Government

Legislature

State Senate

At the end of the 2004 legislative session, the State Senate elected Senator Don Perata as President Pro Tempore to replace Senator John Burton who is being termed-out of office.

Earlier in the year, the Senate Republicans replaced Senator Jim Brulte, who is being termed-out, as Minority Leader with Senator Richard Ackerman.

Senator William J. "Pete" Knight passed away during the session leaving his seat vacant. His Senate Rules position was given to Senator Jim Brulte who relinquished it to Senator James Battin at the end of session.

The following State Senators are being termed out in 2004:

#Years of#Years of

#Senate Service#Assembly Service

Dede Alpert (D)#8#6

James L. Brulte (R)#8#6

John L. Burton (D)#8#18

Ross Johnson (R)#9#17

Betty Karnette (D)#8#2

Bruce McPherson (R)#8#2-1/2

Byron Sher (D)#7-3/4#16-1/4

John Vasconcellos (D)#8#30

Senator William Knight's seat is also up for election because he was to be termed-out of the Senate in 2004. Senator Rico Oller (R) decided to run for United States Congress rather than for re-election to the State Senate and lost to former State Attorney General and Congressmember Daniel Lungren. Senator Roy Ashburn (R) is running for United States Congress against former Senator/Assemblymember Jim Costa (D). Betty Karnette (D) who is being termed-out is running for her old Assembly seat against former Assemblymember/Congressmember Steve Kuykendall (R).

State Assembly

In early 2004, the Assembly selected Fabian Nunez (D) to replace Herb Wesson (D), who is being termed-out. Dario Frommer (D) was selected as Majority Floor Leader to replace Marco Firebaugh (D). Ronald Calderon (D) was selected to replace Juan Vargas (D) as the Assistant Majority Leader. Leland Yee (D) was selected to replace Christine Kehoe (D) as Speaker Pro Tempore, Cindy Montanez (D) was selected to replace Joe Nation (D) as Assembly Rules Chair, Sally Lieber (D) became the Assistance Speaker Pro Tempore, and Lloyd Levine (D) became the majority Whip.

On the Republican side, Kevin McCarthy was selected to replace Dave Cox as Minority Leader who is being termed out and Russ Bogh was selected as the Assembly Republican Caucus Chair replacing Tony Strickland. Named as Assistant Leaders were Ray Haynes, Sharon Runner, and Rick Keene. Dave Cogdill was named Assembly Rules Vice-Chair and the Assembly Whips are Greg Aghazarian, John Benoit, Doug LaMalfa, George Plescia, Todd Spitzer, and Mark Wyland.

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

Name#HR

Patricia Bates (R)#HR 81

Ellen Corbett (D)#HR 71

Lou Correa (D)#HR 60

Dave Cox (R)#HR 72

Candidate for State Senate

Marco Firebaugh (D)#HR 67

Hannah-Beth Jackson (D)#HR 61

John Longville (D)#HR 73

Alan Lowenthal (D)#HR 77

Candidate for State Senate

Ken Maddox (R)#HR 69

Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate

Abel Maldonado (R)#HR 75

Candidate for State Senate

George Nakano (D)#HR 78

Robert Pacheco (R)#HR 70

Sarah Reyes (D)#HR 62

Darrell Steinberg (D)#HR 68

Tony Strickland (R)#HR 80

Herb Wesson (D)#HR 41

Patricia Wiggins (D)#HR 66

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

Manny Diaz (D)#HR 63#Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate

Christine Kehoe (D)#HR 64#Candidate for State Senate

Robert D. Dutton (R)#HR 74#Candidate for State Senate

John Campbell (R)#HR 76#Candidate for State Senate

S. Joseph Simitian (D)#HR 79#Candidate for State Senate

Steve Samuelian (R)#HR 82#Did not seek resolution

Former Assemblymembers who are candidates for reelection to the State Senate in the 2004 General Election include Elaine Alquist (D), Carole Migden (D), and George Runner (R).

SB 55 (Ackerman-R) Legislative vote requirement: state-mandated local programs

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

(Died in Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

SB 437* (Burton-D) Legislative employees

Authorizes legislative employers to establish the contribution rate for their respective employees for a 12-month period and adds a sunset date of January 1, 2006, at which existing law will be reinstated.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1102* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Trailer Bill: Zenovich Appeals Court Building

Along with provisions, names the Appellate Court in Fresno the George N. Zenovich Appellate Court Building after former legislator and Justice of the Appellate Court.

Chapter 227, Statutes of 2004

SCA 14 (Vasconcellos-D) Political reform

Entitled the "Voter Empowerment and Restore Democracy Amendment," proposes various revisions to the California Constitution which, according to intent language are designed to "restore democracy to the state and to the people of California by reforming our political institutions so that they better serve all Californians."

(Died in Senate Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SCR 1 (Johnson-R) Joint Rules

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

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

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

Requires that, as to a bill that has been passed by one house of the Legislature, the second house conduct a floor vote no later than the fifth day on which a floor session is held after placing the bill on the Third Reading File, unless the second house places the bill on the inactive file or the author requests that the bill be passed and retained on file. Provides that, during the second calendar year of the biennium of the legislative session, the return to the house of origin of bills for which concurrence in amendments is required may not occur later than August 30, with certain exceptions.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SCR 51 (Burton-D) Joint rules

Prohibits a house of the Legislature from passing a bill that approves a memorandum of understanding (MOU) until the final version of the subject MOU is received by the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly and made available for review for seven legislative days and its availability for review noted in the Senate and Assembly Daily Journals for that period.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

Similar legislation was SR 29 (Burton-D), which was read and adopted.

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.

Resolution Chapter 14, Statutes of 2004

SCR 70 (Ducheny-D) Victor V. Veysey Expressway

Designates a part of State Highway 78 in the County of Imperial as the Victor V. Veysey Expressway after the former state legislator and Congressmember.

Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2004

SCR 85 (Burton-D) Senator William J. "Pete" Knight

Dedicates and names the California Veterans' Home at Lancaster after the late Senator William J. "Pete" Knight.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 91 (Figueroa-D) Senator Byron Sher

Honors State Senator Byron Sher by requesting that the State Department of Parks and Recreation rename the San Lorenzo River Redwoods the Byron Sher Redwoods.

Resolution Chapter 184, Statutes of 2004

SR 29 (Burton-D) Senate approval of MOUs

Prohibits the State Senate from passing a bill that approves a memoranda of understanding (MOU), for purposes of Section 3517.5, et seq. of the Government Code, until the final version of the subject MOU is received by the Secretary of the Senate and made available for review for seven legislative days and its availability for review noted in the Senate Daily Journal for that period.

Adopted by the Senate

Similar legislation was SCR 51 (Burton-D), which died at the Assembly Desk.

SR 37 (Johnson-R) Committee bills

Provides that a committee bill shall contain the signatures of all of the members of the committee.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 39 (Burton-D) Senate Rules Committee: membership

Elects Senator James Brulte as a member of the Senate Rules Committee to replace the late Senator Pete Knight, who died May 7, 2004.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 45 (Burton-D) President Pro Tempore: Don Perata

Elects Senator Don Perata to replace Senator John Burton as President Pro Tempore on November 30, 2004.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 46 (Johnson-R) John Burton

Names Room 4203 in the State Capitol the John L. Burton Hearing Room after the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 47 (Ackerman-R) Senate Rules Committee members

Elects Senator James Battin as a member of the Senate Rules Committee replacing Senator Jim Brulte.

Adopted by the Senate

AB 892 (Dymally-D) Residence of candidates for state or local office

Specifies that the domicile of any candidate for Representative in the Congress of the United States, or for state or local office is conclusively presumed to be the address at which the candidate is registered to vote. Applies these provisions to any candidate whose candidacy commenced on or after January 1, 1985.

(Died in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 1387 (Yee-D) Legislature

Requires the Legislature, commencing January 1, 2005, to take actions to protect the privacy of its employees.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee))

AB 1784* (Wolk-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: conflict of interest: lobbying

Effective January 1, 2005, prohibits a lobbyist or lobbying firm from engaging in direct communication with an elected state officer, other than a Member of the Legislature, or the elected state officer's staff, for the purpose of influencing legislative or administrative action during the period of time, and for the six months following that period of time, that the lobbyist or the lobbying firm, or any other specified person or entity, has a contractual relationship with the elected state officer or his or her controlled campaign committee.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1785 (Frommer-D) California State Legislature: lobbying

Declares legislative intent to adopt rules to address inappropriate communications of lobbyists to Members of the Legislature and staff for the purpose of influencing legislation.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 2714 (Spitzer-R) Legislative Open Records Act

Repeals the Legislative Open Records Act, but retains the provision of that act that requires that each committee of the Senate or Assembly and each joint committee maintain, in official committee files, legislative records relating to legislation assigned to the committee, and that those legislative records be open to public inspection. Makes the Legislature subject to the California Public Records Act by revising the definition of "state agency" in the California Public Records Act to include the Legislature, and specifically includes records of complaints or investigations conducted by the Legislature and correspondence of and to individual members of the Legislature and their staff within those records that are exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act. Requires that all requests to inspect any public record of the Legislature be made to the Committee on Rules of the Senate or Assembly, or the Joint Committee on Rules, as appropriate, and requires each of those committees and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to adopt guidelines stating the procedures to be followed when making public records of the Legislature available for inspection.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2891 (Frommer-D) Legislative Fellows

Extends eligibility for promotional exams and state employment exams to former employees of fellowship programs.

Vetoed by the Governor

ACA 1 (Longville-D) Budget Bill: passage

Provides that a statute enacting a Budget Bill is effective immediately upon enactment. Excludes appropriations made in the Budget Bill from the 2/3 vote requirement. Also provides that, notwithstanding current constitutional requirements of a 2/3 vote for urgency statutes and statutes increasing state tax revenues, a bill making changes in law to implement an enacted Budget Bill may be passed by a majority vote in each house, and shall take effect immediately if the bill so provides. Amends the California Constitution to require that, if a Budget Bill is not passed by midnight on June 30, members of the Legislature forfeit any salary or reimbursement for travel and living expenses for the period from July 1 to the date a Budget bill is passed.

(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

ACA 2 (Maldonado-R) State Budget

Amends the California Constitution to require that, if a Budget Bill is not passed by midnight on June 15, members of the Legislature forfeit any salary or reimbursement for travel and living expenses for the period from June 16 to the date a Budget Bill is passed.

(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

ACA 3 (McCarthy-R) Redistricting: legislative districts

Repeals the current standards applicable to adjustment in district boundaries and instead creates a commission tasked with adopting redistricting plans.

(Died in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

ACA 19 (Lowenthal-D) Redistricting commission

Creates a procedure for the appointment of a redistricting commission, tasked with establishing congressional, Assembly, Senate, and State Board of Equalization districts, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

ACA 25 (Mullin-D) Elections: voting age

Authorizes a person who is at least 17 years of age and will be 18 years of age at the time of the next general election to register and vote at that general election and at any intervening federal, statewide, or local primary or special election that occurs after the person is eligible to register to vote.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 26 (Lieber-D) Legislature: bills: vote

Requires any bill that results in a reduction in the amount of federal funds allocated to the state, or to any city, county, district, or other political subdivision of the state, to be passed by a vote of two-thirds of the membership of each house.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

ACR 9 (Dymally-D) Education

Establishes the Joint Committee for the Revision of the Education Code Relating to Community Colleges, prescribes the membership of the joint committee, and requires the appointment of an advisory committee and the submission of a report to the respective chairs of the Assembly Committee on Higher Education and the Senate Committee on Education on or before April 15, 2004. Sunsets on November 30, 2004.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 46 (Cox-R) Legislation affecting businesses

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

(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

ACR 113 (Pacheco-R) Legislative hearings/proceedings

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

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

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

Establishes the Joint Committee on Adult Education, which consists of seven members of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker and seven members of the Senate appointed by the Senate Rules Committee. Prescribes the duties of the committee. Sunsets on November 30, 2004.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 152 (Diaz-D) George E. Brown, Jr. Memorial Highway

Designates a part of State Highway Route 120 in Los Angeles as the George E. Brown, Jr. Memorial Highway after the former legislator and Congressmember.

Resolution Chapter 175, Statutes of 2004

ACR 184 (Chan-D) Joint Committee on California's Children

Establishes the Joint Committee on California's Children, with a specified membership, to develop strategies to coordinate planning and policy development for state-administered children's and youth programs.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 189 (La Malfa-R) Bernie Richter Memorial Highway

Designates the five-mile segment of State Highway Route 99 south of its intersection with State Highway Route 70 in the County of Sutter as the Bernie Richter Memorial Highway. Requests the State Department of Transportation to determine the costs of appropriate plaques and markers showing this designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect appropriate plaques and markers.

Resolution Chapter 142, Statutes of 2004

ACR 239 (Runner-R) William J. "Pete" Knight Highway

Designates a part of State Highway 14 as the William J. "Pete" Knight Aerospace Highway after the late legislator.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

ACR 240 (Kehoe-D) Emergency services and homeland security

Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security, with specified membership of each house of the Legislature.

Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2004

HR 17 (Canciamilla-D) Standing Rules of the Assembly

Adds section 11.6 to the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2003-04 Regular Session, which requires that (1) during the biennial session, the Chairperson of the Committee on Budget shall hold at least one joint public hearing, together with the chairpersons of each of the other standing committees created pursuant to Rule 11, to review the effectiveness of programs currently supported by state funding, to review the sufficiency of that funding, to identify possible cost savings, and to identify any duplication of, as well as gaps in, program services, and (2) the members and staff of each standing committee shall attend training sessions on the conduct of joint hearings under this section. Specifies that the training session shall be provided by the Committee on Rules.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 41 (Firebaugh-D) Relative to commending Honorable Herb J. Wesson, Jr.

States that it is fitting that the members of the Assembly express their commendation and appreciation to their colleague, the Honorable Herb J. Wesson, Jr., for his outstanding record of service to the Assembly and the people of California, and convey to him best wishes for every success in his future endeavors.

Read and adopted

Alcoholic Beverage Control

SB 1102* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) General government

Used as the general government omnibus Budget Trailer Bill providing various legislative changes related to general government necessary for the enactment of the 2004-05 State Budget Act. Specifically allows the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to accept petitions for an offer in compromise and accept fines in lieu of liquor-license suspensions for a second violation of law within a 36-month period. Specifies that ABC will retain the authority to suspend a license when that punishment seems more appropriate given the nature of the violation. It is estimated that this change will generate an additional $1.3 million in annual General Fund revenue.

Chapter 227, Statutes of 2004

SB 1584 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: licensee

Expands the definition of a licensee clarifying that it is any person holding a license, permit, certification, or any other authorization issued by the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1647* (Perata-D) Alcoholic beverages: licensees: advertising restrictions

Creates an exception to tied-house laws, by allowing the holder of a beer manufacturers or winegrowers license, a distilled spirits rectifier, or a distilled spirits manufacturer or distilled spirits manufacturer's agent, to purchase advertising time and space at an outdoor stadium or a fully enclosed stadium, with a fixed seating capacity in excess of 10,000 seats located in Alameda County.

Chapter 275, Statutes of 2004

SB 1846 (Knight-R) Alcoholic beverages: sales to minors

Requires the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to revoke the liquor license of any retailer convicted of a second offense for the sale of alcoholic beverages to a minor.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

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

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

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

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

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

(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2037 (La Suer-R) Alcoholic beverages and controlled substances: minors

Provides the same liability for furnishing or giving alcohol to a person under 21 years of age as there currently is for purchasing alcohol for a person under 21 years of age when the person under 21 drinks the alcohol and proximately causes injury or death.

Chapter 291, Statutes of 2004

AB 2296 (Leno-D) Alcoholic beverages: issuance of liquor licenses: protests

Creates an expedited process within the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control by which alcohol licenses may be protested and appealed.

Chapter 345, Statutes of 2004

AB 2433 (Leno-D) Alcoholic beverage sales: closing hours

Extends the closing time from 2:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. in the City and County of San Francisco, for any on-sale licensee (bar, restaurant, etc.), who sells alcoholic beverages.

(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2878 (Aghazarian-R) Alcoholic beverages: beer tapping equipment

Adds filters to the specified list of alcoholic beverage tapping equipment that can be furnished to an on-sale licensee.

Chapter 604, Statutes of 2004

AB 2927* (Wiggins-D) Alcoholic beverage licenses

Specifies that a special temporary license shall be issued only once in a calendar year, and allows alcohol to be sold at less than the minimum retail price by a nonprofit charitable corporation, as specified. Takes effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Chapter 523, Statutes of 2004

AB 3043 (Yee-D) Alcoholic beverages

Extends the maximum duration for a temporary permit issued by the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control under specified provisions for four calendar months rather than "not to exceed 120 days."

Chapter 335, Statutes of 2004

AB 3085* (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Alcoholic beverages

Makes various technical, nonsubstantive changes and deletes obsolete provisions to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.

Chapter 437, Statutes of 2004

Horse Racing

SB 813 (Vincent-D) Horse racing

Sets limits for the Solano County Fair relating to the conduct of racing dates to a facility where a thoroughbred racing association or fair is licensed to conduct a racing meeting in the northern zone. Also permits the fair to contract for the operation and management of this facility with a licensee of the board, the board-approved betting system, or a board-approved multijurisdictional wagering hub, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1183 (Margett-R) Horse racing

Authorizes a harness racing association that is conducting a live race meeting to accept wagers on the full card of races conducted by another racing association on the day the other racing association conducts the Breeders Crown Stakes, the Meadowlands Pace, the Hambletonian or the North American Cup.

Chapter 232, Statutes of 2004

SB 1227 (Soto-D) Horse racing: fairs: allocation of racing dates

Prohibits the California Horse Racing Board from allocating racing dates to private thoroughbred association in the central or southern zone if a fair racing association is conducting racing in the central zone on the same dates and has an obligation on a capital expense loan.

Chapter 918, Statutes of 2004

SB 1288 (Karnette-D) Horse racing: distributions

Increases the percentage of funds distributed to the California Standardbred Sires Stakes Program, and also specifies that this increase in funds come from a portion of funds currently distributed to purses for standardbred horsemen.

Chapter 122, Statutes of 2004

AB 173 (Dymally-D) Horse racing

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

Chapter 235, Statutes of 2004

AB 571 (Yee-D) Horse racing

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 667 (Harman-R) Horse racing

Specifies that any person who is a racetrack employee attempting to wrongfully affect the outcome of a horse race will be guilty of a misdemeanor, and also authorizes a total of seven new satellite wagering facilities, as specified.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 701* (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing: workers' compensation

Provides a framework for the deduction from pari-mutuel pools in order to address increased costs in workers compensation insurance in the horse racing industry. Requires thoroughbred racing associations to deduct an additional one-half percent of the total amount handled in exotic pari-mutuel pools to be used to defray increasing workers' compensation costs in the horse racing industry. Authorizes quarter horse racing organizations to deduct an additional one-half percent, fairs to deduct an additional one-half percent, and harness racing organizations to deduct an additional one percent from conventional pools to offset workers' compensation costs.

Chapter 40, Statutes of 2004

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

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

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

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

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

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

Makes changes to existing horse racing law which prescribes the amount deducted 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

Similar legislation was AB 1838 (J. Horton-D), which died on Assembly Inactive File.

AB 2164* (Plescia-R) Horse racing: marketing

Extends a sunset date from July 1, 2004 to January 1, 2006, related to private statewide marketing organization to market and promote thoroughbred and fair horse racing in California.

Chapter 80, Statutes of 2004

AB 2276 (Dymally-D) Horse racing: backstretch workers

Provides that every employer of backstretch workers shall, upon request, submit in writing or electronically to the administrator of the welfare program for backstretch workers any employment records necessary to prompt payment of benefits and proper administration of the program.

Chapter 99, Statutes of 2004

AB 2538* (Strickland-R) Horse racing: harness horse races

Changes the definition of a California standardbred horse to a standardbred foal conceived in California by a stallion registered with the California Standardbred Sire Stakes Program, deleting the requirements in existing law that the mare drop the horse in California after the conception. Deletes specific deadlines for an exchange of purse fund payments between a harness and Quarter Horse racing association who imports additional out-of-state or out-of-country races as specified.

Chapter 278, Statutes of 2004

AB 2945 (Calderon-D) Horse racing: reporting

Requires the California Horse Racing Board to include more detailed information about workers' compensation costs in their annual report.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 3083 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing

Adds specific definitions for the terms "handle," "takeout," and "advance deposit wagering" to the statute in the effort to update the State Horse Racing Law.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 3091 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing: the Travers Stakes

Adds the Travers Stakes to the group of specific state races which are exempt from the 23-race per day limit in imported races.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

ACR 123 (Levine-D) Horse racing

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

Other Gaming Legislation

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

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

(Refused passage on Senate Floor)

SB 769 (Battin-R) Gaming regulation

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1102* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Omnibus general government trailer bill

Used as a budget trailer bill concerning state government, as it relates to this subject, it requires the California Gambling Control Commission to provide an estimate of the amount of funding needed to backfill the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund by the May Revise rather than at the end of the fiscal year, and revert any excess transferred funds back to the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (SDF). Also provides a six-month extension to allocate monies appropriated from the SDF in 2003-04 to mitigate the impacts of tribal casinos. The extension will assist counties that were unable to implement their programs in the first year. Makes a technical correction to the allocation formula for the mitigation grants to allow counties with no "non-SDF" paying tribes to expend all the money allocated for mitigation in the county.

Chapter 227, Statutes of 2004

SB 1117 (Burton-D) Tribal gaming: compact ratification

Ratifies and enacts new and amended compacts with four California Indian tribes (Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians, and Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians) to allow gambling to be conducted on their lands.

Chapter 856, Statutes of 2004

SB 1524 (Vincent-D) Gambling Control Act

Removes the prohibition that precludes a card club owner from having a financial interest in Las Vegas style gaming within or outside of California. Specifically continues the prohibition against card clubs being publicly traded companies and specifically continues the prohibition against a publicly traded company from having a financial interest in a California card club. Specifies that provisions regarding gambling licensure apply only to companies that are not publicly traded companies.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1586 (Murray-D) Indian gaming

Provides that money from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, now designated to be used for gambling addiction programs, will be used instead, for programs designed to address "problem gambling".

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1812 (Vincent-D) Gambling control

Authorizes an administrative law judge, in cases in which that judge recommends that the California Gambling Control Commission revoke, suspend, or deny a gaming license, to order the licensee or applicant for a license to pay the Division of Gambling Control the reasonable costs of the investigation and prosecution of the case, as specified. Makes other related changes to those provisions.

Chapter 487, Statutes of 2004

SCA 10 (Florez-D) Legal gaming

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

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 423 (Longville-D) Charitable raffles

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 675 (Kehoe-D) Indian Gaming

Revises the composition of the Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee in San Diego County. Makes legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of the statutory change and provides that no reimbursement is required.

Chapter 870, Statutes of 2004

AB 687* (Nunez-D) Tribal-state gaming compacts

Ratifies the amendments of the Tribal-State Gaming Compacts negotiated by the Governor and five Indian tribes (the Pala Band of Mission Indians, the Pauma Band of Luiseno Indians, the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians, the United Auburn Indian Community, and the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians). Authorizes the issuance of bonds, secured by Indian gaming revenue, for an amount up to $1.5 billion, to be dedicated for transportation improvement purposes. Provides the tribes with the authority to seek injunctive relief if their exclusive right to conduct Class III games in this state is ever breached.

Chapter 91, Statutes of 2004

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

Permits local agencies to amend their ordinances to allow for an increase in the number of gambling tables that may be operated in a gambling establishment.

Chapter 872, Statutes of 2004

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

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

(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 1204 (Chavez-D) California State Lottery

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1275 (Jerome Horton-D) Indian gaming

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

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 1489 (Negrete McLeod-D) Gambling Control Act

Requires the Division of Gambling Control (Division) to post, on the State Attorney General's web site, the rules of play and the collection rates of each game approved at each card room. Requires a licensee making a request of the Division to approve a new game and collection rate to reimburse the Division for the actual costs incurred.

Chapter 598, Statutes of 2004

AB 1780 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Gambling establishments

Renumbers a provision within the Gambling Control Act to correct its placement among sections reorganized in previous legislation and makes conforming changes to it in accordance with that legislative enactment. Makes a technical change to the definition of the phrase "finding of suitability."

Chapter 276, Statutes of 2004

AB 2162 (Oropeza-D) Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund

Replaces various references to "local government agencies" with "local jurisdictions."

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2938* (Plescia-R) California State Lottery: revenues

Increases, until June 30, 2011, or an earlier date, as specified, the percentage of lottery revenue allocated to prizes from 50 percent to no more than 55 percent, 58.5 percent, or 62 percent, and decreases the percentage of revenue allocated to public education from 34 percent to at least 25 percent, 28 percent, or 31 percent. Also decreases the amount of revenue allocated to the payment of lottery expenses from 16 percent to 14 percent, 13.5 percent, or 13 percent, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 3089* (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund

Makes changes to the distribution of appropriations from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, and provides that monies allocated for the 2003-04 fiscal year shall be eligible for expenditure through December 31, 2004. Contains language to prevent chaptering out problems with AB 675 (Kehoe-D).

Chapter 892, Statutes of 2004

AB 3096 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) California State Lottery

Makes various technical and conforming changes to fiscal reporting and contracting requirements of the California Lottery Act.

Chapter 438, Statutes of 2004

Public Employees

SB 9* (McClintock-R) State employees' retirement: state safety membership

Repeals provisions of SB 183 (Burton-D), Chapter 56, Statutes of 2002 that will provide enhanced retirement benefits for members of State Bargaining Unit 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety, represented by the California Union of Safety Employees) beginning on July 1, 2004. Also includes as a peace officer under the Penal Code the State Attorney General.

(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

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

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

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

Similar legislation was SB 100 (Dunn-D) which died in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 437* (Burton-D) Public employees' retirement: employee contribution rates

Authorizes legislative employers to establish the contribution rate for their respective employees for a 12-month period and adds a sunset date of January 1, 2006, at which time existing law will be reinstated.

Vetoed by the Governor

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

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

Chapter 69, Statutes of 2004

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

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1102* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Omnibus general government budget trailer bill

Used as a budget trailer bill relating to various general government issues, as it relates to this subject: (1) Requires the Governor to appoint four employees of the Secretary of State's office (who may be nominated by the Secretary of State) to be exempt from civil service; (2) Expands the membership of Infrastructure Bank Board from three to five, by adding the Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency, and an appointee of the Governor; (3) Under Trial Court Collective Bargaining it provides that any violation of the specified labor acts or of any rules and regulations shall be processed as an unfair practice charge by the Public Employment Relations Board.

Chapter 227, Statutes of 2004

SB 1105* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Public employees' retirement: state employees

Enacts the necessary statutory changes to the provisions of law regarding pension reform and the State Department of Personnel Administration in order to enact the 2004 Budget Act.

Chapter 214, Statutes of 2004

SB 1106* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Public pension obligations: bond financing

Enacts the California Pension Restructuring bond Act of 2004, which authorizes the issuance of up to $2.6 billion in bonds for the purpose of paying the state's obligation to the State Public Employees' Retirement System. Permits the issuance of bonds only after the State Department of Finance determines that those obligations are anticipated to be reduced as a result of changes to public employees' retirement law. Continuously appropriates from the General Fund the amount necessary to pay principal and interest on the bonds. Also authorizes the Pension Obligation Bond Committee to bring an action to determine the validity of bonds issued pursuant to this act. Provides that $929 million in bonds will be sold in accordance with this section. Allows the Director of the State Department of Finance, on behalf of the Pension Obligation Bond Committee, to make payments in the amount of $120,000 from items of appropriation in the 2003-04 Budget Act for a legal settlement involving pension obligation bonds.

Chapter 215, Statutes of 2004

SB 1110* (Cedillo-D) State Bargaining Unit 6

Provides an addendum to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and State Bargaining Unit 6 (the California Correctional Peace Officers Association) specifying a reduced rate of compensation that had previously been negotiated. Additional changes made in the MOU involve the transfer of peace officers, psychological screening requirements, training, and seniority calculations. Legislative intent is also included, stating that the continuous appropriation shall not be construed as a precedent for future memoranda of understanding.

Chapter 217, Statutes of 2004

SB 1206 (Soto-D) County employees' retirement: correction of errors

Allows the boards of retirement in the 20 counties participating in the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 to reduce the monthly retirement benefits of members who fraudulently report compensation or overstate earnings which result in improper increases in their county pensions.

Chapter 466, Statutes of 2004

SB 1260 (Murray-D) County employees' retirement: survivor allowance

Authorizes, if approved by the county board of supervisors, a new costing method when members of the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, and those members who participate in the Retirement Plan E in Los Angeles County, elect an optional modified retirement allowance, and provides that when the member elects a modified benefit allowance, he or she will pay only the actuarial difference in the cost of the increased survivor benefit.

Chapter 152, Statutes of 2004

SB 1401 (Perata-D) Public employees' retirement: benefits report

Requires the Board of Administration of the State Public Employees' Retirement System to conduct a study on the adequacy of the retirement benefits paid to certain state retirees, including retirees with disabilities and their survivors and beneficiaries, and report the findings to the Legislature and the Governor by December 31, 2005.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1439 (Speier-D) Public employees' retirement: state retired annuitants

Prohibits a PERS retired annuitant 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 1601 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) County employees' retirement: safety member benefits

Provides that a lump sum payment will be allowed for certain "deferred" retirement benefits in lieu of a monthly benefit of under $100. Provides that all prior safety service purchased by safety members shall be treated consistently under the new, higher benefit formula provided by AB 1937 (Correa-D), Chapter 237, Statutes of 2000.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1602 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) Public employees' retirement: preretirement death benefits

Provides the PERS pre-retirement death benefit currently available for state members to surviving spouses of active local agency and school members whose death occurs on or after January 1, 2005.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1603 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) State Public Employees' Retirement System

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

Chapter 231, Statutes of 2004

SB 1632 (Figueroa-D) Public pension systems: investments

Requires public pension systems to obtain specified information from corporations within the internal equity index fund of their investment portfolios.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1720 (Alarcon-D) Metropolitan water districts: civil service

Requires the board of a metropolitan water district to prescribe a system of civil service that, with certain exceptions, includes every officer and employee of the district. Requires the district to establish a civil service commission consisting of five members appointed by the board for five-year terms to enforce the civil service rules and, by majority vote, to prescribe probationary periods and classifications. Makes other related changes.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

Similar legislation was AB 1695 (Ridley-Thomas-D),which died in Assembly Local Government Committee.

SR 29 (Burton-D) Memoranda of Understanding

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

Adopted by the Senate

Similar legislation was SCR 51 (Burton-D), which died at the Assembly Desk.

AB 18 (Leno-D) Public employment: discrimination

Makes changes to provisions of the State Civil Service Act relating to unlawful discrimination and includes gender, sexual orientation, physical disability, medical condition, and mental disability under the basis of discrimination under that act.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 91 (Dutton-R) Public employees' retirement

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

Similar legislation was AB 133 (Bogh-R), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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

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

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

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 476 (Correa-D) County employees retirement: additional credit

Allows members of the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 who had a break in service, to have their prior service count toward eligibility for a benefit that ceases the employee contribution after the member has 30 years of service.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 507 (Hancock-D) Public employment

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 753* (Leslie-R) Surviving spouses: deceased firefighters and peace officers

Extends health benefits to surviving spouses of firefighters and peace officers who were married for less than a year on the date of death but were married before the date of the injury or disease that caused the death.

Chapter 440, Statutes of 2004

AB 886 (Diaz-D) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Approves provisions that require the expenditure of funds of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) entered into between the state employer and an unspecified employee organization, and provides that the provisions of any MOU that require the expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of the MOU are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act. Provides that provisions of the MOU approved by this bill that require the expenditure of funds shall not take effect unless funds for these provisions are specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and provides that if funds for these provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature, the state employer, and the affected employee organization shall meet and confer to renegotiate the affected provisions.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

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

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

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 979 (Negrete McLeod-D) County employees' retirement

Makes various technical changes and corrections to provisions of the County Employees' Retirement Act of 1937.

Chapter 441, Statutes of 2004

AB 1281 (Pavley-D) County employees' retirement: additional service credit

Allows peace officer and firefighter members within the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to purchase unlimited service credit for prior service, as specified, upon the election of the governing board or district.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1362 (Wiggins-D) Labor dispute arbitration

Extends binding arbitration rights over economic disputes to firefighters of the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Vetoed by the Governor

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1875 (Maldonado-R) Public employees

Makes various changes regarding the meet and confer rights of state management employees that are defined as excluded under existing State employer-employee collective bargaining statutes.

Chapter 654, Statutes of 2004

AB 1958 (Frommer-D) PERS: pharmaceutical purchasing consortium

Authorizes the Board of Administration of the State Public Employees Retirement System to establish or enter into a pharmaceutical purchasing consortium with private or public entities.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2034 (Campbell-R) Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: agency shop agreements

Includes confidential and supervisory employees within the employees to which an agency shop arrangement is inapplicable.

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

AB 2075 (Benoit-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: employee qualifications

Authorizes the State Department of Motor Vehicles to conduct criminal history background checks on current and prospective employees.

Chapter 419, Statutes of 2004

AB 2103* (Negrete McLeod-D) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Amends the current memorandum of understanding between the state employer and Bargaining Unit 5 (BU 5)(California Highway Patrol), to require members of BU 5 to remain in the current personal leave program for an additional six months, through December 31, 2004, and continue to have a salary reduction of 5% during that period.

Chapter 635, Statutes of 2004

AB 2234 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County employees' retirement

Makes various substantive policy changes to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 ('37 Act) regarding: (1) the transfer of service credit, (2) planning for administrative continuity of the county retirement system in the event of a catastrophic event, and (3) discussion of potential investment of retirement system assets in closed session.

Chapter 533, Statutes of 2004

AB 2275 (Dymally-D) Equal opportunity programs

Repeals requirements to annually establish employment goals and timetables based on race or gender that were invalidated by the California Court of Appeal in Connerly v. State Personnel Board , and re-title Chapter 12 of Part 2, Division 5, Title 2 of the Government Code from "Affirmative Action Program" to "State Equal Employment Opportunity Program."

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2314 (Jerome Horton-D) State employees

Revises disciplinary procedures for managerial employees to remove inequitable language in order to make a uniform standard for applying the burden of proof for all state employees.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2330 (Samuelian-R) Volunteer Firefighters Length of Service Award System

Declares that funding of up to $120,000 per year for the payment of the costs of administration of the Volunteer Firefighters Length of Service Award System shall be provided, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, from the General Fund. Makes related findings and declarations.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2334* (Samuelian-R) State employees: supervisors: peace officers

Requires that supervisors of state employees represented by State Bargaining Units 5 (Highway Patrol), 6 (Corrections), or 8 (Firefighters) receive salary increases that are exactly the same as salary increases granted to employees they supervise. Requires that a supervisor's benefit package shall be the economic equivalent or better than that of the employees he or she supervises.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2355 (Oropeza-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: administrative costs

Requires the State Public Employees Retirement System Board of Administration, upon request, to provide information to a contracting agency regarding administrative costs to be charged to each contracting agency with respect to those plans within the system in which the contracting agency participates.

Chapter 190, Statutes of 2004

AB 2364* (Correa-D) State pension systems: credit enhancement

Authorizes state pension systems to establish credit enhancement programs to assist issuers of municipal and public finance debt, as specified.

Chapter 266, Statutes of 2004

AB 2391 (Koretz-D) Legal services contracts: State Bargaining Unit 2

Prohibits a state agency from contracting for legal services if the hourly rate of compensation for these services equals more than 250% the hourly rate billed to state agencies by State Bargaining Unit 2 represented by California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, Hearing Officers and Deputy Labor Commissioners in State Employment.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2408 (Yee-D) Bilingual services

Makes changes to provisions of the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act requiring state agencies to employ a sufficient number of bilingual persons in public contract positions, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2425 (Cox-R) State Merit Awards Program

Substantially revises the State Merit Awards Program administered by the Department of Personnel Administration.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2460 (Campbell-R) State employees: holidays

Allows each state department and agency to reduce the number of state holidays from 14 to 12.

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

AB 2575 (Haynes-R) Employment relations: state

Repeals a requirement of state collective bargaining law that allows the provisions of a Memorandum of Understanding to remain in effect once it expires under specified circumstances.

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

AB 2681 (Negrete McLeod-D) Ralph C. Dills Act: travel expenses

Authorizes state physicians to negotiate pre-authorized travel expense claims procedures related to Continuing Medical Education.

Chapter 504, Statutes of 2004

AB 2692 (Dutton-R) Elected public officers: felony conviction

Requires an elected official who is convicted of a felony arising out of his or her official duties to forfeit retirement benefits.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 2711 (Leno-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: transfer agreements

Authorizes the State Public Employees Retirement System and the City and County of San Francisco Employees Retirement System to enter into an agreement for the transfer of assets for certain local employees.

Chapter 268, Statutes of 2004

AB 2736 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public employees' retirement: military service

Allows members of the California National Guard, the State Military Reserve and the Naval Militia to qualify for membership in the State Public Employees' Retirement System and to purchase past service credit for service performed prior to membership.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2750 (Steinberg-D) State employees: compensation

Specifies the process for the State Controller to follow in determining which classes of state employees should be paid during any period in which the Budget Act has not been enacted prior to the new fiscal year.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2773 (Richman-R) Public employees: benefits

Limits the amount that a retired public employee who is receiving disability retirement benefits may receive in connection with a workers' compensation claim.

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

AB 2891 (Frommer-D) State employees

Provides that persons who have been, but are not currently, employed with the California State Fellows, the Assembly Fellowship Program, the Federal Administration Fellowship, or the Executive Fellowship Program, and who have fulfilled all requirements, are to be eligible to apply for promotional civil service exams, including exams for career executive assignments, for which they meet the minimum qualifications, as prescribed by the class specifications, and allows state agencies to administer a deferred promotional exam to those persons, if an exam is not currently being offered.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2894 (Wiggins-D) County employees' retirement: purchasing power protection

Authorizes the Sonoma County board of retirement, which administers a retirement system under the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937, to increase the monthly allowances of Sonoma County retirees to a maximum of 80 percent of the purchasing power of the initial monthly allowances, if approved by the Sonoma County board of supervisors.

Chapter 435, Statutes of 2004

AB 2903* (Campbell-R) State employees' retirement: contributions and benefits

Requires an increase in state employee retirement contributions, and the provision of a lower retirement benefit tier for new state employees, as specified.

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

AB 2929 (Chavez-D) State employees: salary and benefits

Requires the State of California to pay registered nurses who are rank-and-file members of State Bargaining Unit 17 (Registered Nurses), at a minimum, an average wage calculated from comparable nursing classifications in five collective bargaining agreements, selected from the largest acute care hospital with a collective bargaining agreement in each of the following areas: the Los Angeles region, the San Francisco Bay region, the Sacramento region, San Diego County, and Kern County.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2956 (Wiggins-D) County employees' retirement: reciprocity

Requires the board of retirement in the 20 counties with retirement systems organized under the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 to make recommendations regarding the mandated actuarial valuation (made at least every three years) at least 60 days prior to the beginning of the succeeding fiscal year, rather then the current 45 days.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2982* (Pacheco-R) County employees' retirement: disability retirement

Creates a new procedure, under the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937, to determine whether county employees, injured after January 1, 2004, are capable of performing other duties.

Chapter 379, Statutes of 2004

AB 3008 (Chan-D) County employees' retirement: benefits

Authorizes the board of supervisors in Alameda County and Merced County to provide various retirement benefits to safety members of the same bargaining unit until January 1, 2010.

Chapter 662, Statutes of 2004

AB 3030 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) State Veterinarian employees: continuing education

Provides that full-time employees of the State of California, acting within the scope of their employment as veterinarians for the State Veterinarian, shall be exempt from the provisions requiring specified continuing veterinary education in order to obtain renewal of their veterinary licenses. Provides that, for the purpose of veterinarian license renewal, the State Veterinarian may set the continuing education requirements for those veterinarians under his or her authority, and in setting those continuing education requirements, the State Veterinarian may designate, at his or her sole discretion, continuing education providers, subjects, hours, and methods.

(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 3094 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Retirement systems

Creates procedures for the State Public Employees' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement System and the 20 county retirement systems under the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 to recover benefit overpayments in the event of the death of a benefit recipient.

Chapter 506, Statutes of 2004

ACR 238 (Negrete McLeod-D) State employee merit awards

Declares that merit award payments in specified amounts, authorized by the State Department of Personnel Administration, are made to specified current or retired state employees whose proposals have resulted in annual savings and net revenue gain to the state.

Resolution Chapter 201, Statutes of 2004

A similar resolution was ACR 187 (Negrete-McLeod (D)), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Other State Government

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

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

(Died in Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

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

Authorizes each state agency, and each campus of the California State University, to survey users of vending machines on the state property under its jurisdiction as to their interest in the inclusion of food or beverages that meet accepted nutritional guidelines in those vending machines. If the majority of respondents to a survey indicate a preference for the inclusion of food or beverages, or both, meeting accepted nutritional guidelines, authorizes the agency or campus to require that at least 50 percent of the food, beverages, or both offered in each vending machine operated or maintained on state property under is jurisdiction meet accepted nutritional guidelines. Authorizes the agencies or campuses to request employee groups or organizations, community groups, or others with expertise in the area of nutritional vending machines products to assist the agency or campus with information in this regard. Additionally requires vendors who operate or maintain vending machines on state property to provide specified information to users, upon request.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

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

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

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 98* (Alpert-D) Claims against the state

Appropriates $27,795,276 from various funds and reappropriates $600,000 from the Budget Act of 1999 to the State Department of Housing and Community Development to pay two judgments and six settlements against the State of California.

Chapter 12, Statutes of 2004

SB 111 (Knight-R) State reporting requirements

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

(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

Creates the Commission on Latino/Latina Affairs (Commission) consisting of 15 members appointed as specified. The duties of the commission include advising the Governor, the Legislature and state agencies, departments, and commissions on issues relating to the social and economic development, and the rights and interests of Latino/Latina communities. Requires the Commission to submit an annual report with specified recommendations by December 1 of each year to the Governor and the Legislature detailing its activities in the preceding 12 months and setting forth its proposed action plan for the following year. Specifies that the terms of the commissioners shall commence on January 1, 2005.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 321 (Torlakson-D) Infrastructure investment bonds

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 427 (Dunn-D) Mexican repatriation: commission

Establishes, in state government, a 16-member commission on the 1930's Repatriation Program to study and make recommendations regarding the deportation of Mexican descent between 1929 and 1944.

Vetoed by the Governor

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

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

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 562 (Ackerman-R) Bonds

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 669* (Battin-R) State property

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 753* (Alpert-D) State claims

Appropriates $1.2 million from various funds to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to pay equity claims, according to a specified schedule.

Chapter 39, Statutes of 2004

SB 815* (Alpert-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $13,126,407.21 from the General Fund to pay one settlement and one judgment against the State of California.

Chapter 541, Statutes of 2004

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

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

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 906 (Alarcon-D) Service contracts: counties and cities

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

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 974 (Alarcon-D) Public contracts: preferences

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1011 (Battin-R) Public contracting

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

(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1102* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Omnibus general government trailer bill

Used as the general government omnibus budget trailer bill. Provides various legislative changes related to general government necessary for the enactment of the 2004-05 State Budget Act

Chapter 227, Statutes of 2004

SB 1130 (Scott-D) Public contracts: transit design-build contracts

Extends for two years, until January 1, 2007, the authority for transit districts to enter into design-build contracts in which a single contractor or entity would be responsible for both the design and construction phase of a contract. Also adds clarifying language relative to transit projects.

Chapter 196, Statutes of 2004

SB 1137 (Burton-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: retirement board

Requires that the retiree member of the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) Board, that is currently appointed by the Governor, be elected by retired and disabled STRS members to a four-year term, beginning January 1, 2006.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1144 (Burton-D) Public contracts: prescription drugs

Permits the State Department of General Services (DGS) to enter into prescription drug contracts from Canadian sources. Requires all DGS drug contracts to meet various safety standards.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1161 (Alpert-D) Libraries

Establishes the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2005, authorizing the issuance of $600 million in bonds for the purpose of financing library construction and renovation, subject to voter approval.

Chapter 698, Statutes of 2004

SB 1181 (Margett-R) Public officials: bond: insurance

Permits a city or county to purchase commercially available insurance securing the faithful performance of public officers in lieu of a public official's bond, master bond, or self-insuring.

Chapter 273, Statutes of 2004

SB 1226 (Machado-D) State Grass

Designates "Nassella pulchra" (commonly referred to as purple needlegrass) as the official California State Grass.

Chapter 243, Statutes of 2004

SB 1261 (Vasconcellos-D) International relations

Specifies that the Governor is the primary state officer representing California's interests in international affairs. Requires the Governor to designate a Director of External Affairs within the Governor's Office. Specifies what roles the State Department of Food and Agriculture, the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, the State Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the University of California, and the California State University will play in international affairs, and requires each of these entities to designate an individual to act as primary liaison between itself and the international community.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1268 (Morrow-R) State contracts and grants: faith-based organizations

Makes a faith-based organization eligible for contracts with or grants from the state to provide services under any state program, on the same basis as any other private organization and prohibits the state from requiring that the faith-based organization alter its internal governance in order to be eligible. Requires the state to provide a person who objects to the religious character of a faith-based provider, within three days of the objections, with an alternative service provider that is accessible, convenient, and that provides services of equal value.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1303 (Torlakson-D) Harbors: Board of Pilot Commissioners

Makes a minor change to an existing provision of law relative to representation on the Board of Pilot Commissioners (Board) by clarifying that the Board's two industry members must be substantial users of any of the waters of the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, Suisun, or Monterey.

Chapter 560, Statutes of 2004

SB 1304 (Machado-D) Public contracts: state agencies: procedures

Requires that data contained on surplus data storage hardware be overwritten, or rendered unrecoverable by other means, before that hardware may be disposed of, auctioned, or otherwise transferred by the state.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1424 (Burton-D) California Tax Court

Creates a new California Tax Court that absorbs a part of the State Board of Equalization's current appeal process.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1437 (Speier-D) State Auditor: high-risk agencies

Authorizes the State Auditor to establish a high-risk government agency audit program for the purpose of identifying, auditing, and issuing reports on any state agency that the State Auditor identifies as a high risk for the potential of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, as specified.

Chapter 251, Statutes of 2004

SB 1452 (Figueroa-D) Public contracts

Prohibits the State of California from contracting for services with any entity or individual that employees persons or subcontractors outside the United States in order to complete the contract.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1505 (McClintock-R) Administrative Procedure Act: small business

Revises the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs the filing, publication, review and adoption of proposed regulations.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1573 (Battin-R) State mandates: reimbursement

Narrows the definition of a reimbursable mandated cost to include only costs that are only in addition to those costs previously incurred, including any costs of discretionary efforts to implement the program or service prior to enactment of the mandate, unless the Legislature specifies that the previously optional costs are to be reimbursed; only those costs of providing, in the most cost-effective manner, the minimum level of program or service necessary to comply with the mandate; and only costs up to a maximum level specified in legislation.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1590 (Dunn-D) Public records: personal information

Provides the State Department of Health Services, the State Department of Consumer Affairs, and the State Department of Managed Health Care with the discretion to refuse to disclose records that contain personal information pertaining to employees, board members, volunteers, owners, partners, officers, or contractors of a reproductive health facility (as defined), when such information is requested under the Public Records Act.

Chapter 922, Statutes of 2004

SB 1597 (Karnette-D) State agencies: statutes and regulations

Requires the State Department of Corrections, the State Department of Education, and the State Department of Transportation to prepare an analysis and submit a report to the Senate and Assembly Rules Committees regarding the implementation and efficacy of statutes and regulations, applicable to those departments, that were enacted or adopted between January 6, 1999 and December 31, 1999. Requires the report to include a summary of legislation, budget change proposals, and other initiatives the agency has pursued to improve its legislative mandate, and a recommendation on whether related statutes or regulations should be amended or repealed.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1638 (Romero-D) State Budget: services contracts

Requires the Governor to submit, as part of the state budget, specified information relating to service contracts. Specifies that the information is to be posted on the State of California's web site in an interactive format.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1643 (Murray-D) Black History Month

Requires the Governor to proclaim, annually, the month of February as Black History Month.

Chapter 256, Statutes of 2004

SB 1698 (Torlakson-D) Emergency response liability

Adds the definition of "emergency response" to sections of the Government Code to mean (1) an enforcement stop by a law enforcement agency utilizing emergency lights or sirens or both, (2) a fire, medical, or law enforcement response to a vehicle collision, medical emergency, or other incident requiring immediate assistance, (3) providing traffic control on a public roadway or to ensure safety on a navigable waterway.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1699 (Hollingsworth-R) Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency

Authorizes the Secretary of the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H) to establish the California Office of International Trade and Investment within BT&H. Provides that specific parameters and criteria must be met prior to the establishment of an international trade and investment office.

(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

SB 1707 (Aanestad-R) Emergency response costs

Allows for the recovery of emergency costs from a person who must be rescued because they intentionally, knowingly, or willfully enter any area that is closed to the public or any street that is closed because of flooding.

Chapter 51, Statutes of 2004

SB 1718 (Karnette-D) Maritime security

Requires the Governor to designate one officer to apply for membership in the federal "Area Maritime Security Committees," and requires that the officer must be selected from existing staff, and expenses incurred pursuant to this will be paid from existing administration resources.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1734 (Battin-R) Public contracts: sweatshop labor

Eliminates the existing requirements pertaining to public contracts as it relates to sweat shop labor and other work conditions.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1735 (Figueroa-D) Boards: State Department of Consumer Affairs

Requires positions in the State Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) that were abolished due to state budget requirements or because they were continuously vacant to be re-established, and prohibits non-General Fund monies supporting a DCA board from being loaned to the General Fund.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1750 (Battin-R) California Asset Review and Divestiture Commission

Establishes a 12-member independent commission in state government to review and recommend state property for divestiture.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1751 (Denham-R) State property: inventory

Requires the State Department of General Services to make available on its web site, by July 1, 2008, an inventory of state-owned property, including property owned by the State Department of Transportation and the State Lands Commission, and any other state department or agency. Also requires that funds acquired through the sale of surplus property be used for this purpose.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1752 (Battin-R) State property: surplus

Annual surplus property bill sponsored by the State Department of General Services.

Chapter 925, Statutes of 2004

SB 1753 (Denham-R) Surplus state property

Requires the State Department of General Services (DGS) to determine, within 60 days, if surplus property is needed by any other state entity. If another state entity does need the property, DGS is to transfer the jurisdiction of that property to that entity within six months. Requires DGS, or any state agency authorized by DGS, to issue an invitation to bid to real estate brokers to sell that land if determined not to be needed by any other state agency, or in the event the land is determined to be needed by another state agency and the transfer to that state agency has not occurred within the six-month period. Revises the provisions relating to the use of the land for school, park and recreation or open-space purposes, or for low- or moderate-income housing and repeals the provisions relating to the use of the land for other public purposes. Becomes operative on July 1, 2005.

(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1754 (Battin-R) Use of real property: Department of General Services

Provides that the State Department of General Services (DGS), with agreement by the State Department of Finance, will make the final determination with respect to the use of existing state-owned or state-leased office space that is currently under the jurisdiction of DGS.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1755 (Denham-R) State property: surplus

Creates an incentive program for state agencies and their employees to encourage them to identify surplus and underutilized real property so that the state can free the property for better uses and enhance the General Fund.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1756 (Battin-R) State property

Provides that the Legislature declares as surplus all residential and retail rental property owned by the Joint Powers Authority within the Capitol Area Plan and authorizes the Director of the State Department of General Services to sell it to any public or private party.

(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1757 (Denham-R) State procurement: vehicles

Requires that California State University receive approval from the State Department of General Services before acquiring motor vehicles or general use mobile equipment, and encourages the University of California to also do so.

Chapter 926, Statutes of 2004

SB 1758 (Battin-R) State property: inventory

Requires all state agencies, including the State Department of Transportation and the University of California, to report to the State Department of General Services (DGS), by March 1, 2005, all real property valued at $5,000 or more and to report subsequent purchases of such value. Requires DGS to maintain an inventory of all state-owned and state-leased real property, except for state highway rights-of-way, property under the jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission, and any property that should not be included for security reasons. Requires the inventory to contain specified information about each property, including address and location, description, current and projected uses, the purchase price and estimated current market value, and the agency responsible for the property.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1760 (Perata-D) Waiver: Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Expressly states that the State of California consents to be sued in state or federal court by any person seeking to enforce rights under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Also expressly prohibits the state from asserting immunity under the Eleventh Amendment of the United States to immunity under that amendment for lawsuits under the ADA. Applies to all public agencies of the state, as defined.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1775 (Ortiz-D) Public buildings: disability access

Eliminates the December 31, 2004 sunset date on the provisions of law that authorizes the State Architect, within the State Department of General Services, to expend funds in the Disability Access Account for the purpose of developing building regulation amendments that may be necessary to ensure that the state's disability access standards meet or exceed those established by federal statute.

Chapter 252, Statutes of 2004

SB 1787 (Johnson-R) State property: inventory

Clarifies that the State Department of General Services shall update the annual inventory of real property by January 1 of each year.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 1788 (Johnson-R) Public contracts: goods and services

Makes a minor technical change to an existing provision of the Public Contract Code relating to the approval of contracts for goods and services by the State Department of General Services.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 1793 (McPherson-R) Public contracts: design-build contracting

Declares the Legislature's intent to explore the use of alternate methods of financing and delivering transportation projects in the state, including design-build, design sequencing, and various forms of private financing, including tolls.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

SB 1827 (Torlakson-D) Parking: car elevators

Requires the State Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the Division of State Architect, to prepare and provide to the Legislature, no later than January 1, 2006, a report on whether to require the adoption of building standards within the California Building Standards Code adoption cycle that begins after January 1, 2005, for car elevators, parking lifts, or both. Requires the report to determine the need for legislation to authorize the use of car elevators and parking lifts that meet these building standards within any local jurisdiction in order to provide adequate and sufficient parking spaces for high density housing projects that may not otherwise receive local jurisdiction approval because of local parking requirements.

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1851 (Bowen-D) State buildings and publicly funded schools: standards

Requires new state buildings to exceed current energy efficiency standards and be constructed and/or renovated to incorporate green building elements that are "cost-effective," as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1857 (Hollingsworth-R) Trade and international trade offices

Authorizes the Secretary of the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H) to establish additional overseas international trade and investment offices if the agency has developed a business plan and international trade strategy for that office and met other specified criteria. Requires the Secretary of BT&H to establish criteria and a process for selecting a manager of each overseas office and specifies minimum qualifications for a manager. Requires BT&H to report annually to the Legislature on the success of each office with specified information. Provides that these provisions may be implemented only to the extent that funds are available for this purpose from federal funding, private sector monies subject to any funding cap the Governor may establish to limit the total amount of private funds available to each office, and state funds for international trade specialists in the agency.

(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)

SB 1892 (Burton-D) Personal services contracts

Makes changes to the review requirements, and the dispute provisions, for certain personal services contracts (i.e., contracting out) entered into by state agencies.

Vetoed by the Governor

SCA 1 (Burton-D) Access to government information

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

(Resolution Chapter 1, Statutes of 2004)

SCA 15 (McClintock-R) State contracts: contracting out state services

Provides the Governor with the authority to require any state agency to contract out for services that otherwise could be performed by the state civil service, if the Governor determines that terms more favorable to the state may be obtained. Requires any contract awarded under these circumstances, to be done by competitive bid basis with review, approval and award handled by the State Department of General Services or its successor agency, as specified. Provides that the provisions of this act are self-executing, and also, the Legislature may not enact any legislation to amend or restrict the authority granted to the Governor by this section.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SCA 16 (McClintock-R) Appropriations limit

Repeals those provisions of Propositions 98 and 111 that modified Proposition 4, and restores the former provisions enacted in 1979.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SCA 18 (Johnson-R) Surplus state property

Requires that the proceeds from the sale of surplus state property, through the Economic Recovery Bond Act to finance the accumulated state budget deficit, with specified exceptions, be used to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued, and, once the principal and interest on those bonds are fully paid, requires that the proceeds from the sale of surplus state property be deposited in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties.

Resolution Chapter 103, Statutes of 2004

SCR 54 (Denham-R) World Languages and Cultures Month

Declares the month of May 2004 as World Languages and Cultures Month.

Resolution Chapter 32, Statutes of 2004

A similar resolution was SCR 19 (Alarcon-D), which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

SCR 57 (Margett-R) "Go Red for Women Day"

Proclaims February 6, 2004, as "Go Red for Women Day" in California, and encourages all Californians to wear red on that day, in support of those women whose lives have been touched by heart disease or stroke.

Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2004

SCR 61 (Battin-R) California Hispanic Heritage Month

Proclaims September 15 to October 15, 2004, inclusive, as California Hispanic Heritage Month, and encourages all Californians to observe this event in communities throughout the state.

Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2004

SCR 62 (Battin-R) California Indian Heritage Month

Proclaims November 2004 as California Indian Heritage Month, encourages its observance with activities that celebrate our uniqueness as Americans, and commends California Indian nations for their outstanding contributions to this state.

Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2004

SCR 63 (Morrow-R) POW Recognition Day

Designates April 9, 2004, as POW Recognition Day in California.

Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 2004

SCR 66 (McPherson-R) California Western Monarch Day

Declares February 5, 2004, and subsequent anniversaries thereafter, to be California Western Monarch Day.

Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2004

SCR 72 (Ducheny-D) Former Republic of Vietnam flag

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

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

A similar resolution was ACR 68 (Maddox-R), which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

SCR 74 (Torlakson-D) California Fitness Month

Proclaims the month of May 2004, as California Fitness Month, and encourages all Californians to enrich their lives through proper diet and exercise.

Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2004

SCR 77 (Vasconcellos-D) State Advisory Committee on Institutional Religion

Commends the 56 years of work of the State Advisory Committee on Institutional Religion in assisting the implementation of chaplaincy programs within various state institutions and urges the committee to assist state agencies that employ institutional chaplains to make the most effective possible use of staff, volunteers, and other resources.

Resolution Chapter 164, Statutes of 2004

SCR 96 (Karnette-D) California Firefighters Memorial Day

Designates October 9, 2004, as California Firefighters Memorial Day and urges all Californians to remember those firefighters who have given their lives in the line of duty and express appreciation to those firefighters who continue to protect our families, homes, and dreams.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SR 9 (Vasconcellos-D) Relative to nonviolence

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

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SR 31 (Soto-D) Relative to firefighters

Commends the contributions made by our state's finest and bravest, who daily put their lives on the line for our safety, and expresses appreciation to those men and women who continue to selflessly protect our families, our homes, and our dreams. Declares that the State Senate joins in commending the firefighters for their brave deeds at a "Day to Thank the Firefighters" tribute luncheon on January 27, 2004, as the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California.

Read and adopted

AB 6 (Cohn-D) State Department of Corrections: medical care services

Prohibits the State Department of General Services from authorizing the State Department of Corrections to enter into contracts for medical care services without seeking competitive bids for the contract.

Vetoed by the Governor

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

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

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 59 (Dymally-D) Commission: African-American

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

Vetoed by the Governor

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

Provides, until January 1, 2008, that a public agency is not required to prepare and submit any written report to the Legislature or the Governor, unless certain conditions exist or the report is required to be prepared and submitted pursuant to this bill.

Chapter 409, Statutes of 2004

AB 126 (Campbell-R) Publicly funded advertisements

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 193 (Cohn-D) State Auditor

Requires the State Auditor to conduct three biennial performance audits of the state's information technology procurement and contracting practices. The first audit is to commence on July 1, 2005 and reported to the Legislature and the Governor by March 31, 2006.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 249 (Matthews-D) State Controller

Allows the State Controller to conduct performance reviews or audits if they are deemed necessary to complete a fiscal audit.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 283* (Campbell-R) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $2,017,905.90 from various funds to pay 467 claims against 37 state agencies. The funds are appropriated to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for payment of equity claims approved by the board.

Chapter 3, Statutes of 2004

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

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 318 (Haynes-R) State agency fiscal reports

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

(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

AB 351 (Assembly Budget Committee) State lands: acquisition

Requires that, prior to the approval of an acquisition of conservation land that at least one independent appraisal of the fair market value of the land be conducted, and that the information be made public.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 358 (Jackson-D) Gender discrimination

Requires (1) the state to implement the principles underlying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), (2) the State Department of Corrections, the State Department of Education, and the State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the State Commission on the Status of women, beginning on January 1, 2006, to conduct a self-evaluation to ensure that the state does not discriminate against women through the implementation of state policies and programs, including the allocation of funding and delivery of services, and (3) requires the three departments to report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2007, with recommendations for what policies and practices, if any, might be changed to implement CEDAW.

Vetoed by the Governor

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

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

(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

AB 465 (Negrete McLeod-D) Elected public officers: felony conviction

Provides that any elected public officer, who first takes the office on or after January 1, 2005, and who is convicted of any of those felons arising out of his or her official duties, shall forfeit retirement benefits that accrue during his or her term of office and any employee contributions made by the elected public officer during his or her term of office shall be returned, subject to the community property rights of the public officer's spouse, if any, as specified. Requires the officer's employer to notify the retirement system of the officer's conviction.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

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

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

(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

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

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

(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 671 (Corbett-D) State workforce infrastructure planning

Requires the Governor to submit annually to the Legislature a proposed five-year workforce infrastructure plan in conjunction with a physical infrastructure plan to cover the infrastructure needs for the provision of public instruction and public libraries.

Vetoed by the Governor

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

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

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

AB 795 (Nunez-D) Personal services contracts

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

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

AB 806* (Wiggins-D) State contracts: personal services

Excludes, with the exception of the requirements with respect to holiday pay provisions, from the requirements relating to personal services contracts that are performed by employees of nonprofit organizations that are employed pursuant to a specified license, certificate, community rehabilitation plan, or a habilitation service program.

Chapter 26, Statutes of 2004

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

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

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

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

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

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 990 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public contracts

Enacts the "California First" Procurement Act for the purpose of granting bidders that employ California workers a precedence in the awarding of public contracts.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1142 (Hancock-D) Public contracts: bids

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

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

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

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

Chapter 5, Statutes of 2004

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

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

Chapter 7, Statutes of 2004

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

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

Chapter 8, Statutes of 2004

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

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

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

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

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

Chapter 512, Statutes of 2004

AB 1616 (Montanez-D) Intellectual property rights

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

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1827 (Cohn-D) Closed sessions: state audits

Creates a new exception to both state and local government open meeting laws that allows state and local government bodies to meet in closed session for the purpose of discussing a confidential final draft audit report from the State Auditor.

Chapter 576, Statutes of 2004

AB 1829 (Liu-D) Public contracts: services: domestic workers

Prohibits state and local governments from expending state funds for (1) employee training in foreign countries, and (2) contracts for services with a contractor or subcontractor that uses workers outside the United States, as specified. Authorizes a state agency to waive this prohibition, with the consent of the State Controller, under certain circumstances, such as when the contract is necessary to respond to an emergency.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1933 (Pacheco-R) Public records

Clarifies an existing prohibition on obtaining addresses from crime reports for marketing purposes by specifying that such information may not be obtained and shared with another for marketing purposes.

Chapter 937, Statutes of 2004

AB 1939 (Cox-R) California State Military Museum and Resource Center

Designates the California State Military Museum and Resource Center as the official state military museum.

Chapter 133, Statutes of 2004

AB 2000 (Dutton-R) Governmental reorganization

Abolishes the State Franchise Tax Board (FTB) and transfers its powers and duties to the State Board of Equalization (BOE), effective January 1, 2006. Requires the BOE to report to the Governor and the Legislature on or before June 30, 2005 regarding its assumption of FTB's duties and powers.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2043 (Lowenthal-D) Maritime Port Strategic Master Plan Task Force

Requires the California Marine and Intermodal Transportation System Advisory Council to hold public hearings, compile comprehensive data on port-related issues, and report to the Legislature on its findings.

Chapter 942, Statutes of 2004

AB 2046 (Garcia-R) State computers: prohibited use: obscene matter

Makes it unlawful for any person to use a state-owned or state-leased computer to access, view, download, or otherwise obtain obscene matter. Does not apply to computers which, consistent with the legitimate needs of law enforcement, contain evidence to be used in a criminal case.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 2060 (Maddox-R) Weapons of mass destruction civil support team

Provides for a $2,000 bonus for each year of service for each member of the National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team certified as a hazardous materials specialist or technician.

(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2062 (Nakano-D) Notaries public

Requires a notary public to use a jurat (i.e., an official declaration similar to an affidavit) form to certify the identity of persons signing documents and exempts notary public applicants who apply by a specific date from new course requirements that have not yet taken effect.

Chapter 539, Statutes of 2004

AB 2104* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget trailer bill: omnibus government issue corrections

Provides technical clean-up changes to the 2004 Budget Act trailer bills.

Chapter 702, Statutes of 2004

AB 2106 (Ridley-Thomas-D) State government: tax expenditures report

Revises the scope and content of tax expenditure reports prepared by the State Department of Finance with assistance form the State Franchise Tax board and the State Board of Equalization.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2120 (Assembly Budget Committee) Information technology grants

Encourages state agencies to consider performance based or share-in procurement practices when entering into information technology grants.

Chapter 802, Statutes of 2004

AB 2198 (Liu-D) State agencies: reports: electronic format

Provides that when a state agency is requested or required to submit a report, and the resolution or statute does not require that each specified recipient receive a physical copy of the report, then, in the case of a report to the Governor, a physical copy shall be submitted to the Governor, in the case of a report to the Legislature, a physical copy shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Assembly and the Secretary of the Senate, and in the case of a report to a specified committee of the Legislature, a physical copy shall be submitted to the chairperson and vice chairperson of the committee. Requires that each report a state agency is required to submit be available in an electronic format and specify an Internet web site where the report may be downloaded and a telephone number to call to order a physical copy of the report.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2224 (Cohn-D) State mandates: reimbursement

Requires the Commission on State Mandates to revise the method for local governments to claim reimbursement for the animal adoption mandate; authorizes the State Controller to conduct field audits before mandate claims are paid; and requires the Controller to complete an audit within two years.

Chapter 313, Statutes of 2004

AB 2241 (Campbell-R) Building standards: California Building Standards Commission

Clarifies the types of officials and contractors that constitute the California Building Standards Commission.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2259 (Nakanishi-R) Department of General Services: communication contracts

Requires the State Department of General Services to make any new or existing communications systems and facilities available to specified private, nonprofit, tax-exempt corporations on the same terms and conditions as public agencies.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2341 (Aghazarian-R) Public contracts

Exempts specified public contracts from requirements for written certification of compliance with specified statutes.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2375 (Harman-R) The Design-Contract-Build Procurement Program

Establishes the Design-Contract-Build Procurement Program to provide an alternative method of contracting for state and local agencies.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2392 (Houston-R) Public contracts: bidding procedures: alternate bids

Modifies a provision to require the State Department of Industrial Relations to publicly disclose funding amounts before bid openings.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2397 (Shirley Horton-R) Public contracts: debarment and suspension

Increases, from six to 36 months, the period of ineligibility that the State Department of General Services may impose on contractors for a variety of violations of existing state contract law.

Chapter 277, Statutes of 2004

AB 2423 (Haynes-R) Government regulation: nonprofit

Additionally prohibits any local, state, or other public agency from imposing or implementing a land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on a nonprofit entity, unless the agency demonstrates that the imposition of the burden on that person is in furtherance of a substantial governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that substantial governmental interest.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2449* (Diaz-D) State contracts

Requires vendors bidding on state service contracts worth more than $100,000 to provide an estimate of those portions of the contract that will be performed by workers outside of the United States, and requires awardees to complete a detailed questionnaire upon award and conclusion of the contract, as well as any time that subcontractors located outside the U.S. are hired.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2472 (Wolk-D) California Tax Court

Establishes the California Tax Court to replace the State Board of Equalization as the forum to hear and determine taxpayer appeals.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2482 (Campbell-R) State reports: electronic format

Requires a state agency that is already required by law to submit a report to either house of the Legislature, or a committee or entity within the Legislature, to submit the full report in electronic format (in lieu of a hard copy) and post the report on the state agency's web site.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2530 (Levine-D) State Controller: duties and authority

Increases the charge employees may make on wage garnishments, increases the amount that the State Controller (Controller) can write off for employees accounts receivable, allows the Controller's reports to be published electronically, and makes other changes to streamline the Controller's operations.

Chapter 520, Statutes of 2004

AB 2541 (Frommer-D) Low Emission Contractor Incentive Program

Requires the State Department of General Services to establish a program providing bid preferences on all state contracts for bidders using low-emission equipment and vehicles and/or implementing rideshare programs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2576 (Mountjoy-R) Public agencies: identification documents

Requires an official of a public agency to accept only a form of identification that is a "secure and verifiable document" when the official must obtain identification prior to issuing a license or permit or providing any other service of the agency.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2609 (Garcia-R) Information technology

Enacts the Information Technology Act of 2004, which creates the office of State Chief Information Officer in the office of the Governor, subject to appointment by the Governor and confirmation by the Senate, with specified duties in the development and oversight of information technology policies in the state. Establishes the State Department of Technology Services (DTS) in state government, to be administered by the Director of DTS, appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate, and with specified duties in that regard. Creates the Technology Services Commission in state government, to consist of specified members, and set forth the duties of the commission in overseeing the activities of the department. Creates the State Technology Fund in the State Treasury, to be administered by the director, subject to the direction of the commission, and continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years for the purposes of the bill.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2638 (Cogdill-R) Building standards: public information

Requires that written rules and regulations that certain agencies adopt to interpret the application of the California Building Code shall be made available to the public, upon request.

Chapter 642, Statutes of 2004

AB 2662 (Jackson-D) Gender discrimination

Requires the state to evaluate state agencies and departments to ensure that policies do not discriminate against women and girls.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2692 (Dutton-R) Elected public officers: felony conviction

Provides that any elected public officer, who first takes office on or after January 1, 2005, shall forfeit any retirement benefits that accrue during his or her term of office if he or she is convicted of any of those felonies arising out of his or her official duties. Provides that any employee contributions made by the elected public officer during his or her term of office shall be returned, as specified. Requires the officer's employer to notify the retirement system of the officer's conviction, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 2700 (Plescia-R) State agencies: computers: security

Makes findings about the risks to the security of state government computers and networks posed by use of peer-to-peer file sharing technology, as defined, and requires each state agency to develop and implement a plan to protect the security and privacy of computers and networks from the risks posed by peer-to-peer file sharing. Requires these reports to be submitted to the chief information officer in the State Department of General Services.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2707 (Cogdill-R) State regulatory fees: counties: notification

Requires state agencies, when imposing new regulatory fees or increasing existing regulatory fees on counties, to notify the affected counties no later than June 30 of the calendar year in which the fees are imposed.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2719 (Laird-D) State Archives: public access

Provides that, notwithstanding any provisions of the California Public Records Act that exempts a record from public disclosure, any item in the custody of the State Archives, irrespective of its origin, or the manner of which it was deposited, shall be accessible to the public no later than 75 years after the item was created.

Chapter 783, Statutes of 2004

AB 2737 (Dutra-D) Government tort liability

Provide that neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by the location of, the condition of, existing upon, or that occurs on, a street, highway, road, sidewalk, or other access adjacent to or leading to or from public property not owned or controlled by the public entity.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2738 (Nation-D) Electronic payment system: long-range plan

Requires the State Controller to prepare an annual long-range plan for moving state payment systems from paper payments to electronic payments. This report requirement will be in effect for 2005-08.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2856 (Laird-D) State mandates: Commission on State Mandates

Revises the procedures for receiving claims and for hearings on claims, as specified, and the definitions of terms related to the procedure and hearings, defines additional terms, abolishes the State Mandates Claim Fund, and deletes the option of paying claims from this fund.

Chapter 890, Statutes of 2004

AB 2887 (Oropeza-D) Governor: foreign governments

Requires the Governor to notify the Legislature subsequent to signing any document involving a foreign government.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2910 (Pacheco-R) Public contracts: public works: competitive bidding

Sets forth requirements for the solicitation and evaluation of bids, and the awarding of contracts by public entities for the erection, construction, alteration, or addition to any work of improvement, estimated to cost more than $50,000, that is not otherwise required to be performed under a competitively bid contract, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2925 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Calif. State Fair & Exposition: African-American exhibitions

Requires the State Department of Food and Agriculture's Division of Fairs and Expositions, the California Exposition and State Fair, and the California African-American Museum to coordinate efforts to increase the availability and quality of cultural exhibits and displays for use by fairs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2928 (Maldonado-R) Independent Auditor

Establishes an Office of the Independent Auditor and a new Cabinet-level position of Independent Auditor, and requires a comprehensive audit of the state government be completed by November 2005.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2994 (Frommer-D) Public contracts: preferences: forest products

Requires state agencies to give preference in the purchase of lumber or other solid wood products (excluding paper and other secondary manufactured goods) to products harvested from California forests when price, fitness, and quality are equal. Makes findings and declarations related to the importance of responsible forestry practices and the benefits of providing a purchasing preference for California-grown timber products.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 3003 (Kehoe-D) Sports facilities leases: local government

Requires mitigation from one city to another when a professional sports team moves within California.

(Failed passage in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)

AB 3054 (Kehoe-D) Emergency communications

Requires the State Fire Marshal, all local fire departments and districts, and every city, county, and city and county to cooperatively develop a telephone system that would provide evacuation orders and instructions to residents and businesses within an area subject to a pending danger.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 3055 (Diaz-D) Advertising on public property

Requires the State Department of General Services (DGS) to survey all state agencies and departments to determine the potential revenue generation from allowing private advertising on state property, and to report to the Legislature by December 1, 2005. Requires DGS to determine how this revenue can be utilized to offset General Fund expenditures.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 3069 (Assembly Revenue And Taxation Committee) 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 3087 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) State emergency plan

Requires the Office of Emergency Services, the State Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security, and the State Department of Forestry to conduct a study to determine the effectiveness of the State Emergency Plan and the mutual aid system.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 3118* (Chu-D) State claims

Appropriates $1,575,960.59 to pay claims against the state which have been approved by the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Fund. Also reappropriates $282,253 to pay the City of Hermosa Beach which had spent monies for renovation of a community center prior to being notified that those monies had reverted. Also appropriates $168,744.19 to the Victims Board. The 2004-05 Budget provides that a portion of the Board's administration be funded by a 15 percent surcharge on each claim. This surcharge is paid by the fund (e.g., the Health Care Deposit Fund) from which the claim is paid, not the filer of the claim.

Chapter 475, Statutes of 2004

ACA 22 (Dutra-D) California Tax Board

Changes the name of the State Board of Equalization to the California Tax Board. Requires the California Tax Board , in addition to performing the duties of the former board, to collect and administer taxes on or measured by income and to conduct administrative review of state tax matter determinations. Makes necessary conforming changes in various other constitutional provisions. Becomes operative on the first day of the sixth calendar month commencing after the measure is approved by the voters.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

ACA 27 (Campbell-R) State government: reorganization

Declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to reorganize state government.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACA 28 (McCarthy-R) State contracts: contracting authority

Authorizes the Governor, and any chief executive of a civil service appointing power, to execute contracts for the performance of governmental functions and activities that are ministerial and would otherwise be performed by civil service employees, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 36 (Garcia-R) Freedom Week

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

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 42 (Leslie-R) National Day of Prayer

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

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 44 (Dymally-D) Earl Warren

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

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

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

Recognizes the week of May 3 through May 9, 2004, as Public Service Recognition Week, to honor those individuals who devote their careers to professional civil service, and encourages the people of the state, counties, cities, and special districts to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2004

ACR 59 (Pacheco-R) Eagle Scouts

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

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 61 (Koretz-D) Financial Literacy Month

Declares the month of April 2004 as Financial Literacy Month, in order to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.

Resolution Chapter 19, Statutes of 2004

ACR 81 (Strickland-R) Middle East terrorism

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

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 97 (Shirley Horton-R) Armed Forces Day

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

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

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

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

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 141 (Runner-R) Four Chaplains Day

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

Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2004

ACR 143 (Koretz-D) Spay Day USA 2004

Declares February 24, 2004, to be Spay Day USA 2004, and requests that Californians observe that day by having their dogs or cats spayed or neutered and by contributing to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.

Resolution Chapter 3, Statutes of 2004

ACR 144 (Yee-D) Feng Shui

Urges the State Architect, local planning commissions, local design review boards, and other appropriate agencies to consider design concepts that allow for the use of Feng Shui.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

ACR 147 (Cohn-D) California Holocaust Memorial Week

Proclaims the timer period of April 15 through April 30, 2004, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and urges all Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.

Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2004

ACR 150 (Levine-D) Moretti-Hertzberg State Building

Designates a specified state office building in Van Nuys as the Moretti-Hertzberg State Building.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

ACR 160 (Mountjoy-R) President Abraham Lincoln

Honors President Abraham Lincoln on his birthday.

Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2004

ACR 161 (Oropeza-D) California Girls and Women in Sports Week

Commemorates the accomplishments of female athletes, coaches, officials, and sports administrators for their important contribution in promoting the value of sports in the achievement of full human potential and proclaims February 2 through 6, 2004, as California Girls and Women in Sports Week.

Resolution Chapter 12, Statutes of 2004

ACR 164 (Haynes-R) Ronald Reagan Day

Recognizes February 6, 2004, and subsequent yearly anniversaries thereafter, as Ronald Reagan Day.

Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2004

ACR 165 (Jerome Horton-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2004 as Black History Month, urges all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African-Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African-Americans make to their communities.

Resolution Chapter 13, Statutes of 2004

ACR 166 (Nation-D) Day of the Horse

Designates the second Saturday of every December as the Day of the Horse.

Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2004

ACR 168 (Maze-R) Korean War Armistice Day

Designates July 27, 2004, as Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. Urges Californians to remember the Korean War and those who fought against communism. Resolves that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaim July 27, 2004, as Korean War Armistice Day and instruct all state departments, agencies, interested groups, organizations, and individuals to fly the United States flag at half-mast on July 27, 2004, in memory of the veterans who died as a result of their service in Korea.

Resolution Chapter 108, Statutes of 2004

ACR 172 (Nakano-D) Day of Remembrance

Declares February 19, 2004, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, and encourages the annual observance of this day in subsequent years so that children in California may learn from our history.

Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2004

ACR 175 (Samuelian-R) Hmong History Month

Recognizes May as Hmong History Month.

Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2004

ACR 176 (Bogh-R) George Washington's Birthday

Commemorates on February 22, 2004, the birthday of President George Washington.

Resolution Chapter 21, Statutes of 2004

ACR 181 (McCarthy-R) National Anthem Day

Proclaims March 3, 2004, as the anniversary of National Anthem Day.

Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 2004

ACR 182 (Samuelian-R) Hmong-American Veterans Memorial Day

Recognizes May 15 as Hmong-American Veterans Memorial Day.

Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2004

ACR 192 (Mullin-D) Irish-American Heritage Month

Designates March 2004 as Irish-American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish-Americans have made to the country and state.

Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2004

ACR 196 (Firebaugh-D) Cesar Chavez Day

Recognizes March 31 as the anniversary of the birth of Cesar Chavez, and calls upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember Cesar Chavez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.

Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 2004

ACR 197 (Maze-R) "Denim Day California"

Recognizes April 21, 2004, as "Denim Day California" to encourage awareness of issues relating to rape and sexual assault.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 203 (Garcia-R) California National Guard: "Adopt an Armory" program

Commends the California National Guard Strategic Planning Council for establishing the "Adopt an Armory" program for the restoration of California National Guard armories, and urges the public to support the program.

Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2004

ACR 206 (Nakano-D) California Space Day

Requests that the Governor proclaim April 13, 2004, as California Space Day in recognition of the contributions made by the satellite industry.

Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2004

ACR 210 (Vargas-D) California SAFE KIDS Week

Declares the week of May 1 through May 8, 2004, as California SAFE KIDS Week, in support of the activities of the National SAFE KIDS Campaign during National SAFE KIDS Week, and encourages Californians to participate in the state and local activities planned for the observance of that week.

Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2004

ACR 211 (Mountjoy-R) The 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Calls on all Californians to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery Expedition, which began on May 14, 1804.

Resolution Chapter 78, Statutes of 2004

ACR 215 (Yee-D) Relative to Children's Memorial Day

Proclaims the fourth Friday of April of every year as "Children's Memorial Day."

Resolution Chapter 59, Statutes of 2004

ACR 217 (Mountjoy-R) National Day of Prayer

Recognizes May 6, 2004, as a National Day of Prayer, and encourages all the people of California to gather together in homes and places of worship to pray for their God's blessings upon our state and our nation.

Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2004

ACR 220 (Correa-D) Black April Memorial Week

Proclaims April 23 through April 30, 2004, as Black April Memorial Week, a special time for Californians to remember the countless lives lost during the Vietnam War era and to hope for a more humane and just life for the people of Vietnam.

Resolution Chapter 74, Statutes of 2004

ACR 227 (Chu-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Commends Asian and Pacific Islander Americans for their notable accomplishments and outstanding service to the state and recognizes May 2004 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.

Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2004

ACR 229 (Kehoe-D) California Museum Month

Recognizes the important role that museums have in the state and proclaims May 2004 as California Museum Month.

Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2004

ACR 230 (Garcia-R) Memorial Day

Recognizes May 31, 2004, as Memorial Day, and urges the people of California to honor the men and women of the United States who died in the pursuit of freedom and peace.

Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2004

ACR 234 (Firebaugh-D) State investment in arts and culture

Declares that the Legislature recognizes the economic, educational, and civic value of preservation, public presentation, and promotion of the arts, culture, and cultural heritage and that it intends to seriously consider recommendations contained in specified research on the arts as a guide to effectively address how the state can better organize itself to contribute to California's world-class arts and cultural environment.

Resolution Chapter 183, Statutes of 2004

ACR 243 (Samuelian-R) Sikh-Americans

Honors the contributions of the Sikh community to California.

Resolution Chapter 198, Statutes of 2004

ACR 252 (Mullin-D) California Council on Science and Technology

Requests the California Council on Science and Technology to create a study group, as specified, on how the State of California should treat intellectual property created under state contracts.

Resolution Chapter 190, Statutes of 2004

ACR 256 (Garcia-R) Puerto Rican presence

Recognizes the Puerto Rican presence in California since the turn of the 20th century and encourages all citizens of California to support the efforts of the Governor of Puerto Rico in her outreach to the state's Puerto Rican and Latino communities.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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

ACR 259 (Lieber-D) Human trafficking

Declares that California recognizes the grave human rights, health, and security implications of human trafficking and pledges to make shutting down the human trafficking industry a top priority.

(Died at printer. Never assigned to a committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 48 (Firebaugh-D) Relative to the Cinco de Mayo Week

Urges all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the historic day to honor the valiant spirit of the brave Mexicanos who defended the town of Puebla against the French invaders, and to honor the Mexican Americans of today who have fought, died, and lived to protect the freedom of the United States. Declares May 1 through May 8, 2004, as Cinco de Mayo Week.

Read and adopted

HR 53 (Leno-D) Relative to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Pride Month

Proclaims June 2004 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month and urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

Read and adopted

HR 54 (La Suer-R) Relative to the Fourth of July

Urges the people of California to celebrate freedom and the birth of our nation on the Fourth of July with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

Read and adopted

Local Government

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

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 178 (Torlakson-D) Land use

Specifies that provisions of AB 1426 (Steinberg-D) of the 2003-04 Regular Session requiring, until January 1, 2011, that every city and county within greater Sacramento region issuing building permits for residential units to require or cause at least five percent of the aggregate amount of these new residential units be affordable to and occupied by very low income households not become operative until a plan to finance them is enacted.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 214 (Morrow-R) Water

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

(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

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

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

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 293 (Brulte-R) Development: fees

Limits the location where local officials can finance services with a Mello-Roos Act special tax to the territory that is subject to the special tax; and provides that when local officials impose such a tax on property, or on development activity, local officials cannot deny the development activity based on the applicant's refusal to join the community facilities district.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 321 (Torlakson-D) Infrastructure investment bonds

Enacts, subject to voter approval, the Invest in California Infrastructure Bond Act to authorize issuance of $15 billion in general obligation bonds and to designate specific state agencies to administer bond funds to support local infrastructure investment.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 402* (Florez-D) Taxation

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

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 407 (Torlakson-D) Local government financing

Requires enterprise, special districts, except hospital and transit districts, that are currently exempt from contributions to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) in each county to shift a specified portion of their property tax revenues into ERAF; and repays counties for costs associated with specified statewide elections from the ERAF in each county.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 410 (Aanestad-R) Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund

Clarifies that the decrease in the reduction in property tax revenues allowed to eligible counties in the 1993-94 fiscal year is incorporated into the formulae by which these revenues are allocated in subsequent fiscal years as pertains to the Educational Revenue Augmentation fund.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 446 (Machado-D) Community release: local law enforcement costs

Makes, until January 1, 2007, a city or county eligible to claim state reimbursement for reasonable local law enforcement costs, as defined, when a sexually violent predator is released from state custody for community placement into the city or county.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 465 (Soto-D) Transit village plans

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 526 (Torlakson-D) Redevelopment

Applies certain existing law requirements to referenda of redevelopment plans that either provide for tax increment financing or expansion of project areas, to all referenda.

Chapter 149, Statutes of 2004

SB 531 (Romero-D) Solid waste

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

(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 536 (Romero-D) Emergency medical services

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

(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

SB 558 (Ducheny-D) Local planning

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 592* (Denham-R) Local government finance

Provides that funds appropriated by the Budget Act of 2004 shall be available for reimbursement of 100 percent of the allowable costs incurred by the County of Stanislaus for the homicide investigation and prosecution of Scott Peterson.

(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 634 (Ducheny-D) Public contracts

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

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 699 (Sher-D) Local planning

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

Chapter 916, Statutes of 2004

SB 707 (Florez-D) Local government

Requires more rigorous environmental review procedure of a large dairy cow farm within three miles of a city, schoolsite, or an unincorporated community over 5,000.

(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 744 (Dunn-D) Planning

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 756* (Denham-R) Local government finance

Provides that funds appropriated by the Budget Act of 2003 be available for reimbursement of 100 percent of costs incurred by Stanislaus County for homicide prosecution of Scott Peterson; and provides that requests for reimbursement of local agency costs for homicide trials shall be reviewed by the State Controller (Controller) prior to payment and specifies standards for reimbursement by the Controller.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 758 (Poochigian-R) Workers' compensation

Makes vocational rehabilitation voluntary rather than mandatory at the option of the employer; and repeals existing law which entitles an injured worker to a one-time cash settlement in lieu of workers' compensation vocational benefits.

(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 806 (Sher-D) Land use

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

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 849 (Torlakson-D) Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Requires that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) include the Bay Area Air Quality Management District in the joint policy committee of the ABAG-MTC Task Force, by June 30, 2005; requires that joint policy committee to coordinate development and drafting of major planning documents prepared by all three entities because land use, transportation, and air quality are interrelated; and requires that representatives from each of the nine regional counties be on the joint policy committee.

Chapter 791, Statutes of 2004

SB 906 (Alarcon-D) Personal services contracting

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

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 908 (Denham-R) Public contracts

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

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 918 (Battin-R) Redevelopment

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

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 938 (McPherson-R) Improvement areas

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 952 (Perata-D) Environmental Quality Study Council

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

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 958 (McClintock-R) Redevelopment

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

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 974 (Alarcon-D) Public contracts

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 999 (Machado-D) Air quality

Repeals an uncodified section of law establishing the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution District, and relocates it to the Health and Safety Code; increases air district board membership from 11 to 15, and requires that the extra appointments be made by, instead of local officials, specified statewide officials; requires new board members be residents of the air district, and sets up appointment criteria; and specifies that each appointed board member is to serve a staggered term of two or four years, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1037 (Sher-D) Subdivisions

Changes the area for which an adjoining city or county can request notice of a proposed subdivision from three miles from the agency's exterior boundary to anywhere within the city or county's planning area; and authorizes local subdivision ordinances to provide for cable television systems and for communications services to each parcel in all subdivisions.

Chapter 479, Statutes of 2004

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

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

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1056 (Alarcon-D) Land use

Requires a city, county, or city and county to prepare an economic impact report prior to approving or disapproving a proposed development project that would permit the construction of a superstore retailer.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1086* (Sher-D) Conflicts of interest

Expands a remote interest exception to conflict of interest laws to include Stanford University, by expanding the definition of one of the 13 remote interest exceptions to conflict of interest laws to include, in addition to nonprofit corporations, nonprofit entities that are also tax-exempt under the federal Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3).

Chapter 16, Statutes of 2004

SB 1091* (Senate Local Government Committee) First Validating Act of 2004

Enacts the First Validating Act of 2004, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 29, Statutes of 2004

SB 1092* (Senate Local Government Committee) Second Validating Act of 2004

Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2004, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 284, Statutes of 2004

SB 1093 (Senate Local Government Committee) Third Validating Act of 2004

Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2004, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 285, Statutes of 2004

SB 1096* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Local government finance

Accomplishes $1.3 billion of annual General Fund savings in fiscal year 2004-05 and fiscal year 2005-06 by reducing payments to, or shifting funds from, local governments and implements the statutory provisions of the local government portion of the 2004-05 Budget, including changes to Vehicle License Fee Law.

Chapter 211, Statutes of 2004

SB 1102* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State government

Comprises the general government omnibus Budget trailer bill; and provides various legislative changes related to general government necessary for enactment of the 2004-05 State Budget Act.

Chapter 227, Statutes of 2004

SB 1136 (Chesbro-D) Lake County Flood Control and Water Conservation District

Changes the name of the Lake County Flood Control and Water Conservation District to the Lake County Watershed Protection District (LCWPD), and authorizes LCWPD to participate alone, or jointly with Lake County, or cities or districts within Lake County, in the federal National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit program in accordance with the Clean Water Act; authorizes the LCWPD to impose and collect fees to carry out the purpose of the district; and clarifies that fees charged by the district must be in compliance with provisions of Proposition 218.

Chapter 108, Statutes of 2004

SB 1165 (Senate Local Government Committee) Local government

Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2004 and makes 21 changes.

Chapter 118, Statutes of 2004

SB 1212 (Ducheny-D) Local government finance

Enacts a swap of vehicle license fee backfill revenue for property tax revenue under which the city portion of property tax revenue growth would be allocated on a per capita basis, beginning in 2005-06 fiscal year, contingent upon voter approval of a constitutional amendment to protect local government revenues at the November 2, 2004 statewide general election.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1263 (Torlakson-D) Development

Requires a public agency to approve a development project that is consistent with certain specific plans approved on or after July 1, 2004, unless the agency finds that approval would result in a specific, significant adverse effect upon public health or safety that cannot feasibly be mitigated or avoided.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1266 (Torlakson-D) Annexation

Increases the maximum size of unincorporated areas that are subject to an expedited annexation procedure.

Chapter 96, Statutes of 2004

SB 1272 (Ortiz-D) Special districts

Establishes new requirements for special districts, including ethics training for special district officials, audit standards, limits on board members' compensation and "whistleblower" provisions; and requires the State Controller to oversee local audits of special districts and authorizes audit reviews of special districts.

Died in Senate Appropriations Committee

SB 1274 (Margett-R) Public contracts

Requires an express written agreement between an excavator and an operator before the excavator can use specified devices to locate underground installations; and makes changes affecting the use of "vacuum excavation devices."

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1382 (Murray-D) Redevelopment

Requires redevelopment officials to send their preliminary reports, which must be prepared prior to adopting or amending a redevelopment plan, to other local governments at least 90 days before the required public hearing; and allows redevelopment officials to send the preliminary reports only 21 days before the public hearing in specified situations.

Chapter 158, Statutes of 2004

SB 1387 (Romero-D) Sanitation and sewers

Prohibits a county sanitation district with jurisdiction in a county with a population exceeding five million people from using the revenue derived from those water, sanitation, storm drainage or sewerage system services and facilities to acquire or develop land, or place improvements upon land for purposes of creating a materials recycling facility with a capacity of over 4,000 tons a day, unless the project is approved by a two-thirds vote of the residents of the affected district.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1404 (Soto-D) Multifamily improvement districts

Enacts the Multifamily Improvement District Law to provide until January 1, 2012, for the establishment of multifamily improvement districts within a city or county to levy assessments on residential rental properties within the district for the purpose of financing certain improvements and promoting certain activities beneficial to those properties.

Chapter 526, Statutes of 2004

SB 1428 (Torlakson-D) Redevelopment

Allows the Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency to raise the percentage of income a homebuyer may spend for housing to be considered affordable to 45 percent; and specifies new standards under which homes would be affordable.

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1435 (Perata-D) Oakland Army Base

Enacts the Oakland Army Base Public Trust Exchange Act, the state's sovereign interest in certain trust lands within the former Oakland Army Base, and in other lands comprising the Oakland Army Base redevelopment property to the Oakland Base Reuse Authority; and makes technical and clarifying changes.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1462 (Kuehl-D) Land use

Requires cities and counties to forward to branches of the United States Armed Forces copies of significant proposed amendments to their general plans in instances where the proposed action lies within military special use airspace or low-level flight paths; and authorizes any branch of the United States Armed Forces to request consultation with a public agency or project applicant to discuss the potential adverse effects of a proposed project on military installations, low-level flight paths, or special use airspace.

Chapter 906, Statutes of 2004

SB 1481 (Chesbro-D) Tidelands: City of Vallejo

Grants and conveys to the City of Vallejo title to certain tide and submerged lands at Mare Island Naval Shipyard to be used for public trust purposes and authorizes the exchange and trust termination of other lands granted to the city, as specified, for lands of equal or greater value.

Chapter 588, Statutes of 2004

SB 1489 (Ducheny-D) Redevelopment

Requires a redevelopment agency to notify its legislative body of an audit or investigation conducted by the State Department of Housing and Community Development when redevelopment officials present annual reports to their legislative bodies.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1491 (McPherson-R) Capital facilities fees

Prohibits a public agency providing public utility services from imposing capital facilities fees that result in subsidizing of any other class of customers by public agency customers.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1514 (Poochigian-R) Enforcement of delinquent assessments

Requires that before any water district takes action that will terminate another party's interest in real property as the means of enforcing delinquent assessments, fees, charges, or other levies, the district shall make a reasonable effort to ascertain the names and addresses of each holder of an interest in the delinquent property that would be terminated by virtue of the action by the district, and shall notify each interest holder, as prescribed, of the intent to take action that would terminate the party's interest in the delinquent property.

Chapter 97, Statutes of 2004

SB 1529 (McPherson-R) Monterey Peninsula Water Management District

Deletes provisions of law that established the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District.

(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 1592 (Torlakson-D) Local planning

Requires each city and each county to adopt or amend an infill ordinance or a specific plan for infill development that identifies potential infill sites and specifies appropriate zoning to encourage infill development on vacant and under utilized parcels; and requires the ordinance or specific plan to provide at least five incentives for infill housing, as specified, as well as an affordable housing strategy.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 1607 (Machado-D) Local agency formation

Prohibits, among other things, a local agency formation commission from putting territory located in the Delta Protection Commission's primary zone in the sphere of influence of a city or district that provides sewers, nonagricultural water, or streets and roads.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1622 (Perata-D) Oakland Estuary

Enacts the Oak Street to 9th Avenue District Exchange Act for the purpose of authorizing the Port of Oakland and the State Lands Commission to exchange certain tidelands and submerged lands granted to the City of Oakland for other lands not now subject to the public trust.

Chapter 542, Statutes of 2004

SB 1641 (Alarcon-D) Local government

Requires local officials to study business impact reports before approving big box retailers.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1663 (Machado-D) Sanitation districts

Changes membership of the two sanitation districts serving Sacramento County's cities and unincorporated areas.

Chapter 199, Statutes of 2004

SB 1666 (Ashburn-R) Airports

Requires each member of the board of directors of an airport district monthly compensation not to exceed $200, provided he or she attended at least one meeting of the board held within the district that month; requires compensation for the board to be reviewed periodically by the board of directors and set annually at a regular board meeting; and limits a director's maximum compensation to $200 per calendar month.

(Failed passage on Senate Third Reading File)

SB 1677 (Knight-R) Los Angeles County Flood Control District

Authorizes the Los Angeles County Flood Control District to accept transfers of storm drain improvements from cities.

Chapter 244, Statutes of 2004

SB 1705 (Denham-R) Environmental quality

Authorizes, as relates to the California Environmental Quality Act, only the appeal of the certification of an environmental impact report by a local agency's decisionmaking body, to the agency's decision making body, if any, if the local lead agency's decisionmaking body is not elected.

(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1720 (Alarcon-D) Water

Requires, among other things, with reference to the Metropolitan Water District Act, the board of a metropolitan water district to prescribe a system of civil service that, with certain exceptions, includes every officer and employee of the district; requires the district to establish a civil service commission consisting of five members appointed by the board for five-year terms; and requires the board to enforce the civil service rules and, by majority vote, to prescribe probationary periods and classifications.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1748 (Ducheny-D) Local government

Specifies, with regard to existing requirement that a county assessor possess a valid appraiser's certificate issued by the State Board of Equalization, instead specifies that a duly elected or appointed person may exercise the duties of county assessor for one year, if the person obtains a temporary appraiser's certificate from the board no later than 30 days after taking office.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1767 (Ducheny-D) Economic development incentives

Authorizes, commencing with the 2004-05 fiscal year, local agencies, excluding school districts, to provide an economic development incentive to private manufacturing entities located, or committed to locating, within the local agency's jurisdiction; and prescribes that the amount of the incentive be measured by the additional amount of property tax revenue received by the local agency from specified tangible personal property.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1770 (Senate Local Government Committee) Special district indebtedness

Authorizes certain special districts to issue securitized limited obligation notes after the adoption of a resolution by a four-fifths vote of all members of the legislative body of the special district.

Chapter 114, Statutes of 2004

SB 1772 (Senate Local Government Committee) Redevelopment: blight

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

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1773 (Soto-D) Transportation

Requires, that for fiscal year 2004-05 and any subsequent fiscal year, any claim filed against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority seeking the exclusion of real property or the reduction of an assessment on any grounds must occur within two years after the original assessment payment is made.

Chapter 590, Statutes of 2004

SB 1774* (Johnson-R) Local government finance

Implements the changes proposed in SCA 2 (Johnson) by restructuring the flow of property tax, local sales tax, and vehicle license fee revenues to local governments.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 1791 (Poochigian-R) Taxation

Requires the State Controller to collect data regarding the total assessed valuation of all taxable property in each school district and to compile the information on a county basis.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1804* (Senate Local Government Committee) Local government finance

Requires, among other things, for the 2004-05 fiscal year, the county auditor to decrease the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to a county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund by the countywide relief amount, as defined; requires, for this same fiscal year, the auditor to increase the amount of this revenue that is allocated to each city in a county by the city relief amount, as defined, and to the county by the county relief amount, as defined.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1808* (Senate Local Government Committee) Booking fees

Reduces the statutory continuous appropriation for state reimbursement of booking fees levied by counties and paid by cities and qualified special districts from $50 million annually to $38.2 million annually, and bases reimbursement for booking fees on 2002-03 costs to cities and special districts rather than 1997-98 costs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1820 (Machado-D) Land conservation

Creates a procedure for formally reviewing the county assessor's determination of the current unrestricted fair market value, and thereby affecting the calculation of the amount of the cancellation fee, of land subject to a Williamson Act contract that is proposed for cancellation.

Chapter 794, Statutes of 2004

SB 1827 (Torlakson-D) Building codes

Requires the State Department of Housing and Community Development, with the Division of the State Architect, to prepare and provide to the Legislature, no later than January 1, 2006, a report on whether to require the adoption of building standards within the California Building Standards Code adoption cycle that begins after January 1, 2005, for car elevators, parking lifts, or both.

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1836 (Ashburn-R) Community services districts

Adds Bear Valley Community Services District to those designated districts granted authority to enforce the covenants, conditions, and restrictions adopted for each tract within the district and assume the duties of the architectural control committee for each tract for the purposes of maintaining uniform standards of development within each tract.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1844 (Aanestad-R) Water

Authorizes an irrigation district to construct ditches or laterals subject to existing law under the Irrigation District Law.

(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)

SB 1873 (Burton-D) Treasure Island

Approves an exchange of public trust lands within the Treasure Island Development Authority property, whereby certain trust lands on Treasure Island that meet specified criteria and are not now useful for public trust purposes will be freed from the public trust and may be conveyed into private ownership, and certain other lands on Yerba Buena Island that are not now public trust lands and that are useful for public trust purposes will be made subject to the public trust.

Chapter 543, Statutes of 2004

SB 1874 (Alpert-D) Airports

With regard to the board of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, changes the nine-member initial term for one of the members who is a mayor or member of the public of an east area city from two years to a four-year term.

Chapter 589, Statutes of 2004

SB 1885 (Sher-D) Parks and recreation

Permits formation of a regional park district in San Mateo County to be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors after a noticed hearing; specifies the contents of the resolution, including a requirement to call an election, as prescribed; and provides that the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 would apply to a regional park district that is created and established in the County of San Mateo.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 1909 (Machado-D) Local government finance

Requires, among other things, for the 2004-05 fiscal year, the auditor of a qualified county to increase the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to that county by the county equity amount, and to commensurately reduce the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to that county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.

Vetoed by the Governor

SCA 2 (Torlakson-D) Development

Authorizes a county, a city and county, a local transportation authority, or a regional transportation agency, with approval of a majority of its voters voting on the proposition, to impose a special tax for the privilege of selling tangible personal property at retail that it is otherwise authorized to impose, if the tax is imposed exclusively to fund transportation projects and services and smart growth planning.

(Died in Senate Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SCA 4 (Torlakson-D) Local government finance

Requires those revenues derived under the Vehicle License Fee from that portion of the vehicle license fee rate that does not exceed 0.65 percent of the market value of a vehicle to be deposited in an amount specified by that law in the Local Revenue Fund for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties, and the balance of that portion to be allocated among those entities as otherwise provided by law; and requires that compensating allocations be made if a statute reduces the annual vehicle license fee below 0.65 percent of the market value of a vehicle.

Resolution Chapter 133, Statutes of 2004

SCA 11 (Alarcon-D) Infrastructure projects

Authorizes, among other things, a local government that is authorized to incur indebtedness for infrastructure projects to incur, with approval of 55 percent of its voters voting on the proposition in an election, indebtedness in the form of general obligation bonds to fund infrastructure projects, including construction of affordable housing for persons of very low, low, and moderate income; transportation enhancement activities; acquisition of land for agricultural, recreational, or open-space use and park maintenance; and infrastructure projects.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SCA 21 (Torlakson-D) Local government finance

Enacts the Local Taxpayers and Public Safety Protection Act to require statewide voter approval for any legislative measure that would affect the revenue streams to local governments under the current laws; and suspends the operation of an interim measure that took effect between November 1, 2003, and the effective date of this measure.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCA 22 (Johnson-R) Local government finance

Establishes in the treasury of each county a School Assistance Fund for Education (SAFE) to receive revenues derived from specified state and use tax rates and certain revenues derived under the Vehicle License Fee Law of the 2003-04 Regular Session.; and specifies allocation specifics for moneys in a county SAFE.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCR 75 (Karnette-D) Love Your Neighborhood Week

Proclaims the week of May 9 to May 15, 2004, as Love Your Neighborhood Week in recognition of the importance of a clean neighborhood environment.

Resolution Chapter 64, Statutes of 2004

SJR 27 (Perata-D) Federal funding

Calls upon the federal government to take specified actions regarding federal funding to this state.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SJR 28 (Torlakson-D) Gasoline

Memorializes the United States Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider granting an administrative waiver of the act's oxygenated gasoline requirement for the State of California, to the extent permitted by the federal Clean Air Act; and memorializes the United States Congress, if an administrative waiver is not granted, to enact legislation that would permit California to waive the oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline only if the fuel meets other requirements of the federal Clean Air Act for reformulated gasoline, and memorializes the President of the United States to sign that legislation, if enacted.

Chapter 95, Statutes of 2004

AB 10 (Firebaugh-D) Public health

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

(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 11 (Garcia-R) Economic development

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 33 (Samuelian-R) Streets and highways

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

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 35 (Wiggins-D) Local planning agencies

Requires the annual report of a planning agency to include the degree to which the approved general plan complies with specified guidelines for preparation of the mandatory elements of the general plan and the date of the last revision to the general plan.

(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 51 (Simitian-D) Land use planning

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

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 53 (Simitian-D) Local government

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 94 (Chu-D) Property taxation

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

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 127 (La Malfa-R) Local government finance

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 160 (Salinas-D) Transactions

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

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 192 (Harman-R) Local agency formation

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 208 (Harman-R) Local agency formation

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 218 (Simitian-D) Local planning

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

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 269 (Mullin-D) Redevelopment

Authorizes a redevelopment agency of a community within San Mateo County that has a certified housing element and has met 40 percent of very low and low-income housing needs to create and participate in a joint powers authority in order to pool low- and moderate-income housing funds; and requires that specified conditions be met and described in a mutually binding contract between the joint powers authority and each participating agency and a receiving entity for the use and transfer of pooled housing funds, and that the conditions include, among other things, a determination by the department that the community of each participating agency has adopted housing elements that are in substantial compliance with existing law.

Chapter 869, Statutes of 2004

AB 281 (Bermudez-D) Public contracting

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 321* (Cogdill-R) Health care

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

Chapter 411, Statutes of 2004

AB 386 (Aghazarian-R) Drinking water

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

(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 397 (La Malfa-R) Secretary of State

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

(Died in Assembly Elections, Redistricting and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 402* (Shirley Horton-R) Airports

Deletes the date by which the San Diego Association of Governments and the port are required to transfer and assign all contracts related to the location and development of an airport in the County of San Diego to the authority.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 421 (Steinberg-D) Government finance

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

Chapter 771, Statutes of 2004

AB 425 (Campbell-R) City of Newport Beach: public trust lands

Authorizes various transactions between the City of Newport Beach and the County of Orange concerning public trust lands and authorizes the city to expend certain tideland-related funds for the Upper Newport Beach Ecological Reserve.

Chapter 361, Statutes of 2004

AB 434* (Hancock-D) Finances: City of Richmond

Authorizes the City of Richmond until January 1, 2006, to attach a statutory lien and intercept mechanism to its tax and revenue anticipation notes.

Chapter 147, Statutes of 2004

AB 443 (Matthews-D) Rural Transit System Grant Program

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

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 470 (Bermudez-D) Government regulation: religious exercise

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 474 (Salinas-D) Districts

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

Chapter 362, Statutes of 2004

AB 502 (Canciamilla-D) Local permits

Provides that if an applicant for a development project for natural gas exploration or production and a public agency agree in writing to expedite the permit process, the public agency may temporarily employ private entities or other persons pursuant to a contract or agreement with the public agency to perform those services or functions necessary to meet the time limits or comply with the requirements or local ordinances specified in the act; and permits the public agency to charge the applicant a fee.

Chapter 439, Statutes of 2004

AB 522 (Diaz-D) Matricula Consular

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

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 531* (Kehoe-D) Community infrastructure and economic development bond

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 553* (Chavez-D) Taxation

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 559 (Harman-R) Vehicles

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

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

AB 574 (Yee-D) Vehicles

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

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 578* (Leno-D) County recorders

Enacts the Electronic Recording Delivery Act of 2004, for the purpose of establishing a system to record digital electronic records of real property instruments, which may be used statewide; requires the State Attorney General (AG) to adopt regulations for certification and oversight of electronic delivery systems and associated software and other services; and authorizes the county to pay for AG costs associated with regulation and oversight and to collect a one dollar fee from every recording of an instrument in the county to pay for costs associated with the system.

Chapter 621, Statutes of 2004

AB 600 (Maddox-R) Land use

Prohibits any local, state, or other public agency from imposing or implementing a land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person, unless the agency demonstrates that the imposition of the burden on that person is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest.

(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 619 (Garcia-R) Booking fees

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 646 (Mullin-D) Taxation

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 686 (Houston-R) Sacramento County sanitation districts

Revises composition of the board of directors of a sanitation district in the County of Sacramento; and provides for the composition of the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District and its voting powers.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 710 (Correa-D) Orange County Transportation Authority

Expands the number of members and revises the composition of the governing board for the Orange County Transportation Authority.

Chapter 469, Statutes of 2004

AB 731 (Spitzer-R) Fire safety: building inspections

Proposes a change in the fire safety inspection schedule of apartment houses from once annually to no less than once every three years; and makes these provisions applicable only to apartment houses that have direct exiting into the exterior of the building and are not more than three stories tall.

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee)

AB 838 (Spitzer-R) Preincorporation regulations

Declares, upon its incorporation, the City of Rancho Santa Margarita's general plan policies, zoning regulations, or building and construction requirements supersede any inconsistent property restrictions that regulate design or development standards, requirements, or conditions on the development, use, or occupancy of commercial or industrial property within the city.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 893 (Mountjoy-R) Local government

Extends to every member of the armed services who is on active duty an exemption from paying a business license tax or fee.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 920 (Nakano-D) Real estate disclosures

Requires that by January 1, 2006, a city or county must use the provisions of the "airport influence area" disclosure or if there is not a current airport influence map, a written disclosure of an airport that is within two miles of the property to satisfy any city or county requirement for the disclosure of airports in connection with transfers of real property; and makes other changes to real estate disclosures.

Chapter 66, Statutes of 2004

AB 934 (Reyes-D) Fresno County: Child Abduction Prevention Fund

Establishes, in Fresno County until January 1, 2007, upon approval of the board of supervisors, a pilot project requiring each person who files a petition, notice of motion, or other paper in the superior court to determine custody of or visitation with a child, to establish a parent and child relationship, to petition for temporary guardianship of a minor, or to object to the report and recommendation of the mediator determining child custody or visitation, to pay a fee of $25 in addition to other required fees.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 955 (Wiggins-D) Surplus state property: Sonoma Development Center

Requires that if property under the jurisdiction of the Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC) is declared surplus, it must be transferred to the State Department of Parks and Recreation and added to Jack London State Park; and makes various findings and declarations related to SDC and Jack London State Park.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 969 (Correa-D) Local agency financing

Authorizes local agencies to file a single lawsuit to determine the validity of bonds and other debts, and codifies current local investment practices as they relate to joint powers authorities.

Chapter 470, Statutes of 2004

AB 980 (Salinas-D) Housing element: self-certification

Creates an alternative production-based certification process for the housing elements of cities and counties.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development)

AB 994 (Cox-R) Housing: prison beds

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1035 (Aghazarian-R) Economic development

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

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1039 (Hancock-D) Municipal elections: voting methods

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

(Died in Assembly Elections, Redistricting, and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 1040 (Leno-D) Cigarette taxes

Authorizes, subject to specified requirements, the board of supervisors of a county to impose a tax, in addition to other local taxes, on the privilege of selling cigarette and tobacco products at retail within its boundaries, whether or not within an incorporated city; makes the tax subject to approval by a majority vote of the board of supervisors and by a two-thirds vote of the qualified voters of the county and mandates it would be imposed at an unspecified rate in increments of one-eighth percent; and requires the county to contract with the State Board of Equalization with respect to the administration of the tax.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1054 (Spitzer-R) Water quality

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

(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1058 (Lieber-D) Community redevelopment

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

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1066* (Liu-D) Seismic Safety Bond Act of 2004

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1075* (Matthews-D) Local law enforcement expenses

Provides that funds appropriated by the Budget Act of 2004 be available for reimbursement of 100 percent of costs incurred by the County of Stanislaus for the homicide prosecution of Scott Peterson.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1089 (Dutton-R) Redevelopment

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

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1112 (Lowenthal-D) Housing opportunity districts

Enacts the Housing Near Transit Act, which authorizes a city, county, or city and county that has adopted a resolution of intent, to create a housing transit district, subject to approval by the State Department of Housing and Community Development; and authorizes a housing transit district to issue bonds and enter into other forms of indebtedness for the purpose of constructing affordable housing and transit oriented public improvements within a district or the adjacent area.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1113* (Garcia-R) Supplemental Firefighting Services Fund

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1119* (Nation-D) Municipal water districts: park rangers

Authorizes a municipal water district to employ park rangers who would be peace officers, as specified. Requires a municipal water district to adhere to certain standards for recruitment and training of peace officers for the purposes of exercising that authority.

Chapter 799, Statutes of 2004

AB 1123 (Parra-D) Urban development

Transfers the California Main Street Program to the Office of Historic Preservation of the State Department of Parks and Recreation and revises the legislative committees that may provide assistance through their chairpersons.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1152* (Maldonado-R) Health care

Deletes the termination date of provisions under the State Department of Health Services, in conjunction with certain governmental agencies, to develop and administer under the Healthy Families Program up to five demonstration projects in rural areas that are likely to contain a significant level of uninsured children; and extends authorization of the department to develop and administer the demonstration projects.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1154 (Frommer-D) Claims against the state

Appropriates $8,609,276 from the General Fund, $9150,500 from the Motor Vehicle Account in the State Transportation Fund, $251,000 from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund, and $1,648,500 from the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund to the Attorney General to pay judgment, settlement, and interest claims in accordance with specified schedules.

(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 1158 (Lowenthal-D) General plans

Reforms the Regional Housing Needs Assessment procedure.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1171 (Diaz-D) Redevelopment

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

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1179* (Parra-D) Public records

Prohibits county recorders from providing certified copies of military discharge papers (DD214s) except to specified persons and allows county recorders to accept faxed, notarized documents if specified information is present and photographically reproducible.

Chapter 6, Statutes of 2004

AB 1187 (Leno-D) Local vehicle license fees

Authorizes an increase in the Vehicle License Fee within San Francisco if approved by a majority of the voters in San Francisco.

(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1192* (Dutra-D) Land use

Requires that a local government is solely responsible for compliance with the existing requirement to identify adequate sites to ensure no net loss in residential unit capacity subsequent to a downzoning except when a project applicant makes specified requests in an initial application.

Chapter 10, Statutes of 2004

AB 1195* (Cohn-D) Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District

Prohibits the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District from using the power of eminent domain to acquire any real property in the San Mateo County Coastal Annexation Area.

Chapter 27, Statutes of 2004

AB 1199* (Berg-D) Trinity Public Utility District

Allows the Trinity Public Utility District to exercise the powers of a health care district until January 1, 2008.

Chapter 930, Statutes of 2004

AB 1235 (Daucher-R) Local government finance

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1236 (Jerome Horton-D) Open meetings

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1242 (Chu-D) Street removal from public use

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

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

AB 1251 (Bermudez-D) Los Angeles County Hospital Authority

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

(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1267 (Runner-R) County design-build contracts

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

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1268 (Wiggins-D) Land use

Permits the text and diagrams in the land use element that address the location and extend of land uses, and the zoning ordinances that implement these provisions, to also express community intentions regarding urban form and design.

Chapter 179, Statutes of 2004

AB 1271 (Dutton-R) City of Rancho Cucamonga: highway soundwalls

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

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1308 (Goldberg-D) Drug treatment

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

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1320 (Dutra-D) Transit village plan: design

Requires a transit village plan to include any five public benefits from a list of 13 specified public benefits, and deletes the requirement that a rail transit station be at the core of a transit village development.

Chapter 42, Statutes of 2004

AB 1358 (Simitian-D) Redevelopment

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

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1363 (Berg-D) AIDS: clean needle and syringe exchange program

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

(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1378 (Jerome Horton-D) Property taxation

Requires any reduction in property tax revenue resulting from the condemnation of state-assessed property to be applied exclusively to the local entity that condemned the property.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1412 (Wolk-D) Taxation

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

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1426 (Steinberg-D) Affordable housing

Creates a special $1 million fund to be made available as grants for jurisdictions within the greater Sacramento region that adopt and achieve a specified affordable housing production.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1457* (Assembly Budget Committee) Local government financing

Suspends a "Poison Pill" provision through July 15, 2004 to authorize continued allocations of vehicle license fee (VLF) revenue and General Fund backfill transfers to the Local Revenue Fund (LRF), which finances local health and mental health programs under the 1991 State-Local Realignment; and revises, temporarily, the allocation of backfill transfers between the LRF and the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the State Transportation Fund in order to hold Realignment funding harmless for the 2003-04 VLF backfill funding "gap."

Chapter 37, Statutes of 2004

AB 1546 (Simitian-D) Local governments

Authorizes the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo to assess an annual fee of up to $4 on vehicles registered within San Mateo County for programs to manage traffic congestion and storm water pollution.

Chapter 931, Statutes of 2004

AB 1547 (Shirley Horton-R) Local agencies: street or highway signs

Requires cities and counties that receive allocations from state and federal excise tax revenues and utilizes those allocations for local street and road purposes, to approve at least two reflective film manufacturers as qualified to bid when soliciting bids for reflexive film material.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1568 (Correa-D) Property tax revenue shifts

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1590 (Laird-D) Santa Cruz County Highway 1 Widening/HOV Authority

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

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1626 (Runner-R) Redevelopment

Allows certain low- and moderate-income tax revenue that is not required to be used for housing because the agency made one of certain findings, to be used for other economic development purposes, consistent with the Community Redevelopment Law.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1642 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Tourism

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

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1690 (Leno-D) Public safety finance agencies

Authorizes, among other things, any county or city and county to form a public safety finance agency for the purpose of financing supplemental fire protection, police and sheriff, and specified medical services, and financing needed capital improvements for providers of these services, as specified.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1749* (Assembly Budget Committee) Booking fees

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

(Died in Conference Committee)

AB 1755* (Assembly Budget Committee) Redevelopment

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

(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 1786* (Cogdill-R) Public officers

Authorizes the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors to grant the county sheriff a leave of absence without salary, not to exceed one year, to participate in the United States Department of State International Police Mission in Iraq.

Chapter 31, Statutes of 2004

AB 1798* (Levine-D) Environmental quality

Provides, among other things, that neither a Rapid Bus route nor a system of multiple Rapid Bus routes should be considered a reasonable or feasible alternative to the East-West Bus Rapid Transit system in the Burbank-Chandler corridor from North Hollywood to Warner Center for purposes of compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1827 (Cohn-D) Open meetings

Creates a new exception to both state and local government open meeting laws that would allow state and local government bodies to meet in closed session for the purpose of discussing a confidential final draft audit report from the Bureau of State Audits.

Chapter 576, Statutes of 2004

AB 1843 (Maze-R) Economic development

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 an MEA can be selected by HCD.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1881 (Berg-D) Health and human services

Allows any county to participate in a program to streamline services and funding for health and human services programs.

Chapter 655, Statutes of 2004

AB 1903 (Maddox-R) Land use

Requires local government actions relative to land use affecting religious institutions and assemblies, or religious uses of private residences, to use no less favorable standards than those used for actions affecting similarly situated nonreligious institutions and assemblies and nonreligious uses of private residences.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1904 (Maddox-R) County recorders

Prohibits a requester and addressee for delivery of an electronically recorded document or instrument from charging any additional fees to the consumer for the electronic recordation other than those fees imposed by the county recorder's office for an electronic recordation.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1929 (Samuelian-R) Firefighters

Authorizes recently displaced state and local government permanent career firefighters to be placed on a hiring list administered by the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program, and local governments to grant special hiring consideration to recently displaced permanent career fire service personnel.

Chapter 126, 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 1931 (La Malfa-R) Peace officers

Adds Butte County and Tuolumne County to the existing authority granted to 15 other counties to employ peace officers working as custodial officers.

Chapter 516, Statutes of 2004

AB 1935 (Bogh-R) Taxation

Revises criteria in existing law for a city or county to be eligible for a "hardship" allocation of Vehicle License Fee revenue to include any city or county that declared a local emergency in response to a natural disaster between July 1, 2003 and September 30, 2003.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1936 (Berg-D) Local government organization

Authorizes Crescent City and the County of Del Norte to be consolidated as the City-County of Crescent Del Norte upon approval of the electorate.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1943 (Leslie-R) Recorded documents

Authorizes the county recorder of Placer County to accept, in lieu of a written paper document, a digitized image if specific conditions are met.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1970 (Harman-R) Land use

Authorizes a city that meets specified requirements to adopt a housing element that makes no provision for new housing or the share of regional housing needs.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1993 (Mullin-D) Staff development

Establishes the San Mateo County Staff Development Pilot Program, beginning in 2005-06 and sunsetting July 1, 2009.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2009 (Pacheco-R) State mandates

Allows the State Controller to decrease or waive the deduction for late filing of a reimbursement claim by a local agency or school district if the State Controller determines the delay was the result of a cause beyond the filer's control, including, but not limited to, reduced or deferred funding from the state, delays in providing necessary information by a state agency, or other extraordinary difficulties.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2010 (Hancock-D) Domestic violence

Authorizes Alameda and Solano Counties to increase fees for marriage licenses, and for certified copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death record, and death records; and directs that these fees be deposited into a special fund to be used for governmental oversight and coordination of domestic violence and family violence prevention, intervention and prosecution efforts.

Chapter 830, Statutes of 2004

AB 2031 (Cogdill-R) Search and rescue

Requires that, if a county board of supervisors authorizes a sheriff to do search and rescue (SAR), then the SAR activities must be consistent with the guidelines and operating plans contained in the Model Operating Search and Rescue Plan developed by the Office of Emergency Services.

Chapter 326, Statutes of 2004

AB 2039 (La Suer-R) Airports

Requires that the three public members of the executive committee of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority be elected at large from the county, beginning with the 2006 statewide general election, and that they receive a salary commensurate with that of members of the state legislature.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2041 (Lowenthal-D) Harbors and ports

Establishes the Port Congestion Management District for the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles; and authorizes the district board to collect fees on commercial vehicles operating the port areas; and specifies that this bill does not become operative if the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency makes certain findings.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2055 (Wolk-D) Land use

Renames the open space element of a general plan as the agricultural and open space element, and amends the Planning and Zoning Law provisions for the conservation and agricultural and open space elements of the general plan in order to encourage the preservation of agricultural land and production and the protection and sustainable use of open space resources.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2063* (Negrete McLeod-D) Public resources

Provides that the conservation element of a city's general plan may include the conservation of agricultural lands; provides that the open-space element, which this bill renames as the agricultural and open-space element, is the component of a county or city general plan adopted by the legislative body, as specified, and provides subjects that may be included in the agricultural and open-space element.

Chapter 377, Statutes of 2004

AB 2067 (Harman-R) Local government reorganization

Specifies procedures for the consolidation of two or more special districts not formed pursuant to the same principal act; and sunsets July 1, 2008.

Chapter 471, Statutes of 2004

AB 2082 (Ridley-Thomas-D) In-home supportive services

Specifies requirements for selection of the governing board of the public authority for in-home supportive services in Los Angeles County.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2115* (Assembly Budget Committee) Local government finance

Makes technical corrections and clarifying changes to SB 1096 (Chapter 211, Statutes of 2004), the local government budget trailer bill, and adds several provisions to facilitate operation of SB 1096.

Chapter 610, Statutes of 2004

AB 2116* (Assembly Budget Committee) State government

Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 2135 (Levine-D) Telecommunications

Requires local governments to compile and maintain lists of their property that might be suitable to leasing for wireless telecommunications equipment.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2155 (Vargas-D) San Diego County Regional Airport Authority

Clarifies policing and enforcement authority of the San Diego Airport Authority.

Chapter 677, Statutes of 2004

AB 2158 (Lowenthal-D) General plans

Enacts the consensus-based changes proposed for the regional housing needs allocation process by the Housing Element Work Group.

Chapter 696, Statutes of 2004

AB 2207 (Levine-D) Statistical districts

Requires state agencies that collect and maintain municipal level data to develop separate statistical breakdowns for the San Fernando Valley and directs the City of Los Angeles to provide the necessary data.

Chapter 181, Statutes of 2004

AB 2212 (Runner-R) Infrastructure financing

Allows a specified area of privately owned land within San Bernardino County to be included within an infrastructure financing district.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2242 (Strickland-R) Local television services

Authorizes local governments to grant cable franchises.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2243 (Vargas-D) County water authorities

Authorizes any member of the governing body of a member agency of a county water authority that is a water district to appoint a member of its governing board to represent that agency on the San Diego County Water Authority's board of directors; and states if a member agency is not a water district, only one of the representatives of that agency can be a member of the governing body of that agency.

Chapter 60, Statutes of 2004

AB 2247 (Salinas-D) Local planning

Provides that a city may use an optional process, as prescribed, to apply for and obtain all necessary approvals from a commission for annexations for a period not to exceed 15 years if the city complies with certain conditions.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2264 (Chavez-D) Housing

Requires, as pertains to existing law requiring the housing element of a city or county general plan to include an analysis of available governmental subsidy programs relative to preservation of affordable housing, that analysis and program to also identify available private funds; and provides that the city may elect to commit 50 percent of the tax increment funds to the County of Los Angeles and that the county may pledge that amount or any fraction of that amount as security for bonds for the construction of low- and moderate-income housing.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2290 (Chavez-D) Local agency fees

Defines "franchise," authorizes, among other things, a city or county to charge fees to pay costs of preparing, adopting, and implementing a countywide integrated waste management plan.

(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 2293 (Wolk-D) Emergency medical services

Requires establishment of an emergency medical care committee in each county, prescribes it membership, and includes review of complaints relating to the local emergency medical services agency plan within the jurisdiction of the committee; and requires the Commission on Emergency Medical Services to review appeals.

(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2294 (Wolk-D) Child abuse

Authorizes counties to establish Multi-Disciplinary Interview Centers to coordinate activities of agencies investigating and prosecuting child abuse and to submit claims to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for associated costs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2298 (Plescia-R) Water conservation

Makes a number of findings supporting the value of efficient landscape water use; requires, with specifics, commencing January 1, 2006, separate water meters or submeters for all new irrigated landscaped areas of 10,000 square feet or more; and requires, after January 1, 2007, billing for these new irrigated landscapes to be based at least partly on the water usage measured by the water meters.

(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)

AB 2301 (Maze-R) Health care

Eliminates the requirement for counties to submit quarterly and estimated annual reports under the California Health Care for Indigents Program.

Chapter 57, Statutes of 2004

AB 2306 (Richman-R) Local agency reorganization

Prohibits, until January 1, 2008, the Ventura County local agency formation commission (LAFCO) from imposing a condition that requires the City of Simi Valley to annex a county island unless the island territory is contiguous and physically related to the affected territory in a Simi Valley annexation proposal; and specifies that Ventura County LAFCO cannot require Simi Valley to initiate proceedings to annex specified territory unless that territory is contiguous and physically related to an affected territory on or before December 31, 2007.

Chapter 805, Statutes of 2004

AB 2318 (Hancock-D) Local agency auditors

Prohibits city auditors, upon receipt of a written request, from releasing to the public specific papers and correspondence that they have received from persons providing assistance to the auditor.

Chapter 637, Statutes of 2004

AB 2337 (Corbett-D) Fire suppression

Restores language in the Government Code authorizing the assessments of local fire protection districts to include both fire suppression and fire prevention.

Chapter 94, Statutes of 2004

AB 2348 (Mullin-D) Housing

Makes numerous changes to the provisions of housing element law pertaining to land inventory, adequate sites, and permitted use, based on the work of the Housing Element Work Group.

Chapter 724, Statutes of 2004

AB 2353 (Leslie-R) Neighborhood Electric Vehicles

Authorizes, until January 1, 2009, the establishment of rules for operation of neighborhood electric vehicles within the Cities of Lincoln and Rocklin.

Chapter 422, Statutes of 2004

AB 2372 (Correa-D) Transportation: county shares

Requires a regional agency requesting a reserve of funds in a future county share period to identify the year in which a project will be programmed.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2388 (Lowenthal-D) Harbors

Adds one seat to the Harbor Safety Committee for the Port of Los Angeles, designated for the recognized employee organization that represents the non-management navigation pilots in the Port of Los Angeles.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2404 (Steinberg-D) Discrimination: athletic programs

Extends existing law requiring equal access in state school sports to all local government sports programs.

Chapter 852, Statutes of 2004

AB 2406 (Bermudez-D) Fire safety

Makes legislative findings and declarations related to fire protection services and requires the State Fire Marshall and the State Board of Fire Services to adopt regulations that would require statistical information to include response time and staffing level information that is compatible with the National Fire Incident Reporting System.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2432 (Oropeza-D) Public utilities and local publicly owned electric vehicles

Requires any electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility to provide a status report containing specified information, along with any additional information required by the Public Utilities Commission, to any customer that is without electricity as a result of an outage or blackout, beginning with hour 26 after the beginning of the outage or blackout, excluding an outage or blackout that occurs as a result of or in conjunction with, a declared state of emergency or local emergency.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2437 (Pacheco-R) Cities

Provides, with regard to city records, that writings that are preliminary drafts, notes, or interagency or intra-agency memoranda need not be retained; deletes the requirement that unreproducible pages of records be preserved permanently; and makes optional other printed matter.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2438 (Leslie-R) County design-build contracts

Authorizes Placer County to use the design-build project delivery method for the construction of a single project, using the same procedures that apply to seven other authorized counties.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2466 (Yee-D) Taxation

Allocates local use tax revenue from sales of jet fuel in the same manner as local sales tax revenue from sales of jet fuel.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2506 (Maldonado-R) Community services districts

Authorizes the Board of Directors of the Los Osos Community Services District to establish, by resolution, a wastewater treatment program for an onsite sewage disposal system.

(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 2521 (Nation-D) Autopsy reports

Requires coroners to notify a decedent's next of kin when a Public Records Act request has been made for the coroner's report on the decedent.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2522 (Nakanishi-R) Public contracts

Allows the Stockton Metropolitan Transit District to procure supplies and let construction contracts in greater amounts without having to follow competitive bidding rules.

(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2558 (Plescia-R) Local government finance

Extends an exception to the unitary property tax allocation formula to allow the City of Escondido to permanently receive the city portion of the property tax revenues from a proposed power plant.

Chapter 640, Statutes of 2004

AB 2578 (La Suer-R) Autopsy report: notification

Makes it unlawful for a coroner or medical examiner to publicly release the autopsy or medical examiner report, when he/she performs an autopsy on the body of a deceased law enforcement officer or firefighter, without first notifying and providing a copy of the autopsy or medical examiner report to the decedent's surviving spouse, a surviving child or parent, a surviving brother or sister, or any other kin.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2579 (La Suer-R) Gaming

Revises composition of the Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee in San Diego County; and makes legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of the statutory change and provides that no reimbursement is required by this act.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2585 (Parra-D) Air pollution

Establishes a process for calculating the increase in state taxes collected in Kings County attributable to the future, potential deployment of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program at Lemoore Naval Air Station; declares legislative intent to consider providing state funding for programs to mitigate air pollution emissions resulting from that deployment; and authorizes the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution District to develop an air contaminants mitigation program.

Chapter 885, Statutes of 2004

AB 2591 (Leno-D) Charter-party carriers

Strengthens enforcement authority of local governments in the regulation of charter-party carriers.

Chapter 603, Statutes of 2004

AB 2630 (Hancock-D) Public health

Specifies that the Alameda County Hospital Authority is required to comply with statutory law that requires all contracts of employment between an employee and a local agency employer to include a provision that establishes a cap on the cash settlement an employee may receive if the employment contract is terminated.

Chapter 58, Statutes of 2004

AB 2634 (Canciamilla-D) Local government organization

Requires that the determinations and boundary decisions by the Contra Costa Local Agency Formation Commission must be consistent with voter-approved urban limit lines or urban limit lines amended by the affected agencies as approved by the voters.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2687 (Canciamilla-D) Public administrators

Clarifies and revises a public administrator's duties and responsibilities.

Chapter 888, Statutes of 2004

AB 2734* (Strickland-R) Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency

Increases a cap of $3 per acre foot on the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency's groundwater extraction charge to $6.

Chapter 242, Statutes of 2004

AB 2740 (Bogh-R) Vehicles: engineering and traffic surveys

Authorizes the County of Riverside, when conducting an engineering and traffic survey, to consider levels of safety and noise, and other environmental factors that may impact the physical and economic operations of established film and sound studios immediately adjacent to county roads.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2746 (Strickland-R) Design-build contracts

Authorizes, until January 1, 2006, the City of Fillmore and the City of Santa Paula to implement the alternative procedure for design-build contacts.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2755 (Strickland-R) Ventura County Watershed Protection District

Grants the Ventura County Watershed Protection District the ability to establish procedures for nuisance abatement identical to those granted to counties.

Chapter 269, Statutes of 2004

AB 2779 (Maze-R) Local agency reorganization

Authorizes a local agency formation commission to approve an annexation to a city of island territory without an election or waive a protest hearing if the island territory does not exceed 80 acres in area, instead of 75 acres in area.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2782 (Benoit-R) Public agencies

Authorizes any member of the legislative body of a joint powers agency (JPA), who is also a member of the legislative body of the local agencies comprising JPA, to disclose information obtained in a closed session of JPA to other members of the legislative body of the local agency in a closed session of that body.

Chapter 784, Statutes of 2004

AB 2783 (Simitian-D) Recording fees

Authorizes, upon adoption of a resolution, a county board of supervisors to impose a fee of up to $2 to be paid at the time of recording of every real estate instrument; and places the fee in the Elder and Dependent Adult Financial Abuse Prevention Trust Fund to be expended to fund programs to deter, investigate, and prosecute civil proceedings involving the financial abuse of elders and dependent adults in real estate transactions.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2784* (Pavley-D) Transportation

Redefines the composition of the governing board of the Ventura County Transportation Commission.

Chapter 432, Statutes of 2004

AB 2805 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Redevelopment plans

Revises existing law provisions in the California Redevelopment Law for project area time extensions, applicable only to the City of Los Angeles for the purpose of rehabilitating the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for occupancy by a National Football League franchise.

Chapter 954, Statutes of 2004

AB 2817 (Salinas-D) Public Utilities Code: transportation

Makes technical changes to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's benefit assessment district statutes to eliminate redundancies; removes conflicting and confusing provisions; and makes various changes to ensure consistency with Proposition 218.

Chapter 645, Statutes of 2004

AB 2853* (Laird-D) Local government expenses

Amends several codes relating to local governments to conform to the current practice of eliminating specific local mandates by not appropriating funds in the Budget Act.

Chapter 889, Statutes of 2004

AB 2869 (Levine-D) Public utilities

Exempts customers of a utility from paying specified charges established by either the board of the local publicly owned electric utility or the California Public Utilities Commission.

Chapter 646, Statutes of 2004

AB 2883 (Diaz-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District

Authorizes Santa Clara Valley Water District to conduct investigations and cleanup activities related to contamination of surface water or groundwater within the district.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2908 (Wolk-D) Transportation

Increases the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's membership to 21, and provides for three members each from the Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2980 (Salinas-D) Housing

Establishes an alternative production-based, self-certification process for the housing elements of cities and counties.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 3003 (Kehoe-D) Sports team relocation expenses

Requires mitigation from one city to another when a professional sports team moves within California.

(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)

AB 3007 (Plescia-R) Open meetings

Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes with reference to the Ralph M. Brown Act regarding copying of agendas of meetings; and deletes from subjects that may be discussed in closed session real property negotiations, discussion with legal counsel about anticipated litigation, and liability claims.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 3011 (Laird-D) Transportation

Allows the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to impose, from July 1, 2005 to January 1, 2010, a maximum $4 fee on the initial registration and annual renewal of motor vehicles registered in Santa Clara County, the revenue from which would help fund a program designed to manage traffic congestion and to construct, improve and maintain the county's roadways.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 3036 (Yee-D) Capital facilities fees

Allows a public agency that provides public utility service to only charge another public agency rates, charges, surcharges, or fees based on the same objective criteria and methodology that applies to comparable nonpublic users; sets a 120-day deadline for filing a suit by a public agency seeking a refund of a fee, rate, charge, or surcharge or any increase in these charges, or challenging the validity of these charges on or after January 1, 2004; and makes declarations regarding imposition and increases of fees, rates, charges, or surcharges.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 3053 (Kehoe-D) Emergency communications

Requires the State Fire Marshal and all local fire departments and districts to develop a statewide communications system.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 3065 (Kehoe-D) General plans

Revises and recodifies the general plan safety element requirements for state responsibility areas and very high fire hazard severity zones.

Chapter 951, Statutes of 2004

AB 3066 (Kehoe-D) Fire protection

Requires every public entity that has undertaken to provide fire protection service to provide sufficient personnel to staff all fire engines operated by the public entity.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 3067 (Kehoe-D) Fire protection

Requires all local fire agencies in the County of San Diego to jointly develop and implement a plan for the coordination of services to provide the most effective fire protection services for the county.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 3068 (Kehoe-D) Fire protection

Requires every county that includes an urban metropolitan area to have year-round aerial firefighting equipment.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 3077 (Assembly Local Government Committee) Local government reorganization

Makes several minor and non-controversial changes to laws affecting local agency formation commissions, including extending the sunset until 2006, on the procedures to the detachment of territory from the Broadmoor Police Protection District; and clarifying that mailed ballot elections can be held on any date other than an established election date authorized by county election officials.

Chapter 355, Statutes of 2004

AB 3084 (Jerome Horton-D) Metropolitan Water District Act

Authorizes the board of directors of a metropolitan water district to contract for services customarily performed by employees to achieve cost savings if 10 specific conditions are met; and allows contracting out by a metropolitan water district when any of five specified conditions are met.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 3105* (Campbell-R) Local government finance

Implements a proposed constitutional amendment which, among other things, establishes a School Assistance Fund for Education (SAFE) in the treasury of each county to receive specified revenues; deems, for purposes of determining property tax revenue allocation amounts for the 2005-06 fiscal year, the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to each city, county, and city and county for the 2004-05 fiscal year to be the revenue protection amount; and imposes, on and after July 1, 2005, an additional state sales and use tax at the rate of 0.25 percent that would be deposited in the SAFE Sales and Use Tax Revenue Account.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

ACA 9 (Levine-D) Taxation

Inserts language into the California Constitution which would protect local government revenues.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 11 (Levine-D) Infrastructure projects

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

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 14 (Steinberg-D) Local development

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

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 30 (Steinberg-D) Local government finance

Amends the California Constitution to repeal, July 1, 2005, the constitutional allocation requirement that certain revenues derived under the Vehicle License Fee Law be allocated to cities; establishes an exception to the California Constitution prohibition of the Legislature from imposing taxes for local purposes; and prohibits the Legislature from altering, as specified, apportionment of certain personal and real property revenues to local agencies, as defined.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

Immigration Issues

SB 427 (Dunn-D) Mexican repatriation

Establishes, in state government, a 16-member Commission on the 1930s Repatriation Program to study and make recommendations regarding the deportation of persons of Mexican descent between 1929 and 1944.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1160 (Cedillo-D) Undocumented immigrants: driver's licenses

Allows persons without legal presence in the United States to be eligible to apply for a driver's license.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

A similar bill was AB 2895 (Nunez-D), which was vetoed by the Governor.

SB 1608 (Karnette-D) Corrections: prisoners: foreign nationals

Requires the State Board of Prison Terms to devise a method of notifying each foreign born inmate that he or she may be eligible under federal treaties to serve his or her term of imprisonment in his or her nation of citizenship.

Chapter 924, Statutes of 2004

SJR 21 (Dunn-D) Persons of Mexican descent

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

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1XXX* (Oller-R) Drivers' license eligibility: undocumented immigrants

Repeals the provisions of SB 60 (Cedillo), Chapter 326, Statutes of 2003, regarding eligibility requirements for an original driver's license or identification card, including allowing persons who do not have legal presence in the United States to be eligible to apply for a California driver's license or ID card and permitting license applicants to submit a federal taxpayer identification number or other identifier number deemed appropriate by the State Department of Motor Vehicles, rather than a social security number where required by the department.

Chapter 1, Statutes of 2003-04, Third Extraordinary Session

AB 537 (Correa-D) South Vietnamese: claims

Seeks to enable California state residents, or their heirs, to bring a cause of action for claims arising out of events in the former South Vietnam during April 1975.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1895 (Nation-D) Immigrant children

Seeks to provide certain immigrant children with immigration counsel in a limited number of counties where such services are not already provided.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2189 (Chu-D) Immigration consultants

Requires bond surety companies to notify the city attorney or district attorney of the county in which the immigration consultant maintains his or her principal office within 30 days of the date that the immigration consultant's bond is cancelled or is otherwise no longer in force and effect, or the amount of the bond is reduced below the minimum required by law. Violates will be subject to a civil penalty. Provides that the notice sent by a corporate surety to an immigration consultant under Code of Civil Procedure Section 996.320 shall include a warning that the corporate surety is required to notify the office of the city attorney or the office of the district attorney if the bond is cancelled or withdrawn.

Vetoed by the Governor

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 2667* (Haynes-R) Legal immigrants: social services

Defines "entry date" for purposes of eligibility for Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants to mean effective date of immigration status rather than date of physical entry, overturning a court decision invalidating a State Department of Social Services regulation.

(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 2691 (Correa-D) Immigration consultants

Restricts the use of a bond issued to a person for the purpose of compliance with the $50,000 bonding requirement for immigration consultants to only that person or his or 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 the bond is filed with the Secretary of State..

Chapter 557, Statutes of 2004

AB 2895 (Nunez-D) Driver's licenses

Allows persons to apply for a driver's license without submitting proof of legal residence.

Vetoed by the Governor

A similar bill was SB 1160 (Cedillo-D), which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AJR 45 (Mountjoy-R) Extradition treaty with Mexico

Urges the Congress of the United States to pass a resolution urging the relevant U.S. officials to address issues of extradition with Mexico when the defendant faces the death penalty or life in prison.

Resolution Chapter 191, Statutes of 2004

AJR 60 (Lieber-D) Immigration: same-sex partners

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to adopt the Federal Permanent Partners Immigration Act of 2003, which adds the phrase "or permanent partner" to sections of immigration law that provide immigration rights to spouses of United States citizens and permanent residents, thereby allowing gay and lesbian citizens to sponsor their partners for United States residency.

Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2004

Federal Issues

SJR 2 (Figueroa-D) Privacy

Requests that the Congress of the United States to enact, and the President to sign, an HMO Patient Bill of Rights or alternative legislation expanding the rights of states.

Resolution Chapter 157, Statutes of 2004

SJR 4 (Dunn-D) Thimerosal lawsuits

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

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SJR 9 (Perata-D) California economy

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

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SJR 15 (Alarcon-D) Federal poverty level

Urges the President and Congress of the United Sates to ensure that the United States is working to meet the basic needs of all families, begin a process to better calculate the federal poverty level, and use existing models to calculate poverty, including geographical costs of living.

Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2004

SJR 16 (Morrow-R) Military airfares

Urges airline companies in the United States to permanently establish reduced price airfares for active duty military personnel.

Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 2004

SJR 17 (Morrow-R) Veterans benefits

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to establish a federal/state partnership to use local county veterans service officers to assist the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in eliminating the veterans claims processing backlog.

Resolution Chapter 16, Statutes of 2004

SJR 18 (Perata-D) Firearms: civil liability

Declares the Legislature's opposition to the adoption of, and urges the United States executive branch's rejection of, specified federal legislation providing immunity from civil liability for negligence by the gun industry with regard to firearms.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SJR 19 (Soto-D) North American Free Trade Agreement

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to take appropriate action to amend the North American Free Trade Agreement to provide that foreign investors may not file suits under Chapter 11 of the agreement against a signatory to the agreement concerning environmental and human health and safety laws that do not discriminate in their treatment of domestic and foreign investors.

(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)

SJR 20 (Florez-D) Regulation of financial institutions

Requests the Congress of the United States to hold hearings to explore and study the growing scope of federal preemption of regulation of financial institutions and the effects on American consumers and the 75 percent of the banks in the United States that are state-charted banks, and if necessary, to consider legislation that will prevent the unilateral expansion of jurisdiction over financial institutions by federal regulators without the specific endorsement of the Congress of the United States.

Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2004

SJR 22 (Burton-D) U.S.A. PATRIOT Act

Urges the California congressional delegation to work to repeal any provisions of the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act that limit or impinge on rights and liberties protected equally by the United States Constitution and the California Constitution and to oppose any pending and future federal legislation to the extent that it infringes on Americans' civil rights and liberties. Urges the State of California to ensure that no state resources be provided for any action that violates the United States Constitution and the California Constitution, including specified actions.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 23 (Ashburn-R) Military base closures

Requests that the state, through the Legislature, the Governor, and the California Congressional delegation, request the President and Congress of the United States to include "intellectual capital" and "total mission support", as defined, in the list of essential 2005 Base Realignment and Closure act evaluation criteria.

Resolution Chapter 7, Statutes of 2004

SJR 24 (Ortiz-D) Pharmaceutical advertising

Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to recognize the problems caused by direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs by pharmaceutical companies and to take specified actions in the regulation of consumer advertising of prescription drugs.

Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2004

SJR 25 (Ortiz-D) Medicare prescription drugs

Requests the Congress and President of the United States to enact and sign into law specified revisions to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.

Resolution Chapter 166, Statutes of 2004

SJR 26 (Ashburn-R) National Community Health Center Initiative

Requests the Congress of the United States to approve both the President's budget request for an additional $219 million to fund new and expanded community health centers and an additional $31 million augmentation to provide base adjustments to existing health center grantees.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 27 (Perata-D) Federal funding

Requests the federal government to make good on its commitments to fund obligations it has placed upon the states.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SJR 28 (Torlakson-D) Gasoline

Requests the United States Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider granting an administrative waiver of the act's oxygenated gasoline requirement for the State of California, to the extent permitted by the federal Clean Air Act. Requests the Unites States Congress, if an administrative waiver is not granted, to enact legislation that permits California to waive the oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline only if the fuel meets other requirements of the federal Clean Air Act for reformulated gasoline, and requests the President of the United States to sign that legislation, if enacted.

Resolution Chapter 95, Statutes of 2004

SJR 29 (Kuehl-D) Food marketing and advertising

Requests federal officials and entities and private industries to take various actions concerning foods and beverages that are advertised or marketed to children.

Resolution Chapter 140, Statutes of 2004

SJR 30 (Torlakson-D) Environmental review

Requests the President, the Congress, the federal Secretary of Transportation, and the federal Department of Transportation to streamline the federal environmental review and permitting process by (1) ensuring adequate funding for the State Office of Historic Preservation in California, and (2) accelerating project delivery by developing a multiagency infrastructure team to be involved in the development of transportation projects from the early planning phase and continuing through the environmental permitting and construction phases.

Resolution Chapter 169, Statutes of 2004

SJR 32 (McPherson-R) Homeland security

Urges the federal government to reconfigure the basis for allocating funds for homeland security to the states and to California so as to acknowledge the exceptional and multifaceted threat under which California resides with respect to dangers posed by international terrorists.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SJR 33 (Poochigian-R) West Nile virus

Requests the President of the United States, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the United States Health and Human Services Agency to make immediately available federal funds for the purposes of surveillance, prevention, abatement, and control of mosquitoes in California to aid in the fight against West Nile virus for the protection of the public health and welfare.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 34 (Ashburn-R) Lemoore Military Operations Area Initiative

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to support the establishment of the Lemoore Military Operations Area (MOA) for joint use by military aircraft from both the Naval Air Station Lemoore and the California Air National Guard, Fresno and requests the Federal Aviation Administration to approve the creation of the Lemoore MOA as quickly as possible.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SR 25 (Burton-D) U.S.A. PATRIOT Act

Urges the California congressional delegation to work to repeal any provisions of the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act that limits or impinges on the rights and liberties protected by the United States Constitution and to oppose any pending or future federal legislation to the extent that it infringes on Americans civil rights and liberties.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 1 (Koretz-D) Unemployment insurance

Urges the President and Congress of the United Sates to enact legislation that retroactively extends and increases the number of weeks of federal unemployment insurance benefits available to unemployed workers.

(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AJR 3 (Jerome Horton-D) Student financial aid

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to repeal a provision of the 1998 amendments to the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 that denies or delays access to financial aid based upon convictions for drug-related offenses.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 8 (Mountjoy-R) Federal income tax reduction

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that mandates the total deductibility of all long-term care insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer regardless of either the income of the taxpayer, the total amount paid by the taxpayer for medical expenses, or the age of the individual covered by the qualified long-term care insurance policy or contract.

(Failed passage in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 11 (Jackson-D) Sierra Nevada Conservation Framework

Urges the Congress of the United States to take necessary action to implement the Sierra Nevada Conservation Framework, as originally adopted.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 14 (Koretz-D) Arab economic boycott of Israel

Urges the President of the United States and the Governor of California to strictly enforce U.S. and California anti-boycott legislation. Condemns the Arab League's economic boycott of Israel and calls on the Arab League and its members to disavow and end this boycott.

Resolution Chapter 160, Statutes of 2004

AJR 15 (Plescia-R) War in Iraq

Recognizes that the United States is a nation at war, expresses the Legislature's appreciation for the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who are serving the U.S. in the war against Iraq, and states the support of the Legislature for President Bush and other national leaders who are committed to preserving the security and national interests of the U.S.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 16 (Koretz-D) Nonoxynol-9

Urges the federal Food and Drug Administration to ban condoms and lubricants that contain the spermicide nonoxynol-9.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 17 (Correa-D) War in the Middle East

Proclaims the fervent hope of the Legislature that the hostilities in Iraq are ended as soon as possible and that American servicemen/servicewomen return home safe and uninjured. Urges the President of the United States to pursue every opportunity to protect Iraqi civilian noncombatants, especially children, from injury and harm, to provide assistance to Iraqi civilians in their recovery from years of oppression by Saddam Hussein, and to provide for the needs that American servicemen/servicewomen will experience as a result of war.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 18 (Haynes-R) Removal of Saddam Hussein

Expresses the Legislature's support of President George W. Bush, the President's cabinet, and the men/women of the United States Armed Forces in their efforts to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 19 (Cox-R) War in Iraq

Commends and supports the efforts and leadership of the President of the United States as commander-in-chief in the conflict against Iraq, and commends and expresses the gratitude of the nation to the U.S. Armed Forces and others in this conflict.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 20 (Chan-D) War against Iraq

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to end the war against Iraq and restore the peace.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 22 (Haynes-R) Judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada

Requests that the United States Senate work to allow a vote on the floor of the United States Senate on the judicial appointment of Miguel Estrada.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 23 (Haynes-R) Estate taxes

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to support legislation that immediately and permanently repeals estate taxes.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 24 (Haynes-R) President's 2002 Economic Growth and Tax Relief Plan

Requests Representatives and Senators in the United Sates Congress from the State of California to support and enact President Bush's 2002 Economic Growth and Tax Relief Plan.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 25 (Haynes-R) Pension and individual retirement accounts

Urges the elected Representatives and Senators from the State of California in the United States Congress to enact legislation that repeals the expiration date of the existing law related to the limitations imposed on the amount of tax-deductible contributions made by taxpayers to their individual retirement accounts.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 26 (Haynes-R) Alternative minimum tax

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to support legislation that permanently repeals the alternative minimum tax.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 27 (Correa-D) Lance Corporal Jose Angel Garibay

Urges the President of the Untied States, along with the U.S. Congress, to fulfill Jose Angel Garibay's wish and grant full citizenship rights upon Jose Angel Garibay posthumously, extends the Legislature condolences to the family of Jose Angel Garibay, and extends appreciation for his service to his country. Urges the President and Congress of the U.S. to recognize the valor and sacrifice of all persons such as Jose Angel Garibay who had not yet achieved citizenship status while serving and being killed on active-duty service in the U.S. Armed Forces, and to grant citizenship posthumously to those persons.

(Died in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)

AJR 33 (Dymally-D) Taiwan and the World Health Organization

Commends Taiwan on its contributions to promote world health and urges the President and Congress of the United States to take action necessary to endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the annual weeklong summit of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2004

AJR 36 (Dutton-R) Veterans benefits: Qualified Veterans Mortgage Bonds

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that revises provisions of the Internal Revenue Code so that Qualified Veterans Mortgage Bonds may be issued by a state to fund home purchase and home improvement loans to certain additional veterans.

Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2004

AJR 37 (Firebaugh-D) Rail funding

Endorses Amtrak's 2003-04 fiscal year funding request for $1.812 billion and five-year capital plan for, and legislation providing states with, funding for rail systems. Urges the Congress of the United States to pass and the President to sign that legislation. Requests that Members of Congress representing the State of California co-sponsor and support passage of that legislation.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 39 (Koretz-D) Workplace safety and health

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to strengthen the Occupational Safety and Health Administration protections and procedures for employees concerning unsafe and unhealthy workplaces, including increasing criminal fines and penalties for employers who flagrantly and repeatedly violate the law, and to investigate and improve coordination of federal enforcement activities.

(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AJR 41 (Yee-D) Psychotropic drugs and youth

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to urge the Food and Drug Administration to probe the reasons for the rise in the use of psychotropic drugs to manage mental health problems in youth and to develop expanded clinical trials and other research regarding the appropriate use of medication in the psychiatric treatment of children and adolescents.

Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2004

AJR 43 (Mountjoy-R) Child Medication Safety Act of 2003

Encourages the Congress of the United States to enact H.R. 1170, relating to the Child Medication Safety Act of 2003.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

AJR 44 (Koretz-D) Holocaust era insurance policies

Denounces the United States Supreme Court constitutional ruling of California's Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act of 1999 and urges that State Insurance Commissioner to investigate any feasible alternatives to enacting state law that serves to increase the likelihood that payments may be made to the heirs of Holocaust victims, and urges the U.S. Congress to immediately enact legislation to require insurance companies to disclose their Holocaust era policy information.

Resolution Chapter 145, Statutes of 2004

AJR 47 (Frommer-D) Cesar E. Chavez

Requests the California delegation of the United States Senate and House of Representatives to support the passage of S. 164, introduced by Senator McCain, which calls for the Secretary of the Interior to prepare an inventory of key sites in Cesar E. Chavez's life, in order for the National Park Service to commemorate his life.

Resolution Chapter 161, Statutes of 2004

AJR 50 (Pavley-D) Fuel cell vehicles

States California's commitment to achieving a clean transportation future based on the rapid commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Requests the United States Department of Energy to recognize California's progress and commitment to accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles and to ensure that appropriate federal funding be provided to support those activities in California.

Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2004

AJR 51 (Leno-D) Federal budget deficits

Calls on the Congress and the Administration to pursue fiscal policies that eliminate the long-term structural deficit, in order to secure the future growth and health of the economy, and to recognize a direct connection between the public's demand for government services and the taxes to pay for them and that increasing spending while cutting taxes is fiscally irresponsible and economically damaging to our future, and to recognize that current fiscal policies will not address the nation's crises of housing, homelessness, and public health.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AJR 52 (Correa-D) Macedonians

Declares that the Legislature supports the rights of Macedonians living throughout the Balkans to, among other things, speak their language, to practice their customs, and to be granted all the civil and human rights required by international law.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 53 (Reyes-D) Breast Cancer Research Stamp Program

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to make the Breast Cancer Research Stamp Program permanent.

Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2004

AJR 54 (Pacheco-R) Medical assistance

Requests the United States President and Congress to revise the formula used to calculate the federal medical assistance percentage to consider, in addition to a state's per capita income, the total number of persons living in poverty in that state.

Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2004

AJR 55 (Reyes-D) Violence Against Children

Requests the United States Congress to pass, and the President to sign, as soon as possible, the Violence Against Children Act of 2003 which, among other things, toughens federal criminal penalties for crimes against children, provides assistance to local police and prosecutors to combat crimes against children, provides emergency medical treatment and counseling to child victims and their families, and establishes a National Amber Alert System.

Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2004

AJR 56 (Frommer-D) Assault weapons ban

Requests the United States Congress and the President to enact legislation that extends and strengthens the 1994 act banning assault weapons.

Resolution Chapter 188, Statutes of 2004

AJR 57 (Jackson-D) Reproductive rights: Roe v. Wade

Requests the United States President and Congress to protect and uphold the intent and substance of the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, relating to reproductive rights, and to encourage all Americans to participate in the national celebration, "The March for Women's Lives," in recognition of that decision's historic importance in promoting women's rights.

Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 2004

AJR 58 (Correa-D) Religious freedom in Vietnam

Urges the Vietnamese government to respect the right of all independent religious organizations to meet, worship, operate, and practice their faith in accordance with Vietnam's own constitution and international covenants to which Vietnam is a signatory and to restore freedom to all Vietnamese citizens imprisoned or under house arrest for practicing their faith or for advocating freedom of religion. Recommends that the United States Congress and the United States Embassy in Vietnam closely monitor cases of abuse of religious belief and practice, routinely visit detained clergy members, especially those in need of medical care, and report to Congress on specific measures taken to protect and promote religious freedom in Vietnam.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 59 (Maze-R) Military bases

Requests that the state, through the Legislature, the Governor, and the California Congressional delegation, request the President and Congress of the United States to support the continued operation and maintenance of all the military bases currently in operation in California.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AJR 61 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Prescription drugs

Requests the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to certify to the Congress of the United States that implementation of provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, permitting the importation of prescription drugs from Canada into the United States, will pose no additional risk to the public's health and safety and will result in a significant reduction in the cost of prescription drugs to the American consumer.

Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2004

AJR 62 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Prescription drugs

Calls upon the California delegation of the United States Senate and House of Representatives to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any Medicare provision that prohibits the federal government from negotiating fair drug prices as contained in a section of the federal Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173).

Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2004

AJR 63 (Maze-R) State Highway Route 99

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to include State Highway Route 99 in the interstate highway system.

Resolution Chapter 153, Statutes of 2004

AJR 64 (Chu-D) Bias-motivated crime

States that the Legislature is, among other things, concerned by the number of bias-motivated crimes against Arab-Americans, Muslim-Americans, South Asian-Americans, Sikh-Americans, and other Americans in recent months and calls upon local, state, and federal law enforcement authorities to work to prevent bias-motivated crimes and to investigate and prosecute vigorously all bias-motivated crimes committed against all Americans, including Arab-Americans, Muslim-Americans, South Asian-Americans, and Sikh-Americans.

Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2004

AJR 65 (Bogh-R) Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians

Declares the support of the Legislature of California for the resolution of the ongoing negotiations between the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, the Eastern Municipal Water District and the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and the United States Department of the Interior to reach a water and land settlement that is consistent with federal law, requests the United States Department of the Interior to give its full support to the settlement legislation, and requests the United States Congress to pass that legislation.

Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2004

AJR 66 (Lieber-D) Equal Pay Day

Proclaims April 20, 2004, as Equal Pay Day and urges the Congress of the United States to protect the fundamental right of all American women to receive equal pay for equal work and to continue to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex and for other purposes.

Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2004

AJR 67 (Mountjoy-R) Same sex marriage

Requests the United States Congress act on President Bush's call for an amendments to the United States Constitution that protects and defends the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 68 (Parra-D) Federal child nutrition programs

Requests the United States Congress to eliminate the reduced price school meals program category and to, instead, expand the free school meals program category to provide free meals for all children in families that are below 185 percent of the applicable family size income level.

Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2004

AJR 69 (Matthews-D) Specialty Crops

Requests that the Congress of the United States of America support the passage of HR 3242, the Specialty Crop Competitiveness Act of 2003.

Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2004

AJR 70 (Garcia-R) HIV and AIDS

Requests the President and Congress to recognize and respond to the growing risk of women contracting, and the increased numbers of women who have contracted, HIV or AIDS by providing more funding for and financial participation in prevention, outreach, and treatment programs that specifically help women and their families who are living with or at risk of contracting HIV or AIDS.

Resolution Chapter 98, Statutes of 2004

AJR 71 (Wolk-D) Veterans health care

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to enact appropriate legislation to provide a guaranteed level of funding for veterans health care, and to restore medical benefits eligibility for veterans in Priority Group 8. Also urges the State Department of Veterans Affairs to seek out eligible veterans to provide them with benefits information.

Resolution Chapter 46, Statutes of 2004

AJR 72 (Frommer-D) Federal Clean Air Act

Requests the United States Environmental Protection Agency to take immediate action to review and reconsider California's request for an administrative waiver from the gasoline oxygenate additive requirements of the federal Clean Air Act in order to relieve gasoline consumers in California from record-breaking gasoline prices.

Resolution Chapter 131, Statutes of 2004

AJR 73 (Simitian-D) Armenian Genocide

Designates April 24, 2004, as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923." Memorializes the Congress of the United States to likewise commemorate the Armenian Genocide.

Resolution Chapter 162, Statutes of 2004

A similar resolution was AJR 78 (Samuelian-R), which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

AJR 74 (Pavley-D) Hybrid electric vehicles

Requests the United States Congress and President to take legislative action to allow single-occupant hybrid electric vehicles that achieve a fuel economy highway rating of at least 45 miles per gallon, and conform to any additional emissions category of the federal Environmental Protection Agency or the State Air Resources Board, or meet any other requirements identified by the responsible agency, to travel in California's High Occupancy Vehicle lanes.

Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2004

AJR 75 (Haynes-R) Internet access tax

Urges the United States Senate to support and pass a permanent and technologically neutral extension of the Internet tax moratorium.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 76 (Haynes-R) Federal tax cuts

Requests the Congress of the United States to support President George W. Bush's tax cuts and to vote to make them permanent.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 77 (Haynes-R) Death tax

Requests the United States Congress and President to enact legislation permanently repealing the death tax.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

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

AJR 80 (Haynes-R) War in Iraq

Requests the Representatives and Senators from California to support President Bush and his efforts to keep the United States and its allies safe from terrorists, dangerous authoritarian regimes, and weapons of mass destruction.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 81 (Haynes-R) Lifetime and Retirement Savings Accounts

Requests the United States President and Congress to enact legislation that eliminates the double taxation of personal savings, allow working Americans to create Lifetime and Retirement Savings Accounts, and enhances the economic security of working families.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 82 (Canciamilla-D) Murderer of peace officers

Requests that the Attorney General of the State of California immediately review the facts of the case against the suspect in the slaying of Officer Isaac Anthony Espinoza to determine if intervention in the prosecution of this case is proper and warranted. Urges the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California to review the facts of the case to determine whether circumstances exist which warrant prosecuting the case as a death penalty case under federal law.

(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AJR 83 (Daucher-R) Special education

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

Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2004

AJR 84 (Parra-D) Military bases

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to delay base realignment and closure activities in 2005, as specified, and to support House Resolution 4023 and House Resolution 4200, the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Authorization Bill.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AJR 85 (Leno-D) Same-sex couples

Opposes any federal enactment designed to prohibit or restrict the provision of rights and obligations under the law for same-sex couples and their families.

Resolution Chapter 172, Statutes of 2004

AJR 86 (Lieber-D) Space exploration

Requests the Congress and President of the United States to enact and fully fund the proposed budget for space exploration for the federal 2005 fiscal year to enable the United States, and California, in particular, to remain a leader in the exploration and development of space.

Resolution Chapter 154, Statutes of 2004

AJR 87 (Goldberg-D) Employee Free Choice Act

Urges the United States Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, S. 1925 and H.R. 3619.

Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2004

AJR 88 (Nation-D) No Child Left Behind Act

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to fully fund the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 for the life of the act, and urges Congress to amend the act to permit yearly adequate progress to accommodate a range of accountability models to respect parental choice by giving states flexibility to exclude the participation rate calculation, a pupil whose parent chooses not to have the pupil tested. Urges Congress to amend the act to provide that a teacher who is certificated under California's certification requirements is deemed highly qualified for purposes of the act.

Resolution Chapter 182, Statutes of 2004

AJR 89 (Oropeza-D) Corporate average fuel economy

Requests the United States President and Congress to take necessary action to increase corporate average fuel economy standards by at least 11/2 miles per gallon per annum until total average fuel economy for the new light-duty motor vehicle fleet sold in California is double today's average.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AJR 90 (Oropeza-D) National gasoline and diesel fuel standards

Requests the Secretary of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to consider adopting California's reformulated gasoline standards as the national gasoline standard and California's diesel fuel standard as the national diesel fuel standard to fulfill the requirements of the federal Clean Air Act, provide cleaner air around the country, ensure greater supply options when local inventories are depleted, and provide relief to consumers from high gasoline prices.

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

AJR 92 (Wesson-D) Tax credits: film and television

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that authorizes income tax incentives to address the problem of economic runaway film and television productions.

(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)

AJR 93 (Dymally-D) Public funding: stem cell

Requests the United States President and Congress to expand public funding for stem-cell research and allow the funding to be used for research and cell lines not created with public funds.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 94 (Reyes-D) Electrical energy

Urges the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to increase the refunds owed California ratepayers form $3 billion to $9 billion as a result of energy market manipulation during the state's energy crisis of 2000-01. Urges the President and Congress to ensure that FERC complies with this resolution.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 95 (Goldberg-D) Federal budget

Requests the United States Congress and President to enact a budget the redirects sufficient amounts of money from the military budget to the states so that certain critical needs of California citizens can be met.

(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

AJR 96 (Liu-D) Women's Equality Day

Requests the United States President and Congress to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2004, the 84th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

Resolution Chapter 193, Statutes of 2004

AJR 97 (Lieber-D) Gender-based violence

Requests the federal United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Homeland Security to recognize gender-based violence as a basis for granting asylum in the United States.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 98 (Pacheco-R) Motor vehicle repair

Requests the United States President, Vice President, and the Congress to enact The Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act, to prevent motor vehicle manufacturers and others from unfairly restricting access to the information and tools necessary to accurately diagnose, repair, or reprogram automotive replacement parts.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

Index (in Bill Order)