- Civil Law
- Civil Rights
- Consumer Protection
- Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
- Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption
- Judgments
- Privacy/Identity Theft
- Probate
- Miscellaneous
Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.
Civil Law
SB 15 (Padilla-D) Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems
Provides that engaging in specified prohibited activities through the use of an unmanned aircraft system is included within prohibitions in current civil and criminal law. Provides that an unmanned aircraft system may not be equipped with a weapon, and makes that act a crime.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 131 (Beall-D) Damages: childhood sexual abuse: statute of limitations
Provides that the time limits for commencement of an action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse be applied retroactively to any claim that has not been adjudicated to finality on the merits as of 1/1/14, and revives, that for one year, a specified cause of action that would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations as of 1/1/14, provided that the plaintiff's 26th birthday was before 1/1/03, and the plaintiff discovered the cause of his/her injury on or after 1/1/04.
Vetoed
SB 603 (Leno-D) Landlord and tenant: security deposit
Requires a court to award specified statutory damages for a bad faith claim or retention of security or the bad faith demand of replacement security deposit by a landlord. Requires, absent bad faith, an award of statutory damages of an amount equal to the amount improperly withheld, in addition to actual damages, for an unlawful claim or retention or demand of replacement security.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 724 (Emmerson-R) Charitable vision screenings
Provides qualified immunity from damages or injury liability to a nonprofit charitable organization, licensed optometrist, ophthalmologist, or trained volunteer providing vision screenings or donated or recycled glasses.
Chapter 68, Statutes of 2013
SB 826 (Senate Judiciary Committee) Civil law: omnibus bill
Revises a provision of existing law to require reimbursement of a fee from an estate if the estate is commenced for a decedent named in a will, and makes a technical correction to a reference to Uniform Standards of Practice for Providers of Supervised Visitation.
Chapter 61, Statutes of 2013
AB 198 (Wieckowski-D) Debtor exemptions
Establishes additional exemptions for debtors, raises the amount of the homestead exemption, and deletes the homestead reinvestment requirement.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 223 (Olsen-R) Civil actions: disabled access
Permits a local government, as defined, to file a request for a court stay and early evaluation conference upon being served with a summons and complaint asserting a construction-related accessibility claim.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 227* (Gatto-D) Proposition 65: enforcement
Changes the enforcement provisions of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. Provides that nothing in the bill prevents the Attorney General, a district attorney, a city attorney, or a prosecutor in whose jurisdiction the violation is alleged to have occurred from filing an action against an alleged violator.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2013
AB 263 (Roger Hernández-D) Employment: retaliation: immigration-related practices
Prohibits an employer or any other person or entity from engaging in unfair immigration-related practices for the purpose of retaliation against any person who exercises any rights under the Labor Code. Authorizes a civil action by an employee or other person who is the subject of an unfair immigration-related practice, and authorizes a court to order the appropriate government agencies to suspend certain business licenses held by the violating party for prescribed periods based on the number of violations.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2013
AB 502 (Wagner-R) Commercial law: secured transactions
Incorporates amendments made to the Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 into California's comparable statute, Commercial Code Division 9, governing security interests. Applies to a transaction or lien within its scope, even if entered into or created prior to 7/1/14, but specifies that its changes do not affect any action, case or proceeding commenced prior to that date.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2013
AB 519 (Logue-R) Unfair competition
Requires a court, prior to the imposition of any civil penalty in cases involving those engaged in unfair competition, to consider all factors in mitigation of both the imposition and amount of any civil penalty.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 522 (Bloom-D) Civil actions: exceptions to dismissal
Expands the types of actions to which the exception to dismissal of an action for delay in prosecution applies and includes an action for the dissolution of a domestic partnership, an action based on void or voidable marriage, and an action relating to a child custody or visitation order. Prohibits those actions from being dismissed under the specified conditions that also includes if an order regarding child custody or visitation has been issued, or if a valid personal conduct restraining order exists and if an issue in the case has been bifurcated.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2013
AB 625 (Quirk-D) Notaries public: acceptance of identification
Adds inmate identification cards, issued by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to the list of documents presumed to prove the identity of an incarcerated individual who executes a written instrument, for the purposes of notarization of an instrument.
Chapter 159, Statutes of 2013
AB 666 (Wieckowski-D) Automated traffic enforcement systems: violations
Requires violations recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be cited as civil violations, subject to a civil penalty, administrative process, and appeal in superior court. Exempts certain of those civil violations from the violation point count process.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 737 (Fox-D) Space flight liability
Includes a manufacturer or supplier of components, services, or vehicles that have been reviewed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration as part of issuing a license, permit, or other authorization pursuant to specified provisions of federal law relating to commercial space launch activities as a space flight entity with limited liability for any participant injury. Provides that limited liability under these provisions does not limit or prevent the liability of a space flight entity that manufactures or supplies a product with a defect.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
Similar bill is SB 415 (Knight-R) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee.
AB 969 (Ammiano-D) Landlord and tenant
Provides that a lessee is not in default as to the payment of rent when the lessee has made all payments or has exercised a right to deduct an amount from or withhold rent, or the lessor is prohibited from collecting rent.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1036 (Blumenfield-D) Mortgages
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of the Civil Code related to mortgages relating to notices of default and sales, grants of real property and maxims of jurisprudence.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1164 (Lowenthal-D) Liens: employees and workers
Authorizes, with some exceptions, an employee to record and enforce a wage lien upon real and personal property of an employer, or a property owner, for wages, other compensation, and related penalties and damages owed the employee. Prescribes requirements relating to the recording and enforcement of the wage lien. Requires a notice of lien on real property to be executed under penalty of perjury.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1256 (Bloom-D) Privacy: entry and exit of facilities
Provides that a person is liable for a physical invasion of privacy when the defendant knowingly enters onto the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a private, personal, or familial activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person. Provides that it is unlawful for any person, except a parent or guardian acting toward his/her minor child, to, by force, threat of force, or physical obstruction that is a crime of violence, intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person attempting to enter or exit a facility, or to, by nonviolent physical obstruction, intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person attempting to enter or exit a facility. Defines "facility" for purposes of its provisions as any public or private school grounds, any health facility, or any lodging, including a private residence, hotel, temporary lodging facility, inn, motel, bed and breakfast, or any other location that provides permanent or temporary lodging to persons.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1336 (Frazier-D) Prevailing wages: payroll records
Extends the deadline from 180 days to 18 months, for the Labor Commissioner to serve a civil wage and penalty assessment against a public work contractor or subcontractor, or both, and extends the deadline from 180 days to 18 months, for a joint labor-management committee to bring an action against an employer that fails to pay the prevailing wage to its employees. Revises and recasts remedies that may be awarded by a court in these joint labor-management committee actions and authorizes the court to award interest, liquidated damages, and injunctive relief in these actions.
Chapter 792, Statutes of 2013
AB 1404 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Real property: boundaries
Clarifies and modernizes California's neighborhood fence statute, maintaining the state's tradition which holds that neighbors are presumed to gain mutual benefits from the construction and maintenance of a boundary fence between their properties, and as a result are generally equally responsible to contribute to the construction and maintenance of their shared fencing.
Chapter 86, Statutes of 2013
Civil Rights
SB 292 (Corbett-D) Employment: sexual harassment
Specifies, for purposes of the definition of harassment because of sex under specified provisions of law, that sexually harassing conduct need not be motivated by sexual desire.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2013
SB 323* (Lara-D) Taxes: exemptions: prohibited discrimination
Revises the Sales and Use Tax Law exemption for specified non-profit organizations. Provides, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/14, that an organization that is a public charity youth organization that discriminates on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliation is not exempt from the taxes imposed by that law.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 364 (Steinberg-D) Mental health
Broadens the types of facilities that can be used for purposes of a 72-hour treatment and evaluation under Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5150 of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act for individuals with a mental health disorder to include facilities licensed or certified as mental health treatment facilities by the Department of Health Care Services or the Department of Public Health.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2013
SB 404 (Jackson-D) Fair employment: familial status
Includes "familial status," as an additional basis upon which the right to seek, obtain, and hold employment cannot be denied under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 655 (Wright-D) Fair Employment and Housing Act: unlawful practices
Provides that in a claim of discrimination or retaliation, the person claiming to have been aggrieved will prevail if he/she has proven that a protected characteristic or activity was a substantial motivating factor in the employment action or decision.
Vetoed
SCR 7 (Wright-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Designates that 1/1/13, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the U.S. Also recognizes the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in connection with the advancement of civil rights.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
SR 10 (Jackson-D) Roe v. Wade
Recognizes the critical importance of continued access to safe and legal abortion and urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to protect and uphold the intent and substance of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 14 (Lara-D) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month
Proclaims June 2013 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, urges all residents to join in celebrating the culture, accomplishments, and contributions of LGBT people, and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for LGBT people and their families.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 16 (Lieu-D) Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act
Urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to pass legislation to end the National Security Agency's blanket, unreasonable, and unconstitutional collection of Americans' telephone records and Internet transactions and specifically to bar the National Security Agency and other agencies from using Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act to collect records, including telephone records and Internet transactions, pertaining to persons not subject to an investigation under the Act.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 5 (Ammiano-D) Homelessness
Provides that no person's rights, privileges, or access to public services may be denied or abridged because he/she is homeless and provides that every homeless person has the right to move freely, rest, eat, share, accept, or give food or water, solicit donations in public spaces and the right to lawful self-employment, confidentiality of specified records, assistance of legal counsel in specified proceedings, and restitution. Provides immunity from employer retaliation to a public employee who provides assistance to a homeless person, and provides for judicial relief and imposes civil penalties for a violation of the act. Specifies that this bill's provisions are severable.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 218 (Dickinson-D) Employment applications: criminal history
Requires that state and local agencies determine a job applicant's minimum qualifications before obtaining and considering information regarding the applicant's conviction history on an employment application.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2013
AB 556 (Salas-D) Fair Employment and Housing Act: military veterans
Adds "military and veteran status," to the list of categories protected from employment discrimination under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, and provides an exemption for an inquiry by an employer regarding military or veteran status for the purpose of awarding a veteran's preference as permitted by law.
Chapter 691, Statutes of 2013
AB 870 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Public contracts: bidders: employment practices
Prohibits the state from contracting with a person or entity that asks an applicant for employment to disclose information concerning the conviction history of the applicant, including an inquiry about conviction history on an employment application, until the employer has determined that the applicant meets the minimum employment qualifications, as stated in any notice issued for the position.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1356 (Bloom-D) Stalking: remedies
Includes a pattern of conduct intended to place a plaintiff under surveillance within those elements defining the tort of stalking. Permits the plaintiff to show, as an alternative to the plaintiff reasonably fearing for his/her safety or that of a family member, that the pattern of conduct resulted in the plaintiff suffering substantial emotional distress, and that the pattern of conduct would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
ACR 2 (Mitchell-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Designates that 1/1/13, be observed as the official memorial of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and 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. Recognizes the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in connection with the advancement of civil rights.
Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2013
ACR 19 (Pan-D) Japanese American: discrimination: apology
Acknowledges that the state of California made a grievous mistake that injured loyal employees who were dedicated to serving the people of California when it dismissed over 300 Americans of Japanese ancestry as a result of Senate Concurrent Resolution 15 of 1942 by Senator John Swan. Resolves to issue a public apology to the state civil service employees who were dismissed.
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2013
ACR 44 (Ammiano-D) National Day of Silence
Declares support for the goals and ideals of the National Day of Silence and encourages school districts in the state to enforce laws and policies that prohibit name calling, bullying, harassment, and discrimination against all students, teachers, and other school staff regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2013
AJR 18 (Skinner-D) Equality of rights for men and women
Urges the Congress of the U.S. to pass Senate Joint Resolution No. 10, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that is subject to ratification by the Legislatures of 3/4 of the states, to ensure that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any state on account of sex.
Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2013
AJR 26 (Allen-R) Civil liberties
Urges Congress and the President of the U.S. to make the protection of civil liberties and national security equal priorities, to immediately discontinue any practices contrary to the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and to instruct national security agencies to ensure that national security is achieved without invasive violations of civil liberties.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
HR 5 (Yamada-D) Rosa Parks' 100th birthday
Honors the 100th birthday of Rosa Parks and urges all Californians to remember a great American woman.
Adopted by the Assembly
HR 20 (Gordon-D) LGBT Pride Month
Proclaims June 2013 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, and urges all residents to join in celebrating the culture, accomplishments, and contributions of LGBT people, and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for LGBT people and their families.
Adopted by the Assembly
HR 22 (John A. Pérez-D) The March on Washington 50th anniversary
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and how it served as a catalyst for the passage of landmark legislative reforms, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Resolves that the sacrifices made by the leaders and participants of the March on Washington 50 years ago are recognized and honored for their role in the advancement of civil rights and social justice in the United States.
Adopted by the Assembly
HR 24 (Bradford-D) Jackie Robinson
Urges the Cities of Los Angeles, Inglewood, Downey, South Gate, and Norwalk, and the County of Los Angeles to work together to rename Manchester Avenue and Firestone Boulevard (formerly State Route 42) after the Hall of Fame baseball player Jackie Robinson.
Adopted by the Assembly
Consumer Protection
SB 12 (Corbett-D) Consumer affairs
Creates the Made in California Program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development for the purpose of encouraging consumer product awareness and to foster the purchases of products manufactured in California. Provides that it is an unfair method of competition or unfair business practice to use the designated "Made in California" label without participating in the Program.
Chapter 541, Statutes of 2013
SB 193 (Monning-D) Hazard evaluation system and information service
Requires chemical manufacturers, formulators, suppliers, distributors, importers, and their agents to provide to the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service, when there is new scientific or medical information and the Chief of Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service, in consultation with the Chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control in the Department of Public Health, makes a specified determination, the names and addresses of their customers who have purchased specified chemicals or commercial products containing those chemicals, for every product the final destination of which may be a place of employment in California, and deems the names and addresses of customers, the quantities and dates of shipments, and the proportion of the specified chemical within a mixture to be confidential.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 196 (Cannella-R) Utility rates: mobilehomes and apartment buildings
Allows the management in mobile home parks and apartments that are master-metered to post, in a conspicuous place, the Internet Web site address of the current utility rate schedule as an alternative to posting the actual rate schedule and specifies that a current utility rate schedule be available to an individual upon request and at no cost.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2013
SB 263 (Monning-D) Contractors: unlicensed activity
Provides that, unless exempted, it is a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor if the person either has never been licensed pursuant to the Contractors' State License Law, or the person was a licensee, but performed acts covered by the law under a license that was under suspension for failure to pay a civil penalty or comply with an order of correction or failure to resolve all outstanding final liabilities.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 332* (Emmerson-R) California Health Benefit Exchange: records
Makes open to public inspection the impressions, opinions, recommendations, meeting minutes, research, work product, theories, or strategy of the governing board of the California Health Benefits Exchange (Covered California) or its staff, or records that provide instructions, advice, or training to employees, with some exemptions.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2013
SB 526 (Calderon-D) Commissioner of Corporations: unlicensed activity report
Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Corporations to prepare a specified report on the lending and collection practices of unlicensed persons offering deferred deposit transactions or installment loans, or both, in amounts under $2,500, over the Internet, to persons in California, and on the enforcement actions taken by the Commissioner against these persons. Requires the Commissioner to post on the Department's Internet Web site the company names and Internet Web site addresses of unlicensed lenders offering those deferred deposit transactions or installment loans without a license from the Commissioner.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 556 (Corbett-D) Agency: ostensible: nongovernmental entities
Prohibits a person, firm, corporation, or association that is a nongovernmental entity and contracts to perform labor or services relating to public health or safety for a public entity from displaying on a vehicle or uniform, a logo that reasonably could be interpreted as implying that the labor or services are being provided by employees of the public agency, unless the vehicle or uniform conspicuously displays a specific disclosure.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 650 (Lieu-D) Toxic chemicals: exposure
Requires the Attorney General to post information related to a person bringing an action in the public interest, or a private person filing an action in which a violation of Proposition 65, and the results of a related settlement or judgment and the final disposition of a case brought by that person on the Attorney General's Internet Web site.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 652 (DeSaulnier-D) Real property disclosures: construction defect litigation
Revises the residential property transfer disclosure form to additionally disclose to a potential transferee specified claims for damages by the seller.
Chapter 431, Statutes of 2013
SB 661 (Hill-D) False advertising
Eliminates the current requirement that any article, unit, or part of a piece of merchandise be substantially manufactured in the U.S. in order for the merchandise to advertise that it is made in the U.S. Provides that any merchandise has been substantially made, manufactured, or produced within the U.S. if specified requirements are met. Creates a rebuttable presumption that the merchandise has been substantially made, manufactured, or produced within the U.S. if an independent third-party verification organization certifies that the merchandise meets all of these requirements.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 713 (Correa-D) Liability: good faith reliance on administrative ruling
Provides that any person who relies upon a written order, ruling, approval, interpretation, or enforcement policy of a state agency or department, except the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, shall not be liable or subject to punishment for a violation of a statute or regulation in a judicial or administrative proceeding if the person takes specified actions, and provides that a person who relies on a written order, ruling, approval, interpretation, or enforcement policy of the Division and takes these specified actions shall not be liable or subject to punishment, except for restitution of unpaid wages.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 750 (Wolk-D) Building standards: water meters: multiunit structures
Requires that individual water meters, also called submeters, be installed on all new multifamily residential units or mixed commercial and multifamily units and requires that landlords bill residents for the increment of water they use.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee; reconsideration granted)
SCR 54 (Padilla-D) California Law Revision Commission: referral for study
Requires the California Law Revision Commission to report to the Legislature recommendations to revise statutes governing access by state and local government agencies to customer information from communications service providers.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2013
AB 35 (Roger Hernández-D) Deferred action for childhood arrivals
Extends consumer protections and improves the treatment of immigrants, particularly those who have been granted legal temporary status under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, by among other things, providing that in addition to existing civil and criminal penalties, a violation of its provisions by an attorney shall be cause for discipline by the State Bar, and violations by a notary public shall be cause for the revocation or suspension of his/her commission as a notary public by the Secretary of State.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2013
AB 140 (Dickinson-D) Undue influence
Provides in the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act a new definition of undue influence, which focuses on excessive persuasion that causes another person to act or refrain from action, by overcoming that person's free will, resulting in inequity. Provides a list of considerations for a court to utilize in determining whether an action constituted excessive persuasion and makes this new definition of undue influence the operative definition under the Probate Code.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2013
AB 157 (Campos-D) Protective orders
Authorizes a court to issue an ex parte order enjoining a party from credibly impersonating or falsely personating another party.
Chapter 260, Statutes of 2013
AB 167 (Hagman-R) Unfair competition: private enforcement actions
Defines the "injury in fact" required for a private person to bring suit under unfair competition laws as damages suffered by each individual plaintiff or member of a class as amounting to at least $500, adjusted for inflation.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 381 (Chau-D) Estates and trusts: undue influence and elder abuse
Provides that a person may be liable for attorney's fees and costs if he/she, in bad faith, through undue influence, or through the commission of elder abuse, has wrongfully taken, concealed, or disposed of property that belongs to a conservatee, minor, elder, dependent adult, trust, or decedent's estate. Provides that a person may be liable for attorney's fees and costs if he/she, in bad faith, has wrongfully, taken, concealed, or disposed of property that belongs to a principal under a power of attorney.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2013
AB 446 (Mitchell-D) HIV testing
Revises requirements related to information provided at the time an HIV test is administered and after the test results are received; requires informed consent, either orally or in writing, except when a person independently requests an HIV test from an HIV counseling and testing site. Requires documentation of the person's independent request for the test and exempts clinical laboratories from the informed consent requirements. Requires every patient who has blood drawn at a primary care clinic, who has consented to the test, to be offered an HIV test, and authorizes disclosure of HIV test results by Internet posting or other electronic means if the HIV test subject is anonymously tested.
Chapter 589, Statutes of 2013
AB 477 (Chau-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting
Makes a notary public who has observed or has knowledge of elder or dependent adult financial abuse a mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of elders and dependent adults. Makes a failure by a mandated reporter to report suspected abuses subject to civil penalties currently imposed on other mandated reporters. Adds these new reporters to the list of other reporters of abuse who are immunized from criminal or civil liability for any report required or authorized by law and revises the attorney-client privilege provision under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act to provide the privilege for information protected by the attorney-client privilege.
Vetoed
AB 555 (Salas-D) Social security numbers
Permits a state adult correctional facility, or an adult city or county jail, to release an inmate's social security number for the purpose of determining the inmate's status as a military veteran and his/her eligibility for veterans' benefits. The release of an inmate's social security number only occurs with the inmate's consent, and only upon request by a county veterans service officer or by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2013
AB 581 (Ammiano-D) Care facilities: retaliation
Extends discrimination and retaliation protections to a resident or employee of a community care facility, residential care facility, or residential care facility for the elderly who has filed with the Department of Social Services or a state or local ombudsman a complaint, grievance, or request for inspection regarding the facility.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2013
AB 844 (Dickinson-D) Credit and debit cards: transactions: personal information
Updates provisions of the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 related to the protection of personal identification information, to reflect the increasing use of debit cards to purchase goods and services and the increasing use of the Internet as a venue for use of both credit cards and debit cards to purchase goods and services.
(In Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)
AB 890 (Jones-R) False advertising
Eliminates the requirement that any article, unit, or part of the merchandise be substantially manufactured in the U.S. in order for the merchandise to advertise that it is made in the U.S. Deems any merchandise to be substantially made, manufactured, or produced within the U.S. if specified requirements are met, including that U.S. manufacturing costs constitute at least 90% of the total manufacturing costs for the merchandise and that the merchandise was last substantially transformed or assembled in the U.S.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
A similar bill is SB 661 (Hill-D) which is in Senate Judiciary Committee.
AB 937 (Wieckowski-D) Conservators and guardians: personal rights of conservatees
Provides that a conservator's control of a conservatee not extend to personal rights retained by the conservatee, including, but not limited to, the right to receive visitors, telephone calls, and personal mail, unless specifically limited by a court order.
Chapter 127, Statutes of 2013
AB 961 (Levine-D) Health facilities: investigations: public disclosure
Requires the Department of Public Health to complete its investigation of a long-term health care facility and issue a citation, within specified time frames and authorizes public notice of facility investigation and evaluation information, as specified, for a facility with a license capacity of 16 or more beds. Prohibits the confidential information in the possession of the Department of Public Health or Department of Social Services from containing personally identifiable information about a patient or a person with a disability.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 964 (Bonta-D) Vehicles: dealers
Prohibits, 180 days after the enactment of regulations pursuant to portions of the federal Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, the holder of any dealer's license from advertising for sale or selling a used vehicle that the dealer knows or should have known is subject to a manufacturer's safety recall. Prohibits the holder of any dealer's license from selling a used vehicle as part of a used vehicle certification program if the dealer knows or should have known that the vehicle is the subject of a manufacturer's safety recall.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1149 (Campos-D) Identity theft: local agencies
Extends existing data breach disclosure requirements, currently applicable to any state agency, person or business, to local agencies.
Chapter 395, Statutes of 2013
AB 1169 (Daly-D) Escrow agent rating service: escrow agents
Defines the term "escrow" and "escrow agent rating service" and, until 1/1/17, requires escrow agent rating services to comply with specified portions of the California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, and establishes policies and procedures reasonably intended to safeguard from theft or misuse any personally identifiable information it obtains from an escrow agent.
Chapter 380, Statutes of 2013
AB 1195 (Eggman-D) Public records: crime victims
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from requiring proof of legal presence in the U.S. and refusing to accept certain forms of identification, if identification is required, for the disclosure of crime reports and other related records required to be disclosed under the Public Records Act.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2013
AB 1220 (Skinner-D) Consumer credit reporting: adverse action
Makes it unlawful for a consumer credit reporting agency to prohibit, or to dissuade or attempt to dissuade, a user of a consumer credit report furnished by the credit reporting agency from providing a copy of the consumer's credit report to the consumer, upon the consumer's request, if the user has taken adverse action against the consumer based upon the report. Authorizes the Attorney General, among others, to bring a civil action, for a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000, against any credit reporting agency for a violation of these provisions.
Chapter 433, Statutes of 2013
AB 1234 (Levine-D) Insurance: long term care insurance
Requires an insurer to clearly post on its Internet Web site, and include on its long term care policy applications, information about an Internet Web site provided by the Department of Health Care Services, known as www.rureadyca.org.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 1256 (Bloom-D) Civil law: privacy: entry and exit of facilities
Provides that a person is liable for a physical invasion of privacy when a defendant knowingly enters onto the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a private, personal, or familial activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person. Authorizes a person aggrieved by a violation of this bill's provisions to bring a civil action to enjoin the violation, for compensatory and punitive damages, and for the cost of suit and reasonable attorney's and expert witness' fees.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1274 (Bradford-D) Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data
Prohibits a specified business from sharing, selling, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible the electrical or gas consumption data of a residential or small business customer.
Chapter 597, Statutes of 2013
AB 1291 (Lowenthal-D) Privacy: Right to Know Act of 2013: personal information
Requires any business that retains a customer's personal information or discloses that information to a third party, to provide at no charge, within 30 days of the customer's specified request, a copy of that information to the customer as well as the names and contact information for all third parties with which the business has shared the information during the previous 12 months, regardless of any business relationship with the customer. Requires that a business subject to these provisions choose one of several specified options to provide the customer with a designated address for use in making a request for copies of information under these provisions.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1356 (Bloom-D) Stalking: remedies
Includes a pattern of conduct intended to place a plaintiff under surveillance within those elements defining the tort of stalking. Permits a plaintiff to show, as an alternative to the plaintiff reasonably fearing for his/her safety or that of a family member, that the pattern of conduct resulted in the plaintiff suffering substantial emotional distress, and that the pattern of conduct would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 123 (Corbett-D) Environmental and land use court
Requires the Judicial Council to direct the creation of an environmental and land use division within two or more superior courts within each of the appellate districts of the state to process civil proceedings brought pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act or in specified subject areas, to be paid for by an increase in the fees for the issuance, renewal, retention, duplication, and transfer of environmental license plates.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 166 (Liu-D) Juveniles: attorney qualifications
Requires the Judicial Council to establish minimum hours of training and education necessary in order to be appointed as counsel in delinquency proceedings, and provides that training hours approved by the State Bar be counted toward Minimum Continuing Legal Education.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 315 (Lieu-D) Civil actions: telephonic appearances
Expands the circumstances under which a party may appear in court by telephone to include all conferences, hearings, and proceedings except a trial and a trial readiness conference.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 345 (Evans-D) Attorneys: annual membership fees
Authorizes the State Bar to collect active membership dues of up to $390 for the year 2014, extends the opportunity for members of the State Bar to voluntarily contribute to the support of legal aid programs for the needy at a suggested rate of $30 if they choose to do so; allows the State Bar's $2 million financial support of legal aid programs to sunset; and authorizes and directs the State Bar to participate in the Franchise Tax Board's interagency intercept collections program for unpaid fines and penalties.
Chapter 681, Statutes of 2013
SB 366 (Wright-D) Traffic fines: ability to pay
Makes numerous changes in the Vehicle Code and Penal Code regarding provisions the court must take into consideration when considering a person's ability to pay a fine or civil assessment.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 378 (Block-D) Official record of conviction: digitized copy
Authorizes the use of electronically digitized documents as evidence in situations where documents or records can be admitted.
Chapter 150, Statutes of 2013
SB 597 (Lara-D) Legal aid: court interpreters
Requires the Judicial Council to establish a working group to review, identify, and develop best practices to provide interpreters in specified civil actions and proceedings and to select up to five courts to participate in a pilot project to provide interpreters in civil proceedings.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 251 (Wagner-R) Electronic court reporting
Allows a court to use electronic recording equipment in a family law case if an official reporter or an official reporter pro tempore is unavailable.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 296 (Wagner-R) Attorneys
Authorizes a person who is an active member in good standing of the bar of another state or U.S. jurisdiction, possession, or territory to apply and be eligible for a provisional license to practice law in California if the applicant meets certain requirements, including, among others, supplying evidence satisfactory to the State Bar that he/she is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the U.S. Armed Forces who is assigned to a duty station in California under official active duty military orders.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 301 (Wagner-R) Affidavits of registration: cancellation
Terminates voter registration for persons who are reported by the courts to have returned a juror summons indicating that they are disqualified from jury duty because they are not U.S. citizens.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary committee)
AB 365 (Mullin-D) Court reporting
Clarifies that only proceedings that are transcribed by licensed official court reporters and official reporters pro tempore can be considered as prima facie evidence of that testimony and the proceedings.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 515 (Dickinson-D) Environmental quality: CEQA: judicial review
Establishes a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance division of the superior court in a county in which the Attorney General maintains an office, and vests the division with original jurisdiction over actions of proceedings brought pursuant to CEQA and joined matters related to land use and environmental laws.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 566 (Wieckowski-D) Courts: personal services contracting
Establishes standards for the use of contracts for all services currently or customarily performed by trial court employees; restricts the use of personal services contracts for the purpose of achieving cost savings, permits contracts only if specified conditions are met; and, among other provisions, requires measurable performance standards and audits for personal services contracts in excess of $100,000 annually, and sunsets on 1/1/20.
Vetoed
AB 619 (Garcia-D) Court facilities
Provides that penalty payments on the delinquent transfer of court fees to the State Facilities Court Construction Fund be made by the entity responsible for the error or other action that caused the failure to pay, as determined by the State Controller, in notice given to the responsible entity.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2013
AB 648 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Court reporters
Requires for each proceeding anticipated to last one hour or less, the $30 court reporter fee to be charged only to the party or parties if filing jointly that filed the paper that resulted in the proceeding being scheduled. Requires the fee to be charged once per case for all proceedings conducted within the same hour if the total time taken by those proceedings is one hour or less.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2013
AB 655 (Quirk-Silva-D) Court reporters: salary fund
Authorizes each trial court to establish a Reporters' Salary Fund, and provides that the Fund shall be a revolving fund and must, upon appropriation, be used solely to contribute to the salaries and benefits of official reporters.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 679 (Fox-D) Fees: official court reporters
Requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules to ensure that a party arranging for a certified shorthand reporter notifies the other parties of that fact, and that attempts to share costs for the certified shorthand reporter are made to provide better access to justice for all parties involved in the proceeding.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 715 (Dickinson-D) Evidence: interpreters
Revises cross-references and deletes obsolete provisions of the Evidence Code.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 788 (Wagner-R) Court transcripts
Authorizes, in the case of court transcripts that are not computer-readable, the purchaser of a transcript to reproduce the transcript for internal use or in response to a request for discovery, a court order, or subpoena, or as permitted by rule of court or statute, without paying a further fee to the reporter, but prohibits otherwise providing or selling a copy or copies to any other party or person.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 868 (Ammiano-D) Courts: training programs
Requires that the Judicial Council establish training programs for judges and others who perform duties in family law matters, on the effects of gender identity and sexual orientation in family law proceedings. Requires the Council to create training standards on cultural competency and sensitivity relating to, and best practices for, providing adequate care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth for counsel in juvenile court and appointed special advocates.
Chapter 300, Statutes of 2013
AB 888* (Dickinson-D) State Bar of California: enforcement actions
Requires the State Bar of California to disclose, in confidence, the information in its investigation of an unauthorized practice of law to the agency responsible for criminal enforcement, and allows the State Bar to request the Attorney General or other public prosecutor to bring an enforcement action for the unauthorized practice of law. Allows the State Bar to bring a civil action for a violation of the existing prohibitions on the unauthorized practice of law, and requires the court in those actions to impose a civil penalty, to consider providing relief to any injured party, and award the State Bar reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
Vetoed
AB 1005 (Alejo-D) Judicial appointments: demographic data
Adds disability and veteran status to the list of demographic data that is provided annually by judicial applicants, nominees, appointees, justices, and judges, and required to be collected and released by the Governor, the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation of the State Bar, and the Administrative Office of the Courts.
Chapter 113, Statutes of 2013
AB 1024 (Gonzalez-D) Attorneys: admission to practice
Allows applicants, who are not lawfully present in the United States, to be admitted as attorneys at law.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2013
AB 1098 (Gray-D) Attorneys: practice of law
Provides that it is not the practice of law, is not a violation of those provisions prohibiting the unlawful practice of law, does not constitute the activities of a legal document assistant, and does not require registration as a legal document assistant for a person to design, create, publish, assemble, complete, distribute, display, or sell legal products, by means of an Internet Web site or mobile application, if the Internet Web site or mobile application includes a statement that it is not a substitute for an attorney.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1125 (Wagner-R) Attorney's fees
Requires the court in setting the amount of an award of attorney's fees to a prevailing party, to determine a lodestar, as defined, and an adjustment pursuant to specified procedures.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1127 (Chau-D) Legal aid: court interpreters
Requires the Judicial Council to implement a three-year pilot program in three courts to provide interpreters in civil proceedings. Requires the Council to establish a working group to review, identify, and develop best practices to provide interpreters in civil actions and proceedings and requires the Council and its advisory bodies to submit an interim report to the Legislature that includes the status of its efforts and completion date for its formulation of a statewide Language Access Plan.
Vetoed
AB 1159* (Gonzalez-D) Immigration services
Provides that it is the unlicensed practice of law for an immigration consultant, or any person who is not an attorney, to literally translate, from English into another language, in written documents or advertisements, the term "notary public," or any other term that implies that the person is an attorney. Requires attorneys who provide immigration reform act services to use a written contract in English and in the client's native language which contains specified elements.
Chapter 574, Statutes of 2013
AB 1167 (Dickinson-D) Court records: electronic forms
Provides that if a judgment creditor's instructions directing a levying officer to perform a levy are accompanied by a writ of execution for money, possession, or sale of personal or real property issued by the court as an electronic record, or a document printed from an electronic record issued by the court, the instructions must also include specified information. Provides that, except to the extent the levying officer has actual knowledge that the information in the electronic writ has been altered, the levying officer may proceed in the same manner as if in possession of a paper version of the original writ.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2013
AB 1293 (Bloom-D) Courts
Increases resources for the courts by creating a new probate fee of $40 for filing a request for special notice in a decedent's estate, guardianship, conservatorship or trust proceeding and provides that the new fee is in addition to any other fee charged for a paper filed concurrently with the request for special notice.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2013
AB 1313 (Donnelly-R) Judgeships: allocation
Requires the Judicial Council, upon the availability of funding, to allocate 12 additional judges each fiscal year to those counties in which the current judicial position allocations are disproportionate to the Council's recommendation of assessed judicial need.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1352 (Levine-D) Courts: destruction of court records
Authorizes the destruction of various court records earlier than permitted under existing law, deletes records retention provisions for records no longer maintained by the court (such as coroner's inquest records), and establishes records retention periods for records that are not specifically addressed under existing law. The record retention periods apply to all court records currently in existence, as well as future records.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2013
AB 1401 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Jury duty: eligibility
Allows a lawful permanent immigrant to serve on a jury.
Vetoed
AB 1402 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Attorneys
Corrects an error regarding lawyer trust accounts. Substitutes the word "on" for the word "in" with respect to interest-bearing lawyer trust funds within the language of the State Bar Act in Business and Professions Code.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1403 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Family law
Makes technical and clarifying changes to the Uniform Parentage Act to codify case law, and makes the Act's provisions gender neutral where appropriate. Authorizes the Judicial Council to convert 10 subordinate judicial officer positions to judgeships in the 2013-14 year, if the conversion results in a judge being assigned to a family law or juvenile law assignment.
Chapter 510, Statutes of 2013
HR 13 (Williams-D) Homeless court programs
Encourages county governments to find ways to make homeless courts more accessible, such as allowing people to bring multiple cases to court per year instead of limiting them to one, and allowing fines to be recalled from collection by the county or collections agencies.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption
SB 115 (Hill-D) Parent and child relationship
Provides that notwithstanding the treatment in law of the sperm donor under other circumstances, any interested party may bring an action at any time for the purpose of determining the parentage of a man presumed to be the father because he receives the child into his home and openly holds out the child as his natural child.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 274 (Leno-D) Family law: parentage: child custody and support
Authorizes a court to find that more than two persons with a claim to parentage, as specified, are parents if the court finds that recognizing only two parents is detrimental to the child; and directs the court, in making this determination, to consider all relevant factors, including the harm of removing the child from a stable placement with a parent who has fulfilled the child's physical needs and the child's psychological needs for care and affection, and who has assumed that role for a substantial period of time.
Chapter 564, Statutes of 2013
SB 343 (Yee-D) Dependent children: documents
Revises and recasts provisions of existing law governing the termination of dependency jurisdiction to, among other things, require a county welfare department to submit reports at the first regularly scheduled hearing after the child has attained 16 years of age and at the hearing immediately prior to the child attaining 18 years of age, verifying that the county has provided certain of the above-described information, documents, and services to the child.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 528 (Yee-D) Dependent children: supportive services
Provides additional considerations for foster youth in relation to the provision of supportive services.
Chapter 338, Statutes of 2013
SB 606 (De León-D) Harassment: child or ward
Clarifies that misdemeanor harassment of a child because of the employment of the child's parent or guardian may include attempting to record the child's image or voice if done in a harassing manner; increases criminal penalties; and subjects a person who commits misdemeanor harassment to civil liability.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2013
AB 161 (Campos-D) Restraining orders
Authorizes a court in a domestic violence proceeding to issue an ex parte order restraining a party from cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance held for the benefit of the parties or their child(ren), to whom support may be owed.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 2013
AB 176 (Campos-D) Family law: protective and restraining orders
Requires that if more than one order (excluding Emergency Protective Orders) has been issued and any of the orders is a no-contact order, an officer must enforce a no-contact order first.
Chapter 263, Statutes of 2013
AB 238 (Gomez-D) Protective and restraining orders
Deletes requirements of law enforcement officers to carry copies of emergency protective orders while on duty and instead requires law enforcement officers to have emergency protective orders entered into the computer database system maintained by the Department of Justice.
Chapter 145, Statutes of 2013
AB 251 (Wagner-R) Electronic court reporting
Adds family law to the list of court proceedings that can be electronically recorded if no court reporter is available for the proceeding and allows a court, if an official court reporter or an official reporter pro tempore is unavailable, to use electronic recording equipment in a family law case.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 414 (Fox-D) Visitation rights: grandparent rights
Deletes the requirement in existing law that a court find that there was a preexisting relationship between the grandparent and the grandchild before granting the grandparent visitation rights.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 506 (Mitchell-D) HIV testing: infants
Provides social workers with additional authority to consent to medical assessments, without court approval, for infants who have been placed into temporary custody or have been ruled a dependent of the court.
Chapter 153, Statutes of 2013
AB 545 (Mitchell-D) Dependent children: placement
Extends the definition of a nonrelative extended family member to include those adults who have a relationship with a relative of the child.
Chapter 294, Statutes of 2013
AB 681 (Melendez-R) Spousal support
Requires a court to consider as a factor in awarding spousal support, domestic violence perpetrated by either party against either party's child.
Chapter 455, Statutes of 2013
AB 787 (Stone-D) Foster care
Makes clarifying and technical changes to the California Fostering Connections to Success Act to ensure the continued implementation of the Act.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2013
AB 848 (Patterson-R) Adoption
Makes several changes to adoption processes and adoptive placement considerations. Clarifies when a birth parent's waiver of the right to revoke consent to an adoption is void or able to be rescinded, and clarifies that an abbreviated home study assessment may only be used for specified individuals.
Chapter 743, Statutes of 2013
AB 849 (Garcia-D) Protection of victims: address confidentiality
Allows an application to the Secretary of State's Safe at Home program to be completed at a community-based assistance program that serves victims of elder or dependent adult abuse. Requires the Secretary to conduct outreach activities to identify and recruit agencies to assist victims in applying to the Safe at Home program.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2013
AB 921 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Child welfare services
Requires each county to consult with specified stakeholders in developing county self-assessments and county improvement plans, or any subsequent county self-assessments. Requires county improvement plans to include a separately titled provision that lists and provides the rationale for proposed operational improvements that may be implemented at a cost savings to the county or within existing resources.
Vetoed
AB 958 (Jones-R) Child custody: evaluations and reports
Expands the circumstances in which a written confidential report may be disclosed by requiring a court to disclose the report to the licensing board governing the child custody evaluator upon receiving a written request from the board, and by allowing a person who is permitted to possess the written confidential report to provide a copy of the report to the child custody evaluator's licensing board in order to assist the board in investigating allegations that the child custody evaluator engaged in unprofessional conduct.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1403 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Family law
Makes technical and clarifying changes to the Uniform Parentage Act to codify case law, and makes the Act's provisions gender neutral where appropriate. Authorizes the Judicial Council to convert 10 subordinate judicial officer positions to judgeships in the 2013-14 year, if the conversion results in a judge being assigned to a family law or juvenile law assignment.
Chapter 510, Statutes of 2013
Judgments
SB 406 (Evans-D) Tribal Court Civil Judgment Act
Exempts Indian tribal judgments from the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act. Provides for the enforceability of tribal court judgments in California and expands the range of judgments that may be enforced to include all civil tribal judgments with some exceptions.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 426 (Corbett-D) Civil procedure: deficiency judgments
Prohibits a deficiency from being owed or collected following a judicial foreclosure with respect to the enumerated circumstances, and prohibits a deficiency from being owed or collected for a deficiency on a note secured by a deed of trust or mortgage on real property or an estate for years therein.
Chapter 65, Statutes of 2013
SB 551 (Gaines-R) Renewal and execution of judgments: judgment debtor
Clarifies that a judgment debtor whose liability for a judgment has ceased shall not subsequently be named by the judgment creditor on an application for writ of execution or renewal of judgment.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2013
SB 702 (Anderson-R) Application for entry of default judgment
Requires a plaintiff's application for entry of a default judgment to include specified information, and authorizes a party that has been permitted by the court to use affidavits in lieu of personal testimony to use affidavits to comply with specified requirements.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 233 (Wieckowski-D) Wage garnishment: restrictions: student loans
Prohibits the use of an earnings withholding order, for purposes of enforcing a judgment, for the collection of debt that the judgment debtor proves is from a student loan that is not made, insured, or guaranteed through a federal student loan program. Requires a court to terminate an earnings withholding order issued on or after 7/1/14, upon proof by the judgment debtor that the earnings withholding order enforces a judgment for collection of non-federal program student loan debt.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 436 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Inverse condemnation: comparative fault
Applies the provisions of Section 998 of the Code of Civil Procedure to actions in inverse condemnation, thus allowing a plaintiff's compensation to be reduced if an earlier settlement offer that was more favorable than the final judgment was rejected.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 567 (Wagner-R) Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions
Removes an existing requirement directing the California Law Revision Commission to review the statutory dollar amounts of personal property exempted from the enforcement of monetary judgments every 10 years, and to recommend to the Governor and the Legislature any necessary changes regarding those amounts. Retains the Commission's existing authorization to continually review and submit recommendations concerning the enforcement of monetary judgments.
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2013
AB 748 (Eggman-D) Judgments against a public entity: interest
Provides that, unless another provision of law provides a different interest rate, interest accrues in a tax or fee claim against a public entity that results in a judgment against the public entity at a rate equal to the weekly average one year constant maturity U.S. Treasury yield, not to exceed 7% per annum. Provides that when the judgment becomes enforceable pursuant to existing law interest accrues at an annual rate equal to the weekly average one year constant maturity U.S. Treasury yield at the time of the judgment plus 2%, but not to exceed 7% per annum.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 2013
AB 1007* (Wagner-R) State government: payment of claims against the state
Requires the interest on the amount of a claim, judgment, or settlement against the State of California to be calculated based on the same 13-week U.S. Treasury rate that is applied to the overpayment of taxes, fees, and surcharges to the state.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1254 (Gorell-R) Civil actions: settlement offers
Provides that for a settlement offer that is not accepted to have a more favorable result at trial or arbitration, it must be served 15 days prior to the commencement of trial or arbitration and not be accepted prior to the trial or arbitration or within 25 days after the offer is made, whichever comes first.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 15 (Padilla-D) Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems
Provides that engaging in specified prohibited activities through the use of an unmanned aircraft system is included within prohibitions in current civil and criminal law. Provides that an unmanned aircraft system may not be equipped with a weapon, and makes that act a crime. Requires a law enforcement agency to obtain a search warrant when using an unmanned aircraft, and requires that an application for the search warrant specify if an unmanned aircraft system is to be used in the execution of the search warrant, and the intended purpose for which the unmanned aircraft system will be used.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 46 (Corbett-D) Personal information: privacy
Expands the scope of personal information subject to existing security breach disclosure requirements to include a user name or email address, in combination with a password or security question and answer that permits access to an online account. Imposes additional requirements on the disclosure of a breach of the security of the system or data in situations where a breach involves personal information that permits access to an online or email account.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2013
SB 138 (Hernandez-D) Confidentiality of medical information
Requires health care service plans and health insurers to take specified steps to protect the confidentiality of an insured individual's medical information for purposes of sensitive services or if disclosure will endanger an individual.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2013
SB 222 (Padilla-D) Genetic information: privacy
Declares that an individual's genetic information is protected by the right of privacy. Prohibits any person from collecting, storing, analyzing, or disclosing genetic information without the written authorization of the individual to whom the information pertains and prescribes specific circumstances under which genetic information may be collected, stored, analyzed, or disclosed without the authorization.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 255* (Cannella-R) Disorderly conduct: invasion of privacy
Creates a new misdemeanor for the distribution of an image of an identifiable person's intimate body parts which had been taken with an understanding that the image would remain private, commonly referred to as "revenge porn."
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2013
SB 346 (Beall-D) Public social services: records
Requires all applications and records concerning any individual made or kept in connection with the administration of any form of public social services to be confidential, with some exceptions.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2013
SB 383 (Jackson-D) Credit cards: personal information
Authorizes a person or entity that accepts credit cards in an online transaction, to require a cardholder, as a condition to accepting a credit card as payment in full or in part for goods or services, to provide the billing ZIP Code and street address number associated with the credit card, if used solely for the prevention of fraud, theft, or identity theft. Authorizes the person or entity accepting the credit card to require a cardholder, as a condition to accepting a credit card in an online transaction, to provide additional personal information, if it requires that information for the prevention of fraud, theft, or identity theft, and the additional personal information is used solely for the prevention of fraud, theft, or identity theft.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 397 (Hueso-D) Vehicles: enhanced driver's license
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue enhanced driver's licenses, which include transmission technology to denote identity and citizenship, for purposes of entering the U.S. at land and sea ports of entry and prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to obtain or use an enhanced driver's license as a condition of employment or from taking an adverse action against an employee for refusing to do so.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 467 (Leno-D) Privacy: electronic communications: warrant
Requires a search warrant when a governmental agency is seeking the contents of a wire or electronic communication that is stored, held or maintained by a provider.
Vetoed
SB 501 (Corbett-D) Social networking Internet Web sites: privacy: minors
Requires a social networking Internet Web site to remove specified personal identifying information of any registered user that is accessible online, within 96 hours after his/her request and requires removal of that information in that same manner regarding a user under the age of 18 upon request by the user's parent or legal guardian.
(In Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media Committee)
SB 530 (Wright-D) Criminal offenders: rehabilitation
Provides that a potential employer may not ask for, seek, or utilize as a factor in determining any condition of employment, information about a conviction that has been judicially dismissed or ordered sealed.
Chapter 721, Statutes of 2013
SB 558 (Lieu-D) Reporters' shield law
Provides that a party issuing a subpoena in any civil or criminal proceeding to a third-party that seeks the records of a journalist will, except in circumstances that pose a clear and substantial threat to the integrity of the criminal investigation or present an imminent risk of death or serious bodily harm, provide notice of the subpoena to the journalist and the publisher of the newspaper, magazine, or other publication, or the station operations manager of the broadcast station, that employs or contracts with the journalist at least five days prior to issuing the subpoena. Requires the above notice include, at a minimum, an explanation of why the requested records will be of material assistance to the party or body seeking them and why alternate sources of information are not sufficient to avoid the need for the subpoena.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2013
SB 568 (Steinberg-D) Privacy: Internet: minors
Prohibits, on and after 1/1/15, an operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application, as specified, from marketing specified types of products or services to a minor. Prohibits an operator from knowingly using, disclosing, compiling, or knowingly allowing a third-party to use, disclose, or compile, the personal information of a minor for the purpose of marketing or advertising specified types of products or services.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2013
SB 612 (Leno-D) Residential tenancy
Extends tenant protections to victims of human trafficking by allowing a tenant to terminate his/her lease upon the issuance of documentation from qualified third-parties that demonstrates the tenant or a household member is seeking assistance for physical or mental injuries resulting from abuse, and prohibits landlords from disclosing information related to a tenant's early termination based on abuse.
Chapter 130, Statutes of 2013
SB 666 (Steinberg-D) Employment: retaliation
Provides for a suspension or revocation of an employer's business license for retaliation against employees and others on the basis of citizenship and immigration status, and establishes a civil penalty up to $10,000 per violation.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2013
AB 25 (Campos-D) Employment: social media
Specifies that the prohibition barring employers from requiring or requesting an employee (or prospective employee) to disclose their private username or password for the purpose of accessing their social media accounts applies to both public and private employers. Defines "employer" as the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or a district.
(Held at Senate Desk)
AB 126 (Hall-D) Time shares: management and governance
Requires a time-share association to maintain a complete list of the names and postal addresses of all owners of time-share interests in their time-share plan and to update the list at least every 12 months. Revises provisions applicable to release of the list, by deleting authority for the time-share instruments to provide for its release, and instead requires an association to obtain an owner's consent for the sharing of their contact information in accordance with specified existing law.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 134 (Logue-R) California Public Records Act: firearms license applications
Provides that the California Public Records Act not be construed as to require the disclosure of the names, home addresses, and telephone numbers of applicants that are set forth in applications to carry firearms or of licensees that are set forth in licenses to carry firearms.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 179 (Bocanegra-D) Public transit: disclosure of personal information
Extends privacy protections that state law gives to toll bridge or toll road users to riders of transit systems employing electronic fare collection systems.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2013
AB 242 (Chau-D) Privacy: Internet
Requires the privacy policy for a commercial Internet Web site to be no more than 100 words, written in clear and concise language, written at no greater than a grade 8 reading level, and to include a statement indicating whether the personally identifiable information may be sold or shared with others, and if so, how and with whom the information may be shared.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 257 (Hall-D) Privacy: commercial Web sites and online services
Requires a commercial Internet Web site's privacy policy to identify the uses and retention period for each category of personally identifiable information collected, and describes the process the operator maintains allowing an individual consumer to review and request changes to any of his/her personally identifiable information. Requires the operator to use reasonable security safeguards to protect personally identifiable information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or destruction, and to describe these safeguards in its privacy policy.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 319 (Campos-D) Internet Web sites and online services: minors
Requires an operator of an Internet Web site (site) or online service directed to minors and the operator of a site or online service that has actual knowledge that it is collecting personal information from a minor to provide notice on the site of what information is collected from minors by the operator and how the operator uses the information. Requires the operator to provide specified information to the parent of a minor that has provided personal information to the site or online service and to provide the parent with the opportunity to refuse to permit the operator's further use or future collection of personal information from the minor.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 370 (Muratsuchi-D) Consumers: internet privacy
Requires privacy policies posted by an operator of a commercial Internet Web site or online service, that collects personally identifiable information, to disclose how the operator responds to Web browser "do not track" signals or other similar mechanisms regarding the collection of personally identifiable information and to disclose whether other parties may collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer's online activities.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2013
AB 643 (Stone-D) Public schools: pupil records: confidentiality
Requires a school district to allow a social worker or probation officer access to a foster youth's school records, conforming to the federal Uninterrupted Scholars Act.
Chapter 80, Statutes of 2013
AB 658 (Ian Calderon-D) Personal information: disclosure
Applies the prohibitions of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to any business that offers software or hardware to consumers, including a mobile application or other related device that is designed to maintain medical information to allow an individual to manage his/her information, or for the diagnosis, treatment, or management of a medical condition of that individual.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2013
AJR 27 (Donnelly-R) Relative to privacy
Urges the U.S. Congress to pass and the President to sign into law the Limiting Internet and Blanket Electronic Review of Telecommunications and Email Act, to ensure that the American people are protected from massive invasions of their privacy.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
Probate
SB 156 (Beall-D) Conservatorships and guardianships: attorney's fees
Prohibits a guardian or conservator from being compensated from the estate for any costs or fees, including attorney's fees, incurred in defending the compensation in the petition, if the court reduces or denies the compensation requested in the petition.
Vetoed
SB 310 (Calderon-D) Mortgages: foreclosure notices: title companies
Exempts a licensed or underwritten title company, except when it is acting as a trustee, from liability for a violation of the Homeowners' Bill of Rights if it records or causes to record a notice of default or notice of sale at the request of a trustee, substitute trustee, or beneficiary, in good faith and in the normal course of its business activities; and provides that nothing in this bill should be construed to affect the liability of a trustee, substitute trustee, or beneficiary that requests a licensed or underwritten title company to record a notice of default or notice of sale.
Chapter 251, Statutes of 2013
AB 490 (Skinner-D) Intestate succession: children
Provides that a parent does not inherit from or through a child on the basis of the parent and child relationship if the parent's parental rights were terminated and the parent-child relationship was not judicially reestablished, the parent did not acknowledge the child, or the parent left the child during the child's minority without an effort to provide for the child's support or without communication from the parent.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2013
AB 1029 (Maienschein-R) Trusts and estates: allocations of receipts
Revises and recasts the requirements by which a trustee is to determine whether money received from a distributing entity is to be treated as a partial liquidation and provides that a trustee is not liable for any claim of improper allocation of the receipt that is based on information that was not received or actually known by the trustee as of the date of allocation, provided that the trustee satisfies specified requirements.
Chapter 105, Statutes of 2013
AB 1160 (Wagner-R) Decedents' estates: personal representative
Authorizes a personal representative of a decedent's estate to file a petition with the court for authorization to participate in a proceeding as necessary to assist the court and authorizes the court to grant or deny the petition without an evidentiary hearing and requires a showing of good cause for a petition to be granted.
Chapter 84, Statutes of 2013
AB 1339 (Maienschein-R) Professional fiduciaries: guardians and conservators
Requires a professional fiduciary or other person who petitions the court for appointment of the professional fiduciary to act as a guardian or conservator, to provide an hourly fee schedule with the petition for appointment and requires the professional fiduciary, upon filing an inventory and appraisal, to provide an hourly fee schedule or statement of his/her proposed compensation from the estate.
Chapter 248, Statutes of 2013
Miscellaneous
SB 6* (Lieu-D) Business
Re-enacts, until 1/1/15, repealed provisions of California's Uniform Commercial Code, relating to the rights that certain licensees take under a nonexclusive license where a security interest exists in a general intangible.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2013
SB 23 (Lara-D) Task Force on New American Integration
Directs the Governor to establish the Task Force on New American Integration to provide, among other things, policy recommendations on protocols and policies regarding immigrant integration to the Legislature.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 25 (Steinberg-D) Agricultural labor relations: contract dispute resolution
Makes various changes to the mandatory mediation procedures of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act. Provides that an action to enforce an order of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board may be filed within 60 days, whether or not the other party is seeking judicial review of the order, and increases the evidentiary threshold for the court to grant a stay of the Board's order and require the court to make written findings supporting any order granting a stay of the order during the pendency of the appeal.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 110* (DeSaulnier-D) Bay Bridge: safety review task force
Establishes a safety review task force to assess the seismic safety of the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, exempts the task force and its members from liability, and subjects the task force to open meeting and public record access requirements.
Vetoed
SB 155 (Padilla-D) Vehicles: motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors
Modifies the relationship between motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers by, among other things, making changes regarding the use of flat-rate time schedules for warranty reimbursement, warranty and incentive claims, audits, protest rights, export policies, performance standards, and facility improvements.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 2013
SB 213 (Galgiani-D) Election petitions: circulators
Prohibits a person from circulating a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition or nominating paper unless the person is 18 years of age or older.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2013
SB 233 (Leno-D) Debt buying
Enacts the Fair Debt Buying Practices Act, to further regulate the activities of persons and entities that purchase "charged-off consumer debt." Prohibits a debt buyer from bringing suit or initiating an arbitration or other legal proceeding to collect a consumer debt if the applicable statute of limitations on the debt buyer's claim has expired.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2013
SB 249 (Leno-D) Public health: health records: confidentiality
Authorizes the sharing of health records involving the diagnosis, care, and treatment of HIV or AIDS related to a beneficiary enrolled in federal Ryan White Act funded programs who may be eligible for health care under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act between the Department of Public Health and qualified entities.
Chapter 445, Statutes of 2013
SB 250 (Wolk-D) Olive Oil Commission of California
Establishes the Olive Oil Commission of California to engage in olive oil quality and nutritional research and to recommend grades and labeling standards. Authorizes the Commission to levy a specified civil penalty on a person for rendering or furnishing false reports, secreting, destroying, or altering records, failing to furnish a report, or failing or refusing to furnish to the Commission information concerning the name and address of persons from whom olive oil is received. Authorizes the Commission to bring certain civil actions to enforce this bill's provisions.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2013
SB 251 (Calderon-D) Insurance: notice: electronic transmission
Authorizes an insurer until 1/1/19, with the consent of the policyholder, to transmit electronically, in lieu of mail, certain notices pertaining to workers' compensation insurance, the offer of renewal required for personal auto, real and personal property, and liability insurance policies; the notice of conditional renewal for commercial insurance policies, and the offer of renewal and certain disclosures related to earthquake insurance so long as the insurer complies with the specified provisions of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and additional procedures and standards.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2013
SB 282 (Yee-D) Confidential medical information: disclosure
Extends provisions of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to require that the authorization to disclose medical information also accompany a demand for settlement or offer to compromise issued on a patient's behalf prior to the service of a complaint in any action arising out of the professional negligence of a person holding a valid license as a marriage and family therapist.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2013
SB 313 (De León-D) Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act
Prohibits a public agency from taking punitive action, or denying promotion on grounds other than merit, against a public safety officer, because the officer's name was placed on a "Brady list," as defined. Prohibits the introduction of any evidence in an administrative appeal of a punitive action that the officer's name was placed on a Brady list, with some exceptions.
Chapter 779, Statutes of 2013
SB 318 (Hill-D) Consumer loans: pilot program
Establishes, until 1/1/18, the Pilot Program for Increased Access to Responsible Small Dollar Loans under the California Finance Lenders Law. Prohibits any person, in connection with the making of a loan, from offering, selling, or requiring "credit insurance"; a licensee from requiring, as a condition of the loan, that the borrower waive any right, penalty, remedy, forum or procedure provided for in any law applicable to the loan, and a licensee from refusing to do business with, or discriminating against a borrower or applicant on the basis that the person refuses to waive any right, penalty, remedy, forum, or procedure.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2013
SB 380 (Padilla-D) Communications: service interruptions
Requires, until 1/1/20, a governmental entity to obtain an order, signed by a judicial officer, before communications services may be lawfully interrupted, with some exceptions.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2013
SB 400 (Jackson-D) Employment protections: victims
Expands the protections given to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault who take time off to obtain any relief (such as a temporary restraining order) to victims of stalking. Prohibits an employer from discharging, retaliating or discriminating against an employee because of his/her known status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodation for an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Chapter 759, Statutes of 2013
SB 415 (Knight-R) Space flight liability
Includes a manufacturer or supplier of components, services, or vehicles that have been reviewed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration as part of issuing a license, permit, or other authorization pursuant to specified provisions of federal law relating to commercial space launch activities as a space flight entity with limited liability for any participant injury.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 462 (Monning-D) Employment: compensation
Makes the award of attorney's fees and costs where the prevailing party is not an employee contingent on a finding by the court that the employee brought the court action in bad faith.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 2013
SB 496 (Wright-D) Improper governmental activity: disclosure: protection
Makes several technical and substantive changes to the whistleblower protection statutes for public employees and clarifies procedural rules for the State Personnel Board's administrative hearings and litigation over procedural questions regarding the right to sue.
Chapter 781, Statutes of 2013
SB 506 (Hill-D) Ephedrine: retail sale
Provides that it is a misdemeanor for a retail distributor, except pursuant to a valid prescription from a licensed practitioner with prescriptive authority, to sell or distribute to a person specified amounts of nonprescription products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine within specified time limits, to sell or distribute any of those substances to a person whose information has generated an alert, or, except under specified conditions, or to sell or distribute to a purchaser a nonprescription product containing any amount of those substances.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 516 (Steinberg-D) Foreign labor contractors: registration
Requires foreign labor contractors to register with the Labor Commissioner, as well as follow additional contractual and bonding requirements. Provides that a person who violates any provision of specified requirements be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $1,000 and not more than $25,000 per violation. Provides that either the Commissioner or an aggrieved person may bring enforcement actions.
Vetoed
SB 545 (Anderson-R) Name change: minors
Authorizes a court to waive the requirements for publication and notice to a nonconsenting parent if necessary to protect the best interests of the minor under specified circumstances.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 564 (Monning-D) Ski resorts: safety plans: accident reports
Requires a ski resort to prepare an annual safety plan and, and upon request, make the safety plan available to the public the same day the request is received. Specifies that the provisions of this bill do not change the existing assumption of risk doctrine as it applies to ski resorts.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 588 (Emmerson-R) Medical records: reproduction fees
Provides that where patient records are delivered to an attorney or an attorney's representative for inspection or copying at the record custodian's place of business, and if any portion of the patient's medical records is stored on paper, the fee for complying with an authorization to copy is $15, plus actual costs. If any portion of the records is stored electronically and is inaccessible for inspection or copying, authorizes the health care provider, in its sole discretion, to produce a paper copy of the electronic records for the attorney to inspect and copy, and to charge specified fees.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 594 (Hill-D) Use of public resources
Prohibits nonprofit organizations and their employees from using funds received from local agencies in connection with conduit bond financing for specified campaign purposes. Requires a nonprofit organization that receives significant amounts of money from local agencies in connection with conduit bond financing to maintain a separate bank account for campaign activities and to disclose the sources of the funds it receives for campaign activities. Authorizes the Attorney General or the district attorney for the county in which the reporting nonprofit organization is domiciled to assess a monetary civil penalty of up to $10,000 against a reporting nonprofit organization for each violation of these disclosure requirements.
Chapter 773, Statutes of 2013
SB 608 (Wright-D) Adverse possession: public entity properties
Provides that a nonpublic entity has no right under the doctrine of adverse possession to possess, occupy, or own public property or claim a public property by adverse possession. Prohibits a public entity, as defined, from selling real property or conveying a durable interest in real property, except by official action and if leased, such that the public entity maintains a reversionary interest in the property conveyed.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 610 (Jackson-D) Franchises
Revises the California Franchise Relations Act to explicitly require franchisors and franchisees to deal with each other in good faith, as defined, in the performance and enforcement of a franchise agreement; prohibits a franchisor from restricting the right of a franchisee to join or participate in an association of franchisees; and authorizes a private right of action for violation of these provisions that may be remedied by injunctive relief, damages, rescission, reasonable costs and/or attorneys' fees.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 624 (Steinberg-D) International commercial disputes
Makes provisions of law, that govern arbitration and conciliation proceedings for international commercial disputes regarding representation and assistance of parties, applicable to any arbitration or conciliation proceeding conducted pursuant to the statutory provisions that govern arbitration and conciliation of international commercial disputes. Encourages the Judicial Council and the State Bar of California to revise specified rules to conform to these provisions.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SB 648 (Corbett-D) Electronic cigarettes: advertising
Extends specified restrictions and prohibitions against the smoking of tobacco products to include electronic cigarettes. Includes electronic cigarettes within restricted and prohibited activities, changing the definition of a crime with respect to certain facilities.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 669 (Huff-R) Emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors
Authorizes a trained pre-hospital emergency medical care person, first responder, or lay rescuer to obtain and use epinephrine auto-injectors to render emergency care to another person, pursuant to specified requirements, and grants them qualified immunity from liability unless their conduct in rendering emergency care is grossly negligent.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2013
SB 679 (Berryhill-R) Licensees: reporting requirements
Revises the monetary threshold for a licensed engineer or land surveyor to report a civil action settlement or administrative action to the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists from "$50,000 or greater" to "greater than $50,000"; and requires a licensed engineer or land surveyor to report to the Board any civil action judgment or binding arbitration award or administrative action of $25,000 or greater.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2013
SB 680 (Wolk-D) Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: qualified escrow funds
Revises the definition of "units sold," for the purposes of calculating the amount a tobacco product manufacturer is required to place in the qualified escrow account under the Master Settlement Agreement, to specify that it is the number of cigarettes sold to a consumer, regardless of whether the state excise tax was collected, but excludes, among other things, cigarettes sold at federal military installations.
Chapter 168, Statutes of 2013
SB 686 (Jackson-D) Vehicles: vehicle dealers
Prohibits a representation of a vehicle being "certified" from being made if a dealer knows or should have known that a vehicle is subject to a manufacturer's safety recall, and the repairs required to correct the defect have not been performed on a vehicle. Violations of the provisions of this bill constitute a crime.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 691 (Hancock-D) Nonvehicular air pollution control: penalties
Makes a person who violates its provisions liable for a civil penalty of not more than $100,000, if the violation results from a discharge from a stationary source required by federal law to be included in an operating permit program established pursuant to Title V of the federal Clean Air Act, the discharge results in a severe disruption to the community, or the discharge contains or includes one or more toxic air contaminants, as specified, and 100 or more people are exposed to the discharge. Requires that the recovery of a civil penalty under its provisions precludes prosecution of a misdemeanor for the same offense.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 726 (Lara-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Imposes specified conditions on the participation of the California board members of the Western Climate Initiative, Incorporated. Requires the Initiative's California board members to participate on the board so long as it maintains an open meetings policy consistent with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and a public records policy consistent with the Public Records Act.
Chapter 420, Statutes of 2013
SB 737 (Huff-R) Appeals: representative actions
Allows the appeal of an order granting or denying class action certification, at the discretion of the court of appeal, and specifies various factors the court is required to consider in determining whether or not to allow the appeal.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 738 (Yee-D) Sexually exploited and trafficked minors
Provides, until 1/1/17, that a minor may come within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and become a dependent child of the court if the minor is a victim of human trafficking or sexual exploitation, or received food or shelter in exchange for, or was paid to perform, sexual acts, and the parent or guardian failed or was unable to protect the child.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 742* (Nielsen-R) Defendants
Provides that any person who willfully removes or disables an electronic monitoring or supervising device, including a GPS or other monitoring device, affixed to his/her person or the person of another, knowing that the device was affixed as part of a criminal sentence or juvenile court disposition, as a condition of parole or probation, or otherwise pursuant to law, is guilty of a public offense. Provides for revocation of probation, parole, or post release community supervision, and subjects persons with a specified sex offense conviction who violate the section to be subject to lifetime GPS monitoring.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 762 (Hill-D) Secondhand goods: lost, stolen, or embezzled items
Clarifies the interests of licensed pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers relating to the seizure and disposition of property during a criminal investigation or criminal case.
Chapter 318, Statutes of 2013
SCR 52 (Wolk-D) California Plan Your Giving Day
Recognizes and supports the importance of gift planning awareness by declaring 10/1/13, as California Plan Your Giving Day.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2013
SCR 62 (Jackson-D) Corporations: boards of directors
Encourages equitable and diverse gender representation on corporate boards, and urges that, within a three-year period from January 2014 to December 2016, inclusive, every publicly held corporation in California with nine or more director seats have a minimum of three women on its board, every publicly held corporation in California with five to eight director seats have a minimum of two women on its board, and every publicly held corporation in California with fewer than five director seats have a minimum of one woman on its board.
Resolution Chapter 127, Statutes of 2013
SJR 8 (Correa-D) Immigration
Specifies principles for repairing the nation's historically broken immigration system, and urges the Congress and the President of the U.S. to take a comprehensive and workable approach to improving the nation's immigration system using those principles.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2013
SJR 13 (Yee-D) Immigration reform: F3 and F4 visa categories
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the U.S. to support immigration reform efforts that do not hurt families by eliminating or negatively impacting the F3 and F4 visa categories, or that end the discrimination against same-sex couples. Memorializes the Congress and the President to take a comprehensive, bipartisan, and well-reasoned approach to immigration issues that maintains the fair and appropriate priority for family reunification, including same-sex partners.
Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2013
SJR 17 (Anderson-R) Syrian government: military action
Urges President Barack Obama to obtain congressional authorization prior to using military force against the Assad regime in Syria in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, and urges U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein to request that the President obtain congressional approval prior to taking military action against the Assad regime in Syria.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 140 (Dickinson-D) Undue influence
Provides in the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act a new definition of undue influence, which focuses on excessive persuasion that causes another person to act or refrain from action, by overcoming that person's free will, resulting in inequity. Provides a list of considerations for a court to utilize in determining whether an action constituted excessive persuasion.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2013
AB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Unclaimed property
Requires a person holding escheated property to include in his/her report to the State Controller the name and last known address of the apparent owner of any escheated property, except travelers checks and money orders, worth at least $25.
Chapter 362, Statutes of 2013
AB 265 (Gatto-D) Local government liability: dog parks
Provides that a specified public entity that owns or operates a dog park is not held liable for any injury or death suffered by any person or pet resulting solely from the actions of a dog in the dog park.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2013
AB 359 (Holden-D) Vehicle rental agreements: customer facility charge
Provides guidelines regarding the scope of a Customer Facility Charge audit, and requires the audit to be posted on an airport's Internet Web site.
Chapter 549, Statutes of 2013
AB 374 (Wagner-R) Eminent domain: compensation: loss of goodwill
Specifies that an owner of a business must adduce sufficient evidence to permit a jury to find that goodwill existed prior to the taking before the owner is entitled to receive any compensation for the loss of goodwill, in the instance that the owner's business is taken by eminent domain.
Vetoed
AB 383 (Wagner-R) Maintenance of the codes
Makes nonsubstantive changes in various provisions of law to effectuate the recommendations made by the Legislative Counsel to the Legislature.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2013
AB 438 (Mitchell-D) Juveniles: dual-status minors
Deletes the prohibition on the filing of a petition or the entry of an order to make a minor simultaneously both a dependent child and a ward of the court.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 442 (Nazarian-D) Employees: wages
Authorizes the Labor Commissioner to collect liquidated damages from an employer who pays an employee less than minimum wage.
Chapter 735, Statutes of 2013
AB 464 (Daly-D) Vital records
Updates and clarifies the law regarding vital records.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2013
AB 477 (Chau-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting
Makes a notary public who has observed or has knowledge of elder or dependent adult financial abuse, a mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of elders and dependent adults. Makes a failure by a mandated reporter to report suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult subject to civil penalties currently imposed on other mandated reporters.
Vetoed
AB 491 (Torres-D) Corporations: bylaws: emergency powers
Authorizes a corporation, nonprofit public benefit corporation, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, or nonprofit religious corporation to take actions in anticipation of or during an emergency, and to adopt bylaws to manage and conduct ordinary business affairs of the corporation effective only in an emergency.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2013
AB 499 (Ting-D) Judicial proceedings: injunctions prohibiting harassment
Authorizes a court to issue temporary restraining orders and renewals for up to five years.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2013
AB 508 (Ian Calderon-D) Debt collection: homeless veterans
Delays garnishing wages or levying against the bank account of a veteran to pay for specified violations when a court determines that he/she is homeless.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2013
AB 533 (Ian Calderon-D) Artistic employment contracts: minors
Exempts an employer of a minor under a contract for services as an extra, background performer, or in a similar capacity from the requirement that the employer set aside 15% of the minor's gross earnings in trust for the benefit of the minor.
Chapter 102, Statutes of 2013
AB 633 (Salas-D) Emergency medical services: civil liability
Prohibits an employer from adopting or enforcing a policy prohibiting an employee from voluntarily providing emergency medical services, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, except when a person has a do-not-resuscitate order.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2013
AB 635 (Ammiano-D) Drug overdose treatment: liability
Expands an existing pilot program that provides a qualified immunity to licensed health care providers who prescribe naloxone by removing the sunset, removing the restriction to only seven counties, authorizing licensed health care providers to also prescribe naloxone to third parties (family members, friends, or other persons in a position to assist a person at risk of an opioid-related overdose), as well as to issue standing orders for the distribution and/or administration of naloxone.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2013
AB 642 (Rendon-D) Publication: Internet Web site
Provides that a newspaper that is available on an Internet Web site may also qualify as a newspaper of general circulation, provided that newspaper meets certain criteria.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 725 (Wilk-R) Health care management: health court demonstration program
Requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to submit an application on behalf of the state to the federal Department of Health and Human Services to receive a grant for state demonstration programs to evaluate alternatives to current medical tort litigation as authorized by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Requires the Secretary to write the application to design a program to create health courts based upon a no-fault process to improve the injury resolution of liability.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 729 (Roger Hernández-D) Evidentiary privileges: represented worker privilege
Provides that a union agent and a represented employee or represented former employee have a privilege to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent while the union agent is acting in his/her representative capacity.
Vetoed
AB 738 (Harkey-R) Public entity liability: bicycles
Provides that a public entity or an employee of a public entity acting within his/her official capacity is not liable for an injury caused to a person riding a bicycle while traveling on a roadway, if the public entity has provided a bike lane on that roadway.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 739 (Salas-D) Coroners
Provides that a coroner's appointed deputy or authorized deputy shall include a deputy coroner or part-time or volunteer personnel of the coroner's office.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 756 (Melendez-R) Judicial review: public works projects
Applies provisions of the Jobs and Economic Improvement through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011 to a public works project, defined to mean an infrastructure project carried out by the city, county, special district or state government or contracted out to a private entity by the special district or local or state government.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 802 (Wieckowski-D) Private arbitration companies: disclosures
Clarifies parameters of existing consumer arbitration data disclosures by private arbitration companies.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 818 (Blumenfield-D) Air pollution control: penalties
Requires any city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, any city attorney of a city and county, or a city prosecutor in any city with a full-time city prosecutor, with the consent of the district attorney, to recover specified civil penalties in a civil action for specified violations.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 824 (Jones-R) Written agreements: exclusion of evidence
Adds trust instruments to the list of agreements that are covered by the statute codifying the parol evidence rule.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2013
AB 838 (Morrell-R) Personal representatives: bonds
Requires the reasonable amount for the cost of recovery to collect on a bond, including attorney's fees and costs, to be included in specified items, including the estimated value of the personal property and the probable annual gross income of an estate.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 897 (Wagner-R) Disability access fees and information
Repeals the fee, reporting, and information requirements for renewal of a business license or equivalent instrument or permit related to disability access compliance.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 905 (Ting-D) Real property: environmental fee covenants
Provides for the recording of an Environmental Fee Covenant that is, among other things, imposed for no more than 50 years in connection with the installation on the property of equipment or improvements that are intended to promote, among other things, energy efficiency and the reduction of the consumption of water or other natural resources.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 914 (Gordon-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures
Imposes new disclosure requirements under the Political Reform Act for nonprofit corporations, provided they make in California contributions, expenditures, or independent expenditures, as defined, in support of or opposition to a candidate, political party, or ballot measure, or any combination thereof in the aggregate totaling $50,000 or more during a calendar year of the nonprofit corporation.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 925 (Bigelow-R) State officer or supervisory employee: compensation
Holds a state officer or a supervisory employee who intentionally circumvents statutes or regulations which result in overpayment or unauthorized payment of compensation personally liable for treble damages.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 939 (Melendez-R) Pupil and school personnel health: defibrillators
Encourages schools to acquire and maintain at least one automatic external defibrillator, and encourages schools to follow specified procedures for placement and use of that device.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 957 (Wagner-R) Postmortem photographs
Prohibits the dissemination of a copy, reproduction, or facsimile of a photograph of a body of a deceased person taken by or for a coroner, with some exceptions.
Chapter 53, Statutes of 2013
AB 976 (Atkins-D) Coastal resources: enforcement: penalties
Authorizes, until 1/1/19, the Coastal Commission, by majority vote and at a duly noticed public hearing, to impose an administrative civil penalty on a person who intentionally and knowingly violates the California Coastal Act.
(In Conference)
AB 983 (Melendez-R) Self-service storage facilities
Revises the California Self-Storage Facility Act to allow an owner of a storage facility to have a vehicle, watercraft, or trailer towed from the facility if rent and other charges have not been paid for 60 days. Permits an owner to enforce a lien attached to stored property by holding a lien sale no sooner than 30 days from the date of receipt of a Declaration in Opposition to the Lien Sale.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 993 (Linder-R) Contractors: arbitration
Revises and updates the provisions of existing law relating to the Contractors State License Board's arbitration program that provides for an alternative dispute resolution process between consumers and contractors for claims up to $50,000, clarifies the arbitration process, the arbitrator's authority, awarding of attorney's fees and makes other clarifying and conforming changes.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1011 (Salas-D) Unclaimed property: interest payment
Requires the State Controller to add interest to payments made to owners of unclaimed property.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1106 (Waldron-R) Public entities: liability
Limits the liability of public entities that operate county jails for injuries to inmates arising out of failure to provide sufficient jail conditions.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1121 (Atkins-D) Gender identity: petition for change of name
Creates an optional administrative procedure for a transgender person born in California to amend gender and name on his/her birth certificate without first obtaining a court order.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2013
AB 1141 (Dahle-R) Franchises
Revises both the California Franchise Relations Act and the Franchise Investment Law to provide that good cause in a termination case consists of a substantial and material breach of the franchise agreement after a franchisee is given written notice and 60 days to cure the failure. Requires the termination to be in accordance with the current terms and standards equally applicable to all franchisees, with some exceptions.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1183 (Jones-R) Civil discovery: motion to compel further response
Provides that the 45-day period from service of a response or supplemental response in which notice of a motion to compel further response to discovery or must occur, begins to run after the receipt of a verified response or supplemental verified response.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2013
AB 1239 (Holden-D) Public contracts: anti-trafficking
Prohibits a specified contractor that has entered into a contractual relationship with a public entity from engaging in trafficking-related activities, including destroying, concealing, confiscating, or otherwise denying access to the employee's identity documents, such as passports or drivers' licenses.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1265 (Conway-R) Mental health: assisted outpatient treatment
Increases the maximum period of imposed outpatient treatment under the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project, from six months to one year.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1275 (Chau-D) Unclaimed property: filing of claims
Revises the Unclaimed Property Law to only allow an owner of, instead of a person with an interest in, property to file a claim with the State Controller's Office for recovery of property that has escheated to the state. Revises the definition of "owner" to remove a personal representative and include an estate representative, conservator, or guardian.
Chapter 128, Statutes of 2013
AB 1300 (Roger Hernández-D) Credit cards: oral disclosures
Requires that prior to the issuance of a credit card on the campus of an institution of higher education to a cardholder who is 18 years of age or older, the cardholder be provided with an oral disclosure by the credit card issuer soliciting on campus containing certain information, including, but not limited to, the annual percentage rate, penalty rates, cash advance fee, late payment fee, and over-the-limit fee, in a specified manner.
(In Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 1335 (Maienschein-R) Sex offenses: disabled victims
Increases the penalty for the crime of rape, an act of sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration, against a person incapable because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability to imprisonment in state prison for 9, 11, or 13 years. Increases the penalty to imprisonment in state prison for 10, 12, or 14 years for the crime of an act of rape, spousal rape, sexual penetration in concert with another person, either personally or by aiding and abetting the other person, against a person who is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1355 (Wilk-R) Limited liability companies: agents
Requires a limited liability company to indemnify its agent in proceedings for the successful defense or settlement of claims brought against the agent by reason of his/her agent status.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1360 (Torres-D) Common interest developments: electronic voting
Authorizes a common interest development, managed by an association, to conduct elections by electronic voting and requires an association, if electronic voting is to be conducted, to provide each member with an opportunity to indicate that he/she will be voting electronically and to provide ballots. Requires the electronic balloting service provider to retain the ballot data until the time allowed for challenging the election has expired.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1405 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Subversive Organization Registration Law: repeal
Repeals the Subversive Organization Registration Law, which requires the registration of subversive organizations which are conceived and exist for the purpose of undermining and eventually destroying the democratic form of government in this state and in the U.S.
Chapter 117, Statutes of 2013
AB 1415 (Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee) Administrative procedures: judicial review
Extends, from 30 days to 45 days, the time any interested person has to obtain judicial review of a given determination by filing a written petition requesting that the determination of the Office of Administrative Law be modified or set aside.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AJR 1 (Gatto-D) Federal constitutional convention: application
Seeks to petition the U.S. Congress to call for a federal constitutional convention for the purpose and hope of solely amending the U.S. Constitution with a single amendment to limit "corporate personhood" for purposes of campaign finance and political speech and declare that money does not constitute speech.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AJR 3 (Alejo-D) Immigration
Urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to take a humane and just approach to solving our nation's broken immigration system.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2013
AJR 11 (Wieckowski-D) Bankruptcy
Urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to support and pass legislation that would allow private student loan debt to be dischargeable in a bankruptcy case filed under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code similar to the dischargeability of unsecured nonpriority debt.
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2013
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Measure and Reference | Author | Measure Title |
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SB 6* - Miscellaneous | Lieu-D | Business |
SB 12 - Consumer Protection | Corbett-D | Consumer affairs |
SB 15 - Civil Law | Padilla-D | Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems |
SB 15 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Padilla-D | Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems |
SB 23 - Miscellaneous | Lara-D | Task Force on New American Integration |
SB 25 - Miscellaneous | Steinberg-D | Agricultural labor relations: contract dispute resolution |
SB 46 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Corbett-D | Personal information: privacy |
SB 110* - Miscellaneous | DeSaulnier-D | Bay Bridge: safety review task force |
SB 115 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Hill-D | Parent and child relationship |
SB 123 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Corbett-D | Environmental and land use court |
SB 131 - Civil Law | Beall-D | Damages: childhood sexual abuse: statute of limitations |
SB 138 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Hernandez-D | Confidentiality of medical information |
SB 155 - Miscellaneous | Padilla-D | Vehicles: motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors |
SB 156 - Probate | Beall-D | Conservatorships and guardianships: attorney's fees |
SB 166 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Liu-D | Juveniles: attorney qualifications |
SB 193 - Consumer Protection | Monning-D | Hazard evaluation system and information service |
SB 196 - Consumer Protection | Cannella-R | Utility rates: mobilehomes and apartment buildings |
SB 213 - Miscellaneous | Galgiani-D | Election petitions: circulators |
SB 222 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Padilla-D | Genetic information: privacy |
SB 233 - Miscellaneous | Leno-D | Debt buying |
SB 249 - Miscellaneous | Leno-D | Public health: health records: confidentiality |
SB 250 - Miscellaneous | Wolk-D | Olive Oil Commission of California |
SB 251 - Miscellaneous | Calderon-D | Insurance: notice: electronic transmission |
SB 255* - Privacy/Identity Theft | Cannella-R | Disorderly conduct: invasion of privacy |
SB 263 - Consumer Protection | Monning-D | Contractors: unlicensed activity |
SB 274 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Leno-D | Family law: parentage: child custody and support |
SB 282 - Miscellaneous | Yee-D | Confidential medical information: disclosure |
SB 292 - Civil Rights | Corbett-D | Employment: sexual harassment |
SB 310 - Probate | Calderon-D | Mortgages: foreclosure notices: title companies |
SB 313 - Miscellaneous | De León-D | Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act |
SB 315 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Lieu-D | Civil actions: telephonic appearances |
SB 318 - Miscellaneous | Hill-D | Consumer loans: pilot program |
SB 323* - Civil Rights | Lara-D | Taxes: exemptions: prohibited discrimination |
SB 332* - Consumer Protection | Emmerson-R | California Health Benefit Exchange: records |
SB 343 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Yee-D | Dependent children: documents |
SB 345 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Evans-D | Attorneys: annual membership fees |
SB 346 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Beall-D | Public social services: records |
SB 364 - Civil Rights | Steinberg-D | Mental health |
SB 366 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Wright-D | Traffic fines: ability to pay |
SB 378 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Block-D | Official record of conviction: digitized copy |
SB 380 - Miscellaneous | Padilla-D | Communications: service interruptions |
SB 383 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Jackson-D | Credit cards: personal information |
SB 397 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Hueso-D | Vehicles: enhanced driver's license |
SB 400 - Miscellaneous | Jackson-D | Employment protections: victims |
SB 404 - Civil Rights | Jackson-D | Fair employment: familial status |
SB 406 - Judgments | Evans-D | Tribal Court Civil Judgment Act |
SB 415 - Miscellaneous | Knight-R | Space flight liability |
SB 426 - Judgments | Corbett-D | Civil procedure: deficiency judgments |
SB 462 - Miscellaneous | Monning-D | Employment: compensation |
SB 467 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Leno-D | Privacy: electronic communications: warrant |
SB 496 - Miscellaneous | Wright-D | Improper governmental activity: disclosure: protection |
SB 501 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Corbett-D | Social networking Internet Web sites: privacy: minors |
SB 506 - Miscellaneous | Hill-D | Ephedrine: retail sale |
SB 516 - Miscellaneous | Steinberg-D | Foreign labor contractors: registration |
SB 526 - Consumer Protection | Calderon-D | Commissioner of Corporations: unlicensed activity report |
SB 528 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Yee-D | Dependent children: supportive services |
SB 530 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Wright-D | Criminal offenders: rehabilitation |
SB 545 - Miscellaneous | Anderson-R | Name change: minors |
SB 551 - Judgments | Gaines-R | Renewal and execution of judgments: judgment debtor |
SB 556 - Consumer Protection | Corbett-D | Agency: ostensible: nongovernmental entities |
SB 558 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Lieu-D | Reporters' shield law |
SB 564 - Miscellaneous | Monning-D | Ski resorts: safety plans: accident reports |
SB 568 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Steinberg-D | Privacy: Internet: minors |
SB 588 - Miscellaneous | Emmerson-R | Medical records: reproduction fees |
SB 594 - Miscellaneous | Hill-D | Use of public resources |
SB 597 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Lara-D | Legal aid: court interpreters |
SB 603 - Civil Law | Leno-D | Landlord and tenant: security deposit |
SB 606 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | De León-D | Harassment: child or ward |
SB 608 - Miscellaneous | Wright-D | Adverse possession: public entity properties |
SB 610 - Miscellaneous | Jackson-D | Franchises |
SB 612 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Leno-D | Residential tenancy |
SB 624 - Miscellaneous | Steinberg-D | International commercial disputes |
SB 648 - Miscellaneous | Corbett-D | Electronic cigarettes: advertising |
SB 650 - Consumer Protection | Lieu-D | Toxic chemicals: exposure |
SB 652 - Consumer Protection | DeSaulnier-D | Real property disclosures: construction defect litigation |
SB 655 - Civil Rights | Wright-D | Fair Employment and Housing Act: unlawful practices |
SB 661 - Consumer Protection | Hill-D | False advertising |
SB 666 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Steinberg-D | Employment: retaliation |
SB 669 - Miscellaneous | Huff-R | Emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors |
SB 679 - Miscellaneous | Berryhill-R | Licensees: reporting requirements |
SB 680 - Miscellaneous | Wolk-D | Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: qualified escrow funds |
SB 686 - Miscellaneous | Jackson-D | Vehicles: vehicle dealers |
SB 691 - Miscellaneous | Hancock-D | Nonvehicular air pollution control: penalties |
SB 702 - Judgments | Anderson-R | Application for entry of default judgment |
SB 713 - Consumer Protection | Correa-D | Liability: good faith reliance on administrative ruling |
SB 724 - Civil Law | Emmerson-R | Charitable vision screenings |
SB 726 - Miscellaneous | Lara-D | California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 |
SB 737 - Miscellaneous | Huff-R | Appeals: representative actions |
SB 738 - Miscellaneous | Yee-D | Sexually exploited and trafficked minors |
SB 742* - Miscellaneous | Nielsen-R | Defendants |
SB 750 - Consumer Protection | Wolk-D | Building standards: water meters: multiunit structures |
SB 762 - Miscellaneous | Hill-D | Secondhand goods: lost, stolen, or embezzled items |
SB 826 - Civil Law | Senate Judiciary Committee | Civil law: omnibus bill |
SCR 7 - Civil Rights | Wright-D | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
SCR 52 - Miscellaneous | Wolk-D | California Plan Your Giving Day |
SCR 54 - Consumer Protection | Padilla-D | California Law Revision Commission: referral for study |
SCR 62 - Miscellaneous | Jackson-D | Corporations: boards of directors |
SJR 8 - Miscellaneous | Correa-D | Immigration |
SJR 13 - Miscellaneous | Yee-D | Immigration reform: F3 and F4 visa categories |
SJR 17 - Miscellaneous | Anderson-R | Syrian government: military action |
SR 10 - Civil Rights | Jackson-D | Roe v. Wade |
SR 14 - Civil Rights | Lara-D | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month |
SR 16 - Civil Rights | Lieu-D | Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act |
AB 5 - Civil Rights | Ammiano-D | Homelessness |
AB 25 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Campos-D | Employment: social media |
AB 35 - Consumer Protection | Roger Hernández-D | Deferred action for childhood arrivals |
AB 126 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Hall-D | Time shares: management and governance |
AB 134 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Logue-R | California Public Records Act: firearms license applications |
AB 140 - Consumer Protection | Dickinson-D | Undue influence |
AB 140 - Miscellaneous | Dickinson-D | Undue influence |
AB 157 - Consumer Protection | Campos-D | Protective orders |
AB 161 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Campos-D | Restraining orders |
AB 167 - Consumer Protection | Hagman-R | Unfair competition: private enforcement actions |
AB 176 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Campos-D | Family law: protective and restraining orders |
AB 179 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Bocanegra-D | Public transit: disclosure of personal information |
AB 198 - Civil Law | Wieckowski-D | Debtor exemptions |
AB 212 - Miscellaneous | Lowenthal-D | Unclaimed property |
AB 218 - Civil Rights | Dickinson-D | Employment applications: criminal history |
AB 223 - Civil Law | Olsen-R | Civil actions: disabled access |
AB 227* - Civil Law | Gatto-D | Proposition 65: enforcement |
AB 233 - Judgments | Wieckowski-D | Wage garnishment: restrictions: student loans |
AB 238 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Gomez-D | Protective and restraining orders |
AB 242 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Chau-D | Privacy: Internet |
AB 251 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Wagner-R | Electronic court reporting |
AB 251 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Wagner-R | Electronic court reporting |
AB 257 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Hall-D | Privacy: commercial Web sites and online services |
AB 263 - Civil Law | Roger Hernández-D | Employment: retaliation: immigration-related practices |
AB 265 - Miscellaneous | Gatto-D | Local government liability: dog parks |
AB 296 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Wagner-R | Attorneys |
AB 301 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Wagner-R | Affidavits of registration: cancellation |
AB 319 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Campos-D | Internet Web sites and online services: minors |
AB 359 - Miscellaneous | Holden-D | Vehicle rental agreements: customer facility charge |
AB 365 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Mullin-D | Court reporting |
AB 370 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Muratsuchi-D | Consumers: internet privacy |
AB 374 - Miscellaneous | Wagner-R | Eminent domain: compensation: loss of goodwill |
AB 381 - Consumer Protection | Chau-D | Estates and trusts: undue influence and elder abuse |
AB 383 - Miscellaneous | Wagner-R | Maintenance of the codes |
AB 414 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Fox-D | Visitation rights: grandparent rights |
AB 436 - Judgments | Jones-Sawyer-D | Inverse condemnation: comparative fault |
AB 438 - Miscellaneous | Mitchell-D | Juveniles: dual-status minors |
AB 442 - Miscellaneous | Nazarian-D | Employees: wages |
AB 446 - Consumer Protection | Mitchell-D | HIV testing |
AB 464 - Miscellaneous | Daly-D | Vital records |
AB 477 - Consumer Protection | Chau-D | Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting |
AB 477 - Miscellaneous | Chau-D | Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting |
AB 490 - Probate | Skinner-D | Intestate succession: children |
AB 491 - Miscellaneous | Torres-D | Corporations: bylaws: emergency powers |
AB 499 - Miscellaneous | Ting-D | Judicial proceedings: injunctions prohibiting harassment |
AB 502 - Civil Law | Wagner-R | Commercial law: secured transactions |
AB 506 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Mitchell-D | HIV testing: infants |
AB 508 - Miscellaneous | Ian Calderon-D | Debt collection: homeless veterans |
AB 515 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Dickinson-D | Environmental quality: CEQA: judicial review |
AB 519 - Civil Law | Logue-R | Unfair competition |
AB 522 - Civil Law | Bloom-D | Civil actions: exceptions to dismissal |
AB 533 - Miscellaneous | Ian Calderon-D | Artistic employment contracts: minors |
AB 545 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Mitchell-D | Dependent children: placement |
AB 555 - Consumer Protection | Salas-D | Social security numbers |
AB 556 - Civil Rights | Salas-D | Fair Employment and Housing Act: military veterans |
AB 566 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Wieckowski-D | Courts: personal services contracting |
AB 567 - Judgments | Wagner-R | Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions |
AB 581 - Consumer Protection | Ammiano-D | Care facilities: retaliation |
AB 619 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Garcia-D | Court facilities |
AB 625 - Civil Law | Quirk-D | Notaries public: acceptance of identification |
AB 633 - Miscellaneous | Salas-D | Emergency medical services: civil liability |
AB 635 - Miscellaneous | Ammiano-D | Drug overdose treatment: liability |
AB 642 - Miscellaneous | Rendon-D | Publication: Internet Web site |
AB 643 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Stone-D | Public schools: pupil records: confidentiality |
AB 648 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Jones-Sawyer-D | Court reporters |
AB 655 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Quirk-Silva-D | Court reporters: salary fund |
AB 658 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Ian Calderon-D | Personal information: disclosure |
AB 666 - Civil Law | Wieckowski-D | Automated traffic enforcement systems: violations |
AB 679 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Fox-D | Fees: official court reporters |
AB 681 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Melendez-R | Spousal support |
AB 715 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Dickinson-D | Evidence: interpreters |
AB 725 - Miscellaneous | Wilk-R | Health care management: health court demonstration program |
AB 729 - Miscellaneous | Roger Hernández-D | Evidentiary privileges: represented worker privilege |
AB 737 - Civil Law | Fox-D | Space flight liability |
AB 738 - Miscellaneous | Harkey-R | Public entity liability: bicycles |
AB 739 - Miscellaneous | Salas-D | Coroners |
AB 748 - Judgments | Eggman-D | Judgments against a public entity: interest |
AB 756 - Miscellaneous | Melendez-R | Judicial review: public works projects |
AB 787 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Stone-D | Foster care |
AB 788 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Wagner-R | Court transcripts |
AB 802 - Miscellaneous | Wieckowski-D | Private arbitration companies: disclosures |
AB 818 - Miscellaneous | Blumenfield-D | Air pollution control: penalties |
AB 824 - Miscellaneous | Jones-R | Written agreements: exclusion of evidence |
AB 838 - Miscellaneous | Morrell-R | Personal representatives: bonds |
AB 844 - Consumer Protection | Dickinson-D | Credit and debit cards: transactions: personal information |
AB 848 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Patterson-R | Adoption |
AB 849 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Garcia-D | Protection of victims: address confidentiality |
AB 868 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Ammiano-D | Courts: training programs |
AB 870 - Civil Rights | Jones-Sawyer-D | Public contracts: bidders: employment practices |
AB 888* - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Dickinson-D | State Bar of California: enforcement actions |
AB 890 - Consumer Protection | Jones-R | False advertising |
AB 897 - Miscellaneous | Wagner-R | Disability access fees and information |
AB 905 - Miscellaneous | Ting-D | Real property: environmental fee covenants |
AB 914 - Miscellaneous | Gordon-D | Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures |
AB 921 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Jones-Sawyer-D | Child welfare services |
AB 925 - Miscellaneous | Bigelow-R | State officer or supervisory employee: compensation |
AB 937 - Consumer Protection | Wieckowski-D | Conservators and guardians: personal rights of conservatees |
AB 939 - Miscellaneous | Melendez-R | Pupil and school personnel health: defibrillators |
AB 957 - Miscellaneous | Wagner-R | Postmortem photographs |
AB 958 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Jones-R | Child custody: evaluations and reports |
AB 961 - Consumer Protection | Levine-D | Health facilities: investigations: public disclosure |
AB 964 - Consumer Protection | Bonta-D | Vehicles: dealers |
AB 969 - Civil Law | Ammiano-D | Landlord and tenant |
AB 976 - Miscellaneous | Atkins-D | Coastal resources: enforcement: penalties |
AB 983 - Miscellaneous | Melendez-R | Self-service storage facilities |
AB 993 - Miscellaneous | Linder-R | Contractors: arbitration |
AB 1005 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Alejo-D | Judicial appointments: demographic data |
AB 1007* - Judgments | Wagner-R | State government: payment of claims against the state |
AB 1011 - Miscellaneous | Salas-D | Unclaimed property: interest payment |
AB 1024 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Gonzalez-D | Attorneys: admission to practice |
AB 1029 - Probate | Maienschein-R | Trusts and estates: allocations of receipts |
AB 1036 - Civil Law | Blumenfield-D | Mortgages |
AB 1098 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Gray-D | Attorneys: practice of law |
AB 1106 - Miscellaneous | Waldron-R | Public entities: liability |
AB 1121 - Miscellaneous | Atkins-D | Gender identity: petition for change of name |
AB 1125 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Wagner-R | Attorney's fees |
AB 1127 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Chau-D | Legal aid: court interpreters |
AB 1141 - Miscellaneous | Dahle-R | Franchises |
AB 1149 - Consumer Protection | Campos-D | Identity theft: local agencies |
AB 1159* - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Gonzalez-D | Immigration services |
AB 1160 - Probate | Wagner-R | Decedents' estates: personal representative |
AB 1164 - Civil Law | Lowenthal-D | Liens: employees and workers |
AB 1167 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Dickinson-D | Court records: electronic forms |
AB 1169 - Consumer Protection | Daly-D | Escrow agent rating service: escrow agents |
AB 1183 - Miscellaneous | Jones-R | Civil discovery: motion to compel further response |
AB 1195 - Consumer Protection | Eggman-D | Public records: crime victims |
AB 1220 - Consumer Protection | Skinner-D | Consumer credit reporting: adverse action |
AB 1234 - Consumer Protection | Levine-D | Insurance: long term care insurance |
AB 1239 - Miscellaneous | Holden-D | Public contracts: anti-trafficking |
AB 1254 - Judgments | Gorell-R | Civil actions: settlement offers |
AB 1256 - Civil Law | Bloom-D | Privacy: entry and exit of facilities |
AB 1256 - Consumer Protection | Bloom-D | Civil law: privacy: entry and exit of facilities |
AB 1265 - Miscellaneous | Conway-R | Mental health: assisted outpatient treatment |
AB 1274 - Consumer Protection | Bradford-D | Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data |
AB 1275 - Miscellaneous | Chau-D | Unclaimed property: filing of claims |
AB 1291 - Consumer Protection | Lowenthal-D | Privacy: Right to Know Act of 2013: personal information |
AB 1293 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Bloom-D | Courts |
AB 1300 - Miscellaneous | Roger Hernández-D | Credit cards: oral disclosures |
AB 1313 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Donnelly-R | Judgeships: allocation |
AB 1335 - Miscellaneous | Maienschein-R | Sex offenses: disabled victims |
AB 1336 - Civil Law | Frazier-D | Prevailing wages: payroll records |
AB 1339 - Probate | Maienschein-R | Professional fiduciaries: guardians and conservators |
AB 1352 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Levine-D | Courts: destruction of court records |
AB 1355 - Miscellaneous | Wilk-R | Limited liability companies: agents |
AB 1356 - Civil Rights | Bloom-D | Stalking: remedies |
AB 1356 - Consumer Protection | Bloom-D | Stalking: remedies |
AB 1360 - Miscellaneous | Torres-D | Common interest developments: electronic voting |
AB 1401 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Assembly Judiciary Committee | Jury duty: eligibility |
AB 1402 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Assembly Judiciary Committee | Attorneys |
AB 1403 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Assembly Judiciary Committee | Family law |
AB 1403 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption | Assembly Judiciary Committee | Family law |
AB 1404 - Civil Law | Assembly Judiciary Committee | Real property: boundaries |
AB 1405 - Miscellaneous | Assembly Judiciary Committee | Subversive Organization Registration Law: repeal |
AB 1415 - Miscellaneous | Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee | Administrative procedures: judicial review |
ACR 2 - Civil Rights | Mitchell-D | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
ACR 19 - Civil Rights | Pan-D | Japanese American: discrimination: apology |
ACR 44 - Civil Rights | Ammiano-D | National Day of Silence |
AJR 1 - Miscellaneous | Gatto-D | Federal constitutional convention: application |
AJR 3 - Miscellaneous | Alejo-D | Immigration |
AJR 11 - Miscellaneous | Wieckowski-D | Bankruptcy |
AJR 18 - Civil Rights | Skinner-D | Equality of rights for men and women |
AJR 26 - Civil Rights | Allen-R | Civil liberties |
AJR 27 - Privacy/Identity Theft | Donnelly-R | Relative to privacy |
HR 5 - Civil Rights | Yamada-D | Rosa Parks' 100th birthday |
HR 13 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession | Williams-D | Homeless court programs |
HR 20 - Civil Rights | Gordon-D | LGBT Pride Month |
HR 22 - Civil Rights | John A. Pérez-D | The March on Washington 50th anniversary |
HR 24 - Civil Rights | Bradford-D | Jackie Robinson |