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Legislature

The following State Senators are being termed out of office in 2002:

Senator Richard Ackerman (R) is a candidate for Attorney General, Senator Bruce McPherson (R) is a candidate for Lt. Governor, and Senator Tom McClintock (R) is a candidate for State Controller. Senator Monteith (R), who is being termed out, is a candidate for U.S. Congress, running against Assemblymember Dennis Cardoza, who defeated the incumbent, Gary Condit, in the March Primary.

Senator Jack O'Connell (D), who is also being termed out, is a candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Senator Ray Haynes (R) is a candidate for the State Assembly. Senator Haynes (R) had served two years in the Assembly prior to being elected to the Senate.

In early 2002, the Assembly selected Herb Wesson (D) to replace Robert Hertzberg (D), who is being termed out of office. Marco Firebaugh (D) was selected as Majority Floor Leader to replace Kevin Shelley (D), Juan Vargas (D) was selected Assistant Majority Leader and Joe Nation (D) replaced Dennis Cardoza (D) as Chairman of the Assembly Rules Committee.

The following is a list of Assembly members who have been termed out of office and the House Resolution (HR) which designates their retirement from the Assembly:

Other Assemblymembers who are not returning to the State Assembly are as follows:

Assemblymember Papan (D) is leaving the Legislature after 20 years of service (1973-86 and 1996-2002 in the State Assembly), Assemblymember Leonard (R) is leaving after 24 years (1978-88 and 1996-2002 in the State Assembly and 1988-96 in the State Senate), Assemblymember Kelley (R) is leaving after 24 years (1978-88 and 2000-2002 in the State Assembly and 1992-2000 in the State Senate), and Assemblymember Wyman (R) is leaving after approximately 17-1/2 years of service (1978-92 and 2000-02 in the State Assembly and 1993-94 in the State Senate).

SB 55 (Ackerman-R) State-mandated local programs

Specifies that it takes a two-thirds vote of the Legislature for state-mandated local programs.

(In Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

SB 363 (Figueroa-D) Joint Legislative Sunset Review Committee

Extends the Joint Legislative Sunset Review Committee authority from January 1, 2004 to January 1, 2012.

Chapter 874, Statutes of 2003

SB 401 (Florez-D) Legislative investigations

Changes the procedures relative to granting immunity to witnesses compelled to give testimony or produce documents in a legislative proceeding despite the witness' assertion of the privilege against self-incrimination.

Chapter 195, Statutes of 2003

SB 589 (Senate Rules Committee) Senate confirmation

Allows the Governor to appoint an acting or interim department or agency secretary, deputy secretary, or deputy director to fill a vacancy that requires Senate confirmation.

Vetoed by the Governor

SCA 14 (Vasconcellos-D) Reapportionment of legislative districts

Among other provisions, revises the redistricting process for reapportioning legislative districts.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 1 (Johnson-R) Joint Rules

Adopts the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 2003-04 Regular Session.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 2 (Burton-D) Legislative Counsel of California

Designates Diane F. Boyer-Vine as the Legislative Counsel of California.

Resolution Chapter 1, Statutes of 2003

SCR 12 (Alarcon-D) Joint Legislative Committee: end poverty in California

Establishes the Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan to End Poverty in California.

Resolution Chapter 117, Statutes of 2003

SCR 33 (Speier-D) Floor votes and return of bills

Requires that, as to a bill that has been passed by one house of the Legislature, the second house conduct a floor vote no later than the fifth day on which a floor session is held after placing the bill on the Third Reading File, unless the second house places the bill on the Inactive File or the author requests that the bill be passed and retained on file.

(At the Assembly Desk)

Similar legislation is SB 949 (Speier-D), which is in Senate Rules Committee.

SR 1 (Vasconcellos-D) Holdover Senators

Provides that holdover Senators take their seats as each Senate-elect proceeds to the Bar of the Senate to be duly sworn into office.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 2 (Perata-D) Election of Senate officers

Elects Senator John L. Burton as President pro Tempore of the Senate; Gregory P. Schmidt as Secretary of the Senate; and Tony Beard, Jr., as Sergeant at Arms of the Senate.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 3 (Burton-D) Senate Rules Committee

Elects Senators Karnette, Knight, Johnson, and Romero as members of the Senate Rules Committee.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 4 (Knight-R) Senate Standing Rules

Adopts the 2003-04 Senate Standing Rules.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 5 (Alarcon-D) Senate organization and notification of the Governor

Requires the Senate pro Tempore to appoint a special committee to inform the Governor that the State Senate is duly organized for the 2003-04 Regular Session.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 6 (Ducheny-D) Senate organization and notification of the Assembly

Provides that the President pro Tempore of the Senate appoint a special committee to notify the Assembly that the Senate is duly organized for the 2003-04 Regular Session.

Adopted by the Assembly

SR 8 (Vincent-D) Bill introduction

Declares the number of bills which a Senator can introduce from 65 to 50 in the regular session.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 24 (Burton-D) Fiscal restructuring

Creates a Senate Select Committee on Fiscal Restructuring.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 29 (Burton-D) Bills approving memoranda of understandings

Prohibits the State Senate from approving a memoranda of understanding (MOU) until the bill enacting an MOU has been in print, as last amended, for not less than two legislative days.

(Adopted by the Senate; reconsideration granted)

AB 502 (Canciamilla-D) Legislative meetings

Requires the Assembly and Senate Committees on Rules to record and index all meetings of the Legislature.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 892 (Dymally-D) Residence of elected officials

Extends a conclusive presumption regarding the residence of a state legislator or member of Congress to all candidates in any state, local or congressional race.

(In Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 1387 (Yee-D) Legislative employees

Requires the Legislature to take actions to protect the privacy of its employees.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1584 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Legislative retirement

Allows a former member of the Legislature who has accrued specified service to elect to enroll in various health plans at his/her own expense.

Chapter 519, Statutes of 2003

Similar legislation is SB 626 (Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee) and AB 459 (Negrete-McLeod-D).

AB 1784* (Wolk-D) Members of the Legislature

Prohibits a member of the Legislature from making, participating in making, or in any way attempting to use his/her official position to influence any decision on any matter in connection with which a lobbyist, lobbying firm, or lobbyist employer who has attempted to influence that member in regard to that matter has, or within the prior 12 months had, a business relationship with the member.

(In Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

ACA 1 (Longville-D) State budget: vote for passage

Allows for a state budget to be passed by a majority vote and prohibits legislators being paid if they do not pass a budget by midnight on June 30.

(In Assembly Budget Committee)

ACA 2 (Maldonado-R) Legislative pay: budget deadline

Requires that if a budget bill is not passed by midnight on June 15, members of the Legislature forfeit any salary or reimbursement for travel and living expenses for the period from June 16 to the date a budget bill is passed.

(In Assembly Budget Committee)

ACA 3 (McCarthy-R) Redistricting

Creates a Reapportionment Commission to adopt a legislative and congressional reapportionment plan rather than the Legislature.

(Failed passage in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

ACA 19 (Lowenthal-D) Redistricting

Requires each of the 40 Senate districts be divided into two Assembly districts and creates an independent commission to adopt reapportionment.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 9 (Dymally-D) Joint legislative committee for community colleges

Establishes the Joint Committee for the Revision of the Education Code Relating to Community Colleges.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 46 (Cox-R) Legislation affecting businesses

Requests members of the Legislature to refrain from proposing legislation that hinders or restricts California businesses from operating or employing Californians in California, in an effort to make California more economically competitive.

(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee; reconsideration granted)

ACR 107 (Firebaugh-D) Senator Ralph C. Dills Day and Week

Recognizes the legacy of Senator Ralph C. Dills' public service and his commitment to principle and work ethic. Proclaims May 16, 2003 as Senator Ralph C. Dills Day and October 20 to 24 inclusive, as Senator Ralph C. Dills Week.

Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2003

ACR 113 (Pacheco-R) Legislative hearings

Urges that all televised legislative hearings and proceedings be provided with closedcaptioning or livecaptioning, in order to ensure that all citizens with hearing disabilities are given equal access to the political process.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 126 (Liu-D) Joint Committee on Adult Education

Establishes the Joint Committee on Adult Education.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 1 (Nation-D) Standing Rules of the Assembly

Adopts the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2003-04 Regular Session.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 2 (Firebaugh-D) Election of Assembly officers

Elects E. Dotson Wilson as Chief Clerk of the Assembly; Ronald E. Pane, Chief Sergeant at Arms; Father Constantine C. Pappademos, Chaplain; and Reverend Ivan L. Williams, Sr., Alternative Chaplain.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 3 (Firebaugh-D) Organization of the Assembly

Provides for the organization of the Assembly for the 2003-04 Regular Session.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 4 (Chan-D) Placing bills on the Desk

Prohibits, during the organization recess, a bill being placed on the Desk for introduction, except by a person designated by the author in writing.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 6 (Dymally-D) Bill Greene

Expresses the Assembly's deepest regret at the passing of former State Senator and Assemblymember Bill Greene.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 16 (Matthews-D) Assembly budget

Directs the Assembly Rules Committee to review the Assembly operating budget to identify cost savings that reduce General Fund expenditure in the 2003-04 fiscal year.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 17 (Canciamilla-D) Oversight hearings

Provides for a oversight hearing with Assembly Rules and the chairpersons of the Assembly standing committees to review the effectiveness of programs supported by state funding, to review the sufficiency of that funding, to identify possible cost savings, and to identify any duplication of, as well as gaps in, program services.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

Alcoholic Beverage Control

SB 88 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: permits: winegrowers

Permits the State Department of Alcohol Beverage Control to issue a wine sales event permit authorizing a winegrower to sell bottled wine that is produced by the winegrower at an event held by a specific tax-exempt organization for not more than five consecutive days at an approved event.

Chapter 588, Statutes of 2003

AB 216 (Chan-D) Alcohol: fee: youth alcohol recovery and prevention

Requires the State Department of Alcohol Beverage Control to collect a fee from alcohol manufacturers and importers and requires the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to establish youth alcohol recover and prevention programs in every county.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 257 (Maddox-R) Alcoholic beverages licenses: wholesalers and rectifiers

Increases, from 90 days to 120 days, from the date of sale to persons who take delivery of the alcoholic beverages within the state for delivery or use outside of the state.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 687 (Campbell-R) Alcoholic beverages: brewing industry

Allows beer and wine wholesalers to sell lawful products to on-sale beer and wine licensees, such as supermarkets and liquor stores, just as they do off-sale beer and wine licenses, such as bars and restaurants.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 804 (Jerome Horton-D) Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board

Requires the Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board to enter its order within 90 days after the filing of an appeal.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1301 (Simitian-D) Alcoholic beverages and controlled substances: minors

Creates a misdemeanor for permitting a person under the age of 18 to consume alcohol or a controlled substance at the home of the adult or legal guardian, as specified.

Chapter 625, Statutes of 2003

AB 1398 (Vargas-D) Alcoholic beverages

Provides that signage or flyers that advertise establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to individuals under the age of 21 are prohibited, if one of the establishment's principal business activities is the selling of alcoholic beverages and the advertisement expressly states that the jurisdiction in which the establishment is located has a legal drinking age of under 21 years, or that individuals under the age of 21 may patronize the establishment.

Chapter 771, Statutes of 2003

AB 1505 (Wiggins-D) Winegrower's license: tied-house restrictions

Amends the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to permit consumers to purchase wine after tasting it at events sponsored by certain nonprofit organizations provided the sales transaction is completed at the winegrower's premises and extends the same privilege to wineries that participate in "Meet the Winemaker" dinners.

Chapter 270, Statutes of 2003

AB 1657 (Chan-D) Gelatin-based alcoholic beverages

Limits the sale of any prepackaged alcoholic beverage made with a "gelatin" base to businesses that prohibit the presence of persons under the age of 21 on the premises.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

Horse Racing

SB 690 (Ashburn-R) Horse racing

Allows the Kern County Fair to reestablish their one existing satellite wagering facility, off the fairgrounds property, to another site within the boundaries of that fair, as specified.

Chapter 372, Statutes of 2003

SB 738 (Karnette-D) Horse racing: California-bred horses

Defines a "California-bred standardbred horse" as a standardbred foal dropped by a mare in California after being conceived in California by a stallion registered with the California Standardbred Sires Stakes Program.

Chapter 24, Statutes of 2003

SB 813 (Vincent-D) Horse racing

Ensures that if live racing at the Solano County Fair is ever discontinued, that the fair will be compensated for the loss of the live racing with three percent of the total amount handled at a satellite wagering facility authorized for the Solano County Fair, as specified.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 173 (Dymally-D) Horse racing

Expands the prohibition to cover videos as well as tapes, and all horse races rather than merely quarter horse races. Also specifically prohibits the selling of those tapes and videos of horse races.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 381 (Strickland-R) Horse racing: satellite wagering facilities

Authorizes county fairs, district agricultural associations, and private racing associations to operate an additional satellite wagering facilities off the grounds but within the boundaries of the respective fair or racing zone of the private racing association, contingent upon the approval of the State Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Horse Racing Board.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 388 (Strickland-R) Horse racing: deductions

Permits the California Horse Racing Board to set the deduction for any new type of wager introduced after January 1, 2004, in an amount of not less than 10 percent nor more than 30 percent at the joint request of an association or fair and the horsemen's organization.

Chapter 174, Statutes of 2003

AB 401 (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing: satellite wagering facilities

Permits the California Exposition and State Fair, with the approval of the State Department of Food and Agriculture and the authorization of the California Horse Racing Board, to operate one satellite wagering facility within the boundaries of the fair in addition to any facility otherwise authorized under current law. The fair will operate the satellite wagering facility under the same conditions that apply to fairs in San Joaquin, Humboldt, and Fresno Counties.

Chapter 556, Statutes of 2003

AB 509 (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing: out-of-country thoroughbred races

Allows a thoroughbred or fair association to distribute the audiovisual signal and accept wagers on the results of out-of-country thoroughbred races during the calendar period the association or fair is conducting a race meeting under specified conditions.

(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 571 (Yee-D) Horse racing

Provides that a nonthoroughbred racing association that is conducting live racing after 6:00 p.m. and receiving a satellite signal from another nonthoroughbred racing association that is also conducting live racing shall not be required to accept that satellite signal unless there is a written agreement between the two associations.

(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 667 (Harman-R) Horse racing

Changes the definition of "California-bred Quarter horse" to require the stallion to be standing in California at the approximate time of conception.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 675 (Strickland-R) Horse racing: racing days and weeks

Enables the California Horse Racing Board to allocate four-day race weeks rather than the present five-day race week without receiving consent.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 771 (Wyland-R) Horse racing: charity days

Requires that 20 percent of the distribution from charity day racing go to a nonprofit corporation that cares for retired race horses. Requires the California Horse Racing Board to maintain a list of these charities, and adopt regulations to ensure the proper expenditure of this money. Reduces the minimum amount required to go to charities associated with the horse racing industry that are not further specified in these provisions to 10 percent of the distribution.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 870 (Strickland-R) Horse racing: advance deposit wagering

Specifies the compensation for a licensee, betting system, or multi-jurisdictional wagering hub, with a specified labor agreement, that accepts advance deposit wagers at a live operator telephone call center located in this state, without reference to the residency of the wagering party. Sets this maximum at a net of 6.5 percent, plus a fee to be paid to the host racing association not to exceed 3.5 percent, of the amount handled on a race or races conducted in another jurisdiction, and it provides for contractual compensation for a race or races conducted in California, in an amount not less than an undetermined minimum percentage of the amount handled.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 895 (Steinberg-D) Cal Expo and District Agricultural Associations

Creates a new account for any additional funds that ensue from a new harness racing lease at California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) that are received by the existing lease. Requires Cal Expo to carry out specified actions if space is not provided at their site for the Sacramento County overflow homeless shelter. Requires Cal Expo and all District Agricultural Associations to accept the highest bid for revenue generating agreements under specified circumstances.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 900* (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing: workers' compensation

Makes changes to existing horse racing law which prescribes the amount deducted form the pari-mutuel pools, as specified, in order to address the increase in workers' compensation costs within the California horse racing industry.

(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 1128* (Liu-D) Horse racing: racing weeks

Allows the California Horse Racing Board to authorize a thoroughbred racing association in the central zone to conduct a racing program that includes Breeders' Cup prep races on September 28, 2003, a date when a fair is also conducting live racing in the central zone.

Chapter 8, Statutes of 2003

AB 1414 (Levine-D) Gaming: processing out-of-state wagers

Makes a technical and non-substantive change to conform a section within the Penal Code to provisions within the Business and Professions Code relating to Advance Deposit Wagering.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1489 (Negrete McLeod-D) Horse racing: racing days

Requires the California Horse Racing Board to allocate live racing dates during the period in which general fair activities are conducted. These racing dates will not have to be conducted during the period when a fair's general activities are conducted.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

ACR 123 (Levine-D) Horse racing

Requests the California Horse Racing Board to facilitate revisions to agreements between racing associations, fairs, advance deposit wagering hubs and systems, and horse owners and breeders for the purpose of facilitating the establishment of one or more live telephone call centers in this state.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

Other Gaming Legislation

SB 329 (Perata-D) California State Lottery: revenues

Increases the percentage of lottery revenue allocated to prizes from 50 percent to 60 percent and decreases the percentage of revenue allocated to public education from 34 percent to 26 percent. Decreases the amount of revenue allocated to the payment of lottery expenses from 16 percent to 14 percent. Authorizes the State Lottery Commission to adjust those percentages, as specified.

(In Senate Governmental Organization)

SB 411 (Ducheny-D) Indian gaming: tribal state compacts

Ratifies specified tribal-state gaming compacts entered into between the State of California and the La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians and the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians.

Chapter 790, Statutes of 2003

SB 621 (Battin-R) Indian gaming

Establishes priorities and procedures for funding to local governments from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the purpose of mitigating impacts from tribal casinos.

Chapter 858, Statutes of 2003

SB 769 (Battin-R) Gaming regulation

Requires each county in which Indian gaming activities are located to establish an Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee for the purpose of establishing rant application policies and procedures, as specified. Requires counties administering grants from Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund revenue to provide an annual report to the Legislature detailing the specific projects funded. Requires the State Auditor to conduct an audit of the allocation and use of monies from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund every three years. Repeals and reorganizes existing provisions relating to tribal gaming.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 814 (Vincent-D) Gambling

Increases a current moratorium on the construction and licensing of new non-Indian gambling establishments as specified, from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2010, and provides that the California Gambling Control Commission may renew gambling licenses for a period of up to two years, as specified.

Chapter 799, Statutes of 2003

SB 930 (Ducheny-D) Indian gaming: tribal-state compacts

Ratifies the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the Torres-Martinez Tribe and the State of California.

Chapter 802, Statutes of 2003

SCA 10 (Florez-D) Legal gaming

Permits the Legislature, by a statute enacted by a two-thirds vote of the membership of each house, or the people, by an initiative measure approved by a majority of the voters voting on the measure at a statewide election, to provide for an expansion of legal gaming, as defined. Reorganizes existing provisions to authorized or prohibited gaming activities.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 113 (Chavez-D) Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund

Provides that monies for the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (IGSDF) are to be kept and accounted for by the State Controller. Additionally, provides that payments from the IGSDF for shortfalls to the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund shall be the priority use of monies in the IGSDF.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 131 (Jerome Horton-D) Indian tribes: tribal-state gaming compacts

Continuously appropriates monies in the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund to the California Gambling Control Commission for the purpose of making distributions to noncompact tribes. Requires the Office of the Legislative Analyst to review the management and disposition of the funds and report to the Legislature by January 31, 2005.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 278 (Bermudez-D) Gambling Control Act

Revises the definition of controlling game and also revises provisions of existing law relating to players fees with respect to the waiver of the collection of a fee by a gambling establishment.

Chapter 756, Statutes of 2003

AB 360 (Jerome Horton-D) Slot machines or devices

Allows the possession and sale of slot machines in California by tribal-licensed manufacturers. Creates an exception to the statutory prohibition on the possession and sale of slot machines in California for manufacturers licensed pursuant to the tribal-state gaming compacts, as specified.

Chapter 264, Statutes of 2003

AB 423 (Longville-D) Charitable raffles

Decreases the percentage of gross receipts form charitable raffles required to go to charitable purposes from 90 percent to 50 percent. Requires that no more than 10 percent of gross receipts from charitable raffles be used for administrative costs for operating a rifle.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 617 (Spitzer-R) California State Lottery Act

Specifies that coins or currency may not be dispensed as prizes to players from computer terminals or devices.

Chapter 83, Statutes of 2003

AB 673* (Shirley Horton-R) Gambling

Provides for allocation of funds from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund fort the purpose of backfilling shortfalls in the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund, as specified.

Chapter 210, Statutes of 2003

AB 864 (Firebaugh-D) Gambling: employee work permits

Specifies that work permits issued by the California Gambling Control Commission are valid for the period specified by the commission, not to exceed four years.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1186 (Strickland-R) Gambling Control Act: proposition player services

Requires the California Gambling Control Commission (CGCC) to issue licenses for proposition player services only to persons that the CGCC is satisfied are of good character and whose prior activities, including any criminal record, do not pose a threat to the public interest or to the effective regulation and control of gambling, as described.

(At Assembly Desk)

AB 1204 (Chavez-D) California State Lottery

Deletes the prohibition on the use of baccarat and dog racing as themes in lottery games.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1275 (Jerome Horton-D) Indian gaming

Establishes a stand-alone chapter within the Government Code for Tribal-State gaming compacts.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1780 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Gambling establishments

Renumbers a provision within the Gambling Control Act to correct its placement among sections reorganized in previous legislation and makes conforming changes to it in accordance with that legislative enactment.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

Public Employees

SB 53 (Dunn-D) Public employees' retirement: benefit limits

Increases the benefit limitation from 90 percent to 100 percent of final compensation for local safety members and, subject to a specified cost analysis, for patrol members and peace officer/firefighter members in State Bargaining Unit 8.

(Failed passage on Senate Unfinished Business File; reconsideration granted)

Similar legislation is AB 1586 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee), which is in the Senate Appropriations Committee, and SB 100 Dunn-D), which is in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 85 (Torlakson-D) County employees' retirement: death benefits

Makes specified domestic partners of county employees eligible for death benefits and survivor benefits, subject to approval by the Board of Supervisors, applicable to all counties in California, as specified.

Chapter 780, Statutes of 2003

SB 99 (Burton-D) Information technology classifications

Permits the Legislative Data Center (LDC) to make permanent information technology broadband classification structure created during a five-year demonstration project that is current in effect, and also permits the LDC to conduct exams on position-by-position basis.

Chapter 528, Statutes of 2003

SB 155 (Scott-D) Public officers: conflict of interest

States that a person of a contracting party that is a corporation for profit, if the former employee is owner of less than three percent of the corporation's share, where ownership of the shares was derived from the former employment.

Chapter 701, Statutes of 2003

SB 268 (Soto-D) Service credit payments and benefits

Requires various adjustments to the procedure for purchasing service credit when a death or disability occurs.

Chapter 855, Statutes of 2003

SB 269 (Soto-D) Public employees' retirement: manager compensation

Allows the State Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System Boards of Administration to determine the compensation of certain key positions, further providing that these determinations must be guided by the principles contained in statutes governing the creation of salary ranges for each class or position.

Chapter 856, Statutes of 2003

SB 270 (Soto-D) County employees' retirement systems: proposed changes

Requires that, prior to making any significant changes in retirement benefits or the use of excess retirement system funds, a county, district, or county retirement system providing benefits under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 provide retirees with advance notice of the proposed changes or use of excess funds.

Chapter 191, Statutes of 2003

SB 271 (Soto-D) Public employees' retirement: termination of contracts

Enhances the ability of the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) Board of Administration to recover funds from PERS local contracting agencies that have not paid required contributions, and permits the Board to merge terminated agency plans which are not fully funded into the Terminated Agency Pool (Pool) without a benefit reduction if doing so will not impact the actuarial soundness of the Pool. Currently, retiring employees of these plans have their benefits reduced proportionate to the failure of their employer, the terminating agency, to fund the earned benefits. Makes other minor and clarifying changes related to the termination of public agency plans.

Chapter 462, Statutes of 2003

SB 274 (Soto-D) County employees retirement

Establishes the Deferred Retirement Option Program as an optional benefit program for safety members (law enforcement and firefighters) of counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 that choose to offer the program.

Chapter 897, Statutes of 2003

SB 348* (Alarcon-D) State employees: memoranda of understanding

Approves provisions that require the expenditure of funds of memoranda of understanding entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Units 7 and 9, the California Union of Safety Employees and the Professional Engineers in California Government, respectively.

(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 436 (Soto-D) Public employees' retirement system: health plan contracts

Creates new procedures for contracts with health care providers and local public agencies for the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act, administered by the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

Chapter 751, Statutes of 2003

SB 439 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) State employees

Provides for the ratification of a Memorandum of Understanding negotiated between the state employer and State Bargaining Unit 5 (California Association of Highway Patrolmen) and State Bargaining Unit 8 (State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Firefighters).

Chapter 617, Statutes of 2003

SB 440 (Burton-D) Law enforcement officers and firefighters

Provides that the governing body of an employer agency may, by unanimous vote, reject the decision of an arbitration panel except as specifically provided to the contrary in a city, county, or city and county charter with respect to the rejection of an arbitration award. Excludes specified employers governed by a charter that was amended prior to January 1, 2004 from the provisions of this bill and SB 402 (Burton-D), Chapter 906, Statutes of 2000, when there is an existing procedure to settle unresolved matters regarding wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment, as specified.

Chapter 877, Statutes of 2003

SB 461 (Burton-D) State retirees: vision care benefits

Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System to provide state retirees with vision care coverage comparable to that which is currently provided to active employees. The benefit will be provided only to members who retire prior to January 1, 2004.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 574 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act

Enacts several substantive reforms to the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act, administered by the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 579 (Soto-D) Excluded employees: reduction in salary and benefits

Prohibits the State Department of Personnel Administration from implementing a salary or benefit reduction for excluded employees, unless and until the issue is heard in the appropriate Legislative policy committees.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 624 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) State personnel

Revises and eliminates certain reporting requirements of the State Department of Personnel Administration.

Chapter 465, Statutes of 2003

SB 625 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) State Public Employees' Retirement System

Permits the Director of the State Department of Personnel Administration to designate as a deputy any person employed under the Director's authority to sit and act in his or her place on the State Public Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration, or any of its committees.

Chapter 371, Statutes of 2003

SB 626 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) Benefits: Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act

Recasts the provisions of the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA), including reorganization and renumbering of the sections contained in PEMHCA. Clarifies the provisions of PEMHCA as it is currently administered and applied.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 836 (Soto-D) Public employees' retirement: safety membership

Allows Riverside County hazardous materials employees to be reclassified as State Public Employees' Retirement System local safety members by contract amendment.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 854 (Soto-D) Public employment: public services contracts

Adds to existing provisions of law regarding public services contracts the condition that the state agency submitting the proposed contract has not submitted a contract for the same services by the same contractor that was determined as not satisfying the conditions of current law. Provides that all personal services contracts are of no force and effect until approved by the State Personnel Board, as provided. Requires any state department or agency that proposes to enter a contract that is subject to State Bargaining Unit 12 to notify, at least 10 days before entering into the contract, any employee organization that may be affected by the contract.

(In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 902 (Soto-D) Public employees' retirement: industrial disability

Provides a different method for calculating the disability retirement allowance of specified local safety members. Provides that these specified local safety members shall receive a disability retirement allowance that is the greater of (1) 50 percent of the member's final compensation, plus an annuity purchased with accumulated contributions, if any, (2) a service retirement allowance, if the member is qualified for service retirement, or (3) three percent or 2.4 percent, for specified members, of the member's final compensation, multiplied by the difference of one minus 0.0l for each quarter that the member's service age is less than 50 years, multiplied by the number of years of local safety service, as specified, if the member is not qualified for service retirement.

(In Senate awaiting concurrence)

SR 29 (Burton-D) Memoranda of Understanding

Specifies that the Senate may not pass a bill approving a memoranda of understanding until it has been in print, as last amended, for at less than two legislative days.

(Adopted by the Senate; reconsideration granted. Placed back on Senate Third Reading File.)

SB 29X* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Bond financing

Enacts the California Pension Obligation Financing Act, which authorizes the issuance of bonds and the creation of ancillary obligations for the purpose of funding or refunding the state's pension obligations, as specified. Continuously appropriates from the General Fund without regard to fiscal years the amount necessary to pay the principal and interest on the bonds, subject to certain limits. Authorizes the Pension Obligation Bond Committee, as established by the bill, to bring an action to determine the validity of the bond issues pursuant to the act. Sunsets June 3, 2009.

Chapter 11, Statutes of 2003, First Extraordinary Session

AB 18 (Leno-D) Public employment discrimination

Makes changes to provisions of the State Civil Service Act relating to unlawful discrimination by removing "disability" from the bases of discrimination to which this provision applies, and, instead, includes gender, sexual orientation, physical disability, medical condition, and mental disability under the bases of discrimination under that act. Also includes gender, sexual orientation, age, and medical condition within the grounds of discriminatory conduct to which this provision applies.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 55* (Correa-D) County employees' retirement: additional retirement credit

Authorizes a county board of supervisors, in counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937, to allow active members of the retirement system to purchase up to five years of service credit for additional retirement credit.

Chapter 261, Statutes of 2003

AB 67* (Negrete McLeod-D) Public employees' retirement

Makes various minor and technical amendments to sections of the Government Code administered by the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

Chapter 10, Statutes of 2003

AB 75 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public employee postretirement death benefits

Authorizes local agencies contracting with the State Public Employees' Retirement System to increase the post-retirement survivor continuance benefit paid to the (1) survivors of local safety members whose service is coordinated with Social Security will increase from 25 percent to 40 percent of the deceased retiree's unmodified allowance, and (2) for survivors of local safety members whose service is not coordinated with Social Security will increase from 50 percent to 75 percent of the deceased retiree's unmodified allowance.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 80 (Bogh-R) County employees' retirement: firefighters' service credit

Allows police and firefighters in counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to purchase county retirement service credit relating to prior police and firefighting employment with any public agency.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 85 (Wiggins-D) County employees' retirement: continuous service

Provides that certain service credit already provided in some of the twenty county retirement systems organized under the County Employees' Retirement Act of 1937 for temporary, seasonal, intermittent or part-time service shall be included in the determination of whether or not the safety member has reached 30 years of continuous service, at which point the employee contribution to the retirement system is terminated.

Chapter 830, Statutes of 2003

AB 91 (Dutton-R) Public employees' retirement

Authorizes Riverside County to include deputy coroners within the local safety member classification for purposes of retirement benefits under the State Public Employees' Retirement System and excludes them from coverage under Social Security.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 92 (Jerome Horton-D) City employees: civil service board

Requires the legislative body of any city, when it appoints a personnel commission, to appoint one-half of the commission members from the public-at-large and to appoint the other half of the members from persons nominated by a recognized employee organization, as specified. The appointed members will be required to appoint an additional member as an independent neutral chairperson.

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

AB 117 (Kehoe-D) San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board

Allows the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board to participate directly in employee labor negotiations in specified ways and authorizes the board to enroll its employees in the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

Chapter 202, Statutes of 2003

AB 133 (Bogh-R) Riverside County deputy coroners

Allows Riverside County deputy coroners to be reclassified as local safety members by contract amendment. Defines these positions as "police officers" for the purpose of excluding these positions from Social Security coverage.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 144 (Correa-D) County employees' retirement: safety membership

Authorizes the Orange County Board of Supervisors to make all welfare fraud investigators and administrators within the County eligible for safety membership benefits.

Chapter 171, Statutes of 2003

AB 159 (Jerome Horton-D) State employees: discrimination action

Provides that, as long as a person properly exhausts his or her administrative remedies under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the person may bring a FEHA discrimination claim in court, without also having to exhaust his/her state civil service administrative remedies.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 199 (Oropeza-D) Public transit employer-employee relations

Establishes the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act, governing employee relations for supervisor employees in MTA, creates a comprehensive statute governing employer-employee relations for supervisors employed by the MTA, which clearly delineates their rights, and creates an administrative procedure under the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve labor disputes, such as unfair practice charges, for supervisors employed by the MTA.

Chapter 833, Statutes of 2003

AB 266 (Mullin-D) County employees' retirement: San Mateo County

Authorizes the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to negotiate through collective bargaining, a phased-in implementation of survivor benefits for domestic partners.

Chapter 79, Statutes of 2003

AB 268 (Mullin-D) State employment: supervisorial training

Requires that the training provided to newly appointed state supervisors include training on employment law relating to persons with disabilities.

Chapter 165, Statutes of 2003

AB 273* (Bogh-R) Public employees: compensation

Continuously appropriates from the General Fund an amount to be made available for the payment of compensation to specified state employees for work performed on or after July 1 of a fiscal year for which no budget has been enacted. Provides that compensation, at the rate in effect at the expiration of the last fiscal year for which a budget was enacted, shall be paid to state civil service employees in State Bargaining Unit 2, California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment; Unit 5, California Association of Highway Patrolmen; Unit 6, California Correctional Peace Officers Association; Unit 7, California Union of Safety Employees; and Unit 8, California Department of Forestry Firefighters, and the supervisors of those employees.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 285 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public retirement systems: reciprocity

Eliminates the requirement in the Public Employees Retirement Law and in the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 that a public employee have a break in service of no more than six months when moving between the two systems in order to qualify for reciprocity.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 369 (Bermudez-D) Public employees' retirement: employment after retirement

Allows a member who is retired for service and who has at least 20 years of service in corrections or at a jail, to serve, without reinstatement from service retirement, as the superintendent, deputy superintendent, or captain of a jail or other local correctional facility that houses state inmates pursuant to a long-term agreement, in a city that does not maintain a municipal police department.

Chapter 861, Statutes of 2003

AB 374 (Chan-D) County employees' retirement systems: capital expenditures

Allows a county board of retirement operating under the County Employees' Retirement Act of 1937 ('37 Act) to set an administrative expenditures based on an asset level reached during years with positive market returns (but in no cases higher than 0.23 percent of current assets), and requires that the authority to set the this type of spending cap will sunset January 1, 2007.

Chapter 95, Statutes of 2003

AB 375 (Bermudez-D) State employees: memoranda of understanding

Approves provisions that require the expenditure of funds of memoranda of understanding entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Units 1, 4, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21, and provides that the provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act, as specified.

Chapter 615, Statutes of 2003

Similar legislation is SB 1056 (Alarcon-D), which is on the Assembly Third Reading File.

AB 385 (Nakano-D) State employees: salary or wages: itemized statement

Requires, at the discretion of the employee, a state agency to issue the required itemized earnings statement electronically, rather than in writing.

Chapter 433, Statutes of 2003

AB 398 (Mullin-D) County employees' retirement: San Mateo County

Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County, by resolution, ordinance, contract or contract amendment, to provide retirement benefits for some, but not all, general members or safety members of that county.

Chapter 96, Statutes of 2003

AB 446 (Matthews-D) State employees: wages

Establishes requirements for the timely payment of wages of state employees, and to provide civil and misdemeanor penalties for violations of those requirements.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 457 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public employees' retirement: early retirement incentives

Authorizes specified state, local, and school employees to receive credit for up to two additional years of service or two additional years of age, or both, and, in certain circumstances, to receive service credit for accrued leave time, provided specified conditions are met. Authorizes employers under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to offer the same benefit to county employees.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 459 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public employees: retirement and health benefits

Modifies the process by which the State Public Employees' Retirement System contracts with health plans to provide health care services under the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act. Creates a Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act Review and Advisory Panel to monitor compliance with specified disease management programs.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 475 (Correa-D) Public employees' retirement: home loan program

Raises the loan value ratio for a home loan under the State Public Employees' Retirement System Member Home Loan program from the existing 95 percent to 100 percent.

Chapter 97, Statutes of 2003

AB 476 (Correa-D) Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act

Clarifies provisions in the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act that "employer contributions," includes, but is not limited to, any payment made by an employer on behalf of an employee into a cafeteria plan, as defined.

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

AB 507 (Hancock-D) Public employment

Requires cities, counties and special districts to provide probationary employees whose employment is being terminated with a written statement of the reason for termination.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 552 (Chavez-D) Public employees' retirement: service credit election

Authorizes state and local safety members who have elected to purchase service credit with the State Public Employees' Retirement System using the installment payment process to discontinue the payments if the member becomes disabled and the additional service credit purchase will not result in a higher benefit. Double-jointed with SB 268 (Soto).

Chapter 835, Statutes of 2003

AB 555 (Bogh-R) Public employees' retirement: postretirement employment

Allows a retired state or local safety member to return to work full-time, as a public safety instructor, without loss of retirement benefits.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 577 (Jerome Horton-D) State employees: dismissed employees

Revises certain procedures regarding the re-hire of laid off employees and the process for allowing dismissed employees to take civil service exams.

Chapter 836, Statutes of 2003

AB 676 (Nakanishi-R) Public employees' retirement: service credit

Allows former employees of the Independent Data Processing Center, a State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) public agency that was terminated, who took a refund of member contributions at the time of termination, to redeposit those contributions and interest in PERS and thereby receive credit for that service.

Chapter 560, Statutes of 2003

AB 697 (Maldonado-R) State employees

Revises the definition of "meet and confer" as it is used in the Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees (BRSEE) to require that the state fully consider the presentations made by organizations representing excluded employees prior to reaching a decision, and makes other minor technical changes in the BRSEE statutes.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 719 (Negrete McLeod-D) Retirement benefit enhancement

Allows various State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) members, including employees or officers of the state, the university, a school employer or a contracting agency and certain legislative employees, to be eligible to purchase up to five years of non-qualified service in PERS.

Chapter 838, Statutes of 2003

AB 896 (Diaz-D) State employees: engineers: salary parity

Implements the collective bargaining agreement reached by State Bargaining Unit 9 (SBU 9) and the State employer that requires that employees in SBU 9 (the Professional Engineers in California Government), and other related professionals, receive salaries no less than salaries received by their counterparts in California's larger local agencies and the University of California.

(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 899 (Wiggins-D) Public employment relations

Extends binding arbitration rights over economic disputes to firefighters of the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Clarifies the application of provisions of AB 1357 (Wiggins), Chapter 1132, Statutes of 2002, relating to personal services contracts.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 977 (Diaz-D) State employees: memoranda of understanding

Approves provisions of a memorandum of understanding earned into between the state employer and State Bargaining Unit 9 (professional engineers) that require the expenditure of funds, except for specified provisions related to an increase of salary or compensation, and provides that the provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act, as specified.

Chapter 616, Statutes of 2003

AB 1027 (Bermudez-D) State employees: salary ranges: professional scientists

Requires the State Department of Personnel Administration and the California Association of Professional Scientists to jointly survey scientific classifications in various California public agencies.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1064 (Laird-D) Public transit district pension plans

Requires that any existing retirement plan provided by transit districts or transit development boards be administered by a board with equal representation of labor and management, and provides that any plans created in the future must meet this requirement. Adds to the list of transit district exempted in this bill, those district where the membership of the governing board of the transit district is directly elected by the voters.

Chapter 845, Statutes of 2003

AB 1082 (Laird-D) Public employee health care benefits: domestic partners

Expands the current definition of a domestic partner to include two people who meet the criteria of a domestic partnership, as defined by the contracting agency, if the contracting agency adopted that definition prior to January 1, 2000.

Chapter 764, Statutes of 2003

AB 1141 (Diaz-D) Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: agency shop agreements

Deletes confidential and supervisory employees from the statutory list of employees for which an agency shop "fair share" fee arrangement does not apply.

Chapter 311, Statutes of 2003

AB 1156 (Nunez-D) Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: local public agencies

Makes changes to provisions of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act relating to public agency-adopted rules and regulations, alters the definition of employee organization and specifies certain powers of the State Public Employment Relations Board.

Chapter 215, Statutes of 2003

AB 1281 (Pavley-D) Public employees' retirement: industrial disability

Creates a new formula for calculating the disability retirement for local safety members who become disabled on or after January 1, 2004.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1321 (Oropeza-D) Reports to contracting agencies

Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) to provide a quarterly report, to any PERS local contracting agency that requests it.

Chapter 848, Statutes of 2003

AB 1428 (Levine-D) State Public Employees' Retirement System

Deletes the limit on the amount of reimbursement that can be paid to employers of State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) elected Board members. The term "elected board members' refers to the six members elected by the membership of PERS. Makes the reimbursement for costs incurred in employing a replacement operative retroactively, as of February 1, 2003.

Chapter 850, Statutes of 2003

AB 1463 (Negrete McLeod-D) State employees: leave

Increases the amount of annual leave or vacation credit awarded to excluded employees by two hours per month.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1535* (Bermudez-D) State employees: compensation

Continuously appropriates, from the General Fund, funds sufficient to pay state employees for work performed after July 1 of a fiscal year for which no budget has been enacted.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1583 (Koretz-D) Public employees

Prohibits a state agency, including the California State University, from employing a primary care physician as an independent contractor when there is an unfilled, full-time primary care physician position available within the state agency, unless the state makes a good faith effort to fill the position and is unable to do so.

(On the Senate Inactive File)

AB 1584 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State Public Employees' Retirement System

Makes a variety of changes to various sections of the Government Code administered by the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

Chapter 519, Statutes of 2003

AB 1585 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County employees' retirement systems

Makes various changes in the administration of the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 county retirement systems.

Chapter 520, Statutes of 2003

AB 1587 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Local public employees' retirement: benefits

Makes various changes regarding retirement board elections and the provision of retirement benefits.

Chapter 852, Statutes of 2003

AB 1606* (Shirley Horton-R) Public employees' health benefits: military duty

Authorizes an employee of a contracting agency and his or her family members to continue their enrollment in a health benefits plan for up to one year while the employee is on military duty.

Chapter 271, Statutes of 2003

AB 1611 (Levine-D) Public employee health benefits: retirees

Allows a state or local State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) retired annuitant who retires a second time after reinstatement with another PERS member agency, to receive retiree health benefits from the employer that provides the highest level of benefits.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1619 (Jackson-D) Public employees' retirement: compensation

Eliminates the discretion of the State Department of Personnel Administration to determine which payments and allowances are considered compensation for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits for excluded employees and nonelected officers or employees of the executive branch. Incorporates these employees under the statutory definition of compensation that applies to represented employees.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2X* (Bogh-R) Public employees: compensation

Continuously appropriates from the General Fund an amount to be made available for the payment of compensation to specified state public safety employees for work performed on or after July 1 of a fiscal year for which no budget has been enacted. Provides that compensation, at the rate in effect at the expiration of the last fiscal year for which a budget was enacted, shall be paid to state civil service employees in State Bargaining Unit (SBU) 2 - California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment, SBU 5 - California Association of Highway Patrolmen, SBU 6 - California Correctional Peace Officers Association, SBU 7 - California Union of Safety Employees, and SBU 8 - State Department of Forestry Firefighters, and the supervisors of those employees.

(In Assembly Budget Committee)

AB 13X* (Bermudez-D) State employees' retirement: early retirement incentive

Grants specified state employees an additional two years of service credit and credit for an additional year of age if those employees retire within a period, to be designated by the Director of the State Department of Finance, during the 2003-04 fiscal year and if other conditions are met.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 14X* (Bermudez-D) State employees' retirement: early retirement incentive

Grants specified state employees an additional two years of service credit if those employees retire within a period, to be designated by the Director of the State Department of Finance, during the 2003-04 fiscal year and if other conditions are met.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 15X* (Bermudez-D) State employees' retirement: early retirement incentive

Grants specified state employees an additional two years of service credit and credit for two additional years of age if those employees retire within a period, to be designated by the Director of the State Department of Finance, during the 2003-04 fiscal year and if other conditions are met.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

Other State Government

SB 9 (McClintock-R) Government reorganization: realignment or closure

Enacts the Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Act of 2004 for the purpose of establishing an eight member commission and a process for realigning or closing outdated or ineffective and inefficient governmental entities.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 41 (Bowen-D) Public contracts: services

Makes various conforming and clarifying changes to the Public Contract Code relating to public contracts, as specified.

Chapter 699, Statutes of 2003

SB 55 (Ackerman-R) State-mandated local programs

Provides that, for the period of January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2005, with specified exceptions, no new state-mandated local program shall become operative unless approved by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, any state-mandated local program enacted prior to January 1, 2004, shall be suspended unless reenacted by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, and no local agency shall be required to implement or give effect to any state-mandated local program that is not reimbursed by the state.

(In Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

SB 73 (Alpert-D) California National Guard

Permits the Adjutant General to establish rules and regulations for the provision of morale, welfare, and recreational activities for members of the National Guard, in accordance with federal military regulations. Permits the Adjutant General or the National Guard to accept donations for the benefit of the State Military Department.

Chapter 248, Statutes of 2003

SB 74 (Torlakson-D) State property: vending machines

Requires each vendor that operates or maintains a vending machine on designated state property to satisfy the requirement that at least 50 percent of the food and beverages offered in the vending machine meets accepted nutritional guidelines.

(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 94* (Alpert-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $2,364,221.03 to pay 598 claims against 39 state agencies. The funds are appropriated to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for payment of equity claims approved by the Board.

Chapter 7, Statutes of 2003

SB 95* (Alpert-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $1,288,372.67 to pay 619 claims against 46 state agencies. The funds are appropriated to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for payment of equity claims approved by the Board.

Chapter 232, Statutes of 2003

SB 96* (Alpert-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $2,445,905.90 from various funds to pay 468 claims against 37 state agencies. The funds are appropriated to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for payment of equity claims approved by the Board.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 97* (Alpert-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $1.7 million from the 1998 School Facilities Bond Fund to the Director of the State Department of General Services to pay attorney fees in the settlement of Godinez v. Davis.

(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 110 (Margett-R) Public contracts: contract specifications

Revises the conditions under which public agencies can require goods or services from one specific source when putting contracts out to bid.

Chapter 233, Statutes of 2003

SB 111 (Knight-R) State reporting requirements

Deletes various reporting requirements which are required of various state agencies throughout the year.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 163 (Alarcon-D) Service contracts: counties and cities

Authorizes cities and counties, other than chartered cities and counties, to contract out for services with private entities after July 1, 2005, if the contract results in cost savings, and if one of several specific conditions are met. Does not apply to public works, public transit, architectural services, engineering services, land surveying or construction, or renewed contracts. In the event a transit services contract is not renewed as a result of this bill, it requires local governments to provide a hiring preference to the former contractors' employees.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 296 (Chesbro-D) Public trust lands: Kaiser Steel Development Area

Authorizes the City of Vallejo or the Vallejo Redevelopment Agency to enter into exchanges of tidelands and submerged lands with the State Lands Commission. All lands exchanged must be within the Kaiser Steel Development Area. All lands received by the state must be of equal or greater value than those exchanged. Requires the State Lands Commission to establish appropriate procedures to effectuate any exchange it may approve.

Chapter 299, Statutes of 2003

SB 301 (Alarcon-D) Commission on Latino/Latina Affairs

Creates the Commission on Latino/Latina Affairs (Commission) consisting of 15 members appointed as specified. The duties of the commission include advising the Governor, the Legislature and state agencies, departments, and commissions on issues relating to the social and economic development, and the rights and interests of Latino/Latina communities. Requires the Commission to submit an annual report with specified recommendations by December 1 of each year to the Governor and the Legislature detailing its activities in the preceding 12 months and setting forth its proposed action plan for the following year. Specifies that the commission becomes operative upon the receipt of funds from public or private sources.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 302 (Kuehl-D) Discrimination: California State University

Applies to the California State University laws prohibiting discrimination against the disabled by state agencies and requiring state agencies to improve accessibility of assistive technology to disabled persons.

Chapter 784, Statutes of 2003

SB 321 (Torlakson-D) Infrastructure investment bonds

Enacts the Invest in California Infrastructure Bond Act, which, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance of $15,000,000,000 in general obligation bonds and designates specific state agencies to administer bond funds to support local infrastructure investment.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 403 (Florez-D) Information technology

Creates the Information Technology Act of 2003, a governance structure for guiding information technology investments by the state, coordinated by a state Chief Information Officer, a new State Information Technology Board, and the existing State Department of Finance, each with new or additional responsibilities and powers.

(On Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 411 (Ducheny-D) Indian gaming: tribal state compacts

Ratifies specified tribal-state gaming compacts entered into between the State of California and the La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians, and the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians.

Chapter 790, Statutes of 2003

SB 427 (Dunn-D) Mexican repatriation: commission

Creates the Commission on the 1930's Repatriation Program (Commission) with specified powers and duties, to consist of 12 voting members and four ex officio members, as specified, whose terms are for the duration of the Commission. Requires the Commission to, among other things, gather facts regarding, and conduct a study of, the unconstitutional removal and coerced emigration of United States citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent, between 1929 and 1944, to Mexico during the 1930's "Repatriation" Program. Requires the Commission to hold public hearings and make a written report to the Governor and the Legislature concerning its actions and its findings and recommendations not later than July 1, 2005. Provides that the Commission may apply for and accept public and private funding, as specified.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 434 (Escutia-D) State departments: investigations and hearings

Provides the State Attorney General with the authority to enforce the states corporate securities and commodities laws to be accomplished on existing financial resources. Makes various clarifications to the laws regarding the ability of the director a state department to share and seek information. Creates a new misdemeanor for anyone who knowingly and willfully makes false statements in connection with an investigation into corporate misconduct.

Chapter 876, Statutes of 2003

SB 499 (Margett-R) Public contracts: lowest responsible bidder

Adds a new section to the Public Contract Code in order to clarify and define the term "lowest responsible bidder."

(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 552 (Burton-D) State motor vehicle fleets

Requires the State Department of General Services, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board and the California Energy Commission, to develop and adopt specifications and standards for all passenger cars and light-duty trucks that are leased or purchased on behalf of, or by, state offices, agencies, and departments.

Chapter 737, Statutes of 2003

SB 562 (Ackerman-R) Bonds

Limits administrative costs of implementing general obligation bond programs to five percent of bond proceeds, unless the State Department of Finance approves the plan submitted by the administering state agency for the expenditure of additional administrative costs.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 578 (Alarcon-D) Public contracts: sweatshop labor

Enacts nonsweatshop labor guidelines to state procurement policies that ensure that goods and services purchased by the State of California be produced in workplaces that adhere to minimum standards for protecting workers.

Chapter 711, Statutes of 2003

SB 589 (Senate Rules Committee) Public officers: appointments

Provides a procedure when the Governor appoints an acting or interim department or agency secretary, deputy secretary, or deputy director, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 640 (Burton-D) Public contracts: expatriate corporations

Establishes the California Taxpayer and Shareholder Act of 2003, which prohibits a state agency from entering into any agreement or contract with a publicly held expatriate corporation, as defined, or its subsidiary, unless the corporation provides specified shareholder rights and other legal and financial arrangements or the contract serves a compelling public interest. Makes legislative findings and declarations relative to publicly held expatriate corporations.

Chapter 657, Statutes of 2003

SB 669* (Battin-R) State property

Requires the State Department of General Services to identify $1 billion worth of state property that can be sold immediately to help close the state's budget deficit, and requires state agencies and departments that may be affected by the sale of land or structures to determine the costs and benefits of leasing back their existing space or finding new space.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 729 (Perata-D) State contracts: bids: metal castings

Requires state agencies to give priority to bids for the sale of metal castings that are substantially made in California. Requires a bidder on a state contract for goods or services involving metal castings to submit a Material Safety Data Sheet to the State Department of General Services.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 751 (Karnette-D) State Department of the California Highway Patrol

Makes the State Department of the California Highway Patrol a part of the Office of the Governor instead of the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and no longer requires the Agency's approval to organize the department and classify its work.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 753* (Alpert-D) Public works projects: state

Makes various substantive and clarifying changes to existing statutes that authorize the construction of new state office buildings in downtown Sacramento (West End project) and San Diego.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 791 (Florez-D) Information technology

Enacts the Information Technology Act of 2003 to provide a new governance structure for the state's information technology programs and resources.

(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 812 (Vincent-D) Juneteenth National Freedom Day

Makes clarifying and technical changes to Legislation passed last year which requires the Governor to proclaim the third Saturday in June each year as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day: a day of observance."

Chapter 156, Statutes of 2003

SB 839 (Dunn-D) Public contracts: consulting services

Revises provisions of law relating to state contracts and consulting services to also prohibit a person, firm, or subsidiary thereof that has been awarded a consulting services contract from having a financial interest in the provision of services, the procurement of goods or supplies, or any other related action that is required, suggested, or otherwise deemed appropriate in the end product of the consulting services contract. Imposes similar provisions applicable to any person, firm, or subsidiary to whom a city, county, district, or other local government entity has awarded a consulting services contract. With respect to both the state and local consulting contract provisions, that a willful violation of these provisions is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by imprisonment in the state prison.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 856 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) State property

Provides various authorizations to the State Department of General Services related to the management of the State's real property assets, including leasing and transfer authorizations.

Chapter 258, Statutes of 2003

SB 896 (Florez-D) State contracts: California multiple award schedules

Prohibits the State Department of General Services (DGS) or any other state agency from entering into contracts, using a multiple award, unless DGS or a state agency obtains three additional price quotations, including at least one price quotation from a certified business contractor, and the legal counsel of DGS or the agency reviews all sole-source contracts and emergency purchases to ensure that they comply with the applicable statutory requirements.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 911 (Alpert-D) Local emergency telephone systems

Creates in state government, the State 911 Advisory Board to advise the Telecommunications Division of the State Department of General Services, comprised of specified members appointed by the Governor.

Chapter 631, Statutes of 2003

SB 973 (Machado-D) State property

Authorizes the State Department of General Services to enter into an agreement with federal authorities to sell, lease, or exchange land at the Northern California Women's Facility, which is a correctional institution under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Corrections, under conditions that are in the best interest of the state, as specified.

Chapter 717, Statutes of 2003

SB 974 (Alarcon-D) Public contracts: preferences

Requires the state to award at least a five percent preference, and authorizes a local agency to award a preference of at least five percent, but not more than 10 percent, to a California-based socially responsible business that certifies under penalty of perjury that it meets at least 10 of 13 criteria. Applies specified sanctions to a business that obtains a contract pursuant to a preference obtained by means of a false certification. Makes legislative declarations that promoting socially responsible businesses serves a public purpose, and that it is the intent of the Legislature to promote those businesses that honor, respect, and safeguard human health and safety, worker dignity, environmental sustainability, and the community in which the businesses operate, by facilitating the participation of those businesses in all public contracts.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1011 (Battin-R) Public contracting

Repeals recently enacted legislation that (1) expands the employee benefits required of state agency personal service contracts for janitorial, housekeeping, and security guard services, and (2) requires an awarding body of public work that chooses to use funds from the School Bond Acts to initiate a labor compliance program. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the economic crisis confronting the state and its businesses.

(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee; reconsideration granted)

SCA 1 (Burton-D) Access to government information

Proposes to the people of the State of California that Article 1, Section 3 of the Constitution be amended to make access to records and public meetings of government officials and agencies a constitutional right of each citizen, as specified.

(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SCA 4 (Brulte-R) Gubernatorial succession

Provides that the Lieutenant Governor only act as Governor during the impeachment or temporary disability of the Governor or Governor-elect failing to take office. The Lieutenant Governor will no longer be the acting Governor during the Governor's absence from the state.

(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee; reconsideration granted)

SCR 6 (Battin-R) California Hispanic Heritage Month

Proclaims September 15 to October 15, 2003, inclusive, as California Hispanic Heritage Month, and encourages all Californians to observe this event in communities throughout the state.

Resolution Chapter 131, Statutes of 2003

SCR 7 (Battin-R) Ronald Reagan Day

Recognizes February 6, 2003, and subsequent anniversaries thereafter, as Ronald Reagan Day.

Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2003

SCR 13 (Figueroa-D) Women's History Month

Declares that the Legislature joins the California Commission on the Status of Women and the National Women's History Project in honoring the contributions of women, and proclaims the month of March 2003 as Women's History Month. Urges Californians to join the celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2003.

Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 2003

SCR 16 (Morrow-R) POW Recognition Day

Designates April 9, 2003, as POW Recognition Day in California.

Resolution Chapter 52, Statutes of 2003

SCR 19 (Alarcon-D) World Languages and Cultures Month

Declares the month of May 2003, World Languages and Cultures Month.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 28 (Battin-R) California Indian Heritage Month

Proclaims November 2003 as California Indian Heritage Month, encourages its observance with activities that celebrate our uniqueness as Americans, and commends California Indian nations for their outstanding contributions to this state.

Resolution Chapter 74, Statutes of 2003

SCR 29 (Battin-R) Bob Hope Day

Honors and congratulates Bob Hope on his 100th birthday and designates May 29, 2003, as Bob Hope Day.

Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2003

SCR 31 (Speier-D) California Missions Day

Declares California Missions Day as July 16, 2003, to increase public awareness of the California missions in state history and encourages annual observance of this day.

Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2003

SCR 36 (Knight-R) Centennial anniversary of flight

Recognizes the centennial anniversary of flight and encourages cities, counties, and individual citizens to organize activities in celebration of a century of flight. Encourages teachers to utilize the Dryden Educator Resource Center to stimulate young minds and encourage young people to pursue careers in aviation and aerospace.

Resolution Chapter 126, Statutes of 2003

SCR 37 (Vincent-D) Juneteenth: June 19

Recognizes June 19, 2003, as Juneteenth and urges the people of California to join in celebrating Juneteenth as a day to honor and reflect on the significant role that African-Americans have played in the history of the United States and how they have enriched society through their steadfast commitment to promoting brotherhood and equality.

Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2003

SR 9 (Vasconcellos-D) Relative to nonviolence

Proclaims January 30 through April 4, 2003, inclusive, as the sixth annual Season for Nonviolence, and encourages all citizens to participate in local, national, and global educational and community action campaigns to honor those who are using nonviolence to build communities that respect the dignity and worth of every human being.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 14 (Jerome Horton-D) Public contracts: job order contracting

Authorizes, until December 1, 2007, job order contracting by the Los Angeles County Unified School District, and requires the district, if it adopts this option, to submit an interim report to the Legislature and the Office of Public School Construction in the State Department of General Services regarding all job order contract projects completed by December 31, 2004, and a report regarding the implementation of the job order contracting process for each job order procured, and the work completed on or before November 1, 2007.

Chapter 889, Statutes of 2003

AB 17 (Kehoe-D) State contracts: acquisition of goods or services

Prohibits a state agency from entering into any contract for goods or services in the amount of $100,000 or more with a contractor that does not provide the same benefits to an employee with a registered domestic partner that it provides to an employee with a spouse, as specified.

Chapter 752, Statutes of 2003

AB 25 (Nunez-D) State agencies: identification cards

Requires state agencies to accept identification cards issued by foreign countries if the card meets specified requirements.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 59 (Dymally-D) Commission

Establishes the 11-member California Commission for the Preservation of African-American History, Culture, and Institutions and specifies its membership and duties.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 79* (Dutra-D) Written reports: preparation

Provides, until January 1, 2008, that a public agency may prepare or submit any written report to the Legislature, the Governor, or any state legislative or executive body unless any one of specified conditions is met or the report is required to be prepared and submitted pursuant to this bill.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 126 (Campbell-R) Publicly funded advertisements

Requires advertisements paid for with at least $250 of public funds by state agencies to include a printed or broadcast disclaimer indicating the source of the public funds.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 222* (Corbett-D) Reading

Establishes the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2004, authorizing the issuance of $4.47 billion in bonds for the purpose of financing library construction and renovation, as well as specified youth library services, subject to voter approval.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 256 (Vargas-D) Public works: state projects and property

Revises various provisions related to the director of the State Department of General Services projects for office space on state-owned land on Sacramento's west end and state-owned office space in the City of San Diego, authorizes the director to form a voluntary design advisory committee composed of representatives designated by the City of San Diego and others, and authorizes the director to lease real property related to the Ione Youth Facility to the Amador Regional Sanitation Authority for its continued use as a wastewater delivery and disposal system.

Chapter 723, Statutes of 2003

AB 292 (Yee-D) Interpreters: prohibition on use of children

Prohibits a state or local governmental agency or any entity that receives state funding from using children or permitting children to be used as interpreter, except under limited circumstances. Requires each agency, entity or program to have an established procedure for providing competent interpretation services that does not involve the use of children. Violation of this requirement by non-state entities may result in loss of funding or cancellation of contract. Requires the Judicial Council of California to ensure that Rules of Court and court interpreter services are consistent with the requirements of this bill.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 296 (Oropeza-D) State and local government

Makes a number of cleanup and/or implements various provisions of the 2003-04 Budget Act, as specified.

Chapter 757, Statutes of 2003

AB 318 (Haynes-R) State agency fiscal reports

Requires each state agency, board, commission, department, or office to prepare and provide a report to the Senate Committee on Rules, the Assembly Committee on Rules, and to each member of the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the Assembly Committee on Budget on the financial activities of the agency, board, commission, department, or office for the 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2001-02, and 2002-03 fiscal years no later than January 15, 2004, and for each subsequent fiscal year by January 15 of the following year in accordance with specified requirements.

(In Assembly Budget Committee)

AB 413 (Goldberg-D) Property transactions

Allows the State Department of Parks and Recreation to lease 20 acres at the Taylor Yard to the City of Los Angeles for the development and operation of a local park with regional benefits.

Chapter 677, Statutes of 2003

AB 415 (Strickland-R) State contracts: information technology

Prohibits the State Department of General Services or any other state agency from entering into contracts, or agreeing to contract amendments, using a multiple award, that result, in the aggregate, in the purchase of information technology goods and services that exceeds $500,000.

(In Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

AB 453 (Yee-D) Public works contracts: compensation of contractors

Provides that a contractor is entitled to recover the reasonable costs of labor, equipment, and materials on a public works contract if that contract is determined to be invalid due to a defect or defects in the competitive bidding process caused solely by the contracting public entity.

Chapter 678, Statutes of 2003

AB 466 (Steinberg-D) Contracting preferences: wood materials and products

Prohibits state agencies and school districts from purchasing wood products, except paper products, derived from "ancient" forest trees, as defined, unless certain requirements are met.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 498 (Canciamilla-D) State government: prudent state reserve

Establishes the Prudent State Reserve Fund, as specified. Requires, each fiscal year, the Governor to recommend an amount to be transferred to this fund in an amount equal to three percent of all General Fund and special fund reserves anticipated for the ensuing fiscal year. States the intent of the Legislature to make this transfer of funds each fiscal year.

(In Assembly Budget Committee)

AB 515 (Matthews-D) Public contracts: responsible bidder

Requires a public entity awarding a contract to consider safety and wage violations in evaluating responsible bidders.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 542 (Dutra-D) Military artifacts

Adds military equipment, artifacts, memorabilia, documents, photographs, films, literature, and any other item relating to the military history of California and Californians to the class of military items that are exempt from sale by the State Controller upon escheat to the state, and (2) authorizes the California State Military Museum (CSMM) to enter into agreements with other military museums to loan out property, that is not real property that is either under the direct control of the CSMM or held in trust by it for the State Controller as escheated military memorabilia.

Chapter 256, Statutes of 2003

AB 556 (Strickland-R) State boards and commissions: salaries: suspension

Specifies that members appointed to specified state boards and commissions shall receive no salary for the 2003-04, 2004-05, and 2005-06 fiscal years, except that they may receive a per diem payment set pursuant to these provisions during that time.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 569 (Cohn-D) Bureau of State Audits

Deletes obsolete references to the State Auditor General and makes other code maintenance and clarifying changes to various sections of law that reference the duties of the State Auditor and the Bureau of State Audits. In addition, specified sections of this bill are double-jointed with AB 403 (Florez-D) and SB 626 (Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee) to address chaptering out conflicts.

Chapter 107, Statutes of 2003

AB 600 (Maddox-R) Government regulation: religious exercise

Prohibits any state, local, or other public agency from imposing or implementing a land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person, unless the agency demonstrates that the imposition of the burden on that person is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest. Authorizes any person to bring an action to enforce those rights, as specified.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 669 (Cohn-D) Public contracts: disabled veteran business enterprises

Requires that a small business, microbusiness, and disabled veteran business enterprise must perform a commercially useful function," in relation to specified state contracts, and imposes certain penalties for misrepresenting the performance of a commercially useful function.

Chapter 623, Statutes of 2003

AB 689 (Shirley Horton-R) State regulatory agencies: audits

Requires the State Auditor, by January 1, 2010, to conduct a performance audit of each state regulatory agency, as defined, subject to specified exceptions. Requires the State Auditor to hold a public hearing after each audit report has been completed, for purposes of reviewing the report. Requires a copy of the report to be made available to each member of the Legislature and the Governor. Appropriates $1,500,000 for the purposes of the bill.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 702 (Jackson-D) State agencies: state and consumer services

Consolidates the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board under the jurisdiction of the State Consumer Services Agency and allows the Secretary of the State Consumer Services Agency or his or her designee to serve on the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.

Chapter 84, Statutes of 2003

AB 703 (Dymally-D) Racial discrimination: definition

Provides a statutory definition of "racial discrimination" that is based on the language used in the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, signed by the United States and ratified by the United States Senate. The bill also provides that Section 31, Article 1 of the California Constitution shall not be interpreted to grant an individual a private cause of action to challenge any special measures undertaken for the purpose of securing adequate advancement of racial groups requiring protection pursuant to the International Convention provision, and that special measures shall not be interpreted as preferential treatment under Section 31. Lastly, the bill provides that Section 31, Article 1 of the California Constitution shall not be construed to require government to prove racial discrimination before undertaking special measures for the purpose of securing adequate advancement of racial minority groups needing protection pursuant to the relevant International Convention provision.

Chapter 211, Statutes of 2003

AB 717 (Diaz-D) State Department of Information Technology

Creates a State Department of Information Technology to provide, in cooperation with the State Department of Finance and the State Department of General Services, statewide guidance to state agencies on the use, acquisition, and management of information technology.

(In Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

AB 722 (Matthews-D) Public contracts: electronic bids: reverse auctions

Authorizes the State Department of General Services to utilize an on-line bidding procedure known as reverse auctioning for the acquisition of goods, services and information technology.

Chapter 266, Statutes of 2003

AB 753 (Leslie-R) State agencies: alternative work schedules: study

Enacts the Traffic and Pollution Reduction Act of 2003, which requires each state agency that employs more than 15 full-time employees in the Sacramento metropolitan area to prepare and submit a written report to the State Department of Transportation and the Legislature on or before June 30, 2004, that includes specified information, including potential courses of action state agencies could take and feasibility of options that include, but are not limited to, alternative work schedules and telecommuting.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 795 (Nunez-D) Personal services contracts

Revises existing law relating to personal services contracts, requires a state agency that proposes to execute any type of the specified personal service contracts, except urgent personal services contracts to notify the State Personnel Board (Board) of its intention to do so, and to provide to the Board a written justification for the contract. Requires the Board to transmit copies of the notice and written justification to organizations that represent state employees that perform the types of work described in the contract, and authorizes these organizations to request that the Board determine whether the contract is a permissible personal services contract. Prohibits any expenditure of money or any work from being performed under these types of contracts until the Board has approved or disapproved the contract. Exempts from these notice and justification requirements urgent personal services contracts, as specified, but authorizes an employee organization that represents state employees to request the Board to determine whether these types of contracts are permitted under law. Makes other related changes.

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

AB 846 (Vargas-D) Smoking: public buildings

Extends the current ban on smoking in state buildings to city and county buildings and expands the current five foot non-smoking perimeter around main entrances of such buildings to twenty feet.

Chapter 342, Statutes of 2003

AB 853 (Corbett-D) State funds: deposit of interest earned

Requires the State Controller to distribute interest earned on money from the more than 1,400 non-bond funds (General Fund, Lottery Fund, Fish and Game Preservation Fund, Highway Fund, etc.) invested in the Surplus Money Investment Fund on a quarterly basis.

Chapter 100, Statutes of 2003

AB 855 (Firebaugh-D) Telecommunications

Requires that 15 percent of the revenues derived from new leases of state-owned property to wireless telecommunications providers be redirected from the General Fund to a separate account, administered by the State Public Utilities Commission for the purpose of funding a "Digital Divide" grant program, as specified.

Chapter 820, Statutes of 2003

AB 862 (Firebaugh-D) Personal services contracts: legal services

Requires specified state agencies and the State Attorney General (AG) to provide notices, as specified, to the designated representative of State Employees Bargaining Unit 2, regarding any contract for outside counsel and the consent of the AG with respect to the contract. Exempts certain matters from the notice requirement, and that disclosures made in the notice are deemed privileged communications.

Chapter 883, Statutes of 2003

AB 867 (Nakano-D) Controller: penalties

Authorizes the State Controller to waive penalties for late filing of specified financial reports by county auditors and financial officers of local agencies upon a satisfactory showing of good cause.

Chapter 86, Statutes of 2003

AB 873 (Richman-R) Regulations: impact on business

Requires state agencies to solicit comment from individuals and organizations with expertise in economics to consider potential economic impacts on the state businesses when proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal existing administrative regulations. These individuals and organizations may be associated with state universities and economic research institutes.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 895 (Steinberg-D) Cal Expo and District Agricultural Associations

Creates a new account for any additional funds that ensue from a new harness racing lease at California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) that are received by the existing lease; requires Cal Expo to carry-out specified actions if space is not provided at their site for the Sacramento County overflow homeless shelter; and, requires Cal Expo and all District Agricultural Associations to accept the highest bid for revenue generating agreements under specified circumstances.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 902 (Diaz-D) Public contracts: subcontractor substitution

Authorizes a public agency awarding a public works contract to allow the general contractor to substitute for a subcontractor listed in their bid who fails or refuses to execute a written contract for the specified scope of work and price in the subcontractor's bid.

Chapter 190, Statutes of 2003

AB 922 (Maze-R) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank

Requires the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to consider various factors in the selection of infrastructure projects to fund.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 965 (Kehoe-D) State emblems: official state tall ship

Designates the "Californian" as the official state tall ship. Acknowledges that for the last 20 years, the "Californian" has served as the official tall ship ambassador of California. Specifies that the "Californian" has represented the state during various events, including the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles and at OP-Sail 86 which celebrated the centennial of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

Chapter 113, Statutes of 2003

AB 990 (Ridley-Thomas-D) State government: Tax Expenditures Report

Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office, on or before January 10, 2004, and on or before that date in each succeeding year, to submit to the Legislature a report of the tax expenditures currently in effect. Requires the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the Assembly Committee on Budget to consider the report in conjunction with the annual Budget Act, and to evaluate the relative priority of each tax expenditure based on specified criteria, as compared with all state expenditures.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1032 (Jackson-D) State contracts: prospective bidders

Establishes a monitoring program to determine the magnitude of state contracts that are entered into with persons or businesses that have violated federal, state, and local laws and regulations and excludes prospective bidders from state contracting for five years for misstating or failing to provide certain information required by this bill.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1142 (Hancock-D) Public contracts: bids

Authorizes the awarding authority to relieve a bidder from the forfeiture of its bond up to $100,000 if the bidder is a nonprofit organization and a community services agency, as provided.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1145* (Shirley Horton-R) State buildings: defibrillators

Requires the State Department of General Services (DGS) to apply for federal grant funds for the purchase of automated external defibrillators to be located within state-owned and leased buildings. Requires DGS, in consultation with the Emergency Medical Services Authority, the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association, to adopt policies and procedures consistent with existing law and regulations related to the placement and use of defibrillators.

(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 1149 (Firebaugh-D) California Cultural and Historical Endowment

Appropriates $128.4 million from Proposition 40 bond funds to the California State Library to fund grants and loans made by the California Cultural and Historical Endowment.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1182* (Ridley-Thomas-D) Government financing

Creates new financing mechanisms for the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.

(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 1209 (Nakano-D) Public agency security: confidential information

Extends the California Public Records Act exemption to records prepared for state or local public agencies that assess vulnerability to terrorist attacks and emergency response plans prepared to address those assessments. Adds to those law enforcement records that are exempt from the California Public Records Act, customer lists provided by an alarm or security company to a state or local police agency at the request of the agency.

(Withdrawn from enrollment; at Senate Desk)

AB 1210 (Nakano-D) Notaries public: qualifications

Effective January 1, 2005, requires a person to pass a six-hour course of study approved or provided by the Secretary of State to qualify for appointment or reappointment as a notary public, and to pass a three-hour refresher course to qualify for future reappointment.

Chapter 513, Statutes of 2003

AB 1277 (Cohn-D) Commissions and committees

Adds a representative of the Recording Industry Association of America to the High Technology Crime Advisory Committee. Restores the statutory framework for functions and programs of the California Film Commission, largely related to promoting filming in California and marketing programs such as the "Film California First Program" that were eliminated in the budget and relevant trailer bill.

Chapter 662, Statutes of 2003

AB 1302* (Simitian-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $428,000 from the General Fund to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for the payment of the claim in the matter of Quedellis Ricardo Walker, upon the approval of the board, as specified.

Chapter 475, Statutes of 2003

AB 1368 (Kehoe-D) Bonds

Establishes an annual reporting process for various expenditures associated with general obligation bond measures approved by voters on or after January 1, 2004.

Chapter 770, Statutes of 2003

AB 1374 (Daucher-R) State agency services: local government

Authorizes any state agency, subject to the approval by the State Department of General Services, to enter into a contract to furnish services to, or perform work for, a local government agency. The services and work will be limited to services and work already authorized to be performed by the state agency. Of any profit derived from the contracts, 75 percent will be allocated for deposit into the General Fund, while 25 percent will be allocated for retention by the state agency for purpose of program development and employee incentives.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1433 (Spitzer-R) Criminal law: public officials: threats

Adds the "immediate family of the staff" to the list of persons protected by the statute prohibiting threats against public officials.

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

AB 1486 (Dutra-D) Public contracts: design-build procurement process

Authorizes the State Department of General Services, until January 1, 2007, to use design-build as a standard procurement process for capital outlay projects.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1570 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Public agencies

Amends an existing provision of the Public Contract Code to clarify that the Director of the State Department of General Services is authorized to make the services of the department available to any tax-supported public agency in the state, including a school district, for the acquisition of goods.

Chapter 402, Statutes of 2003

AB 1616 (Montanez-D) Intellectual property rights

Enacts the California Intellectual Property Rights Act, which generally provides that state-owned intellectual property, except as specified, is dedicated to the public domain. Prescribes requirements applicable to state contracts and prescribes the rights to and disposition of income derived from the licensing of inventions.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1632 (Leno-D) Public contracts: sales and use taxes

Prohibits any public entity from contracting for goods or services or purchasing any goods or services from a retailer that fails or refuses to collect and remit the sales and use tax the retailer owes to the state. Requires the State Board of Equalization to provide to all public entities a list of retailers that fail to collect and remit that sales and use tax.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1745* (Assembly Transportation Committee) Public contracts: bonds

Gives the State Department of Transportation the discretion to reduce the amount of the payment bond requirement for projects costing more than $250,000,000. The bond amount could be reduced to half the contract cost or $500,000,000, whichever is less.

Chapter 186, Statutes of 2003

AB 1757 (Assembly Budget Committee) State agencies

Abolishes the State Office of Criminal Justice Planning and the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency and transfers specified duties to other state agencies.

Chapter 229, Statutes of 2003

ACR 1 (Koretz-D) California Holocaust Memorial Week

Proclaims the week of April 27 through May 4, 2003, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and urges Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.

Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2003

Similar legislation is ACR 5 (Cohn-D), which is in the Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 3 (Cohn-D) The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences

Recognizes the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for its accomplishments in recognizing and preserving America's great cultural legacy in music, and extends congratulations to the Academy on the 45th anniversary of the GRAMMY Awards. Also respectfully requests the Academy to hold subsequent GRAMMY Awards telecasts and ceremonies in Los Angeles.

Resolution Chapter 43, Statutes of 2003

ACR 4 (Wesson-D) Anaheim Angels: 2002 Major League Baseball World Series

Honors and congratulates the Anaheim Angels for their victory in the 2002 Major League Baseball World Series and their achievement on becoming the 2002 World Champions.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 6 (Cohn-D) Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of October 2003 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Resolution Chapter 120, Statutes of 2003

ACR 12 (Jerome Horton-D) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Honors the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and commemorates his birthday, January 20, 2003, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2003

ACR 13 (Jackson-D) Girls and Women in Sports Week

Recognizes female athletes, coaches, officials, and sports administrators for their important contribution in promoting the value of sports in the achievement of full human potential and proclaims February 3 to 9, 2003, as California Girls and Women in Sports Week.

Resolution Chapter 4, Statutes of 2003

ACR 14 (Nakano-D) Day of Remembrance

Declares February 19, 2003, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, and encourages the annual observance of this day in subsequent years so that children in California may learn from our history.

Resolution Chapter 4, Statutes of 2003

ACR 23 (Jerome Horton-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2003 as Black History Month, urges all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African-Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African-Americans make to their communities.

Resolution Chapter 7, Statutes of 2003

ACR 24 (Mountjoy-R) Blue Star Families Week

Recognizes the second week of March each year as Blue Star Families Week during any period of war or hostilities.

Resolution Chapter 10, Statutes of 2003

ACR 26 (Garcia-R) National Volunteer Week

Proclaims the week of April 27 through May 3, 2003, as National Volunteer Week 2003 and acknowledges the valuable gifts of service of the thousands of community volunteers throughout the state.

Resolution Chapter 35, Statutes of 2003

ACR 27 (La Suer-R) Memorial Day

Recognizes May 26, 2003, as Memorial Day, and urges the people of California to honor the men and women of the United States who died in the pursuit of freedom and peace.

Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2003

ACR 33 (Nation-D) Day of the Horse

Designates December 13, 2003, as the Day of the Horse.

Resolution Chapter 27, Statutes of 2003

ACR 36 (Garcia-R) Freedom Week

Proclaims the support of the Legislature for the first week of the month of July to be known as Freedom Week by encouraging and conducting activities that celebrate individual freedom, private property, and free markets.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 42 (Leslie-R) National Day of Prayer

Recognizes May 1, 2003, as a National Day of Prayer, and encourages all the people of California to gather together in homes and places of worship to pray for God's blessings upon our state and our nation.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 43 (Montanez-D) Girl Scouts

Commemorates the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1963 authored by Assembly Member W. Byron Rumford and the progress that has been made to afford equal housing opportunities to all Californians regardless of race.

Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2003

ACR 44 (Dymally-D) Earl Warren

Requests that a bronze bas relief memorial be installed on the southwest front greensward of State Office Building No. 1, and dedicated to the memory of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Requests the State Architect to install the California Capitol Historic Preservation Society's bas relief of former Governor Warren at the Earl Warren Walk.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 49 (Runner-R) California Golden Poppy

Commemorates March 2, 2003, as the 100th anniversary of the California Golden Poppy as the official State Flower of California.

Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2003

ACR 50 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public Service Recognition Week

Recognizes the week of May 5 through May 11, 2003, as Public Service Recognition Week, to honor those individuals who devote their careers to professional civil service, and encourages the people of the state, counties, cities, and special districts to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 56 (Nakano-D) California Space Day

Requests that the Governor proclaim March 18, 2003, as California Space Day, in special recognition of the contributions that space enterprise has made and will continue to make to the state, and memorializes the Legislature's recognition of the economic value of space enterprise to the state's economy and its pledge to work with academic and local government and industry leaders to attract, retain, and nurture space enterprise.

Resolution Chapter 11, Statutes of 2003

ACR 57 (Corbett-D) Irish-American Heritage Month

Designates March 2003 as Irish-American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish-Americans have made to the country and state.

Resolution Chapter 12, Statutes of 2003

ACR 59 (Pacheco-R) Eagle Scouts

Recognizes Boy Scouts who earn the rank of Eagle Scout, promote the brotherhood of scouting across international boundaries as a model of leadership, character, and honor, and provide a solid foundation and common thread to unite persons around the world.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

ACR 65 (Firebaugh-D) Cinco de Mayo Week

Declares May 4 through May 10 as Cinco de Mayo Week.

Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2003

ACR 68 (Maddox-R) Vietnam: flags: display

Urges that the State of California formally recognize the flag of the former Republic of Vietnam as the official symbol of the Vietnamese American community in this state, and permit this flag to be displayed on any state-owned property, or at any state-controlled or sponsored Vietnamese American event or any public function organized by the Vietnamese American community in the state.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 76 (Frommer-D) California Firefighters' Memorial

Designates May 22, 2003, as California Firefighters' Memorial Day and urges Californians to remember firefighters who gave their lives and to express appreciation to those who continue to protect our families, homes, and dreams.

Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2003

ACR 77 (Simitian-D) National Library Week

Observes the celebration of National Library Week commencing April 6, and applauds the positive and vital impact of public libraries, librarians, and library workers, and thanks them for enriching the lives of residents and helping to make our state an exceptional place to live, learn, and work.

Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2003

ACR 78 (Richman-R) National Public Works Week

Recognizes the week of May 18 through May 24, 2003, as National Public Works Week, acknowledges the role of infrastructure in the development of California's economy, and recognizes the work of the California Rebuild America Coalition.

Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2003

ACR 81 (Strickland-R) Middle East terrorism

Declares that the Legislature stands in solidarity with Israel, expresses its continued commitment to Israel's right to self-defense, condemns Palestinian suicide bombings and the ongoing support and coordination of terror by Yasser Arafat and other members of the Palestinian leadership, demands that the Palestinian Authority fulfill its commitment to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in the Palestinian areas, and expresses its grave concern that Arafat's actions are not those of a viable partner for peace, among other things.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 88 (Hancock-D) Library Media Month

Proclaims April 2003 as Library Media Month.

Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2003

ACR 89 (Goldberg-D) Boy Scouts of America

Recognizes the efforts of Boy Scouts who earn the rank of Eagle Scout and encourage the Boy Scouts of America to accept for membership and leadership positions all qualified boys and men, without discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or religious belief.

Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2003

ACR 90 (Chan-D) Asian and Pacific Islander Mental Health Awareness Month

Proclaims May 2003 as Asian and Pacific Islander Mental Health Awareness Month, and urges Californians to join forces with mental health advocates, mental health care workers, and leaders in the Asian American community to raise awareness of mental health concerns in the Asian American community and in the State of California.

Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2003

ACR 95 (Dymally-D) Year of the Blues

Designates the year beginning February 1, 2003, as the Year of the Blues and requests the Governor to issue a proclamation calling on the people of the state to observe the Year of the Blues.

Resolution Chapter 78, Statutes of 2003

ACR 96 (Shirley Horton-R) 2003 Komen National Race for the Cure

Urges all Californians to show their support, love, and commitment to someone who has battled breast cancer, and to participate in the 2003 Komen National Race for the Cure in order to raise public awareness regarding the need for early breast cancer screening and treatment and regarding the fact that early detection of breast cancer can increase women's options for treatment and survival rates.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 97 (Shirley Horton-R) Armed Forces Day

Acknowledges May 17, 2003 as Armed Forces Day, and urges all citizens to participate in activities held in conjunction with the observance.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

ACR 101 (Chu-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Commends Asian and Pacific Islander Americans for their notable accomplishments and outstanding service to the state and recognizes May 2003 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.

Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2003

ACR 105 (Bermudez-D) California Travel and Tourism Month

Proclaims the month of May 2003 as California Travel and Tourism Month and urges Californians to join in appropriate activities in recognition of this observance.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 108 (Kehoe-D) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month

Proclaims June 2003 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 117 (Pacheco-R) Celebrating the 45th anniversary of NASA

Recognizes the achievements of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and congratulates NASA on its 45th anniversary.

Resolution Chapter 143, Statutes of 2003

ACR 141 (Runner-R) Four Chaplains Day

Proclaims February 3, 2004 as Four Chaplains Day in honor of four chaplains of different faiths who aided men of all faiths on the U.S.A.T. Dorchester after it was attached by German torpedoes and sank during the World War II.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 10 (Liu-D) Relative to Lunar Year Celebration

Resolves that the members of the State Assembly join Asian and Pacific Islander communities throughout the state in celebrating February 1, 2003, as the beginning of the Lunar New Year 4700 and extend best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous lunar new year to all Californians.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 13 (Strickland-R) Relative to Ronald Reagan's Birthday

Resolves that the members of the State Assembly take great pride in honoring Ronald Reagan for his many contributions to our country and in celebrating his 92 years of life.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 14 (Firebaugh-D) Relative to California Museum Month

Recognizes the important role that museums have in the State of California and proclaims May 2003 as California Museum Month.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 28 (Strickland-R) Relative to USS Ronald Reagan Day

Resolves that the members of the State Assembly take great pleasure in recognizing July 12, 2003 as USS Ronald Reagan Day.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 29 (Parra-D) Relative to Military Spouses Day

Proclaims May 9, 2003, as Military Spouses Day, to celebrate the accomplishments of military spouses and thank them for accepting the challenges of being military spouses, and recognizing that military spouses take over once-shared burdens, move and uproot their families, change schools, and lose their jobs in some cases.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 31 (Parra-D) Calif. National Guard Family Support Representatives

Proclaims May 22, 2003, as National Guard Family Representatives Day, to celebrate the accomplishments of Family Representatives and to thank them for accepting the challenges of being Family Representatives and for the important role they play in preserving public health and safety in our state and nation.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 32 (Kehoe-D) Relative to Father's Day

Recognizes June 15, 2003, as Father's Day, and urges all Americans to express their gratitude for the many contributions made by our fathers to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs that demonstrate our deep appreciation for abiding love for our fathers.

Adopted by the Assembly

Local Government

SB 44 (Denham-R) Crime prevention

Encourages the counties of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and San Benito to each develop within its respective jurisdiction a Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program.

Chapter 18, Statutes of 2003

SB 55 (Ackerman-R) State-mandated local programs

Provides that, for the period January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2005, with specified exceptions, no new state-mandated local program becomes operative unless approved by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, and state-mandated local programs enacted prior to January 1, 2004, be suspended unless reenacted by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, and no local agency be required to implement or give effect to any state-mandated local program that is not reimbursed by the state.

(In Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

SB 61* (Senate Local Government Committee) Validations

Enacts the First Validating Act of 2003, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 9, Statutes of 2003

SB 62* (Senate Local Government Committee) Validations

Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2003, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 294, Statutes of 2003

SB 63 (Senate Local Government Committee) Validations

Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2003, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 295, Statutes of 2003

SB 66 (Senate Local Government Committee) Local government

Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2003, and makes numerous relatively minor and noncontroversial changes to state laws affecting local agencies powers and duties.

Chapter 296, Statutes of 2003

SB 83 (Soto-D) Local agency assessments

Adds "assessment" to the two categories of actions deemed not to increase levies under Proposition 218. Amends Uniform Standby Charge Procedures Act to allow assessment increases previously noticed and adopted by a governing body to follow the notice, hearing, and protest procedures in the act. Contains a cross-reference to Proposition 218 implementing statute to which this bill is linked.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 93 (Alpert-D) County real property

Increases threshold for county supervisor's real property purchases with published public notice and delegating real property purchases to county employees from $25,000 to $50,000. Provides alternative procedure that allows county supervisors to create their own monetary threshold through an ordinance. Raises threshold for county supervisors to lease rental property for less than ten years. Increases monthly rental of these leases or licenses exempt from making the bidding procedure to not exceeding $10,000.

Chapter 732, Statutes of 2003

SB 109 (Torlakson-D) Redevelopment

Makes changes to procedures for enforcing redevelopment agencies' reporting requirements, expands the list of redevelopment agencies "major audit violations," and allows the State Controller to perform quality control reviews of redevelopment agencies' independent financial audit reports.

Chapter 318, Statutes of 2003

SB 114 (Torlakson-D) Local government

Eliminates authority of a redevelopment agency or local agency to provide any form of financial assistance to a vehicle dealer or big box retailer that is relocating from the territorial jurisdiction of one community to the territorial jurisdiction of another community within the same market area, and abolishes the requirement that the California Research Bureau report by January 1, 2004, on implementation of existing related statute.

Chapter 781, Statutes of 2003

SB 126 (Chesbro-D) Rural Health Care Equity Program

Extends Rural Health Care Equity Program from January 1, 2005 until January 1, 2008.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 163 (Alarcon-D) Service contracts: counties and cities

Authorizes cities and counties, other than chartered cities and counties, to contract out for services with private entities after July 1, 2005, if the contract would result in cost savings, as defined, and if one of several specific conditions are met. Specifies that this bill does not apply to public works, public transit, architectural services, engineering services, and surveying or construction, or renewed contracts, and in the event of a transit services contract not being renewed as a result of this bill, requires local governments to provide a hiring preference to the former contractors' employees.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 214 (Morrow-R) Water

Requires the State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control boards to prescribe and enforce waste discharge requirements for municipal separate storm sewer systems that conform to the "maximum extent practicable" standard set forth in the Clean Water Act.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 262 (Kuehl-D) Building standards

Adds civil penalties to remedies public prosecutors may seek in enforcing building access laws for physically handicapped people, and adds county counsels to the public attorneys authorized to enforce these laws.

Chapter 872, Statutes of 2003

SB 282* (Oller-R) Incorporation: El Dorado Hills

Provides, according to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 in regard to procedures for changes of local government organization, including incorporation of a city, that, for the purposes of proceedings for incorporation of El Dorado Hills in El Dorado County, the El Dorado County Local Agency Formation Commission shall require no additional funding from the incorporation petitioners to finalize or otherwise satisfy all costs and expenses involved in processing the application for incorporation.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 293 (Brulte-R) Development

Limits the location where local officials can finance services with a Mello-Roos Act special tax to the territory that is subject to the Mello-Roos special tax to pay for police services. Prohibits local agencies from levying, collecting, or imposing a monetary charge or exaction on a development for general revenue purposes. Prohibits a monetary charge or exaction on a development from exceeding the amount allowed by the Mitigation Fee Act. Applies the bill's limits to eight specified types of development or construction activities.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 303 (Torlakson-D) Local agency facilities

Clarifies that local agencies may choose an alternative method of compensating developers for public works within community facilities districts.

Chapter 55, Statutes of 2003

SB 321 (Torlakson-D) Infrastructure investment

Authorizes, upon voter approval, the issuance and sale of $15 billion in 20-year general obligation bonds, to be administered and allocated for specific transportation, infrastructure and affordable housing programs and projects by the California Transportation Commission ($8 billion), the State Department of Housing and Community Development ($3 billion), and the California Infrastructure and Development Bank ($4 billion).

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 341 (Senate Local Government Committee) Cemeteries

Revises state laws governing public cemetery districts.

Chapter 57, Statutes of 2003

SB 391 (Escutia-D) Cities

Requires the legislative body and officers of a city must manage finances of a city in a manner consistent with the prudent investor rule applicable to trustees of trust assets, and must comply with all applicable laws relating to management of public funds.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 392 (Senate Local Government Committee) Local agency assessments

Conforms notification and approval requirements for levying benefit assessments under the Improvement Act of 1911 and the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 to requirements of Proposition 218.

Chapter 194, Statutes of 2003

SB 402* (Florez-D) Taxation

Authorizes the City of Coalinga and City of Huron, with two-thirds approval of voters of the respective city voting on the issue at an election, to each levy a transactions and use tax at a rate of at least 0.25 percent, but not to exceed 0.5 percent, for recreation and park services by the Coalinga-Huron Recreation and Park District within the boundaries of the City of Coalinga and the City of Huron.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 407 (Torlakson-D) Local government finance

Requires enterprise special districts, with exception of hospital and transit districts, to shift a specified portion of their property tax revenues to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor; reconsideration granted)

SB 410 (Aanestad-R) Local government finance

Clarifies that the decrease in property tax revenues allowed to eligible counties in the 1993-94 fiscal year is incorporated into the formulas by which these revenues are allocated in subsequent fiscal years, and declares that these changes are declaratory of existing law.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 446 (Machado-D) General plans

Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to notify the State Attorney General if a general plan of a city or county is not revised within eight years instead of 10 years.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 460 (Alpert-D) Local government

Exempts employees of Treasure Island Development Authority from the local civil service terms of employment in the City and County of San Francisco and suspends the current "maintenance of effort" requirement for cities and counties during years when funds are not allocated under Proposition 42.

Chapter 716, Statutes of 2003

SB 465 (Soto-D) Transit village plans

Exempts transit villages from meeting the physical definitions of blight in order to qualify as redevelopment areas, and expands the definition of transit village to include areas within one-half mile of a transit station.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 487 (Torlakson-D) Local agency reorganization

Strengthens local agency formation commissions' roles over local boundaries by requiring districts to explain why they want to block annexations.

Chapter 123, Statutes of 2003

SB 491* (Ducheny-D) Housing

Extends statutory deadline, by one year, for all cities and counties to complete the fourth revision of their housing element.

Chapter 58, Statutes of 2003

SB 531 (Romero-D) Solid waste

Allows a city, county, city and county, or certified unified program agency to inspect solid waste landfills within its jurisdiction without notice.

(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 536 (Romero-D) Emergency medical services

Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority task force to include the Los Angeles County trauma care system within the scope of their study of the delivery and provision of emergency medical services in California.

(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

SB 558 (Ducheny-D) Local planning

Requires, under the Planning and Zoning Law, a city or county, in exercising its authority to zone for land uses and designating and zoning sufficient vacant land for residential use with appropriate standards in relating to zoning for nonresidential use and to growth projections of the general plan in order to identify the total housing needs in the element, to revise its provisions to define "sufficient vacant land for residential use."

(In Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 564 (Ackerman-R) Water resources

Appropriates $15 million from bond funds made available by the California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002 to Orange County to fund new water-efficient landscape management technologies.

(In Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)

SB 567 (Torlakson-D) Local ordinances

Increases fines for a second or subsequent violation of a local building and safety code infraction.

Chapter 60, Statutes of 2003

SB 570 (Chesbro-D) Local government

Adds counties of Shasta and Solano to the existing authority currently granted to Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego Counties and ten other counties to employ deputy sheriffs who are "employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments" who are peace officers.

Chapter 710, Statutes of 2003

SB 619 (Ducheny-D) Housing

Makes a number of changes relating to housing, deletes provisions providing attorney fees to successful plaintiffs who sue a local government to enforce general plan and housing element reporting requirements. Provides that multifamily housing is a permitted use in multifamily zones if it is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act or meets specified requirements. Deletes proposed new requirements for the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) with respect to its administration of the CalHome Program. Adds to the priority list for the CalHome Program projects that create balanced communities, and allows HCD to administer changes to its CalHome made by this bill through guidelines for 24 months.

Chapter 793, Statutes of 2003

SB 634 (Ducheny-D) Public contracts

Requires any expenditure by a joint powers authority that exceeds the highest competitive bidding threshold of one of its members to be let by contract to the lowest responsible bidder, as provided.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 699 (Sher-D) Local planning

Waives the Planning and Zoning Law's referral requirement if local planners have already complied with the California Environmental Quality Act's referral requirement, and in so doing, restores language that previously appeared in the Planning and Zoning Law.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 705 (Florez-D) Agricultural burning: San Joaquin Valley

Provides for the phase out of the burning of agricultural waste in the San Joaquin Valley.

Chapter 481, Statutes of 2003

SB 709 (Florez-D) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

Authorizes the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District board to adopt regulations requiring the use of best available control technology for new and modified sources of pollution, promote the use of cleaner burning alternative fuels, and encourage and facilitate ride sharing commuters.

Chapter 483, Statutes of 2003

SB 744 (Dunn-D) Planning

Establishes, within the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), a procedure to hear appeals from developers of affordable housing that have had a project denied or have had conditions placed on it that would make the project financially unfeasible, and allows HCD to charge a fee to cover actual costs.

(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 745 (Ashburn-R) Land use

Repeals the January 1, 2005, automatic termination date in the environmental subdivision statute, making the law permanent. Makes permanent language exempting an environmental subdivision from the requirement for a tentative map. For environmental subdivisions of parcels less than 20 acres, requires that the contiguous property be subject to a recorded perpetual easement and that the combined acreage of the properties be 20 or more acres. Requires four findings before local officials can approve an environmental subdivision.

Chapter 76, Statutes of 2003

SB 756* (Denham-R) Local government finance

Directs funds in the 2003-04 budget for all of the costs incurred by Stanislaus County and the City of Modesto for the prosecution of Scott Peterson, and freezes negative bailout property tax allocations at their 2003-04 levels.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 768 (Ortiz-D) Urban development

Requires the Capital Area Development Authority, City of Sacramento, Sacramento Regional Transit District, and State Department of General Services, by January 1, 2005, to enter into one or more memorandum of understanding regarding their activities in downtown Sacramento. Requires the memoranda include specified topics. Requires those agencies to consult with interested groups and public agencies.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 787 (Battin-R) Local agency investments

Provides that asset-backed commercial paper of prime quality be of the highest ranking as provided by a nationally recognized statistical-rating organization, and that the entity issuing the commercial paper meet either existing standards or another set of standards, as specified.

Chapter 197, Statutes of 2003

SB 806 (Sher-D) Land use

Renames the circulation element in local general plans the transportation element and makes other technical and conforming changes.

(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 808* (Karnette-D) Sales and use taxes: bunker fuel

Reinstates a state and local sales and use tax exemption for bunker fuel that was in effect prior to July 15, 1991 and from January 1, 1993 through January 1, 2003. Sunsets January 1, 2004. Requires the Legislative Analyst to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature that evaluates the economic impact of the exemption.

Chapter 712, Statutes of 2003

Identical to AB 496 (Lowenthal-D), which is on Senate Third Reading File.

SB 906 (Escutia-D) Personal services contracting

Establishes standards for the use of personal service contracts by local government, similar to those of state government and school districts, for work currently or customarily done by civil service employees.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 908 (Denham-R) Public contracts

Allows the Monterey County Water Authority to use the design-build method for the Salinas River diversion facility, using procedures that apply to the seven counties, Alameda, Contra Costa, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and Tulare.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 916 (Perata-D) Transportation

Requires, among other provisions, a special election be held in seven specified Bay Area counties to determine whether a Regional Traffic Relief Plan should take effect, which in turn would trigger a one dollar increase in the vehicle tolls on Bay Area toll bridges. Overhauls existing statutory provisions regarding toll bridges, tolls, and agencies' authorities for the purpose of eliminating obsolete provisions and consolidating and updating other provisions with respect to toll operations. Adds provisions relative to meets and boundaries for the Greenbrae Interchange/Larkspur Ferry Access Improvements, as well as the Direct High-Occupancy Vehicle lane connectors and earmarks specified dollar amounts for same. Provides that the director and deputy of the Treasure Island Development Authority are not subject to the same civil service provisions as employees of the City and County of San Francisco.

Chapter 715, Statutes of 2003

SB 918 (Battin-R) Redevelopment

Revises a provision of the Community Redevelopment Law describing physical conditions that cause blight to include a crime rate that is so significantly higher than the community's overall crime rate that it constitutes a serious threat to the public safety and welfare of the persons and property in the area.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 938 (McPherson-R) Improvement areas

Authorizes a resolution of intention allowing a 1989 Act Parking and Business Improve District to levy annual assessments for a period not to exceed five years, changes the date on which a public hearing for a parking and business improvement area must take place to at least 45 days after adoption of the resolution of intention, and adds to the list of information required in the notice to business owners for public meetings and hearings involving adoption of new or increased assessments.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 952 (Perata-D) Environmental Quality Study Council

Prohibits counties and cities from enacting or enforcing ordinances that prohibit or require use permits for events that raise funds for private, nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations on residentially zoned property.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 958 (McClintock-R) Redevelopment

Prohibits, under the Community Redevelopment Law, an action to attack or otherwise question the validity of any redevelopment plan, amendment to the plan, the adoption or approval of the plan, or amendment, or any of the findings or determinations of the agency or the legislative body in connection with the plan after 120 days from the adoption of the ordinance adopting or amending the plan.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 974 (Alarcon-D) Public contracts

Establishes parameters in the Public Contract Code to measure a "socially responsible business" and provides those businesses a bid preference in procuring public contracts.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 999 (Machado-D) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

Increases the 11-member board of the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to 15 members, with new members being appointed by statewide officials, specifies terms of office for those members, and requires the new members be appointed according to specified criteria.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1002* (Sher-D) Hazardous substances

Classifies the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) as a "local agency" for purposes of clarifying SCVWD's jurisdiction in regulating the storage of hazardous substances in underground storage tanks in Santa Clara County.

Chapter 341, Statutes of 2003

SB 1037 (Sher-D) Subdivisions

Consolidates existing Subdivision Map Act recommendations concerning proposed subdivisions in any adjoining city, or in any adjoining unincorporated territory provided the proposed subdivisions are within three miles of the exterior boundary of the requesting local agency, thus permitting local subdivision ordinances to provide for cable television systems and communications systems, including, but not limited to, telephone and Internet services to each parcel in all subdivisions.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 1045* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Redevelopment

Requires a one-time $135 million statewide funding shift in fiscal year 2003-04 from redevelopment agencies to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) in each county, with the purpose of the additional ERAF funds reducing state General Fund school costs to meet the Proposition 98 minimum-funding requirement by an equal amount.

Chapter 260, Statutes of 2003

SB 1047 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Local government finance

Increases property tax allocations to those counties that received less than 11 percent of property taxes allocated within the county in 2001-02, for the purpose of the additional county allocations to reduce allocations to the county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund, resulting in an increase in state General Fund Proposition 98 costs for K-12 education.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1068 (Senate Local Government Committee) State Controller

Requires, beginning January 1, 2005, the State Controller to compile and publish its annual reports for counties, cities, and special districts by August 1, September 1, October 1, respectively of every year. Requires the State Controller to make this report data available upon request to the Legislature and its agents by April 1 of each year.

Chapter 126, Statutes of 2003

SB 1069* (Chesbro-D) Transportation

Authorizes a local government officer to be appointed and serve as a member of the North Coast Railroad Authority's board of directors if the person meets the qualifications specified in the North Coast Railroad Authority Act.

Chapter 11, Statutes of 2003

SCA 2 (Torlakson-D) Local development

Authorizes, upon approval of the state's voters, specified local government agencies to impose a sales tax or special tax exclusively for transportation purposes and smart growth planning upon approval of a majority of the voters of that local government.

(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 10 (Firebaugh-D) Public health

Specifically authorizes the County of Los Angeles to establish the Los Angeles County Health Authority that would exercise prescribed powers with respect to the provision of health services in the county, and specifies the membership of the authority's board of directors.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 11 (Garcia-R) Economic development

Requires the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency (TTCA) to designate an enterprise zone (EZ) in the City of Brawley (Imperial County) that contains the same boundaries as an existing Manufacturing Enhancement Area (MEA); specifies that the new EZ as one of the 42 zones currently authorized for designation by the TTCA; and requires, upon designation as an EZ, the City of Brawley to cease being an MEA.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 33 (Samuelian-R) Streets and highways

Establishes two separate demonstration programs for highway projects that are located in eight specific counties in the San Joaquin Valley region.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 51 (Simitian-D) Land use planning

Requires land use element of a city or county's general plan to identify categories, if any, that provide certain child care facilities, rather than address the distribution of facilities, no later than one year from a specified date; and adds various reasons why there is no reimbursement.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 53 (Simitian-D) Local government

Phases in a cap on the property tax shifts from cities, counties, and special districts to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 77 (La Suer-R) Airports

Prohibits the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, in siting any international airport, from displacing or interfering with any existing aerial fire fighting location.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 94 (Chu-D) Property taxation

Allows a local agency to impose a higher property tax rate to make payments in support of pension programs approved by the voters before July 1, 1978.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 127 (La Malfa-R) Local government finance

Deems to be correct those property tax revenue apportionment factors applied to property tax revenues in the County of Colusa in each fiscal year from the 1979-80 fiscal year to the 1999-2000 fiscal year, inclusive, and requires that property tax revenue apportionments be made in that county on the basis of prior apportionment factors that have been corrected, as provided, as would be required in the absence of the bill.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 160 (Salinas-D) Transactions

Authorizes the City of Soledad, with approval of two-thirds of the voters voting on the issue at an election, to levy a transactions and use tax at a rate of .25 percent or .50 percent for the provision of capital facilities in that city; and makes legislative findings as to the necessity of a special statute.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 170 (Reyes-D) Local planning

Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding air pollution problems in the San Joaquin Valley; requires legislative bodies of each city and county in the jurisdictional boundaries of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to amend appropriate elements of its general plan; requires these cities and counties, at least 45 days prior to adoption of a general plan, to send a copy of the draft document to the district for review and comment; and specifically identifies the location in the Government Code that provides the local agency with authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for requirements of the bill.

Chapter 472, Statutes of 2003

AB 171 (Cohn-D) Public records and meetings

Provides exemptions from the Ralph M. Brown Open Meetings Act and the California Public Records Act for a governing board of a Local Initiative Health Plan to allow the board to meet in closed session to consider and take action on matters pertaining to health plan trade secrets, contracts and contract negotiations by the health plan with health care service providers; and clarifies which entities would be covered by the exemptions provided by the bill.

Chapter 424, Statutes of 2003

AB 192 (Harman-R) Local agency formation

Specifies that a local agency formation commission may approve the annexation of a territory to a city of noncontiguous territory if the total amount of noncontiguous territory to be annexed as part of any individual proposal does not exceed 300 acres in area and if the territory meets all of specified requirements.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 197 (Strickland-R) Offset payments

Requires any request for an offset for a vehicle parking penalty be submitted within three years of the date the penalty was incurred; and provides that the amount of any offset received by a local agency be limited to the amount of the original offset request excluding additional charges accruing after the date the offset request is made.

Chapter 551, Statutes of 2003

AB 208 (Harman-R) Local agency formation

States that a successor agency may not be prevented from continuing to perform any or all functions of an extinguished local agency, regardless of whether the successor agency had previously performed that function, with regard to existing law which provides any change of organization or reorganization of local government agencies may be made subject to one or more conditions stated in the local agency formation commission's resolution approving the change or organization or reorganization.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 218 (Simitian-D) Local planning

Requires State Department of Finance to make a determination based on United States Census Bureau definitions when there is a dispute between the State Department of Housing and Community Development and a local jurisdiction regarding a housing unit.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 281 (Bermudez-D) Public contracting

Prohibits the standardized questionnaire allowed by the Local Agency Public Construction Act as a requirement for prospective bidders for public works contracts from disqualifying a prospective bidder solely on the basis of the bidder's financial capacity.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 296 (Oropeza-D) State and local government

Makes various changes to existing law needed to implement the 2003-04 Budget or to correct or clarify provisions in previous budget legislation, including clarifying language related to the suspension of the rural equity health benefit for out-of-state retirees effective January 1, 2004.

Chapter 757, Statutes of 2003

AB 321 (Cogdill-R) Health care

Authorizes cities, counties, and employers to form health care purchasing consortia within rural areas; and states that a health care purchasing consortium would be organized similarly to a multiple employer welfare arrangement.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 326 (Dutton-R) Animals

Authorizes a county board of supervisors to allow veterinarians to issue dog licenses, in addition to either or both the county clerk's office and the animal control department.

Chapter 33, Statutes of 2003

AB 327 (Runner-R) Vehicles

Allows a local court to assess a $100 penalty for specified violations of disabled parking placards to be used specifically to enforce existing laws relative to those identified parking spots; and requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to print the amount of fines on applications for a disabled parking placard, and on all placards issued on or after January 1, 2005.

Chapter 555, Statutes of 2003

AB 361 (Kehoe-D) San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency

Establishes a public collaborate planning process by which the San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency would move forward on issues involving comprehensive planning in the San Diego region.

Chapter 508, Statutes of 2003

AB 365 (Jerome Horton-D) State Department of Motor Vehicles' records

Gives city attorneys prosecuting specified misdemeanor actions the same 24 hours access to the State Department of Motor Vehicles' records as the Attorney General, district attorneys, law enforcement agencies, public defenders and public defender investigators.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2003

AB 386 (Aghazarian-R) Drinking water

Requires State Department of Health Services to meet and confer with representatives of the California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health or the local primacy agencies, or both, for purposes of identifying and providing adequate funding to local primacy agencies, prior to passing on any new mandates or expanding any existing mandate.

(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 397 (La Malfa-R) Secretary of State

Requires Secretary of State to create a standard disclosure form to be filled out by county supervisors that is sufficient to meet conflict-of-interest requirements or organizations in which a supervisor may participate.

(In Assembly Elections, Redistricting and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 421 (Steinberg-D) Government finance

Repeals the property tax provisions of the so-called Triple Flip and substitutes a different method for backfilling cities' and counties' foregone sales tax revenues.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 443 (Matthews-D) Transportation

Requires State Department of Transportation and California Transportation Commission to establish a Rural Transit System Grant Program to purchase, construct, and rehabilitate transit facilities, vehicles, and equipment, including energy efficiency retrofits, and to purchase rights-of-way for transit systems; requires the department to submit a report describing projects funded under the program to the Legislature on or before June 30, 2004; and specifies that the bill not become operative unless funds for the program are appropriated by the Budget Act of 2003.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 454 (Yee-D) San Francisco port security

Requires Port of San Francisco, in conjunction with San Francisco Water Transit Authority, ferry operators, and other organizations, as specified, to conduct a port security analysis of the Port of San Francisco; specifies contents of the port security analysis and requires Port of San Francisco to submit a corresponding report to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2004; and repeals its own provisions as of January 1, 2005, unless a later enacted statute, enacted on or before that date, deleted or extended that date.

(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 470 (Bermudez-D) Land use

Prohibits a city or county, on land that is zoned to permit religious use, from requiring, in addition to a conditional use permit, an applicant for this permit who intends to use the property for religious services, worship, or other religious activities to prepare and submit planning documents or any other documents that are not directly related to the proposed use or occupancy of the property.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 474 (Salinas-D) Districts

Provides special districts with a structure to create their own records management program.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 504 (Yee-D) Parks and recreation

Increases fines for violating locally adopted ordinances governing use of parks and open-space areas.

Chapter 106, Statutes of 2003

AB 518 (Salinas-D) Local agency formation

Requires a local agency formation commission to consider how a proposed boundary change will affect a city and the county in achieving their respective fair shares of the regional housing needs; and extends the sunset date for special legislation affecting the Broadmoor Police Protection District from January 1, 2004 to January 1, 2005.

Chapter 176, Statutes of 2003

AB 520 (Salinas-D) Local agency formation

Provides that, in the case of a reorganization requested by a city in Santa Cruz County that has adopted a voter approved urban limit line, those conditions will not apply and the effective date of that reorganization will be fixed in the commission; states that the commission may not use provisions of this bill for any reorganization approved or conditionally approved after January 1, 2009; and makes conforming changes.

Chapter 36, Statutes of 2003

AB 522 (Diaz-D) Matricula Consular

Requires every city, county and city and county officer and employee to accept an identification card issued by the Mexican Consulate Office, or Matricula Consular, as an official form of identification to the extent permitted by law.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 531* (Kehoe-D) Financing community infrastructure and economic development

Enacts the Community Infrastructure and Economic Development Bond Act of 2004, authorizing the issuance, for the purposes of financing local infrastructure and economic development projects, of bonds in the amount of $10 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, to be administered by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 553* (Chavez-D) Taxation

Require the Legislative Analyst to report to the Legislature on specified subjects relating to allocation of local sales taxes.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 559 (Harman-R) Vehicles

Authorizes the State Department of Motor Vehicles to provide residence address information to a processing agency for the purpose of enabling the processing agency to mail notices of parking violations on behalf of a private entity that is an entity that owns or operates a privately owned parking facility that contracts with a processing agency to assist in the collection of unpaid parking fees; prohibits the department from releasing a residence address to a processing agency under these provisions until the processing agency has entered into contracts with the private entity and the department that would impose certain minimum requirements; requires any confidential information obtained under these provisions to be held confidential, except as specified, and prohibits that information from being used for any purpose other than the administration or enforcement of parking restrictions; and makes a violation of these confidentiality provisions a crime.

(In Senate Transportation Committee)

AB 574 (Yee-D) Vehicles

Declares the Legislature's intent to explore the concept of allowing the governing body of a city, county, or city and county to impose a fee on registered vehicles to be expended on funding programs for construction, improvement, and maintenance of local streets and highways in the city, county, or city and county.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 578* (Leno-D) County recorders

Creates the Electronic Recording Delivery System Act of 2003 which, among other things, authorizes all 58 counties to record real property documents through an electronic delivery system in the form of a "digitized electronic record"; authorizes a pilot project that allows 12 counties to record any real property document though a digital electronic record, specifying those counties to be: Alameda, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Tulare, and Ventura; and defines a "digital electronic record" as a record containing information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by purely electronic means, but not created in paper form.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 600 (Maddox-R) Land use

Prohibits any local, state, or other public agency from imposing or implementing a land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person, unless the agency demonstrates that the imposition of the burden on that person is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest; and authorizes any person to bring an action to enforce those rights.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 605 (Yee-D) Lands granted in trust to the City & County of San Francisco

Makes minor clarifying and technical changes to cruise ship terminal development laws pertaining to the San Francisco waterfront that were enacted by AB 1389 (Shelly), Chapter 489, Statutes of 2001.

Chapter 68, Statutes of 2003

AB 613 (Campbell-R) State-mandated local programs

Provides that, if a local agency or school district has failed over a period of at least two years to receive full funding from the state to implement or give effect to a statute or executive order that has been determined by the Legislature, the Commission on State Mandates, or any court to constitute a new state-mandated program requiring reimbursement pursuant to the California Constitution, the mandate is inapplicable to that jurisdiction if its governing body has decided by majority vote not to implement or give effect to the statute or executive order.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 619 (Garcia-R) Booking fees

Appropriates continuously annually from the General Fund to the State Controller the sum of $38,220,000 for reimbursement to cities and qualified special districts for actual costs incurred in the payment of booking and processing fees.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 637 (Harman-R) State-mandated local programs

Makes changes to the appointment powers and duties of the Commission on State Mandates; revises time periods in which specified actions must occur; and amends procedure for removing a mandated program from the State Mandates Apportionment System.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 646 (Mullin-D) Taxation

Requires that cities and counties that adopt regional tax revenue-sharing agreements, including, but not limited to, contracts that apportion sales tax generated by automobile dealerships or big box retailers, be given priority eligibility by all state agencies in the awarding of competitive state infrastructure funds.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 650 (Plescia-R) Local government

Allows the San Diego Water Authority to impose nuisance abatement liens on those properties that obstruct its rights-of-ways; reduces the membership of the North Bakersfield Recreation and Park District's board of directors from seven to five members; and clarifies that water authorities must give private property owners a reasonable opportunity to abate a nuisance on their property before the authority undertakes the abatement, except in emergency circumstances.

Chapter 863, Statutes of 2003

AB 668 (Cox-R) Local planning

Allows a city and county, in the event of an incorporation, to reach a mutually acceptable revision of their respective regional housing need allocations.

Chapter 760, Statutes of 2003

AB 677 (Firebaugh-D) Environmental quality

Requires a local agency or private entity seeking project approval, when the local agency determines that a project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under certain circumstances, and when the agency approves or determines to carry out that project, to file a notice of the determination with the State Office of Planning and Research, and that those notices be posted and available for public inspection; and provides that this bill's notice of exemption filing requirements do not affect the time limits in current law for alleging that a public agency has not complied with the California Environmental Quality Act.

Chapter 837, Statutes of 2003

AB 686 (Houston-R) Sacramento County sanitation districts: governing body

Revises composition of the board of directors of a sanitation district in the County of Sacramento on January 1, 2004, and provides for the composition of the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District and its voting powers; and revises composition of this regional board of directors on January 1, 2005, or on the date the board of directors notifies the Legislature that construction of a pipeline facility in the unincorporated portion of Yolo County is completed, whichever is later.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 706 (Maldonado-R) Community services districts

Permits Los Osos Community Services District to borrow money consistent with specified provisions for the purpose of making loans to property owners within the district to pay for costs of decommissioning septic systems and constructing lateral connections on private property to facilitate connection of those properties to the district's wastewater treatment system; and authorizes the district to have debt payments or any delinquency collected with property taxes and to secure the loan by recording a lien.

Chapter 111, Statutes of 2003

AB 710 (Correa-D) Transportation

Expands membership of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) from 12 members to 18 members and revises composition and representation of the board of the authority; establishes population criteria and conditions for specified appointments to the OCTA board; and requires that, in the appointment process of five specified board members by the Orange County City Selection Committee (one appointment in each supervisorial district), if the most populous city's population in any supervisorial district is less than 30 percent of the district's population, then that position would be treated according to terms elsewhere in the bill which state the appointed member in the district cannot be from the most populous city.

(Failed passage on Senate Floor; reconsideration granted)

AB 718 (Pacheco-R) Elections

Makes numerous substantive and technical changes to state law governing municipal elections, including allowing a city to hold its general municipal election on any established election date; and creating established mailed ballot election dates as the only dates on which mailed ballot elections may be held.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 728 (Leno-D) Subdivided lands

Makes it easier for developers to finance condominium projects by allowing the to pre-sell individual condominium units earlier in the development process, and retain enough of the buyer's deposit to cover actual damages suffered when a buyer of a pre-sold unit defaults on the contract.

Chapter 434, Statutes of 2003

AB 731 (Spitzer-R) Fire safety

Requires the inspection of an apartment house on a periodic basis to be determined by the fire department or district as necessary to protect the public health and safety, but no less than once every three years, if the apartment house consists of not more than three stories and each unit has separate, direct access to a public way.

(In Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 762 (Nunez-D) Transportation

Exempts, from the prohibition against placing advertising displays adjacent to landscaped freeways, a billboard on the roof of a specified proposed school in Los Angeles, subject to certain conditions.

Chapter 725, Statutes of 2003

AB 768 (Leno-D) Hunters Point Shipyard

Enacts the "Hunters Point Shipyard Public Trust Exchange Act" to help facilitate productive reuse of the lands comprising the former Hunters Point Shipyard in a manner that will further the purposes of the public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries.

Chapter 435, Statutes of 2003

AB 773 (Strickland-R) Transportation

Reconstitutes the membership of the Ventura County Transportation Commission, which commission would comprise up to 18 members, consisting of the five members of the board of supervisors, one member of each of the 10 incorporated cities in the county, two citizen members (permissive) and one nonvoting member.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 785 (Daucher-R) Long-term care services

Requires the board of supervisors of each county to adopt one of three specified service delivery models for long-term care; identifies the service deliver models as: (1) the coordinated system of care, described as a network of service providers that communicate through established protocols, under administration of a lead agency or coordinating council designated by the board; (2) the integrated service delivery system, which would streamline and consolidate deliver of long-term card services under administration of a single service agency designated by the board; and (3) the capitated service delivery system, which would integrate financing and administration of long-term care and medical care services under administration of a single service agency designated by the board.

(In Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee)

AB 786 (Daucher-R) Public social services

Enables San Mateo County to adopt a specific assessment instrument for use by all home- and community-based long-term care services in the county.

Chapter 436, Statutes of 2003

AB 838 (Spitzer-R) Local agency formation

Requires, upon the effective date of incorporation of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita, that any locally imposed restriction or regulation contained in a written instrument entered into relating to real property within the boundaries of the city that purports to regulate design or development standards, requirements, or conditions on the development, use, or occupancy of any commercial or industrial property is superceded except as specified.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 839 (Salinas-D) Local government records

Exempts transit agencies from an existing one-year record retention law; and maintains current one-year records retention requirement while creating exceptions for local transit agencies under specified conditions.

Chapter 564, Statutes of 2003

AB 878 (Pavley-D) Harbor districts

Makes financial and administrative changes to harbor district laws and clarifies that revenues pledged to repaying limited obligation notes are not to be used for any new purpose when any limited obligation notes or interest are unpaid following their maturity.

Chapter 389, Statutes of 2003

AB 893 (Mountjoy-R) Local government

Exempts every member of the United States Armed Services who is on active duty, or any former member of the United States Armed Services who has received an honorable discharge or a release from active duty under honorable conditions from the payment of any license, tax, or fee imposed by any city, county, or the state for hawking, peddling, or vending any goods, wares, or merchandise owned by him/her, except as specified, and requires the county board of supervisors to issue, without cost, to those persons a license therefor.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 920 (Nakano-D) Real estate disclosures

Clarifies various disclosures required to be made by sellers of residential property; amends disclosure forms to reflect changes in law and practice in the residential real estate industry; and materially changes disclosures required by a home seller and his/her sales agent on the Natural Hazard Disclosure Form when a consultant prepares the report, which, instead of requiring seller and agent to verify that the report is true to the best of their knowledge, allows them to indicate that they are unaware of any inaccuracies in the report.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 934 (Reyes-D) Child abduction

Establishes, in Fresno County until January 1, 2007, upon approval of the board of supervisors, a pilot project requiring each person who files a petition, notice of motion, or other paper in the superior court to determine custody of or visitation with a child, to establish a parent and child relationship, to petition for temporary guardianship of a minor, or to object to the report and recommendation of the mediator determining child custody or visitation, to pay a fee of $25 in addition to other required fees; and requires that all moneys collected pursuant to this provision be deposited in the Child Abduction Prevention Fund established in the office of the district attorney in Fresno County and be allocated for the purpose of performing specified duties required of the district attorney in certain cases concerning child custody or visitation, as above described.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 935 (Diaz-D) Transportation

Authorizes and specifies process and conditions for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to levy benefit assessments on certain property in the vicinity of the VTA's rail transit stations, for the purpose of funding acquisition, construction, development, operation, maintenance or repair of rail transit stations or related facilities; makes clarifying changes regarding procedures and processes for special benefit assessment districts; and clarifies procedures and processes required for approval of benefit assessment districts for the VTA, and requires compliance with the Constitution.

Chapter 727, Statutes of 2003

AB 944 (Steinberg-D) Benefit assessments

Allows property and business improvement districts to use assessment bonds to finance public works, and allows these districts to assess business owners.

Chapter 763, Statutes of 2003

AB 953 (Houston-R) Land use

Makes changes to the Subdivision Map Act with respect to time limitation a local agency adheres to negotiate the filing of a final map, and specifies when that time limitation is waived; and clarifies that the subject waiver occurs whether or not the local officials have postponed or refused approval of a final subdivision map.

Chapter 728, Statutes of 2003

AB 980 (Salinas-D) Housing

Provides procedure, until January 1, 2016, whereby a city or county may elect to participate in alternative production-based certification of its housing element and makes those cities and counties eligible for specified state housing funds in the same manner as other jurisdictions.

(In Assembly Housing and Community Development)

AB 994 (Cox-R) Housing: prison beds

Requires, according to the Planning and Zoning Law, provisions to be included in the housing element of a city or county general plan to additionally contain the assessment of housing needs and inventory of resources to include the amount of land within the city or county owned by the state or federal government and unable to be rezoned by the city or county; and requires that data to include the amount of land within the city or county owned by the state or federal government and unable to be rezoned by the city or county.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1019 (Nakanishi-R) Parks

Allows San Joaquin County to convert specified land acquired with state bond funds to accommodate a road-widening project, if specified conditions are met.

Chapter 114, Statutes of 2003

AB 1035 (Aghazarian-R) Economic development

Requires the State Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency, upon application by the appropriate governing body or bodies, to designate a geographic area or areas within Stanislaus County that meet specified criteria as an enterprise zone or zones.

(In Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1039 (Hancock-D) Municipal elections

Provides that, notwithstanding any provision of law, a city may elect officers or fill vacancies in elective offices by means of a method of cumulative voting, limited voting, choice voting, or instant runoff voting; requires the Secretary of State to adopt regulations for the conduct of elections and counting of ballots by each of these voting methods; and permits a voting method authorized by this bill to be enacted by ordinance enacted by any of three specified ways.

(In Assembly Elections, Redistricting, and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 1040 (Leno-D) Taxation

Authorizes the board of supervisors of a county to impose a tax on the sale of cigarettes; and requires the tax to be approved by a majority vote of the board of supervisors and by a two-thirds vote of the qualified voters of the county.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1051 (Goldberg-D) Local government

Alters the authorization, notice and disclosure, statute of limitation, validating suits, burden of proof, litigation, and statutory definitions relating to public agency utility services.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1054 (Spitzer-R) Water quality

Appropriates $20 million of the $300 million the California Clean Water, Clean Air, and Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002 authorizes for the purposes of clean beaches, watershed protection, and water quality projects to protect beaches, coastal waters, rivers, lakes, and streams from contaminants, pollution, and other environmental threats, including, but not limited to stormdrain-to-sewer diversions, stormdrain filters or screens, and regional education programs.

(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1055 (Spitzer-R) District attorney

Provides explicitly that the district attorney must use the special appropriation for expenses necessarily incurred in criminal cases arising in the county, in the detection of crime or in civil actions or proceedings.

Chapter 38, Statutes of 2003

AB 1058 (Lieber-D) Community redevelopment

Provides that any redevelopment agency that incorporates specified community benefit standards into a redevelopment project is exempt from any transfer of tax increment funds to the General Fund within the State Treasury.

(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1066* (Liu-D) Financing seismic safety retrofit program

Enacts the California Seismic Safety Bond Act of 2004, authorizing the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in an amount of $700 million to be allocated to the California Seismic Safety Bond Fund of 2004 to fund local government building and facility seismic safety retrofit projects; and provides for submission of the bond act to the voters at a statewide election in accordance with specified law.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1089 (Dutton-R) Redevelopment

Authorizes, until January 1, 2010, redevelopment agencies to purchase, or otherwise acquire or cause by regulation or agreement the purchase or other acquisition of, long-term affordability covenants on mobilehome parks in which residents rent spaces and either rent or own the mobilehome occupying their spaces, that restrict the cost of renting or purchasing those units under prescribed conditions.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1095 (Corbett-D) Libraries

Establishes a task force on county law libraries, which includes setting forth duties of the task force, makeup of representation on the task force, and requires the task force members be appointed on or before March 1, 2004.

Chapter 394, Statutes of 2003

AB 1112 (Lowenthal-D) Community development

Requires State Department of Housing and Community Development to authorize creation of six tax increment districts around transit stations to finance affordable housing development.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1113* (Garcia-R) Firefighting

Establishes in each county treasury a Supplemental Firefighting Services Fund and requires that money from this fund be allocated to local agencies in accordance with specified requirements for specified front line fire service activities; and requires that, in addition to amounts levied under existing law, an additional $5 penalty be levied for every $10 or fraction collected by the courts for criminal offenses, except parking offenses.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1117 (Matthews-D) Grazing lands

Requires State Controller to pay federal grazing fee revenues to counties under the same manner and upon the basis as officially established by the United States Secretary of the Interior.

Chapter 131, Statutes of 2003

AB 1123 (Parra-D) Urban development

Moves the California Main Street Program from the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency to the Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) within the State Department of Parks and Recreation; and requires the OHP to administer the program within existing resources.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1125 (Houston-R) Water

Clarifies and streamlines the relationship between Zone 7 and the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District.

Chapter 284, Statutes of 2003

AB 1152* (Maldonado-R) Health care

Repeals the July 1, 2003 sunset date of the Rural Health Demonstration Project (RHDP), thereby making RHDP permanent.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1154* (Frommer-D) Claims against the state

Appropriates funds to pay judgements and settlements that have been approved by the Attorney General and the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.

(On Assembly Unfinished Business File)

AB 1158 (Lowenthal-D) General plans

Reforms the Regional Housing Needs Assessment procedure by, among other things, modifying housing element updates from a five-year cycle to a six-year cycle to coincide with the three-year cycle used for transportation planning; and requires the State Department of Housing and Community Development to establish housing need based on the State Department of Finance population projections and regional population forecasts used in preparing regional transportation plans, and in consultation with each council of government.

(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1171 (Diaz-D) Redevelopment

Authorizes, until January 1, 2008, any redevelopment agency within the County of Santa Clara to transfer its low- and moderate-income housing funds to another redevelopment agency for affordable housing uses within a five-mile radius outside its redevelopment area.

(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1172 (Berg-D) Joint powers agreements

Declares a federally recognized Indian tribe as a public agency.

Chapter 39, Statutes of 2003

AB 1187 (Leno-D) Redevelopment

Creates the Hunters Point Shipyard Development Authority (HUSPDA), a new redevelopment agency; and transfers the state's interest in the Hunters Point trust lands from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to HUSPDA and establishes it as the trust administrator for those lands.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1188 (Cohn-D) Park and open-space districts

Clarifies park and open-space district laws relating to land conveyances under threat of condemnation, and police officers' powers.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1192* (Dutra-D) Land use

Clarifies that the local government is responsible for compliance with the no-net-loss zoning statute related to prohibiting the reduction of residential densities.

(On Assembly Unfinished Business File)

AB 1195 (Cohn-D) Land use

Excludes conveyances to and from regional park and open space districts from certain requirements of the planning and zoning law.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1199 (Berg-D) County of Del Norte

Postpones for one year the schedule for the County of Del Norte's annual loan payments to the state to mitigate impact of the late opening of the Pelican Bay State Prison, if for any calendar quarter, the county auditor certifies to the State Controller that the total amount of local sales tax revenue derived by the county is less than the total amount derived by the county for the corresponding quarter of the immediately preceding calendar year.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1208 (Cogdill-R) Conflicts of interest

Expands the definition of "remote interest" in the law banning conflicts of interest, creating a new exception for governing boards of small landowner voter and irrigation districts; applies to landowner-voter special districts that do not distribute domestic water, and only if the contract is for maintenance and repair of the district's property or facilities; and requires the district to make findings regarding the contract's necessity.

Chapter 822, Statutes of 2003

AB 1228 (Dutton-R) Zoning

Requires cities and counties to make a reasonable effort to accommodate amateur radio antennas; and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this bill to codify instate law with specified federal regulations relating to amateur radio station facilities.

Chapter 50, Statutes of 2003

AB 1235 (Daucher-R) Local government finance

Establishes a procedure for reallocating the ad valorem property tax revenues from a dissolved redevelopment agency, beginning in the 2004-05 fiscal year.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1236 (Jerome Horton-D) Open meetings

Includes as additional matters that may be considered in closed sessions under the Ralph M. Brown Act, measures proposed or taken, including the deployment of law enforcement personnel, to protect against threats to security of public buildings, threat to the safety and delivery of essential public services, including water, drinking water, wastewater treatment, natural gas service, and electric services, or a threat to the public's right of access to public services or public facilities.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1242 (Chu-D) Transportation

Requires, rather than authorizes, a city to establish the minimum maintenance requirements for a street closed or removed from public use at the time of such action.

(In Senate Transportation Committee)

AB 1251 (Bermudez-D) Public health

Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to establish, by ordinance, a hospital authority to manage, administer, and control the medical centers in Los Angeles County; sets forth certain rights and duties, powers, and requirements of a hospital authority established under its provisions; and requires the county to, among other things, establish various baseline data reporting requirements for the medical centers and each of the medical centers inpatient facilities for purposes of this bill.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1267 (Runner-R) Public contracts

Authorizes the County of San Bernardino to use the design-build project delivery method.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1268 (Wiggins-D) Land use

States legislative intent to address the issue of growth zones and housing.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1271 (Dutton-R) Highways

Authorizes the City of Rancho Cucamonga, in cooperation with the State Department of Transportation, to construct soundwalls on specified portions of the north and south sides of State Highway Route 210; and provides that the reimbursement provisions do not apply to the construction of those soundwalls by the City of Cucamonga.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1308 (Goldberg-D) Drug treatment

States that it is the intent of the Legislature to sustain and enhance the system of care for all persons needing specified drug and alcohol abuse services; and creates a framework for the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to establish a sliding scale for such care.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1326 (Simitian-D) Child care

Authorizes a five-year individualized child care subsidy pilot program to be implemented in San Mateo County that permits the county to waive certain provisions of state law and regulation.

Chapter 691, Statutes of 2003

AB 1347 (Maze-R) Development agreements

Requires a city, county, or city and county to comply with accounting and reporting requirements of the Mitigation Fee Act with regard to any fee it receives or costs it recovers in connection with a development agreement and applies the accounting requirement to development agreements entered into on or after January 1, 2004.

Chapter 288, Statutes of 2003

AB 1358 (Simitian-D) Redevelopment

Allows a redevelopment agency in a city of less than 100,000 in San Mateo, Santa Clara, or Santa Cruz counties to expend low- and moderate-income housing setaside funds outside of a project area, but with five miles of the exterior boundary of the project area as long as the construction is commenced prior to January 1, 2009, and the project is located within the same county.

(In Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1363 (Berg-D) Clean needle and syringe exchange program

Authorizes cities, counties, or cities and counties to develop clean needle and syringe exchange projects that contain prescribed components; and requires that a participating county, city, or city and county assess the project using certain criteria, and submit a progress report that takes into consideration data from the assessment to the Director of the State Department of Health Services, the Governor, and the chairpersons of both health committees of the Legislature.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1378 (Jerome Horton-D) Property taxation

Requires any reduction in property tax revenue resulting from the condemnation of state-assessed property to be applied exclusively to the local entity that condemned the property; and requires a county auditor to exclusively apply any reduction in assessed value that is assigned to a countywide tax area resulting from the condemnation of state-assessed property to the local public entity that condemned the property on or after July 1, 2004.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1410 (Wolk-D) Surplus land: transit stations

Requires state or local agencies disposing of surplus land to provide the "first right of refusal" for purchase to specified public agencies when the property is located within an "infill opportunity zone" or "transit village plan."

Chapter 772, Statutes of 2003

AB 1412 (Wolk-D) Taxation

Allows 35 cities to impose transactions and use taxes at specified rates.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1426 (Steinberg-D) Land use

Creates a pilot affordable housing production standard program in the greater Sacramento region, including six specified counties, that sunsets on January 1, 2010; establishes enforcement provisions; and alters incentives.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1546 (Simitian-D) Local governments

Allows a fee of $4 to be added to the annual vehicle registration in San Mateo County if the fee is approved by the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo; and specifies that fee revenues are to be used for management of traffic congestion and stormwater pollution.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1547 (Shirley Horton-R) Streets and highways

Requires a city, county, or a city and county that receives allocations from state and federal excise tax revenues and utilizes those allocations for local street and road purposes, to approve at least two reflective film manufacturers as qualified to bid when soliciting bids for reflexive film material; and requires that the manufacturers must appear on the prequalified products list that is maintained by the State Department of Transportation and the bid must be for reflexive film material that can be used in roll goods, sign faces, or finished signs.

(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1568 (Correa-D) Local government finance

Requires that property tax revenues be transferred from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county to the county government in amounts necessary to bring the county government'' share of property tax revenues to 15.5 percent; and specifies that the transfer of revenues be phased in over five years.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1590 (Laird-D) Transportation

Authorizes Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, and Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission to enter into a joint powers agreement to create the Santa Cruz County Highway 1 Widening/HOV Authority; authorizes the authority to develop and construct the Highway 1 Widening/HOV project in Santa Cruz County; provides for a five-member board to govern the authority; requires the authority to adopt a budget, hire an independent staff, and adopt regulations necessary to carry out its functions; authorizes the authority to accept grants, fees, acquire property necessary or incidental to the exercise of its powers, incur indebtedness, and enter into contracts; and requires the authority to dissolve within 180 days after completion of the project.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1626 (Runner-R) Redevelopment

Allows, under the Community Redevelopment Law, any of the tax revenue that is not required to be used for housing because the agency made one of specific findings, to be used for other economic development purposes, consistent with the Community Redevelopment Law.

(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1634 (Keene-R) Public lands

Authorizes the City of Chico to sell, convey, or exchange land to certain property owners, as specified.

Chapter 522, Statutes of 2003

AB 1642 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Tourism

Authorizes creation and appointment of the Los Angeles County Tourism Advisory Committee by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and allows for creation of the Los Angeles County Tourism Marketing District.

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1690 (Leno-D) Local government

Authorizes any city, county, or city and county that forms a public safety finance agency to levy a local general income tax and shift a specified portion of annual property tax allocation income to the public safety finance agency.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1716 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Human services

Changes allocation of sales tax growth revenues within the realignment Local Revenue Fund and establishes a mechanism to restore the base level of funding for each county's social services account in the health and welfare trust fund to the level of the 2001-02 fiscal year, for the 2003-04 budget year.

Chapter 450, Statutes of 2003

AB 1746 (Assembly Budget Committee) Health services

Provides an augmentation of local medical assistance set forth in the Budget Act of 2002.

Chapter 43, Statutes of 2003

AB 1749* (Assembly Budget Committee) Booking fees

Repeals provisions in existing law authorizing a county to impose booking fees on local agencies, colleges or universities; and repeals continuous appropriation to cities and qualifying special districts for actual bookings paid to counties.

(On Assembly Unfinished Business File)

AB 1755* (Assembly Budget Committee) Redevelopment

Requires a one-time transfer of $250 million in property tax from redevelopment agencies to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) in 2003-04; allows cities and counties to pay ERAF in lieu of their redevelopment agencies; and clarifies procedures that redevelopment officials must follow to extend the life of their project areas, noting that this extension does not trigger an obligation to pay additional pass-through payments.

(Held at Senate Desk)

AB 1766* (Assembly Budget Committee) Local government finance

Provides that cities and counties will be reimbursed for reduction in the sales and use tax revenue pursuant to the sales and use tax rate suspension in AB 7X through a property tax transfer from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.

Chapter 162, Statutes of 2003

AB 1768 (Assembly Budget Committee) Taxation

Requires State Controller to transfer an amount equal to the amount of the "gap" offsets not paid during the 2003-04 fiscal year from the General Fund to the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account by August 15, 2006; and specifies that these funds then be allocated to cities and counties, as specified.

Chapter 231, Statutes of 2003

ACA 9 (Levine-D) Taxation

Amends the California Constitution to lower the voter approval requirement from a two-thirds vote to a simple majority of local voters for special taxes to fund local capital infrastructure construction projects.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 11 (Levine-D) General obligation bonds: infrastructure projects

Amends the California Constitution to lower the voting threshold for local infrastructure bond propositions from two-thirds to 55 percent.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 14 (Steinberg-D) Transactions and use taxes: local development

Amends the California Constitution to lower the voter approval requirement for a transaction and use tax to fund local infrastructure projects from two-thirds to 55 percent.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 10 (Garcia-R) Imperial County Airport

Asks the United States Congress to designate Imperial County Airport as an additional International Port of Entry for Imperial County.

Chapter 79, Statutes of 2003

Immigration Issues

SB 60 (Cedillo-D) Driver's licenses: identification cards

Allows individuals to apply for driver's licenses without proof of legal residence. This will have the affect of undocumented immigrants who apply for licenses to be fingerprinted, submit proof of identity, and provide an address.

Chapter 326, Statutes of 2003

SB 328 (Escutia-D) Student financial aid

Establishes financial aid application procedures to be used by individuals who do not have the legal immigration status necessary for federal processing of the financial aid application.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 337 (Romero-D) Immigration consulting

Provides that the statute of limitations for a crime concerning unlawful practice of law does not start to run "until the offense has been discovered, or could reasonably have been discovered," as provided for illegal immigration consultation offenses.

Chapter 152, Statutes of 2003

SB 427 (Dunn-D) Mexican repatriation

Creates the Commission on the 1930's Repatriation Program to gather facts regarding, and conduct a study of, the unconstitutional removal and coerced emigration of United States citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent, between 1929 and 1944, to Mexico during the 1930's "Repatriation" Program.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 798 (Cedillo-D) Mexican health plans

Requires the State Department of Managed Health Care to immediately notify a Mexican pre-paid health plan when it ceases to operate legally in Mexico, that it shall comply with the laws of Mexico, or become licensed in California, or cease operations in the state.

Chapter 417, Statutes of 2003

SB 933 (Dunn-D) Coerced emigration

Enacts a one-time limitations period of two years for claims arising out of the alleged deportation and coerced emigration of United Sates citizens and residents of Mexican descent during the period from 1929 to 1944.

Vetoed by the Governor

SCR 20 (Burton-D) Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride

Endorses the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a coalition effort to affect humane immigration law reform, and its goals, to support and assist the ride in the state, and call on local governments to adopt this same measure.

Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2003

Similar legislation, HR 35 (Dymally-D) and HR 37 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee), both of which died in the Assembly.

SJR 13 (Florez-D) Immigrant military personnel: citizenship

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to grant citizenship to all immigrant soldiers who have served in the U.S. military and are honorably discharged.

Resolution Chapter 19, Statutes of 2003

SJR 21 (Dunn-D) Persons of Mexican descent

Requests the Congress of the United States to establish a fact finding commission to determine whether the federal government committed a wrong against those American citizens and permanent resident aliens of Mexican descent who were deported or coerced to emigrate during the 1930s and to recommend appropriate remedies.

(In Senate Labor Committee)

AB 249 (Matthews-D) California/Mexico Office of Intergovernmental Affairs

Requires the Governor, by February 1, 2004, or upon the availability of sufficient nonstate resources, whichever occurs later, to contract with the University of California (UC), at the option of the UC Regents, to establish the California/Mexico Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, to be located at the California House in Mexico City.

(In Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)

AB 522 (Diaz-D) Identity of individuals

Requires every city, county, and city and county officer and employee to accept an identification card issued by the Mexican Consulate Office, or Matricula Consular, as an official form of identification to the extent permitted by federal law.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 534 (Vargas-D) Immigration consultants

Increases the client notification and contracting requirements for immigration consultants. Prohibits an immigration consultant from making certain guarantees, promises, or statements orally to a client.

Chapter 384, Statutes of 2003

AB 537 (Correa-D) Former South Vietnamese: causes of action

Revives certain causes of action to be brought by a resident of this state in the superior court against a bank for unpaid deposits, or an employer for unpaid wages or benefits, in the former country of South Vietnam during April 1975, except as specified.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 801 (Diaz-D) Dentists and doctors: culture and linguistic competency

Revises the requirements applicable to the dentists who participate in the Licensed Physicians and Dentists from Mexico Pilot Program. Enacts the Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physicians Act of 2003 where local medical societies of the California Medical Association, while monitored by the Medical Board's Division of Licensing, will operate a voluntary competency program for physicians.

Chapter 510, Statutes of 2003

AJR 6 (Diaz-D) Korean immigrants

Urges United States Attorney General John Ashcroft to suspend deportation proceedings against 275 South Korean immigrants who were issued "green cards" fraudulently by a former Immigration and Naturalization Service official, until a fair process of review is conducted in each case and until it is proven that actual fraud was committed by the immigrant.

Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2003

AJR 9 (Firebaugh-D) Undocumented students

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to reform the federal Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to allow states to set appropriate residency requirements and tuition policies for undocumented students.

Resolution Chapter 95, Statutes of 2003

AJR 45 (Mountjoy-R) Extradition treaty with Mexico

Urges the Congress of the United States to adopt federal House Concurrent Resolution 93, which expresses the sense of Congress that the President should renegotiate the extradition treaty with Mexico so that the possibility of capital punishment or life imprisonment will not interfere with the timely extradition of criminal suspects from Mexico to the United States and also separately urges the President to renegotiate this treaty.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 49 (Dymally-D) Immigration: Hermenegildo Ortega

Requests United States Attorney General John Ashcroft to permit Hermenegildo Ortega to be readmitted to the United States in order to care for certain children, including his HIV-infected ward.

Resolution Chapter 159, Statutes of 2003

Federal Issues

SJR 1 (Poochigian-R) Armenian Genocide

Designates April 24, 2003, as the "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923." Urges the Congress of the United States to act likewise to commemorate the Armenian Genocide.

Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2003

SJR 2 (Figueroa-D) Privacy

Requests that the Congress of the United States exempt from preemption any state privacy law that provides greater protection to consumers than is, or will be, provided by federal law.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SJR 3 (Alarcon-D) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program

Urges the Congress of the United States to increase Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant funding to certain states, allow states to use TANF funds to provide an additional 24 months of TANF eligibility for families who have used 60 months of TANF eligibility, consider "stopping the clock" on TANF assistance for recipients who are meeting work participation requirements or live in counties with high unemployment rates, increase funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant, and give states flexibility to design the most effective strategies to help people secure jobs.

Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2003

SJR 4 (Dunn-D) Thimerosal lawsuits

Requests the Congress of the Untied States to repeal the language in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 that bars existing lawsuits by parents of children who allege that products manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company and other pharmaceutical companies led to their children's health conditions.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SJR 5 (Sher-D) Giant Sequoia National Monument

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to take necessary action to protect the Giant Sequoia National Monument by prohibiting the removal of large trees in all parts of the monument and encouraging environmentally appropriate management activities, including removal of small trees and brush, that reduce the risk of catastrophic fire, protect rural communities, and restore the giant sequoia ecosystem in all parts of the monument, as set forth in the Presidential Proclamation establishing the monument.

Resolution Chapter 114, Statutes of 2003

SJR 6 (Soto-D) Terrorism: responder training

Calls upon the President and Congress of the United States to provide additional funding to the states for first responder training.

Chapter 137, Statutes of 2003

SJR 7 (Karnette-D) Highways: trucking size

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to maintain the current federal truck size and weight limitations and to oppose proposals to experiment with longer and heavier trucks on public highways in the reauthorization of the federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.

Resolution Chapter 103, Statutes of 2003

SJR 8 (Battin-R) Saltcedar eradication

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to take necessary action to immediately implement a project to eradicate saltcedar along the Colorado River within this state and other states through which the Colorado River and its tributaries pass, in order to protect that water source from depletion and contamination by saltcedar.

Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2003

SJR 9 (Perata-D) California economy

Requests the state congressional delegation to support fiscal relief to the states in the amount of $50 billion or more for the 2003-04 fiscal year and provide temporary relief through federal revenue sharing or adjustments in the federal budget for specified purposes. Requests the state congressional delegation to unite and turn its attention immediately to the plight of its constituents in California whose economy and future are so seriously jeopardized by the priorities of the Bush Administration.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SJR 10 (Soto-D) Medicare prescription drug coverage

Requests the Congress of the United States to enact outpatient prescription drug coverage as part of the federal Medicare program.

Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2003

SJR 11 (Alpert-D) Special education: federal funding

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to provide the full federal share of funding for special education programs to the states so that this state and other states will not be required to take funding from other vital state and local programs to fund this underfunded federal mandate.

Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2003

SJR 12 (Denham-R) Judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada

Urges the Members of the United States Senate to allow a floor vote on the appointment of Miguel Estrada to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

A similar resolution, AJR 22 (Haynes-R), died in the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

SJR 14 (Florez-D) Federal Communications Commission

Requests the Federal Communications Commission to formally delay the finalizing of the proposed rulemaking to promote competition and diversity in the media marketplace, and to schedule an official public hearing to be held not later than June 1, 2003, in the Los Angeles area to facilitate the widest possible involvement of key elements of the creative community in the state.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

A similar resolution, AJR 42 (Reyes-D), died in the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee.

SJR 15 (Alarcon-D) Federal poverty level

Urges the President and Congress of the United Sates to ensure that the United States is working to meet the basic needs of all families, begin a process to better calculate the federal poverty level, and use existing models to calculate poverty, including geographical costs of living.

(On Senate Third Reading File)

SJR 16 (Morrow-R) Military airfares

Urges airline companies in the United States to permanently establish reduced price airfares for active duty military personnel.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 17 (Morrow-R) Veterans benefits

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to establish a federal/state partnership to use local county veterans service officers to assist the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in eliminating the veterans claims processing backlog.

(In Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)

SJR 18 (Perata-D) Firearms: civil liability

Declares the Legislature's opposition to the adoption of, and urges the United States executive branch's rejection of, specified federal legislation providing immunity from civil liability for negligence by the gun industry with regard to firearms.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SJR 19 (Soto-D) North American Free Trade Agreement

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to take appropriate action to amend the North American Free Trade Agreement to provide that foreign investors may not file suits under Chapter 11 of the agreement against a signatory to the agreement concerning environmental and human health and safety laws that do not discriminate in their treatment of domestic and foreign investors.

(In Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)

SJR 20 (Florez-D) Regulation of financial institutions

Requests the Congress of the United States to hold hearings to explore and study the growing scope of federal preemption of regulation of financial institutions and the effects on American consumers and the 75 percent of the banks in the United States that are state-charted banks, and if necessary, to consider legislation that will prevent the unilateral expansion of jurisdiction over financial institutions by federal regulators without the specific endorsement of the Congress of the United States.

(In Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)

SJR 22 (Burton-D) U.S.A. PATRIOT Act

Urges the California congressional delegation to work to repeal any provisions of the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act that limit or impinge on rights and liberties protected equally by the United States Constitution and the California Constitution and to oppose any pending and future federal legislation to the extent that it infringes on Americans' civil rights and liberties. Urges the State of California to ensure that no state resources be provided for any action that violates the United States Constitution and the California Constitution, including specified actions.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SR 15 (Burton-D) War in Iraq

Proclaims the Senate's fervent hope that hostilities in Iraq end as soon as possible, and that America's servicemen/servicewomen return home quickly, safely, and uninjured. Urges the President of the United States to pursue all efforts to insure that any American captured during these hostilities is treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 22 (Morrow-R) Korean War

Places the Senate on record commemorating July 27, 2003, as the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 25 (Burton-D) U.S.A. PATRIOT Act

Urges the California congressional delegation to work to repeal any provisions of the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act that limits or impinges on the rights and liberties protected by the United States Constitution and to oppose any pending or future federal legislation to the extent that it infringes on Americans civil rights and liberties.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 1 (Koretz-D) Unemployment insurance

Urges the President and Congress of the United Sates to enact legislation that retroactively extends and increases the number of weeks of federal unemployment insurance benefits available to unemployed workers.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AJR 2 (Jackson-D) Reproductive rights: Roe v. Wade

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to stand firm in their resolve to uphold the intent and substance of the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, relating to reproductive rights, and encourages all Americans to participate in the national celebration, "Celebrating 30 Years of Roe v. Wade," in recognition of that decision's historic importance in promoting women's rights.

Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2003

AJR 3 (Jerome Horton-D) Student financial aid

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to repeal a provision of the 1998 amendments to the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 that denies or delays access to financial aid based upon convictions for drug-related offenses.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 4 (Mountjoy-R) National Slave Memorial Act

Urges the Congress of the United States to pass H.R. 196, the National Slave Memorial Act.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 5 (Parra-D) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to take appropriate measures to facilitate the design and construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center.

Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2003

AJR 7 (Longville-D) Candidates for elective office

Urges the federal government to adopt policies that provide for increased coverage of political issues leading up to elections.

Resolution Chapter 154, Statutes of 2003

AJR 8 (Mountjoy-R) Federal income tax reduction

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that mandates the total deductibility of all long-term care insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer regardless of either the income of the taxpayer, the total amount paid by the taxpayer for medical expenses, or the age of the individual covered by the qualified long-term care insurance policy or contract.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 10 (Garcia-R) Imperial County Airport

Urges the Congress of the United States to designate the Imperial County Airport as an additional International Port of Entry for Imperial County and requests the Imperial County Board of Supervisors to take several related actions.

Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2003

AJR 11 (Jackson-D) Sierra Nevada Conservation Framework

Urges the Congress of the United States to take necessary action to implement the Sierra Nevada Conservation Framework, as originally adopted.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 12 (Chan-D) Head Start program

Requests the Congress of the United States to acknowledge the success and maintain the funding support of the Head Start program, as specified.

Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2003

AJR 13 (Leno-D) Medical cannabis

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to take specified actions relating to the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.

Resolution Chapter 64, Statutes of 2003

AJR 14 (Koretz-D) Arab economic boycott of Israel

Urges the President of the United States and the Governor of California to strictly enforce U.S. and California anti-boycott legislation. Condemns the Arab League's economic boycott of Israel and calls on the Arab League and its members to disavow and end this boycott.

(In Senate Banking, Commerce, and International Trade Committee)

AJR 15 (Plescia-R) War in Iraq

Recognizes that the United States is a nation at war, expresses the Legislature's appreciation for the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who are serving the U.S. in the war against Iraq, and states the support of the Legislature for President Bush and other national leaders who are committed to preserving the security and national interests of the U.S.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 16 (Koretz-D) Nonoxynol-9

Urges the federal Food and Drug Administration to ban condoms and lubricants that contain the spermicide nonoxynol-9.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 17 (Correa-D) War in the Middle East

Proclaims the fervent hope of the Legislature that the hostilities in Iraq are ended as soon as possible and that American servicemen/servicewomen return home safe and uninjured. Urges the President of the United States to pursue every opportunity to protect Iraqi civilian noncombatants, especially children, from injury and harm, to provide assistance to Iraqi civilians in their recovery from years of oppression by Saddam Hussein, and to provide for the needs that American servicemen/servicewomen will experience as a result of war.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 18 (Haynes-R) Removal of Saddam Hussein

Expresses the Legislature's support of President George W. Bush, the President's cabinet, and the men/women of the United States Armed Forces in their efforts to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 19 (Cox-R) War in Iraq

Commends and supports the efforts and leadership of the President of the United States as commander-in-chief in the conflict against Iraq, and commends and expresses the gratitude of the nation to the U.S. Armed Forces and others in this conflict.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 20 (Chan-D) War against Iraq

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to end the war against Iraq and restore the peace.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 21 (Longville-D) Retired military personnel medical benefits

Urges the President and Congress of the United Sates to enact legislation to fulfill the commitment of the federal government to provide free lifetime medical care to those men and women who served 20 years in the military, and to refrain from enacting any legislation that threatens the ability to fund all commitments that the federal government has made to the men/women who have served this country in the U.S. military.

Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2003

AJR 23 (Haynes-R) Estate taxes

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to support legislation that immediately and permanently repeals estate taxes.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 24 (Haynes-R) President's 2002 Economic Growth and Tax Relief Plan

Requests Representatives and Senators in the United Sates Congress from the State of California to support and enact President Bush's 2002 Economic Growth and Tax Relief Plan.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 25 (Haynes-R) Pension and individual retirement accounts

Urges the elected Representatives and Senators from the State of California in the United States Congress to enact legislation that repeals the expiration date of the existing law related to the limitations imposed on the amount of tax-deductible contributions made by taxpayers to their individual retirement accounts.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 26 (Haynes-R) Alternative minimum tax

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to support legislation that permanently repeals the alternative minimum tax.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 27 (Correa-D) Lance Corporal Jose Angel Garibay

Urges the President of the Untied States, along with the U.S. Congress, to fulfill Jose Angel Garibay's wish and grant full citizenship rights upon Jose Angel Garibay posthumously, extends the Legislature condolences to the family of Jose Angel Garibay, and extends appreciation for his service to his country. Urges the President and Congress of the U.S. to recognize the valor and sacrifice of all persons such as Jose Angel Garibay who had not yet achieved citizenship status while serving and being killed on active-duty service in the U.S. Armed Forces, and to grant citizenship posthumously to those persons.

(In Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)

AJR 28 (Reyes-D) First responder funding

Urges the United States Department of Homeland Security to distribute the funds allocated to California for first responders and calls on California's United States Senators and its congressional delegation to continue in their active pursuit of all federal funds entitled to California relating to the cost of homeland security.

Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2003

AJR 29 (Pavley-D) Social Security benefits: teachers

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to remove the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision from the Social Security Act.

Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2003

AJR 30 (Liu-D) Japanese-American World War II internment

Condemns the statements made by Congressman Howard Coble regarding the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, urges him to apologize, and encourages him to resign from the chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

Resolution Chapter 61, Statutes of 2003

AJR 31 (Aghazarian-R) Assyrians in Iraq

Declares that it is a matter of urgent and enduring importance that Assyrians be given a seat of recognition at the table during negotiations regarding the postconflict restructuring in Iraq and urges California's Senators and Members of the House of Representatives to take all prudent and necessary steps to ensure that this matter is addressed at the highest levels of the federal government.

Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2003

AJR 32 (Pacheco-R) Medicaid funding

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would consider the 4.9 million Californians who are living below the poverty thresholds by taking into account he total number of persons living in poverty rather than the per capita income of persons when establishing the formula that will be used in the calculation of the federal share of the Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage.

Resolution Chapter 116, Statutes of 2003

AJR 33 (Dymally-D) Taiwan and the World Health Organization

Commends Taiwan on its contributions to promote world health and urges the President and Congress of the United States to take action necessary to endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the annual weeklong summit of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

AJR 34 (Koretz-D) Hate crimes

Urges the Congress of the United States to pass, and the President to sign, the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2003, to provide federal assistance to states and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes.

Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2003

AJR 35 (Leno-D) Court reporters and real time writers

Urges the Congress of the United States to pass legislation relating to training of court reporters and real time writers.

Resolution Chapter 119, Statutes of 2003

AJR 36 (Dutton-R) Veterans benefits: Qualified Veterans Mortgage Bonds

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that revises provisions of the Internal Revenue Code so that Qualified Veterans Mortgage Bonds may be issued by a state to fund home purchase and home improvement loans to certain additional veterans.

(In Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)

AJR 37 (Firebaugh-D) Rail funding

Endorses Amtrak's 2003-04 fiscal year funding request for $1.812 billion and five-year capital plan for, and legislation providing states with, funding for rail systems. Urges the Congress of the United States to pass and the President to sign that legislation. Requests that Members of Congress representing the State of California co-sponsor and support passage of that legislation.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 38 (Firebaugh-D) Federal expenditures to states

Requests the California congressional delegation to use the opportunities provided by this year's reauthorization of several federal formula grant programs to relieve the disparity between the amount of taxes California pays to the federal government and the amount the state receives in return in the form of federal formula grants and other federal expenditures to bring needed federal revenue to all residents of the state to support various state needs. Requests the President of the United States to resume publishing the "Budget Information for States."

Resolution Chapter 155, Statutes of 2003

AJR 39 (Koretz-D) Workplace safety and health

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to strengthen the Occupational Safety and Health Administration protections and procedures for employees concerning unsafe and unhealthy workplaces, including increasing criminal fines and penalties for employers who flagrantly and repeatedly violate the law, and to investigate and improve coordination of federal enforcement activities.

(In Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AJR 40 (Plescia-R) Chaldeans in Iraq

Declares that it is a matter or urgent and enduring importance that Chaldeans be given a seat of recognition at the table during negotiations regarding the postconflict restructuring in Iraq and urges California's Senators and members of the House of Representatives to take all prudent and necessary steps to ensure that this mater is addressed at the highest levels of the federal government.

Chapter 156, Statutes of 2003

AJR 41 (Yee-D) Psychotropic drugs and youth

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to urge the Food and Drug Administration to probe the reasons for the rise in the use of psychotropic drugs to manage mental health problems in youth and to develop expanded clinical trials and other research regarding the appropriate use of medication in the psychiatric treatment of children and adolescents.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AJR 43 (Mountjoy-R) Child Medication Safety Act of 2003

Encourages the Congress of the United States to enact H.R. 1170, relating to the Child Medication Safety Act of 2003.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AJR 44 (Koretz-D) Holocaust era insurance policies

Denounces the United States Supreme Court constitutional ruling of California's Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act of 1999 and urges that State Insurance Commissioner to investigate any feasible alternatives to enacting state law that serves to increase the likelihood that payments may be made to the heirs of Holocaust victims, and urges the U.S. Congress to immediately enact legislation to require insurance companies to disclose their Holocaust era policy information.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AJR 46 (Shirley Horton-R) Congressional displays: child art

Urges the Congress of the United States to establish a public space for the display of children's thoughts, ideas, and artwork to Congress.

Resolution Chapter 157, Statutes of 2003

AJR 47 (Frommer-D) Cesar E. Chavez

Requests the California delegation of the United States Senate and House of Representatives to support the passage of S. 164, introduced by Senator McCain, which calls for the Secretary of the Interior to prepare an inventory of key sites in Cesar E. Chavez's life, in order for the National Park Service to commemorate his life.

(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AJR 48 (Liu-D) Women's Equality Day

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and encourages all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2003, the 83rd anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

Resolution Chapter 158, Statutes of 2003

AJR 50 (Pavley-D) Fuel cell vehicles

States California's commitment to achieving a clean transportation future based on the rapid commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Requests the United States Department of Energy to recognize California's progress and commitment to accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles and to ensure that appropriate federal funding be provided to support those activities in California.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 51 (Leno-D) Federal budget deficits

Calls on the Congress and the Administration to pursue fiscal policies that eliminate the long-term structural deficit, in order to secure the future growth and health of the economy, and to recognize a direct connection between the public's demand for government services and the taxes to pay for them and that increasing spending while cutting taxes is fiscally irresponsible and economically damaging to our future, and to recognize that current fiscal policies will not address the nation's crises of housing, homelessness, and public health.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AJR 52 (Correa-D) Macedonians

Declares that the Legislature supports the rights of Macedonians living throughout the Balkans to, among other things, speak their language, to practice their customs, and to be granted all the civil and human rights required by international law.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 21 (Nunez-D) War in Iraq

Proclaims the Assembly's support for our troops and our fervent hope that hostilities in Iraq end as soon as possible, and that America's servicemen/servicewomen return home quickly, safely, and uninjured and urges the President of the United States to pursue all efforts to ensure that any American captured during these hostilities is treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 26 (Parra-D) Discounted airfare for military personnel

Urges all airline companies to permanently establish for all active duty military personnel, a reduce price fare equal to or lower than the lowest fare offered for ticketed flights, free of time restrictions or fees or penalties for changes.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 29 (Parra-D) Military Spouses Day

Proclaims May 9, 2003 as Military Spouses Day, to celebrate the accomplishments of military spouses and thank them for accepting the challenges of being military spouses, and recognizing that military spouses take over once-shared burdens, move and uproot their families, change schools, and lose their jobs in some cases.

Adopted by the Assembly

Index (in Bill Order)