1995 Significant Legislation
Pages 500-599
Index by Bill Number
[PAGE 500]
SB 431 (Rosenthal-D) - Gambling
Repeals and recasts the Gaming Registration Act, as specified. Enacts the Gambling Control Act. Creates the California Gambling Control Commission, and authorizes the commission to regulate legal gambling in this state, as specified. Creates a Gambling Control Commission consisting of five salaried members. No more than three of the five members may be of the same political party and a person is ineligible if within two years of appointment the person was employed by any gambling establishment. States legislative intent that the Act is not intended to expand opportunities for gambling but instead is to regulate businesses that offer legal forms of gambling, and pursuant to this, public trust and confidence requires strict regulation of all activities related to lawful gambling establishments.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 838 (Alquist-D) - Gaming Registration Act
Requires certain applications for registration under the gaming Registration Act and filed with the Department of Justice, to be acted upon by the Attorney General within 180 days of the application being submitted.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 931 (Polanco-D) - Indian Gaming
Designates the Governor as the state officer responsible for negotiating and executing, on behalf of the state, compacts with federally recognized Indian tribes for conducting Class III gaming, other than horseracing activities, on Indian lands in the state.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1050 (Solis-D) - Tribal-State Compact: Gambling: Employment
Requires that any Tribal-State compact governing the conduct of gambling activities on Indian land is to include, to the extent permitted by federal law, provisions guaranteeing the right of employees to join a union and to bargain collectively with their employers.
(In Senate Industrial Relations Committee)
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SCA 3 (Maddy-R) - California Gaming Control Commission
Creates the California gaming Control Commission, and authorizes the commission to regulate and license legal gaming in this state.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 11 (Isenberg-D) - Gambling
Repeals and recasts the Gaming Registration Act, and enacts the Gambling Control Act. Creates the California Gambling Control Commission, and authorizes the commission to regulate legal gambling in this state, as specified. Creates the Division of Gambling Control within the Department of Justice. Specifies that the Division of Gambling Control is responsible for investigation and enforcement of controlled gambling activity in the state. States that the purpose of this bill is to regulate businesses that offer lawful forms of gaming; public trust that permissible gambling will not endanger public health, safety, or welfare, requires that comprehensive measures be enacted to ensure that gambling is free from criminal and corruptive elements; that it is conducted honestly and competitively, and that it is conducted in suitable locations.
(Failed passage in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 19 (Tucker-D) - Gaming
Repeals and recasts the Gaming Registation Act. Creates within the Department of Justice, the Department of Gambling Control. Creates a five member California Gaming Control Commission, with a five year term of office. States that the purpose of this bill is to regulate businesses that offer lawful forms of gaming; public trust that permissible gambling will not endanger public health, safety, or welfare, requires that comprehensive measures be enacted to ensure that gaming is free from criminal and corruptive elements; that it is conducted honestly and competitively, and that it is conducted in suitable locations. States that unregulated gaming is inimical to public interest, and that it is not the intent of the Legislature to expand opportunities for gambling, or to create any right to operate a gambling enterprise.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1049 (Tucker-D) - Indian Gaming
Specifies that the Governor is authorized and empowered to negotiate and execute compacts with federally recognized Indian tribes in the state pursuant to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act for Class III gaming on Indian lands, including horse racing activities.
(In Assembly Government Organization Committee)
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AB 1133 (Hoge-R) - Gambling
Allows California-base publicly-traded companies to be licensed by the Attorney General for ownership and operation of gaming clubs in California, even if those companies have an interest in gaming operations not authorized by California law outside of the state, as specified.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1762 (Goldsmith-R) - Indian Gaming
Creates an account in the General Fund through which Indian tribes will reimburse the state for the costs incurred for regulation of Indian gaming.
(In Senate Government Organization Committee)
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Horseracing
SB 106 (Ayala-D) - Wagers on Out-of-Country Races
Authorizes thoroughbred racing associations to execute agreements with other associations that conduct thoroughbred horseracing to distribute the signal and accept wagering on out-of-country thoroughbred races, as specified.
Chapter 836, Statutes of 1995
SB 276* (Costa-D) - Horseracing
Allows a breeder award to the dam of an Appaloosa, regardless of whether the dam is an Appaloosa or not. Requires that a stallion owner, in order to be eligible for an Appaloosa stallion award, must own an Appaloosa sire only. Makes other technical clarifying changes.
Chapter 6, Statutes of 1995
SB 398 (Dills-D) - Quarter Horse Racing
Allows the California Horse Racing Board to permit quarter horse races over distances of not more than one-half of a mile.
(Placed on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 428 (Maddy-R) - Equine Drug Testing Laboratory
Authorizes the use of revenue bonds and negotiable notes or negotiable bond anticipation notes to finance the construction of the Equine Drug Testing Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Davis.
Chapter 825, Statutes of 1995
SB 518 (Dills-D) - Wagering: Out-of-State Races
Permits the California Horse Racing Board to authorize any thoroughbred racing association conducting a meeting in this state to accept wagers on the results of out-of-state races, regardless of whether the race is a feature race and regardless of the amount of the gross purse, as specified.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
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SB 525 (Maddy-R) - Horseracing: Welfare Funds
Clarifies the independence of a specified welfare fund for thoroughbred horsemen/women and backstretch personnel.
Chapter 248, Statutes of 1995
SB 782 (Lewis-R) - Wagering
Allows the California Horse Racing Board to approve parimutuel wagering races that are not conducted on the same day.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 954 (Maddy-R) - Satellite Wagering Facilities at Fairs
Defines the procedures for conducting satellite wagering at fairgrounds.
(On Senate Unfinished Business)
SB 981* (Thompson-D) - Wagering: Horseracing
Removes the restriction that the California Horse Racing Board shall only approve wagering on more than one race if all those races are conducted on the same racing program.
Chapter 254, Statutes of 1995
SB 1196 (Thompson-D) - Horseracing
Allows when funds are available, for fairs in the northern racing zone, to provide vanning of participating racehorses from any California Horse Racing Board approved offside stabling facility, as specified.
Chapter 80, Statutes of 1995
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AB 221 (Tucker-D) - Horseracing: Stewards
Repeals and recasts existing law to require the California Horse Racing Board to hire licensed stewards and official veterinarians as employees exempt from the State Civil Service Act.
(Failed passage in Assembly Government Organization Committee)
AB 222 (Tucker-D) - California Horse Racing Board: Drug Testing
Makes various changes in procedures and policies of the drug testing program administered by the California Horse Racing Board.
(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 302 (Tucker-D) - Horseracing: Parimutuel Wagering
Redefines "parimutuel wagering" to allow for wagering on horseraces by means other than tickets at a racetrack or other facility permitted by law to conduct satellite wagering.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 304 (Tucker-D) - Parimutuel Wagering
Provides that at a quarter horse racing meeting, the "breakage" multiple would be reduced from $.10 to $.05. Sunsets January 1, 1999.
Chapter 959, Statutes of 1995
AB 325 (Tucker-D) - Satellite Wagering
Requires signals of all racing programs to be accepted at each live racing meeting, without regard to the zone in which the racing program is conducted, as specified.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 369 (Tucker-D) - Gaming Clubs
Permits publicly-traded corporations who operate horse racing tracks in California to own and operate card clubs in California, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
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AB 370 (Tucker-D) - Satellite Wagering
Authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to authorize fairs in the northern zone to contract with a racing association for the operation of an off-site satellite wagering facility, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 371* (Tucker-D) - Horseracing: Arabian Horseraces: Out-of-State Races
Redefines the specifics of the breeders and owners awards program for California-bred Arabian horses.
Chapter 826, Statutes of 1995
AB 394 (Cortese-D) - Horseracing
Deletes language excluding a public parking lot from the definition of "enclosure." Permits advance wagering to take place in areas that are more accessible to the public, such as a drive-up window within a designated area of the parking lot."
(In Senate Government Organization Committee)
AB 455* (Hoge-R) - Horseracing: Parimutuel Wagering
Expands parimutuel wagering on horse races to include betting on additional portions of races other than just the outcome (propositional wagering), as specified.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 472 (Setencich-R) - Horseracing Revenue
Extends, for the 1995-96 year, statutory provisions providing the Department of Food and Agriculture with a method for allocating an augmentation to the department's budget of no more that 5% from the Fair and Exposition Fund to designated fairs, as specified.
Chapter 402, Statutes of 1995
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AB 811 (Allen-R) - Quarter Horse Racing
Requires the California Horse Racing Board to ensure that the simulcasting of thoroughbred racing after 7 p.m. does not interfere with the simulcasting of quarter horse racing.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1052 (Tucker-D) - Horseracing
Requires the formation of only one organization of associations and fairs to operate the audio-visual signal system pursuant to board approval and supervision, as specified.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1582 (Hoge-R) - Satellite wagering
Permits any racing association in the state to send audiovisual signals to, and accept intrastate wagers from, other locations in the state, as specified.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1583 (Hoge-R) - Wagers
Permits any licensed racing association or fair conducting a live racing meeting to transmit live audiovisual signals to a location that has an on-sale license for the sale of alcoholic beverages as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1618 (Tucker-D) - Satellite Wagering
Permits the California Horse Racing Board to authorize satellite wagering at any facility in the southern region that conducted satellite wagering in 1993.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)
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AB 1861 (Bowler-R) - Satellite Wagering: Thoroughbred Owners
Permits a recognized thoroughbred owners' organization to negotiate, receive, solicit, or obtain from any licensed thoroughbred association additional money for purses and other types of considerations, as specified.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1879 (Machado-D) - Allocation of Racing Days
Requires allocated days for horseracing conducted at specified fairs, to be conducted during the calendar period in which the general fair activities are conducted, rather than only on days which general fair activities are conducted.
Chapter 125, Statutes of 1995
ACA 29 (Kaloogian-R) - State Taxation: Reform
Repeals all state taxes except for flat rate taxes, at unspecified percentages, on personal income and business income, the ad valorem property tax, excise taxes on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes and tobacco products, and a tax on horseracing.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
[PAGE 509]
Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 408 (Thompson-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Licensing
Exempts from the existing 3-year moratorium any application for the issuance of retail off-sale beer and wine licenses if specified conditions are found to exist.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 1995
SB 436 (Rosenthal-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Licenses
Allows annual licensees who operate on an intermittent basis to return beer to the seller so long as the retailer notifies the seller within 15 days of any date the retailer leases to operate.
Chapter 97, Statutes of 1995
SB 584* (Dills-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Club Licenses
Authorizes a beach and athletic club, as specified, that does not discriminate or restrict membership, to apply to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for approval and issuance of a club license.
Chapter 173, Statutes of 1995
SB 632 (Thompson-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Tied-House Restrictions
Prohibits any person holding a beer manufacturer's license for a specific location, issued after January 1, 1996, from holding an on-sale license for the same contiguous premises as described.
(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 646 (Kelley-R) - Alcoholic Beverages: Licenses
Provides for the issuance of a "replacement" off-sale beer and wine license, as specified.
Chapter 835, Statutes of 1995
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SB 1171* (Thompson-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Out-of State Wholesalers
Expands the existing tied-house exception permitting an out-of-state wholesaler to own 0n-sale beer and wine licenses to permit such a wholesaler to hold on-sale general retail licenses.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 1995
AB 303 (Tucker-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Tied-House Restrictions
Allows an alcoholic beverage manufacturer to provide free food and beverages at retail trade events. Allows suppliers, other than suppliers that are members of a trade associations, to be charged the same fee for the privilege of providing food, beverages, entertainment or recreational activities, or for display booth space at these events.
Chapter 127, Statutes of 1995
AB 385 (Tucker-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Licenses: Fees
Increases the annual retail package off-sale beer and wine license from $24 to $100 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 683* (Tucker-D) - Alcoholic Beverages
Requires the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to send with each on-sale or off-sale license renewal notice information regarding the use of minor decoys to apprehend licensees or their employees who sell alcoholic beverages to minors. Provides that any hearings shall be held at the country in which the premises or licensees are located, as specified. Exempts an on-sale license for a conventions center hall, exhibit hall or auditorium from the law requiring bonafied eating places to correct objectionable conditions that occur during business hours on any public sidewalk abutting a licenses premises. Exempts an on-sale beer and wine license for a ballpark, stadium or coliseum featuring professional sporting events from this requirement.
Chapter 743, Statutes of 1995
Similar legislation is AB 684 (Tucker-D) which is in Senate Governmental Organization Committee.
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AB 805* (Cortese-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Tied-House Restrictions
Allows an alcoholic beverage manufacturer to hold an interest in an on-sale retail licensee, but solely for such retailing in or adjacent to the premises of a motion picture or television production facility, or a theme park affiliated with such a facility,
Chapter 232, Statutes of 1995
AB 957 (Gallegos-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Local Ordinances: Open Containers
Allows municipalities to enforce ordinances which would prohibit possession of alcoholic beverages in unopened containers in parks where possession of such beverages is prohibited.
(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1042 (Alpert-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Licenses: Denial
Prohibits a license from being issued for any premises for which a license has been denied or revoked, for reasons pertaining to the premises, 2 times within a 36-month period, unless 2 years have elapsed from the date that the last order becomes final.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1166 (McPherson-R) - Alcoholic Beverages: Beer Tastings
Authorizes an incorporated beer manufacturer's trade association to conduct beer tastings, as specified, on behalf of 1 or more licensed beer manufacturers for public educational purposes.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 1995
AB 1521 (Lee-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Labels: Crazy Horse
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the use of the name "Crazy Horse" in connection with an alcoholic beverage label. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any alcoholic beverage bottled, sold, or distributed in California to carry a label bearing the name "Crazy Horse."
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
[PAGE 512]
AB 1584 (Hoge-R) - Alcoholic Beverages: Licensed Premises
Makes it a misdemeanor for signs or other advertising matter used in connection with the licensed premises of any retailer of alcoholic beverages to be of an obscene nature.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1781 (Cortese-D) - Alcoholic Beverages: Temporary Off-Sale License
Allows annual licensees who operate on an intermittent basis, and temporary licensees, to return unsold wine to the seller, as specified.
Chapter 139, Statutes of 1995
ACA 29 (Kaloogian-R) - State Taxation: Reform
Repeals all state taxes except for flat rate taxes, at unspecified percentages, on personal income and business income, the ad valorem property tax, excise taxes on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes and tobacco products, and a tax on horseracing.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
[PAGE 513]
Immigration Issues
SB 139 (Polanco-D) - Undocumented Felons
Requires the Departments of Corrections and Youth Authority to identify undocumented aliens within 90 days of assuming custody of an inmate and transport the inmate to the U.S. Attorney General within 48 hours. Requires the Department of Corrections to report quarterly to the Legislature on the number of undocumented felons referred to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 173 (Alquist-D) - Income Taxes: Withholding
Requires the Employment Development Department (EDD) and Franchise Tax Board (FTB) to receive specified information from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding illegal alien employees. Requires EDD and FTB to determine whether those employees have paid, or their employers have withheld, the appropriate amount of income taxes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee; reconsideration granted)
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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education; reconsideration granted)
SB 347 (Campbell-R) - Student Residency
Prohibits illegal aliens, except those designated as refugees, from establishing residency 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 Universities, and Community Colleges.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
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SB 362 (Kopp-I) - Housing: Undocumented Persons
Prohibits housing authorities from allowing any undocumented person to reside in public housing units, as specified.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 608 (Leonard-R) - Employment: Report of Unauthorized Aliens
Requires the Department of Industrial Relations and the Employment Development Department to notify the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding the employment of illegal aliens.
(Failed passage in Senate Industrial Relations Committee; recommendation granted)
SB 976 (Mountjoy-R) - Education: Private Schools
Provides for the establishment of private school alternatives which require pupils receiving a scholarship to attend one of these schools to be a citizen, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident, or a person otherwise allowed under federal law to be present in the U.S.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 1113 (Russell-R) - Job Placement: Unauthorized Aliens
Waives or reduces penalties against employers found in violation of employing undocumented aliens if they fill the job vacated by undocumented citizens with legal residents or aliens.
(Failed passage in Senate Industrial Relations Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 1353* (Solis-D) - Garment Manufacturers and Farm Labor Contractors
Codifies a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Industrial Relations and the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service about information-sharing as it relates to garment manufacturers and farm labor contractors.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
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SJR 3 (Johannessen-R) - Immigration: Undocumented Residents
Requests the Congress to take specified action to address the illegal immigration problems of California and other states.
(Failed passage in Senate Health and Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)
SJR 17 (Peace-D) - Illegal Immigration
Requests the President and Congress to take various actions to provide for the reimbursement of state costs for the provision of services to illegal immigrants and for the transfer of illegal immigrants in state and local correctional facilities to federal custody.
Resolution Chapter 103, Statutes of 1995
AB 10 (Hoge-R) - Voting: Proof of Citizenship
Sets up standards relative to persons showing proof of citizenship before registering to vote or being provided a ballot.
(In Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
AB 81 (Napolitano-D) - Undocumented Aliens: Intimidation
Provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of the state have the right to be free from criminal intimidation on the basis of citizenship or legal residency in the United States, as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 83 (Napolitano-D) - Crimes: Undocumented Aliens
Provides that any person who coerces another person, believing that person is not a legal resident of the United States, to work for below minimum wage, to work in unsafe or unlawful conditions or to purchase food, housing, etc., is guilty of a wobbler.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor; placed on Senate Inactive File)
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AB 357 (Hoge-R) - National Guard: Border Patrol
Allows the California National Guard to patrol the California border and enforce immigration law.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 507 (Horcher-I) - Employee Residence Status
Creates a California Telephone Verification System that supplements the federally instituted pilot program which provides employers with information on immigrant employees.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 660 (Conroy-R) - Postsecondary Education: Citizenship Status
Requires each institution under the jurisdiction of the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to identify the citizenship status of every person enrolling in that institution.
(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 668 (Knowles-R) - Medi-Cal: Aliens
Eliminates the provision of pregnancy-related services to undocumented women and continuation of long-term care and renal dialysis for aliens who have exhausted appeals to retain an entitlement to full Medi-Cal benefits.
(Assembly refuses to concur in Senate amendments; on Assembly Unfinished Business File)
A similar bill is AB 326 (Knowles-R) which failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted.
AB 695 (Napolitano-D) - Hate Crimes: Immigration
Adds immigration status and homelessness to the list of protected classes of persons, for the purposes of hate crimes law.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
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AB 1031 (Firestone-R) - Pupils: High School Students
Requires persons who are issued a high school equivalency certificate to be U. S. citizens.
(In Assembly 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.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor; placed on Assembly Inactive File)
AJR 44 (Napolitano-D) - Employment: Unauthorized Aliens
Requires the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to take appropriate action leading toward the execution of a memorandum of understanding with the California Labor Commissioner regarding sharing information about employers who have been fined, imprisoned or cited pursuant to violations of the federal Immigration Reform and Control Act and who have not paid the fine, completed the prison term, or the citation has not expired.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
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Federal Issues
SCR 28 (Beverly-R) - V-E Day: 50th Anniversary
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the victory in Europe by proclaiming May 7, 1995 as the 50th Anniversary of V-E Day.
Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 1995
SCR 33 (Rogers-R) - V-J Day: 50th Anniversary
Proclaims September 2, 1995 as the 50th anniversary of victory over Japan (V-J Day).
Resolution Chapter 86, Statutes of 1995
SCR 38 (Craven-R) - U.S. Marine Corps
Commends the U.S. Marine Corps on the occasion of its 220th anniversary.
Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 1995
SJR 1 (Rogers-R) - World Government
Requests the President and Congress to stop appropriating funds for any military activity in support of any world organization unless the activity is specifically allowed by Congress, engaging in any military activity under the authority of the United Nations or of any world body, assisting in the formation of any form of global government, or taking further steps toward the economic or political merger of the U.S. into a world body or government.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SJR 2 (Russell-R) - Air Pollution
Requests Congress to amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the provisions mandating an employer trip reduction program in areas of severe or extreme air pollution, and to allow states to pursue cost-effective alternatives to solving this air quality problem.
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 1995
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SJR 3 (Johannessen-R) - Illegal Immigration
Requests the Congress to take specified action to address the illegal immigration problems of California and other states.
(Failed passage in Senate Health and Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)
SJR 4 (Leonard-R) - Federal Balanced Budget
Requests the President and Congress to adopt a Congressional Joint Resolution proposing a federal balanced budget amendment.
(In Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee)
Similar legislation is SJR 11 (Leslie-R), which is in Senate Rules Committee, AJR 8 (Pringle-R) and AJR 13 (Richter-R), which are both in Assembly Rules Committee.
SJR 5 (Kopp-I) - Clean Air Act
Requests Congress and the President to amend the federal Clean Air Act to retain the clean air standards, but remove requirements such as vehicle inspection and maintenance. Requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to re-evaluate the methodology and science used to measure the inventory of emissions and the effectiveness of components of the state clean air plans in complying with the goals of the federal Clean Air Act amendments of 1990.
Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 1995
SJR 6 (Alquist-D) - Federal Balanced Budget
Requests Congress to amend the proposed balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution to the effect that such an amendment will guarantee to the states that additional unfunded mandates will not be permitted in federal-state participatory programs, as specified.
(In Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
SJR 8 (Hayden-D) - Professional Baseball
Urges the Governor, President and Congress to seek resolution of the professional baseball strike before the 1995 professional baseball season begins.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
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SJR 9 (Kopp-I) - Fuel Taxes
Requests the President and Congress to enact appropriate legislation to eliminate all federal fuel taxes, except as specified, and to give states the discretion of levying their own fuel taxes.
Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 1995
SJR 10 (Kopp-I) - Transportation: Federal Programs
Requests the President and Congress of the United States to (1) reorganize the federal Department of Transportation; (2) eliminate federal programs for highways and transit; (3) limit the federal role in transportation to aviation, Coast Guard and Amtrak; and (4) abandon efforts to develop and establish a national transportation system.
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 1995
SJR 13 (Kelley-R) - Public Lands
Requests the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw specified proposed rules requiring a determination of the validity of public rights-of-way on public lands, and urges the secretary, in considering those proposed rules, to provide for public notice, comment and participation.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)
SJR 14 (Solis-D) - Filippino Vets of World War II
Requests the President and Congress to act favorably on pending federal legislation which would grant to Filippino veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces full veterans' benefits.
Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 1995
SJR 15 (Rogers-R) - Alaska-Russia Boundary
States, again, support for the State of Alaska to participate in any future negotiations involving its boundaries with Russia.
(Failed passage in Assembly Rules Committee; reconsideration granted)
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SJR 16 (Johnston-D) - Violent Crime Control
Declares that the California Legislature supports funding for community police and crime prevention programs, and that it opposes block grants.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
SJR 17 (Peace-D) - Illegal Immigration
Requests the President and Congress to (1) enact legislation to waive the immunity of the U.S. government to all suits regarding state reimbursements for illegal immigration costs, (2) enact legislation to transfer all illegal immigrants in state and local correctional facilities to the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons, and (3) appropriate and distribute all funds necessary to cover the state costs for providing services for illegal immigrants.
Resolution Chapter 103, Statutes of 1995
SJR 19 (Rogers-R) - Gulf War Veterans: Illness
Requests the President and Congress to take swift action to identify and locate those Persian Gulf War veterans who may be suffering from Gulf War Illness, and to make adequate federal funds available for research and full medical treatment for those individuals.
Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 1995
SJR 20 (Johnston-D) - Federal Minimum Wage
Urges the federal government to increase the minimum wage from $4.25 per hour to $5.15 per hour by 1997.
(In Senate Industrial Relations Committee)
SJR 21 (Leslie-R) - Tahoe Basin: Non-Motorized Facility
Urges local, state and federal agencies to cooperatively designate, by July 1, 1996, and develop, by July 1, 2000, an appropriate non-motorized transportation route on the California perimeter of Lake Tahoe, as specified.
Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 1995
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SJR 22 (Lewis-R) - Amending the U.S. Constitution
Requests the Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that restricts any constitutional conventions called by the states to debate and vote on proposed constitutional amendments, as specified.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SJR 24 (Kopp-I) - Airline Ticket Commissions
Requests the U.S. Attorney General to investigate whether airlines' imposition of a limit on travel agents' sales commissions constitutes a violation of federal antitrust law.
Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 1995
SJR 25 (Thompson-D) - Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing
Requests Congress to continue its Outer Continental Shelf Lands Moratorium which restricts oil and gas leasing in federal waters off California.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SJR 26 (Mello-D) - Student Loans
Urges the President and Congress to resist proposals that adversely impact student aid programs serving California students.
Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 1995
SJR 27 (Costa-D) - Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve
Requests the President and Congress to sell the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, and to compensate the State Teachers' Retirement System for its share of the proceeds of the sale.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
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SJR 28 (Peace-D) - Federal Clean Water Act
Requests the Congress and the President not to repeal or otherwise revoke the federal Clean Water Act by enacting HR 961 or similar legislation that would prove harmful to the health and safety of all Americans.
(In Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SJR 29 (Haynes-R) - Korean War Veterans
Honors the veterans of the Korean War and urges the establishment of a Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Urges the President and Congress to take necessary measures to ensure that the Korean War does not again become a forgotten war.
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 1995
SJR 31 (Polanco-D) - Child Labor in Foreign Countries
Requests the President and Congress to take all steps necessary to ensure that all goods imported into the U.S. are certified by the importer to have been made without involuntary child labor. Condemns the murder of 12-year-old Iqbal Masih in Pakistan.
(In Senate Industrial Relations Committee)
Requests Congress to enact and the President to sign the Endangered Species Conservation and Management Act of 1995.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)
Similar legislation is AJR 16 (Setencich-R), which is also in the Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee.
ACR 29 (Machado-D) - World War II
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of World War II and honors those who have served and continue to serve their country in the Armed Services.
Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 1995
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ACR 34 (K. Murray-D) - State of Israel
Commemorates the 47th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel.
Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 1995
AJR 3 (Sher-D) - U.S. Geological Survey
Requests the President and Congress to not eliminate the U.S. Geological Survey.
Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 1995
AJR 6 (Olberg-R) - California Desert Protection Act
Requests the President to support the repeal and Congress to repeal the California Desert Protection Act.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AJR 11 (Villaraigosa-D) - School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
Requests the Congress and the President to support the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs for children in the public schools.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AJR 15 (Alpert-D) - Tijuana River
Requests the federal government to expeditiously complete the building of the International Wastewater Treatment Plant on the Tijuana River near San Diego.
Resolution Chapter 35, Statutes of 1995
AJR 18 (Caldera-D) - Semiautomatic Assault Weapons
Requests the President and Congress not to repeal or otherwise weaken the federal Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
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AJR 19 (Speier-R) - Child Support Enforcement
Requests the Congress and the President to amend federal law to allow states to make the Social Security account numbers available to child support agencies for the exclusive purpose of child support enforcement.
Resolution Chapter 78, Statutes of 1995
AJR 20 (Kuehl-D) - School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
Requests the President and Congress to continue their support of the school day care food and nutrition programs as uncapped entitlement.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
AJR 22 (Morrissey-R) - Social Security
Urges Congress to enact legislation that allows a single person to earn $34,000 and a married couple to earn $41,000 before any part of the Social Security income is taxed.
Resolution Chapter 89, Statutes of 1995
AJR 24 (Cannella-D) - Cultural Antiquities
Requests the President and Congress to halt the illicit sale and trafficking in cultural antiquities, including Assyrian artifacts, and to support the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in its efforts.
Resolution Chapter 90, Statutes of 1995
AJR 25 (Davis-D) - Federal Impact Aid
Proclaims the Legislature's support for the maintenance and full funding of federal impact aid to local school districts.
Resolution Chapter 16, Statutes of 1995
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AJR 26 (Rainey-R) - Taxation: Private Activity Bonds
Requires the President and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to delete or revise certain proposed regulations of the Internal Revenue Service relating to private activity bonds that would limit the use of tax-exempt bond financing of public infrastructure.
Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 1995
AJR 27 (Conroy-R) - CHAMPUS
Requests the U.S. Department of Defense to make every effort to ensure that the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) provides quality medical care at convenient locations for military and veterans' families, and that future changes in the CHAMPUS program be designed to enhance, rather than reduce, benefits.
Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 1995
AJR 29 (Napolitano-D) - B-2 Stealth Bomber
Acknowledges the B-2 Stealth Bomber as a key element of the military strategy for the defense of the U.S., and urges the President and Congress to provide the necessary funding in the 1996 fiscal year for additional production of the bomber.
Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 1995
AJR 32 (Frusetta-R) - Federal Endangered Species Act
Requests Congress and the President to revise the federal Endangered Species Act in a manner that places as great an emphasis on human habitat and lives as it does on those endangered species protected by the act.
(Failed passage in Assembly Rules Committee; reconsideration granted)
AJR 34 (Morrissey-R) - Korean War
Urges the President and Congress to demand that North Korea (1) provide the fullest possible accounting of each and every American prisoner of war or American missing in action from the Korean War, (2) ensure the latest DNA biotechnology is to be used to identify the remains, and (3) arrange for enshrinement of the remains in a place of honor.
Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 1995
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AJR 35 (Morrissey-R) - Pearl Harbor Memorial
Urges the President and Congress to take every action necessary to ensure the building, dedication and maintenance of a Pearl Harbor Memorial in a suitable place of honor in Washington, D.C.
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 1995
AJR 36 (Kaloogian-R) - Congressional Term Limits
Expresses support of the Legislature for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution imposing term limits on Members of Congress.
(Failed passage in Assembly Rules Committee; reconsideration granted)
AJR 37 (Conroy-R) - Vietnam
States support for the struggle of the Vietnamese people for freedom and democracy, calls for an end to political repression and for respect for human and civil rights in Vietnam, and urges the United States government to make the extension of Most Favored Nation status contingent upon specified conditions.
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 1995
AJR 38 (Conroy-R) - Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)
Requests the California State University to immediately restore the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) to good standing on all campuses, and urges the President to withhold funding from any state-funded college or university that bars the ROTC program.
(Failed passage in Assembly Rules Committee; reconsideration granted)
AJR 39 (Setencich-R) - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Urges the President and Congress to review and reevaluate the federal proposal to end the involvement of the U.S. Corps of Engineers in flood control projects within the state.
Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 1995
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AJR 40 (Alby-R) - Military Base Closures
Urges the President and Congress to reject the entire base closure list to be submitted by July 1, 1995 by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission and to develop a more balanced policy with regard to the security needs of the United States.
Resolution Chapter 46, Statutes of 1995
AJR 41 (Bordonaro-R) - National Spaceport Program
Declares the Legislature's support of the enactment of a national spaceport program.
Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 1995
AJR 42 (Figueroa-D) - Human Rights: Harvey Wu
Requests the President and Congress to continue to use all diplomatic avenues available to press the Chinese government for the safe and speedy return of Harvey Wu.
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 1995
AJR 43 (Margett-R) - China: Conference on Women
Urges Hillary Rodham Clinton, the First Lady, not to attend the Conference on Women in China if China has not released Harvey Wu (which they did).
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AJR 45 (Morrissey-R) - Jimmy Tran
Requests the President to use the United States' new diplomatic relations with Vietnam to secure the release of American citizen Jimmy Tran from prison and his return to the United States.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 1995
AJR 46 (Margett-R) - U.S. Flag
Ratifies a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution relating to prohibiting the physical desecration of the United States flag.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
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AJR 47 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Los Angeles Police Department
Requests the U.S. Department of Justice to commence a criminal investigation of the Los Angeles Police Department, as specified.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
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HEALTH
NOTE: *DENOTES URGENCY LEGISLATION
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AIDS
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 889 (Leslie-R) - Prenatal Care: HIV Related Services
Requires prenatal care providers to offer an HIV test and HIV information and counseling to pregnant patients.
Chapter 873, Statutes of 1995
AB 681 (Hannigan-D) - Mandatory HIV Testing: Child Molesters
Makes HIV testing mandatory for persons convicted in criminal court or adjudged in juvenile court to have committed child molestation where the court finds there is probable cause that a bodily fluid has been transferred.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 1995
AB 1284 (Lee-D) - AIDS Education and Prevention
States legislative intent that the Department of Corrections and the Youth Authority develop an expanded HIV education and prevention program.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1407 (Mazzoni-D) - Clean Needle and Syringe Exchange Program
Establishes the Clean Needle and Syringe Exchange Program. Authorizes a needle exchange pilot project in San Francisco and allows the Department of Health Services to authorize additional pilot programs in other jurisdictions.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)
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Medi-Cal
SB 126 (Thompson-D) - Medi-Cal Subacute Care
Makes a technical distinction in defining the type of facilities to provide subacute care. Specifies such care will be provided in "health" facilities.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 204 (Maddy-R) - Long-Term Care Realignment
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish two pilot projects to test the viability of county-based long-term care realignment.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 294 (Watson-D) - Bottled Water
Makes bottled water a Medi-Cal benefit.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 370 (Wright-R) - Audits
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish and implement procedures for quality assurance and utilization audits of Medi-Cal benefits in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Also requires that any resulting contract be awarded to achieve the lowest net impact on the General Fund.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 412 (Marks-D) - Medi-Cal: Liens
Repeals the state's authority to place liens on the homes of surviving spouses of nursing home residents.
Chapter 548, Statutes of 1995
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SB 478* (Solis-D) - Disproportionate Share Hospitals
Provides for additional funding to public disproportionate share hospitals to be funded by a shift of moneys from children's and private disproportionate share hospitals.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 487 (Solis-D) - Disproportionate Share Medical Providers
Requires interest accruing on moneys transferred into the Medi-Cal Inpatient Payment Adjustment Fund through June 30, 1995 be distributed to transferor entities no later than January 1, 1996 in accordance with a specified formula.
Chapter 514, Statutes of 1995
SB 519 (Haynes-R) - Drug Manufacturers
Exempts from payment of the 10% Medi-Cal rebate those manufacturers who have provided an unspecified level of rebates under other rebate mechanisms. Any manufacturer who meets this threshold would have its drugs available without prior authorization.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 535 (Hughes-D) - Administrative Claiming Process
Alters the date on which local agencies participating in the Medi-Cal Administrative Claiming process must notify the Department of Health Services of the amount of funding necessary to meet participation requirements. The date changes from August 1 to July 1.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 684 (Watson-D) - Managed Care Plans: HIV and AIDS
Effective January 1, 1998 allows Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are permanently disabled as a result of a catastrophic illness and who receive benefits through a managed care plan to choose to receive services from a managed care specialty plan, if a plan is available. Also authorizes the Department of Health Services to contract with such specialty health care providers at a rate comparable to rates paid to managed care providers which provide similar services to the same type of eligible beneficiaries.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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SB 737 (Haynes-R) - Medi-Cal State Plan
Requires the Department of Health Service to publish in the California Regulatory Notice Register a summary of initial or revised state plan amendment requests or waiver requests submitted to the federal government, as well as any supplemental information requests from the federal government and the resulting state information submittals. Requires the department to provide full copies of these materials upon request.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 762 (Greene-D) - Medi-Cal: Contract Providers
Requires the Department of Health Services to annually evaluate Geographic Managed Care pilot projects for their effectiveness regarding the quality of care and beneficiary access. Also provides for counties participating in the pilot project to participate in the evaluation, design, and implementation of the managed care pilot project.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 835 (Thompson-D) - Medi-Cal: Managed Care
Requires the Department of Health Services to negotiate and establish an individual administrative cost limit in its contracts with prepaid health and Medi-Cal managed care plans. Requires the health care options presentation to be fully implemented by July 1, 1996. Requires provider selection or assignment within a specified timeframe. Prohibits door-to-door solicitation of Medi-Cal enrollees after July 1, 1996.
Chapter 859, Statutes of 1995
SB 891 (Leslie-R) - Medi-Cal: Administrative Appeals
Reduces the time limitations, from 300 days to the lesser of 60 days after receipt of a proposed decision or 240 days after closure of the administrative record, within which the Director of the Department of Health Services is required to adopt a proposed decision in an institutional provider audit appeal.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
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SB 948 (Watson-D) - Medi-Cal: Provider Reimbursement
Requires all Medi-Cal audit reimbursements made to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Centers (RHCs) to be audited, within specified time frames, by the Department of Health Services (DHS), and specify the audit claim resolution process. Limits the amount DHS may withhold from interim payments and requires DHS to adjust interim payment rates. Requires payments made by managed care contractors to RHCs for primary care, non-hospital services to be based on specified criteria. Requires DHS to approve all contracts between FQHCs and Managed Care contractors to ensure compliance with federal law. Modifies the budget trailer bill language concerning FQHCs which was included in Chapter 305, Statutes of 1995 (AB 911).
(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 990 (Polanco-D) - Medi-Cal Managed Care Providers
Specifies the percentage of a Medi-Cal health maintenance organization's network of providers which shall be comprised of traditional Medi-Cal providers and specialists.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1055 (Rosenthal-D) - Health Care for Indigents
Extends for the 1995-96 fiscal year Los Angeles County's authority to exclude up to $110 million of disproportionate share hospital payments from the financial maintenance of effort calculation under provisions of current Proposition 99 funding. Los Angles County would have to continue to meet specified conditions to maintain this relief. Also authorizes Los Angeles County to reduce its service levels to 75% of 1992-93 overall service levels.
A similar bill is SB 268* (Rosenthal-D) on Assembly Third Reading File.
SB 1145* (Watson-D) - Disproportionate Share Providers
Alters the due date for the Department of Health Services to issue the tentative listing of eligible disproportionate share hospitals. Changes the date from 60 days prior to start of new payment adjustment year to 30 days prior. Changes the release date of the final list from 5 days following start of new year to 30 days following start.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
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SB 1146* (Watson-D) - Disproportionate Share Providers
Revises criteria for eligibility for distribution of the Emergency Services and Supplemental Payments Fund by authorizing participation of a public agency hospital operating 2 or more qualified hospitals in any particular fiscal year.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 1995
SB 1147* (Watson-D) - Disproportionate Share Providers
Permits hospitals who have submitted plans under the Medi-Cal capital projects funding program to submit revised plans through December 31, 1996 if the modifications in the revised plans result in no greater costs than under the original capital project.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)
SB 1150* (Watson-D) - Medi-Cal: Pilot Projects
Extends the authorized initial duration of Medi-Cal pilot projects from 4 to 5 years and extends the Director of Health Services' discretionary authority to extend such projects from 3 to 5 years. Eliminates the requirement that pilot programs be evaluated annually.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 326 (Knowles-R) - Pregnancy-Related Services
Deletes pregnancy-related services from the scope of benefits available to undocumented aliens. Also repeals state-only funded, long-term care benefits to undocumented aliens.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 378 (W. Murray-D) - Medi-Cal Reimbursement Rates
Requires Medi-Cal reimbursement for the insertion, removal and reinsertion of Norplant contraceptive capsules to be established in accordance with the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale.
(Assembly refuses to concur in Senate amendments)
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AB 409 (Battin-R) - Evidence of Eligibility
Deletes evidence of voter registration in California from the list of types of evidence which are by statute part of acceptable verification of California residence when applying for Medi-Cal benefits.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 590 (Knox-D) - Medi-Cal Bottled Water
Adds bottled water and water filters to the list of Medi-Cal benefits when tap water is recommended to be boiled.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 668 (Knowles-R) - Medi-Cal: Aliens
Eliminates the provision of pregnancy-related services to undocumented women and the continuation of long-term care and renal dialysis for aliens who have exhausted appeals to retain an entitlement to full Medi-Cal benefits.
(Assembly refuses to concur in Senate amendments; reconsideration granted; on Assembly Unfinished Business File)
AB 911* (Vasconcellos-D) - Health Services
Makes changes to (1) the Medi-Cal Program, (2) certain health care programs, (3) mental health services, (4) a rate study conducted by the Department of Development Services, and (5) the Drug/Medi-Cal Program which are necessary to implement the 1995-96 Budget Act.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 1995
AB 994 (Katz-D) - Consumer Product Actions
Authorizes the Director of Health Services to seek recovery from 3rd persons to recover the value of benefits provided to Medi-Cal recipients because of medical conditions caused by tobacco.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
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AB 1184* (Friedman-D) - Medi-Cal Administrative Claiming
Specifies that county payments to the state required for participation in the Medi-Cal Administrative Claiming process are limited to services performed during the 1994-95 fiscal year or subsequent year.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1237* (Morrow-R) - Public Record Act Exemptions
Extends exemptions from the California Public Records Act (Brown Act) for provider payment rates and peer review/quality assurance reviews to county organized health systems.
Chapter 523, Statutes of 1995
AB 1238 (Bordonaro-R) - Medi-Cal: Reimbursements
Requires the Department of Health Services to enter into one or more contracts, covering the entire state, under which entities would be reimbursed for providing beneficiaries with medical equipment or supplies, if specified conditions are met.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1262 (Bustamante-D) - Medi-Cal: Beneficiary Notice
Requires the Department of Health Services to notify a beneficiary when a medical health care provider is reimbursed for Medi-Cal services provided to that recipient.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1807* (Friedman-D) - Disproportionate Share Hospitals
Permanently accelerates state receipt of 4th quarter federal fiscal year eligibility for payments to public and private hospitals under the SB 855 "disproportionate share hospital" payment program, resulting in an extra quarter of funding for the program on a one-time basis in 1995-96 (an additional $375 million).
(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)
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AB 1913 (Knowles-R) - Primary Care Case Management
Authorizes the Department of Health Services to impose additional sanctions against primary care case management plans (PCCM's) which violate terms of their contract and provides to PCCM's rights to administrative appeals.
(On Senate Inactive File)
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Mental Health
SB 104 (Russell-R) - Mental Health: Definitions
Defines "danger to himself or herself" as including, but not limited to, a person who, as a result of a mental disorder, is suffering or is in imminent danger of suffering substantial harm as a result of neglect or inability to care for himself or herself.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 227 (Watson-D) - Mental Health Services
Contains three major elements that pertain to the public mental health system: (1) permitting the state Department of Mental Health to delegate to counties all or part of the responsibility for determining ability of responsible parties to pay for services to minor children who are referred for treatment in state hospitals; (2) eliminating the department's responsibility to approve waivers allowing specified professional staff to provide mental health services while working toward licensure; and (3) extending the sunset on the California Mental Health Planning Council from January 1, 1996, to January 1, 1999.
Chapter 712, Statutes of 1995
SB 361 (Wright-R) - Human Services
Repeals the sunset provision of current law which requires the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to contract for the provisions of mental health patient rights and advocacy services until January 1, 1996. Also repeals current law which provides for the re-establishment of a Patients' Rights Office in the DMH on January 1, 1996 for the provision of these services.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 1995
SB 659 (Wright-R) - Mental Health
Eliminates the existing termination date for state contracts with counties to provide for model adult and senior county interagency mental health systems.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
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SB 1192* (Polanco-D) - Mental Health Plans
Clarifies existing law by substituting the words "mental health plans" for "local managed health care plans". Also deems a psychiatric health facility to be a hospital for purposes of participation in various federal programs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 911* (Vasconcellos-D) - Budget Implementation: Mental Health Services
Authorizes the state to pay Medicare premiums for patients of the state hospitals, and specifies that the intent is that the payments not exceed the proceeds from the Medicare payments. Also extends emergency regulation authority for 1 year, until July 1, 1996, for both the mental health managed care regulations and the provision of mental health services to severely emotionally disturbed children.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 1995
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Developmental Disabled
SB 410 (Thompson-D) - Services: Funding
Revises the notification and consultation process used to close a state developmental center. Requires the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) to submit a comprehensive closure plan to the Legislature, as part of the Governor's proposed budget, on or before April 1 of the fiscal year preceding the proposed closure of a developmental center. In preparing this plan, requires DDS to solicit input from specified organizations, governmental entities, and individuals. This process would include a public hearing regarding the proposed closure.
Establishes guidelines for the redistribution of funds between regional centers based on the ability of regional centers to meet placement goals from developmental centers.
Chapter 513, Statutes of 1995
SB 571 (Peace-D) - Regional Center Tracking Reports
Requires regional centers to prepare an individual tracking report on each client who has transferred from a state developmental center to an out-of-home community program on or after January 1, 1994. Requires these reports to be submitted to the Department of Developmental Services for summary and the summary report provided annually to the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Legislature and the Governor. Authorizes, upon request, the annual report to be provided to the public and parents or conservators of clients.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 514 (House-R) - Habilitation Services
Changes the definition of "full day of service" for purposes of state reimbursement to work activity programs (WAPs) for services to clients to allow full-day reimbursement if the client is not missing more than 30 minutes of the workday. Allows payment of program days to WAPs when a state of emergency has temporarily closed a program.
Also allows the Department of Rehabilitation and the WAP to jointly agree to an hourly billing practice instead of the current half-day/full-day practice.
Chapter 816, Statutes of 1995
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AB 908* (Brulte-R) - Budget Implementation: Independent Living Centers
Guarantees that the total funds appropriated in the 1995-96 fiscal year for the Independent Living Centers will be maintained for the 1996-97 fiscal year, and each year thereafter, if the appropriation of Social Security Act funds is different than in the 1995-96 fiscal year.
Chapter 307, Statutes of 1995
AB 911* (Vasconcellos-D) - Budget Implementation: Department of Developmental Services Study
Delays the due date to March 1, 1999 for the Department of Developmental Services' report on the basic living costs of a person with developmental disabilities that are to be included in the rates for facilities for out-of-home care.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 1995
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Public Health andSafety
SB 21* (Lewis-R) - Industrial Containers: Child Safety Labels
Gives manufacturers, distributors or sellers of industrial containers the option of applying to those containers either two child safety labels, one in English and one in Spanish, or one label with English on the top half and Spanish on the bottom half.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 1995
SB 30 (Watson-D) - Prostate Cancer Act of 1995
Creates the Prostate Cancer Act of 1995, which requires the transfer of funds by the Legislature in the Budget Act to a newly created Prostate Cancer Fund in the State Treasury. Provides that the fund would be spent for purposes of prostate cancer research into the cause, cure and treatment of prostate cancer. Designates the California Public Health Foundation to establish and administer the Prostate Cancer Research Program.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 72 (Johannessen-R) - Community Care Facilities
Establishes a 3-county pilot project to permit county probation officers to determine whether licenses of community care facilities caring for juvenile delinquents should be suspended or revoked, as specified.
(In Senate Criminal Procedures Committee)
SB 127 (Thompson-D) - Local Services
Extends the sunset date for the County Medical Services Program (CMSP) Governing Board until January 1, 1998, makes other procedural changes concerning the administration of the CMSP, and corrects minor/technical errors existing within realignment statutes.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 1995
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SB 164 (Maddy-R) - Emergency Medical Services
Permits service in a standby emergency department of a small/rural hospital to be reimbursed from the Emergency Medical Services Fund.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 250 (Haynes-R) - Abortion: Informed Consent
Enacts the California Informed Choice Act of 1995 to prohibit abortions except with the voluntary and informed consent of the woman. Provides that consent is voluntary and informed only if specified information is provided to the woman at least 24 hours prior to the abortion.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 295 (Peace-D) - Community Care Facilities
Requires registered sex offenders who are clients of a community care facility to disclose that fact to the operator of the facility. Requires the operator of the facility to disclose this information to any person who inquires whether any client of the facility is a registered sex offender. Imposes specified criminal penalties for failing to disclose or for misusing this information. Also makes minor, technical changes to the Penal Code.
Chapter 840, Statutes of 1995
SB 296 (Maddy-R) - Human Blood: Collection
Permits "blood donor phlebotomists" to collect blood in licensed blood banks.
Chapter 703, Statutes of 1995
SB 316 (Solis-D) - Nutrition
Commencing July 1, 1996, requires the Department of Social Services to develop and implement an ongoing nutrition monitoring system, as specified, to determine "food security" and hunger conditions in the state. Provides that the implementation of this program is contingent upon funds being made available in the 1996 Budget Act.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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SB 341 (Campbell-R) - Residential Child Care Facilities
Establishes a pilot project in Santa Clara County to give county emergency shelters for juveniles greater authority to impose appropriate restrictions on minors placed in the facility.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 365 (Watson-D) - Group A Streptococcal Infection
Requires the State Department of Health Services to develop a program to monitor clinical manifestations and changes in the epidemiology of Group A streptoccal infection.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 396 (Maddy-R) - Food Facilities
Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to approve and, when necessary, develop specified sanitation standards; allows DHS to assess an hourly fee to recover costs incurred for investigations; and makes other updates and revisions to the California Uniform Retail Food Facilities law.
Chapter 852, Statutes of 1995
SB 422 (Thompson-D) - Emergency Medical Services
Permits Emergency Medical Technicians I, II and paramedics to provide medical care within the emergency department of small and rural hospitals, provided certain requirements are met.
Chapter 239, Statutes of 1995
SB 489 (Solis-D) - Health Data: Breast Cancer
Requires the Department of Health Services to report to the Legislature quarterly an epidemiological analysis of the known incidence of breast cancer in the preceding calendar quarter and cumulative data for the immediately preceding 5 years.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
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SB 497 (Maddy-R) - Outpatient Settings
Exempts integrated health care delivery systems from the accreditation requirement under existing law and, instead, permits these facilities to certify that the settings are in compliance with a set of specified standards.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 503 (Petris-D) - Child Passenger Restraints
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.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 1995
SB 521 (Maddy-R) - Postsurgical Recovery Facilities
Extends the term of the demonstration project to evaluate the accommodation of postsurgical care patients to September 30, 2000. Requires participating facilities to pay for any state costs arising from the project.
Chapter 511, Statutes of 1995
SB 575 (Polanco-D) - Juveniles: Facilities
Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to license privately-owned correctional services facilities for children, as defined. Requires the Board of Corrections and the Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency, in consultation with the Department of Corrections, the California Youth Authority, DSS and various local and private entities, to promulgate regulations for implementation of the provisions of this bill and require facilities to provide evidence of financial responsibility.
(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 661* (Maddy-R) - Hereditary Disorders
Deletes the requirement that regulations adopted pursuant to prenatal screening be deemed emergency regulations. Also authorizes a private laboratory that has followed the Department of Health Services' policy in performing triple marker screening tests to provide the required testing and services under similar circumstances without contracting with the department.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
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SB 686 (Thompson-D) - Patient Classification Systems
Requires the Department of Health Services to convene a patient classification system task force to recommend standards to the Legislature by January 1, 1997 for patient care based on need and other patient characteristics.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 815 (Peace-D) - Care Facilities
Establishes minimum qualifications for adult residential facility (ARF) administrators. Establishes a certificate replacement fee of $25 for adult facility administrators. Also exempts certain foster care agencies and homes from a requirement to meet regularly with neighbors and respond quickly to complaints.
Chapter 706, Statutes of 1995
SB 929* (Petris-D) - Economic Poisons
Enacts the Pesticide Poisoning Prevention Act of 1995 to prohibit the registration of any new use for an extremely hazardous pesticide after the effective date of the bill. Requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a plan to eliminate the use of extremely hazardous pesticides registered prior to the bill's effective date.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 941 (Campbell-R) - Child Health: Botulism
Provides for the production and distribution of human Botulism Immune Globulin to patients suspected of having infant botulism.
Chapter 674, Statutes of 1995
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SB 949* (Watson-D) - Tobacco-Related Health Research and Education
Extends target age groups for media campaign and for school-based students. Extends the authorization sunset from 1996 to 2000 for tobacco education programs. Redirects funding from appropriations currently under litigation for research and education accounts. Eliminates Research/Health Education funding for the Child Health Disability Program, clinic services, California Children's Services, Genetically Handicapped Persons Program, and Access for Infants and Mothers. Similar amounts are eliminated for fiscal year 1995-96. Restores funding to Health Education/Research programs. Supplements Department of Education programs by $7 million; the media campaign by $9 million; competitive grants by $7 million; local lead agencies by $3 million and the research program by $21 million. Similar appropriations are made for fiscal year 1995-96.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 951 (Watson-D) - Sickle Cell Anemia
Requires the Department of Health Services to report to the Legislature on current practices designed to prevent and diminish the occurrence of sickle cell anemia. Appropriates $200,000 from the General Fund to the department for purposes of the report.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 967* (Watson-D) - Tobacco Education: Schools
Directs that anti-tobacco education competitive grants offered by public schools be based on proven, effective methodologies.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1109* (Leslie-R) - Health Facilities: Building Standards
Clarifies the definition of "hospital buildings,", allows less restrictive amendments and repealed building standards in the California Building Standards Code to become effective 30 days after filing with the Secretary of State, and extends the sunset date on the California Health Policy and Data Advisory Commission to review and make recommendations on hospital data collection.
Chapter 543, Statutes of 1995
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SB 1166 (Mountjoy-R) - Reporting of Abortions
Requires the Department of Health Services to compile data from specified report forms submitted by doctors and clinics on every abortion performed in California.
(Failed passage in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1169 (Lockyer-D) - Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy
Establishes a public awareness campaign concerning teen pregnancy targeted at high-risk minors.
(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1172 (Thompson-D) - Public Water Systems
Exempts non-community water systems serving a transient population and providing restrooms for employees or the public from the California Safe Drinking Water Act, if certain conditions are met. Sets fees for their regulation at $100 annually. Also requires operators of public water systems to employ only department-certified water treatment plant operators.
Chapter 673, Statutes of 1995
SB 1193 (Polanco-D) - Child Health Screening
Requires the Department of Health Services to report to the Legislature, by October 15, 1995, on the county and managed care plan implementation of child health screening and specified aspects of follow-up.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1194 (Polanco-D) - Congregate Living Health Facilities
Establishes a date, January 1, 1997, by which the Department of Health Services must adopt regulations for congregate living health facilities. Also modifies the terms of Medi-Cal reimbursement for these facilities to include "medical services and room and board."
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)
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SB 1287 (Hayden-D) - Estrogen-Imitating Chemical Compounds
Creates a multi-disciplinary task force to examine the relationship of estrogen-imitating compounds and cancer.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1290 (Hayden-D) - Health Facility Security
Establishes a program to award contracts through a request for financial assistance to support security improvements at qualified women's health care clinics, as defined in the bill. These include community clinics or county hospitals or clinics where at least half of the encounters for Medi-Cal recipients are for females.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1307 (Calderon-D) - Public Water Systems
Makes a number of substantive changes relating to drinking water, including the elimination of the requirement to establish recommended public health goals for contaminants.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10)
SB 1314 (Polanco-D) - Food Facilities: Vehicles
Requires establishment of a 3-year pilot project to allow specified food vehicle operators to store their inventory at their private homes.
(Failed passage in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1363* (Leonard-R) - Personal Right: Human Tissue
Establishes a personal property right in human tissue and organs. Also provides that a person has a cause of action for conversion for the removal of human tissue or organs without informed consent. Establishes special damages for such a cause of action. Also provides that a person has a cause of action for conversion for the unauthorized removal, use, or fertilization of, or the unauthorized sale or gift of, an ovum, embryo or any derivative thereof. States legislative intent to overturn a portion of the California Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Regents of University of California (51 California. 3d 120).
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
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SCR 7 (Hayden-D) - Family Planning Clinics: Violence and Crime
Denounces the violence at family planning clinics. Urges participants in the violence to immediately cease such activities and law enforcement to take all steps necessary to protect citizens from the violence.
Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 1995
SCR 16 (O'Connell-D) - Disabled Persons: "Service" Station Access
Requests the Department of Rehabilitation to convene a working group to recommend to the Legislature changes in laws concerning access by persons with disabilities to motor vehicle refueling services.
Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 1995
SCR 29 (Solis-D) - Iron Deficiency Anemia Prevention
Requests that the Department of Health Services convene a task force to examine the incidence of iron deficiency anemia among California's children; and to formulate a coordinated statewide effort to substantially lower the current rate of anemia among low-income children.
(Failed passage in Assembly Rules Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 196 (Morrow-R) - Abortion: Informed Consent
Requires a woman seeking an elective abortion to give informed consent, as specified, at least 24 hours prior to the performance of the abortion. Requires the woman to be informed of public and private agencies available for prenatal care, childbirth and neonatal care; that the father is liable to assist in the support of the child; that the woman has a right to review printed materials provided by the Department of Health Services (DHS) that describe the unborn child and that list agencies that offer alternatives to abortion; and that she must certify that she has received all of the required information. Requires clinicians to submit reports to DHS identifying the number of women provided the above information in person and by phone, the number who requested the printed materials, and the number of abortions performed. Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties for not providing the information to the woman. Requires DHS to publish a public report compiling the above statistics, subject to injunctive relief for failure to publish.
(Held under submission in Assembly Health Committee)
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AB 230 (Tucker-D) - Emergency Medical Services: Funding
Reduces the current surcharge on intrastate telephone calls currently used to fund the 911 emergency service, and redirects 70 percent of the funds for reimbursement to paramedics and ambulances and for poison control.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 247 (Baldwin-R) - Children's Services: Security Screening
Requires, at county option, all county welfare department employees who have frequent and routine contact with children to be fingerprinted and to sign a declaration regarding any criminal history for the purposes of employment with a county welfare department. Requires county welfare departments to exclude from employment any such employee who has been convicted of a criminal violation. Provides for specified exemptions.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 1995
AB 254 (Alpert-D) - Immunizations: Disclosure of Information
Authorizes local health officers, in conjunction with the Department of Health Services, to operate immunization information systems. Authorizes health care providers to share with the department and local health departments identification and immunization information contained in a patient's medical record. Requires confidentiality to be maintained, prescribes purposes for which the information may be used, and entitles a patient to refuse to permit record sharing.
Chapter 314, Statutes of 1995
AB 373 (Morrow-R) - Motorcycles: Helmets
Revises current law to require only motorcycle drivers and passengers under the age of 21 years to wear helmets.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 465 (Kaloogian-R) - Food Facilities: E-Coli
States the Legislature's intent that uniform standards, with specified times and cooking temperatures, be established toward the goal of effectively killing the Eschericha Coli 0157:H7 (E-Coli) bacteria in ground beef.
Chapter 329, Statutes of 1995
[PAGE 554]
AB 476 (Escutia-D) - Communicable Disease: Tuberculosis
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop a plan to provide housing for homeless tuberculosis patients, and facilities for the isolation of tuberculosis patients and for inpatient and outpatient care.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 480 (Villaraigosa-D) - Child Health: Anemia Prevention
Requires the Department of Health Services to award competitively up to 10 anemia prevention grants totaling $60,000 per year to local Child Health and Disability Prevention Programs in counties whose rates of iron deficiency anemia exceed the state average for any given year.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 487 (V. Brown-D) - Tattooing, Body Piercing and Permanent Cosmetics
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish, and requires local health departments to enforce, sterilization, sanitation and safety standards for the practices of tattooing, body piercing and application of permanent cosmetics. Requires the department to chair a task force to recommend further legislation concerning licensing, training and other subjects pertinent to the health and safety of clients of these practitioners.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 505 (Villaraigosa-D) - Health Care: Change in Services
Requires hospitals and providers of health care service plans to disclose to the public and the applicable administering agency any plan to restructure the delivery of health care.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 667 (Bustamante-D) - Telemedicine
Establishes a Telemedicine Advisory Task Force, with the assent of the Regents of the University of California, to study the potential use of communication technology in the provision of health care to rural and urban underserved populations.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
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AB 686 (Tucker-D) - Tobacco: Vending Machines
Prohibits sales of tobacco from vending machines except for those located in bars.
Chapter 823, Statutes of 1995
AB 733 (Speier-D) - Drinking Water: Fluoridation
Requires the Department of Health Services to adopt regulations requiring public water systems with at least 10,000 connections to fluoridate the water provided to their customers.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 1995
AB 767 (Bates-D) - Real Property: Department of Health Services
Requires property owned by the Department of Health Services located at 2151 Berkeley Way, in the City of Berkeley, be conveyed to the University of California, Berkeley if the university desires to obtain the property. After obtaining title, requires the university to sell, lease or exchange a specified portion of the property for uses that are not exempted from taxes. Also requires that the university establish and maintain a wetland reserve at the Richmond Field Station.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 803 (Villaraigosa-D) - Medical Facilities: Records
Mandates that hospital or county medical facility records relating to the negotiated rates of payment and/or the deliberative process through which those rates were reached, not be subject to public disclosure for a period of 3 years.
Chapter 138, Statutes of 1995
AB 819 (Cannella-D) - Municipal and County Laboratories
Requires local health departments to make public health laboratory services available for the examination of suspected infections or environmental diseases.
Chapter 807, Statutes of 1995
[PAGE 556]
AB 899 (Knight-R) - Blood Donations: Consent
Requires written consent of a parent or guardian in order for a 17-year-old to donate blood.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 911* (Vasconcellos-D) - Health Services
Makes changes to (1) the Medi-Cal program, (2) certain health care programs, (3) mental health services, (4) a rate study conducted by the Department of Developmental Services, and (5) the Drug/Medi-Cal Program, which are necessary to implement the 1995-96 Budget Act.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 1995
AB 977 (McDonald-D) - Breast Feeding Infants
Requires the Department of Health Services to include promotion of breast feeding in its public service campaign, and requires hospitals to provide either a breast feeding consultant or sources of breast feeding information to maternity patients.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 1995
AB 1162 (Speier-D) - Tobacco
Prohibits outdoor billboard advertising of tobacco products within a one-mile radius of any public or private elementary, junior high or high school.
Prohibits smoking in, or in any outdoor areas of, any state-controlled building or in any passenger vehicle, when the buildings or vehicles are used for specified state special schools.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)
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
[PAGE 557]
AB 1291 (Alpert-D) - Mammography Equipment
Makes a number of findings, and states that it is legislative intent that California registration and license fees for mammography equipment be reduced to reflect duplicative costs. Also calls for the Department of Health Services to evaluate the current federal and state requirements and eliminate any inconsistencies that do not improve patient care.
(Withdrawn from Governor; held at Senate Desk)
AB 1416 (Gallegos-D) - Health Care Facilities: Loan Insurance Program
Requires the development of unique criteria for reviewing applications from clinics for Cal-Mortgage loan insurance. Also makes equipment loans eligible for loan insurance, and requires the Advisory Loan Insurance Committee to meet quarterly.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1447 (Baca-D) - Organ Donation
Requires general acute care hospitals, near the time or at the time of death of a patient, to offer to pay the interment, cremation or other lawful funeral expenses for that patient if the individual or family or legal representative had made an anatomical gift.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1529 (Vasconcellos-D) - Marijuana: Medical Use
Provides that the possession or cultivation of marijuana for personal medicinal use, when the medicinal use has been approved by a physician and surgeon for the treatment of aids, cancer, glaucoma, or multiple sclerosis, is exempt from prosecution.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1912 (Friedman-D) - Breast and Prostate Cancer: Reporting
Requires the Director of Health Services to convene a technical advisory committee to formulate an annual report on breast and prostate cancer survival rates, broken down by health care service plan or insurer.
Vetoed by the Governor
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AB 1954 (Sher-D) - Drinking Water: Treatment Technology
Requires the Department of Social Services, after January 1, 2000, to adopt a finding of the best available technology for each water contaminant for which a recommended public health goal and a primary drinking water standard have been adopted. Requires a public hearing on the issue.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1976* (Burton-D) - Residential Care for the Chronically Ill
Clarifies and modifies the type of shared housing arrangement for chronically ill residents granted licensure exemption.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 1995
[PAGE 559]
Seismic Safety
SB 146* (Maddy-R) - Seismic Retrofit Bond Act
Enacts the Seismic Retrofit Bond Act of 1996, and upon voter approval, authorizes the issuance and sale of $2 billion of general obligation bonds for the seismic retrofit of state-owned highways and toll bridges, including $650 million for the retrofit of the toll bridges. Requires the act to be placed on the March 1966 primary election ballot, and if it fails, to be placed on the November 1966 general election ballot.
Chapter 310, Statutes of 1995
SB 304 (Rosenthal-D) - Building Standards: Water Heaters
Requires sellers of property containing an existing water heater to certify to the purchaser that the water heater is braced, anchored or strapped to resist falling during an earthquake.
Chapter 98, Statutes of 1995
SB 495 (Alquist-D) - Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Technologies
Requires the State Architect to develop by January 1, 1997, and update as needed, a list of new and emerging technologies for earthquake hazard mitigation technologies. Requires the Seismic Safety Commission, the State Architect, and the Strong Motion Office of the Division of Mines and Geology of the Department of Conservation to encourage private and public investment in earthquake hazard mitigation technology. Requires a design professional to advise the owner of a structure regarding the standards contained in the California Building Standards Code as they relate to earthquake hazards, and regarding available earthquake hazard mitigating technology, when employed to provide services.
(In Senate Housing and Land Use Committee)
SB 577 (Rosenthal-D) - Seismic Gas Shutoff Device
Authorizes the Department of the State Architect to conduct unannounced inspections of any laboratory or inspection service that tests earthquake-sensitive gas shut-off devices. Requires mobilehome park owners to install these devices in their parks by the year 2000, and requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a catastrophic memorandum account that allows owners to pass on to tenants 50% of the cost, as specified.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
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SB 592 (Alquist-D) - California Seismic Retrofit Program
Creates the California Seismic Retrofit Program within the California Housing Finance Agency for the purpose of providing tax-exempt financing of seismic retrofitting for non-public structures.
(In Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee)
SB 786* (Polanco-D) - Earthquake Safety: Public Buildings
Appropriates $173,485,000 from the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990 to make vital earthquake safety improvements upon seismically unsafe state and local government buildings.
(In Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
SB 878 (Hayden-D) - Hospital Buildings
Requires that hospitals, other than those operated by the University of California, notify patients, patients' families, and employees when a hospital is not required to meet post-1973 seismic safety standards.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 1010 (Costa-D) - Assessment Liens for Seismic Improvements
Forbids liens on private property created by a local entity for purposes of seismic safety to exceed 80% of current appraised value and requires notice to existing lienholders prior to any vote authorizing financing.
Chapter 385, Statutes of 1995
SB 1046 (Alquist-D) - Seismic Safety Commission
Increases the membership of the Seismic Safety Commission from 17 to 19.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
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AB 1064 (Martinez-D) - Facilities: Schools and Colleges
Requires the Division of State Architect to do the following:
1. Develop a procedure to identify public school buildings and community colleges that have the potential to collapse in an earthquake and to evaluate the seismic vulnerability of these buildings that were built prior to 1976.
2. Develop procedures for school districts and community college boards to identify and retrofit walkways, shelters and canopies that might endanger a pupil.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1455 (Cortese-D) - Earthquake Protection
Requires the Seismic Safety Commission to revise the "Homeowner's Guide to Earthquake Safety" to include a separate section relating to earthquake safety for manufactured homes and mobilehomes by July 1, 1996. Also requires manufactured home or mobilehome sellers, that initially installed their homes before September 1, 1994, to deliver a copy of the "Homeowner's Guide to Earthquake Safety" to any purchaser before the home is transferred.
(In Senate Housing and Land Use Committee)
See the Earthquake Insurance subsection of Insurance for earthquake insurance legislation.
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Health Professionals
SB 26 (Alquist-D) - Family Counselors, Educational Psychologists, Social Workers
Increases various licensure-related fees for marriage, family and child counselors, licensed educational psychologists and clinical social workers. Also sets forth continuing education requirements for marriage, family and child counselors and clinical social workers as a condition of license renewal.
Chapter 839, Statutes of 1995
SB 42* (Kelley-R) - Veterinary Medicine
Renames the Board of Examiners in Veterinary Medicine as the Veterinary Medical Board, renames the Animal Health Technician Examining Committee as the Registered Veterinary Technician Examining Committee, and renames animal health technician as veterinary technician. Makes various changes to licensing and practice provisions.
Chapter 60, Statutes of 1995
SB 113 (Maddy-R) - Clinical Laboratories
Consolidates regulation of clinical laboratories, reconciling federal standards established under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 and existing state law. Requires the state Department of Health Services to undertake regulatory responsibility over laboratories.
Specifies standards for supervision of laboratories, and who can perform laboratory procedures of different complexity. Sets out a fee schedule for licensees and laboratory registration.
Chapter 510, Statutes of 1995
SB 158 (Peace-D) - Dentists
Raises the threshold for reporting dental malpractice settlements or arbitration awards to the Board of Dental Examiners from $3,000 to $10,000.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 1995
[PAGE 563]
SB 195 (Costa-D) - Sexual Harassment
Revises current law relating to liability in a cause of sexual harassment to delete reference to marriage, family, or child counselor and licensed social worker and instead reference a definition of psychotherapist that includes those professionals and other healing arts practitioners.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 255 (Killea-I) - Midwives
Revises the current requirement that certified nurse-midwives be generally supervised by a physician to require "collaboration" instead and authorizes health facilities to appoint certified nurse-midwives to their medical staffs.
(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 334 (Hughes-D) - Schools: Solicitations by 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 469 (Kelley-R) - Hemodialysis
Makes various revisions to the Hemodialysis Technician Training Act.
Chapter 302, Statutes of 1995
SB 472 (Petris-D) - Neurological Degenerative Disorders: Training
Authorizes diagnostic and treatment centers to, in addition to Alzheimer's disease, increase the training of health care professionals with respect to other acquired brain impairments to the extent that centers have the requisite expertise. Also authorizes the Department of Mental Health's statewide resources consultant to review proposed training curricula, review data collected by health facilities serving patients with Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease in their efforts in determining the means of providing care and forward the information to appropriate state departments.
Chapter 551, Statutes of 1995
[PAGE 564]
SB 486 (Solis-D) - Dietitians
Provides reimbursement of nutritional advice, counseling and treatments to dietitians, registered dietitians and other specified nutrition professionals.
Chapter 180, Statutes of 1995
SB 510 (Maddy-R) - Optometry
Expands the scope of practice of optometry to specifically include "diagnosis" of eye disease and the treatment of eye disease with drugs.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 511 (Leslie-R) - Dentistry
Specifies the professional requirements of a member of the Committee on Dental Auxiliaries.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 563 (Rogers-R) - Hearing Aid Dispensers
Expands the continuing education requirements for hearing aid dispensers.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 570 (Rosenthal-D) - Allied Dental Health Professionals
Creates as a new category of allied dental health professional, a "registered dental hygienist in alternative practice," to independently provide services to patients in schools, residences of the homebound and residential facilities and other institutions.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 609 (Rosenthal-D) - Healing Arts: Discipline: Reporting
Makes various changes in existing law relating to the reporting of felony convictions of physicians and surgeons to the Medical Board of California (MBC) and increases the enforcement capabilities of the MBC.
Chapter 708, Statutes of 1995
[PAGE 565]
SB 638 (Alquist-D) - Point-of-Care Testing
Authorizes health care personnel with demonstrated competency to perform point-of-care laboratory testing. Sets forth legislative declarations that registered nurses may use point-of-care laboratory testing devices.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 640 (Craven-R) - Nonresident Contact Lens Sellers
Requires nonresident contract lens sellers to register with the Medical Board of California.
Chapter 853, Statutes of 1995
SB 668 (Polanco-D) - Optometry: Ancillary Personnel
Permits ancillary (unlicensed) personnel who work under the direct, personal, in-office supervision of an optometrist to assist in the preparation of the patient and the preliminary collection of data. Prohibits an optometrist from permitting ancillary personnel to collect data requiring the exercise of professional judgment or skill of an optometrist that includes, but is not limited to, the performance of subjective refraction procedures, contact tonometry, data analysis, or prescribing and determining any treatment plan.
(In Conference)
SB 675 (Craven-R) - Family Counselors
Authorizes marriage, family and child counselors to participate in or operate a group advertising and referral service. Sets forth conditions for operating such referral service.
Chapter 559, Statutes of 1995
SB 685 (Watson-D) - Healing Arts: Sexual Misconduct
Applies existing sexual misconduct prohibitions to alcohol and drug abuse counselors.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 1995
[PAGE 566]
SB 777 (Polanco-D) - Psychologists: Prescribing Drugs
Requires the Board of Psychology to establish a certification program to grant licensed psychologists the right to prescribe drugs.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 779 (Lewis-R) - Physicians and Surgeons: Discipline: Diversion Programs
Establishes additional procedures relating to participation in the Medical Board of California's drug or alcohol diversion program and the further investigation and discipline of a licensee who is in the diversion program.
Chapter 252, Statutes of 1995
SB 817 (O'Connell-D) - Certified Home Health Aides and Certified Nurse Assistants
Establishes a renewal process for certified home health aides and certified nurse assistants. Also clarifies existing law regarding the imposition of citations under state or federal law related to the operation of nursing homes.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 1995
SB 880 (Killea-I) - Social Workers: Continuing Education
Prohibits the renewal of a clinical social worker's license without certification of completion of 36 hours of approved continuing education the preceding 2 years. Requires the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners to establish a procedure for approving providers of continuing education courses, assess specified fees by January 1, 1997, and report to the Legislature by January 1, 2001.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 890 (Leslie-R) - Physicians and Surgeons: Discipline
Authorizes the Medical Board of California to investigate payment of physician malpractice judgments, settlements or arbitration awards paid for by the physician's employer.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
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SB 988 (Polanco-D) - Pharmacy: Discipline: Furnishing Dangerous Drugs
Provides for the furnishing of dangerous drugs and devices to recognized schools of nursing and to officers of an ocean vessel. Also requires the automatic suspension of a pharmacy license certificate, registration, exemption or permit after conviction of a felony.
Chapter 442, Statutes of 1995
SB 1119 (Watson-D) - Licensing Agencies: Discipline: Expert Witnesses
Excludes court-appointed licensed psychiatrists or psychologists in child custody matters from disciplinary investigation or action by his or her licensing agency for any court-directed activity within the scope of the court appointment except acts of unprofessional conduct.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1127 (Watson-D) - Recreation: Therapy
Establishes qualification standards for recreation therapists and assistants.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 1334 (Wright-R) - Radiologic Technology
Changes the required level of physician supervision of radiologic technologists when assisting in the completion of an injection to administer contrast materials.
Chapter 554, Statutes of 1995
AB 235 (Burton-D) - Physicians and Surgeons: Peer Review Reports: Unprofessional Conduct
Provides that it is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to make a false report to a health facility or clinic peer review body about another physician, in order to benefit economically. Requires the Division of Medical Quality to request, and the health facility to provide, all records and documents relating to the peer review action, upon the filing of a complaint by a physician that another physician filed a false report.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
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AB 281 (Kuehl-D) - Medical Board of California
Establishes a public member majority on the Medical Board of California and its component divisions.
(Failed passage in Senate Business and Professions Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 593 (Boland-R) - Crimes Against Social Workers
Extends the application of penalties and enhancements, with regard to the assault of a peace officer, to those offenses committed against a social worker, child abuse investigator or other certified or licensed personnel working with child and family services within a social services department.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 596 (Knight-R) - Volunteer Physicians and Surgeons: Liability Immunity
Exempts physicians and surgeons from being held liable for any injury or death caused by an act or omission while rendering voluntary medical services at a privately operated facility, as specified.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 610 (Bustamante-D) - Family Counselors: Licensure Requirements
Establishes an experience requirement for marriage, family and child counselor intern supervisors. Also replaces the current system of granting up to 3 one-year internship extensions with authorization for a new internship, with a maximum 6-year term.
Chapter 327, Statutes of 1995
AB 611 (Aguiar-R) - Pharmacy
Applies a number of the various provisions regulating pharmacies and medical device retailers to the new licensing category of "veterinary food-animal drug retailers," and makes corresponding technical changes.
Chapter 350, Statutes of 1995
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AB 753 (Morrow-R) - Podiatrist Assistants
Authorizes podiatrists to employ a podiatrist assistant; specifies the requirements an individual must meet to become a podiatrist assistant; and imposes specified fees to be paid by podiatrists before they could employ a podiatrist assistant and fees to be paid by individuals before they could be licensed to become a podiatrist assistant.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 944 (Gallegos-D) - Clinical Psychologists
Requires health facilities to include in their rules, provisions for medical staff privileges for clinical psychologists and the use of the facility. Provides that medical staff status includes the right to practice full clinical privileges within the scope of licensure.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1072 (Morrow-R) - Emergency Medicine: Cost Containment
Establishes the California Emergency Medicine Cost Containment Pilot Project for the development of practice parameters for emergency room physicians and surgeons for use as an affirmative defense in malpractice litigation.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1077 (Hannigan-D) - Nursing
Authorizes certified nurse practitioners to furnish a broader range of drugs and devices, including specified controlled substances, pursuant to protocols, to a broader range of patients and in additional practice settings.
(Failed passage in Senate Business and Professions Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1107 (Campbell-D) - Pharmacists: Dispensing Contact Lenses
Sets up a procedure to authorize pharmacists to dispense replacement contact lenses without requiring that they also be registered as dispensing opticians with the Medical Board of California. Provides the Medical Board of California and the Pharmacy Board with the necessary information and registration to regulate and enforce the requirements of the bill. Also strengthens the Pharmacy Board's authority over nonresident pharmacies by adding the requirement for disclosing an agent for service of process in this state and disclosing general partners.
Chapter 719, Statutes of 1995
[PAGE 570]
AB 1136 (V. Brown-D) - Pharmacy
Brings pharmaceutical benefit managers under the purview of the Department of Corporations and Knox-Keene regulations, subjecting drug formularies to certain standards.
(In Conference)
AB 1147 (Friedman-D) - Medical Referral Services
Prohibits the for-profit referral for diagnostic imaging services.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1163 (V. Brown-D) - Pharmacy
Permits a registered nurse who is employed by a home health agency to orally transmit a prescription to the furnisher and requires the furnisher to record the name of the person who transmits the order.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1176 (Cunneen-R) - Clinical Nurse Specialists
Establishes clinical nurse specialist as protected title, effective July 1, 1996.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1409 (V. Brown-D) - Geriatric Technicians: Pilot Project
Extends the Sonoma County geriatric technician project, increases the number of possible pilot project sponsors, and requires the issuance of a comprehensive evaluation of the pilot project and any additional pilot projects that are initiated by other sponsors, without terminating the current project.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1471 (Friedman-D) - Medicine
Makes various revisions to the statues specifying when foreign-trained physicians may practice medicine; requires a physician who has obtained a waiver of license renewal fees due to a disability, upon seeking reinstatement, to establish that the disability no longer exists or no longer affects the ability to practice medicine; requires the Medical Board of California (MBC) to charge licensing applicants who take an oral exam, a fee sufficient to recover the MBC's actual costs; repeals existing requirements for an applicant to receive a certificate to practice podiatric medicine on January 1, 2000 and institutes new requirements as of that date; authorizes the MBC to mail a questionnaire to every physician to establish that the physician is in compliance with the Medical Practices Act; requires physicians to respond to the questionnaire; and makes other technical revisions to MBC statutes.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 1995
AB 1508 (V. Brown-D) - Psychiatric Technicians
Expands the variety of settings in which psychiatric technicians are authorized to work to include institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department of Social Services.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1727 (Bustamante-D) - Medical Board of California
Requires the Medical Board of California to annually prepare and issue a report to inform the public of all awards of $50,000 or more against a licensee for acts of medical malpractice.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1825 (Escutia-D) - Healing Arts: Sexual Misconduct
Provides that provisions of current law pertaining to sexual misconduct applying to psychotherapists and physicians and surgeons also apply to alcohol and drug treatment professionals.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1864 (Morrow-R) - Health Care Referrals
Revises, clarifies, or broadens the current state law's exemptions under the Physician Ownership and Referral Act, and makes several technical or grammatical changes.
Chapter 221, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1969 (Isenberg-D) - Optometry
Permits optometrists to use pharmaceuticals for examining and treating the human eye or its appendages and adnexa for any disease or pathological condition. Authorizes an optometrist to write a prescription and to furnish drugs and devices under certain conditions, which is similar to the authority for dentists, podiatrists, and veterinarians.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1974* (Friedman-D) - Medicine: Peer Review Procedure
Requires peer review bodies to report to the Medical Board of California's diversion program regarding the initiation and completion of investigations concerning physicians who may be impaired by a mental or physical condition. Requires the Medical Board to investigate peer review reports under specified circumstances and within 30 days.
(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)
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HOUSING
NOTE: *DENOTES URGENCY LEGISLATION
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Finance, Development and Redevelopment
SB 77 (Mello-D) - Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord
Extends the period of time during which the Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord would be authorized to waive a portion of the deposit required to be made to its Low-and Moderate-Income Housing Fund
Chapter 45, Statutes of 1995
SB 78 (Mello-D) - Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord
Exempts the Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord from the requirement to replace demolished housing units if they were built before January 1, 1970.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
SB 80* (Mello-D) - Fort Ord Reuse Authority
Allows the Fort Ord Reuse Authority to use a master environmental impact report for the Fort Ord Reuse Plan, and provides for specified projects to proceed during the environmental impact report process.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
SB 275 (Costa-D) - Agricultural Land Conservation
Enacts the "Agricultural Land Stewardship Program of 1995", which, when funded, will provide grants from the Department of Conservation to local government and private nonprofit organizations for the acquisition of conservation easements on agricultural lands.
Chapter 931, Statutes of 1995
SB 284* (Killea-I) - Redevelopment: Centre City Redevelopment Project
Authorizes the City of San Diego to amend the Centre City Redevelopment Project and extend the time limit for (1) creating debt, (2) the effectiveness of the plan and (3) receiving property tax increment.
(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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SB 333 (Campbell-R) - Land Use: Development Agreements
Makes changes in the statute of limitations to challenge land use decisions as it relates to (1) development agreements, (2) actions to attack or set aside adoption or amendment of general plan or zoning ordinance, (3) challenges to development projects, and (4) housing element lawsuits.
Chapter 253, Statutes of 1995
SB 660* (Senate Housing and Land Use Committee) - Housing and Land Use Omnibus Act of 1995
Enacts the "Housing and Land Use Omnibus Act of 1995". Makes seven relatively minor, non-controversial changes to the statute affecting housing, land use and related issues.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 1995
SB 850 (Hayden-D) - Land Use: Development Permits: Hazardous Areas
Provides that a city or county that knowingly issues a development permit within a hazardous area is liable for hazard-related injuries or death demonstrated to be proximately caused by its issuance of the permit. Defines "hazard-related" injures to include the loss of real or personal property. Defines "hazardous area" to include: a special flood hazard area; an area of potential flooding; a designated floodway; a very high fire hazard severity zone; a wildland area that may contain substantial forest fire risks; an earthquake fault zone; and a seismic hazard zone.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 936 (Campbell-R) - Housing: Regional Housing Needs
Makes changes to housing element laws as they relate to the fair share allocation process. Allows local officials to count rehabilitated units and special needs housing, allows more participation in fair-share allocations, creates subregional allocations, and creates a new appeal process.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1029 (Calderon-D) - Common Interest Developments
Establishes a process to encourage disputes about construction defects in common interest developments to be settled or sent to alternative dispute resolution prior to the filing of a lawsuit.
Chapter 864, Statutes of 1995
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SB 1036 (Mello-D) - Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord
Allows the Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord to use property tax increment revenue to finance facilities owned or operated by the University of California or the California State University, as specified.
Chapter 441, 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 3 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 1259* (Kelley-R) - Redevelopment: Transfer of Territorial Jurisdiction
Clarifies the Community Redevelopment Law as it relates to transferring a territory from a county redevelopment agency to a city redevelopment agency, following annexation or incorporation. Allows the county to transfer all or a portion of the noncontiguous territory to the city's control.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 1266 (Kopp-I) - Redevelopment: Eminent Domain
Allows property owners to repurchase their property 3 years after it has been taken by eminent domain by a redevelopment agency, if that agency has not put the property to use to implement the redevelopment plan.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
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SB 8X (Campbell-R) - Hazards: Disclosure and Assistance
Enacts the "Disaster Relief Reform Act" which prospectively limits state aid after disasters and requires landowners to tell potential buyers about hazardous conditions.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 104 (Hauser-D) - Common Interest Developments and Television Antennas
Prohibits common interest developments from placing unreasonable restrictions on the installation of satellite dishes.
Chapter 978, Statutes of 1995
AB 160 (Baca-D) - California Residential Earthquake Recovery Act
Enacts the California Residential Earthquake Recovery Act to assist residents whose homes have been damaged or destroyed by earthquake.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 189 (Hauser-D) - Community Redevelopment Disaster Project Law
Repeals the existing provisions of the Community Redevelopment Financial Assistance and Disaster Project Law, and reenacts a revised version of those provisions entitled "The Community Redevelopment Disaster Project Law". (1) Limits tax increment funds to pay for disaster recovery, (2) institutes a time limit on plan adoption after a disaster, (3) requires a preliminary plan for public review, (4) lengthens the public notice period to 30 days, and (5) allows a referendum on the redevelopment plan.
Chapter 186, Statutes of 1995
AB 258* (McPherson-R) - Land Use: Fort Ord
Extends, from July 1, 1995 to July 1, 1996, the deadline for the Fort Ord Reuse Authority to adopt the Fort Ord Reuse Plan.
Chapter 14, Statutes of 1995
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AB 368 (Speier-D) - Redevelopment Agencies: Transitional Housing: Shelters for Battered Women
Provides that redevelopment agencies may use up to 30% of the monies in their Low and Moderate-Income Housing Fund to develop transitional housing, emergency shelter housing or a shelter for battered women outside the territorial jurisdiction of the agency, under specified conditions.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 419 (Olberg-R) - Redevelopment Fiscal Reports
Requires a redevelopment agency to provide a copy of its annual report upon request to any person or any taxing agency. Provides that the person or taxing agency requesting the information shall pay the redevelopment agency actual and reasonable costs for providing the requested information.
Chapter 116, Statutes of 1995
AB 997 (Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee) - Housing: Private Activity Bonds
Directs the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to endeavor to allocate approximately 2/3 of the debt limit set aside for housing to local agencies.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1379 (Thompson-R) - Redevelopment Property Tax Allocation
Permits a redevelopment agency to make tax increment payments to an affected taxing entity that is a state water supply contractor, with specified requirements.
Chapter 137, Statutes of 1995
AB 1424 (Isenberg-D) - Redevelopment Agencies: Tax Increment Revenues
Makes a significant clarifying amendment to the Redevelopment Reform Act of 1993 (Chapter 942, Statutes of 1993) regarding the payment of property tax increment by a redevelopment agency to a school district, community college district or county office of education.
Chapter 141, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1511 (V. Brown-D) - Land Use: Historic Preservation
Expands the types of historic districts where manufactured housing may be prohibited, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1648 (Conroy-R) - Redevelopment: Military Base Conversion
Makes numerous revisions to existing Military Base Redevelopment Law which include expanding the definition of blight, altering school pass-through formulas, and deleting the requirement for a fiscal review committee. Grants statewide application to language relating to a California Environmental Quality Act exemption and a housing deferral formula taken from individually focused military base redevelopment legislation.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1820 (McPherson-R) - Redevelopment: Replacement Dwelling Units
Provides that housing units located within a redevelopment agency project area and assisted with Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act funds are not subject to replacement housing requirements.
(In Senate Housing and Land Use Committee)
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Mobilehomes
SB 53* (Craven-R) - Mobilehome Parks: Taxation
Changes, from 18 months to 36 months, the period that a specified intermediate owner, such as a local government, may hold a mobilehome park before being resold to park residents without resulting in a reassessment of the park property.
Chapter 687, Statutes of 1995
SB 69 (Kelley-R) - Mobilehomes: Final Money Judgment
Authorizes a mobilehome park owner who obtains a final money judgment for unpaid rent against the registered owner of a manufactured home or mobilehome to file a lien against the title of the home with the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 1995
SB 110 (Craven-R) - Mobilehomes: Residency
Clarifies that non-purchasing residents of a resident-owned park are entitled to the protections of existing Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL), and that MRL does not apply to residents with an ownership interest in their space, subdivision, cooperative, or condominium in which his or her mobilehome is located or installed.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 1995
SB 310 (Craven-R) - Mobilehome Parks: Conversion
Makes changes in the law regulating mobilehome park conversion to resident ownership.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 1995
SB 360* (Craven-R) - Mobilehome Park Resident Ownership Program
Prohibits the Department of Housing and Community Development from requiring more than a simple majority of households to be committed to purchasing a mobilehome park, as specified, as a condition of disbursing Mobilehome Park Resident Ownership Program funds. (Applies only to a park acquired by the City of San Marcos.)
Chapter 409, Statutes of 1995
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SB 577 (Rosenthal-D) - Seismic Gas Shutoff Services
Authorizes the Department of the State Architect to conduct unannounced inspections of any laboratory or inspection service that tests earthquake-sensitive gas shut-off devices. Requires mobilehome park owners to install these devices in their parks by 2000, and requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a catastrophic memorandum account that allows owners to pass on to tenants 50% of the cost, as specified.
(In Assembly Housing and Land Use Committee)
SB 1181 (Haynes-R) - Mobilehome Residency Law
Provides that a mobilehome shall be considered to be the principal residence of the owner, unless specified conditions are met.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
SJR 12 (Craven-R) - Mobilehome Rents and Federal Aid
Memorializes the President and Congress to support modification of rule changes to the Section 8 federal housing program as it relates to mobilehome park space rent, or as an alternative, enact clarifying legislation.
Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 1995
AB 225 (Richter-R) - Mobilehome Parks: Suits Against Management
Requires a homeowner and mobilehome park management to enter into nonbinding mediation before a homeowner can commence an action based on management's failure to maintain common park facilities or reduction of park services.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 283 (Cortese-D) - Mobilehomes
Changes the definition of "immediate family" in the Mobilehome Residency Law to include grandchildren under 18 years of age, thereby prohibiting mobilehome park management from charging a guest fee for a homeowner's grandchildren under 18 years of age.
Chapter 24, Statutes of 1995
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AB 431 (Hauser-D) - Manufactured Housing
Authorizes any public agency to purchase manufactured housing directly from the factory for low and moderate-income housing; (2) requires the manufacturer to provide a warranty when a mobilehome or manufactured home is sold directly to a local agency for low and moderate-income households; (3) requires such housing to be registered, as specified; (4) allows a dormitory or efficiency unit to be installed on a support system; and (5) makes clarifying changes regarding the definition of a mobilehome.
Chapter 185, Statutes of 1995
AB 622 (Conroy-R) - Electric and Gas Service: Master-Meter Customers
Creates a Master-Meter Task Force, composes of specified representatives, to research and recommend a phase-in, shared cost program for the takeover by utilities of manufactured housing community and mobilehome park gas and electric systems.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 765 (Kaloogian-R) - Mobilehome Residency Law
Requires mobilehome park owners providing utility services to homeowners through a master-meter system be required to deposit into a trust fund, and to annually account for, the rate differentials they are authorized by law to receive. Prohibits mobilehome park owners from charging homeowners fees for providing or maintaining physical improvements in the common facilities in good working order and condition.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1337 (Sweeney-D) - Mobilehome Parks: Sale
Provides to prospective buyers of mobilehomes the same right to choose the length of their tenancy in a mobilehome park which is afforded to current homeowners in the park.
Vetoed by the Governor
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AB 1455 (Cortese-D) - Earthquake Protection
Requires the Seismic Safety Commission to revise the "Homeowner's Guide to Earthquake Safety" to include, by July 1, 1996, a separate section relating to earthquake safety for manufactured homes and mobilehomes.
(In Senate Housing and Land Use Committee)
AB 1625 (McDonald-D) - Mobilehomes: Manufactured Homes
Changes the name of the Mobilehome Residency Law to the Manufactured Home Residency Law, and makes numerous corresponding changes in terminology within the law.
(Failed passage in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1944 (K. Murray-D) - Rent Control
Exempts a mobilehome space from rent control upon the vacancy of the mobilehome or mobilehome space on and after January 1, 1996.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
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Miscellaneous
SB 51 (Haynes-R) - Inverse Condemnation
Allows attorneys' fees to be awarded in inverse condemnation cases involving damaging, as well as taking property, and for actions involving personal, as well as real property. Allows the award of attorneys' fees for appeals of inverse condemnation decisions if the plaintiff prevails on any issue of the suit. Deletes the provision in current law which allows a settling public agency attorney to determine the reasonableness of a plaintiff's attorneys' fee award and requires the courts to make such a determination.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 1995
SB 81* (Marks-D) - Land Use: Closed Military Bases: City of Novato
Authorizes buildings on closed military bases to comply with specified regulations in a graduated manner over a period of 10 years, if certain conditions are met. Also grants the City of Novato an extension on completing its general plan.
Chapter 469, Statutes of 1995
SB 300 (Petris-D) - Common Interest Developments
Requires homeowner associations in a common interest development to distribute to their members information related to the type and amount of insurance carried by the association. Also requires associations to notify members, by first class mail, as soon as reasonably practical, that an insurance policy has been canceled and not immediately replaced.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 1995
SB 304 (Rosenthal-D) - Building Standards: Water Heaters
Requires sellers of property containing an existing water heater to certify to the purchaser that the water heater is braced, anchored or strapped to resist falling during an earthquake.
Chapter 98, Statutes of 1995
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SB 305 (Polanco-D) - Housing: Employee Housing
Exempts employee housing developed on agricultural land from specified local land use regulations, under certain conditions.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 1995
SB 332 (Campbell-R) - Senior Citizen Housing Developments
Changes the definition of "senior citizen housing development" as it relates to minimum size requirements, in heavily populated urban areas.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 1995
SB 335 (Solis-D) - Untenantable Dwellings
Requires landlords to install deadbolt locks on doors and locks on accessible windows and sliding glass doors, as specified.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
SB 362 (Kopp-I) - Public Housing: Tenants: Citizenship Requirement
Prohibits housing authorities from allowing any undocumented person to reside in public housing units. Also requires housing authorities to obtain alien registration documentation from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from each housing applicant.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 391 (Thompson-D) - Housing Discrimination
Provides that "discrimination" does not include the use of words stating that housing being advertised is available only to persons of one sex, as specified.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 1995
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SB 466 (Leonard-R) - Eminent Domain: Inverse Condemnation
Provides that if a governmental action results directly in the reduction of the market value of privately-owned real property by 25% or more, the property owner may bring an action in inverse condemnation.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 467 (Leonard-R) - Agency: Residential Property Transactions
Repeals and reenacts existing provisions relating to residential property transactions. Is an effort to make these provisions more user-friendly. Codifies legislative intent found in Chapter 233, Statutes of 1985, and, without substantive change, reorganizes provisions relating to disclosure obligations and real property transactions.
Chapter 428, Statutes of 1995
SB 533 (Hughes-D) - Repairing Substandard Buildings: City of Los Angeles
Allows local building officials, within the City of Los Angeles, to demolish buildings, as specified, when more than 50% of the building violates building code requirements.
(Failed passage in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
SB 560 (Haynes-R) - Final and Parcel Maps: Amendments and Corrections
Adds to the purposes for which a map may be amended, the correction or modification of any change in the information filed as part of a final or parcel map, as specified.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
SB 635 (Haynes-R) - Property and Homeowner Protection Act
Enacts the Property and Homeowner Protection Act relating to the rights of property owners. Deals with regulatory actions that affect private property, compensation landowners are entitled to, and generally limits the authority of a public agency to regulate land use.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
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SB 798 (Mountjoy-R) - Heaters: Gas Logs
Allows the sale of unvented decorative logs and fireplaces, as specified.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 851 (Costa-D) - Employee Housing: Inspections: Reports
A "clean-up" bill intended to better organize the Employee Housing Act.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 1995
SB 901 (Costa-D) - Water Supply Planning
Requires a water supply assessment within an environmental impact report on large development projects and plan amendments
Chapter 881, Statutes of 1995
SB 936 (Campbell-R) - Housing: Regional Housing Needs
Makes changes to housing element laws as they relate to the fair share allocation process. Allows local officials to count rehabilitated units and special needs housing, allows more participation in fair-share allocations, creates subregional allocations, and creates a new appeal process.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 991 (Kopp-I) - Real Property
Requires life insurance companies to provide specified information to assessors.
Chapter 933, Statutes of 1995
SB 1015 (Mello-D) - Assisted Housing Developments: Termination Date
Extends, from December 31, 1995 to December 31, 2000, the termination date of the statute that requires the owners of publicly subsidized multi-family rental housing to give a first right of refusal to qualified buyers who agree to maintain the affordability of the housing.
Chapter 790, Statutes of 1995
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SB 1073 (Costa-D) - Housing Elements: Preparation and Review Requirements
Recasts and revises the Housing Element Law. Permits cities and counties to self-certify compliance with state housing element law if they meet certain performance measures established in the bill. Also reduces the amount of reporting within the housing element and related documents. Revises the fair share housing allocation procedure, principally, by requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) or council of governments to hold public hearings to obtain public input on preliminary allocation plans. Requires HCD to provide specified information to local agencies.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
SB 1100 (Petris-D) - Housing: Termination of Government Assistance
Reenacts, in substantially similar form, the provisions in law that were repealed on January 1, 1995 relating to the requirement of persons receiving federal financial assistance to provide special notice to tenants or local governmental agencies prior to termination or prepayment of the governmental assistance. Authorizes, rather than requires, the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide specified detailed information relating to the conversion of subsidized housing projects.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
SB 1106 (Leslie-R) - Mortgages: Prepayment Penalties
Authorizes lenders to assess a prepayment penalty when a borrower prepays in a 12-month period more than 20 percent of the original principal of an installment loan which is a "sub-loan" of a open-end credit plan secured by a deed of trust, such as a home equity line of credit.
(In Assembly Committee on Banking and Finance)
SB 1257 (Costa-D) - Residential Rent Control
Establishes a comprehensive scheme to regulate local residential rent control. Pre-empts local ordinances which limit or do not permit rent increases for residential housing units when the unit is vacated. Provides that any new tenancy of a single family-type dwelling created after January 1, 1996, be exempt from local rent controls, as specified. Exempts new construction from local rent controls, including any new construction that is already exempt from local controls pursuant to a local exemption.
(On Assembly Third Reading File; re-referred to Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
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SB 1325* (Polanco-D) - Housing: Discrimination
Amends the definition of "person" in the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) to include all institutional 3rd parties. Also amends existing FEHA provisions relative to real estate transactions.
Chapter 924, Statutes of 1995
AB 46 (Hauser-D) - Common Interest Development Open Meeting Act
Creates the Common Interest Development Open Meeting Act by reorganizing existing law relating to open meetings, defines "meeting," allows a member to request an executive session to discuss proposed discipline and provides for notice of meetings. One of the purposes is to provide for open community association meetings.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 1995
AB 151* (Baca-D) - Buildings: CPVC Plastic Piping
Authorizes local jurisdictions to permit the use of chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) plastic pipe in building construction as an alternate material under specified conditions, which include local findings.
Chapter 785, Statutes of 1995
AB 457 (Ducheny-D) - Housing: Substandard Buildings
Specifies that, in matters relating to enforcement of the State Housing Law, after discharging the receiver, the court may retain jurisdiction, for a specified time period, and require the property owner and local enforcement agency to report to the court in accordance with a schedule determined by the court. Authorizes a local agency which imposes a nuisance abatement assessment to conduct the sale of vacant residential property, that fails to conform to standards within 3 years, similar to a sale of defaulted property by the county tax collector. Reduces the time for sales of vacant residential tax-defaulted property from 5 years to 3 years.
Chapter 906, Statutes of 1995
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AB 463 (Goldsmith-R) - Common Interest Developments: Reserve Funds
Eliminates the authority of community association boards to levy special assessments to restore borrowed reserve funds that are used for construction defect litigation and requires specified notification before filing lawsuits.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 1995
AB 555 (Aguiar-R) - Subdivision Map Act: Mergers
Requires the owner of property being considered for a merger to be notified of the merger proposal and have an opportunity for a hearing as a condition of the merger.
Chapter 162, Statutes of 1995
AB 584 (Rainey-R) - Land Use: Water Planning Information
Requires cities and counties, when revising their general plans after January 1, 1996, to incorporate by reference as a source document the information from public water suppliers, if the information is available and if it has been submitted.
(In Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 717 (Ducheny-D) - Building Inspector Certification
Establishes certification training and continuing education requirements for "construction inspectors", "plan examiners" and "building officials" employed by a local agency.
Chapter 623, Statutes of 1995
AB 747* (V. Brown-D) - Fire Retardant Roofs
Repeals the 10-year test for wood roofs and substitutes a graduated multi-year test. Requires that, in order to be sold in this state, all wood roofing materials shall have passed a weathering test, as specified. Also requires that certification of the roof covering classification be provided to the installer by the manufacturer of the supplier.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 1995
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AB 771 (Aguiar-R) - Subdivisions: Tentative Maps: Time Extensions
Revises the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act relating to the duration and expiration of tentative maps.
(In Senate Housing and Land Use Committee)
AB 1120 (Kuykendall-R) - Real Property: Covenants
Provides that deed restrictions designed to prevent exposure to hazardous materials are enforceable as "covenants running with the land" even though the restrictions burden the covenantor's property, and do not benefit any property of the covenantee.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 1995
AB 1164 (Hawkins-R) - Housing: Rent Control: Obsolete Programs
States legislative intent to streamline and improve state housing policy by repealing obsolete, outmoded and inoperative programs and statutes. Revises provisions contained in SB 1257 (Costa-D) relating to rent control and the preemption of local vacancy controls on rental of residential dwellings.
Chapter 331, Statutes of 1995
AB 1197 (Takasugi-R) - Housing Bond Credit Committee
Abolishes the Housing Bond Credit Committee and assigns the responsibilities of that committee to the California Housing Finance Agency (CHFA). The committee currently includes the Governor, the State Controller, the State Treasurer, the Director of Finance and the Executive Director of the California Housing Finance Agency, and is required to review and approve the purpose and economic analysis for new housing bonds issued by CHFA.
(In Senate Housing and Land Use Committee
AB 1287 (Cortese-D) - Environmental Subdivisions: Creation
Adds a category of subdivision, known as an "environmental subdivision," to the Subdivision Map Act, to allow property owners to use parcel maps to sell portions of their open space land to builders who need to mitigate the effects of development in other places. The eligible property must meet specific conditions, local officials must make specific findings, and the land must be protected as open space. Specifies how a landowner can terminate an environmental subdivision.
Chapter 955, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1314 (Sher-D) - Buildings: Straw-Bale Structures
Establishes safety guidelines for the construction of structures, including single-family dwellings, that use baled rice straws, as defined.
Chapter 941, Statutes of 1995
AB 1317 (Speier-D) - Common Interest Developments
Provides procedural protections to homeowners who have failed to pay their required homeowner association assessments, and requires disputes about such assessments to be submitted to alternative dispute resolution
(Assembly refuses to concur in Senate amendments; reconsideration granted)
AB 1319 (Olberg-R) - Private Property Rights Protection
Requires state agencies to evaluate their proposed regulatory actions for compliance with recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court in order to ensure appropriate protection of private property rights.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1320 (Olberg-R) - Real Property: Takings
Requires state agencies to complete a private property taking impact analysis before commencing any regulatory action that results in a taking or diminishing of use or value of private property; creates a cause of action against the state, as specified; and creates the Real Property Ombudsman within the Resources Agency.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1338 (Sweeney-D) - Land Use Planning: Transit Facilities
Authorizes metropolitan planning organizations to allocate state and federal transportation planning money to be loaned to cities and counties for the purpose of preparing specific land use plans linking land use and transportation.
Vetoed by the Governor
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AB 1429 (Kuykendall-R) - Real Estate: Appraisals
Provides that when a mortgage broker arranges for or engages the services of a licensed or certified appraiser and delivers the appraisal to a prospective lender and prospective purchaser, the broker has then met the obligation of full and complete disclosure regarding the estimated fair market value of the real property, and is not required to provide a separate estimate of fair market value.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 1995
AB 1509 (Hawkins-R) - Housing: Advertising
Requires the Fair Employment and Housing Commission to adopt regulations interpreting the statutory prohibition against discriminatory advertisements for housing.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
AB 1644 (Granlund-R) - Land Sales: Subdivisions
Alters and reduces the current state regulations governing out-of-state lot and subdivision sales.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 1995
AB 1658 (Battin-R) - Housing
Defines "rural area" for the purposes of rental housing rehabilitation loans.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 1995
AB 1715 (Goldsmith-R) - Housing Elements: Self-Certification
Permits local governments within the jurisdiction of the San Diego Association of Governments to submit a self-certification of compliance to the Department of Housing and Community Development after the legislative body holds a public hearing, as specified.
Chapter 589, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1731* (Goldsmith-R) - Fire Protection: Emergency Procedure Information
Clarifies existing law as it relates to the provision of emergency procedure information by building owners to building occupants and visitors.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 1995
AB 1788 (Brewer-R) - Office of Permit Assistance
Requires the Trade and Commerce Agency to implement a grants program within the Office of Permit Assistance to award grants to local entities to be used to implement local permit streamlining programs.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 1995
AB 1929 (Sweeney-D) - Permit Streamlining Act: Regional Planning
Allows cities and counties to enter into joint agreements on joint open-space planning. Also authorizes the Office of Permit Assistance to facilitate intergovernmental planning and makes a technical change to that law.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1930 (Sweeney-D) - Permit Streamlining and CEQA deadlines
Amends the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by reducing the time limits, as specified, for lead agencies to approve or disapprove projects once the environmental impact reports have been certified or negative declarations have been adopted. Also makes other changes to existing law to streamline the CEQA process.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
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INSURANCE
NOTE: *DENOTES URGENCY LEGISLATION
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Automobile Insurance
SB 49 (Lockyer-D) - Auto Insurance
Makes major changes to the automobile insurance system, with changes in both insurance requirements as well as the dispute resolution system. Establishes a small claims division for automobile claims involving less than $10,000. Reduces the mandatory financial responsibility limits to $10,000 per person, capped at $20,000 per accident, for bodily injury liability, and $3,000 for property damage liability. Requires vehicle owners to establish proof of financial responsibility at the time vehicle is registered at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
SB 350 (Peace-D) - Auto Insurance Fraud
Allows the Department of Insurance, the California Highway Patrol and local district attorneys to use up to 25% of the auto insurance fraud assessment funds received for other types of insurance fraud discovered during the course of an auto insurance fraud investigation.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 672 (Lewis-R) - Auto Insurance: Assigned Risk
Removes various reporting requirements in the automobile assigned risk law and places them under the Rosenthal-Robbins Auto Insurance Nondiscrimination Law.
Chapter 755, Statutes of 1995
SB 905 (Leslie-R) - Auto Insurance: Good Driver Discount
Provides that a driver convicted of driving under the influence (drug or alcohol) or alcohol-related vehicular manslaughter offense is not eligible for a Good Driver Discount insurance policy for a period of 7 years after the offense.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 1995
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SB 968 (Johnston-D) - Auto Insurance: Good Drivers
Provides that an insurance agent must place a Proposition 103 "Good Driver" with the lowest price insurance company within a group of affiliated companies if the agent is appointed by any one of the companies within the group, as specified.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
SB 1229 (Killea-I) - No Fault Insurance
Establishes a system of first-rate insurance in lieu of the existing tort system as the basic mechanism for compensation for automobile-related injuries; requires until July 1, 1997 insurers to sell the basic policy to all good drivers for $220; and requires proof of insurance in order to register a vehicle with the DMV.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 341* (Knowles-R) - Motor Vehicle Insurance
Codifies regulations adopted by the Department of Insurance pertaining to the rating factors used in determining premiums for auto insurance.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)
AB 607 (Brulte-R) - No Fault Insurance
Creates the Auto Insurance Guaranteed Protection Plan of 1995 which provides for a no-fault system by replacing the existing tort liability system.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 650 (Speier-D) - Financial Responsibility
Requires, beginning on January 1, 1997, every application for the renewal of registration of a vehicle to be accompanied by proof of compliance with the state's financial responsibility laws. Requires a driver to show proof of financial responsibility upon the demand of a peace officer, authorizes the court impoundment of vehicles driven by persons without proof of financial responsibility or who provide false evidence of same, as specified, and establish fines, community service requirements, driver's license suspensions and related penalties for failure to comply with such provisions. Double-joined with SB 49 (Lockyer-D).
(On Assembly Inactive File)
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AB 1083 (Archie-Hudson-D) - Insurance: Unfair Practices
Requires auto insurers to act in good faith toward, and deal fairly with, current and prospective policyholders and other persons intended to be protected by any policy of motor vehicle insurance.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1150 (Morrissey-R) - Insurance: Informational Sheets
Directs the Insurance Commissioner to develop -- in non-English languages -- automobile insurance policy information sheets. Requires the policy information sheets to contain general information about automobile and pickup truck liability insurance. States that the policy information sheets are not a substitute for the actual insurance policy. Requires that the information sheets contain a disclaimer, stating that the terms and conditions in an actual policy, prevail over the information sheets.
Chapter 909, Statutes of 1995
AB 1301 (K. Murray-D) - Financial Responsibility
Allows peace officers issuing notices to appear for other specified traffic violations to require the cited driver to provide defined evidence of financial responsibility, as specified. Prescribes special penalties for a failure to produce proof or knowingly providing false evidence of financial responsibility. Requires dismissal of charges for a person who later shows evidence of financial responsibility to the court clerk.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1602 (Poochigian-R) - Uninsured Motorist Provisions
Requires the insured to inform insurers or arbitration of proceeding in writing. Requires the arbitration to be concluded within specific time periods.
Chapter 738, Statutes of 1995
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AB 1752 (Knowles-R) - Auto Insurance Claims
Requires the Department of Insurance to conduct a closed claim study of auto accident insurance claims, designed to identify the insurance less costs associated with auto insurance.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
