athlete Agents Act for the regulation of agents who represent student and professional athletes, and effectively replaces, as of 7/1/11, the existing Miller-Ayala Athlete Agents Act, the existing statutory framework for regulating such activity. Requires athlete agents to register with, and obtain a certificate or registration from, the Department of Industrial Relations. Requires an applicant for the certificate to provide information concerning the prospective athlete agent's background, criminal and disciplinary history, and training and experience. Prohibits, subject to certain exceptions, a person from acting as an athlete agent without a certificate of registration, and makes void a contract to represent a student or professional athlete made in violation of registration requirements, and makes voidable, at the athlete's election, an agency contract that does not conform to other provisions of the Act. Requires the certificate to be renewed, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 1111 (Negrete McLeod-D) Regulatory boards
Enacts the Consumer Health Protection Enforcement Act that includes various provisions affecting the investigation and enforcement of disciplinary actions against licensees of healing arts boards.
(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 1155 (Dutton-R) Capital access companies
Modifies the Capital Access Company Law (CACL), bringing it into closer alignment with federal provisions used by the Small Business Administration for its licensees. Revises the definition of a small business firm (for purposes of being eligible for financial assistance from capital access companies), using net-worth instead of numbers of employees as the main criteria. Exempts businesses from CACL if they are approved as small business investment companies by the federal Small Business Administration (SBA), and provides for state enforcement of the federal regulations governing small business investment companies. Replaces existing law conflict-of-interest provisions with those used by the SBA for its licensees.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 491 (Dutton-R) which died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee.
SB 1171 (Negrete McLeod-D) Regulatory boards: operations
Abolishes the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and authorizes the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to carry out its duties. Terminates the terms of office of each board member or bureau chief within the Department on unspecified dates and authorizes successor board members and bureau chiefs to be appointed, as specified. Subjects the interior design organizations, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the Tax Education Council, the Naturopathic Medical Committee, and the certification of common interest development managers and massage therapists to review on unspecified dates. Authorizes the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to review the boards, bureaus, or entities that are scheduled to have their board membership or bureau chief so terminated or reviewed, as specified, and authorizes the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to investigate their operations and to hold specified public hearings.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1254 (Leno-D) Contractors: workers' compensation insurance coverage
Authorizes the registrar of the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) to issue a stop order to any unlicensed or licensed contractor who as an employer who has failed to secure workers' compensation insurance coverage for his/her employees, establishes procedures to request a hearing to protest a stop order, and authorizes the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs to designate 12 persons as peace officers for assignment to the special investigations unit of CSLB.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2010
SB 1269 (Oropeza-D) Food donation liability
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Public Health to post on their Internet Web sites and, when possible, disseminate through existing publications, information about state and federal laws that provide tax deductions and liability exemptions relating to the donation of food for charitable purposes.
Vetoed
SB 1308 (Maldonado-R) Food: grocers: display of farm product price
Requires a grocer that directly buys "farm products", as defined, from a farmer to display the price the grocer paid the farmer for his/her farm product. Requires the price to be displayed underneath the price the grocer is charging the consumer for the farm product.
(Died in Senate Food and Agriculture Committee)
SB 1373* (Leno-D) Sales and use taxes: retailer: construction contractor
Deems, for contracts awarded on and after 4/1/11, a construction contractor the retailer of any aggregate-based materials that the contractor fabricates, manufactures, processes, or produces, and permanently incorporates into a construction project. Specifies how the gross receipts from the deemed retail sale are determined.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1417 (Cox-R) Corporations for prevention of cruelty to animals
Implements new procedures and requirements for the appointment, and subsequent training, of humane officers by nonprofit organizations formed for the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals.
Chapter 652, Statutes of 2010
SB 1463 (DeSaulnier-D) Flexible purpose corporations: corporate mergers
Enacts the Corporate Flexibility Act of 2010, and authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of a new form of corporate entity known as a flexible purpose corporation. Authorizes existing corporations and other forms of business entities to merge or convert into a flexible purpose corporation upon completion of specified requirements, including approval of the transaction by a supermajority 2/3 vote of shareholders, or a greater vote if required in the articles, as specified. Prohibits the filing of an agreement of merger or certificate of merger until a certification of satisfaction of the Franchise Tax Board has been filed certifying that all taxes of the party to be terminated by the merger have been paid or secured.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1466 (Cox-R) Professional fiduciaries: definition
Provides, for purposes of counting the number of persons a professional fiduciary may represent at any given time, that an individual shall not be counted if the individual is a beneficiary of a specified trust or fund, and the fiduciary of that trust or fund is a corporation, unincorporated association, trust, or other entity that (1) has been in existence for at least 10 years, (2) is described in Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and (3) is subject to the Supervision of Trustees and Fundraisers for Charitable Purposes Act.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1490* (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Accountants
Deletes the 1/1/11 sunset date for the law authorizing certified public accounting firms to practice in California through a practice privilege, and extends the deadline for the California Board of Accountancy to hold a hearing following the issuance of a report by the California Research Bureau, from 9/1/10, to six months after the report is issued.
Chapter 298, Statutes of 2010
SB 1491 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Professions and vocations
Makes several non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive or technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions pertaining to regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs and professions regulated under the Business and Professions Code.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2010
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 Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
Similar bills were SB 507 (Cox-R) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SCR 63 (Yee-D) Secondhand goods
Urges the Department of Justice to ensure compliance with a requirement to develop a standard format to be used statewide for purposes of electronically reporting secondhand dealer transactions.
Resolution Chapter 16, Statutes of 2010
SCR 73 (DeSaulnier-D) California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness
Continues the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness, sets forth the membership and duties of the Task Force, provides that the Task Force shall conduct business on a volunteer basis, permits the Task Force to accept private funds and in-kind donations, requires the Task Force to submit a report to the Legislature by 6/30/12, and provides that the Task Force will expire on 7/1/14.
Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 2010
SR 33 (Padilla-D) National Engineers Week
Recognizes the week of 2/14/10 to 2/20/10, inclusive, as National Engineers Week and acknowledges the services bestowed upon the citizens of California by engineers.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 36 (Denham-R) National Surveyors Week
Recognizes the week of 3/21/10 through 3/27/10, as National Surveyors Week.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 42 (Cox-R) National Public Works Week
Recognizes the week of 5/16/10 to 5/22/10, inclusive, as National Public Works Week and acknowledges the services bestowed upon the citizens of California by public works officials and their staff.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 87 (Davis-D) Grocery and pharmacy stores: single-use carryout bags
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Similar bills were AB 2216 (Fuentes-D) and AB 2390 (Torrico-D) both of which died on the Senate Floor.
AB 413* (Fuentes-D) Unfair competition
Makes it unlawful for any person to develop, produce, or manufacture any article or product, as defined, using stolen or misappropriated property, including, but not limited to, unlicensed computer software, when the article or product is in competition with an article or product that is lawfully developed, produced, and manufactured.
(Died in Senate Rules 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 655 (Emmerson-R) Self-service storage facilities
Revises the current declaration in opposition to lien sale to inform the occupant that if they oppose the lien sale, they can return the declaration and file a lawsuit for hearing on the validity of the lien no later than 14 days after returning the declaration. Provides that if a valid declaration in opposition to lien sale is received by the owner, as specified, the owner may enforce the lien, as specified. Provides that if a preliminary lien notice has been sent and the total sum due has not been paid within 14 days of the specified termination date, the owner may deny the occupant access to the space, enter the space, and remove the property for safe keeping.
Chapter 439, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 676* (Jeffries-R) Sales and use taxes: consumers
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 746 (Coto-D) Contractors: conflicts of interest
Provides that an independent contractor shall not be deemed to be interested in a contract as a result of the independent contractor's preparation, at the request of a governmental entity, of a document that serves a purpose independent of the contract or other specified documents.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 759 (Ma-D) Expatriate corporations: public contracts
Revises the definition of an "expatriate corporation," and excludes as an expatriate corporation a foreign incorporated entity that is publicly traded in the United States that meets specified conditions, including, among others, that the foreign incorporated entity is created and organized under the laws of a foreign country with which the United States has a comprehensive income tax treaty and is considered a resident of that foreign country for purposes of that treaty or any successor treaty.
Chapter 349, Statutes of 2010
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.
(Died 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.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 918 (Adams-R) Collection boxes
Requires the front of an unattended collection box used for soliciting or collecting donations of personal property to conspicuously display specified information about itself on the exterior of all such collection boxes.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2010
AB 919 (Nava-D) Corporations: political activities: shareholder objections
Requires specified corporations that engage in "political activity", as defined, to mail their California shareholders a Political Activity Report summarizing their political contributions, and allows shareholders who to object to those contributions to receive a pro rata refund of those contributions.
(Failed passage in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2321 (Nava-D) which died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee.
AB 1010 (Galgiani-D) Internet: visual material
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1237 (Garrick-R) Vehicle 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.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1431 (Hill-D) Geologists and geophysicists
Renames the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists and increases its board members from 13 to 15.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2010
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, 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.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1491 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Corporations: boards of directors: diversity
Requires the Secretary of State to investigate the operational status of its registry of potential women and minority candidates for corporate boards and to report its findings to specified legislative policy committees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1604* (Nava-D) Oil Industry Fair Share Act
Imposes a tax upon any producer for the privilege of severing oil from the earth or water in this state for sale, transport, consumption, storage, profit, or use, as provided, at the rate of 10% of the gross value of each barrel of oil severed. The tax is administered by the Board of Equalization (BOE) and collected pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Fee Collection Procedures Law. Requires the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation to make specified certifications and determinations regarding certain oil wells, and to notify the BOE of the certification or determination.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1647 (Hayashi-D) Athletics
Makes it unlawful for any person to hold himself/herself out as an a certified athletic trainer unless he/she has been certified by the Board of Certification, Inc., and has either graduated from a college or university, after completing an accredited athletic training education program, as specified, or completed requirements for certification by the Board of Certification, Inc., prior to 1/1/04. Prohibits an athletic trainer from engaging in athletic training activities unless pursuant to protocols developed by a physician and surgeon for that athletic trainer. Makes it an unfair business practice to violate these provisions.
Vetoed
AB 1652 (Jones-D) Ski resorts: public safety
Imposes specified requirements on ski resorts that operate in California.
Vetoed
AB 1687* (Jeffries-R) Sales and use taxes: destination management companies
Provides that qualified destination management companies shall be regarded as consumers, rather than retailers, of tangible personal property they sell. Contains definitions for a destination management companies, and states that in order to receive consumer status, the destination management companies cannot do business as a caterer. Sunsets on 1/1/16.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1722 (Hagman-R) Collateral recovery
Makes various substantive and clarifying changes to laws that regulate vehicle repossession, impoundment, and release from impoundment, and specifies licensing and qualification requirements for licensed repossessors.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1746 (Emmerson-R) Architects: continuing education
Revises and recasts existing requirements for the California Architects Board to accept self-certification of completed continuing education requirements for license renewals. Requires beginning 1/1/13, licensees to certify compliance with the continuing education requirements and provide documentation of the disabled access continuing education upon request by the Board in an audit. Subjects a licensee who provides false or misleading information relating to the completion of required coursework to administrative citation, which may include an administrative fine, or to disciplinary action by the Board. Authorizes the Board to audit the records of a licensee to verify completion of any of the continuing education requirements, and requires each licensee to maintain records of completion of the required coursework for two years from the date of license renewal and make the records available at the Board's request for auditing.
Chapter 240, Statutes of 2010
AB 1796 (Hall-D) Appraisal management companies
Requires the Office of Real Estate Appraisers to include in its next set of adopted regulations guidance on issues related to appraisal management companies.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1822 (Swanson-D) Massage therapy
Increases the membership of the Massage Therapy Organization board of directors by two members by adding one member selected by the California Police Chiefs Association and one member from the California State Sheriffs' Association, and specifies that no more than two member of law enforcement may serve on the board at any given time.
Vetoed
AB 1835 (Logue-R) Unfair competition: exemption
Exempts a "small business", as defined, from suit and liability under those provisions if the business engages in unfair competition by acting pursuant to a contract for services with a public entity that the business entered into in good faith, without knowledge that acting pursuant to that contract would constitute unfair competition.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1998 (Brownley-D) Single-use carryout bags
Prohibits retailers from providing single-use bags to customers. Authorizes retailers to provide reusable bags that meet specified standards to customers. Requires retailers to provide recycled paper bags to customers for not less than $0.05 per bag.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2038 (Eng-D) Professional or occupational licenses
Provides, from 1/1/12 until 1/1/16, the authority for the Franchise Tax Board and state governmental licensing entities to suspend state occupational and professional licenses because of unpaid income tax liabilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2076 (Salas-D) Business location representations: floral services
Makes it unlawful for a provider or vendor of "floral or ornamental products or services", as defined, to misrepresent the geographic location of its business, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2118 (Hernandez-D) Vehicle dealers: consumer credit score disclosure
Requires vehicle dealers to provide a credit score disclosure notice that conforms to federal requirements. Requires a vehicle dealer who obtains a consumer credit score from a consumer credit reporting agency in regard to the potential purchase or lease of a motor vehicle for personal, family, or household use, to provide the consumer prior to the sale or lease of the vehicle, in at least 10-point type on a document separate from the sale or lease contract, a credit score disclosure notice that meets the form and content requirements in the Code of Federal Regulations, as those requirements may be amended.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2128 (Gaines-R) Private security services: insurance policies
Requires a private patrol operator employing any security guard to maintain an insurance policy with minimum limits of $1 million for loss due to bodily injury and death, and $1 million for loss due to injury or destruction of property.
Vetoed
AB 2130 (Huber-D) Professions and vocations: sunset review
Abolishes the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and instead makes "eligible agencies", as defined, subject to review by the Joint Sunset Review Committee. Initially specifies five agencies which would be subject to review and have a sunset date of December 2012. Requires the Joint Sunset Review Committee to report to the public and the Legislature on whether an agency should be terminated, or continued, or whether its functions should be revised or consolidated with those of another agency, and include any other recommendations as necessary to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the agency and any proposed legislation to carry out its recommendations.
Chapter 670, Statutes of 2010
AB 2158 (Hagman-R) Corporations
Removes the sunset on existing provisions of law requiring an interested or common director of a corporation to disclose all material facts in transactions in which the interested or common director has a self-interest, thereby making these provisions of law permanent.
Chapter 91, Statutes of 2010
AB 2216 (Fuentes-D) Works of improvement: progress payments
Requires that for private and public works of improvement, a prime contractor or subcontractor pay to any subcontractor, not later than seven days (currently 10 days) after receipt of each progress payment, the respective amount allowed the contractor on account of the work performed by the subcontractors. Requires, with regard to a contract entered into on or after 1/1/11, that written notice given to the surety and the bond principal be given prior to the completion of the project, or recordation of a notice of completion, as specified. Prohibits retention proceeds from exceeding 5% of the payment for those contracts entered into on or after 1/1/11, between a "public entity", as defined, and an original contractor, between an original contractor and a subcontractor, and between all subcontractors. Prohibits progress payments upon public works contracts from being made in excess of 100% (currently 95%) of the percentage of actual work completed, and requires the Department of General Services to withhold not more than 5% (currently not less) of the contract price until final completion and acceptance of the project.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
Similar bills were AB 396 (Fuentes-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee and AB 2390 (Torrico-D) which died on the Senate Floor.
AB 2264 (De Leon-D) Debt collection: homeless youth
Prohibits courts from garnishing the wages or levying against the bank accounts of a person under 25 years of age who has not paid a ticket for truancy, loitering, curfew violations or illegal lodging where, in the course of its routine efforts to collect fines, the court obtains information indicating that person is homeless, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2281 (Miller-R) Corporate disclosures
Provides that publicly-traded corporations be deemed to have satisfied various reporting requirements if the corporation includes certain information disclosed pursuant to federal securities laws. Provides guidance to publicly-traded corporations as to what type of fees and descriptions of related services must be disclosed by a corporation. Clarifies that publicly-traded corporations should disclose the amount of compensation and the number of any shares issued, options for shares granted, and similar equity-based compensation separately. Clarifies when and how certain loans to directors must be disclosed by publicly-traded corporations. Requires publicly-traded corporations to disclose any material legal proceedings.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2288 (Blakeslee-R) Issuers of securities: real estate brokers: hard money
Requires an issuer engaging in hard money lending to maintain records for three years of copies of all listings, deposit receipts, canceled checks, trust records, and other documents executed by him/her or obtained by him/her in connection with any transactions as required; establish a contractual agreement with the person to whom the issuer sells a limited or general partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership trust, joint venture, unincorporated association, or similar organization formed and operated for the primary purpose of investing in mortgage loans; and maintain a surety bond with specific criteria.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2321 (Nava-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: corporations
Requires a corporation that makes a contribution or expenditure for a "political activity" in the State of California, as defined, to prepare a report within 30 days after the close of the corporation's fiscal year containing specified information regarding all contributions or expenditures made by the corporation for political activities in the State of California during that fiscal year. Requires the corporation to maintain records of those contributions or expenditures, including the report described above, for a period of not less than five years, and to file a copy of the report with the Fair Political Practices Commission upon request of the Commission. Gives shareholders of a corporation the right to file a notice of objection to the corporation's use of the shareholder's invested funds for political activities in the State of California and requires the corporation, if a shareholder so objects, to return to the shareholder as a dividend his/her pro rata share of the funds expended for political activities.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
A similar bills was AB 919 (Nava-D) which failed passage in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee.
AB 2332 (Eng-D) Contractors: licenses
Authorizes the Contractors State License Board to suspend or deny a contractor license to a licensee who fails to resolve tax liabilities assessed by the Board of Equalization.
Vetoed
AB 2361 (Ruskin-D) Weights and measures: inspection: fees
Extends the sunset date on the authority of the board of supervisors of a county to charge fees to recover the costs of the county sealer to perform specified duties until 1/1/13.
Chapter 260, Statutes of 2010
AB 2390 (Torrico-D) Works of improvement: progress payments
Requires that for private and public works of improvement, a prime contractor or subcontractor pay to any subcontractor, not later than seven days (currently 10 days) after receipt of each progress payment, the respective amount allowed the contractor on account of the work performed by the subcontractors. Requires, with regard to a contract entered into on or after 1/1/11, that written notice given to the surety and the bond principal be given prior to the completion of the project, or recordation of a notice of completion, as specified. Prohibits retention proceeds from exceeding 5% of the payment for those contracts entered into on or after 1/1/11, between a "public entity", as defined, and an original contractor, between an original contractor and a subcontractor, and between all subcontractors. This section would be repealed as of 1/1/15. Prohibits progress payments upon public works contracts from being made in excess of 100% (currently 95%) of the percentage of actual work completed, and requires the Department of General Services to withhold not more than 5% (currently not less) of the contract price until final completion and acceptance of the project.
(Died on Senate Floor)
Similar bills were AB 396 (Fuentes-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee and AB 2216 (Fuentes-D) which failed passage on the Senate Floor.
AB 2419 (Cook-R) Contractors
Renames the Contractors' State License Law the "Contractors State License Law," and renames the Contractors' State License Board the "Contractors State License Board," revises and renames contractor classification titles to conform with current usage, and makes technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes related to these provisions.
Vetoed
AB 2432 (John Perez-D) Food facilities: prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous foods
Exempts a permanent food facility that has less than 300 square feet of display area, and that sells only prepackaged food that is not potentially hazardous food, from the requirements of the California Retail Food Code, except for specified provisions.
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2010
AB 2453 (Tran-R) Oil and gas: operations: enforcement actions
Clarifies the judicial standard of review for an enforcement action of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, and expands procedural safeguards for an administrative appeal of an enforcement action, including the use of the Office of Administrative Hearings.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2010
AB 2458 (Saldana-D) Taxation: penalties: limited liability companies
Extends the due date for the payment of the limited liability company fee underpayment penalty imposed on "small businesses", as defined, and requires the provision to be applied to penalties imposed on or after 1/1/11, and before 1/1/16.
Vetoed
AB 2500 (Hagman-R) Professions and vocations: licenses: military service
Authorizes a licensee or registrant whose license expired while on active duty as a member of the California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces to reinstate his/her license without examination or penalty, as specified.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2010
AB 2522 (Saldana-D) Professional sports teams: public funding prohibition
Prohibits a professional sports team located in this state, as specified, from being eligible to receive "state financial assistance", as defined, in the fiscal year following any fiscal year in which a broadcast of any home sporting event of that team is blacked out.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2576 (Nielsen-R) Garment manufacturing
Exempts silk screening and embroidering from provisions of current law regulating garment manufacturing.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2597 (Bill Berryhill-R) Vehicle manufacturers and distributors
Prohibits a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch from unfairly discriminating in favor of a motorsports dealer when acting as a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch of motorsports vehicles, and from requiring or attempting to require a motorsports dealer to maintain a motorsports inventory in a specified manner.
Vetoed
AB 2627 (Nielsen-R) General contractors: participation goals
Expands the Business Utilization Plan to allow general contractors an alternative means of receiving disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE) participation credit on their state contract solicitations. Allows the use of the DVBE bidding incentive to those general contractors that have an approved Business Utilization Plan. However, the use of a Business Utilization Plan does not apply towards a department's totals in meeting its required 3% DVBE participation goals which means state departments will need to offer additional incentives to achieve DVBE participation goals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2640* (Arambula-IN) Income taxes: credits: sales tax on qualified property
Repeals the exclusion for employer-provided subsidies for parking at or near the job site or van-pool site. Allows a personal income tax and corporation tax credit for equipment and other qualifying property purchased by manufacturers for use in California. Provides that the credit is equal to the General Fund portion of the sales taxes paid on the purchase of the property (currently equal to 6% of the purchase price). Provides that the manufacturers' credit will be capped at $100 million in 2011, with the cap adjusted for inflation in succeeding years. Provides that the credit will be allocated by the Franchise Tax Board on a first-come-first-served basis. Under this system, the business would apply for credit reservations, and those applying after the $100 million cap is reached would be put on a waiting list to claim the credit the following year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2649 (Torrico-D) Professional or occupational licenses
Requires a "state governmental licensing entity", as defined, and excluding the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Contractor's State License Board, to provide to the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) the name and social security number or federal taxpayer identification number of each individual licensee of that entity. Requires the FTB, if a licensee fails to pay taxes for which a notice of state tax lien has been recorded, as specified, to mail a preliminary notice of suspension to the licensee. Provides that the license of a licensee who fails to satisfy the unpaid taxes by a certain date shall be automatically suspended, except as specified, and requires the FTB to provide a notice of suspension to the applicable state governmental licensing entity and to mail a notice of suspension to the licensee, and provides that the suspension be canceled upon compliance with the tax obligation.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 2654 (Hill-D) Solicitations
Specifies requirements for solicitations that could be construed or interpreted as involving a governmental entity, including certain disclosures on the front and back of every page of the solicitation, establishes penalties for violating specified disclosure requirements, and makes various technical changes.
Vetoed
AB 2658 (Conway-R) Short line railroads
Requires the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to prepare a five-year Short Line Commercial Rail Haul Connectivity Plan for the state, the focus of which would be to identify, with a statewide emphasis, opportunities for short line commercial rail system improvements and linkages. Requires the plan (1) to include desirable linkages and feeder opportunities between short line commercial rail services, and to identify the coordination in planning and the capital investments necessary in that regard, (2) to identify future right-of-way needs of short line commercial rail lines in connection with state and local highway system improvements in order to accommodate future rail system improvements, and (3) to be developed in consultation with the agencies and entities responsible for the various rail and highway systems.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2659 (Tran-R) Business licensing: Business Master License Center
Creates the Business Master License Center (BMLC) within the State and Consumer Services Agency as a one-stop system for all business licenses within the state. Establishes the BMLC's duties, which include developing and administering a computerized one-stop licensing system, identifying types of licenses appropriate for inclusion in the system, and recommending to the governor and the Legislature the elimination, consolidation, or other modification of duplicative, ineffective, or inefficient licensing or inspection requirements. Lists agencies that are required to participate in the BMLC, and permits the governor to appoint a third-party facilitator from the business community who shall report directly to, and serve at the pleasure of, the governor. Requires the third-party facilitator to provide oversight over the creation of the BMLC and the development of the system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2733 (Ruskin-D) Cigarettes and tobacco products
Prohibits the transfer of title or possession of cigarettes or tobacco products without consideration, exchange, or barter if the cigarettes or tobacco products had been purchased for resale under a license issued pursuant to the California Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act and the transfer occurs without a license or after receipt of a notice of suspension or revocation of the license.
Chapter 607, Statutes of 2010
AB 2783 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Professions and vocations: military personnel
States the Military Department shall be consulted before adopting rules and regulations that provide for the licensure and regulation of certain businesses, occupations, and professions by specified boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs created under the Business and Professions Code.
Chapter 214, Statutes of 2010
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 3 | Cedillo-D Workers' compensation: permanent disability benefits | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 71* | Padilla-D Economic development: environmental technology project | Economic Development |
| SB 107* | Walters-R Nonprofit organizations: sales and use tax exemption | Miscellaneous |
| SB 145 | DeSaulnier-D Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 156 | Wright-D Insurance: fraud prevention and detection | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 187 | Benoit-R Employment: working hours | Labor Relations |
| SB 189 | Lowenthal-D Mechanics liens | Miscellaneous |
| SB 222* | Ducheny-D Unemployment compensation: wages | Unemployment Insurance |
| 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 294 | Negrete McLeod-D Professions and vocations: regulation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 341 | DeSaulnier-D Pharmaceuticals: adverse drug reactions | Miscellaneous |
| SB 355 | Romero-D Economy hotels: police calls | Miscellaneous |
| SB 356 | Wright-D Small businesses: regulations | Small Business |
| SB 358 | Ducheny-D Economic development: Indian tribes | Economic Development |
| SB 374 | Calderon-D Personal trainers | Miscellaneous |
| 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 401 | Wolk-D Mortgage debt | 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 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 Preparers of food | Miscellaneous |
| SB 472* | Dutton-R Income and corporation taxes: net capital gains: exclusion | Economic Development |
| SB 477 | Florez-D Employment: heat illness prevention | 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 568* | Hollingsworth-R Income and corporation taxes: capital gains | Economic Development |
| SB 600* | Padilla-D Cigarette and tobacco products taxes | Miscellaneous |
| SB 601 | Padilla-D Retail tobacco licenses | Miscellaneous |
| SB 602* | Padilla-D Preparers of food | 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 660 | Wolk-D Reverse mortgages | Financial Institutions |
| SB 665 | Cedillo-D Employment: meal periods | Labor Relations |
| SB 675 | Steinberg-D Energy job training | Economic Development |
| SB 682 | Padilla-D Occupational training: individuals with exceptional needs | Economic Development |
| SB 683 | Calderon-D Workers' compensation: group self-insurers: audits | Workers' Compensation |
| 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 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 807 | Benoit-R Employment: meal and rest periods | Labor Relations |
| SB 875 | Price-D Qualified securities offerings: exemption | Miscellaneous |
| SB 879 | Cox-R Counties: cities: construction projects: alternative bidding | Economic Development |
| SB 903 | Wright-D Penalty collections: limitations | Labor Relations |
| SB 908 | Wyland-R Meal and rest periods: exceptions | Labor Relations |
| SB 909 | Wright-D Employment: consumer reporting agencies: disclosures | Labor Relations |
| SB 931 | Ducheny-D Mortgages: deficiency judgments | Financial Institutions |
| SB 939* | Aanestad-R Income and corporation tax credits: Oroville enterprise zone | Economic Development |
| SB 954 | Harman-R Jobs Protection Act: legislative oversight | Economic Development |
| SB 964 | Alquist-D Workforce development program: high-speed rail | Economic Development |
| SB 968 | Negrete McLeod-D Unemployment insurance: training and retraining benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 974* | Steinberg-D Income and corporations tax: hiring and career credits | Economic Development |
| SB 980 | Huff-R Business licensing: Business Master License Center | Miscellaneous |
| SB 985* | Dutton-R Income tax credits: education and training | Economic Development |
| SB 989* | Hollingsworth-R Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 | Labor Relations |
| SB 990* | Dutton-R Employment: meal periods | Labor Relations |
| SB 1000 | Correa-D Mortgages and deeds of trust: portable appraisals | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1004 | Huff-R Vehicle licensed dealers and salespersons: credit scores | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1008* | Padilla-D Engineering/land surveying: limited liability partnerships | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1017 | Huff-R Sale of goods: breach: damages | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1043 | Calderon-D Personal trainers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1053* | Runner-R Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment | Economic Development |
| SB 1056* | Denham-R Income taxes: hiring credit: veterans | Economic Development |
| SB 1073* | Ashburn-R Income taxes: renewable energy | Economic Development |
| SB 1074* | Ashburn-R Manufacturer's investment credit: qualified renewable energy | Economic Development |
| SB 1084 | Liu-D California Economic Security Task Force | Economic Development |
| SB 1098 | Corbett-D Athlete agents | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1108 | Price-D Small business participation: public contracts | Small Business |
| SB 1111 | Negrete McLeod-D Regulatory boards | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1121 | Florez-D Overtime wages: agricultural workers | Labor Relations |
| SB 1137 | Senate Banking, Finance And Insurance Committee Mortgage lending | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1146 | Florez-D Finance lenders | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1155 | Dutton-R Capital access companies | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1171 | Negrete McLeod-D Regulatory boards: operations | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1175 | Price-D California Travel and Tourism Commission: trade promotion | World Trade and Tourism |
| SB 1178 | Corbett-D Real property: deficiency judgments | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1180 | Dutton-R Right to work: labor organizations | Labor Relations |
| SB 1197* | Calderon-D Taxes: credits: qualified motion picture production | Economic Development |
| SB 1211 | Romero-D Unemployment insurance: elected officials | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 1213 | Cedillo-D Electronic access to claims information | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 1221 | Calderon-D Mortgages: notice of sale | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1223 | Calderon-D Escrow agents | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1230 | DeSaulnier-D Employment: posting requirements | Labor Relations |
| SB 1239* | Wyland-R Income and corporation taxes: sales and use taxes | Economic Development |
| SB 1244 | Walters-R Employment taxes and contributions | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 1254 | Leno-D Contractors: workers' compensation insurance coverage | Workers' Compensation Miscellaneous |
| SB 1259 | DeSaulnier-D Economic Development and Job Creation Agency | Economic Development |
| SB 1267 | Aanestad-R Labor violations: penalties: exceptions | Labor Relations |
| SB 1269 | Oropeza-D Food donation liability | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1275 | Leno-D Mortgages: foreclosures | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1304 | DeSaulnier-D Employment: leave and benefits | Labor Relations |
| SB 1308 | Maldonado-R Food: grocers: display of farm product price | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1335 | Cox-R Employment: working hours | Labor Relations |
| SB 1344 | Kehoe-D Depository institutions: local agency investments | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1363 | Runner-R Escrow agents | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1370 | Ducheny-D Employment contract requirements | Labor Relations |
| SB 1373* | Leno-D Sales and use taxes: retailer: construction contractor | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1397 | Corbett-D Apprenticeship oversight | Labor Relations |
| SB 1407 | Senate Banking, Finance And Insurance Committee Insurance: State Compensation Insurance Fund: investments | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 1417 | Cox-R Corporations for prevention of cruelty to animals | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1427 | Price-D Foreclosures: property maintenance | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1438 | DeSaulnier-D Unemployment insurance | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 1463 | DeSaulnier-D Flexible purpose corporations: corporate mergers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1466 | Cox-R Professional fiduciaries: definition | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1472 | Leno-D Shared work program | Economic Development |
| SB 1474 | Steinberg-D Agricultural labor representatives: elections | Labor Relations |
| SB 1490* | Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee Accountants | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1491 | Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee Professions and vocations | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1495 | Senate Labor And Industrial Relations Committee Unemployment insurance: use of information for tax purposes | Unemployment Insurance |
| SCR 38 | Wright-D Gasoline stations: vapor recovery systems | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 49 | DeSaulnier-D Federal economic recovery plan funds | Economic Development |
| SCR 59 | Cedillo-D Small business: public contracts | Small Business |
| SCR 63 | Yee-D Secondhand goods | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 73 | DeSaulnier-D California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness | Miscellaneous |
| SJR 29 | Wright-D Aerospace industry: C-17 production | Economic Development |
| SJR 30 | Kehoe-D Deferred compensation plans | Labor Relations |
| SR 33 | Padilla-D National Engineers Week | Miscellaneous |
| SR 36 | Denham-R National Surveyors Week | Miscellaneous |
| SR 42 | Cox-R National Public Works Week | Miscellaneous |
| SR 47 | Price-D Small business jobs and credit act | Small Business |
| SB 32X4 | Corbett-D Enterprise zones: City of Fremont | Economic Development |
| AB 87 | Davis-D Grocery and pharmacy stores: single-use carryout bags | Miscellaneous |
| AB 128 | Coto-D Workers' compensation: cancer presumption | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 141 | Tran-R Employment: working hours | Labor Relations |
| AB 161 | Adams-R Corporations: notices and reports | Miscellaneous |
| AB 165 | Carter-D Microenterprises: economic development | Small Business |
| AB 177 | Ruskin-D Small businesses and disabled veteran businesses: contracts | Small Business |
| AB 179* | Portantino-D Wages: temporary workers | Labor Relations |
| AB 227 | Cook-R Labor standards: consultation unit | Labor Relations |
| AB 230* | Charles Calderon-D Banking: Internet transactions: verification | Financial Institutions |
| AB 255 | Anderson-R Internet security: virtual globe technology | Miscellaneous |
| AB 276 | Hayashi-D Professional fiduciaries: licensing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 309 | Price-D Small business participation: public contracts | Small Business |
| AB 323 | Yamada-D Automobile tires | Miscellaneous |
| AB 327* | Garrick-R Minimum annual tax | Miscellaneous |
| AB 340* | Knight-R Income taxes: credits: hiring credit | Economic Development |
| AB 350 | Lieu-D Debt management and settlement | Financial Institutions |
| AB 365 | Ammiano-D Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act | Financial Institutions |
| 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 394 | Torrico-D Sales and use taxes: exemption: automobile manufacturing | Economic Development |
| AB 396 | Fuentes-D Works of improvement: liens | Miscellaneous |
| AB 413* | Fuentes-D Unfair competition | Miscellaneous |
| AB 448 | Torres-D Financial education | Financial Institutions |
| AB 450 | De La Torre-D Oil refineries | Miscellaneous |
| AB 482 | Mendoza-D Employment: credit reports | Labor Relations |
| AB 493 | Tran-R Employment and Benefits Appeals Board | Labor Relations Workers' Compensation Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 507 | Arambula-IN Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act | Economic Development |
| AB 514 | De Leon-D Employment: lactation accommodation | Labor Relations |
| AB 516 | Niello-R Workers' compensation: temporary disability | Workers' Compensation |
| 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* | Ma-D Workers' compensation: San Francisco peace officers | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 603 | Skinner-D Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure | Financial Institutions |
| AB 615 | Niello-R Workers' compensation: definitions | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 655 | Emmerson-R Self-service storage facilities | 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: consumers | 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 746 | Coto-D Contractors: conflicts of interest | Miscellaneous |
| AB 759 | Ma-D Expatriate corporations: public contracts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 792 | Duvall-R Business: mail solicitations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 797 | Ma-D Accountants: discipline: Internet posting | Miscellaneous |
| AB 801 | Duvall-R Workers' compensation: individual identifiable information | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 810 | Caballero-D Sales and use tax exemption: manufacturing equipment | Economic Development |
| AB 816 | Hagman-R Unemployment insurance: Employment Training Fund | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 842 | Swanson-D Employment | Labor Relations |
| AB 849 | Swanson-D Family and medical leave | 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 907 | Chesbro-D California Oil Recycling Enhancement Act: rerefined oil | Miscellaneous |
| AB 918 | Adams-R Collection boxes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 919 | Nava-D Corporations: political activities: shareholder objections | Miscellaneous |
| AB 933 | Fong-D Workers' compensation: utilization review | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 946 | Salas-D Employment: temporary service employee wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 948 | Logue-R Workers' compensation: mandatory notice | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 953 | Eng-D Financial institution employees: access to records | Financial Institutions |
| AB 970 | Block-D Economic development: local government | Economic Development |
| AB 978 | V. Manuel Perez-D State Chief Information Officer: duties | Economic Development |
| AB 990 | Jones-D Safety in employment: ski resorts | Labor Relations |
| AB 1000 | Ma-D Employment: paid sick days | Labor Relations |
| AB 1001 | Skinner-D Employment: familial status protection | Labor Relations |
| AB 1010 | Galgiani-D Internet: visual material | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1021 | Emmerson-R Food processing establishments: suspension | Miscellaneous |
| 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 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 1106* | Fuentes-D Small business development corporations | Small Business |
| AB 1139* | John Perez-D Enterprise zones: income taxes | Economic Development |
| 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 1213 | Skinner-D Employment of persons with disabilities | Economic Development |
| AB 1237 | Garrick-R Vehicle manufacturers and distributors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1268 | Gaines-R Financial institutions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1298* | Coto-D Unemployment Insurance Program | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1320 | Fong-D Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative Program | Economic Development Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1323 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Workforce development: one-stop career centers | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1372 | Feuer-D Food processing establishments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1373 | Skinner-D Grant deed copy services | Financial Institutions |
| 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 1410 | Bass-D State Infrastructure Revolving Fund Program | Economic Development |
| AB 1420 | V. Manuel Perez-D Economic development: research | Economic Development |
| AB 1421 | Swanson-D Employment: work hours | Labor Relations |
| AB 1431 | Hill-D Geologists and geophysicists | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1446 | Feuer-D Trade secrets: disclosure by public agencies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1460 | Solorio-D Economic development | Economic Development World Trade and Tourism |
| 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 1534 | V. Manuel Perez-D Contractors: mortgage loans | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1548 | Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Payment instruments | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1554 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy Committee Economic development: omnibus bill | Economic Development |
| 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 1560 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Professional employer organizations: regulation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1564 | Assembly Insurance Committee Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1565* | Buchanan-D Income and corporation taxes: credits: research | Economic Development |
| AB 1588* | Bass-D Monitored Mortgage Workout Program | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1591 | Yamada-D Wages: prohibited forms of payment | Labor Relations |
| AB 1603 | Solorio-D Workers' compensation: temporary partial disability | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1604* | Nava-D Oil Industry Fair Share Act | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1632* | Assembly Budget Committee Small business development: budget trailer bill | Small Business |
| AB 1639 | Nava-D Facilitated Mortgage Workout Program | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1647 | Hayashi-D Athletics | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1652 | Jones-D Ski resorts: public safety | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1657 | De La Torre-D Enterprise zones: City of Downey | Economic Development |
| AB 1687* | Jeffries-R Sales and use taxes: destination management companies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1696 | Bill Berryhill-R Workers compensation: death benefits | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1719* | Harkey-R Sales and use taxes: exemption: business equipment | Economic Development |
| AB 1722 | Hagman-R Collateral recovery | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1746 | Emmerson-R Architects: continuing education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1777 | Portantino-D Creative Industry and Community Economic Revitalization Act | Economic Development |
| AB 1791 | Monning-D Fort Ord Reuse Development Plan: project area territory | Economic Development |
| AB 1796 | Hall-D Appraisal management companies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1804 | Hagman-R Employment Training Fund | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1812* | Silva-R Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment | Economic Development |
| AB 1814 | Buchanan-D Discrimination in employment | Labor Relations |
| AB 1822 | Swanson-D Massage therapy | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1827 | Arambula-IN Workforce development: one-stop career centers | Economic Development Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1833 | Logue-R Regulations: economic impact analysis | Economic Development |
| AB 1835 | Logue-R Unfair competition: exemption | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1881 | Monning-D Recovery of wages: liquidated damages | Labor Relations |
| AB 1897 | Jones-D State Compensation Insurance Fund | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1903 | Fong-D California Workforce and Economic Information Program | Economic Development Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1918 | Davis-D Small business: public utilities procurement | Small Business |
| AB 1977 | Cook-R Department of Industrial Relations: Ombudsman | Small Business Labor Relations |
| AB 1994 | Skinner-D Workers' compensation: hospital employees | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1998 | Brownley-D Single-use carryout bags | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2004 | Beall-D Job creation, work incentive, and work subsidy programs | Economic Development |
| AB 2024 | Blumenfield-D Loan modification | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2030 | Yamada-D Unemployment: Self-Employment Assistance Program | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2032 | Davis-D Employment: entertainment work permits | Labor Relations |
| AB 2038 | Eng-D Professional or occupational licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2043 | Torrico-D Mortgage assistance: redevelopment funds | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2055 | De La Torre-D Unemployment insurance: benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2058 | Block-D Unemployment insurance: retraining benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2076 | Salas-D Business location representations: floral services | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2118 | Hernandez-D Vehicle dealers: consumer credit score disclosure | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2126* | Garrick-R Minimum annual tax: exemptions: corporations | Economic Development |
| AB 2128 | Gaines-R Private security services: insurance policies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2130 | Huber-D Professions and vocations: sunset review | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2135 | De La Torre-D Home delivery entities: registration | Labor Relations |
| AB 2158 | Hagman-R Corporations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2187 | Arambula-IN Employment: payment of wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 2188* | Bradford-D Unemployment compensation: disability benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2189 | Ma-D Loan modification agreements | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2196 | Smyth-R Small business advocate: report on costly regulations | Small Business |
| AB 2211* | Fuentes-D Work-based learning | Economic Development |
| AB 2216 | Fuentes-D Works of improvement: progress payments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2236 | Monning-D Mortgages: notices to the borrower | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2242 | Davis-D Talent agencies: employment inquiries | Labor Relations |
| AB 2247 | Niello-R Workers' compensation: local inmates | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2249 | Ruskin-D Small business or disabled veteran businesses | Small Business |
| AB 2253 | Coto-D Workers' compensation: cancer presumption | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2257 | Nava-D Financial services | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2264 | De Leon-D Debt collection: homeless youth | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2269 | Adams-R Workers' compensation: injury presumption: heart trouble | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2278* | Anderson-R Income and corporation tax credits: research and development | Economic Development |
| AB 2279 | Evans-D Surplus state property: County of Napa | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2281 | Miller-R Corporate disclosures | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2288 | Blakeslee-R Issuers of securities: real estate brokers: hard money | Financial Institutions Miscellaneous |
| AB 2291 | Fletcher-R Mortgages: impound accounts | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2299 | Blakeslee-R Economic development: Air Resources Board rules | Economic Development |
| AB 2305 | Knight-R Workers' compensation insurance coverage: contractors | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2321 | Nava-D Political Reform Act of 1974: corporations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2325 | Lieu-D Mortgage foreclosure consultants: loan audits | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2328 | Niello-R Small business owner: Air Resources Board | Small Business |
| AB 2332 | Eng-D Contractors: licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2340 | Monning-D Employee's right to bereavement leave | Labor Relations |
| AB 2347 | Feuer-D Mortgage defaults: secondary public financing | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2349 | Fong-D Workforce development: Youth at Work Program | Economic Development |
| AB 2355 | Smyth-R Public works: design-build | Economic Development |
| AB 2361 | Ruskin-D Weights and measures: inspection: fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2364 | Nava-D Unemployment insurance: benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2390 | Torrico-D Works of improvement: progress payments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2393 | Ammiano-D California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 | Economic Development |
| AB 2396 | Solorio-D Workers' compensation insurance: rating organizations | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2397 | Solorio-D Workers' compensation: public employees: leaves of absence | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2419 | Cook-R Contractors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2424 | Niello-R Employment: payment of wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 2428 | Buchanan-D Economic development: Green Technology Zone Pilot Program | Economic Development |
| AB 2432 | John Perez-D Food facilities: prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous foods | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2433 | Ruskin-D Unemployment insurance: use of information for tax purposes | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2437 | V. Manuel Perez-D Economic development | Economic Development |
| AB 2443 | V. Manuel Perez-D State government: international relations | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 2453 | Tran-R Oil and gas: operations: enforcement actions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2457 | Salas-D California Financial Literacy Fund | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2458 | Saldana-D Taxation: penalties: limited liability companies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2468 | De Leon-D Workplace designation: lactation accommodation | Labor Relations |
| AB 2476 | V. Manuel Perez-D Enterprise zones: targeted employment area | Economic Development |
| AB 2490 | Jones-D Workers' compensation insurance | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2500 | Hagman-R Professions and vocations: licenses: military service | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2511 | Skinner-D Unemployment benefits: deferred deposit transactions | Unemployment Insurance Financial Institutions |
| AB 2518 | V. Manuel Perez-D California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank | Economic Development |
| AB 2522 | Saldana-D Professional sports teams: public funding prohibition | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2525* | Blumenfield-D Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment | Economic Development |
| AB 2531 | Fuentes-D Economic development: redevelopment | Economic Development |
| AB 2538 | Niello-R Unemployment insurance: notices | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2570 | Ma-D Unemployment insurance: professional employer organizations | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2576 | Nielsen-R Garment manufacturing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2577 | Knight-R Employment: taxes and contributions: aerospace industry | Economic Development Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2579 | Evans-D Infrastructure Financing and Development Commission | Economic Development |
| AB 2581 | Bradford-D Banking development districts | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2585 | Bradford-D State Contract Act: project notification requirements | Economic Development |
| AB 2593 | Bradford-D Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2597 | Bill Berryhill-R Vehicle manufacturers and distributors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2617* | Tran-R Income taxes: credit: new jobs | Economic Development |
| AB 2625 | Villines-R Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2627 | Nielsen-R General contractors: participation goals | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2628 | V. Manuel Perez-D Workforce development: Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness | Economic Development |
| AB 2630* | Emmerson-R Income tax: credits: full-time employees: hires | Economic Development |
| AB 2640* | Arambula-IN Income taxes: credits: sales tax on qualified property | Economic Development Miscellaneous |
| AB 2649 | Torrico-D Professional or occupational licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2654 | Hill-D Solicitations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2658 | Conway-R Short line railroads | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2659 | Tran-R Business licensing: Business Master License Center | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2671* | Cook-R Taxes: corporations: LLCs minimum franchise tax: exemption | Economic Development |
| AB 2678 | Fuentes-D Mortgages: Notice of sale | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2687 | Bradford-D Income taxes: credit: trade infrastructure investment | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 2692 | Tran-R California Small Business Board | Small Business |
| AB 2696 | Bass-D California Workforce Investment Board: green collar jobs | Economic Development |
| AB 2708 | Bill Berryhill-R Small business: state contracts: procurement practices | Small Business |
| AB 2714 | V. Manuel Perez-D Office of Small Business Advocate | Small Business |
| AB 2726 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Employment Development Department: one-stop career centers | Economic Development Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2727 | Bradford-D Employment applicant information: criminal history | Labor Relations |
| AB 2733 | Ruskin-D Cigarettes and tobacco products | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2734 | John Perez-D Office of Economic Development | Economic Development |
| AB 2748 | Furutani-D Unemployment insurance: retraining benefits | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2749 | Logue-R Workers' compensation: lien claims | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2770 | Monning-D Employee wages and working hours: violators | Labor Relations |
| AB 2771 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Wage statement: violations | Labor Relations |
| AB 2772 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Labor Commissioner: appeals | Labor Relations |
| AB 2773 | Swanson-D Fair employment: civil action | Labor Relations |
| AB 2774 | Swanson-D Occupational safety and health | Labor Relations |
| AB 2778 | Assembly Insurance Committee Unemployment insurance: voluntary plans | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2779* | Solorio-D Workers' compensation: compounded drugs | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2780* | Solorio-D Workers' compensation: individually identifiable information | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2781 | Assembly Insurance Committee California Insurance Guarantee Association | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2783 | Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee Professions and vocations: military personnel | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2789 | Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Money transmission | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2798 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy Committee Economic development | Economic Development |
| AB 2799 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy Committee International relations | World Trade and Tourism |
| ACR 83 | Logue-R Employment: improving economic opportunities | Economic Development |
| ACR 101 | Furutani-D Buy California Small Business First Month | Small Business |
| ACR 147 | Lieu-D Financial Aid and Literacy Month | Financial Institutions |
| ACR 155 | Skinner-D Equal Pay for Women Day | Labor Relations |
| 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 |
| AJR 23 | De Leon-D Economic crisis | Economic Development |
| AJR 27 | Torrico-D Colombia-United States free trade agreement | World Trade and Tourism |
| AJR 45 | Fong-D Lifelong Learning Accounts | Labor Relations Unemployment Insurance |
| HR 18 | Price-D Small businesses | Small Business |
| HR 21 | Jones-D Financial institution divestiture | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2X2 | Lieu-D Lending | Financial Institutions |