Economic Development
World Trade and Tourism
Small Business
Labor Relations
Workers' Compensation
Unemployment Insurance
Financial Institutions
Miscellaneous
Economic Development
SB 47* (Ackerman-R) Manufacturing investment tax credit
Extends the manufacturing investment tax credit and exemption indefinitely.
(Failed passage in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Similar bills are SB 137 (Morrow-R), SB 454 (Vasconcellos-D), and SB 2X (Poochigian-R), which died in the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee, AB 1270 (Dutton-R), AB 1998 (Dutton-R) and AB 2076 (Dutton-R), which died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.
SB 172 (Ducheny-D) Enterprise zones
Redesignates the Brawley manufacturing enhancement area as an enterprise zone.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 527 (Vasconcellos-D) California Economic Strategy Panel
Expands the mission of the existing California Economic Strategy Panel to include developing a system of accountability to measure the performance of all state policies, programs and tax expenditures intended to stimulate the economy.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
SB 926* (Knight-R) Economic development
Renames the State Office of Military Base Retention the Office of Military and Aerospace Support and consolidates all military base retention and conversion programs under a single office within state government, provides tools to fight the closure of military bases, and makes changes to update and clarify programs.
Chapter 907, Statutes of 2004
SB 996 (Alarcon-D) Socially responsible business
Establishes two new categories of businesses known as "California transparent enterprises" and "California socially responsible businesses."
(Failed passage in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1828 (Alarcon-D), which died in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 998 (Bowen-D) Economic stimulus
Enacts the California Economic Stimulus and Public Infrastructure Security and Investment Bond Act to frame a program for economic stimulus and infrastructure investment. Authorizes bonds in the amount of $1,045,000,000.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1029 (Ashburn-R) Enterprise zones
Requires the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency to consider geographic location and community size in designating an enterprise zone and expands the number to 44.
(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)
SB 1134 (Chesbro-D) Employment of minors: agricultural packing plants
Extends, until 2008, the provision of existing law which authorizes the Labor Commissioner to permit agricultural packing plants in Lake County to employ minors up to 60 hours per week.
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2004
SB 1156 (Alarcon-D) Microenterprise
Declares microenterprise development as important to California's economy as a job creation and community development strategy, codifies definition of microenterprises as a business of five or fewer employees, consistent with federal statute, and encourages cities and counties to access microenterprise development.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2004
SB 1179 (Ducheny-D) Enterprise Zone Act: designation period
Allows enterprise zones designated in 1990 or later to extend their option for five years.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1554* (Karnette-D) Sales and use tax: manufacturer's investment credit
Restores the sales tax portion of the now sunset Manufacturers Investment Credit.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1571 (Alpert-D) Water's-edge election: foreign affiliated corporations
Clarifies existing law with respect to inclusion of income earned by foreign affiliates.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1572* (Alpert-D) Life science companies: tax credits
Provides a tax credit for biotech companies which increase employment and real and personal property in California.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1587 (Ashburn-R) State agencies
Requires state agencies to put specified forms on their web sites. Requires the State Department of General Services to establish a web site related to the establishment of small businesses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1703 (Alarcon-D) California certified green business program
Establishes a voluntary California certified green business program to certify businesses that engage in environmental beneficial operations.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1767 (Ducheny-D) Property taxation: tax incentives
Enacts the Economic Development Incentives Act and allows cities, counties and special districts (but not school districts) to grant an "economic development incentive" to a private manufacturing entity.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 1823* (Hollingsworth-R) Economic development
Changes all references in the enterprise zone statute from "agency" to "department" to reflect the transfer of the program to the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). This is a clean-up to last year's transfer of the enterprise zone program. Updates the code and clarifies that HCD is the responsible entity for all administrative actions related to the program.
Chapter 145, Statutes of 2004
SB 1876 (Alpert-D) Employee credits: water's-edge: apportionment
Establishes a refundable earned income credit, restricts corporations which locate their headquarters outside the United States from sheltering income from California tax, and repeals the "double-weighted" sales factor used in calculating income subject to California tax.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 251 (Parra-D) Economic development
Requires an interagency task force to develop a unified state economic development strategy.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 410 (Haynes-R) California Neighborhood Initiative
Establishes the California Neighborhood Initiative within the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency and allows up to 25 California Renewal Communities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 411 (Haynes-R) California new markets
Creates the California New Markets Venture Capital Program through which the State Department of Housing and Community Development would enter into agreements with eligible companies to guarantee the debentures of the companies to support investment in small enterprises located in low or moderate income geographic areas.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 437 (Matthews-D) Inter-Regional Partnership state pilot project
Requires local jurisdictions within the five Inter-Regional Partnership counties and a Jobs-Housing Opportunity Zone that participate in the pilot project be given priority eligibility in the award of state competitive grants and other economic incentives for projects within the pilot project area.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 439 (Matthews-D) Enterprise zones
Increases from 15 percent to 25 percent the area by which an enterprise zone meeting specified criteria may be expanded.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
AB 516 (Matthews-D) Enterprise zones
Expands the type of enterprise zones eligible for a five-year extension to include those located in rural areas that were designated after 1990.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 531* (Kehoe-D) Economic development
Authorizes $10 billion in state general obligation bonds to fund loans and grants for local infrastructure and economic development projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 584 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Urban revitalization
Enacts the Urban Economic Revitalization Act of 2003 to stimulate urban communities financial contribution to the state's economy.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 592 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Enterprise zones
Allows a city or county to apply to the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency to reconfigure up to 10 percent of the existing geographic boundary of an enterprise zone.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 708 (Correa-D) Enterprise zones
Authorizes the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency to extend the designation period for enterprise zones created after 1990 from 15 years to 20 years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 723 (Matthews-D) Jobs-housing opportunity zones
Allows cities and counties to create infrastructure financing districts within "jobs-housing opportunity zones" designated by the Inter-Regional Partnership Pilot Project.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1035 (Aghazarian-R) Enterprise zones: Stanislaus County
Requires the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency to designate as an enterprise zone an area within Stanislaus County that meets specified criteria.
(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1183 (Ridley-Thomas-D) California and Mexico border economic infrastructure
Requires the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to complete a study by January, 2006, on infrastructure development along the California-Mexican border and on the feasibility of establishing a California and Mexican Boarder Economic Infrastructure Financing Authority.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1189 (Wiggins-D) Public contracts
Enacts the "California First" Procurement Act to express the intent of the Legislature that California-based business bidders have precedence over non-California based business bidders in the application of any bidder preference for which non-California based business bidders may be eligible.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 1843 (Maze-R) Manufacturing Enhancement Areas
Requires the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to designate an additional (third) Manufacturing Enhancement Area (MEA) and expands the criteria under which a city applying to be a MEA can be selected by HCD.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1855 (Maze-R) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
Requires the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, when it changes the criteria, priorities and guidelines for selecting projects, to notify the Governor, the Legislature, and appropriate state and local agencies.
Chapter 189, Statutes of 2004
AB 1885 (Corbett-D) Employment: biotechnology employment and development
Makes legislative declarations relating to the biotechnology industry in the East Bay region of Northern California, and authorizes state and local entities to enter into agreements with a specified training center.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2227 (Garcia-R) Manufacturing Enhancement Areas: incentives
Extends most of the tax incentives currently available to enterprise zones to Manufacturing Enhancement Areas that have successfully completed their fifth-year audit.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2245 (Parra-D) Interagency Task Force on Excellence in Economic Development
Requires the Governor to establish an Interagency Task Force on Excellence Economic Development to make recommendations that will improve the state's capacity to identify, coordinate, and evaluate the state's immense investments in economic development.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
AB 2325* (Bates-R) Income and corporation taxes: credit: disabled employees
Authorizes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxpayers who have disabled individuals.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2328* (Wyland-R) Corporation tax: federal conformity
Provides a special rule for built-in gains tax upon certain conversions of C corporations into S corporations and conforms to a federal tax provision limiting use of a specific method of accounting.
Chapter 782, Statutes of 2004
AB 2398 (Maze-R) Targeted tax areas: expansion
Places the responsibility for administering California's targeted tax area (TTA) program with the State Department of Housing and Community Development. Allows TTA to expand by up to 15 percent subject to approval by HCD, and requests the Tulare County Economic Development Corporation to report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2008 regarding the impact of TTA expansion.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2004
A similar bill was AB 1856 (Maze-R), which died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.
AB 2463* (Runner-R) Personal income and corporation taxes: enterprise zone
Allows taxpayers who do business in more than one enterprise zone to utilize certain tax credits they earn based on their activities in one zone against the tax liability they incur based on their activities in another enterprise zone.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2481* (Nunez-D) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
Deletes reference to the Secretary of the State Trade and Commerce Agency in provisions governing the board of directors of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank and, instead, provides that the board includes the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, to act as the chair of the board.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2004
AB 2544* (Calderon-D) Income and corporation taxes: credit: computer donations
Authorizes a credit against those taxes in an amount equal to the fair market value of any computer donated by the taxpayer during the taxable year to any nonprofit charitable organization located in this state.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2565* (Parra-D) Economic development
Requires that the strategic plan originally prepared by the California Defense Retention and Conversion Council as it existed in 1998 be updated.
Chapter 763, Statutes of 2004
AB 2801* (Jerome Horton-D) Taxation: California Jobs Tax Credit Act
Reinstates the California Jobs Tax Credit.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2803 (Jerome Horton-D) Public Utilities Commission: hearings
Requires the assigned State Public Utilities Commission commissioner to determine, in their scoping memorandum for a ratemaking or quasi-legislative case, whether economic issues need to be presented as part of the proceeding.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
AB 2926 (Nakano-D) Income and corporation taxes: credit
Adds to the number of people qualified to issue vouchers to qualified taxpayers who wish to claim a hiring credit within a Targeted Tax Area, Local Agency Military Base Recovery Area or enterprise zone.
(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 3021 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Employers: payroll requirements
Requires employers, as part of their payroll reporting requirements, to also report specified information concerning the number of employees and independent contractors maintained in California and elsewhere.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3022 (Assembly Housing And Community Development Committee) Housing
Requires employers, as part of their payroll reporting requirements, to also report specified information concerning the number of employees and independent contractors maintained in California and elsewhere.
Vetoed by the Governor
ACR 37 (Parra-D) Economic forecasting model
Requests the University of California, Merced, to develop, not later than July 1, 2004, a feasibility study and plan for the establishment of an economic forecasting model with a primary focus on the Central Valley.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education 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.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
ACR 254 (Firebaugh-D) Asset acquisition disparity
Concludes that research indicates that asset acquisition disparity is largely based on differences in access to education and that targeted research is needed. Resolves that the Milken Institute, the Earned Assets Resource Network, the Latino Legislative Caucus, and the Hispanic Republican Caucus have agreed to jointly engage in the research and to report to the Governor and the Legislature by January 15, 2005.
Resolution Chapter 199, Statutes of 2004
ACR 257 (Bogh-R) California Economic Literacy Week
Designates the week of October 25, 2004, through October 29, 2004, as California Economic Literacy Week, and urges Californians to observe these days by working for a better understanding of our economic system.
Resolution Chapter 180, Statutes of 2004
World Trade and Tourism
SB 623 (Ducheny-D) International trade
Provides that when there is sufficient state and private funding, offices of foreign relations in other countries shall be established with nonstate funds, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee, pursuant to Rule 77.2)
SB 1097* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) General government
Provides the necessary statutory changes in areas related to the former State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency in order to enact the 2004 Budget Act.
Chapter 225, Statutes of 2004
SB 1261 (Vasconcellos-D) International relations
Provides a basis for the state to develop and maintain a clear and comprehensive policy governing California's involvement in international activities. States intent to codify existing programs, practices and the roles of state officials engaged in international affairs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1390 (Speier-D) Tourism
Appropriates $1 million from the General Fund to the California Travel and Tourism Commission.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1665 (Hollingsworth-R) Trade and international trade offices
Establishes a set criterion for the Secretary of the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to create an international trade and investment office. Develops the selection process of an international trade and investment office manager and lays out the reporting requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1699 (Hollingsworth-R) California Office of International Trade and Investment
Authorizes the Secretary of the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H) to establish the California Office of International Trade and Investment within the BT&H, and provides that specific parameters and criteria must be met prior to the establishment of an international trade and investment office.
(Failed passage in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
SB 1837 (Karnette-D) Office of Trade Promotion
Establishes the Office of Trade Promotion within the Governor's Office.
(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1857 (Hollingsworth-R) Trade and international trade offices
Establishes a set criterion for the Secretary of the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to create an international trade and investment office. Develops the selection process of an international trade and investment office manager and lays out the reporting requirements.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)
SJR 19 (Soto-D) North American Free Trade Agreement
Requests 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.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)
AB 804 (Firebaugh-D) International trade: demonstration project
Authorizes the Secretary of the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the United States Commercial Service.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)
AB 1149 (Firebaugh-D) International trade
Authorizes the Secretary of the State Business, Transpiration and Housing Agency to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the United States Commercial Service within the Department of Commerce to implement an international trade promotion demonstration project, to include specified components, and utilizing existing state resources.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)
AB 1178 (Wiggins-D) California Office of Export Development
Establishes the California Wines to the World Export Program within the Office of Export Development in the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency, for the purpose of increasing the export of California wines to foreign markets.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1356* (Cohn-D) Office of Tourism
Appropriations $55,000 for the purpose of reestablishing a statewide network of visitor information centers known as California Welcome Centers to facilitate and encourage tourism in California. Costs would be covered by fees.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2004
AB 1613 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) International trade and investment offices
Authorizes the Secretary of the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency to accept private donations in excess of $10,000 per quarter per donor for the purposes of promoting trade and investment.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)
AB 1911* (Richman-R) International trade and investment office: Israel
Provides that where there is sufficient non-state funding available, an international trade and investment office shall be established in Israel on a contract basis.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce, and International Trade Committee)
AB 2206 (Firebaugh-D) International trade
Establishes, within the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H) the Office of Global Trade and Investment and requires the Secretary of BT&H to develop a statewide collaborative partnership of existing public and private international trade service providers at the federal, state and local level.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce, and International Trade Committee)
AB 2411 (Yee-D) International trade and investment
Provides that specific parameters and criteria must be met prior to the establishment of an International Trade and Investment Office.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce, and International Trade Committee)
AB 2524 (Yee-D) Export development
Reestablishes the Export Development Office, formerly the California Export Finance Office, to provide loan guarantees to small and medium-sized California-based export businesses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2972 (La Malfa-R) Tourism
Authorizes contributions from "other persons" to provide funds to implement tourism marketing plans. Current law authorizes contributions only from assessed businesses.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
AJR 91 (Chan-D) Trade assistance for services workers
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to extend the trade adjustment assistance program, which provides assistance during extended periods of unemployment to workers who lose their jobs as a result of increased imports, to services workers.
Resolution Chapter 163, Statutes of 2004
Small Business
SB 516* (Speier-D) Subchapter "S" corporations
Increases, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2004, the existing tax rate of 1.5 percent to 2 percent or 2.5 percent, for "S" corporations with taxable income over certain specified amounts.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1505 (McClintock-R) Administrative Procedure Act: small business
Revises, as it relates to small businesses, the Administrative Procedure Act which governs the filing, publication, review and adoption of proposed regulations. Specifies that trade associations or small business associations have standing to seek judicial review of the validity of a regulation or seek its repeal.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1558* (McPherson-R) Small business financial development corporations
Makes various code maintenance changes to the California Small Business Financial Development Corporation Law to reflect certain duties assumed by the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency as a result of the abolishment of the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency in 2003.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2004
SB 1587 (Ashburn-R) State agencies
Requires the State Department of General Services to establish a web site for those wishing to establish a small business. Requires state agencies to make all public forms available on their Internet web site.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 293 (Daucher-R) Health care coverage: small business
Creates the Small Business Employees Access to Health Care Coverage Act, establishing a voluntary program in which a small business may limit, as specified, the amount its full-time employees are required to contribute toward the cost of their health care coverage. Allows a participating small business to authorize its full-time employees to work up to five extra hours each week, with those earnings applied towards the employee's health care contribution amount.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1325* (Houston-R) Small business
Requires each state agency that is required to designate a small business liaison to post on its web site the name and telephone number of its small business liaison and the small business advocate. Makes changes in the California Small Business Development Center Program.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 2564 (Oropeza-D) Small business financial development corporations
Makes various changes to the California Small Business Financial Development Corporation Law relating to the duties of the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)
AB 2650 (Bates-R) Private Attorneys General Act of 2004: small employers
Limits application of the "Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004." Exempts employers with fewer than 100 employees within a 75-mile radius from the Act relating to private civil actions.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
ACR 222 (Haynes-R) Small Business Month
Proclaims the month of May 2004 as Small Business Month.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2004
Labor Relations
SB 57 (Burton-D) Minimum wage
Indexes the state's minimum wage to the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, beginning on January 1, 2004, and annually thereafter.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 197 (Burton-D) Registered nurses: wages and hours of employment violations
Provides treble civil penalties for acute care hospitals that are operated for profit and who fail to give registered nurses meal or rest periods.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 360 (Romero-D) Public works: prevailing wages: exclusions
Extends the exemption deadline for certain residential and low-income housing projects from the provisions of prevailing wage law.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
SB 390 (Romero-D) State Department of Industrial Relations
Revises the description of the functions of the State Department of Industrial Relations to include the improvement of wage earner benefits in addition to the improvement of working conditions and the advancement of opportunities for profitable employment.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 534 (Romero-D) Employment rights
Prohibits the use of short-handled tools and hand weeding, as specified, for weeding, thinning or hot-capping in agricultural operations.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 535 (Romero-D) Wages: multiple employers
Permits an employee to opt-out of a plan for the payment of wages at a central place or places and designate an alternate place to receive wages by providing written notice to the State Labor Commissioner of his/her intent to opt-out of the plan.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 573 (Alarcon-D) Employee wages and working hours: violators
Requires the State Labor Commissioner (LC), in consultation with the State Franchise Tax Board and the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy to establish, by July 1, 2004, a trigger for LC recommendation of an employer tax audit to state tax authorities, and to impose specified notification, recommendation and recordkeeping requirements on the LC regarding that trigger once established.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 586 (Alarcon-D) Wages: penalties
Requires the State Labor Commissioner (LC) to, in addition to any award ordered by the LC, impose on an employer found to owe back wages a penalty equal to one percent of the total amount owed by the employer.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 661 (Cedillo-D) Labor: definition
Revises the definition of "labor" for purposes of payment of wages, to include labor, work, or service, as specified, if the labor to be paid for is performed personally by the person demanding or seeking payment.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 755 (Torlakson-D) Permanent amusement rides
Prohibits minors or intoxicated persons from operating or attending to permanent amusement rides.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 817 (Ducheny-D) Employment Training Panel
Adds, as an Employment Training Panel funding project priority, projects that promote, as specified, the training of nursing health care professionals.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
SB 888 (Dunn-D) Employment: homeland security
Prohibits the performance of any work involving information that is essential to homeland security at a work site outside of the United States.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 927 (Alarcon-D) Personal services contracts: employee compensation
Applies existing personal services contracts provisions and requirements to wages and benefits of employees of subcontractors providing the same types of services in state-leased facilities where the state leases a substantial portion of the occupied floorspace of the facility.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 974 (Alarcon-D) Public contracts: preferences
Establishes parameters in the Public Contract Code to measure a "socially responsible business" and provides those businesses a bid preference in procuring public contracts.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1010* (Poochigian-R) Employment law
Repeals specific employment laws relating to wages and mandated benefits, and makes findings and declarations regarding the economic crisis confronting the state and its businesses.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1034 (Murray-D) Contracts: recording companies
Establishes minimum audit procedures for all royalty contracts between a royalty recipient (artist) and a royalty reporting party (label).
Chapter 150, Statutes of 2004
SB 1204 (Margett-R) Public works: labor compliance programs
Repeals recently enacted legislation that requires an awarding body of public work that chooses to use funds from the School Bond Acts to initiate a labor compliance program.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1453 (Figueroa-D) Employment: outsourcing
Requires employers providing Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice to include information as to whether the layoff results from outsourcing, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1465 (Kuehl-D) Production of evidence: employment records
Provides that employment records maintained by labor unions should be treated the same as employment records held by employers such that the employee is given notice and an opportunity to object to the disclosure of the records when they are subpoenaed in a civil matter.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2004
SB 1473 (Soto-D) Evidentiary privilege: employee assistance professionals
Creates an evidentiary privilege with respect to communications made in the course of an employee assistance professional-client relationship. Defines related terms in that regard, including, but not limited to, defining the term "employee assistance professional" to mean a person who is required by job description or employment contract to provide services in an employee or labor assistance program, or who has been hired by an entity to provide services in one of those programs.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1499 (Murray-D) Employment: compensation
Strengthens existing law that prohibits an employer from charging a fee for payroll check cashing by recasting the provisions prohibiting deductions from paychecks. Makes a technical change to the posting requirement related to whistleblower laws.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1511 (Alpert-D) Restaurant tipping
Requires the Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC), by July 1, 2005, to conduct a review of tip pooling practices in the restaurant industry. Authorizes the IWC to adopt regulations based on this bill.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
SB 1521 (Alarcon-D) Displaced Janitor Opportunity Act
Increases, from 60 to 90 days, the transition employment period for janitors and expands responsibility to building owners.
Vetoed by the Governor.
SB 1538 (Alarcon-D) Compensation: meal and rest periods
Clarifies that a piece rate worker in the agricultural and garment industries is entitled to be paid for a rest period and provides a formula for determining compensation rates for piece rate workers.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1618 (Battin-R) Employee compensation
Requires employers, by January 1, 2008, to provide the last four digits or less of an employees' social security number (SSN) along with the employee's name and other required information on the itemized statement furnished at the time of each payment of wages to an employee. Allows an employee identification number to be used in lieu of a SSN on the itemized statement.
Chapter 860, Statutes of 2004
SB 1646 (Aanestad-R) Firefighters
Makes findings and declarations relating to volunteer firefighters in rural fire districts.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 1687 (Murray-D) Advance-fee talent services
Adds to the definition of "advanced-fees for talent services" the purchase of any product or service.
Chapter 288, Statutes of 2004
SB 1734 (Battin-R) Public contracts: sweatshop labor
Eliminates the following requirements relating to specified public contracts: (1) that it be certified that the contract has not been produced by sweatshop labor, forced labor, convict labor, indentured labor, child labor, and (2) that contractors maintain a policy of not terminating employees except for just cause and all overtime hours be worked voluntarily.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1809 (Dunn-D) Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004
Significantly amends "The Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004" [SB 796 (Dunn) of 2003] by enacting specified procedural and administrative requirements that must be met prior to bringing a private action to recover civil penalties for Labor Code violations.
Chapter 221, Statutes of 2004
SB 1841 (Bowen-D) Electronic monitoring of employees
Requires employers to given their employees clear and conspicuous notice of the fact that they engage in the electronic monitoring of their employees.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1861 (Ashburn-R) Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004
Amends the "Labor Code Private Attorneys Generals Act of 2004" [SB 796 (Dunn) of 2003] to require aggrieved employees to file a report of the violation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) and allow LWDA 60 days to investigate.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1901 (Alarcon-D) Safety in employment: grape tasting
Prohibits agricultural employers form requiring non-supervisory farm workers to taste-test table grapes in the field or prior to processing. Supervisors are permitted to taste-test under specified circumstances.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1X* (Poochigian-R) State economy: suspension of statutes
Provides that various statutes enacted in the 2001-02 Regular Session of the Legislature, relating to workers' compensation, labor standards, and agricultural labor relations, shall not become operative until the date the Governor issues a proclamation declaring that the California economy has fully recovered from the recession that began in 2000.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 89 (Bogh-R) Prevailing wages: payroll records: digitized copies
Provides that a certified copy of an employee's payroll record includes a printout of a digitized image of an original payroll record if the printout is provided by a bank or a financial institution that scanned the original payroll record.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 570 (Chu-D) Garment manufacturers: fees
Authorizes the State Labor Commissioner to distribute the full amount of a specified fund to pay garment workers for damages or relief awarded resulting from violations of State Industrial Welfare Commission orders or the Labor Code.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 581 (Chu-D) Curriculum: labor relations
Requires the State Department of Education to consider a labor relations curriculum in the next cycle in which the history-social science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials are adopted.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 606 (Nunez-D) Employment conditions: hotel room attendants
Establishes the "Humane Treatment of Hotel Room Attendants Act of 2004" requiring specified rest periods and other conditions of employment and establishing penalties for lack of compliance.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 796 (Bogh-R) Occupational safety and health: fines
Authorizes local police and fire departments and the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to apply for refunds of civil penalties assessed for occupational health and safety violations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1060 (Lieber-D) Life insurance: employees
Prohibits an employer from obtaining a life insurance policy on an employee unless it first obtains the clearly expressed consent of the employee in writing and in the employee's own words, as specified, and unless it transmits that consent to the insurer. Specifies that violation of this provision is a crime.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1127* (Shirley Horton-R) Whistleblower protection
Clarifies that an employer must prominently display in lettering larger than size 14 point type a list of employees' rights and responsibilities under the whistleblower laws.
Chapter 820, Statutes of 2004
AB 1136 (Maddox-R) Unemployment: wage information
Authorizes, under certain conditions, the disclosure of wage information to consumer reporting agencies for the purpose of verifying information provided by an individual in connection with a credit or employment transaction.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1147 (Houston-R) Employment: public transit meal periods
Exempts employers that provide contracted services to public transit operators from the meal period and rest period requirements of the law.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1223 (McCarthy-R) Employment: mass layoffs, relocations, and terminations
Repeals existing law requiring employers to give workers and specified government agencies notice of a mass layoff, relocation or termination.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1229 (Simitian-D) Sexual harassment
Makes an employer liable for unlawful sexual discrimination against individuals who are qualified for, but are denied an employment opportunity or benefit, where the individual who is granted the opportunity or benefit received it because that individual submitted to sexual advances or requests for sexual favors.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1243 (Houston-R) Apprenticeship agreements
Provides that certain provisions of state law relating to apprenticeships will not serve to invalidate specified federally-approved apprenticeship programs or restrict the geographic eligibility for dispatch of apprentices.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1288 (Lieber-D) Employment services: aliens
Provides an exception, for specified charitable organizations, from the requirement that organizations verify an individual's legal status or authorization to work.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1344 (Garcia-R) Prevailing wages: exclusions: real property transfers
Excludes from prevailing wage requirements any project that is funded, in whole or in part, by a qualified transfer, as defined, by a city, county, or redevelopment agency of qualified real property, as defined, to a nonprofit corporation.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1345 (Reyes-D) On-air broadcast employees
Enacts the Broadcast Industry Freedom of Contract Act to prohibit the inclusion of specified restrictive terms or clauses in employment contracts between broadcast employers and on-air employees.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1362 (Wiggins-D) Labor dispute arbitration: firefighters and law enforcement
Provides binding arbitration for members of State Bargaining Unit 8 in the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1421* (Cogdill-R) Public works: prevailing wage
Repeals recent legislation relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works projects, and establishes an exemption from existing prevailing wage law for projects of community facilities districts of specified charter cities.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1459 (Houston-R) Labor standards: local jurisdiction
Repeals legislation enacted last session, allowing local government entities to impose labor standards more stringent than those required by state law on local projects that receive state funding.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1471 (Haynes-R) Safety in employment
Repeals existing provisions in state law relating to safety in employment.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1529 (Pavley-D) Labor standards: meal and rest periods
Provides that the provisions of law pertaining to meal periods and rest periods for employees apply to nurses, medical center employees, and employees of health clinics, employed by a public institution that issues doctorate degrees in health care professions, subject to specified exceptions.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1539 (Houston-R) Prevailing wages: sole proprietorships
Exempts from the prevailing wage requirements any sole proprietorship whose only employee is the sole proprietor.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1617 (Montanez-D) Harassment: investigations
Specifies the reasonable steps an employer should take to investigate allegations of harassment and to prevent harassment, including, among other things, using a trained and experienced investigator, taking corrective action that effectively disciplines the harasser and does not adversely affect the victim, and reviewing whether any prior corrective action had been effective.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1643 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Employment
Requires the State Employment Development Department to conduct a study on specified employee/independent contractor issues as they relate to small businesses, and to develop specified educational events and materials.
Chapter 828, Statutes of 2004
AB 1706 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Assignment orders: support: employment
Prohibits an employer from "taking any action adversely affecting the terms and conditions of employment of an employee" on the basis that the employee is subject to an earnings assignment order for a child/spousal/family support obligation.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2004
AB 1722 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) State Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Requires, for the State Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB), the Governor to appoint two legal advisors for each board member upon recommendation of that board member, to serve at the pleasure of the recommending board member and to receive a salary to be fixed by the ALRB with the approval of the State Department of Personnel Administration.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1723 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Meals and rest periods, mass layoffs, and relocations
Requires specified agricultural employers to implement payment of wages by direct deposit upon the request of an employee to do so.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1733 (Reyes-D) Telecommunications
Requires wireless telephone companies to obtain express written opt-in consent from customers before publishing wireless phone numbers in a directory or directory database.
Chapter 753, Statutes of 2004
AB 1825 (Reyes-D) Sexual harassment: training and education
Requires employers of 50 or more employees to provide training on sexual harassment to supervisors once every two years, and the state to provide the same within existing resources.
Chapter 933, Statutes of 2004
AB 1912 (Richman-R) Privileged communications
Clarifies defamation privilege law. Provides that, consistently with existing law, it is the policy of the State of California to encourage both public and private employers to provide accurate, truthful, substantive information based upon credible evidence concerning the performance and qualifications of current and former employees to prospective employers when requested to do so.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1923 (Lowenthal-D) Occupational safety and health: emergency response personnel
Requires employers of emergency response personnel to make counseling services available le to those employees who have been exposed to a critical incident, as defined, in the line of duty.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1995 (Cox-R) Public works: prevailing wages: offsite work
Exempts fabrication or prefabrication work performed at permanent offsite facilities from the requirements of prevailing wage law.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2052 (Haynes-R) Employment
Makes a number of changes to various sections of the Labor Code related to employment and union-employee relations.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2124 (Campbell-R) Public contracts: foreign-made products: prohibited labor
Repeals the provisions that requires the State Department of Industrial Relations to establish a Sweatfree Code of Conduct and limits the contracts that are subject to the certification requirements to contracts, as specified, for the provision of equipment, materials and supplies.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2181 (Campbell-R) Employment
Repeals the "Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004," enacted pursuant to SB 796 (Dunn-D), Chapter 906, Statutes of 2004.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2194 (Cogdill-R) Public works
Specifies that, relative to the exemption requiring payment of the prevailing wage, an "agreement" does not include a requirement imposed by a state or a local governmental entity on the private property owner to make a specified number of units of the private residential projects available for persons of very low, low, or moderate income. Provides that, for purposes of this exemption, an "agreement" does not include an agreement by the state or a local governmental entity to provide the private property owner with a density bonus, or other incentive or concession, as provided, in exchange for the private property owner's agreement to make a specified number of units of the private residential projects available for persons of very low, low, or moderate income.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2213 (Goldberg-D) Janitorial service contractors
Regulates, until January 1, 2010, the employment of workers in the janitorial service industry by providing a registration requirement as well as specific record-keeping requirements that employers of janitors must implement with regard to janitorial wages, hours, and working conditions.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2258 (Nakanishi-R) Employment: payment of wages
Requires that the itemized statement provided with paychecks show the employees name and last four digits only of the employee's social security number.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2317 (Oropeza-D) Gender pay equity
Increases the amount of liquidated damage due to employees who are paid unfairly in violation of existing law relating to gender based payment discrimination.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2350 (Chavez-D) Safety in employment: conveyances
Makes technical changes to existing laws governing elevators, escalators, and other conveyances, and deletes a disclosure requirement for permits to install, construct, or alter any conveyance.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2004
AB 2402 (Lieber-D) Employment: day laborers
Establishes findings and declarations relating to the employment of day laborers. Declares that legislation is necessary to ensure that day laborers or temporary workers are afforded the full protection of, and access to, employment and labor laws that ensure workplace dignity and reduce the unfair competitive advantage from firms that abuse day laborers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2494 (Lieber-D) Health care benefits: large grocery stores
Conditions the receipt or renewal of a valid permit to operate a large grocery store, on providing a written commitment to indemnify affected state and local agencies for any significant expenses incurred in providing health care to grocery store employees.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2532 (Hancock-D) Hospitals: lift teams
Requires general acute care hospitals to implement "zero lift policies" for specified patients.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2545 (Koretz-D) Employment: access to exits
Establishes a penalty on employers for any rule or practice that result sin a serious and willful violation of any regulation regarding the maintenance and access to exits, that in turn results in the death or serious bodily injury to an employee.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2604 (Pacheco-R) Employees: personnel records
Prohibits an employer from charging a fee to another employer to provide a verification of employment or similar communication concerning the job performance or qualifications of a former or current employee.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 2684 (Lieber-D) Employment services: aliens
Provides an exception, for specified charitable organizations, from the requirement that organizations verify and individuals' legal status or authorization to work.
Vetoed by the Governor
A similar bill was AB 1288 (Lieber-D) which died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee.
AB 2690* (Hancock-D) Public works: funds
Exempts volunteers, as defined, from provisions in existing law requiring prevailing wage rate for all workers employed on public works projects of more than $1,000.
Chapter 330, Statutes of 2004
AB 2695 (Plescia-R) Employers: paychecks
Provides that an employer may withhold a prorated portion of funds from an employee's final paycheck if a written contract exists to provide the employee tuition reimbursement, relocation funds, or a signing bonus, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2696 (Plescia-R) Family temporary disability insurance program: regulations
Requires the State Employment Development Department to adopt regulations for the implementation of the family temporary disability insurance program that are written in plain English, in order that employers and employees can easily understand what the program establishes in terms of rights and responsibilities.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2704 (Berg-D) Employment: domestic workers
Revises provisions of existing law that regulate employment agencies that refer or place domestic workers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2832 (Lieber-D) Minimum wage
Sets the minimum wage at $7.25 as of January 1, 2005 and $7.75 as of January 1, 2006.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2837 (Firebaugh-D) Apprenticeship programs
Limits eligibility for reimbursement to construction industry apprenticeship programs that meet specified criteria.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2850 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Employment: displaced private security officers
Establishes continued employment of private security officers for 90 days at a job site following the termination of a contract for private security services.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2861 (Koretz-D) Employment of offenders
Expands the existing prohibition for specified offenders from employment or work that provides access to a private individual's specified personal information to also include offenders assigned to work furlough but provides specified exceptions to this prohibition.
Chapter 949, Statutes of 2004
AB 2870 (Mullin-D) Employment: commissions
Deletes provisions relating to the now obsolete Fair Employment Practices Commission and makes a number of changes to the Fair Employment and Housing Act to clarify current law.
Chapter 647, Statutes of 2004
AB 2889 (Laird-D) Employment discrimination
Makes an employer liable for the harassment of employees in the workplace by nonemployees, where the employer, its agents or supervisors knew or reasonably should have known of the conduct and failed to take immediate and appropriate action.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2900 (Laird-D) Employment: discrimination
Changes employment antidiscrimination provisions in various codes to conform with the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and prohibits discrimination on the same basis as those found in FEHA.
Chapter 788, Statutes of 2004
AB 3018 (Koretz-D) Compensation: meal and rest periods
Amends the Labor Code to provide for collective bargaining agreements to establish (1) the time limit for payment of wages due an employee who is discharged or laid off in the live theatrical and concert entertainment industry, and (2) off-duty meal periods for commercial drivers in the transportation industry, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3020 (Koretz-D) Employment
Repeals the sunset date of the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy. Extends the sunset date of the state to hire administrative law judges, as specified.
Chapter 685, Statutes of 2004
AB 3021 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Payroll reports
Allows the state to obtain empirical data on the outsourcing and offshoring of jobs from California.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3037 (Yee-D) Employment: occupational safety and health
States legislative intent to require high hazard industries to include an employer-employee committee or liaison to work in conjunction with their existing injury and illness prevention program.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
ACA 32 (Wyland-R) Illegal aliens: public benefits
Prohibits the state from issuing any driver's license, state identification card, providing in-state tuition or fees for postsecondary education, granting any voting privileges, or providing any health, social, or other state or local public benefit to any person who is neither a citizen of the United States nor an alien lawfully present in the United States, unless the privilege, service, or the benefit is required to be provided pursuant to federal law.
(Died at printer; never assigned to a committee)
AJR 39 (Koretz-D) Workplace safety and health
Memorializes the President and Congress to enact legislation to strengthen OSHA protections and procedures for employees concerning unsafe and unhealthy workplaces, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AJR 66 (Lieber-D) Equal Pay Day
Proclaims April 20, 2004 as Equal Pay Day and urges Congress to protect the fundamental right of all American women to receive equal pay for equal work and provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages.
Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2004
AJR 87 (Goldberg-D) Employee Free Choice Act
Urges the Congress of the United States to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2004
Workers' Compensation
SB 264 (Denham-R) Commission on Workers' Compensation Reform
Establishes the Commission on Workers' Compensation Reform to report to the Legislature by January 2006 on various recommendations to reduce costs to businesses.
(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 365 (Johnson-R) Workers' compensation
Revises the causation requirement in workers' compensation for purposes of compensability and expands the circumstances under which an injury would not be compensable where an employee's criminal activity is the cause of the injury.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 366 (Johnson-R) Psychiatric injuries: compensation: proof
Requires employees to prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that their psychiatric injuries are work related for purposes of compensability.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 375* (Margett-R) Personal income and corporation taxes: tax credit
Authorizes a credit for each taxable year, beginning on or after January 1, 2003 and before January 1, 2008, in an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the amount paid by a taxpayer during the taxable year for workers' compensation, provided that the taxpayer or taxpayer's business did not experience an increase in the number of workers' compensation claims in that taxable year.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 414 (McClintock-R) Workers' compensation: injuries
Revises the definition of injury as it pertains to workers' compensation to mean any injury or disease, which is certified by a physician using medical evidence based on objective medical findings.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 574 (Alpert-D) Workers' compensation
Requires the California Insurance Guaranty Association to forward up to $8 million to specified school districts to cover workers' compensation benefit costs because of the insolvency of the Fremont Indemnity Corporation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 714 (Battin-R) Workers' compensation: apportionment
Requires apportionment determinations by the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board to be based on specified medical documentation and creates a statutory presumption regarding apportionment where an employee has a prior permanent disability award.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 731 (Brulte-R) Workers' compensation: local inmates: temporary disability
Establishes, for specified local inmates, the maximum rate of temporary disability benefits to which they would be entitled if injured during the course of work duties while incarcerated.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 758 (Poochigian-R) Workers' compensation
Makes vocational rehabilitation voluntary rather than mandatory at the option of the employer and repeals the provision in existing law which entitles an injured worker to a one-time cash settlement in lieu of workers' compensation vocational rehabilitation benefits.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 759 (Poochigian-R) Workers' compensation: penalty claims
Places a 90-day statute of limitations on the filing of a claim for penalties resulting from unreasonable delay or denial of compensation payments and prohibits employees from filing additional claims under more than one penalty provision in existing law.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 867 (Burton-D) Workers' compensation: disability evaluation
Authorizes the Industrial Medical Council to appoint an acupuncturist as a qualified medical evaluator, but requires that the acupuncturist meet specified requirements. Deletes a provision of existing law that states that the inclusion of acupuncturists in the definition of "physician" shall not be construed to authorize acupuncturists to determine disability under specified provisions of the workers' compensation law or the law providing for nonindustrial disability.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 893 (Morrow-R) Workers' compensation: permanent disability schedule
Requires that "objective medical findings" be considered for purposes of permanent disability ratings for workers' compensation and requires that the medical reports used to determine permanent disability ratings be based on specified medical publications.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 899* (Poochigian-R) Workers' compensation
Contains the results of the conference committee convened to improve the workers' compensation system. Authorizes the development of medical provider networks; establishes a system of independent medical review; provides for immediate medical treatment to all workers filing claim forms for occupational injury; authorizes collectively bargained projects on health care integration; allows for predesignated physicians within a group health network; restores user funding and specifies use of funding for a return to work program; provides return to work incentives; provides for differing permanent disability (PD) payments based on an employee's return to work; adjusts the mechanism for determining PD; restores the vocational rehabilitation program for pre-2004 injuries; limits most temporary disability payments to 104 weeks; revises Section 5814 of the Labor Code penalty amounts; revises the statutes relating to apportionment; and requires a study of the insurance marketplace and the rate effects from legislative reform.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 2004
The following bills died in Conference Committee or on the Inactive File and were to be used as vehicles for Workers' Compensation reform: SB 191 (Alarcon-D), SB 223 (Margett-R), SB 229 (Burton-D), SB 354 (Alpert-D), SB 457 (McPherson-R), SB 757 (Poochigian-R), AB 1215 (Vargas-D), AB 1483 (Richman-R), AB 1578 (Vargas-D), and AB 1579 (Cogdill-R).
SB 1071 (Vincent-D) Workers' compensation: official medical fees
Authorizes a diagnostic or other medical imaging center to contract for reimbursement rates different from those in the medical fee schedule.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1141 (Johnson-R) Workers' compensation
Clarifies that the use of workers' compensation costs, in the calculation of profits for purposes of an employee bonus program, is not a deduction from the earnings of an employee.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1174 (Johnson-R) Workers' compensation
Enacts the Workers' Compensation Accountability and Reform Act, intended to eliminate needless bureaucracy, reduce costs, eliminate delay or denial of necessary medical care and other services to inured workers and require facts and medical evidence to support workers' compensation claims.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1222 (Denham-R) Workers' compensation: local inmates: temporary disability
Establishes, for specified local inmates, the maximum rate of temporary disability benefits to which they would be entitled if injured during the course of work duties while incarcerated.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1311 (Johnson-R) Workers' compensation: alternative dispute resolution
Expands alternative dispute resolution programs outside collective bargaining processes.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1466 (Ortiz-D) Workers' compensation: rates
Reinstates minimum insurance rate regulation in workers' compensation.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1709* (Margett-R) Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule
Requires the medical fee schedule to be adopted in accordance with the fee-related structure and rules only of the relevant Medicare payment systems. Revises the formula to be used for the calculation of fees for pharmacy services and drugs.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 2XXXX (Speier-D) Workers' compensation: fraud
Increases incentives to secure the payment of workers' compensation benefits, and increases penalties for committing workers' compensation fraud.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2003-04, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 87* (Bogh-R) Workers' compensation: disaster service workers: funding
Establishes the Workers' Compensation for Disaster Service Workers Fund which will be continuously appropriated to provide payments to volunteer disaster service workers who are injured while performing volunteer duties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 136 (Kehoe-D) Workers' compensation: disability: leave of absence
Extends disability benefits to all firefighters, police officers, or sheriffs disabled by injury or illness arising out of and within the course and scope of employment, for the period of disability, but not exceeding a maximum of up to two years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 159 (Jerome Horton-D) Workers' compensation
Provides, as it relates to authorization for workers' compensation outpatient procedures, that with prior approval as specified, medically necessary procedures can be performed in outpatient surgery centers when there is physician ownership.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 431 (Mountjoy-R) Workers' compensation
Requires courts to liberally construe workers' compensation laws only after a determination that an injury is specific and results in serious physical or bodily harm. Requires an employee to prove, by a preponderance of evidence, that a cumulative injury was substantially caused by actual activities of employment.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 595 (Dutton-R) Workers' compensation
Gives the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation in the State Department of Industrial Relations the sole authority to develop a durable medical equipment fee schedule.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 596 (Dutton-R) Workers' compensation
Requires the pharmaceutical fee schedule to apply to all medicines and medical supplies dispensed or prescribed regardless of whether these medicines or medical supplies are dispensed or prescribed by a physician, pharmacist, or by another source.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 597 (Dutton-R) Workers' compensation: fee schedule
Requires the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation in the State Department of Industrial Relations to adopt an outpatient surgery facility fee schedule on or before July 1, 2004.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 701* (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing: workers' compensation
Makes changes to existing Horse Racing Law which prescribes the amount deducted from the pari-mutuel pools, as specified, in order to reduce workers' compensation costs within the California horse racing industry.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2004
AB 815 (Wiggins-D) Workers' compensation fraud
Requires the Bureau of Fraudulent Claims to establish criteria to be distributed to workers' compensation insurers, for determining which claims are appropriate for referral. Makes changes in the distribution of funds form the assessment imposed on workers' compensation insurers, as specified.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 900* (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing: workers' compensation
Makes changes to existing horse racing law which prescribes the amount deducted from the pari-mutuel pools, as specified, in order to address the increase in workers' compensation costs within the California horse racing industry.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1324 (Steinberg-D) Workers' compensation: infectious diseases: dependents
Creates a derivative injury presumption for workers' compensation medical treatment benefits for dependents and former dependents of specified state and local firefighting or law enforcement personnel who contract infectious blood-borne diseases and clarifies the process if they choose to not be so compensated.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1327 (Wyland-R) Disability compensation
Provides that only businesses that employ 50 or more individuals within a 75-mile radius of the work site of the individual requesting leave are subject to the temporary disability insurance work program. Requires an employee to work at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period prior to the period for which the individual is requesting the family temporary disability leave.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1357 (Matthews-D) State Compensation Insurance Fund
Allows the Governor to appoint members to the board of directors of the State Compensation Insurance Fund who are not policyholders thereof.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1434 (Wyland-R) Alternative Workers' Compensation program: agreements
Authorizes private employers and unions in any industry to establish alternative workers' compensation programs, also known as "carve outs," via the collective bargaining process.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1480 (Richman-R) Workers' compensation
Requires additional physician reporting to employers. Alters medical treatment payment time frame. Restructures administrative penalties for delayed and contested claims. Changes statute of limitation on medical payment penalties.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1481 (Richman-R) Workers' compensation: permanent disability: reports
Requires physicians to use established medical guidelines when evaluating an injured worker. Amends apportionment language so that injuries can not cumulatively total more than 100 percent for a given body part.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1482 (Richman-R) Workers' compensation: medical services: fee schedule
Requires the Administrative Director (AD) of the Division of Workers' Compensation in the State Department of Industrial Relations to revise the Official Medical Fee Schedule (OMFS) to include an outpatient facility fee schedule, pharmacy services, ambulance services, and home health care services. Requires the AD to use the resource-based relative value scale. Prohibits medical providers from balance billing above the OMFS and codifies the Kunz decision.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1580 (Cogdill-R) Workers' compensation: local inmates
Deletes various provisions and benefits of current law pertaining to workers' compensation benefits paid to former inmates of city and county jails.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1581 (Cogdill-R) Workers' compensation: merit credits
Requires that an experience rating plan include merit credits that decrease a policyholder's rates based upon its record of job safety.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1582 (Koretz-D) Abusive work environments
Makes it unlawful employment practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment, as defined, and specifies that any employer, as defined, is vicariously liable for a violation committed by its employee, but prescribes certain affirmative defenses.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1838* (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing: workers' compensation
Makes changes to existing Horse Racing Law which prescribes the amount deducted from the pari-mutuel pools, as specified, in order to address workers' compensation costs within the California horse racing industry.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1840 (Frommer-D) Workers' compensation: death benefits: police officers
Provides payment of a $250,000 death benefit to police officers who have no total or partial dependents, retroactive to January 1, 2003.
Chapter 92, Statutes of 2004
AB 1930 (Negrete McLeod-D) Joint exercise of powers
Authorizes specified entities to make risk-pooling arrangements to make payments for workers' compensation losses and other types of losses.
Chapter 202, Statutes of 2004
AB 1965 (Hancock-D) Workers' compensation: nonprofit organization volunteers
Excludes from the definition of employee for purposes of workers' compensation, any person who performs voluntary service without pay as a member of a governing board for a private nonprofit organization, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2095 (Bogh-R) Vendorization rates: increased workers' compensation premium
Requires the State Department of Developmental Services to grant a vendor's request for a rate or contract adjustment to compensate the vendor for increased workers' compensation premiums, anticipated increased premiums, or changes in employee classification and costs associated with the change in premiums, resulting from a categorical shift in workers' compensation insurance class codes approved by the Commissioner of the State Department of Insurance.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 2195 (Campbell-R) Workers' compensation: contractors: temporary workers
Repeals existing law that requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. Repeals existing law that provides when a licensed contractor enters an agreement with a temporary employment agency, employment referral service, labor contractor, or other similar entity for the entity to supply the contractor with an individual to perform acts or contracts for which the contractor's license is required and the licensed contractor is responsible for supervising the employee's work, the temporary employment agency, employment referral service, labor contractor, or other similar entity is to pay workers' compensation premiums based on the contractor's experience modification rating.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2255 (Houston-R) Workers' compensation: medical evaluations
Imposes time limits for the selection by an employee or employer of a qualified medical evaluator and for an employee to make an appointment with that medical evaluator.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2345 (Maddox-R) Workers' compensation: medical equipment and supplies: fee
Requires the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation in the State Department of Industrial Relations to develop a separate fee schedule for durable medical equipment, medical supplies, orthotics, and prosthetics not supplied pursuant to contract.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2441 (Levine-D) Workers' compensation
Prohibits an insurer from raising a policyholder's rates or changing a policyholder's classification based upon any claim filed by the policyholder that has not yet been paid, denied, or resolved. Prohibits any physician or medical provider form being reimbursed for services unless the claim specifies the date and time that each service was rendered.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2495 (Dutton-R) Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
Expands the membership on the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation by adding three new voting members--two physicians and one chiropractor.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2649 (Salinas-D) Workers' compensation: exclusions: owner-builders
Excludes from the definition of employee a person defined as an owner-builder who is participating in a mutual self-help housing program sponsored by a nonprofit corporation.
Chapter 83, Statutes of 2004
AB 2770 (Richman-R) Workers' compensation: physician certification
Requires the establishment of a Qualified Workers' Compensation Physician certification program.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2772 (Richman-R) which died in Assembly Insurance Committee.
AB 2772 (Richman-R) Workers' compensation
Requires the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation in the State Department of Industrial Relations, on or before January 1, 2006, to establish a Qualified Workers' Compensation Physician (QWCP) certification program. Requires every physician, as defined, who treats and evaluates injured workers, on or after January l1, 2007, to be certified by the administrative director as a QWCP physician. Exempts physicians who are qualified medical evaluators form the QWCP certification requirement and authorizes the Administrative Director to waive this requirement. Makes numerous related changes.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2780 (Maze-R) Workers' compensation: Indian tribes
Requires, to the extent permitted by federal law, a federally recognized Indian tribe to secure the payment of compensation by securing from the Director of the State Department of Industrial Relations a consent to self-insure.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2866 (Frommer-D) Workers' compensation: fraud
Requires the posting of specified fraud information on the State Department of Insurance web site for each person convicted of fraud.
Chapter 281, Statutes of 2004
AB 2890 (Jerome Horton-D) Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule
Defines "100% of fees prescribed in the relevant Medi-Cal payment system" with respect to pharmacy services and drugs to mean the average wholesale price minus 10 percent plus the ten-current prescribed medical dispensing fee.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2919 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Doctor's First Report of Occupational Injury: sunset date
Deletes the sunset date in exiting law on provisions allowing nurse practitioners and physician assistants to complete a Doctor's First Report of Occupational Injury and authorizes temporary disability, if necessary, of up to three days.
Chapter 100, Statutes of 2004
AB 3051 (Nation-D) Workers' compensation: firefighters: death benefits
Extends the statue of limitations for filing death claims for firefighters to one year after the date of death, for all conditions presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment.
Vetoed by the Governor
Unemployment Insurance
SB 569 (Alarcon-D) Unemployment insurance: benefits: compensation
Establishes an alternate base of earnings for unemployment insurance benefit determination. If benefits cannot be established by the current system, then the most recent completed quarters of the benefit year can be used.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 576* (Alarcon-D) Unemployment insurance: extended benefits
Revises the state's "trigger" mechanism for its participation in a federal-state extended unemployment insurance benefits program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 595 (Johnson-R) State Employment Development Department
Requires the State Employment Development Department (EDD) to furnish reports to employers of their unemployment insurance (UI) reserve account statuses quarterly, authorizes EDD to provide such information electronically, and requires EDD to notify employers of discrepancies between a claimant's address as reported on an UI claim and what the EDD has on record for that claimant within five business days.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 817 (Ducheny-D) Employment Training Panel
Provides the training of nursing health care professionals as a funding priority of the Employment Training Panel.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
SB 962 (McClintock-R) Unemployment compensation: addresses
Requires the State Employment Development Department to take reasonable steps, as described, to verify unemployment insurance claim eligibility. Requires EDD to upgrade its computers to expedite claim payment and enhance fraud detection using federal Reed Act monies authorized for that purpose.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1439 (Speier-D) Public employees' retirement: state retired annuitants
Prohibits a retired annuitant (i.e., a State Public Employees' Retirement System retiree) from being hired by a state agency, if during the 12-month period prior to the proposed appointment, the retired annuitant received any unemployment insurance payments arising out of prior employment with the same employer.
Chapter 398, Statutes of 2004
SB 1829 (Knight-R) Family leave law
Repeals the paid family leave law.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1903 (Florez-D) Unemployment compensation benefits: locked out workers
Expands eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits by making payments to certain workers who have been locked out as a result of trade dispute.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SR 17 (Burton-D) Unemployment insurance
Urges Congress to establish an additional 13-week extension for unemployment insurance benefits, fully funded by the federal government. Urges Congress to provide that the insured unemployment rate may be determined on a substate or regional basis, and to allow counties and cities with an unemployment rate that is substantially higher than the overall state unemployment rate to qualify for additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits provided for by federal law, even if the state is not eligible for that extension.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 237 (Bermudez-D) Unemployment insurance: unemployment compensation benefits
Requires the State Employment Development Department to conduct a study of its process of granting unemployment insurance benefits to temporary employees of the community colleges and to report the findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2005.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 664 (Lowenthal-D) Unemployment insurance: contribution rates
Establishes civil and criminal penalties for unemployment insurance tax avoidance schemes.
Chapter 827, Statutes of 2004
AB 1136 (Maddox-R) Unemployment: wage information
Authorizes, under certain conditions, the disclosure of wage information to consumer reporting agencies for the purpose of verifying information provided by an individual in connection with a credit or employment transaction.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1845 (Lowenthal-D) Unemployment insurance: employment retraining benefits
Extends the sunset provision pertaining to the California Benefits Training program from January 1, 205 to January 1, 2010.
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2004
AB 2028 (Koretz-D) Unemployment insurance: WARN Act
Makes clarifying changes to the Unemployment Insurance Code to reflect recent changes in California law requiring advanced notice of relocations, terminations and mass layoffs.
Chapter 776, Statutes of 2004
AB 2310 (Richman-R) Unemployment insurance: private loans
Authorizes the Director of the State Employment Development Department, as specified, to apply for a loan from the private sector to fund the Unemployment Fund for payment of unemployment compensation benefits.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2322 (Bates-R) Unemployment and disability compensation
Authorizes any worker to opt out of making contributions to, and receiving benefits from, the family temporary disability insurance program and prohibits the director from increasing the rate of worker contributions for workers who have opted out of the program.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2412 (Yee-D) Unemployment insurance: false information: penalty
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Code to require a penalty for academic employers who provide false information or fail to report a material fact concerning reasonable assurance of a claimants' reemployment.
Chapter 808, Statutes of 2004
AB 2696 (Plescia-R) Family temporary disability insurance program: regulations
Requires the State Employment Development Department to adopt regulations for the implementation of the family temporary disability insurance program that are written in plain English, in order that employers and employees can easily understand what the program establishes in terms of rights and responsibilities.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2730 (Dymally-D) Unemployment compensation: reasonable assurance
Clarifies eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits by determining that a "reasonable assurance of employment" means an offer of employment is in writing and signed by both parties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2859* (Dutton-R) Taxes: unemployment insurance
Authorizes a franchise and income tax credit for the unemployment insurance tax paid by businesses that employ certain individuals who have separated from the United States Armed Forces or the California National Guard.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AJR 1 (Koretz-D) Unemployment insurance benefits
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that retroactively extends and increases the number of weeks of federal unemployment insurance benefits available to unemployed workers.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
Financial Institutions
SB 31* (Perata-D) Deferred deposit transactions
Moves a provision prohibiting any charges for setting up a deferred deposit account as of March 15, 2004, from a Civil Code section that does not go into effect until December 31, 2004 to a Civil Code section that is currently in effect.
Chapter 28, Statutes of 2004
SB 343 (Florez-D) Credit unions
Makes a nonsubstantive change to the provisions of current law that provides for licensing and regulation of credit unions, and defines the term "obligation."
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 374 (Margett-R) Escrow agents: fidelity bond coverage
Authorizes a licensed escrow agent licensee in good standing to provide a private fidelity bond as an alternative to participation as a member of the Escrow Agents' Fidelity Corporation, and establishes procedures in that regard. The private coverage will be available for real property escrows or personal property escrows, but excludes viatical settlement escrows.
(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)
SB 505 (Perata-D) Payments: postmarks
Enacts the Postmark Payment Act. Provides that if specified payments to financial institutions and credit card issuers required to be made on or before a prescribed date are delivered after that date by the United States Postal Service (USPS), the payments are deemed to have been received on the date of postmark stamped by the USPS on the envelope or other cover in which the payment was mailed.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 901 (Dunn-D) Low-income credit unions: community reinvestment
Authorizes the establishment of low-income credit unions and requires the Commissioner of the State Department of Financial Institutions to implement regulations by October 1, 2004.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1292 (Dunn-D) Credit unions
Authorizes a credit union to cash checks and sell negotiable and money transfer instruments to any credit union member, depositor, or person within the field of membership.
(Failed passage in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 1451 (Figueroa-D) Privacy guarantees
Prohibits anyone who obtains private information from an entity covered by a specified privacy law and who is not subject to the privacy law from disclosing the information in a way that is prohibited. Any person in violation shall be civilly liable.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1637 (Senate Banking, Commerce, And International Trade Committee) Financial institutions
Makes cleanup changes to Financial Code sections to correct outdated language and errors, and to clarify provisions.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2004
SB 1904* (Florez-D) Banks: cashing of paychecks
Prohibits a bank from assessing a charge or fee to cash a paycheck for a person who does not have an account at the bank if the paycheck was issued by the bank for a business client of the bank that provides the paychecks to its employees.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 1916 (Senate Banking, Commerce, And International Trade Committee) State agency contracts: check charges
Requires that any state contract with a bank for the deposit of state funds and payment of state employee wages contain a provision requiring the bank to cash the paycheck without charge if the holder provides proper identification.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 1917 (Senate Banking, Commerce, And International Trade Committee) Banks: paycheck cashing charges
Prohibits a bank form assessing a charge or fee to cash a paycheck for a person who does not have an account at the bank if the paycheck was issued by the bank for a business client of the bank that provides the paychecks to its employees.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SJR 20 (Florez-D) Regulation of financial institutions
Requests the Congress of the United States to disapprove the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency related to bank activities and regulations and to consider legislation that will prevent the unilateral expansion of jurisdiction over financial institutions by federal regulators without the specific endorsement of Congress.
Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2004
AB 73 (Lowenthal-D) Unsolicited checks
Requires financial institutions that send loan or credit offers in the form of unsolicited checks, unsolicited convenience checks, or other convenience checks to provide consumers with a mechanism that enables them to "opt-out" or not receive future offers.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 403 (Correa-D) Check sellers and proraters: exemptions
Specifies additional duties and best practices for nonprofit community service organizations providing debt-counseling services.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2004
AB 971* (Correa-D) Deferred deposit transactions
Delays the operative date of the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law to December 31, 2004, or 30 days after and Executive Order of the Governor, whichever is earlier.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2004
AB 1226 (Montanez-D) Corporation Tax Law: credit unions: study
Directs the Office of the Legislative Analyst (LAO) to study certain credit unions to determine whether statutory changes are needed relating to community reinvestment, conflict of interest laws and required capitalization. Directs the LAO to study the feasibility of taxing certain credit unions.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 1498* (Wiggins-D) State Assistance Fund: membership
Changes the membership of the board of the State Assistance Fund for Enterprise, Business, and Industrial Development Corporation and makes various other substantive and technical changes.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2004
AB 1664 (Montanez-D) Bank Customer Bill of Rights Act
Enacts the Bank Customer Bill of Rights that prohibits banks from engaging in various acts, including selling private credit information about a customer to a marketing business without the customer's consent, charging customers using the bank's automated teller machine cards an overdraft penalty that is $30 or more without providing a specified notice, issuing a credit card that has an interest rate that is greater than two percent above the prime rate, and charging a customer with a higher than average interest rate on a loan, if the customer qualifies for a lower interest rate and the bank has not made the customer aware of that fact.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 1776 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Foreign corporations and financial institutions: production
Expands law enforcement's existing ability to obtain certain bank records in connection with check fraud without a search warrant to records of out-of-state banks. Requires foreign corporations that transact business in this state to designate an agent for service of process for search warrants and provides that search warrants directed at foreign corporations may be served by fax.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2004
AB 1810 (Frommer-D) Automated teller machines
Establishes standards for automated teller machine companies that are not owned or operated by banks.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1870 (Maldonado-R) Escrow agents
Makes clarifying and technical changes to the Escrow Law.
Chapter 180, Statutes of 2004
AB 1979 (Wiggins-D) Financial transactions
Clarifies the definition of "supervised financial institution" and provides additional means by which an insurance company may notify a lienholder of a cancellation.
Chapter 939, Statutes of 2004
AB 2014 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Credit unions: home mortgage assistance
Allows a credit union with total assets of less than $10 million to file an alternative procedures audit acceptable to the State Department of Financial Institutions, as specified. Repeals an obsolete division in the Financial Code.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 2004
AB 2156 (Reyes-D) Deferred deposit transactions: advertisements
Requires the Commissioner of the State Department of Corporations to include information regarding advertising practices in its December 1, 20076 report on the implementation of the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law.
Chapter 312, Statutes of 2004
AB 2312 (Dutra-D) Point-of-sale devices
Seeks to ensure that the blind and visually impaired continue to have access to point-of-sale devices by requiring that when a point-of-sale device is changed or modified to include a video touch screen, the device shall also be equipped with a tactually discernible numerical keypad.
Chapter 760, Statutes of 2004
AB 2671 (Pacheco-R) Commercial law: banking transactions
Extends, to January 1, 2010, the operation of a current law, which requires banks to provide customers with information regarding items paid from their accounts.
Chapter 131, Statutes of 2004
AB 2693 (Wiggins-D) Lending
Makes various changes to laws governing residential mortgage lenders, finance lenders and real estate brokers. Provides that a lienholder's copy of cancellation of insurance notice is deemed mailed if, with the lienholder's consent, it is delivered by electronic transmittal, facsimile, or a personal delivery.
Chapter 940, Statutes of 2004
AB 2868 (Nunez-D) Refund Anticipation Loan Act
Establishes the Refund Anticipation Loan (RAL) Act, which requires a person who facilitates RALs to register with the State Department of Corporations. Facilitators must comply with various requirements and provide specific disclosures to RAL applicants.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3070 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Securities: finance lenders
Provides for the electronic filing of notice for a sale of securities in certain circumstances. Changes the time period for appeal from one year to 30 days when the State Department of Corporations orders a person to refrain from actions that violate the corporate securities law. Makes other corrections and technical changes.
Chapter 461, Statutes of 2004
Miscellaneous
SB 136* (Figueroa-D) Omnibus Bill
Among other provisions, extends the operation of various test requirements for persons seeking a certified public accountant certificate, revises registration of private security officers, and requires the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) to obtain fingerprints and criminal history information from applicants on the date on which sufficient funds are available to the CSLB and the State Department of Justice, or on July 1, 2006, whichever comes first. Renames the Joint Legislative Sunset Review Committee (JLSRC) the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection (JCBCCP), authorizes the chairpersons of the appropriate policy committees to refer for review by JCBCCP legislative issues or proposals to change (instead of increase in current law) licensing requirements or to modify scope of practice, and requires the JCBCCP to review all state boards.
Chapter 909, Statutes of 2004
SB 355 (Florez-D) Corporate Securities Law
Provides that it is a crime to employ, directly or indirectly, any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud in connection with the offer, purchase, or sale of any security, or to engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or will operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person in connection with the offer, purchase, or sale of any security.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 506 (Sher-D) Pharmaceuticals: wholesalers and manufacturers
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to collect certain information from wholesalers and manufacturers of specified drugs and devices used for food producing animals beginning on January 1, 2006, and to notify the public that such information is available.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 695 (Ortiz-D) Commercial locator services
Requires commercial locator services to cross-reference an active restraining order database before releasing any data or information, including over the Internet, that helps identify, verify, or locate an individual.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 766 (Florez-D) Securities fraud
Provides that a person may be found liable for participating in securities fraud even if that person did not directly engage in market activity. Specifies that in cases filed on or after January 1, 2004, or in which a judgment has not been entered before that date, a person is not required to be a market participant for purposes of the civil remedy provided for in this bill. Provides that a person may be found liable for participating in the making of a false statement if he or she meets the same mental state requirement (recklessness) as the person who made the false statement.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
SB 1034 (Murray-D) Recording contracts: royalties
Establishes minimum audit procedures for all royalty contracts between a royalty recipient (artist) and a royalty reporting party (label).
Chapter 150, Statutes of 2004
SB 1056 (Alarcon-D) Superstore retailers
Requires a city, county, or city and county, including a charter city, prior to approving or disapproving a proposed development project that permits the construction of a superstore retailer, as defined, to cause an economic impact report to be prepared, as specified, to be paid for by the project applicant, and that includes specified assessments and projections, including, among other things, an assessment of the effect that the construction and operation of the proposed superstore retailer will have on retail operations in the same market area. Requires the governing body to provide an opportunity for public comment on the economic impact report.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1173 (Ortiz-D) Tobacco products
Expands the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act to prohibit a retailer of tobacco products to sell, offer for sale, or display for sale, any tobacco paraphernalia by self-service display. Violations of this section are subject to civil penalties as specified in Section 22958(a) of the Business and Professions Code.
Chapter 812, Statutes of 2004
SB 1262 (Sher-D) Charitable organizations
Enacts the Nonprofit Integrity Act of 2004, revises, recasts and adds to the law regulating charitable organizations, commercial fundraisers and fundraising counsel.
Chapter 919, Statutes of 2004
SB 1302 (Alarcon-D) Water related facilities
Requires random annual inspections of a specified percentage of water-vending machines and retail water facilities, testing of that water for a particular bacteria and chemical, and requires the State Department of Health Services to levy a fee for inspections, testing and a consumer education campaign.
(Died in Assembly Appropriatons Committee)
SB 1306 (Ackerman-R) Corporations
Permits corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies (LLCs) to use electronic transmissions as a means of communication between the corporation and its directors, officers and shareholders, between LLCs and its members, and between partners.
Chapter 254, Statutes of 2004
SB 1307 (Figueroa-D) Pharmaceutical companies
Increases licensing requirements on pharmaceutical wholesalers by establishing bonding requirement, requires all prescription drugs to have a "pedigree," as defined, and gives the State Board of Pharmacy stronger enforcement tools for wholesale violations.
Chapter 857, Statutes of 2004
SB 1406 (Ackerman-R) Usury
Establishes that the exemption from the usury provision of the California Constitution that must be satisfied for certain evidences of indebtedness applies only to persons or entities that are not in violation of either the California Finance Lenders Law or the Real Estate Law.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1496 (Romero-D) Corporations: tax disclosure statement
Expands the types of corporations required to file disclosure statements with the Secretary of State to include insurance companies and financial institutions and will be subject to fees set in Section 12186 of the Government Code.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 1528 (Alarcon-D) Corporations: director's duties
Allows directors of a corporation to consider a variety of factors in carrying out their duty to look after the best interests of the corporation.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 1543 (Figueroa-D) Accountants
Extends the repeal date of the State Board of Accountancy until 2012 and makes a number of licensing and enforcement changes and provides for a two-tiered fining structure.
Chapter 921, Statutes of 2004
SB 1549 (Figueroa-D) Accounting
Makes changes affecting architects, professional engineers, land surveyors, podiatrists, landscape architects, interior designers, court reporters, irrigation consultants, and/or the agencies regulating these professions as well as the State Athletic Commission.
Chapter 691, Statutes of 2004
A similar bill was SB 1547 (Figueroa-D) which died on the Assembly Inactive File.
SB 1563 (Escutia-D) Pharmacy manufacturers and wholesalers
Requires drug manufacturers to offer specified types of clinics prices that do not exceed 105 percent of the best price under federal law for prescribed drugs and prescription devices.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1746 (Ackerman-R) Unincorporated associations
Repeals current provisions relating to unincorporated associations, including nonprofit associations, and enacts a new, more organized, statutory scheme for regulating these entities, including provisions relative to the liability of association members.
Chapter 178, Statutes of 2004
SB 1765 (Sher-D) Pharmaceutical companies
Requires pharmaceutical companies, beginning July 1, 2005, to adopt and update a Comprehensive Compliance Program for interactions with health care professionals.
Chapter 927, Statutes of 2004
SB 1852 (Vincent-D) Horses: hire and boarding regulations
Expands the group of people to whom a peace officer, officer of a humane society, or officer of an animal control or animal regulation department of a public agency may issue a citation to include a person or entity keeping horses or other equine animals for boarding who fails to meet standards of humane treatment regarding the keeping of horses or other equine animals. Adds to existing standards the requirement that an equine enclosure have adequate drainage. Adds the requirement that equines be given regular exercise time, weather and health permitting, but not less than once a week. Adds to the standards that the exercise area be a corral, arena, pasture, or other area large enough to accommodate running and other natural equine behavior and that the exercise program be part of the boarding agreement between the boarding facility and the owner of the equine. Requires a person or entity keeping a horse or other equine animal for boarding to provide the owner of the horse or equine with a copy of the standards of humane treatment.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 1893 (Burton-D) Pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers
Provides for the creation of an "electronic data reporting system" within the State Department of Justice to record acquisition of "secondhand tangible personal property" by dealers and pawnbrokers, prescribes fees for licensure of dealers and pawnbrokers, and expands the scope of "secondhand tangible personal property" items that are subject to the reporting requirements of existing law.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 1914 (Senate Business And Professions Committee) Omnibus bill
Makes several non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive or technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions pertaining to the following regulatory board of the State Department of Consumer Affairs: Contractors State License Board, Court Reporters Board, Landscape Architects Technical Committee, and Board for Geologists and Geophysicists.
Chapter 865, Statutes of 2004
SCR 56 (Figueroa-D) Jt. Committee on Boards, Commissions, & Consumer Protection
Renames the Joint Legislative Sunset Review Committee the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection. This Committee reviews various business and professions licensing boards.
Resolution Chapter 14, Statutes of 2004
SCR 81 (Torlakson-D) California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness
Continues the existence and expands the membership of the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness to perform duties to promote fitness and health in schools and workplaces.
Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2004
AB 95* (Dymally-D) Endowment care cemeteries
Increases the minimum amounts an endowment care cemetery is required to have deposited in its endowment.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 103 (Reyes-D) Pharmaceutical manufacturers
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose to the State Department of Health Services information about gifts made to any person authorized to prescribe, dispense, or purchase prescription drugs.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 146 (Kehoe-D) Petroleum products: unfair practices
Prohibits a petroleum product refiner, distributor, manufacturer or transporter (provider) from preventing brand-name gasoline franchises from purchasing the same brand-name gasoline from other locations or vendors, and generally prohibits providers from selling gasoline to different franchisees at different wholesale prices.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 320 (Correa-D) Business licensees
Prohibits a licensee of a profession or vocation regulated by the State Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) or various boards, bureaus, or programs from including, or permitting to be included, a provision in an agreement to settle a civil dispute that prohibits the other party in that dispute from contacting, filing a complaint with, or cooperating with the DCA, board, bureau, or program or that requires the other party to withdraw a complaint from the DCA, board, bureau, or program.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 337 (Matthews-D) Payroll services
Requires a bond for payroll services companies, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 548 (Calderon-D) Funeral embalmers
Requires applicants for licensure as funeral embalmers to pass the National Examination for Embalmers prepared by the Conference of Funeral Service Examining Board instead of the state examination administered by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau of the State Department of Consumer Affairs.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 614 (Lowenthal-D) Athletic trainers
Enacts the Athletic Trainers Act, which establishes the Athletic Trainer Examining Committee within the Medical Board of California to certify athletic trainers.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 665 (Correa-D) Discount buying organizations
Increases the security bond threshold by which discount buying organizations can be exempted from the law regulating membership contracts by these organizations.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1000* (Dutra-D) Corporations
Makes a variety of conforming and technical changes to the California Corporate Disclosure Act of 2002 to clarify various terms and definitions in that Act and bring it into conformity with certain federal reporting requirements, including those enacted under the recent Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Chapter 819, Statutes of 2004
AB 1013 (Campbell-R) Corporations
Bans court action by shareholders attacking the validity of a reorganization or merger of a publicly traded corporation.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 1074 (Chavez-D) Boxers
Requires a boxer, suspended for 30 days for his/her medical protection due to, including but not limited to, a hard fight, knockout, technical knockout decision, or any serious injury, to take the same examination as required for the annual physical examination except as directed by the State Athletic Commission.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1264 (Benoit-R) Excavation equipment
Exempts a company that rents or leases excavation equipment and operators from having to call a "Dig Alert" regional notification center before work begins.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2004
AB 1265 (Benoit-R) Engineers and land surveyors
Authorizes engineers and land surveyors to operate within their scope of registration and to conduct business as a limited liability partnership similar to that of architects, certified public accountants and attorneys, and to be designated as a registered limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1333 (Spitzer-R) Mechanics' lien
Provides that a pay-if-paid provision in a contract between a design professional and a consultant to perform services in anticipation of a work of improvement is enforceable if the services are performed prior to the commencement of the site improvement and site improvement has not commenced or the work of improvement is a public work of improvement.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1494 (Firebaugh-D) Amateur and professional sports
Enacts the California Amateur and Professional Sports Commission Act establishing the California Amateur and Professional Sports Commission to promote major amateur and professional sports within the state.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
AB 1618* (Firebaugh-D) Railroad corporations: derailments
Requires railroad corporations to develop a protocol to quickly inform the State Office of Emergency Services, the State Department of the California Highway Patrol, and local public safety agencies when there is a runaway train or other uncontrolled train movement.
Chapter 125, Statutes of 2004
AB 1651 (Firebaugh-D) Intermodal marine terminals
Prohibits intermodal equipment provider terminals from imposing per diem or detention charges on intermodal motor carriers for transactions involving cargo shipped by intermodal transport under specified circumstances.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1721 (Koretz-D) Prices: overcharges
Prohibits any person, at the time of sale of a commodity, from charging, as defined, an amount greater than the price, or computing an amount greater than a true extension of the price per unit, that is then advertised, posted, marked, displayed, or quoted for that commodity or to charge an amount greater than lowest posted price notwithstanding any time limitation for the price. Provides that, except as specified, when more than one price for the same commodity is advertised, posted, marked, displayed, or quoted, the person offering the commodity for sale shall charge the lowest of those prices.
Chapter 752, Statutes of 2004
AB 1781 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Secondhand property dealers
Exempts businesses that accept property n exchange for non-transferable store credits from licensing and reporting requirements for secondhand dealers and, instead, requires these exempt businesses to maintain records of transactions in secondhand property, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1792 (Yee-D) Video games
Prohibits the sale, rental, distribution, mailing, and exhibition of violent video games to minors.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media Committee)
AB 1793 (Yee-D) Video games: ratings posting
Requires video game retailers to post signs regarding the availability of a video game ratings system and make brochures available that explain the system.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2004
AB 1818 (Yee-D) Snowmobile rental companies
Requires snowmobile rental companies to require that renters take a safety course. Requires that tour guides for snowmobile rental companies be certified in basic CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) methods.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1826 (Bogh-R) Identity theft
Includes a professional or trade license number in the definition of "personal identifying information" for purposes of the crime of identity theft.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1859 (Nakano-D) Limited liability companies
Creates a streamlined procedure for a limited liability company to dissolve when the company has not conducted any business and meets specified criteria.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2004
AB 1894 (Longville-D) Seizure of business records
Establishes a procedure for an entity whose business records have been seized by a government agency, to demand that the agency provide to it within 10 court days, copies of the documents seized.
Chapter 372, Statutes of 2004
AB 1909 (Dutra-D) Sellers of food
Provides manufacturers, distributors and sellers of food or non-alcoholic beverages with immunity from liability for obesity-related health claims.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1950 (Wiggins-D) Privacy
Requires a business that owns or licenses information about a California resident to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
Chapter 877, Statutes of 2004
AB 1960 (Pavley-D) Pharmacy benefits management
Requires Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs) to disclose to purchasers or prospective purchasers information pertaining to rebates, discounts, and other financial information. Requires certain provisions to be included in contracts between a PBM and a purchaser. Prohibits pharmacy and therapeutics committee members, working for a PBM, from working for a pharmaceutical company or having more than a nominal financial interest in a pharmaceutical company. Requires PBMs to meet certain conditions prior to switching a patient from one drug to another.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1976 (Maze-R) Home inspectors
Requires the Contractors' State License Board, in consultation with major home inspector inspections, to develop an examination and licensure process for a home inspector. Prohibits a person who fails to obtain a license from performing a home inspection.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2004 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Funeral directors and embalmers
Authorizes students in a program accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education to embalm human remains under the supervision of a licensed embalmer.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2004
AB 2007 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Omnibus Bill
Makes various technical changes in the Business and Professions Code relating to weights and measures and real estate licensure and examinations.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2004
AB 2012 (Chu-D) Cosmetics manufacturers
Requires, by January 1, 2006, the manufacturer of any cosmetic or personal care product subject to regulation by the United States Food and Drug Administration and manufactured, processed, or distributed in commerce in the state to notify the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of any ingredient in its product that is a chemical identified as causing cancer or reproductive toxicity.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee after coming back from the Senate for concurrence)
AB 2133 (Oropeza-D) Entertainment: emergency exits
Requires the venues of live entertainment to announce the availability of emergency exists.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2142 (Houston-R) Home inspectors
Authorizes home inspectors who are also licensed contractors or licensed structural pest control operators to make the repairs recommended by them in their own inspection reports, as long as specific disclosures are made and consumers are provided flexibility in choosing a contractor.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2150 (Levine-D) Accountants
Authorizes the State Board of Accountancy to request all reasonable costs of investigation and prosecution if a licensee is found to have violated any of the provisions regulating accountants and firms.
Chapter 583, Statutes of 2004
AB 2167 (Correa-D) Unlicensed securities brokers
Provides for a private cause of action against unlicensed securities broker-dealers for damages or rescission of any purchase or sale involving that broker-dealer.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2004
AB 2168 (Correa-D) Barbering and cosmetology
Extends by one year provisions governing licenses for barbering or cosmetology instructors. Requires the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology to review minimum qualifications for instructors at approved schools and report its findings to the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection by January 1, 2006.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2170 (Calderon-D) Repossession agencies
Makes numerous technical and clarifying changes to the Collateral Recovery Act. Prohibits a storage fee from being charged for the first week on any personal effects used to effectuate a recovery. Requires personal effects used or taken to be processed in a reasonably expedient manner.
Chapter 532, Statutes of 2004
AB 2189 (Chu-D) Immigration consultants
Revises the bond requirement for immigration consultants.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2201 (Firebaugh-D) Truck operations
Revises various provisions governing the operation of dump trucks, gravel trucks and motor carriers regulated by the State Department of the California Highway Patrol and the State Department of Motor Vehicles.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2004
AB 2216 (Nakanishi-R) Contractors
Places certain notification requirements on the Contractors State License Board and licensees with respect to crimes and violations committed by licensees.
Chapter 586, Statutes of 2004
AB 2221 (Campbell-R) Contracts: limitations
Deletes the requirement that business and trade contracts be translated into the language of Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean, and requires only unexecuted translations of those contracts or agreements.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2241 (Campbell-R) Building standards: California Building Standards Commission
Clarifies the type of officials and contractors that constitute the California Building Standards Commission.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2262 (Oropeza-D) Repossessors
Requires a licensee or specified persons acting for a licensee in the course of recovery of collateral at a debtor's residence to identify himself/herself, the collateral being recovered, and its legal owner. Prohibits those persons from using a plan, scheme, or ruse that misrepresents their purpose of making a recovery of collateral.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2282 (Campbell-R) Corporations: dissenters' rights
Prohibits a shareholder who holds shares that are either listed on any national securities exchange certified by the Commissioner of the State Department of Corporations or on the National Market System of the NASDAQ Stock market from attacking the viability of any reorganization or short-form merger of the corporation in court, except as specifically provided.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2430* (Wiggins-D) Ballooning industry
Suspends temporarily the State Public Utilities Commission's authority over the commercial ballooning industry. Requires commercial balloon operators to carry a minimum of $1 million liability insurance and notify passengers of their insurance coverage. Requires operators to comply with any local government ordinances.
Chapter 881, Statutes of 2004
AB 2491* (Jerome Horton-D) Cigarettes and tobacco
Requires the State Board of Equalization (BOE) to post the name of tobacco wholesalers or retailers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked, and an informational notice regarding the seizure of tobacco products, on their web site. Authorizes BOE to issue a temporary license to a retailer. A temporary license shall not be valid after September 30, 2004. A temporary license will automatically terminate upon issuance of a license pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 22973.1 of the Business and Professions Code prior to the expiration of the temporary license. Authorizes BOE to suspend or revoke the temporary license.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2004
AB 2507 (Maldonado-R) Private security guards
Subjects previously exempt individuals employed as guards to licensing and regulation by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2516 (Vargas-D) Immigration consultants
Prohibits immigration consultants from performing activities that constitute legal practice or advice, or making statements that they can or will obtain special favors from government immigration officials or agencies.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2562 (Bogh-R) Private patrol operators
Exempts, until January 1, 2009, a person who shows proof of an honorable discharge from the armed services within the last 90 days from the requirement that a criminal history background check be completed prior to commencing work as a security guard.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2613 (Haynes-R) Discount buying organizations
Exempts discount buying organizations that operate through franchise agreements or a parent-subsidiary business model from existing requirements that membership fees be held in escrow, but only if both the franchisor (or parent) and the franchisee (or subsidiary) obtain large surety bonds and the franchisor obtains a line of credit for satisfaction of judgments in excess of the bonds.
Chapter 451, Statutes of 2004
AB 2657 (Nunez-D) Metal plating facilities
Requires the California Environmental protection Agency to establish and coordinate an Interagency Metal Plating Task Force to conduct activities related to the regulation of the metal plating industry.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2691 (Correa-D) Immigration consultants
Restricts the use of a bond issues to a person for the purpose of compliance with the $50,000 bonding requirement for immigration consultants to only that person or his/her employee. Requires the Secretary of State to maintain a web site for the public to access information regarding immigration consultants' bonds, and to update the web site once every 30 days. Requires the immigration consultant to provide specified identifying information when a bond is filed with the Secretary of State.
Chapter 557, Statutes of 2004
AB 2752 (Chu-D) Corporations: elections
Enacts the Corporate Elections Disclosure Act of 2004. Requires a publicly traded domestic corporation or foreign corporation, as defined, to file a copy of its corporate election procedures with the Secretary of State, and to make them available to a shareholder upon his/her written request to the corporation's investor relations department.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2850 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Private security officers
Establishes continued employment of private security officers for 90 days at a job site following the termination of a contract for private security services.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2858 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Charter-party carriers
Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to adopt regulations establishing standards and procedures to investigate the criminal background of candidates seeking certificates for employment as drivers or key employees, as defined, with charter-party carriers of passengers and passenger state corporations that provide passenger transportation to or from airports or railroad terminals serving passenger trains.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2899 (Shirley Horton-R) Biodiesel industry
Establishes standards for the sale of fuel comprised of biodiesel and biodiesel blends and a process that will ultimately allow consumers of these fuels to generate carbon dioxide credits for air emission banking and credit programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2912 (Goldberg-D) Sign language interpreters
Provides for the certification of sign language interpreters.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2921* (Cox-R) Franchises
Revises provisions of the California Franchise Investment Law (CFIL). Exempts certain offers and sales of a franchise, and certain modifications to franchise agreements, from registration and increases the fines for violations of the CFIL. Exempts certain commercial loans made by a franchiser to a franchisee form the California Finance Lenders Law.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2004
AB 2932 (Harman-R) Commercial law
Makes changes to provisions of the Civil Code governing fraudulent transfers and to provisions of the Vehicle Code governing transfers of title or interest, to conform to changes recently made to the Uniform Commercial Code provisions governing secured transactions.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee after the bill came back to the Assembly for concurrence)
AB 3027 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Canneries
Diverts, from the General Fund to a dedicated cannery inspection fund, revenue generated by license fees and other charges imposed on canneries by the State Department of Health Services and makes other clarifications and technical changes.
Chapter 314, Statutes of 2004
ACR 173 (McCarthy-R) Nonprofits and philanthropy
Proclaims March 14 to March 20, 2004, inclusive, as California Nonprofits and Philanthropy Week.
Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2004
ACR 228 (Chavez-D) Video and computer games
Requests the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) to carefully consider the content of video and computer games, and that its ratings should reflect content that allows participants to virtually commit realistic acts of violence. Urges the video and computer game industry and its retail partners to make efforts to educate consumers about the availability of the ESRB rating system, and urges retailers to utilize the rating system. Urges community groups, statewide advocacy groups, and the media to promote and educate consumers about the rating system.
Resolution Chapter 135, Statutes of 2004
AJR 79 (Chu-D) Corporate elections
Urges the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to implement its proposed shareholder participation rules in order to answer the call for badly needed reform, to improve corporate accountability, to restore investor confidence, and to provide shareholders with increased access to proxy to promote greater board oversight of corporate operations and responsiveness to shareholder concerns.
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 2004
Index (in Bill Order)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
SB 31* | Perata-D Deferred deposit transactions | |
SB 47* | Ackerman-R Manufacturing investment tax credit | |
SB 57 | Burton-D Minimum wage | |
SB 136* | Figueroa-D Omnibus Bill | |
SB 172 | Ducheny-D Enterprise zones | |
SB 197 | Burton-D Registered nurses: wages and hours of employment violations | |
SB 264 | Denham-R Commission on Workers' Compensation Reform | |
SB 343 | Florez-D Credit unions | |
SB 355 | Florez-D Corporate Securities Law | |
SB 360 | Romero-D Public works: prevailing wages: exclusions | |
SB 365 | Johnson-R Workers' compensation | |
SB 366 | Johnson-R Psychiatric injuries: compensation: proof | |
SB 374 | Margett-R Escrow agents: fidelity bond coverage | |
SB 375* | Margett-R Personal income and corporation taxes: tax credit | |
SB 390 | Romero-D State Department of Industrial Relations | |
SB 414 | McClintock-R Workers' compensation: injuries | |
SB 505 | Perata-D Payments: postmarks | |
SB 506 | Sher-D Pharmaceuticals: wholesalers and manufacturers | |
SB 516* | Speier-D Subchapter "S" corporations | |
SB 527 | Vasconcellos-D California Economic Strategy Panel | |
SB 534 | Romero-D Employment rights | |
SB 535 | Romero-D Wages: multiple employers | |
SB 569 | Alarcon-D Unemployment insurance: benefits: compensation | |
SB 573 | Alarcon-D Employee wages and working hours: violators | |
SB 574 | Alpert-D Workers' compensation | |
SB 576* | Alarcon-D Unemployment insurance: extended benefits | |
SB 586 | Alarcon-D Wages: penalties | |
SB 595 | Johnson-R State Employment Development Department | |
SB 623 | Ducheny-D International trade | |
SB 661 | Cedillo-D Labor: definition | |
SB 695 | Ortiz-D Commercial locator services | |
SB 714 | Battin-R Workers' compensation: apportionment | |
SB 731 | Brulte-R Workers' compensation: local inmates: temporary disability | |
SB 755 | Torlakson-D Permanent amusement rides | |
SB 758 | Poochigian-R Workers' compensation | |
SB 759 | Poochigian-R Workers' compensation: penalty claims | |
SB 766 | Florez-D Securities fraud | |
SB 817 | Ducheny-D Employment Training Panel | |
SB 867 | Burton-D Workers' compensation: disability evaluation | |
SB 888 | Dunn-D Employment: homeland security | |
SB 893 | Morrow-R Workers' compensation: permanent disability schedule | |
SB 899* | Poochigian-R Workers' compensation | |
SB 901 | Dunn-D Low-income credit unions: community reinvestment | |
SB 926* | Knight-R Economic development | |
SB 927 | Alarcon-D Personal services contracts: employee compensation | |
SB 962 | McClintock-R Unemployment compensation: addresses | |
SB 974 | Alarcon-D Public contracts: preferences | |
SB 996 | Alarcon-D Socially responsible business | |
SB 998 | Bowen-D Economic stimulus | |
SB 1010* | Poochigian-R Employment law | |
SB 1029 | Ashburn-R Enterprise zones | |
SB 1034 | Murray-D Contracts: recording companies | |
SB 1056 | Alarcon-D Superstore retailers | |
SB 1071 | Vincent-D Workers' compensation: official medical fees | |
SB 1097* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee General government | |
SB 1134 | Chesbro-D Employment of minors: agricultural packing plants | |
SB 1141 | Johnson-R Workers' compensation | |
SB 1156 | Alarcon-D Microenterprise | |
SB 1173 | Ortiz-D Tobacco products | |
SB 1174 | Johnson-R Workers' compensation | |
SB 1179 | Ducheny-D Enterprise Zone Act: designation period | |
SB 1204 | Margett-R Public works: labor compliance programs | |
SB 1222 | Denham-R Workers' compensation: local inmates: temporary disability | |
SB 1261 | Vasconcellos-D International relations | |
SB 1262 | Sher-D Charitable organizations | |
SB 1292 | Dunn-D Credit unions | |
SB 1302 | Alarcon-D Water related facilities | |
SB 1306 | Ackerman-R Corporations | |
SB 1307 | Figueroa-D Pharmaceutical companies | |
SB 1311 | Johnson-R Workers' compensation: alternative dispute resolution | |
SB 1390 | Speier-D Tourism | |
SB 1406 | Ackerman-R Usury | |
SB 1439 | Speier-D Public employees' retirement: state retired annuitants | |
SB 1451 | Figueroa-D Privacy guarantees | |
SB 1453 | Figueroa-D Employment: outsourcing | |
SB 1465 | Kuehl-D Production of evidence: employment records | |
SB 1466 | Ortiz-D Workers' compensation: rates | |
SB 1473 | Soto-D Evidentiary privilege: employee assistance professionals | |
SB 1496 | Romero-D Corporations: tax disclosure statement | |
SB 1499 | Murray-D Employment: compensation | |
SB 1505 | McClintock-R Administrative Procedure Act: small business | |
SB 1511 | Alpert-D Restaurant tipping | |
SB 1521 | Alarcon-D Displaced Janitor Opportunity Act | |
SB 1528 | Alarcon-D Corporations: director's duties | |
SB 1538 | Alarcon-D Compensation: meal and rest periods | |
SB 1543 | Figueroa-D Accountants | |
SB 1549 | Figueroa-D Accounting | |
SB 1554* | Karnette-D Sales and use tax: manufacturer's investment credit | |
SB 1558* | McPherson-R Small business financial development corporations | |
SB 1563 | Escutia-D Pharmacy manufacturers and wholesalers | |
SB 1571 | Alpert-D Water's-edge election: foreign affiliated corporations | |
SB 1572* | Alpert-D Life science companies: tax credits | |
SB 1587 | Ashburn-R State agencies | |
SB 1618 | Battin-R Employee compensation | |
SB 1637 | Senate Banking, Commerce, And International Trade Committee Financial institutions | |
SB 1646 | Aanestad-R Firefighters | |
SB 1665 | Hollingsworth-R Trade and international trade offices | |
SB 1687 | Murray-D Advance-fee talent services | |
SB 1699 | Hollingsworth-R California Office of International Trade and Investment | |
SB 1703 | Alarcon-D California certified green business program | |
SB 1709* | Margett-R Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule | |
SB 1734 | Battin-R Public contracts: sweatshop labor | |
SB 1746 | Ackerman-R Unincorporated associations | |
SB 1765 | Sher-D Pharmaceutical companies | |
SB 1767 | Ducheny-D Property taxation: tax incentives | |
SB 1809 | Dunn-D Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 | |
SB 1823* | Hollingsworth-R Economic development | |
SB 1829 | Knight-R Family leave law | |
SB 1837 | Karnette-D Office of Trade Promotion | |
SB 1841 | Bowen-D Electronic monitoring of employees | |
SB 1852 | Vincent-D Horses: hire and boarding regulations | |
SB 1857 | Hollingsworth-R Trade and international trade offices | |
SB 1861 | Ashburn-R Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 | |
SB 1876 | Alpert-D Employee credits: water's-edge: apportionment | |
SB 1893 | Burton-D Pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers | |
SB 1901 | Alarcon-D Safety in employment: grape tasting | |
SB 1903 | Florez-D Unemployment compensation benefits: locked out workers | |
SB 1904* | Florez-D Banks: cashing of paychecks | |
SB 1914 | Senate Business And Professions Committee Omnibus bill | |
SB 1916 | Senate Banking, Commerce, And International Trade Committee State agency contracts: check charges | |
SB 1917 | Senate Banking, Commerce, And International Trade Committee Banks: paycheck cashing charges | |
SCR 56 | Figueroa-D Jt. Committee on Boards, Commissions, & Consumer Protection | |
SCR 81 | Torlakson-D California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness | |
SJR 19 | Soto-D North American Free Trade Agreement | |
SJR 20 | Florez-D Regulation of financial institutions | |
SR 17 | Burton-D Unemployment insurance | |
SB 1X* | Poochigian-R State economy: suspension of statutes | |
SB 2XXXX | Speier-D Workers' compensation: fraud | |
AB 73 | Lowenthal-D Unsolicited checks | |
AB 87* | Bogh-R Workers' compensation: disaster service workers: funding | |
AB 89 | Bogh-R Prevailing wages: payroll records: digitized copies | |
AB 95* | Dymally-D Endowment care cemeteries | |
AB 103 | Reyes-D Pharmaceutical manufacturers | |
AB 136 | Kehoe-D Workers' compensation: disability: leave of absence | |
AB 146 | Kehoe-D Petroleum products: unfair practices | |
AB 159 | Jerome Horton-D Workers' compensation | |
AB 237 | Bermudez-D Unemployment insurance: unemployment compensation benefits | |
AB 251 | Parra-D Economic development | |
AB 293 | Daucher-R Health care coverage: small business | |
AB 320 | Correa-D Business licensees | |
AB 337 | Matthews-D Payroll services | |
AB 403 | Correa-D Check sellers and proraters: exemptions | |
AB 410 | Haynes-R California Neighborhood Initiative | |
AB 411 | Haynes-R California new markets | |
AB 431 | Mountjoy-R Workers' compensation | |
AB 437 | Matthews-D Inter-Regional Partnership state pilot project | |
AB 439 | Matthews-D Enterprise zones | |
AB 516 | Matthews-D Enterprise zones | |
AB 531* | Kehoe-D Economic development | |
AB 548 | Calderon-D Funeral embalmers | |
AB 570 | Chu-D Garment manufacturers: fees | |
AB 581 | Chu-D Curriculum: labor relations | |
AB 584 | Ridley-Thomas-D Urban revitalization | |
AB 592 | Ridley-Thomas-D Enterprise zones | |
AB 595 | Dutton-R Workers' compensation | |
AB 596 | Dutton-R Workers' compensation | |
AB 597 | Dutton-R Workers' compensation: fee schedule | |
AB 606 | Nunez-D Employment conditions: hotel room attendants | |
AB 614 | Lowenthal-D Athletic trainers | |
AB 664 | Lowenthal-D Unemployment insurance: contribution rates | |
AB 665 | Correa-D Discount buying organizations | |
AB 701* | Jerome Horton-D Horse racing: workers' compensation | |
AB 708 | Correa-D Enterprise zones | |
AB 723 | Matthews-D Jobs-housing opportunity zones | |
AB 796 | Bogh-R Occupational safety and health: fines | |
AB 804 | Firebaugh-D International trade: demonstration project | |
AB 815 | Wiggins-D Workers' compensation fraud | |
AB 900* | Jerome Horton-D Horse racing: workers' compensation | |
AB 971* | Correa-D Deferred deposit transactions | |
AB 1000* | Dutra-D Corporations | |
AB 1013 | Campbell-R Corporations | |
AB 1035 | Aghazarian-R Enterprise zones: Stanislaus County | |
AB 1060 | Lieber-D Life insurance: employees | |
AB 1074 | Chavez-D Boxers | |
AB 1127* | Shirley Horton-R Whistleblower protection | |
AB 1136 | Maddox-R Unemployment: wage information | |
AB 1147 | Houston-R Employment: public transit meal periods | |
AB 1149 | Firebaugh-D International trade | |
AB 1178 | Wiggins-D California Office of Export Development | |
AB 1183 | Ridley-Thomas-D California and Mexico border economic infrastructure | |
AB 1189 | Wiggins-D Public contracts | |
AB 1223 | McCarthy-R Employment: mass layoffs, relocations, and terminations | |
AB 1226 | Montanez-D Corporation Tax Law: credit unions: study | |
AB 1229 | Simitian-D Sexual harassment | |
AB 1243 | Houston-R Apprenticeship agreements | |
AB 1264 | Benoit-R Excavation equipment | |
AB 1265 | Benoit-R Engineers and land surveyors | |
AB 1288 | Lieber-D Employment services: aliens | |
AB 1324 | Steinberg-D Workers' compensation: infectious diseases: dependents | |
AB 1325* | Houston-R Small business | |
AB 1327 | Wyland-R Disability compensation | |
AB 1333 | Spitzer-R Mechanics' lien | |
AB 1344 | Garcia-R Prevailing wages: exclusions: real property transfers | |
AB 1345 | Reyes-D On-air broadcast employees | |
AB 1356* | Cohn-D Office of Tourism | |
AB 1357 | Matthews-D State Compensation Insurance Fund | |
AB 1362 | Wiggins-D Labor dispute arbitration: firefighters and law enforcement | |
AB 1421* | Cogdill-R Public works: prevailing wage | |
AB 1434 | Wyland-R Alternative Workers' Compensation program: agreements | |
AB 1459 | Houston-R Labor standards: local jurisdiction | |
AB 1471 | Haynes-R Safety in employment | |
AB 1480 | Richman-R Workers' compensation | |
AB 1481 | Richman-R Workers' compensation: permanent disability: reports | |
AB 1482 | Richman-R Workers' compensation: medical services: fee schedule | |
AB 1494 | Firebaugh-D Amateur and professional sports | |
AB 1498* | Wiggins-D State Assistance Fund: membership | |
AB 1529 | Pavley-D Labor standards: meal and rest periods | |
AB 1539 | Houston-R Prevailing wages: sole proprietorships | |
AB 1580 | Cogdill-R Workers' compensation: local inmates | |
AB 1581 | Cogdill-R Workers' compensation: merit credits | |
AB 1582 | Koretz-D Abusive work environments | |
AB 1613 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee International trade and investment offices | |
AB 1617 | Montanez-D Harassment: investigations | |
AB 1618* | Firebaugh-D Railroad corporations: derailments | |
AB 1643 | Ridley-Thomas-D Employment | |
AB 1651 | Firebaugh-D Intermodal marine terminals | |
AB 1664 | Montanez-D Bank Customer Bill of Rights Act | |
AB 1706 | Assembly Judiciary Committee Assignment orders: support: employment | |
AB 1721 | Koretz-D Prices: overcharges | |
AB 1722 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee State Agricultural Labor Relations Board | |
AB 1723 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Meals and rest periods, mass layoffs, and relocations | |
AB 1733 | Reyes-D Telecommunications | |
AB 1776 | Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Foreign corporations and financial institutions: production | |
AB 1781 | Assembly Governmental Organization Committee Secondhand property dealers | |
AB 1792 | Yee-D Video games | |
AB 1793 | Yee-D Video games: ratings posting | |
AB 1810 | Frommer-D Automated teller machines | |
AB 1818 | Yee-D Snowmobile rental companies | |
AB 1825 | Reyes-D Sexual harassment: training and education | |
AB 1826 | Bogh-R Identity theft | |
AB 1838* | Jerome Horton-D Horse racing: workers' compensation | |
AB 1840 | Frommer-D Workers' compensation: death benefits: police officers | |
AB 1843 | Maze-R Manufacturing Enhancement Areas | |
AB 1845 | Lowenthal-D Unemployment insurance: employment retraining benefits | |
AB 1855 | Maze-R California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank | |
AB 1859 | Nakano-D Limited liability companies | |
AB 1870 | Maldonado-R Escrow agents | |
AB 1885 | Corbett-D Employment: biotechnology employment and development | |
AB 1894 | Longville-D Seizure of business records | |
AB 1909 | Dutra-D Sellers of food | |
AB 1911* | Richman-R International trade and investment office: Israel | |
AB 1912 | Richman-R Privileged communications | |
AB 1923 | Lowenthal-D Occupational safety and health: emergency response personnel | |
AB 1930 | Negrete McLeod-D Joint exercise of powers | |
AB 1950 | Wiggins-D Privacy | |
AB 1960 | Pavley-D Pharmacy benefits management | |
AB 1965 | Hancock-D Workers' compensation: nonprofit organization volunteers | |
AB 1976 | Maze-R Home inspectors | |
AB 1979 | Wiggins-D Financial transactions | |
AB 1995 | Cox-R Public works: prevailing wages: offsite work | |
AB 2004 | Assembly Business And Professions Committee Funeral directors and embalmers | |
AB 2007 | Assembly Business And Professions Committee Omnibus Bill | |
AB 2012 | Chu-D Cosmetics manufacturers | |
AB 2014 | Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Credit unions: home mortgage assistance | |
AB 2028 | Koretz-D Unemployment insurance: WARN Act | |
AB 2052 | Haynes-R Employment | |
AB 2095 | Bogh-R Vendorization rates: increased workers' compensation premium | |
AB 2124 | Campbell-R Public contracts: foreign-made products: prohibited labor | |
AB 2133 | Oropeza-D Entertainment: emergency exits | |
AB 2142 | Houston-R Home inspectors | |
AB 2150 | Levine-D Accountants | |
AB 2156 | Reyes-D Deferred deposit transactions: advertisements | |
AB 2167 | Correa-D Unlicensed securities brokers | |
AB 2168 | Correa-D Barbering and cosmetology | |
AB 2170 | Calderon-D Repossession agencies | |
AB 2181 | Campbell-R Employment | |
AB 2189 | Chu-D Immigration consultants | |
AB 2194 | Cogdill-R Public works | |
AB 2195 | Campbell-R Workers' compensation: contractors: temporary workers | |
AB 2201 | Firebaugh-D Truck operations | |
AB 2206 | Firebaugh-D International trade | |
AB 2213 | Goldberg-D Janitorial service contractors | |
AB 2216 | Nakanishi-R Contractors | |
AB 2221 | Campbell-R Contracts: limitations | |
AB 2227 | Garcia-R Manufacturing Enhancement Areas: incentives | |
AB 2241 | Campbell-R Building standards: California Building Standards Commission | |
AB 2245 | Parra-D Interagency Task Force on Excellence in Economic Development | |
AB 2255 | Houston-R Workers' compensation: medical evaluations | |
AB 2258 | Nakanishi-R Employment: payment of wages | |
AB 2262 | Oropeza-D Repossessors | |
AB 2282 | Campbell-R Corporations: dissenters' rights | |
AB 2310 | Richman-R Unemployment insurance: private loans | |
AB 2312 | Dutra-D Point-of-sale devices | |
AB 2317 | Oropeza-D Gender pay equity | |
AB 2322 | Bates-R Unemployment and disability compensation | |
AB 2325* | Bates-R Income and corporation taxes: credit: disabled employees | |
AB 2328* | Wyland-R Corporation tax: federal conformity | |
AB 2345 | Maddox-R Workers' compensation: medical equipment and supplies: fee | |
AB 2350 | Chavez-D Safety in employment: conveyances | |
AB 2398 | Maze-R Targeted tax areas: expansion | |
AB 2402 | Lieber-D Employment: day laborers | |
AB 2411 | Yee-D International trade and investment | |
AB 2412 | Yee-D Unemployment insurance: false information: penalty | |
AB 2430* | Wiggins-D Ballooning industry | |
AB 2441 | Levine-D Workers' compensation | |
AB 2463* | Runner-R Personal income and corporation taxes: enterprise zone | |
AB 2481* | Nunez-D California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank | |
AB 2491* | Jerome Horton-D Cigarettes and tobacco | |
AB 2494 | Lieber-D Health care benefits: large grocery stores | |
AB 2495 | Dutton-R Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation | |
AB 2507 | Maldonado-R Private security guards | |
AB 2516 | Vargas-D Immigration consultants | |
AB 2524 | Yee-D Export development | |
AB 2532 | Hancock-D Hospitals: lift teams | |
AB 2544* | Calderon-D Income and corporation taxes: credit: computer donations | |
AB 2545 | Koretz-D Employment: access to exits | |
AB 2562 | Bogh-R Private patrol operators | |
AB 2564 | Oropeza-D Small business financial development corporations | |
AB 2565* | Parra-D Economic development | |
AB 2604 | Pacheco-R Employees: personnel records | |
AB 2613 | Haynes-R Discount buying organizations | |
AB 2649 | Salinas-D Workers' compensation: exclusions: owner-builders | |
AB 2650 | Bates-R Private Attorneys General Act of 2004: small employers | |
AB 2657 | Nunez-D Metal plating facilities | |
AB 2671 | Pacheco-R Commercial law: banking transactions | |
AB 2684 | Lieber-D Employment services: aliens | |
AB 2690* | Hancock-D Public works: funds | |
AB 2691 | Correa-D Immigration consultants | |
AB 2693 | Wiggins-D Lending | |
AB 2695 | Plescia-R Employers: paychecks | |
AB 2696 | Plescia-R Family temporary disability insurance program: regulations | |
AB 2704 | Berg-D Employment: domestic workers | |
AB 2730 | Dymally-D Unemployment compensation: reasonable assurance | |
AB 2752 | Chu-D Corporations: elections | |
AB 2770 | Richman-R Workers' compensation: physician certification | |
AB 2772 | Richman-R Workers' compensation | |
AB 2780 | Maze-R Workers' compensation: Indian tribes | |
AB 2801* | Jerome Horton-D Taxation: California Jobs Tax Credit Act | |
AB 2803 | Jerome Horton-D Public Utilities Commission: hearings | |
AB 2832 | Lieber-D Minimum wage | |
AB 2837 | Firebaugh-D Apprenticeship programs | |
AB 2850 | Ridley-Thomas-D Employment: displaced private security officers | |
AB 2858 | Ridley-Thomas-D Charter-party carriers | |
AB 2859* | Dutton-R Taxes: unemployment insurance | |
AB 2861 | Koretz-D Employment of offenders | |
AB 2866 | Frommer-D Workers' compensation: fraud | |
AB 2868 | Nunez-D Refund Anticipation Loan Act | |
AB 2870 | Mullin-D Employment: commissions | |
AB 2889 | Laird-D Employment discrimination | |
AB 2890 | Jerome Horton-D Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule | |
AB 2899 | Shirley Horton-R Biodiesel industry | |
AB 2900 | Laird-D Employment: discrimination | |
AB 2912 | Goldberg-D Sign language interpreters | |
AB 2919 | Ridley-Thomas-D Doctor's First Report of Occupational Injury: sunset date | |
AB 2921* | Cox-R Franchises | |
AB 2926 | Nakano-D Income and corporation taxes: credit | |
AB 2932 | Harman-R Commercial law | |
AB 2972 | La Malfa-R Tourism | |
AB 3018 | Koretz-D Compensation: meal and rest periods | |
AB 3020 | Koretz-D Employment | |
AB 3021 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Employers: payroll requirements | |
AB 3022 | Assembly Housing And Community Development Committee Housing | |
AB 3027 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Canneries | |
AB 3037 | Yee-D Employment: occupational safety and health | |
AB 3051 | Nation-D Workers' compensation: firefighters: death benefits | |
AB 3070 | Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Securities: finance lenders | |
ACA 32 | Wyland-R Illegal aliens: public benefits | |
ACR 37 | Parra-D Economic forecasting model | |
ACR 46 | Cox-R Legislation affecting businesses | |
ACR 173 | McCarthy-R Nonprofits and philanthropy | |
ACR 222 | Haynes-R Small Business Month | |
ACR 228 | Chavez-D Video and computer games | |
ACR 254 | Firebaugh-D Asset acquisition disparity | |
ACR 257 | Bogh-R California Economic Literacy Week | |
AJR 1 | Koretz-D Unemployment insurance benefits | |
AJR 39 | Koretz-D Workplace safety and health | |
AJR 66 | Lieber-D Equal Pay Day | |
AJR 79 | Chu-D Corporate elections | |
AJR 87 | Goldberg-D Employee Free Choice Act | |
AJR 91 | Chan-D Trade assistance for services workers |