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State Senate
In 2006, the Senate Democrats replace Senator Kevin Murray as the Senate Democratic Caucus chair with Senator Tom Torlakson, and replaced Senator Richard Alarcon as Majority Whip with Senator Carole Migden. There were no changes in Senate Republican leadership.
On August 2, 2005, Congressmember Charles "Chris" Cox resigned from Congress to become the Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The Governor called for a special election on October 4, 2005 to fill the vacancy left by Congressmember Cox. Senator John Campbell defeated former Assemblymember Marilyn Brewer in this election, and Campbell went on to win the seat in the November general election and was sworn-in as Congressmember on December 6, 2005. This left a vacancy in the State Senate which Assemblymember Tom Harman filled in a special election and was sworn-in on June 12, 2006.
The following State Senators are being termed out in 2006.
Years of
Senate service Years of
Assembly service
Richard Alarcon (D) 8 0
Debra Bowen (D) 8 6
Wes Chesbro (D) 8 0
Joe Dunn (D) 8 0
Martha Escutia (D) 8 6
Liz Figueroa (D) 8 6
Bill Morrow (R) 8 6
Kevin Murray (D) 8 6
Deborah Ortiz (D) 8 2
Charles Poochigian (R) 8 4
Nell Soto (D) 6 2/3 1 1/3
Jackie Speier (D) 8 10
State Senators who ran for higher office at the 2006 Primary Election were as follows: Debra Bowen, who won the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State and will face former State Senator and present Secretary of State Bruce McPherson; Joe Dunn, who was unsuccessful for State Controller, Liz Figueroa, and Jackie Speier who were unsuccessful for Lt. Governor losing to State Insurance Commissioner and former State Senator, John Garamendi; Deborah Ortiz who lost to Debra Bowen for Secretary of State; Charles Poochigian who won the Republican Attorney General nomination and will be facing former Governor Jerry Brown in the General Election; Tom McClintock who won the Republican nomination for Lt. Governor and will be facing former State Senator and present Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi in the General Election; Bill Morrow who lost in a special election for United States Congress; and Abel Maldonado who lost for State Controller losing to former Assemblymember Tony Strickland in the Primary.
State Senators Richard Alarcon and Nell Soto ran successfully for the Democratic nominations for the State Assembly in the Primary.
State Assembly
On September 11, 2006, Speaker Fabian Nunez announced the following replacements in the Democratic leadership due to some of the present leadership being termed-out or running for other offices. Assemblymember Karen Bass will be replacing Dario Frommer as Majority Leader; Sally Lieber will be replacing Leland Yee as Speaker pro tem; Noreen Evans will be replacing Mark Ridley-Thomas as Chair of the Assembly Democratic Caucus; Mark Leno will be replacing Judy Chu as the Chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee; and Hector De La Torre will be replacing Cindy Montanez as Chair of Assembly Rules Committee. Assemblymember Alberto Torrico was made Director of Majority Affairs.
In April of 2006, Assemblymember Kevin McCarthy resigned as the Assembly Minority Leader to run for the United States Congress to replace Congressmember William Thomas, who is retiring. The Assembly Republicans elected George Plescia of San Diego to replace Kevin McCarthy as Minority Leader. Greg Aghazarian replaced Russ Bogh as Republican Caucus Chair; Mimi Walters replaced Ray Haynes and Michael Villines replaced Rick Keene as Assistant Republican leaders; Van Tran was also selected as an assistant leader; Bill Emmerson replaced Greg Aghazarian as Chief Whip and Doug La Malfa was made Chief Whip, and the following are assistant Republican Whips: John Benoit, Bob Huff, Roger Niello, and Todd Spitzer.
There are 37 Assemblymembers who are either being termed-out or running for higher office in the 2006 Primary Election. The members termed out are:
Russell Bogh (R)
Joseph Canciamilla (D)
Wilma Chan (D)
Ed Chavez (D)
Judy M. Chu (D) -- Successful Democratic candidate for State Board of Equalization, 4th District.
David Cogdill (R) -- Successful Republican candidate for State Senate.
Lynn Daucher (R) -- Successful candidate for State Senate in 2006 Republican primary who will face former Assemblymember Lou Correa in the General.
Ray Haynes (R) - Unsuccessful candidate for State Board of Equalization, also served eight years in the State Senate (1994-2002).
Jerome Horton (D) - Unsuccessful candidate for State Board of Equalization losing to Judy Chu in the Primary.
Johan Klehs (D) - Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate losing to former Assemblymember Ellen Corbett in the 2006 Primary.
Paul Koretz (D)
Jay La Suer (R)
Tim Leslie (R) - Served nine years in the State Senate (1991-2000) and also the State Assembly (1986-91).
Carol Liu (D)
Barbara S. Matthews (D)
Dennis L. Mountjoy (R)
Joe Nation (D) - Unsuccessful candidate for United States Congress.
Gloria Negrete McLeod (D) Ran successfully for State Senate defeating Assemblymember Joe Baca in the primary.
Jenny Oropeza (D) - Ran successfully for State Senate defeating former Assemblymember George Nakano in the Primary.
Fran Pavley (D)
Keith S. Richman (R) - Unsuccessful candidate for State Treasurer.
Mark Ridley-Thomas - Successful Democratic candidate for State Senate in the Primary.
Simon Salinas (D)
Tom Umberg (D) - Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate losing to former Assemblymember Lou Correa in the Primary.
Juan Vargas (D) - Unsuccessful candidate for United States Congress.
Mark Wyland (R) - Successful candidate for State Senate in the Republican Primary.
Other Assemblymembers who are not returning to the State Assembly include the following:
Joe Baca, Jr. (D) - Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate losing to Assemblymember Gloria Negrete McLeod in the 2006 Primary.
Rudy Bermudez (D) - Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate losing to Ron Calderon in the 2006 Primary.
Ronald S. Calderon (D) - Successful candidate for State Senate defeating Rudy Bermudez in the 2006 Primary.
Kevin McCarthy (R) - Successful candidate for United States Congress in the 2006 Republican Primary.
Cindy Montanez (D) - Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate in the 2006 Primary.
Leland Yee (D) - Successful candidate for State Senate in the 2006 Primary defeating former Assemblymember Lou Papan.
Former Assemblymembers Darrell Steinberg (D), Ellen Corbett (D), and Lou Correa (D) won their primary elections for State Senate.
SB 1276 (Senate Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments Committee) Legislature: elections
Extends the time interval for holding a special election to fill a vacancy, for an office in the House of Representatives of the State Legislature, to between 112 days and 126 days (instead of 119 days) after the Governor issues a proclamation for the election.
Chapter 372, Statutes of 2006
SB 1703 (Lowenthal-D) California Transportation Commission: appointments
Grants one California Transportation Commission appointment each to the Senate and Assembly.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1762 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements: legislative consent
Prohibits the Governor from binding California to provisions from international trade agreements without consent from the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
SCA 3 (Lowenthal-D) Legislative process
Provides for an 11-member Independent Redistricting Commission to reapportion legislative and congressional districts, and grants the California Supreme Court original and exclusive jurisdiction over all challenges to a redistricting plan adopted by the Commission.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
Other reapportionment legislation was ACA 8 (Maze-R), AB 7X (Umberg-D), ACA 3X (McCarthy-R), and ACA 5X (Canciamilla-D) which all died in the Assembly.
SCA 19 (Battin-R) Legislature: committees
Allows either house by resolution for selection of select committees to ascertain facts and make recommendations to the Legislature on a subject within the scope of legislative control.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCA 26 (Hollingsworth-R) Legislative powers
Requires the Legislature to convene in annual regular session, with a session held in an odd-numbered year to be known as a general session when general legislation could be adopted, subject to specified limitations, and a session held in an even-numbered year to be known as a budget session. Requires the Legislature to adopt a two-year Budget Bill during each budget session, and prohibits the Legislature during that session from considering legislation other than the Budget Bill, revenue acts necessary therefore, and acts necessary to provide for the expenses of the session, except that the Legislature could also consider bills that would repeal provisions of existing law during a budget session held in a gubernatorial election year. Limits each annual regular session to not more than 100 calendar days, not including Saturdays and Sundays, except that the session could be reconvened to consider bills vetoed by the Governor. Makes various conforming changes relating to annual sessions and the two-year budget requirement.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 1 (Battin-R) Joint Rules of the Legislature
Adopts the Joint Rules of the Senate and the Assembly for the 2005-06 Regular Session.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SCR 30 (Perata-D) Legislative Counsel of California
Designates Diane F. Boyer-Vine as the Legislative Counsel of California.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 107 (Kehoe-D) Emergency services and homeland security
Increases the membership of the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security, from 14 total members, with seven members from each house of the Legislature, to 18 total members, with nine members from each house of the Legislature.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SCR 123 (Florez-D) Joint Legislative Committee on High-Speed Trains
Establishes the Joint Legislative Committee on High-Speed Trains, which will be composed of five members of the Senate and five members of the Assembly, as specified, to hold public hearings to receive public comment and review the work of the High-Speed Rail Authority and the plans for a high-speed train system in California.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SR 14 (Perata-D) Bills
Adds a new Senate Rule, 28.10, which prohibits a display bill from being heard or acted on in any committee or voted on by the Senate. Defines "display bill" as a bill that sets forth substantive changes in, or additions to, existing law that states in the text of the bill that its provisions are set forth for display purposes only, or words to that effect.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 21 (Perata-D) Senate Rule 12
Amends Senate Standing Rule 12 revising numerical membership of various Senate Standing Committees.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 29 (Romero-D) Rose Ann Vuich Hearing Room
Makes various legislative findings and declarations relative to Senator Rose Ann Vuich and also designates hearing room 2040 as the Rose Ann Vuich Hearing Room in honor of Senator Rose Ann Vuich to appropriately reflect her stature and legacy in the State Senate.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 40* (Wolk-D) Political reform: conflicts of interest: lobbyists
Prohibits a lobbyist or lobbying firm from lobbying an elected state official, or his/her staff, if the lobbyist, firm, or employee of the firm has a contractual relationship with the official or the official's controlled campaign committee.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
AB 181 (Huff-R) Legislative hearings: closed- and live-captioning
Requires closed-captioning and live-captioning broadcasts of floor sessions and committee hearings of the Senate and Assembly.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
A similar bill was AB 395 (Canciamilla-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.
AB 395 (Canciamilla-D) Recording of legislative proceedings
Requires the Assembly and Senate Rules Committees to record, in audio or video format, all meetings of the Legislature, as defined under existing law, except for closed sessions as authorized by existing law. Requires the Assembly and Senate Rules Committees to provide a copy of these recordings to the State Archives no later than four years following the conclusion of the legislative session in which the meeting was recorded, and requires the State Archives to maintain an archive of these recordings, open to public inspection.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 636 (Huff-R) Legislature: performance review
Requires the California Performance Review to examine and assess the operations of the California State Assembly and State Senate and report its findings to the Governor and the Legislature no later than December 31, 2005.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 2103 (Walters-R) Legislative Analyst: analysis of statutes
Requires the Legislative Analyst to analyze all new statutes and chaptered bills in order to determine whether the statute contains provisions that require any governmental agency to perform a duty or provide a service that duplicates a duty or service already required of that agency or another governmental agency, whether the duty or service required of a governmental agency by the statute can be more efficiently performed or provided by another governmental agency, and whether a codified statute can be consolidated with similar statutes.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AB 2974 (Wolk-D) Lobbyists
Requires lobbyist employers to report payments to public relations firms and other persons made in connection with formulating strategies to influence legislative or administrative action.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
ACA 8 (Maze-R) Reapportionment
Provides for a five member special masters to adjust boundary lines of the Senate, Assembly, Congressional, and Board of Equalization districts.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
A similar bill was ACA 3X (McCarthy-R) which died in the Assembly District Representation Committee.
ACA 19 (Keene-R) Revised biennial session
Requires the Legislature to convene in regular biennial sessions, but requires that the sessions held in odd-numbered years be known as budget sessions, and sessions held in even-numbered years known as general sessions. Prohibits the Legislature, during a budget session, from considering legislation other than the Budget Bill and budget-related bills except in connection with a state of emergency, as specified. Provides that at general sessions, the Legislature may consider any legislation other than the Budget Bill. Imposes a limitation on the number of bills, constitutional amendments, or resolutions that may be introduced by an Assemblymember, Senator, or policy committee in a general session.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)
ACA 28 (Canciamilla-D) Citizens Assembly
Enacts the Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform Act of 2006, which establishes the Citizens Assembly to evaluate potential reforms of the laws governing the electoral and campaign process, including campaign finance reform, for the Legislature and statewide elected executive officers.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
ACA 31 (Canciamilla-D) Term limits
Removes existing term limits and instead allows a person during his or her lifetime to serve not more than 16 years in the Senate, the Assembly, or both, in any combination of terms.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
ACR 114 (Coto-D) Legislative Task Force: diabetes
Establishes a Legislative Task Force on Diabetes and Obesity, consisting of specified members, to study the factors contributing to the high rates of diabetes and obesity in Latinos, African-Americans, Asian Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans in this country. Declares that the task force shall prepare a report containing recommendations regarding ways to reduce the incidence of those debilitating conditions in these ethnic groups.
Resolution Chapter 151, Statutes of 2006
ACR 142 (Oropeza-D) The Marco Antonio Firebaugh Interchange
Designates the Interstate 5 and Interstate 710 interchange in Los Angeles County as the Marco Antonio Firebaugh Interchange after the former Assemblymember who died in 2006.
Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2006
HR 30 (Nunez-D) Marco A. Firebaugh
Expresses the Assembly's sadness at the passing of former Assemblymember Marco A. Firebaugh.
Adopted by the Assembly
ACA 5X (Canciamilla-D) Redistricting
Creates a procedure for the appointment of an independent redistricting commission, composed of five members, which is charged with establishing Congressional, Assembly, Senate, and Board of Equalization districts of equal population in a grid-like pattern across the state, adjusted as necessary to accommodate various goals, as specified.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
ACA 6X (Canciamilla-D) Term limits
Removes existing term limits and instead allows a person, during his/her lifetime, to serve not more than 16 years in the Senate, the Assembly, or both, in any combination of terms. Makes a person ineligible to be a Member of the Legislature unless service of the full term of office will not exceed the maximum years of service allowed.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 148 (Scott-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses
Provides additional bases for the suspension, revocation, or placement of reasonable conditions on an alcoholic beverage retail license, as defined, by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Chapter 625, Statutes of 2006
SB 656 (Romero-D) Taxation: alcoholic beverages
Allows counties to impose a tax on the consumption of beer, wine and distilled spirits only if the product is consumed on the premises of the seller of these products if certain conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1002 (Florez-D) Gelatin-based alcoholic beverages
Limits the sale of any prepackaged alcoholic beverage made with a "gelatin" base to businesses that prohibit the presence of persons under the age of 21 on the premises.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 1180 (Migden-D) Alcohol use prevention: minors: study
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to issue a report to the Legislature concerning the use of alcohol by underage youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1253 (Migden-D) Historic wine
Designates Zinfandel as the historic wine of California and makes various legislative findings and declarations.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1370 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: issuance and transfer of licenses
Requires the City of Santa Rosa to submit crime statistics to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in two different formats for license application purposes for the calendar year 2007 only.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1380 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: California county wine
Prohibits the sale of wine, produced, bottled, or labeled after December 31, 2008, that identifies, in a brand name or otherwise, on any label, packaging material, or advertising, the name "Sonoma", unless at least 75 percent of the grapes used to make the wine are from Sonoma County, as specified.
Chapter 879, Statutes of 2006
SB 1486 (Hollingsworth-R) Alcoholic beverages: places of consumption
Creates an exception to the general prohibition against the consumption of alcoholic beverages on publicly-owned school property by allowing alcoholic beverages to be sold and consumed at the "Water Conservation Garden" located at Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego.
Chapter 72, Statutes of 2006
SB 1548 (Murray-D) Alcoholic beverages: tastings
Authorizes beer manufacturers and wholesalers to offer beer samples (not to exceed 8 ounces per person, per day) to individuals of legal drinking age at on-sale retail licensed premises under specified conditions.
Chapter 670, Statutes of 2006
SJR 30 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: interstate shipment of wine
Requests the Governor and Legislature of each state to enact legislation that permits out-of-state wineries to ship wines directly to consumers in their state on equal terms as in-state wineries, and that provides for the collection of applicable state taxes from these out-of-state wineries. Also memorializes the Governor and Legislature of each state to enact legislation that promotes commerce by maximizing statutory and regulatory uniformity for direct-to-consumer wine sales between the states and minimizing the expense and complexity of shipping wine from wineries directly to consumers.
Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 273 (Baca-D) Alcohol vaporized device
Prohibits the sale, purchase, and use of any vaporized form of alcohol produced by an alcohol vaporizing device, as defined.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2006
AB 454 (Sharon Runner-R) Alcoholic beverages: underage drinking
Makes the act of providing an alcoholic beverage to a person who the provider knew, or reasonably should have known, was under the age of 21 years, and the person under the age of 21 years thereafter consumes the alcohol and thereby proximately causes great bodily injury or death to himself, herself, or any other person, and the provider knew, or reasonably should have known of that danger, punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 744 (Oropeza-D) Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control: license transfers
Includes the transfer of retail licenses to the current law which prohibits the issuance of a retail license to sell alcoholic beverages for any premises that are located in any territory where the exercise of the rights and privileges conferred by the license is contrary to a valid zoning ordinance of any county or city.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1494 (Baca-D) Alcoholic beverages: instructions: tastings
Permits an on-sale retail licensee authorized to sell distilled spirits to instruct consumers in the subject of wine, beer, or distilled spirits, under specific conditions, at on-sale retail licensed premises. That consumer instruction may include furnishing distilled spirits, subject to limitation on the quantity that may be provided to each consumer.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1537 (Bass-D) Alcoholic beverages: issuance of license: restrictions
Revises the ratios for the number of premises for which an off-sale beer and wine license may be issued to premises located in a high crime area, as defined. Also defines "inhabitant" to exclude any person under the age of 21 years.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1658 (Jerome Horton-D) Alcoholic beverages: beer brewing
Clarifies existing law that a beer manufacturer does not include any person who brews beer for personal or family use.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2013* (Saldana-D) Youth Alcohol Problem Prevention Fund
Requires all surtaxes, penalties, and interest, resulting from the reclassification of an alcoholic beverage from a beer to a distilled spirit, be transferred to the Youth Alcohol Problem Prevention Fund created by this bill. Continuously appropriates the money in this fund to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs for programs designed to reduce the unlawful consumption of alcohol by underage minors.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2527 (Baca-D) Underage drinking: penalties
Provides that any person under 21 years of age who attempts to possess or consume any alcoholic beverage from a licensee, or the licensee's agent or employee is guilty of an infraction. Increases the fine for a first violation to $250 and increases the fine for a 2nd violation to $500. In addition to the penalties imposed under these provisions, requires the suspension of the driving privilege, of a person who violates any of these provisions, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2672 (Oropeza-D) Licenses: local government review
Increases the extension period for local government review of liquor license applications or transfers from 20 to 30 days if a proper written request is made by any entity or official receiving the required notification.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2888 (Arambula-D) Alcoholic beverages: issuance and transfer of licenses.
Prohibits the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control from issuing the license if the local agency, or its designated officer or body, does not make a written determination of convenience or necessity, and in case a written determination is made, requires the department to give weight to the written determination as provided.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 3046 (Chavez-D) Alcoholic beverages: advertising
Creates a Tied-House Law exception by allowing the holder of a beer manufacturer's or winegrower's license, a distilled spirits rectifier, or a distilled spirits manufacturer or distilled spirits manufacturer's agent, to purchase advertising time and space from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee at a fully enclosed arena (HP Pavilion) with a fixed seating capacity in excess of 15,000 seats located in Santa Clara County.
Chapter 587, Statutes of 2006
AB 3065 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Alcoholic beverages: tied-interests restrictions
Extends the time period from six weeks to three months in which a beer wholesaler or manufacturer is allowed to provide any equipment or supplies other than alcoholic beverages to a retailer whose equipment was damaged or lost as the result of a natural disaster, if the Governor proclaims the area to be in a state of disaster.
Chapter 910, Statutes of 2006
ACR 153 (Evans-D) Paris Wine Tasting Anniversary
Proclaims May 24, 2006, the 30th anniversary of the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, which revolutionized California's wine industry.
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2006
Horse Racing
SB 51 (Kuehl-D) Horsemen's organizations
Codifies an agreement between the Thoroughbred Owners of California (TOC) and concerned horsemen and horsewomen who own and race Thoroughbreds in Northern California. Directs changes to the bylaws of the TOC, which will provide Thoroughbred owners and owner-trainers who race in the northern zone with improved representation on the board of directors of the organization representing owners.
Chapter 445, Statutes of 2006
SB 542 (Margett-R) Satellite wagering
Permits a harness racing association that conducts live racing after 5:30 p.m. to import out-of-country thoroughbred races.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 677 (Murray-D) Horse racing
Authorizes an additional five satellite wagering facilities to be situated in Los Angeles County, as specified, and also authorizes the Alameda County Fair to operate two additional satellite-wagering facilities within the boundaries of the fair district, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 746 (Vincent-D) Horse racing
Requires acceptance of the audiovisual signal by each non-thoroughbred association for wagering, particularly during times when two non-thoroughbred racing associations are conducting racing at the same time and requires the payment of a fee in connection with that wagering.
Chapter 368, Statutes of 2006
SB 1229 (Florez-D) Horse racing: advertising
Makes it unlawful for any person to advertise, or to facilitate the advertisement of, non-parimutuel wagering on horse races.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 2006
SB 1381 (Vincent-D) Stewards: overruled decisions: evidence
As it relates to the California Horse Racing Board being allowed to overrule a decision of a steward, this bill qualifies the use of that new evidence to evidence that is relevant to the proceeding, that existed before the steward made the decision, and that was not possible to present before the decision was made.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1396 (Denham-R) Horse racing: licensing
Clarifies Horse Racing law so that those violating the law will no longer be able to resign their licenses or let it lapse in order to avoid sanctions or discipline by the California Horse Racing Board, as specified.
Chapter 400, Statutes of 2006
SB 1464 (Denham-R) California Horse Racing Board
Requires any horse racing track operating four weeks or more of continuous thoroughbred racing in any calendar year to install a polymer, synthetic-type racing surface prior to December 31, 2007.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1692 (Migden-D) Horse racing
States the intent of the Legislature to address concerns relative to the representation of horse owners racing in northern California, including changes to current law which would allow horsemen and horsewoman in the northern zone, to more fully participate in the governance of horse racing in California, if necessary and appropriate.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1695 (Vincent-D) Horse racing: wagering
Provides that when a racing association and a fair join to form a specified partnership related to advance deposit wagering, the entity formed must provide the California Horse Racing Board with comprehensive information about the organizational structure, relative roles and responsibilities, and overall financial solvency of the affiliation.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1805* (Florez-D) Horse racing: thoroughbred racing: handle
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
AB 407 (Calderon-D) Horse racing: satellite wagering
Eliminates the limitation of 23 out-of-state races that may be imported per day by a thoroughbred association or fair who is conducting a live race meet. Also removes the ceiling on the total number of out-of-state races that may be imported in a given year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 531 (Levine-D) Horse racing board
Eliminates the exception for interested owners and breeders that allows them to serve on the California Horse Racing Board, and prohibits any person from serving on the board if they have a financial interest in horse racing.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1005 (Calderon-D) Horse racing: San Mateo County
Deletes the 2002 licensing condition for the racing association licensed to conduct thoroughbred race meetings in San Mateo County, and authorizes, subject to approval from the California Horse Racing Board the San Mateo County Fair to conduct its racing dates at that other facility or fair. Authorizes satellite wagering to be conducted on the fairgrounds or leased property only when live thoroughbred racing dates are no longer allocated by the California Horse Racing Board for racing at Bay Meadows.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1751 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to provide a copy of the allocations related to the Expenditure Plan for the Fairs and Exposition Fund to the chairs of the Senate and Assembly Committees on Governmental Organization and Agriculture.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1949 (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing
Increases the number of satellite wagering facilities a fair or racing association may operate in the central or southern racing zones including commercial establishments, and provides that if a racetrack operating live racing in the central or southern racing zones of California (Hollywood Park, Santa Anita or Los Alamitos, etc.) discontinue live racing operations, then those facilities would then be grandfathered in to be able to continue operating satellite wagering at a location in their city other than the track, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2338 (Villines-R) Horse racing: satellite wagering commissions
Provides that when the Fresno District Fair and a thoroughbred association in the northern zone are running concurrently, the Fresno District Fair shall receive 50 percent of the combined satellite wagering commissions payable to the thoroughbred association and the fair. Provides that these race meetings shall also combine off-track operating expenses during this period as described.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2409 (Yee-D) Horse racing: wagering on historical horse races
Authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to authorize parimutuel wagering on historical races at certain locations in the state, subject to certain conditions. Specifies how revenues from those races would be distributed.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 3066 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing
Permits associations providing audiovisual signals the ability to do so without undue burden and expense, to avoid unnecessary duplication of facilities, to permit the associations to protect the security of their signals, and to permit the associations to protect the security and integrity of their pari-mutuel pools. Clarifies a provision of law relating to the total amount of monies paid to the state by racing associations and fairs in a calendar year. Makes other non-substantive changes to racing law.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 3067 (Jerome Horton-D) Horse racing
Restricts the number of thoroughbred horses in certain races to less than half unless given the consent of the quarter horse horsemen's association that is contracting with the association running the race. Requires a quarter horse racing association in the southern zone to show races of a harness racing association in the northern zone, and requires a harness racing association in the northern zone to show races of a quarter horse racing association in the southern zone, as specified. Requires each racing association to pay the other an additional five percent of the amount wagered on the satellite races at their respective facilities.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Other Gaming Legislation
SB 42 (Florez-D) Tribal-state gaming compacts: ratification
Requires each tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and a federally recognized Indian tribe to be ratified by the Legislature in a separate statute.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 168 (Chesbro-D) Tribal gaming: compact ratification
Ratifies Tribal-State Gaming Compacts entered into on September 9, 2005, between the State of California and the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians (Los Coyotes), and between the State of California and the Big Lagoon Rancheria (Big Lagoon).
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 175 (Vincent-D) Gambling Control Act: licenses
Removes the prohibition that prevents a card club owner from having a financial interest in Las Vegas style gaming within or outside of California, as long as that interest does not exceed one percent.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 288* (Battin-R) Gaming
Modifies the reporting requirement of counties that receive Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (SDF) grant monies. Appropriates $20,000,000 from the SDF to local governments impacted by tribal government gaming.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2006
SB 470 (Ducheny-D) Tribal gaming: compact ratification
Ratifies an amended Tribal-State Gaming Compact entered into on June 26, 2006, between the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation (Quechan Tribe) and the State of California. Specifies that contributions made by the Quechan Tribe to the state shall be deposited into the General Fund. Specifies that the terms of this Compact apply only to the State of California and the Quechan Tribe, and does not bind any tribe that is not a signatory to this Compact.
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2006
SB 935 (Ducheny-D) Tribal gaming: compact ratification
Ratifies the amendment of a tribal-state gaming compact entered into on June 26, 2006, between the State of California and the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation. Provides that the terms of each compact apply only to the State of California and the tribe that has signed it, and the terms of these compacts do not bind any tribe that is not a signatory to any of the compacts. Acknowledges the right of federally recognized tribes to exercise their sovereignty to negotiate and enter into compacts with the state that are materially different from the compacts ratified pursuant to these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1011* (Florez-D) California State Lottery
Authorizes the California State Lottery Commission to enter into a multi-state lottery agreement (Mega Millions). Requires that at least 50 percent of multi-state lottery revenues are allocated to the public in the form of prizes, at least 42 percent must benefit public education, and no more than eight percent to be allocated for lottery expenses, gives a player one year to claim jackpot or grand prize money won in a multi-state lottery game, declares that its provisions further the purposes of the California State Lottery Act.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
SB 1013* (Florez-D) Tribal gaming: compacts
States the policy of the Legislature to only ratify a tribal-state gaming compact if the land where the gaming will be conducted is within the boundaries of the tribe's reservation or on land eligible under federal law, unless specified criteria are satisfied.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1039 (Bowen-D) Compulsive gambling
Enacts the California Compulsive and Problem Gambling Awareness and Prevention Act to require the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling, in collaboration with the California Gambling Control Commission, to establish a voluntary self-exclusion list, and to establish an advisory committee. Provides that persons on the list would agree to be excluded from gaming areas, to donate certain winnings or funds used in gaming, and to be subject to other restrictions related to gambling, for a predetermined period of time. Prohibits any licensed gaming operation from knowingly allowing a person on the list to enter the gaming premises, and requires the office to develop prescribed educational materials. Establishes and continuously appropriates for this purpose, the Compulsive and Problem Gambling Prevention Fund.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1198 (Florez-D) Local gambling
Deletes wagering limits from the list of items that are considered an expansion of gambling pursuant to the current moratorium on the expansion to gaming existing in a local city or county entity. Makes several other technical and conforming changes.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 2006
SB 1362 (Chesbro-D) Tribal gaming: compact ratification
Ratifies the amended Tribal-State Gaming Compact entered into on August 24, 2006, between the Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation (Yurok). Specifies that the terms of this compact apply only to the State of California and Yurok, and do not bind any tribe that is not a signatory to this compact.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1582 (Chesbro-D) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.
SB 1363 (Battin-R) Indian gaming
Requires the State Auditor to conduct an audit regarding the allocation and use of moneys from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, including, but not limited to, grants for programs designed to address gambling addiction, grants for the support of state and local government agencies impacted by tribal gaming, compensation for regulatory costs, payments of shortfalls in the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund and disbursements for the purpose of implementing tribal labor relations ordinances in accordance with the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1770 (Figueroa-D) Multistate lottery: Cal Grant C Plus Program
Authorizes the California State Lottery to enter into a multi-state Lottery agreement. Provides that a yet to be determined percentage of the revenue from such a multi-state Lottery be allocated to the California Student Aid Commission for administration and awards for the Cal Grant C Plus Program. Requires the Secretary of State to submit provisions of this act, for approval by the voters at a statewide election as described.
(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SCA 25 (Morrow-R) Tribal-state gaming compacts
Prohibits the Governor from concluding gaming compacts for the operation of any gaming activity, as specified, with any Indian tribe if that gaming activity, or any portion thereof, would be conducted in an urban area. As to a tribe that possessed Indian land in California on July 1, 2006, with regard to a compact with the tribe for the operation of any gaming to be conducted on Indian land that is not in an urban area, prohibits the Governor from concluding a gaming compact with the tribe if that Indian land was not possessed by the tribe on July 1, 2006, as specified, unless that gaming activity has been approved by voters of the city or county in which the gaming activity is to be located and also by the board of supervisors of the county in which the tribe is located. Additionally prohibits the Governor from concluding a compact with an Indian tribe for the operation of any gaming activity, as specified, as to a tribe that did not possess Indian land in California on July 1, 2006, unless the land subsequently acquired, on which the gaming is to be conducted, is not in an urban area, the tribe's primary geographic, social, and historical connections relate to that land, and the gaming activity has been approved by voters of the city or county in which the gaming activity is to be located and also by the board of supervisors of the county in which the tribe is located.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SR 20 (Florez-D) Tribal gaming
Provides that a gaming compact negotiated and executed by the Governor between an Indian tribe and the State of California governing the conduct of class III gaming activities on lands that are not federally-recognized Indian lands, as defined by the Federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, at the time the compact is presented to the Senate, shall not be ratified or considered for ratification. Does not apply to any gaming compact negotiated and executed by the Governor between an Indian tribe and the State of California governing the conduct of Class III gaming activities on lands that were not federally recognized Indian lands on or before September 30, 2005.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 614 (Oropeza-D) Problem and pathological gambling
Requires the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling within the Department of Alcohol and Drugs Programs to annually evaluate its program funding needs, to develop an equitable allocation request from all gaming interests, and to make this information available to the Governor and the Legislature in timing consistent with the annual budget process.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 839 (Torrico-D) Gambling Control Act: nonprofit organization fundraisers
Authorizes nonprofit organizations to use controlled games, such as poker, as a fundraising mechanism.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2006
AB 1053 (Bogh-R) Tribal gaming: compact ratification
Ratifies the amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, between the State of California and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, executed in August 2006.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1401 (Hancock-D) Indian gaming
Provides that at least 30 days prior to a final vote in each house of the Legislature to ratify a tribal-state gaming compact in its final form, the compact shall be printed in a bill or resolution for the purpose of review by, and public comment to, the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1561 (Umberg-D) Gambling
Prohibits the issuance of a gaming license if the licensee has a financial interest in any business or organization that is convicted of a single specified gambling violation. Requires minimum payment provisions to be included in any tribal-state gaming compact negotiated with the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe, including specified payments to the California Horse Racing Board, the City of Inglewood, the Inglewood Unified School District, and Los Angeles County, and to fund certain correctional costs relating to the prosecution and monitoring of sexual offenders. Establishes a state recognized Indian reservation for the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe, a non-federally recognized Indian tribe, comprised of specified parcels of land in the City of Inglewood, in Los Angeles County. Provides that title to that real property shall be held by the State of California, upon conveyance by the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe to the state, in trust for the benefit of the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe. Also provides that the Gabrielino-Tongva Reservation qualifies as tribal lands for purposes of entering into a tribal-state gaming compact. Makes other related changes.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1620 (Klehs-D) Gambling license fees
Changes the license fee structure for card rooms licensed by the California Gambling Control Commission. Requires the holders of a provisional license to pay license fees based on the number of tables.
Chapter 721, Statutes of 2006
AB 1782 (Mullin-D) Lottery Act: multistate lottery: distribution of revenues
Places an amendment to an initiative on the November 7, 2006 ballot to revise the distribution of lottery revenues after January 1, 2007. Specifically this bill (1) Caps the lottery revenues that are distributed for instructional materials pursuant to Proposition 20 at the 2004-05 total; (2) Provides that current lottery revenue recipients continue to annually receive at least the funding received in 2004-05, and dedicate up to 40 percent of the annual revenue from the multi-state lottery for this purpose; (3) Distributes multi-state lottery revenues that are allocated to K-12 education on a weighted per pupil formula.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 1973 (Bermudez-D) Gambling control
Makes a number of changes to the Gambling Control Act relating to new table fees for problem gambling programs, the hours of operation, the moratorium on the expansion of gambling, and the eligibility requirements of two members of the Gambling Control Commission.
Chapter 854, Statutes of 2006
AB 2399 (Garcia-R) Tribal-state gaming compacts
Ratifies the first amendment to the Tribal-State Gaming Compact concluded on August 8, 2006, between the State of California and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (Agua Caliente or Tribe).
(Died in Conference Committee)
AB 2412 (Hancock-D) Advisory elections: counties: gaming
Requires every county and city and county to hold an advisory election for the purpose of allowing voters to voice their opinions on the proposed establishment of an urban casino in that county or city and county, if a petition containing at least 500 signatures of registered voters within that county is submitted to the county elections official within a specified timeframe prior to the first public hearing by a federal agency to solicit public comments on a draft environmental impact statement for that casino. Sunsets January 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2549 (Plescia-R) Tribal gaming: compact ratification
Ratifies tribal-state gaming compacts and amendments of tribal-state gaming compacts entered into in August 2006, between the State of California and the following 6 tribes: (1) the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians; (2) the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians; (3) the Morongo Band of Mission Indians; (4) the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians; (5) the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation; and (6) the Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation. Provides that the terms of each compact apply only to the State of California and the tribe that has signed it, and the terms of these compacts do not bind any tribe that is not a signatory to any of the compacts. Acknowledges the right of federally recognized tribes to exercise their sovereignty to negotiate and enter into compacts with the state that are materially different from the compacts ratified pursuant to these provisions. Requires that related revenue contributions be deposited into the General Fund, or as otherwise provided in the compact, and also specifies that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions may not be deemed projects for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2811 (Plescia-R) California State Lottery: prizes
Provides that, of future lottery prize payments, installment payments to a third party are permitted only if the installment obligation is guaranteed by a financial institution or brokerage firm that is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. Declares that the provisions of the bill further the purpose of the California State Lottery Act of 1984.
Chapter 125, Statutes of 2006
AB 3068 (Jerome Horton-D) Gaming
Extends current provisions which apply to a publicly traded corporation owning a card club at located on the grounds of that entity's racetrack to a limited liability company or a limited partnership. Makes a technical correction to the current definition of "individual tribal casino accounts."
Chapter 868, Statutes of 2006
ACA 2 (Hancock-D) Tribal gaming
Provides that at least 60 days prior to a final vote in each house of the Legislature to ratify a compact in its final form, the compact shall be published by the Governor for the purpose of review by, and public comment to, the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
ACA 35 (Nation-D) Tribal gaming
Prohibits the Governor, as to an Indian tribe located on Indian land in California on January 1, 2000, with regard to a compact with the tribe for the operation of any tribal gaming activity within city limits, to be conducted on Indian land on which the tribe was not located on January 1, 2000, from concluding the compact unless approved by the governing body of the city in which the activity is proposed to be located, the board of supervisors of the county in which the activity is proposed to be conducted, and by the voters of the county. Alternatively, if the proposed gaming activity is to be conducted in an unincorporated area of a county or in a city and county, the bill instead prohibits the Governor from concluding the compact unless approved by the board of supervisors of the county or city and county in which the gaming activity is to be located and the voters of the county or city and county. Prohibits the Governor from concluding a compact with an Indian tribe for the operation of any tribal gaming activity proposed to be located within the city limits as to a tribe that was not located on Indian land in California on January 1, 2000, unless the tribal gaming activity has been approved by the governing body of the city, the board of supervisors of the county in which the tribe is located, and the voters of the county in which the tribal gaming activity is to be located, and the tribe's primary geographic, social, and historical connections relate to that land. As to tribal gaming activity proposed to be conducted in the unincorporated area of a county or in a city or county, this bill prohibits the Governor from concluding a compact for gaming in one of these areas as to a tribe that was not located on Indian land in California on January 1, 2000, unless the gaming activity has been approved by the board of supervisors of the county or city and county or city and county in which the tribe is located and the voters of the county or city and county in which the tribe is located, and the tribe's primary geographic, social, and historical connections relate to that land. Creates an exception to its provisions for the operation of any tribal gaming activity conducted on Indian land pursuant to a compact negotiated, concluded, or ratified before January 1, 2007, or to the renegotiation or extension of such a compact.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
Public Employees
SB 105 (Speier-D) Disability retirement: medical examinations
Allows the Public Employees' Retirement System to require a member who retired for disability after age 50 to submit to a medical re-evaluation for up to 36 months or face a penalty or benefit cancellation for refusal.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
A similar bill was SB 3X (Speier-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
SB 154 (Chesbro-D) Public employees' health benefits
Authorizes the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to contract with out-of-state public employee pension and health systems to provide health care benefits to California employees and annuitants who reside outside this state, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 311 (Cox-R) State Merit Awards Program
Revises the State Merit Awards Program that provides employees with cash awards for making suggestions that ultimately increase revenues or reduce state expenditures in an effort to revitalize the program and increase its use.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 336 (Maldonado-R) Public Employees' Retirement System: safety category
Requires the Department of Personnel Administration to grant state safety membership to managers and supervisors excluded from collective bargaining, and changes the criteria for membership in the state safety category.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 357* (Perata-D) State employees: MOU: State Bargaining Units 12 and 13
Ratifies an agreement between the state and State Bargaining Unit 12 (Operating Engineers) and Bargaining Unit 13 (Operating Engineers). Appropriates $47,756,000 for expenditure in the 2006-07 fiscal year for state employee compensation in augmentation of the Budget Act of 2006.
Chapter 210, Statutes of 2006
SB 379 (Margett-R) Public employees' retirement: disability retirement benefits
Provides local safety members of the Public Employees Retirement System who retire for work-related disability prior to attaining minimum retirement age, an increase in their industrial disability retirement when they reach age 50 (or 55) equal to the amount they would have received had they retired for service, based on the actual years worked at the time of the disabling injury (if that amount is greater than 50 percent).
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 524 (Torlakson-D) Retirement: Contra Costa County
Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, by resolution, to provide different retirement benefits for different bargaining units of safety employees, as specified.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2006
SB 704 (Speier-D) State employees: protective clothing
Requires that, in cases where the state is required by collective bargaining agreements to provide protective clothing to employees who work outdoors during daylight hours, the clothing screen the employee from ultraviolet radiation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 733 (Aanestad-R) Public employees' retirement: Butte County
Allows Butte and Solano counties to separate the assets and liabilities of the county from those of the trial courts within these counties for the purpose of establishing separate employer contribution rates under the Public Employees' Retirement System.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 750* (Soto-D) State employees: State Bargaining Unit 3
Approves provisions of an addendum to the memorandum of understanding entered into between the state and State Bargaining Unit 3 (Professional Educators and Librarians) on March 10, 2006.
Chapter 231, Statutes of 2006
SB 777 (Soto-D) County employees' retirement
Provides clarification of various sections of the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 as requested by the State Association of County Retirement Systems.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2006
SB 877 (Speier-D) County employees retirement: incapacity
Requires that there be clear and convincing evidence that an individual's employment is a substantial cause of the incapacity that causes a person to be retired due to disability.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 880 (Ashburn-R) Public employees' retirement: contingency reserves
Authorizes the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the retirement boards of city, county, city and county, and district retirement systems to create Pension Contribution Stabilization Accounts, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 13X (Ashburn-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
SB 881 (Ashburn-R) Public employees' retirement: election to First Tier
Provides that an election to the First Tier shall only be valid if made at least three years prior to retirement and shall be signed by the member's spouse or designated beneficiary.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 9X (Ashburn-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
SB 882 (Ashburn-R) Public employees' retirement: final compensation
Defines "final compensation" for state members and school members of the Public Employees' Retirement System who are hired on or after January 1, 2006, or who are members of an employee group that is not subject to a definition of final compensation based on the highest annual compensation earnable during a designated 12-month period, as the highest annual compensation earnable by the member during a consecutive 36-month period immediately preceding the effective date of his/her retirement or the date of his/her last separation from state service if earlier, or any other consecutive 36-month period designated by the member.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 6X (Ashburn-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
SB 883 (Ashburn-R) Public employees' retirement benefits
Provides that employees hired on or after January 1, 2006, are subject to a two percent at age 60 retirement benefit formula.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 12X (Ashburn-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
SB 884 (Ashburn-R) Public employees' retirement: benefit increases
Provides that any amendment to specified existing retirement formulas, and new retirement formulas effecting certain members of the system, shall only apply to service performed by the member on and after the operative date of amendment, and also provides that for contracts or amendments of contracts entered into on and after January 1, 2006, specified retirement formulas applies only to service rendered on and after the effective date of the contract or the contract amendment.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 7X (Ashburn-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
SB 885 (Ashburn-R) County employees' retirement: disability retirement
Deletes references in the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 to the county retirement board retiring the member for disability, effective on the expatriation of any leave of absence with compensation or with the member's consent, and instead provides that if the member is shown to be permanently incapacitated to the retirement board's satisfaction, the member shall be retired for disability when it has been shown that the member is permanently incapacitated.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 11X (Ashburn-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
SB 886 (Ashburn-R) Bureau of State Audits: audit of state safety employees
Requires the Bureau of State Audits, commencing on January 1, 2006, to conduct an audit of the state's safety employee classes to assure those employee classifications meet federal criteria, as specified, and requires the bureau to report its findings to the Legislature by July 1, 2006, as specified.
(Died in Senate Government Modernization, Efficiency and Accountability Committee)
SB 887 (Ashburn-R) Public employees' retirement: member designations
Prohibits the Department of Personnel Administration from approving safety membership for any class or position unless the Legislature has ratified a report of findings or justification for adding classes to the state safety category prior to finalizing a contract in negotiations with collective bargaining organizations, and also specifies that if memorandums of understanding (MOUs) are negotiated to include new classes in the state safety or state peace officer/firefighter membership categories, as specified, prior to legislative ratification, those provisions of the MOU will not take effect until ratification has occurred.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 888 (Ashburn-R) Public employees' retirement: hybrid retirement programs
Requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and retirement boards of city, county, city and county, and district retirement systems to create hybrid retirement programs , as specified, for public employees hired on and after January 1, 2006, that contain a defined benefit plan funded by employer contributions and a defined contribution plan funded by employee contributions.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 10X (Ashburn-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
SB 890 (Ashburn-R) State employment relations: MOU addenda
Provides that a side letter, appendix, or other addendum to a properly ratified memorandum of understanding that requires the expenditure of funds may not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 8X (Ashburn-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
SB 1063* (Ashburn-R) State employees: furloughs
Provides that during any fiscal year in which a fiscal emergency, as defined, is determined by the Director of the Department of Finance to exist, the Governor may, by executive order, direct that employees of any state agency be placed on furlough, defined as an unpaid leave of absence, for up to 40 hours during the remainder of that fiscal year, with exemption of employees who the Governor deems necessary based on public safety, level of care, revenue production, or other operational considerations, and requires the Director, on or before November 1 of each fiscal year, to determine whether or not a fiscal emergency exists in the state based on specified criteria.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 1066 (Ashburn-R) State employer-employee relations
Provides that a written memorandum of understanding shall be presented to the Legislature for ratification immediately instead of "when appropriate," as allowed under current law.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 1091 (Maldonado-R) State retirees: vision care benefits
Requires the Public Employees' Retirement System to provide vision care benefits to state annuitants who retire on or before July 1, 2006.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1093 (Soto-D) Disability retirement: state employees
Provides employees in Bargaining Unit 12 (Operating Engineers) employed by the California Department of Transportation with the Industrial Disability Benefit and the Special Death Benefit without the negotiation of a memorandum of understanding.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1168 (Chesbro-D) Rural Health Care Equity Program
Extends the Rural Health Care Equity Trust Fund to fund increased health care benefits to subsidize and provide reimbursements for premium costs, deductibles, co-payments, and other out-of-pocket health care costs incurred by state employees and annuitants living in rural areas.
Chapter 642, Statutes of 2006
SB 1194 (Morrow-R) Employment: hiring practices: immigration status
Requires the Department of Personnel Administration and all private employers to verify every potential employees' immigration status using the federal Basic Pilot program prior to hiring.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1218* (Cedillo-D) State employees: State Bargaining Unit 6
Requires the expenditure of funds of an unspecified memorandum of understanding entered into between the state employer and a specified employee organization, and would provide that the provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 1273 (Soto-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: area agency on aging.
Authorizes certain private nonprofit corporations that operate area agencies on aging to contract with the Public Employees' Retirement System for retirement or health coverage.
Chapter 307, Statutes of 2006
SB 1443* (Ashburn-R) Public employees' retirement: retirement allowances
Caps, at 90 percent of final compensation, the cumulative California Public Employees Retirement System allowance under multiple retirement formulas for individuals serving the State of California in the state patrol, peace officer/firefighter, or state safety membership categories.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 1445 (Alquist-D) Military benefits: health care benefits
Provides health and dental care benefits for all members of the California National Guard that meet specified criteria through PEMHCA, administered by CalPERS.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1447 (Soto-D) State excluded employees: management incentive payments
Provides a $200 monthly management incentive payment to all excluded employees beginning January 1, 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1697 (Soto-D) Military service: benefits
Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that Military Department personnel who are employed on state active duty and are deployed, mobilized, or otherwise subject to any federal active service under voluntary or involuntary conditions, are provided the same federal reemployment protections and benefits given to other state employees pursuant to the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
Chapter 680, Statutes of 2006
SB 1721* (Dunn-D) State employees: State Bargaining Units 16 and 19
Approves provisions that requires the expenditure of funds of a memoranda of understanding entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Units 16 and 19, and provides that the provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 1729 (Soto-D) Public employees: benefits
Grants the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration authority to allow public entities, as specified, to contract with CalPERS in order to pre-fund retiree health care benefits and other post-employment benefits.
Vetoed by the Governor
SCA 11 (Ashburn-R) State employees: employer-employee relations
Provides that a memorandum of understanding between the state and a recognized employee organization entered into under the Ralph C. Dills Act shall expire no later than 36 months after its effective date. Provides that, if a memorandum of understanding has expired, and until a new memorandum of understanding has been agreed to and taken effect, the parties shall continue to give effect to the provisions of the expired memorandum of understanding.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SCR 117 (Soto-D) PERS: reverse annuity mortgages
Directs the staff of the Public Employees Retirement System to perform a study to determine if it is feasible to develop a Reverse Annuity Mortgage program for retired members, and report to the Legislature by January 15, 2007.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 3X (Speier-D) Disability retirement: medical examinations
Allows PERS to require a member who retired for disability after age 50 to submit to a medical re-evaluation for up to 36 months or face a penalty or benefit cancellation for refusal.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Similar to SB 105 (Speier-D) which died on the Assembly Inactive File.
SB 5X (Ducheny-D) Public employees' retirement
Repeals existing provisions and enacts new provisions of the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 relating to the determination of final compensation, and enacts similar final compensation provisions for independent public retirement systems, providing that all of the new provisions are modeled after the final compensation provisions in existing Public Employees' Retirement System law.
(Died on Senate Floor)
AB 30 (Negrete McLeod-D) Retirement: military service
Allows members of the California National Guard to qualify for membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System and to purchase past service credit for service performed prior to membership.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 146* (Nunez-D) MOU: State Bargaining Unit 2
Approves the recent agreement between the state and State Bargaining Unit (BU) 2, the California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment, appropriates the funding for the required expenditures, and makes the required statutory changes to implement the retirement elements of the agreement for BU 2 members.
Chapter 28, Statutes of 2006
AB 271 (Blakeslee-R) State employees: scientists
Provides that a person appointed to any state scientist class on or after January 1, 2006, shall, at a minimum, have a baccalaureate degree in a scientific discipline from an accredited university.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
AB 274 (Baca-D) State employees: paid leave: education
Authorizes employees of State Bargaining Unit (SBU) 10 (California Association of Professional Scientists) and employees in classifications corresponding to those in SBU 10, but excluded from collective bargaining under the Ralph C. Dills Act, to be granted up to three days of paid leave per fiscal year to attend professional development courses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 284 (Bermudez-D) State employees: salary ranges: professional scientists
Requires the Department of Personnel Administration and the California Association of Professional Scientists to jointly survey scientific classifications in the public and private sectors, and provides that implementation of any new pay scales based on the surveys for scientists in State Bargaining Unit 10 will be subject to collective bargaining.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 386* (Lieber-D) Memoranda of understanding: State Bargaining Units 16 and 19
Approves the recent memoranda of understanding agreed to by the state and State Bargaining Unit (BU) 16 (i.e. Physicians, Dentists and Podiatrists), represented by the Union of American Physicians ad Dentists, and BU 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional) represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Chapter 237, Statutes of 2006
AB 456 (Torrico-D) Public employees' retirement: fraud
Enacts new criminal fraud provisions in the statutes pertaining to the Public Employees' Retirement Law, the State Teachers' Retirement Law, and the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 511 (Richman-R) Public employees' retirement
Prohibits public agency contributions to a defined contribution plan for employees covered by the federal Social Security Act from exceeding six percent of an employee's base salary, as defined, except that contributions of up to nine percent would be permitted for sworn police officers and full-time firefighters, and permits a public agency to contribute up to an additional three percent of base salary for employees who are not covered by social security.
(Died in Assembly Public Employment, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 514 (Richman-R) Public employees: benefits
Limits the amount that a retired public employee who is receiving disability retirement benefits may receive in connection with a workers' compensation claim.
(Failed passage in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 565 (Plescia-R) Public employment: officers and employees: salaries
Requires that state employees, including legislative employees, be paid monthly, and requires the direct deposit of the salaries or wages of all state employees.
(Died in Assembly Public Employment, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 705 (Nakanishi-R) Public employees' retirement: school members
Requires five Sacramento County school and community college districts to pay the employer's share of the cost of the buyback of Public Employees' Retirement System service credit by 20 former employees of the Independent Data Processing Center who took a refund of member contributions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 742* (Jones-D) State employees: compensation
Continuously appropriates from the General Fund to the State Controller an amount necessary to pay state employees for work performed on or after July 1 of a fiscal year for which no state budget has been enacted.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 844 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public employment: postretirement death benefits
Increases the postretirement death benefit for state members of the Public Employees' Retirement System who retire on or before July 1, 2006, from $2,000 to $5,000.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 884 (Baca-D) State employment: contract employees
Prohibits a state agency, including the California State University, from employing a primary care physician as an independent contractor when there is an unfilled, full-time primary care physician position available within the state agency, unless the state agency is unable to do so after a good faith effort.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 902 (Bogh-R) State employees: State Bargaining Unit 8: compensation
Requires the state to pay rank and file members of State Bargaining Unit 8 (CDF Firefighters) the estimated average total compensation for each corresponding rank in other jurisdictions employing 75 or more full-time firefighters in California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1019 (Harman-R) Public employees: bereavement leave
Extends the period of paid bereavement leave for any state employee excluded from collective bargaining or any non-elected officer or employee of the executive branch who is not a member of the civil service from three to five days.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1165* (Bogh-R) State employees: State Bargaining Unit 8
Approves the recent Memorandum of Understanding agreed to by the state and State Bargaining Unit 8, represented exclusively by the Department of Forestry Firefighters.
Chapter 229, Statutes of 2006
AB 1186 (Jerome Horton-D) State civil service
Creates the Excluded and Exempt Compensation Advisory Commission, and prohibits the Department of Personnel Administration from recommending a salary range for excluded or exempt employees that is less than the recommendations made by the Commission.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1355 (Cogdill-R) Employment relations: State Bargaining Unit 8
Requires the state Department of Personnel Administration to consider the cost-effectiveness of any State Bargaining Unit 8 (State Firefighter, about 4,000 employees, represented by the CDF Firefighters) Memorandum of Understanding with an effective date after July 1, 2006, as it relates to proposed staffing patterns for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
AB 1369* (Nunez-D) State employees: memoranda of understanding
Approves the recent memoranda of understanding agreed to by the state and the state bargaining units represented exclusively by the Service Employees International Union, Local 1000.
Chapter 209, Statutes of 2006
AB 1458* (De La Torre-D) MOU: State Bargaining Unit 10 and 18
Approves the recent memoranda of understanding agreed to by the state and State Bargaining Unit (BU) 10 (Professional Scientific), represented exclusively by the California Association of Professional Scientists and BU 18 (Psychiatric Technician), represented exclusively by the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians.
Chapter 238, Statutes of 2006
AB 1510 (Calderon-D) State employees: supervisors
Requires that supervisors of state employees represented by State Bargaining Units 5 (CHP), 6 (Corrections) or 8 (Firefighters) shall receive salary and benefits changes that are at least equivalent to the salary and benefits granted to employees they supervise.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1526 (Bogh-R) Public employees' retirement: special death benefits
Allows Public Employees' Retirement System local contracting agencies to elect to provide a one-time increase in the special death benefit for survivors of members who were less than age 50 at death but would have been 50 years of age or older if still living on January 1, 2001. The increase equals to the increases received by active members in the same classifications until the time the member would have attained the age of 50.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1568 (Torrico-D) County employees: retirement boards
Prohibits a member of the board of retirement of a county operating a retirement system under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 ('37 Act) from selling investment products that would be considered an asset of the fund to their own, or any other, '37 Act retirement system and requires that all '37 Act board members receive ethics training.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1584 (Evans-D) Excluded employees: mediation
Provides mediation, as specified, as a fifth step in the excluded state employees' grievance procedure.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1643 (Jones-D) Public employees: long-term care
Requires the California Institute on Human Services at Sonoma State University, with assistance from the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), to conduct a study on the impact of enrolling members who are currently ineligible for the CalPERS' Long-Term Care Insurance Program, and report to the Legislature by December 31, 2008.
Chapter 724, Statutes of 2006
AB 1708 (DeVore-R) State employees
Requires the Department of Personnel Administration, by rule, to provide instruction to state departments on the establishment of rental rates for state-owned housing and shifts the responsibility for complying with such rules to the director of each department providing such housing.
Chapter 97, Statutes of 2006
AB 1771 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State employees: memorandum of understanding
Provides ratification for a memorandum of understanding negotiated between the state and employees in State Bargaining Unit 1.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
AB 1773* (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State employees: memorandum of understanding
Provides ratification for a memorandum of understanding negotiated between the state and employees in an unspecified bargaining unit.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1886 (Dymally-D) Court employees
Requires all security personnel, clerical staff, and office assistants for each court of appeal to be state employees.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1897 (Dymally-D) Civil service: employment discrimination
Adds reasonable attorneys' fees and costs to the available remedies that the State Personnel Board may order when compensating an employee who has suffered employment discrimination under the State Civil Service Act.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1951 (Montanez-D) Public employment: employee organizations
Requires, by August 31, 2006, a memorandum of understanding to be ratified by the Legislature with respect to contract negotiations between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 and the Governor.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
AB 1961 (Richman-R) Public Employees' retirement system: performance audit
Requires the Bureau of State Audits to conduct an audit of the California Public Employees' Retirement System's (CalPERS) actuarial function, on or before December 31, 2007, and every three years thereafter, and to report its findings to the CalPERS Board of Administration and the Legislature.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 1984 (Harman-R) County employees' retirement systems: boards of retirement
Permits certain safety members, including probation officers and juvenile hall counselors, to serve as an alternate member of the retirement board.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2069 (Maze-R) Public employment: applicant qualifications.
Prohibits a public agency from hiring an applicant for a position requiring a specified degree unless the person has received the required degree from an accredited or approved institution.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2132 (Levine-D) Public employee health benefits: retirees
Prevents a retiree of the California Public Employees' Retirement System from receiving a reduction in health benefits due to reinstating to active employment.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2240 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County employees' retirement: additional retirement credit
Authorizes the Boards of Supervisors in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties to permit members of the counties noncontributory retirement plans to purchase up to five years of additional retirement credit under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.
Chapter 117, Statutes of 2006
AB 2241 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State civil service: skills-based certification
Allows the State Personnel Board to use skills-based certification in order to create "unique" lists of eligible individuals for each information technology vacancy.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2006
AB 2242 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Public employee health benefits: vision care: annuitants
Establishes, under the administration of the Department of Personnel Administration, a vision care program for state annuitants and their dependents.
Chapter 611, Statutes of 2006
AB 2243* (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State employees: memorandum of understanding
Provides for the ratification of a memorandum of understanding negotiated between the state and an as yet unspecified state bargaining unit.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 2244 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Public Employees' Retirement System: retirement benefits
Makes various clarifying and technical amendments to the laws administered by the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
Chapter 118, Statutes of 2006
AB 2246 (La Suer-R) Local public employees: peace officers
Exempts peace officers employed by a county probation department from provisions authorizing the Public Employment Relations Board to oversee collective bargaining and employee-employer relations for local public employees, as established under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee
AB 2351 (Maze-R) Retirement: elected public officers: service credit
Prohibits a governing body of a city or county from granting, or paying the contributions for, service credit for an elected officer or member of the board of supervisors if that service has not actually been performed.
Chapter 355, Statutes of 2006
AB 2355 (Negrete McLeod-D) California State University academic employees
Allows California State University academic employees granted a reduced pay leave, such as a sabbatical or difference in pay leave, to receive full service credit in the California Public Employees' Retirement System during the leave.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2366 (Sharon Runner-R) County employees' retirement: reinstatement
Allows a safety member, in Los Angeles County only, who has been required to retire at age 60, to reinstate to active membership in the retirement system, as specified, if these provisions are adopted by a majority vote of the county board of supervisors.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2006
AB 2411 (Aghazarian-R) Public employees: health benefits
Requires the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System to contract with a firm to examine and recommend whether CalPERS should offer to its members health care plans that provide for a health savings account coupled with a high deductible insurance plan and to report the findings to the Legislature, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2438 (Chu-D) Public employees' retirement: compensation
Expands the definition of "compensation" in the California Public Employees' Retirement Law to include temporary disability payments made to a school or community college member on industrial disability leave.
Chapter 121, Statutes of 2006
AB 2544 (Pavley-D) Public employee health benefits: employer contributions
Requires the contribution for annuitants to be increased each year by five percent of the contribution for active employees, multiplied by the number of years the contracting agency has been subject to the unequal contribution formula.
Chapter 862, Statutes of 2006
AB 2570 (Arambula-D) Community investment
Requires the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency to develop a strategy to attract new private investment to the state and requires public pension funds with assets over $4 billion to report annually on the value of their investments in California and historically underserved areas of the state.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2626 (Lieu-D) State employees: State Bargaining Unit 6.
Requires, in the case of supervisors of state employees represented by State Bargaining Unit 6, that those supervisors receive salary and benefits changes that are at least equivalent to those granted to employees they supervise. As applicable to State Bargaining Unit 6, the bill deletes the provision that provides that benefits need not be identical.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2632 (Negrete McLeod-D) Retirement: military service
Allows members of the California National Guard to qualify for membership in the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2683* (Negrete McLeod-D) State employees: State Bargaining Unit 8: compensation
Requires the state to pay rank and file members of State Bargaining Unit 8, California Department of Forestry Firefighters, the estimated average total compensation for each corresponding rank in other jurisdictions employing 75 or more full-time firefighters in California.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2765 (Negrete McLeod-D) County employees' retirement: safety member
Requires, as of January 1, 2007, probation officers in Los Angeles County to be classified as safety members.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2766 (Montanez-D) Disability retirement: state employees
Provides employees in State Bargaining Unit 12 (Operating Engineers) employed by Caltrans with the Industrial Disability Retirement Benefit and the Special Death Benefit without the negotiation of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Personnel Administration.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2795 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public retirement systems: reciprocity
Extends the time period from six months to 18 months for public employees to move between retirement systems while retaining full benefit reciprocity. Applies to systems operating under the Public Employees Retirement Law, which governs CalPERS and its contracting agencies, and the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2835* (Nakanishi-R) Excluded employees: salaries and benefits
Requires that excluded state employees who supervise or manage employees represented by any of the 21 state bargaining units receive salary increases and benefit packages that are equal to, or better than, those received by the employees they supervise or manage.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2863* (Karnette-D) Public employees: retirement
Makes various changes to county retirement programs.
Chapter 846, Statutes of 2006
AB 2903 (Huff-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: employees
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to make permanent a position-specific examination and selection process for its managerial and supervisory classifications.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2006
AB 2930* (Laird-D) State employees: MOU: State Bargaining Unit 7
Ratifies a recent amendment to an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreed upon between the state and Bargaining Unit 7 (California Union of Safety Employees), and extends the provisions of that MOU one additional year.
Chapter 239, Statutes of 2006
AB 2934 (Koretz-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: state safety members
Includes employees in State Bargaining Units 12 and 13 employed by the Department of Mental Health or Department of Veterans Affairs as state safety members.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2936* (Ridley-Thomas-D) State employees: MOU: State Bargaining Unit 5
Approves the recent memorandum of understanding agreed to by the state and State Bargaining Unit 5, represented exclusively by the California Association of Highway Patrolmen. Grants the Department of Personnel Administration special salary setting authority for certain statutorily exempt employees, appropriates funding to pay for salary increases for excluded employees and excluded state employees of the Judicial Branch, and provides increased mileage reimbursement for various employee groups, as specified.
Chapter 240, Statutes of 2006
AB 2941 (Koretz-D) Public retirement systems: investments: Sudan
Prohibits the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System from investing public employee retirement funds in a company with business operations in Sudan, as specified, and requires the boards of these retirement systems to sell or transfer any investments with these companies and report to the Legislature regarding these investments, as specified.
Chapter 442, Statutes of 2006
AB 2994* (Evans-D) State managerial employees: meet and confer
Extends the meet and confer rights currently provided to state supervisory employees to state managerial employees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3033 (Lieber-D) Public employees' retirement: service credit: firefighters
Allows counties operating a retirement system under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 and local agencies that contract with the California Public Employees' Retirement System for retirement benefits, the option of permitting their firefighter members to receive service credit for prior service performed for another public agency, if the prior service was terminated due to a federal base closure.
Chapter 834, Statutes of 2006
AB 3041 (Pavley-D) Public employees' health benefits: prescription drug plans
Amends the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA) to permit members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System enrolled in specified Medicare Part D programs to remain in PEMHCA for receipt of health care benefits.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2006
ACA 5 (Richman-R) Public retirement systems
Establishes the California Public Employee Defined Contribution Plan. Provides that on and after July 1, 2007, any person hired as a new employee by a public agency may enroll only in a defined contribution plan of a public pension or retirement system, and is prohibited from enrolling in a defined benefit plan, as defined, and limits employer contributions to a defined contribution plan to an unspecified percentage of employer payroll, establishes other parameters for defined contribution plans, and also sets forth related findings of the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
ACA 23 (Richman-R) Public employee retirement plan
Amends the state constitution to establish the California Public Employee Retirement Plan and would require all public employees hired on or after July 1, 2007, to enroll in the defined benefit portion of the plan and would permit voluntary enrollment in the defined contribution portion of the plan.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
ACR 116 (Blakeslee-R) State employee merit awards
Authorizes the payment of State Merit Awards approved by the Department of Personnel Administration to three individuals whose proposals resulted in eliminating or reducing state expenditures or improving state operations.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2006
AB 4X (Torrico-D) Public employees' retirement: employer contribution rates
Requires the establishment of Taxpayer Risk Reduction Accounts in both the Public Employees' Retirement System and in retirement systems established under the County Employees' Retirement Act of 1937 for the purpose of stabilizing public employer contributions to the retirement systems.
(Died in Assembly Ways and Means Committee)
AB 5X (Torrico-D) Public employees' retirement: fraud
Adds a definition of fraud to the Public Employees' Retirement Law, the State Teachers' Retirement Law, and the County Employees' Retirement Act of 1937 and establishes civil and criminal penalties for committing such fraud.
(Died in Assembly Ways and Means Committee)
AB 6X (Evans-D) Public employees' retirement
Makes various changes to the laws governing public employee retirement in an effort to eliminate or reduce pension spiking and disability retirement abuse.
(Died in Assembly Ways and Means Committee)
Other State Government
SB 4 (Murray-D) The California Public Performance Facilities Act
Authorizes the Board of Directors of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to develop and finance public performance facilities by issuing revenue bonds.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
SB 99 (Battin-R) Commission on Asset Review and Divestiture
Establishes the 12-member California Asset Review and Divestiture Commission to biennially review the state's inventory of real property and report to the Legislature and the Department of General Services (DGS) regarding property that should be sold. Requires DGS to begin divestiture 90 days after submission of the report, and states related legislative intent.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 254 (Torlakson-D) State property: vending machines
Requires each vendor that operates or maintains vending machines on designated state property to satisfy a specified phased-in requirement that (1) at least 25 percent of the food and beverages offered in the vending machine meets accepted nutritional guidelines by December 31, 2007, and (2) 50 percent by December 31, 2008, or under specified conditions by December 31, 2010, and also to provide to users, upon request, information about the nutritional value of food and beverages offered in the vending machine and procedures for requesting a change in vending machine offerings.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 276 (Denham-R) State property
Authorizes the sale, lease, or exchange of three state-owned parcels of real property.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 625 (Battin-R) State and local surplus property
Requires the Department of General Services and local government agencies to make an exclusive offer to sell surplus state property to a local government or nonprofit organization engaged in economic development.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 709 (Speier-D) Community colleges: board of governors: Lt. Governor
Adds the Lieutenant Governor to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges as an ex officio, voting member.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 740 (Romero-D) Public agencies
Provides that it is unlawful for specified individuals to use public resources for the creation of a news video release in specified instances.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 834 (Figueroa-D) Department of General Services: information technology
Makes the statutory changes necessary to reflect the Governors Reorganization Plan 2, which became effective July 9, 2005, and creates the Office of Chief Information Officer in state government.
Chapter 533, Statutes of 2006
SB 858* (Kehoe-D) Department of Transportation: surplus property
Requires the Department of Transportation to sell a specified parcel in San Diego County at $750,000 or the department's acquisition cost for the property, whichever is greater.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 898 (Poochigian-R) Weapons in state buildings
Includes the State Capitol and those specified buildings relating to legislative offices, the Governor's offices, and offices of constitutional officers within current law prescribing the crime of possessing an illegal weapon while on state buildings and grounds. Also provides that the crime will be punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail or both.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 900* (Denham-R) Surplus state property: disposition
Repeals various provisions of law related to the management and disposal of state surplus property, and makes permanent certain provisions of law, that are scheduled to sunset on July 1, 2005, related to local governments' first right of refusal of surplus property, and the transfer of such property at less than fair market value under certain circumstances.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1061 (Dutton-R) State property leases
Authorizes the Department of General Services to lease real property for periods exceeding five years.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 1136* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State bonds: financing and hedging contracts
Authorizes the use of hedging contracts, such as interest rate swaps, for state general obligation bonds subject to policies developed by the State Treasurer and approved by the bond committees.
Chapter 640, Statutes of 2006
SB 1141 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Tobacco assets: sales
Authorizes the sale of additional Tobacco Settlement Bonds backed by the state's residual interest in future Tobacco Settlement revenues.
Chapter 641, Statutes of 2006
SB 1202* (Murray-D) State claims
Appropriates $1,085,100 from the General Fund to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to pay two claims accepted by the board.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2006
SB 1244 (Soto-D) National Guard: volunteers: travel and uniform allowance
Authorizes a uniform and travel allowance of $125 annually to volunteer members of the State Military Reserve or Naval Militia and appropriates $75,000 from the General Fund to the Military Department for that purpose.
Chapter 597, Statutes of 2006
SB 1253 (Migden-D) Historic wine
Designates Zinfandel as the historic wine of California and makes various legislative findings and declarations.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1281 (Romero-D) Public contracts
Prohibits a state agency from contracting for the acquisition of goods or services with a contractor who does not have, and adhere to, a written policy of providing its full-time employees with at least five days of regular pay for actual jury service.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1293 (Kuehl-D) State library: access to electronic and online materials
Establishes the Access to Science and Government Efficiency Act of 2006, which requires the State Librarian to purchase access to electronic journals and other online resources that will be available to the State Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Health and Human Services Agency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1345 (Chesbro-D) Public contracts: recycled products: compost
Requires the Department of Transportation to increase its use of compost beginning in 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1452 (Speier-D) State audits
Enacts the Omnibus Audit Accountability Act of 2006, provisions of which affect state audit functions, including state agencies audits, the State Auditor and the State Compensation Insurance Fund.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2006
SB 1536* (Cox-R) State property: City of Folsom
Requires the Director of the Department of General Services to sell, lease, convey, or exchange at fair market value to the City of Folsom specified property located at Folsom State Prison and Folsom Lake State Park upon terms and conditions the Director deems are in the best interests of the state. Requires that in no event may the property bring anything less than fair market value.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2006
SB 1604 (Margett-R) Public contracts: bids and disputes
Makes several minor and technical changes to provisions governing public contracts intended to resolve duplications in the Public Contract Code and the Government Code, and to modernize contracting statutes.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
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 1615 (Simitian-D) State agencies: collection of data
Requires state agencies, boards and commissions that collect demographic data to allow respondents, by January 1, 2014, the option of selecting more than one racial designation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1629* (Speier-D) Public contracts: Federal Laboratory Contracting Act
Enacts the Federal Laboratory Contracting Act, which would permit state agencies entering into a contract with a federally funded Department of Energy or National Aeronautics and Space Administration laboratory to deviate from certain standard state contracting terms.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2006
SB 1650 (Kehoe-D) Eminent domain
Prohibits a public entity from using a property for any use other than the public use stated in its resolution of necessity, unless the entity first adopts a new resolution that finds the public interest and necessity of using the property for a new stated public use. Also requires a public entity to adopt a new resolution finding the continued public interest and necessity of using a property for its original stated public use if the property was not put to use within ten years of adoption of the applicable resolution of necessity. Upon an entity's failure to adopt a new resolution as required, this bill requires the public entity to offer a right of first refusal for the original owner or owners of the property to repurchase the property, under specified conditions.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2006
SB 1752 (Migden-D) Unclaimed property
Deposits revenues derived from unclaimed property in a special fund, rather than the General Fund, beginning January 1, 2007. Makes other conforming changes to the unclaimed property law.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1762 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements
Prohibits the Governor, or any state official, from binding the state, or consenting to the federal government to bind the state, to the provisions of a proposed international trade agreement, as defined, without consent from the Legislature. Defines a "proposed international trade agreement" to mean a trade agreement negotiated, or in the process of being negotiated, between the federal government and a foreign country.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
SB 1807* (Runner-R) California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Authorizes the Director of General Services to sell, lease, exchange, or transfer, upon terms and conditions the Director deems are in the state's best interest, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection fire station located in the Hesperia service area (San Bernardino County).
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1826 (Migden-D) Surplus state property
Authorizes the Department of General Services to sell, lease, or exchange for fair market value, all or any part of a 0.39 acre parcel of state owned property located north of Golden Gate Avenue at Gough and Franklin in the City of San Francisco.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1832 (Kehoe-D) Public records: fee waiver
Provides that a state agency shall not charge a fee for a copy of a public record that it is required to disclose if disclosure of the record is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government and not primarily in the commercial interest of the requester. Requires state agency officials to consider specified information about the requester, the information requested, and the proposed use of the information in order to determine whether a requester is eligible for a fee waiver under these provisions. Requires that any denial of a request for a fee waiver be in writing and set forth the names and titles or positions of each person responsible for the denial.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCA 6 (Cox-R) Gubernatorial succession: Governor's absence from state
Deletes "absence from the state by the Governor" as a basis for the Lieutenant Governor acting as the Governor. Provides that the Lieutenant Governor act as the Governor during the temporary "inability of the Governor to discharge the powers and duties of the office" rather than the temporary "disability" of the Governor. Contains legislative findings and declarations that modern conditions of travel, communication, and technology have eliminated the objections that the drafters of the early Constitution might have had to permitting the Governor to act from outside the state or to permitting postponement of gubernatorial actions until his/her return. Furthermore, it finds most travels by modern Governors are for official state purposes and involve formal meetings with federal officials, other out-of-state officials, or overseas investors when the state is seeking funding or participating in major joint-state or federal projects.
(Failed passage in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
SCA 15 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain: condemnation proceedings
Provides that private property may be taken or damaged only for a stated public use. Requires that the property be owned and occupied by the condemnor, except as specified, and used only for the stated public use. Provides that if the property ceases to be used for the stated public use, the former owner, or a beneficiary or an heir who has been designated for this purpose, would have the right to reacquire the property for its fair market value before the property may be otherwise sold or transferred. Requires a county assessor, upon property being so reacquired, to appraise that property for purposes of property taxation at its adjusted base year value as had been last determined at the time the property was acquired by the condemnor.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCA 17 (Speier-D) State officers: outside income
Amends the California Constitution to prohibit a state officer, as defined, from providing services under contract or otherwise accepting employment, other than performing the duties of his/her state office for compensation or other payment from the state, in exchange for compensation or other valuable consideration to that state officer or to any other party or entity.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCA 20 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain: condemnation proceedings
Provides that private property may be taken or damaged only for a stated public use and not without the consent of the property owner and for purposes of economic development, increasing tax revenue, or any other private use, nor for maintaining the present use by a different owner. Requires that the property be owned and occupied by the condemnor, except as specified, and used only for the stated public use. Provides that if the property ceases to be used for the stated public use, the former owner would have the right to reacquire the property for its fair market value. Requires a county assessor, upon property being so reacquired, to appraise that property for purposes of property taxation at its adjusted base year value as had been last determined at the time the property was acquired by the condemnor. Defines "just compensation" for purposes of condemnation and specify the showing required in an action challenging the validity of a taking.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCA 22 (Murray-D) Amending and revising the California Constitution.
Provides that an amendment or revision of the California Constitution takes effect only if approved by two-thirds of the voters voting on that measure.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
SCA 32 (Maldonado-R) California missions: preservation
Exempts from the state constitutional prohibition of support of religion, church or any religion-controlled institution or activity (the no aid to religion clause), any appropriation, payment, or grant by the state from a public fund or a donation of personal or real property to a nonprofit organization for the preservation of the 21 historic California missions, provided the donation, grant, or payment is made for the benefit of the public and not primarily for sectarian purposes of the religious creed, church, sectarian denomination, or nonprofit organization organized in the state for religious purposes. Further, declares that any appropriation, payment or grant of public funds or property made under this exemption is not the establishment or promotion of any religion or preference of any religion or sectarian purpose or the appearance of establishment, promotion, or preference of that religion or sectarian purpose (the establishment clause and no preference clause). Defines, for purposes of this constitutional amendment, the terms "nonprofit organization" and "preservation," which includes, among others, maintenance, restoration, reconstruction, and seismic retrofitting of any of the 21 historic California missions.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCR 17 (Ducheny-D) Flag of the former Republic of Vietnam: display
Urges that the state formally recognize the flag of the former Republic of Vietnam as a symbol of the Vietnamese-American community in this state, and permits this flag to be displayed on any state-owned property, in conjunction with any state-controlled or sponsored Vietnamese-American event or any public function organized by the Vietnamese-American community in the state, subject to the permit requirements of the event's locality.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SCR 32 (Escutia-D) Cesar Chavez Day
Recognizes March 31 as the anniversary of the birth of Cesar Chavez, and calls upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember Cesar Chavez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SCR 69 (Morrow-R) California Surf Museum
Recognizes the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, California as the official museum of surfing history, art, culture, heritage, and memorabilia for the State of California.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 74 (Alquist-D) Lunar New Year
Requests the Members of the Senate to join Asian and Pacific Islander communities throughout the state in celebrating January 29, 2006, as the beginning of the Lunar New Year 4704 and extends best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous lunar new year to all Californians.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SCR 75 (Alquist-D) Girl Scouts
Commends the Girl Scouts for 94 years of service and for inspiring millions of girls with the highest ideals of confidence, courage, and character.
Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2006
SCR 78 (Alquist-D) Greek Independence Day
Designates March 25, 2006, as Greek Independence Day.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SCR 83 (Alquist-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
Commends Asian and Pacific Islander Americans for their notable accomplishments and outstanding service to the state and recognize May 2006 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.
Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2006
SCR 88 (Battin-R) California Hispanic Heritage Month
Proclaims September 15 to October 15, 2006, inclusive, as California Hispanic Heritage Month and encourages all Californians to observe this event in communities throughout the state.
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2006
SCR 89 (Battin-R) Native Americans: California Indian Heritage Month
Proclaims November 2006 as California Indian Heritage Month, encourages its observance with activities that celebrate our uniqueness as Americans, and commends California Indian nations for their outstanding contributions to this state.
Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2006
SCR 99 (Ortiz-D) Honoring the Sisters of Mercy
Approves the construction of a memorial honoring the Sisters of Mercy in the Capitol Historic Region, as specified, subject to review by the Department of General Services and the State Review Committee, formed pursuant to the measure. Requires the construction of this memorial to be funded privately, and would allow the Sisters of Mercy to design and construct the memorial upon approval, subject to specified conditions.
Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2006
SCR 108 (Morrow-R) The Ten Commandments
Recognizes and acknowledges that the Decalogue, also known as the Ten Commandments, ranks among the influential historical documents that have contributed significantly to the development of the secular governmental and legal principles and institutions of the United States of America and the State of California.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 110 (Torlakson-D) National Library Week
Recognizes the week of April 2, 2006 to April 8, 2006, inclusive, as National Library Week, applauds the positive and vital impact of California's public libraries, librarians, and all library workers, and thanks them.
Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2006
SCR 121 (Alquist-D) Ramadan
Recognizes the contributions of Muslim leaders, organizations, and residents throughout the state during the month of Ramadan.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 125 (Denham-R) National Day of the Cowboy
Recognizes July 22, 2006, as National Day of the Cowboy, and asks that the attention of the public be drawn to the numerous contributions of the cowboy.
Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 2006
SCR 135 (Perata-D) Leo J. Trombatore State Office Building
Designates the Department of Transportation District 3 Office building in Marysville as the Leo J. Trombatore State Office Building.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SR 24 (Alquist-D) The Republic of Cyprus
Commends the people of Cyprus for their continued efforts in search of a just resolution of the Cyprus problem and calls on the President and the Congress of the United States to continue our country's historic support for the reunification of Cyprus, while fully respecting that the government of the Republic of Cyprus is the only legitimate sovereign authority for the entire island of Cyprus.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 31 (Kuehl-D) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month
Proclaims June 2006 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, and urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 35 (Morrow-R) Relative to Robert E. Ham
Congratulates Robert E. Ham on his induction into the Off-Road Motor Sports Hall of Fame, commends him for his exemplary record of civic leadership, and extends its sincere best wishes for his success in the future.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 38 (Tran-R) State boards and commissions: salaries: suspension
Suspends the salaries of members of 13 specified state boards and commissions for the 2006-07 through 2008-09 fiscal years.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 53* (Negrete McLeod-D) Surplus state property
Annual surplus property bill sponsored by the Department of General Services (DGS), which authorizes DGS to sell, exchange or lease, for fair market value, specified properties.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 219 (Nakanishi-R) State agencies: publications
Requires state agencies to provide the California State Library with electronic copies of their publications. Requires the State Library to create a Web site to provide access to electronic copies of these publications.
(Died in Senate 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 252 (Dymally-D) Digital Arts Studio Partnership Program Act
Establishes the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Program Act to create voluntary regional public and private partnerships in digital media arts and telecommunications technology to train youth (aged 13-18) and their mentors.
Vetoed by the Governor
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 Government Modernization, Efficiency and Accountability Committee)
AB 301 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) State property: inventory
Requires the Department of General Services to update, by January 1 of each year, a complete and accurate inventory of all real property held by the state.
(Died in Senate Government Modernization, Efficiency and Accountability Committee)
AB 345 (La Malfa-R) Infrastructure financing
Authorizes state governmental agencies to utilize private sector investment capital to study, design, construct, finance, and operate fee-producing infrastructure facilities.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 487 (Nakanishi-R) State buildings: works of art: financing
Prohibits the expenditure of state funds on works of art in state buildings until the Director of the Department of Finance has notified the State Treasurer and others that the bonds issued pursuant to Proposition 58 of 2004, the Economic Recovery Bond Act, have been paid or retired. Prohibits any allocation of funds for works of art in state buildings unless funding is available.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media Committee)
AB 534 (Montanez-D) Public officials: financial duties
Specifies, among other things, that any person currently required to be named under a financial disclosure statement as providing $10,000 in income, directly or otherwise, to a business entity in which the public official has a specified interest, is a source of income for purposes of the provisions that forbid a public official to make, participate in making, or in any way attempt to use his/her official position to influence a governmental decision in which he/she knows or has reason to know he/she has a financial interest.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 546 (Garcia-R) State computers: prohibited use: obscene matter
Makes it unlawful for any person to use a state-owned or state-leased computer to access, view, download, or otherwise obtain obscene matter, as defined, except for use consistent with legitimate law enforcement needs.
Chapter 848, Statutes of 2006
AB 590 (Walters-R) Eminent domain: private property
Provides that the exercise of eminent domain, may not be used for the taking or damaging of property for private use, including but not limited to, the condemnation of property for economic development.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 616 (Vargas-D) Public buildings: smoking areas
Prohibits smoking in an outdoor area enclosed on at least four sides by a state public building(s). Excludes from this prohibition an outdoor area enclosed on at least four sides by a building(s) on a campus of the California State University or a campus of the University of California.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 655 (Leno-D) Admissions surcharge: California Arts Council
Establishes a one percent surcharge on the price of admission to specified arts and entertainment venues.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media Committee)
AB 701 (Nava-D) State buildings: energy and design criteria
Requires all state buildings on which construction or renovation is begun on or after January 1, 2006, to obtain a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum rating, as developed by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), no later than January 1, 2015. A minimum score, as set forth in "Version 2.1" of LEED that USGBC published in March of 2003, shall determine compliance with this bill.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 725 (Canciamilla-D) Appropriations
Establishes requirements for monitoring the expenditure of General Fund grants awarded through the annual Budget Act or in legislation enacted within 20 days of the Budget Act, when the grants are not allocated through an existing program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 836 (Huff-R) State agency budgets: zero-based budgeting
Requires every state agency and court to utilize a zero-based budget method.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)
AB 910 (Mullin-D) Life sciences: ombudsman
Establishes the Life Sciences Ombudsman Program in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. Assigns the Ombudsman certain tasks, including working with the life sciences industry and other state agencies to identify existing programs that support the life sciences industry, serving as a resource to new and expanding life sciences companies, identifying incentives provided by the state for life science companies to operate in California, and identifying existing community college-based programs for training laboratory technicians. Sunsets January 1, 2011.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 945 (Koretz-D) Public contracts: prospective bidders
Requires a prospective bidder on a state contract for construction, repair, or other specified services and supplies to certify the number of times, if any, the bidder has violated federal, state, or environmental laws in the previous 10 years. A prospective bidder must include specified information in the certification and, if the bidder lists three or more violations, shall be disqualified from bidding on any state contract for a period of three years.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 997 (Cogdill-R) State regulatory agencies: fee notification
Requires that whenever a state regulatory agency or department imposes a new fee or increases an existing fee charged to a county, it shall notify the affected counties by June 30 of each year, or within 30 days of the enactment of the State Budget, in which the fee is imposed or increased.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1035 (Spitzer-R) Public officials: home information
Adds to the protections already provided in existing law that prohibit the Internet posting of an elected or appointed official's home addresses or telephone numbers.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1172* (Chu-D) Claims against the state: appropriation
Appropriates $950,000 from the General Fund to the Attorney General, and $880,000 from the General Fund to the California Department of Veteran's Affairs, for payment of specified claims.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2006
AB 1174 (Tran-R) State agencies: administrative hearings: reporting
Provides that, at the discretion of a state agency conducting a hearing, the proceedings may be reported either by a stenographic reporter or electronically. Requires that when proceedings are to be reported electronically, the notice of hearing shall state that proceedings will be reported electronically unless the respondent objects in writing within 15 days, in which case the proceedings shall be required to be reported by a stenographic reporter.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1210 (Levine-D) State Capitol Historic Region: genocide memorial
Establishes the International Genocide Memorial Commission to oversee the construction of a memorial to California's genocide survivors on the grounds of the State Capitol.
Chapter 849, Statutes of 2006
AB 1302 (Jerome Horton-D) Office of Administrative Law: regulations
Amends the statutes governing emergency regulations, specifically, regulations adopted pursuant to Section 5058.3(a)(2) of the Penal Code, which may be adopted without following standard notice-and-comment rulemaking procedures, by imposing new limitations on the adoption process and allowing increased public notice and participation.
Chapter 713, Statutes of 2006
AB 1337 (Ruskin-D) Environment: state buildings: green building standards
Enacts the Green Building Act of 2006 to establish green building standards for the construction and renovation of state buildings.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1388 (Ridley-Thomas-D) California Teleconnect Fund Administration Committee Fund
Permits the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to establish two specific grant programs to provide advanced telecommunications network services to community technology programs and public libraries that deliver education services to pupils and health care facilities. Permits any funds repaid to the California Teleconnect Fund from the General Fund to be used by the PUC for these programs.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1433 (Emmerson-R) Pupil health: oral health assessment
Requires a pupil attending a public school while in kindergarten or first grade to present proof by May 31st of each year of having received an oral health assessment by a licensed dentist or other licensed or registered dental health professional no earlier than 12 months prior to the date of the initial enrollment Requires public schools to send a notification of the assessment requirement to the parent or guardian of the pupil, and to send a report to the public health department of the county in which the school is located.
Chapter 413, Statutes of 2006
AB 1457* (Baca-D) State property: City of San Bernardino
Authorizes the City of San Bernardino to transfer Seccombe Lake Park to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Bernardino in exchange for replacement park land within reasonable proximity of Seccombe Lake Park.
Chapter 852, Statutes of 2006
AB 1473 (Coto-D) State government: property management
Additionally authorizes the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Department of General Services to establish rules and regulations for the administration of any real property purchased or acquired and for equipping or making improvements on those buildings and properties.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1520 (Niello-R) Public works contracts: infrastructure projects
Authorizes state governmental agencies to utilize private sector investment capital to study, design, construct, finance, and operate fee-producing infrastructure facilities, as specified. Requires state governmental agencies to utilize a competitive negotiation process when soliciting proposals and entering into agreements with private entities pursuant to the provisions of this bill. Provides that the infrastructure developed by a private entity may be owned by a governmental agency, and the agreement with the private entity shall provide for the lease of the facilities to, or ownership by, the private entity for a term up to 35 years.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1530 (La Malfa-R) Public funds: membership dues
Expressly prohibits the state or any political subdivision from paying membership dues to any organization, trade association, or other entity that expends money for any political campaign, including any election matter involving a candidate or ballot initiative.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Reapportionment Committee)
AB 1564 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Citizen Complaint Act of 1997: Internet web sites
Deletes the reference to the Department of Information Technology in the Citizen Complaint Act of 1997, and instead refers to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
(Died in Senate Government Modernization, Efficiency and Accountability Committee)
AB 1582* (Dymally-D) Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program
Allows a tax credit under the Corporation Tax Law in an amount equal to an unspecified percentage of the amount contributed, paid, or incurred by taxpayers for support of the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1588 (Negrete McLeod-D) Professional licensing boards: review and repeals
Requires each state entity subject to sunset review by the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection to demonstrate to the committee that its licensing and enforcement of licensing standards are the least restrictive, consistent with the purpose of protecting public health and safety.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 1617 (Liu-D) Surplus residential property
Gives new priority for the purchase of surplus residential property along the 710 Freeway corridor to long-term existing occupants, even if they do not meet income eligibility criteria in current law, and to local governments for use as affordable housing. Makes a number of changes to surplus land law for the 710 Freeway.
(Failed passage in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1654 (De La Torre-D) Public contracts: bid preferences
Requires, as of January 1, 2007, that a five percent bid preference be provided on state contracts for goods and services to contractors who substantiate that 90 percent of their employees performing work on a contract are residents of California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1775* (Canciamilla-D) Public records: infrastructure security
Exempts a document prepared by a private entity relating to protecting critical infrastructure that, at the discretion of the private entity, is provided to a state or local agency, and the disclosure of which is likely to jeopardize public safety, including blueprints, plans, policies, procedures, and schematic drawings that relate to internal layout and structural elements, security measures, security systems, emergency preparedness, and threat or vulnerability assessments and various records relating to public security and safety. Also states findings and declarations of the Legislature for limiting the public's right of access to specified documents and records relating to economic infrastructure.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
AB 1784* (Chu-D) State claims
Appropriates $6,555,200 from the General Fund to pay for nine settlements approved by the Department of Justice and the Department of Finance.
Chapter 163, Statutes of 2006
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) General government
Implements the general government portion of the 2006 State Budget which, among other provisions, enables the Director of the Department of General Services to exercise the option to purchase on an existing lease-purchase agreement for the Board of Equalization building at 450 N Street in Sacramento. Additional provisions relates to the Office of State Publishing and clarifies End-of-Year transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1811* (Laird-D) General government: budget trailer bill
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 2006 to which, among other provisions, appropriates $109 million for 2006-07 non-education mandates, $87 million for 2007-08 mandate pre-payment of 15-year debt,$260 million for remainder of Governor's proposed Proposition 42 loan prepayment, $495 million for remainder of interest-bearing Proposition 42 loans, and $32 million for 2007-08 General Obligation bond payments.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006
AB 1812* (Assembly Budget Committee) Property acquisition: budget trailer bill
Makes necessary technical changes to the Budget Act of 2006 which were inadvertently omitted in the Budget, adding language requiring the State Controller to transfer $12 million from the Property Acquisition Law Money Account to the General Fund or before October 1, 2006.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 2006
AB 1831* (Jones-D) California Critical Infrastructure Facilities Bond Acts
Enacts the California Critical Infrastructure Facilities Bond Act of 2006, which, if adopted, authorizes, for purposes of financing the acquisition, construction, or renovation of state trial court facilities, state park system capital assets, mental health hospitals, and certain other state facilities, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $1,227,000,000. Provides for submission of the bond act to the voters at an unspecified election.
Also enacts the California Critical Infrastructure Facilities Bond Act of 2010, which, if adopted, authorizes, for purposes of financing capital outlay related to the acquisition, design, construction, or renovation of trial court facilities, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds, in the amount of $1,000,000,000. Provides for submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 7, 2010, general election.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AB 1843 (Leslie-R) The California State Military Museum and Resource Center
Increases the annual statutory General Fund appropriation, from $100,000 to $250,000, for operation by a non-profit foundation of the California State Military Museum and Resource Center, and makes it a continuous appropriation. Requires the Adjutant General and the museum foundation to enter into an operating agreement prior to allocation of these funds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1860 (Blakeslee-R) State property: public contracts
Authorizes an alternative procurement financing mechanism administered by the Department of General Services (DGS) and authorizes the Director of DGS to exchange state real estate with the City of Santa Maria.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1866 (Karnette-D) Recycling: polystyrene: state facilities
Prohibits a state facility from selling, possessing, or distributing an expanded polystyrene food container on and after January 1, 2008. Directs a state agency to require each prospective bidder, on and after January 1, 2008, to certify that it, its agents, subsidiaries, partners, joint venturers, and subcontractors for procurement, will not sell, possess, or distribute an expanded polystyrene food container at a state facility. Provides that the requirement regarding food containers applies to the campuses of the University of California (UC) only upon the approval of the Board of Regents of the UC. Exempts prisons and state mental health facilities if the Director of the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, or the Director of the Department of Mental Health, determines that the use of expanded polystyrene food containers is the only viable alternative that will not pose a danger for persons in those facilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1889 (Nava-D) California Emergency Council
Requires the membership of the California Emergency Council to include a representative of a local public health agency, to be appointed by the Governor. Requires the Council to have two advisory committees with specified memberships and duties, and includes the encouragement of certain community, business, and school preparedness efforts and the publication of a biennial report on emergency preparedness, among the Council's duties. Makes other related changes.
Chapter 502, Statutes of 2006
AB 1905 (Villines-R) Disabled Veterans Business Enterprises
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 percent disabled veteran ownership.
(Failed passage in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)
AB 1921* (Chu-D) State claims
Appropriates $5,172,769.66 from various funds to the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to pay claims accepted by the board. Also appropriates $1,841,000 from the General Fund to the board to pay claims resulting from county special election costs and $704,700 to pay an erroneous conviction claim accepted by the board.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2006
AB 1933 (Coto-D) State government: tax expenditure measures and reports
Requires the Department of Finance (DOF) to Review all expenditures that exceed $1,000,000. Tax expenditures are defined to mean a credit, deduction, exclusion, exemption, or any other tax benefit provided by state law. Requires DOF to review 10 percent of the tax expenditures each year for the next ten years. Specifies that the review shall include an estimate of the revenue losses attributable to each tax expenditure, an evaluation of the benefits attributable relative to the revenue losses, and a recommendation to the Legislature as to whether to modify or repeal each tax expenditure. DOF must report to the Legislature annually regarding their review.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1958 (Leslie-R) Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Establishes the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives within the Office of the Governor and requires the office to serve as a clearinghouse of information on federal, state, and local funding for charitable services performed by charitable organizations, encourage those organizations to seek public funding for their charitable services, act as a liaison between state agencies and those organizations, and advise the Governor, Legislature, and the advisory board of the office on the barriers to collaboration between those organizations and governmental entities and on ways to remove the barriers. Creates the Advisory Board of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, to be appointed as specified, and requires it to provide direction, guidance, and oversight to the office and publish a report of its activities on or before the first day of August of each year.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2016 (Haynes-R) Governmental reorganization: tax functions
Transfers the duties and powers of the Franchise Tax Board and the tax-related functions of the Employment Development Department to the Board of Equalization. These provisions become operative January 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2048 (Oropeza-D) Display of flags
Revises provisions of existing law which prescribes the locations and the manner in which the United States flag and the California flag shall be displayed. Makes other technical and clarifying changes.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2098 (Liu-D) Electronic Fund Transfer Task Force
Establishes the Electronic Funds Transfer Task Force for the purpose of developing a plan to implement a new electronic payment dispersal system.
Chapter 818, Statutes of 2006
AB 2124 (Umberg-D) Active militia: drilling: election day
Provides that the active militia shall not be ordered to parade or drill in time of peace on any established election day, as specified.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)
AB 2160 (Lieu-D) State buildings: green building
Requires the state to identify and develop appropriate financing and project delivery mechanisms to facilitate state and private sector commercial building projects that are energy and resource efficient.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2006
AB 2176 (Niello-R) State mandates
Requires the Legislature to specify upon whom a charge, fee, or assessment may be levied for any statute that includes the "local fee authority" disclaimer, identifying a non-reimbursable mandate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2224 (Houston-R) Statewide critical incident planning and mapping system
Requires the California Office of Homeland Security, to the extent funding is available, to establish a statewide critical incident planning and mapping system for public buildings in the state for use by emergency response agencies. Also provides local agencies the option of participating.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2264 (Pavley-D) Purchases: vehicles: state fleet
Requires the Department of General Services (DGS), in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to establish a minimum fuel economy standard for the purchase of all state fleet vehicles powered by internal combustion engines utilizing fossil fuels, and mandates DGS and any other state entity to purchase new state passenger and light duty vehicles in accordance with that minimum fuel economy standard.
Chapter 767, Statutes of 2006
AB 2328 (Haynes-R) Agency fiscal reports
Requires state agencies, boards, commissions, departments, and offices to prepare reports for the Legislature by January 15, 2007, and each year thereafter, that provide details on their financial activities, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2372 (Pavley-D) Public projects: sanction for noncompliance
Grants the California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Commission the authority to sanction public entities that repeatedly violate provisions of the California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act.
Chapter 192, Statutes of 2006
AB 2404 (Klehs-D) State government: reports: declarations
Requires every written state agency report to the Legislature, and specified reports submitted to the State Controller by local governments, to include a signed statement by the head of the agency that the contents of the report are true, accurate, and complete, to the best of his or her knowledge.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2420 (Lieu-D) State government: collection of demographic data
Expands from 11 to 23 the ancestry or ethnic origin collection categories required to be collected by any state agency, board, commission, California Community Colleges, or the California State University. This bill requires separate collection categories and tabulations for Bangladeshi, Fijian, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, Tongan, other Asian, and other Pacific Islander. Requires these public entities to collect, tabulate, report, and make available to the public data collected on the groups. Also requires them to update forms, information systems, or data collection procedures to reflect additional Asian and Pacific Islander groups as they are reported in the US Census. Requires these entities to comply with its provisions by July 1, 2008.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2428 (Canciamilla-D) Public meetings
Authorizes a state body subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act and a local body subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act to require that a speaker addressing the body who claims to represent a group disclose the number of members in the group, the top three sources of funding for the group, and the location of the group's headquarters or where the group is based. Requires any person who appears before a house of the Legislature or any committee thereof who claims to represent a group to make the same disclosures.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AB 2499 (Ruskin-D) Emergencies: State Computer Emergency Data Exchange Program
Revises existing provisions of law relative to establishment of the State Computer Emergency Data Exchange Program by the Governors Office of Emergency Services.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2505 (Nunez-D) California Information Security Response Team
Creates the California Information Security Response Team consisting of specified state government officials for the purpose of centralizing the state response to information security breaches and computer-related crimes.
(Died in the Senate Inactive File)
AB 2525 (Emmerson-R) Capitol Historic Region: memorial
Authorizes the construction of a memorial honoring search and rescue volunteers dying in the line of duty in California.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2541 (Matthews-D) Claims against the state
Requires a state agency that awards a grant, as defined, to make payment to the person or business that is the recipient of the grant on the date required by the grant, and within 45 days of the state agency's receipt of an undisputed invoice, or be subject to a late payment penalty. Makes other conforming changes.
Chapter 861, Statutes of 2006
AB 2543* (Bermudez-D) Board of Directors of Cal Expo and the State Fair
Authorizes the California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) authority to appoint civil service personnel according to state civil service procedures, authorizes the appointment of certified probation officers, as specified, and makes specified changes to the Cal Expo board of directors and their annual report.
Chapter 825, Statutes of 2006
AB 2561* (Jerome Horton-D) State contracts: information technology goods and services
Deletes an existing mandate in the Public Contract Code that requires information technology contracts that contain progress payments to include a fixed performance bond in the amount of 50 percent of the total contract value and instead, grants the Department of General Services the discretion to require a performance bond and any other contractual tool.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2578 (Frommer-D) California Hope Endowment and California Hope Public Trust
Requires the Department of General Services to transfer specified state lands to the California Hope Public Trust, which this bill creates with specified appointees of the Governor, State Treasurer, and State Controller, for the purposes of managing state properties for the benefit of public colleges and universities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2591 (Keene-R) State agencies: accounts: reports
Requires the Department of Finance to collect data on uncollected debt from specified state agencies and submit this information to the Legislature in an annual report.
Chapter 506, Statutes of 2006
AB 2620 (Umberg-D) Military Department: Office of Inspector General
Establishes the Office of the Inspector General for the Military Department. Requires the Governor to appoint the Inspector General, and specify that the Inspector General is independent of the chain of command of the Military Department and serves at the discretion of the Governor. Requires the Inspector General to investigate complaints and allegations of wrongdoing by military personnel and requires the Inspector General to establish a toll-free public telephone number to receive these complaints and allegations. Also requires that disciplinary action be brought against a state officer or employee who intentionally retaliates against a person who makes a complaint or allegation of wrongdoing to the Inspector General, and specifies that these officers and employees may be liable for civil damages for these same actions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2652 (Laird-D) Commission on State Mandates: claim reductions
Establishes procedures for consolidating incorrect reduction claims (IRCs) filed with the Commission on State Mandates (CSM). Authorizes a local government to file a consolidated IRC on behalf of multiple claimants challenging reductions to claims for the same mandate under specified circumstances, and requires the CSM to provide reports to the Legislature.
Chapter 168, Statutes of 2006
AB 2687 (De La Torre-D) Public events
Forbids the selective exclusion of persons from events staffed by public employees or paid for with public funds, except for specified persons.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2704 (Leslie-R) Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Establishes a new office within the Governor's Office, to be managed by the executive assistant appointed by the governor. Requires the office to serve as a clearinghouse, encourage faith-based and other non-profit organizations providing charitable services to seek public funding, and act as a liaison between state agencies and these organizations. Establishes an advisory board, with specified membership, to provide direction and oversight to the Office and publish an annual report its activities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2715* (Sharon Runner-R) Government
Authorizes the electronic transmission, filing, recording, and indexing of notices of state tax liens, and expand the right of independent legal counsel for sheriffs and assessors.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2006
AB 2721 (Mullin-D) Office of Intellectual Property
Establishes an "Office of Intellectual Property" in state government for purposes of tracking intellectual property generated by state employees and state-funded research and with responsibility for developing guidelines and principles for use by state agencies in administering their intellectual property.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2927 (Leno-D) Public records
Establishes a procedure for seeking review by the Attorney General when a public agency denies or fails to timely grant a written request for a record under the Public Records Act (PRA). Permits, in situations where a plaintiff has successfully sued for enforcement of the PRA, a court award to a plaintiff of up to $100 for each day that the plaintiff was not permitted to access the public record, up to a total of $10,000, if the court finds the agency took the following actions in bad faith or with the knowledge that the requested record was not exempt from disclosure under the PRA. Also places new Internet posting requirements on state agencies that have Internet Web sites, effective January 1, 2008. Requires the Department of Justice to convene an advisory task force with a specified membership, to consider specified issues with respect to a statutory standard governing the posting of certain activities under the act, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature no later than September 30, 2007.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2941 (Koretz-D) Public retirement systems: investments: Sudan
Prohibits the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System or the Teachers' Retirement Board of the State Teachers' Retirement System from investing public employee retirement funds in a company with "active business operations" in Sudan if the company has either (1) engaged in activities related to oil, energy, or power without taking "substantial action" against the government of Sudan, or (2) demonstrated complicity with the Darfur genocide. Also prohibits the board from investing in a company that supplies military equipment within the borders of Sudan.
Chapter 442, Statutes of 2006
AB 2980 (Nunez-D) State government: operations: mediation program
Requires the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) to maintain a mediation program to provide an efficient and expeditious resolution of complaints received by DFEH.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
ACA 33 (Canciamilla-D) Secretary of State
Provides that the Secretary of State is a nonpartisan office.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
ACR 28 (Coto-D) Read Across America Day
Designates March 2, 2005, as Read Across America Day. Endorses the national "Read Across America" celebration and recommits California to programs and activities that help to develop reading skills.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
ACR 79 (Aghazarian-R) Fee Payers Bill of Rights
States that a bill that would impose, increase, or extend the duration of an existing fee, or authorize the imposition of a new fee should, among other things, be approved by a 2/3 vote of the entire membership of each of the 2 houses of the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 96 (Saldana-D) Tall Ships Festival 2008
Congratulates the host ports and related nonprofit organizers for their efforts relative to hosting the Tall Ships Festival 2008. Invites the tall ships of the world to the event, and to continue to visit California.
Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2006
ACR 98 (Shirley Horton-R) Language and cultural education
Proclaims May 2006 as World Languages and Cultures Month, encourages all educational communities in California to celebrate languages and cultures with meaningful pupil activities and programs, and urges all residents to become interested in and give full support to quality language and cultural programs for all pupils in California schools.
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2006
ACR 100 (Cohn-D) California Holocaust Memorial Week
Proclaims the time period of April 24 through April 30, 2006, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and urges Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006
ACR 101 (Nakanishi-R) Day of Remembrance
Declares February 19, 2006, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2006
ACR 102 (Oropeza-D) California Girls and Women in Sports Day
Commemorates the accomplishments of female athletes, coaches, officials, and sports administrators for their important contributions in promoting the value of sports participation in the achievement of full human potential, and proclaims February 1, 2006, as California Girls and Women in Sports Day.
Resolution Chapter 8, Statutes of 2006
ACR 103 (Nakanishi-R) Korean-American Day
Proclaims January 13, 2006, as Korean-American Day.
Resolution Chapter 7, Statutes of 2006
ACR 110 (Mountjoy-R) Presidents' Day
Declares February 20, 2006, as Presidents' Day, and calls upon all Californians to remember and honor all the men who have served as President of the United States.
Resolution Chapter 12, Statutes of 2006
ACR 115 (Coto-D) Cesar Chavez Day.
Recognizes March 31, 2006, as the anniversary of the birth of Cesar Chavez, and calls upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember Cesar Chavez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.
Resolution Chapter 14, Statutes of 2006
ACR 119 (Laird-D) Year of the California Museum
Proclaims 2006 as the Year of the California Museum.
Resolution Chapter 21, Statutes of 2006
ACR 127 (Liu-D) Women's History Month
Declares that the Legislature joins the California Commission on the Status of Women and the National Women's History Project in honoring the contributions of women, and proclaims the month of March 2006 as Women's History Month.
Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 2006
ACR 129 (Baca-D) State buildings: Rosa Parks Memorial Building
Requests that the Department of General Services change the name of the State Government Center Building located at 464 West 4th Street in San Bernardino to the Rosa Parks Memorial Building.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2006
A similar resolution was ACR 107 (Baca-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.
ACR 131 (Harman-R) Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum
Recognizes the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum as the official surfing museum of the state.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 139 (Emmerson-R) NASCAR Day
Expresses the Legislature's declaration of May 19, 2006, as NASCAR Day for the State of California, and encourage fans to wear their NASCAR Day lapel pins to show their support.
Resolution Chapter 53, Statutes of 2006
ACR 140 (La Suer-R) State Air and Space Museum and Education Center
Designates the San Diego Air and Space Museum as the state's official Air and Space Museum and Education Center.
Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2006
ACR 143 (La Malfa-R) Dale Earnhardt Day
Expresses the Legislature's declaration of April 29 of this year, and every year thereafter, as Dale Earnhardt Day for the State of California, and encourages all citizens to remember Dale Earnhardt for his passion for racing, his devotion to his family and fans, and his countless contributions to the racing industry throughout the United States.
Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2006
ACR 146 (Niello-R) California Building Safety Week
Declares May 7-13, 2006, as California Building Safety Week and urges all Californians to participate in California Building Safety Week activities to help promote building safety, to create awareness about construction and building codes, and to spotlight the role of code officials.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2006
ACR 147 (Torrico-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
Recognizes May 2006 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.
Resolution Chapter 58, Statutes of 2006
ACR 153 (Evans-D) Paris Wine Tasting Anniversary
Proclaims May 24, 2006, the 30th anniversary of the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, which revolutionized California's wine industry.
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2006
ACR 155 (Cogdill-R) Eagle Scouts
Recognizes the efforts of Boy Scouts who earn the rank of Eagle Scout.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
ACR 168 (Negrete McLeod-D) Firefighters Memorial Day
Expresses the Legislature's declaration of October 14, 2006, as Firefighters Memorial Day for the State of California, and urges all Californians to remember the firefighters who have given their lives in the line of duty and express appreciation to those who everyday continue to protect our families, hopes, and dreams.
Resolution Chapter 149, Statutes of 2006
HR 25 (Nakanishi-R) Lunar New Year Celebration
States that the Members of the State Assembly join Asian and Pacific Islander communities throughout the state in celebrating January 29, 2006, as the beginning of the Lunar New Year 4703 and extends best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous lunar new year to all Californians.
Adopted by the Assembly
HR 35 (Garcia-R) Relative to Robert E. Ham
States that the Legislature congratulates Robert E. Ham on his induction into the Off-Road Motor Sports Hall of Fame, commends him for his exemplary record of civic leadership, and extends its sincere best wishes for his success in the future.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
HR 36 (Richman-R) Relative to Pluto's planetary status
States that the State Assembly condemns the International Astronomical Union's decision to strip Pluto of its planetary status for its tremendous impact on the people of California and the state's long term fiscal health.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Local Government
SB 53 (Kehoe-D) Redevelopment
Requires a redevelopment agency to place a description of the agency's program for acquiring the real property by eminent domain in its redevelopment plan and prohibits a redevelopment agency form amending its plan to extend the timeline to use blight unless the redevelopment agency can make a new finding of blight.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2006
Similar bills were SB 1206 (Kehoe-D), Chapter 595, Statutes of 2006; SB 1210 (Torlakson-D), Chapter 594, Statutes of 2006; and AB 782 (Mullin-D), Chapter 113, Statutes of 2006.
SB 92 (Dunn-D) Orange County Sanitation District design-build contracts
Authorizes the Orange County Sanitation District to enter into design-build contracts in excess of $10 million according to specified procedures.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 93 (Florez-D) Local government finance: Tulare County
Reduces the amount of interest owed by Tulare County on the amount of fees, fines, forfeitures, and penalties it failed to remit to the Trial Court Improvement Fund for fiscal years 1996-1997 to 1999-2000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 103 (Ducheny-D) San Diego Health Care Connection Demonstration Project
Establishes, until January 1, 2013, the San Diego Health Care Connection Demonstration Project. Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to contract with San Diegans for Healthcare Coverage, Inc., a private nonprofit corporation, to operate the project to assist employers in San Diego County to provide health care coverage to employees with full-time employment
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 149 (Speier-D) Broadmoor Police Protection District's Property Tax Shift
Beginning in 2006-07, exempts the Broadmoor Police Protection District from the 1992-93 and 1993-94 property tax shifts. Requires that any increase in property tax revenue allocated to the District supplement, not supplant, the District's budget. Requires this exemption not result in a reduction in the allocation of property tax revenues to any other local agency in San Mateo County.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 196 (Maldonado-R) County assessor employees: annual evaluation
Allows county assessors to evaluate their employees' performance. Requires each county assessor to determine the scope and manner of the performance evaluations, but requires that the evaluations include the quality and quantity of the employee's work. Requires that performance evaluations be considered for employees' disciplinary, transfer, or promotion purposes.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 221 (Runner-R) Data analysis: Antelope Valley
Makes the collection and reporting of statistical data for the Antelope Valley, by the Employment Development Department (EDD) and the Department of Finance, contingent on such data being available from federal, state, or local sources or being provided by Kern and Los Angeles Counties.
Chapter 173, Statutes of 2006
SB 230* (Figueroa-D) Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program
Eliminates the July 1, 2006 sunset of the Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program of Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2006
SB 286 (Lowenthal-D) Housing
Makes a number of technical, non-controversial changes to laws relating to housing relating to general plans of local government.
Chapter 890, Statutes of 2006
SB 308 (Simitian-D) Recording fees: elder and dependent adult financial abuse
Authorizes, upon adoption of a resolution, a county board of supervisors to impose a fee of up to $2 to be paid at the time of recording of real estate instruments, to be placed in the Elder and Dependent Adult Financial Abuse Prevention Trust Fund and expended to fund programs to deter, investigate, and civilly prosecute the financial abuse of elders and dependent adults in the context of real estate transactions.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 321 (Morrow-R) Developer fees
Amends the Mitigation Fee Act by assigning local agencies the burden of producing evidence to establish that a mitigation fee does not exceed the cost of the public facility, service, or regulatory activity before they establish, increase, or impose the fee. Declares that this burden does not apply when school districts impose school developer fees.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 328 (Cedillo-D) Public Safety Officers Procedural Bills of Rights
Requires the Commission on State Mandates to adopt a "reasonable imbursement methodology" for the payment of claims filed by a local agency for costs incurred under the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 350 (Machado-D) San Joaquin River restoration and water management
Requires and appropriates bond funds for a San Joaquin River study and establishes a grant program to accomplish river restoration and water supply management improvements.
(Died in Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 393 (Ortiz-D) Special districts
Requires ethics training for special districts' board members and managers, and increases districts' auditing and whistle-blower protection requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Suspense Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1234 (Salinas), Chapter 700, Statutes of 2005.
SB 432 (Alquist-D) County fees
Commencing January 1, 2008, increases sheriffs fees for service of earnings withholding orders and superior court summons and complaint by $5 to account for the higher cost to perform these actions.
Chapter 365, Statutes of 2006
SB 458 (Speier-D) Health care: county organized health systems
Permits county operated health systems (COHS) to offer coverage to public agencies, private businesses, and others in the COHS' county of origin, another county, or both.
Chapter 906, Statutes of 2006
SB 475 (Runner-R) Drinking water: residential self-regenerating water softener
Establishes a process by which the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District, upon voter approval of an ordinance adopted by the district board to do so, may require the removal of all residential water softening or conditioning appliances that discharge to the public sewer system, in an effort to reduce the volume of chloride discharged to the Santa Clara River.
Chapter 393, Statutes of 2006
SB 483 (Cedillo-D) Special districts
Authorizes reimbursement disclosures by special districts to be made by posting the information on the special district's public web site.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 486 (Migden-D) Local government finance
States that money from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) for special education programs shall not be counted as an offset for the state aid for licensed care institutions. Prohibits a county superintendent of schools from allocating excess ERAF moneys to a licensed children's institution. Declares that its provisions are clarifications of existing law.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 490 (Lowenthal-D) Local government finance
Prohibits, on or after January 1, 2007, an Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) from selling or transferring, and a joint powers authority (JPA) from obtaining, delinquent property tax revenues from a county ERAF.
Chapter 366, Statutes of 2006
SB 506 (Poochigian-R) Public officials
Provides confidentiality of voter registration information to public safety officials, state and federal judges, and court commissioners. Allows a local elections official in his/her discretion to extend confidentiality of voter registration information to specified public safety officials.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2006
SB 521 (Torlakson-D) Recording fees: Contra Costa County
Allows Contra Costa County to increase real estate document recording fees to fund affordable housing development.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 524 (Torlakson-D) Retirement: Contra Costa County
Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, by resolution, to provide different retirement benefits for different bargaining units of safety employees, as specified.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2006
SB 535 (Runner-R) Design-build contracts: City of Victorville.
Allows the City of Victorville to use the design-build contracting method for the construction of buildings until January 1, 2011.
Chapter 244, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was SB 1316 (Runner) which died in Senate Local Government Committee.
SB 596 (Bowen-D) Municipal elections: voting methods
Permits any city, county, or district to conduct a local election using a preference voting method to elect a single candidate to office or for an election to elect two or more candidates to office. A voting method authorized by this bill could be enacted either by ordinance or a measure placed on the ballot by the governing body or through the initiative process.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
SB 725 (Morrow-R) Land use regulation: compensation
Provides that if a state or local public entity enacts or enforces a new land use regulation that restricts the use of private property or any interest therein and has the effect of reducing the fair market value of the property or interest by 25 percent, then the owner of the property or interest shall be paid just compensation, as specified, except with respect to certain land use regulations. By requiring a new program of local public entities, the bill imposes a state-mandated local program.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 732 (Ashburn-R) Local government finance: enterprise special districts
Limits the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund shift for the 2005-06 fiscal year 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.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 843 (Dunn-D) General plans: housing elements
Requires a court, on a finding by the Department of Housing and Community Development that there is not substantial compliance with that law, to levy a fine and award attorney fees as specified. Requires the State Controller to levy a fine of $5,000 per month or $0.25 per month per person in the jurisdiction, whichever is greater and subject to specified limits, upon a city, county, or city and county if specified conditions are met. Provides that all fines shall accrue to the Housing Supply Account, which the bill creates in the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund, and that no money in that account shall be expended except upon appropriation by the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 900* (Denham-R) Surplus state property: disposition
Repeals various provisions of law related to the management and disposal of state surplus property, and makes permanent certain provisions of law, that are scheduled to sunset on July 1, 2005, related to local governments' first right of refusal of surplus property, and the transfer of such property at less than fair market value under certain circumstances.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 927 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: congestion relief: security enhancement: regulatory
Imposes a fee on containers that are discharged at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in order to fund rail system improvements, pollution mitigation measures, and port security enhancements.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 968 (Torlakson-D) Domestic violence: Contra Costa County
Deletes the January 1, 2007 sunset for the fee increase for certified copies of specified documents and increases that fee in order to fund domestic violence prevention efforts in Contra Costa County.
Chapter 635, Statutes of 2006
SB 983 (Lowenthal-D) Subdivision Map Act
Requires local agencies to review lot line adjustments for conformity with any existing specific plans, and raises the maximum penalties a subdivider of a condominium conversion who fails to give proper notice must pay to prospective tenants.
Chapter 636, Statutes of 2006
SB 1010 (Florez-D) Rail service: City of Shafter
Authorizes the City of Shafter to assign the functions of an intermodal rail facility to an intermodal rail commission, a legislative body, or any combination, to serve as an advisory body in all maters pertaining to the California Integrated Logistics Center or other intermodal rail facility operated by the city.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1026 (Kuehl-D) Highway construction contracts: design-build projects
Allows the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, until January 1, 2010, to use the "design-build" procurement method for the construction of a high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-405 (San Diego Freeway), subject to conditions governing the bidding and selection process for design-build entities, related labor, and reporting to the Legislature on the project's progress.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2006
SB 1052 (Kehoe-D) Subdivisions: appeals
Allows a city council or county board of supervisors to hold a subdivision appeal hearing at its next regular meeting for which it can give proper public notice or within 60 days, which ever period is shorter.
Chapter 247, Statutes of 2006
SB 1059 (Escutia-D) Electric transmission corridors
Authorizes the California Energy Commission to designate electric transmission corridor zones, according to a specified process, in which high-voltage electric transmission lines may be built in the future. Requires the commission to notify affected cities, counties, state and federal agencies, and Native American tribes of a proposed transmission corridor zone and requests that these entities review and provide comments regarding the application.
Chapter 638, Statutes of 2006
SB 1060 (Campbell-R) Local government finance
Grants blanket authority to local agencies within the same county to exchange property tax revenues for sales and use tax revenues.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
SB 1121* (Senate Local Government Committee) First Validating Act of 2006
Enacts the First Validating Act of 2006, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Chapter 37, Statutes of 2006
SB 1122* (Senate Local Government Committee) Second Validating Act of 2006
Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2006, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Chapter 174, Statutes of 2006
SB 1123 (Senate Local Government Committee) Third Validating Act of 2006
Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2006, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Chapter 175, Statutes of 2006
SB 1126 (Chesbro-D) Tidelands: City of Eureka
Provides that, until January 1, 2010, the tideland revenues paid by the City of Eureka to the state in lieu of all obligations incurred by Eureka in connection with the Humboldt Bay Fund be deposited by the state in a special subaccount of the Humboldt Bay Fund, to be used by Eureka to further its protection and enhancement of public trust lands while remaining under the control of the state.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1169 (Cox-R) Municipal utility districts: purchases
Repeals the January 1, 2007 automatic termination date in the statute that allows municipal utility districts to use a "best value at the lowest cost acquisition" process to award contracts of more than $50,000 for the purchase of supplies and materials, and makes the repeal permanent for those that used the process prior to January 1, 2006.
Chapter 248, Statutes of 2006
SB 1189 (Florez-D) Alpaugh Irrigation District
Designates the landowners within the Alpaugh Irrigation District as the district's voters. Landowners need not reside in the district to be voters. Any landowner within the district may be a member of the board of directors.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 1196 (Senate Local Government Committee) Local Government Omnibus Act of 2006
Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2006, and makes 27 changes to the state laws affecting local agencies powers and duties.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2006
SB 1198 (Florez-D) Local gambling
Deletes wagering limits from the list of items that are considered an expansion of gambling pursuant to the current moratorium on the expansion to gaming existing in a local city or county entity. Makes several other technical and conforming changes.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 2006
SB 1206 (Kehoe-D) Redevelopment
Amends statutory elements necessary to establish that land is blighted for the purpose of redevelopment: (1) narrowing the descriptions of conditions underlying blight, (2) using a performance standard to justify a finding of blight, and (3) deleting antiquated subdivision conditions as conditions that establish blight, absent a showing that land is also predominantly urbanized and economically blighted.
Chapter 595, Statutes of 2006
Similar bills were SB 53 (Kehoe-D), Chapter 591, Statutes of 2006; SB 1210 (Torlakson-D), Chapter 594, Statutes of 2006; and AB 782 (Mullin-D), Chapter 113, Statutes of 2006.
SB 1210 (Torlakson-D) Eminent domain
Requires redevelopment officials to document blight before extending the time period for using eminent domain and changes the procedures for taking condemned property.
Chapter 594, Statutes of 2006
Similar bills were SB 53 (Kehoe), Chapter 591, Statutes of 2006; SB 1650 (Kehoe-D), Chapter 602, Statutes of 2006; and SCA 20 (McClintock-R) which failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 1226 (Chesbro-D) Surplus state property: County of Napa
Grants the Director of the Department of General Services the authority to sell or exchange at current fair market value, by January 1, 2009, to the County of Napa, certain property located in the County upon terms and conditions the Director deems are in the best interests of the state.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
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 1271 (Escutia-D) Public officers: conflicts of interest
Declares that service on a board of an air pollution control district or an air quality management district shall not be considered an incompatible office with service on the governing body of another government agency.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 1277 (Alquist-D) Emergency services and care: reimbursement
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop, contract for development, or adopt a single fee schedule to establish a uniform, reasonable, level of reimbursement programs operated by the department pursuant to the Emergency Medical Services Appropriation Contract Back Program.
Chapter 398, Statutes of 2006
SB 1296 (Kehoe-D) San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency: governance
Revises the composition of the San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency's governing board.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 2006
SB 1300 (Kuehl-D) Vehicles: mobile photo radar speed enforcement
Authorizes the City of Beverly Hills to use a mobile photo radar enforcement system for local speed enforcement under specified conditions until January 1, 2011.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1317 (Torlakson-D) Property tax revenue allocations: public utilities
Provides a new formula for allocating property tax revenues for state-assessed public utility property constructed after January 1, 2007.
Chapter 872, Statutes of 2006
SB 1320 (Cedillo-D) Probation: Los Angeles County
Requires a portion of the moneys appropriated in existing law from the General Fund to the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to be used for the creation of a pilot program to be administered by the Los Angeles County Superior Court relating to the probation of nonviolent felony offenders with a history of substance abuse or mental illness.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1321 (Cedillo-D) Criminal procedure: release from custody in jail
Requires the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to identify individuals who are repeatedly admitted to jail and who are housed in homeless shelter programs. Requires the department, with the consent of the inmate, to provide information about those inmates to a county stabilization center or social service organization that is providing discharge planning services.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1322 (Cedillo-D) Housing
Requires cities and counties to include in the housing element of their general plan an analysis of the need for emergency shelters and also to accommodate the need for shelters on sites that are zoned to allow their use by right.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1323 (Cedillo-D) Los Angeles County mental health: treatment pilot program
Appropriates $350,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Mental Health for allocation over five years to the County of Los Angeles to fund one probation position to work in conjunction with the Los Angeles Superior Court on the Prototype Court Pilot Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1329 (Alquist-D) Community development: healthy food choices
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, until January 1, 2010, in partnership with the Department of Health Services, to establish the "Healthy Food Retailing Initiative" to provide residents of underserved communities with retail food markets that offer high quality fruit and vegetables.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1330 (Dunn-D) Housing developments: attorney's fees
Modifies and brings conformity to the prevailing plaintiff attorney's fee award provisions in three housing statutes, the anti-NIMBY (Not In My BackYard), no-net-loss, and density bonus laws.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
SB 1359 (Torlakson-D) Subsurface installations: excavations
Requires an onsite meeting to determine the location of "high priority subsurface installations" prior to the start of an excavation, specifies who can determine the location of a high priority subsurface installation, and assigns liability for damages resulting from an excavator's and operator's failure to comply with its legal obligations.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2006
SB 1360 (Kehoe-D) County records: conservation easement registry
Requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency to establish a public registry of conservation easements.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2006
SB 1384 (Kuehl-D) Los Angeles-Exposition Metro Line light rail project
Clarifies the duties of the Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority.
Chapter 808, Statutes of 2006
SB 1421 (Margett-R) CalWORKs child care fraud
Requires the California Department of Education to conduct a two-year pilot study in Los Angeles County to investigate possible incidents of fraud in welfare-related child care.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1430 (Alquist-D) The Local Pandemic and Emergency Health Preparedness Act
Permits the Director of the Department of Health Services to declare a health emergency and the local health officer to declare a local health emergency in the jurisdiction in specified instances and permits a local health officer to issue an order to first responders for the purpose of immediately isolating exposed individuals in specified instances and with specified limitations.
Chapter 874, Statutes of 2006
SB 1431 (Cox-R) Design-build contracting
Authorizes all cities, counties, and special districts to utilize the design-build method for public contracting until January 1, 2017.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1432 (Lowenthal-D) Mello-Roos districts
Adds to the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act other services that may be financed by a district and specifies that the services may not be funded by the issuance of bonds. Authorizes a district to fund programs to create incentives for, or to subsidize, lower income housing.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1504 (Hollingsworth-R) Community care facilities: business licenses
Allows local government to require community care facilities to obtain a business license if the facility serves adults or juveniles who are either under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or if the use of the facility is required pursuant to a court order related to an offense committed by the adult or juvenile.
(Failed passage in Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 1507 (Margett-R) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Increases the number of sectors represented by individuals appointed by the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee from four to five and reduces the number of public members on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority appointed by the mayor of the City of Los Angeles from two to one. Deletes a provision of existing law that reduces by one the number of public members appointed by the Mayor, should the population of the city of Los Angeles become less than 35 percent of the combined population of the cities in Los Angeles County.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1509 (Soto-D) Zoning regulations
Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to develop a model ordinance for voluntary use by cities and counties that promotes specified state planning priorities.
Vetoed by the Governor
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 1534 (Ortiz-D) Public benefits
Permits a city, county, city and county, or hospital district to, at its discretion, provide aid, including health care, to persons who, but for Section 411 of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, would meet eligibility requirements for any program of that entity.
Chapter 801, Statutes of 2006
SB 1536* (Cox-R) State property: City of Folsom
Authorizes the Department of General Services to sell, lease, or exchange state property used by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Parks and Recreation to the City of Folsom for purposes of constructing a bridge across the American River.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2006
SB 1539 (Kehoe-D) San Diego Association of Governments Energy Working Group
States legislative intent that the San Diego Association of Governments Energy Working Group, or a coalition of local energy interests, are to be involved in regional planning and implementation of energy-related policy.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 1554 (Bowen-D) Local publicly owned electric utilities: cost responsibility
Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from imposing a cost responsibility surcharge on a customer of a local publicly owned electric utility if the customer's service location has not previously received service form an investor owned utility.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
SB 1557 (Ducheny-D) Coachella Valley Water District: nonpotable water use
Finds, exclusively for the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD), that use of potable water for nonpotable uses is a waste or an unreasonable use if a nonpotable water supply is available, including recycled water, if the CVWD board of directors finds that specific conditions are met.
Chapter 671, Statutes of 2006
SB 1583 (Kuehl-D) Marvin Braude Bikeway
Designates, as the "Marvin Braude Bikeway," the 22-mile beach bicycle path in Los Angeles County.
Chapter 177, Statutes of 2006
SB 1618 (McClintock-R) Local agency contracts
Allows the Ventura County Watershed Protection District to use negotiated contracts for emergency work without advertising for bids. Also corrects statutory references to the District's name and corrects an obsolete cross-reference.
Chapter 67, Statutes of 2006
SB 1627 (Kehoe-D) Wireless telecommunications facilities
Requires local governments to administratively approve applications to place wireless communications equipment on structures where such equipment is already located if specified conditions have been met, and prohibits local governments from conditioning approval of applications for permits for wireless facilities in specified ways.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2006
SB 1628 (Perata-D) San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority
Allows each member of the eleven member board of directors of the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority to appoint an alternate. The alternate shall have all the powers and duties of the member by whom he/she is appointed.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1630* (Maldonado-R) Water corporations: sale: right of first refusal
Provides that a municipal corporation, municipal utility district, public utility district, or municipal water district organized to provide utility service in the County of Monterey has a right of first refusal to acquire any water corporation providing water service in the county, in any sale, lease, assignment, or other disposition requiring approval by the Public Utilities Commission.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1650 (Kehoe-D) Eminent domain
Establishes limits on a public entity's ability to change a designated public use that justifies an eminent domain taking and creates various means for permitting the condemned property owner to lease-back or buy the property under certain conditions.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2006
Similar bills are SB 1099 (Hollingsworth-R) which failed passage in Senate Judiciary, SB 1210 (Torlakson-D), Chapter 594, Statutes of 2006, SB 1809 (Machado-D), Chapter 603, Statutes of 2006, SCA 20 (McClintock-R) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee, and SB 1099 (Hollingsworth-R) which failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 1676 (Ducheny-D) Subdivisions: final maps
Creates uniformity in the amount of notice an owner is required to give tenants in a residential rental property being converted and sold as condominiums, community apartment projects, or stock cooperatives.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 1687 (Murray-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Revises the procurement process for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
Chapter 814, Statutes of 2006
SB 1694 (Aanestad-R) Transportation: federal funds: allocation to counties
Dedicates 15 percent of the state's discretionary portion of federal equity bonus transportation funds for use by counties for transportation projects until October 1, 2009.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1701 (Migden-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: Richardson Bay
Authorizes the State Lands Commission to give specific publicly-owned tidelands in Richardson Bay in Marin County to a private entity in exchange for privately-owned land in the Bay.
Chapter 403, Statutes of 2006
SB 1708 (Ackerman-R) Medi-Cal: county organized health systems: fraud
Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to prepare a report assessing statewide compliance by county organized health systems with current requirements applicable to those entities regarding provider and beneficiary fraud against the Medi-Cal program. Requires DHS to provide the report to the Legislature on or before January 31, 2007.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1749 (Migden-D) Transit fare evasion
Allows for administrative enforcement of transit-related violations in the City and County of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Chapter 258, Statutes of 2006
SB 1754 (Lowenthal-D) Housing and infrastructure zones
Allows for the creation of up to 100 "housing and infrastructure zones" that would divert property tax increment revenues from cities and schools for road, water, sewer, and community amenities to support new residential development, as well as housing directly.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2286 (Torrico) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 1767 (Hollingsworth-R) Local law enforcement: immigration laws
Provides that if the Attorney General (AG) determines that a city, county, or law enforcement agency has adopted an ordinance or other order that prohibits its officers and employees from cooperating in their official capacities with federal immigration officials in any investigation, detention, or arrest procedures related to alleged violations of civil provisions of federal immigration laws, the AG shall report that determination to the State Controller. The Controller shall not allocate funds for any form of state aid or assistance to any agency reported to the Controller by the AG.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1773 (Alarcon-D) Fines and forfeitures
Authorizes counties to elect to levy an additional two dollar for every $10 in base fines for purposes of supporting emergency medical services, and requires the additional assessment to be deposited in local Maddy emergency medical services funds, with 15 percent to be directed to pediatric trauma services and authorizes up to 10 percent to be used for administrative expenses and sunsets the provisions of this bill on January 1, 2009.
Chapter 841, Statutes of 2006
SB 1800 (Ducheny-D) General plans: housing
Requires the legislative body of a local agency to adopt the general plan, defines the term "long-term," with respect to the general plan, and requires the local government at the same time it revises its housing element to adopt a housing opportunity plan as a part of the housing element. Creates in the State Treasury the Housing Planning Fund, which would be continuously appropriated to the Department of Housing and Community Development for specified purposes relating to housing opportunity plans. The Fund would be funded by an unspecified fee imposed upon each application for a building permit for new residential construction collected by cities and counties and paid into the fund. Revises procedures for the adoption of local and regional housing needs.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1801 (Ducheny-D) Municipal hospitals: closed meetings
Allows a city council, in a city where a municipal hospital is managed by an appointed board of trustees, to meet in a closed session held solely to consider reports involving trade secrets of the municipal hospital.
Chapter 157, Statutes of 2006
SB 1803 (Florez-D) Public utilities: municipal corporations: communications
Requires the Attorney General to represent a municipal corporation in any action limiting the corporation's provision of communication services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1807* (Runner-R) Surplus property: Department of Forestry
Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services to sell, lease, exchange, or transfer, upon terms and conditions the Director deems are in the state's best interest, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection fire station located in the Hesperia service area (San Bernardino County).
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1809 (Machado-D) Redevelopment: eminent domain
Changes the requirements for the recording of a description of the land within a redevelopment project area following adoption or amendment of a redevelopment plan.
Chapter 603, Statutes of 2006
Similar bills are SB 1099 (Hollingsworth-R) which failed passage in Senate Judiciary, SB 1210 (Torlakson-D), Chapter 594, Statutes of 2006, SB 1650 (Kehoe-D), Chapter 602, Statutes of 2006, and SCA 20 (McClintock-R) which failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 1841 (Migden-D) Yerba Buena Island ramp connections
Requires ownership of the Bay Bridge ramps connecting the current eastern span to Yerba Buena Island to be conditionally transferred to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), requires these ramps to become part of the state highway system, and specifies Caltrans responsibilities regarding reconstruction of the ramps as part of the new eastern span.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1842 (Migden-D) San Francisco sports stadium project validation
Authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to bring an action in Superior Court at any time, whether before or after final authorization of a proposed sports stadium project, to determine the validity of any matter pertaining to the sports stadium project.
Chapter 184, Statutes of 2006
SCA 15 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain: condemnation proceedings
Constitutionally prohibits public entities from acquiring private property by eminent domain, except when the property was retained by the condemnor or another public entity, as specified, and used only for the "stated public use" for which it was taken. In cases where the property was later sold or transferred, would have created a right for a former owner to reacquire the property for fair market value.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1162 (Mullin-D) which died on the Senate Floor.
SCA 20 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain: condemnation proceedings
Amends the state Constitution to provide that property may only be taken by eminent domain for a "stated public use," and thereafter only used for that stated use. Provides that property may only be owned and occupied by the condemnor, in perpetuity, unless the property is transferred to another government agency by agreement or leased to an entity regulated by the Public Utilities Commission. Creates a buyback right for a former owner if the property ceases to be used for the original stated use, or if the property is not put to the original stated use within 10 years of its acquisition. Prohibits the use of eminent domain to take property "for purposes of economic development, increasing tax revenue, or for any other private use, nor for maintaining the present use by a different owner."
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill is SCA 15 (McClintock-R) which failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee.
SCR 48 (Lowenthal-D) Paramount Hay Tree in the City of Paramount
Declares that signs should be erected at the Paramount Boulevard exits from Highway 91 (Artesia Freeway) and the Alondra Boulevard exits from Interstate 710 (Long Beach Freeway) noting the presence of the "Paramount Hay Tree" in the City of Paramount (Los Angeles County).
Chapter 118, Statutes of 2006
SCR 60 (Simitian-D) City of Santa Cruz: "Surf City, U.S.A."
Designates the City of Santa Cruz as Surf City, U.S.A.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SCR 91 (Lowenthal-D) Watts Towers of Simon Rodia in the City of Los Angeles
Requests the Department of Transportation to erect state historical landmark signs at the Century Boulevard exit on SR 110 and follow-up directional signs from the exit to the Watts Towers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 74 (Frommer-D) Butte County Healthy Communities Fund
Establishes the Butte County Healthy Communities Fund, into which would be deposited specified state and federal money that would otherwise be payable to the county for various public service purposes.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 117* (Cohn-D) Tax Equity Allocation formula: County of Santa Clara
Repeals the 55 percent cap in Santa Clara County on tax equity allocation funding for the county's four no/low-property-tax cities starting in the 2006-07 fiscal year.
Chapter 342, Statutes of 2006
AB 126 (Dymally-D) County hospitals: indigent services
Enacts the Bielenson Fair Hearing Act of 2005. Requires a county board of supervisors to make and publish findings, based on the public hearings, that the board's proposed action will not have a detrimental impact on the health care needs of indigent people in the county. By imposing additional duties on a local entity, this bill imposes a state-mandated local program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 183* (Cogdill-R) Conservation camps: Madera County
Requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house at the Central California Women's Facility or the Valley State Prison for Women (both near Chowchilla in the Central Valley) up to 120 inmates trained to fight fires and perform public conservation projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 194 (Dymally-D) Brown Act violations: remedy
Permits a district attorney or any interested person to commence an action to obtain a judicial determination that an action taken by a local legislative body is in violation of the Ralph M. Brown Act and reduces the time period that the district attorney or interested person has to make a written demand for cure or correction.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 245* (Walters-R) Trinity County Health Care District: board members election
Requires the first board of directors of a health care district formed in Trinity County to be elected to staggered terms.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2006
AB 286* (Matthews-D) Banta-Carbona Irrigation District
Allows the board of directors of the Banta-Carbona Irrigation District to adopt a resolution that limits membership to persons who are landowners in the District and who are also San Joaquin County residents. At the request of at least 25 percent of the District's registered voters, the directors must be both voters and landowners in the District.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 311 (Baca-D) City of San Bernardino: parking structure funding
Appropriates $1,200,000 in federal Petroleum Violation Escrow Account funds to the Department of Transportation for allocation to the City of San Bernardino for the purposes of constructing a six-level parking structure at the Santa Fe Depot.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 350 (Matthews-D) Fire protection district boards: contract bidding procedures
Increases, from $10,000 to $25,000, the threshold at which fire protection districts with budgets under $1 million must award contracts for special services through competitive bidding.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 2006
AB 372 (Nation-D) Public contracts: transit design-build contracts
Extends the sunset date by two years, until January 1, 2009, for transit districts to enter into design-build contracts. Requires the establishment of a labor compliance program for design-build contracts and reduces the threshold project cost level of projects able to use the authority.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2006
AB 426 (Bogh-R) High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes
Requires the Department of Transportation, until January 1, 2009, to convert all 24-hour HOV lanes on state highways in Riverside County into part-time HOV lanes that operate only during peak periods.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 463* (Tran-R) Subsurface installations: excavation
Permits the use of power-driven, power-operated, or vacuum excavation or boring equipment only if underground installation operators receive documented notice of excavators' plans to use such equipment and the use of that equipment is "mutually agreeable" with installation operators and excavators.
Chapter 263, Statutes of 2006
AB 475 (Baca-D) Local agency military base recovery area (LAMBRA)
Provides that a LAMBRA lasts twelve years from the date that the local agency notifies the Department of Housing and Community Development that 90 percent of the economic development parcels, as measured by acreage, have been transferred to the governing body.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 500 (La Malfa-R) State mandates
Reduces the threshold below which state mandate claims cannot be paid from $1,000 to $200.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 504 (Harman-R) Real property electronic recording
Enacts the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, which specifies standards for the electronic recording of real property documents and prescribes related duties of the Attorney General.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 588 (Goldberg-D) Statistical districts: Hollywood
Requires specified state agencies and departments that develop and maintain data on the municipal level of government to make a separate breakdown of statistical data regarding the community of Hollywood, as described.
Chapter 185, Statutes of 2006
AB 590 (Walters-R) Eminent domain: private property
Provides that the exercise of eminent domain, may not be used for the taking or damaging of property for private use, including but not limited to, the condemnation of property for economic development.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 591 (Salinas-D) Elections: Monterey County: all-mailed ballot elections
Extends the expiration date to December 31, 2008, for an all-mailed ballot election in Monterey County.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
AB 619 (Cogdill-R) Local government financing
Seeks to give homeowners some additional protections in their interaction with their homeowners' associations when dealing with alleged delinquencies.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 623* (Gordon-D) Redevelopment: Los Angeles Air Force Base
Authorize the legislative bodies of communities located in Los Angeles County to adopt ordinances to expend their tax-increment moneys outside of their territorial jurisdiction to implement the Los Angeles Air Force Base Retention Program through the formation of a separate joint powers entity, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 629 (Chan-D) Prisoners: Alameda County reentry services pilot program
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract for a reentry services pilot program in Alameda County.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 677 (Parra-D) Property tax revenue: McFarland Recreation and Park District
Reduces the amount of the District's total 1989-90 revenues from $820,720 to $512,926 for the purpose of calculating one portion of the McFarland Recreation and Park District's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund property tax shift.
(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 685 (Calderon-D) City of Montebello: police dispatch and records system
Appropriates $500,000 General Fund to the City of Montebello to upgrade the Montebello Police Department's Computer-Aided Dispatch and Records Management System.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 737 (Jerome Horton-D) Property tax revenue allocations: public utilities
Requires that all property tax assessed value of a public utility plant and associated equipment be allocated entirely to the county in which the facility is located, and that the revenues derived from the tax be allocated to the county and to school districts and cities within the county, as applicable.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 750 (Mullin-D) Criminal trial costs: San Mateo County
Provides that pursuant to those procedures, as applicable, the County of San Mateo may file, and that the Commission on State Mandates may pay from the State Mandates Claim Fund, a claim for legal counsel defense costs in designated cases in excess of the usual rates for court-appointed defense counsel, for specified reasons.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 759 (Lieber-D) El Camino Hospital District
Makes findings and declarations regarding the El Camino Hospital District (District), a public entity, and the El Camino Hospital-Corporation, a public benefit nonprofit corporation created by the District, to clarify that the El Camino Hospital and all other entities operated by the corporation are creatures of the District and are therefore subject to laws governing meetings, records and operations of public entities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 773 (Mullin-D) Redevelopment: referendum
Allows voters in all cities and counties affected by a redevelopment ordinance up to 90 days to gather signatures to qualify a referendum on that ordinance.
Chapter 161, Statutes of 2006
AB 782 (Mullin-D) Redevelopment: project area.
Repeals the so-called antiquated subdivision exception [which is defined as subdivided lots with irregular shapes and inadequate sizes for proper development] to the statutory definition of blighted areas. Eliminates antiquated subdivisions from the definition of a predominantly urbanized area.
Chapter 113, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was SB 1206 (Kehoe), Chapter 595, Statutes of 2006.
AB 799 (Leno-D) Local vehicle license fee: San Francisco
Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to place a measure on the ballot to impose a vehicle license fee on vehicles registered in San Francisco.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 801 (Jones-D) Outdoor advertising
Exempts, from the prohibition against placing advertising displays adjacent to landscaped freeways, an advertising structure (billboard or sign) used to advertise development projects or business centers in the County of Sacramento. The exemption would be subject to several conditions.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 802 (Wolk-D) Land use: water supply
Requires local governments to include flood management in the conservation element of their general plans.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 842 (Arambula-D) Federal refugee cash assistance funds: county transfers
Requires that if a refugee receiving cash assistance from the county from funds received under the federal Refugee Act of 1980 moves to another county eligible to receive those funds, the county from which the refugee moves shall transfer a proportionate share of those funds to the receiving county.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 919 (Bogh-R) Tax collector: property tax: sale of tax certificates
Revises the procedures for sales of tax certificates for tax-defaulted property by local agencies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 921 (Daucher-R) Redevelopment
Allows redevelopment agencies to extend the time limit on redevelopment activities for an additional 25 years without making a new finding of blight.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 939 (Mullin-D) Redevelopment
Expands the area where an eligible housing development may be located to include within one-half mile of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District stations located within San Mateo County and within one-half mile of that portion of El Camino Real located within San Mateo County. Limits the maximum amount of pooled housing funds that may be used to purchase property to the equivalent of 80 percent of the appraised value of the property to be purchased.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 948 (Oropeza-D) State agencies: statistical analysis
Lowers the minimum threshold for transit agency design-build contracts from $50 million to $25 million.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 986 (Torrico-D) Transit oriented development
Requires the joint policy committee to prepare a plan identifying regional priority transit oriented development zones for the San Francisco Bay Area region. The report would be reviewed and approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the executive board of the Association of Bay Area Governments and submitted to the Legislature by January 1, 2007.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 997 (Cogdill-R) State regulatory agencies: fee notification
Requires that whenever a state regulatory agency or department imposes a new fee or increases an existing fee charged to a county, it shall notify the affected counties by June 30 of each year, or within 30 days of the enactment of the State Budget, in which the fee is imposed or increased.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1005 (Calderon-D) Horse racing: San Mateo County
Authorizes the San Mateo County Fair, subject to board approval, to conduct its racing dates at another facility or fair and authorize, subject to board approval, satellite wagering to be conducted on the fairgrounds or leased property only when live thoroughbred racing dates are no longer allocated by the board for racing at Bay Meadows.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1013 (Garcia-R) Local elected officials: vacancy: appointment
Provides that the city council of a general law city shall fill a vacancy of an elective office within 30 days by appointment of the person who received the third-highest number of votes in the prior election for that office. If the person is not available, the council shall then call a special election to be held within 114 days.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
AB 1020 (Hancock-D) Planning: smart growth models
Establishes a process to revise the travel demand models used in regional transportation planning to reflect transit, land use decisions, and economic incentives on travel demand.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1033 (Daucher-R) Property tax revenue allocations
Increases property tax allocations to certain county governments that received less than the statewide average percentage of property tax revenues for the 2002-03 fiscal year by transferring property tax revenues from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each qualifying county, beginning in 2006-07.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1039 (Frommer-D) Government: environment: bonds: transportation
Provides streamlining of environmental laws including transportation project and levee repair project exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act, as well as allowing a master environmental impact report to be prepared for Highway 99 projects and authorizing the Department of Transportation to participate in a self-certification process transportation projects.
Chapter 31, Statutes of 2006
AB 1085 (Ruskin-D) County Health Initiative Matching Fund
Changes the income eligibility criteria for children to include those with a family income level at or below 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1094 (Nakanishi-R) State property: lease: Ione Youth Facility
Designates a specified state-owned property in Amador County as surplus property and conveys that property to Amador County for a price of $1.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1127 (Garcia-R) Two-way video teleconferencing testing
Creates a pilot project in Riverside County to allow video teleconferenced testimony by law enforcement in trials for Vehicle Code infractions.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1140 (Dymally-D) Water districts: landowner requirements
Requires a person to be a resident of a water district in order to vote on elections in that district or serve on the board of that district.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
AB 1146 (Huff-R) Local government finance: ad valorem property tax revenues
Requires the board of supervisors of each county to negotiate, in good faith, with the governing body of qualified cities, as defined, within the county to transfer from the county treasury to those cities, an amount equal to a portion of ad valorem property tax revenues apportioned to the county.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1162 (Mullin-D) Eminent domain
Puts a temporary moratorium on certain types of condemnations.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill is SCA 20 (McClintock) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee.
AB 1167 (Chu-D) Redevelopment: El Monte
Authorizes the City of El Monte and the El Monte Community Redevelopment Agency to amend, on or after July 1, 2007, the Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown El Monte Redevelopment Project to allow it to carry out one or more transit oriented redevelopment projects.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1197 (Gordon-D) Aviation: Southern California Regional Aviation Commission
Establishes the Southern California Regional Aviation Commission with responsibility for the development of strategies and policies to be employed by state and local governmental entities to facilitate the regional distribution of aviation services to existing airports throughout southern California.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1198 (Mullin-D) Juvenile court records: County of San Mateo
Authorizes the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to establish, by resolution, a demonstration project permitting the exchange of information concerning a juvenile.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1204 (Laird-D) Parks: Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to convey approximately 130 acres of land to the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District for public park uses, subject to an agreement between the department and the district.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1205 (Blakeslee-R) Development project fees: protests
Provides that any party may file a protest regardless of whether the action includes a facial challenge to the ordinance, resolution, or motion authorizing the fee, dedication, reservation, or other exaction imposed on the development project.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1243 (Benoit-R) Local government finance
Requires county auditors and treasurers to maintain tax resource accounts on a full-accrual basis. Requires county auditors and treasurers, in recording prior year amounts received from the supplemental tax roll, to distinguish between delinquent and non-delinquent amounts, and to distribute these amounts in a specified manner.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1248 (Umberg-D) Criminal law: booking fees
Prohibits a county from charging a fee to other local agencies for booking and detention of an arrested person in the county jail, except in cases of arrest for specified nonfelonious offenses.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1259 (Daucher-R) Housing element: regional housing need
Authorizes a city, county, or city and county to self-certify its housing element and any amendments to it if the city, county, or city and county meets or exceeds its regional housing need allocation.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1314 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Neighborhood councils: open meetings
Exempts subcommittees of the neighborhood councils in the City of Los Angeles from the 72-hour meeting notification requirement of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1330 (Karnette-D) Redevelopment: Los Angeles Harbor District
Establishes the Harbor District Development Authority in the City of Los Angeles. Authorizes the City of Los Angeles to designate the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners as the redevelopment agency for the Harbor. Redefines blight to fit the conditions in the Los Angeles Harbor District.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1335 (Vargas-D) Business improvement and residential areas
Modifies the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1989 and makes several changes to the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994. Expands the list of activities eligible for funding under the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1989.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 1352 (Bogh-R) Redevelopment: transfer of funds
Allows two redevelopment agencies, as specified, to adopt a resolution for the purpose of pooling housing funds.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1361* (Dymally-D) Elections: City of Vernon
States legislative findings of the need for an experienced, objective, impartial, and professional entity to conduct any election that is held in the City of Vernon in the County of Los Angeles during calendar years 2006, 2007, and 2008.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
AB 1367 (Evans-D) General plans: regional housing need
Prohibits a state, local, or regional agency, or any other governmental entity from enacting regulations applicable to a city or county's fair share of the regional housing need that are contrary to the land use determinations made in compliance with locally adopted land use initiatives.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1443 (Hancock-D) Local agency auditors
Deletes the ability of an auditor of a county, special district, or city to order the personal papers and correspondence of any person providing assistance to the auditor to become public records if that person has requested in writing that the papers be kept private and confidential.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 1450 (Evans-D) Land use: density bonus
Requires that a housing development applicant agree, and the local government ensure, the continued affordability of all units that qualified the applicant for a density bonus for a minimum of 30 years, and creates other requirements related to moderate-income units under density bonus law.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1457* (Baca-D) State property: City of San Bernardino
Authorizes the City of San Bernardino to transfer Seccombe Lake Park to the City of San Bernardino Redevelopment Agency in exchange for replacement park land within reasonable proximity of Seccombe Lake Park.
Chapter 852, Statutes of 2006
AB 1467 (Nunez-D) Transportation projects: public-private partnerships
Provides for four public-private partnerships projects and for up to four high occupancy toll lane projects, two in northern California and two in southern California, primarily for goods movement improvements.
Chapter 32, Statutes of 2006
AB 1472 (Coto-D) Redevelopment
Authorizes an agency to extend the time limit on effectiveness of the plan for a maximum of 10 additional years if significant physical or economic blight remaining in the project area may not be reasonably eliminated without the extension of the time limit, as provided, and the amended redevelopment plan meets certain specified requirements.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1491 (Calderon-D) Redevelopment: low and moderate income housing
Authorizes a city, incorporated to promote commerce and industry, located in the County of Los Angeles, and that has no residentially zoned land within its boundaries, to transfer the specified amount to a public entity located outside the above described city and to the housing authority or only to the authority if the additional conditions are met.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1499 (Benoit-R) Outdoor advertising: City of Riverside
Exempts, from the prohibition against placing advertising displays adjacent to landscaped freeways, an advertising structure (billboard or sign) used to advertise development projects or private commercial centers in the City of Riverside.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1518 (Jerome Horton-D) Outdoor advertising
Exempts, from the prohibition against placing advertising displays adjacent to landscaped freeways, any billboard located on property owned by the Lennox School District (District), subject to certain conditions. Specifically, authorizes three advertising displays in the County of Los Angeles by the District.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1519 (Emmerson-R) Government records: video monitoring
Allows counties, cities and special districts to destroy recordings of routine video monitoring after 210 days. Requires that cities, counties and special districts, when purchasing new security systems, purchase the best available technology that is economically and technologically feasible at that time. Provides that if a city, county or special district utilizes a system installed before January 1, 2006, the video recordings need only be maintained as long as the installed technology allows.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1552 (La Suer-R) San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency
Expands the governing board of the San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency by one additional supervisor to be appointed to the governing board, based on specified requirements for representation from both incorporated and unincorporated parts of the county.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1590* (Lieber-D) Property tax revenue allocations: special districts
Reduces the 2005-06 shift of property tax revenues from enterprise special districts that also perform non-enterprise functions to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 568 (Kehoe-D), Chapter 602, Statutes of 2005.
AB 1596* (Emmerson-R) Property tax revenue allocations: enterprise
Exempts the Yucaipa Valley Water District from the 2005-06 Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund property tax shift.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1599 (La Malfa-R) Homicide trial costs
Requires the state to reimburse 100 percent of the costs incurred by the Counties of Tehama and Siskiyou for specified trials.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1602 (Laird-D) Local government finance
Allows new cities and cities that annex inhabited territory to get a special population calculation for the purpose of the allocation of that portion of vehicle license fee revenues which are apportioned to cities on the basis of population.
Chapter 556, Statutes of 2006
AB 1606 (Salinas-D) Redevelopment: low-income housing
Requires that income eligibility for increasing and improving the community's supply of low- and moderate-income housing be based upon the income of each individual residing in the unit and not on the aggregate income of the residents in the unit.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1615 (Klehs-D) Tax accounts: local governments
Requires cities, counties, special districts, and community redevelopment agencies to report all past due taxes levied and assessed that are still receivable as part of their annual report to the State Controller's Office.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1617 (Liu-D) Surplus residential property
Gives new priority for the purchase of surplus residential property along the 710 Freeway corridor to long-term existing occupants, even if they do not meet income eligibility criteria in current law, and to local governments for use as affordable housing. Makes a number of changes to surplus land law for the 710 Freeway.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1634* (McCarthy-R) Special statewide election expenses
Appropriates $38.8 million from the General Fund to reimburse counties for costs related to the November 2005 special statewide election.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2006
AB 1794 (DeVore-R) Local government: investments
Eliminates the January 1, 2007 sunset date for the investment authorization for a local agency, as defined, to invest their funds, under proscribed circumstances, in eligible investments.
Chapter 164, Statutes of 2006
AB 1798* (Berg-D) Disaster relief
Adds the severe rainstorms that occurred in selected counties in Northern California from December 17, 2005, to January 3, 2006, to the list of disasters eligible for full state reimbursement of local property tax losses, beneficial homeowners' exemption treatment, full state reimbursement of local agency costs under the Disaster Assistance Act, and favorable net operating loss carry-forward treatment.
Chapter 896, Statutes of 2006
AB 1805* (Assembly Budget Committee) Local government trailer bill
Enacts the statutory changes to implement the local government portions of the 2006 Budget Act relative to budgeting newly determined mandate costs, reconsideration of cancer presumption mandates, booking fees subvention, county redevelopment loans, off-highway vehicle revenue allocations, and allocation of delinquent vehicle license revenues and penalties.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2006
AB 1858 (McCarthy-R) State Highway Routes 58, 178, and 204: relinquishment
Authorizes the relinquishment of portions of State Routes 58, 178 and 204 to the City of Bakersfield and Kern County.
Chapter 315, Statutes of 2006
AB 1859 (Leslie-R) Placer County integrated health and human services
Provides a sunset extension to the Placer County pilot program created to integrate the funding and delivery of services and benefits for the county health and human services system.
Chapter 268, Statutes of 2006
AB 1860 (Blakeslee-R) State property: public contracts
Authorize an alternative procurement financing mechanism administered by the Department of General Services (DGS) and authorize the DGS Director to exchange state real estate with the City of Santa Maria.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1864 (Matthews-D) Park lands: Fahrens Creek Park
Authorizes the City of Merced to transfer up to three acres of land in Fahrens Creek Park to the Merced City School District to construct a new school, subject to the provisions of the Public Park Preservation Act of 1971.
Chapter 558, Statutes of 2006
AB 1878 (Parra-D) Southern San Joaquin Valley: advisory council
Creates the Southern San Joaquin Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council with specified powers and duties, and specifies the membership of the council to consist of certain board members of councils of governments.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1893 (Salinas-D) Redevelopment
Clarifies that the ban on spending tax increment funds on the construction of city halls or county administration buildings includes spending for land acquisition, related site clearance, and design costs.
Chapter 98, Statutes of 2006
AB 1899 (Wolk-D) Land use: flood protection
Requires cities and counties to obtain verification from the Reclamation Board that land proposed for residential development meets specified standards for flood protection.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar bills are AB 802 (Wolk-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee, and AB 1665 (Laird-D) which died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.
AB 1960 (Leslie-R) Local government financing
Appropriates $200,000 from the General Fund for allocation to counties that do not contain any incorporated cities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1962 (Berg-D) Joint powers agreements: Yurok Tribe
Authorizes the Yurok Indian Tribe to enter into a joint powers agreement with relevant state and federal public agencies for the purposes of preservation and restoration of fisheries in the Klamath River Basin.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1966 (Garcia-R) Capital investment incentive programs: powerplants
Expands the definition of a qualified manufacturing facility eligible for local capital investment incentive payments to include an electricity powerplant that uses one or more of the following resources: solar thermal, wind, photovoltaic, geothermal, solid-fuel biomass, fuel cells using renewable fuel, small hydroelectric generation of 30 megawatts or less, digester gas, landfill gas, ocean wave, ocean thermal, or tidal current.
(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 1980 (Bass-D) Powers of arrest
Grants powers of arrest, as specified, to security officers employed by the City of Los Angeles and authorized by local ordinance to enforce laws related to preserving the peace in and about properties owned or controlled by the City of Los Angeles, provided this exercise of authority is authorized by a memorandum of understanding with the Chief of Police of the City of Los Angeles, and subject to the officers' completion of a training course in the exercise of those powers, certified by the Commission on Peace Officer's Standards and Training.
Chapter 271, Statutes of 2006
AB 1990 (Walters-R) Eminent domain
Prohibits the use of eminent domain if ownership of property will be transferred to a private party or entity.
(Failed passage in the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1998 (Chan-D) Parole: prerelease program: Alameda County
Requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract for the establishment and operation of a pre-release parole pilot program in Alameda County.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2006
AB 2011 (Vargas-D) Local agency investments
Allows local agency funds to be invested in multiple certificates of deposit using a deposit placement service.
Chapter 459, Statutes of 2006
AB 2015 (Lieu-D) South Coast Air Quality Management District: membership
Expands the size of the South Coast Air Quality Management Districts's governing board from 12 to 13, to be appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles. Removes the City of Los Angeles from participating in the appointment of the city representative from the western region.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2018 (Saldana-D) Reclamation District No. 348: trustee elections
Revises provisions with regard to the election of trustees in Reclamation District No. 348. Requires the board of trustees of the district, commencing with the first election of trustees held by the district in 2007, to consist of five persons instead of four.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2059 (Berg-D) County Medical Services Program
Eliminates the January 1, 2008, sunset of the County Medical Services Program (CMSP) Governing Board, which means that statutory responsibility for CMSP will not be returned to the Department of Health Services in 2008 as scheduled, and enacts changes to the duties and authority of the CMSP Board.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2006
AB 2081 (Vargas-D) Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to develop a report on the costs and benefits of expanding the territory of Old Town San Diego State Park to include surplus state land, which is owned by the Department of Transportation, in the City of San Diego.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 2091 (Berg-D) The Coast Life Support District Act: district powers
Authorizes the Coast Life Support District's board of supervisors to charge a fee to cover the cost of any service that the district provides or the cost of enforcing any regulation for which the fee is charged. Allows the district's board of directors to charge residents or taxpayers of the district a lower fee than it charges nonresidents or nontaxpayers, and allows the district's board of directors to waive any fee by adoption of a resolution.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2006
AB 2114 (Umberg-D) Counties: booking fees
Reduces the booking fee a county may charge to no more than 45 percent of the actual administrative costs.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2137 (Niello-R) Sacramento Regional Transit District
Creates a weighted voting system for the Sacramento Regional Transit District based on each voting entity's financial contribution, increases the compensation of the directors from $50 to $100 per meeting, and makes other various changes.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2006
AB 2140 (Hancock-D) General plans: safety element
Authorizes a city, county, or a city and county to adopt a local hazard mitigation plan (HMP) with the safety element of its general plan, and creates incentives for local governments to adopt HMPs.
Chapter 739, Statutes of 2006
AB 2157 (Chu-D) Redevelopment: El Monte
Allows the El Monte Redevelopment Agency to amend its redevelopment plan for the purposes of a transit oriented redevelopment project without making a finding of blight and without complying with any existing law provisions (except public notice requirements) with respect to amendments and time extensions.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 2158 (Evans-D) Regional housing needs
Adds two new factors to the list included in the required methodology for distribution of existing and projected housing need within a region.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2161* (Klehs-D) Child welfare services: resource family pilot program
Allows the counting of new housing units, built outside an Alameda County Redevelopment Agency project area, toward meeting affordable housing requirements.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2006
AB 2164 (La Suer-R) Local law enforcement: supplemental services
Permits Level I reserve peace officers to provide supplemental law enforcement services if there are no regularly appointed full-time peace officers available.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2006
AB 2176 (Niello-R) State mandates
Requires the Legislature, in any statute stating that it does not impose a reimbursable state-mandated program because the local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the mandated program or increased level of service, to specify upon whom the charge, fee, or assessment may be levied.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2184 (Bogh-R) Residential facilities: land use regulations
Provides that the state statute governing zoning and conditional use permits for residential care facilities for six or fewer persons shall not be construed to prohibit a local public entity from enforcing a local ordinance.
Chapter 746, Statutes of 2006
AB 2197 (Salinas-D) Redevelopment plans
Requires the California Research Bureau of the California State Library to conduct a study and submit a report, by July 1, 2007, for distribution to the appropriate committees of the Legislature that contains details of any oversight, review, or approval authority that any state or local government outside of California has with respect to redevelopment agency plan adoptions, amendments, or mergers.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2213 (Tran-R) Department of Transportation: property transfer
Allows the Department of Transportation to transfer a specified parcel of property to the City of Newport Beach at fair market value.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2223 (Salinas-D) Local government annexation
Extends until January 1, 2014, the requirement that a local agency formation commission waive the protest hearing for annexations of unincorporated islands of 150 acres or less. Extends the sunset date from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2008, the requirements for the city and county to meet when a city's sphere of influence is going to be updated.
Chapter 351, Statutes of 2006
AB 2230 (La Suer-R) San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
Changes the make up of the executive committee of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2236 (Ruskin-D) Los Trancos County Water District
Removes the Los Trancos County Water District from the boards of directors of the Bay Area Water Reliability Financing Authority and the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency. Shifts Los Trancos County Water District's 161-acre foot allotment to the California Water Service Company.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2006
AB 2252 (Strickland-R) Environmental impact report
Exempts a development project from preparing and completing a second or an additional environmental impact report if the project complies with applicable zoning and land use requirements, including the most recently adopted general plan of a city or county.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2259 (Salinas-D) Local agency formation: extension of services
Extends until January 1, 2013, the authority of a local agency formation commission to review and comment on the extension of services into previously unserved unincorporated territory and to review the creation of new service providers to extend urban-type development into previously unserved unincorporated territory.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2006
AB 2265 (Nava-D) Emergency medical services
Authorizes Santa Barbara County to collect additional penalty assessments to pay for emergency medical services until January 1, 2009.
Chapter 768, Statutes of 2006
AB 2286 (Torrico-D) Housing
States that, if the voters approve the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006 in November of this year, the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing shall adopt regulations to ensure that grants awarded from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account will result in increased housing production and proper planning and zoning for housing by local government entities.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1754 (Lowenthal-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 2307 (Mullin-D) State mandate: housing element
Repeals the provision of the Planning and Zoning Law authorizing councils of government to charge fees to their member agencies to cover the costs of allocating regional housing need assessments, and extends the fourth housing element revision for the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Southern California Association of Governments from June 30, 2007 to June 30, 2009.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2309 (Negrete McLeod-D) Payments to public agencies
Authorizes, subject to approval of the county board of supervisors, the acceptance by credit card, debit card, or electronic funds transfer of any moneys payable to the sheriff pursuant to a levy under a writ of attachment or writ of execution.
Chapter 320, Statutes of 2006
AB 2310 (Torrico-D) Fireworks regulations: local law enforcement
Reduces the penalty for personal use of prohibited fireworks from a misdemeanor to an infraction, subject to a citation and a $200 civil penalty, a portion of that penalty to be transferred to the State Fire Marshal for disposal of fireworks and a portion to remain with the local fire protection agency for administrative costs.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2324 (Canciamilla-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: City of Pittsburg
Repeals existing legislative grants to the City of Pittsburg, and enacts a new grant of tide and submerged lands, subject to specified conditions, in trust for public trust purposes. Requires revenue from those lands, which are currently leased by the state and designated as specified state lease numbers, to remain revenue of the state and be transmitted to the state by the trustee.
Chapter 275, Statutes of 2006
AB 2329 (Oropeza-D) Statistical districts: South Bay Cities and Harbor area
Requires specified state agencies and departments to prepare and maintain a separate breakdown of the South Bay Cities and Harbor area within the County of Los Angeles.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2346 (Oropeza-D) Infrastructure financing districts: Los Angeles Harbor
Makes seven changes to the Infrastructure Finance District Law applicable only to the City of Los Angeles (Harbor District) to finance needed public infrastructure improvements.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2348 (Laird-D) Flood control: Pajaro River
Authorizes state participation in funding for a flood control project on the Pajaro River in the Counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz.
Chapter 354, Statutes of 2006
AB 2397 (Calderon-D) Metropolitan water districts: service contracts
Prohibits the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California from contracting for permanent or temporary services, skilled or unskilled, if in the district's judgment, the district's own civil service employees could perform adequately and competently.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 2401 (Karnette-D) Vehicles: autoettes
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to register "autoettes" as identified by the City of Avalon.
Chapter 322, Statutes of 2006
AB 2405 (Matthews-D) Homicide trial costs: Merced County
Requires the state to reimburse 100 percent of the costs incurred by the County of Merced for the homicide investigation and prosecution of People v. Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 250 (Matthews-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 2435 (Coto-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District
Makes various changes to the Santa Clara Valley Water District's enabling act in order to bring it in line with other special districts of its type.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 2006
AB 2436 (Ruskin-D) Imprisonment: parole: programs
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish, until January 1, 2010, and to the extent funds are available, a pilot reentry program for parolees in East Palo Alto.
Chapter 779, Statutes of 2006
AB 2441* (Klehs-D) Outdoor advertising
Creates an exemption from the law prohibiting the placement of advertising displays along landscaped highways for signs in a redevelopment area in the City of San Leandro, subject to specified conditions.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2464 (Saldana-D) Subdivision Map Act: San Diego condominium conversion
Prohibits the City of San Diego from approving or denying a proposal to convert rental units to condominiums, when certain conditions apply, until studies relating to the environmental impact of the proposed project and the impact of the proposed project on affordable housing in the jurisdiction have been completed.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2468 (Salinas-D) Planning: housing element
Establishes an alternative self-certification process for the housing elements of cities and counties. Allows a city or county to self-certify housing elements if it can accommodate 100 percent of the need for low- and very low-income housing on sites zoned to permit multifamily residential use by right.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2469 (Evans-D) Counties: in-home supportive services
Allows eligible counties to request advanced payments from the Sales Tax Growth Account to fund in-home supportive services program expansion.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2470 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Health care master plan: Los Angeles County
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to, by ordinance, develop a master plan for health care in the county, and to assemble a task force to develop a master plan for health care that is based on a long-range planning and policy analysis and submit a plan to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Chapter 514, Statutes of 2006
AB 2503 (Mullin-D) Affordable housing
Establishes a state matching program for affordable housing by requiring any contribution by a city or county into a Housing Trust Fund established under this act to be matched by an equivalent contribution from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in that county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2511 (Jones-D) Land use: housing
Makes a number of changes to state law to promote the development of affordable housing and prevent delays in processing applications for development projects that include a housing element.
Chapter 888, Statutes of 2006
AB 2572 (Emmerson-R) Housing element: colleges
Requires a council of governments, when establishing a methodology for the allocation of the regional housing need, to include as a factor the housing needs generated by a public or private university within a member jurisdiction.
Chapter 785, Statutes of 2006
AB 2577 (Wolk-D) Property tax revenue allocations: county equity amount
Increases property tax allocations to those counties that received less than 11 percent of the total ad valorem property taxes allocated within the county in 2001-02 and have at least 60 percent of the land within the boundaries of the county subject to a contract under the Williamson Act. The additional county allocations would be made from the county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund, resulting in an increase in state General Fund Proposition 98 costs for K-12 education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2580 (Walters-R) Orange County Sanitation District design-build contracts
Authorizes the Orange County Sanitation District to enter into design-build contracts in excess of $10 million for buildings and public wastewater facilities until January 1, 2011. The district board is required to establish and enforce, for design-build projects, a labor compliance program containing the requirements outlined in Section 1771.5 of the Labor Code.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 2604 (Emmerson-R) Highway construction: Tippecanoe Design-Build Project
Authorizes the San Bernardino Associated Governments to use a design-build procurement method for the construction of improvements for a specific project within San Bernardino County.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2610 (Keene-R) Redevelopment agencies
Extends that immunity to a person who acquires the property from an agency if the agency undertakes and completes a remedial or removal action or causes another person to undertake and complete that action and the agency is immune from liability as set forth in existing law.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2623 (Calderon-D) Police records management: City of Montebello
Appropriates $500,000 from the General Fund for the City of Montebello to upgrade or replace the City of Montebello Police Department's Computer-Aided Dispatch and Records Management System.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2634 (Lieber-D) Housing elements
Requires that the analysis of population and employment trends and quantification of a city or county's existing and projected housing needs for all income levels in the housing element of its general plan shall include extremely low-income households, defined as those earning no more than 30 percent of the median income.
Chapter 891, Statutes of 2006
AB 2650 (Laird-D) Monterey Peninsula Airport District
Makes numerous changes to the Monterey Peninsula Airport District enabling statute to bring it in line with current processes and practices, and eliminates outdated references and outmoded statutory limitations.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2006
AB 2652 (Laird-D) Commission on State Mandates: claim reductions
Establishes procedures for consolidating incorrect reduction claims (IRCs) filed with the Commission on State Mandates (CSM). Authorizes a local government to file a consolidated IRC on behalf of multiple claimants challenging reductions to claims for the same mandate under specified circumstances, and requires the CSM to provide reports to the Legislature.
Chapter 168, Statutes of 2006
AB 2682 (Daucher-R) Redevelopment: tax increment revenues
Requires, when a redevelopment agency is deactivated, that the property tax increment revenues that would revert to local educational agencies instead be directed to the county, if that county is a low-wealth county. Defines "low-wealth county" as a county which received less than the statewide average county allocation of property taxes in 2002-03. The redirection of property tax revenues from educational agencies to low-wealth counties would continue until such time that each county reached the statewide average allocation of in 2002-03 (which was 19 percent).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2701 (Blakeslee-R) San Luis Obispo County
Removes the power to construct and operate a wastewater collection and treatment system from the Los Osos Community Service District, then transfers this power to the County of San Luis Obispo and authorizes the county to undertake any efforts necessary to construct and operate a wastewater collection and treatment system to meet the needs of the district.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2006
AB 2746 (Blakeslee-R) Natural resources: mitigation for adverse impacts
Allows a public agency to authorize a nonprofit organization to hold title to, monitor, and manage an interest in real property that the agency requires a property owner to transfer to the agency to mitigate any adverse impact upon natural resources caused by permitting the development of a project or facility.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2006
AB 2751 (Wyland-R) Development project fees: use
Prohibits a fee on a development project from including costs attributable to existing deficiencies in public facilities, but allows the fee to include costs attributable to increased demand on public facilities reasonably related to the development project.
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2006
AB 2753 (De La Torre-D) Local government: cities: recall of governing officers
Prohibits an elective officer of a city who is the subject of a recall election from expending or participating in any action that would commit to expending city funds between the date of the recall election and the date on which the election results are certified or, if the recall is successful, between the date of the recall election and the date on which the officer's elected successor qualifies for office.
Chapter 193, Statutes of 2006
AB 2762 (Levine-D) Joint powers authorities: Indian tribes
Authorizes 16 federally recognized Indian tribal entities to participate in the Southern California Association of Governments (Association), a joint powers authority, to vote as members of the Association's General Assembly.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2764 (Wyland-R) County property
Permits a purchasing agent or other official delegated by a board of supervisors to obtain the use of real property by the county by license as well as lease, and extends the permissible maximum term of the lease or license from three years to five years.
Chapter 109, Statutes of 2006
AB 2804* (Salinas-D) Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
Requires the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District to reimburse board members for actual and necessary expenses and specifies that the district may pay compensation to board members for attending meetings.
Chapter 425, Statutes of 2006
AB 2846 (Daucher-R) State-mandated local programs: local educational agencies
Establishes new procedures for the reimbursement of state mandates to local educational agencies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2867 (Torrico-D) Land use: public hearings: notice
Requires that any public notice required pursuant to the Planning and Zoning Law be provided to the owner of the affected property as determined by specified sources, and that notice of any such hearing also required by the Subdivision Map Act also be provided to persons who have given notice of retaining mineral rights.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2006
AB 2873 (Wolk-D) County sales and use taxes: rate increase
Authorizes a county to impose an additional .25 percent sales and use tax rate under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law for a local transportation fund.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1020 (Migden-D) which died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.
AB 2879 (Niello-R) Elections: unlawful expenditures
Prohibits the use of local agency funds, services, personnel time, property, supplies, or equipment to advocate the approval or rejection of a ballot measure or to advocate the election or defeat of a candidate by the voters.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
AB 2882 (De La Torre-D) Infrastructure financing districts
Allows a city that is a member of the Orangeline Development Authority and that establishes an infrastructure financing district to provide funding to the Authority for public transit facilities, including magnetic levitation related facilities.
Chapter 197, Statutes of 2006
AB 2918 (Wolk-D) Medi-Cal: county organized health systems
Authorizes Medi-Cal county organized health systems, as defined, to provide health care services for non-Medi-Cal and non-Medicare individuals or groups and prohibits the use of Medi-Cal payments or reserves for that purpose.
Chapter 905, Statutes of 2006
AB 2922 (Jones-D) Redevelopment: Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund
Makes changes to provisions in California Redevelopment Law. Requires redevelopment agencies to record a document that specifies the date on which the affordability restrictions will expire and describes the property that is subject to the restrictions. Also specifies that interested parties, including any person or family of low or moderate income that is eligible to reside at, or is displaced or threatened with displacement from, a property subject to affordability covenants or restrictions, may sue to enforce those covenants or restrictions against the property owner.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2939 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-Yolo Port District
Redraws the boundaries for the Sacramento-Yolo Port District and eliminates seats on the commission for the City of Sacramento and Sacramento County.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2006
AB 2943 (Salinas-D) Water charges: residential fire sprinkler systems
Prohibits a local water supplier that supplies water to retail customers from imposing or increasing water charges solely due to the installation of a residential fire sprinkler system.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2951 (Goldberg-D) Capital facilities fees
Authorizes public agencies that provide public utility services to charge public agencies rates, charges, surcharges, or fees on the same basis as comparable nonpublic users, except for "capital facilities fees," which a public agency utility must negotiate with schools, public higher education, and state agencies.
Chapter 866, Statutes of 2006
AB 2968 (Leno-D) San Francisco: Medi-Cal benefits
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop and implement a program to provide a community-living support benefit, as specified, for Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are residents of San Francisco and would otherwise be homeless, living in shelters, or institutionalized.
Chapter 830, Statutes of 2006
AB 3017 (Mullin-D) Changes of venue: reimbursement
Clarifies what is meant by county costs for the purposes of reimbursing the costs involved in a change of venue for a criminal trial which must be reimbursed the receiving county by the transferring county.
Chapter 287, Statutes of 2006
AB 3022 (Umberg-D) Flood control: seller disclosures
Requires any person who intends to sell or lease subdivided lands containing qualifying real property to include in his/her application for a public report a Notice of Levee Failure Flood Hazard which states that the property is subject to a risk of flooding if a nearby levee fails, as well as information about purchasing subsidized federal flood insurance. The notice requirement only applies to public report applications submitted between July 1, 2007 and January 1, 2012.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 3024 (Wolk-D) Vote centers: Solano County
Authorizes Solano County to conduct a pilot project whereby the county elections official would establish vote centers in lieu of polling places in each precinct.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3042 (Evans-D) Regional housing
Provides a procedure by which a city or county may enter into an agreement to transfer a percentage of its share of the regional housing need to another city or county.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 3062 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Elections
Makes various changes in the Elections Code relating to municipal elections including prohibiting a person from filing to run for more than one municipal office or term of office for the same municipality at the same election.
Chapter 508, Statutes of 2006
AB 3074 (Assembly Local Government Committee) Local government: reorganization
Makes several minor, non-controversial changes to the laws affecting local government organization and reorganization.
Chapter 172, Statutes of 2006
ACA 7 (Nation-D) Local governmental taxation: special taxes: voter approval
Lowers the voter approval requirement for a city, county or special district to impose a special tax from two-thirds to 55 percent of the voters voting on the measure.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACA 13 (Harman-R) Local government: assessments and fees or charges
Exempts assessment requirements for the purposes of financing the capital costs or maintenance and operation expenses of flood control.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
ACA 15 (Mullin-D) Eminent domain: redevelopment
Places before the voters a constitutional amendment that modifies the Governor's authority to conclude tribal-state gaming compacts (compact) for class III gaming activities on Indian lands in urban areas and on Indian lands acquired after July 1, 2006.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
ACA 16 (Gordon-D) Taxation to supplement public safety funding
Lowers the vote threshold for approval of a special tax for the purpose of providing supplemental funding for sheriff, police, or fire protection services from a two-thirds to a 55 percent majority of votes cast.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
ACA 30 (Laird-D) Local government: flood control assessments
Provides that, for the purpose of levying a new assessment or increasing an existing assessment to maintain, operate, repair, relocate, or upgrade a flood control levee that was in existence before November 6, 1996, a majority protest exists if the ballots submitted in opposition represent a majority of the ballots that were mailed to affected property owners.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
ACR 77 (Chan-D) Local recreation and park agencies
Recognizes the importance of local recreation and park agencies in the effort to reverse the negative trends in inactivity, obesity, diabetes, and other health problems among Californians and encourages the state to utilize and partner with local recreation and park providers to create a healthier state.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2006
ACR 131 (Harman-R) Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum
Recognizes the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum as the official surfing museum of the state and makes various findings and declarations with respect to the International Surfing Museum (opened in 1987), its attributes, the surfing history of Huntington Beach, and surfing events and other surfing-related attractions in the city.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar bills were SCR 60 (Simitian-D) which died on Senate Inactive File, and SCR 69 (Morrow-R) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
Immigration Issues
SB 160 (Cedillo-D) Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act
Requests the University of California and requires the California State University, and the California Community Colleges (CCCs) to establish procedures and forms to enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition, based on their three-year attendance at, and graduation from, a California high school, to participate in all student aid programs administered by these segments. Also provides that persons exempt from paying nonresident tuition, and who otherwise are qualified, shall receive a CCCs' Board of Governors fee waiver.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 590 (Cedillo-D) Auto insurance
Allows the court, at its discretion, to lower the mandatory fine for undocumented immigrants who are unable to provide proof of auto insurance.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 692 (Morrow-R) Undocumented immigrants
Requires the California State University to conduct a comprehensive study of the cost and benefits that occur as a result of illegal immigration.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 693 (Morrow-R) State militia: border control assistance
Authorizes the Adjutant General to coordinate with government authorities for border control operations.
(Failed passage in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)
SB 1075* (Hollingsworth-R) Illegal immigration
Adds illegal immigration as a condition to "state of emergency" and "local emergency."
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 1162 (Cedillo-D) Drivers license and identification cards
Allows drivers licenses that may be used only for driving purposes to be issued to persons without proof of legal presence in the United States.
Vetoed by the Governor
A similar bill was SB 1160 (Cedillo-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 1267 (Cedillo-D) Office of Immigrant Affairs
Establishes within the Department of Community Services and Development the Office of Immigrant Affairs in order to ensure the integration and civic participation of new citizens in the state. The office shall be overseen and managed by a director who would administer the Naturalization Services Program and develop a program plan to add components to that program. The director shall also work with local organizations to ensure the success and availability of services provided through the Naturalization Services Program. Also authorizes the office to enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations that serve immigrants, and authorizes these organizations to be reimbursed by the office if funds are available and the director approves the reimbursement.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1444 (Escutia-D) Prisoners: foreign nationals
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to deliver a foreign national to the United States Immigration and Nationalization Service if his or her country of nationality is a party to the Council of Europe Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons or the Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad and the foreign national is subject to transfer under the applicable convention. Excludes from the required delivery provisions inmates imprisoned for murder and inmates who entered the United States prior to his or her 13th birthday.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1569 (Kuehl-D) Human services: immigrants
Extends eligibility for state and local public benefits, Medi-Cal health care and refugee cash assistance and employment services, to non-citizen victims of trafficking, domestic violence and other serious crimes, to the same extent as available to individuals admitted to the United States as refugees.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2006
SB 1664 (Poochigian-R) Sentencing: enhancements: repeat illegal aliens
Provides for an additional 10-year term of imprisonment for a person previously convicted of a felony offense for which he or she was deported.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1767 (Hollingsworth-R) Local law enforcement: immigration laws
Requires that if the Attorney General determines that a city, county, city and county, other local government agency having law enforcement powers, or a law enforcement agency itself has adopted an ordinance, regulation, resolution, or other order that prohibits its law enforcement officers and employees from cooperating with federal immigration officials, the Attorney General shall report that determination to the Controller who shall not allocate funds for state aid or assistance to that agency.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SCR 104 (Chesbro-D) Filipino Americans
Recognizes the centennial of sustained immigration from the Philippines to the United States, and acknowledges the achievements and contributions of Filipino Americans over the past century. Requests the Governor to issue a proclamation in this regard.
Resolution Chapter 74, Statutes of 2006
SCR 113 (Romero-D) The Great American Boycott 2006
Recognizes May 1, 2006, as "The Great American Boycott 2006," to educate people in California and the United States about the contributions of immigrants in California.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SCR 118 (Hollingsworth-R) Mexico's immigration policies
Urges Mexico to reform its immigration policies to guarantee rights to those who immigrate to Mexico and treat its own migrants with the same respect the United States of America extends to Mexican migrants.
(Failed passage in Senate Rules 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. Increases the statute of limitations for prosecuting actions under the Immigration Consultants Act to four years.
Chapter 605, Statutes of 2006
AB 842 (Arambula-D) Federal refugee cash assistance funds
Requires that if a refugee receiving cash assistance from the county for funds received under the federal Refugee Act of 1980 moves to another county eligible to receive those funds, the county from which the refugee moves shall transfer a proportionate share of those funds to the receiving county.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 930 (De La Torre-D) New Californians Act
Enacts the New Californians Act, establishing a naturalization program within the Department of Community Services and Development.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1808* (Assembly Budget Committee) Naturalization services
Implements the Human Services Budget trailer bill which codifies the Naturalization Services Program.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006
AB 1894 (Blakeslee-R) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States Department of Homeland Security under which the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement trains, certifies; and authorizes designated CDCR personnel to perform certain immigration processing functions.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2060 (De La Torre-D) Naturalization services
Establishes the Naturalization Services Program that is to be administered within the Department of Community Services and Development.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2006
AB 2458 (Blakeslee-R) State audit: illegal immigration: costs
Requires the Bureau of State Audits to conduct an audit to determine the impact of illegal immigration on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, state prisons, county jails, public safety infrastructure, and the state court system, to identify which costs may be eligible to be recouped from the federal government, and to report its findings to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2471 (Wyland-R) Aliens: costs of providing public benefits
Requires the Legislative Analyst to conduct a study to determine the cost to the state of providing education, health care, unemployment benefits, social services, and incarceration for undocumented immigrants, and makes legislative findings about the fiscal effects of illegal immigration.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2508 (Haynes-R) Illegal immigration: emergencies
Includes "illegal immigration" to the causes listed in the Emergency Services Act as creating conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state or within the territorial limits of a city or county that are beyond the ability of state or local resources to combat. Also declares, among other things, the intent of the Legislature to comprehensively address the urgent national security, economic, and social crisis posed by illegal immigration in the state.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2678 (Harman-R) Immigration: federal cooperation: funding
Establishes the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program in the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and appropriates $500,000 from the General Fund to fund grants to state or local law enforcement agencies who participate in ICE.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2679 (Harman-R) Legal services to indigent persons
Prohibits a recipient from using funds received under the programs for free legal service to provide legal assistance to a person who is not a citizen of the United States unless he or she is an eligible alien, as defined, or meets certain requirements related to an emergency situation or to battery or extreme cruelty. Requires a recipient, prior to providing a person claiming to be a citizen with legal assistance using these funds, to have the person attest that he or she is a citizen, except as specified, and requires the recipient to demand verification in certain situations. Requires an alien seeking representation to submit appropriate documents to verify eligibility. Requires a recipient to adopt written policies and guidelines in order to ensure compliance with these provisions, and requires the State Bar to obtain a declaration signed under penalty of perjury that the funds will be used only to provide legal services to citizens of the United States or eligible aliens. Requires the State Bar to audit a recipient annually to ensure compliance, and imposes specified penalties for a violation of these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2680* (Harman-R) Tax: deductions: wages to illegal aliens
Disallows business deductions for wages paid to an unauthorized alien.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACA 6 (Wyland-R) Undocumented immigrants: public benefits
Prohibits all public benefits to anyone who resides in California but is undocumented, unless the benefits are provided pursuant to federal law.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
ACA 20 (Haynes-R) Enforcement of immigration law
Creates a California Border Police in order to enforce federal immigration law.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
ACR 152 (Torrico-D) Immigrant Day
Acknowledges the contributions of immigrants to the state and recognizes every third Monday in May as Immigrant Day.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AJR 34 (Bogh-R) Extradition of felons
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to support and approve H.R. 3057, provided it contains a provision which would cut off foreign aid, except as specified, to any country that refuses to extradite an individual charged with a crime for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment without possibility of parole, or a lesser term of imprisonment, regardless of an individual's citizenship status.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AJR 51 (Nunez-D) Immigration reform
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to reject all immigration reform efforts that seek to criminalize an individual because of his or her immigration status, view immigration policy as only a border security issue, or fail to recognize our common humanity and the values of our nation. Memorializes the President and Congress to take a comprehensive, bipartisan, and well reasoned approach to immigration issues.
(Died on Assembly Unfinished Business File)
AJR 54 (Nation-D) California National Guard: border patrol
Memorializes the President and Congress to abandon the proposed deployment of National Guard troops along the border between the United States and Mexico and instead develop an intelligent, comprehensive, and balanced approach to immigration reform.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
Federal Issues
SJR 3 (Hollingsworth-R) Ronald Reagan statue
Requests the Congress of the United States to place a statue of former President Ronald Reagan next to the statue of Father Junipero Serra in the Congressional collection representing California.
Resolution Chapter 143, Statutes of 2006
SJR 4 (Alquist-D) Cyprus: reunification
Commends the people of Cyprus for their continued efforts in search of a just resolution of the Cyprus problem and also calls on the President and the Congress of the United States to continue our country's historic support for the reunification of Cyprus, while fully respecting that the government of the Republic of Cyprus is the only legitimate sovereign authority for the entire island of Cyprus.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SJR 5 (Speier-D) Food recalls
Requests the President and the Congress of the United States to give the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration the authority to implement a mandatory food recall system.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SJR 6 (Soto-D) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Recognizes the contributions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the 60th anniversary of his death.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SJR 10 (Figueroa-D) U.S.A. PATRIOT Act
Urges the California Congressional delegation to work to repeal any provisions of the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act that limit or impinge on rights and liberties protected equally by the United States Constitution and the California Constitution and to oppose any pending and future federal legislation to the extent that it infringes on Americans' civil rights and liberties. Resolves that the State of California will ensure that no state resources are provided for any action that violates the United States Constitution and the California Constitution, including specified actions.
Resolution Chapter 6, Statutes of 2006
SJR 13 (Escutia-D) Railroad Safety
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to amend the Federal Railroad Safety Act to allow state and local regulation, so long as the state or local regulation does not conflict with federal law, nor impose an unreasonable burden on interstate commerce.
Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2006
SJR 15 (Dutton-R) Retirement benefits: teachers
Requests the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the Social Security Fairness Act of 2006 which repeals the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision from the Social Security Act.
Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2006
SJR 16 (Machado-D) Mad Cow Disease
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to allow private companies to voluntarily meet the requirements of currently closed foreign markets by using approved testing protocols to test cattle. Also requests the President and the Congress of the United States to take additional steps to improve food safety.
(Failed passage in Senate Agriculture Committee)
SJR 19 (Alquist-D) Reproductive rights: Roe v. Wade
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to protect and uphold the intent and substance of the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, relating to reproductive rights.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SJR 20 (Alquist-D) Women's Equality Day
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2006, the 86th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SJR 21 (Machado-D) Sudden child cardiac arrhythmia syndrome
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to take necessary action to enact HR 1252, thus amending the Public Health Service Act to provide for a program of screenings and education regarding children with sudden cardiac arrhythmia syndromes.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2006
SJR 22 (Speier-D) Microbicide Development Act
Memorializes the United States Congress and the President to enact the Microbicide Development Act to facilitate the development of microbicides to prevent the transmission of HIV and other diseases.
Resolution Chapter 127, Statutes of 2006
SJR 24 (Murray-D) Telecommunications: Internet network neutrality
Urges Congress and the President to encourage broadband deployment and preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of the public Internet based on the four principles stated in the measure, subject to reasonable network management.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
SJR 25 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements
Urges the United States Trade Representative to take specified actions regarding international trade agreements and pharmaceutical drug programs.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SJR 26 (Morrow-R) Port security
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to exercise the utmost scrutiny and judgment in any decision affecting the port and maritime security of the United States and her citizens, specifically with regard to the potential Dubai Port World contract. Also memorializes the federal government to ensure that any terminal operation contracts abide strictly by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 and the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing 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 effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex.
Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2006
SJR 28 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements: public health services
Memorializes the President, and Congress of the United States, and the United States Trade Representative to take specified actions to preserve the traditional powers of state and local governments and regulate fair competition in international rules on trade in services, and specifically with respect to health-related issues.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SJR 29 (Kehoe-D) Homeland Security: California
Urges the United States Department of Homeland Security to revisit its calculation of risk for the San Diego and Sacramento areas to ensure their inclusion in future Urban Area Security Initiative grant programs.
Resolution Chapter 78, Statutes of 2006
SJR 30 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: interstate shipment of wine
Requests the Governor and Legislature of each state to enact legislation that permits out-of-state wineries to ship wines directly to consumers in their state on equal terms as in-state wineries, and that provides for the collection of applicable state taxes from these out-of-state wineries. Also memorializes the Governor and Legislature of each state to enact legislation that promotes commerce by maximizing statutory and regulatory uniformity for direct-to-consumer wine sales between the states and minimizing the expense and complexity of shipping wine from wineries directly to consumers.
Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
SJR 31 (Lowenthal-D) Clean ports
Memorializes the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, urging the administrator to adopt federal regulations limiting emissions from marine vessels, locomotives, and aircraft in order to achieve healthful air quality in California and other areas with air quality problems and to encourage the United States Environmental Protection Agency to pursue more protective regulations and incentive programs to reduce substantially the emissions from these sources, as provided.
Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2006
SJR 32 (Machado-D) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Declares the month of May 2006, and each year thereafter as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month and memorializes Congress and the President of the United States to provide additional funding for research in order to find a treatment and eventually a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2006
SR 23 (Florez-D) Federal clean air regulation
Calls upon the United States Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw the proposed rule published in the Federal Register that would remove significant clean air protections from broad areas of California and other Western states and enforce the current rules affecting particulate matter, and calls upon the congressional delegation of this state to take action to prevent the implementation of the proposed rule.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SR 24 (Alquist-D) The Republic of Cyprus
Commends the people of Cyprus for their continued efforts in search of a just resolution of the Cyprus problem and calls on the President and the Congress of the United States to continue our country's historic support for the reunification of Cyprus, while fully respecting that the government of the Republic of Cyprus is the only legitimate sovereign authority for the entire island of Cyprus.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 26 (Perata-D) The National Biological Foundry
Extends its appreciation and commendations to the national laboratory partnership of Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for their outstanding and exemplary plan for bringing the National Biological Foundry to California, and for their diligent and devoted service to, and continued concern for, the people of the State of California and the nation.
Adopted by the Senate
ACR 80 (DeVore-R) Elections in Iraq
Commends and congratulate the people of Iraq on the election held on January 30, 2005, encourages further steps toward establishment of a free, democratic, secure, and prosperous Iraq, and acknowledges and commends the role of the California National Guard units deployed to Iraq.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
ACR 91 (DeVore-R) Republic of China on Taiwan
Commends the citizens of the Republic of China on Taiwan for establishing a vibrant, multiparty democracy and for their dedication to the ideals of liberty, freedom, and human rights.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AJR 4 (Tran-R) Death tax
Requests the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that permanently repeals the death tax.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AJR 9 (Shirley Horton-R) Transportation infrastructure finance
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that will ensure that California receives a more equitable distribution of federal tax dollars for transportation funding and a higher rate of return in terms of federal money received per dollar of federal tax paid.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AJR 11 (Chan-D) War in Iraq
Memorializes the President of the United States and Congress to call for an open debate on certain congressional measures, and to swiftly adopt a plan for the timely withdrawal of United States military forces from Iraq, a redirection of the nation's efforts to deter terrorism, and a redirection of funds earmarked for the Iraq war toward domestic needs and programs, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AJR 20 (Nunez-D) Agricultural workers
States the Legislature's support of the Congressional immigration reform bill introduced in 2003 known as AgJOBS, the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AJR 28 (Wyland-R) Mexican extradition
Urges the Government of Mexico to take necessary steps to ensure extradition or prosecution of criminals facing life sentences or the death penalty for crimes committed in the United States.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AJR 29 (Jerome Horton-D) Withdrawal from Iraq
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to establish, by no later than December 31, 2005, a timetable for the withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces from Iraq and urges the President to turn over military operations in Iraq to the Iraqi government to enable the prompt and orderly withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Iraq.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AJR 31 (Evans-D) Speech
Urges the Congress of the United States to enact a shield law for America's journalists.
Resolution Chapter 135, Statutes of 2006
AJR 32 (Arambula-D) Qualified Veterans Mortgage Bonds
Requests the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that revises provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to authorize increased issuance of Qualified Veterans Mortgage Bonds by a state to fund home purchase and home improvement loans to specified veterans.
Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2006
AJR 33 (Sharon Runner-R) Qualified veterans mortgage bonds
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to amend the Internal Revenue Code to change the definition of "qualified veteran" for purposes of providing financing for home loans to any veteran who meets the requirements as may be imposed by state law pursuant to which qualified veterans' mortgage bonds are issued.
(Died in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)
AJR 34 (Bogh-R) Extradition of felons
Requests the Congress and the President of the United States to support and approve H.R. 3057, provided it contains a provision which cuts off foreign aid, except as specified, to any country that extradites an individual charged with a crime for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, or a lesser term of imprisonment, regardless of an individual's citizenship status.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AJR 35 (Bermudez-D) Air travel: repeal of Wright Amendment
Urges the Congress of the United States to repeal the International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979, commonly known as the Wright Amendment, which restricts travel into and out of Dallas Love Field Airport and prevents customers from purchasing an airline ticket for travel from Love Field to destinations outside of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, or New Mexico, as specified.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AJR 36 (Hancock-D) California National Guard and the War in Iraq
Calls upon the Governor to ensure that the President and Congress of the United States take immediate steps to initiate the return of California National Guard troops to the state.
(Died in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)
AJR 37 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Voting Rights Act of 1965
Memorializes the Congress and President of the United States to extend the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that are set to expire in the year 2007.
Resolution Chapter 59, Statutes of 2006
AJR 39 (Koretz-D) Impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney
Urges the Senators and Representatives of California in the United States Congress to cause an investigation of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney to be initiated, leading to their impeachment, conviction, and removal from office.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AJR 40 (Chan-D) Medicare prescription drugs
Memorializes the United States Congress and President to enact H.R. No. 3861, "The Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005."
Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2006
AJR 41 (Nation-D) Immigrant children
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to protect unlawful immigrant children by amending the federal immigration law to permit unlawful immigrant children to have an immigration specialist assigned to them prior to their emancipation. Also urges the Congress and the President of the United States to amend the federal Immigration and Nationality Act to allow a child who is adopted while he or she is a dependent of a juvenile court located in the United States to become a United States citizen without being fully admitted for permanent residence.
Resolution Chapter 116, Statutes of 2006
AJR 42 (Aghazarian-R) Armenian Genocide: Day of Remembrance
Designates April 24, 2006, as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915 -1923," and memorializes the Congress of the United States to act likewise to commemorate the Armenian Genocide.
Resolution Chapter 47, Statutes of 2006
AJR 43 (Leno-D) Federal education policy: Trio programs
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to remove from the President's 2007 budget proposal the recommendation that would reduce funding for the federal TRIO programs, Upward Bound and Talent Search. Also requests that the federal TRIO programs continue to be funded at or above their current funding levels.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AJR 44 (Plescia-R) Intellectual and physical property rights
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States, in cooperation with state legislatures, to work together to restore, protect, and enhance intellectual and physical property rights by reviewing present law, pending federal and state legislation, and all trade agreements.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AJR 45 (Villines-R) Farming
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to support the priorities of the Specialty Crop Industry in the 2007 Farm Bill.
Resolution Chapter 90, Statutes of 2006
AJR 46 (Karnette-D) Earthquake response plans
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency to immediately work with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and other emergency response agencies and the private sector to develop a catastrophic emergency response plan, as specified, and that the Governor's Office of Emergency Services coordinate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other appropriate agencies to conduct ongoing full scale training exercises to test coordinated response capabilities to catastrophic natural disasters and to make related reports and recommendations.
Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2006
AJR 47 (Ridley-Thomas-D) California housing affordability
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to recognize the high cost of purchasing a home in California and to act to raise the Federal Housing Administration and conforming loan limits to make it more possible for Californians to own a home.
Resolution Chapter 117, Statutes of 2006
AJR 48 (Nation-D) Veterans Remembered Flag
Requests that the President and Congress of the United States adopt a Veterans Remembered Flag, as specified.
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2006
AJR 49 (Nation-D) Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements
Requests that the United States Food and Drug Administration aggressively monitor and regulate direct-to-consumer television advertising of prescription drugs by pharmaceutical companies, and memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to ban that advertising.
Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2006
AJR 50 (Vargas-D) Sexually violent predators
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to take legislative action to require the federal Board of Prisons to refer to the California State Department of Mental Health for evaluation all person in its custody who are scheduled to be released into California who meet the statutory definition of a sexually violent predator.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AJR 52 (Sharon Runner-R) Orbiter Atlantis: retirement
Requests the President and the Congress of the United States and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to retire the Orbiter Atlantis to Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, its place of origin for eventual public display at a designated museum to inspire and educate people for years to come about the many achievements of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2006
AJR 53 (Berg-D) Klamath River salmon: Congressional relief
Expresses support for the effort in the United States Congress to provide assistance to fishing communities, businesses, and individuals to mitigate the economic losses caused by declining Klamath River fall Chinook salmon and to provide financial assistance and direction for the recovery and restoration of the salmon populations of the Klamath basin.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AJR 55 (Nava-D) Oil and gas: offshore drilling: leases: moratorium
Requests that the United States Congress continues the federal offshore oil and gas leasing moratorium for fiscal year 2007 and beyond, and expresses opposition to certain provisions of proposed federal energy policies and legislation.
Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2006
AJR 56 (Levine-D) Forestry: Federal Roadless Area Conservation Rule
Urges the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee to immediately accept the petition submitted by the Governor of the State of California and expeditiously initiate rulemaking to protect all 4.4 million acres of the Inventoried Roadless Areas within the national forests of California, in order to ensure the protection of the those forest lands.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AJR 57 (Tran-R) Taiwan
Commends Taiwan on its contributions to the global community and declares the Legislature's support of a free trade agreement with the United States that is mutually beneficial to California, the United States, and Taiwan.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AJR 58 (Hancock-D) Residency
Commends the heroism of Marlin Coats and urges the United States Government to grant permanent residence to Jacqueline Coats.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AJR 59 (Bogh-R) Customs duties and importation revenues
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that will ensure that a substantial increment of new revenues derived from customs duties and importation fees be dedicated to mitigating the economic, mobility, security, and environmental impacts of trade in California and in other trade-affected states across the United States.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)
AJR 60 (Umberg-D) National Children's Study
Memorializes the United States Congress and President to continue funding for the National Children's Study, a longitudinal study that will examine the impact of environmental conditions on the health of 100,000 children across the United States.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 4 | Murray-D The California Public Performance Facilities Act | Other State Government |
| SB 42 | Florez-D Tribal-state gaming compacts: ratification | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 51 | Kuehl-D Horsemen's organizations | Horse Racing |
| SB 53 | Kehoe-D Redevelopment | Local Government |
| SB 92 | Dunn-D Orange County Sanitation District design-build contracts | Local Government |
| SB 93 | Florez-D Local government finance: Tulare County | Local Government |
| SB 99 | Battin-R Commission on Asset Review and Divestiture | Other State Government |
| SB 103 | Ducheny-D San Diego Health Care Connection Demonstration Project | Local Government |
| SB 105 | Speier-D Disability retirement: medical examinations | Public Employees |
| SB 148 | Scott-D Alcoholic beverages: licenses | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| SB 149 | Speier-D Broadmoor Police Protection District's Property Tax Shift | Local Government |
| SB 154 | Chesbro-D Public employees' health benefits | Public Employees |
| SB 160 | Cedillo-D Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act | Immigration Issues |
| SB 168 | Chesbro-D Tribal gaming: compact ratification | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 175 | Vincent-D Gambling Control Act: licenses | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 196 | Maldonado-R County assessor employees: annual evaluation | Local Government |
| SB 221 | Runner-R Data analysis: Antelope Valley | Local Government |
| SB 230* | Figueroa-D Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program | Local Government |
| SB 254 | Torlakson-D State property: vending machines | Other State Government |
| SB 276 | Denham-R State property | Other State Government |
| SB 286 | Lowenthal-D Housing | Local Government |
| SB 288* | Battin-R Gaming | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 308 | Simitian-D Recording fees: elder and dependent adult financial abuse | Local Government |
| SB 311 | Cox-R State Merit Awards Program | Public Employees |
| SB 321 | Morrow-R Developer fees | Local Government |
| SB 328 | Cedillo-D Public Safety Officers Procedural Bills of Rights | Local Government |
| SB 336 | Maldonado-R Public Employees' Retirement System: safety category | Public Employees |
| SB 350 | Machado-D San Joaquin River restoration and water management | Local Government |
| SB 357* | Perata-D State employees: MOU: State Bargaining Units 12 and 13 | Public Employees |
| SB 379 | Margett-R Public employees' retirement: disability retirement benefits | Public Employees |
| SB 393 | Ortiz-D Special districts | Local Government |
| SB 432 | Alquist-D County fees | Local Government |
| SB 458 | Speier-D Health care: county organized health systems | Local Government |
| SB 470 | Ducheny-D Tribal gaming: compact ratification | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 475 | Runner-R Drinking water: residential self-regenerating water softener | Local Government |
| SB 483 | Cedillo-D Special districts | Local Government |
| SB 486 | Migden-D Local government finance | Local Government |
| SB 490 | Lowenthal-D Local government finance | Local Government |
| SB 506 | Poochigian-R Public officials | Local Government |
| SB 521 | Torlakson-D Recording fees: Contra Costa County | Local Government |
| SB 524 | Torlakson-D Retirement: Contra Costa County | Public Employees Local Government |
| SB 535 | Runner-R Design-build contracts: City of Victorville. | Local Government |
| SB 542 | Margett-R Satellite wagering | Horse Racing |
| SB 590 | Cedillo-D Auto insurance | Immigration Issues |
| SB 596 | Bowen-D Municipal elections: voting methods | Local Government |
| SB 625 | Battin-R State and local surplus property | Other State Government |
| SB 656 | Romero-D Taxation: alcoholic beverages | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| SB 677 | Murray-D Horse racing | Horse Racing |
| SB 692 | Morrow-R Undocumented immigrants | Immigration Issues |
| SB 693 | Morrow-R State militia: border control assistance | Immigration Issues |
| SB 704 | Speier-D State employees: protective clothing | Public Employees |
| SB 709 | Speier-D Community colleges: board of governors: Lt. Governor | Other State Government |
| SB 725 | Morrow-R Land use regulation: compensation | Local Government |
| SB 732 | Ashburn-R Local government finance: enterprise special districts | Local Government |
| SB 733 | Aanestad-R Public employees' retirement: Butte County | Public Employees |
| SB 740 | Romero-D Public agencies | Other State Government |
| SB 746 | Vincent-D Horse racing | Horse Racing |
| SB 750* | Soto-D State employees: State Bargaining Unit 3 | Public Employees |
| SB 777 | Soto-D County employees' retirement | Public Employees |
| SB 834 | Figueroa-D Department of General Services: information technology | Other State Government |
| SB 843 | Dunn-D General plans: housing elements | Local Government |
| SB 858* | Kehoe-D Department of Transportation: surplus property | Other State Government |
| SB 877 | Speier-D County employees retirement: incapacity | Public Employees |
| SB 880 | Ashburn-R Public employees' retirement: contingency reserves | Public Employees |
| SB 881 | Ashburn-R Public employees' retirement: election to First Tier | Public Employees |
| SB 882 | Ashburn-R Public employees' retirement: final compensation | Public Employees |
| SB 883 | Ashburn-R Public employees' retirement benefits | Public Employees |
| SB 884 | Ashburn-R Public employees' retirement: benefit increases | Public Employees |
| SB 885 | Ashburn-R County employees' retirement: disability retirement | Public Employees |
| SB 886 | Ashburn-R Bureau of State Audits: audit of state safety employees | Public Employees |
| SB 887 | Ashburn-R Public employees' retirement: member designations | Public Employees |
| SB 888 | Ashburn-R Public employees' retirement: hybrid retirement programs | Public Employees |
| SB 890 | Ashburn-R State employment relations: MOU addenda | Public Employees |
| SB 898 | Poochigian-R Weapons in state buildings | Other State Government |
| SB 900* | Denham-R Surplus state property: disposition | Other State Government Local Government |
| SB 927 | Lowenthal-D Ports: congestion relief: security enhancement: regulatory | Local Government |
| SB 935 | Ducheny-D Tribal gaming: compact ratification | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 968 | Torlakson-D Domestic violence: Contra Costa County | Local Government |
| SB 983 | Lowenthal-D Subdivision Map Act | Local Government |
| SB 1002 | Florez-D Gelatin-based alcoholic beverages | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| SB 1010 | Florez-D Rail service: City of Shafter | Local Government |
| SB 1011* | Florez-D California State Lottery | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 1013* | Florez-D Tribal gaming: compacts | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 1026 | Kuehl-D Highway construction contracts: design-build projects | Local Government |
| SB 1039 | Bowen-D Compulsive gambling | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 1052 | Kehoe-D Subdivisions: appeals | Local Government |
| SB 1059 | Escutia-D Electric transmission corridors | Local Government |
| SB 1060 | Campbell-R Local government finance | Local Government |
| SB 1061 | Dutton-R State property leases | Other State Government |
| SB 1063* | Ashburn-R State employees: furloughs | Public Employees |
| SB 1066 | Ashburn-R State employer-employee relations | Public Employees |
| SB 1075* | Hollingsworth-R Illegal immigration | Immigration Issues |
| SB 1091 | Maldonado-R State retirees: vision care benefits | Public Employees |
| SB 1093 | Soto-D Disability retirement: state employees | Public Employees |
| SB 1121* | Senate Local Government Committee First Validating Act of 2006 | Local Government |
| SB 1122* | Senate Local Government Committee Second Validating Act of 2006 | Local Government |
| SB 1123 | Senate Local Government Committee Third Validating Act of 2006 | Local Government |
| SB 1126 | Chesbro-D Tidelands: City of Eureka | Local Government |
| SB 1136* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee State bonds: financing and hedging contracts | Other State Government |
| SB 1141 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Tobacco assets: sales | Other State Government |
| SB 1162 | Cedillo-D Drivers license and identification cards | Immigration Issues |
| SB 1168 | Chesbro-D Rural Health Care Equity Program | Public Employees |
| SB 1169 | Cox-R Municipal utility districts: purchases | Local Government |
| SB 1180 | Migden-D Alcohol use prevention: minors: study | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| SB 1189 | Florez-D Alpaugh Irrigation District | Local Government |
| SB 1194 | Morrow-R Employment: hiring practices: immigration status | Public Employees |
| SB 1196 | Senate Local Government Committee Local Government Omnibus Act of 2006 | Local Government |
| SB 1198 | Florez-D Local gambling | Other Gaming Legislation Local Government |
| SB 1202* | Murray-D State claims | Other State Government |
| SB 1206 | Kehoe-D Redevelopment | Local Government |
| SB 1210 | Torlakson-D Eminent domain | Local Government |
| SB 1218* | Cedillo-D State employees: State Bargaining Unit 6 | Public Employees |
| SB 1226 | Chesbro-D Surplus state property: County of Napa | Local Government |
| SB 1229 | Florez-D Horse racing: advertising | Horse Racing |
| SB 1244 | Soto-D National Guard: volunteers: travel and uniform allowance | Other State Government |
| SB 1253 | Migden-D Historic wine | Alcoholic Beverage Control Other State Government |
| SB 1267 | Cedillo-D Office of Immigrant Affairs | Immigration Issues |
| SB 1268 | Cedillo-D Economic development subsidies: review by local agencies | Local Government |
| SB 1271 | Escutia-D Public officers: conflicts of interest | Local Government |
| SB 1273 | Soto-D Public Employees' Retirement System: area agency on aging. | Public Employees |
| SB 1276 | Senate Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments Committee Legislature: elections | Legislature |
| SB 1277 | Alquist-D Emergency services and care: reimbursement | Local Government |
| SB 1281 | Romero-D Public contracts | Other State Government |
| SB 1293 | Kuehl-D State library: access to electronic and online materials | Other State Government |
| SB 1296 | Kehoe-D San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency: governance | Local Government |
| SB 1300 | Kuehl-D Vehicles: mobile photo radar speed enforcement | Local Government |
| SB 1317 | Torlakson-D Property tax revenue allocations: public utilities | Local Government |
| SB 1320 | Cedillo-D Probation: Los Angeles County | Local Government |
| SB 1321 | Cedillo-D Criminal procedure: release from custody in jail | Local Government |
| SB 1322 | Cedillo-D Housing | Local Government |
| SB 1323 | Cedillo-D Los Angeles County mental health: treatment pilot program | Local Government |
| SB 1329 | Alquist-D Community development: healthy food choices | Local Government |
| SB 1330 | Dunn-D Housing developments: attorney's fees | Local Government |
| SB 1345 | Chesbro-D Public contracts: recycled products: compost | Other State Government |
| SB 1359 | Torlakson-D Subsurface installations: excavations | Local Government |
| SB 1360 | Kehoe-D County records: conservation easement registry | Local Government |
| SB 1362 | Chesbro-D Tribal gaming: compact ratification | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 1363 | Battin-R Indian gaming | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 1370 | Chesbro-D Alcoholic beverages: issuance and transfer of licenses | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| SB 1380 | Chesbro-D Alcoholic beverages: California county wine | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| SB 1381 | Vincent-D Stewards: overruled decisions: evidence | Horse Racing |
| SB 1384 | Kuehl-D Los Angeles-Exposition Metro Line light rail project | Local Government |
| SB 1396 | Denham-R Horse racing: licensing | Horse Racing |
| SB 1421 | Margett-R CalWORKs child care fraud | Local Government |
| SB 1430 | Alquist-D The Local Pandemic and Emergency Health Preparedness Act | Local Government |
| SB 1431 | Cox-R Design-build contracting | Local Government |
| SB 1432 | Lowenthal-D Mello-Roos districts | Local Government |
| SB 1443* | Ashburn-R Public employees' retirement: retirement allowances | Public Employees |
| SB 1444 | Escutia-D Prisoners: foreign nationals | Immigration Issues |
| SB 1445 | Alquist-D Military benefits: health care benefits | Public Employees |
| SB 1447 | Soto-D State excluded employees: management incentive payments | Public Employees |
| SB 1452 | Speier-D State audits | Other State Government |
| SB 1464 | Denham-R California Horse Racing Board | Horse Racing |
| SB 1486 | Hollingsworth-R Alcoholic beverages: places of consumption | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| SB 1504 | Hollingsworth-R Community care facilities: business licenses | Local Government |
| SB 1507 | Margett-R Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Local Government |
| SB 1509 | Soto-D Zoning regulations | Local Government |
| SB 1523 | Alarcon-D Development projects: superstore retailers | Local Government |
| SB 1534 | Ortiz-D Public benefits | Local Government |
| SB 1536* | Cox-R State property: City of Folsom | Other State Government Local Government |
| SB 1539 | Kehoe-D San Diego Association of Governments Energy Working Group | Local Government |
| SB 1548 | Murray-D Alcoholic beverages: tastings | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| SB 1554 | Bowen-D Local publicly owned electric utilities: cost responsibility | Local Government |
| SB 1557 | Ducheny-D Coachella Valley Water District: nonpotable water use | Local Government |
| SB 1569 | Kuehl-D Human services: immigrants | Immigration Issues |
| SB 1583 | Kuehl-D Marvin Braude Bikeway | Local Government |
| SB 1604 | Margett-R Public contracts: bids and disputes | Other State Government |
| SB 1605 | Margett-R Public contracts: public works | Other State Government |
| SB 1615 | Simitian-D State agencies: collection of data | Other State Government |
| SB 1618 | McClintock-R Local agency contracts | Local Government |
| SB 1627 | Kehoe-D Wireless telecommunications facilities | Local Government |
| SB 1628 | Perata-D San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority | Local Government |
| SB 1629* | Speier-D Public contracts: Federal Laboratory Contracting Act | Other State Government |
| SB 1630* | Maldonado-R Water corporations: sale: right of first refusal | Local Government |
| SB 1650 | Kehoe-D Eminent domain | Other State Government Local Government |
| SB 1664 | Poochigian-R Sentencing: enhancements: repeat illegal aliens | Immigration Issues |
| SB 1676 | Ducheny-D Subdivisions: final maps | Local Government |
| SB 1687 | Murray-D Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Local Government |
| SB 1692 | Migden-D Horse racing | Horse Racing |
| SB 1694 | Aanestad-R Transportation: federal funds: allocation to counties | Local Government |
| SB 1695 | Vincent-D Horse racing: wagering | Horse Racing |
| SB 1697 | Soto-D Military service: benefits | Public Employees |
| SB 1701 | Migden-D Tidelands and submerged lands: Richardson Bay | Local Government |
| SB 1703 | Lowenthal-D California Transportation Commission: appointments | Legislature |
| SB 1708 | Ackerman-R Medi-Cal: county organized health systems: fraud | Local Government |
| SB 1721* | Dunn-D State employees: State Bargaining Units 16 and 19 | Public Employees |
| SB 1729 | Soto-D Public employees: benefits | Public Employees |
| SB 1749 | Migden-D Transit fare evasion | Local Government |
| SB 1752 | Migden-D Unclaimed property | Other State Government |
| SB 1754 | Lowenthal-D Housing and infrastructure zones | Local Government |
| SB 1762 | Figueroa-D International trade agreements: legislative consent | Legislature Other State Government |
| SB 1767 | Hollingsworth-R Local law enforcement: immigration laws | Local Government Immigration Issues |
| SB 1770 | Figueroa-D Multistate lottery: Cal Grant C Plus Program | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SB 1773 | Alarcon-D Fines and forfeitures | Local Government |
| SB 1800 | Ducheny-D General plans: housing | Local Government |
| SB 1801 | Ducheny-D Municipal hospitals: closed meetings | Local Government |
| SB 1803 | Florez-D Public utilities: municipal corporations: communications | Local Government |
| SB 1805* | Florez-D Horse racing: thoroughbred racing: handle | Horse Racing |
| SB 1807* | Runner-R California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection | Other State Government Local Government |
| SB 1809 | Machado-D Redevelopment: eminent domain | Local Government |
| SB 1826 | Migden-D Surplus state property | Other State Government |
| SB 1832 | Kehoe-D Public records: fee waiver | Other State Government |
| SB 1841 | Migden-D Yerba Buena Island ramp connections | Local Government |
| SB 1842 | Migden-D San Francisco sports stadium project validation | Local Government |
| SCA 3 | Lowenthal-D Legislative process | Legislature |
| SCA 6 | Cox-R Gubernatorial succession: Governor's absence from state | Other State Government |
| SCA 11 | Ashburn-R State employees: employer-employee relations | Public Employees |
| SCA 15 | McClintock-R Eminent domain: condemnation proceedings | Other State Government Local Government |
| SCA 17 | Speier-D State officers: outside income | Other State Government |
| SCA 19 | Battin-R Legislature: committees | Legislature |
| SCA 20 | McClintock-R Eminent domain: condemnation proceedings | Other State Government Local Government |
| SCA 22 | Murray-D Amending and revising the California Constitution. | Other State Government |
| SCA 25 | Morrow-R Tribal-state gaming compacts | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SCA 26 | Hollingsworth-R Legislative powers | Legislature |
| SCA 32 | Maldonado-R California missions: preservation | Other State Government |
| SCR 1 | Battin-R Joint Rules of the Legislature | Legislature |
| SCR 17 | Ducheny-D Flag of the former Republic of Vietnam: display | Other State Government |
| SCR 30 | Perata-D Legislative Counsel of California | Legislature |
| SCR 32 | Escutia-D Cesar Chavez Day | Other State Government |
| SCR 48 | Lowenthal-D Paramount Hay Tree in the City of Paramount | Local Government |
| SCR 60 | Simitian-D City of Santa Cruz: "Surf City, U.S.A." | Local Government |
| SCR 69 | Morrow-R California Surf Museum | Other State Government |
| SCR 74 | Alquist-D Lunar New Year | Other State Government |
| SCR 75 | Alquist-D Girl Scouts | Other State Government |
| SCR 78 | Alquist-D Greek Independence Day | Other State Government |
| SCR 83 | Alquist-D Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month | Other State Government |
| SCR 88 | Battin-R California Hispanic Heritage Month | Other State Government |
| SCR 89 | Battin-R Native Americans: California Indian Heritage Month | Other State Government |
| SCR 91 | Lowenthal-D Watts Towers of Simon Rodia in the City of Los Angeles | Local Government |
| SCR 99 | Ortiz-D Honoring the Sisters of Mercy | Other State Government |
| SCR 104 | Chesbro-D Filipino Americans | Immigration Issues |
| SCR 107 | Kehoe-D Emergency services and homeland security | Legislature |
| SCR 108 | Morrow-R The Ten Commandments | Other State Government |
| SCR 110 | Torlakson-D National Library Week | Other State Government |
| SCR 113 | Romero-D The Great American Boycott 2006 | Immigration Issues |
| SCR 117 | Soto-D PERS: reverse annuity mortgages | Public Employees |
| SCR 118 | Hollingsworth-R Mexico's immigration policies | Immigration Issues |
| SCR 121 | Alquist-D Ramadan | Other State Government |
| SCR 123 | Florez-D Joint Legislative Committee on High-Speed Trains | Legislature |
| SCR 125 | Denham-R National Day of the Cowboy | Other State Government |
| SCR 135 | Perata-D Leo J. Trombatore State Office Building | Other State Government |
| SJR 3 | Hollingsworth-R Ronald Reagan statue | Federal Issues |
| SJR 4 | Alquist-D Cyprus: reunification | Federal Issues |
| SJR 5 | Speier-D Food recalls | Federal Issues |
| SJR 6 | Soto-D Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Federal Issues |
| SJR 10 | Figueroa-D U.S.A. PATRIOT Act | Federal Issues |
| SJR 13 | Escutia-D Railroad Safety | Federal Issues |
| SJR 15 | Dutton-R Retirement benefits: teachers | Federal Issues |
| SJR 16 | Machado-D Mad Cow Disease | Federal Issues |
| SJR 19 | Alquist-D Reproductive rights: Roe v. Wade | Federal Issues |
| SJR 20 | Alquist-D Women's Equality Day | Federal Issues |
| SJR 21 | Machado-D Sudden child cardiac arrhythmia syndrome | Federal Issues |
| SJR 22 | Speier-D Microbicide Development Act | Federal Issues |
| SJR 24 | Murray-D Telecommunications: Internet network neutrality | Federal Issues |
| SJR 25 | Figueroa-D International trade agreements | Federal Issues |
| SJR 26 | Morrow-R Port security | Federal Issues |
| SJR 27 | Bowen-D Equal Pay Day | Federal Issues |
| SJR 28 | Figueroa-D International trade agreements: public health services | Federal Issues |
| SJR 29 | Kehoe-D Homeland Security: California | Federal Issues |
| SJR 30 | Chesbro-D Alcoholic beverages: interstate shipment of wine | Alcoholic Beverage Control Federal Issues |
| SJR 31 | Lowenthal-D Clean ports | Federal Issues |
| SJR 32 | Machado-D Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Federal Issues |
| SR 14 | Perata-D Bills | Legislature |
| SR 20 | Florez-D Tribal gaming | Other Gaming Legislation |
| SR 21 | Perata-D Senate Rule 12 | Legislature |
| SR 23 | Florez-D Federal clean air regulation | Federal Issues |
| SR 24 | Alquist-D The Republic of Cyprus | Other State Government Federal Issues |
| SR 26 | Perata-D The National Biological Foundry | Federal Issues |
| SR 29 | Romero-D Rose Ann Vuich Hearing Room | Legislature |
| SR 31 | Kuehl-D Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month | Other State Government |
| SR 35 | Morrow-R Relative to Robert E. Ham | Other State Government |
| SB 3X | Speier-D Disability retirement: medical examinations | Public Employees |
| SB 5X | Ducheny-D Public employees' retirement | Public Employees |
| AB 30 | Negrete McLeod-D Retirement: military service | Public Employees |
| AB 38 | Tran-R State boards and commissions: salaries: suspension | Other State Government |
| AB 40* | Wolk-D Political reform: conflicts of interest: lobbyists | Legislature |
| AB 53* | Negrete McLeod-D Surplus state property | Other State Government |
| AB 74 | Frommer-D Butte County Healthy Communities Fund | Local Government |
| AB 117* | Cohn-D Tax Equity Allocation formula: County of Santa Clara | Local Government |
| AB 126 | Dymally-D County hospitals: indigent services | Local Government |
| AB 146* | Nunez-D MOU: State Bargaining Unit 2 | Public Employees |
| AB 181 | Huff-R Legislative hearings: closed- and live-captioning | Legislature |
| AB 183* | Cogdill-R Conservation camps: Madera County | Local Government |
| AB 194 | Dymally-D Brown Act violations: remedy | Local Government |
| AB 219 | Nakanishi-R State agencies: publications | Other State Government |
| AB 237 | Arambula-D California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank | Other State Government |
| AB 245* | Walters-R Trinity County Health Care District: board members election | Local Government |
| AB 252 | Dymally-D Digital Arts Studio Partnership Program Act | Other State Government |
| AB 271 | Blakeslee-R State employees: scientists | Public Employees |
| AB 273 | Baca-D Alcohol vaporized device | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 274 | Baca-D State employees: paid leave: education | Public Employees |
| AB 284 | Bermudez-D State employees: salary ranges: professional scientists | Public Employees |
| AB 286* | Matthews-D Banta-Carbona Irrigation District | Local Government |
| AB 295 | Chavez-D Public contracts: security services | Other State Government |
| AB 301 | Assembly Business And Professions Committee State property: inventory | Other State Government |
| AB 311 | Baca-D City of San Bernardino: parking structure funding | Local Government |
| AB 345 | La Malfa-R Infrastructure financing | Other State Government |
| AB 350 | Matthews-D Fire protection district boards: contract bidding procedures | Local Government |
| AB 372 | Nation-D Public contracts: transit design-build contracts | Local Government |
| AB 386* | Lieber-D Memoranda of understanding: State Bargaining Units 16 and 19 | Public Employees |
| AB 395 | Canciamilla-D Recording of legislative proceedings | Legislature |
| AB 407 | Calderon-D Horse racing: satellite wagering | Horse Racing |
| AB 426 | Bogh-R High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes | Local Government |
| AB 454 | Sharon Runner-R Alcoholic beverages: underage drinking | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 456 | Torrico-D Public employees' retirement: fraud | Public Employees |
| AB 463* | Tran-R Subsurface installations: excavation | Local Government |
| AB 475 | Baca-D Local agency military base recovery area (LAMBRA) | Local Government |
| AB 487 | Nakanishi-R State buildings: works of art: financing | Other State Government |
| AB 500 | La Malfa-R State mandates | Local Government |
| AB 504 | Harman-R Real property electronic recording | Local Government |
| AB 511 | Richman-R Public employees' retirement | Public Employees |
| AB 514 | Richman-R Public employees: benefits | Public Employees |
| AB 531 | Levine-D Horse racing board | Horse Racing |
| AB 534 | Montanez-D Public officials: financial duties | Other State Government |
| AB 546 | Garcia-R State computers: prohibited use: obscene matter | Other State Government |
| AB 565 | Plescia-R Public employment: officers and employees: salaries | Public Employees |
| AB 588 | Goldberg-D Statistical districts: Hollywood | Local Government |
| AB 590 | Walters-R Eminent domain: private property | Other State Government Local Government |
| AB 591 | Salinas-D Elections: Monterey County: all-mailed ballot elections | Local Government |
| AB 614 | Oropeza-D Problem and pathological gambling | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 616 | Vargas-D Public buildings: smoking areas | Other State Government |
| AB 619 | Cogdill-R Local government financing | Local Government |
| AB 623* | Gordon-D Redevelopment: Los Angeles Air Force Base | Local Government |
| AB 629 | Chan-D Prisoners: Alameda County reentry services pilot program | Local Government |
| AB 630 | Chu-D Immigration consultants | Immigration Issues |
| AB 636 | Huff-R Legislature: performance review | Legislature |
| AB 655 | Leno-D Admissions surcharge: California Arts Council | Other State Government |
| AB 677 | Parra-D Property tax revenue: McFarland Recreation and Park District | Local Government |
| AB 685 | Calderon-D City of Montebello: police dispatch and records system | Local Government |
| AB 701 | Nava-D State buildings: energy and design criteria | Other State Government |
| AB 705 | Nakanishi-R Public employees' retirement: school members | Public Employees |
| AB 725 | Canciamilla-D Appropriations | Other State Government |
| AB 737 | Jerome Horton-D Property tax revenue allocations: public utilities | Local Government |
| AB 742* | Jones-D State employees: compensation | Public Employees |
| AB 744 | Oropeza-D Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control: license transfers | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 750 | Mullin-D Criminal trial costs: San Mateo County | Local Government |
| AB 759 | Lieber-D El Camino Hospital District | Local Government |
| AB 773 | Mullin-D Redevelopment: referendum | Local Government |
| AB 782 | Mullin-D Redevelopment: project area. | Local Government |
| AB 799 | Leno-D Local vehicle license fee: San Francisco | Local Government |
| AB 801 | Jones-D Outdoor advertising | Local Government |
| AB 802 | Wolk-D Land use: water supply | Local Government |
| AB 836 | Huff-R State agency budgets: zero-based budgeting | Other State Government |
| AB 839 | Torrico-D Gambling Control Act: nonprofit organization fundraisers | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 842 | Arambula-D Federal refugee cash assistance funds: county transfers | Local Government Immigration Issues |
| AB 844 | Negrete McLeod-D Public employment: postretirement death benefits | Public Employees |
| AB 884 | Baca-D State employment: contract employees | Public Employees |
| AB 902 | Bogh-R State employees: State Bargaining Unit 8: compensation | Public Employees |
| AB 910 | Mullin-D Life sciences: ombudsman | Other State Government |
| AB 919 | Bogh-R Tax collector: property tax: sale of tax certificates | Local Government |
| AB 921 | Daucher-R Redevelopment | Local Government |
| AB 930 | De La Torre-D New Californians Act | Immigration Issues |
| AB 939 | Mullin-D Redevelopment | Local Government |
| AB 945 | Koretz-D Public contracts: prospective bidders | Other State Government |
| AB 948 | Oropeza-D State agencies: statistical analysis | Local Government |
| AB 986 | Torrico-D Transit oriented development | Local Government |
| AB 997 | Cogdill-R State regulatory agencies: fee notification | Other State Government Local Government |
| AB 1005 | Calderon-D Horse racing: San Mateo County | Horse Racing Local Government |
| AB 1013 | Garcia-R Local elected officials: vacancy: appointment | Local Government |
| AB 1019 | Harman-R Public employees: bereavement leave | Public Employees |
| AB 1020 | Hancock-D Planning: smart growth models | Local Government |
| AB 1033 | Daucher-R Property tax revenue allocations | Local Government |
| AB 1035 | Spitzer-R Public officials: home information | Other State Government |
| AB 1039 | Frommer-D Government: environment: bonds: transportation | Local Government |
| AB 1053 | Bogh-R Tribal gaming: compact ratification | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 1085 | Ruskin-D County Health Initiative Matching Fund | Local Government |
| AB 1094 | Nakanishi-R State property: lease: Ione Youth Facility | Local Government |
| AB 1127 | Garcia-R Two-way video teleconferencing testing | Local Government |
| AB 1140 | Dymally-D Water districts: landowner requirements | Local Government |
| AB 1146 | Huff-R Local government finance: ad valorem property tax revenues | Local Government |
| AB 1162 | Mullin-D Eminent domain | Local Government |
| AB 1165* | Bogh-R State employees: State Bargaining Unit 8 | Public Employees |
| AB 1167 | Chu-D Redevelopment: El Monte | Local Government |
| AB 1172* | Chu-D Claims against the state: appropriation | Other State Government |
| AB 1174 | Tran-R State agencies: administrative hearings: reporting | Other State Government |
| AB 1186 | Jerome Horton-D State civil service | Public Employees |
| AB 1197 | Gordon-D Aviation: Southern California Regional Aviation Commission | Local Government |
| AB 1198 | Mullin-D Juvenile court records: County of San Mateo | Local Government |
| AB 1204 | Laird-D Parks: Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District | Local Government |
| AB 1205 | Blakeslee-R Development project fees: protests | Local Government |
| AB 1210 | Levine-D State Capitol Historic Region: genocide memorial | Other State Government |
| AB 1243 | Benoit-R Local government finance | Local Government |
| AB 1248 | Umberg-D Criminal law: booking fees | Local Government |
| AB 1259 | Daucher-R Housing element: regional housing need | Local Government |
| AB 1302 | Jerome Horton-D Office of Administrative Law: regulations | Other State Government |
| AB 1314 | Ridley-Thomas-D Neighborhood councils: open meetings | Local Government |
| AB 1330 | Karnette-D Redevelopment: Los Angeles Harbor District | Local Government |
| AB 1335 | Vargas-D Business improvement and residential areas | Local Government |
| AB 1337 | Ruskin-D Environment: state buildings: green building standards | Other State Government |
| AB 1352 | Bogh-R Redevelopment: transfer of funds | Local Government |
| AB 1355 | Cogdill-R Employment relations: State Bargaining Unit 8 | Public Employees |
| AB 1361* | Dymally-D Elections: City of Vernon | Local Government |
| AB 1367 | Evans-D General plans: regional housing need | Local Government |
| AB 1369* | Nunez-D State employees: memoranda of understanding | Public Employees |
| AB 1388 | Ridley-Thomas-D California Teleconnect Fund Administration Committee Fund | Other State Government |
| AB 1401 | Hancock-D Indian gaming | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 1433 | Emmerson-R Pupil health: oral health assessment | Other State Government |
| AB 1443 | Hancock-D Local agency auditors | Local Government |
| AB 1450 | Evans-D Land use: density bonus | Local Government |
| AB 1457* | Baca-D State property: City of San Bernardino | Other State Government Local Government |
| AB 1458* | De La Torre-D MOU: State Bargaining Unit 10 and 18 | Public Employees |
| AB 1467 | Nunez-D Transportation projects: public-private partnerships | Local Government |
| AB 1472 | Coto-D Redevelopment | Local Government |
| AB 1473 | Coto-D State government: property management | Other State Government |
| AB 1491 | Calderon-D Redevelopment: low and moderate income housing | Local Government |
| AB 1494 | Baca-D Alcoholic beverages: instructions: tastings | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 1499 | Benoit-R Outdoor advertising: City of Riverside | Local Government |
| AB 1510 | Calderon-D State employees: supervisors | Public Employees |
| AB 1518 | Jerome Horton-D Outdoor advertising | Local Government |
| AB 1519 | Emmerson-R Government records: video monitoring | Local Government |
| AB 1520 | Niello-R Public works contracts: infrastructure projects | Other State Government |
| AB 1526 | Bogh-R Public employees' retirement: special death benefits | Public Employees |
| AB 1530 | La Malfa-R Public funds: membership dues | Other State Government |
| AB 1537 | Bass-D Alcoholic beverages: issuance of license: restrictions | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 1552 | La Suer-R San Diego Consolidated Transportation Agency | Local Government |
| AB 1561 | Umberg-D Gambling | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 1564 | Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee Citizen Complaint Act of 1997: Internet web sites | Other State Government |
| AB 1568 | Torrico-D County employees: retirement boards | Public Employees |
| AB 1582* | Dymally-D Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program | Other State Government |
| AB 1584 | Evans-D Excluded employees: mediation | Public Employees |
| AB 1588 | Negrete McLeod-D Professional licensing boards: review and repeals | Other State Government |
| AB 1590* | Lieber-D Property tax revenue allocations: special districts | Local Government |
| AB 1596* | Emmerson-R Property tax revenue allocations: enterprise | Local Government |
| AB 1599 | La Malfa-R Homicide trial costs | Local Government |
| AB 1602 | Laird-D Local government finance | Local Government |
| AB 1606 | Salinas-D Redevelopment: low-income housing | Local Government |
| AB 1615 | Klehs-D Tax accounts: local governments | Local Government |
| AB 1617 | Liu-D Surplus residential property | Other State Government Local Government |
| AB 1620 | Klehs-D Gambling license fees | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 1634* | McCarthy-R Special statewide election expenses | Local Government |
| AB 1643 | Jones-D Public employees: long-term care | Public Employees |
| AB 1654 | De La Torre-D Public contracts: bid preferences | Other State Government |
| AB 1658 | Jerome Horton-D Alcoholic beverages: beer brewing | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 1708 | DeVore-R State employees | Public Employees |
| AB 1751 | Assembly Governmental Organization Committee Horse racing | Horse Racing |
| AB 1771 | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State employees: memorandum of understanding | Public Employees |
| AB 1773* | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State employees: memorandum of understanding | Public Employees |
| AB 1775* | Canciamilla-D Public records: infrastructure security | Other State Government |
| AB 1782 | Mullin-D Lottery Act: multistate lottery: distribution of revenues | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 1784* | Chu-D State claims | Other State Government |
| AB 1794 | DeVore-R Local government: investments | Local Government |
| AB 1798* | Berg-D Disaster relief | Local Government |
| AB 1805* | Assembly Budget Committee Local government trailer bill | Local Government |
| AB 1806* | Assembly Budget Committee General government | Other State Government |
| AB 1808* | Assembly Budget Committee Naturalization services | Immigration Issues |
| AB 1811* | Laird-D General government: budget trailer bill | Other State Government |
| AB 1812* | Assembly Budget Committee Property acquisition: budget trailer bill | Other State Government |
| AB 1831* | Jones-D California Critical Infrastructure Facilities Bond Acts | Other State Government |
| AB 1843 | Leslie-R The California State Military Museum and Resource Center | Other State Government |
| AB 1858 | McCarthy-R State Highway Routes 58, 178, and 204: relinquishment | Local Government |
| AB 1859 | Leslie-R Placer County integrated health and human services | Local Government |
| AB 1860 | Blakeslee-R State property: public contracts | Other State Government Local Government |
| AB 1864 | Matthews-D Park lands: Fahrens Creek Park | Local Government |
| AB 1866 | Karnette-D Recycling: polystyrene: state facilities | Other State Government |
| AB 1878 | Parra-D Southern San Joaquin Valley: advisory council | Local Government |
| AB 1886 | Dymally-D Court employees | Public Employees |
| AB 1889 | Nava-D California Emergency Council | Other State Government |
| AB 1893 | Salinas-D Redevelopment | Local Government |
| AB 1894 | Blakeslee-R Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Immigration Issues |
| AB 1897 | Dymally-D Civil service: employment discrimination | Public Employees |
| AB 1899 | Wolk-D Land use: flood protection | Local Government |
| AB 1905 | Villines-R Disabled Veterans Business Enterprises | Other State Government |
| AB 1921* | Chu-D State claims | Other State Government |
| AB 1933 | Coto-D State government: tax expenditure measures and reports | Other State Government |
| AB 1949 | Jerome Horton-D Horse racing | Horse Racing |
| AB 1951 | Montanez-D Public employment: employee organizations | Public Employees |
| AB 1958 | Leslie-R Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives | Other State Government |
| AB 1960 | Leslie-R Local government financing | Local Government |
| AB 1961 | Richman-R Public Employees' retirement system: performance audit | Public Employees |
| AB 1962 | Berg-D Joint powers agreements: Yurok Tribe | Local Government |
| AB 1966 | Garcia-R Capital investment incentive programs: powerplants | Local Government |
| AB 1973 | Bermudez-D Gambling control | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 1980 | Bass-D Powers of arrest | Local Government |
| AB 1984 | Harman-R County employees' retirement systems: boards of retirement | Public Employees |
| AB 1990 | Walters-R Eminent domain | Local Government |
| AB 1998 | Chan-D Parole: prerelease program: Alameda County | Local Government |
| AB 2011 | Vargas-D Local agency investments | Local Government |
| AB 2013* | Saldana-D Youth Alcohol Problem Prevention Fund | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 2015 | Lieu-D South Coast Air Quality Management District: membership | Local Government |
| AB 2016 | Haynes-R Governmental reorganization: tax functions | Other State Government |
| AB 2018 | Saldana-D Reclamation District No. 348: trustee elections | Local Government |
| AB 2048 | Oropeza-D Display of flags | Other State Government |
| AB 2059 | Berg-D County Medical Services Program | Local Government |
| AB 2060 | De La Torre-D Naturalization services | Immigration Issues |
| AB 2069 | Maze-R Public employment: applicant qualifications. | Public Employees |
| AB 2081 | Vargas-D Old Town San Diego State Historic Park | Local Government |
| AB 2091 | Berg-D The Coast Life Support District Act: district powers | Local Government |
| AB 2098 | Liu-D Electronic Fund Transfer Task Force | Other State Government |
| AB 2103 | Walters-R Legislative Analyst: analysis of statutes | Legislature |
| AB 2114 | Umberg-D Counties: booking fees | Local Government |
| AB 2124 | Umberg-D Active militia: drilling: election day | Other State Government |
| AB 2132 | Levine-D Public employee health benefits: retirees | Public Employees |
| AB 2137 | Niello-R Sacramento Regional Transit District | Local Government |
| AB 2140 | Hancock-D General plans: safety element | Local Government |
| AB 2157 | Chu-D Redevelopment: El Monte | Local Government |
| AB 2158 | Evans-D Regional housing needs | Local Government |
| AB 2160 | Lieu-D State buildings: green building | Other State Government |
| AB 2161* | Klehs-D Child welfare services: resource family pilot program | Local Government |
| AB 2164 | La Suer-R Local law enforcement: supplemental services | Local Government |
| AB 2176 | Niello-R State mandates | Other State Government Local Government |
| AB 2184 | Bogh-R Residential facilities: land use regulations | Local Government |
| AB 2197 | Salinas-D Redevelopment plans | Local Government |
| AB 2213 | Tran-R Department of Transportation: property transfer | Local Government |
| AB 2223 | Salinas-D Local government annexation | Local Government |
| AB 2224 | Houston-R Statewide critical incident planning and mapping system | Other State Government |
| AB 2230 | La Suer-R San Diego County Regional Airport Authority | Local Government |
| AB 2236 | Ruskin-D Los Trancos County Water District | Local Government |
| AB 2240 | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee County employees' retirement: additional retirement credit | Public Employees |
| AB 2241 | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State civil service: skills-based certification | Public Employees |
| AB 2242 | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee Public employee health benefits: vision care: annuitants | Public Employees |
| AB 2243* | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State employees: memorandum of understanding | Public Employees |
| AB 2244 | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee Public Employees' Retirement System: retirement benefits | Public Employees |
| AB 2246 | La Suer-R Local public employees: peace officers | Public Employees |
| AB 2252 | Strickland-R Environmental impact report | Local Government |
| AB 2259 | Salinas-D Local agency formation: extension of services | Local Government |
| AB 2264 | Pavley-D Purchases: vehicles: state fleet | Other State Government |
| AB 2265 | Nava-D Emergency medical services | Local Government |
| AB 2286 | Torrico-D Housing | Local Government |
| AB 2307 | Mullin-D State mandate: housing element | Local Government |
| AB 2309 | Negrete McLeod-D Payments to public agencies | Local Government |
| AB 2310 | Torrico-D Fireworks regulations: local law enforcement | Local Government |
| AB 2324 | Canciamilla-D Tidelands and submerged lands: City of Pittsburg | Local Government |
| AB 2328 | Haynes-R Agency fiscal reports | Other State Government |
| AB 2329 | Oropeza-D Statistical districts: South Bay Cities and Harbor area | Local Government |
| AB 2338 | Villines-R Horse racing: satellite wagering commissions | Horse Racing |
| AB 2346 | Oropeza-D Infrastructure financing districts: Los Angeles Harbor | Local Government |
| AB 2348 | Laird-D Flood control: Pajaro River | Local Government |
| AB 2351 | Maze-R Retirement: elected public officers: service credit | Public Employees |
| AB 2355 | Negrete McLeod-D California State University academic employees | Public Employees |
| AB 2366 | Sharon Runner-R County employees' retirement: reinstatement | Public Employees |
| AB 2372 | Pavley-D Public projects: sanction for noncompliance | Other State Government |
| AB 2397 | Calderon-D Metropolitan water districts: service contracts | Local Government |
| AB 2399 | Garcia-R Tribal-state gaming compacts | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 2401 | Karnette-D Vehicles: autoettes | Local Government |
| AB 2404 | Klehs-D State government: reports: declarations | Other State Government |
| AB 2405 | Matthews-D Homicide trial costs: Merced County | Local Government |
| AB 2409 | Yee-D Horse racing: wagering on historical horse races | Horse Racing |
| AB 2411 | Aghazarian-R Public employees: health benefits | Public Employees |
| AB 2412 | Hancock-D Advisory elections: counties: gaming | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 2420 | Lieu-D State government: collection of demographic data | Other State Government |
| AB 2428 | Canciamilla-D Public meetings | Other State Government |
| AB 2435 | Coto-D Santa Clara Valley Water District | Local Government |
| AB 2436 | Ruskin-D Imprisonment: parole: programs | Local Government |
| AB 2438 | Chu-D Public employees' retirement: compensation | Public Employees |
| AB 2441* | Klehs-D Outdoor advertising | Local Government |
| AB 2458 | Blakeslee-R State audit: illegal immigration: costs | Immigration Issues |
| AB 2464 | Saldana-D Subdivision Map Act: San Diego condominium conversion | Local Government |
| AB 2468 | Salinas-D Planning: housing element | Local Government |
| AB 2469 | Evans-D Counties: in-home supportive services | Local Government |
| AB 2470 | Ridley-Thomas-D Health care master plan: Los Angeles County | Local Government |
| AB 2471 | Wyland-R Aliens: costs of providing public benefits | Immigration Issues |
| AB 2499 | Ruskin-D Emergencies: State Computer Emergency Data Exchange Program | Other State Government |
| AB 2503 | Mullin-D Affordable housing | Local Government |
| AB 2505 | Nunez-D California Information Security Response Team | Other State Government |
| AB 2508 | Haynes-R Illegal immigration: emergencies | Immigration Issues |
| AB 2511 | Jones-D Land use: housing | Local Government |
| AB 2525 | Emmerson-R Capitol Historic Region: memorial | Other State Government |
| AB 2527 | Baca-D Underage drinking: penalties | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 2541 | Matthews-D Claims against the state | Other State Government |
| AB 2543* | Bermudez-D Board of Directors of Cal Expo and the State Fair | Other State Government |
| AB 2544 | Pavley-D Public employee health benefits: employer contributions | Public Employees |
| AB 2549 | Plescia-R Tribal gaming: compact ratification | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 2561* | Jerome Horton-D State contracts: information technology goods and services | Other State Government |
| AB 2570 | Arambula-D Community investment | Public Employees |
| AB 2572 | Emmerson-R Housing element: colleges | Local Government |
| AB 2577 | Wolk-D Property tax revenue allocations: county equity amount | Local Government |
| AB 2578 | Frommer-D California Hope Endowment and California Hope Public Trust | Other State Government |
| AB 2580 | Walters-R Orange County Sanitation District design-build contracts | Local Government |
| AB 2591 | Keene-R State agencies: accounts: reports | Other State Government |
| AB 2604 | Emmerson-R Highway construction: Tippecanoe Design-Build Project | Local Government |
| AB 2610 | Keene-R Redevelopment agencies | Local Government |
| AB 2620 | Umberg-D Military Department: Office of Inspector General | Other State Government |
| AB 2623 | Calderon-D Police records management: City of Montebello | Local Government |
| AB 2626 | Lieu-D State employees: State Bargaining Unit 6. | Public Employees |
| AB 2632 | Negrete McLeod-D Retirement: military service | Public Employees |
| AB 2634 | Lieber-D Housing elements | Local Government |
| AB 2650 | Laird-D Monterey Peninsula Airport District | Local Government |
| AB 2652 | Laird-D Commission on State Mandates: claim reductions | Other State Government Local Government |
| AB 2672 | Oropeza-D Licenses: local government review | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 2678 | Harman-R Immigration: federal cooperation: funding | Immigration Issues |
| AB 2679 | Harman-R Legal services to indigent persons | Immigration Issues |
| AB 2680* | Harman-R Tax: deductions: wages to illegal aliens | Immigration Issues |
| AB 2682 | Daucher-R Redevelopment: tax increment revenues | Local Government |
| AB 2683* | Negrete McLeod-D State employees: State Bargaining Unit 8: compensation | Public Employees |
| AB 2687 | De La Torre-D Public events | Other State Government |
| AB 2701 | Blakeslee-R San Luis Obispo County | Local Government |
| AB 2704 | Leslie-R Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives | Other State Government |
| AB 2715* | Sharon Runner-R Government | Other State Government |
| AB 2721 | Mullin-D Office of Intellectual Property | Other State Government |
| AB 2746 | Blakeslee-R Natural resources: mitigation for adverse impacts | Local Government |
| AB 2751 | Wyland-R Development project fees: use | Local Government |
| AB 2753 | De La Torre-D Local government: cities: recall of governing officers | Local Government |
| AB 2762 | Levine-D Joint powers authorities: Indian tribes | Local Government |
| AB 2764 | Wyland-R County property | Local Government |
| AB 2765 | Negrete McLeod-D County employees' retirement: safety member | Public Employees |
| AB 2766 | Montanez-D Disability retirement: state employees | Public Employees |
| AB 2795 | Negrete McLeod-D Public retirement systems: reciprocity | Public Employees |
| AB 2804* | Salinas-D Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District | Local Government |
| AB 2811 | Plescia-R California State Lottery: prizes | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 2835* | Nakanishi-R Excluded employees: salaries and benefits | Public Employees |
| AB 2846 | Daucher-R State-mandated local programs: local educational agencies | Local Government |
| AB 2863* | Karnette-D Public employees: retirement | Public Employees |
| AB 2867 | Torrico-D Land use: public hearings: notice | Local Government |
| AB 2873 | Wolk-D County sales and use taxes: rate increase | Local Government |
| AB 2879 | Niello-R Elections: unlawful expenditures | Local Government |
| AB 2882 | De La Torre-D Infrastructure financing districts | Local Government |
| AB 2888 | Arambula-D Alcoholic beverages: issuance and transfer of licenses. | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 2903 | Huff-R Department of Motor Vehicles: employees | Public Employees |
| AB 2918 | Wolk-D Medi-Cal: county organized health systems | Local Government |
| AB 2922 | Jones-D Redevelopment: Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund | Local Government |
| AB 2927 | Leno-D Public records | Other State Government |
| AB 2930* | Laird-D State employees: MOU: State Bargaining Unit 7 | Public Employees |
| AB 2934 | Koretz-D Public Employees' Retirement System: state safety members | Public Employees |
| AB 2936* | Ridley-Thomas-D State employees: MOU: State Bargaining Unit 5 | Public Employees |
| AB 2939 | Wolk-D Sacramento-Yolo Port District | Local Government |
| AB 2941 | Koretz-D Public retirement systems: investments: Sudan | Public Employees Other State Government |
| AB 2943 | Salinas-D Water charges: residential fire sprinkler systems | Local Government |
| AB 2951 | Goldberg-D Capital facilities fees | Local Government |
| AB 2968 | Leno-D San Francisco: Medi-Cal benefits | Local Government |
| AB 2974 | Wolk-D Lobbyists | Legislature |
| AB 2980 | Nunez-D State government: operations: mediation program | Other State Government |
| AB 2994* | Evans-D State managerial employees: meet and confer | Public Employees |
| AB 3017 | Mullin-D Changes of venue: reimbursement | Local Government |
| AB 3022 | Umberg-D Flood control: seller disclosures | Local Government |
| AB 3024 | Wolk-D Vote centers: Solano County | Local Government |
| AB 3033 | Lieber-D Public employees' retirement: service credit: firefighters | Public Employees |
| AB 3041 | Pavley-D Public employees' health benefits: prescription drug plans | Public Employees |
| AB 3042 | Evans-D Regional housing | Local Government |
| AB 3046 | Chavez-D Alcoholic beverages: advertising | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 3062 | Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee Elections | Local Government |
| AB 3065 | Assembly Governmental Organization Committee Alcoholic beverages: tied-interests restrictions | Alcoholic Beverage Control |
| AB 3066 | Assembly Governmental Organization Committee Horse racing | Horse Racing |
| AB 3067 | Jerome Horton-D Horse racing | Horse Racing |
| AB 3068 | Jerome Horton-D Gaming | Other Gaming Legislation |
| AB 3074 | Assembly Local Government Committee Local government: reorganization | Local Government |
| ACA 2 | Hancock-D Tribal gaming | Other Gaming Legislation |
| ACA 5 | Richman-R Public retirement systems | Public Employees |
| ACA 6 | Wyland-R Undocumented immigrants: public benefits | Immigration Issues |
| ACA 7 | Nation-D Local governmental taxation: special taxes: voter approval | Local Government |
| ACA 8 | Maze-R Reapportionment | Legislature |
| ACA 13 | Harman-R Local government: assessments and fees or charges | Local Government |
| ACA 15 | Mullin-D Eminent domain: redevelopment | Local Government |
| ACA 16 | Gordon-D Taxation to supplement public safety funding | Local Government |
| ACA 19 | Keene-R Revised biennial session | Legislature |
| ACA 20 | Haynes-R Enforcement of immigration law | Immigration Issues |
| ACA 23 | Richman-R Public employee retirement plan | Public Employees |
| ACA 28 | Canciamilla-D Citizens Assembly | Legislature |
| ACA 30 | Laird-D Local government: flood control assessments | Local Government |
| ACA 31 | Canciamilla-D Term limits | Legislature |
| ACA 33 | Canciamilla-D Secretary of State | Other State Government |
| ACA 35 | Nation-D Tribal gaming | Other Gaming Legislation |
| ACR 28 | Coto-D Read Across America Day | Other State Government |
| ACR 77 | Chan-D Local recreation and park agencies | Local Government |
| ACR 79 | Aghazarian-R Fee Payers Bill of Rights | Other State Government |
| ACR 80 | DeVore-R Elections in Iraq | Federal Issues |
| ACR 91 | DeVore-R Republic of China on Taiwan | Federal Issues |
| ACR 96 | Saldana-D Tall Ships Festival 2008 | Other State Government |
| ACR 98 | Shirley Horton-R Language and cultural education | Other State Government |
| ACR 100 | Cohn-D California Holocaust Memorial Week | Other State Government |
| ACR 101 | Nakanishi-R Day of Remembrance | Other State Government |
| ACR 102 | Oropeza-D California Girls and Women in Sports Day | Other State Government |
| ACR 103 | Nakanishi-R Korean-American Day | Other State Government |
| ACR 110 | Mountjoy-R Presidents' Day | Other State Government |
| ACR 114 | Coto-D Legislative Task Force: diabetes | Legislature |
| ACR 115 | Coto-D Cesar Chavez Day. | Other State Government |
| ACR 116 | Blakeslee-R State employee merit awards | Public Employees |
| ACR 119 | Laird-D Year of the California Museum | Other State Government |
| ACR 127 | Liu-D Women's History Month | Other State Government |
| ACR 129 | Baca-D State buildings: Rosa Parks Memorial Building | Other State Government |
| ACR 131 | Harman-R Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum | Other State Government Local Government |
| ACR 139 | Emmerson-R NASCAR Day | Other State Government |
| ACR 140 | La Suer-R State Air and Space Museum and Education Center | Other State Government |
| ACR 142 | Oropeza-D The Marco Antonio Firebaugh Interchange | Legislature |
| ACR 143 | La Malfa-R Dale Earnhardt Day | Other State Government |
| ACR 146 | Niello-R California Building Safety Week | Other State Government |
| ACR 147 | Torrico-D Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month | Other State Government |
| ACR 152 | Torrico-D Immigrant Day | Immigration Issues |
| ACR 153 | Evans-D Paris Wine Tasting Anniversary | Alcoholic Beverage Control Other State Government |
| ACR 155 | Cogdill-R Eagle Scouts | Other State Government |
| ACR 168 | Negrete McLeod-D Firefighters Memorial Day | Other State Government |
| AJR 4 | Tran-R Death tax | Federal Issues |
| AJR 9 | Shirley Horton-R Transportation infrastructure finance | Federal Issues |
| AJR 11 | Chan-D War in Iraq | Federal Issues |
| AJR 20 | Nunez-D Agricultural workers | Federal Issues |
| AJR 28 | Wyland-R Mexican extradition | Federal Issues |
| AJR 29 | Jerome Horton-D Withdrawal from Iraq | Federal Issues |
| AJR 31 | Evans-D Speech | Federal Issues |
| AJR 32 | Arambula-D Qualified Veterans Mortgage Bonds | Federal Issues |
| AJR 33 | Sharon Runner-R Qualified veterans mortgage bonds | Federal Issues |
| AJR 34 | Bogh-R Extradition of felons | Immigration Issues Federal Issues |
| AJR 35 | Bermudez-D Air travel: repeal of Wright Amendment | Federal Issues |
| AJR 36 | Hancock-D California National Guard and the War in Iraq | Federal Issues |
| AJR 37 | Ridley-Thomas-D Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Federal Issues |
| AJR 39 | Koretz-D Impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney | Federal Issues |
| AJR 40 | Chan-D Medicare prescription drugs | Federal Issues |
| AJR 41 | Nation-D Immigrant children | Federal Issues |
| AJR 42 | Aghazarian-R Armenian Genocide: Day of Remembrance | Federal Issues |
| AJR 43 | Leno-D Federal education policy: Trio programs | Federal Issues |
| AJR 44 | Plescia-R Intellectual and physical property rights | Federal Issues |
| AJR 45 | Villines-R Farming | Federal Issues |
| AJR 46 | Karnette-D Earthquake response plans | Federal Issues |
| AJR 47 | Ridley-Thomas-D California housing affordability | Federal Issues |
| AJR 48 | Nation-D Veterans Remembered Flag | Federal Issues |
| AJR 49 | Nation-D Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements | Federal Issues |
| AJR 50 | Vargas-D Sexually violent predators | Federal Issues |
| AJR 51 | Nunez-D Immigration reform | Immigration Issues |
| AJR 52 | Sharon Runner-R Orbiter Atlantis: retirement | Federal Issues |
| AJR 53 | Berg-D Klamath River salmon: Congressional relief | Federal Issues |
| AJR 54 | Nation-D California National Guard: border patrol | Immigration Issues |
| AJR 55 | Nava-D Oil and gas: offshore drilling: leases: moratorium | Federal Issues |
| AJR 56 | Levine-D Forestry: Federal Roadless Area Conservation Rule | Federal Issues |
| AJR 57 | Tran-R Taiwan | Federal Issues |
| AJR 58 | Hancock-D Residency | Federal Issues |
| AJR 59 | Bogh-R Customs duties and importation revenues | Federal Issues |
| AJR 60 | Umberg-D National Children's Study | Federal Issues |
| HR 25 | Nakanishi-R Lunar New Year Celebration | Other State Government |
| HR 30 | Nunez-D Marco A. Firebaugh | Legislature |
| HR 35 | Garcia-R Relative to Robert E. Ham | Other State Government |
| HR 36 | Richman-R Relative to Pluto's planetary status | Other State Government |
| AB 4X | Torrico-D Public employees' retirement: employer contribution rates | Public Employees |
| AB 5X | Torrico-D Public employees' retirement: fraud | Public Employees |
| AB 6X | Evans-D Public employees' retirement | Public Employees |
| ACA 5X | Canciamilla-D Redistricting | Legislature |
| ACA 6X | Canciamilla-D Term limits | Legislature |