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Administrative Regulatory Reform

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SB 196 (Cannella-R) Regulations: economic analysis and review

Requires the standardized economic assessment to 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 353 (Blakeslee-R) Regulations: economic analysis

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 357 (Dutton-R) Regulations: Air Resources Board

Requires the Air Resources Board to estimate the cost or savings to the state in revenues that are lost or gained as a result of a regulation adopted or amended by the Board imposing requirements relating to diesel-fueled heavy-duty on-road or off-road motor vehicles that would make equipment obsolete, where that equipment would otherwise have a remaining depreciable life.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 366* (Calderon-D) Regulations: agency review

Requires each state agency to review its regulations to identify duplicative, overlapping, inconsistent or outdated provisions and repeal or amend identified regulations.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 396 (Huff-R) Legislative review: regulations

Requires each state agency to review each regulation adopted prior to 1/1/11, and report to the Legislature on the regulations. Beginning in 2018, at least every five years afterwards, directs each agency to review its regulations that have been in effect for at least 20 years and submit a report to the Legislature on its findings associated with the review.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 400 (Dutton-R) State regulations: impact on business

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 lessen 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) Regulations: repeal provisions

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) Regulations: effective date

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 560 (Wright-D) Regulations: small businesses

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 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 591 (Gaines-R) Administrative regulations: reductions

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 639 (Cannella-R) State regulations: economic impact analysis

Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), 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. Requires CalEPA to subject the report to a review by an independent entity and to make the economic impact report available on its Internet Web site.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 643 (Correa-D) Regulations: building standards

Requires state agencies, when adopting building standard regulations that impact housing, to disclose information on costs and benefits of the regulation used by the state agency to perform required economic analysis.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 688 (Wright-D) Regulations: legislative approval

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. This notification is "intended to provide the Legislature sufficient time, to the extent the Legislature may disapprove of the regulation, to enact a statute that restricts the statutory authority of the agency to enact the regulation." Also, 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 Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 964 (Wright-D) Administrative Procedure Act: state water

Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt regulations using the procedural requirements of the Administrative and Procedure Act when it acts on a general permit or waiver issued pursuant to state law as to the municipal and industrial stormwater discharge permitting provisions of the Clean Water Act, Natural Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program.
(Died in Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1025 (Lowenthal-D) State regulations: review

Requires each state entity that promulgates regulations to review those regulations, and repeal or report to the Legislature those identified as duplicative, archaic, inconsistent with statute or other regulations, or deemed to inhibit economic growth in the state by 12/31/12.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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 1374 (Harman-R) Regulations: liability: reliance

Provides that any person who relies upon a written order, ruling, approval, interpretation, or enforcement policy of a state agency is not liable or subject to punishment for a violation of a civil statute or regulation in a judicial or administrative proceeding if the person pleads and proves to the trier of fact that, at the time of the alleged act or omission, the person did both of the following: (1) sought an applicable written order, ruling, approval, interpretation, or enforcement policy from the state agency charged with interpreting that particular area of law; and (2) relied upon and conformed to the applicable written order, ruling, approval, interpretation, or enforcement policy.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1520* (Calderon-D) Administrative procedure

Requires a statement of reasons for adoption of a regulation to include a standardized impact analysis for each major regulation proposed after 12/1/13, instead of 1/1/13, as provided in existing law. Double-jointed with AB 1612 (Lara-D), Chapter 471, Statutes of 2012.
Chapter 766, Statutes of 2012

AB 127 (Logue-R) Regulations: effective date: economic assessment

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 213 (Silva-R) Administrative regulation: notice of proposed actions

Requires state agencies, when providing notice of proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation, to mail or e-mail the notice to local government agencies or local government agency representatives that the agency believes may be interested in, or impacted by, the proposed action.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 273 (Valadao-R) Regulations: economic impacts review

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 338 (Wagner-R) Regulations: legislative validation: effective date

Requires the Office of Administrative Law to submit a copy of disapproved regulations to the Legislature when certain criterion are met. 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 425 (Nestande-R) State regulations: review

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) Regulations: effective date

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 530 (Smyth-R) Administrative 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) Regulations: five-year review and report

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

AB 586 (Garrick-R) Administrative regulations: legislative review

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) Regulations: legislative notice

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 691 (Perea-D) 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 1037 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Regulations: small business impact

Alters the state's regulatory structure, increases the threshold for business activities under the definition of "small business" for rulemaking purposes, and requires agencies to reassess regulations five years after adoption.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1213 (Nielsen-R) State regulations

Authorizes a chair or vice chair of a standing, select, or joint committee of the Legislature to initiate a priority review of any regulation, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1322 (Bradford-D) Regulations: principles of regulation

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 1504 (Morrell-R) Administrative regulations

Revises various provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act related to public participation and lowers the threshold for the "major regulation" from $50 to $25 million.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1537 (Cook-R) Government Accountability Act

Requires any major regulation proposed on or after 1/1/13, to include a provision repealing the regulation two years after the date it is approved by the Office of Administrative Law.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1612 (Lara-D) Administrative practices: building standards

Requires a state entity proposing changes to building standards that impact housing to include additional information on the estimated costs and benefits of the changes. Expresses the intent of the Legislature, that the requirements only apply to those state agencies that have statutory authority to propose or adopt residential building standards, and not to the Air Resources Board, air pollution control districts, or air quality management districts. Double-jointed with SB 1520 (Calderon-D), Chapter 766, Statutes of 2012, and AB 2041 (Swanson-R), Chapter 723, Statutes of 2012.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2012

AB 1969 (Beth Gaines-R) Administrative regulations: filing

Prohibits the Office 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 1982 (Gorell-R) Administrative regulations: legislative review

Requires the Office of Administrative Law to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. Extends the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Specifies that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2041 (Swanson-D) Administrative regulations: disability access

Requires a state agency that proposes promulgating regulations to include within the notice of proposed action a specified statement regarding the availability of narrative descriptions for persons with visual or other specified disabilities. Double-jointed with AB 1612 (Lara-D), Chapter 471, Statutes of 2012.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2012

AB 2090 (Bill Berryhill-R) Administrative regulations

Redefines a major regulation as a regulation that an agency determines has an expected economic impact on California businesses and individuals in an amount exceeding $15 million. Modifies the requirements that an adopting agency must meet when preparing the economic impact analysis and the standardized regulatory impact analysis of any regulation. Requires the Office of Administrative Law to return any regulations to the adopting agency if the adopting agency does not comply with the requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2091 (Bill Berryhill-R) Administration regulations: new or emerging 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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2506 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Administrative regulations

Requires state agencies to submit their regulatory actions to the 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 resolution, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

Legislature

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STATE SENATE

The Senate Democratic leadership in the Senate in 2012 remained the same as it did in 2011: Darrell Steinberg, President Pro Tempore; Kevin de Leon, Caucus Chair and Senate Rules Committee member; Ellen Corbett, Majority Floor Leader; Elaine Alquist, Senate Rules Committee member; Mark Leno, Budget Committee Chair; Christine Kehoe, Appropriations Chair; and the Majority Whip position was left vacant. However, the Senate Republicans made some changes: Senator Robert Huff became Minority Floor Leader replacing Robert Dutton, who became vice chair of Rules. Senate Tom Harman replaced Robert Huff as Caucus Chair and was replaced on Senate Rules Committee by Robert Dutton. Senator Doug La Malfa remained as Minority Whip; Jean Fuller remained on Senate Rules; Mimi Walters remained as Vice Chair of Appropriations; and Senator William Emmerson became Vice Chair of Appropriations.

The following Senators were being termed out in 2012:

Elaine Alquist (D)

Robert Dutton (R) Running for U.S. Congress

Tom Harman (R)

Christine Kehoe (D)

Alan Lowenthal (D) Running for U.S. Congress

Joseph Simitian (D) Won Santa Clara County Supervisor race

The following Senators ran for higher office:

Doug La Malfa (R)1 Running for U.S. Congress - WON

Gloria Negrete McLeod (D) Running for U.S. Congress - WON

Tony Strickland (R)2 Running for U.S. Congress - LOST

Juan Vargas (D) Running for U.S. Congress - WON

1-Resigned from the Senate after session.

2-Gave up his Senate seat to run for U.S. Congress.

Senator Sam Blakeslee and Sharon Runner decided not to seek reelection.

STATE ASSEMBLY

In the Assembly, up until the end of session, the Democratic leadership remained the same which was as follows:

John A. Perez Speaker

Fiona Ma Speaker Pro Tempore

Mike Gatto Assistant Speaker Pro Tempore

Charles Calderon Majority Floor Leader

Michael Allen Assistant Majority Floor Leader

Toni Atkins Majority Whip

Roger Hernandez Assistant Majority Whip

Mike Feuer Majority Policy Leader

Wilmer Amina Carter Assistant Majority Policy Leader and Rules Committee member

Jerry Hill Caucus Chair

Robert Blumenfield Budget Committee Chair

Felipe Fuentes Appropriations Committee Chair

Nancy Skinner Rules Committee Chair

Luis A. Alejo Rules Committee member

Betsy Butler Rules Committee member

Mike Davis Rules Committee member

Ben Hueso Rules Committee member

Das Williams Rules Committee member

Tony Mendoza Rules Committee member

On August 8th, changes were made in the leadership:

Speaker Pro Tempore Nora Campos

Assistant Speaker Pro Tempore Fiona Ma

Majority Floor Leader Toni Atkins

Assistant Majority Floor Leader Michael Allen

Majority Whip Roger Hernandez

Assistant Majority Whip Charles Calderon

Appropriations Committee Chair Mike Gatto

Budget Committee Chair Jared Huffman

Democratic members of Rules were as follows:

Julia Brownley

Betsy Butler

Mike Eng

Mike Feuer

Warren Furutani

Mary Hayashi (alternate).

The Assembly Republican leadership was as follows:

Connie Conway Republican Leader

Brian Jones1 Caucus Chair

Curt Hagman Assistant Republican Leader

Steve Knight Assistant Republican Leader and Rules Committee member

Dan Logue Chief Republican Whip

Kristen Olsen2 Chief Republican Whip

Mike Morrell3 Republican Whip

Paul Cook Republican Whip

Don Wagner Deputy Republican Floor Manager

Jeff Gorell Republican Outreach Chair

James Nielsen Budget Committee Vice Chair / Alternate Rules Committee member

Diane Harkey Appropriations Committee Vice Chair

Jim Silva Rules Committee Vice Chair

Time Donnelly Rules Committee member

1-Replaced Brian Nestande as Caucus Chair.

2-Replaced Bill Berryhill as Chief Deputy Whip.

3-Replaced Kristen Olsen as Republican Whip.

Cameron Smyth who was Minority Leader in 2011 was made Chair of Local Government.

The following Assemblymembers were being termed out in 2012:

James Beall (D) Running for the State Senate - WON

Julia Brownley (D) Running for U.S. Congress - WON

Charles Calderon (D)

Wilmer Amina Carter (D)

Gilbert Cedillo (D)

Paul J. Cook (R) Running for U.S. Congress - WON

Michael Davis (D)

Michael Eng (D)

Michael Feuer (D)

Felipe Fuentes (D)

Catherine Galgiani (D) Running for State Senate - WON

Martin Garrick (R)

Mary Hayashi (D)

Jared Huffman (D) Running for U.S. Congress - WON

Kevin Jeffries (R)

Fiona Ma (D)

Tony Mendoza (D)

Anthony Portantino (D)

James Silva (R)

Cameron Smyth (R)

Jose Solorio (D)

Sandre Swanson (D)

The following Assemblymembers ran for higher office:

William Berryhill (R) Running for State Senate - LOST

Marty Block (D) Running for State Senate - WON

Nathan Fletcher (I) Unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of San Diego

Jerry Hill (D) Running for State Senate - WON

Stephen Knight (R) Running for State Senate - WON

Ricardo Lara (D) Running for State Senate - WON

Jeff Miller (R) Running for State Senate - LOST

William W. Monning (D) Running for State Senate - WON

Jim Nielsen (R) Running for State Senate - WON

David G. Valadao (R) Running for U.S. Congress - WON

The following members did not run for reelection: Linda Halderman (R), Alyson L. Huber (D), and Warren Furutani (D).

Assemblymember Dan Logue (R) ran for the State Assembly and for State Senate (special election). He lost to Assemblymember Jim Nielsen for State Senate.

The following former Assemblymembers ran for State Senate: Hannah-Beth Jackson (D), Joe Coto (D), and Sally Lieber (D). Hannah-Beth Jackson won, however, Joe Coto and Sally Liber lost in the General Election.

The following former legislative members ran for the State Assembly: State Senator/Assemblymember Richard Alarcon (D) and State Assemblymember Joe Baca (D) and State Senator /Assemblymember Rico Oller. They all lost their election bid.

The following Assemblymembers lost reelection: Michael Allen (D), Betsy Butler (D), and Chris Norby (R).

SB 106* (Blakeslee-R) Legislative offices: special elections

Requires the state to reimburse counties for the costs of special elections proclaimed by the Governor to fill a vacancy in the office of State Senate, member of the State Assembly, United States Senator, or Member of the United State House of Representatives. Requires reimbursement for those elections held between 1/1/09 and 4/19/11 only, of which there were 21. These elections resulted from the resignations of the following members: Mark Ridley-Thomas, Hilda Solis, Curren D. Price, Jr., Ellen Tauscher, Mike Duvall, Paul Krekorian, John Benoit, Abel Maldonado, George Runner, and Ted Gaines, as well as the deaths of Senators Dave Cox and Jenny Oropeza.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 141 (Price-D) Legislative offices: special elections

Requires the state to reimburse counties for the costs of special elections to fill vacancies of State Senator, member of the Assembly, United States Senate, or Representative in Congress.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 688 (Wright-D) Legislative notification: regulations

Requires a state agency to notify the fiscal and appropriate policy committees of the Legislature if the estimated cumulative statewide cost impacts of a regulation exceed $10 million for affected businesses, and delays the effective date for such a regulation.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1075 (Senate Rules Committee) Legislative Counsel Bureau

Enacts the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, which provides for the official designation, authentication, and preservation of certain legal material in electronic records by an official publisher. Designates the Legislative Counsel Bureau as the official publisher for purposes of the act and makes the act operative on 7/1/15.
Chapter 310, Statutes of 2012

SB 1275 (Lieu-D) Legislature: special election

Modifies timelines associated with conducting special elections to fill vacancies in congressional or legislative offices in order to better facilitate compliance with federal election law regarding military and oversees voters.
Chapter 685, Statutes of 2012

SB 1397 (Wyland-R) Joint Legislative Committee on Job Creation

Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Job Creation and Economic Development 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 1428 (Blakeslee-R) Legislative meetings: recording and transcription

Requires each house of the Legislature to make an audio, or audio and video, recording of every open and public meeting of a house of the Legislature or a committee thereof, and requires those recordings to be transcribed. Specifies that the transcriptions shall be legislative records for purposes of the Legislative Open Records Act and requires that the Legislative Counsel make the transcriptions available to the public in electronic form. Requires each house of the Legislature to make the transcriptions in a manner that utilizes the best available technology in audio transcription software in order to minimize costs.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1442 (Walters-R) Legislative Open Records Act

Broadens the records subject to the Legislature Open Records Act (LORA). Requires a record subject to disclosure to be provided as an electronic file, whenever possible, at the option of the requester. Requires certain information relating to legislative expenditures and meetings and appointments of Members of the Legislature to be produced and published by the Legislature on a monthly basis. Repeals a provision of LORA authorizing the court to award costs and attorney's fees to the Legislature if a clearly frivolous suit is brought against the Legislature pursuant to LORA. Prohibits the Legislature from selling, exchanging, furnishing, or otherwise providing a legislative record subject to disclosure to a private entity in a manner that prevents the Legislature or any state agency from disclosing the record directly.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1511 (Evans-D) Legislature: state park closures

Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to furnish a general plan for any unit of the state park system for which a plan has been prepared to the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee and to the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SCA 2 (Wyland-R) Revised legislative biennial session

Requires the Legislature to convene in regular biennial session, but requires, commencing on 12/1/14, that the sessions held in odd-numbered years be budget sessions, and that the sessions held in even-numbered years be general sessions. Requires the Legislature in the budget session to adopt Budget Bills for each of the two subsequent fiscal years. While the Legislature is authorized to conduct any other business during a budget session, requires the Legislature, during a budget session, to consider Budget Bills and budget implementation bills, as defined. Requires the Legislature, during a budget session, to conduct oversight and review of state revenues and expenditures and, in that connection, to establish an oversight and program review process for evaluating public programs supported with state funds, as specified.
(Died in Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SCA 3 (Wyland-R) Legislative session

Requires that the Budget Bill and any budget trailer bill be printed and made available to the public at least 21 calendar days before a vote in that house on the passage of either bill and provides that this requirement could be satisfied by elective publication and distribution of the bills.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SCA 6 (Emmerson-R) Revised legislative biennial session

Requires the Legislature to convene in regular biennial session, but requires that the sessions held in odd-numbered years be budget sessions, and that sessions held in even-numbered years be general sessions. Requires the Legislature, in a budget session, to adopt a Budget Bill, as defined, for the two subsequent fiscal years. Requires the Legislature, during a budget session, to meet only to conduct oversight and review of the revenues and expenditures of the state and to consider Budget Bills, budget implementation bills, as defined, and related revenue bills, except that the Legislature could consider urgency measures.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SCA 8 (Wyland-R) Joint legislative committee: economic development

Requires the Legislature to convene a joint committee during each regular session to hear testimony from business representatives regarding how to improve job creation and economic development in the state. Requires the committee to transmit a record of the recommendations received to each Member of the Legislature for the purpose of the Legislature's passage of legislation to improve job creation and economic development.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 41 (Alquist-D) Joint legislative rules

Adopts the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 2011-12 Regular Session.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 68 (Gaines-R) Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe

Establishes the Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 79 (Lieu-D) Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing

Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 1 in the County of Los Angeles as the Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2012

SCR 93 (Vargas-D) John Burton Highway

Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 35 as the John Burton Highway in honor of former Congressman, State Senator and State Assemblymember John Burton.
Resolution Chapter 117, Statutes of 2012

SCR 97 (Gaines-R) Senator Dave Cox Memorial Interchange

Designates the interchange at Hazel Avenue and State Highway Route 50 in the County of Sacramento as the Senator Dave Cox Memorial Interchange.
Resolution Chapter 105, Statutes of 2012

SR 11 (Harman-R) Bills: statewide economic impact

Requires the Senate Appropriations Committee to determine which bills have a statewide economic impact affecting business and to provide an economic impact analysis of those bills they so determine, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SR 21 (Steinberg-D) Senate Rules Committee membership

Elects Senator Robert Dutton as a member to Senate Rules Committee to replace Senator Tom Harman.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 340 (Furutani-D) Legislator's retirement system

Enacts the major pension reform legislation, which among other provisions, prohibits newly elected statewide officers and legislative offices from participating in the Legislator's Retirement System. They continue to be optional members of the Public Employees Retirement System.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2012
Similar legislation was AB 1874 (Mansoor-R) which died in the Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee.

AB 595 (Norby-R) Legislative naming of highways

Prohibits the naming or designating of highways or facilities owned and operated by the Department of Transportation.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1645 (Norby-R) which failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee.

AB 1078 (Grove-R) Legislature: employment after service

Prohibits a Member of the Legislature, for a period of four years after leaving office, from serving for compensation in an appointed position on a state board, commission, or similar multimember body of the state. If a Member of the Legislature leaves office and is subsequently elected to either house of the Legislature, provides that a new four-year period shall commence each time the Member leaves office.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1129 (Portantino-D) Legislative expenditure records

Revises the definition of a state agency, for purposes of the California Public Records Act, to include the Assembly and Senate. Requires any budget, fund, or account of the Senate or Assembly, or other expenditure created in the annual Budget Act constitutes a public document for the purposes of the Act. Repeals the Legislative Open Records Act.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1378 (Portantino-D) Legislature: Whistleblower Act

Adds legislators and legislative staff to the California Whistleblower Protection Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2256 (Portantino-D) which failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee.

AB 1437 (Morrell-R) Legislature: Budget Bill: public availability

Provides that no vote may be taken in either house of the Legislature on the Budget Bill or other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill, as defined in the Constitution, until those bills have been made available to the public for 3 days on a publicly available Internet Web site.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1645 (Norby-R) Legislature: naming and designation of State Highways

Transfers the authority for naming highways, bridges, pathways, and other transportation infrastructure from the Legislature to the California Transportation Commission.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
A similar bill was AB 595 (Norby-R) which failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee.

AB 1730 (Olsen-R) Legislative Transparency Act

Requires the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Senate Committee on Rules, and the Joint Rules Committee, as appropriate, to provide to each Member of the Assembly and Senate, a monthly report of that Member's office and committee budgets, as specified. Requires each Member of the Legislature to publish the monthly budget report on the Member's Internet Web site or legislative committee Internet Web site, as specified. Prohibits either house of the Legislature from taking a vote on any bill until the bill, in its present form, has been made available to the public on an Internet Web site for at least 72 hours, unless the house dispenses with this requirement by a 2/3 vote. Requires a Member of the Legislature or a controlled committee of a Member of the Legislature that receives a legislative deadline contribution to report that contribution within 24 hours, as prescribed. Defines "legislative deadline contribution" to mean a contribution of $100 or more that is made to a Member of the Legislature or a controlled committee of a Member of the Legislature within the seven days prior to specified legislative deadlines for a regular session of the Legislature.
(Failed passage in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1874 (Mansoor-R) Legislative statutory officers: retirement

Prohibits anyone who first becomes, on or after 1/1/13, a legislative statutory officer from becoming a member of the Legislative Retirement System, allows the officers to become members of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees Retirement and Social Security Committee)
A similar provision was contained in AB 340 (Furutani-D), Chapter 296, Statutes of 2012, the major Pension Reform Bill of 2012.

AB 1887 (Portantino-D) Legislative funds

Imposes new limits on the Legislature's discretion using its operating funds and adds new requirements to audits of legislative funds.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1946 (Grove-R) Legislative records

Amends the Legislative Open Records Act (LORA) to add a presumption in favor of public access to legislative records and to add a provision declaring that nothing in the LORA shall be deemed to exempt from disclosure a record that reflects the approved budget allocation for a Member or the Member's office.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1947 (Grove-R) Legislative contracts

Requires all contracts executed by the Legislature to be approved by the Department of General Services and establishes a "low-bid" contracting process for public works contracts let by the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

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

Makes specified wage and hour laws applicable to the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1982 (Gorell-R) Legislative oversight: regulations

Requires the Office of Administrative Law to submit all major regulations packages to the Legislature for review.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2068 (Portantino-D) Legislative members: license plates

Increases the fees that a current or retired legislator or a member of Congress must pay in order to have special license plates for his/her vehicle denoting that status.
Chapter 748, Statutes of 2012

AB 2256 (Portantino-D) Legislature Whistleblower Protection Act

Enacts the Legislature Whistleblower Act to protect employees of the Legislature to report crimes, waste, fraud, or other governmental irregularities.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1378 (Portantino-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

ACA 1 (Jeffries-R) Meetings of the Legislature

Requires a house or committee of the Legislature, at least 72 hours before a regularly scheduled meeting, to post an agenda containing a brief general description of each item to be considered, including items to be considered in closed session. Generally prohibits consideration of any matter not included in the agenda. Requires public disclosure of a writing provided to members of a house or a committee in connection with the consideration of agenda items unless the writing is exempt from the mandatory disclosure requirements imposed by statute. Requires each agenda for a regular committee meeting to provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the committee on an item of interest to the public, before or during the committee's consideration of the item, that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the committee. Provides for the calling of a special or emergency meeting of the house or a committee upon specified notice to its members and the media.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACA 2 (Jeffries-R) Legislature: floor sessions

Prohibits a house from meeting in a floor session other than between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. unless doing so is necessary to consider legislation relating to an emergency created by a natural disaster. Provides that any legislation passed by a house during a floor session occurring outside of those hours that is not necessary to consider legislation relating to an emergency created by a natural disaster would have no effect.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACA 3 (Jeffries-R) Revised biennial session

Requires the Legislature to convene in regular biennial session, but requires that the sessions held in odd-numbered years be budget sessions. Requires the Legislature in the budget session to adopt Budget Bills for each of two subsequent fiscal years. Prohibits the Legislature, during a budget session, from considering legislation other than the Budget Bills and related revenue bills, except bills addressing a declared state of emergency or urgency statutes. Urgency statutes would require a ¾ vote of the membership in each house for passage during a budget session. Provides that at general sessions the Legislature may consider any legislation other than Budget Bills, except under specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACA 20 (Jeffries-R) Part-time Legislature

Provides for a part-time Legislature. Provides that the meeting on the first Monday in December in an even-numbered year shall be for the sole purpose of organizing each house, and that the Legislature shall otherwise convene in regular session each year only between the first business day in March and June 30. Permits the Legislature to meet in regular session after June 30 of any calendar year only for a period of up to 15 days to reconsider bills vetoed by the Governor.
(Died being unassigned to a committee)

ACA 28 (Garrick-R) Legislature

Provides for a part-time Legislature and sets the annual salary for the members of the Legislature at $24,000, to be adjusted thereafter by the California Citizens Compensation Commission consistent with the Consumer Price Index. Sets specific time periods in which the Legislature must complete its work. Limits a special session to 30 days in duration. Provides for a biennial budget, requires that each bill with amendments be distributed to the Members at least 72 hours prior to passage. Requires every political party represented in a house of the Legislature be, to the greatest extent possible, proportionately represented in each legislative committee of that house.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

ACR 14 (Morrell-R) Legislature: session procedures

States the intent of both houses of the Legislature to begin each of their respective floor sessions, following the opening prayer and the pledge of allegiance to the flag, with a recitation of an excerpt from the United States Constitution, and to begin their respective floor sessions held nearest in time to the 4th of July of each year with a recitation of the full text of the Declaration of Independence.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to committee)

HR 5 (Nestande-R) Limitation on the introduction of bills

Reduces the number of bills which an Assemblymember can introduce from 40 to 30.
(Died being unassigned to a committee)

HR 20 (Portantino-D) Standing Rules of the Assembly

Revises the Standing Rules of the Assembly to provide for openness regarding expenditure of Assembly funds.
(Died in interim study)

Alcoholic Beverage Control

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SB 346 (Harman-R) Alcoholic beverages: licensing

Expands an existing provision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act that allows the serving of alcohol without a license or permit in a limousine or as part of a hot air balloon ride service to also include a "gondola ride" service.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 417 (Dutton-R) Alcoholic purchase: CalWORKs recipient

Requires the electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system used in the California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids and CalFresh programs to be designed to prevent recipients from using the EBT card to purchase alcohol or tobacco products.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 487 (Negrete McLeod-D) Alcoholic beverages: returns

Adds a new provision to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act that permits the return of unsold and unopened beer from an organization that obtained a temporary license.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 566 (Price-D) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

Adds clarity to an existing tied-house exception in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act pertaining to market research by certain licensees and the purchase of off-sale retail data by also including a "distilled spirits wholesaler" in the provision prohibiting a licensed retailer from being obligated to purchase or sell the alcoholic beverages of the licensee conducting the market research.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 653 (Steinberg-D) Alcoholic beverage tax: local taxes

Allows, among other provisions, local governments to impose an alcoholic beverage tax.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 738 (Evans-D) Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control: report: due date

Extends the due date of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control's annual report to the Legislature from March 1 of each year to April 1 of each year.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 765 (Anderson-R) Alcoholic beverages: licensees: advertising restrictions

Modifies one of the provisions in existing law which allows a beer manufacturer, the holder of a winegrower's license, a distilled spirits rectifier, a distilled spirits manufacturer, or a distilled spirits manufacturer's agent to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee outdoor stadium with a fixed seating capacity in excess of 8,000 seats and a fully enclosed arena with an attendance capacity in excess of 4,000 people, located in San Bernardino County.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 768 (Hernandez-D) Alcoholic beverages: licensees: electronic data services

Modernizes an existing provision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act by including Internet and other wireless data within the description of allowable electronic data services that alcoholic beverage manufacturers and wholesalers may provide to retailers.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 778 (Padilla-D) Alcoholic beverages licensees: contests and sweepstakes

Adds a new section of law to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act that authorizes wine, beer and spirits producers to conduct consumer "contests" or "sweepstakes."
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2012

SB 937 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) Alcoholic beverages: licenses

Updates, reorganizes, and clarifies existing provisions governing alcohol beverages licensees. Codifies the process in which the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) is required to collect a surcharge of 3% of the annual license fees for the ABC Appeals Board's administrative costs. Revises the license fee schedule to set forth the fee amounts as of the 2010 calendar year. Revises current law to authorize a retail off-sale beer and wine replacement license to be issued under specified circumstances. Prohibits the issuance of a replacement license under defined circumstances, revises the provision to prohibit the transfer of an original on-sale or off-sale license for more than the original purchase price for a period of two years. Provides for any hearing held pursuant to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, ABC may delegate the power to hear and decide to an administrative law judge appointed by the Director, as specified, and makes other technical and conforming changes.
Chapter 327, Statutes of 2012

SB 1393 (Negrete McLeod-D) Alcoholic beverage control: licensees: returns

Makes changes to an existing provision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act that allows a manufacturer or wholesaler of beer to accept the return of recalled beer for health or safety issues and exchange the beer or credit the retailer. Permits the return of unsold and unopened beer from an organization that obtained a temporary license, as specified.
Chapter 163, Statutes of 2012

SB 1429 (Evans-D) Alcoholic beverages: instruction

Makes technical and clarifying changes to an existing provision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act relative to requiring winegrowers and distilled spirits manufacturers to dispose of leftover product provided at instructional tastings events.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1531 (Wolk-D) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house exception

Provides a narrow tied-house exception that allows the Napa Valley Opera House to accept wine and monetary donations from wineries located within the Counties of Napa, Sonoma, Lake, and Mendocino. Sunsets the exemption on 1/1/18.
Chapter 334, Statutes of 2012

SCR 66 (Corbett-D) California Craft Brewery Month

Proclaims the month of February 2012 as California Craft Brewery Month.
Resolution Chapter 6, Statutes of 2012.

SCR 89 (Wright-D) California Beer Distributor Month

Proclaims the month of May as California Beer Distributor Month.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 45 (Hill-D) Alcoholic beverages: charter-party carriers of passengers

Repeals specified provisions of the Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act related to the requirements for a driver of a limousine for hire operated by a charter-party carrier of passengers (carrier) concerning the consumption of alcoholic beverages by passengers under 21 years of age, and instead requires the chartering party, as defined, to name a "designee" to be present on any party bus or limousine, as specified. Imposes various responsibilities and liabilities upon the designee, driver, and carrier to prevent the consumption of alcohol by persons under 21 years of age. Makes failure to comply with certain of its requirements a misdemeanor and makes any violation of its requirements by a carrier or its driver subject to civil penalties imposed by the Public Utilities Commission.
Chapter 461, Statutes of 2012

AB 252 (Charles Calderon-D) Alcoholic beverage control: licensees

Modifies an existing provision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act that allows, until 1/1/14, a manufacturer, winegrower, rectifier, or distiller to provide their product offerings directly to consumers (free of charge) during invitation-only events, as specified, to additionally grant the same privilege to a "distilled spirits manufacturer's agent."
Chapter 153, Statutes of 2012

AB 573 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: wine exports and returns

Corrects inconsistencies in existing provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act in order to allow all licensed manufacturers and wholesalers the same opportunity to inspect, clean and replace their tapping equipment.
Chapter 367, Statutes of 2012

AB 759 (Ma-D) Alcoholic beverages: advertising

Includes Internet Web sites as a type of publication by specified alcoholic beverage licenses that retail on-sale or off-sale licensees may purchase advertising within.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 775 (Galgiani-D) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

Includes a distilled spirits wholesaler in the provision prohibiting a licensed retailer from being obligated to purchase or sell the alcoholic beverages of the licensee conducting the market research.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1320 (Allen-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses

Permits the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a maximum of 15 new original on-sale general licenses, over a five-year period, for bona fide public eating places in Marin County.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 2560 (Allen-D) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.

AB 1356 (Eng-D) Alcoholic beverage licensees: duplicate license

Provides that where wine by the glass will be sold on the premises of a duplicate license that is located in an area of undue concentration, as defined, the request for the duplicate license is subject to specified provisions before it may be issued by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1419 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control: report: due date

Changes the due date on the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control's annual report to the Legislature from March 1 of each year to March 31.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1812 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: beer

Declares that beer aged in an empty wooden barrel previously used to contain wine or distilled spirits shall be defined exclusively as "beer" and shall not be considered a dilution or mixture of any other alcoholic beverage.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 2012

AB 2047 (Beall-D) Alcoholic beverages: restrictions

Expands the exceptions to existing law to allow beer manufacturers, winegrowers, distilled spirits rectifiers, distilled spirits manufacturers, or distilled spirits manufacturer's agents to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, on-sale retail licensees at specified facilities located in the City of San Jose, subject to additional requirements, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2184 (Hall-D) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

Permits, until 1/1/16, the appearance of a person employed or engaged by an "authorized license," as defined, at a promotional event held at the premises of an off-sale retail licensee for the purpose of providing autographs under specified conditions.
Chapter 480, Statutes of 2012

AB 2229 (Williams-D) Alcoholic beverages: distilled spirits

Authorizes licensed distilled spirits manufacturers to charge consumers for tasting and imposes additional conditions on the provision of tastings by the licensee.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organizational Committee)

AB 2349 (Nestande-R) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house

Revises the direct inquiry provisions in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to remove the requirement that manufacturers and distributors can only provide consumer information where they can find a specific product at an on-sale establishment if that on-sale retailer operates and is licensed as a restaurant. By removing that requirement, manufactures and distributors can add bars to the list they provide consumers of on-sale establishments that serve their specific products.
Chapter 374, Statutes of 2012

AB 2560 (Allen-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses

Permits the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a maximum of 15 new original on sale general licenses, over a five year period, for bona fide eatery places in Marine County.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
A similar bill is AB 1320 (Allen-D), Chapter 467, Statutes of 2012.

AB 2694 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Alcoholic beverages

Provides that the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) license, as defined in statute, authorizes, the license holder to exercise the rights and privileges as specified in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. Deletes reference to ABC's "Procedure Manual" from current law because ABC maintains that the Procedure Manual is an internal management document, which should not be specified in statute. Makes other technical clarifying changes.
(Died at Senate Desk)

ACR 118 (Chesbro-D) Wineries: leadership

Proclaims April 2012 as the month to celebrate the sustainable leadership of California wineries and winegrape growers.
Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2012

HR 28 (Hall-D) California Beer Distributor Month

Proclaims May 2012 as California Beer Distributor Month.
Adopted by the Assembly

Tribal Gaming

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AB 517* (Hall-D) Tribal gaming: compact ratification

Ratifies the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, executed on 3/27/12. Provides that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions may not be deemed projects for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2012

AB 787* (Chesbro-D) Tribal-state gaming compacts

Ratifies the amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, executed on 7/25/12. Provides that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions in connection with the amended tribal-state gaming compact ratified by this bill shall not be deemed projects for the purposes of the California Environment Quality Act.
Chapter 340, Statutes of 2012

AB 2515 (Hall-D) Indian gaming: local agencies

Modifies the procedures governing the award of local mitigation grants from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to require grant applications to the Indian Gaming Local community Benefit Committee to clearly show how the grant will mitigate the impact of the specified casino and appropriates $9.1 million from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution fund.
Chapter 704, Statutes of 2012

AB 2695 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Tribal gaming

Repeals and renumbers sections of the Government Code Section related to Indian gaming into one -stand-alone Title in the government Code. Makes other technical non-substantive changes.
(Died on the Senate Inactive File)

Horse Racing

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SB 1 (Kehoe-D) State Race Track Leasing Commission

Deletes the 1/1/13 sunset date of the State Race Track Leasing Commission which oversees leases and other agreements for the use of the Del Mar Race Track located on the grounds of the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 1227 (Huber-D) which died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee.

SB 1227 (Negrete McLeod-D) Horse racing: parimutuel pool funds

Deletes an existing requirement that 1% of the total amount handled in daily conventional and exotic parimutuel pools be distributed to the Fair and Exposition Fund, and instead requires those funds to be equally distributed as commissions and purses.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1390 (Wright-D) Horse racing tracks: sport wagering

Authorizes the owner or operator of a gambling establishment, or the owner or operator of a horse racing track, including a horse racing association, or of a satellite wagering facility, with a current license, to conduct wagering on professional and collegiate sports or athletic events, other than on collegiate sports or athletic events that take place in California or in which any California college team participates, by applying to the California Gambling Control Commission or the California Horse Racing Board, as specified, for authorization to conduct sports wagering, and by paying an annual licensing fee, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1418 (Berryhill-R) Horse racing: mixed breed meetings

Makes the following changes in California Horse Racing Law (1) deletes the current calendar period restriction (only between June 1 and October 31) during which the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) may allocate combined fair horse racing meetings thus allowing the CHRB greater flexibility in allocation of racing dates, and (2) deletes the requirement that the mixed breed meetings be conducted by an entity other than the California Exposition and State Fair and that the mixed breed meetings encourage the racing of emerging breeds of horses.
Chapter 225, Statutes of 2012

SB 1523 (Strickland-R) Horse racing: retired race horses

Requires the California Horse Racing Board to establish a program for the rehabilitation and retiring of California race horses.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1579 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing

Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to an existing provision of California Horse Racing Law relating to the general administration of race meetings by the California Horse Racing Board.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 616 (Garrick-R) Horse racing: southern zone

Provides that any change of ownership or governance affecting a racetrack in the southern zone be structured so that the real property and applicable personal property encompassed in that change continue to be used exclusively for live horse racing and associated activities and revenue generated from horse racing operations be reinvested in capital projects directly supporting horse racing.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1227 (Huber-D) California State Race Track Leasing Commission

Extends the sunset date on the State Race Track Leasing Commission indefinitely.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1 (Kehoe-D), Chapter 216, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1421 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Harness racing organizations

Requires the organization formed by the Harness Racing Association and the harness racing horsemen and horsewomen to oversee workers' compensation insurance to obtain an independent audit of their workers' compensation fund expenditures.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1591 (Silva-R) Horse racing: quarter horse races

Authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to allow a licensed quarter horse racing association that is conducting a live racing meeting in this state to accept wagers on a quarter horse stakes race with a purse equal to or greater than $150,000.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1661 (Norby-R) Horse racing: video replication

Prohibits a person who uses for a commercial purpose or who furnishes to any other person either within or outside of the state for any commercial purpose, a digital video disc or any type of video replication of any quarter horse race occurring in this state without securing consent, as described in existing law.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2520 (Hall-D) Horse racing

Increases, from 8 to 10, the amount of races a harness and quarter horse racing association may import (out-of-state or out-of-country) on live racing days.
Chapter 347, Statutes of 2012

AB 2693 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing: Arkansas Derby

Adds the Arkansas Derby to the group of stake races in Horse Racing Law which are exempt from the 50-race per day limit on imported races, as defined.
Chapter 350, Statutes of 2012

Other Gaming Legislation

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SB 40* (Correa-D) Internet poker

Establishes a framework to authorize intrastate Internet poker, as specified. Requires the California Gambling Control Commission to adopt emergency regulations, in consultation with the Department of Justice, providing for the issuance of licenses to operate intrastate Internet poker Web sites and governing the intrastate play of poker games on the Internet. Makes it a misdemeanor for any person or entity to offer or participate in any form of illegal Internet gambling, as defined, or to knowingly process any financial transaction arising out of participation in illegal Internet gambling. Authorizes the seizure of any money or property used in or derived from illegal Internet gambling, as specified, and provides for any money or property that has been seized to be forfeited to the Internet Gambling Fund, as established by this bill. Permits these Internet Web sites to conduct a live online nonbanked, nonpercentage version of the card game poker within the borders of the State of California under the same rules, and with the same manner of compensation, as apply to poker games currently conducted in licensed gambling establishments and tribal class II gaming facilities. Requires the Commission to issue licenses to own and operate intrastate Internet poker Web sites to eligible entities, as specified. Authorizes the Commission to assess fees on licensed entities in an amount reasonably necessary to reimburse the Commission for its costs in implementing and administering these provisions, including a registration fee. Requires a licensed entity to pay a license fee equal to 10% of the fees collected by the licensed entity from players participating in poker games conducted on its Internet Web site. Provides for all fees to be remitted to the Internet Gambling Fund, to be administered by the State Controller, subject to annual appropriation by the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 45* (Wright-D) Internet gambling

Establishes a framework to authorize intrastate Internet gambling, as specified. Requires the Department of Justice to issue a request for proposals to enter into contracts with up to three hub operators, as defined, to provide lawful Internet gambling games to registered players in California for a period of 20 years, as specified. Provides that it is a misdemeanor for any person to offer or play any gambling game provided over the Internet that is not authorized by the state pursuant to this bill. Requires a hub operator to remit an agreed-upon percentage, but not less than 10%, of its gross revenues to the State Treasurer on a monthly basis. Creates the Internet Gambling Fund which will be administered by the State Controller subject to annual appropriation by the Legislature to state agencies and which is not subject to the formulas established by statute directing expenditures from the General Fund. Requires the Gambling Control Commission, notwithstanding that requirement, in consultation with the Department of Justice, State Treasurer, and the Franchise Tax Board, to issue a report to the Legislature describing the state's efforts to meet the policy goals articulated in this bill within one year of the effective date of this bill, and annually thereafter. Requires the Bureau of State Audits, three years after the commencement date of any hub operations contract with the state, but no later than four years after that date, to issue a report to the Legislature detailing the Bureau's implementation of this bill, as specified.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1463 (Wright-D) which died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee.

SB 340* (Wolk-D) Remote caller bingo

Deletes all state Gambling Control Commission oversight and licensure requirements for remote caller bingo, and instead requires an organization that is eligible to conduct remote caller bingo games, or a management company contracted by a licensed organization to conduct remote caller bingo on behalf of a nonprofit organization, to register with the Commission.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 383 (Wolk-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 383* (Wolk-D) Remote caller bingo

Deletes all state Gambling Control Commission oversight and licensure requirements for remote caller bingo, and instead requires an organization that is eligible to conduct remote caller bingo games, or a management company contracted by a licensed organization to conduct remote caller bingo on behalf of a nonprofit organization, to register with the Commission.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 340 (Wolk-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 1390 (Wright-D) Gambling: sports wagering

Authorizes the owner or operator of a gambling establishment, or the owner or operator of a horse racing track, including a horse racing association, or of a satellite wagering facility, with a current license, to conduct wagering on professional and collegiate sports or athletic events, other than on collegiate sports or athletic events that take place in California or in which any California college team participates, by applying to the California Gambling Control Commission or the California Horse Racing Board, as specified, for authorization to conduct sports wagering, and by paying an annual licensing fee, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1463* (Wright-D) Internet gambling

Establishes a framework to authorize intrastate Internet gambling, as specified. Authorizes eligible entities to apply to the California Gambling Control Commission for a five-year license to operate an intrastate Internet gambling Web site offering the play of authorized gambling games to registered players within California. Prohibits the offer or play of any gambling game provided over the Internet that is not authorized by the state pursuant to this bill.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
A similar bill was SB 45 (Wright-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 777 (Hall-D) Gambling

Requires every person who is required to hold a state gambling license, to obtain the license before engaging in the activity or occupying the position with respect to which the license is required, except as specified.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1290 (Hill-D) Gaming: gambling enterprises

Repeals an existing body of law in the Gambling Control Act relative to an exemption from licensing requirements for a card club on the grounds of a racetrack and recast that body of law. Ensures continued operations of the card club located at the Hollywood Park Racetrack.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2526 (Hall-D) Gambling: Gambling Control Act

Changes several definitions within the Gambling Control Act by (1) revising the definition of a "key employee" to any person employed in the operation of a gambling enterprise in a supervisory capacity or empowered to make discretionary decisions with regard to the gambling operations, (2) adding surveillance managers and supervisors to the definition of "key employee" for licensing purposes, and (3) deleting the term "pit boss" and replacing the term "shift boss" to "shift manager."
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2542 (Norby-R) California State Lottery

Requires the Director of the California State Lottery, on or before 4/1/13, to issue a request for information soliciting ideas for enhancing the integration of lottery functions with the goal of increasing the efficiency of the lottery operation, revenues, and contribution to public education.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

HR 23 (Hall-D) Problem Gambling Awareness Week

Recognizes the week of 3/4/12 to 3/10/12 as Problem Gambling Awareness Week.
Adopted by the Assembly

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SB 27 (Simitian-D) Public employees' retirement

Provides that any salary enhancement for the principal purpose of increasing a member's retirement benefit will not be included in the calculation of a member's final compensation for determining that benefit. Requires the boards of each state public retirement system to establish regulations that include an ongoing audit process. Prohibits a retiree from returning to work as a retired annuitant or contract employee for a period of 180 days after retirement.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 114 (Yee-D) Public employees: teachers retirement system

Requires, beginning 7/1/13, and annually thereafter, collective bargaining or employment agreements for community college and adult education instructor, reflecting the full time equivalent for each class of affected employees, be submitted electronically, as specified, to the California State Teachers' Retirement System.
Chapter 829, Statutes of 2012

SB 115 (Strickland-R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture

Requires, beginning 7/1/13, and annually thereafter, collective bargaining or employment agreements for community college and adult education instructor, reflecting the full time equivalent for each class of affected employees, be submitted electronically, as specified, to the California State Teachers' Retirement System.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 252 (Vargas-D) Collective bargaining: state employees

Requires the Public Employment Relations Board to grant a petition from sworn peace officers in State Bargaining Unit 7, Protective Services and Public Safety, represented exclusively by the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, as specified, to be in a bargaining unit composed solely of those employees.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1358 (Walters-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee.

SB 270* (Hernandez-D) State employees: compensation

Continuously appropriates sufficient amounts from the General Fund and various other funds to the State Controller for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees during a fiscal year where the state budget is not enacted by July 1.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 321* (Negrete McLeod-D) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Approves provisions of a memorandum of understanding entered into between the State and State Bargaining Unit 2, the California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Government. Increases member contributions deposited into the Public Employees' Retirement fund by 3% for specified membership classifications represented by Bargaining Unit 2.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 520 (Walters-R) Public employees' retirement: hybrid plan

Requires the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System to create a hybrid retirement plan for public employees who become members on or after 1/1/12 that offers a defined contribution plan and defined benefit plan for retirement service and a defined benefit plan for retirement for disability or death.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 521 (Walters-R) Public employees' benefits: postemployment health care

Requires the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System to elect to participate in the prefunding of postemployment health care benefits and other postemployment benefits for annuitants. Requires the Board to determine the actuarially required contributions necessary to ensure that postemployment health care benefits provided under the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act are fully funded.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 522 (Walters-R) Public employees' retirement: additional service credit

Repeals provisions of existing law authorizing certain members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, and county, city, and district retirement systems to make additional contributions to the retirement system and receive up to five years of additional retirement service credit for time that does not qualify for public service, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 523 (Walters-R) Public employees' retirement: elected local officials

Prohibits a person who is publicly elected to a local office of any kind, on and after 1/1/12, from becoming a member of a retirement system by virtue of that service or from acquiring any retirement right or benefit for serving in that elective local office. Applies these provisions to a person who is appointed to fill the term of a person so elected, but does not apply them to a person who obtained membership by virtue of holding an elective local office prior to 1/1/12, for so long as he/she holds that office or is reelected to that office.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 524 (Walters-R) Public employees' retirement: retroactive benefits

Excludes matters relating to the retroactive effect of pension benefit increases from the scope of representation of public employees by recognized employee organizations, thereby prohibiting these employee organizations from negotiating for a retroactive effect of pension benefit increases with public employers. Requires that any adjustment to the formula used to calculate the retirement benefits of a member of a public retirement system that yields an increase in the member's retirement benefits apply only to service performed after the operative date of the adjustment and prohibits the retroactive application of that adjustment, except as provided.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 525 (Walters-R) Public employees' retirement: eligibility

Prohibits a state employee who becomes a member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System on and after 1/1/12, and who is not a state patrol member, a state safety member, or state peace officer/firefighters member, from retiring from service prior to reaching 55 years of age.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 526 (Walters-R) Public employees' retirement: final compensation

Requires, for persons first hired on and after 1/1/12, that final compensation means the highest annual average compensation earnable by a person during a consecutive 36-month period of membership for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a public entity defined benefit retirement system. Prohibits the inclusion of credit for accrued leave of any form or credit for overtime work in the calculation of final compensation.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 527 (Walters-R) Public pension benefits: negotiation

Excludes matters relating to pension benefits from the scope of representation of public employees by recognized employee organizations, thereby prohibiting these employee organizations from negotiating pension benefits with public employers, except for the amount of employee contributions to the pension plans.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 528 (Walters-R) Public Employees' Retirement System: Board of Administration

Changes the six members of the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System from elected members to appointment by the Governor based on their demonstrated expertise in the financial and actuarial fields. Calls for a special election to be consolidated with a statewide election to be held in 2011 for voter approval of the change.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 689 (Harman-R) Public retirement systems

Requires, on or before 7/1/12, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, and the University of California to establish and maintain a publicly accessible, and quarterly updated Internet Web site pertaining to the costs of pensions and postretirement healthcare benefits.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 820 (Walters-R) State employer contribution rates: reports

Revises existing law to require an annual report by the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System to the Legislature, the Governor, and the State Treasurer. Requires the report to include (1) a description of the investment return assumption utilized by the Board when determining the state employer contribution rate, (2) a description of the amortization period of any unfunded liabilities utilized by the Board when determining those contribution rates, (3) a description of the discount rate utilized by the Board for reporting liabilities, and (4) the market value of the assets controlled by the Board and an explanation of how the actuarial value assigned to those assets differ from the market value of those assets. Requires the State Treasurer, within 30 days of receipt of the report, during a publicly noticed joint meeting of the Assembly Budget Committee, the Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee, the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, and the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee to (1) explain the role played by the investment return assumption and amortization period in the calculation of the state employer contribution rates, (2) describe the consequences for future state budgets should the investment return assumption not be realized, (3) report whether the Board's amortization period exceeds the estimated average remaining service periods of employees covered by the contributions, and (4) his/her opinion on the reasonableness of the Board's selection of the investment return assumption and the amortization period.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 903 (Anderson-R) Public retirement systems: investments: Iran

Amends the California Public Divest from Iran Act to clarify the criteria and process that the boards of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System must use to invest in Iran.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 923 (De León-D) Retirement savings plans

Adds two additional members (for a total of nine) to the proposed California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Investment Board, to be appointed by the Governor. Provides that the Board shall not open the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program for enrollment until a subsequent authorizing statute is enacted that expresses the approval of the Legislature for the Program to be fully implemented. Makes this bill contingent on the enactment of SB 1234 (De Leon-D).
Chapter 737, Statutes of 2012

SB 955 (Pavley-D) Public employees' retirement: pension fund management

Authorizes the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System to prioritize investment in in-state infrastructure projects over alternative out-of-state projects if the investments are consistent with its fiduciary responsibility.
Chapter 760, Statutes of 2012

SB 987 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public employees' retirement

Makes various technical and non-controversial changes to various sections of the Government Code administered by the California Public Employees' Retirement Board, including code sections governing the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement Systems I and II, and the Legislator's Retirement System.
Chapter 833, Statutes of 2012

SB 996 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) County Employees Retirement: heart trouble presumption

Restates and clarifies existing County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 regarding the rebuttable presumption that heart trouble incurred by a safety member arises from the safety member's employment.
Chapter 792, Statutes of 2012

SB 1057 (Huff-R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture

Requires that an employee of a school district, county office of education, or charter school, who is convicted of any state or federal felony for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of, his/her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, or service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits earned or accrued from the earliest date of the commission of the felony to the forfeiture date, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1113 (Evans-D) Public employment: salary ranges

Requires the Department of Human Resources (CalHR) to consider issues of salary compaction and parity concerns, and if there are insufficient revenues to allow CalHR to implement salary adjustments, CalHR shall provide the Legislature data on the salary determination.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1141 (Walters-R) Public employees: memorandum of understanding

Prohibits a memorandum of understanding between a public employer and an employee group from agreeing to provide a retiree health care benefit unless each employee hired after 1/1/13 pays at least 50% of the actuarially required contributions to fund the health care benefits. Applies to all public employers and their employees, including the University of California and charter cities.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1142 (Walters-R) Public employees: health care

Requires, using generally accepted accounting principles, that all public employers actuarially prefund postemployment health care benefits provided to their public employees, and allows public employers to incrementally implement these requirements over five years' time, as specified, and prohibits an employer from providing retiree health care to any employee hired on or after 1/1/13, unless those benefits are fully funded.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1143 (Walters-R) Public employees': postemployment benefits

Defines postemployment benefits and requires that all public employers shall have the right to modify or revise a postemployment benefit except as prohibited by federal law, and eliminates an employee's right to have future postemployment benefits or a continuation of current benefits.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1176* (Huff-R) Public employees' retirement.

Enacts Governor Edmund G. Brown's proposed public pension reform legislation.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
The companion measure to this bill was SCA 18 (Huff-R) which died in the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee).

SB 1231 (Walters-R) Orange County employees' retirement

Allows the Orange County Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution prohibiting the Orange County Employees Retirement Association from approving the Supplemental Targeted Adjustment for Retirees Cost of Living Adjustment (STAR COLA), and allows the Board of Supervisors to limit the benefit for current members or preclude the benefit for any member not currently receiving the STAR COLA.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1232 (Walters-R) Orange County employees retirement

Allows the Orange County Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution requiring that cost of living adjustments applied to retirees of the Orange County Employees Retirement Association be adjusted annually, beginning on April 1st in the second calendar year following retirement. The new rule would apply to any employee retiring after the date of the resolution.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1234 (De León-D) Retirement savings plans

Establishes the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program to operate as a state-administered retirement savings plan for private sector workers who do not participate in any other type of employer-sponsored retirement savings plan.
Chapter 734, Statutes of 2012

SB 1294 (Berryhill-R) Public employees: Mariposa County

Allows Mariposa County to provide a higher employer contribution for health benefits for its retirees than for its active employees, and require it be executed through a memorandum of understanding or by a resolution adopted by a majority of the board of supervisors.
Chapter 836, Statutes of 2012

SB 1308 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) State human resources functions

Codifies the statutory changes that were put into effect upon passage of the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 which consolidates the Department of Personnel Administration and the State Personnel Board into a single agency to be known as the California Department of Human Resources.
Chapter 665, Statutes of 2012

SB 1309 (Negrete McLeod-D) Human resources

Makes conforming statutory changes to assist in implementing the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 to consolidate the Department of Personnel Administration and the administrative functions of the State Personnel Board (SPB) into a single agency - the Department of Human Resources. The constitutional autonomy of the governing body of the SPB with regard to oversight of the merit principal and state civil service is retained with that body.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2012

SB 1358 (Walters-R) Collective bargaining: state employees

Requires the Public Employment Relations Board to grant a petition from sworn peace officers in State Bargaining Unit 7, Protective Services and Public Safety, represented exclusively by the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, as specified, to be in a bargaining unit composed solely of those employees.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was SB 252 (Vargas-D) which died in the Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee.

SB 1368 (Anderson-R) State employees: salaries

Limits annual salaries (including overtime) of state officers and employees to no more than the salary received by the Governor and recommends that the Regents of the University of California also limit the annual salary for its officers and employees to no more than the amount received by the Governor.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1382 (Negrete McLeod-D) County employees' retirement: retiree organizations

Clarifies, in the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937, terminology related to recognized retiree organizations, the items that a retiree under that system may have deducted from his/her pay warrant, and the nature and extent of assistance provided to the recognized retiree organization by the retirement system with regard to mailings to the retiree organization's members.
Chapter 178, Statutes of 2012

SB 1494 (DeSaulnier-D) County employees' retirement: Contra Costa County

Provides for implementation of the negotiated agreement between Contra Costa County and county employees to create lower benefit tiers for new employees.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1563 (Cannella-R) Civil service exams: veterans' preference points

Requires that a veteran who has completed acceptable training in the United States Armed Forces as a military law enforcement officer shall receive 15 preference points in an examination for an open peace officer position in state employment and states legislative intent with regard to veterans' abilities to become state peace officers.
Chapter 768, Statutes of 2012

SCA 11 (Huff-R) State employment

Provides that nothing in the provision establishing the civil service shall be construed to limit, restrict, or prohibit the state from contracting with private entities for the performance of a personal services contract. Authorizes the state to enter into a personal services contract with a private entity upon approval of the contract by the Office of Economic Growth. Establishes the Office of Economic Growth as an independent office in state government, consisting of an unspecified number of public and private sector members appointed by the Governor and the Legislature. Deletes the reference to permanent civil service appointments and provides that civil service appointments may be terminated at the will of the appointing agency or the employee. Requires all civil service examinations to be open to any member of the public who meets the minimum qualifications for the position. Deletes provisions creating the State Personnel Board and requires that civil service statutes be enforced by a personnel agency under the authority of the Governor.
(Died In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SCA 13 (Cannella-R) Public employees' retirement

Provides, among other things, that any change to the formula used to calculate the pension benefits of a member of a public retirement system that results in an increase in the member's pension benefits shall apply only to service performed on and after the operative date of the change, and prohibits the retroactive application of that change. Requires, with respect to public employees first hired on and after 7/1/12, the governing body of a public retirement system to annually set an actuarially sound contribution rate for any defined benefit plan based on the recommendations of an independent plan actuary. Permits a public employer to offer those employees a defined benefit plan only as part of a uniform hybrid retirement plan, and only if the Legislature has established the hybrid retirement plan and the define pension benefits that may be provided. Prohibits a person, on or after 7/1/12, from being employed by, or providing personal services as a contractor for, a public employer while he/she is receiving pension payments from a public retirement system.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCA 18 (Huff-R) Public employees' retirement

Requires each public retirement system to provide one or more hybrid pension plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. Requires that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution or alternative plan design component, as specified. Requires, among other things, that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final compensation. Requires the Director of Finance, on or before 1/1/13, to establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. Requires, on and after 7/1/13, each public retirement system to administer, and make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in the public retirement system. Requires, for public employees hired on and after 1/1/13, that retirement benefits be limited as provided, with regard to a defined benefit that is calculated with reference to final compensation, as specified, that final compensation be calculated using at least a consecutive 36-month period of service.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SCR 105 (Negrete McLeod-D) State Teachers' Retirement System

Encourages the State Teachers' Retirement System to develop and submit to the Legislature, before 2/15/13, 3 options that address the long-term funding needs of the Defined Benefit Program. States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address the long-term funding needs of the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan.
Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2012

AB 7 (Portantino-D) State employment: salary freeze

Prohibits certain state employees whose annual base salary is over $150,000 from receiving a salary increase or a bonus until 1/1/14.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 149 (Lara-D) Civil service: personal services contracts

Authorizes a state department or agency, when the State Personnel Board either disapproves a personal services contract from being executed, or nullifies an executed personal services contract, to create and fill a limited-term civil service position for the equivalent number of hours for each contractor position requested in the submitted contract.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 178* (Gorell-R) State teachers' retirement

Extends a post retirement earnings limitation exemption for retired members of the California State Teachers' Retirement System who return to work under a limited-term appointment, changes how the earning limit is calculated, clarifies that the limit does not apply to third-party employees, and allows retired members to re-retire within a year of reinstating, as specified.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2012

AB 197 (Buchanan-D) Public employees' retirement: AB 340 Cleanup

Changes the word "required" to "authorized" in a Government Code section intended to allow enhanced bargaining for local and school employers in the California Public Employees' Retirement System with regard to increased member cost sharing. Clarifies the intent of the conference report with regard to current members of retirement systems establish pursuant to the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 by specifying that payments for termination pay and leave, as specified, may not exceed what is earned in a year and payable, consistent with the applicable court cases in regard to this issue.
Chapter 297, Statutes of 2012

AB 256 (Nestande-R) State employee suggestion program: State Auditor

Requires, notwithstanding the continuous appropriation and upon an appropriation by the Legislature, the State Auditor to establish a reward program for state employees who identify innovative solutions for inefficiencies in state government or methods for saving the state money. Provides for the review of proposals by the State Auditor and the Legislative Analyst, as prescribed, and requires a state agency or department to implement a proposal that would result in any savings to an implementing agency or department, as specified. Requires that the State Auditor provide a reward in the amount of 10% of the savings realized by the agency or department within the first fiscal year of implementation to both the state employee who made the proposal and to the implementing state agency or department, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 340 (Furutani-D) Public employees' retirement: reform

Enacts major public employee retirement reform as follows: (1) Caps pension salaries at the Social Security contribution and wage base of $110,100 (or 120% of that amount for employees not covered by Social Security). (2) Establishes equal sharing of pension costs as the standard with California state employees leading the way and paying at least 50% of normal costs of their pension benefits; requires new employees to contribute at least half of normal costs and sets a similar target for current employees, subject to bargaining; eliminates current restrictions that impede local employers form having their employees help pay for pension liabilities; permits employers to develop plans that are lower cost and lower risk if certified by the system's actuary and approved by the Legislature; provides additional authority to local employers to require employees to pay for a greater share of pension costs through impasse proceedings if they are unsuccessful in achieving the goal of 50/50 cost sharing in five years; and directs state savings from cost sharing toward additional payments to reduce the state's unfunded liability. (3) Unilaterally rolls back retirement ages/formulas by increasing retirement ages by two years or more for all new public employees; rolls back the unsustainable retirement benefit increases granted in 1999 and reduces the benefits below the levels in effect for decades; eliminates all 3% formulas going forward; for local miscellaneous employees - 2.5% at 55 changes to 2% at 62, with a maximum of 2.5% at 67; for local fire and police employees - 3% at 50 changes to 2.7% at 57; and establishes consistent formulas for all new employees going forward. (4) Ends abuses by requiring three-year final compensation to stop spiking for all new employees; calculating benefits based on regular, recurring pay to stop spiking for all new employees; limiting post-retirement employment for all employees; forfeiting pension benefits of felons; prohibiting retroactive pension increases for all employees; prohibiting pension holidays for all employees and employers; and prohibiting purchases of service credit for all employees.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2012

AB 453 (Skinner-D) State employees: scientists

Requires a state employee appointed to any state scientist class, on or after 1/1/12, to have the minimum qualification of a baccalaureate degree in a scientific discipline from a foreign or domestic accredited university.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 617 (Davis-D) Public employees' retirement: postretirement death benefits

Increases, from $2,000 to $6,163, the amount paid to a member's designated beneficiary, upon the death of any state or school member after retirement and while receiving a retirement allowance.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 666 (Jeffries-R) Public Employees: Riverside County

Authorizes the special death benefit under the Public Employees' Retirement System, to be payable if the deceased was a Riverside County Sheriff's Department Correctional Deputy or a Correctional Corporal, if his/her death occurred as a direct result of injury arising out of and in the course of his/her official duties with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, and if there was a qualifying survivor.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2437 (Jeffries-R) which died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee.

AB 738 (Hagman-R) Public employees' retirement: elected officials

Prohibits a person who is publicly elected to an office of any kind, on and after 1/1/12, from becoming a member of a retirement system by virtue of that service or acquiring any retirement right or benefit for serving in that elective office. Applies these prohibitions to a person who is appointed to fill the term of a person so elected. Exempts from this prohibition a person who obtained membership by virtue of holding an elective public office prior to 1/1/12, and remain in that office or is reelected to it.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 769 (Hueso-D) Public employment: benefits: appointed persons

Prohibits a person who is appointed to any state board or commission, on and after 1/1/12, from becoming a member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System or the California State Teachers' Retirement System by virtue of that service and from acquiring any retirement right or benefit for serving on that board or commission. Does not apply to a person who obtained membership by virtue of being appointed to a state board or commission prior to 1/1/12, for so long as he/she holds that position or shall be reappointed to that position. Prohibits a person appointed to any state board or commission, on and after 1/1/12, from earning service credit for any services performed on that state board or commission.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 870 (Grove-R) Public employees' retirement: hybrid plan

Requires the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System to create a hybrid retirement plan for public employees who become members, on and after 1/1/12, that offers a defined contribution plan and defined benefit plan for retirement for service and a defined plan for retirement for disability or for death. Prohibits these plans from creating a vested property right for the member with respect to any employer contributions before retirement. Prohibits those members from being eligible to enroll in the defined benefit plan for retirement for service that existed before 1/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 875 (Donnelly-R) Public employees' retirement

Prohibits any compensation for accrued leave or overtime from being included as part of "final compensation" for purpose of calculating a public retirement benefit for persons first hired on and after 1/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 920 (Portantino-D) Public employees: rights

Enacts the Public Employees' Bill of Rights Act which provides various rights and protections to non-excluded state civil service employees. Requires that any adverse action taken against a state employee be initiated and the investigation completed within one year of the cause for discipline.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 933 (Allen-D) Public employment benefits: state safety members

Extends industrial death and disability benefits to state miscellaneous members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System employed by a state hospital, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 961 (Mansoor-R) Negotiations: pension benefits

Excludes matters relating to pension benefits from the scope of representation of public employees by recognized public employee organizations under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, the Educational Employment Relations Act, the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA), including HEERA supervisory employees, the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1184 (Gatto-D) Public employees' retirement benefits

Requires the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) to develop and implement program changes to ensure that a contacting agency that creates a significant increase in actuarial liability due to increased compensation bears the costs of the associated liability. Prohibits CalPERS from providing a plan of replacement benefits effective for persons who become members on or after 1/1/13.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1203 (Mendoza-D) Public employee organizations: paid leaves of absence

Expands provisions in existing law governing union-paid leaves of absences for classified school employees who are representatives of employee organizations, as specified.
Chapter 804, Statutes of 2012

AB 1212 (Mansoor-R) County employees' retirement

Allows the South Coast Air Management District to provide, by resolution, contract, or contract amendment, a 2% at age 61 retirement benefit formula for new employees. Specifies that these retirement benefits cannot be provided unless agreed to in a memorandum of understanding made under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1248 (Hueso-D) Local public employees' retirement

Requires the City of San Diego to provide Social Security coverage to all its employees not covered under a defined benefit retirement plan and grandfathers in an employers' defined contribution plan in place on 7/1/12.
Chapter 853, Statutes of 2012

AB 1477 (Assembly Budget Committee) Employee compensation: Budget Trailer Bill

Amends the 2012-13 Budget Act, adopted on 6/15/12 in AB 1464, which, among other provisions, amends existing budget control section language to ratify the addenda with statewide Bargaining Units 2 (CASE-California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, and Hearing Officers in State Employment), 7 (CSLEA-California Statewide Law Enforcement Association), and 10 (CAPS-California Association of Professional Scientists), which were submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee by 7/1/12. These additional addenda, similar to those ratified in the 2012 Budget Act for other statewide bargaining units, specify that state employees in Bargaining Units 2, 7, and 10 have agreed to participate in the Personal Leave Program 2012 for the period from 7/1/12 to 6/30/12. These changes further implement Control Section 3.90 of the Budget Act of 2012, which achieves employee compensation-related savings of $402 million General Fund.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2012

AB 1497 (Assembly Budget Committee) Public employee compensation: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the "Budget Bill Junior" which, among other provisions, updates a central section associated with the 5% reduction to employee compensation to reflect bargaining agreements reached between the Governor's Administration and several unions.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

AB 1519 (Wieckowski-D) County employee retirement boards

Requires the boards of retirement or investments for the 20 retirement systems established pursuant to the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to adopt a policy for providing board member education, as specified.
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2012

AB 1542 (Mansoor-R) County employees retirement: cost-of-living adjustments

Prohibits a person who first becomes a member of the Orange County Employees Retirement System on or after 1/1/12, from receiving the annual cost-of-living adjustment until they have been retired at least 12 months. Becomes operative only upon the adoption by the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 1606 (Perea-D) Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures

Authorizes a local public employee organization to request that the parties differences be submitted to a fact-finding panel no sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. Authorizes an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a fact-finding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. Specifies that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law.
Chapter 314, Statutes of 2012

AB 1633 (Wagner-R) Public employees' retirement

Caps the retirement benefit paid to new members of any public retirement system to members of any public retirement system first hired on or after 1/1/13 at $100,000 for members who service is not included in Social Security and $80,000 for new members whose service is included in Social Security.
(Died in interim study)

AB 1639 (Hill-D) Public employees: pensions

Requires all public retirement systems in California to adhere to the federal compensation limit under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(17) when calculating retirement benefits for members who first join the retirement system on or after 1/1/13, and prohibits a public employers from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds that amount.
(Died in interim study)

AB 1649 (Smyth-R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture

Requires a public employee who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense arising out of his/her official duties to forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony.
(Died in interim study)

AB 1653 (Cook-R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture

Requires a public employee who is an at-will employee of an elected public officer, as specified and who is convicted of a felony arising out of his/her official duties, to forfeit all public pension benefits, as specified.
(Died in interim study)

AB 1654 (Cook-R) Public employment: disqualification

Disqualifies a public employee, as specified, who is convicted of a felony, as specified, from public employment for a period of five years.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2012

AB 1655 (Dickinson-D) Public employees: rights

Enacts the Public Employees' Bill of Rights Act which provides various rights and protections to non-excluded state civil service employees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1681 (Smyth-R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture

Requires a school employee who is convicted of a felony arising out of his/her official duties to forfeit retirement benefits, as specified.
(Died in interim study)

AB 1735 (Wieckowski-D) Teachers' retirement

Authorizes the California Teachers' Retirement System to fix the compensation, terms, and conditions of employment for two positions - Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Limits the salary for each of these positions to 150% of the prevailing salary for the Governor as established by the California Citizens Compensation Commission.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1787 (Portantino-D) State employment: salary freeze

Prohibits certain state employees whose annual base salary is over $100,000 from receiving a salary increase or a bonus until 1/1/15.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 1808 (Williams-D) Public employees: Meyers-Milias-Brown Act

Expands the definition of public employee under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act to include any person employed by an employer that is not a public agency, but with which a public agency share or codetermines decision governing essential employment conditions of that person. States that its provisions are declaratory of existing law.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 1815 (Harkey-R) Retirement: Orange County

Provides that a person who is first public elected to, or appointed to fill the term of a person who is publicly elected or appointed to, the Orange County Board of Supervisors, on or after 1/1/12, does not become a member of the County Employees' Retirement System by virtue of that service.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 1874 (Mansoor-R) Public employees' retirement: constitutional officers

Prohibits a person who first becomes, on or after 1/1/13, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Insurance Commissioner, Secretary of State, State Controller, State Treasurer, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Attorney General, or any member of the Board of Equalization from becoming a member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). Permits any officer of the Senate or Assembly who is elected by vote of the members of either or both of the houses of the Legislature on or after 1/1/13, to opt to become a member of CalPERS.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 1885 (Bonilla-D) County employees' retirement

Makes applicable in all counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 provisions that extend the reemployment period for reciprocity eligibility for laid off employees from six months to one year.
Vetoed

AB 1930 (Gorell-R) Civil service examinations: announcement

Requires the State Personnel Board to notify the Department of Veterans Affairs when any promotional examination for the establishment of an eligible list is announced or advertised.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 2012

AB 1936 (Knight-R) State employment: military service

Adds periods of inactive duty for training to the types of duty for which it is permissible for state employees to take military leave.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1949 (Cedillo-D) Teacher retirement savings

Permits a school district to restrict the investment products offered in its 403(b) plan based on a competitive review process.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2099 (Cedillo-D) Public employees: annuities and mutual fund

Authorizes a pilot project that would allow the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles Community College District to select specific 403(b) products offered by four or more vendors of tax-deferred retirement investment products described in Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code or establish a list of preferred vendors that are recommended to employees, through a due diligence and competitive review process, until 1/1/18.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2139 (Furutani-D) State teachers' retirement

Makes the deposit of employee contributions into the Teachers' Retirement Program Development Fund a required deposit.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 2140 (Lara-D) State Bargaining Unit 5: Highway Patrol

Reduces retirement contribution rates for miscellaneous and industrial members of State Bargaining Unit 5, Highway Patrol, by 3%.
Chapter 249, Statutes of 2012

AB 2142 (Furutani-D) Public employees' health benefits: premiums

Authorizes the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) to implement risk adjustment procedures that adjust and redistribute payments across its health plans based on rules and regulations established by the CalPERS Board of Administration.
Chapter 445, Statutes of 2012

AB 2224* (Smyth-R) Public employees' retirement

Makes the statutory changes necessary to implement Governor Brown's 12-point Pension Reform Plan.
(Died in interim study)
A companion measure, ACA 22 (Smyth-R), died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee.

AB 2271 (Perea-D) Seasonal clerks: Franchise Tax Board

Implements the memorandum of understanding between the Franchise Tax Board and its seasonal clerks.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2012

AB 2275* (Achadjian-R) State teachers' retirement

Extends the sunset date of the existing California State Teachers' Retirement System post-retirement earnings limit exemptions from 6/30/12 to 6/30/14, and expands eligibility, where applicable, to members who retired on or before 1/1/11.
(Died in interim study)

AB 2416 (Mansoor-R) Public employees' retirement systems: reserve funds

Requires every public retirement system that does not maintain a reserve fund to create such a fund, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 2428 (Hagman-R) Public employees' retirement: elected local officials

Prohibits a person who is publicly elected to a local office of any kind, on and after 1/1/13, from becoming a member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System by virtue of that service or from acquiring any retirement right or benefit for serving in that elective office, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 2429 (Hagman-R) Public employee benefits: local officials

Prohibits a person appointed or publicly elected to a local public office of any kind that is less than full-time, as defined, on or after 1/1/13, from becoming a member of any public retirement system by virtue of that service, from acquiring any retirement right or benefit, or from receiving health benefits or other specified benefits for serving in that elective office. Does not apply to a local official who held office prior to 1/1/13, and remains in, or is reappointed or reelected to that office.
(Died in interim study)

AB 2437 (Jeffries-R) Public employees: Riverside County

Authorizes the special death benefit under the Public Employees' Retirement System, to be payable if the deceased was a Riverside County Sheriff's Department Correctional Deputy or a Correctional Corporal, if his/her death occurred as a direct result of injury arising out of and in the course of his/her official duties with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, and if there was a qualifying survivor.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement & Social Security Committee)
A similar bill was AB 666 (Jeffries-R) which died in Senate Public Employees and Retirement Committee.

AB 2495 (Grove-R) Public employees: fair share payments

Authorizes a state employee subject to a fair share fee to elect to have a sum equal to the fair share fee paid to a retirement savings plan of their choosing instead of to the recognized employee organization.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 2606 (Mendoza-D) Public employees' retirement: postretirement death benefits

Increases, over a period of four years, the postretirement death benefit paid to the beneficiary of a school member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System from $2,000 to $6,000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2663 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Teachers' Retirement Law

Makes various technical, conforming, and compliance amendments necessary for continued effective administration of the California State Teachers' Retirement System.
Chapter 864, Statutes of 2012

AB 2664 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County employees' retirement

Allows the retirement boards of '37 Act retirement systems to adopt regulations allowing for the use and acceptance of a member's electronic signature with the same force and effect as a signed, valid original document. Authorizes the Los Angeles County Employees' Retirement Association to adjust retirement payments due to errors or omissions in the same manner as the California Public Employees' Retirement System. Establishes the County Retirement System Dental Care Program to provide dental care benefits to county and district retirees, their survivors, and eligible dependents of '37 Act retirement systems that elect to offer the Program. A retiree is responsible for the full cost of the dental care premium and counties electing to participate in the Program may contract with a third party administrator to provide the dental care. Specifies that the dental benefits may be revised or discontinued at any time.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2012

AB 2665 (Allen-D) County employees' retirement: Marin County: safety members

Authorizes the Marin County Board of Supervisors to provide a service retirement formula known as 3% at age 55 for safety members hired on or after 1/1/13, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 2699 (Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee) Whistleblower protection

Authorizes a state employee or an applicant for state employment who files a written compliant with his/her supervisor, manager, or appointing power alleging certain improper acts to also file a copy of the complaint with the State Personnel Board.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 2700* (Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee) Public employees: whistleblower protection

Authorizes a state employee or an applicant for state employment who files a written complaint with his/her supervisor, manager, or appointing power alleging certain improper acts to also file a copy of the complaint with the State Personnel Board.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

ACA 22 (Smyth-R) Public employees': pension

Enacts Governor Brown's 12-point public pension plan.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

ACA 26 (Smyth-R) Public employees' retirement

Requires that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of, his/her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

ACR 112 (Campos-D) 24th Annual State Scientist Day

Declares 5/23/12 as the 24th Annual State Scientist Day as a tribute to the dedication and professionalism of the state scientists who work on behalf of all the residents of California.
Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2012

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SB 11 (Anderson-R) Registered warrants

Prohibits a state entity from assessing a fine, interest, or penalty, based on a debt owed to the state by an individual or entity that is a payee named in a registered warrant, from the date the state issued the registered warrant until at least 30 days after the date the registered warrant is payable by the state.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 67 (Price-D) Public contracts: small business participation

Authorizes, on and after 7/1/12, the Department of General Services (DGS) to direct all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to establish the goal to achieve 25% small business participation in state procurements and contracts annually. Requires DGS to ensure that the state's procurement and contract processes are administered in order to meet or exceed the goal. Authorizes DGS to establish policies and procedures to monitor the progress of the agencies toward meeting the goal of 25% small business participation and to provide this information to the Office of Small Business Advocate. Authorizes DGS to require a state agency, department, board, or commission that has not achieved its fiscal year goal to submit an implementation and corrective action plan and every year thereafter as long as the agency, department, board, or commission fails to meet or exceed the goal. Authorizes DGS to establish criteria for such a plan and to assist agencies in improving small business participation in their contracting.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 71 (Leno-D) State agencies

Eliminates, consolidates, or streamlines more than 200 reporting requirements for state agencies and departments. Eliminates the Naturopathic Childbirth Attendance Advisory Subcommittee, the Accountancy Board's Advisory Committee on Accounting Ethics Curriculum, the Lead in Candy Interagency Collaborative, the Advisory Committee on Automobile Insurance Fraud, the Committee of Executive Salaries, the State Social Services Advisory Committee on Welfare and Social Services, and the committee the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency established to develop and submit a Strategic Vision for a Sustainable Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 1431 (Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SB 95 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State Internal Borrowing: cash flow purposes

Increases the availability various funds that could be used as borrowable resources for the state's General Fund for cash flow purposes relative to the 2011-12 State Budget.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2012

SB 103 (Liu-D) State government: meetings

Requires, upon the request of a member of a state body, a state body to hold an open or closed meeting by teleconference, unless the chair of that state body determines that it is more costly to hold the meeting by teleconference than it would be to hold it in person. Requires state agencies that operate Internet Web sites to provide a live audio or video feed on the Web site for any board meetings that are open to the public.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 118 (Yee-D) State Controller's Office

Requires each state agency to reimburse the State Controller for any costs associated with the accounting of expenditures related to revenue bonds, as specified. Requires the State Controller to invoice the state agency, as specified, and requires the state agency to pay the invoice unless disputed.
Chapter 488, Statutes of 2012

SB 120* (Anderson-R) State funds: registered warrants

Requires state agencies to accept registered warrants or similar evidence of indebtedness issued by the state for the payment of obligations owed to them.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 124* (Kehoe-D) State claims

Appropriates $1,422,000 from the General Fund to pay for two legal settlements, Harris v. California National Guard ($990,000) and Parent Voices et al. v. Jack O'Connell ($432,000).
Chapter 351, Statutes of 2012

SB 153 (Strickland-R) State boards: salaries prohibition

Prohibits members appointed to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, the Public Employment Relations Board, and the State Water Resources Control Board from receiving a salary and authorizes a member of these boards to receive a specified per diem payment ($100 per day).
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 175 (Corbett-D) Public contracts: bid preferences: solar photovoltaic system

Provides a 5% bid preference in state contracts for the purchase or installation of solar panels that are manufactured or assembled in the state.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 186 (Kehoe-D) The Controller: audits

Expands, until 1/1/17, the State Controller's authority to perform audits or investigations of counties, cities, special districts, and joint powers authorities if the State Controller has reason to believe that a local government is violating specified financial requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 447 (DeSaulnier-D) State agencies: social security numbers

Prohibits a state agency from sending any communication to any individual that contains more than the last four digits of the social security number of that individual, unless required by federal law, beginning 1/1/15.
Vetoed

SB 449 (Pavley-D) State Controller: local agency financial review

Authorizes the State Controller, if sufficient funds are available, to review the finances of cities, counties, special districts, and redevelopment agencies, and allows the State Controller to convene a local agency financial review committee to provide assistance to local agencies that seek help in averting or managing a financial problem.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 467 (Pavley-D) Public contracts: energy efficiency

Requires the Department of General Services to deem a contract for the purchase of an energy efficiency information technology product or service to be a no-cost or net-neural cost contract when funding is provided, as specified, and to place energy efficiency providers on the Master Services Agreement for direct procurement instead of competitive bidding, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 497 (Rubio-D) Public contracts: state agencies: bid preferences

Provides a 5% preference on certain state contracts to contractors employing predominantly California workers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 633 (Huff-R) State obligation bonds

Authorizes the Department of Finance to order any state entity authorized by a bond act to allocate funds from bond sales, as specified, to cease and desist from allocating any additional funds from bond sales under specified conditions. Applies to the allocation of funds authorized by a bond act adopted on or after 1/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 662 (DeSaulnier-D) Governor's realignment: public services

Authorizes the Department of Finance to enter into contracts with counties to operate and integrate the health and safety programs included in the Governor's realignment proposal. Requires contracts between the state and the counties to be cost-neutral to both parties and to last 10 years unless they are extended in the ninth year.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 725 (Berryhill-R) Public works: 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 requirements, 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 the 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 requirements 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 Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 988 (Grove-R) which failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee.

SB 727 (Berryhill-R) 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 facility of a contractor, a public work project of a local agency that adopts a resolution or ordinance, as specified, 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. Removes the requirement that public works financed under that Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Bank Act comply with the prevailing wage requirements. Deletes the 1/1/12, date upon which this provision is repealed and extending this provision until 1/1/17. Imposes specified requirements on contracts of $100,000 or more of general contractors or specialty contractors with regard to the use of apprentices or journeymen on public works projects.
(Failed passage 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 730* (Kehoe-D) Claims against the state

Appropriates $12,992,000 ($11,492,000 General Fund; $1,500,000 State Parks and Recreation Fund) to pay for six settlements including interest for two cases: Environmental Protection Information Center, et al. v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al., and Steelworkers of America v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. (Headwaters); and California School Boards Association, et al. v. State of California.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2012

SB 775 (Walters-R) State obligation bonds

Incorporates a requirement into the State General Obligation Bond Law that requires a committee created by a bond act to periodically prepare a report on, among other topics, the amount of bonds that the committee has issued in the past five years and the likelihood that the committee will issue any additional bonds in the future. Requires that this report is submitted to standing committees in the Legislature with responsibility for budget and fiscal affairs. Authorizes house committees to recommend to the Legislature, based upon the contents of that report, that the amount of bonds authorized by the act should be reduced if they conclude either that it is unlikely that the bond committee will issue any additional bonds in the future or that the amount of bonds authorized by the act is excessive or unnecessary in relation to the purpose for which the bond act was passed. Incorporates a requirement into the State General Obligation Bond Law that prohibits a committee created by a bond act from issuing any bonds in any given calendar year unless that committee first notifies the Legislature no later than a specified date of that calendar year of its intent to issue bonds in that calendar year.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 812 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Flag protocol: POW/MIA Flag

Establishes protocols within the State of California for the proper display of the POW/MIA flag.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)

SB 817 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) State contracts: participation goals

Restructures the criteria for businesses to qualify as a disabled veteran business enterprise.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 822 (Evans-D) State infrastructure plan

Requires that the Governor annually submit to the State Treasurer a copy of the 5-year infrastructure plan.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

SB 884 (Calderon-D) State government: sale of tax liabilities

Authorizes the State Board of Equalization, the Franchise Tax Board, and any other state agency, department, or office, and any city, county, or city and county, to sell to investors those accounts receivable arising from tax liabilities under the jurisdiction of the authorized entity. Requires the entity to retain an independent firm that has demonstrated expertise in marketing and selling distressed assets that meets specified requirements, and requires the firm to report certain information, as specified.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 907 (Evans-D) Infrastructure Financing and Development Commission

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 911 (De León-D) State contracts: multistate corporations

Prohibits a state agency from entering into a contract for goods and services until a person or entity that apportions its business income in accordance with the 4-factor formula based on the property, payroll, and double-weighted sales within and without California, except as specified.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 938 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) State records

Transfers record management duties of the Department of General Services to the Secretary of State commencing 1/1/14. Transfers persons employed by the Department in the California Records and Information Management Program, and all equipment and records in the State Records Center to the Secretary of State.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 953 (Strickland-R) Government reorganization: realignment or closure

Enacts the Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Act of 2013 which establishes the Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Commission which is required to consider recommendations for the closure and realignment of state bureaucracies.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2213 (Donnelly-R) which failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee.

SB 954 (Liu-D) State Controller

Authorizes the State Controllers' Office to offset unclaimed property held by the state against debts owed to cities and counties.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2012

SB 1002 (Yee-D) Public records: electronic format

Requires the State Chief Information Officer to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of providing electronic records in an open format, as specified, and to provide a copy of the study to the chairs of specified Senate and Assembly committees by 1/1/14.
Vetoed

SB 1006 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) General Government Budget Trailer Bill

Provides the necessary statutory changes to enact the 2012-13 Budget related to general government items. Issues also in this bill includes National Mortgage Settlement proceeds, State Controller duties, Department of Finance oversight, sale of Capital Area Development Authority properties, Technology Aging Project oversight, Financial Information System for California, and state local mandate suspensions.
Chapter 32, Statutes of 2012

SB 1033 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Cash management: Budget Trailer Bill

Creates the Voluntary Investment Program Fund within the State Treasury in which local governments can voluntarily deposit moneys to be used by the state for cash flow purposes.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2012

SB 1038 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) General government: Budget Trailer Bill

Provides the necessary statutory references to enact the 2012-13 Budget related to the consolidation, reorganization and restructuring of state entities. Restructures the mission and renames the Commission on the Status of Women (to the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls). Consolidates the Commission on Uniform State Laws within the Legislative Counsel Bureau. Consolidates the Fair Employment and Housing Commission within the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Eliminates the Electronic Funds Transfer Task Force. Eliminates the Electronic Funds Transfer Task Force. Transfers State Mediation and Conciliation Services to Public Employment Relations Board. Eliminates the Division of Labor Statistics and Research. Reduces the size of the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board from seven to five.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2012

SB 1039 (Steinberg-D) Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2: modification

Revises the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2. Specifically, changes the name of the Business and Consumer Services Agency to the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency; requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department of Transportation, and the California Transportation Commission to coordinate state housing and transportation policies and programs to help achieve state and regional planning priorities and to maximize co-benefits of infrastructure investments; and makes other technical changes.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 2012

SB 1044 (Liu-D) Libraries

Repeals the Library of California Act and makes the following revisions in order to streamline the administration of the state's public libraries: (1) requires, beginning 1/1/13, the California Library Services Board members to be those persons serving on the former Library of California Board as it existed on 12/31/12, as specified; (2) repeals statute requiring annual funding for library reference systems and statute authorizing library systems to apply to the state for funding for special service programs; and (3) eliminates the requirement for local libraries to have advisory boards, as specified.
Chapter 219, Statutes of 2012

SB 1065* (Kehoe-D) State claims

Appropriates $624,672 ($602,621 General Fund; $22,051 special funds) to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to pay 117 claims against the state as approved by the Board.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2012

SB 1110 (Rubio-D) Public records

Authorizes a state or local agency to charge a fee to cover the direct costs of duplication of a public record that may include personnel costs associated with that duplication. Authorizes a state or local agency to collect a deposit from an entity or individual requesting records prior to engaging in the collection of the records.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1112 (Liu-D) State mandates: procedure

Requires a local government test claimant, who puts a claim in for state mandate reimbursements, and the Department of Finance to submit the claim proposal to the Commission on State Mandates no later than 45 days before a commission hearing.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1147 (Liu-D) State mandates: procedure

Allows a statewide cost estimate of a state mandate program claim be extended up to four months.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1161 (Padilla-D) Governmental agencies: Internet Protocol

Prohibits any department, agency, commission or political subdivision of the state from enacting, adopting, or enforcing any law, rule, regulation, ordinance, standard, order, or other provision having the force of effect of law, that regulates Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol enabled service, unless required or delegated by federal law or expressly permitted by statute.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 2012

SB 1252 (Rubio-D) State Infrastructure Projects Fund

Requires the Department of Finance (DOF), in consultation with the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) and Employment Development Department (EDD), to estimate and report to the State Controller the amount of taxes raised by the State of California from the Facebook Initial Public Offering on or before 2/2/13. The Controller shall transfer that amount from the General Fund to the State Infrastructure Projects Fund (SIPF), created by the bill, by 3/1/13. DOF, in consultation with FTB and EDD, must then reconcile and report the final increase in gains to the Controller on or before 12/31/13, and the Controller must transfer the difference between the final increase and the estimated one to the SIPF on or before 1/31/14.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1266 (Corbett-D) State lands

Expands the scope of proposed state resource land acquisitions for which an independent appraisal and review is required, and specifies requirements for what must be included in an appraisal report.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2012

SB 1270 (De León-D) Little Hoover Commission

Prohibits a Little Hoover Commission member from serving on, or acting as chairperson of a committee, or voting on any matter where the Commissioner has a conflict of interest, as specified.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1297 (Blakeslee-R) State Capitol Park: memorial plaque

Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to plan and construct a memorial plaque in the State Capitol Park, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to honor California veterans who have fought and served in the War in Iraq.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)

SB 1327 (Cannella-R) State government: business information

Requires the Governor to create a one-stop-shop Internet Web site to provide individuals with essential information (e.g. permitting, licensing, and regulatory) for establishing a business in California.
Chapter 763, Statutes of 2012

SB 1336 (Yee-D) Improper governmental activities

Requires specified auditing entities to release any substantiated findings resulting from an investigative audit, including the name and title of the person found responsible for improper government activities.
(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1345 (Evans-D) State government: Commission on the Status of Women

Authorizes the members of the Commission on the Status of Women who are members of the Legislature to vote by proxy and requires the Commission to study additional topics.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1370 (Berryhill-R) Public works: prevailing wages

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

SB 1395 (Rubio-D) State Auditor

Renames the Bureau of State Audits as the California State Auditor's Office and the State Auditor as the California State Auditor.
Chapter 281, Statutes of 2012

SB 1408 (Blakeslee-R) Bar pilots

Revises working and training requirements for bar pilots for Monterey Bay and the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun.
Chapter 794, Statutes of 2012

SB 1427 (De León-D) State contracts: bidding procedures

Requires state agencies to provide a 5% bid preference for electronic goods contracts to bidders who fulfill the entire contract with refurbished electronics.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1453 (Fuller-R) Teleconferencing centers

Requires the California Technology Agency, or its successor entity, to establish on or before 7/1/14, and operate thereafter, eight two-way video teleconferencing centers strategically placed throughout the state to allow individuals who are required to attend adjudicative proceedings to observe, appear, and participate in those proceedings by video teleconferencing.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1504* (Kehoe-D) Claims and judgments against the state: interest

Specifies that interest on a claim approved by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for which funds are appropriated by the Legislature shall not begin to accrue until 180 days after the effective date of the chaptered appropriation. (Current law specifies 30 days.) Specifies that interest on a judgment or settlement against the state, as approved by the Department of Justice and the Department of Finance shall not begin to accrue until 180 days from the date of the final judgment or settlement. (There is no limit in current law.)
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2012

SB 1508 (Lowenthal-D) State funds

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 Institutions Committee)

SB 1510 (Wright-D) State contracts: bidder requirements

Tightens the bidder requirements for demonstrating that a small business, microbusiness or disabled veteran-owned business will serve a commercially useful function in carrying out a state contract. By meeting the commercially useful function requirements, a bidder may claim a bid preference on competitive state contract awards.
Chapter 421, Statutes of 2012

SB 1516 (Leno-D) Public contracts

Allows contractors bidding for state and local construction projects and requesting to use an "or equal" substitute to submit data substantiating its equality after a contract is awarded, unless otherwise specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 1554 (Correa-D) Governmental reorganization: tax functions

Abolishes the Franchise Tax Board and provides for the transfer of its powers and duties to the Board of Equalization.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
A similar bill was AB 77 (Gorell-R) which died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.

SB 1558* (Kehoe-D) Claims against the state: payment

Appropriates $2.6 million ($1.3 million General Fund (GF); $1.3 million Federal Trust Fund) to the Department of Justice to pay the settlement in Darling v. Douglas, U.S. District Court, Northern District, Case No. 4:09-cv-03798-SBA. Any funds appropriated in excess of the amount required for the payment of this claim shall revert to the GF.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2012

SB 1578 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) State Treasurer

Makes minor clarifying changes to outdated provisions of law relating to the State Treasurer's Office (STO) in order to modernize its business practices. Primarily, eliminates the provision of law which grants STO guards and messengers limited peace officer status.
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2012

SB 1580 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) State surplus property: armories

Authorizes the Department of General Services (DGS), with the Adjutant General's approval, to sell specified armory properties. Authorizes DGS to dispose of all or any portion of three specified parcels of state property and rescinds the surplus authorization of one specified property.
Chapter 798, Statutes of 2012

SCA 1 (Wyland-R) State Auditor: duties

Requires the State Auditor to biennially conduct a specified financial audit and performance evaluation of each state program, including the administration or oversight of that program by the department or agency that is responsible for the program, and submit a report of the results of that performance evaluation to the Legislature, as prescribed. Requires the committee that considers the budget in each house of the Legislature to meet and consider recommendations made in each financial audit and performance evaluation within 90 days of submission by the State Auditor. Requires the State Auditor to make each performance evaluation available to the public on an Internet Web site and in hardcopy format and requires the Legislature to appropriate to the Bureau of State Audits funds as necessary to implement these provisions.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SCA 7 (Yee-D) Public bodies: meetings

Requires that each public body shall provide public notice of its meetings and publicly disclose any action taken. Requires voter approval prior to enactment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SCR 2 (DeSaulnier-D) Constitutional Convention

Proposes that the people of the State of California vote at the next statewide general election on the question of whether to call a convention to revise the California Constitution.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 95 (Huber-D) which failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee.

SCR 3 (Price-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Designates that 1/17/11 be observed as the official memorial of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SR 23 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate and ACR 87 (Bradford-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SCR 4 (Price-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2011 as Black History Month, urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SR 24 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate and HR 22 (Mitchell-D) which was adopted by the Assembly.

SCR 11 (Corbett-D) Irish American Heritage Month

Designates March 2011 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to the country and state.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SCR 64 (Corbett-D), Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2012, and ACR 50 (Garrick-R), Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 2012.

SCR 27 (Correa-D) Black April Memorial Week

Declares the week of 4/23/11 through 4/30/11 as Black April Memorial Week.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012

SCR 59 (Correa-D) September 11, 2001 10th anniversary

Recognizes the 10th anniversary of the 9/11/01 attacks as a day of solemn commemoration.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SCR 64 (Corbett-D) Irish American Heritage Month

Designates March 2012 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to the country and state.
Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2012
Similar resolutions were SCR 11 (Corbett-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee and ACR 50 (Garrick-R), Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2012.

SCR 70 (Gaines-R) The National Day of the Cowboy and Cowgirl

Recognizes and designates the fourth Saturday of every July, in perpetuity, as the National Day of the Cowboy and Cowgirl, and encourages the people of the State of California to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Resolution Chapter 47, Statutes of 2012

SCR 87 (Anderson-R) People of faith

States that the Legislature affirms, among other things, that tolerance by the government toward people of faith is constitutionally guaranteed and necessary to allow an unimpeded flow of good that positively impacts and transforms lives.
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2012

SCR 92 (Fuller-R) Navy Week Sacramento

Recognizes the United States Navy for its contributions to California, its communities, and its citizens by proclaiming the week of July 16 to July 22, inclusive, as Navy Week Sacramento.
Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2012

SCR 94 (Wolk-D) California Plan Your Giving Day

Recognizes and supports the importance of gift planning by declaring 10/1/12 as California Plan Your Giving Day.
Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2012

SCR 95 (Gaines-R) International Olympic Day

Recognizes 6/23/12 as International Olympic Day and honors all of the dedicated Olympic athletes.
Resolution Chapter 64, Statutes of 2012

SCR 96 (Corbett-D) Philippine Independence Day

Recognizes 6/12/12 as the 114th Anniversary of Philippine Independence, and calls upon the people of the state to observe the month of June with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities.
Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 2012

SCR 98 (Lieu-D) United States Constitution

Commemorates the 225th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution on 9/17/12, and the contributions of historical, educational, and patriotic societies.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2012

SCR 104 (Wolk-D) 100-year anniversary of the Sikh American community

States that the Legislature recognizes 10/13/12 as the 100-year anniversary of the Sikh American community.
Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2012

SR 23 (Price-D) Martin Luther King Day

Designates that 1/16/12, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
Adopted by the Senate
Similar resolutions were SCR 3 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee and ACR 87 (Bradford-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SR 24 (Price-D) Black History Month

Proclaims February 2012 as Black History Month, urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
Adopted by the Senate
A similar resolution was SCR 4 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

SR 28 (Alquist-D) Greek Independence Day

Designates 3/25/12 as Greek Independence Day.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 29 (Blakeslee-R) Islamic Republic of Iran

Urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to uphold specified civil and human rights and recognizes the month of June 2012 as 30 Days of Solidarity with the Human Rights Movements in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 31 (Price-D) Africa Day 2012

Recognizes 5/25/12 as Africa Day 2012 to celebrate the African Diaspora and to reinforce our economic relationship with the continent of Africa.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 34 (Leno-D) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month

Proclaims June 2012 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
Adopted by the Senate
A similar resolution was HR 29 (Gordon-D) which was adopted by the Assembly.

SR 35 (De León-D) Mayan Culture Day

Recognizes 8/12/12 as Mayan Culture Day.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 36 (Kehoe-D) Harvey Milk: naming of a naval ship

Urges the Department of the Navy to name the next appropriate ship after Harvey Milk as this will be a fitting tribute to Harvey Milk's support for equality, an ideal exemplified in the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Adopted in the Senate

AB 35 (Solorio-D) State property: 32nd District Agricultural Association

Authorizes the Board of Directors of the Orange County Fair to enter into a revenue-sharing plan related to real and personal property assets owned by the 32nd District Agricultural Association if the plan generates over $100 million, as specified.
(Died in Senate Agriculture Committee)

AB 49* (Gatto-D) Office of Permit Assistance

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 77 (Gorell-R) Governmental reorganization: tax functions

Abolishes the Franchise Tax Board, and provides for the transfer of its powers and duties to the Board of Equalization (BOE), effective 1/1/13. Provides for the transfer of the tax administrative functions performed by the Employment Development Department (EDD) and the Department of Insurance (CDI) to the BOE, effective 1/1/13. Requires the BOE to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before 6/30/12, regarding the BOE's assumption of the duties of the Franchise Tax Board and the assumption of the tax administration functions of the EDD and the CDI, as specified. Repeals this reporting requirement on 6/30/16.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1554 (Correa-D) which died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.

AB 103 (Assembly Budget Committee) State cash resources

Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of cash management and cash deferrals in order to ensure sufficient cash reserves during the 2012-13 fiscal year.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2012

AB 150 (Perea-D) State contracts: small businesses

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 229* (Lara-D) State Auditor enforcement program: teacher credentialing

Requires the State Auditor to appoint an enforcement program monitor to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating the Division of Professional Practices within the Commission.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 233 (Hall-D) YMCA Youth and Government Fund

Authorizes the addition of the California YMCA Youth and Government Fund (Fund) checkoff to the personal income tax (PIT) form upon the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the form or as soon as space is available. Provides that the PIT form instructions shall inform taxpayers that contributions to the Fund shall be used to support civic education programs operated by the YMCA Youth and Government Program, the African American Leaders for Tomorrow Program, the Asian Pacific Youth Leadership Project, and the Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project.
Chapter 228, Statutes of 2012

AB 235 (Halderman-R) Public records: clemency records

Prohibits the Governor from imposing any restriction whatsoever on public access to writings relating to applications for clemency or extradition. Requires the Governor, prior to making any materials relating to an application for clemency public, to redact the home address, telephone number, and e-mail address of a victim of crime, or a family member of a victim of crime, from the materials.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 297 (Galgiani-D) Public contracts: veterans preference

Allows a bid preference, as provided, to a bidder of a public works contract if that bidder utilizes the Center for Military Recruitment, Assessment, and Veterans Employment's Helmets to Hardhats program, as specified. Requires that the bidder and each listed subcontractor submit a certified statement, as specified, and imposes a civil penalty, as provided, for knowingly providing false information in that statement. Makes various legislative findings and declarations.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 305 (Furutani-D) Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act

Revises the State Personnel Board's reporting requirements to the Legislature pertaining to the use of foreign languages in state agencies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 342 (Atkins-D) Office of Planning and Research

Designates the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to serve as the state liaison with the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and requires OPR to perform specified duties in this capacity, including coordinating issues of significant interest to the DOD and the state, particularly with regard to any proposed federal base realignment and closure actions.
Chapter 395, Statutes of 2012

AB 371 (Butler-D) State motor vehicle fleet

Requires the Department of General Services to ensure that all alternative fuel vehicles available for sale in California are listed on the Statewide Commodity Contracts list and to enter into public-private partnerships with alternative fuel providers to develop infrastructure to meet the needs of state government and local agency fleets.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

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

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

AB 442 (Silva-R) Public lands: lease

Prohibits the State Lands Commission from charging rent for a cantilevered deck extending over state waterways for the use of a littoral landowner.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 457 (Wagner-R) Public works contracts: relief for bidders

Entitles a bidder who successfully challenges a public works award determined to be invalid to receive compensation for incurred costs and attorney's fees.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 495 (Logue-R) State property: Harts Mill Forest Fire Station: transfer

Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services to transfer state property, known as the Harts Mill Forest Fire Station (old), to the County of Butte, as prescribed. If the property is transferred, requires the County of Butte to use maintain the property in perpetuity for parks and open-space purposes.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 544 (Hayashi-D) State surplus personal property: centralized sale

Requires the Department of General Services to establish a program to centralize the sale of state surplus personal property using the best available technology, including, but not limited to, the Internet. Requires the Department to impose an additional charge on each item of state surplus personal property that is sold to recover its costs in establishing the program.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 682 (Hayashi-D) State property: inventory

Requires the Department of General Services to update, by January 1 of each year, a complete and accurate inventory of all real property held by the state.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 727 (Mitchell-D) Public contracts: healthy and sustainable food

Requires, beginning 1/1/14, at least 50% of food and beverages offered by a vendor in a vending machine on state property to meet accepted nutritional guidelines. Revises the definition of acceptable nutritional guidelines for this purpose, increasing from 35% to 50% of food, and 50% of beverages, that must meet these guidelines. Requires, beginning 1/1/14, or upon expiration of an existing contract, whichever occurs later, any food sold in a state-owned or state-leased building to meet the standard criteria for food and nutritional guidelines for concessions as determined by federal guidelines. Requires the Department of General Services when approving contracts for the purchase of food sold in state-owned or state-leased buildings to give preference to items that are grown, packaged or produced in California or that meet sustainability standards and shall not include contract provisions that provide disincentives to these items.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 731 (Jeffries-R) State assistance for firefighting

Appropriates annually $1,030,000 of revenue currently received by the state from specified tax and fee revenue sources for firefighting and emergency response purposes, including, but not limited to, the purchase of firefighting and rescue vehicles and equipment.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 737 (Buchanan-D) Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2

Recreates, if the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 2012 is enacted, the Boating and Waterways Commission within the Natural Resources Agency, and adds that an "interest in boating and waterways matters" shall be considered amongst other factors in selecting members for the Parks and Recreation Commission.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2012

AB 744 (John A. Pérez-D) State Government: Intellectual Property

Requires the Department of General Services to identify and provide policy guidance for state agency management of intellectual property developed by state employees or with state funds.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2012

AB 780 (Charles Calderon-D) Public contracts: fixed price contracts: sales and use taxes

Exempts fixed price contracts with government entities from any future increase or decrease in sales and use tax rates.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 785 (Mendoza-D) Public officers: Political Reform Act of 1974

Provides that a public official who is an elected or appointed member of a state or local government agency has a financial interest in a decision of that agency if an immediate family member of the public official has a financial interest in the decision. In addition, ascribes a financial interest to an immediate family member (1) who is acting as an agent for, or otherwise representing, any other person by making a formal or informal appearance before, or by making an oral or written communication to, the state or local government agency, or an officer or employee thereof, for the purpose of influencing the decision or (2) who is a director, officer, or partner of a business entity on which it is reasonably foreseeable that the decision will have a material financial effect. Defines "immediate family member" to mean a public official's spouse or domestic partner, child, parent, sibling, or the spouse or domestic partner of a child, parent, or sibling.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 800 (Huber-D) Boards and commissions: time reporting

Requires appointed state board and commission members who receive a salary to submit quarterly reports to the chair of the board that details their time worked.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 850 (Gordon-D) State buildings: energy efficiency

Reverses the roles played by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the Department of General Services (DGS) in developing the state's multi-year plan to encourage energy efficiency in state facilities. Places the CEC in charge of developing the plan and requires it to do so in consultation with DGS. Adds water conservation to the plan's goals and requires the CEC to solicit input from both public and private entities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 893 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) California infrastructure and Development Bank

Requires the California Infrastructure and 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 942 (Huber-D) General Fund: fines

Requires, notwithstanding any other law, that any fine or penalty imposed by the Department of Pesticide Regulation, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Air Resources Board, or the State Water Resources Control Board for a violation of a regulation adopted by that state agency be deposited into the General Fund. Makes a statement of findings.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 968 (Chesbro-D) California Indian tribes

Establishes the position of Tribal Advisor in the Governor's Office.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 987 (Grove-R) Public works

Modifies the law covering public work employment and prevailing wages.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
A similar bill was SB 727 (Berryhill-R) which failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee.

AB 988 (Grove-R) Public works

Modifies the law relating to public work contracts and prevailing wages.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
A similar bill was SB 725 (Berryhill-R) which failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee.

AB 991 (Olsen-R) State government: Licensing and Permit Center Web site

Requires the Governor to create the California Licensing and Permit Center Internet Web site.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1019 (Buchanan-D) Governor's Recognition Plan 2: modification

Revises the Governor's Recognition Plan 2 by maintaining the Delta Stewardship Council as an independent body and recasting the original statutory relationships among the California Science Center, the California African American Museum, and the Office of Exposition Park Management.
Chapter 137, Statutes of 2012

AB 1051 (Feuer-D) State government

Modifies the definition of officer to include secretary as it pertains to bringing suit on behalf of the state against certain taxpayers to collect certain licensing fees, taxes and charges owed to the state.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1052 (Garrick-R) State property: surplus

Authorizes a property transfer between the state and the City of Carlsbad in San Diego County.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1131 (Lara-D) Department of General Services: telecommunications

Revises provisions relating to the identification and leasing of state property for wireless telecommunications facilities. Requires the Department of General Services to report by 1/31/12 on the number of wireless telecommunications lease agreements entered into with providers of wireless telecommunications services. Requires that the report include the number of leases, revenue generated, and money deposited in the Digital Divide Account.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1157 (Nielsen-R) Public entity liability: payment of claims

Requires the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to provide notice to the chairpersons of the committees in each house of the Legislature that consider appropriations and the annual Budget Act, and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, within a specified period of time prior to allowing either the use of a current year appropriation to pay claims for prior year costs of $500,000 or more, or claims from a single provider of goods or services with respect to a single department that exceed $500,000 within one year.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1204 (Dickinson-D) California Exposition and State Fair Authority

Expands the authority of the State Fair Leasing Authority by shifting the California Exposition and State Fair in its entirety from the state to the Authority.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1227 (Huber-D) Committees and commissions: repeal

Abolishes the Credit Union Advisory Committee and the Boating and Waters Commission.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1233* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) State government: economic development

Requires the Director of the Governor's Business and Economic Development to prepare a five-year economic and workforce development strategy.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1275 (Torres-D) California Public Records Act: 911 telephone calls

Prohibits a state or local agency from disclosing any portion of a 911 emergency telephone call providing medical or personal identifying information. Requires a public agency to disclose a recording of a 911 emergency telephone call to certain individuals under specified conditions.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1387 (Solorio-D) California Cultural and Historical Endowment

Appropriates $100,000 (Proposition 40 bonds funds) to the California Cultural and Historical Endowment in the 2012-13 fiscal year.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1431 (Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee) Government reports

Deletes specified, obsolete mandated reports from statute and from the Legislative Counsel list of mandated reports, including 18 reports from statute and 137 reports from the Legislative Counsel list.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill was SB 71 (Leno-D), Chapter 728, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1433 (Fuentes-D) Public officials' pension benefits: felony conviction

Requires a public officer, as defined, who is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, tampering with a witness, money laundering, the preparation of false documents, any felony arising directly out of his/her official duties, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of his/her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under any public retirement system in which he/she is a member, effective on the date of conviction. Requires any contributions made by that public officer to the public retirement system to be returned to the public officer without interest. Prohibits these provisions from being construed to abrogate the rights of an innocent spouse or dependent who was not involved in the commission of any criminal activity to pension or other benefits.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1458 (Buchanan-D) Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2: transportation

Revises the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 2012 by retaining the California Transportation Commission's status as an independent entity.
Chapter 138, Statutes of 2012

AB 1487 (Assembly Budget Committee) State government: state funds: Budget Trailer Bill

Clarifies and expands the requirements for financial reporting regarding state funds and requires certain financial control actions by the State Controller's Office and the Department of Finance.
Chapter 343, Statutes of 2012

AB 1498 (Buchanan-D) Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2: state technology

Modifies the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 2012 so that the Director of the Department of Technology reports directly to the Governor on issues relating to information technology. Declares the intent of the Legislature that a plan for transitioning information technology procurement authority from the Department of General Services to the Department of Technology be developed by the Administration.
Chapter 139, Statutes of 2012

AB 1507 (Mendoza-D) Public contracts

Provides, that contracting requirements that state entities have with the Prison Industry Authority shall not restrict state agencies from entering into contracts or purchase orders of $25,000 or less with California certified small businesses, microbusinesses, or disabled veteran business enterprises for products provided at a lower price than the price available from the Prison Industry Authority.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

AB 1515 (Torres-D) State surplus property: City of Pomona

Authorizes the City of Pomona to convey to the Consolidated Fire Protection District of the County of Los Angeles a portion of former state surplus property, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1517 (Buchanan-D) Public contracts

Deletes the 7/1/13 sunset date on provisions authorizing the Department of General Services, in lieu of requiring a performance bond on information technology contracts and requiring the withholding of at least 10% on information technology progress payments, to apply lesser withholding levels, as specified, based on the evaluation of risk.
Chapter 187, Statutes of 2012

AB 1531* (Fuentes-D) State claims

Appropriates $859,738 ($794,911 General Fund; $64,825 special funds) to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for payment of claims (273) all of which are stale-dated warrants - state checks that were lost or expired and never cashed.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2012

AB 1538 (Cook-R) State agencies: recovery audits

Authorizes the State Controller to contract with consultants to provide semiannual recovery audits of state agencies with expenditures exceeding $50 million in a fiscal year, unless excepted by regulation. Authorizes reasonable payment to consultants, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1543 (Alejo-D) Public contracts: Buy American

Applies a Buy American requirement to public contracts let for the purchase or lease of any manufactured tangible personal property or for any materials or structural components to be incorporated into real property, and provides for specified exceptions, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1549* (Gatto-D) Development: expedited permit review

Re-establishes 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 1558 (Eng-D) Public liability: immunity

Grants qualified immunity to public entities that operate flood control and water recharge facilities.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2012

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

Defines "installation," for purposes of the law applicable to the payment of prevailing wages on public works projects, to include the assembly/disassembly of freestanding and affixed modular office systems.
Chapter 810, Statutes of 2012

AB 1617 (Dickinson-D) State fiscal affairs

Requires the State Treasurer to ensure that at least 30% of the moneys invested in the time deposit program are invested in time deposits with community banks, as defined to mean a bank or savings institution in California with aggregate assets of less than $10 billion, and credit unions, subject to specified considerations and a reporting requirement and to the extent consistent with liquidity requirements and prudent management.
(Died in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

AB 1646 (Campos-D) State agencies: demonstration agreements

Requires the Office of Business and Economic Development to implement and administer the California Demonstration of Emerging Market Opportunities Act, which would allow state agencies to enter into demonstration agreements, as defined, with specified businesses and nonprofit organizations, as defined, to test, evaluate, or demonstrate innovative solutions pursuant to demonstration projects and pilot projects.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1652* (Olsen-R) California American Portuguese Veterans Memorial

Authorizes the construction and maintenance of a memorial in the existing All Veterans Memorial to honor California American Portuguese veterans.
Chapter 719, Statutes of 2012

AB 1659* (Butler-D) Arts Council Fund

Ensures that taxpayers can contribute to the Arts Council Fund.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 1776 (Fong-D) State government: Pacific leatherback sea turtle

Establishes the Pacific leatherback sea turtle as the official state marine reptile and designates 10/15/13, and every October 15th thereafter, as Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2012

AB 1783 (Perea-D) Public contracts: small business preferences

Requires the Department of General Services to publish on its 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 the Department.
Chapter 114, Statutes of 2012

AB 1791 (Buchanan-D) Public contracts: computer software

Requires the Department of General Services to add a provision to state contracts that requires a contractor to certify that it has appropriate systems and controls in place to ensure that its use of computer software complies with applicable copyright laws.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1833 (Knight-R) State lands: school lands revenues

Requires all net revenues, moneys, and remittances for the use of school lands and lieu lands, except as specified, to be deposited in the State School Fund and expended for the benefit of pupil instruction.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 1879 (Beth Gaines-R) State Architect: disability access

Requires the State Architect to prepare a report containing all federal and state disability access regulations and noting any state disability access regulations that are in direct conflict with federal disability access regulations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1914 (Garrick-R) State and local agencies: reports

Requires each state or local agency that is required to submit one or more reports to the Legislature to submit, by April 1 of each year, a list of all reports the agency has not yet submitted to the Legislature along with a status summary for each report, including a statement explaining why any overdue report has not yet been submitted and a compliance plan, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1960 (Dickinson-D) State contracts: reports

Requires the Department of General Services to include in the report on contracting activity information regarding the level of participation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender owned businesses in specified contracts, as provided.
Chapter 861, Statutes of 2012

AB 2022 (Wagner-R) Controller: financial information request

Requires a state agency to provide the State Controller with its budget or salary information, or both, if requested by the State Controller.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2030 (Olsen-R) State building standards: press boxes

Requires the Building Standards Commission to exempt certain press boxes in stadium bleachers from accessibility standards contained in current building standards.
Chapter 370, Statutes of 2012

AB 2042 (Huber-D) Bar pilots

Sunsets, as of 1/1/22, the Board of Pilot Commissioners and transfers, as of that date, the Board's duties to the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2181 (Galgiani-D) State government: prompt payment of claims

Includes, within the list of specified businesses and organizations, state-certified small businesses working on the development, design, and construction of California's high-speed rail system under the California High-Speed Rail Act.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 2012

AB 2185 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Public contracts: bonds

Authorizes the High-Speed Rail Authority to provide that, for projects with a contract price greater than $250 million, the payment bond be the lesser of one-half the contract price or $500 million.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2213 (Donnelly-R) Government reorganization

Establishes the Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Commission in state government with a specified membership. Beginning on 1/1/14, the State Controller, the Director of the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst, and the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy would be required to develop recommendations for the closure or realignment of state bureaucracies for consideration by the Commission.
(Failed passage in the Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)
A similar bill was SB 953 (Strickland-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 2226 (Hueso-D) State agency proceedings: evidence

Provides that the owner of a legal title is presumed to be the owner of the full beneficial title in proceedings before state agencies, cities, county, or city and counties.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2248 (Cook-R) State contracts: veterans' services

Requires the Department of General Services to establish criteria identifying state contracts for social services provided to veterans or their families, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2281 (Torres-D) State 911 Advisory Board

Adds two members selected by the Legislature to the State 911 Advisory Board. Requires the Board, upon request of a local public agency, to conduct a hearing on any conflict between a local public agency and the Public Safety Communications Division regarding that agency's 911 emergency telephone system and cost reimbursement decisions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2306 (Donnelly-R) State border security

Adds "border security" to the list of conditions that are named in the California Emergency Services Act that may be cited to support the proclamation of a state of emergency or local emergency.
(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2315 (Monning-D) Governor's appointments: Senate confirmation

Corrects a reference in exiting law related to appointments by the Governor subject to Senate confirmation to reflect the transfer of the Office of the Patient Advocate from the Department of Managed Health Care to the California Health and Human Services Agency.
Chapter 681, Statutes of 2012

AB 2326 (Wagner-R) Notary: execution of documents

Expands the type of notarized documents that require a party signing a document to place his/her fingerprint in the notary's journal to include all documents pertaining to real property.
Chapter 202, Statutes of 2012

AB 2328 (Olsen-R) State government: California Law Revision Commission

Eliminates the California Law Revision Commission.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2329 (Olsen-R) Capitol Historic Region: veterans memorials

Provides that contracts for the construction, enhancement, or design of any veterans' memorial, authorized by the Legislature, funded entirely through private donations, and located in the Capitol Historic Region, shall be exempt from the Public Contract Code.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2330 (Olsen-R) Commission on the Status of Women

Abolishes the Commission on the Status of Women.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2345 (Ma-D) Fairs: sustainability

Establishes the California Fair Network Commission as a separate, independent nonprofit mutual benefit corporation to assess the fairs fees for service and administrative oversight, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2353 (Knight-R) Public contracts

Requires the awarding authority of a contract, or its duly authorized officer, to give written notice within five working days of receiving notice from the prime contractor.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2358 (Hagman-R) State Capitol: Ronald Reagan statue

Authorizes the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation, in consultation with the Department of General Services (DGS), to plan a statue of Ronald Reagan in the State Capitol Building Annex. Requires DGS and the Foundation to approve the design and any other aspect of the statue.
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2012

AB 2380 (Huber-D) State government: agency repeals

Requires eligible agencies for which a repeal date has been established on or after 1/1/11, to submit a report to the Joint Sunset Review Committee on or before December 1, two years prior to the year the agency is set to be repealed.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

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 the use of a secure electronic delivery service, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2426 (Galgiani-D) Public contracts: veterans preference

Grants a 5% bid preference for state public works projects to contractors who hire veterans registered with the federal Helmets to Hardhats Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2442 (Williams-D) State property: California Hope Public Trust

Establishes the California Hope Public Trust to support the California State University, California Community colleges, and University of California systems to be governed and administered by the Department of General Services with input from a nine-member advisory board of the Trust.
Vetoed

AB 2445 (Dickinson-D) State Capitol

Expands the purview of the Historic State Capitol Commission to include the State Capitol Annex and extends the sunset on the Capitol Area Committee which administers the Capitol Area Plan by an additional five years.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2012

AB 2492 (Blumenfield-D) The False Claims Act

Expands the ability of the Attorney General and other government prosecutors to contest dismissal of false claims actions on the basis of public disclosure, consistent with federal law.
Chapter 647, Statutes of 2012

AB 2500 (Hueso-D) State government: California Investment Trust

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.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2501 (Garrick-R) State government

Requires, on or before 1/1/25, every state agency, as defined, to have its primary administrative office located within the Sacramento metropolitan area, and the Supreme Court to only hear cases in the Sacramento metropolitan area.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2506 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) State government

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. Requires that the staff of each board be employees solely of the California Travel and Tourism Commission.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2508 (Bonilla-D) Public contracts: public health agencies

Prohibits a state agency authorized to contract for public benefits programs from contracting for services provided by a call center that directly serves applicants for, recipients of, or enrollees in those programs, and that the work will be performed solely by workers employed in California.
Chapter 824, Statutes of 2012

AB 2583 (Blumenfield-D) State fleet: alternative fuel vehicles

Requires the Department of General Services (DGS) and the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to develop and implement advanced technology vehicle parking incentive programs in specified DGS- and Caltrans-operated parking facilities to incentivize the purchase and use of alternative fuel vehicles.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2012

AB 2588 (Butler-D) State surplus property: City of Torrance

Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services to sell or lease, as specified, land identified as Parcel 1, consisting of approximately 6.2 acres, in Torrance, California.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2630 (Hueso-D) Public contracts: State Contract Act: report

Requires the Department of General Services to include in the Consolidated Annual Report the list of activities that each state agency used to inform small businesses of each of the existing preferences available under state law, and the total number of preferences used in bidding packages by each state agency for the year.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2635 (Roger Hernández-D) Public contracts: construction services

Requires the Board of Equalization (BOE), and the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) to submit a new report to the Legislature and the Department of Finance, on or before December 1 of each calendar year on the tax effect of tax expenditures with an annual revenue loss of more than $5 million. Requires BOE and FTB to include the most recent data to characterize the economic, tax, and demographic profile of claimants of tax expenditures over $5 million, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protections Committee)

AB 2658 (Furutani-D) Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs

Repeals provisions of the Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs to submit a report to the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2672 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) State procurement omnibus bill

Increases communication between the Department of General Services and the Housing and Community Development Department for purposes of implementing the state's enterprise zone and Local Agency Military Base Realignment Areas programs. 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

AB 2690 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Government entities: tort claims

Replaces references to the California "Tort Claims Act" with references to the "Government Claims Act" throughout the codes, and adopts "Government Claims Act" as the short title for Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code. Double-jointed with AB 1736 (Smyth-D) and SB 1395 (Rubio-D), Chapter 281, Statutes of 2012.
Chapter 759, Statutes of 2012

ACA 5 (Portantino-D) State finance reform

Establishes a "pay-as-you-go" requirement for 10 years that all voter initiatives, statutes, bond issuances and bond sales costing more than $250,000 must provide additional state revenue to be enacted.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

ACA 14 (Silva-R) Governor: pardons and commutations

Prohibits the Governor from granting a pardon or commutation during the 30-day period immediately preceding the end of his/her term of office. Provides that any pardon or commutation issued in violation of these provisions is void.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACA 15 (Mansoor-R) Governor: pardons and commutations

Requires the Governor, at least 30 days prior to granting a pardon or commutation, to provide written notice of the pardon or commutation to the agency that prosecuted the case in which the person was convicted, and to each victim of the crime(s) for which that person was convicted. Provides that any pardon or commutation issued in violation of these provisions is void.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACA 17 (Logue-R) State-mandated local programs

Applies the existing requirement that the Legislature either appropriate the full payable amount of a mandate or suspend the mandate only through the 2011-12 fiscal year. Prohibits the Legislature or a state agency from mandating a new program or higher level of service on any local government, except as specified, unless the local government is reimbursed for the costs of that new program or higher level of service. Provides that if, on or after 7/1/12, the Legislature adopts a statute that mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, the mandate would not become operative until the operative date of an appropriation of funds to reimburse all affected local governments for the costs of the new program or higher level of service for the remainder of the fiscal year in which the mandate becomes operative. Imposes parallel requirements with regard to a regulation mandating a new program or higher level of service. Adds, as an additional exemption from the mandates for which the Legislature is required to appropriate funds, a mandate for which the governing body of the local government has statutory authority to impose a fee, assessment, or other charge that pays for the costs of the program or increased level of service and that is paid to the local government by the person or entity that is subject to, is regulated by, or otherwise benefits from, the new program or higher level of service. Authorizes a local government to file an action in superior court to challenge the adequacy of the actions taken by the Legislature to reimburse local governments if the Legislature or a state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service. Requires the superior court to include, within an order upholding a challenge brought by the local government, an order identifying the amount the court determines is reasonably necessary to reimburse the local government for the costs of the new program or higher level of service.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

ACR 3 (Hayashi-D) Korean-American Day

Proclaims 1/13/11 as Korean-American Day.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
A similar resolution was ACR 90 (Hayashi-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 5 (Davis-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Designates Monday, 1/17/11, be observed as the official memorial of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth. Commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America, and encourages and recognizes the value of community service and volunteerism.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SCR 3 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and SR 23 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate.

ACR 19 (Davis-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2011 as Black History Month, urges all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SCR 4 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and SR 4 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate.

ACR 30 (Mendoza-D) Read Across America Day

Recognizes 3/2/12 as Read Across America Day.
Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 2012

ACR 50 (Garrick-R) Irish American Heritage Month

Designates March 2012 as Irish American Heritage Month in California, and calls upon the people of the state to observe Irish American Heritage Month with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities.
Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2012
Similar resolutions were SCR 64 (Corbett-D), Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2012, and SCR 11 (Corbett-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 65 (Portantino-D) Foreign relations: Israel

Urges all parties to the conflict in Israel to negotiate a peace treaty that recognizes Israel's right to exist within safe and secure borders and urges local governments in California to establish beneficial relationships with Israel and those who support it.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

ACR 73 (Alejo-D) César Chávez

Calls upon all Californians to observe Cesar Chavez's birthday, March 31, as a day of public service, to recognize the hard work and self-sacrifice that farmworkers go through to feed all the families in our state, and to learn from Cesar Chavez's life and his mission of nonviolence, social justice, and selfless service to others.
Resolution Chapter 13, Statutes of 2012

ACR 85 (Mendoza-D) India Republic Day

Proclaims 1/26/12 as India Republic Day, and urges all Californians to join in celebrating India Republic Day.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

ACR 87 (Bradford-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Designates that 1/16/12 be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SCA 3 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and SR 23 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate.

ACR 88 (Mendoza-D) Cinco de Mayo Week

Proclaims 5/1/12 through 5/7/12 as Cinco de Mayo Week, and urges all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 146 (Lara-D), Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2012

ACR 89 (Ammiano-D) Lunar New Year Celebration

Recognizes the Lunar New Year Celebration.
Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2012

ACR 90 (Hayashi-D) Korean-American Day

Proclaims 1/13/12 as Korean-American Day.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 3 (Hayashi-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 93 (Garrick-R) Ronald Reagan Day

Declares 2/6/12 as Ronald Reagan Day.
Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2012

ACR 94 (Morrell-R) Boy Scouts of America

Congratulates the Boy Scouts of America on its 102nd anniversary, and acknowledges and recognizes its accomplishments and the positive effect that it has had on the lives of youth.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 128 (Feuer-D) which died on the Assembly Inactive File.

ACR 95 (Huber-D) Constitutional convention

Proposes that the electors of the state vote at the next statewide general election on the question of whether to call a convention for the purpose of revising the California Constitution.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
A similar resolution was SCR 2 (DeSaulnier-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

ACR 96 (Fuentes-D) California Day of Remembrance for the Massacres of Armenians

Designates 2/27/12 as California Day of Remembrance for the Massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Kirovabad, and Baku, and calls upon the people of California to use vigilance to promote greater tolerance in Azerbaijan and ensure the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict while protecting the security of the Armenians in the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 97 (Perea-D) Sikh American Awareness and Appreciation Month

Designates November 2012 as California Sikh American Awareness and Appreciation Month. Recognizes and acknowledges the significant contributions made by Californians of Sikh heritage to the state and affords all Californians the opportunity to understand, recognize, and appreciate the rich history and shared principles of Sikh Americans.
Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2012

ACR 98 (Wagner-R) California Law Revision Commission: studies

Grants approval to the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC) to continue its study of designated topics that the Legislature previously authorized or directed the CLRC to study, and also authorizes the CLRC to study two new topics, and authorizes the removal of one topic from the calendar of the CLRC.
Resolution Chapter 108, Statutes of 2012

ACR 104 (John A. Pérez-D) Day of Remembrance

Declares 2/19/12 as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012

ACR 108 (Wieckowski-D) Girl Scouts

Resolves that the Legislature is proud to join the Girl Scouts of the USA in recognizing their 100th anniversary.
Resolution Chapter 5, Statutes of 2012

ACR 115 (Wieckowski-D) India's Independence Day

Proclaims 8/15/12 as India's Independence Day, and urges all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2012

ACR 116 (Harkey-R) Sea Scouts Centennial

Congratulates and salutes the Sea Scouts on their Centennial for providing leadership and positive opportunities for America's youth.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 127 (Feuer-D) which died in Assembly Judiciary Committee.

ACR 127 (Feuer-D) Sea Scouts Centennial

Congratulates and salutes the Sea Scouts on their Centennial for providing leadership and positive opportunities for America's youth, and encourages the Boy Scouts of America, and therefore the Sea Scouts, to accept for membership and leadership positions all qualified youth and adults, without discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or religious belief.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 116 (Harkey-R) which died in Assembly Judiciary Committee.

ACR 128 (Feuer-D) Boy Scouts of America

Recognizes, congratulates, and commends the Boy Scouts of America on its 102nd anniversary, and encourages the Boy Scouts of America to accept for membership and leadership positions qualified boys and men without discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or religious belief.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
A similar resolution was ACR 94 (Morrell-R) which failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee.

ACR 133 (Pan-D) Taiwanese American Heritage Week

Proclaims that the Legislature joins Taiwanese communities throughout the state in celebrating Taiwanese American Heritage Week.
Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2012

ACR 138 (Solorio-D) Vietnamese American history

Recognizes 4/23/12 to 4/30/12, inclusive, as Black April Memorial Week, and April 2012 as Vietnamese American month.
Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2012

ACR 141 (Butler-D) California Holocaust Memorial Week

Proclaims 4/15/12 through 4/22/12 as California Holocaust Memorial Week, and urges Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 143 (Cook-R) Relative to the American flag

Recognizes National Flag Day on 6/14/12, honors the 52nd anniversary of the flying of the current American flag, and encourages all Californians to celebrate the occasion with appropriate activities.
Resolution Chapter 78, Statutes of 2012

ACR 146 (Lara-D) Cinco de Mayo Week

Proclaims 5/1/12 through 5/7/12 as Cinco de Mayo Week and urges all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2012
A similar resolution was ACR 88 (Mendoza-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 149 (Pan-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Recognizes May 2012 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.
Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2012

ACR 151 (Grove-R) California Prayer Breakfast

Recognizes that the California Prayer Breakfast is commemorating and celebrating its 51st year of existence at the State Capitol in 2012 with the California Prayer Breakfast being held on 5/10/12 at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

ACR 158 (John A. Pérez-D) United States Constitution

Commemorates the 225th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States, and commends the contributions made by members of patriotic organizations in promoting patriotism and the values embodied in the Constitution of the U.S.
Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2012

ACR 160 (Carter-D) Kwanzaa

Recognizes the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaims December 26 through January 1, each year, as Kwanzaa Week.
Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2012

AJR 2 (Portantino-D) Armenian Genocide: Day of Remembrance

Designates 4/24/11 as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923;" commends educators who teach about human rights and genocide; memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to act likewise to recognize and reaffirm that the atrocities committed against the Armenian people constituted genocide; and calls upon the Republic of Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and work toward a just resolution.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 22 (Mitchell-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2012 as Black History Month, urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourages Californians to recognize the talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
Adopted by the Assembly
Similar resolutions were SCR 4 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and SR 24 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate.

HR 27 (Achadjian-R) Armenian genocide and human rights

Designates the week of 4/18/12 to 4/24/12 as California Week of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-23.
Adopted by the Assembly
Similar resolutions were ACR 96 (Fuentes-D) and AJR 2 (Portantino-D) which both died in Assembly Rules Committee.

HR 29 (Gordon-D) Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month

Proclaims June 2012 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month; urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of LGBT people; and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for LGBT people.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 30 (Williams-D) International Surf Day

Recognizes 6/20/12 as International Surf Day in the state.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 32 (Morrell-R) Fourth of July

Recognizes and celebrates the fourth of July and the 236th anniversary of the birth of our nation and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 38 (Hagman-R) Freedom of speech

Declares that the California Assembly condemns all forms of intolerance of religious beliefs and recognizes that the First Amendment protects freedoms of speech and religion from government persecution.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

HR 40 (Bonilla-D) Women in sports

Commemorates the 40th anniversary of Title IX, commends the movement toward increased equality and fair treatment of female athletes, and praises the goals of greater opportunities in sports for girls and young women in California.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 41 (Atkins-D) Harvey Milk

Urges the Postmaster General of the United States to issue a commemorative stamp honoring Harvey Milk and his work in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement for civil rights and equality.
Adopted by the Assembly

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SB 1 (Kehoe-D) Del Mar Race Track: State Race Track Leasing Commission

Deletes the 1/1/13 sunset date of the State Race Track Leasing Commission which oversees leases and other agreements for the use of the Del Mar Race Track located on the grounds of the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2012

SB 31 (Correa-D) Postgovernment: employment restrictions

Extends, to include all public officials appointed to serve as members of local governing boards or commissions with decision-making authority, the post-government employment prohibition, which currently restricts, for a period of one year, a local elected official, chief administrative officer of a county, city manager, or general manager or chief administrator of a special district, who leaves that office or employment, from representing for compensation any other person or entity by appearing before, or communicating with, the local government agency of which the official was a member, for the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action. Provides that the one year post-government employment prohibition does not apply to an individual who is a member of a local board or commission that is solely advisory.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 49 (Strickland-R) Local government: emergency response: fees

Provides that a city, including a charter city, county, district, municipal corporation or public authority shall not, except as otherwise authorized by law, charge a fee to any person, regardless of residency, for the expense of an emergency response.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 58 (Runner-R) Antelope Valley Fairgrounds EE and PV Synergy Demonstration

Extends for one year, until 1/1/18, the sunset of the program that requires the Public Utilities Commission to approve a special rate for electrical service offered to the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds EE (energy efficient) and PV (photovoltaic) Synergy Demonstration Project.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 156 (Emmerson-R) Professional sports teams/facilities: environmental quality

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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 171* (Wolk-D) Cordelia Fire Protection: property tax revenue allocations

Reduces future property tax revenue shifts from the Cordelia Fire Protection District to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in Solano County.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 184 (Leno-D) Land use: zoning regulations

Authorizes a county or city under the Planning and Zoning Law to establish inclusionary housing requirements as a condition of development which may require the provision of affordable residential units for low, very low, or extremely low income owners or tenants. Declares the intent of the Legislature to supersede any holding or dicta in Palmer v. City of Los Angeles that conflicts with this authority.
(Died on Senate Floor)

SB 186 (Kehoe-D) Local government: State Controller: authority

Expands, until 1/1/17, the State Controller's authority to perform audits or investigations of counties, cities, special districts, joint powers authorities, and redevelopment agencies, if the State Controller has reason to believe, supported by documentation, that a local government is violating specified financial requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 191* (Senate Governance And Finance Committee) Validations

Enacts the First Validating Act of 2011 which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state government, counties, cities, special districts, and school districts, among other public bodies.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 192 (Senate Governance And Finance Committee) Validations

Enacts the Validating Act of 2012 which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state government, counties, cities, special districts, school districts, and redevelopment agencies, among other public bodies.
Chapter 265, Statutes of 2012

SB 204 (Liu-D) Los Angeles County: State Route 710

Provides for a local alternative transportation improvement program for the State Route 710 study area in Los Angeles County.
Vetoed

SB 214 (Wolk-D) Infrastructure financing districts: voter approval: repeal

Eliminates the requirement of voter approval to create an infrastructure financing district (IFD) and revises the provisions governing the public facilities that may be financed by an IFD.
Vetoed

SB 286 (Wright-D) Redevelopment

Imposes new requirements on redevelopment agencies with respect to implementation plans and evidentiary standards and expands existing prohibitions on agency direct assistance to certain projects.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 298 (De León-D) Los Angeles County Board of Education: charter schools

Extends, until 6/30/18, the authorization for the Los Angeles County Board of Education to charter the Soledad Enrichment Action Charter School.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2012

SB 304 (Kehoe-D) San Diego County: elections: all-mailed ballot elections

Authorizes elections in San Diego County to be conducted wholly by mail until 1/1/16, if specified conditions are satisfied. If San Diego County conducts an all-mailed ballot election, requires the County, on or before 12/31/16, to report to the Legislature and to the Secretary of State regarding the success of the election, as specified.
(Died in Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 314* (Vargas-D) City of San Diego: redevelopment agency: property taxation

Revises the scope of the property tax "welfare exemption" to include property that is located within the former Naval Training Center in San Diego and is used exclusively for charitable purposes, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 329 (Correa-D) County penalties: forensic laboratories

Requires, for the purposes of providing supplemental funding for the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, as specified, an additional penalty to be levied in an unspecified amount in each county for the late payment of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed by the courts for any violation of the Vehicle Code, or a local ordinance adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code, that is committed by the driver of a vehicle while it is in motion.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 340* (Wolk-D) Local government: remote caller bingo

Eliminates the state licensing requirements for organizations who wish to conduct remote caller bingo games. Permits a city, county, or city and county to amend an existing local ordinance that allows bingo games to be conducted, by resolution, to permit the conduct of remote caller bingo games pursuant to that ordinance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 383 (Wolk-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 383* (Wolk-D) Local government: remote caller bingo

Deletes all state Gambling Control Commission oversight and licensure requirements for remote caller bingo, and instead requires an organization that is eligible to conduct remote caller bingo games, or a management company contracted by a licensed organization to conduct remote caller bingo on behalf of a nonprofit organization, to register with the Commission.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 340 (Wolk-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 388* (Gaines-R) Redevelopment: Emergency Refunding Bonds

Authorizes a redevelopment agency to issue Emergency Refunding Bonds if issuance is the only means available to the agency to avoid a default on lines of credit obtained from a financial institution.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 402 (Vargas-D) Imperial County: advertising

Provides an exemption from the regulations of the Outdoor Advertising Act for an advertising display located within 1,800 feet of the intersection of State Highway Routes 8 and 111 in the County of Imperial if certain conditions are satisfied.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 415 (Price-D) County transportation commission

Grants permission to the California Transportation Commission to relinquish to a county transportation commission, or to a regional transportation planning agency, park-and-ride lots within their respective jurisdictions.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2012

SB 437 (Correa-D) Orange County Transportation Authority

Limits the terms of certain city members of the Orange County Transportation Authority board of directors. Restricts the "city member" appointed on the basis of one city, one vote to two consecutive terms.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

SB 446 (Dutton-R) Ontario International Airport

Establishes the Ontario International Airport Authority with a seven-member board of directors, four of whom are appointed by the City of Ontario and three of whom are appointed by the County of San Bernardino. The term of office is three years and the terms are staggered.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 449 (Pavley-D) Local agency financial review: State Controller

Authorizes the State Controller, if sufficient funds are available, to review the finances of cities, counties, special districts, and redevelopment agencies, and allows the State Controller to convene a local agency financial review committee to provide assistance to local agencies that seek help in averting or managing a financial problem.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 475 (Wright-D) Local agencies: open meetings: teleconference

Permits local health authorities to establish a quorum via teleconference under the state's open meeting laws if at least 50% of the board members constituting the quorum are physically present within the boundaries of the jurisdiction. Sunsets on 1/1/18.
Chapter 209, Statutes of 2012

SB 477 (Wright-D) Wiseburn Unified School District

Addresses issues of bonded indebtedness, debt capacity, and the establishment of a revenue limit related to the creation of the Wiseburn Unified School District in the unincorporated areas of Del Aire and Wiseburn in Los Angeles County. Provides that, when Wiseburn Unified is formed, any tax for repayment of voter-approved bonds of the Centinela Valley Union High School District (Centinela) approved on or before 1/1/12, shall be levied on (1) all taxable property located within Centinela as the district exists following the effective date of the reorganization; and (2) all taxable property located within Wiseburn Unified that was formerly part of the territory of Centinela.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2012

SB 499* (Huff-R) Redevelopment: tax increment calculations

Requires that calculations of a redevelopment agency's payments calculated on property tax increment revenues must be based on the lesser of either: (1) the property tax increment revenues allocated and paid to the agency, or (2) the amount of taxes actually received by the agency pursuant to limits in the redevelopment plan.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 501 (Harman-R) Newport Beach: tidelands and submerged lands

Revises exiting law that grants to the City of Newport Beach the right, title, and interest of the State of California in and to certain tidelands and submerged lands in trust for specified purposes to authorize the City to lease those certain lots for those specified purposes for terms not to exceed 50 years, or until 1/1/60, whichever comes later.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 504 (Hernandez-D) Local agency: bonds

Requires the governing board of a school district or community college district that issued bond anticipation notes payable from ad valorem taxes to transmit the authorizing resolution and debt service schedule to the county auditor and county treasurer. Authorizes a city, county, city and county, and a special district to sell their bonds at a private sale.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 533* (Wright-D) Inglewood Unified School District

Appropriates $29 million for an emergency loan to the Inglewood Unified School District and authorizes an additional $26 million of lease financing through the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank.
Chapter 325, Statutes of 2012

SB 552 (Huff-R) Local government: Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act

Prohibits anyone from offering a voter or landowner consideration to file a protest, withdraw a protest, or forgo the filing of a protest in a proceeding to form a community facilities district. Prohibits a voter or landowner from accepting or receiving consideration to file a protest, withdraw a protest, or forgo the filing of a protest.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 561 (Corbett-D) Alameda/Los Angeles Counties: internet crimes

Requires the Alameda County District Attorney's Office and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to collect and report statistical data relating to crimes involving or furthered by the gathering of private information from the Internet.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2012

SB 577 (Gaines-R) Alpine County: Bear Lake Reservoir

Exempts from the prohibition of recreational use in a reservoir activity in which there is bodily contact with water by any participant in Bear Lake Reservoir in Alpine County and establishes standards to be met, including water treatment, monitoring, and reporting requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1063 (Gaines-R) which was vetoed.

SB 648 (Berryhill-R) Local government: Williamson Act

Provides an alternative method of cancellation of a Williamson Act contract by a landowner for contracts that are 10 or more years old, and where the landowner has not received a lowered assessment value on the land during the previous 10 consecutive years based on the existence of a residence, including agricultural laborer housing, on the land being valued. Requires the board of supervisors or city council, upon petition by the landowner and a showing that these conditions exist, approve the cancellation of the contract, and prohibits the board or council from charging a cancellation fee.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 652* (Steinberg-D) Professional sports teams: relocation agreements

Provides that a professional sports team that has previously entered into a financial agreement with a "home public entity" shall not enter into a relocation agreement unless it first gives the home public entity a bond, undertaking, or deposit in an amount adequate to ensure that all of its obligations under the financial agreement will be satisfied. Prohibits a professional sports team from entering into a relocation agreement if that team is in a breach or a default of any financial agreement, or if entry into a relocation agreement would cause a breach or default of any financial agreement, unless and until the breach or default was cured. Provides that a relocation agreement entered into in violation of these provisions is contrary to public policy and is unenforceable and permits a home public entity or home community to seek and obtain injunctive relief.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 653 (Steinberg-D) Local taxation: counties: school districts

Authorizes counties, cities, any school district, county offices of education and community college districts to impose a local personal income tax, vehicle license fee, transactions and use tax, extractive business activities tax, oil severance tax, and excise tax, with voter approval.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 654 (Steinberg-D) Redevelopment

Allows the host city or county of a dissolving redevelopment agency to retain the funds on deposit in the agency's housing fund and expands the types of agency loans from the host city or county that are considered enforceable obligations.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 662 (DeSaulnier-D) Counties: public services: Governor's realignment

Authorizes the Department of Finance to enter into contracts with counties to operate and integrate the health and safety programs included in the Governor's realignment proposal. Requires contracts between the state and the counties to be cost-neutral to both parties and to last 10 years unless they are extended in the ninth year.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 693 (Dutton-R) Local agencies: public contracts

Authorizes the Department of Transportation to delegate to a city or county its authority to enter into public-private partnership agreements for transportation projects on the state highway system.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 701 (Calderon-D) Central Basin Municipal Water District: directors: report

Requires the Central Basin Municipal Water District, on or before 7/1/12, to submit a report to the Legislature on the status of the Central Groundwater Basin and seawater barrier operations, and prescribes the information to be included in the report.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 710 (La Malfa-R) County services: State Water Project

Authorizes a county, in accordance with prescribed procedures, to prepare and adopt a county services impact report containing, among other things, a description of the costs of county services, as defined, related to the operation of specified dams and reservoirs as State Water Project facilities within the county. Requires the Department of Water Resources to compensate the county for those costs by compensating the county directly, by providing the county with specified services and facilities, or by contracting with the county or a service provider to provide the services or facilities within the county.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 736 (Cannella-R) Merced County: county road commissioner

Authorizes, until 1/1/18, the Board of Supervisors of Merced County to transfer the duties of the County Road Commissioner to the County Director of the Department of Public Works, as specified.
Chapter 378, Statutes of 2012

SB 776 (DeSaulnier-D) Local workforce investment boards

Requires specified minimum amounts of federal Workforce Investment Act funds provided to local Workforce Investment Act boards to be spent on workforce training programs, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 793 (Pavley-D) Los Angeles Community College District

Establishes a design-assist contract pilot program that would authorize the Los Angeles Community College District governing board to enter into a design-assist contract, as defined, for a project with an estimated cost exceeding $2,500,000.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 804 (Corbett-D) Health care districts: transfers of assets

Requires health care districts to include, in an agreement transferring more than 50% of the health care district's assets, the appraised fair market value of any asset transferred to a nonprofit corporation, as defined. Further requires the appraisal of the fair market value to be performed within the six months preceding the date on which the district approves the transfer agreement.
Chapter 684, Statutes of 2012

SB 829 (Rubio-D) Charter city construction projects

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 843 (Wolk-D) City of Davis: energy: electrical corporations

Establishes a new business model that allows developers of renewable projects to sell electricity to customers of investor owned utilities. Repeals existing statute allowing the City of Davis to receive bill credits for power generation from a former research facility developed by the California Energy Commission. (The research facility was known as PVUSA and ultimately sold to the City of Davis.)
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 858 (Gaines-R) Nevada County Chief Probation Officer

Provides that the Chief Probation Officer of Nevada County over adult and juvenile probation shall be appointed and removed by the Board of Supervisors of Nevada County.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 862 (Lowenthal-D) Southern California Goods Movement Authority

Establishes the Southern California Goods Movement Authority consisting of representatives from specified entities. Requires the Authority to establish a priority list of goods movement infrastructure and air quality improvement projects related to the movement of port-related cargo and port operations in southern California.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 881 (Corbett-D) Land use planning: renewable energy projects: siting

Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to develop and maintain an Internet Web site by 7/1/12, with information about common environmental, technological, cultural, and transmission issues involved with siting renewable energy projects. Requires OPR to consult with the California Energy Commission, the Department of Fish and Game, the Public Utilities Commission, counties, applicable nongovernmental organizations, local agencies, and federal agencies when developing its Web site.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 884 (Calderon-D) Local government: sale of tax liabilities

Authorizes the Board of Equalization, the Franchise Tax Board, and any other state agency, department, or office, and any city, county, or city and county, to sell to investors those accounts receivable arising from tax liabilities under the jurisdiction of the authorized entity.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance 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.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

SB 928 (Evans-D) Counties: taxes: authorization

Allows the board of supervisors of any county to levy any tax that may be levied by any charter city, subject to the voters' approval pursuant to the California Constitution.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 949 (Vargas-D) Cities: community benefit districts

Authorizes a local agency to form a community benefit district by complying with specified procedures and requirements, to be operated by a nonprofit management company, and to levy an assessment for the support of the district.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 954 (Liu-D) Local government: State Controller: offset payments

Authorizes the State Controller's Office to offset unclaimed property held by the state against debts owed to cities and counties.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2012

SB 970 (De León-D) County human services department

Provides that at the time a person applies for or renews health coverage using the single state application, the person may also consent to have the application information used by the county human services department to initiate an application for CalWORKs and CalFresh programs and requires the information to be transmitted to the applicable county human services department.
Vetoed

SB 986* (Dutton-R) Redevelopment: bond proceeds

Authorizes successor agencies to use the proceeds of bonds issued by former redevelopment agencies prior to 1/1/11 to fulfill an enforceable obligation of the former agency or enter into new enforceable obligations funded by those bond proceeds, as specified.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

SB 996 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) County retirement: rebuttable presumption

Restates and clarifies existing County Employees' Retirement Law regarding the rebuttable presumption that heart trouble incurred by a safety member arises from the safety member's employment.
Chapter 792, Statutes of 2012

SB 1003 (Yee-D) Local government: open meetings

Amends local government open meeting laws to authorize legal action against a legislative body to determine if certain ongoing or past actions of that body within the last nine months have violated those laws.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2012

SB 1030 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Redevelopment: Budget Trailer Bill

Removes language that was contained in AB 1484 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 26, Statutes of 2012, the redevelopment trailer bill, relating to the disposition of certain additional property tax revenues that would result from the elimination of redevelopment agencies. The removal of the language results in specified additional property taxes going to cities, counties and special districts receiving excess Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.
Vetoed

SB 1033 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Local Governments: cash management: Budget Trailer Bill

Creates the Voluntary Investment Program Fund within the State Treasury, for the receipt of voluntary deposit by local governments. Allows cities, counties, school districts or special districts to deposit between $200 million and $10 billion into the Fund, upon approval by their governing bodies. Specifies that deposit amounts may not exceed the amount needed to address actual or anticipated General Fund cash shortfalls. Directs deposits in the Fund to be invested in the Pooled Money Investment Account, allows the State Treasurer to use the Fund for the state's cash flow purposes, and specifies the continuous appropriation of those funds.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2012

SB 1044 (Liu-D) Libraries: administration

Streamlines the administration of public libraries to reflect changes in technology and functions due to budget constraint.
Chapter 219, Statutes of 2012

SB 1056* (Hancock-D) Redevelopment: enforceable obligations

Expands the definition of "enforceable obligation" to include financial obligations related to a project funded with both tax increment and federal school construction bonds.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1063* (Gaines-R) Alpine County: Bear Lake Reservoir

Allows recreational activities that include body contact at the Bear Lake Reservoir in Alpine County provided that the drinking water system meets operator specified conditions.
Vetoed
A similar bill was SB 577 (Gaines-R) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

SB 1067 (La Malfa-R) City of Tulelake Police Department

Authorizes the City of Tulelake, California, to enter into a mutual aid agreement with the City of Malin, Oregon, to permit their police departments to provide mutual aid to each other when necessary. Requires that the agreement be reviewed and approved by the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2012

SB 1068 (Rubio-D) Local agency: Golden Empire and Sacramento Regional Transit

Increases the minimum value of supplies, materials, and equipment purchases that Golden Empire Transit and Sacramento Regional Transit may procure by a means other than lowest, responsible bidder.
Chapter 220, Statutes of 2012

SB 1090 (Senate Governance And Finance Committee) Local government: omnibus bill

Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2012, which proposes 12 technical, noncontroversial changes to state laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties.
Chapter 330, Statutes of 2012

SB 1094* (Kehoe-D) Land use: mitigation lands: nonprofit organizations

Expands the entities authorized to hold title to and manage a property pursuant to a mitigation agreement, as specified, to include a governmental entity and a special district, as defined.
Chapter 705, Statutes of 2012

SB 1112 (Liu-D) Local government: state mandates: procedure

Requires a local government agencies' test claimant and the Department of Finance to submit a reimbursement proposal for costs of a new state mandate to the Commission on State Mandates no later than 45 days before a commission hearing.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1120* (Berryhill-R) Local government: property-related services

States that a city or county does not need to provide subsidies to cure any deficiencies in funding of property related services if the district's voters reject or reduce a property-related fee.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1125 (Hancock-D) Local government contracts: permits and certificates

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 1131 (La Malfa-R) Public cemetery districts: interments

Allows the Anderson Cemetery District, Cottonwood Cemetery District, and Silveyville Cemetery District to inter up to 40 nonresidents each per calendar year, up to a maximum of 400, under specified conditions.
Chapter 65, Statutes of 2012

SB 1147 (Liu-D) Local government: state mandates: procedure

Reduces from up to six months to four months the time a statewide cost estimate can be extended after a statewide cost estimate is adopted after receipt of a test claim is determined by the Commission on State Mandates that a mandate exists.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1149 (DeSaulnier-D) Bay Area Regional Commission

Reorganizes the governance of four San Francisco Bay Area regional agencies: the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and the Association of Bay Area Governments. Establishes the Bay Area Regional Commission, which succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the regional joint powers committee, as well as any additional duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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 to finance specified activities within a sustainable communities investment area.
Vetoed

SB 1188 (Senate Elections And Constitutional Amendments Committee) Reclamation districts

Corrects two obsolete Elections Code references contained in the Water Code related to reclamation districts concerning all-mailed ballot elections.
Chapter 132, Statutes of 2012

SB 1201 (De León-D) Los Angeles River Interagency Access Council

Creates the Los Angeles River Interagency Access Council, consisting of state and local representatives, in order to coordinate those agencies' efforts in developing and administering public access and safety policies for the Los Angeles River.
Chapter 212, Statutes of 2012

SB 1204 (Wyland-R) County schools: local bond measures

Requires school districts or community college districts to submit their annual performance and financial audits to the State Controller and county superintendent of schools. Requires the county superintendent of schools to include a review of the audits when reviewing other audits submitted by school districts under his or her jurisdiction.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1225 (Padilla-D) Intercity rail agreements

Authorizes, until 6/30/15, the Department of Transportation to enter into an interagency transfer of services agreement with a joint powers agency for the administration of intercity passenger rail service.
Chapter 802, Statutes of 2012

SB 1231 (Walters-R) County employees retirement: cost-of-living adjustments

Allows the Orange County Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution prohibiting the Orange County Employees Retirement Association from approving the Supplemental Targeted Adjustment for Retirees Cost of Living Adjustment (STAR COLA), and allows the Board of Supervisors to limit the benefit for current members or preclude the benefit for any member not currently receiving the STAR COLA.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1232 (Walters-R) County employees' retirement: cost-of-living adjustments

Allows the Orange County Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution requiring that cost of living adjustments applied to retirees of the Orange County Employees Retirement Association be adjusted annually, beginning on April 1st in the second calendar year following retirement. The new rule would apply to any employee retiring after the date of the resolution.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1239 (Wright-D) Local government: assessments, fees, and charges

Defines the term "real property" for purposes of the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act which prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 1240 (Cannella-R) South Monterey County: school finance: emergency loans

Changes the interest rate from 5.44% to 1%, for purposes of determining the cost of the original emergency loan for the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District, contingent upon the passage of a local parcel tax, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1858 (Alejo-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 1241 (Kehoe-D) Land use: general plan: safety element: fire hazard impacts

Requires cities and counties to address fire risk in state responsibility areas and very high fire hazard severity zones in the safety element of their general plans upon the next revision of the housing element, and requires cities and counties to make certain findings regarding available fire protection and suppression services before approving a tentative map or parcel map.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2012

SB 1245 (Alquist-D) Santa Clara Stadium Authority: stadium agreements

Provides that agreements entered into prior to 6/27/11, between a former redevelopment agency and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority to contribute funding to the development of a stadium constitute enforceable obligations that shall not be subject to termination. Excludes the Santa Clara Stadium Authority from the definition of "city, county, or city and county" for this purpose.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1253 (Runner-R) San Bernardino County Fair

Allows the 28th District Agricultural Association (DAA) to enter into a joint powers agreement with an unnamed entity to operate, maintain and improve the 28th DAA.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1254 (La Malfa-R) Trinity and Yuba Counties: peace officers

Adds Trinity and Yuba to the list of specified counties within which deputy sheriffs assigned to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to specified custodial assignments are peace officers whose authority extends to any place in California while engaged in the performance of the duties of his/her respective employment.
Chapter 66, Statutes of 2012

SB 1257 (Hernandez-D) Local government: utility user tax

Prohibits a local government from levying a utility user tax on the consumption of electricity as a motor vehicle fuel for an electric public transit bus.
Chapter 213, Statutes of 2012

SB 1278 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley: flood protection

Revises flood hazard planning and development requirements for those cities and counties located in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley.
Chapter 553, Statutes of 2012

SB 1283 (Alquist-D) San Francisco Bay Area Sea Level Rise Planning Act

Establishes the San Francisco Bay Area Sea Level Rise Planning Act, which would authorize a regional sea level rise management group, or local government agency to prepare and adopt an integrated sea level rise management plan for the San Francisco Bay area, in accordance with specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1294 (Berryhill-R) Mariposa County: public employees

Allows Mariposa County to provide a higher employer contribution for health benefits for its retirees than for its active employees, and requires that it be executed through a memorandum of understanding or by a resolution adopted by a majority of the board of supervisors.
Chapter 836, Statutes of 2012

SB 1305 (Blakeslee-R) County of San Luis Obispo: regional open-space district

Permits the formation of a regional open-space district in the County of San Luis Obispo to be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors after a noticed hearing, if the boundaries of a proposed district are coterminous with the exterior boundaries of the County of San Luis Obispo.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1315 (De León-D) Los Angeles County: imitation firearms

Creates an exemption from the general state preemption of the field regarding the regulation of imitation firearms, to allow the County of Los Angeles, and any city within the County of Los Angeles, to enact and enforce an ordinance or resolution that is more restrictive than state law regulating the manufacture, sale, possession, or use of any BB device, toy gun, replica of a firearm, or other device, that is so substantially similar to an existing firearm as to lead a reasonable person to perceive that the device is a firearm and expels a projectile that is no more than 16 millimeters in diameter.
Chapter 214, Statutes of 2012

SB 1329 (Simitian-D) Counties: pharmaceuticals

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 1331 (Kehoe-D) County of San Diego Independent Redistricting Commission

Establishes the Independent Redistricting Commission in San Diego County. Requires the clerk of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to select, at random, the members of the Commission from persons interested in, and qualified to serve on, the Commission. Requires the County to provide reasonable staffing and logistical support to the Commission. Requires the Commission to hold at least seven public hearings, and requires the Commission to adjust the boundaries of the supervisorial boundaries of the county, as specified. Requires the Commission to adopt a redistricting plan, as specified, and provides that the plan become effective 30 days following submission to the clerk of the Board. Subjects the plan to referendum.
Chapter 508, Statutes of 2012

SB 1335 (Pavley-D) Redevelopment: brownfield sites

Authorizes a successor agency, subject to an oversight board's approval, to retain brownfields and related parcels for purposes of remediating contamination using available financing, funds obtained from a responsible party, existing state or federal grants, or any other available funds in order to maximize the value of the property. Upon completion of remediation, the property would be sold and the assets would be transferred to the auditor-controller for distribution to other local agencies.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1339 (Yee-D) Bay Area: commute benefit policies

Authorizes, until 1/1/17, a pilot program in the San Francisco Bay Area that allows the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to adopt jointly an ordinance requiring certain employers to offer their employees specified commute benefits.
Chapter 871, Statutes of 2012

SB 1340 (La Malfa-R) Sewerage Commission Oroville: appropriation of water

Explicitly authorizes the Sewerage Commission Oroville to apply for a permit from the State Water Resources Control Board to appropriate water in an amount equivalent to its wastewater discharge into the Feather River.
Vetoed

SB 1342 (Emmerson-R) Counties: recording: real estate instruments

Increases, from $3 to $10, the maximum fee that a county can place on specified recorded documents to fund real estate fraud deterrence, investigations, and prosecutions.
Chapter 104, Statutes of 2012

SB 1351* (Rubio-D) Local peace officers

Clarifies that the definition of "local correctional officer," as specified, includes peace officers employed by a city, county, or city and county which operates a local community correctional facility under contract with public agencies other than the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as specified, who have the authority and responsibility for maintaining custody of inmates sentenced to or housed in that facility, and who perform tasks related to the operation of that facility.
Chapter 68, Statutes of 2012

SB 1357 (Cannella-R) Local official: removal from office grand jury accusation

Provides that the grand jury presenting the accusation against an officer for willful or corrupt misconduct in office may also be a criminal grand jury.
Chapter 134, Statutes of 2012

SB 1382 (Negrete McLeod-D) County employees' retirement: retiree organizations

Clarifies, in the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937, terminology related to recognized retiree organizations, the items that a retiree under that system may have deducted from his/her pay warrant, and the nature and extent of assistance provided to the recognized retiree organization by the retirement system with regard to mailings to the retiree organization's members.
Chapter 178, Statutes of 2012

SB 1383* (Hernandez-D) El Monte: water utility property

Allows the City of El Monte to sell or transfer its public utility water system, without voter approval, subject to specified requirements.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 1386 (Lowenthal-D) Municipal water districts: water storage: groundwater

Removes barriers to groundwater storage in the Central Basin, by clarifying existing law, concerning the management of groundwater.
Chapter 215, Statutes of 2012

SB 1388 (DeSaulnier-D) Local government: parking: parking meters

Establishes a general rule that a vehicle owner may park without penalty in any parking space for up to the posted time limit if the parking meter or parking payment center is inoperable, but allows a city or county to adopt a different rule if it provides adequate notice of the rule at parking locations, parking meters, or parking payment centers. Allows local authorities to accept parking meter payment by mobile devices and to fix variable parking rates, by ordinance.
Chapter 70, Statutes of 2012

SB 1414* (Dutton-R) Community redevelopment

Expands enforceable obligations to include the use of the proceeds of the issuance of Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency's 2004 Tax Allocation Bonds to implement and complete an infrastructure project, as specified.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1417 (Hancock-D) Local government: infrastructure financing districts

Specifies that the date an infrastructure financing district shall cease to exist may not be more than 45 years from the date on which the ordinance forming the district is adopted or not more than 45 years from the date on which bonds have been issued, whichever is later. Deletes the prohibition on a district including any portion of a redevelopment project area.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1439* (Huff-R) Redevelopment: successor agencies

Requires a successor agency to continue to oversee the development and construction of any regional transportation project of the former redevelopment agency.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1459 (De León-D) Regional and local park districts: cities and counties

Revises existing law for formation of regional park districts that authorizes three or more cities, together with any parcel or parcels of city or county territory, whether in the same or different counties, to organize and incorporate, but requires that all the territory in the proposed district be contiguous to instead only allow district formation for four or more cities.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1462 (Leno-D) County sheriffs: release of prisoners: medical release

Provides authority for sheriffs, with specified limitations, to release persons from county jail who have a terminal illness with a life expectancy of less than six months and who do not pose a threat to the community. Authorizes the court, at the request of a sheriff, to grant medical probation to any prisoner sentenced to a county jail who is physically incapacitated, as specified, if that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing, or to a prisoner who would require acute long-term inpatient rehabilitation services. Before a prisoner's compassionate release or release to medical probation, the sheriff would be required to secure a placement option for the prisoner, as specified.
Chapter 837, Statutes of 2012

SB 1466 (De León-D) City of Los Angeles: peace officers

Transfers control over the authorization of peace officer status for officers employed by the Department of General Services (DGS) of the City of Los Angeles from DGS to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Chapter 795, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 1763 (Davis-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SB 1468 (Calderon-D) Local governments: fireworks

Authorizes the sale of "safe and sane" fireworks between Christmas and New Year's Day in 2014-15 and 2015-16. Permits limited recovery of specified costs by local governments, and provides for a two-year fireworks data collection effort to be funded by voluntary contributions from the fireworks industry.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1371 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.

SB 1472 (Pavley-D) Local government: real property: blight

Removes the sunset on a statute that permits local governments to fine property owners for failure to maintain certain property and makes other changes relating to the ability of a local enforcement agency to abate nuisances and correct substandard building violations.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1492 (Leno-D) Voter-approved local assessment: vehicles

Enacts the Local Assessment Act, which authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to place on the ballot a measure to impose an additional assessment on vehicles owned by residents of that City and County.
Chapter 838, Statutes of 2012

SB 1493 (Cannella-R) Local renewable energy resources: publicly owned utilities

Moves the following requirements in existing law to that portion of the Public Utilities Code concerning the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: (1) existing law requiring a local publicly owned electric utility that sells electricity at retail to 75,000 or more customers to adopt and implement a tariff for electricity purchased from an electric generation facility meeting certain size, deliverability, and interconnection requirements and to consider certain factors; (2) existing law requiring the local publicly owned electric utility to make the tariff available to owners and operators of an electric generation facility within the service territory of the utility, upon request, on a first-come-first-served basis, until the utility meets its proportionate share of a statewide cap of 750 megawatts cumulative rated generation capacity served under the feed-in tariffs adopted pursuant to the above-described requirements; and, (3) existing law providing that the electricity purchased from an electric generation facility counts toward meeting the local publicly owned electric utility's renewables portfolio standard annual procurement targets.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1494 (DeSaulnier-D) Contra Costa County: county employees' retirement

Provides for implementation of the negotiated agreement between Contra Costa County and county employees to create lower benefit tiers for new employees.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1498 (Emmerson-R) Local agency formation commission: powers

Authorizes the local agency formation commission to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made. Authorizes the local agency formation commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries or outside its sphere of influence under specified circumstances.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1501 (Kehoe-D) Open-space easements

Amends the Open Space Easement Act of 1975 to require easement recordings to be consistent with current practices by a county recorder, and makes other technical and conforming changes to the Act.
Chapter 875, Statutes of 2012

SB 1517 (Wolk-D) Counties: construction projects: design-build

Extends existing law, until 7/1/18, the authority for counties, with the approval of the board of supervisors, to use design-build, for bidding on specified types of construction projects in the county in excess of $2.5 million, in accordance with specified procedures.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SB 1534* (Harman-R) Local government: taxicabs

Permits video recorders to block the windshield of a licensed taxicab.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1544* (Hernandez-D) Los Angeles & San Bernardino Counties: disaster

Allows taxpayers in the Counties of Los Angeles and San Bernardino that suffered disaster losses as a result of the severe winds that occurred in November 2011, to file an amended return by 10/15/12 for the 2011 taxable year to deduct the loss and reduce prior year tax liability.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2012

SB 1545* (DeSaulnier-D) Bay Area toll bridges

Requires the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to bring an action to determine the validity of its recent office building purchase. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless the State Auditor finds that MTC and the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA), acting through the Bay Area Headquarters Authority (a joint powers agency consisting of MTC and BATA) clearly had authority to purchase an office building at a specific location in San Francisco and clearly had the authority to use toll revenue for the purchase, requires MTC to bring an action to determine the validity the purchase and the expenditure of toll revenues.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)

SB 1546 (Cannella-R) Local government: real property

Allows a county that owns real property on a converted military base to sell that real property, or any interest in the property, in a manner and upon the terms and conditions approved by the board of supervisors, without complying with the state laws that govern the sale of county-owned real property. Requires a board of supervisors to make a finding that the sale is in the public interest.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1553 (Lowenthal-D) City of Long Beach: Political Reform Act

Creates a pilot program for the 2013 through 2014 Political Reform Act campaign committee reporting periods that authorizes the City of Long Beach to permit any person who files a campaign statement with the city clerk to file online or electronically, consistent with specified requirements. Requires the City of Long Beach, if it chooses to participate in the pilot program, to prepare a report evaluating the program under specified criteria, and further requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to prepare a report evaluating the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1557 (Negrete McLeod-D) Joint powers agreements: delegation of authority

Requires a joint powers agency or entity, or its governing board, prior to delegating the responsibility for administering the joint powers agreement to another entity, or prior to delegating its functions to an advisory body or administrative entity for the purposes of program development, policy formation, or program implementation, to utilize the competitive bidding process to select the entity that will receive the delegation, unless the entity that will receive the delegation is a member of the joint powers agency or entity.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1566 (Negrete McLeod-D) Incorporated cities: vehicle license fees: allocation

Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and Franchise Tax Board (FTB) from receiving its vehicle license fee (VLF) collection costs from the proceeds of VLF revenues. Instead, reallocates VLF revenues formerly dedicated to DMV and FTB administrative costs to recently incorporated cities and to cities that annexed inhabited territory.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1570 (Wyland-R) Local agencies: automated parking enforcement

Permits the installation of an automated parking enforcement system on streetsweepers operated by a vendor pursuant to a contract with a local public agency.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1577 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) City of Newport Beach: resources: public trust lands

Grants and conveys in trust to the City of Newport Beach in the County of Orange all the rights, title, and interest of the State of California, subject to the city's statutory trust, acquired and held by the state pursuant to a specified agreement approved by the State Lands Commission, as described.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2012

SCA 10 (Strickland-R) Local taxes and spending limit

Provides that any local agency to levy a new or higher tax on any taxpayer in the state must be approved by 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature. Revises Gann Limits (Proposition 4) to cap spending for all local agencies, equal to the appropriations for the prior year adjusted in the cost of living and change in population.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SCR 101 (Pavley-D) Los Angeles River revitalization

Declares that the Legislature honors and commends the commitment, energy, vision, and leadership demonstrated by local, regional, state, and federal government agencies, as well as nonprofit and civic groups, organizations, and associations, in the creation of parks and the restoration of natural habitats along the Los Angeles River and its San Fernando Valley tributaries.
Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2012

SJR 17 (Corbett-D) San Francisco Bay: coastal resources

Declares the Legislature's endorsement of S. 97 (Feinstein) and House Resolution 3034 (Speier), and urges the United States Congress to enact the San Francisco Restoration Act at the earliest possible time.
Resolution Chapter 76, Statute of 2012

SJR 26 (Vargas-D) El Centro: Naval Air Facility

Urges the California delegates of Congress to protect the Naval Air Facility El Centro during any upcoming base realignment and closure process.
Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2012

SR 37 (Lowenthal-D) Long Beach Municipal Band Week

Proclaims the first week of July as the Long Beach Municipal Band Week.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 14 (Wieckowski-D) Fremont Redevelopment Agency: redevelopment

Authorizes the Fremont Redevelopment Agency to adopt a redevelopment plan for a project area encompassing or surrounding the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. automobile manufacturing plant and the Warm Springs Bay Area Rapid Transit station. Sets forth alternative conditions that cause blight for the purpose of the adoption of this redevelopment plan. Provides that the redevelopment plan would not be required to demonstrate conformance with the community's general plan, but would prohibit the agency from receiving or using tax increment funds from the project area until its legislative body determines that the redevelopment plan is consistent with the general plan.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 17* (Davis-D) Municipal water districts

Specifies the dates on which municipal water district board members take office after elections.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 24 (Block-D) Chula Vista: higher education: feasibility study

Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to complete a study and make recommendations concerning the feasibility of establishing and expanding postsecondary education opportunities in Chula Vista, California.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 31 (Beall-D) Land use: high-speed rail: local master plan

Establishes the High-Speed Rail Local Master Plan Pilot Program, applicable to specified cities and counties, and authorizes each of those jurisdictions to prepare and adopt, by ordinance, a master plan for development in the areas surrounding the high-speed rail system in each jurisdiction. Authorizes the high-speed rail master plan to include incentives for encouraging investment and coherent growth in the areas surrounding the high-speed rail system in each participating jurisdiction.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 49* (Gatto-D) Local development projects

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 57 (Beall-D) Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Increases the membership of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission from 19 to 21 members.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2012

AB 68 (Beall-D) County of Santa Clara: tax equity allocation formula

Modifies property tax allocations for several tax equity allocation cities in Santa Clara County.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 148 (Smyth-R) Local government officials: ethics training

Requires the State Controller to withhold any funds to which a local agency is entitled, until the local agency posts its adopted written attendance compensation policy or adopted written reimbursement policy on the local agency's Internet Web site, if any, and submits a copy of the written policy to the State Controller.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 162 (Smyth-R) Local government: financial reports

Requires that, if an audit of a local agency reveals certain financial irregularities, the findings be sent separately to the State Controller immediately after the audit has been concluded.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 168 (Gorell-R) Local Safety and Protection Account: appropriation

Appropriates $506.4 million from the General Fund to be deposited in the Local Safety and Protection Account. The amount is to be appropriated for the 2011-12 fiscal year, and each subsequent fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
A similar bill was AB 192 (Logue-R) which died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.

AB 191* (Bill Berryhill-R) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocations

Reverses a specified property tax shift to schools from six counties that was a result of legislation passed following enactment of Proposition 13 in 1978. The six counties (Alpine, Lassen, Mariposa, Plumas, Stanislaus, and Trinity) are known as "negative bailout" or "negative sum" counties because they had a portion of their property taxes shifted to school districts after the enactment of legislation to address the effects of Proposition 13 in 1979.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 12X1 (B. Berryhill-R) which died at the Assembly Desk.

AB 192* (Logue-R) Local Safety and Protection Account

Provides for an annual transfer of $500 million from the General Fund to the Local Safety and Protection Account.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill was AB 168 (Gorell-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

AB 253 (Smyth-R) Local agencies: accounting

Requires the State Controller, in collaboration with the Committee on City Accounting Procedures, to prescribe for cities, uniform accounting and reporting procedures conforming to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 259 (Smyth-R) County public defender

Broadens the criteria for eligibility to the office of county public defender. Makes eligible, providing certain criteria is met, a sitting or retired judge, a judicial commissioner, magistrate, or referee authorized to perform the duties of a subordinate judicial officer, and an elected public official.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 276 (Alejo-D) Monterey County: Central Coast Hospital Authority

Permits Monterey County to establish the Central Coast Hospital Authority to take over management of Natividad Medical Center, and requires the County Board of Supervisors to reach agreement to merge or affiliate with at least one other health care facility in Monterey County before the Authority can be established.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2012

AB 330 (Norby-R) Local agencies: redevelopment

Establishes a specified procedure by which the Community Redevelopment Department, the Attorney General, and the courts handle major audit violations. Authorizes the State Controller to conduct quality control reviews of independent financial audit reports to the extent it is feasible to do so within existing budgetary resources, and refer suspected violations to the Board of Accountancy, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 343 (Atkins-D) Redevelopment plans: environmental goals

Requires every redevelopment plan to be consistent with the regional sustainable communities strategy or alternative planning strategy adopted by the metropolitan planning organization or council of government.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 345 (Torres-D) Redevelopment agencies: housing

Reforms, beginning 1/1/18, how redevelopment agencies spend their Low and Moderate Income Housing Funds.
Vetoed

AB 351 (Chesbro-D) County organized health system: Medi-Cal

Requires the Partnership Health Plan to serve the Medi-Cal beneficiaries in the counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou and Trinity.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 356 (Hill-D) Local hiring policies: public works projects

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 392 (Alejo-D) Ralph M. Brown Act: posting agendas

Requires a local agency to post at least 72 hours before a regular meeting of a legislative body the agenda and applicable staff-generated reports on the local agency's Internet Web site, if any, and, for a local agency without an Internet Web site, requires a local agency to disclose on the physically posted agenda the public location where the local agency makes available any applicable staff-generated reports for public inspection and copying at least 72 hours in advance of the regular meeting.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 404 (Gatto-D) Local government: county assessors

Requires any county that regulates lobbying before the board of supervisors to adopt an ordinance to regulate property tax agents and property tax agent firms representing clients before the county assessor's office. Requires the ordinance to include specific provisions, including, but not limited to, annual registration and a prohibition against property tax agents and property tax agent firms from making any political contributions to an elected county official or a candidate for county office within that county. Authorizes the board to impose a reasonably necessary fee to cover the costs to regulate the activities of the property tax agents and property tax agents firms before a county board of equalization, employees of the assessor, and assessment hearing officers that make recommendations to the county board of equalization or assessment appeals board.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 432 (Dickinson-D) Sacramento County: transit

Authorizes the Sacramento Area Council of Governments to create a combined farebox recovery ratio for the Sacramento County transit operators - Sacramento Regional Transit, Folsom transit, Elk Grove transit, and Sacramento County transit services - for purposes of determining eligibility to receive subsidies from the Transportation Development Act.
Chapter 229, Statutes of 2012

AB 441 (Monning-D) Regional transportation planning

Requires the California Transportation Commission to attach to its guidelines for preparing regional transportation plans a summary of policies, practices, or projects that promote health that metropolitan planning organizations can use in regional transportation plans.
Chapter 365, Statutes of 2012

AB 445 (Carter-D) Redevelopment

Requires that a redevelopment agency to continue in full force and effect with respect to a military base reuse project under the jurisdiction of that agency.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 464 (Olsen-R) Merced County: State Highway Route 59

Adds 15 miles of County Road Route 59, in Stanislaus and Tuolumne Counties, to the state highway system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 475 (Butler-D) Local government: offstreet parking: electric vehicles

Allows local authorities and the owners of off-street parking facilities to designate stalls for the exclusive purpose of charging and parking a vehicle that is connected for electric charging.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2012

AB 482 (Williams-D) Ventura Port District: dredging contracts

Authorizes the Ventura Port District to award a dredging contract for maintaining the interior of Ventura Harbor without a competitive bid.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2012

AB 484 (Alejo-D) Local agencies: enterprise zones: expiration of designation

Deems a 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, as specified. Directs local agencies to update their targeted employment areas whenever data from the United States Census Bureau becomes available.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 502 (Bonilla-D) Alternative Voluntary Redevelopment Program: military bases

Exempts a participating community from being required to remit any amounts that are calculated based on tax increment revenues received for a project area that includes within its boundaries a military base that has been closed or realigned by the federal government. In the event a community fails to make the required remittance, the bill permits the community to continue to function, to a limited extent, if the community contains a project area that includes within its boundaries a military base closed or realigned by the federal government and one or more project areas that do not include a closed or realigned base.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 542 (Allen-D) Land use: housing element

Revises references to redevelopment agencies within the housing element in the Planning and Zoning provisions to instead be to successor housing agencies.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 582 (Pan-D) Local agencies: open meetings

Requires the legislative body of a local agency to publicly notice on two separate occasions a proposed compensation increase of more than 5% for a city manager, deputy city manager, county chief administrative officer, deputy chief administrative officer, or similar employee.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 602 (Olsen-R) Local government: housing

Beginning 1/1/12, until 1/1/17, authorizes a local government that has received a confirmation of compliance from the Department of Housing and Community Development, and that updates its housing element not more than every five years, to delay until the next scheduled revision date a revision to that local government's housing element, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 609 (Swanson-D) Oakland Unified School District: audit fines and penalties

Releases Oakland Unified School District from paying any fines or penalties imposed as a result of audits performed by the State Controller (part of the emergency loan requirements) in any fiscal year between 6/16/03 and 6/28/09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 662 (Hueso-D) Airport land use

Requires that an airport land use compatibility plan adopted by a county airport land use commission be consistent with the safety and noise standards in an Air Installation Compatible Use Zone if the Zone was adopted pursuant to a public process that provided for reasonable public comment and participation.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 666 (Jeffries-R) Riverside County: special death benefits

Authorizes the special death benefit to be payable if the deceased was a Riverside County Sheriff's Department Correctional Deputy or a Correctional Corporal, if his/her death occurred as a direct result of injury arising out of and in the course of his/her official duties with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, and if there was a qualifying survivor.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2437 (Jeffries-R) which died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee.

AB 679 (Allen-D) Land use: housing element

Allows the County of Napa, through 10/31/22, to meet up to 15% of its share of the regional housing need for lower-income households by committing funds for the construction of affordable housing units within one or more cities within the County, if various conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 693 (Huffman-D) Local government: Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection

Extends authorization for the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority from 2016 to 2020. The Authority's board members include representatives from the County of Sonoma and from all of that county's nine cities.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2012

AB 738 (Hagman-R) Local appointed and elected officials: retirement

Prohibits a person who is publicly elected to any office on less than a full time basis, on and after 1/1/13, from becoming a member of a California public retirement system as a result of that service.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee)

AB 742* (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Local government: surface mining prohibition

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 779 (Fletcher-I) Municipal water districts: oversight

Authorizes a municipal water district to establish an independent oversight committee to assist in tracking and reviewing revenues of the district to advance capital improvements, operations and maintenance of district facilities, and allocation methodologies.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 781 (John A. Pérez-D) Local government: counties: unincorporated areas

Enacts a successor governance structure for a city that is disincorporated pursuant to pending legislation. Establishes a Community Services District to provide continuation of specified services, transfer certain powers and duties to the county, and require the local agency formation commission to oversee the terms and conditions of the disincorporation. Allows the board of supervisors of a county in which city that is to be disincorporated within 90 days following a majority vote of the board, vote by resolution to continue the city in existence if specified conditions are met. Contingent upon the enactment of AB 46 (J. Perez-D), requiring the disincorporation of a city with a population of fewer than 150 persons as of 1/1/10. AB 46 failed passage on the Senate Floor.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 834 (Roger Hernández-D) Local government: contracts

Requires the legislative body of a city, county, or district to review any contract, with a total value of $250,000 or more, with a private party that contains an automatic renewal clause on or before the annual date by which the contract may be rescinded.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 845 (Ma-D) Local government ordinances: solid waste

Prohibits an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin.
Chapter 526, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 1178 (Ma-D) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

AB 866 (Yamada-D) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocations

For the 2012-13 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, requires the auditor of a qualified county, as defined, to increase the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue otherwise required to be allocated to that county by the county equity amount, as defined, and to commensurately reduce the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue otherwise required to be allocated to school entities in the county, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 890 (Olsen-R) Local roadway improvements: CEQA exemption

Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) repair, maintenance, and minor alterations of existing roadways, provided the project is carried out by a city or county to improve public safety, does not cross a waterway, and involves negligible or no expansion of an existing use. The exemption sunsets 1/1/16.
Chapter 528, Statutes of 2012

AB 904 (Skinner-D) Local government: parking spaces

Prohibits a city or county from requiring a minimum number of off-street parking spaces in transit-intensive areas, as defined, greater than two parking spaces per 1,000 square feet in nonresidential projects of 20,000 square feet or less on a single property, one parking space per unit in non-income-restricted residential projects, and specified portions, as applicable, of a parking space per unit for certain affordable housing projects, except as specified.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 910 (Torres-D) Infrastructure financing districts: facilities and projects

Authorizes an infrastructure financing district (IFD) to finance affordable housing facilities and economic development projects. 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 911 (Ma-D) Police protection districts

Makes various changes to the Police Protection District Act including permitting a district to adopt ordinances related to specified policies and makes other conforming changes in line with powers and duties given to special districts.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 935 (Blumenfield-D) County recorders duties: foreclosures

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 954 (Charles Calderon-D) Water replenishment districts

Allows the board of directors of a water replenishment district to impose a water replenishment assessment on the production of groundwater from each groundwater basin. Requires the assessment be imposed in an amount that is calculated to pay for costs that include the actual cost of replenishing the groundwater basin, removing contaminants from the groundwater basin, and the administrative costs of the district.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 977 (Harkey-R) OC Dana Point Harbor: harbors and ports: loans

Requires the Department of Boating and Waterways to extend until 6/30/16, all phases of certain loan contracts between the Department and the County of Orange, OC Dana Point Harbor.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1015 (Charles Calderon-D) Local government: child welfare services

Requires each county to consult with specified stakeholders when developing county self-assessments, county improvement plans, or any subsequent county self-assessments, as specified. Requires counties to include in their child and family services review a discussion of operational improvements that could be implemented at a cost savings or within existing resources.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1032 (Mansoor-R) Community facilities districts: financing

Provides that community development projects funded entirely with private funds are not subject to the wage requirements for public works projects.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1045 (Norby-R) Local government: bonds

Prohibits a local agency from entering into a financial advisory, legal advisory, underwriting, or other similar relationship with an individual or firm, with respect to a new bond issue that requires voter approval on or after 1/1/12, if that individual or firm, or an employee, agent, or person related to an employee or agent of the individual or firm, provided or will provide bond campaign services to the bond campaign.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1052 (Garrick-R) City of Carlsbad: state property: surplus

Authorizes the Department of General Services, on behalf of the Department of Parks and Recreation, to enter into an agreement with the City of Carlsbad, in San Diego County, to exchange a portion of the South Carlsbad State Beach in exchange for a portion of Carlsbad Blvd, as specified.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1087 (Brownley-D) Cities and counties: public safety services: contracts

Allows a county that provides public safety services to a city through a contract that is entered into or renewed on or after 1/1/12, to require the city to provide a comprehensive fiscal analysis of the city's ability to provide public safety to its residents, unless otherwise stipulated in the contract, if the city notifies the county of its intent to terminate the contract. Requires that the fiscal analysis must be conducted by a mutually agreed upon independent auditing firm or the county auditor-controller.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1098* (Carter-D) Cities: vehicle license fees: allocation

Reallocates vehicle license fee (VLF) revenues to recently incorporated cities and to cities that annexed inhabited territory. Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from receiving its VLF collection costs from the proceeds of VLF revenues.
Vetoed

AB 1106 (Achadjian-R) Local public entities: 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 1170 (Alejo-D) City of Watsonville: redevelopment agency

Authorizes the planning commission or city council of the City of Watsonville to amend a specified preliminary plan and redevelopment plan, respectively, to add described territory, known as the Manabe-Bergstrom Site, currently referred to as the Manabe-Ow Site.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1178 (Ma-D) Local government ordinances: solid waste

Prohibits an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
A similar bill is AB 845 (Ma-D), Chapter 526, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1191* (Huber-D) Local government finance

Creates a process for cities and counties to seek reimbursement for lost revenues due to legislation in 2004 that enacted the "Triple Flip" and the "Vehicle License Fee Swap."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1198 (Norby-R) Land use: housing element: regional housing need assessment

Repeals the requirement that the Department of Housing and Community Development determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified, and other specified provisions relating to the assessment or allocation of regional housing need.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1212 (Mansoor-R) County employees' retirement

Allows the South Coast Air Management District to provide, by resolution, contract, or contract amendment, a 2% at age 61 retirement benefit formula for new employees and specifies that these retirement benefits cannot be provided unless agreed to in a memorandum of understanding made under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1228 (Halderman-R) Public agencies: joint power authorities: meetings

Authorizes a joint powers authority (JPA) to adopt a policy or bylaw or include a provision in its joint powers agreement allowing a designated alternate member who is attending in lieu of the appointed member to attend closed sessions of the JPA and for that designated alternate member to disclose to specified people information obtained in a closed session of the JPA that has direct financial or liability implications for that local agency.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1234 (Norby-R) Redevelopment agencies: financing

Prohibits redevelopment agencies from using specified revenue for the promotion, recruitment, or retention of any professional sports team, or any related activity, as defined, or for the development, planning, design, site acquisition, subdivision, financing, leasing, construction, operation, or maintenance of infrastructure, as defined, related to the occupancy, recruitment, or retention of any professional sports team.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1235 (Roger Hernández-D) Local street lights: energy efficiency

Mandates that the San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and Pacific Gas and Electric companies (IOUs): (1) replace bulbs in street light poles with high-efficiency light bulbs at the same rate as any city, county or city and county (local governments) in their territory has installed high-efficiency bulbs. The local government facilities that the IOUs are supposed to match with installations are not specified; installations would be capped at 100 street light poles in each local government jurisdiction; and (2) post on the utility's Internet Web site specified information regarding energy efficiency (EE) programs including: a description of programs available; methodology used to determine whether EE programs are cost-effective; information to help consumer understand the costs and benefits of EE; sources of funding for EE; the total EE budget; a summary of all EE program expenditures; and, eligibility criteria for EE programs.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1248 (Hueso-D) City of San Diego: local public employees' retirement

Requires the City of San Diego to provide Social Security coverage to all its employees not covered under a defined benefit retirement plan and grandfathers in an employers' defined contribution plan in place on 7/1/12.
Chapter 853, Statutes of 2012

AB 1250 (Alejo-D) Redevelopment

Modifies the calculation of the remittance a participating community is required to make for the 2012-13 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter under existing law that establishes an alternative voluntary redevelopment program whereby a redevelopment agency would be authorized to continue to exist upon the enactment of an ordinance by the community to comply with specified provisions. A city or county that participates in the program is required to make remittances to the county auditor-controller for deposit in the Special District Allocation Fund, with remaining funds deposited in the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1252 (Davis-D) Los Angeles Community College District: elections

Changes the manner of election of members of the governing board of the Los Angeles Community College District to elections by trustee area, rather than on a districtwide basis. Specifies that a candidate for election must reside in, and be registered to vote in, the trustee area he/she seeks to represent.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
A similar bill is AB 2572 (Furutani-D), Chapter 754, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1253 (Davis-D) Counties: recommended budget

Allows a county board of supervisors, after the start of a public hearing, to revise a recommended budget before its final adoption.
Chapter 52, Statutes of 2012

AB 1255* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Counties: renewable energy resources

Allows a county within the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan planning area to qualify for grants to develop or revise rules and policies to facilitate renewable energy development and permitting if the county enters into a memorandum of understanding with the California Energy Commission agreeing to participate in the development of a natural community conservation plan. Defines qualified counties as the Counties of Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Merced, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare. For counties within the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan planning area, the Commission shall not award a grant to a county that is not a "plan participant," as defined, in the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.
Chapter 601, Statutes of 2012

AB 1287 (Buchanan-D) Local government: audits

Requires cities, counties, a city and county, special districts, authorities, or public agencies, to comply with General Accounting Office standards for financial and compliance audits and prohibits an independent auditor from engaging in financial compliance audits unless, within three years of commencing the first of the audits, and every three years thereafter, the auditor completes a quality control review in accordance with General Accounting Office standards.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1303 (Wieckowski-D) Alameda County: health care facilities

Authorizes St. Rose Hospital, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Alameda, to enter into a joint powers agreement with the Washington Township Healthcare District.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1311 (Miller-R) Local agencies: speed enforcement

Authorizes a local authority to participate in a local traffic safety program that studies the feasibility of using an automated speed enforcement system for speed enforcement only in areas designated as school zones.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1317 (Norby-R) Community development: plan consistency

Requires every redevelopment plan to be consistent with the community's general plan and any specific plan which the community has adopted for the same territory.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1320 (Allen-D) Marin County: alcoholic beverages

Permits the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a maximum of 15 new original on-sale general licenses, over a five-year period, for bona fide public eating places in Marin County.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 2560 (Allen-D) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.

AB 1335 (Lara-D) City of Bell: business license taxes

Requires the City of Bell to return all funds attributable to unlawful increases in business license taxes charged during the calendar years 2000 to 2010, inclusive, to those licensees affected by those unlawful increases.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1340 (Lara-D) City of Bell: Sanitation and Sewerage System District

Requires the Sanitation and Sewerage System District in the City of Bell to return all funds attributable to unlawful increases in assessment rates approved and charged during for the fiscal years 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10 fiscal years to those property owners affected by those unlawful increases.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1345 (Lara-D) Local government: audits

Imposes additional requirements on audits of local governments. Requires an audit for any local agency to be made by a certified public accountant or public accountant, licensed by, and in good standing with, the California Board of Accountancy.
Chapter 231, Statutes of 2012

AB 1355 (Lara-D) City officials: standards

Requires a city council, before 1/1/13, to adopt minimal educational and certification standards for city clerks, city managers, and city treasurers, whether elected or appointed, and to post those standards on the city's Internet Web site.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1371 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Local government: fireworks

Authorizes, until 1/2/17, the sale of certified safe and sane fireworks from 9 a.m. on December 26 to midnight of January 1 of the following year pursuant to a license issued by the State Fire Marshal, if authorized by a charter city, city, county, or city and county ordinance or resolution that may also restrict the hours of use of those fireworks.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1468 (Calderon-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 1393 (Perea-D) Fresno County jails: transfer to contiguous counties

Authorizes a local law enforcement agency within the County of Fresno to transfer (1) prior to booking, a person who is under arrest and in the custody of that agency, or (2) upon a person's scheduled release from the Fresno County Jail due to overcrowding, he/she has been identified by the arresting agency as being at a high risk to reoffend, and he/she is the subject of a formal request from the arresting agency for notification prior to release.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1440 (Perea-D) County child welfare departments: reports

Requires county child welfare agencies to prepare a written report, as specified, within 60 days of determining that abuse or neglect led to a child's death in the county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1446 (Feuer-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Allows the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, subject to voter approval, to extend the length of imposition of an existing transactions and use tax of 0.5% for specified purposes.
Chapter 806, Statutes of 2012

AB 1484 (Assembly Budget Committee) Redevelopment: Budget Trailer Bill

Makes the statutory changes needed to achieve a total of $3.3 billion of budget savings related to the dissolution of redevelopment agencies (RDAs) as estimated in the Governor's May Revision of the Budget. Includes a process to identify excess redevelopment property tax revenues that should have been allocated to schools this month, but was withheld by successor agencies or county auditor controllers, and requires the rapid allocation of those funds. Requires an audit process to identify and locate the assets of the former redevelopment agencies and requires the return of cash balances for distribution as property tax number. After successful completion of these processes, successor agencies and their communities will be entitled to retain most real estate assets of the former RDAs consistent with a plan that they develop for their use, use excess RDA bond proceeds for additional projects, and receive repayments of community loans to the former RDAs over time. Makes many additional specific changes intended to facilitate the dissolution and winding up process, better resolve disputes, and provide additional tools and certainty. Provides for repayments of loans from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Funds, defines housing assets, and authorizes the expenditure of excess housing bond proceeds for affordable housing purposes.
Chapter 26, Statutes of 2012

AB 1486* (Lara-D) Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System

Exempts, until 1/1/17, the design, site acquisition, construction, operation, or maintenance of certain elements of the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System structures from California Environmental Quality Act if certain conditions are met (e.g., project would not have a substantial adverse impact on wetlands, riparian areas, or historical areas; operation of the project would not exceed certain Federal Communications Commission exposure standards).
Chapter 690, Statutes of 2012

AB 1497 (Assembly Budget Committee) Redevelopment: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the "Budget Junior Bill" which, among other provisions, makes adjustments to the Proposition 98 funding assumptions to reflect that the state will honor redevelopment pass-through agreements before allocating property tax associated with redevelopment to the appropriate local entities.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

AB 1515 (Torres-D) City of Pomona: state property: conveyance

Authorizes the City of Pomona to convey to the Consolidated Fire Protection District of the County of Los Angeles a portion of the 6.8 acres of land conveyed to the City of Pomona by the state in 1973.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1519 (Wieckowski-D) County employee retirement boards

Establishes educational requirements for retirement and investment board members serving on boards governing the 20 county retirement systems under the 1937 Act County Employees Retirement Law.
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2012

AB 1520 (Mendoza-D) Local ordinances: mobile billboard advertising displays

Expands the definition of "mobile billboard advertising display" to include an advertising display that is attached to any registered vehicle and is for the primary purpose of advertising. Authorizes local governments to regulate advertising on motorized and non-motorized vehicles on public streets.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1542 (Mansoor-R) County employees retirement: cost-of-living adjustments

Prohibits a person who first becomes a member of the Orange County Employees Retirement System on or after 1/1/12, from receiving the annual cost-of-living adjustment until they have been retired at least 12 months. Becomes operative only upon the adoption by the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1543 (Alejo-D) Local government: public contracts: Buy American

Beginning 1/1/14, the State of California, counties, cities, districts, and local government agencies charged with the letting of public contracts shall have every contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of public works or for the purchase of materials for public use shall contain a provision that only unmanufactured materials produced in the United States, and only manufactured materials manufactured in the U.S., substantially all from materials produced in the U.S. shall be used in the performance of the contract.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1549* (Gatto-D) Local development: expedited permit review

Recreates the Office of Permit Assistance (OPA) under the Governor's Office of Planning and Research in order to help facilitate state and local level review of commercial and industrial development projects. Requires OPA to develop guidelines providing technical assistance to local agencies for the establishment and operation of an expedited development permit process. Specifies that the availability of information for development permit applications is an issue of statewide concern and not a municipal affair, and therefore, the provisions of this measure shall apply to charter cities, charter counties, and a charter city and county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1552* (Silva-R) Property tax bill: deductions

Beginning 1/1/12 allows as a deduction under Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law the amount paid by the taxpayer on the property tax bill.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1555 (Norby-R) Redevelopment: debt forgiveness agreements

Prohibits the oversight board responsible for the wind-down of a redevelopment agency (RDA) to require the successor agency to forgive a loan, advance, or indebtedness that is owed to the dissolved RDA by a private body.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1562 (Jeffries-R) County inmate fire crews: fire prevention and suppression

Authorizes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFIRE) to enter into contracts with counties where CalFIRE already operates fire camps to establish county inmate fire crews for fire prevention and suppression. County jail inmate fire crew members would remain under the custody of county correctional facilities. Work performed by county inmate fire crews may be coordinated with the efforts of conservation camps, though the county would remain solely responsible for providing health and medical care to county inmates participating in fire crews.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1569 (Allen-D) Community mental health services: outpatient treatment

Extends the sunset date in current law providing counties with the option to implement court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment programs for mentally ill persons from 1/1/13, to 1/1/17, and requires the Department of Health Care Services to submit a related evaluation report to the Governor and Legislature by 7/1/15.
Chapter 441, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 2134 (Chesbro-D) which died in Senate Health Committee.

AB 1572* (Fletcher-I) San Diego County: service authority for freeway emergencies

Makes the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) the successor agency to the San Diego County Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies (SAFE). Authorizes SANDAG to continue to fund police, fire, and rescue helicopter programs. Postpones from 1/1/13, to 3/31/13, the date by which SANDAG is required to distribute excess SAFE funds.
Chapter 299, Statutes of 2012

AB 1578 (Logue-R) Plumas County: Indian Valley Watermaster District

Creates the Indian Valley Watermaster District. The district shall serve as watermaster to enforce local court decrees for water rights in Plumas County, in place of the watermaster presently appointed by the Department of Water Resources.
Chapter 345, Statutes of 2012

AB 1585 (John A. Pérez-D) Community development

Appropriates funds to the Infill Incentive Grant Program and to the Transit-Oriented Development Program created by Proposition 1C: Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006. Provides that the provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law governing administrative and planning costs for the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund shall apply to any funds retained by a housing successor agency that assume the responsibilities of a former redevelopment agency.
Chapter 777, Statutes of 2012

AB 1587 (Galgiani-D) San Joaquin County: vital records: fees

Authorizes the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations regarding the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the multiple agencies dealing with child abuse, to authorize an increase in the fees for certified copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records up to a total maximum increase of $2 per record to be allocated to the Children's Services Coordinating Commission and to Court Appointed Special Advocates, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1590 (Campos-D) Local government meetings: legislative body: definition

Applies the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act (Brown Act) to assessment appeals boards, and to boards of supervisors when sitting as an assessment appeals board. Provides that an assessment appeals board may meet in closed session pursuant to specified provisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code. Finds and declares that assessment appeals boards constitute quasi-judicial boards, rather than legislative bodies, and that specified Brown Act provisions related to rights of public comment and public access to documents shall not apply.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1592 (Olsen-R) Local governments: veterans: benefits: fee waiver

Allows a governing board of any county or city to grant financial assistance, relief, and support to disabled veterans by reducing or waiving specified fees for modifying a dwelling for the purpose of greater accessibility.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1600 (Torres-D) Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority

Authorizes the extension of the Gold Line light rail line from the City of Claremont in Los Angeles County to the City of Montclair in San Bernardino County.
Chapter 189, Statutes of 2012

AB 1606 (Perea-D) Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures

Clarifies impasse procedures governing local public agencies and employee organizations. Authorizes an employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a fact-finding panel not sooner than 30 days, but not more than 45 days, following the appointment of a mediator or entering into a mediation process. If the dispute was not submitted to mediation, an employee organization may request that the parties' differences be submitted to a fact-finding panel not later than 30 days following the date either party provided the other with written notice of a declaration of impasse.
Chapter 314, Statutes of 2012

AB 1614 (Monning-D) Monterey County: Fort Ord Reuse Authority

Extends the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) Act's sunset date from 6/30/14 to 6/30/20. Requires FORA's board to approve and submit a transition plan to the Monterey County Local Agency Formation Commission on or before 12/30/18, or 18 months before the anticipated inoperability date of FORA, whichever occurs first. The transition plan must assign assets and liabilities, designate responsible successor agencies, and provide a schedule of remaining obligations. The transition plan must be approved by a majority vote of the board.
Chapter 743, Statutes of 2012

AB 1622 (Eng-D) San Marino Unified School District: school property

Authorizes the San Marino Unified School District to sell the site of the former Stoneman Elementary School to the City of San Marino and use the proceeds of this sale for one-time general fund purposes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1627 (Dickinson-D) Local agencies: vehicle miles traveled

Requires the Office of Planning and Research, by 1/1/14, to prepare a manual for local governments, local agencies, and project developers to use to reduce vehicle miles traveled in new residential and commercial building projects.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1630 (Olsen-R) Stanislaus County Superior Court: official court reporters

Repeals a supplemental retirement benefits for court reporters in Stanislaus County Superior Court and makes non-substantive changes to reflect state trial court responsibility for compensation of court employees.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1642 (Gordon-D) County recorder: recordation of documents

Requires county recorders to record any document that relates to real property authorized or required to be recorded by a local ordinance, and clarifies the form requirements for a notice of intent to preserve an interest in real property.
Chapter 94, Statutes of 2012

AB 1643 (Dickinson-D) County of Sacramento: public officers

Expands the authority of the Sacramento County Sheriff and the Chief of Police of the City of Sacramento to hire sheriffs or police security officers for the purpose of protecting any properties owned, operated, or administered by any public agency, privately owned company, or nonprofit entity contracting for security services from the City or County of Sacramento, whose primary business supports national defense, or whose facility is qualified as a national critical infrastructure under federal law or by a federal agency, or that stores or manufactures material that, if stolen, vandalized, or otherwise compromised, may compromise national security or pose a danger to residents within the County of Sacramento. Requires that any such contract must provide for full reimbursement to the City or County of Sacramento of the actual costs of providing those services, as determined by the county auditor or auditor-controller, or by the city. Provides that, prior to contracting for these services, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors or the governing board of the City of Sacramento shall discuss the contract and the requirements of this paragraph at a duly noticed public hearing.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2012

AB 1644 (Carter-D) California Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of 2012

Enacts the California Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of 2012. Makes several legislative findings and declarations relating to the granting of redevelopment powers to communities affected by federal military base closures. Requires that a reuse plan contain several elements relating to the economic, environmental, and low- and moderate-income housing impacts of the military base closure. In order to facilitate the implementation of the plan elements, authorizes a reuse authority, through a transfer from the Department of Defense, to acquire and dispose of real property and other former military base assets adjacent to, or near, the former base.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1656 (Fong-D) San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority

Makes minor changes to the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority, to better accomplish its charge to restore, enhance, and protect the wetlands and wildlife habitat in the San Francisco Bay and along its shoreline. Extends the eastern boundary of the Authority to include all of Bay-related shoreline of Solano and Contra Costa counties, excluding the Delta primary zone, and reverses the inadvertent exclusion of the northeastern Contra Costa County shoreline from representation on the governing board.
Chapter 535, Statutes of 2012

AB 1662 (Fong-D) County boards of education: members

Permits an employee of a school district, that is not within the jurisdiction of the county board of education, eligible to be a member of a county board of education.
Chapter 499, Statutes of 2012

AB 1676 (Alejo-D) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocations

Declares that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the property tax apportionment factors applied in allocating property tax revenues in the County of San Benito for each fiscal year through the 2000-01 fiscal year, inclusive, are deemed correct. Requires that for the 2001-02 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, property tax apportionment factors applied in allocating property tax revenues in the County of San Benito must be determined on the basis of property tax apportionment factors for prior fiscal years that have been fully corrected and adjusted, pursuant to the review and recommendation of the State Controller.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1686 (Jeffries-R) Riverside County: Lake Mathews: waterways

Requires the Department of Boating and Waterways to allow public access to Lake Mathews, a reservoir in Riverside County, for the purposes of boating, fishing, and hiking, including access by nonmotorized bicycles. Allows the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to develop, fund, and operate any necessary infrastructure; limit the number of boats on the water and persons accessing the recreational area of the lake; establish a fee for access to recreational, boating, and parking areas of the lake; and establish a speed limit for all boats on the water.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1692 (Wieckowski-D) Local public entities: bankruptcy

Revises recently enacted language relating to the neutral evaluation process for local public entities contained in AB 506 (Wieckowski), Chapter 675, Statutes of 2011.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1700* (Butler-D) Property taxation: change in ownership: exclusion: cotenancy

Excludes from property tax reassessment a transfer of co-tenancy interest in a principal residence if the principal residence was owned by two individuals and was transferred to one of those individuals upon the death of the other, with the survivor obtaining sole ownership of that property.
Chapter 781, Statutes of 2012

AB 1736 (Smyth-R) Local government: open meetings

Includes the Governor, and his/her staff with direct expertise or authority on the subject matter under discussion, and other specified individuals in the list of individuals and agencies with which a legislative body may meet in closed session pursuant to the 'public security' exemption of the state's open meetings law. Requires local agencies to include in their notice for closed meetings on public security, the names and affiliations of persons involved who are not members of the local board or their staff.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 1763 (Davis-D) City of Los Angeles: peace officers

Confers peace officer status on a peace officer of the Department of General Services of the City of Los Angeles who was transferred to the Los Angeles Police Department and designated by the Los Angeles Chief of Police, if the primary duties of such officers is protection of property owned or operated by the City.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill is SB 1466 (De Leon-D), Chapter 795, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1768 (Davis-D) Counties: vehicle registration fees

Allows counties, by a resolution adopted by the board of supervisors, to impose a $3 annual vehicle registration fee surcharge in order to enhance the capacity of local police and prosecutors to deter, investigate, and prosecute vehicle theft crimes. In a county with a population of 250,000 or less, the proceeds of the fee must be expended exclusively for those vehicle theft crime programs and for the prosecution of crimes involving driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or both, or vehicular manslaughter, or any combination of those crimes.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1778 (Williams-D) Ventura County: local transportation funds

Provides that any Transportation Development Act (TDA) funds Ventura County has apportioned to local jurisdictions that are not encumbered within one year, or expended within two years, be returned to the Ventura County Transportation Commission for redistribution to transit operators that are otherwise eligible to receive TDA funds.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 1779 (Galgiani-D) Intercity rail agreements

Authorizes a locally-controlled joint powers authority, upon specified conditions and until 6/30/15, to assume administrative responsibilities for state-supported intercity rail passenger services.
Chapter 801, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill is SB 1225 (Padilla-D), Chapter 802, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1801 (Campos-D) Land use: fees

Prohibits a city or county from basing the calculation of a permit fee for the installation of a solar energy system on the valuation of the system, or any other factor not directly associated with the cost to issue the permit, and requires the city or county to separately identify each fee assessed on the applicant for the installation of the system on the invoice provided to the applicant.
Chapter 538, Statutes of 2012

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

Repeals existing provisions authorizing a local public entity use of project labor agreements in construction contracts. Repeals provisions authorizing a public entity to enter into a project labor agreement and allocate funding thereto by majority vote of its governing board, which may not be superseded by any charter, provision, or initiative except where the public entity is a charter city. Repeals provisions prohibiting the use of state funding or financial assistance in cases where a charter provision, initiative, or ordinance of a charter city prohibits the governing board of the public entity from considering or entering into a project labor agreement.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government)

AB 1815 (Harkey-R) Orange County Board of Supervisors: retirement

Provides that a person who is first publicly elected to, or appointed to fill the term of a person who is publicly elected or appointed to, the Orange County Board of Supervisors, on or after 1/1/12, would not become a member of that retirement system by virtue of that service, would not acquire any retirement right or benefit for serving in that elected office, and would not be credited with service for purposes of the retirement system by virtue of serving on the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1816 (Beall-D) County of Santa Clara: tax equity allocation formula

Modifies property tax allocations for four cities in Santa Clara County. Requires the Santa Clara County Auditor to make specified allocation and calculation changes which will result in an increase in property tax revenues allocated to the cities of Cupertino, Los Altos Hills, Monte Sereno, and Saratoga and a commensurate reduction of payments to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1827 (Bonilla-D) Infrastructure financing districts

Authorizes a military base reuse authority to form an infrastructure financing district (IFD), as specified, and allows an IFD to finance homeless accommodations. Includes in the definition of "city," for purposes of IFD law, a military base reuse authority formed pursuant to specified sections of law that establish both the Fort Ord Reuse Authority and the Military Base Reuse Authority Act.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1828 (Bonilla-D) Land use: Concord Naval Weapons Revise Authority

Authorizes Contra Costa County and the City of Concord to establish the Concord Naval Weapons Station Reuse Authority to plan for, finance, and manage the transition of the property formerly known as the Concord Naval Weapons Station from military to civilian use.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1831 (Dickinson-D) Local government: hiring practices

Prohibits a county or city from inquiring into or considering a job applicant's criminal history or including any inquiry about criminal history on an initial employment application. A county or city can inquire into or consider an applicant's criminal history after the applicant's qualifications have been screened and the county or city has determined the applicant meets the minimum employment requirements, as stated in any notice issued for the position. After complying with these provisions, a county or city can conduct a criminal history background check.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1840 (Alejo-D) King City Union School District: class size requirements

Deems the King City Union School District to have met class size requirements for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal years in order to be eligible to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to receive funding allocated to elementary and secondary schools and charter under the Quality Education Investment Act of 2006, which imposes certain program requirements on each funded school, including class size requirements.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1847 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) City of Long Beach: grant of public trust lands

Finalizes a land exchange agreement between the State Lands Commission and the City of Long Beach, and grants three Public Trust Parcels to the City, thus bringing these lands into the same management as the rest of the City's granted public trust lands.
Chapter 118, Statutes of 2012

AB 1851 (Allen-D) County, city, and district initiative petitions

Requires county elections officials to allow for public access to the proponent's county, municipal, or special district initiative measure materials that are filed with the elections officials pursuant to current law. Requires county elections officials to (1) keep on file these materials until the day after it is determined the initiative petition does not qualify, the day after the election, or the day after the proposed ordinance is adopted by the appropriate governing board, and (2) furnish copies of the materials to any person upon request. Elections officials may charge a fee not exceeding the actual cost of providing the copies.
Chapter 240, Statutes of 2012

AB 1852 (Campos-D) Local governments: vital records: fees

Authorizes a county board of supervisors and a city council, upon making specified findings and declarations, to increase the fees for certified copies of marriage and birth certificates, and death records by up to $5, with further increases permitted on an annual basis, based on the Consumer Price Index to fund domestic violence programs.
Vetoed

AB 1858 (Alejo-D) South Monterey County Joint Union High School District

Reduces the rate of interest that the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District is required to pay on its emergency loan received by the district in 2009 from 5.44% to 1%.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1240 (Cannella-R) which died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee.

AB 1863 (Chesbro-D) Mendocino County: mutual aid: reimbursement

Expands reimbursable costs under mutual aid and appropriates $40,827.29 from the General Fund to Mendocino County to reimburse the County for the costs it incurred for the food and lodging of outside agencies' personnel that offered mutual aid to the County in the 2011 manhunt for a difficult to apprehend suspected murderer.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1873* (Galgiani-D) County costs: mutual aid: reimbursement

Appropriates $90,000 from the state's General Fund to the Counties of San Joaquin and Calaveras to reimburse costs incurred for assistance provided by outside agencies that offered mutual aid during the 2012 excavation and recovery of murder victims.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1885 (Bonilla-D) County employees' retirement: reciprocal benefits

Makes applicable in all counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 provisions that extend the reemployment period for reciprocity eligibility for laid off employees from six months to one year.
Vetoed

AB 1897 (Campos-D) Land use: general plan: access to healthy food

Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to prepare and amend the guidelines for the preparation of and the content of the mandatory elements required in city and county general plans to contain advice, developed in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, for improving the health of Californians by increasing access to healthy affordable food. The local government is granted the discretion to use the information contained in the guidelines.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1901 (Jones-R) Counties: construction projects: design-build

Lowers the existing cost threshold from $2.5 million to $1 million for county-based design-build construction projects.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1914 (Garrick-R) Local agency reports

Requires each state or local agency required to submit one or more reports to submit to the Legislature, in a printed form to the Secretary of the Senate and in an electronic form to the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, a list of all reports the agency has not yet submitted, by April 1 of each year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1925 (Ma-D) San Francisco: displacement of tenants

Limits levels of compensation in San Francisco for the temporary displacement of tenant households from rent-controlled units for less than 20 days to $275 per day per household and actual moving expenses if it is necessary to move the household's possessions.
Chapter 243, Statutes of 2012

AB 1939 (Pan-D) Dog licensing: issuance: puppy licenses

Creates a pilot project in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Sacramento, San Diego, and Santa Clara, which requires 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.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1957 (Gordon-D) County tax collectors

Authorizes counties to permit tax collectors to reduce the quantity of information required to be published in a newspaper regarding real property defaulted to the county, lowers the minimum interest rate for property tax refunds and adds tax collection to the kinds of course content eligible for the continuing education requirements of county treasurers and tax collectors.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1962 (Allen-D) Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District

Repeals the requirement that the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District obtain advisory review of a rail transit facility project through the design review process of the relevant city or county.
Chapter 98, Statutes of 2012

AB 1973 (Olsen-R) Mariposa County: Ferguson Slide Permanent Restoration

Allows the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to authorize the incidental take of the endangered limestone salamander harmed as a result of the Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) implementation of the Ferguson Slide Permanent Restoration Project in Mariposa County, if DFG determines Caltrans will adopt appropriate avoidance and mitigation measures.
Chapter 121, Statutes of 2012

AB 1979 (Roger Hernández-D) City of West Covina: city council districts

Establishes five city council districts in the City of West Covina. Requires that a district-based method of election be imposed for the election of members of the City Council of the City of West Covina.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1994 (Huber-D) Counties: disability access: causes of action

Requires every county to establish a program that requires an alleged aggrieved party under the state access laws to file a complaint with the county planning department in which an alleged violation occurred. Requires the county planning department to refer every complaint received under this act to a certified access specialist to determine what measures are necessary to remedy the alleged violation and the estimated timeframe for remedy.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1998 (Achadjian-R) County surplus property

Authorizes the board of supervisors of a county to authorize the county welfare department to donate surplus computer equipment directly to persons receiving public benefits under one or more of the following programs: CalFresh; CalWORKs; County Relief, General Relief, or General Assistance; or, Medi-Cal.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 2012

AB 2011 (Gatto-D) Local/regional water conservation

Allocates $50 million from the prospective Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012 to establish CalConserve, a program by which the Department of Water Resources would provide grants to local agencies for implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs that help customers carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2014 (Ammiano-D) Property taxation: change in ownership

Requires the Legislature to convene a task force to update the work done by the 1979 Task Force on Property Tax Administration regarding the definition of change in ownership for complex legal entities, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2018 (Norby-R) Land use: local planning: religious corporations

Prohibits any city, county, or other local governmental agency from, in the enactment or administration of any zoning ordinance or permitting process, discriminating against any religious corporation, or any religious corporation's affiliation with a superior religious body or general church.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2053 (Allen-D) San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District: benefits

Authorizes the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District to establish a vesting requirement for post-retirement health benefits coverage that is different than what is allowed under current law for agencies that contract with the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
Vetoed

AB 2095 (Campos-D) Counties: signs: culturally unique/historically significant

Authorizes, until 1/1/14, the Department of Transportation to place and maintain destination signs to a culturally unique and historically significant community if the county in which the community exists requests the sign and the city within which the community exists provides a letter indicating that the city is not opposed to the placement of the signs. Provides that any sign placed in accordance with these provisions need not be removed when the authority to place the sign is repealed.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2115 (Alejo-D) Local health care districts

Requires a written employment agreement if a local health care district employs or contracts with a hospital administrator or chief executive officer.
Vetoed

AB 2131 (Olsen-R) Local government: tax collectors: continuing education

Adds "tax collection" to the list of subjects that can be credited toward county tax collectors' continuing education requirements.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2012

AB 2134 (Chesbro-D) Community mental health services: outpatient treatment

Requires a county that elects to implement a court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) program for mentally ill persons, pursuant to current law, to develop best practices and provide services for mental health crisis response, including, but not limited to, utilization of crisis intervention teams, mobile crisis teams, or psychiatric emergency response teams. Exempts a county providing AOT services as of 1/1/12 from the requirements.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
A similar bill is AB 1569 (Allen-D), Chapter 441, Statutes of 2012.

AB 2144 (John A. Pérez-D) Local government: infrastructure/revitalization financing

Expands the types of facilities and projects that can be financed under the infrastructure financing district (IFD) law, reduces the voter threshold for the creation of an IFD and the issuance of bonds for the IFD, authorizes an IFD to utilize the powers provided under the Polanco Redevelopment Act, and renames IFD law to the Infrastructure and Revitalization Financing District Act.
Vetoed

AB 2146 (Cook-R) County of San Bernardino: local campaign reform

Authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) to assume primary responsibility for administration and enforcement, as specified, of San Bernardino County's campaign finance ordinance, and authorizes the FPPC and the County to enter into any mutual agreements necessary to implement, including provisions regarding County reimbursement of FPPC's costs.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2012

AB 2151 (Halderman-R) Redding and Fresno: veterans' homes: funding

Appropriates $26.1 million from the general fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide funding to open and operate soon-to-be completed veterans' homes in Fresno and Redding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2167 (Hill-D) Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency

Allows the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA) to issue bonds to repay the costs of capital facilities. Allows BAWSCA to acquire from the City and County of San Francisco the right to receive all or a portion of the amounts payable by BAWSCA members under the July 2009 Water Supply Agreement. Provides that, if BAWSCA acquires, and the City and County of San Francisco sells, the right to receive amounts payable, as specified, if requested by BAWSCA, the City and County of San Francisco shall continue to collect amounts payable by BAWSCA members under the July 2009 Water Supply Agreement in accordance with the terms of that agreement and the City and County of San Francisco shall transfer amounts so collected to BAWSCA on a monthly basis or on a periodic bases agreed to by BAWSCA and the City and County of San Francisco.
Chapter 251, Statutes of 2012

AB 2173 (Skinner-D) Metropolitan Transportation Commission: regional gas tax

Allows the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to submit a proposed ballot measure to impose a regional tax on gasoline used by motor vehicles to voters of one or more counties within the nine-county region rather than to all counties.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2180 (Alejo-D) Local health care districts: employment contracts

Requires a written employment agreement between a health care district and a hospital administrator to include all material terms and conditions agreed to between the district and the hospital administrator regarding compensation, retirement benefits, severance or continuing compensation after termination of the agreement, vacation pay and other paid time off for illness or personal reasons, and other employment benefits that differ from those available to other full-time employees.
Chapter 322, Statutes of 2012

AB 2183 (Smyth-R) Local government: assessors: county board of equalization

Requires counties to set up an agent registration program and requires agents to register with counties. Defines agents as individuals who represent taxpayers in property tax appeals. Creates a code of conduct, sets forth a list of acts prohibited of agents, borrowing largely from IRS Circular 230 and allows counties to levy sanctions for failing to register or engaging in a prohibited act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2210 (Smyth-R) County assessors: notification

Requires a county assessor, when requested by the board of supervisors, to estimate whether annual property valuations for the county have decreased by 3% or more, and if so, to notify the county and the Department of Finance of the decrease.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 2223 (Williams-D) Santa Barbara Community College District

Authorizes the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to apportion full funding per full-time equivalent students (FTES) to educational centers in the Santa Barbara Community College District irrespective of the number of FTES enrolled at those educational centers.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2226 (Hueso-D) Local agency proceedings: evidence: presumption

Provides that, in any proceeding before a state agency, city, county, or city and county, the presumption relating to beneficial ownership provided in the Evidence Code shall apply if title to, or ownership of, property is in question. This presumption provides that the owner of legal title to property is presumed to be the owner of the full beneficial title, unless rebutted by clear and convincing evidence.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2227 (Bradford-D) Local publicly owned electric utilities

Recasts and revises the reporting requirements of the local publicly-owned electric utilities for the California Energy Commission and the California Solar Initiative which are intended to result in a streamlining and consolidation of reporting requirements.
Chapter 606, Statutes of 2012

AB 2231 (Fuentes-D) Local governments: sidewalks: repairs

Requires voter approval to repeal an existing city or county ordinance that requires the local entity to repair sidewalks. Prohibits a city or county that has such an ordinance in place from charging property owners for sidewalk repairs unless the owner consents to the charge.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2259 (Ammiano-D) San Francisco: infrastructure financing districts

Modifies infrastructure financing district (IFD) provisions for the City and County of San Francisco related to the America's Cup. Authorizes the legislative body of a waterfront district to undertake proceedings and actions relating to IFDs with respect to the district as a whole, or separately with respect to one or more project areas.
Chapter 785, Statutes of 2012

AB 2265 (Roger Hernández-D) Improvement districts

Prohibits, for various improvement and assessment districts, the ability to contract for specified services with a firm or organization if that firm or organization was previously contracted with for services relating to the formation of that district.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 2276 (Campos-D) Local ombudsman programs: funding

Appropriates $1.6 million for the 2012-13 fiscal year, and $1.6 million for the 2013-14 fiscal year, from the State Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account to the Department of Aging to fund local ombudsman programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2277 (Hueso-D) Local governments: Adopt a Highway Program: courtesy signs

Requires the Department of Transportation to notify and obtain the approval of the local governing body which has jurisdiction over the area where a sign would be placed in order to post a courtesy sign identifying a group that is providing the litter abatement. Requires the Department to post the notice of the application on its Internet Web site for access by the public. The local governing body would have a specified time limit to act on the application request and the approval could not be unreasonably withheld.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2291 (Blumenfield-D) Local regulations: vehicles: advertising signs

Defines, further, the types of displays that are exempt from local regulation of advertising on parked vehicles. Exempts from local regulation legal license plate frames and paper advertisements issued by a dealer and contained within legal license plate frames.
Chapter 373, Statutes of 2012

AB 2299 (Feuer-D) Local government: public safety officials: confidentiality

Authorizes a county board of supervisors to establish a program that requires a public safety official's (PSO) name be redacted from any property record disclosed to the public by that county. Requires a county that establishes a program to ensure that the property record of a PSO is redacted when a search is conducted by index name.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 2308 (Torres-D) Land use: housing element: regional housing need

Allows cities and counties to reduce their share of the regional housing need by the number of units built between the start of a housing element projection period and the housing element due date.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2012

AB 2312 (Ammiano-D) Local taxation: medical cannabis

Authorizes county board of supervisors to levy, increase, or extend one or more transactions and use taxes on medical marijuana or medical marijuana-infused products, if approved by two-thirds of the members of the board of supervisors and by a majority of the voters of that county. Provides that the combined rate of all taxes imposed in any county pursuant to this bill shall not exceed the combined rate of 5%.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 2314 (Carter-D) Local governments: real property: blight

Removes the sunset on a statute that permits local governments to fine property owners for failure to maintain certain property and makes other changes relating to the ability of a local enforcement agency to abate nuisances and correct substandard building violations.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2012

AB 2332* (Monning-D) County of Santa Cruz: income tax deductions: disaster losses

Provides that any losses sustained in the County of Santa Cruz as a result of the severe storms that occurred in March 2011 may, at the taxpayer's election, be taken into account for the taxable year immediately preceding the taxable year in which the disaster occurred.
Chapter 203, Statutes of 2012

AB 2351 (Gordon-D) Williamson Act: cancellation: fees

Requires a landowner wishing to cancel any contract pursuant to the Williamson Act to pay 5% of the total cancellation fee within 30 days of the county board of supervisors' or city council's decision to grant tentative approval of the cancellation of the contract.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2375 (Knight-R) City of Santa Monica: public transit buses: illuminated sign

Authorizes the Antelope Valley Transit Authority to equip the sides of its buses with illuminated signs to display advertising if the City of Santa Monica has not already done so by 3/1/13.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 2382 (Gordon-D) Santa Clara County: innovative project demonstration program

Requires the Department of Transportation to enter into an agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority by 7/1/13 that enumerates the roles and responsibilities of each entity with respect to a demonstration program for innovative project delivery in Santa Clara County.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2383 (Ammiano-D) San Francisco: motor vehicle records

Allows the City Attorney of San Francisco to obtain copies of full-face engraved pictures or photographs of individuals directly from the Department of Motor Vehicles for the purposes of performing functions related to city and county operations.
Chapter 304, Statutes of 2012

AB 2387 (Smyth-R) Local public entities: occupational safety and health

Authorizes any county, city, special district, public authority, public agency, or joint powers authority to apply for a refund of their civil penalties assessed for violations of occupational safety and health laws, if all conditions have been abated, they have abated their outstanding citation, and they have not been cited for serious violation within two years of the original violation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2388 (Beall-D) Santa Clara County Open-Space Authority: contracts

Increases, for the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority, the thresholds for specified bidding requirements, and makes other changes to the Authority's enabling act.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2012

AB 2404 (Fuentes-D) Local Emission Reduction Program

Creates the Local Emission Reduction Program to provide local assistance grants to develop and implement multibenefit greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in California's communities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2407 (Chesbro-D) Mendocino County: joint powers agreements: health facilities

Authorizes various district hospitals and private, nonprofit hospitals in the County of Mendocino, to enter into a joint powers agreement with the Northern California Health Care Authority.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2417 (Block-D) San Diego Unified School District: certificated employees

Extends the deadlines for the San Diego Unified School District to issue preliminary reduction notices to certificated employees that the school district may terminate their services by three months.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2418 (Gordon-D) Health districts

Requires, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a health care district to expend at least 95% of the revenue derived from the annual general tax levy assessed on real and personal property within the district, on current community health care benefits, as defined, after excluding the amounts for the revenue and expenditures as described.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2428 (Hagman-R) Elected local officials: public employees' retirement

Prohibits a person who is publicly elected to a local office of any kind, on and after 1/1/13, from becoming a member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System by virtue of that service or from acquiring any retirement right or benefit for serving in that elective local office.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 2429 (Hagman-R) Local appointed and elected officials: retirement

Prohibits a person appointed or publicly elected to a local public office of any kind that is less than full-time, as defined, on or after 1/1/13, from becoming a member of any public retirement system by virtue of that service, from acquiring any retirement right or benefit, or from receiving health benefits or other specified benefits for serving in that elective office. This prohibition would not apply to a local official who held office prior to 1/1/13, and remains in, or is reappointed or reelected to that office.
(Died in interim study)
A similar bill was AB 738 (Hagman-R) which failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee.

AB 2433 (Hill-D) San Francisco Bay Area: water emergency transportation

Staggers the membership terms of the five directors of the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority who are appointed by the Governor and the Legislature.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 2012

AB 2437 (Jeffries-R) Riverside County: special death benefits

Authorize the Public Employees' Retirement special death benefit to be payable if the deceased was a Riverside County Sheriff's Department Correctional Deputy or a Correctional Corporal, if his/her death occurred as a direct result of injury arising out of and in the course of his/her official duties with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, and if there was a qualifying survivor.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
A similar bill was AB 666 (Jeffries-R) which died in Senate Public Employees and Retirement Committee.

AB 2440 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Expands the contracting authority of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to permit the use of objective selection criteria in addition to price for design-build projects, shortens notice requirements for design-build projects costing less than $10 million, and raises or eliminates certain contracting thresholds for other alternative procurement processes.
Chapter 703, Statutes of 2012

AB 2455 (Campos-D) Local agencies: identity theft

Requires local agencies to comply with the state's information privacy breach notification law, which requires an agency that owns or licenses a computer data system including personal information to provide notification to impacted persons following any breach of the data whereby personal information was, or is believed to have been acquired.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2459 (Torres-D) Local emergency telephone systems: appropriate use

Requires the California 911 Emergency Communications Office to develop and implement a public education campaign to instruct the public on appropriate and inappropriate uses of the 9-1-1 emergency telephone number system.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2551 (Hueso-D) Infrastructure financing districts: renewable energy zones

Permits cities and counties to establish infrastructure financing districts (IFDs) and use tax increment revenues derived from project areas to finance renewable energy infrastructure or renewable energy upgrades. An IFD formed for this purpose would be exempt from voter approval requirements for formation of the district, adoption of an infrastructure financing plan, and issuance of bonds.
Vetoed

AB 2557 (Feuer-D) Los Angeles County: real property

Provides, in Los Angeles County, for a period of three years, injunctive relief to a person whose property is injuriously affected by a neighboring owner's failure to maintain a vacant foreclosed residential property and permits the city attorney, county counsel, or district attorney to seek the appointment of a receiver for a substandard building.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 2559 (Buchanan-D) Local government: pipeline projects

Requires a local government to act on an application from a public gas utility for a ministerial pipeline project permit within a specified time period.
Chapter 486, Statutes of 2012

AB 2560 (Allen-D) Marin County: alcoholic beverages

Permits the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a maximum of 15 new original on-sale general licenses, over a five-year period, for bona fide public eating places in Marin County.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1320 (Allen-D), Chapter 467, Statutes of 2012.

AB 2567 (Carter-D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees

Allows an agency providing wastewater service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water, sewage treatment, or wastewater treatment or adjustments for inflation, as specified.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2012

AB 2572 (Furutani-D) Los Angeles Community College District: governing board

Commencing with the 2013 election, authorizes the governing board of the Los Angeles Community College District to adopt a resolution by majority vote to enact an alternative method by which members of the governing board may be elected at large and by individual seat number, as specified.
Chapter 754, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was AB 1252 (Davis-D) which died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee.

AB 2587 (Knight-R) City of Adelanto: local agreements: correctional facility

Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into a long-term agreement, not to exceed 25 years, with the City of Adelanto to finance and build a state prison facility for medium and maximum security inmates.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2624 (Smyth-R) Sustainable communities

Makes local agency formation commissions eligible for financial assistance from Proposition 84 for the development or implementation of a regional plan that supports sustainable communities and land use.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2626 (Furutani-D) County task forces: violent crimes against women

Requires the county, if it has established a task force on violent crimes against women, to include in their evaluation and recommendations on law enforcement issues the need for services and access to information provided in languages other than English for women who are victims of violent crime.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2643 (Ma-D) Property taxation

Makes several changes to the statutes related to property tax collection, including requiring the county tax collector to notify all taxpayers that receive a tax bill of the provisions of the bill related to penalty relief.
Chapter 161, Statutes of 2012

AB 2649 (Ammiano-D) City and County of San Francisco: tidelands/submerged lands

Adds seawall lots 322-1 and 377 to the list of seawall lots no longer needed for specified trust purposes, and authorizes the Port of San Francisco to lease those lots for nontrust purposes.
Chapter 757, Statutes of 2012

AB 2664 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County employees' retirement: electronic signatures

Makes various noncontroversial changes to the laws governing retirement systems established pursuant to the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2012

AB 2680 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Williamson Act: lot line adjustments: contracts

Deletes the sunset date of 1/1/13, for Williamson Act lot line adjustments. A lot line adjustment is allowed if it is agreed upon by a city or county and a landowner, to rescind an Act contract and simultaneously enter into a new contract to facilitate lot line adjustments.
Chapter 128, Statutes of 2012

AB 2698 (Assembly Local Government Committee) Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act

Makes several minor, non-controversial changes to the laws affecting local government organization and reorganization.
Chapter 62, Statutes of 2012

ACA 4 (Blumenfield-D) Local government financing: voter approval

Amends the California Constitution to allow a city, county, or special district, as defined, to incur bonded indebtedness in order to fund specified public improvements and facilities, with 55% voter approval of that city, county or special district.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 17 (Logue-R) State-mandated local programs

Prohibits the Legislature or a state agency from mandating a new program or higher level of service on any local government, except as specified, unless the local government is reimbursed for the costs of that new program or higher level of service.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

ACA 18 (Swanson-D) Local government: taxation: parcel tax

Allows a city, county, or special district to impose, extend, or increase a parcel tax for the purpose of funding the maintenance or improvement of fire protection or police protection services with approval by a majority of voters in that city, county, or special district.
(Refused adoption on Assembly Floor)

ACA 23 (Perea-D) Local government transportation projects: special taxes

Provides that the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax by a local government for the purpose of providing funding for local transportation projects requires the approval of 55% of its voters voting on the proposition.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACR 99 (Fuentes-D) The Great Wall of Los Angeles

Recognizes the importance of the Great Wall of Los Angeles to the people of California and requests that the Department of Transportation erect informational signs on State Highway Route 170, in the County of Los Angeles, directing motorists to the Great Wall of Los Angeles, consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway system and upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 126 (Charles Calderon-D) Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America

Requests that the Department of Transportation erect signs on State Highway Route 210 in Los Angeles County directing motorists to the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America.
Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2012

AJR 25 (Feuer-D) Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2011

States the absence of effective regulations for commercial helicopter operations in the County of Los Angeles negatively impacts the safety and quality of life of the county's residents; therefore memorializes Congress to enact and the President to sign the Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2011.
Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2012

AJR 46 (Block-D) Operation San Diego

States support for the advocacy efforts of "Operation San Diego" to promote to the Congress and the President of the U.S. 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

Immigration Issues

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SB 434 (Anderson-R) Undocumented criminal immigrants: incarceration costs: data

Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to annually bill the federal government for the full cost of incarcerating any undocumented criminal alien incarcerated within California's correctional system; and if the federal government does not make the payment demanded above, requires the Attorney General to utilize all available legal resources to obtain reimbursement. Provides that the Department of Justice (DOJ) shall collect data on the total number and percentage of undocumented alien inmates in all state and local correctional institutions in the state and publish this data on DOJ's Internet Web site. This data shall be initially collected and published on or before 7/1/12, and thereafter updated and published annually on or before July 1 of each year.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 901 (Steinberg-D) Undocumented immigrants: taxation

Establishes a voluntary program, administered by the Department of Justice, encouraging certain immigrants to pay state income tax and potentially allowing those who do to gain relief from federal enforcement and decriminalizes members' employment. Directs the Governor to petition the President of the United States and other federal agencies to provide relief and or exemptions from federal immigration enforcement actions against participants and their families, as well as decriminalize employment of program participants.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1064 (De León-D) Immigration: child custody

Provides family and custodial protections for children of immigrant families. Among other things, states that a relative's immigration status does not disqualify the relative from receiving custody of a child in a family law proceeding, and allows a relative to file for guardianship of a minor dependent regardless of immigration status and provides that immigration status of the relative alone shall not constitute unsuitability.
Chapter 845, Statutes of 2012

AB 26 (Donnelly-R) Illegal immigrants: state policy: enforcement mechanisms

Prohibits public officials and agencies from adopting a policy that limits or restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws or that restricts the sharing of a person's immigration status, as specified, and allows any person to bring an action against an entity to enforce these provisions.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 78 (Mendoza-D) Immigrants' rights

Provides that a person without legal authority to reside in the United States but who has continuously resided in California since 1/1/07, shall have the same rights and responsibilities that are afforded to any other legal permanent resident in this state pursuant to the California Constitution and any other state or local law or regulation, if the person is in compliance with certain requirements.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 916* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Undocumented workers: agriculture

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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1544 (V. Manuel Perez-D) which died on the Assembly Inactive File.

AB 1031 (Donnelly-R) Undocumented drivers: driving under the influence (DUI)

Requires an arresting authority report the presence of an individual to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement if that individual is arrested for DUI or DUI with injury, as specified, and the individual fails to provide the arresting authority with the appropriate documentation demonstrating his/her legal presence in the United States.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1081 (Ammiano-D) Federal immigration policy enforcement: state government

Prohibits a law enforcement official, as defined, from detaining an individual on the basis of a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold after that individual becomes eligible for release from criminal custody, unless, at the time that the individual becomes eligible for release from criminal custody, certain conditions are met.
Vetoed

AB 1544 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Undocumented workers: agricultural jobs

Enacts the California Agricultural Jobs and Industry Stabilization Act of 2012. Among other provisions, requires the Employment Development Department (EDD), upon the state receiving the necessary authority under federal law, to administer a California Agricultural Jobs and Industry Stabilization Program; requires EDD to certify that there are not enough legal residents of California to fill all open agricultural and service industry jobs in California; authorizes EDD to issue permits to undocumented aliens to work in the agricultural and service industries and who meet specified criteria; authorizes EDD to issue permits to reside in California to the immediate family members of an undocumented alien permitted as a worker under the Program; requires, prior to the issuance of a permit, an undocumented alien to pay a fee to EDD and requires those fees to be deposited into the California Agricultural Jobs and Industry Stabilization Program Fund, established by this bill; requires EDD to annually publish a report analyzing whether the Program has caused the displacement of employable legal residents of California in the agricultural and service industries.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
A similar bill was AB 916 (V. Manuel Perez-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

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. Among other things, requires the Employment Development Department (EDD) to create a program that authorizes a foreign national who meets certain requirements to apply to EDD for resident immigrant status; authorizes a resident immigrant to work, study, and live in this state; and requires a resident immigrant or a resident immigrant's employer to pay all income taxes and employment taxes, fees, or charges. Provides that none of the provisions of this bill shall be carried out unless the EDD Director receives the necessary authority, consistent with federal law, from the federal government to administer the program.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

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

Specifies that a person whose presence in the United States is authorized by federal law, but who is ineligible for a social security number, is eligible to obtain a driver's license in California.
Chapter 862, Statutes of 2012

AB 2306 (Donnelly-R) Border security: California Emergency Services Act

Adds "border security" to the list of those conditions that constitute a state of emergency or local emergency for purposes of the California Emergency Services Act.
(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

ACA 27 (Fuentes-D) Undocumented immigrants: taxation

Requires the Franchise Tax Board, for each year from 2014 through 2018, to annually submit to the Legislature a report that details the tax receipts collected during the immediately preceding taxable year from qualified persons defined as, among others, a person who is not eligible to receive a social security number, but who has filed a state income tax return with a valid individual taxpayer identification number. Provides that a qualified person voluntarily participates in the reporting program pursuant to an application process to be administered by the Department of Justice. Provides that information collected under the program is confidential and not subject to public disclosure, except as authorized. Requires the destruction of all records collected under this bill, as provided. Sunsets on 1/1/20.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

AJR 26 (Wieckowski-D) United States' Visa Waiver Program: Poland

Calls upon the President of the United States to lift the restrictions currently in place that prevent the Republic of Poland from being admitted to the Visa Waiver Program. The Program allows citizens of specific countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business purposes for up to 90 days with a passport, without having to obtain a visa.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

AJR 38 (Donnelly-R) Undocumented criminals: incarceration

Urges Congress and the President of the United States to restore full funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program and to fully reimburse states for the cost of incarcerating undocumented criminals.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

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SCR 3 (Price-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Designates that 1/17/11 be observed as the official memorial of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SR 23 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate and ACR 87 (Bradford-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SCR 4 (Price-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2011 as Black History Month, urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SR 24 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate and HR 22 (Mitchell-D) which was adopted by the Assembly.

SCR 11 (Corbett-D) Irish American Heritage Month

Designates March 2011 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to the country and state.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SCR 64 (Corbett-D), Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2012, and ACR 50 (Garrick-R), Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 2012.

SCR 27 (Correa-D) Black April Memorial Week

Declares the week of 4/23/11 through 4/30/11 as Black April Memorial Week.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012

SCR 59 (Correa-D) September 11, 2001 10th anniversary

Recognizes the 10th anniversary of the 9/11/01 attacks as a day of solemn commemoration.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SCR 64 (Corbett-D) Irish American Heritage Month

Designates March 2012 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to the country and state.
Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2012
Similar resolutions were SCR 11 (Corbett-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee and ACR 50 (Garrick-R), Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2012.

SCR 96 (Corbett-D) Philippine Independence Day

Recognizes 6/12/12, as the 114th Anniversary of Philippine Independence.
Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 2012

SCR 98 (Lieu-D) United States Constitution

Commemorates the 225th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution on 9/17/12.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2012

SJR 2 (Kehoe-D) Military policy: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell,..."

Urges the President, Congress, and Secretary of Defense of the United States to end the policy of levying fines on lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members discharged under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue, Don't Harass" policy.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)

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

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

SJR 8 (Leno-D) Hazardous flame retardants

Urges the federal government's process of identifying alternatives to flame retardants to include, among other things, the design of products that do not require the use of flame retardants. Urges the United States Congress to enact the Safe Chemicals Act to restrict flame retardants that pose health risks. Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to, among other things, establish health and safety standards for flame retardant chemicals. Urges the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission to adopt specified smolder prevention rules that provide improved fire safety without toxicity in furniture, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

SJR 9 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Veterans' health care

Urges the United States Congress to require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs not abrogate the desires of President Lincoln to care for those most needy and to remember the promises made to World War II veterans.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)

SJR 10 (De León-D) Firearms trafficking

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to pursue a comprehensive approach to stem the trafficking of illicit U.S. firearms and ammunition into Mexico, that includes, among other things, enhanced collaboration among local, state, and federal agencies, the allocation of a permanent source of federal funding to sustain local and state law enforcement operations to combat firearms trafficking and other border-related crimes, the redirection of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection resources towards this effort, reenactment of a strong federal assault weapons ban, and stronger federal authority to crack down on corrupt gun dealers.
Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2012

SJR 11 (Padilla-D) Energy efficiency standards: light bulbs

Urges the California delegation in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to vote against any proposed legislation, including H.R. 2417, that would weaken federal energy efficiency standards or constrain California's long-recognized authority to enact its own standards to promote energy efficiency.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 12 (Rubio-D) Fatherhood

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to pursue a comprehensive approach to addressing issues facing boys and men of color by promoting positive father involvement and mentoring for children that affirms that fathers and positive male role models are a critical part of the lives of children, and redirects the distribution of funds and resources of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the State of California as part of the White House Initiative on Fatherhood and Mentoring to assist underserved boys and men of color throughout the state, as specified.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SJR 15 (DeSaulnier-D) Harbor Maintenance Tax: Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to significantly increase federal funding from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund surplus for navigational improvements and continued operational and maintenance dredging in those federal channels that serve California's ports such that these expenditures equal the amounts contributed by California to halt adding to the surplus in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, and to recognize the role of California's ports in contributing the greatest share of the Harbor Maintenance Tax revenues. Memorializes the Legislature's support of efforts by California's congressional delegation to obtain an equitable share of all federal port and goods movement infrastructure funding and encourages those representatives to support measures that will fund the security and facilitation of commercial activity at California's ports.
Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 2012

SJR 16 (Vargas-D) Calexico West Port of Entry

States that the Legislature declares it support for a private-public partnership to renovate and expand the Calexico West Port of Entry. Urges the United States Congress to enact guiding legislation to authorize private-public partnerships such as the one proposed for the expansion of the Calexico West Port of Entry.
Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2012

SJR 17 (Corbett-D) Coastal resources: San Francisco Bay

Declares the Legislature's endorsement of S. 97 and H.R. 3034, and urges the United States Congress to enact the San Francisco Bay Restoration Act at the earliest possible time.
Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2012

SJR 18 (Pavley-D) Individuals with disabilities: tax exempt accounts

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to immediately enact the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2011.
Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2012

SJR 19 (Strickland-R) Military base closures

Urges the California congressional delegation to protect California military bases from closure during upcoming base realignment and closure processes.
Resolution Chapter 95, Statutes of 2012

SJR 20 (Evans-D) Violence Against Women Act

Calls on the United States Congress to pass the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011, S. 1925 (Senators Leahy and Crapo), and ensures the sustainability of vital programs designed to keep women and families safe from violence and abuse.
Resolution Chapter 58, Statutes of 2012

SJR 21 (Kehoe-D) Federal tax exemptions: retirement funds

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to (1) amend the U.S. Internal Revenue Code to allow all retirees who have contributed to a qualified retirement plan the option to treat funds from those plans used to pay medical and long-term care premiums as tax-free rollovers, and (2) create parity among all workers by presenting qualified retirement plan participants with the same option given to public safety members under the Pension Protection Act of 2006.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SJR 22 (Simitian-D) World Press Freedom Day 2012

Recognizes 5/3/12 as World Press Freedom Day 2012, and encourages all state legislatures throughout the United States to recognize 5/3/12 as World Press Freedom Day 2012, thereby also acknowledging the importance of a free press in the U.S. and the world.
Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2012

SJR 23 (Simitian-D) Armenian Genocide: day of remembrance

Designates 4/24/12 as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923." Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to act likewise to commemorate the Armenian Genocide.
Resolution Chapter 21, Statutes of 2012

SJR 24 (Harman-R) Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach

Urges the California congressional delegation to protect the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach during any upcoming base realignment and closure processes.
Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2012

SJR 25 (Harman-R) Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base

Urges the California congressional delegation to protect the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base during any upcoming base realignment and closure processes.
Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2012

SJR 26 (Vargas-D) Naval Air Facility El Centro

Urges the California congressional delegation to protect the Naval Air Facility El Centro during any upcoming base realignment and closure processes.
Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2012

SJR 27 (Simitian-D) Are You Dense Day

Recognizes 8/8/12 as "Are You Dense?" Day 2012, to raise awareness of the risks associated with breast density and the potential benefits of other screening tools to supplement mammography.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2012

SJR 28 (Emmerson-R) Department of Defense budget cuts

Opposes the budget presented by the United States Air Force to the Senate and House of Representatives of the U.S.
Resolution Chapter 98, Statutes of 2012

SJR 29 (Yee-D) Voting: disenfranchisement

Proclaims the Legislature's support for the investigation by the federal Department of Justice into whether state legislatures are discriminating against and suppressing the vote of minorities, senior citizens, young adults, or those with physical disabilities or limited economic means, and further denounces any law that disenfranchises society's most disadvantaged eligible voters.
Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2012

SJR 30 (Hancock-D) Social security: retirement benefits: public employees

Requests the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the Social Security Fairness Act of 2011, which would repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision from the Social Security Act.
Resolution Chapter 126, Statutes of 2012

SR 22 (Vargas-D) Calexico West Port of Entry

Declares its support for a private-public partnership to renovate and expand the Calexico West Port of Entry.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SR 23 (Price-D) Martin Luther King Day

Designates that 1/16/12, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
Adopted by the Senate
Similar resolutions were SCR 3 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee and ACR 87 (Bradford-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SR 24 (Price-D) Black History Month

Proclaims February 2012 as Black History Month, urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
Adopted by the Senate
A similar resolution was SCR 4 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

SR 28 (Alquist-D) Greek Independence Day

Designates 3/25/12 as Greek Independence Day.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 29 (Blakeslee-R) Islamic Republic of Iran

Urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to uphold specified civil and human rights and recognizes the month of June 2012 as 30 Days of Solidarity with the Human Rights Movements in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 31 (Price-D) Africa Day 2012

Recognizes 5/25/12 as Africa Day 2012 to celebrate the African Diaspora and to reinforce our economic relationship with the continent of Africa.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 34 (Leno-D) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month

Proclaims June 2012 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
Adopted by the Senate
A similar resolution was HR 29 (Gordon-D) which was adopted by the Assembly.

SR 35 (De León-D) Mayan Culture Day

Recognizes 8/12/12 as Mayan Culture Day.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 36 (Kehoe-D) Naming of a naval ship: Harvey Milk

Urges the Department of the Navy to name the next appropriate ship after Harvey Milk as this will be a fitting tribute to Harvey Milk's support for equality, an ideal exemplified in the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Adopted in the Senate

SR 38 (Yee-D) Voting rights

Supports the investigation by the federal Department of Justice into whether state legislatures are discriminating against and suppressing the vote of minorities, senior citizens, young adults, or those with physical disabilities or limited economic means.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
A similar resolution was SJR 29 (Yee-D), Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2012.

ACR 3 (Hayashi-D) Korean-American Day

Proclaims 1/13/11 as Korean-American Day.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
A similar resolution was ACR 90 (Hayashi-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 5 (Davis-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Designates Monday, 1/17/11, be observed as the official memorial of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth. Commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America, and encourages and recognizes the value of community service and volunteerism.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SCR 3 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and SR 23 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate.

ACR 19 (Davis-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2011 as Black History Month, urges all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SCR 4 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and SR 4 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate.

ACR 30 (Mendoza-D) Read Across America Day

Recognizes 3/2/11 as Read Across America Day.
Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 2012

ACR 50 (Garrick-R) Irish American Heritage Month

Designates March 2012 as Irish American Heritage Month in California, and calls upon the people of the state to observe Irish American Heritage Month with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities.
Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2012
Similar resolutions were SCR 64 (Corbett-D), Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2012, and SCR 11 (Corbett-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 65 (Portantino-D) Foreign relations: Israel

Urges all parties to the conflict in Israel to negotiate a peace treaty that recognizes Israel's right to exist within safe and secure borders. Urges local governments in California to establish beneficial relationships with Israel and those who support it.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

ACR 73 (Alejo-D) César Chávez

Calls upon all Californians to observe Cesar Chavez's birthday, March 31, as a day of public service, to recognize the hard work and self-sacrifice that farmworkers go through to feed all the families in our state, and to learn from Cesar Chavez's life and his mission of nonviolence, social justice, and selfless service to others.
Resolution Chapter 13, Statutes of 2012

ACR 85 (Mendoza-D) India Republic Day

Proclaims 1/26/12 as India Republic Day and urges all Californians to join in celebrating India Republic Day.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

ACR 87 (Bradford-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Designates that 1/16/12 be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar resolutions were SCA 3 (Price-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and SR 23 (Price-D) which was adopted by the Senate.

ACR 88 (Mendoza-D) Cinco de Mayo Week

Proclaims 5/1/12 through 5/7/12 as Cinco de Mayo Week, and urges all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 146 (Lara-D), Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2012.

ACR 89 (Ammiano-D) Lunar New Year Celebration

Recognizes the Lunar New Year Celebration.
Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2012

ACR 90 (Hayashi-D) Korean-American Day

Proclaims 1/13/12 as Korean-American Day.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 3 (Hayashi-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 93 (Garrick-R) Ronald Reagan Day

Declares 2/6/12 as Ronald Reagan Day.
Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2012

ACR 104 (John A. Pérez-D) Day of Remembrance

Declares 2/19/12 as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012

ACR 115 (Wieckowski-D) India's Independence Day

Proclaims 8/15/12, as India’s Independence Day.
Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2012

ACR 122 (Achadjian-R) Armed Forces Day

Honors and recognizes the service and sacrifice made by members of the Armed Forces and their families on the occasion of Armed Forces Day on 5/19/12.
Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 2012

ACR 133 (Pan-D) Taiwanese American Heritage Week

Proclaims that the Legislature joins Taiwanese communities throughout the state in celebrating Taiwanese American Heritage Week.
Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2012

ACR 138 (Solorio-D) Vietnamese American history

Recognizes 4/23/12 to 4/30/12, inclusive, as Black April Memorial Week, and April 2012 as Vietnamese American month.
Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2012

ACR 141 (Butler-D) California Holocaust Memorial Week

Proclaims 4/15/12 through 4/22/12 as California Holocaust Memorial Week, and urges Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 146 (Lara-D) Cinco de Mayo Week

Proclaims 5/1/12 through 5/7/12 as Cinco de Mayo Week and urges all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2012
A similar resolution was ACR 88 (Mendoza-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

ACR 149 (Pan-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Recognizes May 2012 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.
Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2012

ACR 158 (John A. Pérez-D) United States Constitution

Commemorates the 225th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States, and commends the contributions made by members of patriotic organizations in promoting patriotism and the values embodied in the Constitution of the U.S.
Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2012

ACR 160 (Carter-D) Kwanzaa

Recognizes the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaims December 26 through January 1, each year, as Kwanzaa Week.
Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2012

AJR 2 (Portantino-D) Armenian Genocide: Day of Remembrance

Designates 4/24/11 as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923;" commends educators who teach about human rights and genocide; memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to act likewise to recognize and reaffirm that the atrocities committed against the Armenian people constituted genocide; and calls upon the Republic of Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and work toward a just resolution.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 6 (Ma-D) Filipino veterans

Requests that the Congress and the President of the United States enact the Filipino Veterans Fairness Act of 2011 (H.R. 210).
Resolution Chapter 42, Statutes of 2012

AJR 14 (Monning-D) National debt ceiling

Urges the Congress of the United States to raise the national debt ceiling without delay in order to continue the current economic recovery and preserve the fiscal integrity of the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs and other important public necessities.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 19 (Hall-D) Federal taxation

Urges the Congress of the United States to enact H.R. 3729 or S. 166 to permanently extend and expand the federal charitable tax deduction for contributions of food inventory.
Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2012

AJR 20 (Huffman-D) Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Act

Calls upon the Congress of the United States to quickly pass the federal Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act and the President of the United States to expeditiously sign it into law.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2012

AJR 21 (Gatto-D) Armenian Genocide

Designates the week of 4/18/12 to 4/24/12 as "California Week of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923," and memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to observe the California Week of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide by participating in the Armenian Genocide Commemorative project.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 22 (Wieckowski-D) Campaign finance reform

Memorializes the Legislature's disagreement with the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and calls upon the U.S. Congress to propose and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and to restore constitutional rights and fair elections to the people.
Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2012

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

Urges the United States Patent and Trademark Office to place a satellite office in California.
Resolution Chapter 1, Statutes of 2012

AJR 24 (Bonilla-D) Federal Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Acts

Urges the members of California's congressional delegation to sign on as co-sponsors of, and requests that the Congress and the President of the United States enact, the proposed federal Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2011 or the proposed federal Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2012.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2012

AJR 25 (Feuer-D) Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2011

Urges the Congress to enact, and the President to sign, the Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2011.
Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2012

AJR 26 (Wieckowski-D) United States' Visa Waiver Program: Poland

Calls upon the President of the United States to lift the restrictions currently in place that prevent the Republic of Poland from being admitted to the Visa Waiver Program.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

AJR 27 (Bonilla-D) Women in sports

Commemorates the 40th anniversary of Title IX on 6/23/12, commends the movement toward increased equality and fair treatment of female athletes, and praises the goals of greater opportunities in sports for girls and young women in California.
Resolution Chapter 74, Statutes of 2012

AJR 28 (Cook-R) United States Postal Service

Urges the United States Postal Service to end its plan to reduce the frequency of mail delivery from six days to five days a week, and to take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of this six-day mail delivery service.
Resolution Chapter 114, Statutes of 2012

AJR 29 (Allen-D) Pollinators

Urges the United States Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to officially recognize the importance of pollinators to our food supply and environment, to declare the urgency of Colony Collapse Disorder, and to promote healthy environments for all pollinators.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 30 (Pan-D) Medicare: dental care

Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would add comprehensive, preventative dental care coverage to Medicare benefits.
Resolution Chapter 138, Statutes of 2012

AJR 31 (Perea-D) 144th Fighter Wing

Requests that the United States Congress and the Department of Defense remain committed to maintaining the 144th Fighter Wing and Aerospace Control Alert mission in California in order to prevent any negative impacts to Southwest air defense operations, the California economy, and the ability of first responders to protect the residents of this state.
Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2012

AJR 32 (Allen-D) Federal constitutional convention: application

Constitutes an application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would limit corporate personhood and further declares that money does not constitute speech and may be democratically limited. States that it constitutes a continuing application to call a constitutional convention until at least 2/3 of the state legislatures apply to the U.S. Congress to call a constitutional convention for that sole purpose.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 33 (Bradford-D) Southwest Power Outage

Requests the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to include in its investigation of the Southwest Power Outage an inquiry as to whether the balancing authorities were in compliance with rules that require a balancing authority to be able to maintain reliability in the event that one part of the system fails, to provide information to the Legislature on the status of its investigation into the Southwest Power Outage, and to provide oversight to the North American Electric Reliability Council and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council in a manner that ensures that balancing authorities are prepared for unplanned outages in the event that they are relying on electricity from or through another balancing authority.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AJR 34 (Achadjian-R) Human rights

Calls on the President and the Congress of the United States to urge the government of the Republic of Turkey to honor its obligations under international treaties and human rights law.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

AJR 35 (Williams-D) Exportation: coal

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation to restrict the transshipment for waterborne export of coal for electricity generation to any nation that fails to adopt rules and regulations on the emissions of greenhouse gases or hazardous air emissions that are at least as restrictive as those adopted by the U.S. or, in the alternative, to secure and approve international agreements to ensure all nations adopt regulations and technology that result in emissions reductions equal to those in place in the U.S. Urges the Governor of California to inform the Governors of the States of Oregon and Washington of the significant health risks to the people of the Pacific Coast states if large coal export terminals and coal transport expansions are licensed and permitted to operate on or near the coast of the States of Oregon and Washington.
Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2012

AJR 36 (Logue-R) Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Makes various statements regarding the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), requests the President and the Congress of the United States to repeal PPACA, and encourages federal, state, and local officials to enact health care reform that, among other things, puts the citizen and his/her family at the center of the health care system, as specified. Requests Congress to, among other things, reform federal tax laws, allow Americans to buy health care coverage across state lines, allow businesses to create association health plans, and lift restrictions on employers so they can offer lower premiums to employees who practice healthy lifestyles, and requests the Legislature to enact reforms consistent with those changes, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AJR 37 (Knight-R) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program

Urges the Congress of the United States to recognize the importance of the F-35 aircraft and to support the full funding of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program.
Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2012

AJR 39 (Chesbro-D) California seafood

Expresses the Legislature's support of 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

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

AJR 41 (Olsen-R) Assyrian Martyrs Remembrance Day

Memorializes 8/7/12 as Assyrian Martyrs Remembrance Day in California and requests the President and the Congress of the United States to commemorate Assyrian Martyrs Remembrance Day.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

AJR 42 (Nestande-R) Department of Defense budget cuts

Opposes the budget presented by the United States Air Force to the House of Representative and the Senate of the United States.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 43 (Lara-D) Sexual orientation and gender identity

Makes findings concerning discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals, and calls upon Congress and the President of the United States to pass legislation that expressly includes sexual orientation and gender identity in all federal antidiscrimination laws.
Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2012

AJR 44 (Carter-D) Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month

Recognizes the month of September 2012, and each September thereafter, as Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month in California, and urges the President and the Congress of the United States to restore and continue funding for sickle cell anemia centers and research to make sickle cell anemia and other genetic hemoglobin disorders a public health priority.
Resolution Chapter 142, Statutes of 2012

AJR 45 (Feuer-D) Firearms: assault weapons

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to reauthorize the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
Resolution Chapter 143, Statutes of 2012

AJR 46 (Block-D) Operation San Diego

Supports the advocacy efforts of "Operation San Diego" to promote to the 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

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

HR 17 (Allen-D) History of Eritrea

Recognizes the profound significance of the history of Eritrea, and its future aspirations, on the country's 18th year of independence.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

HR 27 (Achadjian-R) Armenian genocide

Designates the week of 4/18/12 to 4/24/12, as "California Week of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923"; calls upon the Congress and the President of the United States to observe the California Week of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide and urge the Republic of Turkey to honor its obligations under international treaties and human rights law to end religious discrimination.
Adopted by the Assembly
Similar resolutions were ACR 96 (Fuentes-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee and AJR 2 (Portantino-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

HR 30 (Williams-D) International Surf Day

Recognizes 6/20/12 as International Surf Day in the state.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 32 (Morrell-R) Fourth of July

Recognizes and celebrates the fourth of July and the 236th anniversary of the birth of our nation and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 38 (Hagman-R) U.S. Constitution: First Amendment

Declare that the California Assembly condemns all forms of intolerance of religious beliefs and recognizes that the First Amendment protects freedoms of speech and religion from government persecution.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

HR 41 (Atkins-D) Commemorative stamp: Harvey Milk

Urges the Postmaster General of the United States to issue a commemorative stamp honoring Harvey Milk and his work in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement for civil rights and equality.
Adopted by the Assembly

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