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1995 Significant Legislation

Pages 200-299

 

Index by Bill Number


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AB 1478 (Martinez-D) - Peace Officers: BART

Provides that police officers of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Police are peace officers whose authority extends to any place in the state.

(In Senate Criminal Procedure Committee)


AB 1483 (Martinez-D) - Video Equipment: Interrogation

Defines "tape" and "recording device" for purposes of the complete interrogation of a public safety officer.

(On Senate Third Reading File)


AB 1496 (V. Brown-D) - Disability: Retirement

Specifies that existing law prohibiting an officer from carrying a concealed weapon if retirement was due to a psychological disability does not apply if retirement was due to stress.

(On Senate Third Reading File)


AB 1562 (Alby-R) - Sex Offenders

Allows law enforcement officers to disclose the identities of specified sex offenders in order to preserve public safety.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)


AB 1732 (Boland-R) - False Reports of Police Misconduct

Makes it a misdemeanor to file an allegation of misconduct against a peace officer, knowing that the report is false.

Chapter 590, Statutes of 1995


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ACR 40 (Alby-R) - California State Police

Recognizes that July 10, 1995 will be the last day of independent operation of the California State Police, and expresses the appreciation of the people of the State of California to the California State Police.

Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 1995


GRP 1

Transferred the California State Police to the Department of Highway Patrol.

Took effect September 6, 1995


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Family Law

SB 144 (Calderon-D) - Child Support: Child Concealment

Amends existing law relative to child support, custody and visitation where concealment of the child is at issue.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 235 (Hughes-D) - Child Support: Enforcement

Establishes the Division of Child Support Enforcement, as well as establishing procedures for hearings relative to child support, paternity and the enforcement and modification of orders.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 319 (Solis-D) - Child Support: Collection

Requires a financial institution to report to the Franchise Tax Board certain information regarding persons identified as delinquent child support obligors.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 380 (Killea-I) - Adoption

Provides that specified individuals and entities that accept a fee which is contingent on the placement or promise of the placement of a child for adoption is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee


SB 384 (Haynes-R) - Custody

Revises existing law relative to determining the best interest of a child in family law proceedings to require the court to consider independent corroboration and the use of illegal controlled substances.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SB 389 (Kopp-I) - Dissolution of Marriage

Enacts special procedures applicable to dissolution actions based on the aggregate value of the community property.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 407 (Hughes-D) - Child Support Enforcement

Establishes the Department of Child Enforcement in the Health and Welfare Agency with specified guidelines.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 421 (Hurtt-R) - Child Support Enforcement

Authorizes a county district attorney to contract with a private attorney to take action to enforce AFDC obligations.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 468 (Mello-D) - Support Enforcement

Enacts procedures for the enforcement of support obligations, whereby the State Department of Social Services would provide to the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) information on support judgments and orders being enforced by district attorneys. Requires the PERS to withhold amounts certified as overdue support from benefits and refunds, as provided. Revises the provisions described above to provide a limitation on the amount to be withheld if this intercept procedure is used for benefits that are payable periodically, and to provide that amounts payable under a public retirement system for the satisfaction of a support judgment are subject to this intercept procedure and any other applicable enforcement procedure if they are payable as a lump-sum distribution. Specifically provides that payments made to the State Department of Social Services pursuant to these provisions shall discharge the PERS from all adverse claims, as specified.

Provides, with respect to cases opened after December 31, 1995, for the enforcement by the district attorney only of arrearages alleged in a statement of arrearages signed under penalty of perjury by the applicant for child support enforcement services or arrearages determined by the court. Provides, with respect to cases opened on or before December 31, 1995, for the enforcement by the district attorney only of arrearages alleged in a statement of arrearages or where there is some other reasonable basis for believing the amount of claimed arrearages to be correct.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


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SB 504 (Wright-R) - Custody: Change of Residence

Revises existing law relating to child custody and the change of residence.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 506 (Calderon-D) - Family Law: Friend of the Court

Creates an Office of the Friend of the Court in each superior court in the state to, among other duties, facilitate the resolution of family law matters.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 507 (Calderon-D) - Paternity: Presumptions

Provides that a man will be presumed to be a child's natural father if he receives the child into his home and holds out that the child is his natural child.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 509 (Campbell-R) - Spousal Support

Requires the court to consider additional specified circumstances when ordering child support.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 558 (Campbell-R) - Child Abuse: False Allegations

Requires a motion by a parent for reconsideration of an existing child custody order to be granted if that motion is based on the fact that the other parent was convicted of a crime in connection with falsely accusing the moving parent of child abuse.

Chapter 406, Statutes of 1995


SB 630 (Greene-D) - Family Law

Makes various changes to existing law relative to procedures involving family law, child custody and mediation.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


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SB 982 (Solis-D) - Evidence: Interpreters

Provides that in any action under specified provisions of the Family Code relating to domestic violence in which a party does not proficiently speak or understand the English language, an interpreter shall be present at specified proceedings.

Provides that either party to a proceeding for dissolution or nullification of marriage may request his/her birth name or former name to be restored. This request may not be denied.

Chapter 888, Statutes of 1995


SB 1018 (Costa-D) - Child Support

Provides that a child support obligee, or any district attorney who is the assignee of the rights to enforcement of a child support obligation, may be estopped from collecting all or part of the interest due on a child support arrearage if the conduct of the obligee, district attorney or any other public entity with respect to the arrearage caused the obligor to reasonably rely on that conduct and act to his or her detriment.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 1125 (Calderon-D) - Support Payments

Requires, in child support payments, that the abstract of a judgment ordering a party to pay support to the other party include the name of the last known address of the party to whom support payments are ordered to be paid.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1237 (Watson-D) - Support Orders: Specified Benefits

Existing law that provides that up to 25% of each periodic unemployment compensation or unemployment compensation disability benefit subject to withholding for support obligations applies to lump sum as well as periodic benefits, and revises the limit on the amount that may be withheld.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SB 1238 (Watson-D) - Child Custody: Relocation Study

Requires the Administrative Office of the Courts, in consultation with the Bureau of State Audits, to prepare a study of child custody cases in which the custodial parent seeks to change residence.

(On Senate Inactive File)


SB 1241 (Watson-D) - Custody: Change of Residence

Requires that notice be given to either the custodial or noncustodial parent prior to changing residences.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1262 (Alquist-D) - Children: Nonlicensed Homes

Requires the Judicial Council to establish a pilot project in up to 5 counties to allow a child subject to foster care placement to be placed in the home of a nonlicensed, nonrelative extended member.

Chapter 509, Statutes of 1995


SB 1306 (Wright-R) - Child Support Enforcement

Prohibits any public entity from proceeding with an action for the enforcement of a child support order without first making all reasonable efforts to provide notice to the support obligor and an opportunity for a hearing, in compliance with the due process requirements of the federal and state Constitutions.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SCA 5 (Hurtt-R) - Families

Provides that the right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children shall not be infringed.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SCR 7 (Hayden-D) - Family Planning Clinics: Violence and Crime

Denounces the violence and incitement to violence at family planning clinics, urge all Californians to denounce the violence and in particular call upon those who have supported or engaged in such violence against health care providers and family planning clinics to immediately cease such activities and refrain from any such activities in the future, and urge the Governor, Attorney General, and all law enforcement officials to continue to take all steps necessary and feasible to protect citizens from this violence and threat of violence.

Chapter 66, Statutes of 1995


AB 180 (Morrow-R) - Child Support

Revises the statewide formula for determining child support orders.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 256 (Alpert-D) - Adoption

Provides that a person or agency that pays or offers to pay money or anything of value to a parent for the placement for adoption, consent to adoption, or cooperation in the completion of an adoption, of his/her child, is guilty of a misdemeanor or a felony.

(In Conference)


AB 257 (Speier-D) - Support Enforcement

Adds a procedure for administrative and judicial review relative to arrearages in support obligation, including, but not limited to the revocation of specified licenses.

Chapter 481, Statutes of 1995


AB 261 (Kuehl-D) - Child Support Actions

Authorizes the caretaker parent for whom a duty of support is owed to elect to become a participant in any action for child support in which the caretaker parent is not a party.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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AB 274 (Kuehl-D) - Child Support

Revises the statewide uniform guideline for determining child support orders.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee, reconsideration granted)


AB 332 (Allen-R) - Visitation: Grandparents and Great-Grandparents

Includes great-grandparents to those individuals that the court may authorize reasonable visitation rights.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 334 (Allen-R) - Visitation: Grandparents and Great-Grandparents

Adds great-grandparents to the list of those the court may take into consideration when establishing visitation rights.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 413 (Kuehl-D) - Support

Allows, in child support cases, the requesting party to serve on the employer of the other party a request for information limited to the other party's income.

Chapter 506, Statutes of 1995


AB 448 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Paternity

Provides that in any case to establish paternity, the alleged father is entitled to court appointed counsel at county expense.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 449 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Support

Provides that any respondent to an order for child, spousal or family support is entitled to court appointed counsel.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


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AB 535 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Obligee Parent: Public Social Service

Provides that any obligee parent who received public social services benefits, and who is subsequently found to have had the ability support his/her child, would be required to reimburse the district attorney for the amount of benefits received.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 542 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Child Concealment

Requires that there shall be an affirmative duty to provide information as to the residence of minor children receiving public assistance to the absent or obligor parent in specified circumstances, when the children are concealed and when the concealment may result in the waiver of a county's right to receive reimbursement for public assistance payments and the disclosure of the information does not represent a threat to the physical health or safety of the minor child or the custodial parent.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 554 (Kuehl-D) - Judgments

Provides that a judgment lien on real property created under a money judgment by recording an abstract of judgment for child support, family support or spousal support payable in installments and the support order is later modified to increase the amount, the judgment lien extends to the modified judgment without having to record another abstract.

Chapter 583, Statutes of 1995


AB 627 (Katz-D) - Domestic Partnership: Registration, Termination, and Rights Thereof

Defines "domestic partners" and provide for the registration of domestic partnerships with the Secretary of State. Specifies procedures for the termination of domestic partnerships. Prohibits a person who has filed a Declaration of Domestic Partnership from filing a new declaration until at least 6 months has elapsed from the date that a Notice of Termination of Domestic Partnership was filed with the Secretary of State in connection with the termination of the most recent domestic partnership, except where the previous domestic partnership ended because one of the partners died.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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AB 722 (Baldwin-R) - Costs: Collection of Awards

Provides that in any action involving an award of child support, recoverable costs shall include any necessary and reasonable costs of collections, as specified.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 755 (Kuehl-D) - Children: Custody Determination

Provides that in family law proceedings, the court must consider whether one parent has been the child's primary caregiver.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 760 (Speier-D) - Paternity

Amends existing law establishing paternity in the case where the husband is deceased and the wife has been artificially inseminated with the deceased husband's sperm.

(In Senate Rules Committee)


AB 800 (Kuehl-D) - Custody

Provides that there is a presumption that an award of sole or joint physical or legal custody of a child to a person who has perpetrated domestic violence, as defined, is detrimental to the best interest of the child.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 806 (Ducheny-D) - Community Property

Permits parties in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage to stipulate to a mutual waiver of the final declaration of disclosure, as specified.

Chapter 233, Statutes of 1995


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AB 898 (Knight-R) - Adoption

Provides that an action or proceeding of any kind to vacate, set aside or otherwise nullify an order of adoption on any ground, except fraud, must be commenced within one year after entry of the order.

Chapter 567, Statutes of 1995


AB 935 (Speier-D) - Restraining Orders

Amends existing law relative to the issuance of restraining orders in family law.

Chapter 907, Statutes of 1995


AB 965 (Kuehl-D) - Family Law

Modifies existing law relative to forms issued in an Order to Show Cause in contempt cases. Provides that no filing fee is to be required when an unrepresented party files a petition submitting an affidavit of facts that constitutes contempt in a domestic violence proceeding.

Chapter 904, Statutes of 1995


AB 999 (Harvey-R) - Custody

Makes conforming changes in law relative to child custody.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee, recommendation granted)


AB 1058 (Speier-D) - Family Law

Requires each superior court to maintain an Office of the Family Law Facilitator to provide services in family court at no cost to the parties. Also in Procedural section.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 1104 (Sher-D) - Joint Guardianship

Amends existing law relative to joint guardianships by deleting the 2-year requirement as to the prognosis of death as currently held within the definition of "terminal condition".

Chapter 278, Statutes of 1995


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AB 1112 (Rogan-R) - Insurance: Child Support

Provides that insurance companies shall notify the State Department of Social Services prior to making any payment equal to or in excess of $3,000, in order for the department to determine if a child support order or judgment exists.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)


AB 1283 (Kuehl-D) - Adoption

Revises existing law with regard to a child who is to be placed for adoption, to require notification only of a presumed father.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1353 (Knowles-R) - Dependent Children

Provides for procedures to be followed in specified dependent children hearings.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1467 (Kaloogian-R) - Collection of Awards

Provides that any action involving an award of child support or spousal support or an award of restitution, recoverable costs shall include any costs related to collection.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1515 (Kuehl-D) - Support: Enforcement

Revises existing procedures relative to guidelines to be followed in delinquent support payments.

Chapter 459, Statutes of 1995


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AB 1523 (Granlund-R) - Child Welfare

Prohibits the use of the signature of a parent on a child welfare services case plan or the acceptance of services prescribed in the child welfare services case plan as evidence against the parent or guardian in court.

Chapter 540, Statutes of 1995


AB 1743 (Goldsmith-R) - Adoption and Foster Care Placements

Requires foster care placement with a relative unless that placement is not in the child's best interest.

Chapter 884, Statutes of 1995


AB 1751 (Knowles-R) - Support

Makes various changes to existing law in the Family Code relative to enforcement of support.

(Held in Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1832 (Figueroa-D) - Support Orders: Real Property Liens

Provides that a judgment lien on real property located in this state is created by filing an abstract or a certified copy of a judgment for child, family, or spousal support with the State Department of Social Services.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


ACA 30 (House-R) - Families

Provides that every parent has a fundamental right to control the care and custody of his/her minor children, as specified, and prohibits state action that may abridge or hinder this fundamental right absent a showing that the state's action is the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling state interest.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


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AJR 19 (Speier-D) - Child Support Enforcement

Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to amend federal law to allow social security account numbers to be included on applications for licenses and certificates of marriage and on records related to petitions for dissolution of marriage, and to clarify that social security account numbers on count and other public agency records may be maintained if they were collected prior to October 1, 1990, and to authorize states to make the social security account numbers available to child support agencies for the exclusive purpose of child support enforcement in accordance with federal and state law.

Chapter 78, Statutes of 1995


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Civil Law


SB 15 (Lockyer-D) - Prejudgment Interest

Authorizes the recovery of prejudgment interest on damages recoverable in wrongful death actions.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 16 (Beverly-R) - Commercial Law

Repeals and replaces existing provisions of law governing securities and the relationships, rights and duties of the issuers of and parties that deal with certificated and uncertificated securities.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 31 (Leslie-R) - Civil Liability

Provides that in any action for damages based on negligence, the rules of contributory negligence in effect in this state immediately prior to the adoption of comparative negligence would apply in the event the plaintive contributed to his or her injury and the contributing act was deemed to be criminal.

(On Senate Unfinished Business File)


SB 41 (Johannessen-R) - Tort Liability

Provides that specified public employees are liable for injuries resulting from an unauthorized act or omission constituting a willful act or an abuse of discretion, other than the act of removing a child from the custody of his or her parents or guardians.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 45 (Peace-D) - Civil Procedure

Recasts and revises existing law relative to the granting of injunctive relief.

Chapter 796, Statutes of 1995


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SB 51 (Haynes-R) - Inverse Condemnation

Revises provisions relative to inverse condemnation proceedings to specify its applicability to personal as well as real property, the damaging as well as the taking of property, and appellate court costs.

Chapter 181, Statutes of 1995


SB 52 (Peace-D) - Civil Procedure

Specifies the time in which a defendant must respond following a state court's receipt of an order to remand.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 56 (Beverly-R) - Juries

Requires a trial jury in municipal courts will consist of 8 persons in cases where the amount in controversy is not more than $25,000.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


SB 87 (Kopp-I) - Attorney General: Legal Service

Requires the Department of Insurance, or any other state agency not exempted by statute, to obtain the Attorney General's written consent, prior to employment of outside counsel in any judicial proceeding.

Chapter 893, Statutes of 1995


SB 108 (Kopp-I) - Trademarks

Repeals existing law relative to injunctive relief when a person uses or unlawfully infringes upon a mark registered under state or federal trademark law. Provides that the owner of a mark registered under state trademark law may seek an injunction barring counterfeits or imitations of the registered mark.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SB 135 (Maddy-R) - Emergency 911: Liability

Provides that no public agency or emergency 911 telecommunications system is liable for any damages in a civil actions, except in specified cases.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 153* (Beverly-R) - Oil Spills

Realigns the implementation date of proposed requirement of financial responsibility certificate for a vessel and all the oil contained within that vessel.

Chapter 25, Statutes of 1995


SB 197 (Kopp-I) - Civil Procedure

Revises and recasts existing law governing motions for preference, relief from entry of judgment based on an attorney's affidavit of fault in civil actions.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


SB 222 (Beverly-R) - Trusts

Enacts the Uniform Prudent Investor Act.

Chapter 63, Statutes of 1995


SB 223 (Ayala-D) - Liens on Vehicles

Provides that a person seeking to enforce a lien on a vehicle may not impose any charges exceeding that for 1 day of storage if the vehicle is released within 24 hours.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)


SB 231 (Hughes-D) - Eminent Domain

Revises the definition of hazardous substance to apply to hazardous materials for purposes of property acquired by eminent domain by a school district.

Chapter 247, Statutes of 1995


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SB 240 (Ayala-D) - Vehicles: Towing

Makes various changes to existing law relative to the towing and impoundment of vehicles.

Chapter 404, Statutes of 1995


SB 262 (Kelley-R) - Trial Court Delay Reduction Act

Revises the Trial Court Delay Reduction Act by exempting actions or proceedings brought on a contract for the collection of amounts due for goods or services if that amount does not exceed $25,000.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 264 (Kelley-R) - Negotiable Instruments

Provides that the drawer of a draft is obligated to pay any service charges resulting from the dishonor of a draft.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 271 (Russell-R) - Civil Actions: Mediations

Provides that in any county that has established a dispute resolution program, at the first hearing in any civil action that has not been submitted to mediation, the court would be required to explain how mediation works.

Sets forth procedures to be followed by both parties in the event one or both parties decline to utilize mediation.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 287 (Calderon-D) - Profits of Crime

Expands existing law relative to profits on crime and the waste of the money held in trust to include any civil action brought pursuant to those provisions.

Chapter 262, Statutes of 1995


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SB 302 (Campbell-R) - Negligence

Provides immunity from civil action to any person or entity providing free shelter for homeless persons.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 312 (Campbell-R) - Public Liability

Confers immunity upon specified individuals for injuries caused by cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructions given in good faith in the operation of a local "911" emergency telephone service.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 313 (Campbell-R) - Fine Art

Repeals existing law requiring the payment of 5% of the sale price of specified art to the artist or the agent of the artist.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 392* (Senate Judiciary Committee) - Powers of Attorney

Specifies that the Power of Attorney Law does not affect the validity of a power of attorney, executed before January 1. 1995, that was valid under prior law.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 403 (Haynes-R) - Harmful Matter

Requires all harmful matter to be kept, displayed or offered in an adults-only area, and makes violation an infraction.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SB 466 (Leonard-R) - Eminent Domain

Provides that if a public entity adopts or enacts a statute which results directly in the reduction of the market value of real property other than real property owned by a public entity by 25% or more, the property owner may bring an action for inverse condemnation.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 479 (Calderon-D) - Arbitration: Immunity

Extends the sunset date for 1 year on existing law relative to immunity for arbitrators

Chapter 209, Statutes of 1995


SB 492 (Costa-D) - Trade Libel

Provides that a producer or shipper of perishable agricultural food products who suffers damages as the result of malicious public dissemination of knowingly false information that the product is not safe for human consumption may bring action for damages.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

A similar bill is AB 558 (Bordonaro-R) which is in Assembly Judiciary Committee.


SB 578 (Alquist-D) - Mechanics Liens

Expands existing law allowing for mechanics' liens for work provided to include appraisers.

(In Senate Insurance Committee)


SB 624 (Johannessen-R) - Civil Procedure

Allows a defendant in an action to challenge the approval of a timber harvest plan. Authorizes the court to order that the plaintiff file the undertaking in an amount equal to 10% of the immediate harvest value of the timber approved for harvest not to exceed $500,000.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SB 692 (Lockyer-D) - Arbitration and Mediation

Makes various technical changes to existing law relative to arbitration.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


SB 730 (Mello-D) - Capacity

Makes various changes in existing law that relate to proof that a person is of unsound mind and unable to manage his/her financial resources.

Chapter 842, Statutes of 1995


SB 731 (Mello-D) - Conservatorships: Alzheimer's Disease

Creates, in civil law, the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Conservatorship.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 744 (Polanco-D) - Landlord and Tenant

Revises the minimum and maximum amounts of punitive damages in landlord/tenant cases.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


SB 771 (Lockyer-D) - Eminent Domain

Creates an exception to existing eminent domain law with respect to property acquired by a for-profit enterprise.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 774 (Leonard-R) - Damages

Limits the sum of any compensatory damages for future pecuniary losses, or nonpecuniary losses, exemplary damages that may be awarded to an aggrieved person in employment discrimination cases.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


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SB 784 (Calderon-D) - Deeds of Trust

Authorizes the substitution of a trustee by the trustor in interest of a trust deed upon real property or an estate for years executed on or after January 1, 1996.

Chapter 244, Statutes of 1995


SB 785 (Calderon-D) - Public Meetings

Makes privileged the publication of the matter complained of in a public meeting if it is in the public interest or for the public benefit.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 806 (Monteith-R) - Civil Rights

Defines the term "business establishment" as used in the Unruh Civil Rights Act to exclude any church, nonprofit association or nonprofit corporation with specified exceptions.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 814 (Alquist-D) - Administrative Citations

Authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to adopt an ordinance to make any violation of any ordinance enacted by the local agency subject to an administrative fine or penalty.

Chapter 898, Statutes of 1995


SB 832* (Kopp-I) - Judgments: Liens

Deletes portions of existing law related to the Attachment Law (liens).

Chapter 196, Statutes of 1995


SB 884 (Beverly-R) - Trusts

Authorizes a bank, trust company or an affiliate to invest in the securities of a registered open-end or close-end management company or investment trust.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SB 894 (Leslie-R) - Real Property

Makes various nontechnical changes in the civil rights law relating to senior housing.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 896 (Leslie-R) - Tort Immunities

Extends the provisions providing for tort immunities under the California Tahoe Conservancy until January 1, 2001.

Chapter 81, Statutes of 1995


SB 926 (Calderon-D) - Writings

Includes computer data stored on magnetic media within the existing definition of "writings," including electronic mail.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 930 (Leonard-R) - Product Liability

Enacts the California Product Liability Reform Act of 1995.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 934 (Campbell-R) - Civil Liability

Amends existing law relating to civil liability and professional negligence.

Chapter 241, Statutes of 1995


SB 953 (Watson-D) - Employment Harassment

Provides that an employer shall be liable for the harassment of an employee or applicant by an agent or supervisor of the employer.

(Failed passage on Senate Floor)


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SB 961 (Watson-D) - Conservatorships

Provides for changes in existing law relative to conservatorships and specified procedures to be followed.

Chapter 165, Statutes of 1995


SB 964 (Johannessen-R) - Employee Litigation

Prohibits an employee who resigns from subsequently bringing an action alleging his or her wrongful discharge or constructive discharge from employment unless the employee has given the employer or agent prior written notice of the employer's wrongful acts alleged in the complaint.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 975 (Senate Judiciary Committee) - Codes

This is the annual maintenance of the codes bill.

Chapter 91, Statutes of 1995


SB 984* (Campbell-R) - Powers of Attorney

Specifies that the Power of Attorney Law does not affect the validity of a power of attorney executed before January 1995 that was valid under law. Specifies the duties of a notary public in specified cases.

Chapter 300, Statutes of 1995


SB 992 (Mountjoy-R) - Unlawful Detainer

Provides that in any proceeding of unlawful detainer, the tenant must make timely payment of rent.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SB 994 (Haynes-R) - Liability

Limits the recovery of damages in civil actions dealing with the loss of future earnings awarded in lieu of reinstating an employee, as specified. Authorizes an action for wrongful termination of employment.

(On Senate Unfinished Business File)


SB 1014 (O'Connell-D) - Product Liability

Provides that a manufacturer, advertiser, distributor or retail seller of a product intended and marketed primarily for the use by minors has a fiduciary duty to the minor or any person who purchases the product constituting a special duty of care commensurate with the reduced responsibility of the minor.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1034 (Calderon-D) - Evidence

Revises and recasts existing law as it relates to all information necessary to understand and utilize data compilations, as specified. Specifies that a data compilation is included in the definition of "writing".

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


SB 1040 (Russell-R) - Mandatory Mediation

Provides for mandatory mediation in certain civil actions.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 1070 (Calderon-D) - Rental Cars

Defines specified taxes to mean sales and use taxes imposed directly upon individual rental transactions, vehicle license fees, as specified, and local taxes on individual rental transactions imposed directly on the renter or specifically permitted to be charged to the renter, as specified. Provides it shall clearly disclose that taxes shall be added and, if applicable, the average dollar amount or range of dollar amounts of vehicle license fees for each full or partial 24-hour rental day.

(On Assembly Inactive File)


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SB 1072 (Killea-I) - Nonprobate Transfers

Provides for the registration of securities. Provides that upon the death of a sole owner or the last to die of all multiple owners, ownership of securities registered in beneficiary form would pass to the beneficiary who survives all owners.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1084 (Beverly-R) - Oil Spills

Requires the administrator of the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act to establish a standing committee for purposes of studying and reporting to the Governor findings on specified matters relating to oil spills. Requires the issuance of certificates of responsibility to marine facilities based on an amount less than $10,500 per barrel, based on acceptable evidence.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1121 (Watson-D) - Notary Public

Prohibits a notary public from accepting any acknowledgment or proof of any instrument that is incomplete.

Chapter 570, Statutes of 1995


SB 1183 (Mountjoy-R) - Frivolous Actions

Creates a cause of action against an attorney who violates specified duties, making the attorney liable to the opposing party injured for treble damages.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1202 (Hughes-D) - Temporary Restraining Orders

Provides that a temporary restraining order or an injunction may be granted upon the application of a district attorney in superior court to prevent the foreclosure upon or other transfer of an interest in real property or to stay the issuance of any loan to be secured by real property, provided that the application establishes probable cause that fraud or forgery is involved in the transaction.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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SB 1203 (Hughes-D) - Mortgages: Fraud

Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require a stay of any action for the recovery of any debt or the enforcement of any right secured by a mortgage or deed of trust upon a single family, owner occupied residential real property for the duration of any dispute in which the homeowner alleges that a 3rd party committed fraud.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1219 (Costa-D) - Horses: Equine Slaughter Sale Notice

Provides that at any public auction or sale where equines are sold, a specified notice shall be posted conspicuously or inserted into the consignment agreement, as specified, by the management of the auction or sale warning buyers and sellers that horses sold there may be purchased for slaughter and that the seller can set the minimum bid above current slaughter prices. Requires the management of the auction or sale to post current slaughter prices or to make them available to sellers upon request.

Chapter 99, Statutes of 1995


SB 1285 (Killea-I) - Hazardous Materials

Makes a statement of legislative intent with regard to the liability of lenders and fiduciaries for hazardous material contamination.

(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)


SB 1286 (Mountjoy-R) - Works of Improvement

Provides that, for each contract for certain public works of improvement, the public agency shall pay to the prime design professional, as specified, any progress payment within 30 days of receipt of a written demand to pay and the final retention payment within 45 days of receipt of a written demand to pay, as specified. Provides, however, that the public agency may withhold an amount not to exceed 150% of the amount concerning which there is a good faith dispute.

Chapter 429, Statutes of 1995


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SB 1309 (Campbell-R) - Tort Liability

Revises existing law relative to tort liability. Extends existing provision to economic, as well as non-economic, damages.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1312 (Peace-D) - Employment: Damages

Limits the recovery of damages for loss of future earnings awarded in lieu of reinstating an employee, as specified.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1315 (Rosenthal-D) - Nuisances: Motion Pictures

Provides that any person who seeks direct personal monetary consideration from a production company in exchange for ceasing or promising not to engage in disruptive conduct will be liable in civil damages of up to $250 or 3 times the amount of the requested monetary consideration, whichever is greater.

(On Senate Inactive File)


SB 1318 (Calderon-D) - Damages

Revises existing law relative to the unauthorized use of another's personal characteristics for commercial purposes.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


SB 1322 (Calderon-D) - Judicial Review: Public Utilities Commission

Expresses legislative intent to establish the manner and scope or review of Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decisions and to overrule a specified decision of the Supreme Court of California relating to judicial review of PUC matters.

(On Assembly Third Reading)


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SB 1363* (Leonard-R) - Personal Rights: Human Tissues

Establishes a personal property right in human tissue and organs, except as specified.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 16 (Rainey-R) - Exemplary Damages

Provides that exemplary damages may be recovered in an action for serious bodily injury resulting from attempted murder or the abuse of a spouse or cohabitant or the other parent of one's child.

Chapter 364, Statutes of 1995


AB 36 (Isenberg-D) - Public Benefits Corporations

Amends existing law relative to a corporation amending its articles to change its status to that of a mutual profit corporation, a religious corporation or a cooperative corporation.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 54 (Goldsmith-R) - Civil Actions

Provides that reasonable attorney's fees may be added from the time of an offer to the costs recoverable.

Chapter 911, Statutes of 1995


AB 78 (Morrow-R) - Enforcement of Money Judgments

Excludes individual retirement accounts from specified cases relative to the enforcement of money judgments.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 128 (Rainey-R) - Estates: Bond Fee

Provides that the bond fee on estates administered by the public administrator is an annual fee and provides for the proration of that fee in specified circumstances.

Chapter 160, Statutes of 1995


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AB 157 (Villaraigosa-D) - Personal Rights: Breastfeeding

Authorizes mother to breastfeed her infant in any location where she and her infant are otherwise authorized to be present.

Chapter 429, Statutes of 1995


AB 161 (Napolitano-D) - Vital Statistics

Enacts the Vital Records Security Act of 1996 and provides, among other things, that all specified records be classified as vital records.

(On Assembly Inactive File)


AB 237 (Horcher-I) - Civil Procedure

Provides that if a last day to perform or complete any act for the purpose of discovery falls on a Saturday or a holiday, the time limit is extended until the next day that is not a Saturday or a holiday.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 238 (Horcher-I) - Civil Procedure

Provides that if records of a party are sought to be produced at the deposition, the deposition must be scheduled for a date at least 20 days after service of the deposition notice.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 239 (Horcher-I) - Discovery

Authorizes 1 subsequent deposition of a natural person who was previously examined for the limited purpose of discovering the identity, location, and value of property in which the defendant has an interest.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


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AB 324 (Setencich-R) - Civil Recovery

Provides that there is no liability on the part of an individual, who is not a peace officer, for injuries resulting from that person arresting or apprehending a person observed to commit a crime that results in the death or injury to a victim.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 372 (Cortese-D) - Mortgages

Provides that the delivery of specified documents secured by any deed of trust be made directly to the trustee.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 376 (Bustamante-D) - Public Agencies: Investigation

Authorizes public utility districts, community services and county, municipal and state water districts to enter upon private property to investigate possible violations, subject to the consent of the property owner or the issuance of a warrant based on probable cause.

Chapter 798, Statutes of 1995


AB 432 (Rainey-R) - Liability: Motor Vehicle Accident Injuries

Provides that in any action to recover damages arising out of the operation or use of a motor vehicle, a person may not recover noneconomic losses to compensate for pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement, and other nonpecuniary damages if he or she is convicted of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or if he or she has failed to maintain motor vehicle insurance on his or her vehicle, except as specified. Provides that an insurer is not liable for those damages, as specified.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 464 (Campbell-D) - Contracts: Developmentally Disabled

Provides that contracts regarding artistic properties entered into between a developmentally disabled adult and a non-profit organization cannot be disaffirmed on the ground that the person is developmentally disabled if the contract has been approved by a prescribed superior court.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


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AB 492 (Alpert-D) - Exemplary Damages

Provides that after the allocation of attorney's fees owed to counsel for a party seeking an award of exemplary damages, except an award payable by a state employee or agency, an award of exemplary damages shall be paid to the Controller, to be used solely by the Department of Education and not to the party seeking the award.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 495 (Horcher-I) - Discovery

Revises existing structure of law relating to discovery, specifically the scheduling of oral depositions.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 522 (Katz-D) - Checks: Insufficient Funds

Decreases the amount owed on a check passed on insufficient funds by any partial payments made within 30 days of the demand and increases the maximum damages from $500 to $1,500.

Chapter 134, Statutes of 1995


AB 534 (Brulte-R) - Film Disruption

Provides that any person who seeks direct personal monetary consideration from a production company in exchange for ceasing or promising not to engage in activity that would disrupt the production of any motion picture will be liable for up to $250 or 3 times the amount of the requested or obtained monetary consideration, whichever is greater, to the production company.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 545 (Mazzoni-D) - Nuisance Abatement

Provides that in any action to abate a nuisance the owner of the parcel upon which the nuisance is found is liable for all costs incurred by the county, as specified.

(On Senate Inactive File)


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AB 558 (Bordonaro-R) - Trade Libel

Provides that a producer or shipper of perishable agricultural food products who suffers damages as a result of malicious public dissemination of knowingly false information that the product is not safe for human consumption may bring an action for damages.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

A similar bill is SB 492 (Costa-D) which failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted.


AB 565 (Kaloogian-R) - Governmental Tort Liability

Provides that a public entity is not liable for personal injury or death proximately caused by the use of excessive force by a peace officer in its employ unless it is proven that the peace officer's prior conduct in the line of duty made the use of excessive force reasonably foreseeable by the public entity.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 617 (Kuehl-D) - Civil Discovery

Amends existing law relating to civil discovery by a party seeking the production of employment records.

Chapter 299, Statutes of 1995


AB 627 (Katz-D) - Domestic Partnership: Registration, Termination, and Rights Thereof

Defines "domestic partners" and provide for the registration of domestic partnerships with the Secretary of State. The bill would also specify procedures for the termination of domestic partnerships. The bill would prohibit a person who has filed a Declaration of Domestic Partnership from filing a new declaration until at least 6 months has elapsed from the date that a Notice of Termination of Domestic Partnership was filed with the Secretary of State in connection with the termination of the most recent domestic partnership, except where the previous domestic partnership ended because one of the partners died.

Requires the Secretary of State to prepare forms for the registration and termination of domestic partnerships, and distribute these forms to each county clerk.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


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AB 675 (Poochigian-R) - Corporate Criminal Liability

Revises and recasts existing law relative to corporate criminal liability.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 700 (Cunneen-R) - Liability: Public Entities and Employees

Provides that a public entity is not liable for hazardous recreational activities that include, among other things, paragliding and mountain bicycling.

Chapter 597, Statutes of 1995


AB 725 (Baldwin-R) - Small Claims

Modifies procedure in cases where a party prevails in a municipal court when the party could have brought the action in small claims court.

Chapter 366, Statutes of 1995


AB 754 (Morrow-R) - Arbitration

Recasts existing law governing the enforcement of arbitration agreements to , among other things, revise the procedures relating to the disqualifications of a neutral arbitrator.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 757 (Speier-D) - Exemplary Damages

Enacts the Fair Damages Distribution and Litigation Reduction Act of 1995.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 777 (Speier-D) - State Tort Liability

Enacts special provisions governing the liability of the state for acts of sexual harassment by its officers and employees.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


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AB 788 (W. Brown-D) - Confidential Information

Allows, provided federal approval is obtained, any authorized employee of a county social services department to disclose the name and residential address of elderly or disabled clients to police, fire, paramedical or other designated emergency services personnel in the event of a public emergency that necessitates the possible evacuation of the area.

Chapter 121, Statutes of 1995


AB 834 (Kuehl-D) - Real Property: Power of Termination

Provides an additional exception for a restriction created prior to 1968 for which a power of termination has expired if the restriction is also a covenant running with the land. States that this provision is declaratory of existing law. Specifies that this provision does not apply to a person who has acquired real property and detrimentally relied on the nonexistence of a restriction, as provided.

Vetoed by the Governor


AB 867 (V. Brown-D) - County Searches

Provides that a person 16 years of age or older, who knowingly violates the law and necessitates the need for search and/or rescue, is required to repay the rescuing entity reasonable expenses relative to the search and rescue within 30 days of being billed.

Chapter 339, Statutes of 1995


AB 901 (Goldsmith-R) - Works of Improvement

Makes numerous changes to existing requirements relating to procedures involving notices in works of improvement.

Chapter 225, Statutes of 1995


AB 947 (Knight-R) - Negligence

Provides that in any action for damages based on negligence, the rules of contributory negligence shall apply in the event the plaintiff contributed to his/her injury by the commission of specified felonies.

(On Senate Inactive File)


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AB 972* (Sher-D) - Product Liability

Provides that existing law relative to liability of a common consumer product does not immunize manufacturers or sellers of tobacco products from liability for claims based on intentional fraud and misrepresentation or conspiracy.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 1016 (Kuehl-D) - Privileged Communication

Amends existing law relative to disclosure of information by a health care provider.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 1028 (Martinez-D) - Civil Procedure

Authorizes the court to establish and operate an interactive computer system to enable and assist a pro per litigant to prepare standardized pro per court documents for use in specified civil actions.

Chapter 507, Statutes of 1995


AB 1069 (Hauser-D) - Administrative Hearings

Requires that a decision by an administrative law judge be deemed to be adopted by an agency unless the agency files a petition for judicial review, as specified.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1070 (Morrow-R) - Contracts: Binding Arbitration

Provides that if a contract contains a clause for arbitration of any dispute in an arbitration proceeding within California, as a separate article of the contract and substantially complies with specified conditions, it is not a contract of adhesion not unconscionable nor otherwise improper, and arbitration shall be compelled notwithstanding any other provision of law.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


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AB 1073 (Morrow-R) - Comparative Fault: Liability

Provides that, in all actions where the principles of comparative fault or comparative indemnity apply, the trier of fact shall apportion fault based on the principles that (1) a person who has engaged in serious criminal wrongdoing, as defined, may not be apportioned a lesser share of fault than any person who has engaged in noncriminal conduct, and (2) a person who has engaged in intentional wrongdoing may not be apportioned a lesser share of fault than any person who has engaged in negligent conduct or who is strictly liable.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 1156 (Bordonaro-R) - Creditor Assignments: Exemption

Exempts a payment to a claimant in exchange for the claimant's waiver or release of any potential or asserted claim of lien, stop notice or right of recovery on a payment bond from recovery by the assignee.

Chapter 152, Statutes of 1995


AB 1159 (Richter-R) - Vehicles: Leases

Provides that in a vehicle transaction, where the subject matter of the transaction, with specified exceptions, is a motor vehicle or trailer, as defined, that merely provides that the amount of rental payments may be increased or decreased by reference to the amount realized by the lessor upon sale or disposition of the vehicle or trailer. Specifies that nothing in that provision affects the application or administration of the Sales and Use Tax Law.

Chapter 320, Statutes of 1995


AB 1174 (Cunneen-R) - Statute of Limitations: Environmental Actions

Provides that specified civil actions for the diversion, obstruction, or pollution of the state's waters is subject to a 5-year statute of limitations.

Chapter 238, Statutes of 1995


AB 1192 (Takasugi-R) - Service of Process

Provides an unspecified definition of a "gated community" for the purpose of performing lawful service of process.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


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AB 1204 (Gallegos-D) - Expert Witness Fees

Revises existing law pertaining to expert witness fees.

Chapter 797, Statutes of 1995


AB 1225 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) - Court Operations

Adds clarifying language relative to timetables in civil procedure and holidays.

Chapter 576, Statutes of 1995


AB 1239 (Weggeland-R) - Privileges

Provides that specified documents prepared for or created by a defined compliance review committee of a defined supervised financial organization are confidential and not discoverable or admissible as evidence in any civil action.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1242 (Bordonaro-R) - Negligence

Provides that in an action for personal injury or wrongful death filed after January 1, 1996, nothing shall be construed to permit any collateral source payment paid or owed to a plaintiff to be admitted into evidence before the trier of fact.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1249 (House-R) - Commencement of Actions

Makes changes to existing law relative to the commencement of actions relating to asbestos exposure.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


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AB 1346 (Baldwin-R) - Civil Assessments

Authorizes the court, in addition to any other penalty in infraction, misdemeanor, or felony cases, to impose a civil assessment against any defendant who fails to pay all or any portion of a fine ordered by the court. Provides that if a civil assessment is imposed for a failure to pay a fine, no bench or arrest warrant shall be issued with respect to the failure to pay the fine. Provides that an outstanding, unserved bench or arrest warrant for a failure to appear or for a failure to pay a fine shall be recalled prior to the subsequent imposition of a civil assessment.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1355 (Knowles-R) - Tort Liability

Provides that the civil immunity of juvenile court social workers, child protection workers and other public employees authorized to initiate investigations or proceedings pursuant to the juvenile court law shall not extend to acts of perjury, fabrication of evidence or other specified acts.

Chapter 977, Statutes of 1995


AB 1361 (Knowles-R) - Public Entities: Liability

Makes conforming changes in existing law relating to liability, for litigation expenses associated with public entities.

Chapter 799, Statutes of 1995


AB 1389 (Setencich-R) - Copyright: Contracts

Regulates contracts between proprietors of retail establishments, as specified, and copyright owners and performing rights societies. Specifies required terms of the contracts, prohibits certain conduct by copyright owners and performing rights societies, and provides civil penalties.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1405 (W. Brown-D) - Punitive Damages

Requires that specified damages be imposed as a means to deter future conduct in cases arising from a breach of an obligation, not arising out of a contract, where the defendant is guilty of oppression, fraud or malice.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


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AB 1423 (Brulte-R) - Civil Action

Exempts a person other than a peace officer from civil liability for any injury or death of a felony offender during an attempt to detain or apprehend the offender after the commission of a felony.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 1461 (Bordonaro-R) - County Searches

Provides that whenever a county or city is billed for a search and rescue of one of its residents 16 years old or over by another city or county, the county or city receiving the bill may seek reimbursement from the resident.

Chapter 338, Statutes of 1995

A similar bill is AB 867 (V. Brown-D) also in this section.


AB 1466 (Kaloogian-R) - Trusts and Wills

Revises specified procedure and remedies relative to trusts and wills.

Chapter 730, Statutes of 1995


AB 1467 (Kaloogian-R) - Collection of Awards

Provides that any action involving an award of child support or spousal support or an award of restitution, recoverable costs shall include any costs related to collection.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1479 (Weggeland-R) - Civil Actions

Extends existing law in civil actions and proceedings in cases where a party refuses to accept a settlement offer.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


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AB 1488 (Caldera-D) - Emergency Medical Services

Provides immunity for dispatchers in emergency medical services.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1516 (Morrow-R) - Professional Negligence

Provides that no person may be held jointly liable to a third party for any defect in the performance of professional services for another, as specified.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 1571 (Caldera-D) - Humane Societies

Provides that no entity other than a humane society or society for the prevention of the cruelty to animal shall be eligible to apply for an appointment of any individual as a Level 1 or Level 2 humane officer.

Chapter 806, Statutes of 1995


AB 1577 (Bowen-D) - Digital Signatures

Provides that in any written communication with a public entity, a signature may be affixed using a digital signature.

Chapter 594, Statutes of 1995


AB 1600 (Poochigian-R) - Civil Procedure

Repeals specified civil procedures that cause unnecessary delays in court.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1601 (Poochigian-R) - Product Liability

Enacts the California Product Liability Reform Act of 1995.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


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AB 1688 (Escutia-D) - Legal Proceedings

Prohibits the Governor from initiating legal proceedings that oppose or seek to overturn state or federal law.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 1730 (Morrow-R) - Civil Actions: Product Liability

Provides that an action for death or injury caused by a defective product must be brought within 10 years, as specified.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


AB 1828 (Bustamante-D) - Records

Continues indefinitely the requirement that a notary public maintain a thumbprint in specified cases and journals.

Chapter 569, Statutes of 1995


AB 1860 (Allen-R) - Environmental Quality: Actions and Proceedings

Repeals existing law relative to mailing timeframes of specified notices in actions and proceedings in environmental quality cases. Requires, instead, that the public agency mail a copy of certain notices to a person who requests the notice.

Chapter 801, Statutes of 1995


AB 1862 (Morrow-R) - Exemplary Damages

Provides that in any action in which exemplary damages are recoverable, the trier of fact shall determine whether the defendant is liable for exemplary damages.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


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AB 1868 (Katz-D) - Pipeline Corporations: Damages

Requires each pipeline corporation that qualifies as a public utility that transports crude oil be strictly liable for any damages incurred by any injured party which arise from the discharge or leaking of crude oil.

Chapter 979, Statutes of 1995


AB 1898 (Johnson-R) - Civil Actions

Provides that the plaintiff, as well as the defendant, has the option to serve case questionnaires with the complaint in order to elicit fundamental information about the other party's case.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1904 (Knox-D) - Damages

Provides that the unauthorized use of another person's name, voice, signature, photograph likeness, or a deceased personality for commercial use is liable for an amount equal to the greater of $1,000 or the actual damages suffered.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1927 (Cunneen-R) - Judicial Arbitration

Changes the amount in controversy from $50,000 to $150,000 in those cases that must be submitted for judicial arbitration.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)


AB 1938 (Morrow-R) - Negligency

Provides that in any action for personal injury based on negligence, the injured plaintiff shall be entitled to recover noneconomic losses to compensated for pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement and other specified damages.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)


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ACA 28 (Richter-R) - Juries

Provides that juries in civil causes shall consist of 6 persons. Provides that in criminal actions the jury shall consist of 6 persons, except that in capital cases, the jury shall consist of 6 persons unless the United States Constitution is held to require a greater number, in which case the jury shall consist of that greater number or any lesser number agreed upon by the parties in open court.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)


ACR 14 (Rainey-R) - California Law Revision Commission

Gives legislative approval to the California Law Revision Commission to continue its study of numerous, specified topics that the Legislature has previously authorized or directed the commission to study.

Chapter 87, Statutes of 1995


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DISASTER RELIEF

NOTE: * Denotes Urgency Legislation


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Disaster Relief


SB 64* (Rosenthal-D) - Income Tax: Northridge Earthquake

Deletes the 10% of adjusted gross income limitation for amounts that may be deducted from state income taxes for non-business losses uninsured as a result of the Northridge earthquake of 1994. Becomes operative in the event the federal income tax laws are similarly amended.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 882* (Rosenthal-D) - Earthquake Insurance: Mediation: Northridge Earthquake

Establishes a pilot program for mediating disputes over claims arising out of the Northridge earthquake of 1994, as specified.

Chapter 848, Statutes of 1995


SB 1X* (O'Connell-D) - Disaster Relief

Allows the state to fund up to 100% of state eligible costs of replacing/repairing public facilities damaged by floods as a result of the 1955 storms that occurred from 1/3/95 to 2/13/95. The state is only to assume an increased share in those cases where the federal Emergency Management Administration has approved the federal share of costs. Double joined with AB 2X* (Mazzoni-D).

Chapter 2, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session

Similar bills are: AB 2X* (Mazzoni-D) which became Chapter 1X, Statutes of 1995, First Extraordinary Session; SB 3X* (Leslie-R) which is in Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee; AB 155* (Mazzoni-D) which died in Assembly Local Government Committee; and AB 10X* (Frusetta-R) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee. hr>


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SB 2X* (Thompson-D) - Disaster Relief: Taxation: 1995 Storms

Provides for property tax relief for local governments and income tax relief for losses arising from 1995 storms. Double joined with AB 1X* (V. Brown) and AB 3X* (Firestone-R).

Chapter 5, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session

 

Similar bills are: AB 1X* (V. Brown-D) which became Chapter 3X, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session; AB 3X* (Firestone-R) which became Chapter 4X, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session; AB 6X* (Kuykendall-R) which failed passage in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee; AB 11X* (McPherson-R) which is in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee; and SB 91* (Thompson-D) which is in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.


SB 4X (Haynes-R) - Flood Control Projects: Stream Alterations

Exempts flood control projects by any city, county or city and county from the requirements to notify the Department of Fish and Game and submit general plans for any flood control project in an urbanized area that would change the natural flow of a river, stream, or lake; use materials from the streambed; or dispose of debris or waste where it may pass into those waters.

(Failed passage in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)

A similar bill is SB 12X (Johannessen-R) which is in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee.


SB 5X (Rosenthal-D) - Flood Insurance

Requires the Insurance Commissioner to adopt regulations to encourage purchase and maintenance of flood insurance and to consult with specified interested parties in developing these regulations. Requires the Department of Insurance to monitor efforts undertaken to promote the purchase and maintenance of flood insurance.

Chapter 9, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session


SB 6X* (Leslie-R) - School Repair: Natural Disasters

Requires the Department of General Services to review and approve school building plans within 60 days when those plans are to repair or reconstruct schools damaged due to manmade or natural disasters.

Chapter 7, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session


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SB 7X (Hayden-D) - Disaster Assistance: Flood Insurance

Prohibits, except for disaster assistance that would not be a substitute for insurance and certain emergency assistance, state disaster assistance from being provided to a person required to maintain flood insurance by state or federal law, who has canceled or allowed that insurance to lapse, as specified.

Chapter 8, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session


SB 8X (Campbell-R) - Natural Disaster Assistance: Real Estate Transfers

Enacts the Disaster Relief Report Act of 1995. Requires that a disclosure statement containing specified information regarding certain natural conditions or hazards be delivered to a prospective purchaser of real property. Creates a new disaster assistance program which is to be the sale and exclusive relief that the state government provides to property owners whose properties have been damaged by natural disasters, except to those properties where private insurance was not reasonably available.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 9X (Johannessen-R) - Disasters: Restoration of Land

Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act repairs to land and buildings damaged by natural or manmade disasters or emergencies.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)


SB 11X (Mello-D) - River Maintenance: Flood Control

Requires all state agencies that have the authority for the cleanup and maintenance of rivers and flood control channels to cooperate with local agencies and ensure timely and thorough cleanup as well as ongoing maintenance of the Pajaro, Salinas, and Carmel Rivers, as specified. Allows creation of the Pajaro River Basin Flood Control Authority, if participating local agencies elect to create such an entity.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


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AB 386* (Alby-R) - Disaster Relief: 1986 Flood

Enacts the 1986 Rio Linda/Strawberry Manor Flood Disaster Relief program to provide compensation to victims for personal and real property loss or damages suffered in the 1986 floods.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1595* (Brewer-R) - Taxation: Disaster Relief

Exempts a basic aid school district that is located in a county where the Governor has declared a disaster in fiscal year 1993-94 from the prohibition against receiving property tax revenue from the supplemented property tax roll.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1796* (Richter-R) - Yuba County Flood Damages

Creates the Yuba County Flood Damages Fund for the purpose of allowing the State Controller to compensate persons who are plaintiffs in a suit against the State of California arising out of the February 1986 floods in Yuba County.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 4X* (Allen-R) - Flood Control: Santa Ana River

Appropriates $76,160,000 to reimburse the Orange County Flood Control District for nonfederal costs incurred in the building of the Santa Ana River Mainstream Project.

(Failed passage on the Assembly Floor)


AB 5X* (Sher-D) - Flood Plains: Real Estate Transfers

Broadens the required disclosure by the seller of real property by requiring that a seller disclose when the property is located within a flood plain of a watercourse that poses a substantial risk of flooding.

(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)


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AB AB (Escutia-D) - Schools: Disaster Kits[PAGE 8X (Escutia-D) - Schools: Disaster Kit]

Requires the governing board of each school district and county superintendent of schools of each county within its jurisdiction to provide an earthquake and flood emergency and disaster preparedness kit, as specified.

(In Assembly Education Committee)


AB 12X* (Brewer-R) - Disaster Relief: Claims

Extends the time for counties to file disaster relief claims for property damaged in the 1993 fires in Southern California and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Chapter 10, Statutes of 1995-96, First Extraordinary Session

 


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EDUCATION

NOTE: *DENOTES URGENCY LEGISLATION


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School Finance Legislation


SB 119 (Costa-D) - Adult Education

Increases the adult average daily attendance for which the Washington Union High School District in Fresno County may receive state funding.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 120 (Costa-D) - Schools: Transportation Fund

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion supplemental home-to-school transportation funding according to a formula established in the bill.

Chapter 492, Statutes of 1995 - Item Veto


SB 125 (Killea-I) - Education: Fiscal Accountability Audits

Requires that annual school district compliance audits include additional details regarding audit procedures and number of average daily attendance affected by any audit exceptions in state programs.

Chapter 476, Statutes of 1995


SB 236* (Lewis-R) - School Finance: Orange County Districts

Waives financial penalties for any Orange County school district which failed to provide the number of instructional minutes in middle schools in 1992-93 and 1993-94 which the district was required to offer in order to qualify for state instructional time incentive funding.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 449 (Haynes-R) - Education Funding

Forgives the final 2 years of payment on a declining enrollment average daily attendance loan given to Perris Union High School District in 1991-92.

Chapter 549, Statutes of 1995


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SB 698 (Greene-D) - School Finance: Principal Apportionment

Revises the apportionment schedule for school district revenue limits, and bases apportionment amounts in some months on school district estimates of average daily attendance and property tax collections -- with reconciliation to actual data later in the year.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 765 (Costa-D) - School Finance: Revenue Limits

Makes various changes to the law as it relates to "longer day and year" incentive funding:

1. Provides that a high school can claim a full unit of average daily attendance (ADA), rather than 3/4 ADA, for concurrently enrolled pupils if the pupil attends the high school for more than 180 minutes (the community college would still claim its portion of time as under current law).

2. Provides that commencing in 1990-91, a school district is not subject to the minimum day penalty for reducing instructional time if the district has subsequently returned to their 1982-83 minimum-day level.

3. Makes similar waivers of the minimum day penalty for specified districts, specifically the Fort Sage Unified School District and those in a county of the 16th class (a population of 260,000 and under 290,000) and a county of the 39th class (a population of 30,000 and under 40,000), as described in Section 28037 of the Government Code.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 793 (Hughes-D) - Schools: Finance: Military Base Closure: Desegregation Programs

Makes changes in the voluntary desegregation funding for Pasadena Unified School District and the Compton Unified School District; and changes the average daily attendance decline threshold as it relates to military base closures.

Chapter 651, Statutes of 1995


SB 803 (Monteith-R) - Schools: Home-to-School Transportation

Extends, until July 1, 1999, an increase in transportation funding ($350,000) provided to the Mariposa County Unified School District during the 1993-94 and 1994-95 fiscal years.

Chapter 443, Statutes of 1995


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SB 863 (Craven-R) - Local Government: Orange County

Implements some provisions of the Orange County Recovery Plan.

Also amends the Budget Act of 1995 to provide that, of the funds allocated for purposes of home-to-school transportation, $4 million shall be allocated to the Alameda County Office of Education for the purchase of pupil transportation services on a one-time emergency basis.

Chapter 745, Statutes of 1995


SB 937 (Campbell-R) - School Districts: Revenue Limits

Increases the state funding for basic aid districts when educating pupils that reside in other districts if such pupils transfer as result of a court-ordered desegregation plan, or a district acting by its own resolution as a "school district of choice.

Chapter 769, Statutes of 1995


SB 944 (Johnston-D) - School Finance: Juvenile Court Schools and Community Schools

Amends the law to make adjustments to the revenue limits generated by pupils enrolled in county community and juvenile court schools.

Chapter 658, Statutes of 1995


SB 993 (Solis-D) - Education Finance: Revenue Limits

Provides a revenue limit augmentation to school districts which experience declines in enrollment.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 1185 (Leonard-R) - California School Finance Authority

Authorizes the California School Finance Authority to issue $400 million annually in revenue bonds, not to exceed $4 billion in total. Provides that bond proceeds would be used to make loans to school districts and county offices of education for classroom construction, modernization and related expenditures.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor; reconsideration granted; on Assembly Inactive File)


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SB 1233 (Costa-D) - School Finance: Base Revenue Limits

Provides that, beginning in 1996-97, the base revenue limit for the Bakersfield School District shall be increased to $3,508 per unit of average daily attendance, to reflect a "roll-in" of court-ordered and voluntary desegregation program funding.

(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)


AB 136 (Pringle-R) - School Finance: Investment Policy Statement

Requires governing boards of K-12 and community college districts to develop a written investment policy statement that establishes a clear understanding between the district and the district's investment advisor as to the district's investment objectives with regard to surplus and non-surplus funds.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)


AB 146* (Allen-R) - School Finance

Permits school agencies that lost money in the bankrupt Orange County investment fund to backfill their loss in operating funds with the proceeds of certificates of participation.

Chapter 8, Statutes of 1995


AB 404 (Bates-D) - School Funding: West Contra Costa Unified School District

Authorizes the Director of Finance, upon the request of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to amend the loan repayment schedule on the state loan to the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

Chapter 483, Statutes of 1995


AB 438 (Campbell-D) - School Finance

Makes both technical and substantive changes to the fiscal accountability and oversight requirements for school districts and county offices of education and re-appropriates $2 million to the State Department of Education for allocation to local education agencies for the costs of planning, testing and implementing a standardized account code structure for use by local education agencies.

Chapter 525, Statutes of 1995

 


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AB 532* (Aguiar-R) - School Funding: Year-Round Scheduling

Restores a provision of law, enacted in 1993 and inadvertently deleted in 1994, to change the attendance accounting practice for calculating average daily attendance apportionments for certain students attending schools operating on a multitrack year-round basis.

Chapter 519, Statutes of 1995


AB 536 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Educational Technology

Authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds to finance the acquisition of educational technology infrastructure, to be repaid from dedicated State Lottery revenues.

Chapter 869, Statutes of 1995


AB 687* (Goldsmith-R) - School Districts: Residency of Pupils

Appropriates $147,575 from the General Fund for the Imperial County and the San Diego County superintendents of schools to assist school districts adjacent to the Mexican border with pupil residency verification activities. Adds provisions relating to the allocation of excess funds in the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund to county superintendents of schools for special education programs.

Chapter 309, Statutes of 1995


AB 780 (McDonald-D) - School Finance: Equal Opportunity to Learn

Makes changes to ensure that schools have access to adequate educational resources to face challenges of the 21st century. Provisions include (1) development of a California School Finance Network to electronically transfer financial data, (2) establishment of a California School Finance Management Information System, (3) the requirement of a report to be prepared by the Legislative Analyst's Office to determine if there is funding equity between urban, suburban and rural districts, (4) the requirement that any new system continue current cost-of-living adjustments for schools, and (5) expression of legislative intent to establish a new facilities funding program to provide equalized assistance to districts that can provide bond measures for construction.

(In Assembly Education Committee)

 


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AB 824 (Ducheny-D) - School Financing

Directs the Chancellor of the Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to jointly develop a plan for equalizing the apportionment rates for secondary school adult education and community college non-credit instruction.

(In Senate Education Committee)


AB 825* (W. Brown-D) - Education Budget Trailer Bill

Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the Budget Act of 1995 and makes certain appropriations to satisfy the Proposition 98 funding guarantees for the 1994-95 and 1995-96 fiscal years.

Chapter 308, Statutes of 1995


AB 923 (Alpert-D) - Categorical Programs: Funding Reform

Consolidates the funding for approximately 30 of the categorical programs funded through the K-12 Mega-item (6110-230-001) into 4 major block grants to be used for general, rather than specific, purposes beginning in 1996-97. Repeals statutes governing nearly all of the consolidated programs, and establishes a school and district accountability program to measure student outcomes, rather than districts' compliance with categorical program specifications.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 963 (Katz-D) - School Finance: Save Our Schools Act of 1995

Requires that the deficit factor for each school district and county superintendent of schools be reduced by 2 percentage points for the 1995-96 fiscal year.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1010 (Battin-R) - School Finance: Base Revenue Limits: Hemet Unified School District

Permits the Hemet Unified School District to receive up to $125,000 (in addition to revenue limit apportionment) on behalf of its Hamilton School, for an additional 3 years after June 30, 1995.

Chapter 773, Statutes of 1995

 


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AB 1068 (Mazzoni-D) - School Finance: Adult Education

Forgives districts for certain audit exceptions to their 1992-93 through 1994-95 adult education programs. In addition, the bill would codify the State Department of Education's interpretation of statute prohibiting adult courses from being used to supplant high school instruction and provides a means for school districts to exempt themselves from that. In addition to that exemption, deletes 4 criteria in law limiting enrollment of high school students.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)


AB 1422 (Mazzoni-D) - School Finance: School District Revenue Limits: Property Tax Revenues

Specifies that, starting in 1996-97, the Novato Unifies School District may exclude from its revenue limit calculation an unspecified percentage of the annual growth in ad valorem property tax revenues attributable to territory that formerly was the Hamilton Air Force Base.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1486 (Pringle-R) - School Finance: Supplemental Grant Funds

Prevents the revenue limit deficit factor from being applied to supplemental grant funding in the 1995-96 year or in future years, as specified. Provides an additional adjustment for necessary small schools and districts that recognizes the unique way they are funded.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1661 (Escutia-D) - Year-Round School Grant Program

Requires school districts receiving year-round grants pursuant to that program to allocate not less than 95% of the grant to the school or schools making the district eligible for the grant and not more than 5% for administrative costs incurred by the school district for the purposes of that program.

(In Assembly Education Committee)


AB 1738 (Alby-R) - Education Finance: Expenditures for Administrative Costs

Authorizes the State Department of Education to spend not more than 2.5% on the costs of administering any educational program. Requires 95% of school funding be expended at the school site for direct services to pupils.

(In Assembly Education Committee)

 


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School Facilities


SB 92* (Greene-D) - School Facilities: Space-Saver Schools

Makes several minor cleanup amendments to the "space-saver" school construction program administered by the State Allocation Board, including deletion of a date which provides a program "sunset".

Chapter 57, Statutes of 1995


SB 95* (Greene-D) - School Facilities: Revenue Bonds

Authorizes the State Allocation Board to issue revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed $1 billion for the purpose of funding K-12 school construction and modernization projects.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 96* (Greene-D) - Bonds: Public Education Facilities: Correctional Facilities

1. Enacts the Public Education Facilities Act of 1996, and places a $3 billion general obligation bond measure for K-12 and higher education school facilities before the voters at the March 26, 1966 direct primary election.

2. Enacts the Violent and Career Criminal Detention Bond Act of 1996 which is to be placed on the November 1966 General Election Ballot for voter approval of a $450 million general obligation bond issue to finance the acquisition, construction, renovation, remodeling and deferred maintenance of state youth and adult correctional facilities.

(On Assembly Inactive File)


SB 98 (Greene-D) - School Facilities: Centralized Tracking

Requires the state Department of General Services to develop a centralized tracking system for all public school districts and all state agencies involved in K-12 school facilities projects.

(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

 


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SB 134 (Marks-D) - Public Library Learning and Literacy Expansion Act of 1996

Enacts the Public Library Learning and Literacy Expansion Act of 1996 to provide $350 million in general obligation bonds for public library construction and renovation, to be submitted to the voters at the November 5, 1996 general election.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 171* (O'Connell-D) - Higher Education Facilities

Enacts the Higher Education Facilities Bond Act of November 1966 which would be placed on the November 5, 1966 statewide general election ballot to seek voter approval of a $900 million general obligation bond issue. These bond funds would be available for the construction, improvement and renovation of higher education facilities in California.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 291* (Greene-D) - School Facilities: Structural Safety Requirements

Extends the time period that certain portable school buildings may continue in use even though such buildings do not fully comply with earthquake safety standards (Field Act). Discontinues the waiver process effective September 30, 1997, and requires that such portable buildings in use after that date undergo several safety upgrades as a condition of continued use.

Chapter 655, Statutes of 1995


SB 459 (Greene-D) - Education

Expressly provides that the term "construction" includes the provision of relocatable classrooms, as specified, for schools operated by a county board of education as community schools.

(In Senate Education Committee)


SB 569 (Maddy-R) - Bonded Indebtedness: School Facilities

Makes a number of technical statutory changes necessary to implement SCA 14 (Maddy) which would lower the vote requirement for local general obligation bonds for school and community college districts from 2/3rds to 58%.

(In Assembly Education Committee)


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SB 763 (Greene-D) - School Facilities Funding

Simplifies and streamlines the State School Building Lease-Purchase Law. Requires a greater local funding contribution to school facilities projects, establishes new criteria for receipt of state funding, eliminates funding priorities based on enrollment in multi-track year-round education and makes numerous other changes.

(On Assembly Inactive File)


SB 764 (Greene-D) - School Facilities: School Bonds

Is a cleanup of school facilities law and school facilities bond law. Repeals numerous inactive provisions, moves bond laws to uncodified statutes, repeals and reenacts specified sections relating to the State School Building Finance Committee, and eliminates obsolete references.

Chapter 552, Statutes of 1995


SB 1066 (Campbell-R) - Development: Fees: School Facilities

1. Limits school facility impact fees on low-income residential development to $0.28 per square foot, or $1.72 per square foot for three years after this bill becomes effective, if a permit is part of a subdivision that was approved prior to when this bill becomes effective;

2. Strengthens the requirements for identifying the purpose of and refunding, unspent funds, and the accounting requirements related to development fee proceeds; and,

3. Prohibits fees or taxes from being imposed on development for general revenue purposes, and subjects taxes on development to the same nexus requirements as fees, with certain exceptions. The major exception is that business license taxes may be imposed by a local agency if the tax is no greater than the highest measure of tax applied to another business classification.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor; reconsideration granted)


SB 1185 (Leonard-R) - California School Finance Authority

Authorizes the School Finance Authority to issue $400 million annually in revenue bonds, not to exceed $4 billion in total. Bond proceeds would be used to make loans to school districts and county offices of education for classroom construction, modernization and related expenditures.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor; reconsideration granted)

 


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SB 1292 (Polanco-D) - School Facilities: Modernization or Renovation

Increases the amount of state funding that can be provided for school modernization projects under the State School Building Lease-Purchase program.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)


AB 181 (W. Murray-D) - County Community School Facilities

Specifies that permanent or relocatable county community school or teen parenting center facilities may be funded under the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law (Greene Act). Also establishes eligibility criteria for relocatable classrooms, auxiliary space and site purchase or lease for these programs.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 306 (Thompson-R) - School Facilities: Domenigoni Valley Reservoir Project

Provides that the State Department of Education shall not require mitigation related to potential dam breach inundation of the Domenigoni Valley Reservoir Project.

Chapter 484, Statutes of 1995


AB 331* (Alpert-D) - Bonds: School Facilities and Technology Funding

Places a state general obligation (GO) bond measure on the November 1996 ballot. The bond measure would authorize the issuance of $2 billion in GO bonds for the following purposes: (1) $1.9 billion for deposit in the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund, $100 million of which shall be available for seismic retrofit projects of existing school facilities; and (2) $100 million for deposit in the Education Technology Fund, $75 million or which shall be deposited in the Education Technology Retrofit Account and $25 million in the Education Technology Hardware Account.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 481 (Goldsmith-R) - School Facilities Construction Finance: Joint Venture Projects

Permits School Districts to enter into joint venture agreements for the purposes of constructing school facilities and for establishing eligibility for receipt of state funding for the school construction portion of the project.

Chapter 956, Statutes of 1995

 


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AB 786* (Archie-Hudson-D) - Higher Education Facilities

Authorizes the issuance of $900 million in state general obligation bonds for higher education facilities upon voter approval on March 26, 1996.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


AB 941 (Knight-R) - School Facilities: Priority Status

Requires that first priority for state school construction funds shall be given to districts that have at least 50% of enrolled students housed in relocatable structures, in addition to meeting the other current criteria for highest priority.

(In Senate Education Committee)


AB 968 (Ducheny-D) - Leroy F. Greene State School Building Law

Amends the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase statute to specify that it is a grant program, changes the funding split between the state and the school districts and increases school district decision-making authority in school facilities construction.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1064 (Martinez-D) - School and Community College Facilities: Seismic Safety

Requires specified safety improvements for school buildings in high-risk earthquake areas.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1168* (Campbell-D) - Bonds: Public Education Facilities

Enacts the Public Education Facilities Act of 1996 and places a $3 billion general obligation bond measure for K-12 and higher education school facilities before the voters at the March 26, 1996 direct primary election.

(Assembly refuses to concur in Senate amendments; reconsideration granted)

 


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AB 1569* (Alpert-D) - School Facilities: Assessment District

Repeals the prohibition against an improvement district's tax rates from exceeding Mello-Roos district tax rates and, instead, states its intent that property in an improvement district not pay greater taxes than a special tax levied upon parcels in the same school district that are part of a Mello-Roos district. Under this bill, a school district's determination, based on tax estimates made when the bonds are sold, that the tax rate doesn't exceed the annual special tax levied on property in the Mello-Roos district, shall be conclusive.

Chapter 520, Statutes of 1995


AB 1693 (Johnson-R) - Facilities Construction Finance: Joint Ventures

Authorizes a school district to enter into a joint venture relationship for the purpose of school facilities constsruction and authorizes a school district to apply to the State Allocation Board for funds under the Greene Act for the school facillities portion of the cost of constructing a joint venture project.

(In Assembly Education Committee)

 


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Child and Day Care


SB 265 (O'Connell-D) - Family Day Care Homes

Changes the maximum number of children allowed in family day care homes. Increases the number of children allowed in small homes from 6 to 8 and the number of children allowed in large homes from 12 to 14.

(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 341 (Campbell-R) - Residential Child Care Facilities

Permits, upon the approval of the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County, a pilot project which allows county emergency shelters for juveniles to impose restrictions upon minors, including controlled perimeters or fences.

(On Assembly Inactive File)


SB 356 (Campbell-R) - AFDC: Child Care

Eliminates 2 existing programs, the child care disregard and the supplemental child care program, and replaces them with a new program under which the county welfare department would make advance payments for child care. Also extends the period of eligibility for transitional child care-type benefits beyond 12 months, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 503 (Petris-D) - Child Passenger Restraints: Public Notice

Requires clinics, alternative birth centers, health facilities and child care centers, as a condition of licensure, to disseminate specified information relating to child passenger restraint systems. Requires the California Highway Patrol and the Department of Health Services to disseminate information about the restraint systems and require other forms of coordination and public education by local health departments and various state agencies.

Chapter 512, Statutes of 1995


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SB 839 (Watson-D) - Child Care Facilities Financing Act

Authorizes a measure to be placed on a ballot for voter approval of an unspecified amount of general obligation bond authority to provide loans to public and private nonprofit agencies for acquisition, construction or renovation of child day care facilities. Establishes the Child Care Facilities Bond Fund, as well as the Child Care Facilities Authority to administer the program.

(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)


SB 965 (Watson-D) - Children and Families

(1) Requires child care providers subject to Trustline registration to also secure 6 hours of child development education and training; (2) implements a teen pregnancy disincentive which would require pregnant and parenting teens to live with their parents, with certain exemptions; and (3) requires the Department of Social Services to implement a pilot program to inform AFDC recipients of the benefits of employment.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


SB 1289 (Leonard-R) - Child Care: Parental Choice

Expands the opportunities for choices among child care providers within state subsidized child care and development programs to include sectarian persons or organizations.

(In Senate Education Committee)


AB 301 (Alpert-D) - Licensed Day Care Facilities: Proof of Immunization

Exempts, until January 1, 2001, drop-in day care centers from the general requirement imposed on day care facilities that they ensure that children at the facility have been immunized. Requires parents to sign an acknowledgment that they are aware of the immunization exemption.

Chapter 473, Statutes of 1995


AB 335* (Hannigan-D) - California Child Care Initiative Project

Extends for 5 years, from June 30, 1995 to June 30, 2000, the sunset date for the California Child Care Initiative Project.

Chapter 298, Statutes of 1995


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AB 442 (Alpert-D) - Extended Schoolday Activities and Violence Reduction Act

Establishes 2 new programs of grants to extended schoolday (after school) activity providers for elementary and junior high-aged children. Sunsets January 1, 1999.

Chapter 775, Statutes of 1995


AB 731* (Davis-D) - Child Day Care Facilities: Specialized Care

Establishes a 2-year pilot project to test the feasibility of permitting family day care home providers and child care center staff to undertake gastric tube feeding or the administration of medication through nebulizers.

Chapter 776, Statutes of 1995


AB 973 (McDonald-D) - Child and Family Services

Requires that the evaluation of the integrated services pilot projects created by AB 1741 (Bates), Chapter 951, Statutes of 1993, be conducted by an independent organization.

Chapter 532, Statutes of 1995


AB 976* (McDonald-D) - Child Development Services: Priorities

Expands the eligibility criteria for subsidized child care and development services to include (1) children who live with a relative caregiver, rather than parents, who meets other existing eligibility criteria and (2) families (children living with parents or a relative caregiver) where child care service is essential to family preservation.

(Assembly refuses to concur in Senate amendments; reconsideration granted; on Assembly Unfinished Business File)


AB 1194 (Takasugi-R) - Communicable Disease: Immunizations

Adds Hepatitis B to the list of diseases for which documented immunizations are required. Requires, on or after August 1, 1997, all children at or below the kindergarten level, to be vaccinated for Hepatitis B as a condition of enrollment.

Chapter 291, Statutes of 1995

 


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AB 1542 (Hannigan-D) - Child Care and Development Services: Contracting Agencies

Requires that an appeal procedure be provided upon petition of a child care and development contracting agency in the case of the non-renewal of their contract.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


AB 1591 (Alpert-D) - Healthy Start Support Services for Children Act

Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award one-time transition grants of up to $50,000 to local education agencies or consortiums that received a Healthy Start program operation grant in 1992, total awards not to exceed $2 million.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)

 


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Higher Education


SB 4 (Russell-R) - Community Colleges: Student Body Organizations: Funds

Expands the investment options available to community college student body organizations by providing them the same options that are currently available in statute to California State University student body organizations.

Chapter 201, Statutes of 1995


SB 12* (Mello-D) - Cal Grant Program

Authorizes a Cal Grant Program award to be utilized at any public postsecondary educational institution or program.

Chapter 104, Statutes of 1995


SB 82 (Kopp-I) - School Districts and Community Colleges: Ballot Measure or Candidate

Prohibits the use of local education agency funds for purposes of urging the support or defeat of any ballot measure or candidate, as is the law with respect to state, county, city and special district funds.

Chapter 879, Statutes of 1995


SB 171* (O'Connell-D) - Higher Education Facilities

Enacts the Higher Education Facilities Bond Act of November 1996, which would be placed on the November 5, 1996 statewide general election ballot to seek voter approval of a $900 million general obligation bond issue. Makes the bond funds available for the construction, improvement and renovation of higher education facilities in California

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 179 (Kelley-R) - Water Reuse

Makes various findings and declarations, and states legislative intent regarding the University of California's establishing a research and extension program related to water reuse.

Chapter 422, Statutes of 1995

 


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SB 225 (Haynes-R) - Student Freedom of Association Act

Prohibits students at the University of California, the California State University and the California Community Colleges from being compelled to pay mandatory student fees for the purpose of funding or subsidizing political or ideological activities or organizations. Authorizes establishment of a voluntary fee.

(In Senate Education Committee)


SB 277 (Polanco-D) - Education: Citizenship Centers

Establishes a Citizenship Center Program to provide citizenship instruction, testing, and the dissemination of information about naturalization to prospective U.S. citizens through California Community Colleges, school district adult education programs, or community-based organizations.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


SB 347 (Campbell-R) - Postsecondary Education: Student Residency

Prohibits legal aliens (except those designated as refugees) from establishing residence in California for purposes of determining whether they pay resident fees, or the higher non-resident tuition, while attending the University of California, California State University, and the California Community Colleges.

(In Senate Education Committee)


SB 348 (Campbell-R) - Community Colleges: Student Fees

Repeals the requirement that the California Community College charge a $50 differential fee for students who already have a baccalaureate (BA) or higher degree.

(On Senate Inactive File)


SB 400 (Haynes-R) - Postsecondary Education

Enacts the English Proficiency in Higher Education Act, requiring all public higher education institutions to evaluate their teaching faculty for oral and written proficiency in English and take steps to accomplish this proficiency.

Chapter 200, Statutes of 1995

 


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SB 433 (Solis-D) - California Community Colleges Economic Development Program

Narrows a component of the mission of the California Community Colleges' Economic Development Program (ED>Net), to provide greater emphasis on small businesses (those with fewer than 100 employees).

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 450 (Solis-D) - California Community Colleges: Numbering and Title System: Bond Proceeds: Allocation for UC

Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to develop a common course numbering system for community college course work and to report by January 1, 1998 on progress in implementing such a system.

Provides for the allocation of $5 million in bond proceeds to be used for the development of the San Joaquin campus of the University of California.

Chapter 493, Statutes of 1995 - Item Veto


SB 451 (Solis-D) - Student Fees

Prohibits the imposition, increase, reduction or termination of a mandatory campus student fee without the affirmative vote of at least a majority of students voting and makes related changes.

(In Senate Education Committee)


SB 618 (Polanco-D) - State Contracting and Procurement: Study

Changes an existing request for the University of California (UC) to conduct a study of minority, disabled person, and woman-owned businesses and, instead, requests UC to conduct a disparity study on all areas of state procurement and public contracting that utilize such businesses.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


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SB 627 (Hughes-D) - California State University: Student Aid

Extends by 5 years (from January 1, 1996 to January 1, 2001) the sunset date for the Real Estate Scholarship and Internship Grant (RESIG) program, administered by the California State University.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


SB 650 (Dills-D) - California State University: Contracts

Prohibits the California State University from entering into personal services contracts which cause the displacement of CSU employees.

(In Senate Education Committee)


SB 663 (Petris-D) - School and Community College Districts: Governing Boards

Redefines what constitutes refusal on the part of legal counsel with respect to providing legal representation for the personnel commission of a school district or community college district.

Chapter 900, Statutes of 1995


SB 695 (Greene-D) - Private Postsecondary Education

Amends several provisions of law related to the determination of refunds and placement rates for students enrolled in private postsecondary and vocational schools.

Chapter 545, Statutes of 1995


SB 703 (O'Connell-D) - California Community Colleges

Appropriates $94 million from the General Fund to backfill shortfalls in current-year property tax collections for community college districts.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


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SB 886 (Hughes-D) - Private Postsecondary Education

Makes numerous substantive changes to the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989.

(In Senate Education Committee)


SB 909 (Polanco-D) - Community College Fiscal Crisis Prevention Plan

Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to establish a fiscal crisis prevention plan to provide assistance to financially threatened community college districts.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 918 (Hayden-D) - University of California and the California State University

Prohibits any regent or trustee from donating to, or soliciting or accepting any campaign contribution for, a committee controlled by the Governor. Requires trustees to be appointed on the basis of their demonstrated interest and proven ability in policy and budgetary issues.

(In Senate Education Committee)


SB 919 (Hayden-D) - Income Tax Reduction: Corresponding Reduction in Student Fees

Requires that for every percentage reduction in income tax rates, there shall be an equal reduction in student fees at the University of California, the California State University and the California Community Colleges.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 980 (Solis-D) - Postsecondary Education: Open Enrollment for Community College Faculty

Permits any faculty member of the California Community Colleges who meets specified criteria to enroll without formal admission in no more than one California State University or University of California graduate course per academic term in his or her professional field on a space-available basis, at the discretion of each campus, and paying the tuition and fees required of regular students.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor; reconsideration granted; on Assembly Inactive File)

 


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SB 983 (Campbell-R) - Discrimination and Preferential Treatment in Faculty Employment

Prohibits the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California from using race, color, religion, sex, or national origin as a criterion for either discriminating against or granting preferential treatment in the appointment, retention, tenure, promotion, pay, or other working conditions of faculty, except when ordered by a court as a matter of federal or constitutional law.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted; on Assembly Inactive File)


SB 1062 (Marks-D) - Hastings College of the Law

Adds a student representative to the 11-member board of directors of the Hastings College of the Law.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 1074 (Killea-I) - Education

Revises certain requirements for the California Postsecondary Education Commission regarding its (1) annual update of the postsecondary education plan, and (2) comprehensive data base. Also allows the inclusion of specified public accountability in California's education goals.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


SB 1189 (O'Connell-D) - Community Colleges: Space Launch Industry Revenue Bond Act

Permits a community college district to enter into agreement with a private, nonprofit business for the issuance of tax-exempt revenue bonds to finance campus construction related to work-force training for the development of a commercial space launch industry. States that no revenue bond shall become a lien, charge, or liability against the state.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


SB 1209 (Hughes-D) - University of California: Personal Service Contracts

Establishes standards that the University of California (UC) would be required to follow before using personal service contracts for work traditionally performed by UC employees. Also requires the approval by the Public Employee Relations Board of any UC personal services contract.

(In Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

 


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SB 1261 (Dills-D) - Postsecondary Education: Student Fees

Extends, from August 31, 1996 to August 31, 2001, the sunset date for current provisions relating to setting mandatory systemwide student fees at the University of California, the California State University and the Hastings College of the Law. Also requires, prior to increasing or decreasing fees beyond the current formula-driven amount (up to 10%) that a finding be made in the Budget Act or another statute that revenues and expenditures are substantially imbalanced due to unforeseen factors.

(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)


SB 1300 (Petris-D) - Higher Education: Student Fees: Income Tax Rates

Establishes the California Tax Reform and Higher Education Recovery Act of 1995. Reduces by 15% resident student fees at the University of California, the California State University and the California Community Colleges, effective January 1, 1996. Also increases, effective January 1, 1996, revenues for public higher education institutions by dedicating specified Personal Income Tax proceeds for the exclusive use of higher education. Becomes operative only if SB 14 (Thompson) does not take effect.

(On Senate Inactive File)


SB 1301 (Petris-D) - Commission on the Financing of Higher Education

Creates the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education to develop a specific plan for financing higher education in the future. Requires the commission to submit its plan to the Governor and Legislature by January 1, 1997. Appropriates $250,000 from the General Fund to the State Controller to cover the expenses associated with this commission.

(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 2* (Archie-Hudson-D) - Community College Construction

Provides that standards used by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors for the determination of the enrollment capacity of district facilities not be higher than the maximum occupant load permitted in the California Building Standards Code. Also requires that the board consider the quality and condition of existing facilities in evaluating 5-year plans and project proposals.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)

 


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AB 21 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Community Colleges: Unauthorized Fees

Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCC) to review any fee charged by a CCC campus or district, upon request of a CCC student body organization, to see if the fee is an authorized fee. Also provides that any revenue retained, rather than returned, from an unauthorized fee be considered "local property tax" revenue for purposes of state apportionments.

Vetoed by the Governor


AB 27 (McDonald-D) - California State University: Credentialing Programs

Requires the Schools of Education of the California State University at the campuses of Los Angeles and Dominguez Hills to conduct pilot programs to study alternative methods of preparing and credentialing educators.

(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 71 (Katz-D) - California Community Colleges: Board of Governors

Adds a classified employee to the 16-member Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Provides that the classified employee would be appointed by the Governor by January 15, 1996, for a 2-year term from lists of at least 3 persons furnished by employee unions.

(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 94 (K. Murray-D) - Community Colleges: FTES

Establishes a revised formula to determine the growth funds to be allocated to community college districts that relies on a blended rate of change in adult population, high school population and unemployment rate, as determined by the Chancellor. Also requires that the Chancellor's Office revise, on an ongoing basis, criteria and standards used for making the annual budget request.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)


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AB 415 (Knight-R) - Armed Forces Training and Recruitment

Declares that there is nothing in state policy which requires the (1) establishment or disestablishment of any armed forces training unit or class from the campus of any public postsecondary institution, or (2) the prohibition of employment recruitment by the U.S. Armed Forces on public postsecondary institutions.

Chapter 398, Statutes of 1995


AB 444 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Community Colleges: Charter Colleges

Creates the Charter College Act of 1995, and establishes a procedure for the establishment of charter California community colleges.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 445 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Community Colleges and CSU: Joint Baccalaureate Program

Establishes a joint baccalaureate degree program between the California Community Colleges and the California State University. Prohibits any funds from being expended for this joint baccalaureate degree program unless funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 446 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) - Postsecondary Education

Reorganizes and revises the higher education portion of the Education Code. Also makes technical corrections and deletes obsolete language from the postsecondary statutes.

Chapter 758, Statutes of 1995


AB 447* (Archie-Hudson-D) - California Postsecondary Education Commission

Designates the California Postsecondary Education Commission as the State Postsecondary Review Entity, consistent with specified federal law. Sunsets on December 21, 1998.

(On Senate Inactive File)

 


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AB 482* (Goldsmith-R) - Private Postsecondary Educational Institutions

Authorizes the Student Aid Commission to recalculate certain private postsecondary education institution's default rate if it is between 10% and 20% to enable them to be exempt from licensure and regulation by the Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education. Sunsets June 30, 1996.

(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)


AB 660 (Conroy-R) - Postsecondary Education: Citizenship Status

Requires public postsecondary educational institutions to verify the citizenship status of every student enrolled at that institution.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


AB 667 (Bustamante-D) - Telemedicine Advisory Committee: University of California

Seeks to improve health care for underserved populations through technological innovation. Directs the UC Regents to establish a Telemedicine Advisory Task Force to examine the use of communication technology in the rural health care system and to prepare a report of the task force findings by July 1, 1997, for review by the Legislature.

(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)


AB 723 (Baldwin-R) - Postsecondary Education: Residence Determination

Relaxes the requirements to qualify as a resident for purposes of postsecondary education for recently-discharged members of the Armed Forces who were on active duty in California, as specified.

Chapter 389, Statutes of 1995


AB 727 (Richter-R) - Education: Race Neutral Determinations

Prohibits a public educational institution, except as ordered by a court, from considering race when deciding on matters of admittance, financial aid, or a person's academic performance.

(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee; reconsideration granted)

 


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AB 730 (Hannigan-D) - Trustees of the California State University

Increases the membership of the CSU Board of Trustees by adding an additional student trustee, appointed by the Governor for a 2-year term. Authorizes a student trustee who graduates within 6 months before of the end of the term to finish that term.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


AB 786* (Archie-Hudson-D) - Higher Education Facilities

Authorizes the issuance of $900 million in state general obligation bonds for higher education facilities upon voter approval on March 26, 1996.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


AB 797* (Archie-Hudson-D) - Bonds: Educational Technology Infrastructure

Enacts the Educational Technology Infrastructure Bond Act of 1996, placing a $500 million general obligation bond measure before the voters at the March 26, 1996, statewide election. Allocates $400 million for public school districts (the School Technology Account) and $100 million to public higher education institutions (the Higher Education Technology Accounts).

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


AB 812 (Allen-R) - Peace Officers and Public Officials: Dependents

Consolidates and revises existing provisions of law which provide student financial aid grants to dependents of public officials, peace officers, as defined, and firefighters who were killed (or in some cases disabled) in the performance of duty.

Chapter 646, Statutes of 1995


AB 824 (Ducheny-D) - School Financing

Directs the Chancellor of the Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to jointly develop a plan for equalizing the apportionment rates for secondary school adult education and community college non-credit instruction.

(On Assembly Third Reading File)


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AB 833 (Richter-R) - Discrimination and Preferential Treatment in Faculty Employment

Prohibits public colleges and universities from using race, color, religion, sex, or national origin as a criterion for granting preferential treatment to any person with regard to faculty appointment, retention, tenure, promotion, compensation, or other terms of employment, except as ordered by a court as a matter of federal law or state constitutional law.

(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 864* (Aguiar-R) - CSU: Pilot Project: Direct Vendor Payments

Extends the sunset date for the California State University direct vendor pilot project from April 1, 1996 to December 31, 1996. Also advances the reporting date for this pilot project from January 1, 1997 to January 1, 1996.

Chapter 283, Statutes of 1995


AB 929 (Battin-R) - Advanced Transportation Technologies Initiative Program

Appropriates $2.5 million from the Petroleum Violation Escrow Account to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish centers at 20 community colleges to develop job training programs in the field of advanced transportation technologies.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


AB 1056 (Caldera-D) - College Entrance Exams

Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to include in its next study regarding high school graduates' eligibility for college admission, specified data and recommendations regarding high school graduates and college entrance exams.

(On Senate Inactive File)


AB 1168* (Campbell-D) - Bonds: Public Education Facilities

Enacts the Public Education Facilities Act of 1996, and places a $3 billion general obligation bond measure for K-12 and higher education school facilities before the voters at the March 26, 1996 direct primary election.

(Assembly refuses to concur in Senate amendments; reconsideration granted)

 


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AB 1201 (Gallegos-D) - Local Education Agencies: Board Members' Compensation

Allows community college, county office of education and school district board members to be absent from specially scheduled board meetings without having their monthly compensation reduced.

(On Senate Inactive File)


AB 1231 (Campbell-D) - Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989

Extends the sunset for the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act and the Maxine Waters School Reform and Student Protection Act to June 30, 1999.

(In Senate Education Committee)


AB 1296 (Ducheny-D) - Community Colleges: Governing Boards: Student Members

Requires that the non-voting student member of a community college district governing board only be a resident of California, rather than of the district itself.

Chapter 82, Statutes of 1995


AB 1297 (Ducheny-D) - California Community Colleges: Board of Governors

Requires the Governor to appoint the student member of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors from a list of at least 3 names provided by the Council of Student Body Governments.

Vetoed by the Governor


AB 1386 (Richter-R) - CSU: Sale of Real Property in Chico

Broadens the options for the California State University (CSU) to dispose of 6 specified properties which are part of the CSU, Chico campus.

Chapter 908, Statutes of 1995

 


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AB 1433 (Firestone-R) - Postsecondary Education

Creates a new Postsecondary Education Code by combining and removing from the Education Code all provisions relating to postsecondary education. Also makes technical corrections and deletes obsolete language from the postsecondary statutes affected by this bill.

(In Senate Education Committee)


AB 1449 (Napolitano-D) - Community Colleges: Citizenship Project

Establishes the "605 Corridor Distance Learning Citizenship Project" as a pilot to use distance learning to promote citizenship training. Includes 5 community college districts in the project and permits 9 others to participate. Requires the Chancellor's Office to report on implementation of the project by December 1, 1997.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor; reconsideration granted; on Assembly Inactive File)


AB 1520 (McPherson-R) - Governmental Institutions

Makes several changes in current law related to the business practices of the California State University.

Chapter 522, Statutes of 1995


AB 1543 (McPherson-R) - Community Colleges

Creates a statutory mechanism for increasing or decreasing the amount of state apportionment to the community colleges system in compensation for any shortfall or surplus in actual local property tax revenues vis-a-vis budget estimates.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

 


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AB 1593 (Brewer-R) - Community Colleges Investment Fund for Innovation

Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) to review the need for and request funds in the annual budget for instructional technology innovation programs and faculty professional development related to learning approaches for diverse student populations. Also creates the Community Colleges Investment Fund for Innovation and lists 8 authorized uses of the fund for the benefit of community college districts, including expenditures for distance learning programs, and linkages among college, employment, and labor market databases. Requires the Chancellor of the CCC to establish a pilot program to test the effectiveness of 1 of the 8 authorized uses of the fund.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


AB 1638 (Caldera-D) - Public Postsecondary Education: Tuition and Fees

Exempts from all student fees and tuition any foster youth or emancipated foster youth who enrolls as an undergraduate in a public postsecondary institution by the age of 21.

Directs the Department of Social Services to maintain records of the total amount of tuition and fee waivers provided to foster youth in order to use the amount as matching funds for federal independent living funds.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


AB 1641 (Knox-D) - Middle College High School Programs

Directs the California Community Colleges and the Department of Education to enter into a joint agreement for the creation of a statewide system of "middle college high schools" located on community college campuses.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1642 (Knox-D) - Postsecondary Education: Student Fees and Tuition

Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to report to the Legislature on the impact that increases in student fees and tuition between 1990 and 1995 have had on enrollment at the University of California, the California State University, and the California community colleges.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

 


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AB 1681 (Campbell-D) - California State University: Temporary Employees

Grants permanent status to any California State University temporary nonacademic employee who has served at least half-time in the same classification for at least 4 consecutive years.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


AB 1698 (Firestone-R) - Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education

Makes numerous minor and technical changes to the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989.

Chapter 533, Statutes of 1995


AB 1721 (Ducheny-D) - Student Records

Expands and clarifies the responsibilities of community college districts and school districts as regards furnishing student information in response to court orders or lawfully issued subpoenas.

(In Senate Education Committee)


AB 1920 (Bordonaro-R) - California Student Loan Authority

Consolidates the California Student Loan Authority into the California Educational Facilities Authority, and revises and somewhat broadens the authority as it relates to student loans.

Chapter 917, Statutes of 1995

 


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School Employees


SB 385 (Rosenthal-D) - Classified School Employees: Alternative Workweek

Permits employees working a 4-day workweek, 10-hour day, to receive 10 hours' holiday pay for each holiday that falls on a scheduled work day.

(In Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)


SB 471 (Dills-D) - STRS: Health Benefits

Authorizes the Teachers' Retirement Board to contract for health insurance, including vision and dental care, for active and retired members.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 540 (Hughes-D) - Public Employees' Retirement: Classified School Employees

Allows schools or community college districts to enter into supplemental contracts for optional benefits for their classified employees that would be determined by the Public Employees' Retirement System.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 583 (Solis-D) - School Employees: Retirement

Requires classified employees of charter schools to participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System.

(On Senate Inactive File)


SB 691 (Hayden-D) - School Employees: Assaults

Increases fines for failure to report to law enforcement authorities when an employee of a school district or of an office of a county superintendent of schools is attacked or assaulted by a pupil, or for impeding such a report.

(On Assembly Third Reading File)

 


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SB 1054 (Solis-D) - School Districts: Classified Employees

Streamlines sections of the Education Code, deleting obsolete sections, provides greater flexibility to school district personnel commissions in selecting qualified candidates for positions, and adds procedures to settle personnel commission budget disputes.

Chapter 652, Statutes of 1995


SJR 27 (Costa-D) - School Lands: Retired Teachers' Compensation

Requests the President and Congress to add the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 while recognizing the state's valid claim to 2 school land sections within the reserve, and to compensate California's retired teachers for their 7% interest in the reserve upon its sale.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)


AB 34 (W. Murray-D) - School Districts: Employees

Prohibits a member of a school district governing board from voting on any personnel matter, except as specified, that uniquely affects a relative of that board member.

Chapter 22, Statutes of 1995


AB 215 (W. Murray-D) - Certificated Employees: Local Criminal History Information

Authorizes school districts or county offices of education to request local law enforcement agencies to conduct an automated records check of a prospective certificated employee to determine whether or not that person has a criminal record.

(In Senate Education Committee)


AB 430 (Cannella-D) - Teachers' Retirement

Allows specified retired teachers to return to their full retirement allowance if their beneficiary has already died. Extends from January 1, 1997 to January 1, 2002 the law which requires school districts to contribute additional amounts to pay for specified benefits.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee; reconsideration granted)

 


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AB 729 (Davis-D) - School Employees: Grounds for Dismissal

Permits school districts to dismiss teachers for "unsatisfactory performance," rather than "incompetency."

Chapter 392, Statutes of 1995


AB 921 (Friedman-D) - School Administrators: Assessment Procedures

Requires the Legislative Analyst, in consultation with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to convene a School Administrator Evaluation Work Group to develop criteria for assessing the competence of school administrators, especially principals, and submit a report to the Legislature by July 1, 1996.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)


AB 948* (Gallegos-D) - Teachers' Retirement: Benefits

Makes the $15,000-per-year earnings limitation for teachers collecting State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) pensions applicable to only those hours considered "creditable." Enables STRS to grant a limited-term exemption from the earnings limitation of up to 2 years for persons appointed for fiscal management and administrative oversight of troubled school districts. Also exempts recipients of "Golden Handshakes."

Chapter 394, Statutes of 1995


AB 979 (Thompson-R) - Certificated School Employees

Makes numerous changes intended to reform the teacher tenure system in California's public schools. Makes changes related to (1) credential duration, (2) performance evaluation, (3) continuing education, (4) suspension or dismissal, and (5) probation period.

(In Assembly Education Committee)


AB 1013 (Allen-R) - Certificated Employees: Notice of Action

Requires school districts and county offices of education to comply with specified due process procedures when demoting middle management administrators.

Vetoed by the Governor

 


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AB 1029 (Firestone-R) - Teacher Credentialing: Revocation of Credential

Requires that the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) deny the issuance or renewal of a teaching credential to any applicant, and revoke the credential of a credential holder, found to be insane by a federal or state court, unless the CTC determines that the person has been rehabilitated for at least 5 years.

Chapter 140, Statutes of 1995


AB 1122 (Cannella-D) - School Employees: Retirement

Clarifies existing provisions regulating the minimum crediting requirements and related definitions used by the State Teachers' Retirement System for the provision of retirement benefits.

Chapter 390, Statutes of 1995


AB 1124 (Davis-D) - Teaching Credential: Assignments

Extends the option of school districts to assign teachers outside their credential subject area to apply to all K-12 teachers, not just teachers in grades K-8, following a local assessment of subject matter knowledge. Limits teacher assignments outside of credential authorizations which are subject to approval by a local committee on assignments to elective course only, and eliminates the current restriction on the amount of time that a teacher is allowed to teach such subjects.

Chapter 927, Statutes of 1995


AB 1213 (Villaraigosa-D) - Certificated Employees: Probationary: Dismissal

Deletes the March 15 notice requirement and instead requires the governing board to notify each employee in a position requiring certification qualifications of the decision to re-employ or not re-employ the employee to the position for the next succeeding school year. If the governing board decides not to re-employ the employee, the notice would have to contain the reasons for that decision. Deletes the limitation on the application of for cause dismissal to specified probationary employees.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee; reconsideration granted)

 


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AB 1217 (Martinez-D) - School Employees: Safety

Requires school districts to annually distribute to all district employees a copy of the current laws, school district policies, and reporting procedures pertaining to the protection of employees from violent acts.

Vetoed by the Governor


AB 1220 (Pringle-R) - Certificated Employees: Salaries

Repeals the requirements that school district certificated positions be classified on a salary schedule on the basis of uniform allowance for years of training and experience and that school districts distribute salary schedules to certificated employees. Also authorizes school districts to develop and implement a performance compensation system for employees in positions requiring certification, and stipulates that performance compensation is subject to existing collective bargaining provisions, with the exception that public school employers are not allowed to unilaterally implement performance compensation programs. Establishes legislative intent that school districts experiment with a variety of performance compensation systems.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


AB 1280 (McDonald-D) - Certificated School Employees

Allows a certificated employee or a district to request a non-binding legal opinion from the State Department of Education (SDE) regarding the employee's status and benefits, as specified. Requires SDE to provide the requesting employee and district a copy of the legal opinion within 60 days. Also requires the district to receive a non-binding legal opinion from its own legal counsel before a district or district employee could request an opinion from SDE.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1298 (Ducheny-D) - Teachers: Retirement Cash Balance Plan

Establishes the State Teachers' Retirement System Cash Balance Plan which prescribes retirement, disability, and death benefits for part-time educational employees, as specified.

Chapter 592, Statutes of 1995


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AB 1401 (House-R) - School Employees: Employee Organization Dues

Prohibits the governing board of a school district, when reducing the order for the payment of dues, from deducting that portion of the dues that would support any political activities of the organization.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee;

reconsideration granted)


AB 1441 (Davis-D) - Teachers: Retirement: Benefits

Modifies the requirements for the eligibility of State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) option coverage, provides automatic option coverage versus the need to elect coverage, and make the assessment for cancellation of an option more reflective of the actual cost to STRS.

Chapter 524, Statutes of 1995


AB 1448 (Baca-D) - Teacher Credentialing

Provides that a person who has failed any portion of the CBEST may be eligible to be issued a credential if he or she completes specified college level courses (approved by the CTC) with a grade of "B" or better, in the subject area he or she failed.

(In Assembly Education Committee)


AB 1463 (Horcher-I) - Teachers' Retirement: Benefits

Adds an additional, optional, so-called Rule of 85 service retirement plan that allows service retirement for a member of State Teachers' Retirement System age 55 years or older, with a minimum of 5 years of credited service, without any allowance reduction, as specified.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)


AB 1489 (Gallegos-D) - Early Reading Intervention Teacher Training Act of 1995

Creates the Early Reading Intervention Teacher Training Act of 1995 for early reading assistance to the lowest-performing first grade pupils. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award one-time grants, not to exceed $6,500, for the actual cost of training one teacher in early reading intervention strategies and for the purchase of readers and tutorial materials needed for tutorial sessions in English or other languages.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

 


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AB 1497 (Baldwin-R) - Certificated School Employees

Establishes a 4-year pilot project in which 20 small school districts, chosen by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, are authorized to employ certificated employees, with at least 2 years of service with the district, under 4-year contracts which are not subject to collective bargaining.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


AB 1558 (W. Murray-D) - Certificated Employees: Student Surveys: Assessment

Authorizes school districts, through January 1, 2001, to select one high school to participate in a confidential student survey regarding performance of certificated personnel. Requires the State Department of Education to submit an evaluation report to the Legislature by January 1, 1998 regarding the overall survey process.

Vetoed by the Governor


AB 1722 (Martinez-D) - Teacher Credentialing

Requires that administrative or supervision credential holders meet specified staff development or teacher training in methods of providing specially designed content instruction delivered in English in order to be authorized to administer programs developed for limited-English-proficient pupils.

Vetoed by the Governor

 


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Miscellaneous


SB 20 (Johannessen-R) - School Testing

Creates a statutory right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, permits parents to inspect a broad array of documents and materials related to testing and evaluation, and prohibits tests and surveys from asking certain personal information without parental consent.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 40* (Johannessen-R) - Schoolbus Definition; Transportation Fees

Allows specified community college districts to assess transportation fees to offset the cost of transportation services, and exempts those districts from specified regulations related to transporting students below the 12th grade level.

Chapter 542, Statutes of 1995


SB 59 (Killea-I) - School Breakfast Program

Expands eligibility for participation in the state's School Breakfast Startup Grant program by lowering the qualification threshold.

Chapter 1, Statutes of 1995


SB 76 (Haynes-R) - Education

Requires school districts to require that all students read and pass a test on the contents of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Federalist Papers prior to high school graduation.

Also reinstates the Golden State Examination Program and reinstates the requirement for physical fitness testing, both of which sunset on January 1, 1995.

(On Senate Unfinished Business File; referred to Senate Appropriations Committee)

 


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SB 82 (Kopp-I) - School Districts and Community Colleges: Ballot Measure or Candidate

Prohibits the use of local education agency funds for purposes of urging the support or defeat of any ballot measure or candidate, as is the law with respect to state, county, city and special district funds.

Chapter 879, Statutes of 1995


SB 83 (O'Connell-D) - Schoolbuses: Unauthorized Entry

Makes it a misdemeanor for a person to enter a schoolbus or school pupil activity bus without prior authorization by the bus driver or other school official and to refuse to disembark after being ordered to do so by the driver or other school official.

Chapter 175, Statutes of 1995


SB 101 (Hughes-D) - Education: AIDS Prevention Instruction

Authorizes school districts to offer AIDS prevention instruction to pupils in grades 5 and 6.

(On Senate Inactive File)


SB 102 (Hughes-D) - Truancy

Expands the Education Code definition of when a student may be declared truant.

Chapter 19, Statutes of 1995


SB 119 (Costa-D) - Adult Education

Increases the adult average daily attendance for which the Washington Union High School District in Fresno County may receive state funding.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 120 (Costa-D) - Schools: Transportation Fund

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion supplemental home-to-school transportation funding according to a formula established in the bill.

Chapter 492, Statutes of 1995 - Item Veto

 


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SB 134 (Marks-D) - Public Library Learning and Literacy Expansion Act of 1996

Enacts the Public Library Learning and Literacy Expansion Act of 1996 to provide $350 million in general obligation bonds for public library construction and renovation, to be submitted to the voters at the November 5, 1996 general election.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 152 (Maddy-R) - Instructional Materials

Extends the sunset date for the Instructional Materials Program to June 30, 2001 and makes numerous nonsubstantive revisions to current law deleting obsolete or unneeded provisions.

Chapter 413, Statutes of 1995


SB 154 (Johannessen-R) - School District Reorganization: Costs

Requires that school and community college districts, rather than the general fund of the county government, bear the costs of district reorganization elections.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 181 (Ayala-D) - Special Education

Excludes pupils with visual perceptual or visual motor dysfunction from the definition of low-incidence disabilities in the special education program.

Chapter 203, Statutes of 1995


SB 210 (Solis-D) - Special Education

Adds "regular education programs" to the continuum of program options available under special education programs fully funded by the state. Also conforms state law to federal law as it relates to post-expulsion educational services to individuals with exceptional needs.

(On Senate Unfinished Business File; referred to Senate Education Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10)

 


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SB 228 (Kopp-I) - Charter Schools

Permits school boards to establish an unlimited number of charter schools in the state.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)


SB 232 (Hughes-D) - Pupils: Reporting Crimes

Makes the willful failure of a principal to report specific student offenses to law enforcement, as required by existing law, an infraction punishable by a fine of up to $500.

Chapter 205, Statutes of 1995


SB 233* (Hughes-D) - Asset Forfeiture Funds: School Safety and Security

Extends the time period for requiring asset forfeiture revenues which are deposited into the General Fund to be continuously appropriated from the General Fund into the School Safety Account. Deletes the December 31, 1995 ending date for the availability of the funds, and provides, instead, that these funds shall be made available commencing January 1, 1995.

Chapter 100, Statutes of 1995


SB 237 (Lewis-R) - California Interscholastic Federation

Repeals the July 1, 1997, sunset date for the statutory authorization for the California Interscholastic Federation, and establishes a new sunset date of July 1, 1998.

(In Assembly Education Committee)


SB 277 (Polanco-D) - Education: Citizenship Centers

Establishes a Citizenship Center Program to provide citizenship instruction, testing, and the dissemination of information about naturalization to prospective U.S. citizens through California Community Colleges, school district adult education programs, or community-based organizations.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)


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SB 292 (Greene-D) - California Scholars Program

Establishes a state recognition program for classes of students, teachers, schools, and school districts based on student performance as measured by a statewide pupil assessment system.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


SB 334 (Hughes-D) - Schools: Solicitations by Licensed Dentists

Prohibits a licensed dentist from generating business from pupils or their parents or guardians in the course of providing voluntary dental health screening on school premises.

Chapter 64, Statutes of 1995


SB 409 (Watson-D) - Ready to Learn Act: Pupil Assistance Programs

Establishes the Ready to Learn Act, which would require and maintain a pupil assistance program in each of their school sites. The purpose of the pupil assistance program is to provide an integrated and collaborative system of problem-solving and support for pupils so that all will attend school ready to learn.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 429 (Polanco-D) - Local Agencies: Contracts

Increases to $50,000 the threshold at which school districts and community college districts must competitively bid contracts and purchases. Also changes the amount of maintenance and construction work that can be accomplished by employees of the district, as specified.

Chapter 897, Statutes of 1995


SB 430 (Greene-D) - California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act

Establishes the California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act, and specifies legislative intent to create a system for individual assessment of pupils that assists pupils, parents, and teachers to identify academic strengths and weaknesses, in order to improve teaching, as specified, and to determine the effectiveness of school districts and schools.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

 


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SB 462 (Rosenthal-D) - Schools: Earthquakes: Non-Structural Classroom Safety

Requires the Department of General Services, Division of the State Architect to develop and distribute to each public and private K-12 school in Seismic Zone 4 a general guidebook about common non-structural safety hazards that could prove to be dangerous to children in the event of an earthquake. The guidebook would assign priorities based on degree hazard and include methods of reducing non-structural hazards.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 505 (Leonard-R) - Education Accountability and Efficiency Act of 1996

Establishes the Education Accountability and Efficiency Act of 1996, which would limit administrative costs for each school district to five to seven percent of that district's total expenditures, depending on the size of the district.

(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 514* (Greene-D) - School Districts: Year-round Operation: Air Conditioning

Allows school districts two years to actually implement multitrack year-round education (YRE) from the time of receipt of two types of YRE state assistance funding: (a) the air-conditioning and insulation funding, and (b) the implementation grant funding.

Chapter 553, Statutes of 1995


SB 543 (Hayden-D) - Schools: Disaster Preparedness

Authorizes any school district with more than 500,000 pupils (Los Angeles Unified School District) to include in the earthquake emergency procedure system guidelines for the storage and maintenance of emergency supplies including, but not limited to, potable water, first aid and sanitation supplies, search and rescue equipment and food.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)

 


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SB 589 (Solis-D) - Vocational Education

Requires that organized labor be represented on School-To-Career (STC) local partnerships. Also requires the state entity responsible for implementing and administering the state's STC plan to fund organized labor's participation in the STC system, including local partnership participation, from federal funds available pursuant to the School to Work Opportunities Act of 1994.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)


SB 619 (Peace-D) - Workers' Compensation: Vocational Education

Specifies that students engaged in "job shadowing" are covered by the workers' compensation policy of the supervising school entity. Also requires specified reports by the Bureau of Fraudulent Claims and the Division of Workers' Compensation.

Chapter 886, Statutes of 1995


SB 643 (Johnston-D) - School-to-Career Opportunities

Establishes the School-To-Career Opportunities Program, and authorizes the funding of demonstration projects pursuant to the federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 and Goals 2000: The Educate America Act.

(On Senate Inactive File)


SB 663 (Petris-D) - School and Community College Districts: Governing Boards

Redefines what constitutes refusal on the part of legal counsel with respect to providing legal representation for the personnel commission of a school district or community college district.

Chapter 900, Statutes of 1995


SB 699 (Hayden-D) - School District Reorganization

Establishes additional criteria, beyond those in current law, that must be met by any plan to reorganize the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Chapter 412, Statutes of 1995

 


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SB 729 (Johnston-D) - Vocational Education

Amends the law relating to regional occupational programs and centers (ROC/P's) to equalize revenue limits and the distribution of units of average daily attendance among ROC/Ps', and to reflect the philosophy and priorities of a comprehensive career preparation system.

Vetoed by the Governor


SB 741 (Hayden-D) - Charter Schools

Permits the Los Angeles Unified School District to operate up to 20 charter schools, rather than the maximum of 10 as permitted under current law.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)


SB 748 (Haynes-R) - Charter Schools

Makes a number of substantial changes to charter school statutes related to the role of teachers, the role of the state, the number of charter schools permitted, and the funding of charter schools.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 770 (Mello-D) - Pupil Testing: Bilingual Education

States legislative intent that the Superintendent of Public Instruction develop versions of any statewide pupil assessment in primary languages spoken by 10% of the statewide public school (K-12) enrollment.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)


SB 793 (Hughes-D) - Schools: Finance: Military Base Closure: Desegregation Programs

Makes changes in the voluntary desegregation funding for Pasadena Unified School District and the Compton Unified School District; and changes the average daily attendance decline threshold as it relates to military base closures.

Chapter 651, Statutes of 1995

 


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SB 803 (Monteith-R) - Schools: Home-to-school Transportation

Extends, until July 1, 1999, an increase in transportation funding ($350,000) provided to the Mariposa County Unified School District during the 1993-94 and 1994-95 fiscal years.

Chapter 443, Statutes of 1995


SB 822* (Dills-D) - School Crime Reporting Program

Makes technical changes to the school crime reporting statute to conform to the 1994 Budget Bill, and to tighten and clarify the kind of information to be collected.

Chapter 410, Statutes of 1995


SB 823 (Dills-D) - Education

Specifies the duties of outreach consultants for motivation and maintenance programs which are designed to improve the ability of schools to keep pupils in school. Provides consistent statewide guidelines for outreach consultants' performance and clarifies their role within the low-performance schools they serve.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee; reconsideration granted)


SB 881* (Hayden-D) - Bonds: Educational Exploratoria

Enacts the 1996 Educational Exploratoria Bond Act to provide $200,000,000 in state general obligation bonds for the purpose of educational exploratoria, to be submitted to the electorate at the March 26, 1996 direct primary election.

(In Senate Education Committee)


SB 940 (Campbell-R) - Education: Race Neutral Determinations

Prohibits any public educational institution in California from considering a person's race in determining admission to that institution, in determining financial aid, and in an evaluation of that person's academic performance, unless so ordered by a court. Allows these institutions to consider factors related to an individual's economic circumstances, his or her personal experiences related to discrimination and his or her academic potential.

(In Senate Education Committee)

 


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