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Small Business
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Workers' Compensation
Unemployment Insurance
Financial Institutions
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Economic Development
SB 6* (Ducheny-D) Enterprise zones: designation period
Provides that all zones, not just those designated prior to 1990, may be granted an extension to 20 years, if they also meet the other requirements (successful audit and submission of an economic development plan).
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 58* (Murray-D) Taxes: credits: qualified motion picture production
Grants an income or corporation tax credit equal to 15 percent of the amount of qualified wages paid and qualified property purchased in the production of a qualified motion picture. The maximum amount of credit per motion picture will be $5 million. The credit will not exceed an aggregate amount (for all motion pictures in a year) of a fixed dollar amount.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 193* (Maldonado-R) Sales and use taxes: exemptions: space flight
Expands the existing sales and use tax exemption for the sale or use of space flight property to include the purposes of assembly and transport of space flight property as well as personal property used in spaceports.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 625 (Battin-R) State and local surplus property: written offers
Requires state agencies to include in their annual surplus property report to the Department of General Services land that is suitable for economic development purposes, and requires state and local agencies to send a written offer to sell or lease such property to a local governmental agency or organization engaged in economic development prior to disposing of the property.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 686* (Lowenthal-D) Economic incentive areas
Makes a number of significant changes to the operation of the California Enterprise Zone Program and other geographically-targeted economic development areas.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 732 (Ashburn-R) Local government finance: enterprise special districts
Limits the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund shift for any enterprise special district whose budget does not exceed $2 million and that spends at least 20 percent of its total expenditures on a non-enterprise police protection function, to the lesser of 40 percent of its property tax revenues or five percent of the district's total revenue as reported in the 2001-02 edition of the State Controller's Special Districts Annual Report. Requires the State Controller to ensure that this exemption will not result in an increased property tax revenue shift for any other special district, and requires the State Controller to notify the Department of Finance (DOF) of any reductions resulting from this requirement by January 7, 2006, and requires DOF to notify any affected county auditors by January 21, 2005.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 763 (Lowenthal-D) Economic development
Expands the Department of Housing and Community Developments fee authority for the purpose of off-setting the cost of administering the geographically-targeted economic development area programs.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2006
SB 974 (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) CEQA: exemption: rural infrastructure economic development
Repeals an obsolete CEQA exemption for project funding by the Rural Economic Development Infrastructure Panel.
Chapter 370, Statutes of 2006
SB 1008 (Ducheny-D) Economic incentive areas
Makes various revisions in the requirements for designating and administering enterprise zones generally. It provides for the administration and oversight of geographically targeted economic development areas, which includes enterprise zones, Manufacturing Enhancement Areas, the targeted tax area, and LAMBRAs, by the department, subject to specified criteria. It also applies various requirements applicable to those entities to the geographically targeted economic development areas.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
SB 1268 (Cedillo-D) Economic development subsidies: review by local agencies
Requires local agencies to report on any economic development subsidy that results in an expenditure of public funds or revenue loss of $25,000.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1274 (Dunn-D) Cartwright Act: monopolies
Makes any act of monopolization a violation of the California antitrust statute. Provides that monopolization includes monopsonization for purposes of California antitrust law.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 1424 (Figueroa-D) California Workforce and Economic Information Program
Requires the Employment Development Department to provide data and information, consult with an advisory committee and publish a biennial report relative to the manufacturing sector.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1523 (Alarcon-D) Development projects: superstore retailers
Requires a city, county, or city and county to prepare an economic impact report before approving a proposed development project that would include construction of a superstore retailer. Requires the developer to pay for the economic impact report.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1537 (Alarcon-D) Labor and Workforce Development Agency
Establishes the California Business Investment Services Unit (CalBIS) within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. CalBIS would serve as a liaison between the business community and state agencies on business location and expansion issues.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1552 (Scott-D) Community colleges: economic and workforce development
Reauthorizes the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program and extends the program's sunset date from January 1, 2008 to January 1, 2013.
Chapter 753, Statutes of 2006
SB 1590 (Scott-D) Community colleges: economic and workforce development
Requires the Department of Education to assist economic and workforce regional development centers and consortia by identifying and disseminating best-practice models among program participants that have proven successful in achieving the goal of improving linkages and career-technical education pathways between high schools and community colleges for the benefit of pupils and students in both educational systems.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1643* (Runner-R) Sales and use taxes: exemptions: manufacturers
Restores the sales tax portion of now sunset Manufacturers Investment Credit. This restored exemption would apply to qualified equipment purchases beginning on January 1, 2007, by manufacturers and software producers in the first three years of doing business in California.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1671 (Ashburn-R) Spaceports: Mojave Spaceport
Appropriates $11 million from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation to provide a 30-year loan to the East Kern Airport District to construct the Mojave Spaceport Terminal.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1698 (Ashburn-R) Military and aerospace enterprise development
Extends the sunset on the Office of Military and Aerospace Support (OMAS) for two years, until January 1, 2009, and expands the duties of the OMAS to include outreach to the aerospace industry for the purpose of fostering aerospace enterprises in California.
Chapter 681, Statutes of 2006
AB 31* (Parra-D) Economic development of Central San Joaquin Valley
Creates the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, composed of the heads of state agencies and departments, to coordinate and improve existing state and federal efforts for the San Joaquin Valley, in concert with locally led efforts, in order to increase the living standards and the overall economic performance of the San Joaquin Valley.
(Died on Senate Floor)
AB 34* (Ruskin-D) Corporation tax: water's-edge election: tax havens
Expands the list of countries reflected in the water's-edge group to include affiliates located in a tax-haven country.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 37* (Torrico-D) Income taxes: credits: Quality Job Creation Tax Credit
Creates a tax credit for taxpayers that create specified jobs throughout California.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 199 (Tran-R) Enterprise zones: limitation on designation
Increases the maximum number of enterprise zones receiving specified tax and regulatory incentives designated by the Department of Housing and Community Development at any one time from 42 to 52.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 237 (Arambula-D) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
Requires the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to create a new program to assist small and rural communities in financing local infrastructure projects from specified bond proceeds.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 410 (Yee-D) Disabled veteran business enterprises
Creates a 10 percent bidding preference to be issued by state agencies and local agencies expending state funds, including school districts, to certified disabled veteran business enterprises (DVBE) submitting specified bids when an agency is to award the contract to the qualified bidder. Creates a maximum 10 percent bidding preference per Department of General Services regulations to be issued by state agencies and local agencies expending state funds to certified businesses that are not DVBE's, but provide for DVBE subcontractors in the bid when submitting specified contract bids.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 485* (Arambula-D) Economic incentive areas
Makes numerous changes to zone selection, administration, and oversight procedures for the state's four economic development area programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1550 (Arambula), Chapter 718, Statutes of 2006.
AB 732 (Leslie-R) Economic development: neighborhoods
Enacts the California Neighborhood Initiative that requires the Governor to designate an agency that designates, and annually recertifies, 25 California renewal communities within the state, subject to specified criteria, to be linked with available federal funding, public or private resources, and specified state resources.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 777* (Nunez-D) Taxes: credits: qualified motion picture production
Requires the California Film Commission, in collaboration with specified state entities, to conduct a statewide analysis of the impact of runaway film production on the California film industry and report back to the Legislature no later than March 1, 2006.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 925 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Insurance: community investments
Requires California-admitted insurers to submit information about their community investment activities to the Insurance Commissioner on a biennial basis until January 1, 2011, requires posting that information to the Department of Insurance web site biennially, and makes the submission of community investment data by insurance companies voluntary after January 1, 2010.
Chapter 456, Statutes of 2006
AB 957 (Haynes-R) California New Markets Venture Capital Program
Creates the California New Markets Venture Capital Program, which guarantees the debentures of certified companies to support investment in small enterprises located in low- or moderate-income geographic areas, and makes grants to community development corporations.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2052 (Haynes-R) which died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee.
AB 1004 (Nava-D) Commission for Economic Development
Specifies that one of the purposes of the Commission for Economic Development is to provide continuing bipartisan legislative branch, executive branch, and private sector assessment for the best overall economic development of the state.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 1209* (Yee-D) Microenterprise development
Appropriates $5 million to establish a competitive grant program, administered by the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, for microenterprise development providers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1224* (Haynes-R) Taxes: credit: qualified equity investments
Allows a credit in an amount equal to five percent of the adjusted purchase price, as defined, paid or incurred by the taxpayer for a qualified equity investment, as defined, to the issuer of the investment.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1398 (Plescia-R) Life sciences
Encourages the Public Employees' Retirement System to fully deploy funds earmarked for life science investments, and to ensure that its asset allocation reflects the long-term value that the corporations present to California.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 1516 (Arambula-D) Economic strategy panel: membership
Specifies that at least two appointees to the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development's economic strategy panel be local economic development practitioners.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1550* (Arambula-D) Economic incentive areas
Makes numerous changes to zone selection, administration, and oversight procedures for the states four economic development area programs.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was AB 485 (Arambula-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1766 (Dymally-D) Economic incentive areas
Enacts a series of changes to enterprise zone (EZ) designations, the Department of Housing and Community Development fee collection authority, hiring credits, net interest deduction, business expense deductions, net operating loss, and other provisions of tax law applicable to EZs, local agency military base recovery areas, targeted tax areas, and manufacturing enhancement areas.
(Died on Senate Floor)
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Enterprise zones
Omnibus general government trailer bill to the 2006 Budget, which among other provisions, deletes the January 1, 2007 sunset date for enterprise zone application fees.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1905 (Villines-R) Disabled Veterans Business Enterprises: contracting
Lowers the requirement for a Limited Liability Company to be certified as a Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise from wholly owned by one or more disabled veterans to having at least 51% disabled veteran ownership.
(Died in Assembly Veteran Affairs Committee)
AB 2033* (Lieu-D) Tax credit: Joint Strike Fighter & Crew Exploration Vehicle
Extends the Joint Strike Fighter wage and property credits to the Crew Exploration Vehicle, and to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2006 and before January 1, 2011. The wage credit is equal to 10% of qualified wages paid or incurred in connection with an initial contract or subcontract to manufacture property for ultimate use in a JSF or CEV. The property credit is equal to 10% of the qualified property placed in service in California.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2128* (Torrico-D) Tax: credits: commuter benefits
Provides a credit against net tax for an employer's costs of providing specific commuter benefits to its employees.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2218* (Torrico-D) Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment
Exempts from the state sales and use tax purchases of manufacturing equipment for a 10-year period beginning January 1, 2007. In order to maintain eligibility for the exemption, an employer would need to demonstrate to the Board of Equalization that it continues to employ at least as many employees as in the prior year, beginning in 2008.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2245* (La Suer-R) Taxes: credits: qualified disabled veterans
Provides a credit against net tax for a disabled veteran.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2395* (Villines-R) Taxes: manufacturer credits and exemption
Creates a state sales and use tax exemption and a personal income tax and corporation tax credit for investment in manufacturing equipment for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2006.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2530* (Arambula-D) Income taxes: credits: qualified development corporations
Authorizes a credit based upon a percentage of the amount contributed to an organization dedicated to bringing jobs to California.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2567* (Arambula-D) Income and corporation tax credits: research and development
Increases the research and development credit allowed under the Personal Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law from 15 percent to 20 percent for qualified research conducted within California by a qualified taxpayer, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2007 and before January 1, 2015.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2570 (Arambula-D) Community investment
Requires public retirement systems with assets over $4 billion to provide specified information regarding investments it obtains on and after July 1, 2007, requires the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to establish a statewide cooperative partnership with business and, industry, investment, community development sectors to develop a strategy to attract new private investment into the state, and codifies legislative declarations and definitions regarding "emerging domestic markets."
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2589* (Sharon Runner-R) Personal income and corporation taxes: enterprise zone
Allows taxpayers to use credits earned in any enterprise zone (EZ) against the tax imposed on taxpayer's aggregate income earned within EZs.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2595 (Arambula-D) Manufacturing: logistics training
Establishes a state training initiative to increase workers skills in manufacturing and goods movement, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2640* (Torrico-D) Income taxes: credits: quality job creation tax credit
Creates a capped and allocated tax credit available to taxpayers against their net tax for creation of quality jobs in California.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2668* (Canciamilla-D) Corporation tax: "S" corporation
For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2004, allows an "S" corporation, as provided, to carry forward a net operating loss incurred by that corporation as a "C" corporation from its last taxable year beginning before January 1, 2002, to the first taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2004, in which the corporation is treated as an "S" corporation for state tax purposes as a result of the enactment of Chapter 35, Statutes of 2002.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2709 (Maze-R) Taxation: foster youth hiring preference
Directs the Franchise Tax Board, with the assistance of the Department of Social Services and the Employment Development Department, to prepare a study on the feasibility of developing a credit under the personal income and corporation tax laws to encourage employers to hire former foster youth.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2731* (Karnette-D) Tax credits: manufacturers of various aircraft
Authorizes a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2017, for qualified wages, as defines, and the qualified costs of qualified property, as defined, associated with the production of a C-17 Globemaster III, a Joint Cargo Aircraft, or a KC-X Tanker by the Boeing Company in the City of Long Beach.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2829* (Ridley-Thomas-D) Corporation taxes: water's-edge election
Requires a corporation that makes a water's-edge election to include the income and apportionment factors of certain foreign affiliates.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 2830* (Ridley-Thomas-D) Corporation taxes: election: stock purchases
Requires consistency with federal tax reporting for elections to treat certain stock purchases as asset purchases.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 2860 (Lieu-D) State government: manufacturing competitiveness
Makes numerous substantive, clarifying and technical changes to existing provisions of law relating to the California Commission on Industrial Innovation that is intended to renew the Commission's mission.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2887 (Houston-R) Industrial and traded sector development: identification
Requires the state to identify sites suitable for development for industrial or trade sector uses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2998* (Frommer-D) Corporation Tax Law: cancellation of indebtedness
Specifies that the amount of net operating loses and tax credits acquired by a corporate taxpayer from other corporations, as a result of the acquisition of those corporations by the taxpayer, must be calculated by multiplying the amount of NOLs or tax credits allowable to the taxpayer for federal income tax purposes, after applying the federal limitation rules, by the average apportionment percentage of the acquired corporation for the year of the acquisition and the 2 immediately preceding taxable years.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 3057 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Economic development: Small Business Expansion Fund
Extends the sunset from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2012 on the Director of Finance's authority to transfer moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the California Small Business Expansion Fund, and makes other technical changes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
World Trade and Tourism
SB 1513 (Romero-D) California International Trade and Investment Act
Provides new authority for the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency to undertake international trade and investment activities, and as a condition of that new authority, directs the development of a comprehensive international trade and investment policy for California.
Chapter 663, Statutes of 2006
SB 1525 (Murray-D) International trade and investment office: Johannesburg
Authorizes the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to establish, and accept private monies to finance, on a contract basis, an international trade and investment office in Johannesburg, South Africa.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
SB 1529 (Murray-D) International trade and investment office: Seoul
Authorizes the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to establish, and accept private monies to finance, on a contract basis, an international trade and investment office in Seoul, in the Republic of Korea.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
SB 1762 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements
Prohibits the Governor from binding California to provisions of an international trade agreement without consent from the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
SJR 25 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements: pharmaceutical drug programs
Urges the United States Trade Representative to clarify in a legally binding manner that provisions relative to pharmaceuticals and health care in the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement and other pending free trade agreements do not constrain state administration of federal health care programs.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SJR 28 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements: public health services
Memorializes Congress and the President of the United States to ensure that international trade agreements preserve the traditional powers of state and local governments to regulate and protect public health.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
AB 1562 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) International trade
Authorizes the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H) to be responsible for coordinating and conducting the state's international trade and investment programs and activities, requires the Secretary of BT&H, by April 1, 2006, to present the Governor and Legislature an international trade and investment strategy with specified components, and requires the Secretary of BT&H, to the extent sufficient resources are available, to develop a statewide collaborative partnership of public-private international trade development organizations to achieve specified international trade and investment purposes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2233 (Chan-D) International trade and investment offices
Requires the Governor to instruct the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to establish, on a contract basis, four international trade and investment offices.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 2546 (Liu-D) International trade and investment offices: establishment
Requires the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H) to develop an international trade and investment strategy report for the state and authorizes BT&H to establish international trade and investment offices.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 2592 (Leno-D) California Travel and Tourism Commission
Modifies the conditions and terms of appointees and elected members of the California Travel and Tourism Commission (CTTC), broadens industry segments which may voluntary participate in CTTC programs, and clarifies certain assessment and referendum procedures. Makes changes to the way the passenger car rental industry is assessed by the CTTC which will permit rental car companies to separately state specified fees in advertising, quotes and charges for rental cars which become operational only if the rental car industry agrees to increase its Tourism Marketing Assessment to specified levels.
Chapter 790, Statutes of 2006
AB 2601 (Arambula-D) Economic Incentive Areas
Allows the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H) to establish and implement a strategy for trade and investment promotion within the BT&H, under certain specified conditions.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2931 (Aghazarian-R) Business, Transportation and Housing Agency: authority
Authorizes new authority for the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency related to international trade.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 2978 (Houston-R) International trade
Delegates responsibility for coordinating and conducting California's international trade and investment programs and activities in the state to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 3021 (Nunez-D) California-Mexico relations
Establishes the California-Mexico Border Relations Council comprised of all agency secretaries and the Director of the Office of Emergency Services to coordinate all border activities of state agencies.
Chapter 621, Statutes of 2006
Small Business
SB 1436 (Figueroa-D) Small business: state agency information
Reestablishes prior law requiring every state agency regulating small businesses to have a small business liaison, and requires links on state agency websites regarding information applicable specifically to small businesses.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2006
AB 854 (Bass-D) Small business certification and reciprocity programs
Authorizes the Department of General Services (DGS) to accept certification of a small business made by a local agency if it determines that the local agency has applied similar certification criteria and review processes to those applied by DGS.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AB 995* (Canciamilla-D) Taxation: small business health insurance: credit
Allows a credit to employers for part of the cost of providing health care coverage for employees.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2330 (Arambula-D) Small businesses: Office of Small Business Advocate
Requires the Office of the Small Business Advocate to have a study prepared by October 1, 2007, regarding the cost impact of state regulations on small businesses.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2006
AB 2502 (Arambula-D) Taxation: small business tax credit transfers
Creates a structure for the transfer of unused tax credits by small businesses.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 3058 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Business disaster preparedness: small businesses
Expands the duties of the Office of the Small Business Advocate to include advocacy on state policy and programs related to small businesses on disaster preparedness and recovery.
Chapter 233, Statutes of 2006
Labor Relations
SB 46 (Alarcon-D) Occupational safety and health: masonry cutting
Establishes safety and health requirement related to the dry cutting and dry grinding of masonry materials.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 293 (Ducheny-D) Workforce Training Act
Deletes obsolete language in the state Unemployment Insurance Code relative to workforce training and job services and incorporates provisions of the 1998 federal Workforce Investment Act and additional changes from its reauthorization, as well as provisions to guide the state's implementation of the Act.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2006
SB 300 (Kuehl-D) Family and medical leave
Expands the scope of the California Family Rights Act to (1) expand the list of family members for which an employee is allowed protected leave under the Act to include an employees' independent adult child, grandparent, sibling, or domestic partner suffering from a serious health condition, and (2) clarify intent and strengthen various Act protections for workers and their families.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 495 (Vincent-D) Traveling carnivals
Requires traveling carnivals operating amusement rides to report certain injuries of users of an amusement ride to the Department of Consumer Affairs and to provide a copy of the report to the injured person. Imposes various other requirements on traveling carnivals relative to the safe operation of amusement rides and training of personnel.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 593 (Alarcon-D) Health care costs: recovery
Requires a for-profit corporation with at least 20,000 employees to reimburse the state for costs of providing Medi-Cal and Healthy Families to the corporation's employees and dependents.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 727 (Lowenthal-D) Safety in employment: special purpose personnel elevators
Allows a company or person to maintain and repair personnel elevators on certain cranes in marine terminals if specified prior experience in the maintenance and repair of such elevators is demonstrated.
Chapter 448, Statutes of 2006
SB 1154 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget deficiencies: industrial relations
Appropriates $988,000 from unallocated special funds to provide funding for wage claims submitted by employees of unlicensed garment manufacturers and $338,000 for unpaid wage claims from employees of unlicensed farm labor contractors.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2006
SB 1188 (Florez-D) Employment: compensation
Amends provisions of exiting law relating to the payment of employee wages by check or similar instruments.
(Failed passage in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 1194 (Morrow-R) Employment
Requires the Department of Personnel Administration to verify the legal status or authorization to work in the United States of every employee of the state and agencies that contract with the state prior to the hiring of that employee in accordance with the Basic Pilot Program, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1204 (Perata-D) Hospitals: lift teams
Requires each general acute care hospital to establish a health care worker back injury prevention plan which will include identifying the need of lift teams and devices for all shifts.
Vetoed by the Governor
A similar bill is AB 2716 (Strickland-R) which died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee.
SB 1213 (Dunn-D) Employment: port owner-operator drivers
Allows port owner-operator truck drivers to organize for purposes of collective bargaining with motor carriers, as specified. States legislative intent to address the economic imbalance between port owner-operator truck drivers and port motor carriers.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1254 (Ackerman-R) Employee-selected flexible work schedule
Permits individual, non-exempt employees to request flexible work schedules of up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek and allows the employer to implement the schedule without any obligation to pay overtime compensation.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1365 (Aanestad-R) Electrician apprenticeships
Permits three uncertified electricians to work under the supervision of one certified electrician.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1414 (Migden-D) California Fair Share Health Care Act
Requires employers with 10,000 or more employees to spend between six percent and eight percent of total wages, as specified, on employee health insurance costs, or pay a specified amount to the Department of Industrial Relations for deposit into the California Fair Share Health Care Fund.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1468 (Alarcon-D) Car washes
Extends the sunset date on the Car Wash Worker Law from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2010. Requires the Labor Commission to report the Legislature on specific aspects of the car washing industry.
Chapter 656, Statutes of 2006
SB 1561 (Alarcon-D) Employment: minors: entertainment industry
Enacts the Minors in Entertainment Act which establishes the Division of Minors in Entertainment in the Department of Industrial Relations to regulate and enforce the provision of services intended for minors in the entertainment industry.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1605 (Margett-R) Public contracts: public works
Clarifies when a public works contractor must notify a public agency, in relation to the change of soil conditions and makes conforming changes.
Chapter 183, Statutes of 2006
SB 1719 (Cedillo-D) Payment of wages
Allows employees and employers in the live theater/concert industry to establish in their bona fide collective bargaining agreements time limits for payment of wages to discharged or laid off employees, as specified.
Chapter 685, Statutes of 2006
SB 1745 (Kuehl-D) Employment discrimination: victims of violence
Provides that it is against the public policy of the state for specified employers to discharge, fail to hire, or harass any individual, or otherwise discriminate or retaliate against any individual in compensation, or in other terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because the individual is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, as defined.
Vetoed by the Governor
SCR 126 (Alarcon-D) Importation of liquefied natural gas
Declares, in the event liquefied natural gas is imported into the State of California by sea-borne transportation, that all longshore work and all vessels, including offshore and shore-side receiving terminals, should be crewed and staffed by a unionized work force, and that all required merchant mariner documents should be of United States Coast Guard issue.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SJR 27 (Bowen-D) Equal Pay Day
Proclaims April 25, 2006 as Equal Pay Day in California, and urges the United States Congress to protect the 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.
Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2006
AB 180 (Leno-D) Collective bargaining: direct care registered nurses
Authorizes "direct care registered nurses" to organize for purposes of collective bargaining, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 364* (Cogdill-R) Public works: prevailing wages
Makes various changes to existing law governing the payment of prevailing wages on public works projects.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 411* (Yee-D) Works of improvement: payment to subcontractors
Clarifies that the amount of payment a public entity or original contractor may withhold from a subcontractor pending resolution of a dispute is the liquidated damages owned by the subcontractor and 150 percent of the estimated cost of repair or replacement of subcontract work that was not performed according to the subcontract. Establishes a formal hearing process for subcontractor substitution.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 419 (Koretz-D) Artistic employment contracts: minors
Extends, from seven days to 30 business days after the first day of employment under a contract, the time required to establish a trust for the purpose of preserving for the minor a portion the minor's gross earnings, as defined, and makes related changes.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
AB 474 (Cogdill-R) Prevailing wages
Requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, in determining prevailing wage rates, to factor in studies done by rural counties and rural economic development agencies regarding actual wages paid in rural areas of the state.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 537 (Maze-R) Apprenticeship: electrical contractors
Makes changes to existing law governing the certification of electricians. Provides that certification is only required of "persons making electrical connections of 100 volt-amperes or more."
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2119 (Maze-R) which died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee.
AB 553 (La Suer-R) Public works: overtime compensation: workweek schedules
Authorizes employees on public works projects to adopt alternative workweek schedules concerning the payment of overtime.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 581 (Klehs-D) Public works: wages
Requires awarding bodies on public works projects to submit to the Contractors' State License Board (CSLB) the name and license number of all contractors and subcontractors awarded contracts, which CSLB must then post on its web site. States that a licensee's failure to pay wages as required by the Labor Code is cause for disciplinary action by the CSLB, with or without a finding of a violation by the Labor Commissioner, and provides that a joint labor-management committee may bring an action for violations of prevailing wage laws on public works within four years of a violation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 640 (Tran-R) Employment: work hours
Authorizes individual employees, with the approval of their employer, to work up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek without overtime pay, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 805 (Chu-D) Occupational safety and health: heat illness prevention
Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (Board) to adopt an occupational safety and health standard for all employees at risk of heat illness by December 1, 2007, and a standard for heat illness prevention and response for workers subject to specified wage orders by December 1, 2006. Requires the second standard to include specific educational components, ongoing annual training and certain procedures for addressing heat illness hazards in the workplace.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 815 (Lieber-D) Occupational safety and health
Requires the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Administration Board (Cal-OSHA) Standards Board to adopt revised or new workplace standards prepared by the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 822 (Benoit-R) Employment
Authorizes an employer to deposit employee wages to electronic paycards, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 904 (Houston-R) Employment: workweek
Authorizes specified employees in the manufacturing industry to adopt alternative workweek schedules authorizing work for no longer than 12 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek without receiving overtime compensation, as provided.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1192 (Villines-R) Public works: prevailing wages: affordable housing
Exempts specified affordable housing projects from the definition of "public works."
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1312 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Department of Industrial Relations: duties
Requires the Department of Industrial Relations to report to the Legislature on at least a quarterly basis the total amount of wages, penalties, and assessments referred to the Franchise Tax Board for collection, the amount collected from each employer, the costs of collection, and the time from referral to collection for each referral leading to a collection in the period since the last report.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1500 (Maze-R) Conveyances: exclusions: manlifts
Permits manlifts that are installed and used in agricultural production, processing, and handling facilities to be inspected and maintained in accordance with specified standards by a competent person designated by the owner or operator of the facilities even if that person is not certified as a competent conveyance mechanic. Annual inspections required by statute will still be required to be performed by a certified competent conveyance mechanic.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1514 (Villines-R) Occupational safety and health
Deletes the requirement that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health enter into an interagency agreement with the Department of Health Services for quality control and performance evaluation of the contract laboratory and analysis of nonroutine laboratory samples if the Division contracts with a private sector laboratory for services.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1709 (Wyland-R) Workplace postings
Requires that workplace posters and regulations be written in plain language so that employers and employees can easily understand them.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1835 (Lieber-D) Minimum wage
Increases the minimum wage to $7.50 per hour, effective January 1, 2007, and up to $8.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2008.
Chapter 230, Statutes of 2006
Similar legislation was SB 1167 (Maldonado-R) which died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee and AB 1844 (Chavez-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1840 (Jerome Horton-D) Health care: employer coverage: disclosure
Requires the Department of Health Services and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to collaborate in preparing a report that identifies all employers who employ 25 or more persons who are beneficiaries, enrolled in the Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and Access for Infants and Mothers programs.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1912 (Maze-R) Employment rights
Limits and employer's ability to discipline an employee for lawfully storing a firearm in their vehicle at the workplace.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1927 (DeVore-R) Prevailing wages: payroll records
Requires the obliteration of an employee's address from certified payroll records provided for inspection to a joint labor-management committee.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2019 (Cogdill-R) Prevailing wages
Requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, in determining the general prevailing rate of per diem wages to factor in one of the following: surveys done by rural counties and rural economic development agencies regarding actual wages paid in rural areas, or an index created by the department based on the cost of living indices and occupational employment statistics gathered by the Employment Development Department.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2067 (Oropeza-D) Smoking: enclosed spaces of buildings
Prohibits smoking in specified areas of covered parking lots and adds a definition of enclosed spaces to current law that already prohibits smoking in enclosed spaces of employment to include areas such as lobbies, lounges, waiting areas, elevators, stairwells, and restrooms that are a structural party of the building.
Chapter 736, Statutes of 2006
AB 2072 (Montanez-D) Representation of minors
Prohibits those identified as sex offenders subject to public disclosure on the Department of Justice's Megan's Law web site from representing or providing services to minors under the age of 16 in the entertainment industry, with specified exceptions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2095 (Niello-R) Employment practices
Limits the required sexual harassment training for supervisory employees to only those within California. Makes substantive technical adjustments relative to the itemization on employee wage statements of hours worked in excess of the normal work period and payment for such hours of work.
Chapter 737, Statutes of 2006
AB 2217 (Villines-R) Employment: working hours
Authorizes individual employees, with the approval of their employer, to work up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek without overtime pay, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2277 (Villines-R) Workplace postings
Requires that workplace postings and notices be written in plain language so that employers and every employee can easily understand them.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2327 (Arambula-D) Labor contractors
Requires an employer who is a farm labor contractor to disclose in the itemized statement furnished to employees the name and address of the legal entity that secured the employer's services. Makes technical nonsubstantive changes.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2331 (Villines-R) Prevailing wage exclusion: qualified transfers
Excludes from prevailing wage requirements any project funded in whole or in part by a "qualified transfer", as defined.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2334 (Chavez-D) Janitorial service contractors
Regulates the janitorial service industry by requiring every employer in the industry to register annually with the Labor Commissioner. Subjects an employer to a civil fine for failure to register. States legislative intent to direct the Labor Commissioner to study, and prepare a report on the status of labor law violations and enforcement in the janitorial service industry.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 2349 (Maze-R) Employment: labor organization: reporting
Requires a labor organization that is required to file a report of its income and expenditures with a government agency to post on its web site either a copy of the report filed or a link to the report on the web site of the government agency.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2371 (Levine-D) Employment arbitration agreements
Establishes unlawful employment practices under the Fair Employment and Housing Act. Precludes involuntary waiver of civil rights laws in the workplace.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 2385 (Lieu-D) Employment: securities dealers
States legislative intent to clarify the law governing the allocation of costs and expenses between securities industry employers and certain registered financial professionals.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2493 (Cogdill-R) Family-owned farms: workers' compensation
Exempts from the definition of "employee" in both the Labor Code and the Unemployment Insurance Code, specified family members who are employed without financial compensation on family farms that generate less than $100,000 per year in total taxable income, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 2536 (Montanez-D) Employment: minimum wage and overtime compensation
Eliminates an overtime exemption for specified "personal attendants", with certain exceptions. Extends wage and overtime pay requirements in current law to personal attendants.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2555 (Oropeza-D) Wages: gender pay equity
Increases the damages for which an employer may be liable for violating existing gender equity pay laws. Requires the employer to furnish each employee with a written statement, as specified. Requires the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Agency to appoint a commission to study pay disparities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2593 (Keene-R) Compensation: meal periods: transportation industry
Permits parties in the transportation industry to establish by a collective bargaining agreement, specified requirements concerning meal periods.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2613 (Mullin-D) Employment: overtime compensation: teachers
Establishes an overtime exemption in the Labor Code for specified private school teachers.
Chapter 159, Statutes of 2006
AB 2660 (La Suer-R) Employment: apprenticeship programs
Eliminates a specified "needs requirement" under existing law related to the approval of apprenticeship programs.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2680* (Harman-R) Tax: deductions: wages to illegal aliens
Disallows business deductions for wages paid to an unauthorized alien, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2907 (De La Torre-D) Electrician apprenticeship
Makes changes to the educational requirement sand timelines of the certification process for apprentice electricians.
Chapter 828, Statutes of 2006
AB 2929 (Laird-D) Apprenticeship oversight
Establishes new requirements for the approval of apprenticeship programs, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2997 (Houston-R) Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004
States legislative intent to explore methods to permit the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to obtain reasonable notice of settlements, for the purpose of informing the agency of the amount of civil penalties to which it is entitled.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2999 (Leno-D) Public works: labor compliance programs
Adds the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 as a source of funds for a public works project, as specified.
(Died on Senate Floor)
AB 3051 (Koretz-D) Employment: wages of motion picture employees
Revises provisions of existing law governing the final payment of wages for employees engaged in the production or broadcasting of motion pictures.
Chapter 824, Statutes of 2006
AB 3052 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Local labor standards
Requires the Department of Industrial Relations, to the extent possible within existing resources, to obtain copies of local labor standards and post them on its web site for access by the general public.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3054 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Employment fees
Increases the portion of the annual licensing fee for farm labor contractors that is deposited into a specified account to fund unpaid wage claims for farmworkers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Workers' Compensation
SB 177 (Poochigian-R) Workers' compensation: labor-management agreements
Authorizes the state, in its capacity as employer, to enter into alternative dispute resolution agreements governing disputes between the state and its employees relating to workers' compensation coverage.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 178 (Poochigian-R) Workers' compensation: private self-insurance groups
Imposes various requirements on private self-insured groups, including requirements with respect to the net worth of the members of the groups, the reporting of financial and other information, security deposits, insurance, membership, and administration. Creates the Self-Insured Groups' Security Fund for specified purposes. Requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to adopt reasonable rules and regulations as necessary to effectuate the provisions regulating private self-insured groups.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 179 (Poochigian-R) Workers' compensation: fraud prevention
Allows the Fraud Assessment Commission to hire an Executive Director and staff and allows the Insurance Commissioner to make grants to counties for three years rather than for one, under controls as specified, for purposes of funding workers' compensation insurance fraud investigations by district attorneys and makes related changes.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 292 (Speier-D) Workers' compensation
Establishes a new reimbursement formula for certain drugs dispensed in the workers' compensation system and limits access to personally identifiable information.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 331 (Cedillo-D) Workers' compensation: medical fee schedule
Increases the reimbursement rate and fees paid for pharmacy services and drugs provided to injured workers under the workers' compensation system.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 406 (Dutton-R) Medical expenses and indemnity payments report
Requires the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers Compensation to conduct a study on the feasibility of gathering public agency data on medical costs, indemnity costs, and payments made by the state and by employers that are self-insured.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 510* (Hollingsworth-R) Workers' compensation: motorcycles and specialty vehicles
Requires the rating board for workers' compensation occupational classifications to review motorcycle and specialty vehicle dealerships for inclusion in the classification for automobile dealers.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 538 (Kuehl-D) Medical provider networks: accountability
Increases requirements for medical provider networks in the workers' compensation system. Ensures that medical provider networks and health care organizations in the workers' compensation system have the capacity to provide quality medical care to injured workers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 549 (Poochigian-R) Workers' compensation: experience rating
Requires a classification system developed by an insurer to be filed with the Insurance Commissioner 45 days prior to its use.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 639 (Alarcon-D) Workers' compensation: experience rating
Requires that a classification system developed by the Insurance Commissioner, a rating organization, or an insurer take account of the number of employees in specifically defined occupational categories and prohibits such a classification system from classifying an employer based solely on the industry in which the employer is involved. Requires that the primary component of an experience rating plan be the number of claims filed by an employer relative to the average number of claims filed in comparable businesses and prohibits the amount of reserves that an insurer is required to maintain for an employer from being used as a component of an experience rating plan.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 815 (Perata-D) Workers' compensation: permanent disability: schedule
States legislative intent regarding fair compensation for disabled workers. Revises the formula for computing payments for injuries causing permanent disability which occur on or after January 1, 2007.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 916 (Speier-D) Workers' compensation: defined benefits plans
Limits workers' compensation indemnity benefits such that, when the indemnity benefits are combined with retirement benefits from a defined benefit plan, the income of a recipient may not exceed 90 percent of the person's final compensation.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1219 (Alquist-D) Workers' compensation: fellowship programs
Provides that participants in a summer fellowship program for teachers, as specified, shall be deemed an employee of the organization for purposes of worker's compensation, while participating in that program.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1625 (Denham-R) Workers' compensation insurance: uniform experience rating
Allows a uniform experience rating plan to meet the regulatory requirement for liability security by requiring an insurer issuing a workers' compensation policy to a horse trainer to attach to the policy an alternate employer endorsement that has been approved by the Insurance Commissioner.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1805* (Florez-D) Workers' compensation: horse racing
Provides that any funds not used to defray the costs of workers' compensation insurance as described, may also be used to reimburse a racing association for actual costs of safety improvements to racing and training surfaces, health and safety programs, research or safety equipment.
Chapter 883, Statutes of 2006
SB 1815 (Romero-D) Workers' compensation: peace officers
Makes changes to provisions related to workers' compensation benefits for peace officers intended to provide peace officers who sustain job-related injuries with prompt and appropriate medical care and related benefits, and allow those employees to resolve any medical treatment disputes expeditiously.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 82* (Calderon-D) Workers' compensation: private self-insurance groups
Imposes various requirements on private self-insured groups, including requirements with respect to the net worth of the members of these groups, the reporting of financial and other information, security deposits, insurance, membership, and administration. Creates the Self-Insured Groups' Security Fund for specified purposes related to the payment of workers' compensation obligations of private self-insured groups.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 191 (Vargas-D) Insurance: insolvency: longshore and harbor workers
Changes state workers' compensation statutes related to the federal Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. Provides coverage for Longshore and Harbors Workers insurance under the California Insurance Guarantee Association.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 227 (Daucher-R) Workers' compensation: benefits: leave from state
Requires any employee receiving temporary partial or temporary total disability benefits or necessary medical treatment due to a work-related injury or illness to forfeit the right to receive these benefits and medical treatment if the employee leaves the state for a period exceeding two weeks without written authorization of the employer. Authorizes the reinstatement of the right to receive these benefits and medical treatment upon either the written approval of the employer when the employee returns to the state or a finding of the appeals board.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 229 (Tran-R) Medical provider networks: notification of injury
Requires an employer utilizing a medical provider network to authorize an initial medical evaluation of an injured employee in accordance with the statutory notification provisions.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 427 (La Malfa-R) Workers' compensation: local inmates
Limits local inmate eligibility for temporary disability benefits.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 510 (Richman-R) Payment of compensation
Requires the Labor Commissioner to establish a specified proof-of-coverage program related to workers' compensation insurance coverage.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 613 (Mountjoy-R) Workers' compensation: specific and cumulative injuries
Requires an employee to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that activities of employment were predominant as to all causes of the injury.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 642 (Negrete McLeod-D) Workers' compensation: bioterrorism
Establishes a bioterrorism-related illness presumption under California's workers' compensation statutes for employees who suffer illness or death arising from a vaccination, medication, or exposure related to a biochemical substance or blood-borne pathogen in the course of employment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 681 (Vargas-D) Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule
Delays implementation of the workers' compensation Official Medical Fee Schedule from January 1, 2006 to January 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 871 (Keene-R) Workers' compensation: health care organizations
Eases certain requirements governing health care organizations in the workers' compensation system.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 881 (Emmerson-R) Workers' compensation: roofers
Requires all licensed roofers to have workers' compensation insurance, authorizes the Contractors State License Board's Registrar of Contractors to remove the roofing classification from a contractor license for failure to maintain workers' compensation insurance, and requires insurers who issue workers compensation policies to roofing contractors to perform annual audits of their roofing customer's payroll, and directs the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau to compile an annual report.
Chapter 38, Statutes of 2006
AB 935 (Koretz-D) Workers' compensation: inpatient burn diagnoses
Exempts certain inpatient medical treatments of burns under the workers' compensation system from current law reimbursement schedules.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1331 (Umberg-D) Workers' compensation: apportionment: presumptions
Corrects a perceived inconsistency in workers' compensation law created by recent reforms. Exempts certain law enforcement officers, investigators, and firefighters from the specified apportionment determinations and presumptions regarding specified permanent disability injuries.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1368 (Umberg-D) Workers' compensation: apportionment: presumptions
Clarifies the law relating to presumptive cause of certain medical conditions of specified public employees (various peace officers, firefighters, and other safety personnel) nullifying the requirement, with respect to these employees, that other potential causes be identified and apportioned.
Chapter 836, Statutes of 2006
AB 1554 (Frommer-D) Workers' compensation
Makes various technical, clarifying and non-controversial changes to the workers' compensation statutes.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1572 (Dymally-D) Medical treatment: qualified diagnostic radiologists
Authorizes a physician treating a patient who may be suffering from a job-related injury to refer that patient to the qualified diagnostic radiologist, as defined, whom the physician believes can best perform the diagnostic radiological services needed to allow for coverage determination or treatment decisions regarding his or her patient. Prohibits any person other than a qualified diagnostic radiologist from billing for diagnostic imaging procedures provided to workers seeking or obtaining care under the workers' compensation system.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1612 (Pavley-D) Workers' compensation: network
Allows medical providers, with certain exceptions, to withdraw their services from a medical provider network established pursuant to workers' compensation law.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1619 (Klehs-D) Workers' compensation: alternative dispute resolution
Authorizes exclusive bargaining representatives, in their capacity as employers, that are currently parties to these agreements to enter into similar agreements with their employees' recognized or certified exclusive bargaining representative.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1805* (Assembly Budget Committee) Workers' compensation: cancer
Implements the local government portion of the 2006 Budget Act which, among other provisions, requires the Commission on State Mandates to reconsider its 1984 and 1992 statements of decisions that the workers' compensation cancer presumption for firefighters and peace officers constitutes reimbursable mandates.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2006
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Workers' compensation liens
Implements the general government section of the 2006 State Budget which, among other provisions, repeals the $100 initial lien filing fee for medical-legal providers when they file a workers' compensation initial lien.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1862 (Vargas-D) Workers' compensation
Requires the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to study and report on first aid provided to workers who have sustained minor industrial injuries. Clarifies contracts for workers' compensation related services.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1883 (De La Torre-D) Workers' compensation: proof of insurance coverage
Establishes a workers' compensation enforcement-of-coverage program designed to detect unlawfully uninsured employers and continuously appropriates resources in the Workers' Compensation Administration Revolving Fund to fund the program.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1987 (Nava-D) Workers' compensation vouchers
Provides that if the treating physician finds that an injured employee will be unable to return to his/her usual duties, but may return to lighter work duties that are not permanent, the injured employee may be eligible for the supplemental job displacement benefit, if the employer is unable to provide alternate or modified work within 60 days of the finding.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2061 (Richman-R) Workers' compensation
Requires ratings organizations to maintain a web site and associated records to provide information regarding whether an employer has workers' compensation coverage and to identify present or past insurers of an employer. Requires insurers to report this information. Requires the Labor Commissioner to establish and maintain a proof-of-coverage program designed to detect unlawfully insured employers.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2068 (Nava-D) Workers' compensation: designation of physician
Enacts a specific set of medical guidelines for the provision of acupuncture treatment in the workers' compensation system if the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation fails to do so. Provides for a continuation of employee rights to pre-designate a personal physician for treatment of an industrial injury and to broaden the definition of personal physician.
Chapter 819, Statutes of 2006
AB 2087 (Benoit-R) Workers' compensation: claimant information
Requires the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to prepare and make available for release, an aggregated summary of all self-insured employers' liability to pay claims as reported on the annual reports submitted to the Director.
Chapter 115, Statutes of 2006
AB 2287 (Chu-D) Workers' compensation: acupuncture
Enacts a specific set of medical guidelines for the provision of acupuncture treatment in the workers' compensation system if the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation fails to do so. Provides for a continuation of employee rights to pre-designate a personal physician for treatment of an industrial injury and to broaden the definition of personal physician.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2292 (Montanez-D) Workers' compensation: death benefits
Provides that death benefits due under workers' compensation law shall not have to be paid to the state when death benefits are paid to the estate of a deceased employee.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2006
AB 2524 (DeVore-R) Workers' compensation: access to health care
Expands the scope of an annual study of access to medical treatment for injured workers to include how reimbursement policies and rates may affect the health care delivery system for injured workers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2585 (Pavley-D) Workers' compensation
Prohibits a contract between a payor and a health care provider from including a requirement to provide medical treatment for injured workers, however, allows payors to give health care providers the option of treating injured workers.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2590 (Keene-R) Workers' compensation: health care services
Authorizes a health care provider to collect money from an employee for a health care product or service after a workers' compensation benefit has been exhausted for a specified reason and the employee desires to obtain that particular product or service.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2789 (Bogh-R) Workers' compensation rates
Prohibits persons or entities conducting business in the state, when contracting with another person or entity for services to be performed in the state, from refusing to accept any of the methods authorized to secure the payment of workers' compensation insurance. Requires workers' compensation insurers, agents, and brokers to agree not to disclose experience rating information received from a licensed rating organization except to an insurer, or general agent of an insurer, in order to facilitate the transaction of workers' compensation insurance.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2894 (Aghazarian-R) Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
Requires every employer member of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation who is appointed on and after January 1, 2007, to be first nominated by a recognized organization that represents employer or business interests.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2942 (Koretz-D) Workers' compensation: inpatient burn diagnosis
Requires that specified Diagnostic Related Groups be separately reimbursed at a rate of 120 percent of estimated facility costs, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3026 (Lieber-D) Workers' compensation: peace officers
Authorizes medical treatment for industrial injuries suffered by peace officers in accordance with the recommendations of physicians designated by individual peace officers.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 3072 (Assembly Insurance Committee) California Insurance Guarantee Association
Permits the California Insurance Guarantee Association to issue bonds for an additional two years beyond the current sunset date, but does not change the total amount of bonds that the Association could issue.
Chapter 112, Statutes of 2006
Unemployment Insurance
SB 146 (McClintock-R) Unemployment compensation: addresses
Requires that the Employment Development Department take reasonable steps to verify eligible claims before payments are mailed on any new claims.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 382 (Battin-R) Unemployment compensation: symphony musicians
Establishes in the Unemployment Insurance Code that musicians, engaged by a symphony or classical orchestra for ten or less performances per season, are independent contractors and not employees.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1428 (Scott-D) Unemployment compensation: employer: motion picture industry
Provides that any employing unit that is a motion picture payroll service company, as defined, shall be treated as an employer of a motion picture production worker, as defined. Seeks to codify in law the practice of payroll companies assuming the role of employers of record of production worker employees in the motion picture industry, for purposes of tax reporting, benefit contributions and collective bargaining.
Chapter 811, Statutes of 2006
SB 1467 (Maldonado-R) Nontax collection: unemployment insurance
Authorizes counties to use, for tax enforcement purposes, the information that is required by the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, to be reported to the Employment Development Department for the purpose of enforcing collections under nontax collection programs that the Franchise Tax Board is required to administer.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1690 (Romero-D) Unemployment insurance: disability compensation
Authorizes the Employment Training Panel, on a limited basis, to fund the training of workers in seasonal industries. Amends the Unemployment Insurance Code to authorize the Employment Development Department to round up the State Disability Insurance weekly benefit amount to the nearest dollar when the round up exceeds the weekly maximum benefit.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2006
AB 234 (Haynes-R) Employment Training Panel
Eliminates the Employment Training Panel.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 678 (Nakanishi-R) Unemployment insurance: California Workforce Investment Act
Continuously appropriates all federal formula monies from the Consolidated Work Program Fund to the Employment Development Department, for the purpose of providing federal Workforce Investment Act funds to local workforce investment areas more expeditiously.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 793 (Benoit-R) Employment Tax Amnesty Act of 2006
Requires the Employment Development Department to develop and administer the Employment Tax Amnesty Program of 2006 wherein an employer may apply for the waiver of unpaid penalties, and interest on those penalties that are imposed on or before December 31, 2004.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1124 (Wyland-R) Taxation: employees
Amends existing law concerning the classification of individuals as employees or independent contractors by establishing specified "safe harbors" for purposes of unemployment insurance and withholding taxes on wages.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1486 (Wyland-R) Employment: temporary employees
Requires a leasing or temporary services employer to identify itself as such when reporting unemployment insurance for workers employed to provide services to a customer or client.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1884 (Chu-D) Unemployment compensation benefits: locked-out workers
Grants eligibility for Unemployment Insurance benefits to workers who are prevented by their employers from entering the worksite during a trade dispute.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2209 (Pavley-D) Unemployment compensation benefits: trade disputes: fraud
Prohibits an agreement between an employer and an employee that prevents the employee from filing a claim for unemployment compensation benefits. Requires an employer that has engaged in misconduct to pay compensation to affected employees equal to the amount of lost unemployment benefits. Defines the term, "lockout".
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2293 (Nava-D) Unemployment compensation: false information
Authorizes the Director of the Employment Development Department to assess a specified penalty against an educational institution employer where the employer willfully submits false statements about the duration of the employee's employment.
Chapter 190, Statutes of 2006
AB 2344 (Chu-D) Underground Economy and Tax Gap Act of 2006
Requires the Employment Development Department to develop and administer an amnesty program. Requires the Franchise Tax Board to develop and administer a second voluntary compliance initiative.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2498 (Arambula-D) Unemployment insurance: employment training
Requires the Employment Training Panel (ETP) to develop an ETP Express Program that offers a standardized basic curriculum for employees and a standardized contract for employers.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2786 (Walters-R) Withholding of taxes: domestic worker employers: reporting
Allows employers of domestic employees to withhold and report specified domestic service employment taxes on the employer's income tax return filed with the Franchise Tax Board, rather than with the Employment Development Department.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Financial Institutions
SB 778 (Florez-D) Banks: cashing of paychecks
Provides that a depository institution that issues a check on behalf of a business client shall not assess any charge or fee on an individual seeking to cash a paycheck issued to that individual by the business client.
(Failed passage in Assembly Banking and Commerce Committee)
Similar legislation was SB 1199 (Florez-D) which died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee, and SR 22 (Florez-D) which also died in the same committee.
SB 790 (Speier-D) Covered loans
Amends California's Covered Loan Law to increase the loan amount used to determine whether a loan qualifies as "covered," includes prepayment penalties and yield spread premiums in the point and fee calculation used to determine whether a loan qualifies as "covered," extends the Covered Loan Law to open lines of credit, requires borrowers being offered a covered loan to be provided with loan counseling, and reduces the time period during which a prepayment penalty may be imposed on a covered loan.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 1019 (Campbell-R) Financial institutions
Revises and recasts the provision regulating banks, particularly with respect to the authority and obligations of various types of foreign banks within the state, including, but not limited to, their authority to maintain offices and facilities and to conduct trust business. Requires certain independent trust companies to file a report with the Commissioner of Financial Institutions (Commissioner) by January 31, 2006, and requires the Commissioner to issue a certificate of authority to those trust companies and to certain state commercial banks conducting a trust business. Enacts various provisions regulating uninsured foreign (other state) state banks licensed to maintain a California facility, including requiring the banks to conduct all business of the office in a single building or in adjoining buildings and imposing fees with respect to their facilities. Requires the registration of certain unlicensed and uninsured foreign (other state) state banks that are authorized under the law of their domicile to transact trust business.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
SB 1340 (Margett-R) Escrow agents
Requires the licensed escrow agents to submit additional financial information to the Commissioner of Corporations and allows a licensee to charge a fee for administering an escrow that has been postponed or canceled subject to various conditions.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 1481 (Poochigian-R) Commercial transactions
Revises Articles 1 and 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code based upon recommendations of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
Chapter 254, Statutes of 2006
SB 1609 (Simitian-D) Reverse mortgages
Prohibits a reverse mortgage lender from accepting a reverse mortgage application or assessing any fees until the lender has received a certification from the potential borrower that the borrower received independent counseling regarding the transaction, as specified. The lender would also be required to notify the borrower of the counseling requirement, as specified. Prohibits a lender from requiring a borrower to purchase an annuity as part of the reverse mortgage transaction. Requires a reverse mortgage contract to be translated into Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean if the contract was primarily negotiated in one of those languages.
Chapter 202, Statutes of 2006
SB 1699 (Bowen-D) Financial transactions
Provides that no entity that accepts credit or debit cards for the transaction of business shall print more than the last five digits of the credit or debit card account number on any receipt retained by the entity which is printed at the time of purchase, exchange, refund, or return. Specifies that these provisions will not become operative until January 1, 2009.
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2006
SR 22 (Florez-D) Depository institutions: cashing paychecks
Specifies that no state agency should do business with any financial institution that charges paycheck cashing fees, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance & Insurance Committee)
AB 207 (Dymally-D) Deferred deposit transactions
Prohibits the fee for specified deferred deposit transactions from exceeding an effective annual rate greater than 10 percent. Requires a check from a customer for these deferred deposit transactions to be made payable to the actual name of the licensee. Prohibits a check that has been held by a licensee for more than 31 days from being presented to a bank for payment.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 618 (Cogdill-R) Financial institutions: fraud
Expands the list of information a bank, credit union, or savings association shall furnish to the police or sheriff's department or district attorney when a crime report alleging fraud has been filed by the police or sheriff's department or district attorney to include surveillance photographs and video recordings of persons accessing the crime victim's financial account via an automated teller machine or from within the financial institution.
Chapter 705, Statutes of 2006
AB 730 (Chavez-D) Finance lenders
Provides that the business of making consumer loans or commercial loans also includes taking as security for a loan any lien on assignment of, or power of attorney relative to an heir's interest in an estate.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 1375* (Nation-D) Corporation Tax Law: tax surcharge
Enacts the Consumer Protection and Anti-Interest Rate Manipulation Act imposing a surcharge on banks and financial corporations that issue credit cards to California residents on terms that are inequitable to the consumer.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1560 (Calderon-D) Commercial law: banks
Modifies provisions of current law to prohibit a bank, after the close of the business day, from posting debits to a customer's account in a manner that will cause the customer to pay additional fees to the bank for lack of sufficient funds than if the bank had processed the checks in numerical order.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 1687 (Calderon-D) Industrial banks
Allows more types of entities to own, establish, and acquire control of industrial banks in California.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
AB 1726 (Klehs-D) Credit unions
Authorizes a credit union to purchase an investment if the investment is directly related to the credit union's obligation or potential obligation under either an employee benefit plan or welfare benefit plan, if certain conditions are met. Authorizes a credit union to act as a trustee or custodian under a written trust instrument or custodial agreement created or organized in the United States that is part of an education or medical plan for its members, or groups or organizations of its members, and that qualifies or has qualified for specific tax treatment.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 1965* (Lieu-D) Deferred deposit transactions
Revises the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law and authorizes a military borrower, as defined, to defer payments and with respect to deferred deposit transactions, as provided. Prohibits licensees making deferred deposit transactions from engaging in specified practices with respect to military borrowers, including imposing fees, interest, and charges that exceed a specified amount and requires those licensees, before entering into such a transaction with a military borrower, to provide a statement to the borrower explaining his/her rights, as specified. Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Corporations to enact regulations to implement these provisions and to give notice to licensees, as specified. Provides that a licensee who does not enter into deferred deposit transactions with service members shall not be guilty of, or liable for, discrimination, as specified.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2038 (Tran-R) Escrow agents
Requires the Escrow Agents Fidelity Corporation to provide to all of its members and the Commissioner of the Department of Corporations with a copy of the fidelity bond or insurance policy as it is acquired or renewed, as well as, provide a copy to any member upon request.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2006
AB 2043 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Debt collection
Allows specified business entities that are the victims of identity theft to take advantage of the debt relief protection currently available only to the natural persons who are victimized by identity theft.
Chapter 521, Statutes of 2006
AB 2416 (Torrico-D) California Finance Lender
Provides that a California Finance Lender licensee may collect a fee, not to exceed the actual cost, for an automated valuation model result in lieu of an appraisal.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2006
AB 2446 (Calderon-D) Banks
Requires the Department of Corporations to take possession of the property and business of a bank under specified circumstances.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2602 (Lieu-D) Real estate brokers: deposits
Allows commercial real estate brokers, licensed by the Department of Real Estate, to deposit funds collected on behalf of an institutional investor in an interest-bearing account and retain a specified amount of the interest earned as negotiated between the real estate broker and the institutional investor.
Chapter 107, Statutes of 2006
AB 2711 (Parra-D) Traveler's checks: payment instruments
Replaces the requirement that issuers of money orders and traveler's checks have their products pre-approved by the Commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions prior to sale with a requirement that all money orders and traveler's checks sold in California meet specified requirements.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2006
AB 2890 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Lenders
Allows the Department of Corporations to bar or suspend a California Finance Lender or California residential Mortgage Lending licensee or their employee from employment if that person has committed certain acts for the purposes of misleading the public.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2006
AB 2969 (Mullin-D) Automated teller machines
Requires the Department of Financial Institutions, in cooperation with the High Technology Theft Apprehension and Prosecution Program, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature by July 1, 2007, recommending guidelines for the purchase of automated teller machines, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
ACR 120 (Niello-R) Financial Literacy Month
Declares the month of April 2006 as Financial Literacy Month in order to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
Resolution Chapter 34, Statutes of 2006
ACR 169 (Walters-R) Financial Planning Week
Proclaims the first full week in October 2006 as Financial Planning Week.
(Unassigned to a committee)
Miscellaneous
SB 247 (Perata-D) The Boxing Act
Recreates the State Athletic Commission (SAC) until July 1, 2009, expands the medical testing of athletes for licensure and competition, and makes other administrative changes to the SAC to improve its efficiency and fiscal stability.
Chapter 465, Statutes of 2006
SB 263 (Speier-D) Sellers of travel: regulation
Requires anyone who sells land or water based transportation to comply with the sellers of travel law, establishes conditions for the sale of "travel discount programs," and makes other changes related to enforcement and administration of the travel law.
Chapter 628, Statutes of 2006
SB 412 (Figueroa-D) Massage therapy
Establishes the Massage Therapy Organization (MTO) and provides for the certification of massage therapists and massage practitioners by the MTO.
(Failed passage on the Assembly Floor)
SB 503 (Figueroa-D) Accountants: peer review: fees
Eliminates the requirement that fees charged for applications for certified public accountant examinations, renewals, certificates, firm registration, and practice privilege be directly related to the actual administrative costs of the Board of Accountancy.
Chapter 447, Statutes of 2006
SB 550 (Speier-D) Privacy
Requires a commercial web site or online service, that collects personally identifiable information to include in their posted privacy policy, a description of operator's policy with respect to disclosures of personally identifiable information to law enforcement agencies, and requires the operator to inform a consumer residing in California of any such disclosure within a reasonable period of time of that disclosure.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 582 (Figueroa-D) Retailers: disclosures
Requires that retailers provide information to a vendor of a product regarding the discounts and stocking fees offered by other vendors to place similar products on the shelf. Requires retailers to share market information equally with all vendors.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 627 (Ackerman-R) Corporations: usury
Restores application of the usury law to real estate loans and carves out from the statutory exemptions to the constitutional prohibition against usury, a debt secured, in whole or in part, by real property owned or leased by the borrower, provided the primary purpose for the borrowing is to finance the acquisition, ownership, development, leasing or sale of the property. This carve out from the exemption will not apply to institutional investors, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 752 (Cox-R) Engineers: licensure
Specifies that if an out-of-state applicant (comity applicant) for registration as a professional engineer in California has passed an examination in a branch of engineering not recognized in California, the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors may register the applicant in a specific licensed branch of engineering in which his/her experience and education indicate the closest relationship, as long as the Board determines that the applicant meets the minimum qualifications for licensure in that branch.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 937 (Aanestad-R) Liability: obesity
Immunizes a manufacturer, distributor, packer, carrier, marketer, advertiser, or seller of food or nonalcoholic beverages intended for human consumption, or an association of one or more of those entities, from liability in any civil action arising out of weight gain, obesity, a related health condition, or any other generally known health condition allegedly caused by or likely to result from the long-term consumption of food or nonalcoholic beverage that results in weight gain or obesity.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1022 (Campbell-R) Limited liability companies
Authorizes the formation of professional limited liability companies (LLCs) to provide specified professional services, requires professional LLCs to meet certain requirements, deletes the requirement that an operating agreement varying these provisions be in writing, deletes the provisions related to class and derivative actions by members, and adds provisions related to professional LLCs.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1030 (Hollingsworth-R) Discrimination: religion
Provides that the anti-discrimination statutes not be construed to require a business establishment to provide nonessential services to a member of the public, if to do so would violate one's conscience due to a sincerely held religious belief.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1183 (Ackerman-R) Foreign corporations: supermajority vote
Provides that a foreign corporation shall not be considered to be transacting intrastate business merely because of its status as an owner of various types of interests in business entities that are transacting intrastate business. Furthermore, eliminates a two-year sunset provision for a filed amendment to articles of incorporation that imposes a "supermajority vote."
Chapter 57, Statutes of 2006
SB 1201 (Cox-R) Franchises
Exempts fractional franchises, as defined, from the provisions and protections of the California Franchise Relations Act (CFRA). The CFRA protects franchisees during the termination, nonrenewal and transfer of franchise agreements: sample protections include notice and mandatory repurchase of saleable goods by the franchisor. The proposed fractional franchise exemption sunsets after five years.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1207 (Alarcon-D) Corporations: uncontested election of a listed corporation
Allows a corporation to amend its bylaws to allow the use of majority (rather than plurality) voting to elect a member of the board of directors of a publicly-traded California corporation, in an uncontested election, as specified, and requires the term of a seated member of the board who fails to receive a majority vote in an uncontested election to end within 90 days of the election.
Chapter 871, Statutes of 2006
SB 1274 (Dunn-D) Cartwright Act: monopolies
Makes any act of monopolization a violation of the California antitrust statute. Provides that monopolization includes monopsonization for purposes of California antitrust law.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 1397 (Lowenthal-D) Athletic trainers: registration
Enacts the Athletic Trainers Certification Act, which prohibits a person from representing him/herself as an athletic trainer unless he/she is certified as an athletic trainer by an athletic training organization, as defined.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1406 (Margett-R) Debt collection: notices.
Requires a debt collector, when submitting negative information to a consumer credit reporting agency, to verify that the address to which the debt collector sends notice of the negative information is substantially the same as the address associated with the consumer's credit report. If the address for notifying the consumer is not substantially the same as the address associated with consumer's credit report, requires the debt collector to send notice of the negative information to both addresses.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1474 (Figueroa-D) Board of Barbering and Cosmetology
Resets the terms of office for the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (Board), extends the sunset of the Board, provides for licensing of persons from another state or a foreign country, and makes it a misdemeanor for a person licensed by the Board to use laser treatment.
Chapter 253, Statutes of 2006
SB 1490 (Ducheny-D) Cemetery regulation
Requires the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to adopt regulations that establish minimum standards of maintenance for endowment care cemeteries under its jurisdiction, and requires the Bureau to disclose specific information about cemeteries on its Internet site.
Chapter 401, Statutes of 2006
SB 1492 (Speier-D) Automotive body repair: insurance claims
Requires the Department of Insurance to establish a Rapid Dispute Resolution program, which resolves auto physical damage coverage claims involving amounts in dispute between $500 and $7,500. Participating insurers, not insured, would be bound by any decision by the department.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1523 (Alarcon-D) Development projects: superstore retailers
Requires a city, county, or city and county to prepare an economic impact report (EIR) before approving a proposed development project that results in construction of a superstore retailer. Requires the developer to pay for the EIR.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1550 (Figueroa-D) Professional Fiduciaries Act
Establishes a license scheme for professional fiduciaries, including conservators, guardians, and trustees, and agents under a durable power of attorney for health care or for finances, with exceptions as specified.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2006
SB 1636 (Ackerman-R) Trade secrets
Permits the recovery of costs by a prevailing party in specified circumstances relating to the litigation of a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets, and defines costs to include expert witness fees that are "actually incurred and reasonably necessary," unless the witness is a regular employee of a party.
Chapter 62, Statutes of 2006
SB 1763 (Figueroa-D) Pharmaceuticals: compulsory licensing
Authorizes the Governor, upon issuing a declaration of a state of emergency, to issue a declaration of necessity to allow for compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals, if specified conditions are met. Authorizes the Department of Health Services to issue a license for the manufacture of the pharmaceutical drug described in the declaration of necessity, and includes other related provisions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1818 (Alarcon-D) Attorney's fees: big box retailers
Establishes that a big box retailer must be ordered to pay attorneys fees and litigation expenses to a local government entity if the retailer acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner by bringing an action against the local government entity to challenge the validity or application of an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure that regulated zoning.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1849 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Professions and vocations
Makes several non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive or technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions pertaining to regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs and professions regulated under the Business and Professions Code.
Chapter 760, Statutes of 2006
SCR 73 (Torlakson-D) California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness
Continues the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness (Task Force), sets forth its membership and duties, provides that it shall conduct business on a volunteer basis, permits it to accept private funds and in-kind donations, requires it to submit a report to the Legislature by June 30, 2008, and provides that it will expire on July 1, 2010.
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2006
SCR 92 (Escutia-D) Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations
Designates the week of March 19 through March 25, 2006, as California Nonprofits and Philanthropy Week.
Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2006
SCR 102 (Scott-D) Construction Career Awareness Day
Honors and recognizes March 29, 2006, as the 6th annual Construction Career Awareness Day in Northern California.
Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2006
AB 79 (Calderon-D) Automotive repair dealers
Defines the term "motor vehicle" to include vehicles used to transport passengers that are powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other alternative energy sources and revises the definition of the term "customer" to include an insurer if certain conditions are satisfied.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 180 (Leno-D) Collective bargaining: direct care registered nurses
Gives direct care registered nurses, as defined, the right to organize, form, or join a union, and to bargain collectively through chosen representatives with a health care employer, requires a health care employer to recognize a direct care registered nurse bargaining unit if a majority of the registered nurses in that unit desire the representation, and provides for the implementation of an agency shop arrangement between a health care employer and a direct care registered nurse bargaining unit that requires a registered nurse employed by the health care employer either to join the bargaining unit or pay the bargaining unit a service fee.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 278 (Bogh-R) Commercial mail receiving agencies
Requires a commercial mail receiving agency to obtain a customer's original right thumbprint, and the original right thumbprint of all other authorized users identified on the United States Postal Services Form 1583, upon a fingerprint card provided by the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 295 (Chavez-D) Public contracts: security services
Requires a private security service company under contract with the state to provide notice to the state of specified actions or investigations by a governmental agency.
(Died in Senate Governmental Modernization, Efficiency and Accountability Committee)
AB 339 (Harman-R) Limited partnerships and limited liability companies
Enacts the Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2008.
Chapter 495, Statutes of 2006
AB 409* (Yee-D) Disciplinary actions: suspension
Allows the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (Board) to suspend a license issued by the Board where an establishment has violated health and safety laws related to manicure and pedicure equipment, and where the action is necessary to protect the public's health and safety, without an advance hearing.
Chapter 381, Statutes of 2006
AB 424* (Calderon-D) Identity theft
Provides that, for the purposes of identity theft, a "person" is defined as a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity.
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2006
AB 425 (Negrete McLeod-D) Organized retail crime
Makes various legislative findings and declarations concerning the impact of organized retail crime.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 602 (Spitzer-R) Health studios
Provides that when a health studio facility is transferred or sold to another health studio, a consumer of the health studio facility shall be given the option of receiving a refund of his/her remaining payments on the existing contract or entering into a new contract on the same terms with the new owners of the facility.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 630 (Chu-D) Immigration consultants
Increases the regulation of immigration consultants by (1) requiring fingerprinting and background checks, (2) authorizing the Secretary of State to issue cease and desist orders, and (3) requiring the Secretary of State to post information on its Internet web site about bond compliance, filing of disclosure statements, and passing of background checks, and to post photographs of immigration consultants. Also increases the statute of limitations for prosecuting actions under the Immigration Consultants Act to four years.
Chapter 605, Statutes of 2006
AB 714 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Motor vehicles: key information access
Requires motor vehicle manufacturers to provide sufficient information for registered vehicle owners to reproduce the vehicle's key.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 718 (Calderon-D) Personal data: driver's licenses
Expands the ability of businesses to electronically collect information from a driver's license or identification card.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 762 (Koretz-D) Animal groomers
Prohibits an animal groomer from engaging in the practice of veterinary medicine and sets specified standards for a person that operates an animal grooming facility. Makes a person who violates these standards guilty of a misdemeanor and authorizes a peace officer, officer of a humane society, or officer of an animal control or animal regulation department of a public agency to enforce these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 861 (Bass-D) Barbering and cosmetology: licensure
Authorizes the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (Board) to issue probationary licenses to applicants, subject to specified terms and conditions, and requires the Board to submit a report to the Legislature on or before September 1, 2007, on various aspects and trends of licensing by the Board over a five-year period.
Chapter 411, Statutes of 2006
AB 886 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Human remains: disposition
Clarifies that the authority to dispose of human remains, which is passed according to a statutorily defined list of persons, commences on the day the right and the duty devolves upon that person, not on the date of death of the decedent.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 2006
AB 923 (Chavez-D) Fireworks: sale: disposal
Authorizes the sale of certified safe and sane fireworks from 9:00 a.m. December 26 through January 1 pursuant to a license issued by the State Fire Marshal, if authorized by a city, county, or city and county ordinance or resolution that may also restrict the hours of use of those fireworks, and imposes a one percent surcharge on the gross retail purchase price of fireworks that would be paid by the retail purchaser. The surcharge will be transferred to the State Fire Marshal Dangerous Fireworks Management Fund.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1024 (Walters-R) Professional vocations: abolition of boards and committees
Abolishes specified boards and committees and transfers their responsibilities and duties to the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1037* (Frommer-D) Corporation tax: apportionment
Includes only the overall net gain arising from treasury functions for purposes of computing the sales factor, despite any contrary treatment in the Multistate Tax Compact.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1068 (Plescia-R) Public works of improvement: payment bonds
Provides that anytime an original contractor's contract is assigned to a third party, the third party shall be required to provide a payment bond.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1178 (Yee-D) Dealers and pawnbrokers
Provides for the creation of an electronic data reporting system within the Department of Justice by January 1, 2010, that will receive reports of tangible personal property acquired by secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers and specifies licensing fees that are to be used to fund the creation and maintenance of the electronic data reporting system.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 1287 (Evans-D) Health studios
Authorizes a health studio to limit access to persons of a single gender for certain areas where equipment for physical exercise is used or classes for physical exercise instruction are conducted. Prohibits a health studio from limiting access to persons of a single gender in other areas of a health studio, such as dining areas, bars, seating areas, retail sales areas, and sports courts.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1428 (Levine-D) Cloned and genetically modified pets
Establishes the Cloned and Genetically Modified Pet and Consumer Protection Act that prohibits the retail sale or transfer of cloned or genetically modified pets, as defined, within California.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1793* (Bermudez-D) Barbering and cosmetology: threading
Revises the definition of hair threading to include the possible incidental trimming of eyebrow hair.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2006
AB 1868* (Bermudez-D) Accountancy: licensure
Extends the operative date of the "practice privilege" program under which out-of-state accountants and accounting firms must obtain a California permit or registration prior to practicing in this state.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2006
AB 1947 (Maze-R) Pawnbrokers and dealers
Prohibits a pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, or coin dealer (dealer) from charging an individual for the return of lost or stolen property that has been pledged to a dealer if the individual has reported the property as lost or stolen and is found to be the original owner (i.e., the "original claimant").
(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1959 (Tran-R) Corporations
Provides that the annual report, as specified, issued by corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies or capital access companies shall include a statement of cash flows.
Chapter 214, Statutes of 2006
AB 1977 (Harman-R) Debt collection
Permits employees of any debt collector to collect a debt by telephone without disclosing the caller's identity if the employees identify themselves by using personally identifiable business aliases and they correctly identify their debt collector employers or provide a call-back number to their employers' debt collection office where their activities are conducted. Requires employers, if the employees use these aliases, to maintain records to identify the employees with the business aliases used in telephone calls.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2122 (Klehs-D) Distributions: unpaid pension obligations
Prohibits a corporation or its subsidiaries from making a distribution to the corporation's shareholders if the corporation or its subsidiaries have failed to make a payment under a defined benefit plan, as defined, owed to their employees. Provides that a board member of the corporation who receives a specified prohibited distribution, with or without knowledge of the facts indicating its impropriety, is liable to the corporation and its creditors for the amount received plus interest.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
AB 2235 (Parra-D) Real estate: limited liability companies
Allows limited liability corporations (LLCs) to be licensed by the Department of Real Estate (DRE). A LLC licensed by DRE would be required to maintain liability insurance or other security for the payment of claims against it for acts, errors or omissions in its conduct.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2256 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Professions and vocations
Eliminates a duplicative requirement that optometric corporations register their corporations with both the Secretary of State and the Board of Optometry, and revises provisions related to the reporting of malpractice settlements and judgments by licensed landscape architects, and their insurers to the California Architects Board.
Chapter 564, Statutes of 2006
AB 2289 (Ruskin-D) Plastic bulk merchandise containers
Requires businesses that recycle, shred, or destroy plastic bulk merchandise containers, prior to purchasing five or more containers, to obtain proof of ownership from the seller and verify his/her identity.
Chapter 461, Statutes of 2006
AB 2318 (Calderon-D) Repossessors
Provides that a repossessor shall not be required to remove property that is attached to or that is on the collateral being repossessed if the repossessor cannot determine whether or not the item is a "personal effect" (i.e., property that does not belong to the legal owner of the collateral) or a part of the collateral, except that the repossessor shall remove and inventory all items that can be removed without using tools, and increases the fine to $250 on a repossession agency that does not register repossessors with the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services in a timely fashion.
Chapter 418, Statutes of 2006
AB 2426 (Hancock-D) Corporations: reporting requirements
Requires certain corporations, including financial institutions and insurers, to submit additional information in their filing with the Secretary of State relative to compensation of executive officers and certain violations of federal or state securities laws or state banking laws. Requires these corporations that file a California corporate income or franchise tax return to disclose specified information from their tax returns. Requires the Secretary of State to make this information public. Imposes a $5 filing fee.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2454 (Nakanishi-R) Contractors: licensing
Clarifies the authority of the Contractors' State License Board to suspend a license, without prior notice, for failure to maintain a bond required by Contractors' State License Law, as described.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2456 (Nakanishi-R) Contractors: licenses
Prohibits the qualifying person, and any other personnel named on the license whose license has been suspended due to outstanding final liabilities with the state, from serving in any capacity other than as a nonsupervising bona fide employee.
Chapter 122, Statutes of 2006
AB 2457 (Nakanishi-R) Contractors
Exempts a general partner of a licensed partnership from registering as a home improvement salesman, clarifies that any exempted individuals must be listed as personnel of record for the responsible licensee at the time of the sales transaction, and makes other technical changes to the Contractors' State License Law.
Chapter 106, Statutes of 2006
AB 2588 (Sharon Runner-R) Business entities: reinstatement
Requires the Secretary of State to reinstate a business entity to active status upon a court finding that factual representations by a shareholder, member, partner or other person in support of the termination document are materially false or that the termination documents files were fraudulent.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 2006
AB 2658 (Harman-R) Contractors
Provides that in order for a contractors license to be issued, reinstated or reissued, satisfaction of monetary obligation or debt is required, but only to the extent that those obligations were not discharged in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Chapter 123, Statutes of 2006
AB 2664 (Houston-R) Health studio contracts
Provides that health studios (i.e., health clubs) that enter into a contract with a consumer for $1,500 or less are not subject to 20-, 30-, or 45-day time frames during which the consumer may cancel his/her contract.
Chapter 219, Statutes of 2006
AB 2706 (Matthews-D) Pawnbrokers: loan setup fees
Prohibits a loan setup fee from exceeding $5 for a loan greater than $50 and up to and including $150. For loans exceeding $150, prohibits a loan setup fee from exceeding four percent or $75, whichever is less.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2796 (Mountjoy-R) Cemeteries: public notice
Revises the sign requirements for cemeteries to allow the signs posted at each entrance to contain either the address of the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau or a statement that the address of the bureau is available at the cemetery office. Eliminates the requirement to post an endowment care notice in the cemetery sales office(s).
Chapter 124, Statutes of 2006
AB 2862 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Sale of animals at pet stores
Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to adopt regulations to regulate the care and handling of companion animals sold to the general public at retail outlets. Those regulations shall be adopted, after consultation with affected parties, by January 1, 2008.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2897 (Daucher-R) Contractors: revoked licenses
Prohibits an individual who was a member, officer, director, owner, partner, or qualifier of a license that was revoked, and who meets specified criteria, from performing acts regulated by the Contractors State License Law, for, or on behalf of, a licensee, except as a bona fide nonsupervising employee, as defined.
Chapter 171, Statutes of 2006
AB 2914 (Leno-D) Limited liability partnerships: architecture
Extends the sunset date on licensed architects' ability to organize as limited liability partnerships (LLPs) to January 1, 2012, and increases the minimum liability coverage requirements for architectural LLPs to $1 million (from $500,000) as of January 1, 2008.
Chapter 426, Statutes of 2006
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 6* | Ducheny-D Enterprise zones: designation period | Economic Development |
| SB 46 | Alarcon-D Occupational safety and health: masonry cutting | Labor Relations |
| SB 58* | Murray-D Taxes: credits: qualified motion picture production | Economic Development |
| SB 146 | McClintock-R Unemployment compensation: addresses | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 177 | Poochigian-R Workers' compensation: labor-management agreements | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 178 | Poochigian-R Workers' compensation: private self-insurance groups | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 179 | Poochigian-R Workers' compensation: fraud prevention | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 193* | Maldonado-R Sales and use taxes: exemptions: space flight | Economic Development |
| SB 247 | Perata-D The Boxing Act | Miscellaneous |
| SB 263 | Speier-D Sellers of travel: regulation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 292 | Speier-D Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 293 | Ducheny-D Workforce Training Act | Labor Relations |
| SB 300 | Kuehl-D Family and medical leave | Labor Relations |
| SB 331 | Cedillo-D Workers' compensation: medical fee schedule | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 382 | Battin-R Unemployment compensation: symphony musicians | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 406 | Dutton-R Medical expenses and indemnity payments report | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 412 | Figueroa-D Massage therapy | Miscellaneous |
| SB 495 | Vincent-D Traveling carnivals | Labor Relations |
| SB 503 | Figueroa-D Accountants: peer review: fees | Miscellaneous |
| SB 510* | Hollingsworth-R Workers' compensation: motorcycles and specialty vehicles | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 538 | Kuehl-D Medical provider networks: accountability | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 549 | Poochigian-R Workers' compensation: experience rating | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 550 | Speier-D Privacy | Miscellaneous |
| SB 582 | Figueroa-D Retailers: disclosures | Miscellaneous |
| SB 593 | Alarcon-D Health care costs: recovery | Labor Relations |
| SB 625 | Battin-R State and local surplus property: written offers | Economic Development |
| SB 627 | Ackerman-R Corporations: usury | Miscellaneous |
| SB 639 | Alarcon-D Workers' compensation: experience rating | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 686* | Lowenthal-D Economic incentive areas | Economic Development |
| SB 727 | Lowenthal-D Safety in employment: special purpose personnel elevators | Labor Relations |
| SB 732 | Ashburn-R Local government finance: enterprise special districts | Economic Development |
| SB 752 | Cox-R Engineers: licensure | Miscellaneous |
| SB 763 | Lowenthal-D Economic development | Economic Development |
| SB 778 | Florez-D Banks: cashing of paychecks | Financial Institutions |
| SB 790 | Speier-D Covered loans | Financial Institutions |
| SB 815 | Perata-D Workers' compensation: permanent disability: schedule | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 916 | Speier-D Workers' compensation: defined benefits plans | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 937 | Aanestad-R Liability: obesity | Miscellaneous |
| SB 974 | Senate Environmental Quality Committee CEQA: exemption: rural infrastructure economic development | Economic Development |
| SB 1008 | Ducheny-D Economic incentive areas | Economic Development |
| SB 1019 | Campbell-R Financial institutions | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1022 | Campbell-R Limited liability companies | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1030 | Hollingsworth-R Discrimination: religion | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1154 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget deficiencies: industrial relations | Labor Relations |
| SB 1183 | Ackerman-R Foreign corporations: supermajority vote | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1188 | Florez-D Employment: compensation | Labor Relations |
| SB 1194 | Morrow-R Employment | Labor Relations |
| SB 1201 | Cox-R Franchises | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1204 | Perata-D Hospitals: lift teams | Labor Relations |
| SB 1207 | Alarcon-D Corporations: uncontested election of a listed corporation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1213 | Dunn-D Employment: port owner-operator drivers | Labor Relations |
| SB 1219 | Alquist-D Workers' compensation: fellowship programs | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 1254 | Ackerman-R Employee-selected flexible work schedule | Labor Relations |
| SB 1268 | Cedillo-D Economic development subsidies: review by local agencies | Economic Development |
| SB 1274 | Dunn-D Cartwright Act: monopolies | Economic Development Miscellaneous |
| SB 1340 | Margett-R Escrow agents | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1365 | Aanestad-R Electrician apprenticeships | Labor Relations |
| SB 1397 | Lowenthal-D Athletic trainers: registration | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1406 | Margett-R Debt collection: notices. | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1414 | Migden-D California Fair Share Health Care Act | Labor Relations |
| SB 1424 | Figueroa-D California Workforce and Economic Information Program | Economic Development |
| SB 1428 | Scott-D Unemployment compensation: employer: motion picture industry | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 1436 | Figueroa-D Small business: state agency information | Small Business |
| SB 1467 | Maldonado-R Nontax collection: unemployment insurance | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 1468 | Alarcon-D Car washes | Labor Relations |
| SB 1474 | Figueroa-D Board of Barbering and Cosmetology | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1481 | Poochigian-R Commercial transactions | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1490 | Ducheny-D Cemetery regulation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1492 | Speier-D Automotive body repair: insurance claims | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1513 | Romero-D California International Trade and Investment Act | World Trade and Tourism |
| SB 1523 | Alarcon-D Development projects: superstore retailers | Economic Development Miscellaneous |
| SB 1525 | Murray-D International trade and investment office: Johannesburg | World Trade and Tourism |
| SB 1529 | Murray-D International trade and investment office: Seoul | World Trade and Tourism |
| SB 1537 | Alarcon-D Labor and Workforce Development Agency | Economic Development |
| SB 1550 | Figueroa-D Professional Fiduciaries Act | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1552 | Scott-D Community colleges: economic and workforce development | Economic Development |
| SB 1561 | Alarcon-D Employment: minors: entertainment industry | Labor Relations |
| SB 1590 | Scott-D Community colleges: economic and workforce development | Economic Development |
| SB 1605 | Margett-R Public contracts: public works | Labor Relations |
| SB 1609 | Simitian-D Reverse mortgages | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1625 | Denham-R Workers' compensation insurance: uniform experience rating | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 1636 | Ackerman-R Trade secrets | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1643* | Runner-R Sales and use taxes: exemptions: manufacturers | Economic Development |
| SB 1671 | Ashburn-R Spaceports: Mojave Spaceport | Economic Development |
| SB 1690 | Romero-D Unemployment insurance: disability compensation | Unemployment Insurance |
| SB 1698 | Ashburn-R Military and aerospace enterprise development | Economic Development |
| SB 1699 | Bowen-D Financial transactions | Financial Institutions |
| SB 1719 | Cedillo-D Payment of wages | Labor Relations |
| SB 1745 | Kuehl-D Employment discrimination: victims of violence | Labor Relations |
| SB 1762 | Figueroa-D International trade agreements | World Trade and Tourism |
| SB 1763 | Figueroa-D Pharmaceuticals: compulsory licensing | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1805* | Florez-D Workers' compensation: horse racing | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 1815 | Romero-D Workers' compensation: peace officers | Workers' Compensation |
| SB 1818 | Alarcon-D Attorney's fees: big box retailers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1849 | Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee Professions and vocations | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 73 | Torlakson-D California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 92 | Escutia-D Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 102 | Scott-D Construction Career Awareness Day | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 126 | Alarcon-D Importation of liquefied natural gas | Labor Relations |
| SJR 25 | Figueroa-D International trade agreements: pharmaceutical drug programs | World Trade and Tourism |
| SJR 27 | Bowen-D Equal Pay Day | Labor Relations |
| SJR 28 | Figueroa-D International trade agreements: public health services | World Trade and Tourism |
| SR 22 | Florez-D Depository institutions: cashing paychecks | Financial Institutions |
| AB 31* | Parra-D Economic development of Central San Joaquin Valley | Economic Development |
| AB 34* | Ruskin-D Corporation tax: water's-edge election: tax havens | Economic Development |
| AB 37* | Torrico-D Income taxes: credits: Quality Job Creation Tax Credit | Economic Development |
| AB 79 | Calderon-D Automotive repair dealers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 82* | Calderon-D Workers' compensation: private self-insurance groups | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 180 | Leno-D Collective bargaining: direct care registered nurses | Labor Relations Miscellaneous |
| AB 191 | Vargas-D Insurance: insolvency: longshore and harbor workers | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 199 | Tran-R Enterprise zones: limitation on designation | Economic Development |
| AB 207 | Dymally-D Deferred deposit transactions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 227 | Daucher-R Workers' compensation: benefits: leave from state | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 229 | Tran-R Medical provider networks: notification of injury | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 234 | Haynes-R Employment Training Panel | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 237 | Arambula-D California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank | Economic Development |
| AB 278 | Bogh-R Commercial mail receiving agencies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 295 | Chavez-D Public contracts: security services | Miscellaneous |
| AB 339 | Harman-R Limited partnerships and limited liability companies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 364* | Cogdill-R Public works: prevailing wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 409* | Yee-D Disciplinary actions: suspension | Miscellaneous |
| AB 410 | Yee-D Disabled veteran business enterprises | Economic Development |
| AB 411* | Yee-D Works of improvement: payment to subcontractors | Labor Relations |
| AB 419 | Koretz-D Artistic employment contracts: minors | Labor Relations |
| AB 424* | Calderon-D Identity theft | Miscellaneous |
| AB 425 | Negrete McLeod-D Organized retail crime | Miscellaneous |
| AB 427 | La Malfa-R Workers' compensation: local inmates | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 474 | Cogdill-R Prevailing wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 485* | Arambula-D Economic incentive areas | Economic Development |
| AB 510 | Richman-R Payment of compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 537 | Maze-R Apprenticeship: electrical contractors | Labor Relations |
| AB 553 | La Suer-R Public works: overtime compensation: workweek schedules | Labor Relations |
| AB 581 | Klehs-D Public works: wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 602 | Spitzer-R Health studios | Miscellaneous |
| AB 613 | Mountjoy-R Workers' compensation: specific and cumulative injuries | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 618 | Cogdill-R Financial institutions: fraud | Financial Institutions |
| AB 630 | Chu-D Immigration consultants | Miscellaneous |
| AB 640 | Tran-R Employment: work hours | Labor Relations |
| AB 642 | Negrete McLeod-D Workers' compensation: bioterrorism | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 678 | Nakanishi-R Unemployment insurance: California Workforce Investment Act | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 681 | Vargas-D Workers' compensation: official medical fee schedule | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 714 | Ridley-Thomas-D Motor vehicles: key information access | Miscellaneous |
| AB 718 | Calderon-D Personal data: driver's licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 730 | Chavez-D Finance lenders | Financial Institutions |
| AB 732 | Leslie-R Economic development: neighborhoods | Economic Development |
| AB 762 | Koretz-D Animal groomers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 777* | Nunez-D Taxes: credits: qualified motion picture production | Economic Development |
| AB 793 | Benoit-R Employment Tax Amnesty Act of 2006 | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 805 | Chu-D Occupational safety and health: heat illness prevention | Labor Relations |
| AB 815 | Lieber-D Occupational safety and health | Labor Relations |
| AB 822 | Benoit-R Employment | Labor Relations |
| AB 854 | Bass-D Small business certification and reciprocity programs | Small Business |
| AB 861 | Bass-D Barbering and cosmetology: licensure | Miscellaneous |
| AB 871 | Keene-R Workers' compensation: health care organizations | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 881 | Emmerson-R Workers' compensation: roofers | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 886 | Assembly Business And Professions Committee Human remains: disposition | Miscellaneous |
| AB 904 | Houston-R Employment: workweek | Labor Relations |
| AB 923 | Chavez-D Fireworks: sale: disposal | Miscellaneous |
| AB 925 | Ridley-Thomas-D Insurance: community investments | Economic Development |
| AB 935 | Koretz-D Workers' compensation: inpatient burn diagnoses | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 957 | Haynes-R California New Markets Venture Capital Program | Economic Development |
| AB 995* | Canciamilla-D Taxation: small business health insurance: credit | Small Business |
| AB 1004 | Nava-D Commission for Economic Development | Economic Development |
| AB 1024 | Walters-R Professional vocations: abolition of boards and committees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1037* | Frommer-D Corporation tax: apportionment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1068 | Plescia-R Public works of improvement: payment bonds | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1124 | Wyland-R Taxation: employees | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1178 | Yee-D Dealers and pawnbrokers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1192 | Villines-R Public works: prevailing wages: affordable housing | Labor Relations |
| AB 1209* | Yee-D Microenterprise development | Economic Development |
| AB 1224* | Haynes-R Taxes: credit: qualified equity investments | Economic Development |
| AB 1287 | Evans-D Health studios | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1312 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Department of Industrial Relations: duties | Labor Relations |
| AB 1331 | Umberg-D Workers' compensation: apportionment: presumptions | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1368 | Umberg-D Workers' compensation: apportionment: presumptions | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1375* | Nation-D Corporation Tax Law: tax surcharge | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1398 | Plescia-R Life sciences | Economic Development |
| AB 1428 | Levine-D Cloned and genetically modified pets | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1486 | Wyland-R Employment: temporary employees | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1500 | Maze-R Conveyances: exclusions: manlifts | Labor Relations |
| AB 1514 | Villines-R Occupational safety and health | Labor Relations |
| AB 1516 | Arambula-D Economic strategy panel: membership | Economic Development |
| AB 1550* | Arambula-D Economic incentive areas | Economic Development |
| AB 1554 | Frommer-D Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1560 | Calderon-D Commercial law: banks | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1562 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee International trade | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 1572 | Dymally-D Medical treatment: qualified diagnostic radiologists | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1612 | Pavley-D Workers' compensation: network | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1619 | Klehs-D Workers' compensation: alternative dispute resolution | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1687 | Calderon-D Industrial banks | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1709 | Wyland-R Workplace postings | Labor Relations |
| AB 1726 | Klehs-D Credit unions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1766 | Dymally-D Economic incentive areas | Economic Development |
| AB 1793* | Bermudez-D Barbering and cosmetology: threading | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1805* | Assembly Budget Committee Workers' compensation: cancer | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1806* | Assembly Budget Committee Enterprise zones | Economic Development Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1835 | Lieber-D Minimum wage | Labor Relations |
| AB 1840 | Jerome Horton-D Health care: employer coverage: disclosure | Labor Relations |
| AB 1862 | Vargas-D Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1868* | Bermudez-D Accountancy: licensure | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1883 | De La Torre-D Workers' compensation: proof of insurance coverage | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 1884 | Chu-D Unemployment compensation benefits: locked-out workers | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 1905 | Villines-R Disabled Veterans Business Enterprises: contracting | Economic Development |
| AB 1912 | Maze-R Employment rights | Labor Relations |
| AB 1927 | DeVore-R Prevailing wages: payroll records | Labor Relations |
| AB 1947 | Maze-R Pawnbrokers and dealers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1959 | Tran-R Corporations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1965* | Lieu-D Deferred deposit transactions | Financial Institutions |
| AB 1977 | Harman-R Debt collection | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1987 | Nava-D Workers' compensation vouchers | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2019 | Cogdill-R Prevailing wages | Labor Relations |
| AB 2033* | Lieu-D Tax credit: Joint Strike Fighter & Crew Exploration Vehicle | Economic Development |
| AB 2038 | Tran-R Escrow agents | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2043 | Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Debt collection | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2061 | Richman-R Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2067 | Oropeza-D Smoking: enclosed spaces of buildings | Labor Relations |
| AB 2068 | Nava-D Workers' compensation: designation of physician | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2072 | Montanez-D Representation of minors | Labor Relations |
| AB 2087 | Benoit-R Workers' compensation: claimant information | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2095 | Niello-R Employment practices | Labor Relations |
| AB 2122 | Klehs-D Distributions: unpaid pension obligations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2128* | Torrico-D Tax: credits: commuter benefits | Economic Development |
| AB 2209 | Pavley-D Unemployment compensation benefits: trade disputes: fraud | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2217 | Villines-R Employment: working hours | Labor Relations |
| AB 2218* | Torrico-D Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment | Economic Development |
| AB 2233 | Chan-D International trade and investment offices | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 2235 | Parra-D Real estate: limited liability companies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2245* | La Suer-R Taxes: credits: qualified disabled veterans | Economic Development |
| AB 2256 | Assembly Business And Professions Committee Professions and vocations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2277 | Villines-R Workplace postings | Labor Relations |
| AB 2287 | Chu-D Workers' compensation: acupuncture | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2289 | Ruskin-D Plastic bulk merchandise containers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2292 | Montanez-D Workers' compensation: death benefits | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2293 | Nava-D Unemployment compensation: false information | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2318 | Calderon-D Repossessors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2327 | Arambula-D Labor contractors | Labor Relations |
| AB 2330 | Arambula-D Small businesses: Office of Small Business Advocate | Small Business |
| AB 2331 | Villines-R Prevailing wage exclusion: qualified transfers | Labor Relations |
| AB 2334 | Chavez-D Janitorial service contractors | Labor Relations |
| AB 2344 | Chu-D Underground Economy and Tax Gap Act of 2006 | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2349 | Maze-R Employment: labor organization: reporting | Labor Relations |
| AB 2371 | Levine-D Employment arbitration agreements | Labor Relations |
| AB 2385 | Lieu-D Employment: securities dealers | Labor Relations |
| AB 2395* | Villines-R Taxes: manufacturer credits and exemption | Economic Development |
| AB 2416 | Torrico-D California Finance Lender | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2426 | Hancock-D Corporations: reporting requirements | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2446 | Calderon-D Banks | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2454 | Nakanishi-R Contractors: licensing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2456 | Nakanishi-R Contractors: licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2457 | Nakanishi-R Contractors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2493 | Cogdill-R Family-owned farms: workers' compensation | Labor Relations |
| AB 2498 | Arambula-D Unemployment insurance: employment training | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2502 | Arambula-D Taxation: small business tax credit transfers | Small Business |
| AB 2524 | DeVore-R Workers' compensation: access to health care | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2530* | Arambula-D Income taxes: credits: qualified development corporations | Economic Development |
| AB 2536 | Montanez-D Employment: minimum wage and overtime compensation | Labor Relations |
| AB 2546 | Liu-D International trade and investment offices: establishment | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 2555 | Oropeza-D Wages: gender pay equity | Labor Relations |
| AB 2567* | Arambula-D Income and corporation tax credits: research and development | Economic Development |
| AB 2570 | Arambula-D Community investment | Economic Development |
| AB 2585 | Pavley-D Workers' compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2588 | Sharon Runner-R Business entities: reinstatement | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2589* | Sharon Runner-R Personal income and corporation taxes: enterprise zone | Economic Development |
| AB 2590 | Keene-R Workers' compensation: health care services | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2592 | Leno-D California Travel and Tourism Commission | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 2593 | Keene-R Compensation: meal periods: transportation industry | Labor Relations |
| AB 2595 | Arambula-D Manufacturing: logistics training | Economic Development |
| AB 2601 | Arambula-D Economic Incentive Areas | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 2602 | Lieu-D Real estate brokers: deposits | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2613 | Mullin-D Employment: overtime compensation: teachers | Labor Relations |
| AB 2640* | Torrico-D Income taxes: credits: quality job creation tax credit | Economic Development |
| AB 2658 | Harman-R Contractors | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2660 | La Suer-R Employment: apprenticeship programs | Labor Relations |
| AB 2664 | Houston-R Health studio contracts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2668* | Canciamilla-D Corporation tax: "S" corporation | Economic Development |
| AB 2680* | Harman-R Tax: deductions: wages to illegal aliens | Labor Relations |
| AB 2706 | Matthews-D Pawnbrokers: loan setup fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2709 | Maze-R Taxation: foster youth hiring preference | Economic Development |
| AB 2711 | Parra-D Traveler's checks: payment instruments | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2731* | Karnette-D Tax credits: manufacturers of various aircraft | Economic Development |
| AB 2786 | Walters-R Withholding of taxes: domestic worker employers: reporting | Unemployment Insurance |
| AB 2789 | Bogh-R Workers' compensation rates | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2796 | Mountjoy-R Cemeteries: public notice | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2829* | Ridley-Thomas-D Corporation taxes: water's-edge election | Economic Development |
| AB 2830* | Ridley-Thomas-D Corporation taxes: election: stock purchases | Economic Development |
| AB 2860 | Lieu-D State government: manufacturing competitiveness | Economic Development |
| AB 2862 | Ridley-Thomas-D Sale of animals at pet stores | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2887 | Houston-R Industrial and traded sector development: identification | Economic Development |
| AB 2890 | Ridley-Thomas-D Lenders | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2894 | Aghazarian-R Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2897 | Daucher-R Contractors: revoked licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2907 | De La Torre-D Electrician apprenticeship | Labor Relations |
| AB 2914 | Leno-D Limited liability partnerships: architecture | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2929 | Laird-D Apprenticeship oversight | Labor Relations |
| AB 2931 | Aghazarian-R Business, Transportation and Housing Agency: authority | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 2942 | Koretz-D Workers' compensation: inpatient burn diagnosis | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 2969 | Mullin-D Automated teller machines | Financial Institutions |
| AB 2978 | Houston-R International trade | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 2997 | Houston-R Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 | Labor Relations |
| AB 2998* | Frommer-D Corporation Tax Law: cancellation of indebtedness | Economic Development |
| AB 2999 | Leno-D Public works: labor compliance programs | Labor Relations |
| AB 3021 | Nunez-D California-Mexico relations | World Trade and Tourism |
| AB 3026 | Lieber-D Workers' compensation: peace officers | Workers' Compensation |
| AB 3051 | Koretz-D Employment: wages of motion picture employees | Labor Relations |
| AB 3052 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Local labor standards | Labor Relations |
| AB 3054 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Employment fees | Labor Relations |
| AB 3057 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee Economic development: Small Business Expansion Fund | Economic Development |
| AB 3058 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee Business disaster preparedness: small businesses | Small Business |
| AB 3072 | Assembly Insurance Committee California Insurance Guarantee Association | Workers' Compensation |
| ACR 120 | Niello-R Financial Literacy Month | Financial Institutions |
| ACR 169 | Walters-R Financial Planning Week | Financial Institutions |