Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.
Consumerism
SB 51* (Wright-D) Internet gambling: consumer protection
Establishes the Internet Gambling Consumer Protection and Public-Private Partnership Act of 2013, a framework to authorize intrastate Internet gambling, as specified. Prohibits the offer or play of any gambling game provided over the Internet that is not authorized by the state pursuant to this bill.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 207 (Cannella-R) Internet: information disclosure
Modifies the requirement that the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists disclose information on the Internet about its registrants and licensees to exclude disclosing the address of record of a licensee.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 383 (Jackson-D) Online transactions: personal identification
Expands the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act to online transactions involving an electronic downloadable product by authorizing a person or entity that accepts credit cards in an online transaction involving an electronic downloadable product to require a cardholder to provide personal identification information, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 600 (Lieu-D) Drugs: supply chain: consumer protection
Repeals provisions of existing Pharmacy Law to conform to the federal Drug Quality and Security Act. Declares that any foreign dangerous drug that is not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration or that is obtained outside the state-licensed supply chain is misbranded. Provides that anyone who purchases that drug is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $10,000.
Chapter 492, Statutes of 2014
SB 686 (Jackson-D) Safety recalls: used vehicles
Prohibits a vehicle dealer from selling a used vehicle if the dealer knows or should have known that the vehicle is subject to a manufacturer's safety recall and does not correct the defect.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 962 (Leno-D) Smartphones: sales: technological solutions
Requires smartphones manufactured on or after 7/1/15, and sold in California after that date, to contain a technological solution at the time of sale that will render the essential features of the smartphone inoperable when not in the possession of the authorized user. Authorizes an authorized user to affirmatively elect to disable or opt-out of the technological solution at any time.
Chapter 275, Statutes of 2014
SB 1019 (Leno-D) Upholstered furniture: flame retardant chemicals: labeling
Requires a manufacturer of upholstered furniture to indicate whether or not the product contains added flame retardant chemicals, as defined, by including a specified statement on that label.
Chapter 862, Statutes of 2014
SB 1027 (Hill-D) Booking photographs: commercial use
Prohibits a person who publishes a booking photograph via print or electronic means from soliciting, requiring, or accepting a fee or other consideration from a subject individual to remove, correct, modify, or to refrain from publishing or otherwise disseminating that photograph, as specified. Authorizes a subject individual who is aggrieved by a violation of these provisions to bring a civil suit to recover the greater of actual damages or a $1,000 penalty for each violation, as specified.
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2014
SB 1040 (Evans-D) Food labeling: genetically engineered food
Requires, beginning 1/1/16, that any food, except as provided, offered for retail sale in the state be considered misbranded if it is entirely or partially genetically engineered, as defined, and that fact is not disclosed in a specified manner. Prescribes labeling requirements for a raw agricultural commodity that is genetically engineered and packaged foods, as defined, containing some products of genetic engineering. Imposes these labeling requirements on manufacturers and retailers of the commodities and foods.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 1177 (Steinberg-D) Advertising: student information: privacy
Prohibits an operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application from knowingly engaging in targeted advertising to students or their parents or legal guardians, using covered information to amass a profile about a K-12 student, selling a student's information, or disclosing covered information, as provided. Requires an operator to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the covered information, to protect the information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure, and to delete a student's covered information if the school or district requests deletion of data under the control of the school or district. Authorizes the disclosure of covered information of a student under specified circumstances.
Chapter 839, Statutes of 2014
SB 1256 (Mitchell-D) Medical services: credit lines: consumer protection
Extends existing consumer protections regarding lines of credit for dental services to all types of medical or healing arts services by requiring a licensee to provide a patient with a treatment plan, a disclosure form, information about third-party payment coverage, and establishes language and competency requirements.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2014
SB 1326 (Roth-D) Hearing aids: warranty
Clarifies hearing aid warranty provisions by requiring a retailer to provide written warranty beginning and expiration dates from the time the hearing aids are initially delivered to the buyer. Clarifies the hearing aid warranty tolling period after repair or service. Requires the seller to provide a work order or receipt with the date the warranty period resumes and the revised expiration date of the warranty adjusted to reflect the suspension of the warranty period during repair or service.
Chapter 226, Statutes of 2014
SB 1348 (DeSaulnier-D) Data brokers: sale of personal information
Requires a data broker, as defined, to permit an individual to review the personal information that the data broker holds about them and to request that the data broker cease selling, or otherwise sharing, that personal information to third parties, except as specifically allowed.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
SB 1350 (Lara-D) Public restrooms: baby diaper changing accommodations
Requires the California Building Standards Commission to develop and adopt standards governing the installation of baby diaper changing accommodations for restroom facilities in a place of public accommodation, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 1351 (Hill-D) Payment cards: fraud
Requires retailers, except as specified, that accept a payment card to provide a means of processing card-present payment card transactions involving payment cards equipped with embedded microchips or any other technology that is more secure than static magnetic stripe technology for card-present fraud prevention. Enacts legislative findings and declarations relating to the adoption of microchip technology for credit cards in over 80 countries throughout the world, not including the United States, and to the value of these cards in combatting payment card fraud. States legislative intent that this bill provide consumer protection consistent with federal law and not impact private agreements between retailers, small retailers, and payment card networks relating to which party bears liability for fraudulent payment card usage.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1358 (Wolk-D) Baby diaper changing stations
Requires buildings owned or partially owned by state or local governments, as well as other private buildings open to the public, as specified, to maintain at least one safe, sanitary, and convenient baby diaper changing station that is accessible to women and men.
Vetoed
SJR 22 (Block-D) Cruelty-free cosmetics
Urges the United States Congress to enact legislation that establishes reasonable deadlines for the prohibition of the testing and marketing of cosmetic products that have been tested on animals. Urges the federal government to mandate alternative methods to animal testing of cosmetic products and to prioritize the validation and acceptance of additional nonanimal tests.
Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2014
SJR 29 (Lieu-D) Natural gas vehicle fuel standards: consumer friendly
Urges the United States Department of Commerce, the National Conference on Weights and Measures, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to work with the natural gas industry to develop natural gas vehicle fuel standards that are user and consumer friendly and that include recognition of the gasoline and diesel gallon equivalent units for dispensing natural gas.
(Died in Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee)
AB 330 (Chau-D) Student financial aid: Internet
Requires the California Student Aid Commission and the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to post additional links on their Internet Web sites to provide information such as net cost, financial aid, and student loan debt that can be used by students and families to evaluate their college choices.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 509 (Blumenfield-D) Consumer affairs: unlawful acts
Adds to the list of unlawful acts, under the Consumers Legal Remedies Act, the act of representing a product as designed, made, or both in a specific city or county, by using a specified "made in" label, unless the product complies with specified standards.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 834* (Williams-D) Law schools: consumer information: disclosure
Provides a law school otherwise exempt from the California Private Postsecondary Education Act that applies to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) for an approval to operate and that meets other specified criteria with an alternate way to satisfy the requirements regarding a School Performance Fact Sheet. Specifies that such a law school satisfies those requirements by, among other things, complying with a specified standard of the American Bar Association relating to the disclosure of consumer information. Requires such a law school to annually provide the information to the BPPE and requires the BPPE to include the information on its Internet Web site.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2014
AB 1013 (Gomez-D) Consumer affairs: Attorney General
Authorizes any employee designated by the Attorney General to present evidence and argument in a matter or proceeding pending before any agency, court, or department, for the effective protection of the interests of consumers.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1658 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Consumer credit reports: foster care children
Requires a county welfare department, county probation department, or the Department of Social Services to inquire of each of the three major credit reporting agencies as to whether a child in foster care reaching his/her 16th birthday, and each year thereafter, has any consumer credit history, as specified. Requires the Department to provide information to the appropriate legislative policy committees regarding the implementation of these provisions, including, but not limited to, any state and county barriers to obtaining credit reports as required by the federal Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act of 2011.
Chapter 762, Statutes of 2014
AB 1710 (Dickinson-D) Data breach: personal information: privacy
Requires, with respect to the information required to be included in the notification of a data security breach, if the person or business providing the notification was the source of the breach, that the person or business offer to provide appropriate identity theft prevention and mitigation services, if any, to the affected person at no cost for not less than 12 months if the breach exposed or may have exposed specified personal information. Expands security procedures and practice provisions that apply to businesses that own, license, or maintain personal information about California residents. Prohibits the sale, advertisement for sale, or offer to sell of an individual's social security number, with exceptions.
Chapter 855, Statutes of 2014
AB 1735 (Hall-D) Nitrous oxide: dispensing and distributing
Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to dispense or distribute nitrous oxide (N2O) to a person, if it is known or should have been known that the N2O will be ingested or inhaled by the person for the purposes of causing intoxication, and that person proximately causes great bodily injury or death to himself/herself, or any other person. Requires a person who dispenses or distributes N2O to record each transaction in a written or electronic document, and make the document available for inspection, upon presentation of a duly authorized search warrant, to officers or employees of the Board of Pharmacy or other law enforcement agencies.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2014
AB 1809 (Maienschein-R) Dogs: resale: health certificates
Requires a person seeking to bring a dog into California for resale or change or ownership to obtain a health certificate from a licensed veterinarian, dated within 10 days prior to the dog's arrival, and submit the certificate to the county health department, as specified.
Chapter 498, Statutes of 2014
AB 1832 (Ian Calderon-D) Ticket sellers: equitable ticket buying process
Makes it unlawful for a person to intentionally use or sell software to circumvent a security control or measure that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying process, thereby removing the limitation that the software be used to circumvent a security control or measure on the ticket seller's Internet Web site.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2014
AB 1852 (Campos-D) Background checks: services to minors
Requires a business providing services to minors, including but not limited to academic tutors and instructors of extracurricular activities, to disclose to parents or guardians the business's policies relating to background checks of employees and the type of background check conducted, and exempts certain child care and medical facilities from this requirement.
Chapter 159, Statutes of 2014
AB 1907 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Natural gas: sales
Requires compressed natural gas (CNG) sold at retail to the public for use as a motor vehicle fuel to be sold in a gasoline gallon equivalent that is equal to 126.67 cubic feet (5.66 pounds) of CNG, measured at the standard pressure and temperature, as specified, and requires liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be sold in a diesel gallon equivalent that is equal to 6.06 pounds of LNG. Prohibits a person from selling at retail any CNG or LNG for use as motor fuel from any place of business in this state unless there is displayed and labeled on the dispensing apparatus in a conspicuous place "Gasoline gallon equivalent" or "Diesel gallon equivalent," respectively.
Chapter 805, Statutes of 2014
AB 2200 (John A. Pérez-D) Consumer privacy: personal information: cyber security
Creates a 13-member California Cyber Security Steering Committee in the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. Continues in existence the California Cyber Security Task Force. Requires the Task Force to take all necessary steps to protect personal information, public and private sector data, as well as ensure consumer privacy, when implementing its duties.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 2312 (Nestande-R) Metal theft: junk dealers
Requires a junk dealer or recycler to request metal theft alert notifications from an Internet-based theft alert system and to provide a statement to the Department of Food and Agriculture that they have requested to do so, when applying for a weighmaster license.
Chapter 608, Statutes of 2014
AB 2624 (Medina-D) False advertising: Made in North America
Makes it unlawful to sell or offer for sale in this state any product that contains the words "Made in North America," "North American Made," or similar words on the product or its container unless all of the product was made in the United States, Canada, or Mexico. Adds misrepresenting a product as made in North America to the list of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices actionable under the Consumers Legal Remedies Act.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2656 (Jones-R) Motor fuel: labeling
Requires each motor fuel transaction in this state to contain information regarding the estimated cost of compliance with any market-based compliance mechanism that the Air Resources Board may adopt. Requires the Division of Measurement Standards to annually estimate and post online the cost per gallon of motor fuel resulting from compliance with California's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction regulations. Requires wholesale motor fuel invoices, product transfer documents, and retail gasoline pumps to publicize that estimated cost.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2667 (Bloom-D) Rental-purchase agreements: electronic devices
Amends the Karnette Rental-Purchase Act to require a lessor to provide clear and prominent notice to a consumer and obtain express consent from the consumer at the time the lessor and the consumer enter into a rental-purchase agreement for an electronic device if that device has geophysical location tracking technology installed by the lessor and prohibits a lessor from installing the technology without providing clear and prominent notice and obtaining express consent from the consumer.
Chapter 426, Statutes of 2014
ACR 101 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Pawnbrokers: secondhand dealers: Internet
Requests the Department of Justice to convene meetings in 2014 with representatives from law enforcement, prosecutors, the secondhand dealer and pawnbroker industry, and the public to determine the changes to existing law that will (1) allow California pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers to fairly compete with out-of-state Internet pawnbrokers, (2) keep available to law enforcement merchandise pawned over the Internet that would otherwise go out-of-state and not be reported or held for inspection, and (3) protect California consumers transacting pawn loans over the Internet from higher interest rates and fees than those permitted in California.
Resolution Chapter 154, Statutes of 2014
Economic Development
SB 32 (Price-D) Business investment: tax credits
Enacts the California Jobs Act; and requires the State Treasurer to sell tax credits to fund investments in early stage companies.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
SB 431 (Price-D) Socioeconomic Development Pods Program: blight
Establishes the California Socioeconomic Development Pods Program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to encourage the use of social innovative financing, as defined, within blighted areas of the state.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 511 (Lieu-D) Economic development: trade promotion: ports
Requires the Director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to convene, no later than 2/1/15, a statewide business partnership for the promotion of trade for California ports and to explore greater utilization of California ports. Establishes the California Export Finance Office for the purpose of expanding employment and income opportunities for Californians through increased exports of California goods, services, and agricultural commodities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 928 (Correa-D) Economy development: Mexico
Requires, by 1/1/16, the Director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to establish and operate, or create a public-private partnership to establish and operate, an international trade and investment office in Mexico City, Mexico, to promote the export of California goods and services into Mexico and facilitate access to educational exchange programs between California and Mexico.
Vetoed
SCR 82 (Hueso-D) Economic exchanges: Jalisco, Mexico
Recommits to formalizing the sister state relationship between the State of Jalisco in Mexico and the State of California for its mutually beneficial educational, economic, and cultural exchanges.
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2014
SCR 127 (Huff-R) Manufacturing: job creation
Declares the week of 6/16/14 through 6/22/14, as California Manufacturing Week. Makes legislative findings and declarations that attracting new manufacturing investments to maintain existing job creation and support new job creation is vital for the long-term health of California's economy.
Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2014
SJR 32 (Correa-D) Economic growth: tax strategies
Declares the support of the Legislature for federal tax policies designed to encourage growth, incentivize corporations to remain in the United States, and reduce competitive disadvantages for companies based in the United States, particularly those in the biomedical and life sciences industry. Urges the President and Congress to enact specified tax strategies to encourage domestic economic growth.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 9* (Holden-D) Enterprise zone: income taxes: credits
Modifies the definition of a "qualified employee," as it relates to the credits for taxpayers that employ qualified employees in an enterprise zone; and requires qualified wages to exceed an average monthly wage of $2,000, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 28* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Enterprise zones: economic development
Revises various definitions for purposes of the Enterprise Zone Act and modifies specified requirements for designating and administering enterprise zones and geographically targeted economic development areas, collectively. Imposes new requirements on the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) with respect to the enterprise zone program and modifies HCD and Franchise Tax Board reporting requirements. Authorizes HCD to charge a fee on each enterprise zone and manufacturing enhancement area for applications for issuance of a certificate not to exceed the reasonable cost of administering the Enterprise Zone Act, but not to exceed $20. Requires any increase in the fee higher than the amount that was charged by HCD as of 1/1/14, to be adopted by regulation.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 147* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development projects: CA-Mexico border
Authorizes the board of directors of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) to enter into development and financing agreements for projects within the California-Mexico border region, as defined. Authorizes I-Bank to establish and participate in a binational financing authority to facilitate and support the economic development of communities within the border region. Requires I-Bank to develop guidelines for the selection, review, and approval of border region projects.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 305* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development/recovery: tax credits
Creates the California New Markets Tax Credit Program to stimulate economic development, and hasten California's economic recovery, by authorizing tax credits for investment in California, including, but not limited to, retail businesses, real property, financial institutions, and schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 311 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development projects: CA/Mexico border region
Expands the role of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to include facilitating infrastructure and economic development financing activities within the California and Mexico border region.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 337 (Allen-R) Economic development: market strategy
Updates requirements for the international trade and investment strategy prepared by the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to be based on current and emerging market conditions and the needs of investors, businesses, and workers to be competitive in global markets.
Chapter 776, Statutes of 2014
AB 495 (Campos-D) Community investment: low-income neighborhoods
Establishes the California Community Investment Program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. Requires, among other things, the Program to create a database of low-income neighborhoods, compile and maintain an inventory of California public sector funding resources and financing mechanisms, and coordinate public sector financial investment and public programs to assist low-income communities to become business, development, and investment ready.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 653* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Entrepreneurs: CA Innovation Hub Program
Creates the California Innovation Hub Program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to create regional offices that provide specialized counseling, training, and networking services to assist entrepreneurs to establish and grow businesses for local and in-state job retention, creation, and future expansion.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1079 (Bradford-D) Economic development: energy management area and plans
Makes a project to promote economic development in energy management areas developed pursuant to an energy management plan, in accordance with this bill, eligible for funding through the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank. Requires the Bank to consider acts it may take, at its discretion, that facilitate the financing of that project.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1081 (Medina-D) Economic development: goods-movement-related infrastructure
Requires the five-year infrastructure plan, as specified, to include additional information, including, but not limited to, information related to infrastructure identified by state and federal transportation authorities, recommendations for private sector financing, and strategies to address state goods movement needs, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1088 (Muratsuchi-D) Overseas trade office: Tokyo, Japan
Requires the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, no later than 1/1/16, to establish under its jurisdiction an overseas trade office in Tokyo, Japan, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 1166 (Blumenfield-D) California and Israel Trade and Economic Development Act
Establishes the California and Israel Trade and Economic Development Act of 2013 to facilitate greater economic development and job creation opportunities for this state.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 1272 (Medina-D) Infrastructure: goods movement
Authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) to join or formally participate in regional, state, national or international organizations related to infrastructure finance. Authorizes I-Bank to facilitate the development of infrastructure projects regardless of whether I-Bank is funding a portion of the project. Modernizes I-Bank's policy framework to reflect more current economic and logistic trends relative to goods movement.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1399* (Medina-D) Community development entities: tax credits
Authorizes the creation of the California New Markets Tax Credit Program, administered through the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development and the California Competes Tax Credit Allocation Committee, for the purpose of allocating tax credits in tax years 2015 through 2019 to a qualified community development entity (CDE). Makes legislative findings and declarations stating that the Program allocates federal tax incentives to CDEs, which they then use to attract private investors who contribute funds that can be used to finance and invest in businesses and develop real estate in low-income communities. Authorizes the Committee to allocate up to $40 million in tax credits annually to qualified CDEs for a total allocation of $200 million.
Vetoed
AB 1564* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Innovation economy: tax credits
Increases the rates of the research and development tax credits for general research and university "basic research" on an incremental basis over a five-year period. Makes legislative findings and declarations that California needs to invest in the innovation economy by eliminating the roadblocks in state law and regulations and by developing a tax system that rewards capital expenditures in order to ensure that the private sector will invest financial capital and intellectual capital in California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1662 (Ian Calderon-D) Arts and creative economy industries: grants
Appropriates an unspecified amount annually from the General Fund to the California Arts Council to be used for grants to further the arts. Makes legislative findings and declarations that an investment in the arts and the creative economy industries can revitalize a neighborhood or area.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1676 (Nazarian-D) Creative industries and community economic revitalization
Creates an annual continuous appropriation from the General Fund to the California Arts Council in an unspecified amount. Makes legislative findings and declarations that an investment in the arts and the creative economy industries can revitalize a neighborhood or area.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainments, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
AB 1910 (Gray-D) Economic development: emerging technology: energy economy
Requires the California Workforce Investment Board to establish the San Joaquin Valley Regional Economic Planning and Preparedness Council as a special committee to, among other things, identify and develop the framework of, and make recommendations as to, appropriate strategies, programs, policies, partnerships, and funding opportunities that are necessary to address the growing need for a highly skilled and well-trained workforce to meet the needs of the San Joaquin Valley's emerging technology and energy economy. Requires the Council to report to the Legislature, by April 1 each year, on the status of its activities and its development of an oil and natural gas workforce strategic initiative.
Vetoed
AB 2176 (John A. Pérez-D) Layoffs: economic development plan
Requires the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to develop recommendations for a state economic development plan and to be notified when an employer submits notice to the state of their intent to undertake a mass layoff, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2670 (Medina-D) Economic development: small business
Enacts the Small Business Technical Assistance Act of 2014 to, among other things, serve as the lead state entity for overseeing the state's participation with and recognition of the federal California Small Business Development Center Program, the Women's Business Center program, the Veteran Business Outreach Center program, the Service Corps of Retired Executives, and the Procurement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2713 (Quirk-Silva-D) Economic development: South Korea
Authorizes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to establish public-private partnerships to help guide state activities related to the export of California products. Requires the Office to establish the South Korean Trade Promotion Advisory Committee to help guide state activities related to the export of California products to South Korea and the attraction of employment-producing direct foreign investment by South Korean investors.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2729 (Medina-D) Economic development facilities: infrastructure financing
Revises the definition of economic development facilities to include facilities that are used to provide goods movement. Enacts the California Economic Development Infrastructure Finance Act of 2014 to create the California Infrastructure Finance Center to administer the provisions of this Act, as specified, under the oversight of the California Infrastructure and Development Bank. Authorizes the creation of California infrastructure development corporations, as specified, and establishes requirements for those corporations to secure participation rights, as part of forming public-private partnerships with the Bank in building infrastructure related to economic-related activities.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 2749 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Economic development programs
Makes technical changes relating to the transfer of economic development related programs from the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. Modifies the annual reporting requirements of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank.
Chapter 132, Statutes of 2014
ACR 100 (Alejo-D) Economic development: El Salvador
Encourages the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to work in coordination with the Legislature to develop comprehensive trade promotion and foreign investment activities that encourage stronger economic ties with El Salvador.
Resolution Chapter 172, Statutes of 2014
AJR 37 (Muratsuchi-D) Economy: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Urges the United States Congress to support legislation reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Makes legislative findings and declarations, among which, that the Bank enables U.S. companies large and small to turn export opportunities into sales that help to maintain and create jobs in the U.S. and contribute to a stronger national economy.
Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2014
Licenses, Certifications and Regulations
SB 207 (Cannella-R) Licensee information: address disclosure
Modifies the requirement that the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists disclose information on the Internet about its registrants and licensees to exclude disclosing the address of record of a licensee.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 218 (Yee-D) Traditional Chinese medicine traumatologist certification
Authorizes the creation of a non-profit California Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatology Council. Requires the Council to develop standards for the education and training of applicants. Authorizes the Council to issue certificates to qualified applicants to practice as a California certified traditional Chinese medicine traumatologist and to discipline certificate holders for specified violations.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 307 (Price-D) Veterinary Medical Board: veterinary assistants: permits
Extends, until 1/1/16, the provisions establishing the Veterinary Medical Board (VMB). Makes other changes regarding the inspection authority of the VMB as it pertains to veterinary premises, the membership, and responsibility of the Multidisciplinary Committee of the VMB. Limits access to controlled substances by veterinary assistants who have obtained a valid permit by the VMB. Requires the VMB to require an applicant to furnish a set of fingerprints to conduct the criminal history record check.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 315 (Lieu-D) Contractors: licensed/unlicensed
Provides that it is a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business of, or act in the capacity of, a contractor within this state if the person is not licensed, as specified, or if the person performs acts under a license that is under suspension for specified violations. Authorizes a person who is not licensed as a contractor to advertise for construction work or a work of improvement only if the aggregate contract price is less than $500 and the person states in the advertisement that he/she is not licensed. Extends the period during which the Contractors State License Board must initiate disciplinary action against a licensee upon a finding by the Labor Commissioner of a willful and deliberate Labor Code violation.
Chapter 328, Statutes of 2014
SB 381 (Yee-D) Health care practitioners: chiropractic practice: licenses
Prohibits health care practitioners, other than chiropractors, physicians, surgeons or osteopathic physicians, from performing joint manipulation or joint adjustments. Indicates that a health care practitioner who engages in the unlawful practice of chiropractic is subject to their license being revoked or suspended and/or other disciplinary action. Specifies that this bill will not prevent veterinarians from practicing within the scope of their license.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 410 (Yee-D) Anesthesiologist/radiologist assistants: licensure
Enacts the Anesthesiologist Assistant Practice Act requiring the licensure and regulation of anesthesiologist assistants by the Medical Board of California and prescribing the services that may be performed by a radiologist assistant under the supervision of a qualified physician and surgeon. Makes it a crime for a person to practice as an anesthesiologist assistant without a license or for an anesthesiologist assistant to practice outside the scope of his/her practice, as specified. Requires the Board to adopt regulations relating to the licensure of radiologist assistants and certification of approved programs by 7/1/14, and to commence licensure and certification on that date.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 417 (Berryhill-R) Contractors: supplemental license requirements
Authorizes state and local agencies subject to the State Building Construction Act of 1955, the State Contract Act, and the Local Agency Public Construction Act, prior to advertising for bids for construction of a public building or a public works project, to advise the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) of any supplemental license, certification, or education required of a contractor to qualify to bid on the contract for that project. Requires the CSLB to review the information received regarding any supplemental license, certification, or education requirements, and to post any supplemental requirements it approves in an easily identifiable location on the CSLB's Internet Web site.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 491 (Hernandez-D) Nurse practitioners: physician supervision
Allows nurse practitioners who meet certain criteria to practice independently of physician supervision.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 492 (Hernandez-D) Optometrists: practice: licensure
Expands the scope of practice of optometrists to include administering influenza and herpes zoster virus immunizations and requires the Board of Optometry to grant a certificate to an optometrist for the use of immunizations if the optometrist meets certain requirements. Requires the Board to set, by regulation, the fee for issuing and renewing a certificate for the use of immunizations, at the reasonable cost of regulating the certified optometrists, not to exceed $100.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 536 (Berryhill-R) Alarm companies: electronic transactions
Provides that the provisions of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act apply to transactions conducted by persons licensed, certified, or registered pursuant to the Alarm Company Act (ACA), for purposes authorized by the ACA, as specified. Excludes contracts for services or other activities authorized by the ACA from the definition of a home solicitation contract. Requires electronic contracts for services or other activities authorized by the ACA to comply with specified cancellation periods, statements, and disclosures that apply to home solicitation contracts, and authorizes signatures and statements required by those provisions to be provided and transmitted electronically.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 570 (DeSaulnier-D) Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor Licensing Act
Establishes the Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor Licensing Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs to carry out the Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor Licensing Act, which regulates licensed alcohol and drug counselors.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 578 (Wyland-R) Behavioral sciences: records retention
Requires a licensed marriage and family therapist, a licensed educational psychologist, a licensed clinical social worker, and a licensed professional clinical counselor to retain a patient or client's health service record for seven years, as specified.
Chapter 312, Statutes of 2014
SB 690 (Price-D) Professions and vocations: licenses: permits
Expands the definition of license, as it relates to various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, to include a permit.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 960 (Morrell-R) Pharmacy: licenses: letter of admonishment
Authorizes the executive officer of the Board of Pharmacy, or his/her designee, to issue a letter of admonishment to an applicant for licensure who has committed any violation of law that the Board deems, in its discretion, does not merit the denial of a license or require probationary status. Authorizes a letter of admonishment that is issued to an applicant for licensure to be issued concurrently with a license.
Chapter 247, Statutes of 2014
SB 993 (Mitchell-D) Dietitians: licensing requirements: authorizations
Modifies educational and training requirements for a dietetic technician, registered. Authorizes a registered dietitian to perform additional duties. Makes additional changes to the practice authorizations for a dietetic technician, registered and registered dietitian, as specified.
Chapter 622, Statutes of 2014
SB 1012 (Wyland-R) Healing arts: licensure
Increases the number of hours, from five to six, which a marriage and family therapist trainee or intern and a professional clinical counselor intern may count towards their weekly supervision requirement.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2014
SB 1014 (Jackson-D) Pharmaceutical waste: home generated: regulations
Requires, upon the enactment of federal regulations, the Board of Pharmacy, in consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and the Department of Public Health, to adopt regulations to implement California drug takeback programs for the collection and destruction of home-generated pharmaceutical waste, as defined. Provides that the regulations adopted pursuant to these provisions only apply to licensees of the Board.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1019 (Leno-D) Upholstered furniture: labeling: regulations
Requires upholstered furniture to include a label indicating whether the product has added flame retardant chemicals. Directs the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation to ensure compliance with labeling and documentation and to assess fines for violations. Authorizes the Bureau to adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this bill.
Chapter 862, Statutes of 2014
SB 1039 (Hernandez-D) Pharmacy: scope of practice
Authorizes a pharmacy technician to perform specified tasks only while assisting and while under the direct supervision and control of a pharmacist. Provides that the pharmacist is responsible for the duties performed under his/her supervision by a technician. Authorizes a pharmacy technician's duties in a licensed general acute care hospital to include, among other things, sealing emergency containers for use in the hospital. Authorizes intern pharmacists to perform specified tasks.
Chapter 319, Statutes of 2014
SB 1069 (Torres-D) Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education: regulations
Requires the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to adopt regulations to make students who use a Cal Grant, a Pell Grant, or both, eligible to apply for payment from the Student Tuition Recovery Fund. Requires the Bureau to pay the California Student Aid Commission, if a student uses a Cal Grant to pay tuition from the Fund.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1083 (Pavley-D) Physician assistants: disability certifications
Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act to authorize a physician assistant (PA) to certify claims for disability insurance, after performance of a physical examination by the PA and under the supervision of a physician and surgeon. Expands the definition of "practitioner" to include PAs. Requires the Employment Development Department to implement these provisions on or before 1/1/17.
Chapter 438, Statutes of 2014
SB 1116 (Torres-D) Physicians and surgeons: voluntary contributions: license
Requires the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to develop a mechanism for a physician and surgeon to pay a voluntary contribution, at the time of application for initial licensure or biennial renewal, to the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program on or before 7/1/15.
Chapter 439, Statutes of 2014
SB 1148 (Yee-D) Marriage and family therapists: records retention
Requires a marriage and family therapist to retain a patient's health service records for a minimum of seven years from the date therapy is terminated. Requires a minor patient's health service records to be retained for a minimum of seven years from the date the patient reaches 18 years of age.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1159 (Lara-D) Professions and vocations: license applicants
Requires, no later than 1/1/16, licensing bodies to require an applicant to provide either an individual tax identification number or social security number if the applicant is an individual. Requires the licensing bodies to report to the Franchise Tax Board, and subject a licensee to a penalty, for failure to provide that information. Prohibits, except as specified, any entity within the Department of Consumer Affairs from denying licensure to an applicant based on his/her citizenship status or immigration status. Requires every board within the Department to implement regulatory and procedural changes necessary to implement these provisions no later than 1/1/16, and authorizes implementation at any time prior to that date.
Chapter 752, Statutes of 2014
SB 1215 (Hernandez-D) Healing arts licensees: referrals
Applies the physician self-referral prohibition to advanced imaging, as defined, anatomic pathology, radiation therapy, or physical therapy for a specific patient that is performed within a licensee's office or the office of a group practice and that is compensated on a fee-for-service basis.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 1226 (Correa-D) Veterans: professional licensing
Requires the boards and bureaus of the Department of Consumer Affairs to expedite applications from honorably discharged veterans. Permits a person registered and hired as a proprietary private security officer to submit a verification of military training in lieu of completing a course in security officer skills, as specified.
Chapter 657, Statutes of 2014
SB 1242 (Lieu-D) Bureau of Automotive Repair: regulations
Subjects the powers and duties of the Bureau of Automotive Repair to review by the appropriate legislative policy committees as if these provisions were scheduled to be repealed on 1/1/19. Makes technical, updating and correcting changes to the Automotive Repair Act.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2014
SB 1243 (Lieu-D) Professions and vocations
Increases the transparency of information distributed by the Department of Consumer Affairs. Requires the Office of Administrative Hearings to submit specified reports to the Legislature annually. Enhances unlicensed advertising enforcement. Extends, until 1/1/17, the provisions establishing the Veterinary Medical Board and the term of the executive officer. Sets the operative date of the veterinary assistant controlled substance program for 7/1/15. Extends the Certified Common Interest Development Manager program and the Tax Preparer program until 1/1/19.
Chapter 395, Statutes of 2014
SB 1244 (Lieu-D) Structural Pest Control Board: licensees
Extends, until 1/1/19, the provisions establishing the Structural Pest Control Board (SPCB) and the term of the executive officer of SPCB. Provides that an applicator's license expires on June 30 of the third year after issuance. Requires structural pest control licensees to maintain a copy of the specified monthly report for three years after submission. Authorizes SPCB to charge a fee in an amount sufficient to cover the reasonable regulatory cost of administering the applicator examination, not to exceed $60. Makes numerous technical, updating and correcting changes to the structural pest control law. Double-joints with AB 1685 (Williams, Chapter 304, Statutes of 2014).
Chapter 560, Statutes of 2014
SB 1245 (Lieu-D) Dental Hygiene Committee of California: regulations
Extends the operation of the Dental Hygiene Committee of California within the jurisdiction of the Dental Board of California and provides for an extension of the appointments of the committee members and the executive officer until 1/1/19.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2014
SB 1246 (Lieu-D) Acupuncture: program approval requirements
Revises acupuncture program approval requirements. Extends, to 1/1/17, the sunset date of the California Acupuncture Board and the sunset date of the Board's authority to appoint an executive officer.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2014
SB 1247 (Lieu-D) Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education: requirements
Provides for statutory changes to the protections provided to students and the requirements placed on private postsecondary educational institutions. Extends the sunset date for the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, under the California Private Postsecondary Education Act, from 1/1/15 until 1/1/17.
Chapter 840, Statutes of 2014
SB 1256 (Mitchell-D) Medical services: credit: requirements
Extends existing consumer protections regarding lines of credit for dental services to all types of medical or healing arts services by requiring a licensee to provide a patient with a treatment plan, a disclosure form, and information about third-party payment coverage, and also establishes language and competency requirements.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2014
SB 1258 (DeSaulnier-D) Medical providers: controlled substances: reporting
Makes a number of changes to the way controlled substances are prescribed and tracked. Requires medical providers to use electronic prescribing systems. Requires additional reporting of controlled substance prescribing to the state. Places additional restrictions on the prescribing of controlled substances.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1262 (Correa-D) Medical marijuana: licensing: regulatory framework
Creates a licensing and regulatory framework for the cultivation, transportation, testing, and sale of medical marijuana, administered by the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1416 (Block-D) Dentistry: license: fees
Increases the fee for an initial license and the biennial renewal of a license to practice dentistry to $525.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2014
SB 1466 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Health care professionals: regulatory boards
Makes changes to various provisions within the Business and Professions Code relating to the regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs, including requiring a physician and surgeon who performs any medical procedure, outside of a general acute care hospital, that results in the death of any patient on whom that medical treatment was performed, to report that occurrence to the Medical Board of California, as specified, within 15 days after the occurrence; deleting the requirement that the applicant for licensure submit transcripts from an educational institution approved by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board evidencing completion of specified coursework; requiring an individual who applies for a designated representative license under the Board of Pharmacy to be at least 18 years of age; and allowing, under the Board of Behavioral Sciences, a licensed marriage and family therapist or licensed professional clinical counselor licensee, who already holds a license in another state, to be exempt from re-taking the clinical exam in order to obtain their California license if they meet certain conditions. Double-joints with AB 2213 (Eggman, Chapter 387, Statutes of 2014).
Chapter 316, Statutes of 2014
SB 1467 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Professions and vocations: regulatory boards
Makes changes to various provisions within the Business and Professions Code relating to the regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs, including authorizing the Board of Accountancy to collect, but not require, a valid electronic mail address from applicants or those renewing a license; adding a section to the Geologist and Geophysicist Act which specifically addresses petitions for reinstatement of revoked licenses and petitions for reduction or modification of penalty probation orders; allowing unincorporated associations to apply for fictitious business name registration; and clarifying that professional photocopiers must maintain a valid notary commission throughout their certificate of registration period.
Chapter 400, Statutes of 2014
AB 186 (Maienschein-R) Professions/vocations: temporary licenses: military spouse
Requires applicable licensing entities under the Department of Consumer Affairs to provide military spouses and domestic partners a 12-month temporary license to practice in California, if they meet specified requirements. Requires an applicant seeking a temporary license as a civil engineer, geotechnical engineer, structural engineer, land surveyor, professional geologist, professional geophysicist, certified engineering geologist, or certified hydrogeologist to successfully pass the appropriate California-specific examination(s) required for licensure in those respective professions by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists.
Chapter 640, Statutes of 2014
AB 213 (Logue-R) Health care professionals: military experience
Requires, by 1/1/15, the Department of Public Health and healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs to undertake activities intended to facilitate the transition of military veterans to civilian careers as health care professionals.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 252 (Yamada-D) Social workers: licensed
Prohibits an individual from holding himself/herself out professionally as a social worker unless he/she has received a degree from an accredited academic institution. Exempts individuals who are classified by their employer as a social worker prior to 1/1/14. Prohibits a social worker from using the title Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Associate Clinical Social Worker unless the individual is duly licensed.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 291 (Nestande-R) California Sunset Review Commission
Abolishes the Joint Sunset Review Committee on January 1 of an unspecified year. Establishes the California Sunset Review Commission, within the executive branch, to assess the continuing need for any agency, as defined, to exist.
(Died in Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee)
AB 399 (Fox-D) Clinical laboratories: license fees
Authorizes the Department of Public Health to charge appropriate license fees whenever it determines that a new category of licensure relating to clinical laboratories and laboratory personnel is necessary.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 429 (Daly-D) Real estate licensees: Real Estate Commissioner
Recasts provisions to require the Attorney General to act as the attorney for the Real Estate Commissioner in actions and proceedings brought by or against the Commissioner under or pursuant to the Real Estate Law or the Subdivided Lands Law upon request of the Commissioner in civil and criminal courts. Requires the Commissioner to act through the Commissioner's attorneys or attorneys employed by the Attorney General in seeking an order to appear for a real estate licensee who has refused to obey a subpoena, as specified, and clarifies that the order pertains to compliance with an administrative subpoena.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 462 (Stone-D) Residential care facilities: fire protection regulations
Requires a residential care facility for the elderly or adult residential facility that has a valid license as of 1/1/14, to have installed and maintained on and after 1/1/18, an operable automatic fire sprinkler system approved by the State Fire Marshal. Requires a residential care facility, defined to include these facilities, for which a license is newly issued on or after 1/1/17, to have an approved, operable automatic fire sprinkler system. Provides that if the facility does not own the property the property owner shall determine all phases of construction, and the facility licensee shall pay all costs associated with compliance with these provisions. Limits specified inspection fees related to the sprinkler systems. Requires, by 1/1/16, the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations to implement these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 467* (Stone-D) Licensing: surplus medication collection/distribution
Requires the Board of Pharmacy to license a surplus medication collection and distribution intermediary to facilitate the donation of medications to, or transfer of medications between, participating entities under the unused medication repository and distribution program. Prohibits that intermediary from taking possession, custody, or control of dangerous drugs and devices, but authorizes the intermediary to charge specified fees for the reasonable costs of the support and services provided. Requires a surplus medication collection and distribution intermediary to keep and maintain for three years complete records for which the intermediary facilitated the donation of medications to or transfer of medications between participating entities. Requires that a surplus medication collection and distribution intermediary license be renewed annually, and requires the payment of a fee in the amount of $300 to obtain or renew the license.
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2014
AB 469 (Wagner-R) Telephonic sellers: registration
Redefines "telephonic seller" to include a person making a telephone solicitation to arrange or assist in the arrangement of a loan modification, and thus requires that those who attempt to arrange or assist in the arrangement of a loan modification must comply with the law that regulates telephonic sellers and requires that they register with the Department of Justice and provide information to the Department, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)
AB 496 (Gordon-D) Medicine: continuing education requirements
Amends the cultural competency continuing medical education course requirement, pertaining to understanding and applying cultural and ethnic data to the process of clinical care, to also include information pertinent to the appropriate treatment of, and provision of care to, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex communities.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2014
AB 705 (Blumenfield-D) Registered nursing: licensure: Combat to Care Act
Establishes the Combat to Care Act recognizing that military service members gain skill and experience while serving the country that, upon discharge, can be translated to the civilian world. Requires the Board of Registered Nursing, in conjunction with the California Military Department, to promulgate regulations that identify the military education, training, and experience equivalent or transferable to coursework required for licensure as a registered nurse. Requires the Board, upon receipt of an applicant's record of education, training, and experience completed in the United States Armed Forces, to provide the applicant with a list of coursework, if any, that the applicant must complete for license eligibility.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 759* (Daly-D) Alarm companies: locksmith license exemption
Expands the locksmith license exemption to include a person licensed, certified, or registered with the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, pursuant to the Alarm Company Act, if the duties of the person that constitute locksmithing are performed in combination with installing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing, servicing, or reconfiguring an alarm system, as defined, and limited to work on electronic locks or access control devices controlled by an alarm system control device, including removing existing hardware.
Chapter 14, Statutes of 2014
AB 764 (Linder-R) Crematory licenses: pilot program
Establishes a pilot program that authorizes the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to offer a limited crematory license to no more than five alkaline hydrolysis facilities, as specified, and repeals that authority on 1/1/20.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 808 (Fong-D) Acupuncture: license requirements
Requires applicants for an acupuncture license to pass a practical examination in addition to the existing written examination, beginning 1/1/16.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 809* (Logue-R) Healing arts: telehealth: consent requirements
Revises the informed consent requirements relating to the delivery of health care via telehealth by permitting consent to be made verbally or in writing, and by deleting the requirement that the health care provider who obtains the consent be at the originating site where the patient is physically located.
Chapter 404, Statutes of 2014
AB 851 (Logue-R) Dentistry: licensure and certification: military experience
Requires the Dental Board of California, upon the presentation of evidence by an applicant for licensure or certification, to accept education, training, and practical experience completed by an applicant in military service toward the qualifications and requirements to receive a license or certificate if that education, training, or experience is equivalent to the standards of the Board.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 864 (Skinner-D) Athletic trainers: license: regulation
Establishes the Athletic Training Practice Act to license and regulate athletic trainers (ATs) through the creation of an Athletic Trainer Licensing Committee under the Physical Therapy Board, to commence on 7/1/14, and expire on 1/1/19. Defines AT scope of practice. Authorizes the Committee to develop regulations based on specified criteria. Requires ATs to practice under the direction of a physician and surgeon licensed by the Medical Board of California or an osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 916 (Eggman-D) Physicians and surgeons: certifying board: advertising
Prohibits a licensed physician and surgeon who is certified, as specified, from using the terms "board," "certified," or "certification" in advertising unless the full name of the certifying board is also used and given comparable prominence with the terms "board," "certified," "certification" or "board certified" in the statement, and unless the term(s) are used in reference to a certifying board, as specified.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 1003 (Maienschein-R) Licensed practitioners: professional corporations
Specifies that provisions of the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act do not limit the employment by a professional corporation to only those specified licensed professionals. Authorizes any person duly licensed under the Business and Professions Code, the Chiropractic Act, or the Osteopathic Act to be employed to render professional services by a professional corporation.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1063 (Eggman-D) Licensed surveyors and engineers: title protection
Provides title protection for city and county engineers and surveyors by prohibiting the use of the title engineer or surveyor unless an individual is a licensed professional engineer or licensed professional surveyor; and authorizes a licensed surveyor or civil engineer to include additional information filed with a record of survey, as specified, and requires a local public agency's land survey marker to identify the land surveyor or civil engineer that set it.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1095 (Nestande-R) Junk dealers and recyclers: regulations
Requires a junk dealer or recycler to provide payment by check only, mailed or provided to the seller of nonferrous materials no earlier than 30 days after the date of sale, and prohibits the junk dealer or recycler from recycling, selling, or disposing of the materials during that time period. Provides for exemptions from the check-only payment.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1147 (Gomez-D) Massage therapy: certified-only
Revises, recasts, rewrites and makes a number of substantive, clarifying, conforming and technical changes to the Massage Therapy Act by deleting preemption of ordinances and local land use authority for "certified-only" massage establishments; reconstituting the California Massage Therapy Council; reinforcing local massage ordinances; raising professional and educational standards for massage therapists; expanding the disciplinary authority of the Council; and extending the sunset date, by two years, until 1/1/17.
Chapter 406, Statutes of 2014
AB 1153 (Eggman-D) Barbering and cosmetology: scope of practice
Modifies the scope of practice of cosmetology and skin care. Provides for certification as a master esthetician, and makes it an unfair business practice for any person to hold oneself out or use the title "master esthetician" or any other specified term that implies or suggests that the person is certified as a master esthetician without meeting the certification requirements. Prohibits a person who is not licensed as an esthetician from representing himself/herself as an esthetician. Clarifies that the prohibition on those licensed to engage in barbering, cosmetology, skin care, nail care, and electrolysis to practice medicine or surgery include, but is not limited to, the use of radiographs, the furnishing of drugs or invasive devices, supervising medical personnel, or diagnosing injury, illness, or disease.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1174 (Bocanegra-D) Dental professionals: scope of practice
Authorizes certain allied dental professionals to perform additional activities using telehealth. Clarifies that a dentist is not required to engage in telehealth. Specifies requirements for dental assistants that are licensed on or after 1/1/10.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 2014
AB 1269 (Gray-D) Medical school: faculty permit to practice
Clarifies that the Medical Board of California, and not the nonexistent Division of Licensing, may establish an applicant's eligibility for a special faculty permit to practice medicine exclusively within a medical school and any affiliated institution.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1535 (Bloom-D) Pharmacists: naloxone hydrochloride: protocols
Permits a pharmacist to furnish naloxone hydrochloride pursuant to standardized procedures and protocols developed and approved jointly by the Board of Pharmacy and the Medical Board of California.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2014
AB 1551 (Holden-D) Professional engineers and land surveyors: documents
Prohibits a person from using a licensed engineer's documents, without the written consent of the licensed engineer, as specified. Prohibits a person from using a licensed land surveyor's maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other documentary evidence without the written consent of the licensed land surveyor, as specified. Prohibits a licensed engineer or land surveyor from unreasonably withholding consent to use these documents.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1598 (Rodriguez-D) Emergency response personnel: standard operating procedures
Requires fire, law enforcement, and emergency medical services agencies to jointly establish standard operating procedures and coordinated training programs for active shooter incidents.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2014
AB 1608 (Olsen-R) Private investigators: limited liability company
Authorizes a licensed private investigator to organize as a limited liability company until 1/1/18. Requires a private investigator that is a limited liability company to maintain liability insurance, as specified.
Chapter 669, Statutes of 2014
AB 1627 (Gomez-D) Vehicle registration services: fee disclosure
Requires a business that is licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide vehicle registration services to disclose to its customers that they could register their vehicles directly with the Department without paying the business's additional fee.
Chapter 128, Statutes of 2014
AB 1665 (Jones-R) Automotive repair dealers: registration
Deletes "repairing tires" and "changing tires" from the list of repair services exempt from registration as an automotive repair dealer that repairs or changes tires under the Bureau of Automotive Repair, and requires an automotive repair dealer to be capable of diagnosing and servicing tire pressure monitoring systems, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 1685 (Williams-D) Structural pest control operators: licensure fees
Increases the statutory maximum for licensure examination fees charged by the Structural Pest Control Board.
Chapter 304, Statutes of 2014
AB 1702 (Maienschein-R) Professions and vocations: licensure: incarceration
Specifies that an individual who has satisfied the requirements for licensure while incarcerated and who applies for licensure after being released from incarceration shall not have his/her application delayed or denied solely on the basis that some or all of the requirements were completed while the individual was incarcerated. Exempts the Board of Chiropractic Examiners from these requirements.
Chapter 410, Statutes of 2014
AB 1732 (Stone-D) Vehicle dealers: advertising prohibitions
Prohibits a licensee (manufacturer, distributor, or dealer of vehicles) from advertising a vehicle's prior use or ownership history in an inaccurate manner.
Chapter 856, Statutes of 2014
AB 1747 (Holden-D) Massage therapy: certificate holders
Requires the California Massage Therapy Council to notify the city, county, or city and county where a certificate holder is operating when the Council has revoked a massage certificate. Authorizes a city, county, or city and county to charge a massage business or establishment a business licensing fee that is no higher than the average fee that is applied to other individuals and businesses providing professional services. Requires an owner or operator to be responsible for the conduct of all employees or independent contractors working on the business premises, regardless of whether the owner or operator is a certificate holder.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1758 (Patterson-R) Licensing boards: initial license fees: proration
Requires several licensing boards and committees within the Department of Consumer Affairs to prorate initial license fees on a monthly basis and authorizes those boards and committees to impose an additional fee to cover the costs of issuing an initial license.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1838 (Bonilla-D) Healing arts: medical school accreditation
Provides that accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools, or the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation is deemed to meet existing state curriculum and clinical medical school requirements.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2014
AB 1841 (Mullin-D) Medical assistants: technical supportive services
Specifies that the "technical supportive services" a medical assistant may perform in Board of Pharmacy licensed facilities also includes handing to a patient a properly labeled and prepackaged prescription drug, other than a controlled substance, ordered by a licensed physician and surgeon, a licensed podiatrist, a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife, as specified.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2014
AB 1855 (Melendez-R) Land surveying: practice: field survey record
Includes in the practice of land surveying use of the principles to determine the position of an easement. Requires a licensed land surveyor or a licensed civil engineer to file a record of a field survey relating to an easement, or if the points or lines set during the performance of a field survey of any parcel described in any easement are not shown on those maps or records of survey.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1859 (Maienschein-R) Professional fiduciary corporations: licensure
Provides for the formation of licensed professional fiduciary corporations pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, as specified, and makes these corporations subject to registration by the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau and payment of a licensure fee, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1886 (Eggman-D) Medical Board of California: license information
Recasts and revises the law regarding Internet posting of physician and surgeon license information by the Medical Board of California (MBC). Requires MBC to post, indefinitely, information related to all physician and surgeon discipline, including revocation, suspension, probation, surrender of a license, or other equivalent action taken by MBC or a board of another state or jurisdiction.
Chapter 285, Statutes of 2014
AB 1890 (Chau-D) Athletic trainers: certification
Establishes certification and training requirements for athletic trainers and prohibits individuals from calling themselves athletic trainers unless they meet those requirements.
Vetoed
AB 1904 (Bonilla-D) Massage therapists: address notification requirements
Requires a certified massage therapist or certified massage practitioner to notify the California Massage Therapy Council of his/her primary e-mail address, if any, and notify the Council within 30 days of any change to the primary e-mail address.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 1926 (Bonilla-D) Electronic & appliance repair: service dealers: registration
Provides that a statement or advertisement is considered untrue or misleading if the statement or advertisement does not contain the name and address of the business enterprise as shown on its service dealer's state registration certificate or does not contain the business telephone number as listed in a local telephone directory.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1972 (Jones-R) Respiratory care practitioners: examination
Requires an applicant to pass all parts of the national registered respiratory therapist examination, unless an applicant provides evidence that he/she passed the national certified respiratory therapist examination prior to 1/1/15, and there is no evidence of prior license or job-related discipline, as determined by the Respiratory Care Board in its discretion.
Chapter 179, Statutes of 2014
AB 2018 (Bocanegra-D) Real estate licensees: fictitious business names
Revises the requirements for the use of "fictitious business names" by real estate licensees to additionally authorize the use of "team names" subject to specified requirements. Specifies that this bill's provisions shall not be construed to limit or change a real estate broker's duties to supervise a salesperson.
Chapter 892, Statutes of 2014
AB 2024 (Bonilla-D) Professional fiduciaries: licenses
Authorizes the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau to establish a retired status license. Prohibits a professional fiduciary from practicing with a retired or cancelled license. Provides that an expired professional fiduciary license, that is not renewed within three years, shall not be renewed, restored, or reinstated. Clarifies the Bureau's authority to investigate any professional fiduciary with a retired, inactive, canceled, or suspended license.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2014
AB 2102 (Ting-D) Healing arts: licensees: data collection
Requires the Board of Registered Nursing, the Physician Assistant Board, the Respiratory Care Board, and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians to collect and report specific demographic data relating to its licensees, subject to a licensee's discretion to report his/her race or ethnicity, to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Requires the boards to collect this data at least biennially at the time of issuing an initial license or renewal license.
Chapter 420, Statutes of 2014
AB 2131 (Morrell-R) Pharmacy licenses: letters of reprimand
Permits the Board of Pharmacy to issue a pharmacist or pharmacy technician license concurrently with a public letter of reprimand for those applicants who have committed minor violations that the Board deems not to merit a license denial or probationary license.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 2143* (Williams-D) Chiropractors: clinical labs: certificate of waiver
Exempts chiropractors listed on the federal Department of Transportation National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners, who perform specific waived clinical laboratory tests for the sole purpose of completing the Department of Motor Vehicles medical examination report, if they obtain a valid certificate of waiver, for the performance of waived clinical laboratory tests. Requires a chiropractor who receives an abnormal finding to refer the applicant to their primary care physician.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2014
AB 2162 (Fox-D) Residential care facilities: fire protection regulations
Requires a residential care facility for the elderly or an adult residential facility, that has a valid license as of 1/1/15, to have installed and maintained on an after 1/1/19, an operable automatic fire sprinkler system approved by the State Fire Marshal. Requires the licensee of a facility to pay all costs associated with compliance with these provisions. Limits specified inspection fees related to the sprinkler systems. Requires, by 1/1/17, the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations to implement these provisions.
(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2165 (Patterson-R) Professions and vocations: licenses
Requires each board within the Department of Consumer Affairs to complete, within 45 days, the application review process with respect to each person who has filed with the board an application for issuance of a license, and to issue, within those 45 days, a license to an applicant who has successfully satisfied all licensure requirements, as specified. Requires each board to offer each examination the board provides for licensure, a minimum of six times per year, unless the board uses a national examination. Authorizes a person who has satisfied the educational requirements of the licensing act of which he/she seeks licensure to immediately apply for and take the professional examination required for licensure regardless of whether his/her application for licensure is then pending with the board for which he/she seeks licensure.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 2169 (Cooley-D) Real estate brokers: obligations
Recasts and codifies the provision relating to the interpretation and application of law on existing obligations of a real estate broker.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2183 (Bocanegra-D) Nursing: licensure: out-of-state applicants
Requires the Board of Registered Nursing to take specified actions and issue regulations that address equivalency of education for those already working as a nurse outside the state, and clarify whether and to what extent prior professional experience may be applied for purposes of meeting licensure requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2198 (Levine-D) Mental health professionals: suicide prevention: licensing
Requires a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, educational psychologist, professional clinical counselor and clinical social worker, who began graduate study on or after 1/1/16, to complete a minimum of 15 hours of coursework on suicide prevention, before being issued a license; and requires, commencing 1/1/16, a person licensed in these professions or any applicant for licensure who began graduate study prior to 1/1/16, to take a six-hour continuing education course on suicide prevention in order to renew a license.
Vetoed
AB 2213 (Eggman-D) Behavioral health care licensees
Revises the current education and curriculum requirements for licensure as a marriage and family therapist and professional clinical counselor for out-of-state applicants who are applying for licensure on or after 1/1/16. Double-joints with SB 1466 (Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee, Chapter 316, Statutes of 2014).
Chapter 387, Statutes of 2014
AB 2214 (Fox-D) Emergency room physicians/surgeons: education requirements
Enacts the Dolores H. Fox Act to require the Medical Board of California to consider including a course in geriatric care for emergency room physicians and surgeons as part of its continuing education requirements.
Chapter 422, Statutes of 2014
AB 2220 (Daly-D) Licensed private patrol operators: authorizations
Authorizes, effective 7/1/16, a licensed private patrol operator (PPO), as defined, to be the registered owner of a firearm. Establishes procedures for a PPO to assign its firearms to its employees who are licensed to carry firearms. Requires, as a condition of licensure, a PPO to have on file with the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services a liability insurance policy, as specified.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2014
AB 2312 (Nestande-R) Weighmaster license: metal theft
Requires a junk dealer or recycler to request metal theft alert notifications from an Internet-based theft alert system and to provide a statement to the Department of Food and Agriculture that they have requested to do so, when applying for a weighmaster license.
Chapter 608, Statutes of 2014
AB 2313 (Nestande-R) Junk dealers or recyclers: weighmaster license fees
Requires a weighmaster who is a junk dealer or recycler to pay an additional license fee, to be deposited into the Metal Theft Task Force Fund and to be expended by the Department of Justice, for the purpose of administering the Metal Theft Task Force Program, which this bill creates. Prohibits the proceeds of this fee from exceeding an aggregate total of $2 million per year.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2346 (Gonzalez-D) Physician & surgeon assistance program: administrative fees
Authorizes the Medical Board of California to establish a voluntary and confidential program to aid physicians struggling with substance abuse, mental health concerns, or other issues, and specifies the program is to be modeled after the State Bar's Lawyer Assistance Program. Authorizes the Board to charge a reasonable administrative fee to support the program, and requires participants in the program to pay all expenses relating to treatment and recovery.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2396 (Bonta-D) Convictions: expungement: licenses
Prohibits a board within the Department of Consumer Affairs from denying a license based solely on a conviction that has been dismissed pursuant to specified provisions. Requires an applicant who has a conviction that has been dismissed pursuant to the specified provisions to provide proof of the dismissal.
Chapter 737, Statutes of 2014
AB 2484 (Gordon-D) Healing arts: telehealth: consent
Allows a health care provider to obtain written consent from a patient before telehealth may be used and requires that written consent to be documented in the patient's medical record.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 2503* (Hagman-R) Licensed repossessors
Makes various changes to state law governing licensed repossessors, including clarifying that a repossessed vehicle is not subject to registration.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2014
AB 2540 (Dababneh-D) Real estate licenses
Requires real estate brokers and real estate salespersons to supply the Bureau of Real Estate with valid contact information, including a current mailing address, electronic mail address, and telephone number, as part of their examination and license applications and to inform the Bureau of any change in the broker or salesperson's contact information within 30 days.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2014
AB 2605 (Bonilla-D) Pharmacy: third-party logistics providers: license
Requires third-party logistics providers who provide storage, handling, or distribution services related to pharmaceuticals, to be licensed by the Board of Pharmacy.
Chapter 507, Statutes of 2014
AB 2739 (Assembly Business, Professions And Consumer Protection Committee) Massage therapy: certification
Extends the operation of provisions requiring the California Massage Therapy Council, a nonprofit organization, to issue a certificate as a massage therapist or massage practitioner to an applicant who satisfies all the requirements, as specified, until 1/1/19, and makes those provisions subject to review by the appropriate legislative policy committees.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 2740 (Bonilla-D) Electronic and appliance repair
Subjects the powers and duties of the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation to review by the appropriate legislative policy committees as if these provisions were scheduled to be repealed on 1/1/19. Requests the Bureau to report on specified issues by 7/1/15. Extends the repeal dates for the Electronic and Appliance Repair Dealer Registration Law to correspond with the sunset review dates this bill places upon the Bureau.
Chapter 428, Statutes of 2014
ACR 101 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Pawnbrokers/secondhand dealers: Internet transactions
Requests the Department of Justice to convene meetings in 2014 with representatives from law enforcement, prosecutors, the secondhand dealer and pawnbroker industry, and interested members of the public to determine changes to existing law that will, among other things, allow California pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers to fairly compete with out-of-state Internet pawnbrokers. Makes legislative findings and declarations stating that there are impediments to a licensed pawnbroker or secondhand dealer in California transacting business solely on the Internet.
Resolution Chapter 154, Statutes of 2014
Small Business
SB 276 (Roth-D) Small business contracts: state agencies
Increases the maximum amount of a contract for goods, services, or information technology from $250,000 to $500,000 under which the contract may be awarded by a state agency to a certified small business or disabled veteran business enterprise without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1192 (Hueso-D) Microbusiness: public contracts
Authorizes a state agency to award construction contracts that have an estimated value (not including taxes, fees, and transportation charges) of greater than $5,000, as specified, to a certified small business, including a microbusiness, or to a disabled veteran business enterprise if they obtain two or more written bid submittals.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 172 (Weber-D) Microbusiness: state agency contracts: preference
Increases the microbusiness procurement preference from 5% to 7% for state contracts to purchase goods, services, information technology and to construct state facilities; and specifies that the preference may be awarded to either a microbusiness bidder or a non-microbusiness bidder that uses a microbusiness subcontractor.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 550 (Brown-D) Small business participation rate: state government
Establishes procedures and accounting to ensure all state agencies and departments achieve a 25% small business participation rate for state contracts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 674 (Quirk-Silva-D) Microenterprise
Modifies the definition of "microenterprise" to also include a limited liability company, increase the number of employees to five or fewer, and require that the entity generally lack sufficient access to loans, equity, or other financial capital. Deletes existing law that expressly distinguishes a microenterprise from a small business or microbusiness. Modifies the definition of "microenterprise development provider" to also include a nonprofit organization or public agency that provides self-employment training, technical assistance, and access to microloans to a microenterprise seeking to expand its current business.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2014
AB 780 (Bocanegra-D) Small business financial development corporations: funds
Appropriates $2 million from the General Fund to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, and requires the Executive Director of the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program to distribute these funds to the financial development corporations, as specified, for their ongoing administrative operations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1399* (Medina-D) Small business: New Markets Tax Credit Program
Authorizes the creation of the New Markets Tax Credit Program, administered through the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development and the California Competes Tax Credit Allocation Committee to stimulate private sector investment in lower income communities by providing a tax incentive to community and economic development entities that can be leveraged by the entity to attract private sector investment that in turn will be deployed by providing financing and technical assistance to small- and medium-size businesses.
Vetoed
AB 1568 (Grove-R) Small business: state contracts
Requires state agencies to solicit price quotes from at least three certified small businesses or disabled veteran business enterprises when awarding state contracts under $250,000.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1675 (Ian Calderon-D) Entrepreneur-in-Residence Act of 2014
Establishes the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to provide private sector expertise and assistance to help make government activities and practices streamlined and accessible to small business.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1734 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Small business participation: public contracts
Requires each state agency to establish and achieve a goal of 25% small business participation and an annual phased-in goal of 5% disabled veteran business enterprises participation in state contracting.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2278 (Weber-D) Small business: target area contract preference
Revises the maximum amount of a bid preference that may be applied to the award of a state contract for certified California small businesses and California businesses that perform 50% of the work within a distressed area under the Target Area Contract Preference Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2670 (Medina-D) Small Business Technical Assistance Act of 2014
Enacts the Small Business Technical Assistance Act of 2014, within the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank under the direction of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to, among other things, serve as the lead state entity for overseeing the state's participation with the federal California Small Business Development Center Program, the Women's Business Center program, the Veteran Business Outreach Center program, the Service Corps of Retired Executives, and the Procurement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2682 (Wagner-R) Small business: procurement: responsible/reliable parties
Requires a state agency that solicits offers, awards a contract, or consents to subcontracts, under the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act, for goods and services under other specified law, or for information technology, to do so only with responsible and reliable parties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2717* (Bonta-D) Small Business Development Center Program
Appropriates $6 million from the General Fund to the California Economic Development Fund to provide a cash match for federal funds to the administrative lead centers that have contracts with the United States Small Business Administration to administer the federal Small Business Development Center Program in California, subject to a specified condition.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2723 (Medina-D) Small business: sole proprietorships: regulations
Makes clarifying changes to the Administrative Procedure Act to include "sole proprietorships" and "small business" in the required standardized regulatory impact analysis when a state agency proposes to adopt, amend, or repeal a major regulation.
Vetoed
ACR 48 (Allen-R) Start a Small Business Month
Declares May 2013 as "Start a Small Business Month;" expresses the Legislature's support of the Governor's efforts in supporting small businesses; and declares that there are key actions that the Legislature should take to further the success of small businesses in California.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
ACR 118 (Logue-R) California Small Business Owners' Highway
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 99 that runs between Hull Road and Stewart Road in Sutter County as the California Small Business Owners' Highway.
Resolution Chapter 174, Statutes of 2014
Miscellaneous
SB 117 (Hueso-D) Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct
Provides that a physician and surgeon shall not be subject to discipline for unprofessional conduct solely on the basis of providing treatment or advice for cancer given in compliance with provisions in the Health and Safety Code relating to "integrative cancer treatment."
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 124* (Corbett-D) Burials: human remains
Authorizes the local registrar of births and deaths in Alameda County to issue a disposition permit for the burial of Abbot, Archimandrite Theodor Micka, on the grounds of the Holy Cross Monastery in Alameda County and allows those remains to be so interred.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2014
SB 202 (Galgiani-D) Dealers: automotive repair
Deletes "repairing tires" and "changing tires" from the list of repair services exempt from registration as an automotive repair dealer under the Bureau of Automotive Repair.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 204 (Corbett-D) Pharmacists: prescription drug labels: survey
Requires the Board of Pharmacy to conduct a survey of pharmacists and vendors of electronic health records to gather information about the utilization of, and the obstacles to, the use of the Board's standardized directions for use on prescription drug labels.
Vetoed
SB 256 (Lieu-D) Trampoline courts: safety inspection
Establishes requirements and procedures for the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to regulate and inspect trampoline courts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 541 (Wyland-R) Real estate: Elder Financial Abuse Advisory Committee
Requires the Department of Real Estate to establish, by 1/1/16, an Elder Financial Abuse Advisory Committee, as prescribed, to provide to the Real Estate Commissioner, beginning 1/1/17, and annually thereafter, reports analyzing the Department's financial policies relating to real estate and identifying those policies that negatively impact elderly residents.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 610 (Jackson-D) Franchises: termination or transfer
Revises various provisions of the California Franchise Relations Act with respect to termination or transfer of a franchise, as well as the right of association among franchisees.
Vetoed
SB 648 (Corbett-D) Vending machines: electronic cigarettes
Makes the provision of the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act restricting the sale of cigarette and tobacco products from vending machines applicable to electronic cigarettes, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 650 (Lieu-D) Motion pictures: licensee of nonexclusive rights
Provides that a licensee of nonexclusive rights in a motion picture that is produced pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement takes the license subject to the obligation to pay residuals as set forth in the collective bargaining agreement.
Chapter 118, Statutes of 2014
SB 701 (Emmerson-R) Hospital-affiliated outpatient settings: accreditation
Creates entities known as hospital-affiliated outpatient settings, as defined, and aligns the accreditation and reporting processes with those of the general acute care hospital with which the hospital-affiliated outpatient settings is affiliated.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 733 (Block-D) Disabled veteran business enterprise: utilization plan
Deletes provisions of law allowing an awarding department to accept submission of a disabled veteran business enterprise utilization plan to meet the 3% statewide participation goal for disabled veteran business enterprise awarded contracts.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
SB 1109 (Hueso-D) Disability business enterprises: state contracts
Eliminates state sanctioned minimum wage exemptions for disabled persons in specified state service contracts, and establishes a participation goal in state contracts of not less than 3% for disability business enterprises.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1119 (Leno-D) Car rental industry: assessment
Establishes a limit on the assessment of the passenger car rental industry to fund the California Travel and Tourism Commission of 3.5%, up to a total of no more than 60% of the funding necessary to fund the Commission's approved marketing plan and all administrative costs.
Chapter 320, Statutes of 2014
SB 1328 (Hill-D) Retail sales: weights and measures
Authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture to adopt regulations consistent with federal law to establish a uniform policy relating to the use of dry or wet tare weight methods of measurement for the retail sale of meat, poultry, and fish products. Authorizes the Department to add up to $2 for the business license of a business using a point of sale system for purposes of point of sale enforcement. Specifies that a grocery store, as defined, that displays a refund or no charge policy for overcharged items, will not be fined or assessed any other penalty until 1/1/18, for the first item that is not in compliance during an initial standard inspection.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCR 135 (Evans-D) National Massage Therapy Awareness Week
Proclaims the week of 10/19/14 to 10/25/14, inclusive, as National Massage Therapy Awareness Week in California.
Resolution Chapter 149, Statutes of 2014
SJR 3 (Knight-R) Sequestration
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to avert federal spending cuts known as "sequestration" to, among other reasons, protect the California and national economies.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SR 27 (Cannella-R) National Engineers Week
Recognizes the week of 2/17/14 to 2/23/14, inclusive, as National Engineers Week and acknowledges the services bestowed upon the citizens of California by engineers.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 32 (Vidak-R) National Surveyors Week
Recognizes the week of 3/16/14 through 3/22/14, as National Surveyors Week.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 286* (Nazarian-D) Motion pictures: income taxes: credit
Expands the definition of qualified motion pictures by removing the cap on the production budget for feature films and limits the amount of qualified expenditures, for purposes of the qualified motion pictures that are features, to $75 million; and revises the amount of credits allocated per fiscal year to provide that a minimum threshold is met for allocations to specified qualified motion pictures.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
AB 299 (Holden-D) Retail pharmacies: mail order
Prohibits a health plan or insurer that provides prescription drug benefits from requiring an enrollee to utilize in-network mail order pharmacy services for covered prescription drugs available at an in-network retail pharmacy; prohibits the plan or insurer from requiring authorization, from either the plan or prescriber, for the enrollee's choice of obtaining a drug through mail order or at a retail pharmacy; and excludes from this provision drugs unavailable in retail pharmacies due to a manufacturer's instructions or restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 332 (Hall-D) Adult film production: occupational safety and health
Requires employers engaged in the production of adult films to adopt safety-related practices and procedures regarding sexually transmitted diseases.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 344 (Ian Calderon-D) Minors: entertainment work permit
Allows the Labor Commissioner to collect a fee, not to exceed $50, for the issuance of a minor's entertainment work permit to offset costs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 366 (Holden-D) Women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises
Modifies the definitions for minority-owned business, women-owned business, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises to encourage contracting with publicly held companies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 459 (Mitchell-D) Vending machines: healthy and sustainable food
Increases the percentage of food and beverage items sold from vending machines on state property that must meet specified nutritional standards and requires state cafeterias and concessions to enhance nutritional standards.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 536 (Wagner-R) Contractors: payments: disputed amounts
Excludes claims for additional compensation from the definition of a "disputed amount" for purposes of existing law that authorizes, in the event of a good faith dispute, the withholding of 150% of a disputed amount from certain payments to contractors and subcontractors.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 668 (Gray-D) Economic disaster area
Requires any county or city and county with an unemployment rate above ____% for a period of ____ months to be declared an economic disaster area; and requires a county or city and county that is designated an economic disaster area to receive priority consideration when the state is making a determination on where to expend state funds with respect to any state contract or award, public works project, bond-financed project, acquisition of real estate, or capital project.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 670 (Atkins-D) Pharmacy Law: incentive payments
Prohibits a pharmacist or pharmacy employer from receiving compensation for recommending or replacing a patient's originally prescribed drug with a therapeutic alternative, unless the recommendation or replacement is part of a comprehensive medication review, which includes a patient consultation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 801 (Brown-D) Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous materials
Requires junk dealers and recyclers to obtain specified information before providing payment for nonferrous materials marked with an indicia of ownership, as defined, and requires that this information be retained as part of the written record of purchases.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 854 (Stone-D) Locksmithing
Requires the person making a key capable of opening any door or other means of entrance to a residence or commercial establishment for another to obtain specified information, to obtain the e-mail address, if any, of the person requesting or purchasing the key, and to retain the work order for four years, rather than two years.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 867 (Yamada-D) Meteorological towers: markings
Requires meteorological towers located outside the boundaries of an incorporated city, or on or within one mile of prime agricultural land, to be marked, as specified, by 1/1/15.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 886* (Allen-R) Exporters and importers: income tax credit
Authorizes the California Transportation Financing Authority to award $500 million in tax credit certificates to exporters and importers who meet specified criteria.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 890 (Jones-R) False advertising: "Made in U.S.A."
Provides that, for purposes of state law, a product sold in California could carry the label "Made in U.S.A.," "Made in America," "U.S.A.," or similar words, if it was substantially made, manufactured, or produced in the U.S. as measured by specified criteria.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 964 (Bonta-D) Vehicle dealers: used vehicles
Prohibits the holder of any dealer's license from advertising for sale or selling a used vehicle that the dealer knows or should have known is subject to a manufacturer's safety recall, 180 days after the enactment of regulations pursuant to portions of the federal Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act; prohibits the holder of any dealer's license from selling a used vehicle as part of a used vehicle certification program if the dealer knows or should have known that the vehicle is the subject of a manufacturer's safety recall; and generally prohibits the holder of any dealer's license from selling any used vehicle at retail without providing a written disclosure, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 983 (Melendez-R) Self-service storage facilities
Modifies the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act to allow self-service storage facility owners to have a vehicle, watercraft, or trailer towed from the facility, as specified, and to allow parties to create additional rights, duties, and obligations in a rental agreement, including the right to limit the value of property an occupant may store in the storage space.
Chapter 778, Statutes of 2014
AB 993 (Linder-R) Contractors: arbitration
Revises and updates the provisions relating to the Contractors State License Board's arbitration program that provides for an alternative dispute resolution process between consumers and contractors for claims up to $50,000, and clarifies the arbitration process, the arbitrator's authority, and the awarding of attorney's fees, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1114 (Achadjian-R) Contractors: home improvement contracts
Deletes existing law prohibiting contractors from paying, crediting, or allowing any consideration or compensation, of any kind to any other contractor or salesperson other than a licensee for, or on account of, the performance of a work of improvement or services, including, but not limited to, home improvement work or services, except as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1139 (Lowenthal-D) Pharmacists: biosimilar products
Permits a pharmacist to substitute a biological pharmaceutical product with a comparable "biosimilar" product, provided that biosimilar product is deemed by the federal Food and Drug Administration to be interchangeable with the prescribed biological product.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1189* (Nazarian-D) Motion pictures: income tax credits
Extends the requirement to allocate tax credits for five additional years, until 7/1/22, in an amount equal to a specified percentage of the qualified expenditures, as defined, attributable to the production of a qualified motion picture in California, or where the qualified motion picture has relocated to California or is an independent film; and extends and increases the limit on the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated through the 2021-22 fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
AB 1260 (Medina-D) California family owned business: definition
Defines a "California family owned business" for purposes of any provision of the Government Code that explicitly references this definition.
Vetoed
AB 1413 (Assembly Revenue And Taxation Committee) Motion pictures: nonprofits: tax credit
Clarifies the scope of the California Motion Picture Tax Credit utilization and simplifies the process by which certain nonprofit organizations may obtain tax-exempt status in California.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1439 (Salas-D) Unfair business practices: contests/sweepstakes
Prohibits any person, when conducting a contest or sweepstakes, from using an electronic video monitor to simulate gambling or play gambling-themed games that offers the opportunity to win sweepstakes cash, cash equivalent prizes, or other prizes of value.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2014
AB 1500 (Dickinson-D) Delivery seller: electronic cigarettes
Prohibits a "delivery seller," as defined, from selling or delivering an electronic cigarette to a person under 18 years of age.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1504 (Stone-D) Direct/indirect sales: shipments: cigarettes
Prohibits a person or entity from selling, giving, or in any way furnishing to another person of any age in this state a cigarette utilizing a single-use filter made of any material, including cellulose acetate, or other fibrous plastic material, and any organic or biodegradable material. Prohibits that selling, giving, or furnishing, whether conducted directly or indirectly through an in-person transaction or by means of any public or private method of shipment or delivery to an address in this state.
(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1680 (Wilk-R) Child Performer Services Permit: advertising
Requires any person with a valid Child Performer Services Permit to include the permit number on advertising in print or electronic media, including, but not limited to, Internet Web sites, or in any other medium of advertising.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2014
AB 1727 (Rodriguez-D) Prescription drugs: donation
Exempts a prescription drug under a federal Food and Drug Administration Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies from being donated through a prescription drug donation program.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 2014
AB 1780* (Donnelly-R) Motion pictures: income tax credit
Creates a new program which requires the Franchise Tax Board to annually allocate tax credits to qualified motion pictures, as specified, starting on 1/1/16, and continuing through the 2021-22 fiscal year, allowing a credit equal to 20% of the qualified expenditures attributable to the production in California of one or more qualified motion pictures, as defined, with an aggregate qualified expenditure amount of at least $500,000.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
AB 1810 (Maienschein-R) Veterinarians: animal care facilities: abandoned animals
Authorizes veterinarians and animal care facilities to turn an abandoned animal over to a public animal control agency or shelter, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shelter, humane society shelter, or nonprofit animal rescue group, provided that the shelter or group has been contacted and has agreed to take the animal. Permits, instead of requires, the facility or veterinarian to have the animal euthanized, if unable to place the animal with a new owner, shelter, or group.
Chapter 86, Statutes of 2014
AB 1819 (Hall-D) Family day care home: smoking prohibition
Extends the existing prohibition against tobacco smoking in a private residence that is licensed as a family day care home to outside the hours of operation of the home.
Chapter 459, Statutes of 2014
AB 1823 (Wagner-R) Contractors: payments
Provides that a "disputed amount" shall not include the amount of any claim for additional compensation by the subcontractor against the prime contractor.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1837 (Atkins-D) Social innovation financing: private investors
Enacts, until 1/1/20, the Social Innovation Financing Program and requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to administer the Program. Authorizes the Board to award grants to each of three counties, selected as specified, for the purpose of entering into a pay for success or social innovation financing contract, pursuant to which private investors agree to provide financing to service providers to achieve social outcomes agreed upon in advance and the government agency that is a party to the contractual agreement agrees to pay a return on the investment to the investors if successful programmatic outcomes are achieved by the service provider. Limits the total amount of the grants awarded to $5 million.
Chapter 802, Statutes of 2014
AB 1839* (Gatto-D) Motion pictures: income tax credit
Creates a tax credit for qualified expenditures for the production of qualified motion pictures in California for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/16.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2014
AB 2086 (Ian Calderon-D) Business entities: minimum franchise tax
Provides limited liability companies with various installment payment options for paying the minimum franchise tax, and provides corporations with similar installment payment options for paying the estimated minimum franchise tax.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2209 (Dickinson-D) Electronic commerce: goods and services
Updates the Money Transmission Act to ensure that electronic commerce transactions are not inadvertently regulated as money transmission; and makes other changes intended to reflect the increasing use of the Internet as a platform for the exchange of goods and services.
Chapter 499, Statutes of 2014
AB 2270 (Ting-D) Energy and resource-efficiency professions
Allows the Building Standards Commission to appoint advisory panel members from the energy and resource efficiency professions.
Vetoed
AB 2376 (Weber-D) Contractors: state contracts: insurance
Eliminates a contractor's $25,000 minimum deductible for an insurance policy issued under the Department of General Services' master builders' risk insurance program, and instead requires the amount of the deductible under the policy to be outlined in the request for bids or proposals for a state contracting project.
Chapter 115, Statutes of 2014
AB 2451 (Daly-D) Water submeters: weights and measures
Authorizes the installation of a water submeter that was inspected, tested, and sealed by a sealer of another county. Authorizes a county to establish and collect fees to cover the actual costs of inspecting, testing, and certifying water submeters. Requires a sealer to mark a water submeter that is found to be incorrect, with the words "Out of Order." Allows the submeter to be returned to the manufacturer under certain conditions.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2014
AB 2741 (Bonilla-D) Professional Fiduciaries Bureau
Extends, until 1/1/19, the sunset date on the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau and the Chief of the Bureau.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2014
AB 2757* (Bocanegra-D) Centralized hospital packaging pharmacies
Provides that certain information located in a medication's barcode now be displayed on a human readable label or be retrievable using a lot number or control number. Requires a medication's barcode be machine readable using medication administration software, as specified.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
ACR 106 (Gordon-D) State Scientist Day
Declares 5/14/14, as the 26th Annual State Scientist Day, as a tribute to the dedication and professionalism of the state scientists who work on behalf of all the residents of California.
Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2014
ACR 168 (Alejo-D) NFL Football: Native Americans
Urges the National Football League (NFL) to join with the Legislature and numerous organizations in calling for a name change for the Washington, D.C. NFL team. Calls upon the owners of NFL teams based in California to urge the owner of the Washington, D.C. NFL team and the NFL Commissioner to change the team mascot.
Resolution Chapter 179, Statutes of 2014
HR 34 (Melendez-R) National Surveyors Week
Recognizes the week of 3/16/14 to 3/22/14, inclusive, as National Surveyors Week.
Adopted by the Assembly
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| Measure and Reference | Author | Measure Title |
|---|---|---|
| SB 32 - Economic Development | Price-D | Business investment: tax credits |
| SB 51* - Consumerism | Wright-D | Internet gambling: consumer protection |
| SB 117 - Miscellaneous | Hueso-D | Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct |
| SB 124* - Miscellaneous | Corbett-D | Burials: human remains |
| SB 202 - Miscellaneous | Galgiani-D | Dealers: automotive repair |
| SB 204 - Miscellaneous | Corbett-D | Pharmacists: prescription drug labels: survey |
| SB 207 - Consumerism | Cannella-R | Internet: information disclosure |
| SB 207 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Cannella-R | Licensee information: address disclosure |
| SB 218 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Yee-D | Traditional Chinese medicine traumatologist certification |
| SB 256 - Miscellaneous | Lieu-D | Trampoline courts: safety inspection |
| SB 276 - Small Business | Roth-D | Small business contracts: state agencies |
| SB 307 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Price-D | Veterinary Medical Board: veterinary assistants: permits |
| SB 315 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Lieu-D | Contractors: licensed/unlicensed |
| SB 381 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Yee-D | Health care practitioners: chiropractic practice: licenses |
| SB 383 - Consumerism | Jackson-D | Online transactions: personal identification |
| SB 410 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Yee-D | Anesthesiologist/radiologist assistants: licensure |
| SB 417 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Berryhill-R | Contractors: supplemental license requirements |
| SB 431 - Economic Development | Price-D | Socioeconomic Development Pods Program: blight |
| SB 491 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Hernandez-D | Nurse practitioners: physician supervision |
| SB 492 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Hernandez-D | Optometrists: practice: licensure |
| SB 511 - Economic Development | Lieu-D | Economic development: trade promotion: ports |
| SB 536 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Berryhill-R | Alarm companies: electronic transactions |
| SB 541 - Miscellaneous | Wyland-R | Real estate: Elder Financial Abuse Advisory Committee |
| SB 570 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | DeSaulnier-D | Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor Licensing Act |
| SB 578 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Wyland-R | Behavioral sciences: records retention |
| SB 600 - Consumerism | Lieu-D | Drugs: supply chain: consumer protection |
| SB 610 - Miscellaneous | Jackson-D | Franchises: termination or transfer |
| SB 648 - Miscellaneous | Corbett-D | Vending machines: electronic cigarettes |
| SB 650 - Miscellaneous | Lieu-D | Motion pictures: licensee of nonexclusive rights |
| SB 686 - Consumerism | Jackson-D | Safety recalls: used vehicles |
| SB 690 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Price-D | Professions and vocations: licenses: permits |
| SB 701 - Miscellaneous | Emmerson-R | Hospital-affiliated outpatient settings: accreditation |
| SB 733 - Miscellaneous | Block-D | Disabled veteran business enterprise: utilization plan |
| SB 928 - Economic Development | Correa-D | Economy development: Mexico |
| SB 960 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Morrell-R | Pharmacy: licenses: letter of admonishment |
| SB 962 - Consumerism | Leno-D | Smartphones: sales: technological solutions |
| SB 993 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Mitchell-D | Dietitians: licensing requirements: authorizations |
| SB 1012 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Wyland-R | Healing arts: licensure |
| SB 1014 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Jackson-D | Pharmaceutical waste: home generated: regulations |
| SB 1019 - Consumerism | Leno-D | Upholstered furniture: flame retardant chemicals: labeling |
| SB 1019 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Leno-D | Upholstered furniture: labeling: regulations |
| SB 1027 - Consumerism | Hill-D | Booking photographs: commercial use |
| SB 1039 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Hernandez-D | Pharmacy: scope of practice |
| SB 1040 - Consumerism | Evans-D | Food labeling: genetically engineered food |
| SB 1069 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Torres-D | Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education: regulations |
| SB 1083 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Pavley-D | Physician assistants: disability certifications |
| SB 1109 - Miscellaneous | Hueso-D | Disability business enterprises: state contracts |
| SB 1116 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Torres-D | Physicians and surgeons: voluntary contributions: license |
| SB 1119 - Miscellaneous | Leno-D | Car rental industry: assessment |
| SB 1148 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Yee-D | Marriage and family therapists: records retention |
| SB 1159 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Lara-D | Professions and vocations: license applicants |
| SB 1177 - Consumerism | Steinberg-D | Advertising: student information: privacy |
| SB 1192 - Small Business | Hueso-D | Microbusiness: public contracts |
| SB 1215 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Hernandez-D | Healing arts licensees: referrals |
| SB 1226 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Correa-D | Veterans: professional licensing |
| SB 1242 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Lieu-D | Bureau of Automotive Repair: regulations |
| SB 1243 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Lieu-D | Professions and vocations |
| SB 1244 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Lieu-D | Structural Pest Control Board: licensees |
| SB 1245 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Lieu-D | Dental Hygiene Committee of California: regulations |
| SB 1246 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Lieu-D | Acupuncture: program approval requirements |
| SB 1247 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Lieu-D | Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education: requirements |
| SB 1256 - Consumerism | Mitchell-D | Medical services: credit lines: consumer protection |
| SB 1256 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Mitchell-D | Medical services: credit: requirements |
| SB 1258 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | DeSaulnier-D | Medical providers: controlled substances: reporting |
| SB 1262 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Correa-D | Medical marijuana: licensing: regulatory framework |
| SB 1326 - Consumerism | Roth-D | Hearing aids: warranty |
| SB 1328 - Miscellaneous | Hill-D | Retail sales: weights and measures |
| SB 1348 - Consumerism | DeSaulnier-D | Data brokers: sale of personal information |
| SB 1350 - Consumerism | Lara-D | Public restrooms: baby diaper changing accommodations |
| SB 1351 - Consumerism | Hill-D | Payment cards: fraud |
| SB 1358 - Consumerism | Wolk-D | Baby diaper changing stations |
| SB 1416 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Block-D | Dentistry: license: fees |
| SB 1466 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee | Health care professionals: regulatory boards |
| SB 1467 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee | Professions and vocations: regulatory boards |
| SCR 82 - Economic Development | Hueso-D | Economic exchanges: Jalisco, Mexico |
| SCR 127 - Economic Development | Huff-R | Manufacturing: job creation |
| SCR 135 - Miscellaneous | Evans-D | National Massage Therapy Awareness Week |
| SJR 3 - Miscellaneous | Knight-R | Sequestration |
| SJR 22 - Consumerism | Block-D | Cruelty-free cosmetics |
| SJR 29 - Consumerism | Lieu-D | Natural gas vehicle fuel standards: consumer friendly |
| SJR 32 - Economic Development | Correa-D | Economic growth: tax strategies |
| SR 27 - Miscellaneous | Cannella-R | National Engineers Week |
| SR 32 - Miscellaneous | Vidak-R | National Surveyors Week |
| AB 9* - Economic Development | Holden-D | Enterprise zone: income taxes: credits |
| AB 28* - Economic Development | V. Manuel Pérez-D | Enterprise zones: economic development |
| AB 147* - Economic Development | V. Manuel Pérez-D | Economic development projects: CA-Mexico border |
| AB 172 - Small Business | Weber-D | Microbusiness: state agency contracts: preference |
| AB 186 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Maienschein-R | Professions/vocations: temporary licenses: military spouse |
| AB 213 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Logue-R | Health care professionals: military experience |
| AB 252 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Yamada-D | Social workers: licensed |
| AB 286* - Miscellaneous | Nazarian-D | Motion pictures: income taxes: credit |
| AB 291 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Nestande-R | California Sunset Review Commission |
| AB 299 - Miscellaneous | Holden-D | Retail pharmacies: mail order |
| AB 305* - Economic Development | V. Manuel Pérez-D | Economic development/recovery: tax credits |
| AB 311 - Economic Development | V. Manuel Pérez-D | Economic development projects: CA/Mexico border region |
| AB 330 - Consumerism | Chau-D | Student financial aid: Internet |
| AB 332 - Miscellaneous | Hall-D | Adult film production: occupational safety and health |
| AB 337 - Economic Development | Allen-R | Economic development: market strategy |
| AB 344 - Miscellaneous | Ian Calderon-D | Minors: entertainment work permit |
| AB 366 - Miscellaneous | Holden-D | Women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises |
| AB 399 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Fox-D | Clinical laboratories: license fees |
| AB 429 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Daly-D | Real estate licensees: Real Estate Commissioner |
| AB 459 - Miscellaneous | Mitchell-D | Vending machines: healthy and sustainable food |
| AB 462 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Stone-D | Residential care facilities: fire protection regulations |
| AB 467* - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Stone-D | Licensing: surplus medication collection/distribution |
| AB 469 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Wagner-R | Telephonic sellers: registration |
| AB 495 - Economic Development | Campos-D | Community investment: low-income neighborhoods |
| AB 496 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Gordon-D | Medicine: continuing education requirements |
| AB 509 - Consumerism | Blumenfield-D | Consumer affairs: unlawful acts |
| AB 536 - Miscellaneous | Wagner-R | Contractors: payments: disputed amounts |
| AB 550 - Small Business | Brown-D | Small business participation rate: state government |
| AB 653* - Economic Development | V. Manuel Pérez-D | Entrepreneurs: CA Innovation Hub Program |
| AB 668 - Miscellaneous | Gray-D | Economic disaster area |
| AB 670 - Miscellaneous | Atkins-D | Pharmacy Law: incentive payments |
| AB 674 - Small Business | Quirk-Silva-D | Microenterprise |
| AB 705 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Blumenfield-D | Registered nursing: licensure: Combat to Care Act |
| AB 759* - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Daly-D | Alarm companies: locksmith license exemption |
| AB 764 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Linder-R | Crematory licenses: pilot program |
| AB 780 - Small Business | Bocanegra-D | Small business financial development corporations: funds |
| AB 801 - Miscellaneous | Brown-D | Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous materials |
| AB 808 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Fong-D | Acupuncture: license requirements |
| AB 809* - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Logue-R | Healing arts: telehealth: consent requirements |
| AB 834* - Consumerism | Williams-D | Law schools: consumer information: disclosure |
| AB 851 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Logue-R | Dentistry: licensure and certification: military experience |
| AB 854 - Miscellaneous | Stone-D | Locksmithing |
| AB 864 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Skinner-D | Athletic trainers: license: regulation |
| AB 867 - Miscellaneous | Yamada-D | Meteorological towers: markings |
| AB 886* - Miscellaneous | Allen-R | Exporters and importers: income tax credit |
| AB 890 - Miscellaneous | Jones-R | False advertising: "Made in U.S.A." |
| AB 916 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Eggman-D | Physicians and surgeons: certifying board: advertising |
| AB 964 - Miscellaneous | Bonta-D | Vehicle dealers: used vehicles |
| AB 983 - Miscellaneous | Melendez-R | Self-service storage facilities |
| AB 993 - Miscellaneous | Linder-R | Contractors: arbitration |
| AB 1003 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Maienschein-R | Licensed practitioners: professional corporations |
| AB 1013 - Consumerism | Gomez-D | Consumer affairs: Attorney General |
| AB 1063 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Eggman-D | Licensed surveyors and engineers: title protection |
| AB 1079 - Economic Development | Bradford-D | Economic development: energy management area and plans |
| AB 1081 - Economic Development | Medina-D | Economic development: goods-movement-related infrastructure |
| AB 1088 - Economic Development | Muratsuchi-D | Overseas trade office: Tokyo, Japan |
| AB 1095 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Nestande-R | Junk dealers and recyclers: regulations |
| AB 1114 - Miscellaneous | Achadjian-R | Contractors: home improvement contracts |
| AB 1139 - Miscellaneous | Lowenthal-D | Pharmacists: biosimilar products |
| AB 1147 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Gomez-D | Massage therapy: certified-only |
| AB 1153 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Eggman-D | Barbering and cosmetology: scope of practice |
| AB 1166 - Economic Development | Blumenfield-D | California and Israel Trade and Economic Development Act |
| AB 1174 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bocanegra-D | Dental professionals: scope of practice |
| AB 1189* - Miscellaneous | Nazarian-D | Motion pictures: income tax credits |
| AB 1260 - Miscellaneous | Medina-D | California family owned business: definition |
| AB 1269 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Gray-D | Medical school: faculty permit to practice |
| AB 1272 - Economic Development | Medina-D | Infrastructure: goods movement |
| AB 1399* - Economic Development | Medina-D | Community development entities: tax credits |
| AB 1399* - Small Business | Medina-D | Small business: New Markets Tax Credit Program |
| AB 1413 - Miscellaneous | Assembly Revenue And Taxation Committee | Motion pictures: nonprofits: tax credit |
| AB 1439 - Miscellaneous | Salas-D | Unfair business practices: contests/sweepstakes |
| AB 1500 - Miscellaneous | Dickinson-D | Delivery seller: electronic cigarettes |
| AB 1504 - Miscellaneous | Stone-D | Direct/indirect sales: shipments: cigarettes |
| AB 1535 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bloom-D | Pharmacists: naloxone hydrochloride: protocols |
| AB 1551 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Holden-D | Professional engineers and land surveyors: documents |
| AB 1564* - Economic Development | V. Manuel Pérez-D | Innovation economy: tax credits |
| AB 1568 - Small Business | Grove-R | Small business: state contracts |
| AB 1598 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Rodriguez-D | Emergency response personnel: standard operating procedures |
| AB 1608 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Olsen-R | Private investigators: limited liability company |
| AB 1627 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Gomez-D | Vehicle registration services: fee disclosure |
| AB 1658 - Consumerism | Jones-Sawyer-D | Consumer credit reports: foster care children |
| AB 1662 - Economic Development | Ian Calderon-D | Arts and creative economy industries: grants |
| AB 1665 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Jones-R | Automotive repair dealers: registration |
| AB 1675 - Small Business | Ian Calderon-D | Entrepreneur-in-Residence Act of 2014 |
| AB 1676 - Economic Development | Nazarian-D | Creative industries and community economic revitalization |
| AB 1680 - Miscellaneous | Wilk-R | Child Performer Services Permit: advertising |
| AB 1685 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Williams-D | Structural pest control operators: licensure fees |
| AB 1702 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Maienschein-R | Professions and vocations: licensure: incarceration |
| AB 1710 - Consumerism | Dickinson-D | Data breach: personal information: privacy |
| AB 1727 - Miscellaneous | Rodriguez-D | Prescription drugs: donation |
| AB 1732 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Stone-D | Vehicle dealers: advertising prohibitions |
| AB 1734 - Small Business | Jones-Sawyer-D | Small business participation: public contracts |
| AB 1735 - Consumerism | Hall-D | Nitrous oxide: dispensing and distributing |
| AB 1747 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Holden-D | Massage therapy: certificate holders |
| AB 1758 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Patterson-R | Licensing boards: initial license fees: proration |
| AB 1780* - Miscellaneous | Donnelly-R | Motion pictures: income tax credit |
| AB 1809 - Consumerism | Maienschein-R | Dogs: resale: health certificates |
| AB 1810 - Miscellaneous | Maienschein-R | Veterinarians: animal care facilities: abandoned animals |
| AB 1819 - Miscellaneous | Hall-D | Family day care home: smoking prohibition |
| AB 1823 - Miscellaneous | Wagner-R | Contractors: payments |
| AB 1832 - Consumerism | Ian Calderon-D | Ticket sellers: equitable ticket buying process |
| AB 1837 - Miscellaneous | Atkins-D | Social innovation financing: private investors |
| AB 1838 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bonilla-D | Healing arts: medical school accreditation |
| AB 1839* - Miscellaneous | Gatto-D | Motion pictures: income tax credit |
| AB 1841 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Mullin-D | Medical assistants: technical supportive services |
| AB 1852 - Consumerism | Campos-D | Background checks: services to minors |
| AB 1855 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Melendez-R | Land surveying: practice: field survey record |
| AB 1859 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Maienschein-R | Professional fiduciary corporations: licensure |
| AB 1886 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Eggman-D | Medical Board of California: license information |
| AB 1890 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Chau-D | Athletic trainers: certification |
| AB 1904 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bonilla-D | Massage therapists: address notification requirements |
| AB 1907 - Consumerism | Ridley-Thomas-D | Natural gas: sales |
| AB 1910 - Economic Development | Gray-D | Economic development: emerging technology: energy economy |
| AB 1926 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bonilla-D | Electronic & appliance repair: service dealers: registration |
| AB 1972 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Jones-R | Respiratory care practitioners: examination |
| AB 2018 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bocanegra-D | Real estate licensees: fictitious business names |
| AB 2024 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bonilla-D | Professional fiduciaries: licenses |
| AB 2086 - Miscellaneous | Ian Calderon-D | Business entities: minimum franchise tax |
| AB 2102 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Ting-D | Healing arts: licensees: data collection |
| AB 2131 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Morrell-R | Pharmacy licenses: letters of reprimand |
| AB 2143* - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Williams-D | Chiropractors: clinical labs: certificate of waiver |
| AB 2162 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Fox-D | Residential care facilities: fire protection regulations |
| AB 2165 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Patterson-R | Professions and vocations: licenses |
| AB 2169 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Cooley-D | Real estate brokers: obligations |
| AB 2176 - Economic Development | John A. Pérez-D | Layoffs: economic development plan |
| AB 2183 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bocanegra-D | Nursing: licensure: out-of-state applicants |
| AB 2198 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Levine-D | Mental health professionals: suicide prevention: licensing |
| AB 2200 - Consumerism | John A. Pérez-D | Consumer privacy: personal information: cyber security |
| AB 2209 - Miscellaneous | Dickinson-D | Electronic commerce: goods and services |
| AB 2213 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Eggman-D | Behavioral health care licensees |
| AB 2214 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Fox-D | Emergency room physicians/surgeons: education requirements |
| AB 2220 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Daly-D | Licensed private patrol operators: authorizations |
| AB 2270 - Miscellaneous | Ting-D | Energy and resource-efficiency professions |
| AB 2278 - Small Business | Weber-D | Small business: target area contract preference |
| AB 2312 - Consumerism | Nestande-R | Metal theft: junk dealers |
| AB 2312 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Nestande-R | Weighmaster license: metal theft |
| AB 2313 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Nestande-R | Junk dealers or recyclers: weighmaster license fees |
| AB 2346 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Gonzalez-D | Physician & surgeon assistance program: administrative fees |
| AB 2376 - Miscellaneous | Weber-D | Contractors: state contracts: insurance |
| AB 2396 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bonta-D | Convictions: expungement: licenses |
| AB 2451 - Miscellaneous | Daly-D | Water submeters: weights and measures |
| AB 2484 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Gordon-D | Healing arts: telehealth: consent |
| AB 2503* - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Hagman-R | Licensed repossessors |
| AB 2540 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Dababneh-D | Real estate licenses |
| AB 2605 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bonilla-D | Pharmacy: third-party logistics providers: license |
| AB 2624 - Consumerism | Medina-D | False advertising: Made in North America |
| AB 2656 - Consumerism | Jones-R | Motor fuel: labeling |
| AB 2667 - Consumerism | Bloom-D | Rental-purchase agreements: electronic devices |
| AB 2670 - Economic Development | Medina-D | Economic development: small business |
| AB 2670 - Small Business | Medina-D | Small Business Technical Assistance Act of 2014 |
| AB 2682 - Small Business | Wagner-R | Small business: procurement: responsible/reliable parties |
| AB 2713 - Economic Development | Quirk-Silva-D | Economic development: South Korea |
| AB 2717* - Small Business | Bonta-D | Small Business Development Center Program |
| AB 2723 - Small Business | Medina-D | Small business: sole proprietorships: regulations |
| AB 2729 - Economic Development | Medina-D | Economic development facilities: infrastructure financing |
| AB 2739 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Assembly Business, Professions And Consumer Protection Committee | Massage therapy: certification |
| AB 2740 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Bonilla-D | Electronic and appliance repair |
| AB 2741 - Miscellaneous | Bonilla-D | Professional Fiduciaries Bureau |
| AB 2749 - Economic Development | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee | Economic development programs |
| AB 2757* - Miscellaneous | Bocanegra-D | Centralized hospital packaging pharmacies |
| ACR 48 - Small Business | Allen-R | Start a Small Business Month |
| ACR 100 - Economic Development | Alejo-D | Economic development: El Salvador |
| ACR 101 - Consumerism | Jones-Sawyer-D | Pawnbrokers: secondhand dealers: Internet |
| ACR 101 - Licenses, Certifications and Regulations | Jones-Sawyer-D | Pawnbrokers/secondhand dealers: Internet transactions |
| ACR 106 - Miscellaneous | Gordon-D | State Scientist Day |
| ACR 118 - Small Business | Logue-R | California Small Business Owners' Highway |
| ACR 168 - Miscellaneous | Alejo-D | NFL Football: Native Americans |
| AJR 37 - Economic Development | Muratsuchi-D | Economy: Export-Import Bank of the United States |
| HR 34 - Miscellaneous | Melendez-R | National Surveyors Week |