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Civil Law

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SB 15 (Padilla-D) Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems

Clarifies when a law enforcement agency needs a warrant to use an unmanned aircraft system, and that such a system cannot be used in a manner to invade a person's privacy.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 603 (Leno-D) Landlord and tenant: security deposit

Mandates a statutory damage equal to the amount withheld from a deposit when a landlord improperly withholds any portion of a deposit, regardless of a showing of bad faith.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1343 (Wyland-R) Civil procedure: property subject to attachment

Amends the Attachment Law (provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure) to authorize prejudgment attachment to any property of a defendant in an elder or dependent adult financial abuse civil case.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 198 (Wieckowski-D) Debtor exemptions

Establishes additional exemptions for debtors, raises the amount of the homestead exemption, and deletes the homestead reinvestment requirement from existing law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 223 (Olsen-R) Civil actions: disabled access

Permits a local government, to file a request for a court stay and early evaluation conference regarding a construction-related accessibility claim.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 519 (Logue-R) Unfair competition

Requires the court, prior to the imposition of any civil penalty, to consider all factors in mitigation of both the imposition and amount of any civil penalty with regard to a person who engages in unfair competition.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 536 (Wagner-R) Contractors: payments

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 Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 666 (Wieckowski-D) Automated traffic enforcement systems: violations

Requires violations recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be cited as civil violations, subject to a civil penalty, administrative process, and appeal in superior court. Exempts certain of those civil violations from the violation point count process.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 737 (Fox-D) Space flight liability

Includes a manufacturer or supplier of components, services, or vehicles that have been reviewed by the United States Federal Aviation Administration as part of issuing a license, permit, or other authorization pursuant to specified provisions of federal law relating to commercial space launch activities as a space flight entity with limited liability for any participant injury. Provides that limited liability under its provisions does not limit or prevent the liability of a space flight entity that manufactures or supplies a product with a defect, and repeals the Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act on 7/1/21.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 969 (Ammiano-D) Landlord and tenant

Provides that, if a lessor retaliates against a lessee of a dwelling for exercising his/her rights or because of a complaint to an appropriate agency as to tenantability, and the lessee is not in default as to the payment of rent, the lessor may not recover possession, cause the lessee to quit involuntarily, increase the rent, or decrease any services within 180 days of the occurrence of specified events.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1164 (Lowenthal-D) Liens: employees and workers

Authorizes an employee to record and enforce a wage lien upon real and personal property of an employer, or a property owner, as specified, for wages, other compensation, and related penalties and damages owed the employee.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1254 (Gorell-R) Civil actions: settlement offers

Provides that for a settlement offer that is not accepted, it must be served 15 days prior to the commencement of trial or arbitration and not be accepted prior to the trial or arbitration or within 25 days after the offer is made, whichever comes first.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1256 (Bloom-D) Privacy: entry and exit of facilities

Recasts existing law to provide that a person is liable for a physical invasion of privacy when a defendant knowingly enters onto the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a private, personal, or familial activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person. Defines "facility," and defines "private, personal, or familial activity," and provides that this definition applies to physical and constructive invasion of privacy.
Chapter 852, Statutes of 2014

AB 2368 (Wagner-R) Civil law: libel: damages

Expands provisions of existing law related to actions for damages for the publication of a libel in a newspaper or in a radio broadcast to additionally include libel in a periodical or other medium, either in print or electronic form.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2634 (Bradford-D) Civil rights

Authorizes individuals to seek appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate a pattern or practice of interference, or attempted interference, with the exercise or enjoyment of rights secured by the laws or Constitution of the United States or of the State of California.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2014

Civil Rights

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SB 323* (Lara-D) Taxes: exemptions: prohibited discrimination

Provides that, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/14, any "public charity youth organization" shall not be exempt from the Corporation Tax Law if it discriminates on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliation.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 404 (Jackson-D) Fair employment: familial status

Adds "familial status" to the protected categories of the employment provisions of the Fair Employment and Housing Act. Defines familial status as an individual who provides medical or supervisory care to a family member and for the purposes of this definition. Family member is defined as any of the following: child, parent, spouse, domestic partner, and a parent-in-law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SCR 7 (Wright-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: observance

Designates that 1/21/13, be observed as the official memorial of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, and commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America. Recognizes the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in connection with the advancement of civil rights.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 122 (De León-D) Chinese Americans in California

Acknowledges the history of the Chinese in California, recognizes the contributions made to the State of California by Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants, and apologizes for past discriminatory laws and constitutional provisions that resulted in the persecution of Chinese living in California.
Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2014

SCR 130 (Mitchell-D) Civil Rights Act of 1964

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and encourages the citizens of California to observe the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as an important occasion in the history of the United States.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SJR 23 (Huff-R) Chinese Americans in California

Recognizes the contributions made to the State of California by Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants, and requests Congress to adopt resolutions of apology to the Chinese American community for the enactment of the Chinese exclusion laws.
Resolution Chapter 134, Statutes of 2014

SR 49 (Leno-D) LGBT Pride Month

Proclaims June 2014 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month; urges all residents to join in celebrating the culture, accomplishments, and contributions of LGBT people; and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for LGBT people and their families.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 5 (Ammiano-D) Homelessness

Establishes specific rights for homeless persons.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 693 (Roger Hernández-D) Sexual harassment: interns

Provides that a person acting in a supervisory capacity relative to an intern, as defined, can be liable for sexual harassment of an intern.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 870 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Public contracts: bidders: employment practices

Prohibits the state from accepting a bid from an entity that asks an applicant for employment to disclose information regarding their conviction or criminal history, including disclosure on an employment application, until the employer has determined the applicant meets minimum qualifications for the position.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1356 (Bloom-D) Stalking: remedies

Includes a pattern of conduct intended to place the plaintiff under surveillance within those elements defining the tort of stalking. Permits the plaintiff to show, as an alternative to the plaintiff reasonably fearing for his/her safety or that of a family member, that the pattern of conduct resulted in the plaintiff suffering substantial emotional distress, and that the pattern of conduct causes a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress.
Chapter 853, Statutes of 2014

AB 1443 (Skinner-D) Harassment: unpaid interns

Expands discrimination and harassment protections under the Fair Employment and Housing Act to include an unpaid internship or another limited duration program that provides unpaid experience for that person.
Chapter 302, Statutes of 2014

AB 1660 (Alejo-D) Driver's licenses: nondiscrimination

Makes it a violation of the Fair Housing and Employment Act for an employer or other covered entity to discriminate against an individual because he/she holds or presents a specified driver's license or requires a person to present a driver's license, except as specified, and makes conforming changes to the Act. Prohibits a governmental authority or its agent, from discriminating against an individual because he/she holds or presents a specified license.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2014

AB 1723 (Nazarian-D) Employees: wages

Provides that minimum wage citations issued by the Labor Commissioner will also include any applicable "waiting time" penalties provided for under existing law.
Chapter 886, Statutes of 2014

AB 1848 (Allen-R) Public accommodations: construction-related claims

Denies statutory remedies to persons with disabilities unless the person first gives pre-litigation notice to the violator.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1885 (Bigelow-R) Special access: disabled persons: liability

Denies statutory remedies to persons with disabilities unless the person first gives pre-litigation notice to the violator.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2035 (Chesbro-D) Sexually exploited and trafficked minors

Makes legislative findings and declarations, until 1/1/17, that a minor is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and a dependent child of the court if the minor is a victim of human trafficking, and the parent or guardian failed or was unable to protect the child. Requires the training for an administrator of a group home facility, licensed foster parent, or relative or nonrelative extended family member caregiver to include instruction on cultural competency and sensitivity relating to, and best practices for, providing adequate care to a sexually exploited and trafficked minor in out-of-home care.
Vetoed

AB 2074 (Roger Hernández-D) Recovery of wages: liquidated damages

Clarifies that the statute of limitations for a suit filed to pursue liquidated damages for the failure to pay the minimum wage will run until the expiration of the statute of limitations for the wages in which the penalties are being sought.
Chapter 211, Statutes of 2014

AB 2157 (Morrell-R) Actions for damages: felony offenses

Includes a human trafficking offense as a serious felony for which an action for damages against a defendant may be brought within 10 years from the date on which the defendant is discharged from parole.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2288 (Roger Hernández-D) Child Labor Protection Act of 2014

Tolls the statute of limitations for unlawful labor practices until a child worker attains the age of majority and authorizes an award of treble damages to an individual, who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted, suspended, retaliated against, subjected to adverse action, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms of conditions of his/her employment because he/she filed a claim or civil action alleging a violation of the Labor Code that arose while he/she was a minor, and increases civil penalties.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 2014

AB 2468 (Donnelly-R) Search warrants: privacy

Prohibits, among other things, the state from helping the federal government to collect electronic or so-called metadata without consent or a bona fide search warrant.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2646 (Ting-D) Civil rights: political structure equal protection

Prohibits a statute, ordinance, or other state or local rule, regulation, or enactment from denying a minority group "political structure equal protection" of the law by altering, restructuring, or reordering the policy decision-making process in a manner that burdens the ability of members of the minority group to effect the enactment of future legislation, solely with respect to a matter that inures primarily to the benefit of, or is primarily of interest to, one or more minority groups.
Chapter 912, Statutes of 2014

ACR 85 (Muratsuchi-D) Day of Remembrance

Declares 2/19/14, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Resolution Chapter 8, Statutes of 2014

ACR 114 (Campos-D) César Chávez

Calls upon all Californians to observe César Chávez's birthday, March 31, as a day of public service, to recognize the hard work and self-sacrifice that farmworkers go through to feed all the families in our state, and to learn from César Chávez's life and his mission of nonviolence, social justice, and selfless service to others.
Resolution Chapter 35, Statutes of 2014

ACR 153 (Dickinson-D) California LGBT Veterans Day

Proclaims 6/11/14, and June 11th of each subsequent year, California lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender Veterans' Day, to be celebrated statewide.
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2014

AJR 26 (Allen-R) Civil liberties

Urges Congress and the President of the United States to make the protection of civil liberties and national security equal priorities, to immediately discontinue any practices contrary to the Fourth Amendment, and to instruct national security agencies to ensure that national security is achieved without invasive violations of civil liberties.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 42 (Williams-D) Indigenous peoples: declaration of rights

Recognizes the call for increased awareness, sensitivity and respect for issues of sovereignty, sacred and historic sites and traditions, and other vital aspects of the heritage of Native Americans and indigenous persons implicit in the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Resolution Chapter 105, Statutes of 2014

HR 43 (Gordon-D) LGBT Pride Month

Proclaims June 14 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, urges all residents to join in celebrating the culture, accomplishments, and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 48 (Holden-D) Civil Rights Act of 1964

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and encourages the citizens of the state to observe this important occasion in the history of the nation.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 54 (Olsen-R) Americans with Disabilities Act

Urges the United States Congress to pass HR 994, the ACCESS Act of 2013, to restore the original intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act, increase access for Americans with disabilities, and help small businesses comply with the Act.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Consumer Protection

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SB 193 (Monning-D) Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service

Requires, when there is new scientific or medical information and the Chief of the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS), in consultation with the Director of Industrial Relations and the Chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control in the Department of Public Health, makes a specified determination, chemical manufacturers, formulators, suppliers, distributors, importers, and their agents to provide to HESIS the names and addresses of their customers who have purchased specified chemicals or commercial products containing those chemicals, and certain other information related to those shipments, upon written request of HESIS, for every product the final destination of which may be a place of employment in California.
Chapter 830, Statutes of 2014

SB 245 (Correa-D) Contracts

Revises information contained in existing findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the languages most widely spoken in households with limited English proficiency and the percentage of Californians who speak a language other than English in their homes, based upon more recent data.
Chapter 117, Statutes of 2014

SB 526 (Calderon-D) Commissioner of Corporations: lending practices

Requires the Department of Corporations to include in its annual report to the Legislature data on unlicensed activity relating to deferred deposit transactions or installment loans that are being conducted over the Internet.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 556 (Padilla-D) Providers of health and safety labor or services

Prohibits a person, firm, corporation, or association that is a nongovernmental entity and contracts to perform, on or after 1/1/15, public health and safety labor or services for a public agency from displaying on a vehicle or uniform a logo that reasonably could be interpreted as implying that the labor or services are being provided by employees of the public agency, unless the vehicle or uniform conspicuously displays specific disclosures. Defines the term "public health and safety labor or services" to mean fire protection services, rescue services, emergency medical services, hazardous material emergency response services, and ambulance services.
Chapter 832, Statutes of 2014

SB 650 (Lieu-D) Motion pictures

Removes, on 1/1/15, a provision of existing law that provides, that a licensee in ordinary course of business takes its rights under a nonexclusive license free of a security interest in the general intangible created by the licensor, even if the security interest is perfected and the licensee knows of its existence. Provides that a licensee of nonexclusive rights in a motion picture that is produced pursuant to one or more collective bargaining agreements, takes its nonexclusive license in the motion picture subject to any perfected security interest securing the obligation to pay residuals as set forth in the applicable collective bargaining agreement and arising from exploitation under the license.
Chapter 118, Statutes of 2014

SB 661 (Hill-D) False advertising

Establishes an exception to existing law by authorizing a person, firm, corporation, or association to sell or offer for sale in this state any merchandise labeled as being made in the United States if the merchandise is made, manufactured, or produced in the U.S. and has an article, unit, or part from outside of the U.S. that cannot be obtained within the U.S., as specified, and constitutes only a negligible part of the final manufactured product.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 713 (Correa-D) Liability: good faith reliance on administrative ruling

Provides that any person who relies upon a written order, ruling, approval, interpretation, or enforcement policy of a state agency or department, except the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, is not liable or subject to punishment for a violation of a civil statute or regulation in a judicial or administrative proceeding if the person pleads and proves to the trier of fact that, at the time of the alleged act or omission, the person, acting in good faith, took certain specified actions.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 750 (Wolk-D) Building standards: water meters: multiunit structures

Requires measurement of the quantity of water supplied to a multiunit residential structure or newly constructed mixed-use residential and commercial structure and permits the measurement to be by individual water meters or submeters, and requires the owner of the structure to ensure that a water submeter installed for these purposes complies with laws and regulations governing approval of submeter types or the installation, maintenance, reading, billing, and testing of submeters.
(Died in Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 1188 (Jackson-D) Consumers Legal Remedies Act: material facts

Codifies that, under the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, fraud or deceit may consist of the suppression or omission of a material fact by one who is bound to disclose it or who gives information of other facts that are likely to mislead for want of communication of that fact. Specifies that a fact is material if a reasonable person attaches importance to its existence or nonexistence in determining a choice of action in a transaction, and that materiality is not limited to circumstances in which a product poses a threat to health or safety.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 1256 (Mitchell-D) Medical services: credit

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. Authorizes a patient who suffers any damage as a result of anything prohibited by this bill to seek relief through the methods authorized under the Consumers Legal Remedies Act, as specified.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2014

SB 1338 (Wyland-R) Credit cards: disclosures

Requires a credit card issuer, on the front page of a billing statement, to provide written statements disclosing that a missed credit card bill payment can affect a cardholder's credit history, credit report score, and ability to acquire more credit, and disclosing how a credit score is typically calculated using payment history, amounts owed, length of credit history, new credit, and types of credit used.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1351 (Hill-D) Payment cards

Requires, beginning 4/1/16 and ending 1/1/20, the issuance and acceptance of credit and debit cards equipped with microchips or any other specified technology.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1355 (Wyland-R) Credit cards: billing inquiries

Increases the amount of time a credit cardholder is allowed to dispute a billing error, by increasing the current 60 days to one year.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1381 (Evans-D) Food labeling: genetically engineered food

Enacts "The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act" to require the labeling of genetically engineered foods sold within California, as specified.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 167 (Hagman-R) Unfair competition: private enforcement actions

Defines the injury in fact required for a private person to bring suit as damages suffered by each individual plaintiff or member of a class amounting to at least $500, adjusted for inflation. Provides that it shall become effective only when submitted to, and approved by, the voters of California.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 844 (Dickinson-D) Credit and debit cards: transactions: personal information

Updates provisions of the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 related to the protection of personal identification information to reflect the increasing use of debit cards to purchase goods and services and the increasing use of the Internet as a venue for use of both credit cards and debit cards to purchase goods and services.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

AB 890 (Jones-R) False advertising

Provides that, for purposes of existing California law regarding the labeling of a product as "Made in California," or "Made in America," any merchandise has been substantially made, manufactured, or produced within the United States if it meets all of the requirements specified in this bill.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill is SB 661 (Hill-D) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee.

AB 961 (Levine-D) Health facilities: investigations: public disclosure

Requires the Department of Public Health to complete its investigation of a long-term health care facility and issue a citation, if any, within specified time frames. Authorizes public notice of facility investigation and evaluation information, as specified, for a facility with a license capacity of 16 or more beds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 964 (Bonta-D) Vehicles: dealers

Prohibits a vehicle dealer from advertising for sale or selling a used vehicle that he/she knows or should have known is subject to a manufacturer's safety recall, and prohibits them from selling a used vehicle as part of a used vehicle certification program if they know or should have known that the vehicle is the subject of a manufacturer's safety recall.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1072 (Wagner-R) Mortgage loan modification

Prohibits a person who engages in mortgage loan modification from accepting payment for services in advance of the loan modification approval and assesses civil penalties for various related violations. Authorizes further civil penalties for unlawful or fraudulent mortgage modifications perpetrated against seniors or disabled persons, and authorizes a court to order the offender to pay restitution to the senior or disabled victim.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1234 (Levine-D) Insurance: registration statements

Makes information reported to the Insurance Commissioner in the registration statement and information disclosed in the course of an examination or investigation of a registration statement exempt from public disclosure by the Commissioner and not subject to discovery from the Commissioner or admissible into evidence in any private civil action if obtained from the Commissioner in any manner.
Chapter 448, Statutes of 2014

AB 1256 (Bloom-D) Entry and exit of facilities: privacy

Recasts provisions of existing law to provide that a person is liable for a physical invasion of privacy when a defendant knowingly enters onto the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a private, personal, or familial activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person. Enacts a new civil liability statute based on the unlawful acts of any person, except a parent or guardian acting toward his/her minor child.
Chapter 852, Statutes of 2014

AB 1291 (Lowenthal-D) Privacy: Right to Know Act of 2013

Creates the Right to Know Act of 2013, and requires any business that retains a customer's personal information, as defined, or discloses that information to a third party, to provide at no charge, within 30 days of the customer's specified request, a copy of that information to the customer as well as the names and contact information for all third parties with which the business has shared the information during the previous 12 months, regardless of any business relationship with the customer. Requires that a business subject to this bill's provisions to choose one of several specified options to provide the customer with a designated address for use in making a request for copies of information under these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1356 (Bloom-D) Stalking: remedies

Includes a pattern of conduct intended to place a plaintiff under surveillance within those elements defining the tort of stalking. Permits a plaintiff to show, as an alternative to the plaintiff reasonably fearing for his/her safety or that of a family member, that the pattern of conduct resulted in the plaintiff suffering substantial emotional distress, and that the pattern of conduct causes a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress.
Chapter 853, Statutes of 2014

AB 1515 (Gonzalez-D) Attorneys: duties

Imposes on an attorney the duty to deposit into a client trust account funds received in advance from, or for, the client for fees, costs, or expenses for legal services, which are to be withdrawn by the attorney only as fees are earned or costs or expenses are incurred. Authorizes legal services to be provided in stages, and authorizes an attorney to withdraw fees when he/she has performed and completed a specified stage or stages, if the agreement with the client specifies each stage and sets the amount of the advance fee for each stage.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1700 (Medina-D) Reverse mortgages: notifications

Revises the disclosure form that must be provided to prospective reverse mortgage borrowers and replaces the written checklist that is currently required to be provided to prospective reverse mortgage borrowers with a written worksheet guide, as specifies; and prohibits a reverse mortgage lender from accepting a final and complete reverse mortgage application from a prospective reverse mortgage borrower until at least seven days have lapsed since that borrower received reverse mortgage counseling.
Chapter 854, Statutes of 2014

AB 1710 (Dickinson-D) 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 existing security practice and procedure provisions to businesses that own, license, or maintain personal information about a California resident, as specified; and expands on security procedures and practice provisions that apply to businesses that own, license, or maintain personal information about California residents and 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 1712 (Gomez-D) Unclaimed property

Revises the definition of "owner" in the Unclaimed Property Law to include a nonprofit civic, charitable, or educational organization that granted a charter, sponsorship, or approval for the existence of an organization that had a legal right to property prior to its escheat but that has dissolved or is no longer in existence, if the charter, sponsorship, approval, organization bylaws, or other governing documents provide that unclaimed or surplus property shall be conveyed to the granting organization, upon dissolution or cessation to exist as a distinct legal entity.
Chapter 330, Statutes of 2014

AB 1725 (Maienschein-R) Conservatorship hearings

Allows a probate court to recommend a Lanterman-Petris-Short conservatorship for an individual for whom a conservatorship has been established under the Probate Code, subject to a hearing attended by the proposed conservatee or the proposed conservatee's counsel, as specified and requires the officer providing conservatorship investigation to file a copy of his/her report with the court making the recommendation in the probate conservatorship within 30 days of the recommendation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1730 (Wagner-R) Mortgage loan modification

Enhances potential civil and criminal penalties for violation of existing prohibitions regarding mortgage loan modification fees.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2014

AB 1732 (Stone-D) Vehicles: manufacturers, distributors, and dealers

Prohibits a licensee from advertising a vehicle's prior use or ownership history in an inaccurate manner and expands the authorized use of the word "rebate" to allow advertisement of rebates offered by a finance company affiliated with a vehicle manufacturer or distributor, a regulated utility, or a governmental entity.
Chapter 856, Statutes of 2014

AB 1755 (Gomez-D) Medical information

Revises provisions of law requiring licensed health facilities to prevent disclosure of patients' medical information by extending the deadline for health facilities to report unauthorized disclosures from five to 15 business days after unlawful or unauthorized access, use, or disclosure has been detected, and authorizes the report made to the patient or the patient's representative to be made by alternative means, including email, as specified. Requires a delayed report for law enforcement purposes to be made within 15 business days of the end of the delay.
Chapter 412, Statutes of 2014

AB 1884 (Lowenthal-D) Vehicle liens

Modifies the requirements for vehicle lien sales.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1898 (Brown-D) Public health records: reporting: HIV/AIDS

Adds hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and meningococcal infection to the list of diseases that local public health agencies are permitted to disclose, along with personally identifying information in public health records, to state public health agency staff for the purposes of the investigation, control, or surveillance of HIV co-infection.
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2014

AB 2034 (Gatto-D) Elder and dependent adults

Requires the conservator of an elder or dependent adult to inform the relatives of a conservatee whenever the conservatee dies or is admitted to a medical facility for acute care for a period of three days or more and requires the conservator, in the event of the death of the conservatee, to inform the relatives of any funeral arrangements and the location of the conservatee's final resting place. Allows a relative of the first degree to bring a petition for a visitation order to enjoin a respondent from keeping an elder or dependent adult in isolation from contact with the petitioner.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2039 (Muratsuchi-D) Real property sales: auctions

Prohibits, on and after 7/1/15, with respect to an auction that includes the sale of real property, a person from causing or allowing any person to bid at a sale for the sole purpose of increasing the bid on any real property being sold by the auctioneer, but does allow an auctioneer or another person to place a bid on the seller's behalf during an auction of real property if specified notice is given. Requires, in this regard, that the person placing that bid disclose to all auction participants that the particular bid has been placed on behalf of the seller.
Chapter 893, Statutes of 2014

AB 2059 (Muratsuchi-D) Medical records: electronic delivery

Requires a health care provider to provide an electronic copy of an electronic medical record or electronic health record, when an electronic copy is requested, if the medical record exists in digital or electronic format and the medical record can be delivered electronically. Authorizes a health care provider that provides electronic copies of medical records to charge 25 cents per page, not to exceed $125, and retrieval or processing fee in an amount not to exceed $30.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2139 (Eggman-D) End-of-life care: patient notification

Requires a health care provider to notify a patient diagnosed with a terminal illness, or when applicable, the other person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient, of his/her right to comprehensive information and counseling regarding legal end-of-life options.
Chapter 568, Statutes of 2014

AB 2147 (Melendez-R) State government Internet Web sites: information practices

Requires all state agencies that use an Internet Web site to obtain information and share that information with another state agency or a private party to include a specified disclosure notice that, by submitting the form, the person acknowledges the information they provide may be shared with another agency or private party consistent with Information Practices Act. Prohibits an agency from using or sharing information provided on an online form until the person specifically acts to submit the form.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2171 (Wieckowski-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Establishes a bill of rights for residents of Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly.
Chapter 702, Statutes of 2014

AB 2237 (Grove-R) Consumer remedies: litigation costs: prevailing party

Revises provisions of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act to require a court to award specified court costs and attorney's fees to the prevailing party under certain circumstances.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2365 (John A. Pérez-D) Contracts: unlawful contracts

Prohibits a contract or proposed contract for the sale or lease of consumer goods or services from including a provision waiving the consumer's right to make any statement regarding the seller or lessor or its employees or agents, or concerning the goods or services. Makes it unlawful to threaten or to seek to enforce, a provision made unlawful under this bill, or to otherwise penalize a consumer for making any statement protected under this bill and imposes civil penalties.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2014

AB 2379 (Weber-D) Abuse of elders and dependent adults

Adds child welfare services personnel to the list of persons who may be included in multidisciplinary teams that are trained in the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of abuse of elderly or dependent adults.
Chapter 62, Statutes of 2014

AB 2667 (Bloom-D) Rental-purchase agreements: electronic devices: monitoring

Amends the Karnette Rental-Purchase Act to require a lessor to give clear and prominent notice to a consumer and obtain their express consent when selling an electronic device that has geophysical location tracking technology installed by the lessor. Prohibits the lessor from using, selling, or sharing tracking technology for any purpose other than the repossession of the electronic device when there is a violation of the rental-purchase agreement, or when requested by the consumer, and prohibits a lessor from using or installing monitoring technology on an electronic device for any purpose other than to provide remote technical assistance when requested by the consumer.
Chapter 426, Statutes of 2014

Courts/Judges/Legal Profession

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SB 123 (Corbett-D) Environmental and land use court

Requires the Judicial Council, commencing 7/1/14, to direct the creation of an environmental and land use division within two or more superior courts within each of the six appellate districts to process civil proceedings brought pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act or specified subject areas including air quality, biological resources, climate change, hazards and hazardous materials, land use planning, and water quality.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 166 (Liu-D) Juveniles: attorney qualifications

Requires the Judicial Council to establish a minimum number of hours of training and education necessary in order to be appointed as defense counsel in delinquency proceedings, and by 7/1/15, to adopt rules of court establishing required training areas for defense counsel in juvenile delinquency proceedings.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 597 (Lara-D) Legal aid: court interpreters

Creates a pilot project to provide for court interpreters in civil proceedings in up to five courts and requires the Judicial Council to establish a working group, as specified, by 6/1/14, and report to the Legislature by 1/1/19, its findings and recommendations on the pilot program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1190 (Jackson-D) Courts: judgeships

Increases the number of judges in the division of the Fourth Appellate District of the Court of Appeal to nine judges and appropriates an unspecified sum from the General Fund to the judicial branch for the purpose of funding those additional appellate court judgeships and staff. Appropriates an unspecified sum from the General Fund to the judicial branch for the purpose of funding the cost of the additional judgeships. Authorizes 50 additional judges, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act of monies expressly identified for the purpose of initially funding the costs of additional new judges, to be allocated to the various superior courts, pursuant to the uniform criteria approved by the Judicial Council.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1313 (Nielsen-R) Courts: court reporters

Repeals sections of existing law that, among other things, require court reporters to be provided for various case types in 14 counties.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SCR 83 (Monning-D) California Law Revision Commission: studies

Authorizes the California Law Revision Commission to continue its studies on whether specified laws should be revised.
Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2014

AB 251 (Wagner-R) Electronic court reporting

Adds family law to the list of court proceedings that can be electronically recorded if no court reporter is available for the proceeding.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 296* (Wagner-R) Trusts

Provides that an allocation to principal of money received in total or partial liquidation of an entity or money received that is a capital gain dividend distribution, as specified, does not include a net short-term capital gain distribution from a regulated investment company or a real estate investment trust.
Chapter 867, Statutes of 2014

AB 515 (Dickinson-D) Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act

Authorizes, for a peremptory writ of mandate containing specified mandates, the court to require the public agency to prepare and file an initial return of the writ. Requires the trial court, to the extent feasible, to issue a determination indicating whether the actions specified in the initial return and any subsequent return are adequate to comply with the peremptory writ of mandate within 30 days of the filing of the return.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 632 (Fox-D) Superior Courts: judicial districts

Makes the judicial district of the superior court in the county where a defendant or some of the defendants reside or where the acts occurred, the proper court of action, in actions that result injury to person or personal property or death from wrongful act of negligence.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 679 (Fox-D) Fees: official court reporters

Requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules to ensure that a party arranging for a certified shorthand reporter notifies the other parties of that fact, and that attempts to share costs for the certified shorthand reporter are made to provide better access to justice for all parties involved in the proceeding.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 788 (Wagner-R) Court transcripts

Limits specified reproduction provisions in existing law to computer-readable transcripts. Authorizes, in the case of transcripts that are not computer-readable, the purchaser of a transcript to reproduce the transcript for internal use or in response to a request for discovery, a court order, or subpoena, or as permitted by rule of court or statute, without paying a further fee to the reporter, but does prohibit otherwise providing or selling a copy or copies to any other party or person.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 837 (Wieckowski-D) Public employees' retirement benefits

Exempts judges who were elected to office prior to 1/1/13, but who did not take office until 2013, from the requirement in the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 to make employee contributions equal to one half of the normal cost of the retirement benefit plan.
Vetoed

AB 1125 (Wagner-R) Attorney's fees

Requires the court, in setting the amount of an award of attorney's fees to a prevailing party, to determine a lodestar, as defined, and an adjustment pursuant to specified procedures.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1313 (Donnelly-R) Judgeships: allocation

Requires the allocation of 12 additional judges to courts with the greatest disparity between their current judicial allocation and their assessed judicial need.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1402 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Attorneys

Corrects a technical error in the Assembly Judiciary Committee's AB 940 (Chapter 129, Statutes of 2009) in order to avoid potential confusion. Attorneys are required to hold certain client funds in trust accounts. AB 940 was adopted unanimously in both houses to clarify and update those rules. That bill was codified with a typographical error, using the word "in" where the word "on" was intended.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1657 (Gomez-D) Courts: interpreters

Prohibits a party from being charged a fee for the provision of a court interpreter and clarifies that a court may provide an interpreter in any civil action or proceeding at no cost to the parties, regardless of the income of the parties. Provides that until sufficient funds are appropriated to provide an interpreter to every party who needs one, interpreters must initially be provided in accordance with priorities set forth by this bill.
Chapter 721, Statutes of 2014

AB 1773 (Allen-R) Public contracts: courts

Requires the Judicial Council's semiannual reports to the Legislature regarding judicial branch contracting to be available electronically in a format enabling the data to be searched, sorted, extracted, organized, or filtered, and to include the specified information.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1932 (Jones-R) Appellate court decisions

Requires that judgments by the appellate division of the superior courts contain a brief statement of the reasons for the judgment and provides that a judgment stating only "affirmed" or "reversed" is insufficient.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2014

AB 2006 (Wagner-R) Depositions: video recordings

Defines "use of a deposition" to mean the use of a transcript or a video recording of a deposition testimony.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2332 (Wieckowski-D) Courts: personal services contracts

Establishes standards for the use of contracts by the trial courts for all services currently or customarily performed by that trial court's employees, and restricts the use of personal services contracts to those resulting in actual overall cost savings to the trial court for the duration of the entire contract, permitting contracts only if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2370 (Chau-D) Court interpreters

Requires specified information to be stated on the record when a non-certified or non-registered court interpreter is used by a court.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 2014

AB 2683 (Cooley-D) Contempt: jurors

Eliminates the possibility of a finding of criminal contempt for the use of an electronic or wireless communication device by a juror.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2014

AB 2693 (Bloom-D) Judges: retirement: employment

Prohibits a judge of a court of record, upon retirement from either system, from accepting employment with any individual, or public or private entity, for one year after the date of his/her retirement if the individual, or public or private entity, appeared before the judge in connection with any contested matter within one year prior to the date of the judge's retirement.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2727 (Frazier-D) Courts: witness local agency employees

Increases the amount that a subpoenaing party must advance, together with the subpoena, from $150 to $275 for each day that a local agency employee is required to remain in attendance at a proceeding pursuant to the subpoena.
Chapter 170, Statutes of 2014

AB 2745 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Courts

Authorizes the Judicial Council to convert 10 subordinate judicial officer positions to judgeships in the 2014-2015 year, if the conversion will result in a judge being assigned to a family law or juvenile law assignment, as specified, and authorizes the Judicial Council to increase the procedures for family centered case resolution.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2014

AB 2746 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Attorneys: annual membership fees

Requires, until 1/1/16, the State Bar Board of Trustees to charge the annual membership fee, of up to $390, for active members for 2015. Requires the Board president to serve as a 20th member of the Board during his/her one-year term and authorizes him/her to vote if the president is elected from among those members of the Board whose terms on the Board expire that year and has not been reelected or reappointed to another term, as provided. Increases the optional, additional amount that can be contributed to pay for free legal services to people of limited means to $40, and requires that all funds received for these programs be distributed, as specified.
Chapter 429, Statutes of 2014

HR 13 (Williams-D) Homeless court programs

Encourages county governments to find ways to make homeless courts more accessible, such as allowing people to bring multiple cases to court per year instead of limiting them to one, and allowing fines to be recalled from collection by the county or collections agencies.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption

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SB 343 (Yee-D) Dependent children: documents

Requires specific information be provided to minors and non-minors in foster care and recasts and revises Section 391 of the Welfare and Institutions Code regarding the termination of a minor or nonminor's dependency jurisdiction.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 909 (Pavley-D) Dependent children: health screenings

Permits, in the absence of a standing court order, a social worker to authorize a noninvasive initial medical, dental, and mental health screening of a child in temporary custody, and requires the social worker to make reasonable attempts to notify the parent that the child will be undergoing a screening and to provide the parent with a reasonable opportunity to object. Provides that if the parent objects, the screening may be conducted only upon the order of the court.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 977 (Liu-D) Juveniles

Imposes additional duties on social workers to include in each social study, evaluation, and supplemental report to the courts a factual discussion of whether a child can be returned to the custody of his/her parent who is enrolled in a certified substance abuse treatment facility that allows a dependent child to reside with his/her parent and requires courts to consider whether a child can be returned to the custody of his/her parent in these situations, as specified.
Chapter 219, Statutes of 2014

SB 996 (Evans-D) Juveniles: dependent children: documents

Revises and recasts existing law which specifies the documents and information that are required to be provided to a dependent youth prior to terminating dependency and requires this information to be provided at the first regularly scheduled hearing after the youth has reached age 18, rather than at termination of dependency. Requires the same information be provided to dependent youth at age 16.
Vetoed

SB 1099 (Steinberg-D) Dependent children: wards of the juvenile court: visitation

Encourages visitation with siblings for children in the dependency and juvenile justice system.
Chapter 773, Statutes of 2014

AB 251 (Wagner-R) Electronic court reporting

Adds family law to the list of court proceedings that can be electronically recorded if no court reporter is available for the proceeding. Allows a court, if an official court reporter or an official reporter pro tempore is unavailable, to use electronic recording equipment in a family law case.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 414* (Fox-D) Spousal support modifications

Provides that in a proceeding in which a spousal support order exists or the court has retained jurisdiction over a support order, and a companion child support order is in effect, the termination of child support by operation of law shall constitute a change of circumstances that may be the basis for a request for modification of spousal support. Requires a party to file a motion to modify spousal support within six months from the day the spousal support terminates.
Chapter 202, Statutes of 2014

AB 958 (Jones-R) Child custody: evaluations and reports

Expands the circumstances in which the written confidential report (for a child custody evaluation) may be disclosed by requiring a court to disclose the report to the licensing board governing the child custody evaluator upon receiving a written request from the board, and by allowing a person who is permitted to possess the written confidential report to provide a copy of the report to the child custody evaluator's licensing board in, order to assist the board in investigating allegations that the child custody evaluator engaged in unprofessional conduct.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1618 (Chesbro-D) Juveniles: case file inspection

Clarifies that the authorization for those persons specified to inspect the case file of a dependent child or ward of the juvenile court includes persons serving in a similar capacity for an Indian tribe, reservation, or tribal court when the case file involves a child who is a member of, or is eligible for membership in, that tribe.
Chapter 57, Statutes of 2014

AB 1628 (Fox-D) Visitation rights: grandparent rights

Allows the court to grant reasonable visitation to a grandparent when: (1) there is a preexisting relationship between the grandchild and grandparent; (2) the interests of the child in having visitation with the grandparent are balanced against right of the parent to exercise parental authority; and (3) one of the parents is incarcerated or institutionalized.
Chapter 328, Statutes of 2014

AB 1701 (Patterson-R) Family law: adoption

Makes several changes to adoption processes and adoptive placement considerations in existing law.
Chapter 763, Statutes of 2014

AB 1761 (Hall-D) Dependent children: placement

Permits a social worker to place a child who has been removed from the custody of his/her parents in the home of a relative or non-relative extended family member after the detention hearing and pending the dispositional hearing.
Chapter 765, Statutes of 2014

AB 1843 (Jones-R) Child custody evaluations: confidentiality

Authorizes the disclosure of a confidential child custody evaluation to the licensing entity of an evaluator for the purposes of investigating allegations of unprofessional conduct by the child custody evaluator, or in a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding involving the child custody evaluator. Requires the Board of Behavioral Sciences, upon receipt of a child custody evaluation, to notify the non-complaining party in the underlying child custody dispute who is a subject of that report, of the pending investigation.
Chapter 283, Statutes of 2014

AB 2118 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Adoption records: confidentiality

Authorizes an adopted child to have full and unrestricted access to his/her adoption records in the same manner as a party to a proceeding.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2344 (Ammiano-D) Family law: parentage

Creates three optional forms to allow intended parents to state their intention, in writing, to parent a child conceived with the use of assisted reproduction, and provides that use of the forms satisfy the existing requirement of a "writing" under law, but the forms are not be required to satisfy that requirement.
Chapter 636, Statutes of 2014

AB 2391 (Ian Calderon-D) Dependent children: placement

Clarifies that, after a dispositional hearing for a child in foster care, preferential consideration shall be given, on a case-by-case basis to a relative of a child in foster care for purposes of placement of the child, and requires the Judicial Council to rule of court, effective 1/ 1/16, to implement this clarification.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2573 (Stone-D) Foster care: transition jurisdiction

Provides that the juvenile court may assume or resume transition jurisdiction of a former nonminor dependent ward without consideration of whether or not the rehabilitative goals of that ward have been met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2586 (Bloom-D) Family law proceedings

Automatically reopens discovery as to the issues raised in the post-judgment pleadings currently before the court when a request for order or other motion is filed and served after entry of judgment in a family law case.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2014

Judgments

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SB 406 (Evans-D) Tribal Court Civil Money Judgment Act

Establishes the Tribal Court Civil Money Judgment Act to govern the process by which a party can seek recognition of a tribal court money judgment in California state courts.
Chapter 243, Statutes of 2014

AB 233 (Wieckowski-D) Wage garnishment: restrictions: student loans

Prohibits the use of an earnings-withholding order for purposes of enforcing a judgment for the collection of debt that the judgment debtor proves is from a student loan that is not made, insured, or guaranteed through a federal student loan program. Requires a court to terminate or modify an earnings-withholding order issued on or after 7/1/14, upon proof by the judgment debtor that the earnings-withholding order enforces a judgment for collection of non-federal program student loan debt.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 436 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Inverse condemnation: comparative fault

Provides that comparative fault applies to actions in inverse condemnation and requires a court or arbiter to reduce the compensation to be paid to a plaintiff in direct proportion to his/her percentage of fault, if any, in the damaging of property that constitutes a taking for a public use.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1007* (Wagner-R) State government: payment of claims against the state

Requires the interest on the amount of a claim, judgment, or settlement against the State of California to be calculated based on the same 13-week U.S. Treasury rate that is applied to the overpayment of taxes, fees, and surcharges to the state.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1254 (Gorell-R) Civil actions: settlement offers

Provides that for a settlement offer in a trial or arbitration that is not accepted must be served 15 days prior to the commencement of trial or arbitration and not be accepted prior to the trial or arbitration or within 25 days after the offer is made, whichever comes first.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1659 (Chau-D) Civil actions: post-verdict motions

Increases uniformity between the timelines for three different post-verdict motions; a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict; a motion for a new trial; and a motion to set aside and vacate a judgment.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2014

AB 1945 (Wieckowski-D) Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions

Authorizes a community property exemption for a domestic partner of a judgment debtor.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2014

AB 2154 (Jones-R) Appeals in civil actions: stay of enforcement

Provides that the perfecting of an appeal shall not stay enforcement of a judgment or order of the trial court awarding attorney's fees or costs, or both, if the judgment or order appealed from was rendered in a proceeding under the Family Code, unless an undertaking is given in a sum and upon conditions fixed by the trial court.
Chapter 95, Statutes of 2014

AB 2317 (Maienschein-R) Execution: sale of property

Codifies in California's Enforcement of Judgments Law a judgment debtor's equitable right of redemption.
Chapter 183, Statutes of 2014

Privacy/Identity Theft

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SB 15 (Padilla-D) Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems

Clarifies when a law enforcement agency needs a warrant to use an unmanned aircraft system and that an unmanned aircraft system cannot be used in a manner to invade a person's privacy.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 222 (Padilla-D) Genetic information: privacy

Enacts the Genetic Information Privacy Act, which prohibits any person, as defined, from obtaining, or analyzing, genetic information without the written authorization of the individual to whom the information pertains. Specifies the information that must be included in the authorization and establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this bill's provisions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 383 (Jackson-D) Credit cards: personal information

Expands the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act to online transactions involving an electronic downloadable product.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

SB 397 (Hueso-D) Vehicles: enhanced driver's license

Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue enhanced driver's licenses, which include transmission technology to denote identity and citizenship, for purposes of entering the United States at land and sea ports of entry.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 893 (Hill-D) Automated license plate recognition systems: use of data

Places restrictions on the use of Automated License Plate Recognition technology by both public and private sector users.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 974* (Anderson-R) California Health Benefit Exchange

Makes minor changes to privacy policies related to applications for health coverage through the California Health Benefits Exchange (Covered California). Requires the Exchange to allow consumers to indicate whether they would like assistance from an agent or enrollment counselor, and prohibits the Exchange from disclosing personal information if applicants indicate they do not want assistance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1027 (Hill-D) Booking photographs: commercial use

Prohibits the solicitation, requirement or acceptance of a fee to remove, correct, modify or to refrain from publishing or otherwise disseminating a booking photograph, but exempts a public entity from the prohibition.
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2014

SB 1158 (Yee-D) Protective orders: transfer of wireless telephone numbers

Authorizes a court to issue an order requiring a wireless telephone service provider to transfer the billing authority and rights to a wireless telephone number or numbers to a petitioner and requires that order to be a separate order directed to the wireless telephone service provider that lists the name and billing telephone number of the accountholder, the name of the person to whom the number or numbers will be transferred, and each number transferred to that person. Prohibits a cause of action against a wireless telephone service provider, its officers, employees, or agents, for actions taken related to the transfer of billing authority and rights to a wireless telephone number or numbers in accordance with the terms of the court order.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1177 (Steinberg-D) Privacy: students

Establishes the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act to restrict the use and disclosure of information about K-12 students.
Chapter 839, Statutes of 2014

SB 1348 (DeSaulnier-D) Data brokers: sale of personal information

Requires a data broker 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 1385 (Anderson-R) Protection of victims: alternate physical address

Allows the Secretary of State to designate an alternate physical address upon the request of a Safe at Home program participant if the participant is prohibited from using a post office box as an address.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 25 (Campos-D) Employment: social media

Allows law enforcement agencies, as specified, to access the social media accounts of a new hire applicant or lateral transfer applicant, as defined, once during the background check for a position as a sworn peace officer, if requirements are met. Provides that any information gathered or viewed about a new hire applicant or third party shall only be used for screening purposes and shall not be used as the basis for any action against a new hire applicant or third party.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 126 (Hall-D) Time shares: management and governance

Requires a time-share association to maintain a complete list of the names and postal addresses of all owners of time-share interests in the time-share plan and to update the list at least every 12 months. Revises provisions of existing law applicable to release of the list, by deleting authority for the time-share instruments to provide for its release, and instead requires an association to obtain an owner's consent to the sharing of their contact information in accordance with specified existing law. Requires that contact information for owners who do not consent to be shared in a designated manner in response to a member's demand, but not to be provided directly to a member as specified under an existing provision.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 134 (Logue-R) California Public Records Act: firearms license applications

Provides that the California Public Records Act shall not be construed to require the disclosure of the home addresses and telephone numbers of applicants that are set forth in applications to carry firearms or of licensees that are set forth in licenses to carry firearms, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 242 (Chau-D) Privacy: Internet

Eliminates specified references to "privacy policy," in existing law regarding Internet privacy and instead refers to a privacy policy as a "policy," and requires these policies to include hyperlinks to the Web pages where a consumer may file a complaint, as specified, if an operator collects personal information about a consumer.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 257 (Hall-D) Privacy: commercial Web sites and online services

Requires a commercial Internet Web site or online service privacy policy to identify the uses and retention period for each category of personally identifiable information they retain, and to describe the process the operator maintains allowing an individual consumer to review and request changes to any of his/her personally identifiable information.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 319 (Campos-D) Local agencies: domestic violence

Prohibits a local agency from requiring a landlord to terminate a tenancy or fail to renew a tenancy based upon an act against a tenant or a tenant's household member that constitutes domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or abuse of an elder or dependent adult, and prohibits a local agency from requiring a landlord to terminate a tenancy or fail to renew a tenancy based upon the number of calls made by a person to the emergency telephone system relating to these acts.
Chapter 138, Statutes of 2014

AB 634 (Gomez-D) Public records: exception to disclosure: public officials

Permits the recognized collective bargaining representative of an appointed official who is a peace officer, as defined, a District Attorney, or a Deputy District Attorney, to make a written demand for nondisclosure on behalf of that appointed official.
Chapter 791, Statutes of 2014

AB 928 (Olsen-R) Personal information: privacy

Requires each state department and state agency to conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Internet Web site.
Chapter 851, Statutes of 2014

AB 1198 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Public contracts: bidders: employment practices

Prohibits the state from accepting a bid for a contract from an entity that asks an applicant for employment to disclose his/her conviction history unless the employer has determined the applicant meets the minimum qualifications for the position.
(Died in Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee)

AB 1442 (Gatto-D) Pupil records: social media

Requires a school district, county office of education, or charter school that considers a program, as specified, to gather or maintain in its records any information obtained from social media of any enrolled pupil to notify pupils and their parents about the proposed program.
Chapter 799, Statutes of 2014

AB 1584 (Buchanan-D) Pupil records: privacy: digital storage services

Authorizes a local educational agency, pursuant to a policy adopted by its governing board or governing body, as appropriate, to enter into a contract with a third party to provide services for the digital storage, management, and retrieval of pupil records, provided the contract includes specific provisions about the use, ownership, and control of the pupil records, as specified.
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2014

AB 1650 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Public contracts: bidders: employment practices

Provides that state contractors must determine an on-site construction-related job applicant's minimum qualifications before obtaining and considering information regarding the applicant's criminal conviction history.
Chapter 880, Statutes of 2014

AB 2306 (Chau-D) Constructive invasion of privacy: liability

Expands a person's potential liability for constructive invasion of privacy, by removing the limitation that the person uses a visual or auditory enhancing device, and instead makes the person liable when using any device to engage in the specified unlawful activity.
Chapter 858, Statutes of 2014

AB 2643 (Wieckowski-D) Invasion of privacy: sexually explicit materials

Creates a private right of action against a person who intentionally distributes a photograph or recorded image of another that exposes the intimate body parts, as defined, of that person or him/her engaged in specified sexual acts, without his/her consent, and knowing that the other person had a reasonable expectation that the material remains private, if specified conditions are met. Establishes affirmative defenses to that cause of action, including waiver or consent of the person appearing in the material.
Chapter 859, Statutes of 2014

AJR 27 (Donnelly-R) Relative to privacy

Urges the United States Congress to pass and the President to sign into law the Limiting Internet and Blanket Electronic Review of Telecommunications and Email Act, to ensure that the American people are protected from massive invasions of their privacy.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

HR 27 (Chau-D) California Data Privacy Day

Declares 1/28/14, as California Data Privacy Day, to increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues among consumers, organizations, and government officials.
Adopted by the Assembly

Probate

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SB 849 (Anderson-R) Decedents' estates: electronic mail

Authorizes an electronic communication service or remote computer service to provide access to or copies of documents from the decedent's electronic mail account and also provide that access or copies of electronic communications is subject to copyright law, as well as any applicable and enforceable terms of a service agreement.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1302 (Wyland-R) Elder abuse

Recasts provisions of existing probate law to provide that a person shall be deemed to have predeceased a decedent if he/she is liable for physical abuse, neglect, or financial abuse of the decedent pursuant to the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act, or if that person has been convicted of a violation of provisions prohibiting willfully causing or permitting any elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflicting thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any elder or dependent adult, willfully causing or permitting the person or health of the elder or dependent adult to be injured, or willfully causing or permitting the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his/her person or health is endangered, as specified, in which the decedent was the victim.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 296* (Wagner-R) Trusts

Provides that an allocation to principal of money received in total or partial liquidation of an entity (by a trustee) does not include a net short-term capital gain distribution from a regulated investment company or a real estate investment trust.
Chapter 867, Statutes of 2014

AB 1520 (Gatto-D) Guardians ad litem: animals

Authorizes a court to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the interests of an animal, who is the subject of a pet trust, if the court determines that representation of the animal's interest otherwise would be inadequate and also authorizes the court to award payment of the reasonable expenses of the guardian ad litem either out of the trust or another source.
Vetoed

AB 2166 (Bonta-D) Decedents' estates: administration: custodians of wills

Revises the delivery procedures that an original or successor custodian of a will must follow upon the death of the testator, and clarifies that the fee charged to a custodian for delivering a will to the court clerk is reimbursable from the estate as an administrative cost.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2452 (Pan-D) Advance health care directive registry

Requires the Secretary of State to transfer the contents of its Advance Health Care Directive's Registry to the Department of Public Health on 1/1/16. Requires the Department to maintain a health care decision registry, to be referred to as the California Health Care Decisions Online Registry, and commencing on 1/1/16, to establish and maintain access, as specified, to a secure portion of the Department's Internet Web site that provides an electronic reproduction of an advance health care directive and other specified documents submitted to the registry system.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2567 (Daly-D) Decedents' estates: personal representative: bond

Requires, with respect to a bond conditioned on the faithful execution of the duties of the office, a court to make a good cause determination that the beneficiaries and creditors of the estate will not suffer harm as a result of the waiver of a bond or reduction of the bond amount before authorizing this waiver or reduction. Requires a person appointed as a personal representative to give a cost bond approved by the court to be used to satisfy the remainder of an amount awarded to a contestant of an account, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

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SB 23 (Lara-D) Task Force on New American Integration

Directs the Governor to establish the Task Force on New American Integration to provide, among other things, policy recommendations on protocols and policies regarding immigrant integration to the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 396 (De León-D) Public services

Repeals the unenforceable provisions of Proposition 187 (1994) relating to public social services, public health care services, public education and other activities of state and local agencies.
Chapter 318, Statutes of 2014

SB 415 (Knight-R) Space flight liability

Clarifies that the waiver requirement approved by AB 2243 (Knight, Chapter 416, Statutes of 2012) shall not be construed to be a contrary to the public policy of this state.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2014

SB 477 (Steinberg-D) Foreign labor contractors: registration

Requires foreign labor contractors to register with the Labor Commissioner, as well as follow additional contractual and bonding requirements.
Chapter 711, Statutes of 2014

SB 545 (Anderson-R) Name change: minors

Waives the newspaper publication requirements for active members in the address confidentiality program when the name he/she seeks to acquire is on file with the Secretary of State.
Chapter 49, Statutes of 2014

SB 564 (Monning-D) Ski resorts: accident reports

Requires, among other things, a ski resort to submit a monthly summary accident report to the Department of Public Health, as provided, and requires the Department to post the reports and other information onto its publicly accessible Internet Web site.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 588 (Emmerson-R) Medical records: reproduction fees

Revises provisions of law governing disclosure of medical records to attorneys prior to the filing of any action by increasing the fees that may be charged for copying these records, including distinguishing costs for paper and electronic medical records; deleting the prohibition on medical providers performing the copying when the attorney has employed a professional copier; and only permitting the attorney to employ a professional photocopying service when the records are in paper form.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 608 (Wright-D) Adverse possession: public entity properties

Provides that a nonpublic entity has no right under the doctrine of adverse possession to possess, occupy, or own public property or claim a public property by adverse possession. Prohibits a public entity, as defined, from selling real property or conveying a durable interest in real property, except by official action and if leased, such that the public entity maintains a reversionary interest in the property conveyed.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 610 (Jackson-D) Franchises

Revises various provisions of the California Franchise Relations Act with respect to transfer of a franchise, as well as the right of association among franchisees.
Vetoed

SB 624 (Steinberg-D) International commercial disputes

Makes provisions of law, that govern arbitration and conciliation proceedings for international commercial disputes regarding representation and assistance of parties, applicable to any arbitration or conciliation proceeding conducted pursuant to the statutory provisions that govern arbitration and conciliation of international commercial disputes. Encourages the Judicial Council and the State Bar of California to revise specified rules to conform to these provisions.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 686 (Jackson-D) Vehicles: vehicle dealers

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 691 (Hancock-D) Non-vehicular air pollution control: penalties

Authorizes a civil penalty of up to $100,000 (currently $10,000) against a person who emits a discharge from a Title V source if the discharge results in a severe disruption to the community, the discharge contains one or more toxic air contaminants, and 100 or more people are exposed.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 737 (Huff-R) Appeals: representative actions

Permits appellate review of trial court orders granting or denying class action certification, provided a notice of appeal is filed within 14 days after entry of the certification order. Specifies the factors that the court must review in considering whether or not to permit an appeal under provisions of this bill.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 738 (Yee-D) Sexually exploited and trafficked minors

Provides that a child may come within the jurisdiction of the juvenile dependency court if the minor is a victim of human trafficking, a victim of sexual exploitation, or receives food or shelter in exchange for sexual acts, or is paid to perform sexual acts, and the parent or guardian failed or was unable to protect the child. Requires the training for administrators of group home facilities, licensed foster parents, and relative or nonrelative extended family member caregivers to include instruction on cultural competency and sensitivity related to providing adequate care to a sexually exploited and trafficked minor.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 742* (Nielsen-R) Defendants

Provides that any person who willfully removes or disables an electronic monitoring or supervising device, including a GPS or other monitoring device, affixed to his/her person or the person of another, knowing that the device was affixed as part of a criminal sentence or juvenile court disposition, as a condition of parole or probation, or otherwise pursuant to law, is guilty of a public offense. Provides for revocation of probation, parole, or post release community supervision, and subjects persons with a specified sex offense conviction who violate the section to be subject to lifetime GPS monitoring.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 827 (Liu-D) Local government: Los Angeles County: notice of recordation

Extends, from 1/1/15, to 1/1/20, the authority of the Los Angeles County Recorder to notify affected parties, including occupants of the property, when a notice of default or notice of sale has been recorded on a property. Provides that the Los Angeles County Recorder may collect a fee of up to $7 in order to cover the cost of notifying the parties and providing information about housing assistance and counseling.
Chapter 65, Statutes of 2014

SB 907 (Monning-D) International commercial disputes: representation

Provides that in any proceeding or procedure conducted pursuant to the statutes governing the arbitration or conciliation of international commercial disputes, the parties may appear in person or be represented or assisted by any person of their choice.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 914 (Liu-D) Small claims court

Permits a plaintiff in a small claims action to submit declarations to serve as evidence supporting his/her claim or allow another individual to appear and participate on his/her behalf, if the plaintiff is a senior citizen or dependent adult and appearing for a hearing would pose an undue hardship, as determined by the court, due to limited mobility or limited access to transportation.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 924 (Beall-D) Damages: childhood sexual abuse: statute of limitations

Provides that an action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse that occurred on or after 1/1/15, shall be commenced within 22 years of the date the plaintiff attains the age of majority or within three years of the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered that psychological injury or illness occurring after the age of majority was caused by the sexual abuse, whichever period expires later. Applies to local public entities.
Vetoed

SB 940 (Jackson-D) California Conservatorship Jurisdiction Act

Establishes the California Conservatorship Jurisdiction Act, effective 1/1/16, which provides jurisdictional and procedural guidance on conservatorship proceedings between California and other states.
Chapter 553, Statutes of 2014

SB 967 (De León-D) Student safety: sexual assault

Requires the governing board of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the governing boards of independent postsecondary institutions, as specified, to adopt policies and protocols concerning campus sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking that includes specified components and standards.
Chapter 748, Statutes of 2014

SB 968 (Hill-D) Public lands: Martins Beach property: access road

Directs the State Lands Commission to enter into negotiations with the owner of the property known as Martins Beach to acquire a right-of-way or easement for the creation of a public access route. If the Commission is unable to reach an agreement to acquire a right-of-way or easement and the owners do not voluntarily provide public access by 1/1/16, directs the Commission to acquire such a right-of-way or easement by eminent domain.
Chapter 922, Statutes of 2014

SB 1001 (Morrell-R) Actions for damages: felony offenses

Includes a human trafficking offense as a serious felony for which an action for damages against a defendant may be brought within 10 years from the date on which the defendant is discharged from parole.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1026 (Vidak-R) Common interest developments: assessment collection: notice

Until 1/1/19, authorizes, under certain circumstances, an association governed by either the Davis-Sterling Common Interest Development, or the Commercial and Industrial Common Interest Development Acts to serve an owner or owner's representative with notice of a foreclosure action to collect delinquent assessments by posting a copy of the notice on the owner's separate interest in a manner most likely to give actual notice to the party to be served and mailing a copy of the notice, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1041 (Jackson-D) Business: filings

Makes various technical, non-substantive and clarifying changes throughout the Corporations Code, in preparation for the Secretary of State's automated filing system.
Chapter 834, Statutes of 2014

SB 1050 (Monning-D) Notaries public: verification of identity: notice

Adds a statutory notice to specified forms completed by a notary public indicating that a notarial certification verifies only the identity of the person who signed the document, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document and that legible notice should be included, as specified, in a certificate of acknowledgment, proof of execution, and jurat.
Chapter 197, Statutes of 2014

SB 1051 (Galgiani-D) Buyer's Choice Act

Deletes the repeal of the Buyer's Choice Act, thereby making it operate indefinitely. The Buyer's Choice Act prohibits a mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust who acquired title to residential real property improved by four or fewer dwelling units at a foreclosure sale from requiring, directly or indirectly, as a condition of selling the property, that the buyer purchase title insurance or escrow services in connection with the sale from a particular title insurer or escrow agent.
Chapter 198, Statutes of 2014

SB 1072 (Fuller-R) Real property: duty of care: recreational purposes: aviation

Adds private noncommercial aviation activities to the codified list of recreational purposes related to estates or interests in real property.
Chapter 52, Statutes of 2014

SB 1094 (Lara-D) Nonprofit health facilities: sale of assets

Provides an additional 30 days for the Attorney General (AG) to review proposed transactions involving non-profit health facilities. Allows the AG to enforce the conditions of an approved agreement, and to amend the conditions of an agreement or transaction involving a non-profit health facility if a party to the transaction or agreement made material misrepresentations to the AG and requires the AG, prior to imposing an amended condition, to provide the parties to the agreement written notice of the proposed condition and allows the parties 30 days to respond.
Vetoed

SB 1130* (Roth-D) Drinking water: County Water Company of Riverside

Provides limited immunities from liability relating to the reconstruction of a public water system in Riverside County for the Eastern Municipal Water District, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, the Western Municipal Water District, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Immunities only apply if specific conditions are met, including that water provided to the water system must meet or exceed federal and state drinking water quality standards.
Chapter 173, Statutes of 2014

SB 1133 (Anderson-R) Juries: peace officer exemption

Exempts designated Department of Fish and Game employees from jury duty in criminal and civil matters.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1171 (Hueso-D) Real property transactions: agents: obligations

Extends disclosure requirements made to the seller and buyer in a residential real property transaction, to transactions involving commercial real property, including a leasehold interest.
Chapter 200, Statutes of 2014

SB 1186 (Torres-D) Merger: conversion of nonredeemable common shares and equity

Repeals an exemption in existing law for requirements for short term mergers and mergers of a corporation into a specified subsidiary. Requires that the nonredeemable common shares or nonredeemable equity securities of a constituent corporation be converted only into nonredeemable common shares of the surviving party or a parent party if, prior to the execution of the agreement of merger, a constituent corporation or its parent owns, directly or indirectly, shares of another constituent corporation representing more than 50% of the voting power of the other constituent corporation, unless the majority of the holders of outstanding shares of the class in the first constituent corporation consent, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1266 (Huff-R) Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors

Requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, as specified. Authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use the epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction.
Chapter 321, Statutes of 2014

SB 1280 (Hueso-D) Department of Business Oversight: unsecured consumer loans

Directs the Department of Business Oversight to establish, through regulation, a licensure program for the provision of unsecured consumer loans.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1301 (DeSaulnier-D) Corporate Flexibility Act of 2011

Renames the Corporate Flexibility Act of 2011 as the Social Purpose Corporations Act; renames "flexible purpose corporations " as "social purpose corporations;" and makes technical and clarifying changes to correct and clarify the Flexible Purpose Corporations Law.
Chapter 694, Statutes of 2014

SB 1304 (Senate Judiciary Committee) Maintenance of the codes

Makes numerous technical changes in the California Codes that have been recommended by the Office of Legislative Counsel. The proposed changes do not make any substantive change in the law.
Chapter 71, Statutes of 2014

SB 1306 (Leno-D) Marriage

Repeals the provision of the Family Code which provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized by the state, removes language from the Family Code which provides that marriage is only between a man and a woman, and replaces other gendered language in the Family Code with gender-neutral terms. Provides that marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between two persons, and removes limitations on the validity of same-sex marriages performed outside of California.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2014

SB 1326 (Roth-D) Hearing aids: warranty: work order or receipt

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, and 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 1337 (DeSaulnier-D) Reports

Adds a provision to the Government Code that requires written reports submitted to the Legislature or executive body, by any state agency or department, to include a signed statement by the head of that agency or department declaring that the factual contents of the report are true, accurate and complete to the best of his/her knowledge.
Vetoed

SB 1356* (De León-D) Tribal gaming: compact ratification

Ratifies the amended and restated tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, executed on 8/12/14.
Chapter 314, Statutes of 2014

SB 1357 (Wolk-D) Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form

Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to create a statewide registry for Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment forms.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1407 (Jackson-D) Employment discrimination

Declares that a waiver or release of claims under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act is contrary to public policy and unenforceable, unless the waiver or release of claims is knowing and voluntary.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1438 (Pavley-D) Controlled substances: opioid antagonists

Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop and adopt training and standards for all prehospital emergency care personnel regarding the use and administration of naloxone hydrochloride (naloxone) and other opioid antagonists and to include the administration of naloxone in the training and scope of practice, consistent with existing law, for emergency medical technician I certification. Requires the Attorney General to authorize hospitals and trauma centers to share data on controlled substance overdose trends with local law enforcement agencies and local emergency medical services agencies, as specified.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2014

SB 1439 (Leno-D) Residential real property: withdrawal of accommodations

Allows the city and county of San Francisco to restrict Ellis Act conversions for property owners who have owned their rental property for five years or less.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1451 (Hill-D) Environmental quality: judicial review: standing

Expands the California Environmental Quality Act's exhaustion requirements by precluding an individual from challenging a public agency's compliance with the Act if the alleged grounds of noncompliance were known or could have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence during the public comment period, but the alleged grounds of noncompliance were presented to the public agency at a time other than during the public comment period. Expands the Act's exhaustion requirements by precluding a person from challenging a public agency's compliance if the person objected to the approval of the project at a time other than during the public comment period when a public comment period was provided.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SCR 83 (Monning-D) California Law Revision Commission: studies

Authorizes the California Law Revision Commission to continue its studies on whether specified laws should be revised.
Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2014

SJR 17 (Anderson-R) Iraq: religious freedom

Urges President Barack Obama's administration to expedite visa processing for Iraq's minority groups and to lift the refugee quota cap for Iraqi-Christians in order to streamline the process of accepting them into the U.S. as refugees, urges the U.S. Congress to pass House Resolution 663, and urges the U.S. Department of State to work with, among others, the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Iraqi central government, and neighboring countries to help secure safe havens for those claiming amnesty from Iraq. Declares that there is an urgent need to protect religious minorities from persecution from the Sunni Islamist terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as it expands its control over areas in northwestern Iraq.
Resolution Chapter 152, Statutes of 2014

SJR 26 (De León-D) Chinese Americans in California

Acknowledges the history of the Chinese in California, recognizes the contributions made to the State of California by Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants, apologizes for past discriminatory laws and constitutional provisions that resulted in the persecution of Chinese living in California, and requests Congress to adopt resolutions of apology to the Chinese American community for the enactment of the federal Chinese Exclusion Laws.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SJR 31 (Torres-D) Immigration: unaccompanied minors

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to take action and adopt immigration policies, as specified, to ensure protection for unaccompanied children immigrating into the United States.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 33 (Wyland-R) National security: borders

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to take immediate and decisive action to ensure that entry into, and exit from the United States is properly controlled in order to ensure our national security and to further broaden political consensus on visitor and immigration law enforcement.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SR 25 (Calderon-D) Immigration

Urges President Obama to take executive action to suspend any further deportations of unauthorized individuals with no serious criminal history.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SR 40 (Correa-D) Immigration

Urges President Obama to take executive action to suspend any further deportations of unauthorized individuals with no serious criminal history.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 46 (Beall-D) Hong Yen Chang

Calls for Mr. Hong Yen Chang's admittance to the State Bar of California posthumously, to remedy the injustice he suffered and to send a powerful message about the legal profession's commitment to justice, diversity, and inclusion.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 51 (Lara-D) Immigration

Recognizes 6/23/14, the date marking the 20th anniversary of the qualification of Proposition 187 for the November 1994 ballot, as a day to celebrate California's diversity and a united future.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 55 (Jackson-D) Reproductive Health

Urges the United States Senate to reconsider and approve Senate Bill 2578, referred to as the Not My Boss's Business Act, which prevents employers from denying coverage of contraceptives regardless of their religious views, and also reaffirms the decision of Roe v. Wade (1973) 410 U.S. 113, which acknowledges that reproductive choice is a fundamental right that belongs to all women.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 438 (Mitchell-D) Juveniles: dual-status minors

Deletes the prohibition on the filing of a petition or the entry of an order to make a minor simultaneously both a dependent child and a ward of the court.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 474 (Stone-D) California Coastal Commission: ex parte communications

Adds to the existing ex parte communications disclosure provisions requirements that the disclosure also include the identity of the person on whose behalf the communication was made, the identity of all persons present during the communication, and a complete, comprehensive description of the content of the ex parte communication, including a complete set of all text and graphic material that was part of the communication.
Chapter 125, Statutes of 2014

AB 569 (Chau-D) Real property: divided lands

Allows a stock cooperative or limited-equity housing cooperative to be sold or leased subject to a blanket encumbrance, under specified conditions.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 2014

AB 609 (Nestande-R) State-funded research: Department of Public Health

Enacts the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act requiring a grantee who receives funding, in whole or in part, in the form of a research grant from the Department of Public Health to provide free public access to any publication resulting from that research, as specified.
Chapter 789, Statutes of 2014

AB 642 (Rendon-D) Publication: Internet Web site

Provides that a newspaper that is available on an Internet Web site may also qualify as a newspaper of general circulation, provided that newspaper meets certain criteria.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 692 (Gonzalez-D) Immigration reform: advisory election

Submits an advisory question to the voters asking whether the President and Congress of the United States should reform immigration laws and pass comprehensive immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship. Calls a special election to be consolidated with the 11/4/14 statewide general election.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 725 (Wilk-R) Health care management: health court demonstration program

Requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to submit an application on behalf of the state to the federal Department of Health and Human Services to receive a grant for state demonstration programs to evaluate alternatives to current medical tort litigation, as authorized by Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Requires the Secretary to write the application to design a program to create health courts based upon a no-fault process to improve the injury resolution of liability and specifies what items a patient will need to prove under the health court demonstration program.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 738 (Harkey-R) Public entity liability: bicycles

Provides that a public entity or an employee of a public entity acting within his/her official capacity is not liable for an injury caused to a person riding a bicycle while traveling on a roadway, if the public entity has provided a bike lane on that roadway.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 756 (Melendez-R) Judicial review: public works projects

Applies specified provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act to a public works project, defined to mean an infrastructure project carried out by the city, county, special district, or state government or contracted out to a private entity by the special district or local or state government.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 802 (Wieckowski-D) Private arbitration companies: disclosures

Clarifies parameters of existing consumer arbitration data disclosures by private arbitration companies, and requires that the information be made available to the public on the Internet Web site of the private arbitration company.
Chapter 870, Statutes of 2014

AB 818 (Blumenfield-D) Air pollution control: penalties

Requires any city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, any city attorney of a city and county, or a city prosecutor in any city with a full-time city prosecutor, with the consent of the district attorney, to recover specified civil penalties in a civil action for specified air quality related violations.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 838 (Morrell-R) Personal representatives: bonds

Requires the reasonable amount for the cost of recovery to collect on a bond, including attorney's fees and costs, to be included in specified items, including the estimated value of the personal property and the probable annual gross income of an estate.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 897 (Wagner-R) Disability access fees and information

Repeals a fee and other related requirements and costs, in existing law, related to the Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund that was established to increase disability access and compliance with construction related accessibility requirements.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 905 (Ting-D) Real property: environmental fee covenants

Provides for the recording of an Environmental Fee Covenant that is, among other things, imposed for no more than 50 years in connection with the installation on the property of equipment or improvements that are intended to promote, among other things, energy efficiency and the reduction of the consumption of water or other natural resources.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 925 (Bigelow-R) State officer or supervisory employee: compensation

Holds a state officer or a supervisory employee who intentionally circumvents statutes or regulations which result in overpayment or unauthorized payment of compensation personally liable for treble damages.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 939 (Melendez-R) Pupil and school personnel health: defibrillators

Encourages schools to acquire and maintain at least one automatic external defibrillator, and encourages schools to follow specified procedures for placement and use of that defibrillator.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 976 (Atkins-D) Coastal resources: enforcement: penalties

Authorizes, until 1/1/19, the Coastal Commission, by majority vote and at a duly noticed public hearing, to impose an administrative civil penalty on a person who intentionally and knowingly violates the California Coastal Act.
(Died in Conference)

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 if rent and other charges have not been paid for 60 days, provided the owner sends the occupant a 10-day advance notice, as specified; and creates 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 provisions of law relating to 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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1011 (Salas-D) Unclaimed property: interest payment

Requires the State Controller to add interest to payments made to owners of unclaimed property.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1106 (Waldron-R) Public entities: liability

Limits the liability of public entities that operate county jails for injuries to inmates arising out of failure to provide sufficient jail conditions.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1141 (Dahle-R) Franchises

Revises both the California Franchise Relations Act and the Franchise Investment Law. Provides that good cause in a termination case consists of a substantial and material breach of the franchise agreement after the franchisee is given written notice and 60 days to cure the failure and also requires the termination to be in accordance with the current terms and standards equally applicable to all franchisees, with limited exceptions.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1239 (Holden-D) Public contracts: anti-trafficking

Prohibits a specified contractor that has entered into a contractual relationship with a public entity from engaging in trafficking-related activities, including destroying, concealing, confiscating, or otherwise denying access to the employee's identity documents, such as passports or drivers' licenses.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1265 (Conway-R) Mental health: assisted outpatient treatment

Increases the maximum period of imposed outpatient treatment under the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project, from six months to one year.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1300 (Roger Hernández-D) Credit cards: oral disclosures

Requires that prior to the issuance of a credit card on the campus of an institution of higher education to a cardholder who is 18 years of age or older, the cardholder be provided with an oral disclosure by the credit card issuer soliciting on campus containing certain information, including, but not limited to, the annual percentage rate, penalty rates, cash advance fee, late payment fee, and over-the-limit fee, in a specified manner.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 1355 (Wilk-R) Limited liability companies: agents

Requires a limited liability company to indemnify its agent in proceedings for the successful defense or settlement of claims brought against the agent by reason of his/her agent status.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1360 (Torres-D) Common interest developments: electronic voting

Amends the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act to authorize associations to conduct elections using electronic voting systems, as specified, provided participating voters opt into using the electronic voting system and other required conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1415 (John A. Pérez-D) Administrative regulations: corrosion related programs

Requires a public entity that awards a contract for construction, alteration, demolition, installation, repair, or maintenance work after 1/1/17, that is paid for in whole or in part with state funds, to require contractors and subcontractors performing corrosion prevention and mitigation work to comply with specified standards to be adopted by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control. Exempts work on sheet metal and ventilation systems and plumbing and piping systems, and precast concrete work that is performed off site, when the work is performed by specified persons, from the standards adopted under its provisions.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1513 (Fox-D) Residential property: possession by declaration

Enacts a three-year pilot project until 1/1/18, in the Cities of Palmdale and Lancaster in Los Angeles County, and the City of Ukiah in the County of Mendocino, to facilitate enforcement of criminal trespassing laws, as specified.
Chapter 666, Statutes of 2014

AB 1522 (Gonzalez-D) Employment: paid sick days

Enacts the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, which requires employers to provide paid sick days to employees who work 30 or more days within a year from commencement of employment. Establishes a rebuttable presumption of unlawful retaliation if an employer denies an employee the right to use sick days or takes other specified adverse action within 30 days of specified protected activities by the employee.
Chapter 317, Statutes of 2014

AB 1525 (Lowenthal-D) Marriage: solemnization

Allows a city clerk to solemnize a marriage.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2014

AB 1577 (Atkins-D) Certificates of death: gender identity

Requires, beginning 7/1/15, a person completing a death certificate to record the decedent's sex to reflect the decedent's gender identity, as specified.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2014

AB 1608 (Olsen-R) Private investigators: limited liability companies

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; and makes technical, updating and conforming changes.
Chapter 669, Statutes of 2014

AB 1623 (Atkins-D) Family justice centers

Authorizes a city, county, city and county, or nonprofit organization to each establish a family justice center; the purpose of which is to attempt to reduce the number of times victims of various types of abuse, assault, violence, and trafficking.
Chapter 85, Statutes of 2014

AB 1654 (Bonilla-D) CalWORKs: assignment of child support

Increases, effective 1/1/16 the amount of monthly child support "passed-through" to CalWORKs recipients from $50 per family to $100 for a family with one child or $200 for a family with two or more children.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1708 (Alejo-D) Jurors: peace officer exemption

Excludes certain parole officers, probation officers, deputy probation officers, board coordinating parole agents, correctional officers, transportation officers of a probation department, and other employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State Department of State Hospitals, and the Board of Parole Hearings, from jury service in criminal matters.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1738 (Chau-D) Common interest developments: dispute resolution

Requires a resolution or agreement under a common interest developments procedure for resolving internal disputes between a homeowners' association and a member be written and signed by both parties, and authorizes a member and an association to be assisted by an attorney or another person at their own costs during the dispute process.
Chapter 411, Statutes of 2014

AB 1770 (Dababneh-D) Real property liens: equity lines of credit

Provides a procedure by which an entitled person, as defined, can, with the approval of the borrower, request the suspension and closure of a home equity line of credit, as specified.
Chapter 206, Statutes of 2014

AB 1810 (Maienschein-R) Deposits for keeping: 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. If unable to place the animal with a new owner, shelter, or group, this bill permits the facility or veterinarian to have the animal euthanized.
Chapter 86, Statutes of 2014

AB 1847 (Chesbro-D) Mental health disorders: language

Updates numerous California Codes by removing references to insane or mentally disordered or defective persons and replacing those references with mental health disorder, intellectual disability, or developmental disability.
Chapter 144, Statutes of 2014

AB 1853 (Wieckowski-D) Debtor exemptions

Establishes specified property exemptions for debtors and deletes the homestead reinvestment requirement.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1856 (Wilk-R) Deposit in lieu of bond

Updates California's Bond and Undertaking Law to add cashier's checks and bonds and notes of the United States and the State of California to the list of items of value that may be deposited with a court in lieu of a bond.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 2014

AB 1858 (Perea-D) Commercial law: secured transactions

Specifies that for the purposes of filing a Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 financing statement where the debtor is an individual, the financing statement sufficiently provides the name of the debtor only if it reflects the name that is on the individual's most current driver's license, or, if the person does not have a driver's license, only if the financing statement provides the individual name of the debtor or the surname and first personal name of the debtor.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2014

AB 1897 (Roger Hernández-D) Labor contracting: client liability

Establishes specified liability for client employers that obtain workers from third-party labor contractors, as specified; and prohibits the bill's provisions from being interpreted to impose liability in specified circumstances.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2014

AB 1938 (Hagman-R) Actions for damages: felony offenses

Provides that the time for commencement of an action for damages, against a defendant who is found not guilty of specified, serious felony offenses by reason of insanity, is within 10 years of the date on which the defendant is released from custody.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1951 (Gomez-D) Vital records: birth certificates

Requires the State Registrar of Vital Statistics to modify the certificate of live birth to contain two lines that both read "Name of Parent" and contain, next to each parent's name, three checkboxes with the options of "mother," "father," and "parent," and makes the relevant statute gender neutral where appropriate.
Chapter 334, Statutes of 2014

AB 1978 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Child welfare services

Requires the Department of Social Services, in consultation with counties and labor organizations, to establish a process to receive voluntary disclosures from social workers, if a social worker has reasonable cause to believe that a policy, procedure, or practice related to the provision of child welfare services by a county child welfare agency endangers the health or well-being of a child, as specified. Prohibits the Department from disclosing the identity of a social worker making a disclosure, unless the social worker has consented to the disclosure or there is an immediate risk to the health and safety of a child.
Chapter 768, Statutes of 2014

AB 1981 (Brown-D) Rental vehicles: contracts: damage waivers

Removes the manufacturer's suggested retail price as one of the criteria for determining the rate of a damage waiver sold by a rental company, and instead sets the rate of damage waivers according to the vehicle's classification using criteria set by the 2014 Association of Car Rental Industry Systems Standards for North America. Increases the maximum rate of the damage waiver to $11 per rental day for vehicles designated as an "economy car," "compact car," or another term denoting the two smallest categories of vehicles described by the standards. Increases the maximum rate of the damage waiver to $17 per rental day for vehicles in the next three body-size categories of vehicles designated in the standards.
Chapter 417, Statutes of 2014

AB 2001 (Ammiano-D) Homeless youth: child welfare services

Requires the Department of Social Services to establish a working group to develop policy and practice recommendations to ensure that homeless, unaccompanied minors have access to appropriate placements and services through the state's child welfare system. States the Legislature's intent that law enforcement agencies work with local child protective services agencies to identify the appropriate placement for homeless youth, including placement in a homeless youth shelter, as specified. Requires a social worker to interview a minor who is in a runaway and homeless youth shelter or any other community care facility, as defined, and requires the commencement of juvenile court proceedings within five judicial days in specified cases.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2023 (Wagner-R) Eminent domain: compensation: loss of goodwill

Specifies that if an owner produces evidence tending to show that goodwill existed before a taking by eminent domain, such evidence shall be presented to the trier of fact.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2065 (Melendez-R) Legislative Employee Whistleblower Protection Act: employees

Establishes the Legislative Employee Whistleblower Protection Act. Among other things, prohibits a member of the Legislature or legislative employee from directly or indirectly using or attempting to use that person's official authority or influence for the purpose of intimidating, threatening, coercing, commanding, or attempting to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or command a legislative employee for the purpose of interfering with the right of the legislative employee to make a protected disclosures. Makes applicable violations of the Act subject to a fine not to exceed $10,000 and imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2068 (Nazarian-D) Charter-party carriers of passengers

Includes within the definition of charter-party carrier of passengers a person that uses an online-enabled application or platform to connect passengers with drivers. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop a standard disclosure agreement with specified insurance disclosures, and requires the agreement to be included in a written agreement between drivers and charter-party carriers of passengers that use an online-enabled application or platform to connect passengers with drivers, and to be signed by those drivers. Provides that the disclosure agreement records of a charter-party carrier of passengers are subject to review and audit by the Commission.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2077 (Allen-R) Charitable organizations: enforcement

Requires monies in the Registry of Charitable Trusts Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used by the Attorney General to enforce the registration and reporting provisions of the Supervision of Trustees and Fundraisers for Charitable Purposes Act.
Chapter 465, Statutes of 2014

AB 2089 (Quirk-D) Domestic violence: protective orders

Authorizes the issuance of a protective order after notice and a hearing for the purpose of preventing acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and ensuring a period of separation of the persons involved and provides that, in determining whether to grant or deny a protective order, the length of time since the most recent act of abuse is not, by itself, determinative. Requires the trial court to provide a brief statement of the reasons for its decision to deny a protective order either in writing or on the record and provides that, for the purposes of its provisions, a court should consider provisions relating to dominant aggressors in determining if both parties acted primarily as aggressors.
Chapter 635, Statutes of 2014

AB 2095 (Wagner-R) Employee compensation: itemized statements

Authorizes an employer to recover reasonable attorney's fees and costs from an employee for specified claims of failure to provide an accurate itemized wage statement, where the employer is the prevailing party and the court determines that the action was brought in bad faith.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2096 (Muratsuchi-D) Securities transactions: qualification: notification

Creates a new way in which a person seeking to offer or sell securities could qualify their offering, by authorizing the "qualification by notification" of offers or sales of securities advertised by means of general solicitation and general advertising, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2136 (Daly-D) Contracts: statute of frauds

Exempts electronic messages of an ephemeral nature from the requirement imposed on real estate brokers to retain specified records and transactions for three years from the date of the closing of a transaction.
Chapter 107, Statutes of 2014

AB 2215 (Maienschein-R) Veterans: recorded documents

Permits a family member or legal representative of a veteran authorized by law to receive a certified copy of specified documents to request recordation of those documents on the same terms as a veteran.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2014

AB 2217 (Melendez-R) Pupil and personnel health: automated external defibrillator

Authorizes schools to solicit and receive non-state funds for automatic external defibrillator, and clarifies those schools and school employees are not civilly liable when acting in good faith.
Chapter 812, Statutes of 2014

AB 2252 (John A. Pérez-D) Child support payments: electronic fund transfer: accounts

Requires that child support payments directly deposited into an account of the recipient's choice, only be deposited into a qualifying account, as defined; and provides that a qualifying account that is also a prepaid card account must meet specified criteria, including that the account is held at an insured financial institution, and that the account is not attached to any credit or overdraft feature that is automatically repaid from the account after delivery of the payment.
Chapter 180, Statutes of 2014

AB 2256 (Garcia-D) Civil procedure: service and fees: sheriffs

Adjusts and adds to the fees set under existing law for service of process of various documents by sheriffs and revises existing requirements for gaining access to gated communities for the purpose of service of process.
Chapter 470, Statutes of 2014

AB 2259 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Water replenishment: assessments

Creates a 180-day statute of limitation for challenging the adoption of a replenishment assessment by a water replenishment district, and specifies that an action challenging the adoption of a replenishment assessment shall be brought as a validation action or as a writ of review, mandate, or prohibition.
Chapter 736, Statutes of 2014

AB 2266 (Waldron-R) Mental health: assisted outpatient treatment

Extends from six to twelve months the time period that a court may order a person to receive assisted outpatient services, provided that person meets the criteria for assisted outpatient treatment and there is no appropriate and feasible less restrictive alternative.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2271 (Ian Calderon-D) Employment: discrimination: status as unemployed

Enacts various provisions of law related to discrimination based on an individual's employment status (present unemployment).
Vetoed

AB 2275 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Certified copies of marriage, birth, and death certificates

Authorize the State Registrar, a local registrar, or county recorder to accept electronic acknowledgment, sworn under penalty of perjury, that the requester of a marriage, birth, or death certificate is an authorized person. Requires the request to provide a method for the official to establish the identity of the requester electronically, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2286 (Wagner-R) Process servers

Removes oversight of the registration of process servers from the counties and places it within the State Bar of California.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2310* (Ridley-Thomas-D) Unlawful detainer: nuisance: unlawful weapons and ammunition

Reauthorizes a lapsed pilot program allowing city attorneys or city prosecutors in specified counties to evict a tenant for unlawful activities relating to weapons or ammunition on real property.
Chapter 339, Statutes of 2014

AB 2331 (Rendon-D) Business: self-service storage facilities

Permits the advertisement of a lien sale of property at a self-service storage facility to be posted on a publicly accessible Internet Web site if there is no newspaper of general circulation published in the judicial district where the sale is to be held.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2338 (Wagner-R) Initiatives: writ of mandate

Prohibits a public agency from bringing an original action or a cross-complaint seeking a declaration of rights under a proposed initiative measure until after the election for which the initiative measure qualified, if the measure was previously certified by an elections official as having qualified for the ballot.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2399 (John A. Pérez-D) Organ and tissue donor registry: driver's license

Authorizes an organ procurement organization to swipe a driver's license or identification card, as specified, in an electronic device to transmit information to the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.
Chapter 569, Statutes of 2014

AB 2405 (Ammiano-D) Landlord tenant: Ellis Act

Requires the court clerk to not allow access to any civil case records in an Ellis Act eviction case, except to specified persons, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2416 (Stone-D) Liens: laborers and employees

Enacts the California Wage Theft Recovery Act to authorize specified employees to request that the Labor Commissioner record, on his/her behalf, a wage lien upon real and personal property of an employer, or a property owner, as specified, for unpaid wages and other compensation owed the employee, and certain other penalties, interest, and costs. Prescribes requirements relating to the recording and enforcement of the wage lien and for its extinguishment and removal.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 2430 (Maienschein-R) Transfer disclosures

Specifies that a common interest development association may collect a reasonable fee from the seller for the actual cost of providing specified transfer disclosure documents, that the cost for these documents must be separately stated and billed from other charges, and that these documents may not be bundled with other documents required to be disclosed as part of the sale.
Chapter 185, Statutes of 2014

AB 2442 (Gordon-D) Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act: remedial action

Prohibits the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), regional board, or an employee of the SWRCB or regional board from being held liable in a civil proceeding for trespass or any other act that is necessary to carry out an investigation, cleanup, abatement, or other remedial work; and prohibits the SWRCB, regional board, or any authorized person from incurring any obligation to undertake additional investigation, cleanup, abatement, or other remedial work solely because of its decision to undertake that work.
Chapter 739, Statutes of 2014

AB 2444 (Hall-D) Confederate flag: sales: government property

Prohibits the State of California from selling or displaying the Battle Flag of the Confederacy or its image, as specified, unless the image appears in a book, digital medium, or state museum that serves an educational or historical purpose.
Chapter 538, Statutes of 2014

AB 2454 (Quirk-Silva-D) Foster youth: nonminor dependents

Allows a nonminor former dependent who previously received extended Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment or Adoption Assistance Payment, but whose guardian or adoptive parent no longer provides ongoing support, to petition the court to resume dependency under the extended foster care foster care program, as specified.
Chapter 769, Statutes of 2014

AB 2485* (Dickinson-D) Unlawful detainer: nuisance: controlled substances

Reauthorizes a lapsed pilot program allowing city attorneys or prosecutors in specified cities to bring an unlawful detainer action in the name of the people against a tenant for illegal conduct involving a controlled substance on real property. Requires a court hearing an unlawful detainer action pursuant to the bill's provisions to enter a specified order depending on whether grounds for an eviction or a partial eviction have been established.
Chapter 341, Statutes of 2014

AB 2494 (Cooley-D) Courts: frivolous actions or proceedings

Authorizes a trial court to, until 1/1/18, award reasonable expenses incurred as a result of bad-faith actions or tactics that are "frivolous" or solely intended to cause unnecessary delay by deleting language that currently limits that authorization to actions or tactics arising from a complaint filed or proceeding initiated on or before 12/31/94. Requires parties who file motions for an award of costs for bad-faith actions or tactics to transmit to the California Research Bureau (CRB) a copy of various documents associated with the motions. Requires the CRB to maintain a public record of all information transmitted related to each motion for at least three years, and, on or before 1/1/17, requires the CRB to submit a report to the Legislature examining the impact and effect of the changes made by this bill's provisions.
Chapter 425, Statutes of 2014

AB 2507 (Bocanegra-D) Public Records Act: exemptions: pending litigation

Exempts from disclosure under the California Public Records Act records pertaining to pending litigation to which the public agency is a defendant in a civil action, including outside attorney's invoices, billing statements, or requests for payment, until the pending litigation has been finally adjudicated or settled.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2508 (Fox-D) Unlawful detainer: pleadings

Establishes heightened pleading requirements for tenants to file a response to an unlawful detainer action.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2535 (Grove-R) Employment applications: criminal history

Provides that after a state agency determines that an applicant for employment meets the minimum employment requirements, the agency must require the applicant to disclose in writing whether or not the applicant has ever been convicted by any court of a misdemeanor or felony.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2561 (Bradford-D) Personal agriculture: restrictions

Establishes conditions under which residents of common-interest developments and tenants in rental housing may engage in personal agriculture.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2014

AB 2565 (Muratsuchi-D) Rental property: electric vehicle charging stations

Requires a lessor of a dwelling to approve a written request of a lessee to install an electric vehicle charging station at a parking space allotted for the lessee, if the charging station and all modifications and improvements made to the leased premises meet all applicable health and safety standards, and complies with the lessor's procedural approval process for modification to the property.
Chapter 529, Statutes of 2014

AB 2607 (Skinner-D) Juveniles: detention

Requires that a person be released from juvenile detention upon an out-of-home placement order unless the court determines that a delay in the release from detention is reasonable, as specified, and enumerates specific circumstances where such a delay is not reasonable.
Chapter 615, Statutes of 2014

AB 2611 (Bocanegra-D) Unclaimed property: auditing standards

Requires an examination of records of a person if the State Controller has reason to believe that the person has failed to report property that should have been reported pursuant to that law, to be conducted in accordance with the generally accepted government auditing standards, and requires the Controller to adopt regulations, on or before 7/1/15, in accordance with those standards, as to the policies and procedures governing the activity of third-party auditors hired by the Controller.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2617 (Weber-D) Civil rights: waiver of rights

Imposes specified restrictions on the future contractual waivers of rights under the Ralph Civil Rights Act and the Tom Bane Civil Rights Act.
Chapter 910, 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 2663 (Dababneh-D) Fraud prevention

Adjusts civil penalties involving runners, cappers, steerers or other persons to procure clients or patients to perform or obtain services or benefits under worker's compensation coverage, to not less than $10,000 and not more than $25,000.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2665 (Dababneh-D) Workers' compensation: enforcement

Increases the amounts of fines, for an employer failing to secure the payment of workers' compensation, to not less than $25,000 for the first offense and not less than $75,000 for the 2nd and subsequent offenses.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2688 (Brown-D) Employment: violations: good faith defense

Provides that any person who complies with a published opinion letter issued to that person by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall not be liable for costs or subject to punishment except for restitution of unpaid wages or other amounts due to an employee, in any prosecution by the division for a violation of a statute or regulation in a judicial or administrative proceeding if the person pleads and proves to the trier of fact that, at the time the alleged act or omission occurred, the person, acting in good faith, took specified actions.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2712 (Daly-D) Hazardous materials: Orange County Water District

Establishes a process for groundwater cleanup for the Orange County Water District Act.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 2747 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Civil law: omnibus bill

Enacts assorted changes in various provisions of law. In order to be included, each provision is deemed not so substantive as to be more appropriate for a stand-alone bill.
Chapter 913, Statutes of 2014

AB 2751 (Roger Hernández-D) Retaliation

Clarifies that the civil penalty of up to $10,000 against an employer who discriminates, retaliates, or takes any adverse action against an employee or applicant for employment, who exercises a right protected under local and state labor and employment laws, is to be awarded to the employee or employees who suffered the violation.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2014

AB 2755 (Bocanegra-D) Nonprofit corporations: directors

Modifies the current definition of "directors" for the purposes of the Nonprofit Corporation Law to clarify that: (1) if the articles or bylaws designate that a natural person is a director or a member of the governing body of the corporation by reason of occupying a specified position within the corporation or outside the corporation (i.e. "ex officio directors"), without limiting that person's right to vote as a member of the governing body, that person shall be a director for all purposes and shall have the same rights and obligations, including voting rights, as the other directors; and (2) that the term "director" does not include a person who does not have authority to vote as a member of the governing body of the corporation, regardless of title.
Chapter 914, Statutes of 2014

AB 2759 (Assembly Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee) Interstate water rights

Eliminates certain reciprocity and priority setting provisions in California law governing interstate rivers and the appropriation of water across state boundaries and, instead, provides that if the waters of an interstate water body have been allocated between California and another state or Indian tribe by a compact, United States Supreme Court decree, or other appropriate method of allocating interstate waters, the state shall exercise its authority over such waters in a manner consistent with the rights and responsibilities established under that interstate allocation.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2014

ACR 101 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Pawnbrokers and 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 industries and interested members of the public to recommend changes to existing law pertaining to Internet pawnbroking.
Resolution Chapter 154, Statutes of 2014

AJR 1 (Gatto-D) Federal constitutional convention: application

Submits California's application to Congress to call for an Article V convention for the sole purpose of proposing a Constitutional amendment that limits corporate personhood for purposes of campaign finance and political speech; and declares that money does not constitute speech and may be legislatively limited.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2014

AJR 49 (Gonzalez-D) Immigration: deportation

Urges President Obama to take executive action to suspend any further deportations of unauthorized individuals with no serious criminal history.
Resolution Chapter 169, Statutes of 2014

AJR 50 (Bloom-D) Blood donation

Requests the President of the United States and the federal Department of Health and Human Services to adopt science-based policies that repeal current Food and Drug Administration policies that prohibit men who have had sex with men from donating blood.
Resolution 170, Statutes of 2014

HR 46 (Gonzalez-D) Immigration

Acknowledges the harm caused to Californians through passage of the discriminatory and xenophobic Proposition 187 and its corresponding campaign.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

HR 51 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Immigration

Recognizes that all California residents have a civic responsibility to respect the human dignity of immigrants seeking refuge in the United States, and to ensure that they are afforded due process and equal protection.
Adopted by the Assembly

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Measure and Reference	Author	Measure Title
SB 15 - Civil Law	Padilla-D	Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems
SB 15 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Padilla-D	Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems
SB 23 - Miscellaneous	Lara-D	Task Force on New American Integration
SB 123 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Corbett-D	Environmental and land use court
SB 166 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Liu-D	Juveniles: attorney qualifications
SB 193 - Consumer Protection	Monning-D	Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service
SB 222 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Padilla-D	Genetic information: privacy
SB 245 - Consumer Protection	Correa-D	Contracts
SB 323* - Civil Rights	Lara-D	Taxes: exemptions: prohibited discrimination
SB 343 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Yee-D	Dependent children: documents
SB 383 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Jackson-D	Credit cards: personal information
SB 396 - Miscellaneous	De León-D	Public services
SB 397 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Hueso-D	Vehicles: enhanced driver's license
SB 404 - Civil Rights	Jackson-D	Fair employment: familial status
SB 406 - Judgments	Evans-D	Tribal Court Civil Money Judgment Act
SB 415 - Miscellaneous	Knight-R	Space flight liability
SB 477 - Miscellaneous	Steinberg-D	Foreign labor contractors: registration
SB 526 - Consumer Protection	Calderon-D	Commissioner of Corporations: lending practices
SB 545 - Miscellaneous	Anderson-R	Name change: minors
SB 556 - Consumer Protection	Padilla-D	Providers of health and safety labor or services
SB 564 - Miscellaneous	Monning-D	Ski resorts: accident reports
SB 588 - Miscellaneous	Emmerson-R	Medical records: reproduction fees
SB 597 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Lara-D	Legal aid: court interpreters
SB 603 - Civil Law	Leno-D	Landlord and tenant: security deposit
SB 608 - Miscellaneous	Wright-D	Adverse possession: public entity properties
SB 610 - Miscellaneous	Jackson-D	Franchises
SB 624 - Miscellaneous	Steinberg-D	International commercial disputes
SB 650 - Consumer Protection	Lieu-D	Motion pictures
SB 661 - Consumer Protection	Hill-D	False advertising
SB 686 - Miscellaneous	Jackson-D	Vehicles: vehicle dealers
SB 691 - Miscellaneous	Hancock-D	Non-vehicular air pollution control: penalties
SB 713 - Consumer Protection	Correa-D	Liability: good faith reliance on administrative ruling
SB 737 - Miscellaneous	Huff-R	Appeals: representative actions
SB 738 - Miscellaneous	Yee-D	Sexually exploited and trafficked minors
SB 742* - Miscellaneous	Nielsen-R	Defendants
SB 750 - Consumer Protection	Wolk-D	Building standards: water meters: multiunit structures
SB 827 - Miscellaneous	Liu-D	Local government: Los Angeles County: notice of recordation
SB 849 - Probate	Anderson-R	Decedents' estates: electronic mail
SB 893 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Hill-D	Automated license plate recognition systems: use of data
SB 907 - Miscellaneous	Monning-D	International commercial disputes: representation
SB 909 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Pavley-D	Dependent children: health screenings
SB 914 - Miscellaneous	Liu-D	Small claims court
SB 924 - Miscellaneous	Beall-D	Damages: childhood sexual abuse: statute of limitations
SB 940 - Miscellaneous	Jackson-D	California Conservatorship Jurisdiction Act
SB 967 - Miscellaneous	De León-D	Student safety: sexual assault
SB 968 - Miscellaneous	Hill-D	Public lands: Martins Beach property: access road
SB 974* - Privacy/Identity Theft	Anderson-R	California Health Benefit Exchange
SB 977 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Liu-D	Juveniles
SB 996 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Evans-D	Juveniles: dependent children: documents
SB 1001 - Miscellaneous	Morrell-R	Actions for damages: felony offenses
SB 1026 - Miscellaneous	Vidak-R	Common interest developments: assessment collection: notice
SB 1027 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Hill-D	Booking photographs: commercial use
SB 1041 - Miscellaneous	Jackson-D	Business: filings
SB 1050 - Miscellaneous	Monning-D	Notaries public: verification of identity: notice
SB 1051 - Miscellaneous	Galgiani-D	Buyer's Choice Act
SB 1072 - Miscellaneous	Fuller-R	Real property: duty of care: recreational purposes: aviation
SB 1094 - Miscellaneous	Lara-D	Nonprofit health facilities: sale of assets
SB 1099 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Steinberg-D	Dependent children: wards of the juvenile court: visitation
SB 1130* - Miscellaneous	Roth-D	Drinking water: County Water Company of Riverside
SB 1133 - Miscellaneous	Anderson-R	Juries: peace officer exemption
SB 1158 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Yee-D	Protective orders: transfer of wireless telephone numbers
SB 1171 - Miscellaneous	Hueso-D	Real property transactions: agents: obligations
SB 1177 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Steinberg-D	Privacy: students
SB 1186 - Miscellaneous	Torres-D	Merger: conversion of nonredeemable common shares and equity
SB 1188 - Consumer Protection	Jackson-D	Consumers Legal Remedies Act: material facts
SB 1190 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Jackson-D	Courts: judgeships
SB 1256 - Consumer Protection	Mitchell-D	Medical services: credit
SB 1266 - Miscellaneous	Huff-R	Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors
SB 1280 - Miscellaneous	Hueso-D	Department of Business Oversight: unsecured consumer loans
SB 1301 - Miscellaneous	DeSaulnier-D	Corporate Flexibility Act of 2011
SB 1302 - Probate	Wyland-R	Elder abuse
SB 1304 - Miscellaneous	Senate Judiciary Committee	Maintenance of the codes
SB 1306 - Miscellaneous	Leno-D	Marriage
SB 1313 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Nielsen-R	Courts: court reporters
SB 1326 - Miscellaneous	Roth-D	Hearing aids: warranty: work order or receipt
SB 1337 - Miscellaneous	DeSaulnier-D	Reports
SB 1338 - Consumer Protection	Wyland-R	Credit cards: disclosures
SB 1343 - Civil Law	Wyland-R	Civil procedure: property subject to attachment
SB 1348 - Privacy/Identity Theft	DeSaulnier-D	Data brokers: sale of personal information
SB 1351 - Consumer Protection	Hill-D	Payment cards
SB 1355 - Consumer Protection	Wyland-R	Credit cards: billing inquiries
SB 1356* - Miscellaneous	De León-D	Tribal gaming: compact ratification
SB 1357 - Miscellaneous	Wolk-D	Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form
SB 1381 - Consumer Protection	Evans-D	Food labeling: genetically engineered food
SB 1385 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Anderson-R	Protection of victims: alternate physical address
SB 1407 - Miscellaneous	Jackson-D	Employment discrimination
SB 1438 - Miscellaneous	Pavley-D	Controlled substances: opioid antagonists
SB 1439 - Miscellaneous	Leno-D	Residential real property: withdrawal of accommodations
SB 1451 - Miscellaneous	Hill-D	Environmental quality: judicial review: standing
SCR 7 - Civil Rights	Wright-D	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: observance
SCR 83 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Monning-D	California Law Revision Commission: studies
SCR 83 - Miscellaneous	Monning-D	California Law Revision Commission: studies
SCR 122 - Civil Rights	De León-D	Chinese Americans in California
SCR 130 - Civil Rights	Mitchell-D	Civil Rights Act of 1964
SJR 17 - Miscellaneous	Anderson-R	Iraq: religious freedom
SJR 23 - Civil Rights	Huff-R	Chinese Americans in California
SJR 26 - Miscellaneous	De León-D	Chinese Americans in California
SJR 31 - Miscellaneous	Torres-D	Immigration: unaccompanied minors
SJR 33 - Miscellaneous	Wyland-R	National security: borders
SR 25 - Miscellaneous	Calderon-D	Immigration
SR 40 - Miscellaneous	Correa-D	Immigration
SR 46 - Miscellaneous	Beall-D	Hong Yen Chang
SR 49 - Civil Rights	Leno-D	LGBT Pride Month
SR 51 - Miscellaneous	Lara-D	Immigration
SR 55 - Miscellaneous	Jackson-D	Reproductive Health
AB 5 - Civil Rights	Ammiano-D	Homelessness
AB 25 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Campos-D	Employment: social media
AB 126 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Hall-D	Time shares: management and governance
AB 134 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Logue-R	California Public Records Act: firearms license applications
AB 167 - Consumer Protection	Hagman-R	Unfair competition: private enforcement actions
AB 198 - Civil Law	Wieckowski-D	Debtor exemptions
AB 223 - Civil Law	Olsen-R	Civil actions: disabled access
AB 233 - Judgments	Wieckowski-D	Wage garnishment: restrictions: student loans
AB 242 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Chau-D	Privacy: Internet
AB 251 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Wagner-R	Electronic court reporting
AB 251 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Wagner-R	Electronic court reporting
AB 257 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Hall-D	Privacy: commercial Web sites and online services
AB 296* - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Wagner-R	Trusts
AB 296* - Probate	Wagner-R	Trusts
AB 319 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Campos-D	Local agencies: domestic violence
AB 414* - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Fox-D	Spousal support modifications
AB 436 - Judgments	Jones-Sawyer-D	Inverse condemnation: comparative fault
AB 438 - Miscellaneous	Mitchell-D	Juveniles: dual-status minors
AB 474 - Miscellaneous	Stone-D	California Coastal Commission: ex parte communications
AB 515 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Dickinson-D	Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act
AB 519 - Civil Law	Logue-R	Unfair competition
AB 536 - Civil Law	Wagner-R	Contractors: payments
AB 569 - Miscellaneous	Chau-D	Real property: divided lands
AB 609 - Miscellaneous	Nestande-R	State-funded research: Department of Public Health
AB 632 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Fox-D	Superior Courts: judicial districts
AB 634 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Gomez-D	Public records: exception to disclosure: public officials
AB 642 - Miscellaneous	Rendon-D	Publication: Internet Web site
AB 666 - Civil Law	Wieckowski-D	Automated traffic enforcement systems: violations
AB 679 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Fox-D	Fees: official court reporters
AB 692 - Miscellaneous	Gonzalez-D	Immigration reform: advisory election
AB 693 - Civil Rights	Roger Hernández-D	Sexual harassment: interns
AB 725 - Miscellaneous	Wilk-R	Health care management: health court demonstration program
AB 737 - Civil Law	Fox-D	Space flight liability
AB 738 - Miscellaneous	Harkey-R	Public entity liability: bicycles
AB 756 - Miscellaneous	Melendez-R	Judicial review: public works projects
AB 788 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Wagner-R	Court transcripts
AB 802 - Miscellaneous	Wieckowski-D	Private arbitration companies: disclosures
AB 818 - Miscellaneous	Blumenfield-D	Air pollution control: penalties
AB 837 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Wieckowski-D	Public employees' retirement benefits
AB 838 - Miscellaneous	Morrell-R	Personal representatives: bonds
AB 844 - Consumer Protection	Dickinson-D	Credit and debit cards: transactions: personal information
AB 870 - Civil Rights	Jones-Sawyer-D	Public contracts: bidders: employment practices
AB 890 - Consumer Protection	Jones-R	False advertising
AB 897 - Miscellaneous	Wagner-R	Disability access fees and information
AB 905 - Miscellaneous	Ting-D	Real property: environmental fee covenants
AB 925 - Miscellaneous	Bigelow-R	State officer or supervisory employee: compensation
AB 928 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Olsen-R	Personal information: privacy
AB 939 - Miscellaneous	Melendez-R	Pupil and school personnel health: defibrillators
AB 958 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Jones-R	Child custody: evaluations and reports
AB 961 - Consumer Protection	Levine-D	Health facilities: investigations: public disclosure
AB 964 - Consumer Protection	Bonta-D	Vehicles: dealers
AB 969 - Civil Law	Ammiano-D	Landlord and tenant
AB 976 - Miscellaneous	Atkins-D	Coastal resources: enforcement: penalties
AB 983 - Miscellaneous	Melendez-R	Self-service storage facilities
AB 993 - Miscellaneous	Linder-R	Contractors: arbitration
AB 1007* - Judgments	Wagner-R	State government: payment of claims against the state
AB 1011 - Miscellaneous	Salas-D	Unclaimed property: interest payment
AB 1072 - Consumer Protection	Wagner-R	Mortgage loan modification
AB 1106 - Miscellaneous	Waldron-R	Public entities: liability
AB 1125 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Wagner-R	Attorney's fees
AB 1141 - Miscellaneous	Dahle-R	Franchises
AB 1164 - Civil Law	Lowenthal-D	Liens: employees and workers
AB 1198 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Jones-Sawyer-D	Public contracts: bidders: employment practices
AB 1234 - Consumer Protection	Levine-D	Insurance: registration statements
AB 1239 - Miscellaneous	Holden-D	Public contracts: anti-trafficking
AB 1254 - Civil Law	Gorell-R	Civil actions: settlement offers
AB 1254 - Judgments	Gorell-R	Civil actions: settlement offers
AB 1256 - Civil Law	Bloom-D	Privacy: entry and exit of facilities
AB 1256 - Consumer Protection	Bloom-D	Entry and exit of facilities: privacy
AB 1265 - Miscellaneous	Conway-R	Mental health: assisted outpatient treatment
AB 1291 - Consumer Protection	Lowenthal-D	Privacy: Right to Know Act of 2013
AB 1300 - Miscellaneous	Roger Hernández-D	Credit cards: oral disclosures
AB 1313 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Donnelly-R	Judgeships: allocation
AB 1355 - Miscellaneous	Wilk-R	Limited liability companies: agents
AB 1356 - Civil Rights	Bloom-D	Stalking: remedies
AB 1356 - Consumer Protection	Bloom-D	Stalking: remedies
AB 1360 - Miscellaneous	Torres-D	Common interest developments: electronic voting
AB 1402 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Assembly Judiciary Committee	Attorneys
AB 1415 - Miscellaneous	John A. Pérez-D	Administrative regulations: corrosion related programs
AB 1442 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Gatto-D	Pupil records: social media
AB 1443 - Civil Rights	Skinner-D	Harassment: unpaid interns
AB 1513 - Miscellaneous	Fox-D	Residential property: possession by declaration
AB 1515 - Consumer Protection	Gonzalez-D	Attorneys: duties
AB 1520 - Probate	Gatto-D	Guardians ad litem: animals
AB 1522 - Miscellaneous	Gonzalez-D	Employment: paid sick days
AB 1525 - Miscellaneous	Lowenthal-D	Marriage: solemnization
AB 1577 - Miscellaneous	Atkins-D	Certificates of death: gender identity
AB 1584 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Buchanan-D	Pupil records: privacy: digital storage services
AB 1608 - Miscellaneous	Olsen-R	Private investigators: limited liability companies
AB 1618 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Chesbro-D	Juveniles: case file inspection
AB 1623 - Miscellaneous	Atkins-D	Family justice centers
AB 1628 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Fox-D	Visitation rights: grandparent rights
AB 1650 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Jones-Sawyer-D	Public contracts: bidders: employment practices
AB 1654 - Miscellaneous	Bonilla-D	CalWORKs: assignment of child support
AB 1657 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Gomez-D	Courts: interpreters
AB 1659 - Judgments	Chau-D	Civil actions: post-verdict motions
AB 1660 - Civil Rights	Alejo-D	Driver's licenses: nondiscrimination
AB 1700 - Consumer Protection	Medina-D	Reverse mortgages: notifications
AB 1701 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Patterson-R	Family law: adoption
AB 1708 - Miscellaneous	Alejo-D	Jurors: peace officer exemption
AB 1710 - Consumer Protection	Dickinson-D	Personal information: privacy
AB 1712 - Consumer Protection	Gomez-D	Unclaimed property
AB 1723 - Civil Rights	Nazarian-D	Employees: wages
AB 1725 - Consumer Protection	Maienschein-R	Conservatorship hearings
AB 1730 - Consumer Protection	Wagner-R	Mortgage loan modification
AB 1732 - Consumer Protection	Stone-D	Vehicles: manufacturers, distributors, and dealers
AB 1738 - Miscellaneous	Chau-D	Common interest developments: dispute resolution
AB 1755 - Consumer Protection	Gomez-D	Medical information
AB 1761 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Hall-D	Dependent children: placement
AB 1770 - Miscellaneous	Dababneh-D	Real property liens: equity lines of credit
AB 1773 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Allen-R	Public contracts: courts
AB 1810 - Miscellaneous	Maienschein-R	Deposits for keeping: abandoned animals
AB 1843 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Jones-R	Child custody evaluations: confidentiality
AB 1847 - Miscellaneous	Chesbro-D	Mental health disorders: language
AB 1848 - Civil Rights	Allen-R	Public accommodations: construction-related claims
AB 1853 - Miscellaneous	Wieckowski-D	Debtor exemptions
AB 1856 - Miscellaneous	Wilk-R	Deposit in lieu of bond
AB 1858 - Miscellaneous	Perea-D	Commercial law: secured transactions
AB 1884 - Consumer Protection	Lowenthal-D	Vehicle liens
AB 1885 - Civil Rights	Bigelow-R	Special access: disabled persons: liability
AB 1897 - Miscellaneous	Roger Hernández-D	Labor contracting: client liability
AB 1898 - Consumer Protection	Brown-D	Public health records: reporting: HIV/AIDS
AB 1932 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Jones-R	Appellate court decisions
AB 1938 - Miscellaneous	Hagman-R	Actions for damages: felony offenses
AB 1945 - Judgments	Wieckowski-D	Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions
AB 1951 - Miscellaneous	Gomez-D	Vital records: birth certificates
AB 1978 - Miscellaneous	Jones-Sawyer-D	Child welfare services
AB 1981 - Miscellaneous	Brown-D	Rental vehicles: contracts: damage waivers
AB 2001 - Miscellaneous	Ammiano-D	Homeless youth: child welfare services
AB 2006 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Wagner-R	Depositions: video recordings
AB 2023 - Miscellaneous	Wagner-R	Eminent domain: compensation: loss of goodwill
AB 2034 - Consumer Protection	Gatto-D	Elder and dependent adults
AB 2035 - Civil Rights	Chesbro-D	Sexually exploited and trafficked minors
AB 2039 - Consumer Protection	Muratsuchi-D	Real property sales: auctions
AB 2059 - Consumer Protection	Muratsuchi-D	Medical records: electronic delivery
AB 2065 - Miscellaneous	Melendez-R	Legislative Employee Whistleblower Protection Act: employees
AB 2068 - Miscellaneous	Nazarian-D	Charter-party carriers of passengers
AB 2074 - Civil Rights	Roger Hernández-D	Recovery of wages: liquidated damages
AB 2077 - Miscellaneous	Allen-R	Charitable organizations: enforcement
AB 2089 - Miscellaneous	Quirk-D	Domestic violence: protective orders
AB 2095 - Miscellaneous	Wagner-R	Employee compensation: itemized statements
AB 2096 - Miscellaneous	Muratsuchi-D	Securities transactions: qualification: notification
AB 2118 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Ridley-Thomas-D	Adoption records: confidentiality
AB 2136 - Miscellaneous	Daly-D	Contracts: statute of frauds
AB 2139 - Consumer Protection	Eggman-D	End-of-life care: patient notification
AB 2147 - Consumer Protection	Melendez-R	State government Internet Web sites: information practices
AB 2154 - Judgments	Jones-R	Appeals in civil actions: stay of enforcement
AB 2157 - Civil Rights	Morrell-R	Actions for damages: felony offenses
AB 2166 - Probate	Bonta-D	Decedents' estates: administration: custodians of wills
AB 2171 - Consumer Protection	Wieckowski-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
AB 2215 - Miscellaneous	Maienschein-R	Veterans: recorded documents
AB 2217 - Miscellaneous	Melendez-R	Pupil and personnel health: automated external defibrillator
AB 2237 - Consumer Protection	Grove-R	Consumer remedies: litigation costs: prevailing party
AB 2252 - Miscellaneous	John A. Pérez-D	Child support payments: electronic fund transfer: accounts
AB 2256 - Miscellaneous	Garcia-D	Civil procedure: service and fees: sheriffs
AB 2259 - Miscellaneous	Ridley-Thomas-D	Water replenishment: assessments
AB 2266 - Miscellaneous	Waldron-R	Mental health: assisted outpatient treatment
AB 2271 - Miscellaneous	Ian Calderon-D	Employment: discrimination: status as unemployed
AB 2275 - Miscellaneous	Ridley-Thomas-D	Certified copies of marriage, birth, and death certificates
AB 2286 - Miscellaneous	Wagner-R	Process servers
AB 2288 - Civil Rights	Roger Hernández-D	Child Labor Protection Act of 2014
AB 2306 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Chau-D	Constructive invasion of privacy: liability
AB 2310* - Miscellaneous	Ridley-Thomas-D	Unlawful detainer: nuisance: unlawful weapons and ammunition
AB 2317 - Judgments	Maienschein-R	Execution: sale of property
AB 2331 - Miscellaneous	Rendon-D	Business: self-service storage facilities
AB 2332 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Wieckowski-D	Courts: personal services contracts
AB 2338 - Miscellaneous	Wagner-R	Initiatives: writ of mandate
AB 2344 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Ammiano-D	Family law: parentage
AB 2365 - Consumer Protection	John A. Pérez-D	Contracts: unlawful contracts
AB 2368 - Civil Law	Wagner-R	Civil law: libel: damages
AB 2370 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Chau-D	Court interpreters
AB 2379 - Consumer Protection	Weber-D	Abuse of elders and dependent adults
AB 2391 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Ian Calderon-D	Dependent children: placement
AB 2399 - Miscellaneous	John A. Pérez-D	Organ and tissue donor registry: driver's license
AB 2405 - Miscellaneous	Ammiano-D	Landlord tenant: Ellis Act
AB 2416 - Miscellaneous	Stone-D	Liens: laborers and employees
AB 2430 - Miscellaneous	Maienschein-R	Transfer disclosures
AB 2442 - Miscellaneous	Gordon-D	Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act: remedial action
AB 2444 - Miscellaneous	Hall-D	Confederate flag: sales: government property
AB 2452 - Probate	Pan-D	Advance health care directive registry
AB 2454 - Miscellaneous	Quirk-Silva-D	Foster youth: nonminor dependents
AB 2468 - Civil Rights	Donnelly-R	Search warrants: privacy
AB 2485* - Miscellaneous	Dickinson-D	Unlawful detainer: nuisance: controlled substances
AB 2494 - Miscellaneous	Cooley-D	Courts: frivolous actions or proceedings
AB 2507 - Miscellaneous	Bocanegra-D	Public Records Act: exemptions: pending litigation
AB 2508 - Miscellaneous	Fox-D	Unlawful detainer: pleadings
AB 2535 - Miscellaneous	Grove-R	Employment applications: criminal history
AB 2561 - Miscellaneous	Bradford-D	Personal agriculture: restrictions
AB 2565 - Miscellaneous	Muratsuchi-D	Rental property: electric vehicle charging stations
AB 2567 - Probate	Daly-D	Decedents' estates: personal representative: bond
AB 2573 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Stone-D	Foster care: transition jurisdiction
AB 2586 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption	Bloom-D	Family law proceedings
AB 2607 - Miscellaneous	Skinner-D	Juveniles: detention
AB 2611 - Miscellaneous	Bocanegra-D	Unclaimed property: auditing standards
AB 2617 - Miscellaneous	Weber-D	Civil rights: waiver of rights
AB 2624 - Miscellaneous	Medina-D	False advertising: Made in North America
AB 2634 - Civil Law	Bradford-D	Civil rights
AB 2643 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Wieckowski-D	Invasion of privacy: sexually explicit materials
AB 2646 - Civil Rights	Ting-D	Civil rights: political structure equal protection
AB 2663 - Miscellaneous	Dababneh-D	Fraud prevention
AB 2665 - Miscellaneous	Dababneh-D	Workers' compensation: enforcement
AB 2667 - Consumer Protection	Bloom-D	Rental-purchase agreements: electronic devices: monitoring
AB 2683 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Cooley-D	Contempt: jurors
AB 2688 - Miscellaneous	Brown-D	Employment: violations: good faith defense
AB 2693 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Bloom-D	Judges: retirement: employment
AB 2712 - Miscellaneous	Daly-D	Hazardous materials: Orange County Water District
AB 2727 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Frazier-D	Courts: witness local agency employees
AB 2745 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Assembly Judiciary Committee	Courts
AB 2746 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Assembly Judiciary Committee	Attorneys: annual membership fees
AB 2747 - Miscellaneous	Assembly Judiciary Committee	Civil law: omnibus bill
AB 2751 - Miscellaneous	Roger Hernández-D	Retaliation
AB 2755 - Miscellaneous	Bocanegra-D	Nonprofit corporations: directors
AB 2759 - Miscellaneous	Assembly Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee	Interstate water rights
ACR 85 - Civil Rights	Muratsuchi-D	Day of Remembrance
ACR 101 - Miscellaneous	Jones-Sawyer-D	Pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers: Internet transactions
ACR 114 - Civil Rights	Campos-D	César Chávez
ACR 153 - Civil Rights	Dickinson-D	California LGBT Veterans Day
AJR 1 - Miscellaneous	Gatto-D	Federal constitutional convention: application
AJR 26 - Civil Rights	Allen-R	Civil liberties
AJR 27 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Donnelly-R	Relative to privacy
AJR 42 - Civil Rights	Williams-D	Indigenous peoples: declaration of rights
AJR 49 - Miscellaneous	Gonzalez-D	Immigration: deportation
AJR 50 - Miscellaneous	Bloom-D	Blood donation
HR 13 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession	Williams-D	Homeless court programs
HR 27 - Privacy/Identity Theft	Chau-D	California Data Privacy Day
HR 43 - Civil Rights	Gordon-D	LGBT Pride Month
HR 46 - Miscellaneous	Gonzalez-D	Immigration
HR 48 - Civil Rights	Holden-D	Civil Rights Act of 1964
HR 51 - Miscellaneous	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Immigration
HR 54 - Civil Rights	Olsen-R	Americans with Disabilities Act