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SB 47* (Alquist-D) Manufacturing and research: sales and use taxes

Exempts, on and after 1/1/12, from a specified portion of sales and use taxes, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, specified tangible personal property including property purchased for use by a qualified person, as defined, in manufacturing, processing, or fabricating of property, or use in research and development activities, or specified fabrication or research and development of clean rooms and equipment.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 52 (Steinberg-D) Jobs and economic improvement: environmental quality

Modifies the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011, which creates an expedited judicial review procedure under the California Environmental Quality Act for various types of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certified infill site projects, clean renewable energy projects, and clean energy manufacturing projects.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

SB 162 (Anderson-R) Economic development: federally recognized Indian tribes

Adds to the nonexclusive list of topics that state agencies may cooperate with federally recognized Indian tribes by consulting on a government-to-government basis, in a respectful and meaningful manner, with respect to a fee-to-trust land acquisition application, as specified, and prohibits a state agency from opposing specified fee-to-trust land acquisition applications. Defines a federally recognized Indian tribe as a tribe appearing on the list published by the Secretary of the Interior.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 196 (Cannella-R) Economic analysis and review: regulation

Requires the standardized economic assessment of state regulations consider additional factors, such as the benefits of the regulation and the extent to which it will achieve regulatory and statutory objectives. Requires agencies preparing the economic assessment to request a review of the assessment by the University of California, and to include any review by the university with the assessment. Requires the Department of Finance to adopt regulations, on or before 6/30/13, to guide agencies in conducting the standardized economic assessments, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 214 (Wolk-D) Infrastructure financing districts

Eliminates the voter approval requirement for a city or county to create an infrastructure financing district and expands the types of projects that may be financed by an infrastructure financing district.
Vetoed

SB 245 (Rubio-D) Military installations reuse

Re-establishes the Office of Military Support (OMS) within the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) for the purpose of serving as a clearinghouse for state activities related to the military, including base closures. Requires OMS to solicit and accept funds from industry, foundations or other sources to help support its operations. Authorizes OPR, with input from OMS, to establish a military support grant program to provide moneys to communities with military bases to assist them with the development of a retention strategy.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 353 (Blakeslee-R) Economic analysis: regulations

Provides that the activities of the Office of Administrative Law in reviewing and approving regulations, and amendments or repeal of regulations, as prescribed, be exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Requires each state agency proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal a regulation, in addition to those existing economic analysis requirements, to prepare a cost-benefit economic analysis of the proposed regulation with specified information. Commencing 7/1/12, requires an agency that proposes to adopt a major regulation to prepare an economic competitiveness assessment with specified information.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 366* (Calderon-D) Economic Development: state regulations

Requires each state agency to review its regulations to identify duplicative, overlapping, inconsistent or outdated provisions and repeal or amend identified regulations. Creates a Streamlined Permit Review Team charged with improving the efficiency of the state permitting process for development projects.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 395* (Dutton-R) Manufacturing and research: sales and use taxes

Provides a partial sales and use tax exemption (the General Fund portion only) from 1/1/12 until 1/1/19 for specified purchases by a taxpayer involved in manufacturing and software development.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 400 (Dutton-R) Regulations: impact on businesses

Expands the economic impact reporting requirements under the Administrative Procedures Act to revise the reporting requirements relating to adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations to (1) require identification of short-term and long-term creation or elimination of jobs in individual sectors within the state (rather than creation or elimination of jobs within the state), (2) assess the cost of enforcement to the agency and regulated entities, (3) assess whether the proposed regulation is inconsistent, incompatible, or duplicative of other local, state, or federal agency regulations, (4) make a determination with supporting information that no alternative considered by the agency will be more effective in carrying out the purpose for which the regulation is proposed or would be equally effective and less burdensome to affected private persons than the proposed regulation, and (5) explain reasons for rejecting any proposed alternatives that would less the adverse economic impact on small businesses. Requires the Office of Administrative Law to review the economic assessment for a proposed regulation with an estimated impact of $100 million or more, and determine within 30 days whether it is based upon sound economic knowledge, methods, and practices.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 401 (Fuller-R) Economic impact: state regulations

Specifies that every regulation proposed by a state agency after 1/1/12, shall include a provision repealing the regulation in five years.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 553 (Fuller-R) Economic impact: state regulations

Specifies that a regulation that has or is likely to have an adverse economic impact of $10 million or more becomes effective 180 days after adoption.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 591 (Gaines-R) Businesses: administrative regulations

Requires state agencies to determine how many regulations it imposes and reduce the total number of regulations it has identified by 33% according to specified priorities. Requires review of regulations to determine burden on regulated persons.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 620 (Correa-D) Retail facilities: California Environmental Quality Act

Exempts, until 1/1/15, a project from the California Environmental Quality Act that consists of the alteration of a vacant retail structure that existed prior to 1/1/09, is not more than 120,000 square feet in area, and meets specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 639 (Cannella-R) Economic development: state regulations

Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency, the entities that comprise that agency, and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, when proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to complete an economic impact analysis of that action prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal. Requires the economic impact analysis to contain the projected cost of the action to the General Fund, the projected total economic impact of the action, including the cost to private sector employers and the estimated number of jobs to be lost, a description of all feasible regulatory alternatives and a cost-benefit analysis of each alternative, and a summary of written comments, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 640* (Runner-R) Employment income and corporation taxes: tax credit

Enacts a new employment tax credit of up to $6,000 per qualified full-time employee hired by a taxpayer that employs 50 of fewer employees for taxable years on or after 1/1/11 until the calendar quarter in which a cumulative credit amount of $50 million is reached.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 686* (Padilla-D) Biotechnology manufacturing: sales and use taxes

Provides a full sales and use tax exemption (7.25%, plus any applicable district taxes) for specified purchases made by a "qualified person" for use in "biotechnology manufacturing." Defines a "qualified person" as any person engaged in "biotechnology manufacturing," and defines "biotechnology manufacturing" to mean manufacturing activities as described in the North American Industrial Classification System. These industries include: medicinal and botanical, pharmaceutical preparation, in-vitro diagnostic substance or biological product manufacturing. Biotechnology manufacturing also includes research and development in biotechnology, research and development in the social sciences and humanities, and marketing research and public opinion polling.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 688 (Wright-D) Economic development: state regulations

Revises, under the Administrative Procedure Act, the economic impact assessment to require state agencies proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal any regulation to also prepare a detailed estimate of the cumulative statewide cost impacts for affected businesses. The agency must notify the Legislature's fiscal committees and the appropriate policy committees if the estimated cumulative statewide cost impact for affected businesses exceeds $10 million. Establishes an exception to the effective date of a regulation by prohibiting a regulation that has a cumulative statewide cost in excess of $10 million from taking effect until the January 1 that is one year following the date that the regulation is filed with the Secretary of State.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 721 (Lowenthal-D) Economic and educational goals: California higher education

Establishes specified goals to guide budget and policy decisions regarding postsecondary education and requires the development of metrics to measure progress in meeting the goals. States legislative intent that budget and policy decisions regarding higher education generally adhere to the following goals 1) improving student access and success; 2) better aligning degrees and credentials with the state's economic, workforce, and civic needs; and 3) ensuring the effective and efficient use of resources in order to increase high-quality outcomes and maintain affordability.
Vetoed

SB 776 (DeSaulnier-D) State and local workforce investment boards: funding

Requires specified minimum amounts of federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds provided to local WIA boards to be spent on workforce training programs, as specified. Requires expenditures on training services (as defined under federal WIA statute) to be counted toward the minimum percentage requirements.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 892 (Lieu-D) Economic development

Creates the Economic Development, Job Creation, and Competitiveness Agency in state government, under the supervision of a Secretary of Economic Development, Job Creation, and Competitiveness, and sets forth their respective duties generally. Requires the Agency to develop a statewide strategy that identifies goals and objectives for job creation and competitiveness for the state's top economic sectors, and make recommendations to the Governor and Legislature in that regard.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 907 (Evans-D) Master Plan for Infrastructure Financing and Development

Creates the 11-member Master Plan for Infrastructure Financing and Development Commission. By 12/1/13, the Commission must submit a final report to the Governor and the Legislature which contains a long-term plan and strategy for the state's infrastructure needs and a prioritized plan to meet those needs. The Commission must also submit periodic progress reports.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)

SB 1070 (Steinberg-D) Career Technical Education Pathways Program

Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCC) and the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to assist economic and workforce regional development centers and consortia, middle schools, high schools, and regional occupational centers and programs to improve linkages and career technical education pathways between high schools and community colleges to accomplish specified goals. Requires the SPI and the CCC Chancellor to jointly administer contracts and competitive grants for programs and initiatives that demonstrate a plan for collaboration among regional institutions/entities, including, but not limited to school districts, public postsecondary educational institutions, ROC/Ps, local workforce investment boards, and business/industry, as specified.
Chapter 433, Statutes of 2012

SB 1099 (Wright-D) Administrative regulation

Revises the dates that a regulation or order of repeal is effective. Requires within 15 days of the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) filing a state agency's regulation with the Secretary of State (SOS) to post the regulation on the Internet Web Site in an easily marked and identifiable location. Requires the state agency to keep the regulation on its Internet Web site for at least six months from the date the regulation is filed with the SOS. Within five days of posting, the state agency is required to send to the OAL the Internet Web site link of each regulation the agency posts on its Web site. (This provisions does not apply to a state agency that does not maintain an Internet Web site.) Requires the OAL to provide on its Web site a list of, and a link to the full text of each regulation filed with the SOS that is pending effectiveness. Subjects regulations adopted by the Department of Health Services concerning public wading pools to the provisions of law concerning transmittal of certified copies of regulations to the SOS and the California Building Commission.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2012

SB 1151 (Steinberg-D) Sustainable Economic Development and Housing Trust Fund

Creates an alternative process by which communities can use their former redevelopment agencies' assets for specified economic development and housing purposes. The alternative process requires a Sustainable Communities Investment Authority to develop a long-range asset management plan to govern the disposition and use of former redevelopment agency assets that are placed into a Sustainable Economic Development and Housing Trust Fund.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1156 (Steinberg-D) Sustainable Communities Investment Authority

Allows local governments to establish a Sustainable Communities Investment Authority (Authority) to finance specified activities within a sustainable communities investment area (Area). Requires that approval of the creation of an Authority, Plan, or amendment to a Plan to be made by a resolution of the city or county. Specifies that school districts are excluded from participating in an Authority. Provides that any taxing agency that participates in or approves the formation of an Authority or appoints a governing board member of the Authority may authorize an allocation to the Authority of all or part of the tax increment revenue that would otherwise be paid to the taxing agency.
Vetoed

SB 1167* (Calderon-D) Film and television industry: tax incentives

Extends the applicability of the California Film and Television Tax Credit for two years, thereby authorizing the allocation of an additional $100 million annually in tax credits to qualified productions from 7/1/15 until 7/1/17.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
Similar bills were SB 1197 (Calderon-D), Chapter 840, Statutes of 2012, and AB 2026 (Fuentes-D), Chapter 841, Statutes of 2012.

SB 1179* (Walters-R) Manufacturers: income taxes: credits

Allows a $3,000 credit for each net increase in qualified full-time employees hired during the taxable year by a qualified employer. Applies to taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/13. Provides that credits must be claimed on timely filed original returns received by the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) on or before when FTB estimates it will have received timely filed original returns claiming credits that cumulatively total $25 million.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1185 (Price-D) Centralized Intelligence Partnership Act: pilot program

Creates a multiagency partnership consisting of specified state entities, to be known as the Centralized Intelligence Partnership, to collaborate in combating illegal underground operations, among other activities, by providing a central intake process and organizational structure, with an administrator and support staff, to document, review, and evaluate data and complaints. Creates an advisory committee, comprised of one representative from each entity in the partnership, to provide guidance on the activities and operations of the partnership, and requires the advisory committee to the partnership to determine the appropriate agency to house the processing center for the partnership. Authorizes duly authorized representatives of members of the partnership to exchange information for the purpose of investigating illegal underground operations. Requires the partnership, starting on or before 7/1/14, to annually report to the Legislature and entities participating in the partnership on its activities and requires an additional report to be filed with the Legislature by 12/1/16, to include the number of complaints received by the partnership and cases investigated or prosecuted, as specified. Sunsets on 1/1/18.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1197* (Calderon-D) Film and television industry: tax incentives

Extends the applicability of the California Film and Television Tax Credit for two years from 7/1/15 to 7/1/17.
Chapter 840, Statutes of 2012
Similar bills were SB 1167 (Calderon-D) which died at the Assembly Desk, and AB 2026 (Fuentes-D), Chapter 841, Statutes of 2012.

SB 1397 (Wyland-R) Committee on Job Creation and Economic Development

Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Job Creation and Economic Development (Committee) and requires the Committee to hear testimony from business representatives regarding how to improve job creation and economic development. Requires the Committee to transmit a record of the recommendations received to each Member of the Legislature for the purpose of enacting legislation to improve job creation and economic development.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1401 (Lieu-D) Workforce investment systems

Requires the state to develop a California Industry Sector Initiative to serve as the cornerstone of the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB) and provide a framework for the state workforce investments and support for sector strategies. Requires CWIB to work collaboratively with state and local partners to identify ways to eliminate statewide barriers and better align and leverage federal, state, and local Workforce Investment Act funding streams, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1402 (Lieu-D) Economic development

Recasts and revises Education Code provisions regarding the California Community Colleges (CCC) Economic and Workforce Development Program (EWDP), and extends the program's sunset date from 1/1/13 to 1/1/18. Adds six principles to the program's mission, including collaboration with other institutions, making data driven and evidenced-based funding decisions, and developing strong partnerships with the private sector. Updates the mission of the EWDP to reflect the need to implement sector strategies that align with labor markets. Enhances the role of the program's advisory committee to ensure that funding is responsive to changing local market needs. Specifies minimum program outcome measures to be implemented by the CCC Chancellor's Office.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2012

SB 1467 (DeSaulnier-D) Business investment: tax credits

Enacts the California Jobs Act of 2012, which provides an investment tax credit against insurer premium tax liability to participating investors, as defined, and provides for sale or transfer of the tax credits to other parties. Provides for a maximum amount of tax credits under the Act of $200,000,000, which could be claimed over specified tax years and carried forward until tax year 2037, and caps the total amount of the credit which may be allocated under existing law provisions authorizing a credit for the hire of full-time employees by qualified employers and the credit authorized under this Act to $400,000,000.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1484 (Pavley-D) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank

Transfers the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank from the Business, Transportation & Housing Agency to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)

AB 15 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Workforce development: California Renewable Energy Workforce

Requires the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB), by 7/1/12, in consultation with the Green Collar Jobs Council, to establish the California Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness Initiative to ensure green collar career placement and advancement opportunities within California's renewable energy generation, manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, and operation sectors that is targeted toward specified populations. Requires that the Initiative provide guidance to local workforce investment boards on how to establish comprehensive green collar job assessment, training, and placement programs that reflect the local and regional economies, as prescribed. Requires the CWIB, in developing the Initiative, to assist the local workforce investment boards in collecting and analyzing specified labor market data, in order to assess accurately the workforce development and training needs of local or regional industry clusters. Requires the CWIB to submit to the Legislature, by 1/1/14, a report on the implementation of the Initiative. Requires that the CWIB only implement the Initiative established pursuant to provisions of the bill if the Director of the Department of Finance determines that there are sufficient funds made available to the state for expenditure for the Initiative pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, or other federal law, or from other non-General Fund sources, and requires that the Initiative terminate at such time that the Director determines that there are no longer sufficient funds available for the Initiative.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 49* (Gatto-D) Economic development: expedited permit review

Reestablishes the Office of Permit Assistance under the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to help facilitate state and local review of commercial and industrial development projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 127 (Logue-R) Economic assessment: regulation

Requires that a state agency regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation become effective on the following January 1 after a 90-day period following the date it is filed with the Secretary of State, instead of 30 days after the date of filing, except where already exempted. Requires agencies proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal a regulation prior to 11/1/13, to prepare an economic assessment.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 166* (Cook-R) Corporation taxes: minimum franchise tax

Eliminates the annual minimum franchise tax currently imposed on every incorporated corporation, qualified to transact business, or doing business in California. Eliminates the annual tax for a limited partnership, a limited liability company not classified as a corporation, a limited liability partnership, and a qualified Subchapter S subsidiary consistent with the elimination of the corporate minimum franchise tax. Eliminates the annual tax for regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, real estate mortgage investment conduits, and financial asset securitization investment trusts consistent with the elimination of the corporate franchise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning on and after 1/1/11.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 231* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development areas: taxes

Renames the Enterprise Zone Act as the California Economic and Community Development Zone Act, and deletes the provisions governing Manufacturing Enhancement Areas and targeted tax areas. Makes various revisions in the requirements for designating and administering enterprise zones and local agency military base recovery areas, and geographically targeted economic development areas collectively. Increases specified requirements for an individual to be a qualified employee for purposes of the enterprise zone hiring credits, and makes other specified changes relating to the requirements for a taxpayer to take advantage of the credits.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)

AB 232 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development: enterprise zones

Removes the specific dollar-for-jobs and low- and moderate- income ranking criteria in state law from the small cities portion of the federal Community Development Block Grant Program. The change will result in conforming state rules with federal law, allowing the Department of Housing and Community Development, the program administrator, flexibility to choose among federal options for determining the dollar-for-jobs and ranking criteria.
Chapter 386, Statutes of 2012

AB 234* (Wieckowski-D) Full-time employees: hires: income taxes: credits

Provides an expanded credit of $4,500 for each net increase in "qualified full-time employees" paid a qualified wage of less than $16 per hour (or an equivalent amount if qualified wages are paid other than on an hourly basis). Provides an expanded credit of $9,100 for each net increase in "qualified full-time employees" paid a qualified wage of more than $16 per hour (or an equivalent amount if qualified wages are paid other than on an hourly basis). Restricts the credit's definition of a "qualified full-time employee" to apply only to individuals who were unemployed for the 30 days immediately prior to being hired.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 236* (Swanson-D) Employees income tax credits: qualified employees

Allows, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/11, an expanded $5,000 credit for each net increase in "qualified full-time employees" hired during the taxable year by a qualified employer. For purposes of this expanded credit, a "qualified full-time employee" is defined as an individual who meets the criteria for the existing hiring credit and who is either an ex-offender who was convicted of a felony, or a person who has been unemployed for 12 or more consecutive months prior to being hired. Specifies that the expanded credit shall not apply to sex offenders or individuals convicted of a serious or violent felony, as those terms are defined in the Penal Code.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 246* (Wieckowski-D) Hiring credits: income taxes

Modifies the existing hiring credit to change the definition of a "qualified full-time employee," "qualified employer," and "annual full time equivalent." Redefines, beginning on or after 1/1/12, a "qualified employer" as a taxpayer that, as of the last day of the preceding taxable year, was a disabled veteran business enterprise, a disadvantaged business enterprise, a microbusiness, or a small business. Lowers the total hour threshold, from 2,000 hours to 1,820 hours, for calculating an "annual full-time equivalent" in the case of full-time employees paid on an hourly basis.
(Failed passage in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 273 (Valadao-R) Economic impacts review: regulations

Requires the Department of Finance to review state agencies' determinations, estimates, and other findings related to costs and economic impacts of proposed regulations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 303* (Knight-R) Manufacturing: sales and use taxes: exemption

Establishes a sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property that is used by a qualified person, as defined, and is involved in a new trade or business. Limits the exemption to manufacturing. Provides that the exemption shall not apply with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sale and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, and under specified sections of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 304* (Knight-R) Income tax: hiring: income tax credit

Allows, for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/11, and before 1/1/15, a credit for each "qualified employee" employed during the taxable year by a "qualified employer." Provides that the per employee credit shall be $3,000 or, $5,000, if the qualified employee's wage is 200% or more than the average wage in the county in which the qualified employee completes at least 50% of his/her work.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 338 (Wagner-R) Economic impact: state regulations

Requires the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) to submit a copy of any disapproved regulation to the Legislature if OAL disapproved the regulation because it found that the agency exceeded its statutory authority in adopting the regulation. Requires a regulation that is required to be filed with the Secretary of State to become effective 60 days, rather than 30 days, after the date of filing.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 368* (Morrell-R) Corporation tax: minimum annual tax

Exempts a new corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, and limited liability company from the annual minimum tax for the first year of operation and reduces the amount of that tax from $800 to $400 for five subsequent years.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 423 (Butler-D) Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank

Provides that the Department of Finance assumes authority over the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)

AB 425 (Nestande-R) Economic impact: state regulations

Requires that each state entity that promulgates regulations review those regulations and repeal or report to the Legislature by 12/31/12, those regulations identified as duplicative, archaic, or inconsistent with state statute. In addition, requires the affected state agencies to report to the Legislature by that date on regulations deemed to inhibit economic growth in the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 429 (Knight-R) Economic impact: state regulations

Increases the number of days before an approved regulation becomes effective from 30 to 180 after the regulation is filed with the Secretary of State, for regulations costing more than $15 million or that are a 5% increase over the cost of an existing regulation.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 484 (Alejo-D) Enterprise zones: expiration of designation

Deems an enterprise zone that expired in 2012 is temporarily redesignated, and taxpayers within the geographic boundaries of the previous zone shall be eligible for all tax benefits as of the date the previous zone expired, if the zone sent a letter to the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) expressing their intent to reapply for a new designation, HCD has not issued a request for proposal, and HCD has not conditionally designated 42 zones. The temporary redesignation shall continue until the earlier of 1/1/14, or the date HCD issues conditional designation letters to the maximum number of zones in the state.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 530 (Smyth-R) Economic and technical information: regulations

Requires agencies to include in regulations packets submitted to the Office of Administrative Law, an economic impact statement with the initial statement for reasons for adopting, amending, or repealing a regulation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 535 (Morrell-R) Economic development regulations

Requires state agencies that promulgate regulations to review and report on those regulations five years after adoption.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 577* (Miller-R) Capital gains: income tax: corporation taxes

Provides, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/11, that gross income does not include any gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset, as defined, that is purchased during the 2011 or 2012 calendar year, and is held for more than one year.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 586 (Garrick-R) Economic impact: state regulations

Requires standing committees of the Legislature, with jurisdiction over a state agency proposing to adopt a regulation with a gross cost in excess of $10 million as estimated in the initial statement of reasons for the regulation, to hold an informational hearing regarding the proposed regulation.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 632 (Wagner-R) Economic impact: state regulations

Requires state agencies to submit to the Legislature a notice of a proposed action to adopt, amend or repeal a regulation, if the notice identifies an economic impact, cost impact, statement or finding related to the proposed regulation, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 643* (Davis-D) Hiring credits: investment credits: income taxes

Authorizes the creation of the California New Markets Tax Credit Program, administered through the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, for the purpose of allocating tax credits to qualifying community development entities (CDE). Authorizes a CDE to award tax credits to private investors who make qualifying equity investments in the CDE. Moneys received from the investments are to be used to make qualified low-income community investments, which may include, among other things, loans and capital investments in businesses, real estate and other CDEs that undertake development projects in eligible low-income areas. Authorizes a tax credit valued at 39% of a tax payer's qualified equity investment in a CDE, beginning in 2013 and ending in 2019.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 691 (Perea-D) Economic redevelopment: state agency regulations

Designates the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture as an ombudsman responsible for reviewing all regulations promulgated by the state and other government agencies that affect agriculture.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 893 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) California infrastructure and economic development

Requires the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) to provide technical support to small and rural communities in obtaining financing for local infrastructure projects, and include information on public outreach activities in the I-Bank's annual report.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 910 (Torres-D) Economic development: financing districts

Authorizes an Infrastructure Financing District (IFD) to finance affordable housing facilities and economic development projects that provide significant benefits to an area larger than the IFD. Specifies that an election is not required to form an IFD, adopt an infrastructure financing plan, or issue bonds, if the IFD is implementing an affordable housing or economic development plan or a transit village plan.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 923 (Fong-D) Workforce development: Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative

Establishes the Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative Program within the Employment Development Department, for the purpose of providing grants to employers and employees to establish individual lifelong learning accounts for the deposit of funds for lifelong education and training.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 979* (Silva-R) Manufacturing: taxes: exemption

Establishes a partial sales and use tax exemption for purchases of qualified tangible personal property by persons engaged in manufacturing and software production.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Similar bills were SB 116 (De Leon-D) which failed passage on the Senate Floor; AB 218 (Wieckowski-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1057 (Olsen-R) which died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee; and AB 40X1 (Fuentes-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

AB 1009* (Wieckowski-D) Full-time employees: hires: tax credits

Modifies the hiring credit for small businesses definition of a "qualified full-time employee" to apply, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/12, only to individuals who were unemployed for the 30 days immediately prior to being hired. Provides that the credit's current definition of a "qualified employer" (i.e., a taxpayer that, as of the last day of the preceding taxable year, employed 20 or fewer employees) shall only apply for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/09, and before 1/1/12. For taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/12, a "qualified employer" is defined as a taxpayer that, as of the last day of the preceding taxable year, was any of specified groups. Lowers the total hour threshold, from 2,000 hours to 1,820 hours, for calculating an "annual full-time equivalent" in the case of full-time employees paid on an hourly basis.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1057* (Olsen-R) Manufacturing: sales and use taxes: exemption

Establishes, between 1/1/14 and 1/1/20, a partial sales and use tax exemption for specified business equipment used in research and development, as specified, or for use in air pollution mitigation.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1115 (Lara-D) Workforce development: training services

Authorizes individuals who are eligible to receive training services under federal law to have the opportunity to select any of the eligible training providers from any of the local areas in the state. Requires the California Workforce Investment Board to establish a procedure for use by local workforce investment boards in determining the eligibility of a provider of training services, as prescribed, in accordance with various requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1183 (Bill Berryhill-R) Environmental impact reports

Enacts the Jobs and Housing Act of 2011 and limits the standing to file and maintain a California Environmental Quality Act challenge of an environmental impact report or proceeding to the Attorney General. Applies this limitation to those actions or proceedings that are pending as of 1/1/12, and for which a final nonappealable judgment has not been entered before that date.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1185 (Torres-D) Retail facilities: California Environmental Quality Act

Establishes, until 1/1/15, an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act for alterations of existing vacant retail structures not more than 60,000 square feet and meeting specified requirements.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1195* (Allen-D) Corporations: hiring tax credit

Expands the pool of eligible claimants for the Jobs Tax Credit from taxpayers with 20 or fewer employees to those with 50 or fewer employees.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1233* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development: state government

Requires the Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to prepare a California Economic and Workforce Development Strategy, as specified, to be updated every five years. Requires that the Secretary undertake this process anew in each succeeding five-year cycle in order to update the economic strategy prior to October 31 of each succeeding fifth year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1315 (Furutani-D) Education: Gateway Centers

Establishes Gateway Centers to be operated by local adult schools and community colleges to leverage multiple education and workforce investment funding and improve the transition of adult learners into entry-level degree or certificate training programs that are linked to employment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1322 (Bradford-D) Economic impact: state regulations

Adopts the regulatory philosophy and principles of regulation, as outlined in Presidential Executive Order 12866, in order to achieve similar regulatory benefits within the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1411 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development: enterprise zones

Makes various changes to the zone selection and administrative provisions of the enterprise zone program. Alters the eligibility criteria for a proposed zone such that a proposed zone must be located solely in low-income census tracts and meet at least one specified criteria. Deletes the provision prohibiting zone applicants from drawing boundaries to include larger stable businesses to the detriment of areas that are truly economically depressed. Allows an applicant's economic development strategy and implementation plan to identify local resources that the jurisdiction will utilize to implement its strategy and plan and explain how these resources will leverage enterprise zone benefits. Adds redevelopment tax increment, federal Workforce Investment Act, federal Community Development Block Grant, CalWORKS (California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids), and local educational funds to the list of local resources that applicants may commit to the program. Deletes from the list of scoring bonus criteria unique distress factors affecting long-term development.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1460 (Huber-D) California Commission on Industrial Innovation

Repeals the implementing codes for the California Commission on Industrial Innovation and deletes one cross reference to the Commission in a separate code.
Chapter 164, Statutes of 2012

AB 1523 (Perea-D) Career technical education: partnership academies

Requires, commencing with the 2013-14 school year, and when funds become available for additional partnership academies (PAs), the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue grants for the establishment of PAs and give priority to PAs dedicated to educating pupils in transportation for the 21st Century.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1530 (Huffman-D) Clean Manufacturing and Job Creation Incentive Act of 2012

Establishes the Clean Manufacturing and Job Creation Incentive Act of 2012. Authorizes any city, county, or city and county to establish a clean manufacturing zone within its boundaries by ordinance or resolution for the purpose of providing incentives to manufacturing businesses to locate within the jurisdiction. Specifies an extensive list of potential local incentives, ranging from the suspension of locally originated or modified zoning laws and rent controls, to the elimination or reduction of the local government's share of business property taxes, construction taxes or business license taxes. Requires a copy of the resolution or ordinance to be transmitted to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) within 60 days of approval. Requires GO-Biz, within 30 days of receiving an ordinance, to carry out specified activities, including designating a liaison for permit assistance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1545 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development projects

Authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) to establish a bi-national financing authority to facilitate and finance infrastructure and economic development projects in the California-Mexico border region.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1911* (Donnelly-R) Manufacturing: taxes: exemptions

Establishes a partial sales and use tax exemption, beginning 1/1/13, for specified manufacturing equipment. Defines a "qualified person" as either (1) a person engaged in those lines of business described in Industry Groups 3111 to 3399, inclusive, or 5112 of the North American Industry Classification System published by the United States Office of Management and Budget, 2012 edition; or (2) an affiliate of a person described above, as specified. Defines "fabricating" as making, building, creating, producing, or assembling components or property to work in a new or different manner. Defines "manufacturing" as the activity of converting or conditioning property by changing the form, composition, quality, or character of the property for ultimate sale at retail or use in the manufacturing of a product to be ultimately sold at retail. Manufacturing includes any improvements to qualified tangible personal property that result in a greater service life or greater functionality than that of the original property.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1969 (Beth Gaines-R) Economic development: administrative regulations: filings

Prohibits the Office of Administrative Law from transmitting any regulations to the Secretary of State for filing that it receives between 1/1/13, and 1/1/15 until after 1/1/15. Exempts regulations proposed by a public safety agency or department, or a public health agency or department, including the California Health and Human Services Agency.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1972* (Huber-D) Manufacturing equipment: sales and use taxes: exemption

Establishes a temporary sales and use tax exemption, beginning 1/1/13, for specified manufacturing and research and development equipment. Defines a "qualified person" as a person primarily engaged in those lines of business classified in (1) Industry Groups 3111 to 3399, inclusive, of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) published by the United States Office of Management and Budget, 2007 edition (i.e., manufacturing); (2) Industry Group 5112 (i.e., software publishing); (3) NAICS Industry 221119 (i.e., alternative electric power generation); or (4) NAICS Industry 541711 (i.e., R&D in biotechnology).
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1982 (Gorell-R) Economic development: administrative regulations

Increases from 30 to 90 days the time period that a regulation or an order of repeal becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State (SOS). Authorizes the Legislature to override a regulation's effective date via statute. Requires the Office of Administrative Law to submit a copy of each major regulation submitted to the SOS to each house of the Legislature for review.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2026* (Fuentes-D) Film and television industry: tax incentives

Extends the operation of the California Motion Picture Tax Credit for two years, thereby authorizing the allocation of an additional $100 million annually in tax credits to qualified productions from 7/1/15, until 7/1/17.
Chapter 841, Statutes of 2012
Similar bills were SB 1167 (Calderon-D) which died at the Assembly Desk, and SB 1197 (Calderon-D), Chapter 840, Statutes of 2012.

AB 2037* (Davis-D) Hiring credits: investment credits: income taxes

Authorizes the creation of the California New Markets Tax Credit Program (NMTC), administered through the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC), for the purpose of allocating tax credits to qualifying community development entities (CDE). Authorizes a tax credit valued at 39% of a taxpayer's qualified equity investment in a CDE, beginning in 2013 and ending in 2019, and allows the credit to be applied against the tax payer's personal and/or corporate tax liability. Establishes that allowable investments are limited to qualified low-income community investments, which may include loans and capital investments in businesses, real estate and other CDEs that undertake development projects in eligible low-income areas, as defined. Requires the TCAC to establish guidelines for implementing the NMTC program and set fees to cover the costs for administering the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2045 (Perea-D) Economic development: net operating losses

Authorizes the California State Treasurer, in cooperation with the Franchise Tax Board, to establish a corporation business tax benefit certificate transfer program to allow a qualified California company, specifically new or expanding emerging technology and biotechnology companies meeting the bill's criteria, to transfer their unused net operating losses (NOLs) to other taxpayers that are subject to California's corporation tax. Requires the recipient taxpayer provide private financial assistance to the qualified company equal at least 80% of the amount of the surrendered NOLs. Limits the total amount of transferable NOLs in any given fiscal year to $60 million.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2077 (Davis-D) Employment opportunities: postrelease

Requires the Employment Development Department (EDD) to develop a list of employers willing to employ people who have been incarcerated in a state prison or county jail. Requires EDD to make the list, sorted by county, available to the public on its Internet Web site and upon request in its offices. Requires EDD to send the list and any updates to the postrelease community supervision (PRCS) supervising county agency, generally the county probation department. Requires the PRCS supervising county agency to give each person who enters into a PRCS agreement the list created by EDD, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2090 (Bill Berryhill-R) Economic development: regulations

Modifies the requirements that an adopting agency must meet when preparing economic impact and standardized regulatory impact analyses. Lowers the threshold for a major regulation from $50 million to $15 million.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2091 (Bill Berryhill-R) Economic development: regulations: technology

Requires state agencies proposing to adopt, amend or repeal an administrative regulation requiring the use of a new or emerging technology or equipment to determine if that technology is available and effective for at least two years, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2092 (Chesbro-D) Economic development: federally recognized Indian tribes

Requires every state agency to adopt a policy by 1/1/12 to consult with federally recognized California Indian tribes prior to an agency's development of regulation, policies, rules, plans or other actions that will significantly affect a tribal community.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2408* (Skinner-D) Economic development: taxes: net operating losses

Repeals net operating loss carrybacks contained in the income/corporation tax laws.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 2506 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Economic development: state government

Requires state agencies to submit regulatory actions to the Joint Rules Committee of the Legislature, which is authorized to submit a regulatory action to the appropriate policy committee in each house for review. Authorizes the policy committee to either make recommendations to the agency or to send the action to the floor of either house, which could reject the regulatory action by a resolution, as specified. Provides for the establishment of six regional innovation and job creation boards as nonprofit mutual benefit corporations, to perform certain functions, and requires the Lieutenant Governor to appoint 12 members to each board, as specified. Exempts from the Sales and Use Tax Law the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property, as defined, purchased for use by a qualified person, as defined, primarily in any stage of manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal property, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2523 (Hueso-D) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank

Authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to enter into participation loan agreements and syndicated loan agreements with financial institutions for loans they make to small businesses.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2619 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Start-Up California Impact Investment Fund program

Creates the Start-Up California Impact Investment Fund Program within the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to provide startup equity funds to startup firms and small businesses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2672 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Procurement: Department of General Services

Increases communication between the Department of General Services (DGS) and the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for purposes of implementing the state's enterprise zone and Local Agency Military Base Realignment Areas (LAMBRA) programs. Specifically, it (1) requires DGS to report to HCD aggregate figures on the number of businesses located in enterprise zones or in LAMBRAs claiming preferences for state contracts, and (2) requires the Department of Human Services to change their contracts training program to address the requirements for preference for small businesses, disabled veteran-owned business and enterprise zone preferences.
Vetoed

AJR 23 (John A. Pérez-D) Economic development

States that California stands committed to fostering the economic and business environment necessary to continue promoting the innovation economy in our state and urges the United States Patent and Trademark Office to place a satellite office in California.
Resolution Chapter 1, Statutes of 2012

AJR 46 (Block-D) Operation San Diego

States support for the advocacy efforts of "Operation San Diego" to promote to Congress and the President of the United States the importance of military spending in the San Diego region and its impact on the economy and to advocate the importance of maintaining strong, continued military spending in the San Diego region.
Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2012

HR 34 (Hill-D) Science, technology, engineering, and mathematical jobs

Resolves that the Assembly urges the development of summer camps, workshops, and after school programs, and the extension of current grant and fellowship programs on the state and local levels, to further the advancement of female students and workers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields and to encourage women to get involved in the STEM fields.
Adopted by the Assembly

World Trade and Tourism

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SB 460 (Price-D) International trade marketing and promotion

Requires the Business, Housing and Transportation Agency (BTH) to coordinate international trade marketing and promotion strategies. Requires the Secretary of BTH to convene a statewide business partnership for international trade marketing and promotion no later than 3/1/12, including, but not limited to, representatives of public airports, land ports of entry, seaports, ocean carriers, marine terminal operators, air carriers, warehouse operators, trucking companies, foreign trade zones and shippers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 830 (Wright-D) Trade infrastructure investment: tax credit

Enacts a trade infrastructure tax credit against the Personal Income Tax or Corporation Tax equal to 50% of the total capital costs of each qualifying project, as defined. The credit may be claimed from the 2011 taxable year to the 2020 taxable year, but taxpayers may only claim 5% of the total credit amount in any taxable year, although the credit may be carried over for 10 years.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SJR 4 (Harman-R) United States - Korea Free Trade Agreement

Memorializes the Congress of the United States to approve and enact the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1137 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Foreign trade

Establishes the California Foreign Investment Program, requires the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to serve as the lead state entity under specified provisions of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, and requires the Director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to set the terms and conditions for issuing a state designation letter within the structure and scope of those provisions of federal law.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2012* (John A. Pérez-D) International trade

Transfers the authority for undertaking international trade and foreign investment activities from the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), including establishing and terminating any international trade and investment office. Transfers the responsibility for establishing an Internet-based permit assistance center from the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency to GO-Biz.
Chapter 294, Statutes of 2012

AB 2354 (Solorio-D) Travel insurance

Updates the definition of travel insurance and shifts the licensing and regulatory compliance responsibilities from travel retailers to limited lines travel insurance agents.
Chapter 257, Statutes of 2012

Small Business

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SB 67 (Price-D) Small business participation: public contracts

Authorizes the Department of General Services (DGS) to require a 25% small business participation goal for state contracts and allows DGS to monitor progress in meeting this goal, commencing 7/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 556* (Gaines-R) Creating Small Business Jobs Act: income taxes

Increases the income exclusion for qualified small business stock from 50% of the gain to 100% for stock acquired during the 2011 year only. Maintains the preferential Alternative Minimum Tax rate.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 560 (Wright-D) Small business: regulations

Enacts the Regulatory Reform Act of 2011 which authorizes a state agency to consult with "parties who would be subject to the proposed regulations" rather than "interested persons." Requires the state agency to notify in writing the Office of Small Business Advocate and the Department of Finance (DOF) if the state agency does not, or is unable to, consult with parities subject to the regulation and reasons for not consulting the impacted businesses. Requires the description of reasonable alternatives to cover "each specific alternative." Revises the economic impact assessment to also include a small business economic impact statement, and requires a small business economic impact statement that must include conditions, as specified. Requires the notice of proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation to also include the small business impact statement; strikes the requirement for an agency to make a specified statement in the notice of proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation if the agency is not aware of any cost impacts that a representative private person or business would incur in compliance with the regulation, and instead requires the agency to include a statement describing how a private person or business could comply with the proposed regulation without incurring a cost. Requires Office of Administrative Law to also return any regulation to the adopting agency if the adopting agency has not provided the above cost estimate and small business economic statement. Provides that for any interested person to obtain a judicial declaration as to the validity of any regulation or order of repeal by taking certain actions, "interested person" as defined. Requires the DOF instructions for inclusion in the State Administrative Manual to include methods to make determinations and estimates for several other provisions. Specifies that the instruction guidelines must address costs or savings estimates to small businesses; criteria to be used in determining whether the cost of regulation will have a significant, statewide adverse economic impact on businesses; and criteria to be used in determining what costs, if any, may be incurred by an individual or business that complies with a proposed regulation. Adds restrictions for regulations relating to a new or emerging technology, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 733 (Price-D) Small business participation: high-speed rail

Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) to include a strategy for ensuring small business participation in contracts for the high-speed rail project in its 1/1/12 business plan, or an addendum to that plan by 3/1/12. Requires the HSRA to work with the Employment Development Department to develop a strategy to ensure that at least 25% of the workforce on any high-speed rail work site is from the local workforce. This local workforce participation strategy shall be included in the business plan.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 828 (Runner-R) Small Business Appeals Board

Establishes the Small Business Appeals Board in state government, to consist of a specified membership. Authorizes the Board to grant a hearing and review the order, ruling, action, or failure to act of any state agency, except a state taxing agency, upon the petition of any small business affected by the order, ruling, action, or failure to act. Authorizes the Board to grant any remedy and impose any penalty authorized under existing law governing administrative procedures.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 1510 (Wright-D) Small businesses: contracts

Adds additional conditions under which a certified small business or microbusiness is deemed to perform a commercially useful function, which is required in state contracts in which small business bidding preferences are applied.
Chapter 421, Statutes of 2012

SCR 24 (Price-D) Small Business Month

Proclaims the month of May 2011 as Small Business Month, to raise awareness of the contributions made by outstanding entrepreneurs and small business owners.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 11* (Portantino-D) Small businesses: taxes: credits

Allows a credit, under both the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, equal to 20% of annual workers' compensation premiums paid by a "qualified taxpayer" during the taxable year. Provides that a credit will only be allowed if it is claimed on a timely filed original return received by the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) on or before the specified "cut-off date." The "cut-off date" shall be the last day of the calendar quarter within which the FTB estimates that it will have received returns claiming credits that cumulatively total $200 million for all taxable years.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 32 (Lara-D) Office of Small Business Advocate

Requires the Office of Small Business Advocate to establish a program that supports entrepreneurship as a form of economic development and job creation in communities throughout this state. Requires the program to accomplish certain objectives related to encouraging entrepreneurship and small business development, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)

AB 150 (Perea-D) Small business enterprises

Allows the Department of General Services to direct minimum business participation goals for minority, women, and disabled veteran-owned businesses and small businesses in state contracts and to monitor progress in meeting this goal, commencing 7/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 365 (Galgiani-D) Small businesses: High-speed rail

Enacts penalties and sanctions relative to the certification by the High-Speed Rail Authority of any business as a small emerging business enterprise, microbusiness, or disabled veteran business enterprise.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 541 (Morrell-R) California Small Business Board

Directs the California Small Business Board to focus for the next two years on, among other items, the impact of licensing and permitting regulations on small business startups. Requires the Board to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the Small Business Advocate, and the Legislature in July 2012, July 2013 and December 2013.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1037 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Small business impact: regulations

Increases the threshold for business activities under the definition of "small business" and requires agencies to reassess regulations five years after adoption, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1206 (Galgiani-D) Small businesses: high-speed rail: contracts

Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority to adopt a program to include contractor compliance monitoring and enforcement efforts, tracking and reporting mechanism, and prompt payment, reporting, and project closeout provisions. Stipulates that the program may include separate elements for small business enterprises, microbusinesses, and disabled veteran business enterprises.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1409 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Small businesses: regulations

Clarifies the nature of the reasonable alternatives to be considered by an agency when they are preparing their initial statement of reasons for proposing adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. Requires the initial statement to also include any reasonable alternative submitted by the public to the Office of the Small Business Advocate and an assessment of whether there are similar or related state regulation(s) that have been adopted and determine whether there are opportunities to coordinate and harmonize compliance activities in order to reduce the cost and regulatory burden on small business, and that in making this consideration that the compliance method will result in full compliance with the implementing statute or law. Also requires the Department of General Services to provide in its State Administrative Manual guidance on procedures that facilitate the review of existing regulations and the implementation of new and modified regulations, as specified, and requires the Director of the Office of Small Business Advocate to comment and gather input from small business on reasonable alternatives to be proposed and existing regulations.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1783 (Perea-D) Small business preferences: public contracts

Requires the Department of General Services (DGS) to publish on the DGS Web site, and make available to local agencies for their use, a list of small businesses and microbusinesses that have been certified as such by DGS. Allows local agencies to have access to the DGS list of certified small business for use as a reference for local programs, eliminates the ability of the small business to be certified by local governments and have that made available for use by the State of California, and allows local governments to set additional criteria for local preference purposes.
Chapter 114, Statutes of 2012

AB 2671 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Small business financial development corporations

Extends the sunset date from 1/1/13, to 1/1/18, on the requirement that at least 20% of the total amount of all outstanding loan guarantees be set aside in the California Expansion Fund for the purpose of paying potential defaults under the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 2012

Labor Relations

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SB 316 (Emmerson-R) Meal periods: exemption: transportation industry

Adds employees employed in the transportation industry, as defined, to the list of employees exempt from meal period provisions of law.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
Similar bills were SB 319 (Wyland-R) which died in the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee and SB 1362 (La Malfa-R) which died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee.

SB 319 (Wyland-R) Meal and rest periods: exceptions: transportation industry

Exempts an employer from the requirement to provide meal and rest periods to an employee during work periods of specified duration if the employee is in the transportation industry whose work places him/her inside an armored car in shifts during a work day.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
Similar bills were SB 316 (Emmerson-R) which died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee and SB 1362 (La Malfa-R) which died in the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee.

SB 362 (Berryhill-R) Employment: apprenticeships

Removes the "needs-based" conditions for the creation of an apprenticeship program, and increases the amount of penalties a contractor or subcontractor is required to pay if he/she fails to employ the legally-required number of apprentices.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 367 (Dutton-R) Employment: working hours

Enacts the Small Business Workplace Flexibility Act of 2011 which permits an individual nonexempt employee -- employed by an employer with 25 or fewer employees -- to request an employee-selected flexible work schedule, as specified, and allows an employer to implement this schedule without any obligation to pay overtime compensation.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 378 (Dutton-R) Employment: alternative workweek schedules

Provides that an alternative workweek schedule adopted pursuant to certain provisions in existing law may include a regularly scheduled alternative workweek that authorizes work by the affected employees for more than 10 hours a day, as long as the employees are paid at the appropriate overtime rate set forth in those provisions. Provides a definition of "regularly scheduled." Exempts from those provisions employers with five or fewer employees, but permits such employers and their employees to voluntarily enter into a revocable written agreement setting forth an alternative workweek schedule that allows an employee to work up to 10 hours a day, 40 hours a week, without the payment of overtime wages, with the requirement to pay a prescribed rate of overtime pay for excess hours and days.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 389* (Dutton-R) Employment: meal periods

Provides that the payment of one additional hour of pay shall constitute compliance with the requirement to provide a meal or rest period and must be the exclusive remedy for the failure to provide a meal or rest period.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 432 (De León-D) Workplace safety: lodging establishments: housekeeping

Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, no later than 12/1/12, to adopt occupational safety and health standards for lodging establishment housekeeping that includes the use of a fitted bed sheet, instead of a flat sheet, and the use of long-handled tools in order to eliminate the need for housekeepers to work in a stooped, kneeled, or squatting position, as specified. Requires these provisions to be operative 9/1/13 with full compliance required no later than 12/31/15.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 438 (Cannella-R) Prevailing wages: public work

Provides that workers working in a yard, shop, or plant off the site of construction shall only be deemed to be employed upon public works if that yard, shop, or plant is specifically established for that public work project.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 575 (DeSaulnier-D) Employment: smoking in the workplace

Expands the prohibition on smoking in a place of employment to include an owner-operated business, and also eliminates most of the specified exemptions that permit smoking in certain work environments.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 581 (Liu-D) Apprenticeships: electricians

Specifies the kinds of nonelectrical tasks, as described, that may be validly performed by nonlicensed electrical apprentices working for a licensed electrical contractor.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 725 (Berryhill-R) Labor: prevailing wages

SB 727 (Berryhill-R) Labor: public works: prevailing wages

Specifies that workers must be employed directly at the site of the work to be deemed employed upon public work. Exempts from the prevailing wage requirements public projects of less than $100,000. Exempts from the prevailing wage requirements the governing board of a school district with regard to the construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of school facilities, any fabrication or prefabrication work done at a permanent offsite facilities of a contractor, a public work project of a local agency that adopts a resolution or ordinance, as specified, and workers employed on a hospital seismic retrofitting project. Exempts from the definition of "public works," for purposes of the prevailing wage requirements, work performed during the design and preconstruction phases of construction, including inspection and land surveying work and deletes provisions of existing law specifying that "public works" includes the hauling of refuse from a public works site to an outside disposal location. Deletes from existing law exclusions from the requirements of public works and prevailing wage laws for work done on certain private development projects, affordable housing units for low- or moderate-income persons, privately-owned residential projects, qualified residential rental projects, single-family residential projects, and low-income housing projects.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 987 (Grove-R) which failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee.

SB 829 (Rubio-D) Project labor agreements

Prohibits the use of state funds for any charter city construction projects if the charter city has banned the consideration of the use of project labor agreements.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2012

SB 883 (Correa-D) Employers: good faith defense

Permits an employer to raise as an affirmative defense that (at the time of an alleged violation) the employer was acting in good faith and in compliance with, or reliance upon, an applicable employment statute or regulation.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 923 (De León-D) Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program

Makes cleanup changes to SB 1234 (De Leon-D), Chapter 734, Statutes of 2012, which created the Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program. Adds two additional members to the Secure Choice Retirement Savings Investment Board, to be appointed by the Governor. Provides that the Board shall not open the Program for enrollment until a subsequent authorizing statute is enacted that expresses the approval of the Legislature for the Program to be fully implemented.
Chapter 737, Statutes of 2012

SB 1038 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Department of Industrial Relations: Budget Trailer Bill

Among other provisions, eliminates the Division of Labor Statistics and Research and establishes consolidated public works enforcement within the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations to implement the 2012 Budget.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2012

SB 1114 (Dutton-R) Employment: overtime compensation

Establishes, until 1/1/15, 10 hours as a day's work in a 40 hour workweek instead of the current eight hour workday. The current overtime compensation requirements would apply for any work in excess of the 40 hour workweek or a 10 hour workday.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1115 (Dutton-R) Employment: flexible work schedules

Permits an individual nonexempt employee -- employed by an employer with 10 or fewer employees -- to request an employee-selected flexible work schedule, as specified, and allows an employer to implement this schedule without any obligation to pay overtime compensation.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1230 (Wright-D) Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board

Delays the application of Air Resources Board diesel emission and particulate matter control regulations until the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board issues additional safety regulations on the retrofitting of the diesel emission and particulate matter control technology.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1234 (De León-D) Retirement savings plans

Establishes the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Investment Board, as defined, and the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust, a continuously appropriated fund, for the purpose of creating a statewide program known as the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program (SCRSP). SCRSP will exist to provide a statewide retirement savings plan for private workers who do not participate in any other type of employer sponsored retirement savings plan. Contributions by employers and employees will be voluntary. In order for SCRSP to become operational, this bill requires that the Board conduct a market analysis to determine various factors in regard to implementing the SCRSP and to report to the Legislature on its findings; the analysis may be done only if sufficient funds to do so are made available through a non-profit or private entity, federal funding, or an annual Budget Act appropriation. Once created, administrative costs for the SCRSP shall be paid for from earnings on investments into the trust and shall be no more than 1%, annually, of the total program fund assets.
Chapter 734, Statutes of 2012

SB 1255 (Wright-D) Employee compensation: itemized wage statements

Provides a statutory definition of what constitutes "suffering injury" for purposes of recovering damages pursuant to the itemized wage statements requirements in current law.
Chapter 843, Statutes of 2012

SB 1284 (Lieu-D) Unemployment insurance: disclosure of information

Allows the Director of the Employment Development Department to electronically transmit wage information of an employee to a creditor, upon the execution of a release by an employee, if specified requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1333 (Blakeslee-R) Employment: labor standards: consultation unit

Establishes within the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations a Labor Standards Consultation Unit for the purpose of providing consulting services to employee groups and employers regarding compliance with wage and hour laws. Requires the Division to develop procedures for offering the consultation services to employer and employee groups which shall include training efforts, educational materials, and online resources.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1362 (La Malfa-R) Employment: meal periods

Provides an exemption from the meal period requirements for commercial drivers and other persons who are employed in the transportation industry and are either (1) governed by specified federal and state regulations with regard to their hours of service, or (2) employed by a "motor carrier," as defined by federal law, if compliance would commit the employer to a particular price, route, or service. Provides that these exemptions apply to wage claims that are pending as of this bill's date of enactment.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1370 (Berryhill-R) Prevailing wages: public works: director: code list

Requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to post a list on their Web site of every California code section, and the language of those sections, that relates to prevailing wage rate requirements for workers employed on a public works project.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2012

AB 10 (Alejo-D) Minimum wage: annual adjustment

Increases the state's minimum wage from its current rate of $8.00 per hour to $8.50 per hour, as of 1/1/12 and provides for the automatic adjustment of the minimum wage each year by the percentage of inflation as measured by the California Consumer Price Index, beginning 1/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 51 (Yamada-D) Payroll cards

Explicitly allows employers to utilize payroll cards as a method of payment to employees, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

AB 59 (Swanson-D) Family and medical leave

Amends the California Family Rights Act by expanding permissible family and medical leave to cover care for an independent adult child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, domestic partner, or parent-in-law with a serious health condition.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2039 (Swanson-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 132 (Logue-R) Car washes: regulations: civil penalties

Revises the civil penalty provisions for an employer engaged in the business of car washing and polishing that fails to register with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 196 (Alejo-D) Minimum wage

Provides for an adjustment to the hourly minimum wage on 1/1/14, and annually thereafter, to maintain employee purchasing power. The automatically adjusted minimum wage would be calculated using the California Consumer Price Index, as specified. Prohibits the Industrial Welfare Commission from adjusting the minimum wage downward and from adjusting the minimum wage upward if the average percentage of inflation for the previous year was negative.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1439 (Alejo-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 217 (Carter-D) Workplace smoking prohibition: health care facilities

Restricts smoking in long-term health care facilities by only allowing smoking in a designated patient smoking area that is outdoors, in an area that reasonably prevents smoke from entering the facility or patient rooms, and that is not located in a patient's room.
Vetoed

AB 311 (Cook-R) Employment: labor standards: consultation unit

Establishes in the Division of Labor Standards the Labor Standards Consultation Unit for the purpose of providing consulting services to an employer or employee regarding compliance with labor standards. States the intent of the Legislature that the Unit ultimately be self-supporting and, to further that end, authorizes the Unit to charge a requester a fee for consulting services provided, not to exceed the actual cost to the Unit, and to further fund its operation from grants obtained from for-profit or not-for-profit nongovernmental and governmental entities. Prohibits the Division from citing an employer for a violation of any labor standard, order, or regulation discovered as a result of an employer requesting or accepting services from the Unit pursuant to the bill, if the employer remedies the violation within 30 days, and the employer is not the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Division.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 356 (Hill-D) Public works projects: local hiring policies

Prohibits a local agency from mandating that any portion or percentage of work on a public works project be performed by local residents or persons who reside within particular geographic areas if any portion of that public works project will take place outside the geographic boundaries of the local agency and requires any increase in the cost of a state-funded public works project that is attributable to a policy of hiring only local residents be funded with local funds.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 394 (Silva-R) Employment regulation: volunteers

Exempts an individual who renders services as a volunteer from provisions of law relating to wages, hours, and working conditions.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 400 (Ma-D) Employment: paid sick days

Requires employees, who meet certain criteria, to be paid sick days, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 508 (Swanson-D) Employment: solid waste handling and recycling services

Extends bid preferences and termination protections found in public transit contract bidding to solid waste handling and recycling services contract bidding.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 552 (Morrell-R) Employment: minors

Defines, for purposes of minors, community entertainment to mean performing arts events, including dance, music, opera, and theater arts, produced by nonprofit organizations in which members of the community are invited to participate as nonprofessional members of the cast, crew, ensemble, troupe, staff, or production.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 553 (Monning-D) Employment safety: hazardous materials

Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to adopt standards specifying permissible exposure limits for workplace hazardous substances, using existing quantitative risk assessments determined by state and federal agencies, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 848 (Campos-D) Apprenticeship programs

Requires programs receiving state apprenticeship funding through the California Department of Education or the California Community Colleges for building and trade programs to report specified outcome data annually.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 860 (Jones-R) Labor unions: political contributions

Prohibits payroll deductions from being made if the money deducted will be used for political purposes. Prohibits corporations, labor unions, and government contractors from making campaign contributions in certain circumstances.
(Failed passage in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1179 (Jones-D), which died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee.

AB 889 (Ammiano-D) Domestic work employees

Regulates the wages, hours, and working conditions of domestic work employees; provides a private right of action for domestic work employees, including liquidated damages; and provides an overtime compensation rate for domestic work employees. Requires domestic work employers of persons engaged in household domestic service to provide employees with information regarding their wages either semimonthly or at the time of each wage payment, and removes an exclusion for domestic work employers to secure workers' compensation coverage for certain employees thereby requiring all employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation.
Vetoed

AB 916* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) California Agricultural and Service Worker Act

Requires the Employment Development Department and the Department of Food and Agriculture to convene a working group to consult with the United States Department of Homeland Security and the United States Department of Justice in order to determine the legal roles and responsibilities of federal and state agencies in implementing a program to provide undocumented persons who are agricultural or service industry employees with a permit to work and live in California. Requires the working group to create a report expressing its recommendations, which is required to incorporate specified provisions describing a model program, and requires the report to be submitted to the Legislature and the Governor. Requires the Governor, using the report, to either make a formal request to the federal government to implement a program to provide undocumented persons who are agricultural or service industry employees with a permit to work and live in California, or issue an explanation as to why a formal request was not made and make recommendations to the Legislature for how a program to provide undocumented persons who are agricultural or service industry employees with a permit to work and live in California should be structured.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 950 (John A. Pérez-D) Employment: drayage truck operators

Deems drayage truck operators to be statutory employees for employment purposes, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 987 (Grove-R) Prevailing wages

Raises the threshold on public works projects exempt from prevailing wage requirements from $1,000 to $100,000. Provides that specified public works and prevailing wage requirements shall not apply to contracts for which the state or any political subdivision pays a cumulative amount of less than 50% of the total payment under the contract. Exempts from prevailing wage requirements any school district construction, reconstruction or rehabilitation projects except as required by federal law. Limits the application of prevailing wage law applicable to specified irrigation, utility, reclamation, improvement district, street, sewer and other improvement work, by requiring that such projects be paid for in whole or in part with public funds in order to be covered (current law does not have a public funds requirement for these types of projects). Revises various provisions of public works law to apply only to work done "in the execution of a contract." Revises provisions of existing law related to the applicability of the law to private residential projects and works on private development projects required as part of regulatory approval of a project, as specified. Revives exemptions for specified residential and low-income housing projects that (under current law) apply only to projects before 12/31/03. Eliminates the requirement in existing law that projects financed under the Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act comply with prevailing wage laws. Provides that "public works" does not include work performed during the design and preconstruction phases of construction. Deletes provisions of current law that specify that "public works" includes the hauling of refuse from a public works site to an outside disposal location. Eliminates the sunset date on an exemption for specified volunteers, volunteer coordinators and conservation corps members. Provides that the requirement to pay prevailing wages does not apply to fabrication or prefabrication work that is done at permanent offsite facilities of contractors. Provides that the requirement to pay prevailing wages does not apply to a public work project of a local agency that adopts a resolution or ordinance that provides that prevailing wage requirements shall apply to any public work of that local agency only if required by a state or federal grant. Provides that workers employed on a hospital seismic retrofitting project are not required to be paid prevailing wages. Specifies that workers must be employed "directly at the sight of the work" to be deemed to be employed upon a public work. Extends the contract threshold for certain apprentice requirements on public works projects from contracts of $30,000 to contracts of $100,000 or more. Makes other related and conforming changes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
A similar bill was SB 727 (Berryhill-R) which died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee.

AB 988 (Grove-R) Prevailing wages

Revises the manner in which the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations determines the rate of general prevailing wages, including deleting the requirement that he/she consider the applicable wage rates established by collective bargaining agreements and the rates that may have been predetermined for federal public works, and deleting the requirement that the Director consider further data from labor organizations and employers or employer associations and concerns where the rates do not constitute the rates actually paid in the locality. Revises the methodology that the Director is required to use in determining the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the locality in which the public work is to be performed, including deleting certain requirement, and requiring the Director to conduct a survey of the wages paid for work performed in each locality in which the public work is to be performed. Requires the holiday rates to be paid on all specified holidays, and deletes the authorization that they be paid instead on those dates recognized in a collective bargaining agreement. Deletes the provision stating that awarding bodies are not required to specify holidays in the contract for public work. Deletes certain categories of employer payments from per diem wages for purposes of public works. Deletes requirements, for purposes of per diem wage payments, that the credit for employer payments be computed on an annualized basis where the employer seeks credit for payments that are higher for public works projects than for private construction by that employer, except as specified. Deletes the requirement that a representative of any craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute public works contracts to file with the Department copies of collective bargaining agreements and all modifications and extensions affecting per diem wages or holidays. Makes related technical, nonsubstantive changes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
A similar bill was SB 725 (Berryhill-R) which died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

AB 1106 (Achadjian-R) Occupational safety and health

Allows any county, city, special district, public authority, public agency, or joint powers authority to apply for a refund of civil penalties assessed for violations of occupational safety and health laws if the conditions have been corrected.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1160 (Hill-D) Public utility employees

Requires a public utility to file a completed report with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) within 30 days as to any final judgment, arbitration award, compromise, or settlement in excess of $50,000 in any civil action brought by an employee or former employee of the utility against the utility regarding safety issues that could jeopardize the lives or health of Californians. Authorizes PUC to limit this reporting requirement to those particular types of claims that PUC determines are likely to involve claims or allegations that could jeopardize the lives or health of Californians. Requires PUC to develop and adopt the report form to be used by a public utility to comply with this reporting requirement. Requires specified civil penalties to be imposed for a violation of these requirements.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1179 (Mansoor-R) Labor organizations: union dues: political activities

Enacts the California Voluntary Contributions Act to place limitations on expenditures for political activities made by labor organizations.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
A similar bill was AB 860 (Jones-R) which failed passage in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee.

AB 1286 (Fuentes-D) Wage disputes: waiver of claims

Provides that unless approval of a settlement or compromise relating to a claim for earned wages is being sought pursuant to the California Rules of Court, an employee's waiver or release of such a wage claim that is based on a provision of the Labor Code or an order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, or is derivative of such a claim, and is covered by a pending certified or uncertified class action or representative action, shall not be valid or enforceable if that employee is a class member or a putative class member in a pending certified or uncertified class action or is represented or potentially represented in a representative action.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1313 (Allen-D) Enforcement: overtime wages: agricultural workers

Removes the exemption for agricultural workers from overtime and meal period requirements and creates a state-mandated local program by including agricultural employees as a class of employees protected by criminal penalties under existing law.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 1321 (Wieckowski-D) Employees: wages: garnishment

Modifies the procedure for handling a judgment debtor's claim of exemption from wage garnishment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1364 (Campos-D) Employment: licensed talent agencies: representation

Prohibits any talent agency licensee to refuse to represent any artist because of that artist's sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

AB 1397 (Swanson-D) Employment: working hours

Makes a nonsubstantive change to that provision which allow an employee driver of a charter-party carrier licensed by the Public Utilities Commission to take an on-duty meal period if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1399 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Employment records: right to inspect

Amends provisions of existing law related to an employee's right to inspect or copy personnel records.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is AB 2674 (Swanson-D) Chapter 842, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1439 (Alejo-D) Minimum wage: annual adjustment

Requires the state's minimum wage to automatically adjust each year by the percentage of inflation as measured by the California Consumer Price Index, beginning 1/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 196 (Alejo-D) which died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee.

AB 1450 (Allen-D) Employment: discrimination: status as unemployed

States that an employer shall not publish in print, on the Internet, or any other medium an advertisement or announcement for any job that includes either of the following (1) a provision stating or indicating that an individual's current employment is a requirement for a job, and (2) a provision stating or indicating that an employer will not consider an applicant for employment based on that individual's employment status.
Vetoed

AB 1546 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) California High-Skilled Worker Retention and Family Act

Establishes the California High-Skilled Worker Retention and Family Act of 2012. Requires the Employment Development Department to create a program that authorizes a foreign national who meets certain requirements to apply to the Department for resident immigrant status. Requires that in order to be eligible for the program the foreign national must be sponsored by a person or small business. Requires that the sponsor of the foreign national execute an affidavit of sponsorship that would impose a contractual obligation on the sponsor to support the foreign national, and to reimburse certain entities for any means-tested public benefit provided to the foreign national. Provides that an affidavit of sponsorship may be terminated only under certain circumstances.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1598 (Buchanan-D) Public works: public contracts: installation

Modifies the definition of installation to include the assembly and disassembly of freestanding and affixed modular office systems.
Chapter 810, Statutes of 2012

AB 1660 (Campos-D) Employment representation of minors: permits

Requires persons representing artists who are minors, under 18 years of age, to obtain a Child Performer Services Permit from the Labor Commissioner.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2012

AB 1675 (Bonilla-D) Farm labor contractors: licenses: civil penalty

Establishes civil penalties for farm labor contractors who are found to have violated license requirements.
Chapter 857, Statutes of 2012

AB 1740 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Employment protections: domestic violence, sexual assault

Prohibits an employer from discriminating or retaliating against an employee who is a victim of stalking, and requires the employer to make reasonable accommodations in a timely manner for an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1744 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Employee compensation: itemized statements

Requires temporary services employers to disclose specified information on the itemized payroll statement provided to employees and on an existing notice provided at the time of hire.
Chapter 844, Statutes of 2012

AB 1775 (Wieckowski-D) Wage levy under an earnings withholding order

Raises the minimum floor of a judgment debtor's wages that are exempt from levy under an earnings withholding order from 30 times the federal minimum hourly wage to 40 times the California minimum hourly wage. Becomes operative on 7/1/13.
Chapter 474, Statutes of 2012

AB 1789 (Morrell-R) Wage orders: review: private rights of action

Requires the Industrial Welfare Commission to review each wage order, as specified, and prohibits certain private rights of action based on violations of the Commission wage orders until such a review has been completed.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1804* (Valadao-R) Public contracts: public entities: project labor agreements

Repeals existing provisions authorizing local public entity use of project labor agreements in construction contracts.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1844 (Campos-D) Employer use of social media

Prohibits an employer from requiring or requesting an employee or applicant for employment to disclose a user name or password for the purpose of accessing personal social media, to access personal social media in the presence of the employer, or to divulge any personal social media. Prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, threatening to discharge or discipline, or otherwise retaliating against an employee or applicant for not complying with a request or demand by the employer that violates these provisions.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2012

AB 1855 (Torres-D) Employment: contractors: sufficient funds

Extends provisions of current law related to liability for financially-insufficient contracts to the warehouse industry, in addition to the industries, construction, farm labor, garment, janitorial, security guard, already covered under existing law. Provides that, upon request of the Labor Commissioner, any person or entity that enters into a contract or agreement for labor or services shall provide a copy of the relevant provisions of the contract or other documentation to the Commissioner, as specified.
Chapter 813, Statutes of 2012

AB 1948 (Grove-R) Wage and hour laws: Legislature

Provides that specified provisions of the Labor Code related to wages and hours (including overtime, meal periods, and certain penalties and fines for violations of the law) are applicable to the Legislature as an employer.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1958 (Grove-R) Public works: prevailing wages

Increases the monetary threshold for public works projects subject to the prevailing wage law and indexes this threshold for inflation, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1964 (Yamada-D) Discrimination in employment: reasonable accommodations

Expands the definition of "religious creed" in the Fair Employment and Housing Act to include religious dress or grooming practices, as defined. Provides that a reasonable accommodation for an individual's religious dress or grooming practice is not reasonable if the accommodation requires segregation of the individual from other employees or the public. Provides that an accommodation for religious belief, observance, or dress or grooming practice is not required if it results in a violation of any other law prohibiting discrimination or protecting civil rights, as specified.
Chapter 287, Statutes of 2012

AB 1999 (Brownley-D) Employment: family caregiver status protection

Amends employment provisions of the Fair Employment and Housing Act to prohibit discrimination based on the family caregiver status of an employee.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2039 (Swanson-D) Family and medical leave

Increases the circumstances under which an employee is entitled to protected leave under the California Family Rights Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 59 (Swanson-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 2103 (Ammiano-D) Employment: wages and hours: overtime

Provides that payment of a fixed salary to a nonexempt employee shall be deemed to provide compensation only for the employee's regular, non-overtime hours, notwithstanding any private agreement to the contrary.
Chapter 820, Statutes of 2012

AB 2107 (Valadao-R) Public works: prevailing wages: school districts

Establishes a 50% "public funds" requirement for the triggering of prevailing wage law on school constructions projects.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2176 (Logue-R) Employment: meal periods

Provides an exemption from the meal period requirements for commercial drivers operating a vehicle that is required to display placards pursuant to a specified statute.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2217 (Pan-D) Employment: call centers

Prohibits a call center employer that employs, or has employed within the preceding 12 months, 50 or more persons from ordering a mass layoff, relocation, or termination, as defined, of an industrial or commercial facility employing a prescribed number of people, without first giving 60 days' notice to affected employees and specified government agencies. Requires a customer service representative who receives or makes a telephone call to a customer residing in the state to identify to the customer the location of the call center from which the customer service representative is calling. Requires the customer service representative to transfer the customer to a call center located within the United States, upon request of the customer.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2269 (Swanson-D) Labor History Month: pupil instruction

Substitutes the first week of April as Labor History Week with the month of May as Labor History Month and encourages school districts to commemorate that month with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role that the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2012

AB 2288 (Cedillo-D) Labor-related liabilities: original contractor

Requires a direct contractor, as defined, making or taking a contract in the state for the erection, construction, alteration, or repair of a building, structure, or other work, to assume, and be liable for, any debt owed to a wage claimant for labor incurred by a subcontractor or contractor acting under, by, or for the direct contractor in performing labor, construction, or other work included in the subject of the original contract. Authorizes civil actions to enforce this liability, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2346 (Butler-D) Agricultural employee safety: heat-related illness

Prescribes specified duties on employers to reduce the risk of heat illness among agricultural employees, to be enforced by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. Imposes specified civil penalties, and creates a private right of action, for violations of these requirements. Requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to provide an annual report to the Legislature regarding the enforcement of the requirements.
Vetoed

AB 2386 (Allen-D) Employment and housing discrimination: sex: breastfeeding

Clarifies, under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, protection from employment discrimination for breastfeeding or medical conditions, as specified.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2012

AB 2387 (Smyth-R) Occupational safety and health: local public entities

Authorizes any county, city, special district, public authority, public agency, or joint powers authority to apply for a refund of civil penalties assessed, with interest, for violations of occupational safety and health laws if the conditions have been corrected.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2396 (Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, And Internet Media Committee) Employment of infants: entertainment industry

Specifies that prior to obtaining a temporary work permit, the parent or guardian of an infant 15 days to one month old, must obtain the medical certification of a physician as currently required by law, but clarifies that a work permit may not be issued until the doctors permission has been obtained and confirmed. Makes a technical change to the provisions governing infant work permits to clarify that monies collected from the temporary permit filling fee be deposited into the correctly referenced Entertainment Work Permit Fund.
Chapter 260, Statutes of 2012

AB 2517 (Eng-D) Wage liens: laborers and car washing and polishing employees

Authorizes "wage liens" in the car wash industry against the real and, personal property of an employer for unpaid wages, and makes changes to existing mechanics lien law, as specified.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 2573 (Furutani-D) Family child care providers: bargaining representative

Authorizes family child care providers to form, join and participate in "provider organizations" for purposes of negotiating with state agencies on specified matters.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2636 (Furutani-D) Electricians: registration fees

Exempts a veteran, as defined, from the payment of the electricians registration fee for individuals who are uncertified, but are registered with the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2674 (Swanson-D) Employment records: right to inspect

Requires an employer to maintain personnel records for a specified period of time and to provide a current or former employee, or his/her representative, an opportunity to inspect and receive a copy of those records within a specified period of time, except during the pendency of a lawsuit filed by the employee or former employer relating to a personnel matter. Provides that an employer is not required to comply with more than 50 requests for a copy of the above-described records filed by a representative or representatives of employees in one calendar month. Provides that the above provisions shall not apply with respect to an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement if the agreement provides, among other things, for a procedure for inspection and copying of personnel records. In the event an employer violates these provisions, permits a current or former employee or the Labor Commissioner to recover a penalty of $750 from the employer, and further permits a current or former employee to obtain injunctive relief and attorney's fees. Provides that a violation of the existing law requiring that personnel records be made available for inspection constitutes an infraction.
Chapter 842, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 1399 (Swanson-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 2675 (Swanson-D) Employment contract requirements

Specifies that short-term bonuses and temporary incentives are not included under the definition of "commission," therefore not requiring the employer to provide a new written contract every time the employer provides a short-term bonus or incentive to their employees.
Chapter 826, Statutes of 2012

AB 2676 (Charles Calderon-D) Agricultural employee safety

Makes it a misdemeanor for any person who directs an agricultural employee to perform, or supervises an agricultural employee in the performance of, outdoor work without providing the employee with shade and potable water, punishable by imprisonment not exceeding six months in a county jail, by a fine not exceeding $10,000, or by both the imprisonment and fine, or if that violation results in injury to an agricultural employee, by imprisonment not exceeding one year in a county jail, by a fine not exceeding $25,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
Vetoed

AB 2677 (Swanson-D) Public works: wages: employer payment contributions

Provides that an increased employer payment contribution that results in a lower hourly straight time or overtime wage is not considered to be a violation of the applicable prevailing wage determination so long as specified conditions are met. Provides that an increased employer payment contribution that results in a lower taxable wage is not a violation of the applicable prevailing wage determination if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 827, Statutes of 2012

ACR 44 (Allen-D) Workers Memorial Day

Resolves that Members of the Legislature rededicate themselves to improving safety and health in every California workplace, and recognizes 4/28/11 as Workers Memorial Day.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 155 (Fuentes-D) Justice for Janitors Day

Recognizes June 15 as Justice for Janitors Day, a day to commemorate the struggle of janitors for affordable family health care and dignified wages.
Resolution Chapter 84, Statutes of 2012

AJR 47 (Block-D) Compensation: gender pay equity

Urges the Congress of the United States to reintroduce and adopt the Paycheck Fairness Act to help close the gender wage gap.
Resolution Chapter 145, Statutes of 2012

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SB 351 (La Malfa-R) Workers' compensation: fatal accidents

Prohibits the Department of Industrial Relations from seeking payment of an amount of workers' compensation owed to a deceased employee's survivors by obtaining a lien on writ of execution relating to a judgment obtained by a member of the immediate family of the deceased employee, unless the member of the immediate family is the employer for whom the deceased employee was working at the time of the fatal injury.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 407 (Cannella-R) Workers' compensation: jail inmates

Creates certain limitations for inmates of a county, city, or city and county for prisoners entitled to workers' compensation benefits for an injury arising during the course of assigned employment subject.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 777 (Lieu-D) Workers' compensation insurance: coverage program

Requires that the final determination of the reasonableness of a request to share information in order to investigate possible workers' compensation insurance fraud be decided by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations and the agency or organization in possession of the information.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 863 (De León-D) Workers' compensation

Reduces frictional costs, speeds up medical care for injured workers, and increases permanent disability indemnity benefits to injured workers with respect to the workers' compensation system.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2012

SB 896 (De León-D) Workers' compensation: spinal surgeries

Requires that specified spinal surgeries be reimbursed to the performing hospital at the rate of 1.8 times the applicable Diagnostic Related Groups rate, with no separate reimbursement for any implantable devices, hardware, or instrumentation in accordance with the prescribed formula, but, unless the case qualifies for outlier reimbursement, caps the total payment to the provider at two times the applicable rate.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 959 (Lieu-D) Workers' compensation: provider reimbursement

Repeals the additional, separate reimbursement in excess of the Official Medical Fee Schedule, for implantable medical devices, hardware, and instrumentation for spinal surgeries, also known as "spinal pass-through."
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1105 (Lieu-D) Workers' compensation: liens

Requires the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board to allow a lien for loss-of-time benefits paid by a self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, as defined.
Chapter 712, Statutes of 2012

SB 1347 (Vargas-D) Workers' compensation: insurance

Requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to designate a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, defined by the bill as a reporting group, for the purposes of providing information regarding the administration, costs, and policy impacts of legislative and market changes in the administration of workers' compensation programs and benefits to injured employees of public self-insurers. Establishes a board of directors to govern the reporting group, initially consisting of up to nine specified members, appointed by the California Association of Joint Powers Authorities, the California State Association of Counties Excess Insurance Authority, and other unspecified entities. Requires that the reporting group not be considered a public agency or an agency of the state for any purpose.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1406 (Emmerson-R) State Compensation Insurance Fund: appointments

Requires the State Compensation Insurance Fund board of directors to appoint six positions, including a claims medical officer, a chief actuarial officer, a chief of internal affairs and three senior management employees with specialized training and knowledge in infrastructure engineering, data management and systems engineering or applications.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1513 (Negrete McLeod-D) State Compensation Insurance Fund

Expands, until 1/1/25, the investment options available to the State Compensation Insurance Fund to include preferred and common equity and additional fix asset investments, and allows the Fund to participate in the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.
Chapter 839, Statutes of 2012

AB 808 (Skinner-D) Workers' compensation: hospital employers: presumption

Provides, with respect to hospital employees who provide direct patient care in an acute care hospital, that the term "injury" includes methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA skin infection) that develops or manifests itself during the period of the person's employment with the hospital. Creates a presumption that MRSA skin infection arises out of and in the course of the person's employment if MRSA skin infection develops or manifests as specified. Prohibits attributing MRSA skin infection that develops or manifests in those cases to any disease or skin infection existing prior to that development or manifestation.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 974 (Portantino-D) Workers' compensation insurance: rates

Provides that workers' compensation insurance rates may not include a price differential for policies sold through brokers as opposed to direct sales by the insurer.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1145 (Cedillo-D) Workers' compensation: injuries

Provides, for injuries that cause permanent partial disability and occur on or after 1/1/13, for a supplemental job displacement benefit in the form of a voucher for up to $6,000 to cover various reeducation and skill enhancement expenses which would expire two years after the date the voucher is furnished to the employee or five years after the date of injury, whichever is later.
Vetoed

AB 1363 (Alejo-D) Workers' compensation insurance

Subjects the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau to the open meetings and public records laws that govern public entities in California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1454 (Solorio-D) Workers' compensation: audiologists

Includes doctors of audiology who meet specified requirements among those medical professions who may be appointed by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation within the Department of Industrial Relations as a qualified medical evaluator.
Vetoed

AB 1687 (Fong-D) Workers' compensation

Requires notice to an employee of the options available to object to a decision made pursuant to a workers' compensation utilization review process that would modify, delay, or deny medical treatment. Authorizes an award of attorney's fees to an injured employee, who successfully challenges an employer's workers' compensation utilization review determination.
Vetoed

AB 2069 (Solorio-D) Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits

Add Sherriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange to the general statutes that grant most other peace officers certain workers' compensation benefits, including dependents' benefits for health care services and scholarships in the event that the peace officer is killed or totally disabled in the line of duty.
Chapter 819, Statutes of 2012

AB 2072 (Eng-D) Workers' compensation: acupuncturists

Requires the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation to report to the Legislature by 12/31/13, on whether acupuncturists, whether or not they have obtained qualified medical evaluator status, possess the knowledge, skills and abilities to conduct disability evaluations in the workers' compensation system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2219 (Knight-R) Contractors' workers' compensation insurance coverage

Deletes the sunset date, thereby extending indefinitely the existing law requiring roofing contractors who hold a C-39 classification to maintain workers' compensation insurance, whether or not they have employees, and makes additional changes to law regarding C-39 contractors.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2012

AB 2301 (Assembly Insurance Committee) California Insurance Guarantee Association: definitions

Conforms California statutes governing insolvent insurers to existing practices in cases involving multi-state insurer insolvencies.
Chapter 57, Statutes of 2012

AB 2302 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Workers' compensation

Repeals obsolete statutory requirements regarding studies on the workers' compensation system.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2449 (Norby-R) Workers' compensation: independent contractors

Requires that workers' compensation law be strictly construed by the courts with respect to what constitutes an independent contractor, as defined for purposes of limiting the inappropriate extension of these benefits to persons not intended to receive them.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2451 (John A. Pérez-D) Workers' compensation: firefighters

Provides that certain proceedings related to the collection of death benefits of firefighters and peace officers may be commenced within, but no later than, 480 weeks from the date of injury, and in no event more than one year after the date of death, if specified criteria are met.
Vetoed

AB 2493 (Roger Hernández-D) Workers' compensation: administrative hearings

Authorizes the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers Compensation to establish, maintain, administer, and publish annually an updated list of certified administrative hearing interpreters who, based on testing by an independent organization designated by the Administrative Director, have been determined to meet certain minimum standards, for purposes of administrative hearings and medical examinations conducted in connection with workers' compensation and appeals to the Worker's Compensation Appeals Board. Requires a reasonable fee to be collected from each interpreter seeking certification, to cover the reasonable regulatory costs of administering the program.
Vetoed

Unemployment Insurance

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SB 691 (Lieu-D) Unemployment insurance: use of information

Permits information sharing between the Employment Development Department (EDD) and the Contractors State License Board to assist with its workers' compensation fraud investigations. Also, requires the director of EDD to provide the Agricultural Labor Relations Board with information in EDD's possession including employee, wage, and employer information for use in the investigation or enforcement of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
Chapter 832, Statutes of 2012

SB 1038 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board: Budget Trailer Bill

Among other provisions, reduces the size of the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board by two members (from a total of seven to five) and increases the qualifications of the Board members to require that they, at a minimum, be an attorney and have one year of experience in conducting judicial hearings or five years of experience in the practice of law.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2012

SB 1263 (Vargas-D) Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board: annual salary

Deletes the salary provisions for the chairperson and members of the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1291 (Evans-D) Unemployment benefits: training: teacher credentialing

Permits teachers participating in credential preparation programs in math, science, and special education to automatically qualify for the California Training Benefits Program.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2012

SB 1401 (Lieu-D) Unemployment insurance: education and workforce investments

Requires the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB) to establish initial and subsequent eligibility criteria for the state's eligible training provider list that effectively directs training resources into training programs leading to employment in high-demand, high-priority, and high-wage occupations, particularly those facing a shortage of skilled workers. Requires the state to develop a California Industry Sector Initiative that will serve as the cornerstone of the CWIB's state plan and provide a framework for state workforce investments and support for sector strategies. Defines "individual with employment barriers" as an individual with any characteristic that substantially limits an individual's ability to obtain employment, including indicators of poor work history, lack of work experience, or access to employment in nontraditional occupations, long-term unemployment, lack of educational or occupational skills attainment, dislocation from high-wage and high-benefit employment, low levels of literacy or English proficiency, disability status, or welfare dependency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 226 (Solorio-D) Unemployment insurance: reporting requirements

Requires that the Employment Development Department, whenever the Unemployment Fund indicates a negative balance, include in its status report the estimated impact on employers from changes in federal tax credits and the estimated amount the state is expected to pay in interest charges on any outstanding loan to the federal government.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 500 (Solorio-D) Unemployment Insurance Code: penalties

Deletes the requirement that the forfeiture of, and ineligibility for, unemployment insurance benefits for certain time periods for any individual convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction of willfully making a false statement or knowingly failing to disclose a material fact to obtain or increase any benefit or payment in violation of specified provisions of state law and, instead, requires that the conviction be in a court of competent jurisdiction of this state, any other state, or the federal government. Makes various changes regarding the penalties for violations of the unemployment insurance law, the law requiring the withholding of state income tax on wages, and the Unemployment Insurance Code, including increasing specified civil penalties, making certain violations a felony rather than a misdemeanor, and increasing the maximum imprisonment for various violations.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 804 (Yamada-D) Unemployment disability insurance: family leave

Extends eligibility for the state's family leave act temporary disability insurance benefits to grandparents, grandchildren, siblings or parents-in-law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1794 (Williams-D) Unemployment insurance: reporting and payroll duties

Authorizes the Employment Development Department (EDD) to provide the specific new employee information to the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy, the Contractors State License Board (CSLB), and the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF). Permits the EDD, the CSLB, and the SCIF to share the new hire information for the purposes of auditing, investigating, and prosecuting violations of tax and cash-pay reporting laws. Extends the sunset date, to 1/1/19, of the expanded contractor payroll audit provision. Directs that the specified requirements under the memorandum of understanding regarding the administration and enforcement of the reporting and payroll duties relating to contractors are to be executed on or before 7/1/13.
Chapter 811, Statutes of 2012

AB 1845 (Solorio-D) Unemployment compensation benefits: overpayment assessments

Conforms the state's unemployment insurance program administered by the Employment Development Department to changes in federal law.
Chapter 783, Statutes of 2012

AB 2310 (Morrell-R) Unemployment insurance benefits: government pension

Requires Unemployment Compensation Insurance (UI) benefits to be reduced if the claimant receives a government pension. Specifically, requires the Employment Development Department to deduct the value of a government pension benefit received by a claimant from UI benefits that claimant is eligible to receive.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2601 (Furutani-D) California Workforce Investment Board: duties

Requires California Workforce Investment Board to provide that annual report to the Governor and requires the Board to post the report on its Internet Web site for inspection by the public.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2602 (Furutani-D) Employment Training Panel: report: Governor's Web site

Requires Employment Training Panel to report, as specified, project information annually to the Governor and requires the Panel to post the report on its Internet Web site for inspection by the public.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2627 (Allen-D) Benefits payments: direct deposit

Requires the Employment Development Department (EDD) to distribute unemployment insurance and disability compensation benefits through direct deposit without the use of an EDD debit card upon request of an eligible claimant.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

Financial Institutions

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SB 2* (Calderon-D) Mortgage loans

Extends, until 1/1/15, current prohibitions against any person who negotiates, attempts to negotiate, arranges, attempts to arrange, or otherwise offers to perform residential mortgage loan modifications or forbearance for a fee paid by the borrower, from demanding or receiving any preperformance compensation, requiring collateral to secure final payment, or taking power of attorney from the borrower for persons who facilitate or attempt to facilitate mortgage loan modifications or forbearance. Extends these prohibitions to persons who for a fee negotiate, attempt to negotiate, arrange, attempt to arrange, facilitate, attempt to facilitate, or otherwise offer to accomplish the sale of a residential dwelling for less than the remaining amount of indebtedness due to a mortgagor, mortgagors, trustor, or trustors at the time of sale. Makes conforming changes to the 14-point bold type statement that is required to be provided to a borrower, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

SB 365 (Lowenthal-D) Deferred deposit transactions

States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation authorizing the Commissioner of Corporations to contract with a third party to implement a deferred deposit transaction database (payday loan database), as specified, and makes it a violation of the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law (Payday Loan Law) for a licensee to extend a payday loan to a borrower who already has a payday loan outstanding.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

SB 376 (Fuller-R) Mortgage loan originators

Specifies that a mortgage loan originator means an individual who performs those acts habitually or repeatedly. Specifies that a mortgage loan originator does not include an individual who takes a residential mortgage loan application or offers or negotiates terms of a residential mortgage loan for no more than five residential mortgage loans in a calendar year where the loans are made in connection with the sale of residential property and the loan proceeds are from the seller's own funds.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

SB 412 (Vargas-D) Mortgages: deficiency judgments

Deletes provisions in current law regarding written consent of the holder of the deed of trust or mortgage obligating the holder to accept the sale proceeds as full payment. Prohibits a deficiency judgment upon a note secured solely by a deed of trust or mortgage for a dwelling of not more than four units in any case in which the trustor or mortgagor sells the dwelling for a sale price less than the remaining amount of the indebtedness outstanding at the time of sale, in accordance with the written consent of the holder of the deed of trust or mortgage if the title has been voluntarily transferred to a buyer by grant deed or by other document that has been recorded and the proceeds of the sale are tendered as agreed.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 435 (Harman-R) Mortgages and deeds of trust

Permits the notice of default to reference the authorized agent of the beneficiary or mortgagee on the notice. Permits sales of property pursuant to a power of sale in a mortgage or deed of trust to be postponed for any period of time not to exceed one year from the date set forth in the notice of sale.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 708 (Corbett-D) Electronic transfer funds

Clarifies that the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) shall apply to a funds transfer that is a remittance transfer, as defined, unless the remittance transfer is an electronic fund transfer, as defined. Specifies if there is an inconsistency between the applicable provision of the UCC and the federal act, the applicable provisions of the federal act shall control to the extent of the inconsistency.
Chapter 392, Statutes of 2012

SB 900 (Leno-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure

Makes changes to California's non-judicial foreclosure process to provide stability to California's statewide and regional economies and housing market by facilitating opportunities for borrowers to pursue loss mitigation options. Prohibits lenders from "dual tracking," the practice of negotiating with clients to modify a mortgage so that payments become more affordable while simultaneously pursuing foreclosure. Outlaws so-called robo-signing, the improper or faulty processing of foreclosure documents, and allows state agencies and private citizens to sue financial institutions, under limited conditions, for economic compensation and for additional civil damages of up to $50,000 if lenders willfully, intentionally or recklessly violate the law. No lawsuit could go forward if the bank or servicer first fixes the problem with documentation or procedures. Requires, upon borrower request for a foreclosure prevention alternative from a Larger Residential Mortgage Lender, the mortgage servicer establish a "single point of contact" (individual or team) and provide the borrower with one or more direct means of communication with their single point of contact.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2012
An identical bill is AB 278 (Eng-D), Chapter 86, Statutes of 2012.

SB 976 (Vargas-D) Finance lenders: exemptions

Adds community advantage lender to the list of business entities exempt from the California Finance Lenders Law, where they join other entities with exemptions from that law, including banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, insurance premium finance agencies, credit unions, small business investment companies, California business and industrial development corporations, and licensed pawnbrokers. Defines community advantage lender as an entity authorized by the U.S. Small Business Administration to deliver community advantage loans.
Chapter 328, Statutes of 2012

SB 979 (Vargas-D) Financial institutions

Requires the Department of Financial Institutions to make its formal, final enforcement actions public, except as specified.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2012

SB 980 (Vargas-D) Mortgage loans

Extends the sunset date on the state's prohibition against collecting up-front fees in connection with mortgage loan modifications and other forms of mortgage loan forbearance, from 1/1/13 to 1/1/17.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2012

SB 1116 (Leno-D) Capital Access Loan Program

Decreases, until 4/1/17, the minimum contribution required of borrowers who participate in the Capital Access Loan Program (CalCAP) from 2% to 1% of the principal amount of the loan, and increases the length of time that a financial institution has to apply to the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to enroll a qualified loan in CalCAP.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2012

SB 1244 (Harman-R) Foreclosure procedures

Authorizes a common interest development, if after reasonable diligence a notice of default is not able to be served on an owner's representative in accordance with provisions of current law, to post a copy on the owner's separate interest in a manner most likely to give actual notice to the party to be served and to mail a copy of the notice by certified mail and first-class mail to the owner's legal representative at the address of the owner's separate interest.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1470 (Leno-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure

Enacts several changes to the rules governing the nonjudicial foreclosure process for residential real property, establishes an Office of Homeowner Protection to help respond to borrower inquiries about and complaints regarding compliance with the new rules, and provides for enforcement mechanisms, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institution Committee)

SB 1471 (DeSaulnier-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure

Requires servicers, as defined, to offer borrowers a single point of contact with whom those borrowers may communicate regarding options that may be available to avoid foreclosure, prohibits any robosigned document, as defined, from being recorded or filed with any court, and enacts rules relating to the ability of an entity to exercise the power of sale in a mortgage or deed of trust.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institution Committee)

SB 1473 (Hancock-D) Foreclosure and unlawful detainer: tenants

Lengthens the requirement of existing law providing 60 days' notice to instead provide, in the case of a month-to-month lease or periodic tenancy, 90 days' notice for tenants in a foreclosed property. Specifies that a tenant holding possession under a residential lease when the property is sold in foreclosure shall have the right to remain until the end of the lease term. This provision does not apply if the new owner will occupy the property as his/her primary residence, the lessee is the borrower or the child, spouse or parent of the borrower, the lease was not the result of an arm's-length transaction or the rent is substantially less than the fair market rent for the property, unless reduced or subsidized by federal, state or local law. In either case the new owner must give the tenant a 90-day notice to vacate. Specifies a notice to be used to inform the tenant of these requirements upon posting a notice of sale for a foreclosed property. Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to make available translations of the new notice requirements. Provides that the new notice requirements would not become operative until 3/1/13, or 60 days following the issuance of an amended new translation by the Department, whichever occurs later.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1508 (Lowenthal-D) State funds: deposit: eligible bank

Adds the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to the list of banks eligible to receive deposits of state money from the State Treasurer.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institution Committee)

AB 278 (Eng-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure

Makes changes to California's non-judicial foreclosure process to provide stability to California's statewide and regional economies and housing market by facilitating opportunities for borrowers to pursue loss mitigation options. Prohibits lenders from "dual tracking," the practice of negotiating with clients to modify a mortgage so that payments become more affordable while simultaneously pursuing foreclosure. Outlaws so-called robo-signing, the improper or faulty processing of foreclosure documents, and allows state agencies and private citizens to sue financial institutions, under limited conditions, for economic compensation and for additional civil damages of up to $50,000 if lenders willfully, intentionally or recklessly violate the law. No lawsuit could go forward if the bank or servicer first fixes the problem with documentation or procedures. Requires, upon borrower request for a foreclosure prevention alternative from a Larger Residential Mortgage Lender, the mortgage servicer establish a "single point of contact" (individual or team) and provide the borrower with one or more direct means of communication with their single point of contact.
Chapter 86, Statutes of 2012
An identical bill is SB 900 (Leno-D), Chapter 87, Statutes of 2012.

AB 336 (Dickinson-D) Title loans

Establishes standards, prohibitions and requirements on lenders that provide loans collateralized by a motor vehicle (Car title loans).
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 406 (Davis-D) Adjustable rate mortgages: balloon payments

Prohibits the inclusion of a balloon payment in an adjustable rate residential mortgage loan.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 407 (Davis-D) Mortgages: certificates of discharge

Increases the penalty for violating recording certificates of discharge relative to mortgages from $500 to $1,000.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 935 (Blumenfield-D) Foreclosures: foreclosure mitigation charges

Prohibits a notice of trustee's sale from being accepted for filing with a county recorder until the mortgage servicer pays a foreclosure mitigation charge of 5% of the price for which the house was last sold, a charge not to exceed $20,000.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 986 (Eng-D) Finance lenders

Specifies that the report summarizing the utilization of the Pilot Program for Affordable Credit-Building Opportunities by the Commissioner of Corporations, is required to be submitted to the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee and the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee on or before 1/1/14.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 1080 (Charles Calderon-D) Banking and financial services: Internet transactions

Requires a business that provides banking or other financial services and that allows for the movement of specified funds over the Internet to collect and, report, and update, on a quarterly basis, information relating to unauthorized transfers of funds over the Internet. Requires these banks or financial institutions to post this report at each of their locations within the state, or on its Internet Web site, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1158 (Charles Calderon-D) Deferred deposit transactions

Increases the maximum face value of a check used to obtain a payday loan from $300 to $500 (which has the effect of increasing the maximum payday loan amount from $255 to $425, assuming a payday lender charges the maximum allowable fee).
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1227 (Huber-D) Credit Union Advisory Committee: repeal

Abolishes, as of 1/1/14, the Credit Union Advisory Committee.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1547 (Eng-D) Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure procedures

Deletes the 1/1/13 sunset date on provisions of law which require a 30-day notice, as specified, to be given to the borrower of certain home mortgages, as specified, before a mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent may file a notice of default.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 1551* (Torres-D) Mortgages: subordination

Allows the California Housing Finance Agency under the Home Purchase Assistance and Extra Credit Teacher Programs and the Department of Housing and Community Development under the CalHome Program to subordinate a second mortgage under certain conditions.
Chapter 555, Statutes of 2012

AB 1557 (Skinner-D) Maintenance of foreclosed property: violations

Continues, until 1/1/13, provisions of current law which (1) requires a legal owner to maintain vacant residential property purchased at a foreclosure sale, or acquired by that owner through foreclosure under a mortgage or deed of trust; (2) authorizes a governmental entity to impose civil fines and penalties for failure to maintain that property of up to $1,000 per day for a violation; and (3) requires a governmental entity that seeks to impose those fines and penalties to give notice of the claimed violation and an opportunity to correct the violation at least 14 days prior to imposing the fines and penalties, and to allow a hearing for contesting those fines and penalties.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 1599 (Feuer-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure

Requires a foreclosing financial institution to provide the borrower with a copy of a recorded notice of default or recorded notice of sale that contains a summary of the respective notice translated into Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean, codifies the contents of that summary and requires the Department of Corporations to translate the summary and post the translation on their Internet Web site.
Chapter 556, Statutes of 2012

AB 1602 (Eng-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure

Establishes foreclosure guidelines and procedures for mortgage loan servicers, and provides a framework for borrowers seeking a modification of their mortgage loan.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 1603 (Feuer-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: mortgage servicers

Prohibits a mortgage servicer from obtaining forced-placed insurance unless there is a reasonable basis to believe the borrower (homeowner) has failed to comply with the mortgage loan requirement to maintain hazard, flood, or homeowner's insurance. Prohibits a mortgage servicer from imposing any charge on a borrower for force-placed insurance unless the mortgage servicer has met specified conditions, including providing written notification, as specified. Requires a mortgage servicer, within 15 days of receiving evidence of a borrower's insurance coverage, to terminate any force-placed insurance and refund premiums paid during any period of overlap between both policies. Prohibits a mortgage servicer from obtaining force-placed insurance from an affiliated entity and from splitting fees or giving or receiving anything of value in connection with obtaining force-placed insurance.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1617 (Dickinson-D) Community banks and credit unions: state fiscal affairs

Requires the State Treasurer to ensure that at least 30% of the monies invested in the Time Deposit Program are invested in time deposits with community banks and credit unions, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

AB 1950 (Davis-D) Mortgages: prohibited business practices: enforcement

Deletes the sunset date on two provisions of law that prohibit collecting up-front fees in connection with offers to help borrowers obtain mortgage loan modifications or other forms of mortgage loan forbearance; extends the statute of limitations from one year to three years on specified, real estate-related misdemeanors; and makes a technical clarifying change to the Real Estate Law.
Chapter 569, Statutes of 2012

AB 1980 (Roger Hernández-D) Loans: disclosures: financial facts label

Requires, that on or after 1/1/14 licensees under the California Finance Lenders Law and the Deferred Deposit Transaction Law provide a financial facts label accompanying every window advertisement, online advertisement, mailer, flier, brochure or pamphlet.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2006 (John A. Pérez-D) Credit union services

Authorizes state-chartered credit unions to offer so-called lifeline services to nonmembers who are eligible for membership, and to charge a fee for the provision of those services. The lifeline services that could be sold include check cashing, receipt and transmission of domestic and international electronic funds transfers, and sales of cashier's checks and money orders.
Chapter 246, Statutes of 2012

AB 2010 (Bonilla-D) Reverse mortgages: counseling

Requires a prospective borrower to receive reverse mortgage counseling in person, unless the borrower elects to receive the counseling in another manner.
Chapter 641, Statutes of 2012

AB 2233 (Atkins-D) Small Installment Consumer Loan Act

Authorizes licensed finance lenders and brokers to make small installment consumer loans for a limited term, as specified, of an amount of at least $750 and no more than $2,500. Authorizes licensees to contract for and receive specified alternative interest rates and charges, including an administrative fee, an account service fee, and a returned check fee, specifies that the borrower has a right to rescind a small installment consumer loan, as specified, and requires the lender to disclose this right to the borrower in the loan agreement.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2425 (Mitchell-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure

Requires a mortgage servicer to provide a delinquent borrower with a single point of contact for the purpose of expediting loss mitigation evaluation and activities. Prohibits use of robosigned documents in the foreclosure process.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2481 (Morrell-R) Financial institutions

Authorizes the use of a letter of credit issued by any Federal Home Loan Bank as acceptable security for demand and time deposits placed by the State Treasurer or any county treasurer with the eligible bank posting that security.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

AB 2500 (Hueso-D) California Investment Trust: state bank

Establishes the California Investment Trust within state government, and authorizes the Trust to exercise various powers and duties relating to banking, including, among others, receiving and managing deposits from public funds, loaning money, engaging in financial transactions, and buying and selling federal funds. Requires all state money, as defined, to be deposited into the California Investment Trust.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2528 (John A. Pérez-D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure: military members

Requires that in order for a notice of default to be recorded, it include a declaration stating that the mortgagee, trustee, or authorized agent contacted the borrower to determine if the borrower is an active duty servicemember, and if the borrower is an active duty servicemember, or was an active duty servicemember 90 days prior to the date the notice of default is to be recorded, that the mortgagee, trustee, or authorized agent has complied with the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2610 (Skinner-D) Foreclosure and unlawful detainer: tenants

Provides additional protections to tenants living in foreclosed homes. Revises the requirement of existing law providing 60 days' notice to instead provide, in the case of a month-to-month lease or periodic tenancy, for 90 days' notice for tenants in a foreclosed property. Provides that new owners of a foreclosed property must honor a tenant's lease, except in certain cases such as if the new owner will occupy the property as his/her primary residence. In those cases, the new owner must give the tenant a 90 days' notice to vacate. Revises the notice that is sent to tenants when the property is noticed for a foreclosure sale to reflect these changes. Permits a tenant in a foreclosed property to file a post-judgment claim of right to possession, as specified.
Chapter 562, Statutes of 2012

AB 2646 (Gatto-D) Credit unions: branch offices: Indian reservations

Authorizes a state-certified credit union, with the approval of the appropriate tribal government, to operate a branch office on an Indian reservation.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2666 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Mortgage loan originators

Makes technical and clarifying changes to provisions of the California Finance Lenders Law and California Residential Mortgage Lending Act that implement the federal Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2012

AJR 40 (Skinner-D) Mortgages

Urges the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and specifically its director, Edward DeMarco, to immediately allow the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to offer principal reductions to homeowners who owe more on their home loans than what their homes are worth.
Resolution Chapter 140, Statutes of 2012

Miscellaneous

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SB 71 (Leno-D) Accounting

Among other provisions, repeals the Advisory Committee on Accounting Ethics Curriculum.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2012

SB 143 (Rubio-D) Surface mining: idle mines

Limits the renewal of an idle surface mining operations Interim Management Plan to one additional five-year renewal period at the expiration of the first five-year renewal period.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 2012

SB 156 (Emmerson-R) Professional sports teams and facilities

Requires a professional sports team that will benefit from the issuance and sale of bonds by a public agency, to post a bond or other undertaking at the time of issuance of the bonds, in an amount adequate to ensure that all of the team's obligations under a financial agreement will be satisfied, in the event the professional sports team subsequently relocates. Provides that the sale by a public agency of a specified type of revenue bond affecting sports facilities may not proceed until the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission has assessed and reported to the public agency on the future financial risk imposed on the taxpayers by the sale.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 212 (De León-D) Pawnbrokers

Authorizes a pledgor and pawnbroker to agree to a replacement loan before title to pledged property has transferred, establishes that a replacement loan is a new loan subject to specified fees, and authorizes the payment of charges and fees for a loan that is being replaced to be made in person or through mail or wire transfer. Provides that the signature of the pledgor is not required for these replacement loans if the pledgor remits payment of fees and charges due under the loan contract being replaced by mail or proxy and certain other conditions are satisfied. Requires the signature of the pledgor and the pledgor's physical presence for a replacement loan that is greater that the principal amount of the loan being replaced or if the terms of the replacement loan are different than the terms of the loan being replaced. Requires a pawnbroker to return a pledgor's proposed payment in the same manner it was provided to the pawnbroker if the pawnbroker rejects the payment made by mail or other method.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

SB 323 (Vargas-D) California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act

Enacts the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act which recasts provisions governing the formation and operation of limited liability companies. Authorizes an operating agreement to be in a record or implied, in addition to being in writing or oral, and authorizes a combination of those forms. Renames the term that refers to the document members are required to file with the Secretary of State as a certificate of organization. Provides for a new, low-profit limited liability company which is authorized to be formed and operated to accomplish charitable purposes, as specified.
Chapter 419, Statutes of 2012

SB 330 (Padilla-D) Tobacco License Query System

Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and maintain the Tobacco License Query System that consists of a public, electronic database containing information regarding retailer violations of the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act (or STAKE Act) and other specified laws intended to prevent illegal sales of tobacco to minors.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 331 (Padilla-D) Retail tobacco licenses

Requires the Board of Equalization to deny a new tobacco retailer permit, if the retailer is located within 600 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school. This prohibition is not applicable for retail locations that seek to renew or transfer a license for a retail location within 600 feet of any school.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 568 (Lowenthal-D) Food vendors: polystyrene food containers

Prohibits a food vendor from dispensing prepared food to a customer in a polystyrene foam food container after 1/1/16, (7/1/17, for school districts) unless the local government or school district adopts a recycling program that can recycle at least 60% of its polystyrene foam food containers.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 615 (Calderon-D) Multiple employer welfare arrangements: benefits

Prohibits multiple employer welfare arrangements from offering, marketing, representing, or selling any product, contract, or discount arrangement as a minimum essential coverage or as compliant with Essential Health Benefits as defined by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), unless it meets the applicable requirements under the ACA.
Chapter 266, Statutes of 2012

SB 655 (Steinberg-D) Retailer engaged in business in this state

Defines a retailer engaged in business in this state as a retailer that has substantial nexus with this state and a retailer upon whom federal law permits the state to impose a use tax collection duty.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 692* (Walters-R) Professional engineers

Prohibits the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system, fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in the particular discipline. Authorizes any licensed engineer to practice engineering work in any of those fields in which he/she is competent and proficient.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1061 (Walters-R) which died in the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.

SB 744 (Wyland-R) Water submeters: testing

Deems, until 1/1/16, any water submeter tested by equipment that is regularly calibrated by tests that are directly traceable to standards promulgated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to be tested, sealed, and approved for commercial use, if specified conditions are met.
Vetoed

SB 750 (Hernandez-D) Locksmiths: key information access

Deletes the 1/1/13 sunset provision exempting automakers from providing electronic key code information to locksmiths so long as the manufacturer operates a 24 hours a day, 7 day a week request line whereby vehicle owners can request replacement keys and receive them within one day of the request or via the next overnight delivery.
Vetoed

SB 865 (Negrete McLeod-D) Contractors: expertise: legal representation

Requires the Contractors State License Board to provide legal representation to any person hired to provide expertise in a licensing or disciplinary matter when, as a result of providing that expertise, that person is named as a defendant in a civil action, and requires the Board to indemnify the expert for any judgment rendered against him/her.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 875 (Price-D) Real estate licensees

Allows the Commissioner of the Department of Real Estate (DRE) to bar from participation in a licensure examination a real estate salesperson, a real estate broker, or specified unlicensed persons if the Commissioner makes certain findings. Provides that persons suspended or barred from a position of employment, management, or control under existing law are also barred from participating in licensure examinations. Requires the DRE, upon denial of a license application or a license endorsement, to proceed under statutes governing the denial, suspension and revocation of licenses issued by the boards and bureaus within the Department of Consumer Affairs, which require a statement of issues or a notification of denial, as specified.
Chapter 380, Statutes of 2012

SB 886 (Corbett-D) Sprinkler fitters: licensing

Prohibits any person from installing or modifying a fire sprinkler system, a wet standpipe system, or an automatic fire extinguishing system without a certificate of registration issued by the State Fire Marshal.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 912 (Lieu-D) Contractors: fire safety: State Fire Marshal

Authorizes specified contractors to install residential fire protection systems for new single-family and two-family homes and authorizes the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations for all occupancy buildings, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 956 (Lieu-D) Automobile sellers and lenders

Enacts the Buy-Here-Pay-Here (BHPH) Automobile Dealers Act, as specified, to regulate the contract terms and other activities of entities meeting the definition of BHPH automobile dealers.
Vetoed

SB 969 (Vargas-D) Pet groomers

Establishes a non-governmental Pet Grooming Council to manage a voluntary certificate programs for pet groomers, pet bathers, and pet brushers. Establishes the Council as a non-profit organization with a sunset of 1/1/17. Establishes the membership of the Council, including animal right advocates, pet industry representatives, animal law attorneys, and other members. Requires the Council to issue a pet groomer certificate to applicants who are at least 18 years of age; have completed a Council-approved pet grooming curriculum; have 900 hours in pet grooming experience; and have paid a certification fee not to exceed $40.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 975 (Wright-D) Professions and vocations: regulatory authority

Provides, beginning 7/1/13, the California Architects Board (CAB) and the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists (PELSG) within Department of Consumer Affairs shall have the sole and exclusive authority to license and regulate its profession and vocation, and provides that no city, county, city and county, school district, other special district, local or regional agency, joint powers agency, or state agency or department shall impose a licensing requirement upon a person licensed to practice by CAB or PELSG.
Vetoed

SB 978 (Vargas-D) Securities transactions: exemptions

Enacts several changes to the Real Estate Law and Corporations Code, by increasing real estate investor protections, and requiring the Department of Corporations to focus greater regulatory scrutiny on, and provide greater transparency regarding, the activities of those who solicit investors in connection with real estate investments.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2012

SB 982 (Evans-D) Corporations: political activities: shareholder disclosure

Requires corporations to notify their shareholders at least 24 hours before making political contributions or expenditures, as defined, and to annually summarize and report to their shareholders on the political contributions and expenditures they made during the prior year, as specified.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

SB 1045 (Emmerson-R) Junk dealers: metal theft: damages

Provides that any junk dealer or recycler who possesses a fire hydrant, a fire department connection, as specified, or a backflow device or connection to that device or part of that device without a prescribed written certification, from the agency or utility owning or previously owning the material, is liable to the agency or utility for the wrongful possession of that material. Provides the liability be for the actual damages incurred by the agency or utility, including the value and cost of replacing the material, labor costs, and the costs of repairing any damage caused by the removal of the material. Requires the court to also award exemplary damages of three times the actual damages incurred by the agency or utility, with specified exceptions.
Chapter 393, Statutes of 2012

SB 1061* (Walters-R) Professional engineers

Prohibits the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system, fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in the particular discipline. Authorizes any licensed engineer to practice engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
A similar bill was SB 692 (Walters-R) which died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.

SB 1077 (Price-D) Alarm companies: limited liability companies

Authorizes a licensed alarm company to be organized as a limited liability company until 1/1/16, and authorizes the Bureau of Security and Investigate Services to cite unlicensed alarm company operators.
Chapter 291, Statutes of 2012

SB 1092 (De León-D) Brokers of construction trucking services

Requires a broker of trucking services to annually provide written evidence of a valid surety bond, as defined, to a third-party nonprofit organization within the industry that regularly maintains a published database of bonded brokers; alternatively, the broker may post a current copy of the surety bond on his/her own Internet Web site.
Chapter 490, Statutes of 2012

SB 1125 (Hancock-D) Seller's permits and certificates of registration

Requires local government entities to purchase tangible goods from vendors or contractors that possess a valid seller's permit or certificate of registration issued by the Board of Equalization, except as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1162* (Runner-R) Animal control: tranquilizers

Authorizes an animal control officer or humane officer to possess and administer a tranquilizer that contains a controlled substance to a wild, stray, or abandoned animal, as specified, with indirect supervision as determined by a licensed veterinarian, provided that the officer meets prescribed training and other requirements.
Chapter 594, Statutes of 2012

SB 1186* (Steinberg-D) Construction-related accessibility

Seeks to promote compliance with the state's disability access laws without unwarranted litigation. Requires an attorney to provide a written advisory with each demand letter or complaint, as defined, sent to or served upon a defendant or potential defendant for any construction-related accessibility claim, as specified.
Chapter 383, Statutes of 2012

SB 1193 (Steinberg-D) Businesses: human trafficking: posting

Requires specified businesses most often connected with human trafficking to post informational signs, as specified, at the business entrance or in other areas visible to employees and the public. These signs, posted in English, Spanish, and any other language widely spoken in the county, will identify trafficking, state its illegality and that victims are protected under U.S. law. Each sign will provide two toll-free, anonymous hotline numbers for victims or members of the public to call to seek help or report unlawful or suspicious activity.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2012

SB 1208 (Leno-D) Publicly traded corporations: compensation: disclosure

Requires a publicly traded corporation to disclose, in its annual statements to the Secretary of State, the names of, and the annual compensation paid to, the corporation's five most highly compensated retirees.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

SB 1226 (Gaines-R) Professional fiduciaries

Revises the definition of professional fiduciaries to include a person who acts in those capacities pursuant to a nondurable power of attorney, unless the power of attorney is for a single act or between partners or co-owners.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1273 (Lowenthal-D) Athletic trainers

Creates the Athletic Trainers Practice Act and establishes the Athletic Trainer Licensing Committee within the Physical Therapy Board of California to license and regulate athletic trainers, commencing 1/1/13. Provides that no licensed athletic trainer shall provide, offer to provide, or represent that he/she is qualified to provide any treatment that he/she is not qualified to perform by his/her education, training, or experience, or that he/she is otherwise prohibited by law from performing.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 1276 (Wyland-R) Design professionals: indemnity

Limits a design professional's duty to defend a public agency against a negligence claim to reimbursement of defense costs incurred by the public agency that were caused by the design professional's actual negligence.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1329 (Simitian-D) Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program

Expands the types of entities that can donate and dispense medication in the prescription drug depository and distribution program that provides donated medication to medically indigent patients, includes these additional entities within the immunity from criminal and civil liability contained in existing law, and allows counties to establish a program through an action by the county board or through an action of the public health officer of the county, instead of only through county ordinance under existing law.
Chapter 709, Statutes of 2012

SB 1341 (Wolk-D) Charitable corporations: exemptions: revocation

Provides specified charities with a 120-day grace period to come into compliance with registration and reporting requirements before revocation of tax-exempt status, and deletes a requirement that charities pay the minimum franchise tax for any period in which their tax-exempt status was invalid.
Chapter 710, Statutes of 2012

SB 1364 (Huff-R) Water corporations

Subjects water corporations with more than 2,000 service connections to the same audit powers of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) as electrical, gas, and telephone corporations, and requires water corporations with more than 2,000 service connections to include more specific information in its notices to ratepayers regarding potential rate increases. Allows the PUC to direct a water corporation with more than 2,000 service connections, or an electrical, gas or telephone corporation, to utilize the services of an independent auditor, who shall be selected and supervised by water, electrical, gas, or telephone corporation.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2012

SB 1405 (De León-D) Accountancy: military service: practice privilege

Revises California's practice privilege statutes for the practice of accountancy to allow out-of-state licensees to practice in California with no notice or fee paid to the California Board of Accountancy, and allows certified public accountants, public accountants and public accounting firms to have their permits placed on military inactive status.
Chapter 411, Statutes of 2012

SB 1424 (Harman-R) Architects and professional engineers

Requires architects, engineers and land surveyors, when competing to provide services to a public agency, to comply with the law relating to entering into contracts based on demonstrated competence and professional qualifications rather than competitive bidding.
(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 1460 (Yee-D) Automotive repair: replacement parts

Requires an automotive repair dealer or insurer who uses or directs the use of replacement crash parts, as defined, to follow specified procedures when using replacement crash parts, to expressly notify the automobile owner regarding the use of specific categories of crash parts in making the repairs, and to provide disclosures as to the warranty for those parts, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 1465 (Yee-D) Asian rice-based noodle manufacturers

Requires manufacturers of Asian rice-based noodles to place a date and time stamp on the packaging of the noodles indicating when the noodles first came out of hot holding, as specified, and the noodles are perishable. Exempts Asian rice-based noodles that meet specified conditions from these requirements.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2012

SB 1526 (La Malfa-R) Tax exempt organizations

Expands the exemption that relieves specified tax-exempt organizations from the requirement to file an annual return with the Franchise Tax Board for taxable years on or after 1/1/12. Increases the gross receipts threshold for filing an informational return from $25,000 to $50,000.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1532 (Pavley-D) Business filings

Updates and standardizes California law to more efficiently facilitate the development of California Business Connect (a 24 hour, online business filing program).
Chapter 494, Statutes of 2012

SB 1576 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Professions and vocations

Makes several non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive or technical changes to various provisions within the Business and Professions Code relating to the regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs and to the weights and measures provisions under the jurisdiction of the Department of Food and Agriculture.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 2012

SCR 24 (Price-D) Small Business Month

Proclaims the month of May 2011 as Small Business Month, to raise awareness of the contributions made by outstanding entrepreneurs and small business owners.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SR 25 (Cannella-R) National Engineers Week

Recognizes the week of 2/19/12 to 2/25/12, inclusive, as National Engineers Week and acknowledges the services bestowed upon the citizens of California by engineers.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 27 (La Malfa-R) National Surveyors Week

Proclaims the week of March 18th as National Surveyors Week.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 4 (Miller-R) Hydrolysis: facility manager

Authorizes the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to license and regulate hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1615 (Miller-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 20 (Halderman-R) Construction defect actions

Requires an attorney who solicits or consults with a client or potential client for purposes of filing an action for defects in the design or construction of an improvement to residential real property to provide a written notice at the time of the solicitation or consultation.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 249 (Bill Berryhill-R) Contractors

Eliminates a person's ability to sue to recover all compensation for construction work performed by an "unlicensed contractor" whose license has lapsed, unless the lapse is due to the license being suspended or revoked.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 298 (Brownley-D) Reusable bags: recycling

Generally prohibits retail stores from providing single-use plastic bags to customers. Requires retailers to make reusable grocery bags, as defined, available for purchase by customers, and creates standards for reusable grocery bags.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 302 (Garrick-R) Garment manufacturing: alteration of appearance

Exempts specified activity from provisions of current law regulating garment manufacturing. Specifically, provides that the law does not apply to a person who, by any means or method, engages solely in the alteration of the appearance of garments previously shipped by a garment manufacturer as ready-to-wear apparel.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 374 (Hill-D) Funeral directors and embalmers

Provides that if an applicant for assignment of a funeral establishment license is not able to submit the audit report due to estate matters or litigation, as specified, then the applicant may request approval from the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to secure a surety bond guaranteeing the payment to each trust fund account of any shortages in the trust funds, and authorizes the license assignment to be completed upon that basis.
Chapter 364, Statutes of 2012

AB 391* (Pan-D) Secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers: electronic reporting

Implements the currently unfunded system for electronic reporting of transactions in pawned and secondhand goods through fees from secondhand property dealers and pawnbrokers.
Chapter 172, Statutes of 2012

AB 465 (Bill Berryhill-R) Gardening or landscape maintenance services: regulation

Provides, on and after 7/1/12, for the regulation of gardening or landscape maintenance services, as defined. Requires a local jurisdiction to obtain from an applicant for issuance or renewal of a business license who provides gardening or landscape maintenance services, (1) documentation that he/she has workers' compensation coverage or is exempt from those coverage requirements and proof of current licensure as a contractor issued by the Contractors State License Board, or (2) a signed acknowledgment of the consequences of performing the duties of a contractor without a license.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 473 (Charles Calderon-D) Unfair competition

Makes it unlawful for any person to manufacture any article or product that is sold or offered for sale in this state while using stolen or misappropriated information technology, as defined, in its business operations in competition with another article or product manufactured without the use of stolen or misappropriated information technology, except as specified. Requires written notice containing specified information under penalty of perjury to be provided to a defendant prior to commencement of an action under these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 569 (Bill Berryhill-R) Business licensing: Business Master License Center

Establishes the Business Master License Center to develop and administer a computerized one-stop master license system as well as issue and review master licenses, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 675 (Hagman-R) Business consumer boards: continuing state education

Provides that, if a board within the Department of Consumer Affairs requires its licensees to satisfy continuing education (CE) or competency requirements by pursuing a course of CE or competency, the CE or competency courses must contain only content relevant to the particular practice regulated by the board. CE or competency courses that advance or promote labor organizing on behalf of a union, or that advance or promote statutory or regulatory changes, political candidates, political advocacy, or political strategy shall not be considered content relevant to the practice regulated by the board and shall not be acceptable for meeting CE or competency requirements. The term "courses" includes institutes, seminars, lectures, conferences, workshops, and any other public events.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 704 (Ma-D) Secondhand goods

Requires a person conducting business as a secondhand dealer to provide a valid secondhand dealer's license to any peace officer upon demand.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 742* (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Surface mining operations

Prohibits a lead agency with jurisdiction over a proposed aggregate mining operation from approving a reclamation plan of a mining operation that is proposed to be constructed within specified distances of a Native American sacred site or an aquifer that is hydrologically connected to the Santa Margarita River without the consent of the tribe whose reservation is nearest the proposed operation. Applies to surface mining operation in Riverside County.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 753 (Monning-D) Vehicles: rentals

Prohibits car rentals companies from renting or selling cars that are subject to federal recall notices.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 797 (Conway-R) Cosmetology schools: private postsecondary education

Exempts schools of cosmetology, as defined, from the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 817 (Gatto-D) Vehicle rental contracts

Requires the California Law Revision Commission to study whether the laws regulating rental car companies and their customers would benefit from greater clarity and concision and report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature by 12/31/12.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 831 (Silva-R) Single member limited liability companies

Exempts a single member limited liability company (SMLLC), whose sole member is a tax-exempt organization, from the minimum annual tax, currently set at $800. Exempts an SMLLC, whose sole member is a tax-exempt organization, from the annual fee, currently based on total income from all California sources. Exempts an SMLLC, whose sole member is a tax-exempt organization, from filing a return and from verifying liabilities under Revenue and Taxation Code Sections 17941 and 17942, the sole owner's name and taxpayer identification number, and the owner's consent to California tax jurisdiction, among other required information. Requires an SMLLC's corporate status to be "active" before the Franchise Tax Board establishes the exemption.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 836 (Galgiani-D) Secondhand goods

Requires a pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, or coin dealer to deliver property to a peace officer upon request when the property is required by a peace officer in a criminal investigation.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 860 (Jones-R) Corporations: political contributions

AB 958 (Bill Berryhill-R) Business and professions: regulatory boards

Deletes specified limitations periods for each board within the Department of Consumer Affairs to file disciplinary action accusations against licensees for various violations and imposes a specified limitations period on all boards within the Department.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 975 (Ma-D) Professional employer organizations

Prohibits a person or entity from providing, advertising for, or otherwise holding itself out as providing, professional employer services in the state, unless that person or entity is registered as a professional employer organization with the Employment Development Department.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1161 (Skinner-D) Cooperative corporations

Renames the Consumer Cooperative Corporation Law as the Cooperative Corporation Law, and provides alternative provisions to which a cooperative corporation may elect to be subject by designating itself as a worker cooperative in its bylaws. Limits a member of a worker cooperative to only one vote on a matter to be voted on by all classes voting together as a single class, regardless of the number of voting classes in which the person is a member. Requires notice of a meeting in which members of a worker cooperative are entitled to vote to be sent no more than 24 hours before the time of the meeting.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 1181 (Butler-D) Weights and measures

Prohibits the sale of a commodity when it is sold based upon a quantity represented by the purchaser or using the purchaser's equipment from paying the seller less than the highest applicable per unit for that commodity.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 2012

AB 1190* (Jeffries-R) Destination management companies: sales and use taxes

Designates a qualified destination management company as a consumer, and not a retailer, of the tangible personal property it provides a client under a qualified contract for destination management services.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1301 (Hill-D) Retail tobacco sales: STAKE Act

Repeals and recasts the Board of Equalization's existing penalty structure for violations of the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, a statewide enforcement program related to the illegal sales of tobacco products to persons under the age of 18.
Chapter 335, Statutes of 2012

AB 1325 (Lara-D) Business filings: fictitious business name statements

Requires fictitious business name statement registrants to provide specified personal identification at the time of filing; and requires the fictitious business name statement to contain language specifying that false declarations are a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.
Chapter 368, Statutes of 2012

AB 1427 (Solorio-D) Food facilities: sanitization

Authorizes retail food facilities (e.g. grocery stores, restaurants) to manually sanitize food-contact surfaces with a solution of ozone generated on-site by a device that complies with federal regulations applicable to such devices.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2012

AB 1435 (Dickinson-D) Athletic personnel: child abuse reporting

Expressly includes an athletic coach, athletic administrator, or athletic director employed by any public or private school that maintains any combination of instruction from kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, in the mandated child abuse and neglect reporter laws.
Chapter 520, Statutes of 2012

AB 1443 (Logue-R) Home furnishings: inspections: reimbursement

Requires the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation to reimburse the manufacturer, distributer, or retailer for the actual cost of an article or sample of upholstered furniture or bedding, including pillows or cushions or insulation taken for analysis, unless the article or sample is found to be in violation of the law.
Chapter 90, Statutes of 2012

AB 1447 (Feuer-D) Automobile sales

Prohibits a buy-here-pay-here dealer from selling or leasing a used vehicle at retail price without giving the buyer or lessee a written warranty that shall have a minimum duration of at least 30 days from the date of delivery or when the odometer has registered 1,000 miles from what is shown on the contract, whatever occurs first. If the dealer fails to give the buyer a written warranty, the dealer shall be deemed to have provided the warranty as a matter of law.
Chapter 740, Statutes of 2012

AB 1508 (Carter-D) Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous materials

Revises the exemption from the requirement to collect seller information and delay payment for three days, for the sale of nonferrous materials with a value under $20, to require that the majority of the transaction must be to purchase beverage containers, and excludes purchase of copper or copper alloys from that exemption.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2012

AB 1513 (Allen-D) Retail food facilities: playgrounds

Requires that playgrounds on the premises of a food facility meet the same standard of cleanliness for all other areas of the food facility, with specified exceptions, and imposes requirements on a food facility with a playground on the premises to develop a policy to ensure the safety and cleanliness of the playground.
Vetoed

AB 1518 (Perea-D) Weighmasters: automated weighing systems

Authorizes any weighmaster weighing any vehicle moving construction materials to use an unattended weighing system to weigh the vehicle and issue a weighmaster certificate to buyers who opt to utilize the unattended system.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2012

AB 1534 (Wieckowski-D) Vehicles: dealers: used vehicle sales

Requires a buy-here-pay-here dealer, as defined, to affix to and to prominently and conspicuously display a label on any used vehicle offered for retail sale that states the reasonable market value of the vehicle.
Chapter 741, Statutes of 2012

AB 1564* (Lara-D) Tax-exempt organizations: child abuse reporting

Includes volunteers of public or private organizations, including nonprofit organizations, whose duties require direct contact with and supervision of children in the list of individuals who are mandated reporters of child abuse, and requires employers to provide training in child abuse and neglect identification and reporting to their employees and volunteers who are mandated reporters.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1581 (Wieckowski-D) Business location representations: advertising

Makes it an infraction for a provider or vendor of floral or ornamental products or services, as defined, to misrepresent the geographic location of its business, as specified.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2012

AB 1583 (Roger Hernández-D) Bulk merchandise pallets

Prohibits junk dealers and recyclers from purchasing or receiving bulk merchandise pallets, as defined, marked with indicia of ownership, as defined, from anyone except the indicated owner, unless specified information is provided. Authorizes a junk dealer and recycler to accept as identification of a seller a passport from any country or a Matricula Consular, along with another form or identification bearing an address, or an identification card issued by the United States.
Chapter 300, Statutes of 2012

AB 1588 (Atkins-D) Professions and vocations: reservist licensees

Authorizes all boards, commissions, bureaus, committees, departments, divisions, examining committees, programs and agencies within the Department of Consumer Affairs to provide waivers from professional license renewal fees and continuing education requirements for active duty members of the United States Armed Forces.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2012

AB 1609 (Lara-D) Surface mining: determinations: appeals

Requires the Department of Conservations list identifying surface mining operations that have submitted the annual report and which the Department indicates compliance with specified standards, guidelines, and requirements or that there is a pending appeal, to include surface mining operations that are in compliance with an order addressing noncompliance with the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act and expands and alters the appeal process for surface mining operations removed or excluded from the list.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1615 (Miller-R) Hydrolysis facilities: human remains

Requires the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to license and regulate hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers and enacts requirements substantially similar to crematoria.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 4 (Miller-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 1616 (Gatto-D) Food safety: cottage food operations

Includes a cottage food operation, as defined, that is registered or has a permit within the private home exemption of the California Retail Food Code. Excludes a cottage food operation from specified food processing establishment and Sherman Law requirements. Requires a cottage food operation to meet specified requirements relating to training, sanitation, preparation, labeling, and permissible types of sales and subjects a cottage food operation to inspections under specified circumstances. Requires a food facility that serves a cottage food product without packaging or labeling to identify it as homemade. Double-jointed with AB 2297 (Hayashi-D), Chapter 725, Statutes of 2012.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2012

AB 1623 (Yamada-D) Weights and measures: inspection fees

Extends the sunset date on the county board of supervisors authority to charge fees to recover the costs of the county sealer to perform specified inspections until 1/1/16, and establishes or revises device fee caps.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2012

AB 1678 (Monning-D) Mobile food facilities: school campus location

Prohibits a mobile food facility from selling or otherwise providing food or beverages within 500 feet of the property line of a public elementary or secondary school campus, except as specified, and requires the enforcing agency to notify each individual or entity that seeks approval of a mobile food facility of this requirement.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1680 (Wieckowski-D) Dissenting shareholders' rights

Makes various changes to California's dissenter rights law by establishing that the fair market value of both public and private companies as of the day of, and immediately prior to the first announcement of the terms of the proposed reorganization or short-form merger, and eliminates the provision making holders of publicly traded shares only eligible to receive the fair market value of their dissenting shares if five percent or more of the shares are dissenting shares.
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2012

AB 1718 (Hill-D) Real estate broker licenses

Repeals and recasts existing requirements that must be met prior to the licensure of real estate brokers, to provide that the Real Estate Commissioner may grant an original real estate broker license to an applicant who (1) has passed the real estate broker license examination, (2) satisfied other specified requirements, (3) either held a real estate salesperson's license, or (4) holds an active membership in the State Bar of California or has graduated from a four-year university with a specialization in real estate.
Chapter 193, Statutes of 2012

AB 1750 (Solorio-D) Landscaper contractors

Permits a landscape contractor working within the classification of his/her license to enter into a prime contract for the construction of a rainwater capture system, as defined, if the system is used exclusively for landscape irrigation or as a water supply for a fountain, pond, or similar decorative water feature in a landscaping project. Permits a landscape contractor holding a specified classification to design and install all exterior components of a rainwater capture system that are not a part of, or attached to, a structure.
Chapter 537, Statutes of 2012

AB 1754 (Mendoza-D) Makeup artists: voluntary certification

Provides for the voluntary certification of makeup artists. Defines the practice of makeup artistry to include applying makeup, as defined, applying prosthetics, lash and brow tinting, the application of false eyelashes, and skin analysis. Requires applicants for a certificate to pay a fee in a specified amount, and further requires that applicants satisfy certain educational requirements, or, alternatively, submit documentation of prior experience or education, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1782 (Hill-D) Weighmasters: exemptions

Specifies, until 1/1/17, that facilities handling medical waste in accordance with the provisions of the Medical Waste Management Act are not weighmasters, thus eliminating the requirement that medical waste handler's record parcel weight information on weighmaster certificates, and requires medical waste handlers to report net weights, not estimates, to the Department of Public Health.
Chapter 693, Statutes of 2012

AB 1810 (Norby-R) Custom upholsterers

Repeals current law requiring every custom upholsterer, unless he/she holds a furniture and bedding manufacturer's license, to hold a custom upholsterer's license. Eliminates provisions making it unlawful for a person to advertise, solicit, or contract to manufacture, repair, or renovate upholstered furniture, as specified, without obtaining the particular license required for the particular type of work that is advertised or solicited from the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Deletes current law requiring a person who advertises, solicits, or contracts to repair or renovate upholstered furniture and who does not do the work himself/herself or have it done by employees but has the work done by a custom upholsterer to obtain a license as a retail furniture dealer.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1821 (Hall-D) Security personnel: firearm qualification cards

Authorizes a security guard or patrolperson to carry and use a firearm pending receipt of a permanent or replacement firearm qualification card if he/she carries a hard copy of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services' approval and valid picture identification.
Chapter 117, Statutes of 2012

AB 1822 (Bill Berryhill-R) California Architects Board

Staggers the terms of California Architects Board members appointed by the Governor, as specified; and authorizes the Board to accept an application from an individual containing an individual tax identification number, or other appropriate identification number as determined by the Board, in lieu of a social security number.
Chapter 317, Statutes of 2012

AB 1877 (Ma-D) Repossession agencies: exemptions

Exempts, until 1/1/18, a dealer and his/her bona fide employees from licensure as a repossession agency if they regularly sell specified collateral that is subject to a security agreement of the manufacturer or a manufacturer's affiliate.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2012

AB 1902 (Jones-R) Newspaper of general circulation: publications

Provides that a newspaper available on an Internet Web site may qualify as a newspaper of general circulation if it meets certain criteria. Provides that a newspaper desiring to have its standing as a newspaper of general circulation ascertained and established, may, by its publisher, manager, editor, or attorney, file a verified petition in the superior court of the county in which it is established.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1904 (Block-D) Professions and vocations: military spouses

Requires a board under the Department of Consumer Affairs to expedite the licensure process for military spouses and domestic partners of a military member who is on active duty.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2012

AB 1920 (Bill Berryhill-R) Contractors: compensation

Prohibits an individual from suing a licensed contractor who performs unlicensed work to recover funds, as specified, if the contractor (1) was previously licensed in the appropriate classification for work performed and Contractors' State License Board retroactively reinstated a license for the entire time that work was performed; or (2) possesses a valid license and contracted or performed work outside of classification that did not exceed 20% of the contract price. Limits the individual's recovery of funds to work performed outside of classification.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1939 (Pan-D) Pet dealers

Creates a pilot project in specified counties which would require pet dealers, and others as specified, to submit a report once a month to the city or county responsible for licensing dogs with information regarding dog sales and adoptions; sunsets the pilot project provisions as of 1/1/18; and allows licensing agencies to issue puppy licenses, as defined.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1978 (Galgiani-D) Collection boxes: salvageable personal property

Provides that a person may not place or maintain a collection box on private property unless the owner or operator of the collection box first obtains the written consent of the property owner; provides civil immunity for owners of property who act reasonably to remove a collection box placed on the property without consent, and for tow truck operators who act reasonably in removing a collection box upon the authorization of the property owner; and imposes liability on a property owner or person in lawful possession of private property who causes the removal of a collection box despite valid written consent, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 2003 (Torres-D) Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous materials: payment

Requires junk dealers and recyclers to provide payment to sellers of nonferrous material by mailed check only, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 2021 (Wagner-R) Works of improvement: disputed amounts

Revises the amount that an owner can withhold from a contractor, and a contractor from a subcontractor, for disputed private works of improvement.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 2027 (Valadao-R) Contractors: law suits

Specifies circumstances under which a court may find that a contractor has substantially complied with the licensing requirements under the law with respect to an act or contract, including that the person had a valid license prior to forming a business entity and that license number has been assigned and transferred to the business entity, the person had a valid license at the time the act or contract commenced but did not assign and transfer that contract to the new business entity, the person is the responsible managing officer of the business entity, the person or entity maintained a workers' compensation insurance policy pertaining to the act or contract, and the person had his/her license reinstated within 30 days following receipt of notice that the license was suspended.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2030 (Olsen-R) Building standards: press boxes

Requires the Building Standards Commission, as part of the next triennial building code cycle that begins on or after 1/1/13, to adopt building standards for press boxes in stadiums that contain the following exceptions to the general rule requiring location of the press box on a route that is accessible to persons with disabilities: (1) when the press box will be located in bleachers that have points of entry at only one level, provided that the aggregate area of all press boxes is at a maximum of 500 square feet, and (2) when a free-standing press box is elevated at least 12 feet above the ground, provided that the aggregate area of all press boxes is at a maximum of 500 square feet.
Chapter 370, Statutes of 2012

AB 2050 (Allen-D) Corporations: political activity: disclosures

Prohibits a domestic corporation from making any monetary contribution to any candidate for local or state office in this state or any other state. Requires every domestic corporation making any monetary contribution in excess of $1,000 to any candidate for federal office or any statewide ballot, referendum, or initiative voted on in this state to make a specified disclosure to the Secretary of State within 10 days thereof, and requires the Secretary of State to make the disclosure public, including on its Internet Web site.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2081* (Allen-D) Securities transactions: qualification requirements

Authorizes a new exemption for persons seeking to offer securities using any form of general solicitation or general advertising, including unsolicited telephone calls to a person's residence or cell phone if the issuer and the caller take reasonable steps prior to the unsolicited phone call, to verify that the person (the potential purchaser) is an accredited investor, as specified, and the transaction meets certain requirements.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 2100 (Alejo-D) Athletes: mixed martial arts fighters

Enhances regulation by the State Athletic Commission over mixed martial arts contracts. Requires the Commission to establish a professional code of ethical conduct for mixed martial arts promoters and fighters and, upon receipt of a complaint, to enforce the code of conduct. Authorizes the Commission to suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a license for violations of the code of conduct.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2148 (Hayashi-D) Guide dogs

Provides that a guide dog training school may recover title and possession of a guide dog if the dog is not too ailing to be retrained as a guide dog for another blind person.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2189 (Cedillo-D) Vehicles: driver's licenses

Allows a vehicle rental company to verify a renter's identity by comparison of the driver’s license photograph to the driver renting the vehicle. Creates an exemption from the verification requirement for a rental company that is located remotely.
Chapter 862, Statutes of 2012

AB 2194* (Beth Gaines-R) Corporations for prevention of cruelty to animals

Adds clarifying language enabling the Department of Justice to perform a federal-level criminal offender record information check on a humane officer applicant.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2012

AB 2219 (Knight-R) Workers' compensation insurance coverage

AB 2230 (Gatto-D) Car washes: recycled water

Requires an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after 1/1/14, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to use recycled water provided by a water supplier for at least 60% of its wash and rinse water.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2012

AB 2237 (Monning-D) Contractors: definition

Specifies that a consultant within the definition of contractor as it relates to a home improvement contract, is a consultant who schedules subcontractors, reviews and makes recommendations on bids and the selection of contractors, or who provides or oversees a bid, or who arranges for and sets up work schedules for contractors and subcontractors and maintains oversight of a construction project.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2012

AB 2243 (Knight-R) Space flight: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act

Provides a limited civil immunity to space flight entities for injuries sustained by a space flight participant if the entities meet certain requirements; including warning the voluntary participant of the inherent risks of space flight and obtaining the participant's informed signed consent. Does not provide immunity for injuries proximately caused by a space flight entity that is grossly negligent, willfully or wantonly disregards the safety of the participant, intentionally causes injury, or has actual knowledge or reasonably should have known of a dangerous condition, as specified.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2012

AB 2260 (Hagman-R) Foreign corporations

Repeals provision of California's foreign corporation law pertaining to conducting business in the state. Specifies that the Corporations Code shall not be construed to authorize the state to regulate the organization or internal affairs of a foreign corporation qualified to do business in this state.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2297 (Hayashi-D) California Retail Food Code: skilled nursing facilities

Excludes intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled from regulation as food facilities under the California Retail Food Code (CRFC), and clarifies that the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development has primary jurisdiction over licensed skilled nursing facilities when enforcing structural modification requirements in the CRFC.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2012

AB 2305 (Huffman-D) Franchises

Requires the franchisee and franchisor to deal with each other in good faith in the performance and enforcement of the franchise agreement. Prohibits franchisors from restricting franchisees from associating with other franchisees or from participating in a trade association. Declares void as a matter of law any provision in a franchise agreement that restricts venue for resolution of disputes solely to a forum outside California, and prohibits the Commissioner of Corporations from registering any franchise offer that contains a provision restricting venue in such a manner. Prohibits franchisors from terminating a franchise except for good cause and in accordance with current terms and standards established by the franchisor then equally applicable to all franchisees, with specified exceptions. Good cause shall consist of a breach of any lawful requirement of the franchise agreement, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2317 (Bill Berryhill-R) Food facilities: sanitization

Provides that manual sanitization of food facilities may be accomplished by immersion, manual swabbing, or brushing, using a solution of 0.5 ppm ozone for at least 30 seconds.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2327 (Feuer-D) Charitable organizations: enforcement

Authorizes the Attorney General (AG) to issue cease and desist orders for violations of the Supervision of Trustees and Fundraisers for Charitable Purposes Act including failing or refusing to produce required records, making a material false statement, as specified, failing to file complete financial reports, or engaging in specified prohibited acts. Authorizes the AG, after giving five days' notice, to impose a civil penalty of up to $1000 per act or omission, for any act or omission in violation of the Act. Commencing on the fifth day after notice, this penalty would accrue at the rate of $100 per day for each day of noncompliance.
Chapter 483, Statutes of 2012

AB 2337 (Dickinson-D) Electronic personal records

Increases the period of time by which a subpoena duces tecum notice to the consumer and delivery of documents must occur. Requires the subpoenaing party either to serve proof of the personal service on the consumer, or to furnish the consumer's written authorization, within a specified time. Expands the definition of "personal records" for these purposes to include any data pertaining to a consumer that is maintained by an interactive computer service or access software provider, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2373 (Norby-R) Independent contractor: definition

Amends the definition of independent contractor to state that whether a person is an independent contractor is determined by considering various factors, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2379 (Huber-D) Rental vehicles: damage waivers

Increases the amount that a rental company may charge for a damage waiver, as specified, and requires that the damage waiver prices be adjusted annually to reflect changes from the previous year in the Consumer Price Index.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2389 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Contractor disclosure requirements

Prohibits a contractor that provides services that require entering the residence or place of lodging of a member of the public from utilizing a uniform that bears the name or a logo of the contracting entity, unless each uniform meets certain disclosure requirements.
Vetoed

AB 2401 (Blumenfield-D) Secure electronic communications

Authorizes a business, a government agency, government official, or a person acting with official government authority to communicate with a person in writing by the use of a secure electronic delivery service, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2413 (Feuer-D) Locksmithing: making keys: required information

Requires a person making a copy of a key to obtain the e-mail address, if any, of the person requesting or purchasing the key, and to retain the work order for four years, rather than two years.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2441 (Williams-D) Sexually oriented business: tax

Imposes a tax, for the privilege of operating a sexually oriented business, at the rate of $10 per customer entry. Provides that the taxes imposed by this measure are intended to ameliorate the negative secondary effects associated with the combination of "sexually oriented businesses" and alcohol so as to promote the health, safety, and welfare of California's citizens. Defines a "sexually oriented business" as a nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar commercial enterprise that provides, for an audience of two or more individuals, live nude entertainment or live nude performances and authorizes on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages, regardless of whether the consumption of alcoholic beverages is under a license or permit issued under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. Prohibits sexually oriented businesses from requiring the tax to be reimbursed by employees or independent contractors. Businesses may, however, require the tax to be reimbursed by customers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2449 (Norby-R) Independent contractors: workers' compensation

Requires that provisions of law related to independent contractors be strictly construed by the courts with respect to what constitutes an independent contractor, as defined for purposes of limiting the inappropriate extension of these benefits to persons not intended to receive them.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2482 (Ma-D) Registered interior designers

Establishes the California Registered Interior Designers Board for the purpose of licensing and regulating registered interior design. Requires the Board to license and regulate the practice of registered interior design for the interest and protection of the public's health, safety, and welfare. Requires the Board to establish a fair and uniform enforcement policy to deter and prosecute violations of this bill or any rules and regulations adopted by the Board providing protection of the consumer. Specifies that the protection of the public is the highest priority for the Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2505 (Ma-D) Motor vehicle replacement parts

Requires that an automotive repair dealer include the name of the certifying entity on an estimate and invoice when the dealer uses a non-original equipment manufacturer certified aftermarket crash part.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2509 (Nielsen-R) Surface mining and reclamation plans: exempted activities

Exempts activities related to the immediate restoration of lands affected by a natural disaster or flood from the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act without being subject to existing regulatory restrictions on the amount of mineral materials that can be exported for commercial purposes.
Chapter 177, Statutes of 2012

AB 2512 (Skinner-D) Ammunition sellers: sales

Requires ammunition sellers to inform law enforcement of large purchases of ammunition, prohibits possession of kits for converting ammunition feeding devices that hold no more than 10 rounds to allow them to hold more than 10 rounds, and makes possession of such a kit a violation of post release community supervision.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2518* (Hall-D) Time-share association: owners list

Requires a time-share association to maintain a complete list of the names and post office addresses of all owners of time-share interests in the time-share plan, and prohibits the association from publishing the owners list or providing a copy of it to any time-share interest owner or to any third party or using or selling the list for commercial purposes.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2519 (Bill Berryhill-R) Real estate appraisers: licensing

Specifies a number of required or discretionary disciplinary actions to be taken by the Office of Real Estate Appraisers against its licensees, and makes other changes to the law governing real estate appraisers and appraisal management companies.
Chapter 683, Statutes of 2012

AB 2554 (Bill Berryhill-R) Contractors

Renames the Contractors State License Board's enforcement unit as a division, and makes conforming changes. In addition to expiration, cancellation, forfeiture, or suspension of a license, provides that the revocation of a license shall not deprive the Registrar of jurisdiction to proceed with an investigation, action or disciplinary proceeding against the license, or to render a decision suspending or revoking the license.
Chapter 85, Statutes of 2012

AB 2570 (Hill-D) Business licensees: settlement agreements

Prohibits licensees of any board, bureau or program under the Department of Consumer Affairs from including any regulatory gag clause in civil settlement agreements.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2012

AB 2575 (Furutani-D) Barbering and Cosmetology Act: reporting requirements

Deletes the requirement for the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology in the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) conduct various studies some in conjunction with the Office of Examination Resources and some in coordination with the Department of Industrial Relations, and to report the results to the DCA and to the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection in the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2599 (Bill Berryhill-R) Unfair competition: private enforcement actions

Defines an "injury in fact" required for a private person to bring suit under the unfair competition as damages suffered by each individual plaintiff or member of a class amounting to at least $500, adjusted for inflation, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2641 (Skinner-D) Nonprofit corporations: Internet Web site

Requires the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to post on its Internet Web site information to assist a person in starting a nonprofit corporation and to assist nonprofit corporations to achieve compliance with the state's statutory and regulatory requirements.
Chapter 418, Statutes of 2012

AB 2654* (Morrell-R) Mining liens: definitions

Revises the definition of a "mine" as a mining claim or real property worked on as a mine, including, but not limited to, any quarry or pit, from which rock, gravel, sand, or other mineral-containing property is extracted by any mining or surface mining operation. States the legislative intent to supersede the holding of a California Appellate Court decision in Sukut Const. Inc. v. Rimrock CA, LLC (2011) 199 Cal.App.4th. 817.
Chapter 263, Statutes of 2012

AB 2668 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Corporate agents: indemnification

Updates internal cross-references and descriptions of employee benefit plan fiduciaries in specified sections of the Corporations Code, and makes other technical, non-substantive changes.
Chapter 61, Statutes of 2012

AJR 39 (Chesbro-D) California seafood

Expresses the Legislature's support for the use of a portion of federally generated seafood product import revenues for the domestic marketing and promotion of California fish and seafood.
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2012

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Measure and Reference	Author	Measure Title
SB 2* - Financial Institutions	Calderon-D	Mortgage loans
SB 47* - Economic Development	Alquist-D	Manufacturing and research: sales and use taxes
SB 52 - Economic Development	Steinberg-D	Jobs and economic improvement: environmental quality
SB 67 - Small Business	Price-D	Small business participation: public contracts
SB 71 - Miscellaneous	Leno-D	Accounting
SB 143 - Miscellaneous	Rubio-D	Surface mining: idle mines
SB 156 - Miscellaneous	Emmerson-R	Professional sports teams and facilities
SB 162 - Economic Development	Anderson-R	Economic development: federally recognized Indian tribes
SB 196 - Economic Development	Cannella-R	Economic analysis and review: regulation
SB 212 - Miscellaneous	De León-D	Pawnbrokers
SB 214 - Economic Development	Wolk-D	Infrastructure financing districts
SB 245 - Economic Development	Rubio-D	Military installations reuse
SB 316 - Labor Relations	Emmerson-R	Meal periods: exemption: transportation industry
SB 319 - Labor Relations	Wyland-R	Meal and rest periods: exceptions: transportation industry
SB 323 - Miscellaneous	Vargas-D	California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act
SB 330 - Miscellaneous	Padilla-D	Tobacco License Query System
SB 331 - Miscellaneous	Padilla-D	Retail tobacco licenses
SB 351 - Workers' Compensation	La Malfa-R	Workers' compensation: fatal accidents
SB 353 - Economic Development	Blakeslee-R	Economic analysis: regulations
SB 362 - Labor Relations	Berryhill-R	Employment: apprenticeships
SB 365 - Financial Institutions	Lowenthal-D	Deferred deposit transactions
SB 366* - Economic Development	Calderon-D	Economic Development: state regulations
SB 367 - Labor Relations	Dutton-R	Employment: working hours
SB 376 - Financial Institutions	Fuller-R	Mortgage loan originators
SB 378 - Labor Relations	Dutton-R	Employment: alternative workweek schedules
SB 389* - Labor Relations	Dutton-R	Employment: meal periods
SB 395* - Economic Development	Dutton-R	Manufacturing and research: sales and use taxes
SB 400 - Economic Development	Dutton-R	Regulations: impact on businesses
SB 401 - Economic Development	Fuller-R	Economic impact: state regulations
SB 407 - Workers' Compensation	Cannella-R	Workers' compensation: jail inmates
SB 412 - Financial Institutions	Vargas-D	Mortgages: deficiency judgments
SB 432 - Labor Relations	De León-D	Workplace safety: lodging establishments: housekeeping
SB 435 - Financial Institutions	Harman-R	Mortgages and deeds of trust
SB 438 - Labor Relations	Cannella-R	Prevailing wages: public work
SB 460 - World Trade and Tourism	Price-D	International trade marketing and promotion
SB 553 - Economic Development	Fuller-R	Economic impact: state regulations
SB 556* - Small Business	Gaines-R	Creating Small Business Jobs Act: income taxes
SB 560 - Small Business	Wright-D	Small business: regulations
SB 568 - Miscellaneous	Lowenthal-D	Food vendors: polystyrene food containers
SB 575 - Labor Relations	DeSaulnier-D	Employment: smoking in the workplace
SB 581 - Labor Relations	Liu-D	Apprenticeships: electricians
SB 591 - Economic Development	Gaines-R	Businesses: administrative regulations
SB 615 - Miscellaneous	Calderon-D	Multiple employer welfare arrangements: benefits
SB 620 - Economic Development	Correa-D	Retail facilities: California Environmental Quality Act
SB 639 - Economic Development	Cannella-R	Economic development: state regulations
SB 640* - Economic Development	Runner-R	Employment income and corporation taxes: tax credit
SB 655 - Miscellaneous	Steinberg-D	Retailer engaged in business in this state
SB 686* - Economic Development	Padilla-D	Biotechnology manufacturing: sales and use taxes
SB 688 - Economic Development	Wright-D	Economic development: state regulations
SB 691 - Unemployment Insurance	Lieu-D	Unemployment insurance: use of information
SB 692* - Miscellaneous	Walters-R	Professional engineers
SB 708 - Financial Institutions	Corbett-D	Electronic transfer funds
SB 721 - Economic Development	Lowenthal-D	Economic and educational goals: California higher education
SB 725 - Labor Relations	Berryhill-R	Labor: prevailing wages
SB 727 - Labor Relations	Berryhill-R	Labor: public works: prevailing wages
SB 733 - Small Business	Price-D	Small business participation: high-speed rail
SB 744 - Miscellaneous	Wyland-R	Water submeters: testing
SB 750 - Miscellaneous	Hernandez-D	Locksmiths: key information access
SB 776 - Economic Development	DeSaulnier-D	State and local workforce investment boards: funding
SB 777 - Workers' Compensation	Lieu-D	Workers' compensation insurance: coverage program
SB 828 - Small Business	Runner-R	Small Business Appeals Board
SB 829 - Labor Relations	Rubio-D	Project labor agreements
SB 830 - World Trade and Tourism	Wright-D	Trade infrastructure investment: tax credit
SB 863 - Workers' Compensation	De León-D	Workers' compensation
SB 865 - Miscellaneous	Negrete McLeod-D	Contractors: expertise: legal representation
SB 875 - Miscellaneous	Price-D	Real estate licensees
SB 883 - Labor Relations	Correa-D	Employers: good faith defense
SB 886 - Miscellaneous	Corbett-D	Sprinkler fitters: licensing
SB 892 - Economic Development	Lieu-D	Economic development
SB 896 - Workers' Compensation	De León-D	Workers' compensation: spinal surgeries
SB 900 - Financial Institutions	Leno-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
SB 907 - Economic Development	Evans-D	Master Plan for Infrastructure Financing and Development
SB 912 - Miscellaneous	Lieu-D	Contractors: fire safety: State Fire Marshal
SB 923 - Labor Relations	De León-D	Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program
SB 956 - Miscellaneous	Lieu-D	Automobile sellers and lenders
SB 959 - Workers' Compensation	Lieu-D	Workers' compensation: provider reimbursement
SB 969 - Miscellaneous	Vargas-D	Pet groomers
SB 975 - Miscellaneous	Wright-D	Professions and vocations: regulatory authority
SB 976 - Financial Institutions	Vargas-D	Finance lenders: exemptions
SB 978 - Miscellaneous	Vargas-D	Securities transactions: exemptions
SB 979 - Financial Institutions	Vargas-D	Financial institutions
SB 980 - Financial Institutions	Vargas-D	Mortgage loans
SB 982 - Miscellaneous	Evans-D	Corporations: political activities: shareholder disclosure
SB 1038 - Labor Relations	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee	Department of Industrial Relations: Budget Trailer Bill
SB 1038 - Unemployment Insurance	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee	Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board: Budget Trailer Bill
SB 1045 - Miscellaneous	Emmerson-R	Junk dealers: metal theft: damages
SB 1061* - Miscellaneous	Walters-R	Professional engineers
SB 1070 - Economic Development	Steinberg-D	Career Technical Education Pathways Program
SB 1077 - Miscellaneous	Price-D	Alarm companies: limited liability companies
SB 1092 - Miscellaneous	De León-D	Brokers of construction trucking services
SB 1099 - Economic Development	Wright-D	Administrative regulation
SB 1105 - Workers' Compensation	Lieu-D	Workers' compensation: liens
SB 1114 - Labor Relations	Dutton-R	Employment: overtime compensation
SB 1115 - Labor Relations	Dutton-R	Employment: flexible work schedules
SB 1116 - Financial Institutions	Leno-D	Capital Access Loan Program
SB 1125 - Miscellaneous	Hancock-D	Seller's permits and certificates of registration
SB 1151 - Economic Development	Steinberg-D	Sustainable Economic Development and Housing Trust Fund
SB 1156 - Economic Development	Steinberg-D	Sustainable Communities Investment Authority
SB 1162* - Miscellaneous	Runner-R	Animal control: tranquilizers
SB 1167* - Economic Development	Calderon-D	Film and television industry: tax incentives
SB 1179* - Economic Development	Walters-R	Manufacturers: income taxes: credits
SB 1185 - Economic Development	Price-D	Centralized Intelligence Partnership Act: pilot program
SB 1186* - Miscellaneous	Steinberg-D	Construction-related accessibility
SB 1193 - Miscellaneous	Steinberg-D	Businesses: human trafficking: posting
SB 1197* - Economic Development	Calderon-D	Film and television industry: tax incentives
SB 1208 - Miscellaneous	Leno-D	Publicly traded corporations: compensation: disclosure
SB 1226 - Miscellaneous	Gaines-R	Professional fiduciaries
SB 1230 - Labor Relations	Wright-D	Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board
SB 1234 - Labor Relations	De León-D	Retirement savings plans
SB 1244 - Financial Institutions	Harman-R	Foreclosure procedures
SB 1255 - Labor Relations	Wright-D	Employee compensation: itemized wage statements
SB 1263 - Unemployment Insurance	Vargas-D	Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board: annual salary
SB 1273 - Miscellaneous	Lowenthal-D	Athletic trainers
SB 1276 - Miscellaneous	Wyland-R	Design professionals: indemnity
SB 1284 - Labor Relations	Lieu-D	Unemployment insurance: disclosure of information
SB 1291 - Unemployment Insurance	Evans-D	Unemployment benefits: training: teacher credentialing
SB 1329 - Miscellaneous	Simitian-D	Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program
SB 1333 - Labor Relations	Blakeslee-R	Employment: labor standards: consultation unit
SB 1341 - Miscellaneous	Wolk-D	Charitable corporations: exemptions: revocation
SB 1347 - Workers' Compensation	Vargas-D	Workers' compensation: insurance
SB 1362 - Labor Relations	La Malfa-R	Employment: meal periods
SB 1364 - Miscellaneous	Huff-R	Water corporations
SB 1370 - Labor Relations	Berryhill-R	Prevailing wages: public works: director: code list
SB 1397 - Economic Development	Wyland-R	Committee on Job Creation and Economic Development
SB 1401 - Economic Development	Lieu-D	Workforce investment systems
SB 1401 - Unemployment Insurance	Lieu-D	Unemployment insurance: education and workforce investments
SB 1402 - Economic Development	Lieu-D	Economic development
SB 1405 - Miscellaneous	De León-D	Accountancy: military service: practice privilege
SB 1406 - Workers' Compensation	Emmerson-R	State Compensation Insurance Fund: appointments
SB 1424 - Miscellaneous	Harman-R	Architects and professional engineers
SB 1460 - Miscellaneous	Yee-D	Automotive repair: replacement parts
SB 1465 - Miscellaneous	Yee-D	Asian rice-based noodle manufacturers
SB 1467 - Economic Development	DeSaulnier-D	Business investment: tax credits
SB 1470 - Financial Institutions	Leno-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
SB 1471 - Financial Institutions	DeSaulnier-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
SB 1473 - Financial Institutions	Hancock-D	Foreclosure and unlawful detainer: tenants
SB 1484 - Economic Development	Pavley-D	California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
SB 1508 - Financial Institutions	Lowenthal-D	State funds: deposit: eligible bank
SB 1510 - Small Business	Wright-D	Small businesses: contracts
SB 1513 - Workers' Compensation	Negrete McLeod-D	State Compensation Insurance Fund
SB 1526 - Miscellaneous	La Malfa-R	Tax exempt organizations
SB 1532 - Miscellaneous	Pavley-D	Business filings
SB 1576 - Miscellaneous	Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee	Professions and vocations
SCR 24 - Small Business	Price-D	Small Business Month
SCR 24 - Miscellaneous	Price-D	Small Business Month
SJR 4 - World Trade and Tourism	Harman-R	United States - Korea Free Trade Agreement
SR 25 - Miscellaneous	Cannella-R	National Engineers Week
SR 27 - Miscellaneous	La Malfa-R	National Surveyors Week
AB 4 - Miscellaneous	Miller-R	Hydrolysis: facility manager
AB 10 - Labor Relations	Alejo-D	Minimum wage: annual adjustment
AB 11* - Small Business	Portantino-D	Small businesses: taxes: credits
AB 15 - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Workforce development: California Renewable Energy Workforce
AB 20 - Miscellaneous	Halderman-R	Construction defect actions
AB 32 - Small Business	Lara-D	Office of Small Business Advocate
AB 49* - Economic Development	Gatto-D	Economic development: expedited permit review
AB 51 - Labor Relations	Yamada-D	Payroll cards
AB 59 - Labor Relations	Swanson-D	Family and medical leave
AB 127 - Economic Development	Logue-R	Economic assessment: regulation
AB 132 - Labor Relations	Logue-R	Car washes: regulations: civil penalties
AB 150 - Small Business	Perea-D	Small business enterprises
AB 166* - Economic Development	Cook-R	Corporation taxes: minimum franchise tax
AB 196 - Labor Relations	Alejo-D	Minimum wage
AB 217 - Labor Relations	Carter-D	Workplace smoking prohibition: health care facilities
AB 226 - Unemployment Insurance	Solorio-D	Unemployment insurance: reporting requirements
AB 231* - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Economic development areas: taxes
AB 232 - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Economic development: enterprise zones
AB 234* - Economic Development	Wieckowski-D	Full-time employees: hires: income taxes: credits
AB 236* - Economic Development	Swanson-D	Employees income tax credits: qualified employees
AB 246* - Economic Development	Wieckowski-D	Hiring credits: income taxes
AB 249 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Contractors
AB 273 - Economic Development	Valadao-R	Economic impacts review: regulations
AB 278 - Financial Institutions	Eng-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
AB 298 - Miscellaneous	Brownley-D	Reusable bags: recycling
AB 302 - Miscellaneous	Garrick-R	Garment manufacturing: alteration of appearance
AB 303* - Economic Development	Knight-R	Manufacturing: sales and use taxes: exemption
AB 304* - Economic Development	Knight-R	Income tax: hiring: income tax credit
AB 311 - Labor Relations	Cook-R	Employment: labor standards: consultation unit
AB 336 - Financial Institutions	Dickinson-D	Title loans
AB 338 - Economic Development	Wagner-R	Economic impact: state regulations
AB 356 - Labor Relations	Hill-D	Public works projects: local hiring policies
AB 365 - Small Business	Galgiani-D	Small businesses: High-speed rail
AB 368* - Economic Development	Morrell-R	Corporation tax: minimum annual tax
AB 374 - Miscellaneous	Hill-D	Funeral directors and embalmers
AB 391* - Miscellaneous	Pan-D	Secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers: electronic reporting
AB 394 - Labor Relations	Silva-R	Employment regulation: volunteers
AB 400 - Labor Relations	Ma-D	Employment: paid sick days
AB 406 - Financial Institutions	Davis-D	Adjustable rate mortgages: balloon payments
AB 407 - Financial Institutions	Davis-D	Mortgages: certificates of discharge
AB 423 - Economic Development	Butler-D	Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
AB 425 - Economic Development	Nestande-R	Economic impact: state regulations
AB 429 - Economic Development	Knight-R	Economic impact: state regulations
AB 465 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Gardening or landscape maintenance services: regulation
AB 473 - Miscellaneous	Charles Calderon-D	Unfair competition
AB 484 - Economic Development	Alejo-D	Enterprise zones: expiration of designation
AB 500 - Unemployment Insurance	Solorio-D	Unemployment Insurance Code: penalties
AB 508 - Labor Relations	Swanson-D	Employment: solid waste handling and recycling services
AB 530 - Economic Development	Smyth-R	Economic and technical information: regulations
AB 535 - Economic Development	Morrell-R	Economic development regulations
AB 541 - Small Business	Morrell-R	California Small Business Board
AB 552 - Labor Relations	Morrell-R	Employment: minors
AB 553 - Labor Relations	Monning-D	Employment safety: hazardous materials
AB 569 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Business licensing: Business Master License Center
AB 577* - Economic Development	Miller-R	Capital gains: income tax: corporation taxes
AB 586 - Economic Development	Garrick-R	Economic impact: state regulations
AB 632 - Economic Development	Wagner-R	Economic impact: state regulations
AB 643* - Economic Development	Davis-D	Hiring credits: investment credits: income taxes
AB 675 - Miscellaneous	Hagman-R	Business consumer boards: continuing state education
AB 691 - Economic Development	Perea-D	Economic redevelopment: state agency regulations
AB 704 - Miscellaneous	Ma-D	Secondhand goods
AB 742* - Miscellaneous	Bonnie Lowenthal-D	Surface mining operations
AB 753 - Miscellaneous	Monning-D	Vehicles: rentals
AB 797 - Miscellaneous	Conway-R	Cosmetology schools: private postsecondary education
AB 804 - Unemployment Insurance	Yamada-D	Unemployment disability insurance: family leave
AB 808 - Workers' Compensation	Skinner-D	Workers' compensation: hospital employers: presumption
AB 817 - Miscellaneous	Gatto-D	Vehicle rental contracts
AB 831 - Miscellaneous	Silva-R	Single member limited liability companies
AB 836 - Miscellaneous	Galgiani-D	Secondhand goods
AB 848 - Labor Relations	Campos-D	Apprenticeship programs
AB 860 - Labor Relations	Jones-R	Labor unions: political contributions
AB 860 - Miscellaneous	Jones-R	Corporations: political contributions
AB 889 - Labor Relations	Ammiano-D	Domestic work employees
AB 893 - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	California infrastructure and economic development
AB 910 - Economic Development	Torres-D	Economic development: financing districts
AB 916* - Labor Relations	V. Manuel Pérez-D	California Agricultural and Service Worker Act
AB 923 - Economic Development	Fong-D	Workforce development: Lifelong Learning Accounts Initiative
AB 935 - Financial Institutions	Blumenfield-D	Foreclosures: foreclosure mitigation charges
AB 950 - Labor Relations	John A. Pérez-D	Employment: drayage truck operators
AB 958 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Business and professions: regulatory boards
AB 974 - Workers' Compensation	Portantino-D	Workers' compensation insurance: rates
AB 975 - Miscellaneous	Ma-D	Professional employer organizations
AB 979* - Economic Development	Silva-R	Manufacturing: taxes: exemption
AB 986 - Financial Institutions	Eng-D	Finance lenders
AB 987 - Labor Relations	Grove-R	Prevailing wages
AB 988 - Labor Relations	Grove-R	Prevailing wages
AB 1009* - Economic Development	Wieckowski-D	Full-time employees: hires: tax credits
AB 1037 - Small Business	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Small business impact: regulations
AB 1057* - Economic Development	Olsen-R	Manufacturing: sales and use taxes: exemption
AB 1080 - Financial Institutions	Charles Calderon-D	Banking and financial services: Internet transactions
AB 1106 - Labor Relations	Achadjian-R	Occupational safety and health
AB 1115 - Economic Development	Lara-D	Workforce development: training services
AB 1137 - World Trade and Tourism	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Foreign trade
AB 1145 - Workers' Compensation	Cedillo-D	Workers' compensation: injuries
AB 1158 - Financial Institutions	Charles Calderon-D	Deferred deposit transactions
AB 1160 - Labor Relations	Hill-D	Public utility employees
AB 1161 - Miscellaneous	Skinner-D	Cooperative corporations
AB 1179 - Labor Relations	Mansoor-R	Labor organizations: union dues: political activities
AB 1181 - Miscellaneous	Butler-D	Weights and measures
AB 1183 - Economic Development	Bill Berryhill-R	Environmental impact reports
AB 1185 - Economic Development	Torres-D	Retail facilities: California Environmental Quality Act
AB 1190* - Miscellaneous	Jeffries-R	Destination management companies: sales and use taxes
AB 1195* - Economic Development	Allen-D	Corporations: hiring tax credit
AB 1206 - Small Business	Galgiani-D	Small businesses: high-speed rail: contracts
AB 1227 - Financial Institutions	Huber-D	Credit Union Advisory Committee: repeal
AB 1233* - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Economic development: state government
AB 1286 - Labor Relations	Fuentes-D	Wage disputes: waiver of claims
AB 1301 - Miscellaneous	Hill-D	Retail tobacco sales: STAKE Act
AB 1313 - Labor Relations	Allen-D	Enforcement: overtime wages: agricultural workers
AB 1315 - Economic Development	Furutani-D	Education: Gateway Centers
AB 1321 - Labor Relations	Wieckowski-D	Employees: wages: garnishment
AB 1322 - Economic Development	Bradford-D	Economic impact: state regulations
AB 1325 - Miscellaneous	Lara-D	Business filings: fictitious business name statements
AB 1363 - Workers' Compensation	Alejo-D	Workers' compensation insurance
AB 1364 - Labor Relations	Campos-D	Employment: licensed talent agencies: representation
AB 1397 - Labor Relations	Swanson-D	Employment: working hours
AB 1399 - Labor Relations	Assembly Labor And Employment Committee	Employment records: right to inspect
AB 1409 - Small Business	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Small businesses: regulations
AB 1411 - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Economic development: enterprise zones
AB 1427 - Miscellaneous	Solorio-D	Food facilities: sanitization
AB 1435 - Miscellaneous	Dickinson-D	Athletic personnel: child abuse reporting
AB 1439 - Labor Relations	Alejo-D	Minimum wage: annual adjustment
AB 1443 - Miscellaneous	Logue-R	Home furnishings: inspections: reimbursement
AB 1447 - Miscellaneous	Feuer-D	Automobile sales
AB 1450 - Labor Relations	Allen-D	Employment: discrimination: status as unemployed
AB 1454 - Workers' Compensation	Solorio-D	Workers' compensation: audiologists
AB 1460 - Economic Development	Huber-D	California Commission on Industrial Innovation
AB 1508 - Miscellaneous	Carter-D	Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous materials
AB 1513 - Miscellaneous	Allen-D	Retail food facilities: playgrounds
AB 1518 - Miscellaneous	Perea-D	Weighmasters: automated weighing systems
AB 1523 - Economic Development	Perea-D	Career technical education: partnership academies
AB 1530 - Economic Development	Huffman-D	Clean Manufacturing and Job Creation Incentive Act of 2012
AB 1534 - Miscellaneous	Wieckowski-D	Vehicles: dealers: used vehicle sales
AB 1545 - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Economic development projects
AB 1546 - Labor Relations	V. Manuel Pérez-D	California High-Skilled Worker Retention and Family Act
AB 1547 - Financial Institutions	Eng-D	Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure procedures
AB 1551* - Financial Institutions	Torres-D	Mortgages: subordination
AB 1557 - Financial Institutions	Skinner-D	Maintenance of foreclosed property: violations
AB 1564* - Miscellaneous	Lara-D	Tax-exempt organizations: child abuse reporting
AB 1581 - Miscellaneous	Wieckowski-D	Business location representations: advertising
AB 1583 - Miscellaneous	Roger Hernández-D	Bulk merchandise pallets
AB 1588 - Miscellaneous	Atkins-D	Professions and vocations: reservist licensees
AB 1598 - Labor Relations	Buchanan-D	Public works: public contracts: installation
AB 1599 - Financial Institutions	Feuer-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
AB 1602 - Financial Institutions	Eng-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
AB 1603 - Financial Institutions	Feuer-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: mortgage servicers
AB 1609 - Miscellaneous	Lara-D	Surface mining: determinations: appeals
AB 1615 - Miscellaneous	Miller-R	Hydrolysis facilities: human remains
AB 1616 - Miscellaneous	Gatto-D	Food safety: cottage food operations
AB 1617 - Financial Institutions	Dickinson-D	Community banks and credit unions: state fiscal affairs
AB 1623 - Miscellaneous	Yamada-D	Weights and measures: inspection fees
AB 1660 - Labor Relations	Campos-D	Employment representation of minors: permits
AB 1675 - Labor Relations	Bonilla-D	Farm labor contractors: licenses: civil penalty
AB 1678 - Miscellaneous	Monning-D	Mobile food facilities: school campus location
AB 1680 - Miscellaneous	Wieckowski-D	Dissenting shareholders' rights
AB 1687 - Workers' Compensation	Fong-D	Workers' compensation
AB 1718 - Miscellaneous	Hill-D	Real estate broker licenses
AB 1740 - Labor Relations	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Employment protections: domestic violence, sexual assault
AB 1744 - Labor Relations	Bonnie Lowenthal-D	Employee compensation: itemized statements
AB 1750 - Miscellaneous	Solorio-D	Landscaper contractors
AB 1754 - Miscellaneous	Mendoza-D	Makeup artists: voluntary certification
AB 1775 - Labor Relations	Wieckowski-D	Wage levy under an earnings withholding order
AB 1782 - Miscellaneous	Hill-D	Weighmasters: exemptions
AB 1783 - Small Business	Perea-D	Small business preferences: public contracts
AB 1789 - Labor Relations	Morrell-R	Wage orders: review: private rights of action
AB 1794 - Unemployment Insurance	Williams-D	Unemployment insurance: reporting and payroll duties
AB 1804* - Labor Relations	Valadao-R	Public contracts: public entities: project labor agreements
AB 1810 - Miscellaneous	Norby-R	Custom upholsterers
AB 1821 - Miscellaneous	Hall-D	Security personnel: firearm qualification cards
AB 1822 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	California Architects Board
AB 1844 - Labor Relations	Campos-D	Employer use of social media
AB 1845 - Unemployment Insurance	Solorio-D	Unemployment compensation benefits: overpayment assessments
AB 1855 - Labor Relations	Torres-D	Employment: contractors: sufficient funds
AB 1877 - Miscellaneous	Ma-D	Repossession agencies: exemptions
AB 1902 - Miscellaneous	Jones-R	Newspaper of general circulation: publications
AB 1904 - Miscellaneous	Block-D	Professions and vocations: military spouses
AB 1911* - Economic Development	Donnelly-R	Manufacturing: taxes: exemptions
AB 1920 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Contractors: compensation
AB 1939 - Miscellaneous	Pan-D	Pet dealers
AB 1948 - Labor Relations	Grove-R	Wage and hour laws: Legislature
AB 1950 - Financial Institutions	Davis-D	Mortgages: prohibited business practices: enforcement
AB 1958 - Labor Relations	Grove-R	Public works: prevailing wages
AB 1964 - Labor Relations	Yamada-D	Discrimination in employment: reasonable accommodations
AB 1969 - Economic Development	Beth Gaines-R	Economic development: administrative regulations: filings
AB 1972* - Economic Development	Huber-D	Manufacturing equipment: sales and use taxes: exemption
AB 1978 - Miscellaneous	Galgiani-D	Collection boxes: salvageable personal property
AB 1980 - Financial Institutions	Roger Hernández-D	Loans: disclosures: financial facts label
AB 1982 - Economic Development	Gorell-R	Economic development: administrative regulations
AB 1999 - Labor Relations	Brownley-D	Employment: family caregiver status protection
AB 2003 - Miscellaneous	Torres-D	Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous materials: payment
AB 2006 - Financial Institutions	John A. Pérez-D	Credit union services
AB 2010 - Financial Institutions	Bonilla-D	Reverse mortgages: counseling
AB 2012* - World Trade and Tourism	John A. Pérez-D	International trade
AB 2021 - Miscellaneous	Wagner-R	Works of improvement: disputed amounts
AB 2026* - Economic Development	Fuentes-D	Film and television industry: tax incentives
AB 2027 - Miscellaneous	Valadao-R	Contractors: law suits
AB 2030 - Miscellaneous	Olsen-R	Building standards: press boxes
AB 2037* - Economic Development	Davis-D	Hiring credits: investment credits: income taxes
AB 2039 - Labor Relations	Swanson-D	Family and medical leave
AB 2045 - Economic Development	Perea-D	Economic development: net operating losses
AB 2050 - Miscellaneous	Allen-D	Corporations: political activity: disclosures
AB 2069 - Workers' Compensation	Solorio-D	Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits
AB 2072 - Workers' Compensation	Eng-D	Workers' compensation: acupuncturists
AB 2077 - Economic Development	Davis-D	Employment opportunities: postrelease
AB 2081* - Miscellaneous	Allen-D	Securities transactions: qualification requirements
AB 2090 - Economic Development	Bill Berryhill-R	Economic development: regulations
AB 2091 - Economic Development	Bill Berryhill-R	Economic development: regulations: technology
AB 2092 - Economic Development	Chesbro-D	Economic development: federally recognized Indian tribes
AB 2100 - Miscellaneous	Alejo-D	Athletes: mixed martial arts fighters
AB 2103 - Labor Relations	Ammiano-D	Employment: wages and hours: overtime
AB 2107 - Labor Relations	Valadao-R	Public works: prevailing wages: school districts
AB 2148 - Miscellaneous	Hayashi-D	Guide dogs
AB 2176 - Labor Relations	Logue-R	Employment: meal periods
AB 2189 - Miscellaneous	Cedillo-D	Vehicles: driver's licenses
AB 2194* - Miscellaneous	Beth Gaines-R	Corporations for prevention of cruelty to animals
AB 2217 - Labor Relations	Pan-D	Employment: call centers
AB 2219 - Workers' Compensation	Knight-R	Contractors' workers' compensation insurance coverage
AB 2219 - Miscellaneous	Knight-R	Workers' compensation insurance coverage
AB 2230 - Miscellaneous	Gatto-D	Car washes: recycled water
AB 2233 - Financial Institutions	Atkins-D	Small Installment Consumer Loan Act
AB 2237 - Miscellaneous	Monning-D	Contractors: definition
AB 2243 - Miscellaneous	Knight-R	Space flight: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act
AB 2260 - Miscellaneous	Hagman-R	Foreign corporations
AB 2269 - Labor Relations	Swanson-D	Labor History Month: pupil instruction
AB 2288 - Labor Relations	Cedillo-D	Labor-related liabilities: original contractor
AB 2297 - Miscellaneous	Hayashi-D	California Retail Food Code: skilled nursing facilities
AB 2301 - Workers' Compensation	Assembly Insurance Committee	California Insurance Guarantee Association: definitions
AB 2302 - Workers' Compensation	Assembly Insurance Committee	Workers' compensation
AB 2305 - Miscellaneous	Huffman-D	Franchises
AB 2310 - Unemployment Insurance	Morrell-R	Unemployment insurance benefits: government pension
AB 2317 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Food facilities: sanitization
AB 2327 - Miscellaneous	Feuer-D	Charitable organizations: enforcement
AB 2337 - Miscellaneous	Dickinson-D	Electronic personal records
AB 2346 - Labor Relations	Butler-D	Agricultural employee safety: heat-related illness
AB 2354 - World Trade and Tourism	Solorio-D	Travel insurance
AB 2373 - Miscellaneous	Norby-R	Independent contractor: definition
AB 2379 - Miscellaneous	Huber-D	Rental vehicles: damage waivers
AB 2386 - Labor Relations	Allen-D	Employment and housing discrimination: sex: breastfeeding
AB 2387 - Labor Relations	Smyth-R	Occupational safety and health: local public entities
AB 2389 - Miscellaneous	Bonnie Lowenthal-D	Contractor disclosure requirements
AB 2396 - Labor Relations	Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, And Internet Media Committee	Employment of infants: entertainment industry
AB 2401 - Miscellaneous	Blumenfield-D	Secure electronic communications
AB 2408* - Economic Development	Skinner-D	Economic development: taxes: net operating losses
AB 2413 - Miscellaneous	Feuer-D	Locksmithing: making keys: required information
AB 2425 - Financial Institutions	Mitchell-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
AB 2441 - Miscellaneous	Williams-D	Sexually oriented business: tax
AB 2449 - Workers' Compensation	Norby-R	Workers' compensation: independent contractors
AB 2449 - Miscellaneous	Norby-R	Independent contractors: workers' compensation
AB 2451 - Workers' Compensation	John A. Pérez-D	Workers' compensation: firefighters
AB 2481 - Financial Institutions	Morrell-R	Financial institutions
AB 2482 - Miscellaneous	Ma-D	Registered interior designers
AB 2493 - Workers' Compensation	Roger Hernández-D	Workers' compensation: administrative hearings
AB 2500 - Financial Institutions	Hueso-D	California Investment Trust: state bank
AB 2505 - Miscellaneous	Ma-D	Motor vehicle replacement parts
AB 2506 - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Economic development: state government
AB 2509 - Miscellaneous	Nielsen-R	Surface mining and reclamation plans: exempted activities
AB 2512 - Miscellaneous	Skinner-D	Ammunition sellers: sales
AB 2517 - Labor Relations	Eng-D	Wage liens: laborers and car washing and polishing employees
AB 2518* - Miscellaneous	Hall-D	Time-share association: owners list
AB 2519 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Real estate appraisers: licensing
AB 2523 - Economic Development	Hueso-D	California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
AB 2528 - Financial Institutions	John A. Pérez-D	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure: military members
AB 2554 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Contractors
AB 2570 - Miscellaneous	Hill-D	Business licensees: settlement agreements
AB 2573 - Labor Relations	Furutani-D	Family child care providers: bargaining representative
AB 2575 - Miscellaneous	Furutani-D	Barbering and Cosmetology Act: reporting requirements
AB 2599 - Miscellaneous	Bill Berryhill-R	Unfair competition: private enforcement actions
AB 2601 - Unemployment Insurance	Furutani-D	California Workforce Investment Board: duties
AB 2602 - Unemployment Insurance	Furutani-D	Employment Training Panel: report: Governor's Web site
AB 2610 - Financial Institutions	Skinner-D	Foreclosure and unlawful detainer: tenants
AB 2619 - Economic Development	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Start-Up California Impact Investment Fund program
AB 2627 - Unemployment Insurance	Allen-D	Benefits payments: direct deposit
AB 2636 - Labor Relations	Furutani-D	Electricians: registration fees
AB 2641 - Miscellaneous	Skinner-D	Nonprofit corporations: Internet Web site
AB 2646 - Financial Institutions	Gatto-D	Credit unions: branch offices: Indian reservations
AB 2654* - Miscellaneous	Morrell-R	Mining liens: definitions
AB 2666 - Financial Institutions	Assembly Banking And Finance Committee	Mortgage loan originators
AB 2668 - Miscellaneous	Assembly Banking And Finance Committee	Corporate agents: indemnification
AB 2671 - Small Business	Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee	Small business financial development corporations
AB 2672 - Economic Development	Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee	Procurement: Department of General Services
AB 2674 - Labor Relations	Swanson-D	Employment records: right to inspect
AB 2675 - Labor Relations	Swanson-D	Employment contract requirements
AB 2676 - Labor Relations	Charles Calderon-D	Agricultural employee safety
AB 2677 - Labor Relations	Swanson-D	Public works: wages: employer payment contributions
ACR 44 - Labor Relations	Allen-D	Workers Memorial Day
ACR 155 - Labor Relations	Fuentes-D	Justice for Janitors Day
AJR 23 - Economic Development	John A. Pérez-D	Economic development
AJR 39 - Miscellaneous	Chesbro-D	California seafood
AJR 40 - Financial Institutions	Skinner-D	Mortgages
AJR 46 - Economic Development	Block-D	Operation San Diego
AJR 47 - Labor Relations	Block-D	Compensation: gender pay equity
HR 34 - Economic Development	Hill-D	Science, technology, engineering, and mathematical jobs